Chapter 3 Preface (Edited) How many times has this happened?
The white Mazda slowly stopped on the street, blending in with cars of various colors.
One leather boot clattered to the ground, followed by another.
The girl got out of the car.
Following the system's navigation, Lin Xi arrived at the residential complex where Guangtian's residence was located.
There was hardly any surveillance on the streets of Japan in the early 2000s, which made it easier for Lin Xi to act.
She avoided the sporadic surveillance and climbed over the wall.
Her upgraded stealth skill allowed her to avoid attracting anyone's attention.
After a new story mission appears, the relevant characters on the map will update their information in the character column.
Lin Xi can not only see their basic information, but also know their current location through the map.
Professor Hirota was teaching at Nanyang University at the time, while Mrs. Hirota went out to buy groceries.
Lin Xi is the only one in Guangtian's house now.
She wore a black mask given by the system, cotton gloves on her hands, and shoe covers on her shoes, and climbed into Hirota Masami's home through the window.
System data shows that Masami Hirota has a habit of copying photos and important documents to his computer.
She found Hirota Masami's computer in the study and was not surprised to find that the computer required a power-on key.
Most people will subconsciously use numbers and letters related to themselves when setting the power-on key. The most common ones are birthdays, house numbers, phone numbers, and their own initials.
If you are a student, you may use your student ID number as your password; if you drive, you may use your license plate number as your password. If there is a memorable day, such as a wedding anniversary, you may also use that day as your password.
Masaru Hirota's computer requires a four-digit password, and frequent incorrect input may result in a forced screen lock.
Most people might not dare to try it rashly, but Lin Xi has the Save and Load method.
She saved a file directly, started trying from Hirota Masami's birthday, and finally successfully cracked the password using the brute force method.
She took out a hard drive and connected it to the computer, and copied all the photos of Akemi Miyano from Hirota Masami's computer to the hard drive.
While it was reading the notes, Lin Xi flipped through the disks in Hirota Masami's study and found the ones with Miyano Akemi's name on them. He took them out and put them on the computer to read. Sure enough, he found the drug information that Shirley had mistakenly sent to him.
Lin Xi also copied the drug information to the hard drive, and then put everything back in place.
That's all. I have the information and photos.
But just as she was about to leave Guangtian's house, the landline in the study suddenly rang.
Lin Xi paused.
She walked over to the phone.
Someone called Guangtian's house.
To answer or not to answer?
If she answered the call, regardless of whether she spoke or not, or what she said, a call record would be left. If someone later compared the whereabouts of the Guangtian family, they would know that someone had entered the Guangtian family during that time.
But Lin Xi wanted to know who made the call.
Is he a student or friend of Hirota Masami, or... an organization that was eager to destroy the data after Sulli defected?
She was particularly concerned about the "black shadow" that "followed her everywhere" as described in the mission description of "Sulli's Defection."
Obviously, if she just turned around and left here, and returned home safely, she could get 4000 experience points, and no one would know she was here today, but...
Lin Xi reached out and answered the phone.
Of course, to be on the safe side, she saved the call before picking up the phone.
After answering the phone, she didn't say anything. After a few seconds, a voice came from the other end:
"Hello, this is XX Insurance Company. I'd like to explain our new insurance policy to you. Are you available tonight?"
Lin Xi: ...?
Insurance company? Wait...
"This is Guangtian's residence," Lin Xi deliberately lowered her voice, imitating an older tone, and said, "My husband is teaching at school."
"Oh, it's Mrs. Hirota. Could you please wait until Mr. Hirota returns and pass on the message?"
"Of course, but I remember..." Lin Xi looked at Hirota Masami's profile and said doubtfully, "My husband didn't buy insurance from your company?"
There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, and then someone said, "Oh, sorry...we made a mistake..."
Then the call was disconnected.
Lin Xi stared at the beeping phone, pondered for a while, called up the call log, recorded the number of this call in the contacts, and then habitually deleted the record.
She was sure that the person opposite was not an employee of the insurance company.
Because Masami Hirota *did* buy insurance from XX company.
If she was really selling insurance, she would know that Guangtian had already bought insurance for their family. She would question her statement "My husband did not buy insurance from your company" and ask if she was mistaken, instead of apologizing and hanging up quickly.
But if it were an organization, they would first suspect that the intelligence was wrong and that the intelligence personnel had made a mistake in the company from which Masami Hirota purchased insurance, rather than subconsciously refuting the statement of "Mrs. Hirota."
But after this phone call, they will confirm the information again, and then they will find that Masami Hirota did buy insurance from XX Company, and begin to suspect that "Mrs. Hirota" is not the real Mrs. Hirota.
It seems that the organization has noticed that important drug information has fallen into the hands of the Hirota family.
This call might be a reconnaissance call. If no one answers, they will come and take the information at this time. If Hirota Masami answered the call, he might be asked out and killed.
So, what should we do next?
Lin Xi called up the story mission, looked at the two seemingly opposite options, and slowly raised the corners of his lips.
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"Brother," Vodka hung up the phone and rubbed his head, "The intelligence team actually made such a mistake. They even got the insurance company Guangtian bought wrong. We made a wasted call."
Gin lit a cigarette and held it between his lips; the rising smoke blurred his face.
"There's something wrong with that woman," he said suddenly.
The voice that just came from the phone...although it was a little out of tune, it felt very familiar to Gin.
But Gin frowned, but couldn't find the source of the familiarity.
This feeling made him a little irritated.
"Eh? Brother, you mean..."
