Chapter 162

After being driven to the brink of mental collapse by the performance of a group of people, Expert Lin finally realized the problem.

He could have taken it apart himself, but he pretended to be an amateur just to fool him. It must have been planned before he entered the office... Where did he slip up?

The young man, who reminded him of Hades and death, stared at him with a slight flicker in his red eyes and said in a soft but inexplicably terrifying tone, "It seems you've already figured it out."

Mr. Lin gritted his teeth. Although he was very scared, since the other party was a policeman and had not arrested him immediately but instead set a trap for him, it must be because there was no evidence. He insisted on denying it for the time being, and the policeman did not dare to go too far: "I don't know what you are talking about. Since the bomb has been defused, this is none of my business. I'm going back."

After saying that, he turned around and prepared to leave.

But the words coming from behind him froze him in the next second.

"You haven't answered the question I just asked you. This key is yours, isn't it?"

Mr. Lin's heart suddenly sank.

Oh no! Did they actually find the car key he lost last night?!

After planting the bomb last night, he walked to his parking spot only to find that his keys were missing. He rushed back to look for them but couldn't find them. When he returned, he had no choice but to forcibly break the chain. Just as he was trying to break the chain, a security guard patrolled the area and, thinking he was stealing the car, insisted on writing down the license plate number.

That's when he had no choice but to kill him to silence him.

I thought the key was missing from the cabin because it had fallen on the road, and that if he couldn't find it, or if someone else found it, they wouldn't connect it to the Ferris wheel... But now it seems it's still inside the Ferris wheel?

Why didn't he find it?

Expert Lin slowly turned his body back, and then saw the transparent bag used to hold evidence in the hand of the person whom even the FBI bomb expert admired.

...It does look like the string he lost.

Kenji Hagiwara took the evidence bag: "As long as the fingerprints on Expert Lin don't match the fingerprints on this key, it will still prove your innocence."

After a few seconds of silence, Lin finally succumbed to the pressure and admitted it under the scrutinizing gaze of the young man with dark blue short hair.

"...I did it."

He wore gloves when he planted the bomb, but he usually just held the key in his hand when he rode his bike and never thought he would lose it. Of course, he didn't wipe off the fingerprints. There was no point in struggling any longer, so he might as well admit it.

Kenji Hagiwara breathed a sigh of relief.

Okay, as long as you admit it... Luckily, Shinryu found the key, otherwise the design drawings really wouldn't be able to serve as evidence. We could only say there's suspicion, and we could apply for a search warrant, but that would take too long.

Lin raised his hand, signaling for Han Chuan Shenliu to handcuff him. He seemed about to say something, but when he looked up and met Han Chuan Shenliu's gaze, he fell silent. Only after Han Chuan Shenliu finished handcuffing him and stepped aside did he breathe a sigh of relief and turn to ask Hagiwara Kenji, "When did you start to suspect me?"

He really couldn't figure this out.

Was it when he directly drew out the bomb design? But by then, these people were already pretending to deceive him.

That's when he came?

Moreover, there were clearly two bomb experts, yet they specifically called him over. Could it be that they had already guessed it was him from the beginning and were just trying to subtly test him?

The more Lin, the more horrified he became.

Just as Kenji Hagiwara was about to answer, he was suddenly interrupted by Shinryu Samakawa.

"you guess."

Expert Lin: "…………"

Kenji Hagiwara: "...Don't play tricks on the prisoners again."

Guess what this sentence means? It's said that expert Lin hasn't been able to sleep well for years...

"Then ask him why he wanted to blow up the Ferris wheel."

Kenji Hagiwara was taken aback. He knew that Shinryu Kazukawa wouldn't speak without reason; he must have guessed something. So he turned his head and asked, "Why?"

Expert Lin frowned and replied, "Because the Ferris wheel blocks my view from my office window."

Hagihara Kenji: "…………"

Hanchuan Shenliu: "Today I was discussing with Mr. Kudo that there are fewer mentally ill criminals than bombers in Japan, which creates a contradiction. I actually think that Japan seems to have fewer serial murders than the United States..."

Kenji Hagiwara: "Shut up."

Can't you say something nice? Hearing you say things like that makes me feel uneasy!

With conclusive evidence, expert Lin was taken away. They initially came to solve a murder case, which escalated into a bomb extortion case, but they still managed to resolve it before noon.

Usoppō Saiki was very satisfied with this efficiency.

He essentially won this time without lifting a finger; he had almost nothing to do. It was mainly Kenji Hagiwara and the machine search team who were busy... which shows that having a capable partner is a great advantage.

If it were someone else, they might not immediately realize that the bomb expert sent to assist them could be a suspect, and the case would drag on for a long time. Even if they got the key and found fingerprints that matched it, they wouldn't immediately think of asking the bomb expert to help them.

It can also slap the face of those who say behind Hagiwara Kenji's back that he's just sucking up to him.

