Chapter 89 Not Our Enemy

Furukaya Rei followed the rabbit police officer with a stern expression. He wanted to leave from here, but it was obvious that the rabbit had no intention of letting any of them go. He looked back and saw Dazai Osamu looking at him innocently.

This is totally inconsistent with the laws and regulations of the outside world! Public Security member Rei Furuya thought with gritted teeth.

They soon arrived at a cafe. The decoration here was very elegant. It should be a high-end rest area, but there were no other customers except them. Several uniformed policemen blocked the place. Inside the slightly dark cafe, several figures, some sitting and some standing, were waiting for them.

"Oh, you finally came," one of the ladies smoking a cigarette saw them coming in, exhaled, and said with a hint of sarcasm: "I thought you had forgotten us here!"

The corner of Fūya Rei's eye twitched, because the people present were all very distinctive, and the one who was speaking now was a green mantis with serrated compound eyes, a thin neck, and two tentacles on its head, which were shaking slightly as its head moved.

"Ma'am, please don't say that," a man at the side hurriedly tried to smooth things over. Its two soft hands moved slightly on the table. With an oval shell on its back, it tilted its head and said with a flattering smile, "Officer Rabbit is also following the rules. Everyone is not here yet, so things can't start."

"Coo, coo, are you not ready yet? I have to work in the bakery this afternoon. If I am delayed, there will be no bread crumbs left to eat!" Miss Pigeon waved her wings.

“Young man, you have to be patient in doing things. When you reach my age, you will know that everything has its own rules. Only by following the sequence of time can you reap good rewards.” An old crocodile in a suit glanced elegantly and calmly at the pocket watch in his hand and said slowly and calmly.

"Puchi!" Furiya Rei heard Dazai Osamu laughing behind him. Someone poked his back with a finger, and a small voice came: "Do you feel like we are in a horror suspense anime now?"

Furiya Rei keenly noticed that the rabbit police officer was looking over here, and he was wary and did not answer.

"Alright," Officer Rabbit knocked her baton on the table, immediately dispelling the emotions of the few people. She looked around and said calmly, "Someone will come to question you next. Remember, don't lie, don't resist, and don't try to escape. You don't want to know the consequences of doing so."

Everyone was suddenly silent. Fūya Rei deeply realized that this world, in a sense, could not be conquered by force. At the very least, his force was not enough.

Dazai Osamu observed the several "people" present. Apart from their different appearances, these animals were actually no different from ordinary humans. They were also anxious and nervous, and had different small movements. He sneered silently and found it extremely interesting, not about this case, but about the "master of this town."

When Rei Furuya proposed to see the body of Ms. Deer, his idea was rejected by Officer Rabbit, so he began to argue with him. Dazai Osamu was leisurely. He didn't seem to care about his own safety at all. He just looked at the scenery outside through the window of the cafe. Soon, he saw the two figures he wanted to see.

A smile appeared on his face and he walked back. "If you still can't agree on this, why not invite a third party to investigate," he looked at Officer Rabbit, "You know, my friend is here because of me. I was the one who had the conversation with Ms. Lu. He actually has the power to investigate this case. After all, I am also...his friend, hehe."

He said with a smile. When Officer Rabbit wanted to say something, he emphasized as if he didn't care: "Anyway, as guests in this town, we should still be treated with some preferential treatment, right?"

Police Officer Rabbit's face darkened, but after a moment of silence, she still followed Dazai Osamu's instructions and invited the two people outside in. Conan and Pei Zhen met with Fūya Rei and the others. The moment Conan saw him, his eyes lit up and he said happily, "So it was you who sent us the note and asked us to come here, Mr. Fūya!"

Furiya Rei was stunned for a moment, but soon he realized who did it. He looked at Dazai Osamu and said, "You're not talking about me. You're talking about you. Why are you here? Are there any other people? Who is involved?"

Conan's brows were covered with worry: "I think there should be a lot of people, but apart from Brother Amano, I didn't see anyone else."

Fūya Ling looked at Pei Zhen again, and Pei Zhen sighed: "I don't know how I got here. When I was investigating the commission, a wave of energy hit me, and the next second, I passed out. When I woke up, I was in this place."

Upon hearing this, Fūya Rei's brows furrowed even more tightly. He murmured, "This isn't right. If the noise and scope were so large, why were only a few of us awake? Oh, there's another one, and he's in another city..."

"Why not?" Dazai Osamu, who was listening to their conversation, said, "Just think of this place as having an owner." He smiled and said, "If the owner wants to play games, he will naturally only select the best ones. It's not that the others didn't come in, they just haven't moved in yet. If you don't believe me, you can ask them..."

He walked up to Officer Rabbit and asked casually under her vigilant gaze, "Madam Officer, your town will be undergoing a wave of expansion next month, right?"

"Why are you asking that?"

"These few," Dazai Osamu pointed at the other animals present, "Expansion will generate a lot of new business. Ms. Deer is a real estate investor, Ms. Mantis is its sponsor, Mr. Snail is its lover, Ms. Pigeon was its secretary for a while, and Mr. Crocodile is its competitor. They all have motives for committing crimes."

The animals were obviously panicked. The rabbit asked, "How did you know that?"

"It's easy to see, isn't it?" Dazai Osamu obviously had no intention of explaining. He said, "Just answer me, if the town wants to expand, how will the townspeople be arranged? Or should we bring in a group of new townspeople?"

The rabbit grinned: "You guessed right."

"Where do they come from?"

The rabbit was silent: "You don't need to know."

