Chapter 474: Food Chain among Ghosts

The skill that Jinpei Matsuda has activated is to fine-tune the explosion timing, moving the explosion timing forward or backward within a range of approximately 3 seconds.

Compared with other ghosts' fancy skills, this skill, at first glance, gives people a simple feeling of "that's it?"

But in this place where potassium cyanide is more common than stomachic and digestive tablets and bombs appear more frequently than fireworks, this new skill can barely be considered practical.

...At least it's better than Kirito's one-click suicide.

In the distance, Mist Tengu was still clinging to the arsonist diligently, acting as a locator, unaware that he was being innocently cueed again.

The arsonist had already left the car and was now standing next to the canal, holding a hostage and confronting a group of approaching police officers.

——Just now, although Sato Miwako lost the arsonist, she provided a long tracking route. Based on this information, Inspector Megure quickly asked someone to retrieve the surveillance footage to find the footage of the arsonist driving away, and set up roadblocks in places where he might pass, ready to stop him.

Ultimately, the checkpoints worked and the arsonists were unable to break through the police siege.

Since the car couldn't drive through, he simply abandoned the car and ran away.

Seeing that he could not outrun the police behind him, the fleeing arsonist suddenly had an idea. When he turned a corner, he grabbed a person who was passing by, pointed the knife at the hostage, and yelled at the police:

"Don't come over here!"

…

When Jiang Xia arrived at the scene, what he saw was this scene of confrontation between the two sides.

Behind the prisoner was a wide canal, and in front of him was a hostage.

Further out, there is a half circle of police, and outside the police are the spectators.

Jiang Xia crawled from the crowd of spectators to the crowd of police, and then from the crowd of police to the front row.

The Mist Tengu hanging on the arsonist saw him, breathed a sigh of relief, and flew back quickly flapping its wings.

It originally wanted to land on Jiang Xia's shoulder as usual, but when it looked carefully, it found that there was a strange ghost there.

Mist Tengu's movements froze slightly, and he finally had to fall on Jiang Xia, clinging to a random place, then raised his head and looked at Matsuda Jinpei with a little curiosity.

When Jinpei Matsuda was looking at the arsonist from the Ferris wheel just now, he saw the arsonist's car, but he didn't see that there was a ghost hiding in the car.

At this time, it was also observing Mist Tengu.

Matsuda Jinpei first glanced at the wings of the Mist Tengu, then turned his head and looked at the mermaid's tail next to it. Then he briefly showed an expression of shattered worldview, as if he was wondering if there were monsters in the world... As a policeman who values ​​physical evidence, he found it difficult to accept it for a while.

But soon, Jinpei Matsuda looked at himself silently and swallowed his doubts.

As a ghost, it seems that it is not qualified to ask questions like "Why are there monsters in the world?"

…

Jiang Xia didn't notice the ghosts' strange mental journey.

——After moving from the crowd of spectators to the crowd of police, Jiang Xia's movements became much smoother than before. The density of the police was much smaller, and most of the police who appeared here knew him, so it was not difficult to get to the front row.

Soon, Jiang Xia looked over the shoulder of the policeman in the front row and saw the arsonist and the hostage in his hand.

Unexpectedly, the hostage was a young man with waist-length hair and a terrified look on his face.

...The arsonist might have rushed around the corner in a panic and suddenly saw a figure with long hair passing by. He thought it was a weak and easy-to-control woman, so he grabbed her as a hostage. As a result, he accidentally grabbed a man.

However, although the long hair was very eye-catching, Jiang Xia didn't have time to look at it any more.

——His gaze paused on the hostage, and then he looked at the hostage's legs with a little surprise.

There was actually a lot of murderous aura surrounding this hostage.

In addition, there were two Shikigami clinging tightly to his legs. The Shikigami looked to be of different years, but they did not seem to be new and had been created for some time.

Jiang Xia looked carefully at the long-haired hostage, and then glanced at the travel bag he was holding.

Afterwards, he glanced among the crowd of onlookers, and his eyes lingered briefly on a woman with murderous aura, and suddenly remembered the identity of the hostage.

——In Jiangxia’s “case image library”, there was a stalker named “Tatsuya Nagai”.

Nagai Tatsuya recently set his sights on a woman named Nishitani Saori. Nishitani Saori soon discovered his behavior, and after hesitating for a while, she chose to resign and move away in fear, fleeing all the way from Yokohama to Tokyo.

However, the peaceful life did not last long, as Nagai Tatsuya soon followed - he came from a wealthy family and could live well without working, so it was no problem for him to follow others to move.

Saori Nishitani was harassed for a long time and was almost on the verge of collapse, so she finally chose to call the police.

After being reminded by the police, Tatsuya Nagai became angry and humiliated. He prepared a bag of tools and planned to sneak into Saori Nishitani's house and kill the woman.

At the same time, Nishitani Saori also sensed the murderous intent from the stalker - a few days ago, she was riding the subway and was suddenly pushed from behind when she was going downstairs. She rolled to the bottom and raised her head with difficulty, and saw Nagai Tatsuya standing on the stairs with a terrifying look in his eyes.

Since calling the police was useless, Nagai Tatsuya became even more aggressive. Nishitani Saori finally followed the local customs and gritted her teeth to think of another way - to kill this terrible man.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xia once again looked at the hostage with long flowing hair by the river. He let the ghost crawl into the bag carried by the hostage to take a look at what was inside.

Mist Tengu flew over and back and soon brought the answer.

——The hostage’s bag contained some lock-picking tools, as well as gloves, knives, hemp ropes and other common tools used in committing crimes.

Jiang Xia nodded secretly. It seems that it is really that "Nagai Tatsuya"... I am so lucky. I just burned a lot of murderous energy today and urgently need to replenish it.

It's a pity that there are too many policemen around here. However, as long as Nagai Tatsuya doesn't do anything stupid or say anything, it won't be difficult for him to get away from the police as soon as possible after he is rescued.

By then...

Jiang Xia was thinking with a little anticipation.

At this moment, the murderous aura by the river suddenly swelled, causing him to squint.

Jiang Xia came back to his senses and looked towards the river in confusion. He took a second to distinguish the arsonist and the hostage Nagai Tatsuya who were close together, and finally determined that the sudden surge of murderous aura came from the arsonist in the back.

—The arsonist glanced quickly at the canal behind him.

Then he held the hostage with a knife in one hand, reached into his large bag with the other hand, grabbed a fuse bomb, his eyes flashing.

“…”

Jiang Xia observed the arsonist's subtle movements and the sudden surge of murderous aura from him, and suddenly had a guess about what this man wanted to do.

(End of this chapter)