Because the prisoner was an expert sent by the explosives disposal unit to assist, this matter needed to be discussed with the explosives disposal unit first.

When Matsuda Jinpei received the call and understood the situation, he was speechless: "Huh? Lin Kungfu is a criminal? What's he doing?!"

"They said it was because the Ferris wheel was blocking their view."

“…He’s mentally ill! I never noticed anything wrong with his brain before!” Matsuda Jinpei had discussed bomb-related matters with expert Hayashi and they could be considered acquaintances, but he found it very unbelievable. “And he didn’t even install a balanced detonator, just trying to fool people directly. How much does he look down on the police!”

Usakabe Saiki chimed in from the side: "They just look down on the explosives handling team."

Matsuda Jinpei: "...Tsk, anyway, we'll follow up on this situation. We investigated the internal affairs once when the design drawings were leaked before, and this time we'll probably investigate all these 'advisors'..."

“There are really a lot of problems.” Kenji Hagiwara frowned. “It seems like someone from the Metropolitan Police Department was taken away for questioning yesterday…”

Kenji Hagiwara didn't know the specifics of the people who were taken away, but his classmate who was undercover knew.

Rei Furuya initially didn't take the cult he encountered during his trip seriously. He thought the assistant, who was just trying to make money through pyramid schemes, was nothing to be afraid of and that he could simply call the police and hand it over to the local police station.

But as the investigation deepened, things started to go wrong, eventually involving people from the Metropolitan Police Department's Public Security Bureau—including even Morofushi Kagemitsu's colleagues!

How can there be someone in such an important organization who values ​​money so much?!

Rei Furuya was greatly shocked and quickly hinted to his superiors, urging them to conduct an internal investigation to prevent similar situations from occurring.

Sigh, who would have thought that Bo Yezhai would insist on going on a trip and actually do them such a big favor by catching a corrupt cop in a high position... Otherwise, they should cooperate with Bo Yezhai in the future.

What if something like that happens again?

Kazami Yuya was still reporting to Furuya Rei: "...That's roughly the situation regarding the Metropolitan Police Department's Public Security Bureau. Other questions still need to be investigated further."

Furuya Zero nodded: "Hmm, have you deciphered the text on that piece of paper I gave you last time?"

The paper he gave to Kazami Yuya was the "wish" or "trouble" that Usaku Saiki wrote down when he was in that cult.

Neither Morofushi Kagemitsu nor Furuya Rei could understand what was written on it. They could only tell that it seemed to be written in Cyrillic script, but they couldn't understand it and suspected that it was a code written in Russian.

Since it wasn't time for Morofushi Kagemitsu and his contact to meet, Furuya Rei simply gave the task to Kazami Yuya, asking him to find someone to translate.

Kazami Yuya reported: "The language used above is Kurdish, which is from the Middle East."

Rei Furuya: "...Kurdish."

He felt ashamed. He knew that Bo Yezaki had returned from the Middle East, but for some reason he had overlooked the fact that Kurdish has three ways of writing, one of which uses a modified Cyrillic alphabet, so it looks a bit like Russian.

This knowledge was a bit obscure, and he couldn't really recall it for the time being. His mind was filled with the words that Bo Yezaki had repeatedly said when he returned from the Middle East and complained about the person in charge of the Middle East region: "Even if I really am a Soviet spy, what can he do to me! He'll do whatever he asks for aid! What's with all the fuss!"

Russian is indeed more common, so it's no wonder he immediately got the wrong idea.

Honestly, it's hard for him to imagine that someone like Usakabe Saiki, who openly says "So what if I'm a spy," is carrying any heavy secrets... He feels that this guy is living too freely.

Moreover, as Usui Saiki said before, if someone were an undercover agent, they would definitely try their best to climb the ranks and find important intelligence. However, Usui Saiki doesn't try at all, and he rarely asks for important information. The rare question he asks, "What missions are you all on?" is just to torment people...

Now that Furuya Rei is increasingly leaning towards Usui Saiki, it's possible he genuinely doesn't know anything about the arsenal.

It's best for him and Morofushi Kagemitsu to stop trying to make contact...

Rei Furuya asked, "So, what exactly is written on it?"

"Well……"

For some reason, Kazami Yu hesitated for a moment before answering.

"They asked, 'Is my adoptive father a policeman?'"

Jianggu Ling: "...???"

—Is Bo Yezhai simply trying to embarrass the cult leader with this question, or is he genuinely doubting Ya Li Jiu?!

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The medicine's working, I'm going to take a nap. Happy Mid-Autumn Festival everyone! I'll continue writing after I wake up.

I like mooncakes with egg yolk filling, and I recommend them to everyone.

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Falling valley zero: bald head

Suspicion levels have increased dramatically again.

Do you think Bo Ye knew they would take the note?

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By the way, the expert Hayashi is played by Takuya Kimura. "Furuhata Ninzaburo" has many big-name cameos; the production team is quite impressive.