"Let the intelligence team confirm the whereabouts of the Hirota family. That woman is testing us; she knows we're not from the insurance company." Gin sneered. "It looks like Shirley is after Shirley's research materials," Gin sneered. "She was able to find Hirota faster than we did. That escaped rat must have told her something."
"Okay, big brother." Vodka nodded and was about to pick up his phone to send a message to the member in charge of the intelligence team when he saw the phone prompt that a new text message had been received.
"I've destroyed the information you were looking for. No need to thank me, Xiaoqin."
"Brother!" Vodka exclaimed in surprise, "I received a text message..."
He handed the phone to Gin.
Looking at this message, Gin's brows furrowed even deeper.
Vodka swallowed and glanced at his elder brother cautiously.
It’s over, my brother’s face turned black.
Who on earth is sending this kind of text message to Big Brother? !
Xiaoqin? What kind of name is that? It doesn't match Big Brother's tough guy appearance at all!
Besides, why not send it directly to Big Brother? What's the point of sending it to his phone?
My life is also my life!
Vodka thought sadly.
"Let's go." Gin said coldly, standing up and about to leave.
"Ah? Then big brother, Hirota..."
"Don't worry about that guy."
Gin walked up to Porsche without explaining.
The well-maintained car reflected his figure wearing a black tall hat and a black stand-up collar coat.
He narrowed his eyes.
Thirty years have passed.
The world keeps changing, repeating itself, but he never changes... and neither does the man seem to change.
The peace of mind that came from finding the source of familiarity calmed the restlessness within.
The figure of that person appeared in his mind.
Light brown eyes, a gentle smile.
How many times has this happened?
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Not long after sending the text message, Lin Xi received a notification that the task was completed.
『Completed』
Birds and Crows
A few years ago, Huihara Ai's sister Miyano Akemi sent her a disk containing travel photos, but she mistakenly sent back a disk containing medication information.
A few years later, Lin Xi sneaked into Guangtian's house and took out the disk.
At the same time, Lin Xi received a call from the organization at Guangtian's house...
"Gained 15,000 experience points, APTX series drug data x1, APTX4869 special antidote x1 (lasts 48 hours), special ID card x1"
"The special dungeon has been opened. Players can choose a plot node to enter."
As she thought, this game encourages players to freely develop different plots.
The reference options A given at the beginning of this task - retrieving the disk, and option B - reminding organization members to destroy the data are actually not in conflict. Players can answer multiple-choice questions, or simply not follow the prompts.
In this case, the system will not only not stop her from doing all kinds of "unreasonable" things, such as sending text messages directly to members of the organization, but will compensate her for these actions.
For example, giving her a new identity, and——
Let her go to the "special copy" on another timeline to create a new storyline in which she participates.
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At the same time, at Dr. Agasa's house.
Ai Haibara was sitting on the sofa in Dr. Agasa's living room, watching the shrunken Shinichi Kudo arguing with the doctor with boredom.
An hour ago, she sneaked out of Lin Xi's house.
She originally thought that Lin Xi would lock herself in the house before going out, and had already made plans to climb out through the window, but she didn't expect that the door was not locked at all.
Before leaving, she left a small note for Lin Xi on the table.
Then, with her excellent memory - she had been to Kudo's house before - she found her way to the vicinity of Kudo's house.
Coincidentally, Lin Xi's apartment is very close to Kudo's house, about one block away.
Kudo Shinichi was not in the house, but the lights in Dr. Agasa's house next door were on.
Haibara Ai rang the doorbell and saw the famous detective who had shrunk.
After informing Kudo Shinichi about the organization and drug experiments, the angry detective started arguing with the good-natured Dr. Agasa in the living room.
The content of the argument was nothing more than that the righteous great detective was unwilling to associate with a "murderer" like her who made lethal drugs, while the kind-hearted Dr. Agasa wanted to take in her as a traitor who had escaped from the organization.
She sat on the sofa, holding a fashion magazine in her hands, and listened to Kudo Shinichi's accusations and his attempts to smooth things over with the doctor. She listened expressionlessly, feeling neither guilt nor anger.
If the mistakes she made could be made up for through confession, if regret could bring back the happiness of the past, then she would be willing to pay the price for everything she had done, even if those drugs were not created to her liking.
But even if she knelt down now and confessed to the non-existent sin, her dead sister would never come back.
Compared to her, Kudo Shinichi is so lucky.
Parents, friends, childhood sweethearts, elders who took care of him... He had everything she dared not hope for. Even though he had become smaller, he still had the childish courage and confidence to fight against the huge organization.
She and Kudo Shinichi are from completely different worlds.
She knew that if the argument continued, Kudo Shinichi would only compromise, let her stay with Dr. Agasa, and even help her create a fake identity.
Because this man is an upright detective and he would never do such a thing as to let a helpless little girl end up on the streets.
She cared more about something else than this.
Before leaving Lin Xi's apartment, she searched the entire room out of caution.
She found that many things in Lin Xi's apartment were newly bought.
Just like the pile of clothes she bought for her - she folded them neatly and put them in the closet - brand new, with no signs of being used.
The room looked like a clean house that could be lived in at any time. It was very cozy at first glance, but it had no personality, which made Haibara Ai feel vaguely weird.
Moreover, almost all the drawers and cabinets in the house could be opened, but there was nothing inside.
Lin Xi doesn't seem to have many personal belongings.
Maybe Lin Xi had just moved into that room as well - suppressing some doubts in her heart, Huihara Ai thought so.
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