police?

Staring blankly at the man in front of her, Anloka Hanabi was completely unable to react for a moment.

Why would the police come to find me?

She didn't do anything bad...

"Please take a seat."

“Ah… um…”

As a model student, Hanabi Anloka would usually feel nervous even when she was called by the teacher, not to mention that the people looking for her now were the police... This made her even more uneasy.

"Please don't be nervous, I just want to ask you a few questions."

Seeing Anraokaoka Hanabi looking pale and uneasy, Ida chuckled, then he took out his notebook and lowered his head.

"Then... I want to ask, five days ago, you went to the Beihai Building with Zhong Jingming... What were you doing there? He is your teacher, right?"

"Why?"

Hearing this, Anraooka Hanabi was stunned, and Ida's words were like a hammer, smashing open her originally closed memories of that day.

Parties, dinners, confessions of love, and...

“No…don’t!!”

At this moment, Anlegang Hanabi could no longer bear it and screamed with her head in her hands. She curled up into a ball and trembled.

"I don't know, I don't know anything, it was just a dream, a nightmare...! I don't know anything!!"

"oh?"

Seeing Anraokaoka Hanabi's appearance, Ida frowned immediately. He found the information during his visit and investigation. The Japanese police are professionals after all. Unless the criminals are protected by the will of the universe like in Conan's world, otherwise, as long as they investigate hard, they will always be able to find clues.

The reason why Ida found Anraoka Hanabi was because she got this information when she visited the businesses around the building and investigated the people entering and leaving the building. After all, Anraoka Hanabi went to the building with Teacher Zhong Jing in her school uniform, and she was a beautiful girl, so it was natural for her to leave a deep impression on people.

Uniforms are different in every school, so you can find the person quickly by just doing some research.

In addition, Zhong Jingming has been confirmed to have died in the fire, and his family has been confirmed to be zombies and secretly dealt with, but Anraoka Hanabi, who was with Zhong Jingming, returned to school safely... It was this incident that made Ida quite interested, so he came here specifically to investigate.

Now look at Yasuoka Hanabi’s reaction…it’s obvious that she has found a treasure!

"Anloka-san, please calm down!"

“No, don’t—!”

At this moment, Hanabi Anraoka was almost hysterical. She curled up into a ball, shaking her head and backing away. Obviously, looking at her expression, it was clear that something was not normal. Although Ida also wanted to calm her down, this made Hanabi Anraoka even more flustered.

However, at this moment...

"Excuse me!"

Along with this shout, the door was banged open and Sayu rushed in.

"Ogiwara-san!!"

Seeing Sayu, Anraooka Hanabi seemed to have finally found a life-saving straw when she was isolated and helpless. She rushed over and hid behind her. Sayu also grabbed Anraooka Hanabi and raised her head to glare at Ida.

"Really? Bullying a girl is not... eh? Mr. Ida?"

"Ogiwara-san?"

Seeing Sayu, Ida was also stunned.

"Why are you here?"

"Because this is the school I attend. On the contrary, Mr. Ida, I didn't know you had an interest in bullying girls."

"I didn't bully her. I just have a few questions to ask her."

"You have to choose the right method, after all, girls are very delicate."

Seeing Sayu talking to the police in front of her with a relaxed look on her face, Anraoka Hanabi looked at her in confusion.

"Ogiwara-san, do you know this police officer?"

"Hmm? Mr. Ida and Mr. Fang Zheng have some business dealings, so I have met him a few times."

“I see…”

Seeing Sayu as usual, Anraokaoka Hanabi's expression became a little more relaxed. And Date also looked at Sayu and sighed helplessly.

"Really? In that case, then Ogiwara-san, you should stay here too."

"Is everything all right?"

"After all, I still have something I want to ask, and I can't let you take her away. And you should know the situation here, so there is no need to hide it from you. Besides, if you stay here, this lady seems to be able to relax more."

As the person who was in contact with Fang Zheng, Ida knew that Sayu was Fang Zheng's assistant, and he also knew that this girl had been through a lot with Fang Zheng and would not be as timid as other girls. As expected, Sayu nodded, closed the door of the conversation room, and sat next to Anraoka Hanabi.

And Anraooka Hanabi held onto Sayu's arm tightly, not wanting to let go.

"Then... Yasuoka-san..."

Ida coughed, softened his tone, and looked towards Anraokaoka Hanabi.

"It doesn't matter if it's a dream. Can you tell me what kind of dream you had?"

“…”

Perhaps because Sayu was beside her, Anraoka Hanabi hesitated for a moment, but still spoke stutteringly...

"Bang!!!"

The man's head exploded, and the headless body shook for a moment, then fell to the ground without a sound.

"One hundred and fifty-eight... There are quite a lot of these ghouls."

