Chapter 229 Winter is Coming · Ending

With a small response, the man let go of the hand that had just been hooked with the other's pinky finger, combed his messy curly hair, and quickly locked the place he wanted to go. He waved to the girl and left in a hurry.

The girl used her fingers to curl her hair that fell on her shoulders. She didn't wear anything to check the time, so she could only look down at the shadows cast by the leaves on the ground and touch the tips of the leaves with the tip of her shoes.

Soon, the original shadow of the leaves was replaced by another huge furry shadow. She looked up blankly and saw a brown furry bear standing in front of her.

"Hello." A muffled voice came from the bear's head. The bear with a cute expression waved at her, "My friend asked me to pick you up here. Are you going to the Cultural Palace?"

The girl did not respond. She first put her hand on the other's furry bear paw and touched it, then nodded, her eyes shining, "Are you the friend of that...that brother just now?"

Kasugawa Shugo nodded slightly in the bear head cover, "Shall we set off now?"

"Yeah!" The girl nodded vigorously. She looked at the hand that the plush bear stretched out, hesitated for a moment, and still stuffed the other end of the click pen into the other's furry hand, while holding this end herself.

This action made the chestnut-haired man laugh. He tried to hold the tip of the small pen with his bear paw, which was particularly wide after he put on the plush coat, and connected himself and the girl with the pen.

"Let's go this way?" The suggestion of Kasugawa Shugo was quickly rejected by the girl. The latter turned around to look at the busy square and pointed to a road with the most people.

"I want to go from here, where there are many people."

The man in the plush coat lowered his eyes and said nothing.

"Are you angry?" This short silence made the girl who walked two steps forward with him hesitate. She pinched the corner of her skirt and added, "Because I didn't hold your hand, and I asked you to accompany me here."

"No, of course not." Kasugawa Shugo was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help laughing, "On the contrary, I'm happy because you know how to protect yourself. It is necessary to be vigilant against everyone."

After a while, the girl's mumbling came from the side, "...but you are just a little bear."

"It is also necessary to be vigilant against every little bear." But the little bear's guy almost laughed out loud, he coughed quickly to suppress the laughter in his throat, "Whether it is people or little bears, there are good and bad ones."

"Then you must be a good little bear."

The girl said crisply, and then she smiled, "Although it's just a fake little bear with a plush doll."

"Who said that a bear wearing a doll costume is a fake bear?" Kasugawa Shugo quickened his pace, preparing to compress the round trip time to within 40 minutes, while continuing to chat with people in a relaxed manner, "Doesn't Superman have to wear Superman's clothes every time he appears? So the bear also has to wear bear's clothes every time he appears."

The girl was a little dizzy by this sentence. She walked forward quickly and assembled the sentence backwards, ".....So you are Bear Superman?"

"No, I..." the man laughed. Before he could explain, he saw the girl suddenly remembered something and her face was full of anxiety. "What time is it now?"

He quickly looked at his electronic watch from inside his plush clothes and it said a time. "Is it too late?"

The girl nodded, her face full of regret, even the corners of her mouth turned down.

"Do you mind if I hold you?" Kasugawa Shugo squatted down, "Do you want to experience the Little Bear Express? I guarantee you'll get there on time."

"But it's less than six minutes... okay."

The girl just finished her vaguely questioning response and felt her feet lighten. The plush bear, who was originally just holding the pen in her hand, reached out and quickly held him up.

She only felt that she was holding a fluffy thing, the soft fur was very similar to the stray cats that always wandered around her store. She was too short, and being held like this, she couldn't stick her head out to see what was happening around her. All she could see was the fur flying around in the wind and her hair.

When she finally reacted, the familiar sound of the fountain was already close to her ears.

"So fast!" The girl shouted with sparkling eyes. She wrapped her hands around the bear's slightly bulky head and tried to look up, only to see the scenery on both sides of her quickly receding.

"Of course!" The missions and training over the past few years were not in vain, Kasugawa Shugo said with a smile, and when he was about to reach the gate of the Children's Palace, he stopped because of a figure at the gate.

The girl was immediately excited when she saw the figure. She jumped off the bear happily and ran to the other side in a few steps. "Uncle Anfu——!"

The middle-aged man who was looking around anxiously softened his expression immediately, but soon frowned again and said, "Where did you go? If you can't find the way back..."

