Chapter 32: Take Officer Matsuda with him too

"Kaze-chan! Matsuda was able to dismantle this bomb before it exploded, but the bomb that just exploded..." Hagiwara Kenji was amazed that she was able to quickly move from high altitude to this side without disturbing the mercury column.

Knowing that she could still leave the instance if she went back now, he succinctly told her about the threat of the bomber, and then urged, "You have one minute left, enough time for you to go back and leave this place. Don't linger here any longer."

“But now there’s not even a minute left!” After hearing his explanation, Feng Xingshou immediately understood what he meant and personally experienced that as a police officer, even if you are of different nationalities, you have an admirable integrity of sacrificing yourself to protect the public.

Compared to similar scenes in movies and TV series, experiencing it firsthand has a deeper emotional impact. She watched the two people who had decided to die and showed no sign of backing down as time ticked away, and then she quietly walked into the tour car through the door.

"You're talking to someone you can't see. She can take you away?" Matsuda reacted to the voice and Hagiwara's words and immediately shouted towards the door of carriage 72: "Hey! Hurry up and take Hagiwara with you. I'll stay here alone."

Unfortunately, he paused for a few seconds without responding, and Hagiwara did not leave, causing Matsuda to show a look of disappointment.

On the other side, even though he couldn't see anything at this moment, Kenji Hagiwara had a premonition that Kaze-chan was definitely disobedient and was walking inside. He immediately put on a rare stern face and warned seriously, "Kaze-chan, you should leave right now. If you act willfully at this time, I will be very angry."

"Don't move! Be careful not to detonate the bomb right now. Also, I'm very angry that you just said you'd stay here and wait to die!" Feng Xing Shou saw him looking so serious and fierce for the first time.

Knowing that he wanted her to survive alone, she naturally wasn't really angry. Instead, she avoided his arm, which seemed to have somehow accurately predicted her location and was trying to block her way.

He crawled under his arm, transmitting his new recording into the real world through a small loudspeaker. He then walked towards the location of the bomb inside the carriage, squatting in the aisle while watching the countdown on the bomb screen under the chair, which showed only 45 seconds remaining.

While deliberately recording a self-pitying complaint, he shoved it into Officer Matsuda's hand and played it in the real world: "Anyway, I'll die after we get out without you as my driver, so I might as well die with you now! It's much better to die with two handsome young men by my side than to die like that after we get out."

Not at all. Before hearing the truth, she had planned to put away the bomb and quickly evacuate with Hagiwara using her spatial backpack. However, after learning the truth, she decided to use the three-minute resurrection time of the Reincarnation Cycle to change the situation.

Her own reincarnation would resurrect her by turning back time by three minutes, allowing her to return to the time when she was still alive three minutes earlier. Before that, she only needed to memorize the location of the bomb that would explode at 2 PM, as indicated on the prisoner's electronic screen.

Once the time rewinds to three minutes ago, tell them to pass it on to the police below, then put away the bomb and take Hagiwara away. However, after she thought of this method...

Having experienced the tension and fear of dying in a car accident and then in an explosion, they unconsciously made a flippant remark to appear nonchalant, taking advantage of the fact that they couldn't hear anything in this instance dimension.

I'll act like they're not afraid of death to ease my inner tension and fear. Anyway, they won't hear me, and those two police officers won't find out I said something so cheesy... Hehe! (*^▽^*)

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Matsuda felt something was amiss for the first time; it felt like something touched the skin on his hand, and then...

The small loudspeaker used uniformly throughout the amusement park appeared right in front of me and started playing automatically.

At that moment, despite finding it unscientific, Matsuda guessed that the junior schoolmate Hagiwara mentioned must also be in this carriage. However, due to certain circumstances, neither he nor Hagiwara could see her, and they could only transmit their voices through skin contact and a medium.

Is this the power of a god? A shrine maiden? A monster... He, who has always believed only in science and not in ghosts and gods, actually had such thoughts after personally experiencing this unscientific phenomenon.

However, he didn't have time to think further. He saw that the countdown on the bomb had jumped to 30 seconds left, and hurriedly urged, "There are only 30 seconds left. You should be able to get out with Hagi now..."

"Second-year graduate student, officer, once the address comes out, immediately tell me in Chinese. I have another way, but I need to know the address shown on it." Feng Xingshou said greasyly on the other end.

I was actually checking the time, but it wasn't until I heard what Officer Matsuda said that I realized the electronic screen was all in Japanese. I immediately remembered that I was illiterate when it came to Japanese, and I wouldn't be able to recognize the address on the screen even if I saw it a moment later.

Having never experienced such a major on-site crisis before, he was worried that he would not be able to manage the time well, and even more worried that he would fail because of his Japanese language skills and have to die again to succeed. He immediately used a small loudspeaker to record and transmit his voice through the body of Officer Matsuda who was right next to him.

As soon as she finished speaking through the loudspeaker, the countdown on the bomb screen reached its final three seconds. Matsuda Jinpei quickly took out his phone to prepare to email Sato so he could inform her of the prisoner's target location at 2 PM.

"It's Beika Hospital!" At the same moment, Kenji Hagiwara heard her say this in the recording on the loudspeaker. In the short time he had, he didn't have time to think about why she asked that, so he blurted out what place it was.

