Chapter 67 The Reason for Exposure
"Furuya, didn't you want to know what happened between Matsuda and me? To be honest, we both did die once, but someone saved Matsuda and me. She has a special ability."
If we know the exact time and place of the squad leader and Zhu Fu's deaths, and preferably the detailed circumstances, we might be able to save them just as we saved us, and change their fate of death.
If we're unlucky, it might take a long time before we can contact you again, just like we have. This is a limitation that can affect our fate. But at the latest, we will meet again in May 2025.
"Of course, that's the worst-case scenario. As for the specifics, I'm sorry, I don't have time to explain in detail." Time was limited, and they couldn't afford to waste time agonizing over it, so Hagiwara thought for a moment and could only say this.
He thought he'd just give a simple explanation for now. If he were to go into detail about the game, the dungeons, and Fuu-chan's abilities, it would take hours to explain it all. He only had about 10 minutes left, so he couldn't possibly explain it to Kofuyu.
PS: This refers to someone like Furuya, who has a thoroughly scientific mind. Unless you give him a detailed explanation with a complete logical chain of evidence, he simply won't believe anything that's unscientific.
Now I just hope that with myself and Matsuda as examples, he can trust me and give me some detailed information without detailed explanations or clarifications.
Thinking of this, he simply added, "It's just some detailed information. Just consider it as me lying to you. There's no harm in telling me. What if I'm not joking with you? You, Zhu Fu, and the squad leader might have a chance to reunite one day. Wouldn't that be a good thing for you?"
Rei Furuya naturally understands that his close friend, despite his usual carefree and frivolous demeanor and casual speech, is actually quite different in his everyday life. When it comes to matters that require serious attention, he will even address Matsuda by his surname.
He wanted the person he called to understand the gravity of the situation without needing a detailed explanation; they would know how to handle it. Besides, he had specifically mentioned the urgency of the situation and asked him to directly tell the squad leader and Hiro the details of their deaths.
Just like he said, telling him this wouldn't hurt him at all, even if he was an imposter of Hagiwara, it wouldn't matter. Besides, he had just confirmed that there was a high probability that he was the real Hagiwara.
But who is this 'she' he's talking about? He's using a female adjective, and what is her special ability? Why can she change the fate of the dead? Rei Furuya was filled with confusion after hearing Hagiwara's words.
But the fact that Hagiwara was still alive made him waver because of the regret of losing Hiro, even though he knew that his words had no scientific basis. At this moment, he couldn't help but recall the time when they encountered a truck driver having a seizure and the truck going out of control when they were at the police academy.
Back then, it was Hagiwara who told him to step on the gas, which allowed him to escape death... So, regardless of whether it's scientific or not, or an impossible reality, let's take a gamble like we did 7 years ago, trust our friend's judgment, and step on the gas again!
Many thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant, but less than 10 seconds after Hagiwara finished speaking, he made up his mind and, just as Hagiwara had expected, said concisely: "On February 7, 2013, at around 9:10 a.m., the squad leader finished his surveillance and walked to 6-chome, Beika Town."
On the main street of 6-chome, a man was about to be hit by a car. He rushed over and saved him, but was injured in the process. An ambulance took him to Beika Hospital for emergency treatment, but he died at 11:45 a.m.
Hiro… He was transferred from the Metropolitan Police Department to the Public Security Department shortly after your death, and later…
After months of rigorous training, he was assigned to infiltrate a criminal organization for an undercover investigation, but his identity was exposed on December 6, 2011, for some reason.
While being pursued by members of that criminal organization, he fled to the rooftop of an abandoned building at 7-13 Beikacho. Having run out of weapons and ammunition and facing certain death, he seized a pistol from one of his pursuers and committed suicide around 3:08 AM on December 7th. I arrived too late to save him.
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"It's Beika again! I think this town should be renamed Beika Town. It would be more appropriate to call it Beika Town. Me, Kojinpei, and Komorofushi all died there. Thinking about it, that place is too eerie." After hearing Furuya Rei's reply.
Hagiwara couldn't help but complain about Beika-cho, a place he absolutely didn't want to go near right now: "Or you could call it the 'Japanese Police Requiem Town,' which sounds quite fitting! A place where Japanese police are doomed if they go in! Heh..."
Hearing him speak without a trace of gloom even when it comes to matters of life and death, and even complain about how strange the place is, Furuya Rei couldn't help but reveal a half-moon eye, but inwardly he breathed a slight sigh of relief. This kind of personality, this kind of tone of voice.
Only Hagiwara could make such a serious topic sound so casual and frivolous, which made him subconsciously respond like he did in police academy: "As a policeman, you have to believe in science, not be superstitious."
"Ahem! Alright! Let's put aside the strange questions for now and talk about something else, shall we? You and Komorofushi infiltrated the same criminal organization to investigate?" With Hagiwara's keen senses, he naturally understood the implication in Furuya Rei's words.
Mentioning it makes my brows furrow slightly. It's better to have fellow police academy students or childhood friends infiltrate the same organization. They'll have better chemistry when handling things and can help each other out.
But Furuya was a candidate favored by the Public Safety Department before graduation, while Morofushi was chosen by the Metropolitan Police Department. How did they end up being transferred from the Metropolitan Police Department to the Public Safety Department? And...
