Chapter 44 The First Player

"Guess?!"

"Just kidding."

Seeing the doubt on Hagiwara Kenji's face, Nishimi Haruto immediately stopped and put on a sincere face: "Haha, why would I gamble with everyone's life and my own? It's just because I happened to notice the situation outside before."

Hagiwara Kenji breathed a sigh of relief: "Ah, I don't think anyone would do such a risky thing, right?"

He looked at Xi Haiqing Dou, lit a cigarette, and laughed: "Well, although this joke is a bit scary, it is quite interesting to think about it. If it is really guessed, it also means that we are very lucky."

"Would you like to meet me? My name is Hagiwara Kenji. Although I'm a policeman, I haven't had such a close fight with anyone in a long time. Ah, thank you for your help just now. Are you hurt?" He handed the cigarette to Saikai Haruto.

The young man with medium-length black hair had a clean-cut face and bright eyes, and was handsome in the traditional sense. When he smiled, he looked cheerful and unrestrained. He wore ordinary clothes, but he was tall and straight, which made him look particularly handsome. If he hadn't been at the crime scene, he would have made countless people turn their heads when he walked on the street.

Xi Haiqingdou raised his eyebrows and looked at him with a bit of surprise. He didn't take the cigarette, but smiled and said, "No injuries. Yu Yuan Chiqiu is an ordinary researcher. He used to do a little research on combat weapons. I should thank Hagiwara-kun for his help and willingness to believe my words."

"No need to smoke. There will be kids coming over in a couple of days. I don't smoke."

"Ah, a child? It's really not good to let a child smell the smell of cigarettes. It seems that Yuyuan-kun is really a thoughtful and gentle person." Hagiwara Kenji lowered his head slightly when he heard his words, and immediately put the cigarette back and put out the light in his mouth.

It was boring to just stand here, so Kenji Hagiwara made full use of his social talent and quickly started chatting with Haruto Nishimi about children's topics. In the middle, he even managed to comfort the frightened cashier.

I have to say that Kenji Hagiwara is a perfect person to chat with. Kenji Hagiwara is still waiting for the police, the other young woman has already left, and the cashier is still waiting for the last minute to leave. And Haruto Nishimi is not in a hurry to leave, but instead chats with Kenji Hagiwara with interest, and they also unlock a common hobby - racing. Kenji Hagiwara's eyes brightened when he looked at him.

"...Ah, we've been talking so much without realizing it."

Hagiwara Kenji stopped talking, looked at the dark blue sky, and blinked his eyes belatedly. Originally, they were just chatting casually while waiting for the police, but they didn't expect to talk so much.

He leaned on the counter and turned to Xi Hai Qing Dou and joked: "By the way, Yu Yuan, aren't you in a hurry to go home? It's so late, how about I take you back in the police car?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Xi Haiqingdou's cell phone rang. Xi Haiqingdou took out his cell phone, raised his eyebrows, and showed a bit of regret on his face: "Although I also want to try what it feels like to go home in a police car...but my colleague has already driven there, it seems that I can only regretfully wait for the next time."

He answered the phone and said a few words to the other end, then hung up, took out a candy from his coat pocket and threw it to Hagiwara Kenji, then picked up the convenience bag and waved at him casually: "For you, Officer Hagiwara, this is my favorite candy, I wish you good luck. It's fun to chat with you, see you next time if we have the chance."

"Have a good trip!"

Hagiwara Kenji took it and watched the black figure walk in front of him, and got into a black car with the door opened at the corner of the street. He looked at the candy in his hand again, and shook his head with a dumb smile: "You don't smoke, but you like eating candy and racing cars?"

And that car, although Saikai Haruto said it was his "colleague", even though they were so far apart, Hagiwara Kenji still felt that it was more like his subordinate.

What a contradictory, strange, mysterious and interesting person.

He peeled off the candy wrapper, threw the candy into the air, and then caught it and ate it. It was a packaging and candy I had never seen before, but I have to admit... it tasted really sweet and delicious.

Well, if I have the chance, I'll ask him where he buys his candies next time.

Xi Haiqingdou, carrying a convenience bag, strode to a black car that had just stopped on the street ahead. A man in a black suit bowed and respectfully opened the door for him.

"Why are you here so late?" He sat down and asked casually.

"I'm sorry, Lord Jundu! There was a car accident on the road ahead and the road was blocked, so we had to take a detour." The subordinate sitting in the front driver's seat immediately spoke tremblingly.

"I don't blame you, why are you so nervous?"

Xi Hai Qing Dou chuckled, and seemed to be in a good mood. "Let's go to where I live."

He pulled a pistol from his pocket and twisted it around between his fingers. "It was a close call. We were almost discovered."

Seeing that he was not angry, the driver bravely asked him curiously, "Master Jundu, did you encounter any problem?"

"We encountered a very daring robber." Xi Haiqing Dou said casually.

The subordinate uttered an incredible cry of surprise: "What? There are still robbers who dare to attack you without knowing the consequences?"

Xi Haiqing Dou felt relieved: "You also think they are very tactless, right?"

