Chapter 264 Nine Villains

On the top floor of the department store opposite Arimori Company, two figures were lurking in the darkness.

One of them held a telescope in his hand, his eyes fixed on the scene visible through the lens barrel. There was a man with a serious and nervous expression, like a frightened bird.

If any employee in the building opposite was in this position, they would recognize at first sight that the man was the young and promising president of Arimori Company.

I don’t know what bad news he received, but the president has been pacing back and forth in his office for a long time. Even the observers can’t help but feel dizzy, but the president has no time to pay attention to these things. His whole mind is focused on the screen of the mobile phone in his hand.

He was waiting for contact from the police.

About half an hour ago, the president received the bad news that his wife was kidnapped.

The lady had originally planned to go to a high-end jewelry store in Ginza to pick up a diamond necklace that she had customized a few months ago. Unfortunately, a group of robbers came to the store today. As the person who looked the richest in the place, the lady unfortunately became a hostage and was taken away from the store by the robbers half an hour ago.

However, the reason that frightened the president was not as simple as it seemed. He actually did not care about his wife being kidnapped. After all, their marriage was just a business one and there was no emotional connection between them.

What he cared about was the meaning behind the kidnapping.

What no one knows is that President Arimori's actual identity is a member of a mysterious organization. As a puppet trained by the organization to inherit Arimori Corporation, he has a list of all the people who have participated in a certain transaction in the organization over the past two years.

Not only does the list include the names of core members of Bermode's level, but also other well-known elites from all walks of life. It can be said that if this list is leaked, no matter how those intelligence organizations use it, the organization will be seriously damaged for a period of time.

President Arimori knew clearly that he could only sit in this position thanks to the organization, and he was able to get that list because the organization was confident in its means of controlling him. Once he had any dissenting thoughts, the organization would be the first to take his life.

Because of this, even though he really couldn't stand the organization's style and finally tried to contact the police, wanting to use the intelligence in his hands in exchange for police protection, he couldn't forget his fear of the organization.

This resulted in the situation where even though the public security had sent many people to protect him, President Arimori was still in a panic because of his wife's kidnapping and couldn't extricate himself.

Because the moment he heard the news, he recognized one fact: the organization must be behind the robbers! This is a sign that the organization is going to take action against him!

Others more or less thought that he was suffering from paranoid delusions, but it was better to be safe than sorry. The police had no choice but to take his words seriously and conducted a nervous investigation for a long time, chasing the robber for a long time... and then they got the news from the Metropolitan Police Department.

This news was also shared with the president at this time. Through the telescope, one could see that after the president answered the phone, his whole demeanor was as if a string had suddenly relaxed, and he almost fell to the ground.

The shadow cast by the organization cannot be shaken off at any time; even if they escape, it will follow them like a shadow for the rest of their lives.

President Arimori leaned on his desk and gasped for breath, and a burst of ecstasy suddenly arose in his heart: the phone call just now told him that it turned out that the robbers did not only rob the jewelry store, but also had a group of accomplices in the dessert shop, and a hostage was taken away from there as well.

And he hasn't received any inquiries from the organization until now... So, maybe his wife's kidnapping was just a coincidence and had nothing to do with the organization? Then, he doesn't have to scare himself, right?

In this case, we have to redeem that woman as soon as possible, otherwise the organization will become suspicious...

President Arimori, who had temporarily recovered from his panic, immediately threw himself into the planning of countless subsequent events. He walked towards his desk, his steps becoming a little unsteady due to the ecstasy.

Ha, it seems that the organization is not keeping an eye on him all the time. Maybe he doesn't need to worry too much about his cooperation with the police being discovered?

Dudu.

There was a knock on the office door, and the voice of the president's secretary rang out: "President, the sender you asked me to follow recently just sent a package to the front desk. I brought it up for you."

Recently... President Arimori recalled and suddenly realized: It must be the Public Security Bureau. In order to avoid the eyes and ears of the organization, they have indeed been communicating via mail recently.

