Chapter 154 Ten Vigilantes

After Wuming left, Furuya Rei turned his attention back to the chat channel with Matsuda Jinpei.

He has always been cautious. Before he figured out the situation in this world, he didn't plan to be too active in front of his friends in the parallel world - except for Chijiang Nayue - so he just reminded them in a subtle and obscure way.

Who knows if there will be any accidents if the isotopes in the parallel world meet...Furuya Rei was worried for two seconds, then remembered that Akae Nayue had not specifically told him about this, which probably meant that there was no problem, so he didn't think about it any more, but waited patiently for Matsuda Jinpei's reply.

After the long-lasting "typing" disappeared, Furuya Rei finally saw the content that Matsuda Jinpei, who had an astonishingly fast typing speed, had been typing over and over for half a day.

【Who are you? 】

Fūya Rei: “…”

Did Matsuda have a brain injury, or did he use a different phone number in this world? It's impossible, he couldn't have guessed the meaning of aka wrongly!

It's normal that Furuya Rei didn't think about "Akae Nazuki's misjudgment" at all.

How could a little control freak make a mistake on such simple information? Unless someone tells Furuya Rei that the Akae Tsuki just now was someone else's disguise, it is more credible than a little control freak making a mistake.

Fūya Rei wanted to test the other side, but when he looked down again, the screen of his phone had gone black, and a glaring red battery icon popped up in the center.

My cell phone is out of battery!

Only then did he remember that he was suddenly thrown into this world in the office. He only had his personal cell phone with him. Usually, Feng Jian took the initiative to ask for help to charge it, but he had never thought about it.

Before I came here yesterday, I seemed to hear the sound of Kazami, who was late, pushing the door.

ah.

Fōtani Rei covered his face: After all this time, it turned out that he was the one who failed in such a place.

When he first arrived in this world and was being hunted, Furutani Rei tried to contact the police but failed due to no signal. Because of this, he later threw his phone into his pocket and never used it again. Naturally, he didn't think about charging it last night. Who knew that when Wuming took his phone and did something, he could suddenly receive the signal again.

It was thanks to the unknown name that Furuya Rei was able to contact Kamimatsuda Jinpei, but now it has turned out like this, he himself is a little speechless.

Forget it, Furuya Rei thought.

Regardless of whether it was the difference between the parallel worlds or something else, just in case the Metropolitan Police Department acted too slowly, Furuya Rei was ready to start searching for hostages here at the same time.

Maybe he's even one step ahead of them? Haha.

Fūya Rei was depressed and made a joke in his heart to make himself feel relieved.

What he didn't know was that someone in the Metropolitan Police Department was waiting for his reply on the phone.

[Who are you?] Jinpei Matsuda typed and deleted the message, and finally sent these few words cautiously, and then asked, [Where did you get that number?]

Rather than testing the waters slowly, he felt that since the other party had the guts to contact them, asking directly would probably be more efficient.

But there was no response from the other party. Matsuda frowned and typed a new message: [Hey, stop playing dead, use your own contact information! ]

"Could it be Xiao Zhufu?" Hagiwara guessed with a serious face.

"Probably not. Zhufu mentioned to me before that fu...that person's belongings were buried with him." Yi Dahang said in a rather heavy tone.

Matsuda on the other side was holding his cell phone nearly to pieces, the rage in his steel-blue eyes threatening to burst out, but he forced it back.

"... Let's go back first." He closed his eyes and said calmly, "He is telling us where the hostages are. Let's go back and crack it first."

No matter who the person on the other side is, if you use the blond bastard's number to contact them without permission, you should be prepared for them to come to your door later, right?

The black-haired, blue-eyed police officer narrowed his eyes and sneered for no reason.

The three of them quickly rushed back to the conference room, interrupted the argument inside, and directly projected the clues they had obtained onto the screen.

"Fireworks refer to the lights of the Suzuki Tower and the fireworks animation." Hagiwara Kenji operated the computer for a while, and a map of the Suzuki Tower area was projected. He explained, "According to Asa, the hostages are in a building where they can see both of them clearly... If we only use this condition to check, we can probably find about 30 or 40 possible points near the Suzuki Tower."

It is five o'clock now, and there is still an hour before the bell tower lights up.

In one hour, with the current efficiency of the National Police Department, it would be difficult to check 30 or 40 hiding places, let alone 10.