The subordinate asked him cautiously: "Do you need me to find someone to deal with it?"

Daring to attack the code name member of the organization, the robber must have become a corpse, right?

"No need." Xi Haiqing Dou smiled lazily, "I met a kind police officer who helped me deal with it. He is such a good police officer."

How should I put it... Although players often have some ideas and operations that give him a headache, but for now, although Asahina seems to have done a lot of things, his impact on the main storyline is not that big.

Although the Butterfly Effect has allowed Kenji Hagiwara to survive and ruined the relevant plot, Kenji Hagiwara and Jinpei Matsuda have nothing to do with the main storyline in the main storyline. Both the system and the world consciousness will turn a blind eye to this Butterfly Effect - of course, the premise is that they will not mix themselves into the main storyline later.

The 26-year-old Hagiwara Kenji looks more pleasing and charming than the 22-year-old Hagiwara Kenji that Saikai Haruto had seen before. From Saikai Haruto's perspective alone... there are still good things in the things that players have done.

[Host, are you really that happy?] The system said that it did not quite understand his attitude.

The system's mechanical voice was full of confusion: [Although their survival will not affect the stability of the world now, it is not certain that changes will occur in the future.]

Considering that their job is to maintain stability, shouldn't the host be more worried about whether they will suddenly enter the main storyline butterfly effect world in the future? Moreover, this is a change brought about by the "players"... They are destined to stand on the opposite side of the "players".

[So the system doesn’t understand human nature. ]

Saikai Haruto said, "I am happy because the shortcomings I have seen before have been made up. Even if it was done by a player, it does not prevent me from being happy now, and worrying about future changes does not prevent me from being happy."

He concluded: [So it’s because the system doesn’t understand us, the people of the second dimension. ]

After saying that, Xi Hai Qing Dou quickly shut the system into a "small dark room" for two hours, not giving it any chance to spoil his fun.

"I met a kind police officer who helped me deal with it"... What does this mean? Does it mean that they have an undercover in the police force who has helped me deal with it? Could it be the person who was standing in the convenience store with Lord Cointreau just now? Unfortunately, I was too far away and didn't pay attention to what that person looked like.

The subordinate's thoughts began to diverge. What did Lord Jundu mean by saying this? Did he tell him on purpose?

He is a low-level member of the organization who started working for Cointreau after Cointreau returned to China. He doesn't know much about this cadre of the organization codenamed "Cointreau", but I think what the cadre members say must have a deep meaning, right?

The subordinate was really confused and didn't dare to ask more questions, so he just kept the question in mind and planned to ask other colleagues who knew Cointreau. I thought that since Cointreau had deliberately told him the answer, he probably didn't care whether he told others.

But no matter how you think about it... the meaning of this sentence seems to be very profound.

The subordinate's thoughts and Xi Haiqingdou had unknowingly strayed a great distance away.

Haruto Nishimi had no idea what his subordinates were thinking. Even after a long time, news spread quietly within the organization that "the Metropolitan Police Department had been infiltrated by elite undercover agents who had been planted long ago, and the evidence was conclusive"... Haruto Nishimi was still wondering where the news came from, and he never thought that he was the source of all evil.

Time goes back to the present. Two days later——

Nine o'clock in the morning, Tokyo International Airport.

It was the weekend, and although the flow of people in and out of the airport was higher than during the holidays, it was not less either. In the arrival hall, a strange figure attracted the attention of countless passers-by, and 70% to 80% of those who passed by that person could not help but turn around to take a few more glances.

The reason is simple, it is because it is too conspicuous——

A tall, model-like, white-haired man in a black coat was leaning against a pillar with one hand in his pocket. He had a pair of large black sunglasses on his nose, covering half of his face. However, one could still tell from the lower half of his face and his facial lines that he was outstanding, and his aura was comparable to that of an international star.

But what made him eye-catching was not his attire or appearance, but the larger and more eye-catching sign he held in his other hand - the sign was one meter long and half a meter wide, with a red background, and on it was written in white letters "Welcome back to China, young genius scientist Dr. Miyano" and next to it was a Q-version cartoon portrait of a little girl with a wronged and cute expression painted in colorful neon lights. It looked very lifelike, and together with the many colorful neon lights carefully installed on the frame of the sign, it flashed dazzlingly, attracting great attention.

I guarantee that not only the people who get off the plane, but also the people who pick them up at the airport will involuntarily look at him and this sign at first sight.

Miyano Shiho got off the plane with her suitcase. She almost gasped when she casually saw this sign on the road. She subconsciously turned her body back and didn't want to face it. The first thought that flashed through her mind was to return to the United States immediately.

Who did the organization send to pick her up at the airport?

Miyano Shiho took a deep breath, took out her cell phone, and dialed the phone number that the organization had sent her earlier.

The organization only told her before she boarded the plane that someone would come to pick her up, and then gave her a series of phone numbers, telling her to just follow them after returning to China. She had no idea who the organization had arranged for her.

But no matter who the organization arranges, Miyano Shiho thought with gritted teeth that even if it was someone arranged by Bermode deliberately to play a trick on her, she must make it clear to the boss afterwards that she must change someone!