Chapter 117 Is listening to gossip more important than your own brother?

Day 10 of the road survival game!

Hagiwara realized something from Komori's reaction and immediately asked him, "It seems you're also starting to think something's not right?"

"...Zero informed me on the 5th that Senior Iori's identity had been exposed. I received this news in the afternoon. In the morning, the Public Security Logistics Department notified me that the guns I was issued needed maintenance and that I needed to replace them with new equipment. They asked me to send over the weapons that were not given to me by the organization."

The organization manages its members quite strictly, and I was worried that the organization might distribute weapons or other bait such as transmitters. So when I went to the public security logistics department, I didn't bring any of the organization's weapons. Not long after I left the public security logistics department...

I received a warning from Zero. By then, the safe houses the organization had arranged for me had already been targeted by them, so I didn't have time to retrieve them. Therefore, I began to evade the organization's pursuit while unarmed.

Moreover... since you were able to rescue me precisely at that time, you probably already heard from Zero about the major actions the organization took to force me into their trap zone, but in reality, those major actions only gradually began on the evening of the 6th.

From the evening of the 5th to the 6th, the organization did not make such a big fuss to pursue me. During this time, if the public security had provided timely reinforcements, or given the efficiency of the Japanese public security as I know it, it would have been possible to achieve such a result.

A safe rescue and evacuation plan should have been prepared long ago to help me evacuate successfully, but the rescue plan prepared by the police encountered several problems during this period, which led to my failure to evacuate and my being tracked down by the organization.

Only after the organization had clues about my whereabouts did they launch various large-scale operations, such as blocking traffic, which prevented the police from providing rescue. "In the emergency at the time, he just felt that he was unlucky."

Unfortunately, at the most critical moment, all sorts of situations arose. Now, hearing that Hagiwara and the others had questions about the reason for his accident, he realized that there were problems everywhere in the past two days.

"Bang!" At first, he thought his childhood friend was overthinking things, but as Hagi's speculation was gradually confirmed, Matsuda began to accept the reality. However, when he heard that he was wholeheartedly dedicating himself to the country, he was shocked.

He never expressed any dissatisfaction with the country even when the police had not caught the murderer of his parents more than ten years ago, but his beloved friend, whom he had sworn to protect, was betrayed by the country he was protecting.

He was being driven closer and closer to a dead end, and in the end, he could only choose to end his own life to protect the information of his relatives and friends. Even though the outcome had been changed by the miraculous power of the junior schoolmate, he still couldn't help but angrily punch the back of the chair next to him.

Disappointed and angry, he sneered: "So many years have passed, and this country really hasn't changed at all! The guy who slandered my father back then has become the high-ranking Superintendent General of Police."

Now, one or more high-ranking officials are framing and forcing those who wholeheartedly protect the people and are willing to sacrifice their lives for that drug. They truly seem to have reached their lowest point, but in reality, their lowest point can be even lower!

Upon hearing this, Morofushi Kagemitsu gleaned the key point from Matsuda's words and immediately retorted, "For that drug? Wasn't it because of the information revealed on that check? Matsuda, do you know why the Public Security Bureau abandoned me?"

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"Uh!" In his anger, Matsuda let slip the secret. When asked by Morofushi Kagemitsu, he immediately looked at his childhood friend. Oh no, Hagi wanted to wait until he and his junior schoolmate were officially dating before explaining his speculations. Now he had prematurely revealed the information.

Will this cause Hagi to be ostracized by the junior schoolgirl? After all, the speculation that the junior schoolgirl's brother might have been silenced by the Japanese authorities for the Silver Bullet seems increasingly likely to be true.

Morofushi Kagemitsu was somewhat surprised by Matsuda's reaction, unsure how this matter had anything to do with Hagiwara. However, with his quick wit and adaptability, he deduced from Matsuda's reaction that whether he would get the answer he wanted depended on Hagiwara's attitude. So, he blinked his jewel-like blue eyes at Hagiwara...

What can Hagiwara do when his two friends are watching him? He can't possibly stab his brothers in the back just to win over his crush! Besides, Komorofushi has just gone through so many heartbreaking and disappointing things for him.

So he could only give Feng Jiang a sullen look before replying, "This all started with yesterday's dungeon. In yesterday's dungeon, we encountered Feng Jiang's brother, who is codenamed Gin in your organization..."

Therefore, we speculate that someone in the high-ranking ranks of the Japanese Public Security Bureau, or someone within the Japanese government or the capital circles behind it who can command and control the Public Security Bureau, must know that the organization Feng Jiang belongs to is researching an elixir of immortality and has made some progress.

That's why they sent you, Kofuruya, and that Iori-senpai you mentioned, and possibly even more people to infiltrate that organization for a secret investigation...