"I went outside to find a stationery store..." The girl shrank her neck and said to the stern man in front of her, "Although I didn't find it... But a brother gave me his pen and asked his friend to send me here."

Hearing this, the middle-aged man frowned slightly and looked in the direction of the girl's sight. When he saw the huge plush bear, his eyes were a little alert. He paused, "Have you thanked your brother?"

"Yeah!" She nodded vigorously, and then seemed to remember that she had not thanked the little bear who had just sent her here. She waved vigorously at the plush bear and smiled, "Thank you, little bear..."

Kasugawa Shugo waved at him from inside his plush clothes.

"Then Uncle Anfu, I'll go first." The girl took a few steps toward the door, and then she seemed to remember something and turned around and asked, "Will there be fish in the cafeteria in the hall today?"

"Keep it a secret for now." The middle-aged man listened to the girl's childish question and couldn't help laughing, "Didn't you just have breakfast? Why are you thinking about the fish for dinner?"

The girl stuck out her tongue and ran away quickly.

"Thank you for bringing Xiaochun back." After the girl left, he thanked the girl in the plush coat next to him. The latter seemed to be stunned for a while before speaking.

"No, it's okay."

With a faint apology in his voice. In fact, the apology was so low that it was barely audible, but it was still accurately captured by the sharp middle-aged man.

He had always heard such apologetic words for a while. Anfu Daming looked at the round plush bear head and suddenly realized that the stranger inside was also a policeman.

He didn't know why he had to send the girl over in such an awkward plush outfit, and he had never heard of the voice before. Recalling that a long time ago, the police officer who came to visit and apologized had said that he could not show up due to special reasons, so the drug-hunting police at the General Affairs Office could only let them express their apologies on his behalf. The middle-aged man's eyes flashed with understanding, and his face gradually softened.

"Originally this was just a children's palace. As it developed, supporting facilities were built next to it, such as this shopping mall specifically for children." Anfu Daming said, saying some irrelevant things before turning to himself, "There are a lot of children here. I handed the bookstore over to a clerk who applied for the job and then found a job in the cafeteria here."

He touched his neatly trimmed short hair and smiled heartily, "I'm not saying this, there are a lot of children here. The children all like me very much. "

Looking at the intimacy the girl showed to the other party just now, Kasugawa Shugo nodded without any doubt. He didn't know how to start this sentence, but soon, Anfu Daming continued, "You go and do your own thing. I should go back and prepare their lunch."

After the other party left, Kasugawa Shugo blinked, lowered his head and looked at his watch in the plush clothes. Less than 20 minutes had passed.

It should only take less than 15 minutes to run back and change into this temporarily rented plush clothes and get back to the car. As he calculated this, his foot suddenly stopped.

The original expression on the man's face covered by the plush bear head mask retreated and turned into a cold and suspicious one.

Because of the sudden system notification sound, he frowned and took out his mobile phone, looking down at it under the cover of his plush clothes. Above the screen, the red dot representing Tsukiyama Asari's position, which had been quiet for nearly two hours, suddenly moved slowly.

The moment the positioning point began to move, the earphone began to explode. Kasugawa Shugo stood beside the fountain with a calm expression. He did not follow the instructions from there to return to his original position and wait, but watched the red dot slowly move towards the crowded city center.

"No one and no vehicle were seen leaving point C37." The voice of Yuya Kazama, whom he had met several times before, came from the earphone, "They have an underground passage, and the positioning point is moving towards the city center!"

It seemed that someone did not turn off the microphone on the other side of his earphone, so after this sentence, a low noise came from the other side, and soon, the stern voice of Officer Nagasawa drowned out the noise.

"We must not give up on this operation, and we must do our best to ensure the safety of the people around the base." He said, "Team seven... the outermost team will adjust immediately..."

After hearing the experienced commander slightly adjust the original plan, Amuro Toru, who was in charge, frowned and put his hand on the earphone, "Point C37 is just the entrance, technical team, detect the current location of the point."

"Yes! The point is currently located at..."

"Boyhood Palace."

Amuro Toru, who was frowning and looking at the mountain where the original point was located, was slightly stunned after hearing this. He immediately realized that this was the voice of Kasugawa Shugo, and couldn't help but raise his voice a little, "You..."