When Dazai Osamu turned around again, the faces of the people behind him all looked very ugly. Conan thought of something, and Pei Zhen also said, "You mean, those missing residents of Beihua Town are likely to be the next townspeople?"

Dazai Osamu glanced at him and recognized that he was not a stupid person.

Furiya Ling has been in a bad mood since he came here. He sighed and said, "It seems that there are some things I have to say. In fact, I know why we came here."

As expected, Conan thought to himself. After the Black Organization was destroyed, this public security officer still returned to work as a waiter in the cafe downstairs. Part of the reason was probably to monitor the FBI agent who lived near Teitan High School. This incident was most likely related to them. He thought of the title he had heard last time - "Transcendent".

"Transcendence," Furutani Rei lowered his voice, "We are simply innocent victims this time. That bastard Akai used that invitation, and I don't know what went wrong, but he trapped all of us. As a result, his accident became ours. That group of FBI," he said with a grim expression, "one day, I will drive them all out of this country!"

Conan's face was very heavy. He knew that "Transcendence" was against the rules, but he didn't expect it to be against the rules to this extent. It was clearly a new small world that had been rebuilt! Dazai Osamu looked melancholy. He had never expected that he would be involved in the matter of "Transcendence". Thinking of the voice he heard before, he sighed softly and said a name: "... You are really a trouble."

Only Pei Zhen still looked confused: "Well, what are these 'superpowers' and 'transcendents' you are talking about? Aren't they really titles in novels? You must be kidding, there is a group of people like that." He said with a bit of toothache.

Conan patted his arm sympathetically. Seeing him was like seeing himself on that train. He said, "Although we all respect scientific materialism, materialism also respects existing facts. Just accept it. This world is unscientific."

Pei Zhen glanced at the boy silently.

"Have you guys discussed it?" After Officer Rabbit arranged everyone else, he came forward and asked impatiently.

Furuya Rei stepped forward and replied, "We have already agreed that they will help us solve this case. They are detectives in their hometown, and this time they are just doing their old job. We trust them."

Officer Rabbit didn't care. She said coldly, "In that case, come with me to see the scene."

Pei Zhen simply glanced at the corpse. Ms. Deer, as its name suggests, was the corpse of a tall woman with a deer head. Conan examined it very carefully. It was probably the first time he examined an animal corpse in this way. This case was not complicated. When Pei Zhen saw Conan pick up a small object that had rolled down, he knew that this incident was probably about to end.

On the way back, Conan and Pei Zhen were both silent. Conan's mind has been tense the whole time. The super-standard existence of the "Transcendent" occupied most of his thinking space, making him distracted from the investigation of the case. When he walked into their shared room, he still looked like he was worried.

Now it seems that dealing with the Black Organization may be more promising than dealing with such an existence.

Pei Zhen looked at the people in the field. Fūya Rei and Conan were in low spirits, while Dazai Osamu was standing aside with his arms folded, staying out of the matter. It was almost dark, and light from outside was shining through the curtains. There should be action tonight.

He had no choice but to make himself useful. He cleared his throat and said with some discomfort: "I know that the Transcendent must be a very powerful person, but aren't you a little too pessimistic?"

Several people present looked at him together. Pei Zhen continued, "If this town was brought here because of him, then it would be very easy for him to deal with us. We wouldn't have been able to wander around the streets without encountering anything. Although we are intruders, it was not our own will. To be precise, we are victims of another accident. As long as the Transcendent is a little reasonable, he won't blame us too much..."

"He actually gave a time," Pei Zhen said, "Won't the town expansion be in half a month? As long as we find him before then, won't that be enough?"

He didn't say what to do after finding it, but he undoubtedly led Furuya Rei and Conan out of that vortex of self-destruction. They felt relieved, knowing that they were just being too stubborn. Rei Furuya also began to realize the talent of the young detective.

“Pa pa pa pa.” There was a sound of applause. Dazai Osamu left the wall he was leaning on, stood up straight, and said with a smile: “I want to see how long it will take you to react.”

As he walked, he said, "It seems that you have seen the Transcendent in action before, so you are so shocked. But I still have to tell you that this time the Transcendent was too gentle to you!"

"Gentle?" Furuya Ling was incredulous. "You mean to say that confining us here, facing strange dangers, and threatening us to turn the rest of us into townspeople, is 'gentle'?"

"Yes," Dazai Osamu said, "What you have seen is probably not the full force of the Transcendents. They can overturn rivers and seas, change life and death, they are a group of real monsters, like the bugs of this world. To them, the human group is like a group of small ants. They have become creatures on another level. That's why I said that the fact that you haven't been hurt until now is due to his gentleness."

"'Guest'? How can you become a guest just by not denying it?" Dazai Osamu's words were cruel: "Some taboos are also marked, 'vegetables', 'raw meat'? Tell me," he suddenly asked Conan and Pei Zhen: "What did you eat this morning?"

"Well, it's bread, whole wheat bread, and a glass of water." Conan replied. He finally knew what the abnormality he had been experiencing was.

"Yes, no matter whether it is true or false, as long as I don't touch either of them, it will be fine." Dazai Osamu said in a distant manner: "Even if we don't try to get out, maybe we can live here for several days. This place is very dangerous, but we should also be thankful because the owner of this place is not our enemy."

His words made those who had been worried feel a little complicated. But they had to admit that what he said made sense. Dazai Osamu was the one among them who knew the most about people with special abilities. The other two did not understand, so they had not thought about this.

"Then we are not actually that dangerous? No, that's not right." Without waiting for an answer, Furuya Rei denied his own words.