Chapter 63

After again instructing the biker gangs on the other side to stay hidden, Kagino Satoshi hung up the phone.

The other residents who were gathered together were now discussing the matter. Some were venting their panic and dissatisfaction at being suddenly escorted out of the apartment, while others had already turned on their portable TVs to look for live broadcasts related to the case.

Satoshi Kagino finally looked up in the direction of the apartment building. That was the direction where the bomb was, and he had to find a glimmer of hope for Kenji Hagiwara before the fatal explosion occurred.

He simply sat on the floor with the computer in his hands, and in this awkward position he operated the facial recognition system, quickly searching through the various surveillance cameras for the possible location of the bomber.

The sound of Kenji Hagihara organizing the evacuation of the crowd came from the earphone. It was sent by the small program loaded into Kenji Hagihara's phone.

Through this small program, Satoshi Kagino easily grasped the progress of Kenji Hagiwara's work, which was equivalent to grasping the progress of the plot.

Such monitoring can not only help guess the possible location of the bomber at this time, but also make it easier for him to better plan and close the net.

Kagino Satoshi wasn't actually worried that he would actually miss the bomber's actions.

This was not only because he had made all the arrangements he could think of in advance, but also because he had used comic books to ensure the smooth implementation of the entire plan at the very beginning of the rescue mission.

The only thing he needed to worry about at this moment was probably whether the bad luck that might come at any time would affect the implementation of his plan.

Thinking of the huge trouble that bad luck brought him last night, Kagino Satoshi still feels a lingering fear and prays from the bottom of his heart that it will never happen again. It is really not something that ordinary people can bear.

He is now extremely glad that when he was drawing the last three comics, in order to highlight the urgency of time and the continuity of the plot, he simply merged the three pictures into one large continuous picture that crossed the frame boundaries.

At least judging from the perspective of comic books, these pictures should be understood as a large and complete comic story, right? In that case, the corresponding unfortunate events should also be integrated.

Although the unfortunate events that combined three bad lucks are likely to be exaggerated to the point of being outrageous, and no one knows when they will occur, at least they will not pop up one by one in the middle of the mission to cause chaos, thus bringing more variables to the already heavy rescue plan.

At least at this moment, the most important thing is to successfully rescue Kenji Hagiwara.

As the fingers tapped on the keyboard, a picture stitched together from more than a dozen surveillance images appeared on the screen. However, what was interesting was that in these videos shot from different sections of the road, the main subjects being filmed were telephone booths and the surrounding scenes of the telephone booths.

Satoshi Kagino had already placed all the telephone booths in the Asai business district under surveillance, so he could see which phone booth the bomber would appear in.

However, his first target was not the bomber who made the phone call, but another accomplice who was hiding not far from the bomber and secretly monitoring the surrounding movements.

According to the original plot, when the bomber who was making a phone call found that the police were coming to arrest him, he panicked and ran directly onto the road, resulting in him being hit by a speeding truck and dying on the spot.

However, his accomplice saw this scene clearly and pressed the detonator in anger.

In other words, the accomplice was standing not far from the telephone booth and watching this side.

So for Satoshi Kagino and the biker gang, as long as they find the telephone booth as soon as possible, they will definitely be able to find the bomber's accomplice somewhere near where the telephone booth can be seen.

The bosozoku are a group that is seen as flamboyant and arrogant by the public. Whether they are chasing people madly on motorcycles or wandering aimlessly on the streets, they will not arouse anyone's suspicion.

The bomber's accomplice would at most think that the bikers' strolling route happened to pass by him, and he would never realize that the bikers' target was actually him.

This is also one of the advantages that Satoshi Kagano found in cooperating with these biker gangs.

As the surveillance screens were lit up one by one, the facial recognition system would re-identify from the screen every ten seconds. People came in and out of the phone booth, but none of them was the bomber that Kagano Satoshi was looking for.