However, right now, we can only sense something unusual from your experiences before and after the incident—your identity being exposed, and the forced suicide during the pursuit. We can't deduce what connection the information you saw about the check has with their forcing you to your death.

"I... I think I know! I never thought that I would be betrayed by a colleague or boss I trusted just because the information about the check was related to that medicine? Iori-senpai's identity being exposed at that time was probably part of their script, right?"

No wonder when I last contacted Zero, Zero told me that Iori-senpai had successfully escaped the organization's pursuit and was now hiding in a safe place, reassuring me that I would definitely escape the organization's pursuit as well..."

Unexpectedly, after hearing Hagiwara's words, Morofushi Kagemitsu took a deep breath and said that he already knew why he had to die. He then asked them with a wry smile, "Do you remember when Zero said in the police academy that his purpose in becoming a policeman was to find a woman's whereabouts?"

"Is your matter related to that incident?" Matsuda was taken aback. Although they had joked with Furuya at the time, they all knew that Furuya's expression and tone at the time did not show any eagerness to find his beloved's whereabouts after she went missing.

Although I don't know his true thoughts, I can guess that he is indeed looking for someone's whereabouts. I just didn't expect that the matter would be related to Jing Dan's accident.

Hagiwara looked at Fuu-chan with concern, only to find that Fuu-chan showed no anger or resentment towards her for speculating about the cause of her brother's accident, nor did she seem to dislike or reject her or Matsuda. Instead, Fuu-chan was intently watching Morofushi, her face showing an expectant expression as she waited to hear the gossip...

This reaction left him speechless. Although he had heard from his Chinese classmates when he was in college that Chinese people have zero resistance to gossip, and that they would ignore being punished for being late to school or the arrival of a delicious dish just ordered to watch the excitement.

At the time, I thought that the Chinese student was deliberately using exaggerated language to describe the personality of his compatriots, but I didn't expect that Feng Jiang would not care much about the possible reasons for his brother's accident just because he wanted to hear gossip.

-_-|| Feeling utterly speechless, he could only lower his head and whisper in Feng Xingshou's ear, "Feng-chan, this is something that makes Morofushi sad, it's not gossip or entertainment! Quickly put away that expression on your face!"

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"Ahem!" Reminded by Hagiwara, Kazesei quickly withdrew his expectant expression and said in a serious tone, "I didn't! I really didn't."

"Heh..." Hagiwara responded to her denial with a simple "heh heh!"

Feng Xingshou felt guilty after being laughed at, and subconsciously turned his head to avoid his gaze.

At the same time, Morofushi Hiromitsu explained why he had said those things earlier: "What Zero is actually looking for is the female doctor who took care of him gently when he was a child and was bullied because of his foreign appearance..."

Listening to Morofushi Kagemitsu's account, Hagiwara, Matsuda, and Kazesei Mamoru learned that when Zero was forcibly dragged to the small hospital run by the female doctor's daughter for the last time to treat his wounds, he inadvertently overheard the conversation between the female doctor and her husband outside the door.

I know that the female doctor is pregnant and will have her second child around the end of the year. I also know that she and her husband are conducting a fantastic research project, but due to insufficient funding and equipment, they are considering whether to accept a research invitation from a research institute called Karasuma Research Institute.

The female doctor's husband hesitated because he had heard rumors about Karasuma's companies being domineering and unethical in the industry. However, after being persuaded by the female doctor, he decided to accept Karasuma Research Institute's invitation in order to fulfill his dream.

Sure enough, the small hospital closed down not long after Zero returned that day, and that day became the last time he saw the female doctor, but since there were no female elders in Zero's family.

His foreign mother divorced her Japanese husband and returned to her home country when he was only a few months old, due to various dissatisfactions with the Japanese marriage and the unfriendly social environment towards women in Japan.

Zero's parents' divorce meant he never had the memory of living with his mother growing up, and the female doctor, to some extent, made him feel like he was a child again, fulfilling his emotional needs for a mother.

Therefore, after he developed the expectation that his mother might resemble the female doctor, he would often deliberately injure himself and go to the female doctor for treatment. Over time, he became familiar with the female doctor.

Zero also obtained the female doctor's phone number when he asked her for help learning to ride a bicycle, so after the female doctor's small hospital closed down, Zero was initially able to contact her by phone.

Even though the female doctor was busy with work and didn't answer the phone or reply to Zero's text messages at the time, she would reply to him when she had time. But this situation changed in November of that year.

Starting in November, he could no longer contact the female doctor. Zero knew that the female doctor was pregnant when she left, and at the time he thought that she was not energetic enough due to the approach of her due date and was waiting in the hospital for delivery, etc.!

He didn't reply to her because he couldn't use his phone, lacked the energy or time, or because of hospital regulations. He also couldn't get through to her on the phone. In order not to cause her any trouble, he stopped contacting the female doctor after he could no longer reach her by phone.