"Bring it in." He raised his voice and responded nonchalantly.

After the secretary left again, President Arimori carefully placed the package on his desk and opened it carefully, wanting to see what news the public security department had brought this time.

"...Hmm?" President Arimori stared at the black suitcase that was taken out after the package was unpacked, and the premonition of danger in his heart gradually resurfaced, "This is..."

President Arimori's hands were in mid-air, and he looked at this "uninvited guest" with suspicion for a long time. Finally, curiosity got the better of him, and he gritted his teeth, turned the silver knob, and opened the suitcase in front of him.

"What? You're scaring yourself." President Arimori took a closer look and found that what was in the box was not a threatening object, nor a time bomb that would explode as soon as it was opened. It was just a silver cube whose purpose was not immediately apparent.

He breathed a sigh of relief and picked up the cube.

…

On the rooftop of a department store.

Vodka put down the telescope and couldn't help but rub his eyes which were a little sore from the explosion. Beside him, Gin, who was originally lying prone with a sniper rifle in his arms, stood up, disassembled the gun and stuffed it back into his bag.

Vodka quietly cast a look of awe at his elder brother.

The two robberies were nothing more than a diversionary tactic. First, the traitor was made to panic because his wife was kidnapped, thinking that the organization was going to take action against him. Then, the false truth of the robbery was used to fool him, making him think that everything was just a coincidence. Finally, when the traitor completely let down his guard, he was shot to death, and the micro bomb in the package was used to blow up the president's office, successfully destroying the name list information hidden in it!

Big brother really deserves to be called the big brother. If he hadn't known their real purpose in advance, he would have been like the traitor, being manipulated in the palm of their hands until the very end, and not knowing the truth until his death. Moreover, big brother even took the traitor's psychological changes into account and even made no omissions... Too scary, no, too powerful!

Gin glanced to the side casually and was almost dumbfounded by Vodka's expression. His expression couldn't help but become even colder. Before Vodka really said those words, Gin lit the cigarette between his fingers.

"Take your eyes away, Vodka," he said coldly, "This is not my plan."

Gin disdains to use such a troublesome method to play with the traitor - like a worrywart, he accurately predicts the traitor's psychological changes in advance, and lets the traitor's emotions fluctuate like a cat playing with a mouse, and then destroys the traitor's hope of survival when he thinks he has escaped.

For Gin, this kind of thing is a waste of time most of the time and he won't do that.

Only that evil guy would do such a thing.

"Leave."

Gin's face was hidden behind the smoke.

"Go kill the next target."

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After Chi Jiang Na Yue finished speaking, everyone present was surprised to varying degrees, but the reason for their surprise was not unusual.

What these people care about is, if Chijiang Nayue has such ability, why did she drop out of school in the first place? If it was caused by an accident, why can she be so calm and indifferent to these police academy students who may become her classmates after being "forced" to drop out of school? It's so strange, too strange.

Even without mentioning these, how could the police academy be willing to let go of such a brilliant star in reasoning! Even these police academy students who have really received several months of training and learning could not analyze what the other party said in such a short time and with such little information...

The stronger Chi Jiang Nanyue's ability became, the more puzzled they became.

But what’s important now is the situation in the store. Everything else can be asked and resolved later.

Even in such a critical situation, Matsuda Jinpei's hands were still surprisingly steady. The time it took him to dismantle the bomb was exactly the same as he said before he started dismantling it, less than ten minutes.

Jinpei Matsuda, who automatically ignored most of the external situations once he entered the state, raised his head from this bomb that was exquisitely constructed but not very complicated, and was just like his final exam. Everything around him seemed to be fast-forwarded, and it caught him off guard.

The most significant change was in the positions of the two accomplices of the robbery at the door. The only ones standing now were Squad Leader Date and Furuya Rei, two of his colleagues who had rushed forward and knocked down the criminals at some point in time. The police outside also took this opportunity to rush in and neatly handcuffed the silver bracelets on their wrists.

"You are under arrest!"