Another camera outside the phone booth was rotating around regularly to film the scene, and similarly did not detect any people or vehicles conducting surveillance near the phone booth.

As he watched the "Search Failed" prompt light up again and again above the surveillance screen, Satoshi Kagino's heartbeat gradually quickened as time passed.

He knew that as the final moment approached, the two bombers would soon appear.

Suddenly, the voice of Kenji Hagiwara came from the headset. He was reporting to his boss that all residents in the apartment had been evacuated.

The superior explained to him that the Metropolitan Police Department had agreed to the ransom demand of the bomber under pressure. The bomber also abided by the previous agreement and stopped the countdown of the bomb.

Kagino Satoshi's eyes narrowed. Is it time already?

Because they didn't know when the bomb would explode, the small team of bomb disposal police led by Kenji Hagiwara naturally would not rush to the bomb rashly. Instead, they waited downstairs of the apartment building and were on standby at any time after evacuating the crowd.

Now, the residents in the building have been evacuated, and the Metropolitan Police Department has also received news that the bomb has been suspended. Hagiwara Kenji immediately judged that now is the best time to go upstairs and defuse the bomb.

He waved behind him and led his team upstairs again to dismantle the bomb.

Because of the previous bomb threat, the elevators in the entire apartment building have stopped working, and the mobile team members must walk up from the safe stairs.

Kagino Satoshi once calculated the distance. With his physical condition, it would probably take him 20 minutes to reach the floor where the bomb was. But if it was replaced by a well-trained mobile team member, it would probably only take five minutes at most.

In other words, there are only five minutes left. Five minutes later, Hagiwara Kenji will start to defuse the bomb. And after that, just one phone call away, the bomber will press the button of the detonator to detonate the bomb!

Time is running out!

Satoshi Kagino looked at the surveillance screen again. Why was there still no sign of the bomber?

His heartbeat quickened a little, his whole body began to tremble slightly, and a layer of sweat had already seeped out of the palms of his hands.

With four minutes left, the facial recognition system's recognition frequency had been increased to once every five seconds, but the surveillance camera still showed no movement.

Satoshi Kagino couldn't help but verify the situation with the bikers again. He learned that they had been guarding several intersections that could lead directly to various telephone booths and were on standby at any time. His anxiety was slightly relieved.

With three minutes left, Kagano Satoshi looked at the street where the police had blocked traffic, wondering why Matsuda Jinpei hadn't arrived yet. His help was essential for the plan later!

Another half minute passed, and from the crowd that had been evacuated and gathered nearby, there came the sound of a live broadcast being played on a portable TV.

Kagino Satoshi looked thoughtful.

With two minutes left, the host of the live broadcast began to introduce the bomb countdown, and someone in the crowd immediately shouted:

"What? Hasn't the Metropolitan Police Department already intervened? Why hasn't the bomb been dealt with yet?"

Someone beside him whispered:

"This is a live replay, a replay..."

Kagino Tomonori lowered his head and stared at the computer screen, his expression more solemn than ever before.

He knew that the bomber must have seen the news by then, and had also mistaken the content in the live playback as a live broadcast, thinking that the bomb countdown had not stopped as expected.

One of the bombers also walks into one of the seventeen phone booths being monitored on screen in order to inform the Metropolitan Police Department of a method to stop the countdown.

On the computer screen, a red mark indicating successful identification suddenly flashed, and the surveillance video of one of the telephone booths was instantly zoomed in, clearly showing a person hurriedly entering the telephone booth and trying to make a call.

He dialed the number without inserting a coin into the coin slot, because if he was calling the police, there would be no need to insert a coin.

Satoshi Kagino looked at the figure in the surveillance video and a confident smile appeared on his still young face.

This is the man, the bomber finally appeared!

The author has something to say:

I don't know if it's my illusion, but it seems that after the development was divided today, the speed has indeed increased a little.

Of course, only a little bit...

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