Fang Zheng put down his sniper rifle and sighed silently. He had not been idle during this period. As mentioned before, after the Supernatural Countermeasures Headquarters found out that the victims were all ghouls, they immediately followed the clues and began to arrest their families. Of course, some powerful ghouls chose to resist and escape, so the Supernatural Countermeasures Headquarters also sent out several teams to hunt these ghouls.

As the strongest foreign aid in the Supernatural Countermeasures Headquarters, Fang Zheng is naturally among them. During this period when Sayu was in class, he was basically running around alone, using the power of the airship to move quickly and hunt targets.

For ordinary people, it is difficult to distinguish between ghouls and humans. In fact, even the Supernatural Countermeasures Headquarters would first use courtesy before force when facing the ghouls' families. If the other party does not resist, they will be captured obediently. If they resist, they will be killed on the spot. However, due to the huge difference in physical fitness between ghouls and humans, the Supernatural Countermeasures Headquarters also suffered heavy losses.

But Fang Zheng certainly didn't have to worry about this problem. He could keenly sense the stench emanating from the ghouls, so as long as he locked onto the stench and took action, there would be no problem.

But this is almost the limit.

Fang Zheng could sense that the entire city was in turmoil. Although the news was blocked from the media, it was an indisputable fact that the ghouls were being hunted and captured on a large scale. The remaining ghouls also fled one after another. Next, they would either flee the city and find a place to hide their identities and start over, or gather together and have a head-on confrontation with humans.

Although humans are much stronger than ghouls in terms of the number of weapons and the number of troops, it depends on the battlefield. If it is on a plain, the ghouls will be blown to pieces by humans. But it is different in a city, not to mention that ghouls and humans are almost indistinguishable in appearance. For ordinary people, there is no way to distinguish ghouls so far, so if ghouls start a street fight in the city, it will be a big problem for humans.

However, if the war officially breaks out, it means that the existence of ghouls will be completely exposed to humans, thus starting a bloody war.

Will they actually do that?

If they were vampires, they would most likely choose to hide, because vampires' weaknesses were quite fatal. But ghouls were different, they did not have the obvious weakness to sunlight and ultraviolet rays that vampires had. It could be said that apart from surviving by eating human flesh and having a much stronger physical fitness than humans, there was almost no difference between the two from the outside.

Therefore, the ghouls may choose different strategies. Of course, from Fang Zheng's point of view, this is actually not bad, but he also has his own ideas.

Strictly speaking, Fang Zheng still hopes to wipe out the enemy's lair in one fell swoop before a large-scale war breaks out.

Just like the Dongcheng Society, even if they claim to have 25,000 people, as long as their headquarters is blown up, they will just be a group of leaderless rabble.

The tracking during these days was not completely fruitless for Fang Zheng.

For example, he had learned that the largest group of ghouls here was the Bronze Tree, and that in the face of human pursuit, this group seemed to have begun to take action. According to the statements of several ghouls he had captured, the Bronze Tree was currently expanding rapidly. Apparently, they were now gathering ghouls from all over the place, intending to fight humans to the bitter end.

Therefore, the most important thing for Fang Zheng at the moment is to find the location of the bronze tree, and then... create a big fireworks display.

He has prepared a lot of good things for this.

It would be a pity if I couldn't use it.

"I never thought that this would happen."

After walking out of the school gate, Ida frowned as he looked at the records in his notebook. He originally thought that Hanabi Yasuoka had seen something by accident, which was why she was so frightened. But what he didn't expect was that according to Hanabi Yasuoka's story, she had actually been to that place and was almost killed and eaten by the ghouls. Fortunately, she was rescued in the end. Needless to say, the one who rescued her must be the guy who committed the arson.

Unfortunately, according to Hanabi Yasuoka, she was in darkness at the time and could not see anything. She passed out afterwards and was lying on the bed in her bedroom when she woke up again. This meant that Hanabi Yasuoka knew nothing about the criminal. This made Ida feel a little regretful. Even if there were a few more clues, at least she could find the guy's location, right?

Moreover, those zombies now also make Ida worried. Among the captured zombies, many of them expressed contempt for humans and said that their companions would never let humans go.

Considering the extent of the infiltration of ghouls into human society... the Supernatural Countermeasures Headquarters is currently having a headache, and there is even discussion within the cabinet about whether or not to simply make the existence of ghouls public and call on the public to be vigilant.

Unfortunately, there is no good way to identify ghouls so far, but ghouls are still different from humans in some ways. For example, their skin is very hard, and ordinary syringe needles cannot penetrate their skin - but they can't just stab anyone with a needle.

Now, we can only hope that the research department can be more powerful and develop an instrument that can be used to detect zombies.