28 Chapter 28
◎Weak, pitiful and helpless◎
Chapter 28 [Weak, pitiful and helpless]
There must be an exhaust fan or other device between the kitchen exhaust and the flue, making this area inaccessible to humans. However, unlike the ducts in ordinary homes, the exhaust duct in commercial buildings leads from the ceiling to the outside.
What Kudo Shinichi wanted was to drill out from the ceiling part of the exhaust duct, which is the reserved maintenance opening.
Just now, he told the police at the door of the dessert shop that his friend was in the shop. In order to comfort him and get the child away from the scene as soon as possible, the police exchanged contact information with him.
Kudo Shinichi had preset a timed message so that the police would receive his message almost at the time when he was able to enter the store.
And Kudo Yusaku, his father, the omnipotent adult in the little boy's heart, will also arrive at the scene.
Kudo Shinichi believed there was nothing Yusaku Kudo couldn't solve. This was the simplest feeling a junior high school boy could have for his father. Furthermore, Kudo Yusaku was truly intelligent, well-connected, and rarely encountered anything he couldn't handle in daily life. Even so, Kudo Shinichi wanted to see if he could emulate his father and become a problem-solver.
With the police and his father as his backers, the boy was not panicked at all. He carefully opened the airway and was instantly filled with the rich aroma of the dessert shop.
[How come there are bakers who want to work even if they are kidnapped?! ]
Kudo Shinichi was tempted by the aroma of milk, sweetness and flour heated at high temperature in his airway, and his stomach was growling with greed. He stretched out his hands and feet, relying on the friction between his hands and feet and the airway wall to fix his position.
He moved down slowly, step by step, but his stomach growled at an inopportune moment.
It was already time for dinner, and he thought about buying hamburgers and desserts and eating with everyone at the milk tea shop, so he naturally didn't eat anything in the shop first to fill his stomach.
Who knew that an emergency would occur, and who could have known that my stomach would protest at this time.
[Damn it! If the prisoner hears this, it must be because I'm too hungry.]
It is the age when people grow up. As the saying goes, a young boy will eat his father out of money. Kudo Shinichi is no exception and cannot escape the law that he will feel hungry if he skips a meal.
【It’s okay, I can do it! 】
Soon, a loud noise came from outside the airway, and Kudo Shinichi's worry about "the criminals hearing the stomach growling" was solved. Those sounds perfectly covered up the small unusual noises in the airway. After all, the criminals had not been in the kitchen much, so even if there were some strange noises, they would not know what they were.
Besides, Kudo Shinichi's movements were careful enough, and the airway itself would make some noise when it was operating.
What he was worried about now was what caused those voices that saved him.
Returning to the main entrance of the dessert shop, Agatsuma Sayuri was forced to wear a bomb vest. The other party also held a remote control and threatened to let the police feel the power of fireworks.
As the focus of attention, Agatsuma Sayuri had to act like a frightened little rabbit, but she was actually quite happy in her heart.
She was still wondering how to get involved with the explosives disposal team, when this opportunity came knocking on her doorstep.
Yes, she saw opportunity more than fear of the bomb.
This is a very strange mentality.
Normally, as an intelligent creature, humans should naturally fear death and avoid death.
My wife, Sayuri, on the other hand, is very resigned to her fate. Unknown reasons led her to travel through time, and she has lived on in that time. Now, facing the possibility of death, she simply accepts the future as "I might die."
Even if he himself will die, and Zhu Fu Jingguang will also die. If they died while in a relationship, would they still be considered a couple when they met in heaven?
My wife Sayuri has already thought about this.
As long as she died quickly enough, she wouldn't have to worry about someone else taking her place as "Morobushi Kagemitsu's true love" or "Morobushi Kagemitsu's wife." She could always hold a place in Morobushi Kagemitsu's heart, which sounded pretty good.
Because of this mentality, Agatsuma Sayuri had to resort to acting to cope with the situation. Fortunately, she has been doing cosplay for many years and has practiced acting well, even attending an acting class at university for a semester.
Her acting skills might be better than some idols.
It is not known whether the police were impressed by her acting skills, but at least the reporters and photographers seized the opportunity and took a close-up of her face to show that the hostage looked haggard, weak and pitiful.
What a pitiful woman she is! Innocent civilians have become victims in this struggle between good and evil.
No matter what the final outcome of Sayuri Agatsuma and the other hostages is, as long as the case has explosive points, it is worth reporting for journalists and the news media behind them.
But what do the hostages themselves think?
When they were inexplicably held hostage in this dessert shop, these strangers, who had likely never met before, formed a natural alliance. They were all pitiful individuals in the same predicament, threatened by criminals, their lives threatened. Yet, just outside the door, the media, with a detached attitude, desperately reported on their situation, intentionally or unintentionally depriving them of any hope of survival.
Perhaps the reporter had no ill intentions, but people in desperate situations don't have much reason. They feel like the world has abandoned them: the government is ineffective, the police are incompetent, everyone else is just watching, and the criminals are unforgivable.
Who else can save himself?
And of course themselves.
Ran Mouri and Sonoko Suzuki have been keeping an eye on Sayuri Agatsuma. When they found that the young lady's condition was getting worse and worse, and she was so fragile that she seemed like she was about to break, Ran Mouri could no longer hold back.