Meanwhile, Matsuda, while rapidly typing on his phone with his thumb, said to them, "I'm sorry for getting you all involved!"

Feng Xingshou felt that their voices rang out almost simultaneously and then stopped at the same time. He heard a bang from beneath his feet, saw a flash of fire, and felt a slightly hot and itchy sensation on his body. Then, as if he had been blown by a hurricane, he felt himself floating up into the air...

The next second, she felt her body sink, just like when she first encountered the apartment building with Hagiwara. Suddenly, she regained consciousness in room 71, and at the same time, Hagiwara Kenji's explanation came into her ears.

Seeing this, she knew that time was of the essence, so she immediately took action. She had become somewhat skilled at creating water for manipulation, and relying on her water manipulation skills, the safety rope that Hagiwara had tied between compartments 71 and 72, and the Ferris wheel support, she quickly moved to compartment 72.

This time, however, she didn't waste time asking about the situation through the megaphone. Instead, she went straight to compartment 72 and quickly moved towards the bomb while telling Officer Matsuda through the megaphone, "The other bomb is located at Beika Hospital. Tell the police immediately."

"Feng-chan...it's almost time for you to quit, isn't it?" As the small megaphone with her recording fell in front of them, her words startled both Kenji Hagiwara and Jinpei Matsuda. Then, the same words came from Hagiwara's mouth.

Feng Xing Shou didn't want to waste time talking to him! So he didn't respond at all, but took advantage of the fact that the man was stunned by his words to put him directly into his spatial backpack. Then he continued to walk to the spot under the bench where the bomb was located, squatted down, and prepared to put the bomb away and return to the dungeon exit.

Having witnessed his best friend vanish into thin air, Matsuda Jinpei was still taken aback, even though he had guessed there was someone invisible in compartment 72: "Hey! You..."

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"Rather than asking how it is..."

"What's going on? Shouldn't you be sending out the text message first? Don't worry, my information source is extremely reliable, there's no error." This is future information obtained through death, there's absolutely no deception involved!

After finishing transmitting the message through the megaphone, Kazesei Morimasa thought smugly as he prepared to put the bomb into his backpack! Just before putting it away, he subconsciously covered the entire bomb with his hand, and was surprised to discover something.

My consciousness not only covered the bomb, but also the entire carriage number 72. According to the usual rules for storing items in backpack space, this means that the bomb was actually integrated with the entire tour carriage.

If she wanted to store the bomb, she would have to take the entire carriage 72 with her. But she was already inside carriage 72, and aside from the fact that she had already packed so many things in her backpack at the amusement park, there was no question of whether she could even fit them into a double-person sightseeing carriage.

The question of whether to take in only the bomb or the people inside the carriage was enough to stop her from continuing. She had no choice but to hurriedly check the bomb's connection status.

Then, to everyone's dismay, they discovered that the bomb was installed inside a metal box. They wondered what the perpetrator was thinking. Perhaps it was out of an obsession with not letting the police move the bomb.

This metal box was welded to the floor under the bench in compartment 72 using some kind of metal that looked like aluminum. No wonder it took Officer Matsuda almost half an hour to come up and defuse the bomb.

They continued defusing the bomb while squatting on the ground, instead of moving it to the bench where it would be easier and less strenuous to operate, and remained in its original position to continue working...

This is troublesome. What should we do? If we can't remove this bomb, Officer Matsuda won't have enough time to dismantle it. It will inevitably detonate, and then both compartment 72 and the adjacent compartment 71 will be destroyed by the explosion.

He had already put Hagiwara into his spatial backpack. Now that they were out of the instance, the two of them would definitely be safe. But what about Officer Matsuda? He was trapped in this Ferris wheel cabin high in the air, with nowhere to escape. If he stayed, he would surely be killed by the bombs…

There was only one way left. Thinking of this, she looked at Matsuda Jinpei, who had just put away his phone and was walking towards the bomb, and asked through the loudspeaker, "Officer Matsuda, has the information been passed on to the police?"

"Yes! I've already texted my colleagues." He replied in slightly awkward Chinese as he squatted down and reached out towards the bomb, thinking to himself with relief that he hadn't stopped after discovering the mercury column.

Instead, she dismantled the bomb to the very last step, retaining the electronic timer function. In just 3 seconds, she could dismantle the bomb at her own speed. Now, the junior schoolgirl who could turn people into living beings had somehow obtained this information.

She hadn't known before that the bomber's cryptic letter hinted at the hospital, but now that he'd mentioned Beika Hospital, his information was clearly reliable. This meant she wouldn't have to accept the bomber's threats while waiting for the answer to the location of the next bomb...

But just as he reached for the bomb disposal tools, a hand landed on his shoulder, and the next second, Matsuda Jinpei vanished into thin air from the tour bus where the bomb had been planted.

Unaware that Matsuda Jinpei had ample time to defuse the bomb, Kazeki, feeling a surge of accomplishment for saving a life, manipulated water to reduce the vibrations caused by his footsteps, quickly returning to compartment 71. Seeing only 10 seconds remaining on the countdown timer in the upper corner, he rushed over hastily…

"Matsuda!" Ten seconds later, Miwako Sato cried out as she watched the tour bus explode high in the sky.

Inspector Megure and the others shouted, "Ambulances and fire trucks, hurry up!"