43 Chapter 43

◎The Scammer Yun Xiji Falls◎

Izumi Kyoka took a half step back.

Discovered.

A supernatural being silently emerged behind the girl.

There was a rhythmic, slow ticking sound in her ears. Behind her was an unknown bomb, and in front of her was Yun Xiji, who had already discovered her presence.

The young man standing in front of the door hung up the phone and asked, "Are you going to keep hiding?"

Izumi Jinghua walked out from the corner of the stairs. She held her cell phone tightly and raised her eyes to look at Yun Xiji.

"Are you nervous?" Yun Xiji put away his phone. "I should be the one who's nervous. I was about to go back to my room when I realized someone was following me all the way."

He sighed, "I can't beat you, so this is a ghost story."

Quan Jinghua didn't answer, but just stared at Yun Xiji.

"If nothing unexpected happens, your companions should have completed their mission and are preparing to reunite with you."

"There is a bomb under the stairs." said Kyoka Izumi.

Yun Xiji was startled and looked behind Quan Jinghua. He asked in surprise, "There's a bomb?"

Izumi Kyoka observed his expression.

Very fake.

"Don't doubt me. If I had planted a bomb, the first thing I'd do would be to leave the hotel." He changed the subject. "I can't dismantle it, can you?"

Izumi Kyoka won't either.

The two of them walked down the stairs to check the bomb. The bomb was stuck to the bottom of the stairs, and they needed to squat and look up.

Yasha Shirayuki floated behind the two of them.

After observing for a while, Yun Xiji confirmed that he really would not dismantle it.

He met Izumi Kyoka's gaze and calmly took out his phone: "I encountered a bomb."

The person who answered the phone was Tiao Ye Cai Ju: "Then you can run away."

"In the hotel, can't escape."

"Did you plant the bomb?"

This distrust made Yun Xiji silent for two seconds. "Yes, I'm going to blow up the entire hotel now. If you don't come to rescue us, everyone here will die."

Tiao Ye Cai Ju: "..."

Two beeps, and the phone hangs up.

Yunxiji turned his head and looked at Quan Jinghua.

The girl clearly had no expression on her face, but he could see a hint of doubt in her expression, as if she was silently asking him: Is this how you shake people?

Yun Xiji said confidently: "They will come."

Izumi Kyoka stood up and prepared to go upstairs to look for the two people from the detective agency.

She stepped over the stairs where the bomb was installed. Downstairs, the young man was still squatting on the stairs, staring at the bomb.

When she was about to leave, the other party spoke slowly.

"Your mission is going to fail."

Yun Xiji's voice came from afar, "The detective society is going to be in big trouble next."

Izumi Jinghua paused slightly, then quickly went up to the seventh floor and found room 704. Two strangers were lying in the room, and Mu Ye Xue Che was on the phone.

"The person was taken away."

"That person is a space-type mutant."

"Chase? I can't catch up."

Seeing her come in, they both looked over at the same time.

"There's a bomb downstairs," she said.

Nakajima Atsushi: "These two are the ones who arranged this. Murasakibara-kun has already got the remote control."

Izumi Kyoka shook her head: "The bomb is counting down and is expected to explode automatically in thirty minutes."

The remote control is used to detonate the bomb in advance, not to control the bomb.

Nakajima Atsushi opened his eyes slightly.

The countdown continues?!

"What are you standing there for? Call the police." Muye Xueche glanced at Nakajima Atsushi and asked, "Are you scared silly?"

He lowered his head and kicked the unconscious person on the ground, "Get up."

These two people planned to blow up the entire hotel from the beginning. They could force Mushitaro Oguri to press the button and then let him use his special abilities after everything exploded.

Perfectly covered up all the evidence.

Sadly, the two people fainted completely and showed no signs of waking up.

Ye Yuexin glanced at where Himuro Hayato was, and it was not Mafia.

Very good, the current Mu Ye Xue Che doesn’t know how to defuse bombs.

The three people did not just wait, but told the news to the front desk and hotel manager, and checked the number of bombs on each floor.