He couldn't help but ask the most puzzling question: "Since you were both infiltrating the same organization, why was his identity exposed? You seem to be fine?"
"Didn't you say that knowing their time of death would be enough? Why are you asking this?" Furuya Rei's cautious and suspicious nature made it impossible for him to fully trust someone over the phone who wasn't actually Hagiwara. Hearing him ask such a sensitive question, he instinctively retorted.
"Heh... As expected of the top student who graduated first, you're still as meticulous as ever!" Perhaps thinking that the deaths of the class monitor and Morofushi could be averted, Hagiwara's grief eased a little, and he regained some of his usual personality.
His reaction made him burst out laughing, but after laughing, he realized that his reaction was not serious enough when talking about the deaths of the squad leader and Komobushi, so he quickly suppressed his laughter.
He coughed lightly and explained in a deliberately serious tone, "Didn't I just tell you? The reason we were brought back to life is because our fates were changed. So after hearing what you said, and considering the importance of your work..."
He thought that if he knew why Komoshiki's identity had been exposed, he could find a way to prevent that fate from happening, thus changing his destiny of death and allowing him to complete his mission.
Moreover, if simply changing the fate of Komobushi's exposed identity could prevent his death, and knowing the specifics, one could notify him via phone or email by returning to the copy from before December 11th.
This avoids the situation where the building collapsed at the place where he died, preventing a replica from being created and ensuring they could arrive at the correct time to rescue him.
If it were December 3 years ago, Xiaozhenping's phone shouldn't be in arrears. Even if these phones can't be used after going back in time, Xiaozhenping's can still be used. -_-|| The premise is that you need to get a phone charger as soon as possible...
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“Our channels of entry into the organization are different. With my obviously mixed-race appearance, it is highly unlikely that I am a member of the Japanese government in the eyes of those criminal organizations. So when I approached the members of their organization under a different identity, disguised as a fledgling information broker in the Japanese underworld.”
He quickly struck up a conversation with them, and with the help of intelligence gathered by his colleagues at the Ministry of Public Security, he demonstrated outstanding intelligence-gathering abilities, gradually gaining the organization's trust and successfully joining the organization.
Hiro, while working at the Metropolitan Police Department, came across a case related to the organization I had infiltrated. After investigating, the case alerted the Ministry of Public Security, and since he was already an insider, he was transferred to the Ministry of Public Security.
After training, I infiltrated the organization through a senior police academy officer who had infiltrated it six months earlier than me. Later, that senior officer accidentally exposed his identity during a mission and was hunted down by the organization. Hiro, who joined the organization through his introduction, was also suspected of being that senior officer's accomplice.
He arranged for people to pursue and silence them. At that time, he happened to be taking advantage of the free time when he was not on a mission with the public security or that transnational criminal organization to investigate the Ferris wheel bombing case that had harmed Matsuda in Beika..." Upon hearing this, Furuya Rei thought for a moment.
Hagiwara felt that the organization and the Ministry of Public Security already knew everything about how Hiro's identity was exposed, and since he was already dead, there was no need to keep it a secret. Even if Hiro had deceived him, as he said, there was no loss in being deceived. So he told Hagiwara what had happened.
However, he didn't mention that he was actually investigating the Ferris wheel bombing in Beika to avenge Hiro and Matsuda, which allowed him to arrive at the scene within a few hours when Hiro's identity was exposed and the organization sent people to hunt him down.
Although Hiro texted him during the escape, telling him not to get involved to avoid exposing his identity, how could he abandon Hiro? It's all that FBI's fault; with his abilities, he could have stopped Hiro from taking his own life, why didn't he stop him...
Rei Furuya now hates Shuichi Akai so much that his teeth itch with rage just thinking about him...
"You mean Komorobuchi committed suicide in the end?" Hagiwara felt a chill run down his spine from his words. He thought of Komorobuchi's gentle yet mischievous personality, even though he had experienced such misfortune with his parents in his childhood.
None of these factors contributed to his development into a pessimistic and gloomy personality; instead, he remained a cheerful and interesting person. The fact that he ultimately chose to commit suicide prompted him to immediately ask, "Was he killed in Japan?"
What kind of threat would drive a Japanese public security officer to be hunted by a criminal organization in Japan? Didn't the Ministry of Public Security offer any assistance? And why, after being caught, did he give up on escaping and choose suicide? Was it that for Komorofushi, having his identity exposed by that criminal organization was so terrifying that suicide was the only suitable course of action…?
“Because it’s a very terrifying international criminal organization, Hiro needs to protect his family and friends from being implicated.” Sensing Hagiwara’s suspicion and anger, Furuya Rei couldn’t help but smile wryly: “As for the Ministry of Public Security’s rescue.”
Before the operation, the organization deliberately created a lot of trouble on several roads around the 7th district of Beihu Town, temporarily cutting off traffic and turning the 7th district into a hunting ground for Hiro. The administrator judged that if they forcibly broke in...
They might not just poison the shops along the roadside, creating a large-scale mass poisoning incident and obstructing traffic with a large number of ambulances, delaying police rescue efforts; they might launch a more ruthless collective attack on the crowd…
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