She clenched her fists tightly, the sound of her knuckles crackling as she waited for a chance to save Sayuki and prevent anyone else from getting hurt.
Suddenly, Mao Lilan felt her fist being wrapped by a warm hand. There were some thin calluses on the hand. Although it was not a big hand, it was a hand full of power.
Another strange woman approached her, bringing with her a cool fragrance.
"Don't worry, I'll support you. I'm..."
The other party seemed to have something else to say, perhaps to reveal his identity or to explain his abilities, but was interrupted by the gangsters guarding the hostages.
"Don't talk!" The gangster swung the steel pipe and hit the woman who was speaking somewhere, forcing her to step back a little.
But the position she retreated to was exactly the most suitable support distance.
The leader of the gangs heard the noise and looked towards the hostages. When the other gangsters' attention was also on the hostages, Mao Li Ran saw the opportunity.
Agatsuma Sayuri was not completely without the awareness of self-preservation. She took advantage of the moment when everyone's attention was diverted and snatched the remote control of the bomb.
This may sound incredible, but in fact, when modern people use their phones, their phones are most likely to be snatched away. Although they will immediately notice that their phones have been snatched away, they will not use much force to grab them during use, so this becomes an unavoidable situation.
This is especially true for the remote control: when it becomes a threat, people subconsciously assume that no one will touch it.
It was at this moment that my wife Sayuri seized the thing that held the key to her life.
"What..." The leader was the first to discover that the remote control had been stolen. He was surprised that the hostage dared to resist, and at the same time, he was overwhelmed by the anger caused by the inferior overthrowing the superior. He immediately wanted to punish the disobedient person to set an example.
He raised the gun, even turned on the safety, and was about to pull the trigger.
It took some time for the other gangsters to shift their attention from the hostages to their boss, and Mao Lilan seized this opportunity.
She was originally squatting, but she changed her position in advance, bending one leg and half-kneeling on the other. At this point, she exerted force layer by layer from her thigh, knee, calf, ankle to toe, and "shot" her body out like an arrow from a bow.
She stretched out her bent legs during the launch and repeated the previous action, speeding up again at the moment when her speed slowed down slightly.
Some of the criminals were watching the hostage, but Mao Lilan was so fast that they couldn't even keep up with her speed. They just watched helplessly as the girl rushed to the leader in two steps.
Sayuri, my wife, ducked down, not because she was too frightened to stand, but because she was taller than the leader. If she pushed the muzzle down, she might hit her own foot. She lowered herself first, then reached out and gently lifted the gun barrel, which was now in a downward position.
"Bang--"
With a loud bang like a firework, the barrel of the gun in her hand burned. The gunman's grip on her subconsciously loosened at the sound of the gunshot, allowing Agatsuma Sayuri some room to move. She bent her elbow and struck the man behind her in the diaphragm. Even a weak woman's power in a desperate situation should not be underestimated.
Moreover, the diaphragm is a vital structure that assists breathing, accounting for 60% to 80% of respiratory muscle function.① After being struck, it will cause severe pain and affect respiratory function.
And it doesn't take much effort to achieve this result.
After elbowing the gangster behind her, Agatsuma Sayuri took a step closer to the gang leader using the reaction force. The barrel of the gun she was holding also moved towards the handle, away from the hottest part.
At this time, Mao Lilan's attack also arrived. The punch wrapped in the sound of wind had the force of thunder and went straight to the face of the gangster leader.
The gang leader only had time to raise his right hand, intending to meet the punch with his palm, but this action effectively freed the hand pulling the trigger. He also tried to raise his left hand, but the gun in his hand hindered his movement. He couldn't fully raise his left hand, only making a "raise" motion. Furthermore, due to the changed position of the rifle in his hand, his left hand was no longer firmly gripping the gun, and his control over the weapon was reduced.
Agatsuma Sayuri simply "took" the gun gently, following the force of the gun.
Mao Lilan hit the gang leader's face with his right hand, twisting his face and sending him flying.
With one blow, the man rolled over and crashed into the floor-to-ceiling window before stopping and becoming motionless.
The knife-wielding gangster saw the boss being beaten and immediately reacted, shouting "How dare you do this to the boss!" and rushed forward. Unsurprisingly, Suzuki Sonoko stabbed him in the shoulder, buttocks, and calf from behind with a hairpin, causing him to fall to the ground, not knowing which part of his body to hold.
This was followed by several dull sounds, the sound of human bodies being hit, mixed with some muffled groans.
Seeing that most of the criminals had fallen, some of the hostages finally reacted. Taking advantage of the criminals' backs to them, they would grab their legs, hit them on the head with chairs, or even bite them directly when they were caught by the criminals.
A hero cannot fight against four hands, let alone the situation at the scene. The gangster has to deal with more than eight hands alone. When the hostage is about to resist successfully, he will capture the gangster.
Another gunshot rang out among the hostages.
The girls who were nearby covered their ears, and some were so frightened that they almost tripped and fell to the ground.
But among the hostages, someone my wife Sayuri had mentioned was there, holding a pistol high in the air and holding a girl hostage. He shouted, "Don't move, or this person's life will be in danger."
【Author’s words】
①This knowledge comes from Baidu Encyclopedia
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