The police arrived soon.

No, not the police.

They are military police.

"Where is that guy Yun Xiji?" Tiao Ye Caiju walked into the hotel lobby leisurely with a long sword at his side.

After receiving Yun Xiji's call, the Hound Team immediately found the bomb disposal expert and rushed to Yun Xiji's location.

Izumi Kyoka glanced at them and pointed the way, saying, "On the fourth floor."

"Who cares what he does?" Okura Yezi lowered her hat. "He actually dared to come out and slack off during work hours. Does he even know who he is?"

Nakajima Atsushi blinked.

Slacking off?

Didn’t Yun Xiji claim that he came to the hotel to carry out a mission?

Tetsuji Suehiro brought a bomb disposal expert with him. They asked the front desk about the exact location of the bomb and then hurried upstairs.

In times of crisis, hounds are surprisingly reliable.

"What's the detective agency doing here?"

Only Tiaoye Caiju was left in the lobby, and the other two members of the Hound team dispersed and dealt with the bomb upstairs.

Nakajima Atsushi: "Let's arrest someone."

Tiaoye Caiju: "Where is that person?"

The air was silent for a moment.

“…I didn’t catch him.”

Picking chrysanthemums in the wild, raising eyebrows.

"He's a spatial ability user." Mu Ye Xue Che said, "As long as he wants to leave, no one can catch him."

"That's not necessarily true."

A voice interrupted. Yun Xiji took the elevator to the first floor and pointed at himself, "I can catch it."

"Just change the landing location of the teleportation and you can catch it easily."

Nakajima Atsushi was stunned by what he heard.

Modify the landing location of the teleport?

Then as long as the hound wants to catch someone, it can catch him at any time.

In this case, we can just ask Yun Xiji to help modify Gogol's landing location.

Nakajima Atsushi's eyes lit up.

Tiao Ye Cai Ju: "Then can you let him teleport to us?"

"certainly--"

Everyone's eyes fell on Yun Xiji.

Yun Xiji whetted everyone's appetite and finally said, "No."

"It's too far away, we can't locate it."

Nakajima Atsushi got the answer: "..."

When the police arrived, the bomb disposal experts brought by the hound had already cleared all the bombs. To be on the safe side, the police decided to evacuate the crowd first and check the hotel again.

Three people from the detective agency were also among the evacuated crowd. They handed the two people who installed the bomb to the police and left the hotel first.

The Hound Squad assembled, and the four of them inspected 704. Tiaoye Caiju raised a question: "The maximum teleportation distance of that spatial ability user is 20 meters, and the seventh floor is over 20 meters high. He wouldn't teleport directly outside."

"25 meters," Suehiro Tetsuji said. "I asked the front desk."

If Gogol was teleported outside, he would be two to three stories above the ground and would not be able to land directly.

"He can throw himself up and then drop himself down, and each time he falls, the distance between him and the ground will be shortened," said Yun Xiji.

"No, he wouldn't do that."

This idea was rejected.

"It's too conspicuous. There are people all around. If he really did that, it would definitely cause panic among the people around him."

Okura Yezi understood: "You mean he is still in the hotel?"

"If you want to teleport the farthest distance, you have to go downstairs."

Tiaoye Caiju closed her eyes and tilted her head towards the side where the earrings were tied. "So, there should be one last bomb in this hotel, used to cover the escape route of the psychic."

He suddenly said, "You're a fortune teller, you can predict so many things in the future, but you can't even predict the behavior of that space-powered person?"

Yun Xiji was suspected again.

The young man's eyes widened: "Is there no trust between us?"

"No."

Yun Xiji felt very aggrieved, "You can't do this, I know I'm really great in your eyes."

Picking chrysanthemums in the wild:?

"But don't let your idol filter get too heavy. I'm not that omnipotent. I still have to rely on myself first before asking for help from idols."

Tiao Ye Cai Ju: “.”

With an inexplicable fan, Tiaoye Caiju walked out of Room 704 with an expressionless face.

It is better to search for it yourself than to ask.

