Chapter 208 Death Game His expression before death is really funny
"Yes," Amuro Toru said crisply, "When the Yuejiang family's underground structure was first constructed, a secret passage was built. The exit is on Yueying Island, and it is the fastest way out of the island."
"I'll tell you the location now..."
Lin Xi waited quietly for Amuro Toru to finish, then asked, "How did you know there was a secret passage there?"
Amuro Toru chuckled: "I have my own channels."
Lin Xi remained silent. For a moment, the only sound coming from the headset was her slightly rapid breathing.
Toru Amuro's mind flashed with the image of her running at full speed in the dark corridor.
He sighed softly.
"I'm so sorry, Bourbon." After a while, Lin Xi said, "If I had known this would happen, I would have come alone instead of bringing you along."
"I am no longer your subordinate, you don't need to be responsible for me." said Toru Amuro.
Lin Xi: "I brought you here with the intention of teasing you. Because you're always...always hanging around Lin Xi, and I don't want you to be idle."
"I was too careless. I thought I could handle everything. Even if I suffered a loss, I wouldn't lose you."
Amuro Toru: "Don't blame yourself at a time like this. It's not like you at all, Punch."
Lin Xi smiled: "What's my style? A fun-loving person who plays with the world?"
"Having been in the organization for so long, you should know better than me how untrustworthy the character displayed is."
"Identity and personality are like masks. I can put on a new mask, but I can't deceive myself."
"I do regret it now."
Her voice was very calm, and what she said was indeed inconsistent with the quirky personality that Amuro Toru had in mind.
When he thought that these words would be the last conversation between him and Punch, Toru Amuro felt a little sad.
He had a feeling that the Punch who said these words to him was the real Punch without any disguise.
The mischievous, humorous, and cruel Punch he knew in the past was just a mask. Beneath that mask, the real Punch always observed the world, the people around him, and the events happening around him calmly and indifferently.
For some reason, he found that he understood Zhu Fu Jingguang a little.
That guy's mind was more delicate than his, and he was more perceptive in observing people. Perhaps he had discovered the real Punch a long time ago and got in touch with her earlier than himself.
Amuro Toru comforted her: "Everyone will die, sooner or later."
"But it shouldn't be now." She was silent for a moment, then said, "I've thought of many ways, but none of them can change the ending. Every choice I make leads to the same outcome. I'm sorry, you really are going to die here today."
Toru Amuro has no fear of death.
From a very early time, Amuro Toru knew that death was a simple thing. It always happened easily, like a naughty child who specialized in stealing other people's hidden treasures.
His father died very early, and a few years later, his mother also died.
The good friends he made in the police academy died one after another, and in the end he was left alone.
So he understood that death was not painful, and the real long-lasting pain like a thorn in the bone was left to those who were still alive.
"Don't apologize." Amuro Toru said.
He thought, after you leave here, you probably won't feel guilty anymore.
Before Yuya Kazami left, he conveyed his final instructions to him: have the public security officers wait fully armed at the exit of the secret passage, and once Punch appears, disarm and capture her immediately.
Punch must know a lot, and perhaps the information she has can make up for some of the country's losses in this "game" and the explosion.
Amuro Toru had no doubt that the Public Security Bureau could pry Punch's mouth open. He had worked in this organization for so long, if he couldn't even see its true nature, he would be a complete failure.
By then, the torture Punch receives will probably make her hate herself to death.
To a certain extent, the slander against the FBI in film and television works is also applied to the police in reality.
Toru Amuro knew very well that he was serving Japan, not Japan's public security, and he stayed there only because their goals were the same.
"Punch, there's one more thing I want to tell you." Amuro Toru said, "Someone once asked me to remind you that 'the real enemy is lurking beside you'."
Lin Xi's reaction was very calm: "I know."
Now it was Amuro Toru's turn to be surprised: "Do you already have a choice in mind?"
"Some things can't stand thinking about it too much." Lin Xi shook his head, looking at the ancient building getting closer and closer in front of him, and the specially marked red dot representing Amuro Toru on the map getting closer and closer to him: "Is there anything else you want to say to me?"
Amuro Toru thought for a moment: "If you had the opportunity to leave the organization completely, and this opportunity would not bring any possible danger to you and the people around you, would you choose to leave?"
This time Lin Xi didn't hesitate at all: "No."
Amuro Toru was a little disappointed, but didn't show it: "I understand."
"I have nothing else to say."
This was their last conversation.
Shortly thereafter, he climbed to the top floor of the Kolosim and sat down in a random spot like an ordinary spectator, waiting for his death.
He heard a beeping sound in his ears, and the communicator finally shut down automatically because the battery was sold out.
He took the small communicator out of his ear and secretly admired its good quality.