Kenji Hagiwara didn't count on them. He just informed everyone about the matter and then returned to a quiet corner to start screening his trustworthy subordinates and childhood friends. Date Kou went to submit a report to his superiors to avoid any delays in the next action.

It took them nearly half an hour to finally narrow down the suspicious spots to more than four through various means of checking and retrieving surveillance footage.

Hagiwara Kenji breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, he is good at this kind of thing because of his outstanding observation skills and sensitivity to the criminals' psychology, but he really doesn't like doing this kind of work all the time. In comparison, bomb disposal and car racing are more interesting.

He wouldn't have to be so mad if the trusted technician in the hall hadn't been away recently.

Jinpei Matsuda reluctantly waited for them for a while considering the situation. After all, if they had not finished their discussion, he would not send more people to the operation. It was impossible for them to check all four locations separately.

As time passed, the people in front were still arguing. They even started to fight for credit in the beginning, but now they realized that there was not enough time, so they started to pass the buck hypocritically, and turned to worry that they would be angry with the big shots if the action failed.

Matsuda Jinpei was so angry that he just laughed. He stood up from his chair and walked out of the conference room with his subordinates without hesitation, as if he didn't notice the guys in front of him who were still arguing and shirking responsibility.

Just before he was about to push the door open, it opened from the outside.

"The hostages are outside!" A police officer under Ida Hang rushed in and shouted to everyone.

...what?

There was no more arguing, and a group of people quickly followed to the gate of the Metropolitan Police Department, where they saw the three people lying on the ground in an isolated area.

"Because we don't know if the bomb on the hostage will explode suddenly..." someone nearby explained weakly, "We can only surround them first."

Fortunately, the explosives disposal team was well prepared. Jinpei Matsuda and Kenji Hagiwara were too lazy to say anything more to them. With the help of their subordinates, they quickly put on their protective suits and began to move slowly and cautiously towards the hostages.

Two men and one woman, their appearances are consistent with the hostages, but they are in a coma for unknown reasons. Their expressions seem peaceful, and they have no obvious external injuries - is it drugs? Each of them has a metal necklace around their neck, which should be the bomb.

Kenji Hagiwara concentrated on judging the situation in his heart.

After a brief communication through the channel inside the protective suit, the two decided to try to remove the necklace from the hostage directly to avoid any accidents during the bomb disposal process.

However, as soon as Jinpei Matsuda carefully reached out his hand, he saw a sticky note stuck to the chest of the male hostage on the far left, with words written on it in round handwriting.

[If you forcibly remove it from the hostages, everyone will ascend to heaven early~ Don't break the rules of the game, okay?] There is also a crooked heart drawn at the end, and the signature is "Everyone's favorite brother Asa".

Matsuda Jinpei choked and felt even more upset.

The seven years he worked at the Metropolitan Police Department were known as Tokyo's Nightmare Era. The chaos and disorder in the city weighed on the hearts of the people like a nightmare from which they could not wake up. Such an environment gave birth to many evil flowers. Even Jinpei Matsuda could not remember how many such bombs he had dismantled, and how many times he had come within a whisker of death.

He felt that he would never be able to reconcile with this group of psychopathic criminals in his lifetime! Whether it was making bombs or carrying out terrorist attacks, what they loved most was designing things that challenged his ability to accept, such as "games" and "competitions". The Metropolitan Police Department received an average of 60 to 70 criminals sending such challenge letters every half a month!

The most annoying thing is that for the safety of the hostages, they really have to be led by the criminals and abide by their rules. After all, they are the ones who are concerned, and the criminals may even be willing for them to break the rules and kill people openly.

While thinking in his mind, Matsuda Jinpei held the X-ray machine steadily in his hand and gently scanned the outside of the collar, intending to observe the internal structure first.

Fortunately, the hostage was unconscious and did not move around, otherwise it would definitely affect their bomb disposal... However, after seeing the hostage appear at the door of the Metropolitan Police Department, Jinpei Matsuda was able to basically rule out the possibility that there was a mercury bomb in the necklace. Otherwise, how could the "kind-hearted person" who sent the hostage move with these three mobile explosives?

The other people who were isolated outside the circle could not see what was happening over there. They only saw two elite police officers standing there in silence after scanning with the X-ray machine, which frightened them so much that their hearts almost stopped beating.