A voice sounded behind me.

"The prophecy tells me," Yun Xiji finally spoke compassionately, "We need to return to the Special Ability Division now."

Suehiro Tiechang tilted his head and said, "Going back to the Special Ability Department?"

"Yes."

"The Special Ability Agent Department is in complete chaos right now."

"Instead of trying to catch a guy here who is impossible to catch, we should go back and catch some that we can catch."

Just as Yun Xiji said, all those who had used Agency No. 7 to hide evidence were exposed, and the Special Ability Agent Department in charge of Agency No. 7 was in chaos.

Ango Sakaguchi poured himself a cup of coffee, already anticipating the non-stop work that would follow.

He took a deep breath and picked up the first document.

A very familiar name.

Osamu Dazai.

Very good. The evidence that I had worked so hard to clear for two years was like a burst balloon, exploding with a bang, and everything inside fell out.

A lot of evidence.

Ango Sakaguchi hesitated for a moment and sent a message to Dazai Osamu.

Surprisingly, he was not blocked.

Dazai Osamu quickly replied: "I understand."

Ango Sakaguchi adjusted his glasses and continued to look at the next person.

The Hound Squad was recalled to capture people who committed serious crimes. On the other side, three people from the Armed Detective Agency returned to the detective agency. Nakajima Atsushi was stopped at the door and a passerby stuffed an invitation into his arms.

The name written on it is [Edogawa Ranpo].

"This is……"

"Invitation?"

The invitation letter was delivered to Edogawa Ranpo, and the famous detective opened his eyes and looked at the invitation letter for a long time.

Edogawa Ranpo said, "I don't need it."

Nakajima Atsushi was puzzled: "What kind of invitation is this?"

"A member of the group wants to invite me to participate in a reasoning competition." Edogawa Ranpo leaned back, his emerald green eyes scanning the other people in the detective agency, "But I don't need it."

Nakajima Atsushi still didn't understand.

What does "not needed" mean?

【Appeared, Yokohama specialty】

There's been no Riddler storyline, and I thought the production team had changed their minds, but it turns out the timing just isn't right yet. [No hehe.JPG]

1L［Riddler, get out of Yokohama］

2L [Upstairs, then Yokohama will become a deserted city (sad)]

3L [I really can’t win in No Man’s City]

4L [Let's discuss this plot. The group and the detective agency have no grudges against each other. It doesn't seem like they're targeting Ranpo.]

5L ['I don't need it' is really intriguing. No need for competition? No need for challenge? It all feels illogical.]

6L [No need for protection]

7L [! ! !? Oh my god]

8L [Oh my god, it works. The group has no grudge against the detective agency. They're working with Yun Xiji, but they're hostile to Tuo. Based on this plot, Dazai Osamu is probably going to jail. So what about the rest of the script team out there?]

9L [Protecting our only seedling]

[……]

Du Miaomiao stared at the invitation letter, and suddenly a bag of snacks appeared in front of him.

It was Mu Ye Xue Che's feeding.

Very, very late feeding.

Looking at the contents, the detective reluctantly forgave him for being late.

————

Unlike the bloody Special Ability Department, the Port Mafia is unexpectedly calm.

Himuro Hayato saw his boss researching restaurants for dinner and asked, "Are you inviting anyone to dinner?"

"yes."

Himuro Hayato said, "I thought you had no friends."

Ye Yueshen felt that these words were very sharp.

Even if you knew Himuro Hayato's personality, you would still be angry—

"Hmm?" Nakahara Chuuya raised his eyes. He didn't seem to be very moved by this statement. He just replied, "Himero, aren't we friends?"

This time it was Himuro Hayato who remained silent.

"We are in a superior-subordinate relationship."

Nakahara Chuuya couldn't help but laugh.

Putting aside Hayato Himuro's sharp tongue, this guy is like an AI at other times, always giving answers that are completely different from those of normal people.

He put the matter of treating others to a meal aside and stood up. "I have a piece of news for you. The boss is considering giving you a promotion recently."