Matsuda Jinpei had already given up his half-kneeling position and sat down with his legs crossed, not caring about the dirt. His coat happened to be on the ground as a cushion. "Ah, is it over?"

Hagiwara Kenji hummed as he helped Akae Nazuki take off the bomb vest he had just dismantled. But the one who took over the explanation was Morobushi Kagemitsu, who had just hung up the call with the police outside and turned to look over. "The police promptly controlled the robbers in the jewelry store over there, and one person did escape with the hostages at each location."

Zhu Fu Jingguang shook his phone and said, "People have been sent over there to stop the robbers and rescue the hostages."

As for Date Kou and Furuya Rei, they specifically confirmed that the robbers here were not in constant communication with the leader, but only sent messages after fixed intervals to prove that the situation on their side was fine.

So in order to prevent the other side from noticing something was wrong and to give the police enough time to rescue the hostages, they launched the attack just when their accomplice had sent a message saying "everything is fine".

Faced with these robbers whose skills were only at the level of ordinary people, neither Furuya Rei nor his companion had time to use their excellent arrest skills. In just a few moves, their opponents fell to the ground.

Even a few people with outstanding qualities couldn't help but sigh in their hearts: How could someone with such low skills be so stupid as to commit robbery?

Among the few people, only Hagiwara Kenji, who had been keeping his eyes on Akae Nazuki more or less, noticed that the boy had an expression of great disgust on his face, especially when he saw the two robbers who were being taken away by the police in a disheveled state.

Kenji Hagiwara seemed to be thinking about something, and subconsciously clenched his fingers, successfully shifting Akae Nazuki's gaze to himself.

"......!" He realized that he had grabbed Chi Jiang Na Yue's wrist without letting go since he didn't know when, "Sorry, did I hurt you?"

Chi Jiang Na Yue shook her head without caring and shook her wrist which didn't even have any red marks: "No, you didn't use much force."

Kenji Hagiwara relaxed a little and reluctantly let go of his hand.

From the moment he recalled everything in the two dreams, he couldn't help but feel a subtle... fear of loss.

Only when I confirmed that my childhood friend and my 'good friend' were still alive did the empty feeling disappear as if it had been filled.

Why did he dream of himself strangling Xiao Nayue to death and Xiao Zhenping's death? What did that dream represent?

To be honest, Kenji Hagiwara still doesn't understand what the six-month synchronization in his second dream was about, but his intuition tells him that one of it and the first bad one is probably fake.

Because the contents of these two dreams conflict.

In the dream where Kojinpei and Konanzuki died, he obviously didn't know Konanzuki in the dream. Hagiwara Kenji could tell that it wasn't that he 'didn't recognize her', but that he really felt strange towards the boy. However, in the second dream, they were good friends...

Hagiwara Kenji twirled the tail of his hair in distress and decided not to think about this problem for the time being. Anyway, he couldn't find the answer for the time being.

When Hagiwara Kenji was distracted, Akae Nazuki had already left his original position and walked towards the direction of other people who were communicating with the police. Just as he got closer, he heard a sentence coming from the receiver of the mobile phone.

"That person...did not die immediately after being sniped."

The voice sounded like the hostage Aiko, but the amount of information in this sentence was really overwhelming. Furuya and the others were stunned for a while: "Wait a minute, didn't the police catch the robber? What about the sniper attack?"

The police officer next to him also looked very serious. Perhaps because they were future excellent colleagues and because the case was indeed related to them, he revealed a little bit of the situation: "In fact, before we successfully arrested the robber, someone killed him. It's just that we don't know who did it yet."

"I was right there at the time. He was planning to take me to another car, but..." Ms. Aiko still sounded scared. "If I hadn't dodged quickly, that man might have killed me too!"

"Since the robber didn't die immediately, did he leave any last words?" After pondering for a moment, Furiya Rei asked seriously.

At this time, Kenji Hagiwara also came over, so the six people including Akae Nazuki heard the distorted repetition on the phone.

"He said, 'Kalua... that master... has he really abandoned me?'"