The bomb on the hostage was so sophisticated and terrifying that even Matsuda and Hagiwara stopped moving!

The next second, they saw the gloomy-faced Matsuda Jinpei exhale, stand up and walk out, waving his hand behind him to let his subordinates help him take off his protective suit.

"Send them directly to the hospital to check if there are any micro-bombs implanted in their bodies. Don't waste time here. There's nothing to remove." Matsuda Jinpei's tone was depressed.

Ida Hang sensed something from this reaction by tacit understanding, but the other guys whose contributions disappeared inexplicably were not so smart.

Especially the man who was scolded by Matsuda on the stage before, jumped out again impatiently, speaking righteously, thinking he was upholding justice: "Officer Matsuda, we all know that you are very good at bomb disposal, but you can't just do this because of the bomb on the hostage! No matter how small the crisis is -"

At this time, Hagiwara Kenji, who had stayed in place and checked the other two hostages, also stood up helplessly and asked his subordinates to help. He stretched his waist as soon as he came out of the protective suit, interrupted the other party and explained on behalf of his childhood friend: "Because the hostages are not bombs, but real fireworks, and the amount is so small that at most they will burn their skin, so there will be no serious harm... Well, probably~"

The scene fell into an awkward silence.

"Huh?!" Someone was shocked and realized something was wrong, "Wait, Officer Matsuda, where are you going?"

The curly-haired police officer with sunglasses on his nose was too lazy to even roll his eyes at them. While the group was still chattering, he slipped into the passenger seat of a police car parked on the street.

The others looked closely and found that Kenji Hagiwara had sneaked into the driver's seat, and Inspector Date, who usually looked calm and reliable, was hiding at the back of the crowd, making hand gestures to the two people in the car, while whispering on his phone to instruct them to take the road that was not patrolled by police today.

Jinpei Matsuda and Kenji Hagiwara certainly didn't plan to rush over and capture Asa. Since the bomb they needed to defuse has been confirmed to be fireworks, there was only one person they were looking for while avoiding others.

The guy who provided the clue and rescued the hostage before the Metropolitan Police Department arrived... He is suspected to be the family of their corpse-stealing friend.

How could they not see that? The other party had probably planned to warn them and then have the police launch a rescue operation. However, Hagiwara and his team investigated very quickly, and then acted as if they had a grudge against the hostages, as if they would quarrel till the end of time just to protect themselves.

——Yes, Furuya Rei was also extremely speechless about this.

He originally thought that he had to avoid the Metropolitan Police Department's action team and just watch from afar as they rescued the hostages. However, who would have thought that after he found the hostages' location with Wuming's reminder, the Metropolitan Police Department hadn't even sent any police officers yet!

Rei Furuya's pupils trembled in disbelief, but he finally had to face reality and diligently rescued the unconscious hostages on his own.

He had no tools and no way to defuse the bomb, so he could only send the hostages to the door of the Metropolitan Police Department. He was worried about being discovered, so he tried to drop the hostages and then quietly left into the crowd. Otherwise, Matsuda Jinpei and his men would have received three hostages with their collars removed.

It was not until he was leaving that Rei Furuya suddenly realized: Aka left this task to him not because of his suitable status, but because that guy was dissatisfied with the speed of the Metropolitan Police Department and did not want to cause trouble for himself, so he threw the trouble to him!

At this time, on the observation deck of Suzuki Tower, the vigilante who had been waiting for half an hour sneezed.

The young man, wearing the hood of his cape, sat quietly on the edge, his legs stretched out and dangling in the air, his eyes drifting aimlessly in the gradually darkening sky.

Click.

There were footsteps sounds behind Wuming, and the owner of the footsteps seemed to be deliberately showing his presence and telling the other party that he was here.

"I thought you would save those monkeys first, dear." Asa's voice penetrated Wuming's ears. The man behind him clapped his hands softly and said with a smile, "Let me ask you, what do you think of my game? It's very interesting, right?"

Before Wuming could reply, Asa's mouth widened to an exaggerated degree and he laughed even louder than during the live broadcast.

"Why aren't you smiling, my little moon?" Asa smiled and opened his arms to Wuming. "Look at this city, look at this hell. Are you satisfied with the disaster you have caused?"

The laughter stopped abruptly.

"Why aren't you smiling, my little moon?" He asked again slowly and sarcastically.