"If the recent tasks go well, you should be promoted soon."

From a cadre's direct subordinate to a cadre.

"If you want to know more about cadres, you can ask other people."

He thought of the recently deceased ACE and paused for a moment, "There are currently three Mafia officials."

One died and one defected.

Himuro Hayato said: "I know that Dazai Osamu of that detective agency was also a former executive."

Zhongyuan Zhongya didn't expect that he knew about this matter.

"But he'll be caught soon."

Nakahara Chuuya was stunned: "Caught?"

"Yes."

"Where did you get the news?"

"It's a free gift from the Fortune Teller."

Zhongyuan Zhongye:?

What?

Himuro Hayato pulled up the chat history and showed it to him.

Nakahara Chuuya glanced at the records on the screen and fell silent for a moment. The "fortune teller" would provide information to Himuro Hayato from time to time, and then make a lot of money from Himuro Hayato.

Just for the news of Oguri Mushitaro's defection, the "fortune teller" asked Himuro Hayato for three or four months' salary. It seemed that he felt a little guilty, so he gave him a useful piece of information for free.

Nakahara Chuuya fell silent.

"Do you give all your monthly salary to this 'fortune teller'?"

Himuro Hayato was very strict: "Not every month."

It's just that you earn your own money and spend it yourself.

As an artificial human, Hayato Himuro has no needs and saves his salary bit by bit. Ye Yue Shen directly and secretly transfers the salary to Yun Xiji, who spends the most money.

This is called rational allocation of resources.

Nakahara Chuuya flipped through the documents again and roughly estimated the salary that Himuro Hayato had transferred away. "Where do you live now?"

"The apartment assigned by the Mafia."

Free of charge.

"What about food?"

"There's a cheap noodle shop in Yokohama. I'll go there."

"How much?"

"Two hundred yen."

Click.

Hayato Himuro heard his cell phone ringing.

When he looked up again, his boss looked extremely bad.

Those cobalt blue eyes were filled with coldness. As if realizing that his reaction was too great, Nakahara Chuuya softened his intensity, "I'm sorry, I'll compensate you—"

A member who was about to be promoted to a cadre transferred 90% of his salary to the scammer every month and lived frugally himself.

"Fortune Teller."

Nakahara Chuuya read the name, he lowered his eyes with a cold expression.

How dare they defraud a Mafia candidate...

"Do you have a cold?" Okura Yezi looked at Yun Xiji sneezing and said, "If you have a cold, stay here and rest."

"I don't have a cold." Yun Xiji said, "Someone is cursing me behind my back."

Okura Yezi withdrew her gaze.

That makes sense.

The hounds were sent out to capture all the people involved in Oguri Mushitaro, working in pairs, with Okura Yezi and Yun Xiji together.

Yun Xiji glanced at the list and said, "Catch this one first."

"Do you have a grudge against Dazai Osamu?"

"No grudge." Yun Xiji said, "He is smart and can run away."

Okura Yeko: "..."

She glanced oddly at the others on the list.

Why do I have the illusion that Yun Xiji scolded everyone else?

The two determined their target and immediately took action. On the way to find Dazai Osamu, Yun Xiji received a call from Fukuchi Yingchi.

"Captain, what's wrong?"

Okura Yezi's eyes lit up beside him, "Is it the captain's call?"

Yun Xiji nodded.

Fukuchi Yingchi replied, "The Armed Detective Agency is protecting criminals. If you confront them, you don't have to show mercy."

"knew."

Fukuchi Yingchi's words aligned with the memory of countless previous cycles.

Yun Xiji has cycled countless times and has already figured out some patterns. This world will repair itself. Even if he changes the original timeline beyond recognition, the same words will still appear at the same node.

Fortunately, there is a living person around.

Yun Xiji didn't need to think about the timeline he was in.

After being transformed by the supernatural technician, Okura Yezi's hearing was also very good, and she replied in unison: "Understood, Captain."

The phone was hung up.

Yun Xiji suddenly said, "I think we should take down the Mafia before arresting Dazai Osamu."