Did he get the Punch from the organization? But he had never seen the organization's technical research and development department provide this to the field staff...
"Do you like it? Super long battery life, compact size, in-ear design, and effective communication range of up to 25 kilometers."
A familiar voice sounded from behind him, and he was so scared that he shuddered reflexively.
He turned around and saw Punch tilting his head, looking at him innocently.
“Why are you here!”
There was a hint of incompetence in Amuro Toru's voice.
He really didn't expect that Punch, who he thought was gone, would suddenly appear in front of him at this time.
This was so unexpected and it was a complete shock to Toru Amuro.
"'Death is but a passage; it is not the end, but the beginning of another life.'" Lin Xi said. (Note 1)
Seeing Amuro Toru's stunned face, she shrugged and explained, "It's from Les Miserables. The good bishop said that to Jean Valjean."
"I saw you've been reading that book these days."
Indeed. Amuro Toru remembered that when he stayed in his room these days, he would take out this book from time to time to read it.
In fact, he had already read the book once, and this time he was just unconsciously flipping through the pages, using reading to sort out the distracting thoughts in his mind.
He didn't expect Punch to pay attention to such details. He thought she was just lying on the bed playing Snake and Tetris on the single-player game console.
"you……"
For the first time, he didn't know how to face Punch.
The footsteps of death were approaching them. The bomb would explode in three minutes. Even if Punch ran from here to the secret passage he mentioned, it would be too late.
He looked into the red-haired girl's pure eyes, and his originally calm mood was completely broken - he didn't understand why Punch made such a choice. He had never considered this situation before, so naturally he didn't know how to deal with it.
After the shock, he felt panicky and a little angry.
At this moment, he saw the corners of the girl's mouth rise, and there was a faint smile in her eyes, as if she was appreciating his wonderful and changeable expression.
For a moment, Toru Amuro wondered if she had already seen through his plan and knew that her enemy was standing outside the exit of the secret passage.
Otherwise, how could she give up the chance to live?
"You're crazy."
There was a hint of trembling in Amuro Toru's voice.
Lin Xi sat down next to him: "You really should look in the mirror and see how funny your expression is right now."
Amuro Toru was speechless.
"What did you come back for? Just to admire my expression?"
Lin Xi raised his eyes and glanced at him.
Amuro Toru is right.
Whether she leaves or not, the ending will be the same: if she doesn't leave and waits here to be killed by the bomb, she will automatically rewind; if she leaves, Amuro Toru will be killed here, and she will also automatically rewind - Amuro Toru did not die in the original work. If he died, it would definitely be a bug of the same level as if Morobushi Kagemitsu did not die. At that time, she would definitely be stuffed back into the plot line by the system and forced to rewind.
And she's not stupid. The public security has come in and is communicating with Amuro Toru, so she knows who's waiting outside the secret passage without even thinking.
But wasn't Toru Amuro too confident in the police? Even if she did go through the secret passage, she had at least twenty ways to prevent the police from catching her.
In this game, only important plot characters can cause her any trouble, or rather, fun.
So after thinking about it, she came back. Compared to playing hide-and-seek with the bored public security police, Amuro Toru's expression was indeed more attractive to her.
It wasn't the first time they'd been killed in a bombing. To be honest, Toru Amuro had chosen a good spot. She'd checked the area when she'd first arrived, and she'd found the bombs were densest here. They were enough to turn them to ash, not cripple them, leaving them no chance of feeling any pain.
Painless rollback, very good.
As for why it wasn't rolled back earlier?
Lin Xi stared at the screen in front of her that only she could see.
Ever since she knew that completing the plot depended on the memories of the characters in the scientific world, she had been slightly resistant to the idea of rolling back the story.
Think about it, for her, rolling back is just a matter of pressing a button, but for everyone else in this world, rolling back means that all memories from the save point onwards are deleted and reset to the way things were before. Except for Lin Xi, no one will remember what happened in the previous file.
This is the principle of archiving and rolling back - the system is a large memory storage device that not only stores the memories of everyone in the world, but also stores the existence status of things.
This is nothing, Lin Xi doesn't care how the system works, but ever since she temporarily buried her memory with the medicine she got from the organization's research institute while constantly going back to save Zhu Fu Jingguang, she has been haunted by the nauseating pain, and she has even become disgusted with the act of deleting her memory itself.
So she rarely goes back to the past on her own initiative - strictly speaking, she hasn't done that since she recovered the memory of saving Zhu Fu Jingguang.
Seeing Lin Xi silent, Amuro Toru didn't know what to say.
The person next to him doesn't seem to care at all whether he lives or dies!
Seriously, isn't Punch's mental state really abnormal?
He couldn't help but ask: "Aren't you afraid?"
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(Note 1: From Les Miserables.)
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