Chapter 476: Irresponsible Psychic
As for now...
Jiang Xia looked down at the hand that had just snapped his fingers.
The bomb was assembled by an arsonist.
The fuse was pulled by the arsonist.
He just happened to be passing by and happened to try out his new skills nearby.
...If the arsonist had not pulled the fuse, the explosion would not have occurred even if he had snapped his fingers until his handles were rubbed raw... In short, what does all this have to do with a passing psychic like him?
——Jiang Xia skillfully numbed his conscience.
Then he looked at the two charred corpses by the river, wanting to see if the shikigami shared his thoughts.
Monsters don’t appear so easily after all.
The arsonist's body was motionless - no ghost fetus emerged, and no shikigami was generated. It looked exactly like a suicide.
And a new Shikigami gradually emerged from the body of Nagai Tatsuya, who was taken hostage.
The shikigami paused for a moment in confusion, then slowly floated towards the arsonist's body and clung to the corpse's calves.
After scratching it for a few seconds, it seemed to feel the touch was not right, so it slowly lifted one corner and looked upwards.
After a while, the arsonist's vital signs disappeared completely, and the shikigami's revenge obsession also dissipated. It relaxed and floated away like a piece of paper in the wind.
Unfortunately, before he could float away to freedom, he was blocked by a mermaid ghost and hugged.
This time, the mermaid caught more than one shikigami.
She caught four.
——In addition to the hostages themselves who turned into shikigami, there were two old shikigami hanging on the hostages’ legs, and one on the arsonist’s leg. When they died, the shikigami fell off.
The murderous aura from the hostages and arsonists also faded away with the death of their masters.
The mermaid was holding the ghost and couldn't free her hands to catch more things. She tried to raise her tail, but failed to hook the murderous aura that was passing by.
Miss Spider behind her gathered her sleeves and watched for a while, then spread out her eight sharp legs from behind and accurately stabbed the murderous aura passing by.
Then, with a murderous aura around her, she floated back to Jiang Xia gracefully, as if she was wearing two light black veils.
Unlike the ghosts' appearance of a good harvest, the crowd watching was very frightened at this moment.
The explosion occurred at close range, causing the onlookers to push and flee in panic.
In the chaotic crowd, Saori Nishitani stared blankly at the place where the flames were rising, replaying the scene of the stalker being engulfed by the explosion in her mind. She felt as if a huge pie had hit her head, and her expression was blank.
After two or three seconds, her expression suddenly twisted, revealing an expression that was unclear whether she was crying or laughing, with big tears brewing in her eyes. But before the suppressed emotions could burst out, the people who were fleeing in chaos accidentally bumped into her, and Nishitani Saori let out a slight cry and stumbled backwards.
However, before the stampede occurred, a hand reached out from the side and held her steadily.
Saki Nishitani subconsciously grabbed the kind-hearted man's arm and staggered to her feet.
She raised her head in shock and saw that the person holding her was a strange young man.
The kind-hearted man looked to be in his early twenties, wearing a black casual suit, no tie, and his collar was casually open. His hair seemed to have some natural curls, slightly fluffy, but not messy, and he wore a pair of light-colored sunglasses on his nose.
The two looked at each other, and the handsome man in black nodded slightly at her, and at the same time naturally raised one hand and touched her side gently. It looked like he was brushing off dust, or like he was taking off something stuck on his clothes.
Before Saori Nishitani could come to her senses, the other party had already finished the action.
Then he withdrew his hand and asked politely, "Can you stand still?"
During this time, many people have already run away from this dangerous explosion area. Nishitani Saki is now standing very steadily. This is obviously a question that is asked knowingly.
However, the intention of the man in black in asking this question was not difficult to understand.
——Nishitani Saki came to her senses and let go of the hand that was tightly holding the other person's arm to stabilize her body: "Sorry...um, thank you for just now."
Jiang Xia took a look at the fresh murderous aura he had just plucked from her and nodded at her in a friendly manner.
Then he mixed in with the crowd and walked towards the guard hut from where he came.
——The guard did not return to his hut. Perhaps out of fear, he reflexively ran towards the sunset with most people.
Jiang Xia then drove the new puppet, pushed the door open skillfully, and returned to the cabinet. Leaving here would be the least likely to be seen by people with normal values.
The moment the puppet was disbanded, the door of the guard room was pushed open with a bang.
Then, a familiar voice sounded at the door, with a hint of uncertainty and disbelief in the voice: "Matsuda?!"
…It was Officer Sato’s voice.
After coming to this conclusion, Jiang Xia silently adjusted the speed of disbanding the puppets to three times the speed.
The puppets quickly collapsed into a large group of shikigami and dissipated silently.
…
Jinpei Matsuda was previously a bomb disposal expert in the Mobile Security Unit.
Seven years ago, after his good friend Kenji Hagiwara died, Jinpei Matsuda insisted on transferring to another position in order to find the criminal.
But his superiors also knew his thoughts and were worried that he would make mistakes due to his impulsiveness. It was not until three years ago that Matsuda Jinpei was transferred to the Serious Crime Squad of the Investigation Division 1. After that, Matsuda Jinpei was trained by Sato Miwako for 7 days as a "newbie".
During the first six days of working together, the young police officer Sato was so angry at this unorganized and undisciplined colleague.
On the seventh day, the mysterious bomber suddenly took action - he sent a fax to the Metropolitan Police Department, marking the location "No. 72, Ferris Wheel, Beido-cho Shopping Center" with a secret code.
Jinpei Matsuda was invited to the scene and rushed in to get more clues about the criminal. He had been good at dismantling bombs since he was a child and had accumulated a lot of experience in bomb disposal. It was a piece of cake for him to deal with the bomb installed on the Ferris wheel.
However, the criminals had no moral principles and were not competing in bomb disposal skills - car 72 of the Ferris wheel containing Jinpei Matsuda was forced to stop in mid-air, and after the mercury rod was activated, the display screen of the bomb in the car showed the message left by the criminal in advance, that he wanted to "play a game with the brave policeman."
——Three seconds before the Ferris wheel bomb explodes, a string of text will be displayed on the screen.
The bomber had previously installed a heavy bomb in a crowded area. The screen on the bomb in the Ferris wheel showed the location of the huge bomb.
In this case, if Jinpei Matsuda continued to defuse the bomb and cut off the power supply, the display screen would become useless and the police would not be able to find out where the other bomb was hidden. This might lead to the death of countless citizens.
If he wanted to see the text on the display screen, Jinpei Matsuda had to give up defusing the bomb and wait to be blown to death.
——The bomber wanted to see a script in which the police disregarded the safety of the public in order to protect themselves, and then make a big fuss about it and retaliate against the police.
(End of this chapter)
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