There are many people there whose criminal records match Dazai Osamu's.

"That's a good idea," Okura Yezi said, "but we can't do it now."

The Port Mafia has grown into a behemoth with many members and a license to open a business with supernatural powers.

Yun Xiji stopped talking.

The two searched for Dazai Osamu's whereabouts all the way and located a restaurant. The restaurant was luxuriously decorated and each dish was very expensive.

When the two of them entered the room, they happened to meet the eyes of Nakahara Chuuya and Himuro Hayato who were about to leave.

“…”

The atmosphere suddenly became weird.

Okura Yezi noticed something was wrong and took out her ID: "We are from the government and are here to search someone."

Zhongyuan Chuuya's gaze fell directly on Yun Xiji.

Unexpectedly, just as he had the intention to kill, the target appeared in front of him.

"Hound?" Nakahara Chuuya said, "Did you know that your teammates are defrauding my men every month?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the whole audience fell silent.

Okura Yezi slowly asked a question.

Who is defrauding whom?

Yun Xiji has left the Rat of the Dead House, but he still can't change his bad habits?

And he even defrauded...someone from the Port Mafia?

Okura Yezi's mind was blank for a few seconds before she asked:

"You defrauded him?"

"No, it was a legal transaction," Yun Xiji said. "He paid me for intelligence about the future."

"It's just that the price of the information is a bit high. His boss might think my pricing is unreasonable."

Yun Xiji sighed, "This is my lowest price. If it's any lower, it will disrupt the market."

Okura Yeko: "..."

Nakahara Chuuya: “…”

Who asked this?

Yun Xiji gave a reasonable explanation, but Zhongyuan Chuuya sneered, the dissatisfaction in his eyes almost overflowing, "Legal transaction?"

"You sold a piece of news about 'Oguri Mushitaro's defection' for one million yen."

Okura Yezi turned around suddenly and looked at Yun Xiji in disbelief: "How much?"

One million yen?

Only a fool would give it to Yunxi Ji!

After Mushitaro Oguri lost his special ability, the Special Ability Department could no longer suppress the matter.

This information instantly became public information.

Yun Xiji said confidently: "Buy early and know early, buy late and you can get it for free."

Okura Yeko: "..."

This is a scam.

Between the enemy and his superior, Himuro Hayato decisively chose his superior: "Seven minutes after I received the information, this intelligence became public information."

"Before I purchased this information, I had no idea of ​​its validity. As the seller, you deliberately concealed this fact and sold it to me at a high price."

The four of them were in the restaurant lobby. Zhong Yuanzhong would not start a fight here. His eyes were sharp.

"Let him go out and fight with me."

Okura Yezi didn't speak up for Yun Xiji this time, but just reminded him: "We still have a mission to do."

Yun Xiji: "..."

The fraudster Yun Xiji fell.

Chuuya Nakahara helped Hayato Himuro vent his anger and very emotionally reimbursed the Hound and his companion's expenses at the restaurant.

Yun Xiji closed his eyes: "I want to sleep."

Okura Yezi pulled him up and said, "Go to sleep after you catch the person."

She pointed to the dining room floor. “If you fall asleep here, no one will carry you back.”

Yun Xiji was still wearing his Hounds uniform. If this guy really fell asleep here...

What would be lost is the hound's face, the captain's face!

Okura Yezi will never allow this to happen!

"I miss my black bed." Yun Xiji said, "Why can't people marry their beds?"

Okura Yezi thought he was crazy.

They went up to the third floor of the restaurant and began looking for Dazai Osamu.

In the private room, Dazai Osamu listened boredly to the person next to him talking about how he was rescued by Agency No. 7, and mentioned a series of benefits, wanting to cooperate with Dazai Osamu to fight against the Special Ability Department together.

There were many people in the private room, all coming for the same goal.

"That Oguri Mushitaro must be unable to bear the oppression of the Special Ability Special Agent Department. As long as we find him and find a way to persuade him..."

There was a sudden knock on the door.

A man called out through the door: "Open the door, hound."