"I don't know what kind of event is being held here, there are so many people... There's a six-story shopping mall next to the Children's Palace." Looking at the one-story Children's Palace in front of him that looked like it had been renovated many times and the large shopping mall connected to it, Kasugawa Shugo looked down at the point that almost overlapped with his own, and for a moment he didn't know whether to feel that his luck was good or bad.

"If they dare to put their base under the mall, they must have planted people inside the mall... and there are so many people here, if we act rashly, it will definitely arouse their vigilance. We can't wear combat uniforms and bulletproof vests. Find a few smart people from Team 7... who can show their faces, to come to the mall and try to make the people inside..."

Kasugawa Shugo quickly repeated his current thoughts. He paused as he was about to walk to the fountain, and while whispering under the cover of his plush hood, he quickly returned to the mall.

There has been no problem with the plan so far. Toru Amuro hurriedly responded, and then couldn't help asking, "Why did you go to the Children's Palace? Didn't we tell you to stay there and wait?"

"It was an emergency. Besides, luckily I happened to be here, otherwise you would be busy... Okay, okay, I will write a review after this is over, Officer Furiya." Kasugawa Shugo said in a long tone. He walked into the mall. In this mall that is completely open to children and their parents, the plush bear suit did not attract the attention of others. "There are a lot of cameras here in the mall. Don't send anyone who can't be photographed." The other

party responded and quickly began to redeploy.

The chestnut-haired man picked up a stack of maps placed at the door of a children's clothing store for customers to use, pretended to be a staff member in charge of distributing flyers in the mall, and walked around the six-story mall. Because it was already past lunch time, apart from the children who came to the Children's Palace next door to attend classes and participate in singing competitions, there were only a few parents who brought their children here to eat or buy things their children needed.

It seemed that most people were gathered at the Children's Palace where an event was being held...

"I'll go and trigger the fire alarm." He quickly thought of a solution, "Send a few people in casual clothes and say they are from the Metropolitan Police Department. They found that someone here deliberately set a fire and set off the alarm. Seal the entrance and don't let people who came out to go in again."

After that, after confirming the details of the plan, Kasugawa Shugo immediately took action. He walked quickly to the location of the smoke alarm in his memory. The doll suit made it a bit troublesome for him to set off the fire, so he simply cut a small hole at the front of his furry hand so that he could stretch his hand out from inside when necessary.

Before triggering the alarm, he went to find Anfu Daming next to him. If he had chosen to hand over his bookstore to someone else after that incident and come to work at the Youth Palace, he would probably have a better understanding of the things here.

Sure enough, after hearing his question, the middle-aged man wiped his hands and quickly gave an answer, "The employee who has been taking leave frequently since two weeks ago...? I heard a clerk in the clothing store on the second floor complain that her colleague has been taking leave frequently recently, and even if she comes, she doesn't work well. She delivers a lot of goods to the warehouse by herself..."

After getting this answer, Kasugawa Shugo hurriedly returned to the mall from the connection point of the two buildings.

The little bear who was originally helping the girl find the way suddenly turned into a mall arsonist. He waved the ignited map around, placed it in a place where the smoke alarm could be set off, and then hurriedly set off the next one. Soon, the whole mall was filled with alarms.

When he walked out of the sixth floor stairwell where few people walked, the mall had already sounded an emergency evacuation broadcast.

"...The smoke alarm has been triggered. The fire situation is currently unknown. All customers are requested to evacuate in an orderly manner under the command of the staff. I repeat, all customers are requested to evacuate in an orderly manner under the command of the staff immediately..."

The 'murderer' walked up to a few customers who were walking quickly towards the stairwell and asked in a low voice, "What happened?"

"Didn't you hear the broadcast? It seems that the fire alarm was triggered..." The passing customer hurriedly said, and hesitated before walking towards the elevator, but still changed direction and walked into the stairwell. As she walked, she said to her companion beside her, "Let's go out first... Huizi is still competing in the Youth Palace next door, I have to go see what's going on there first."

"Why did it catch fire out of nowhere..."

While the two were talking, a figure hurriedly walked by. The

worker in black was pushing a cargo box in his hand. He looked around, and after asking about the situation like Kasugawa Shugo, he pressed the elevator button, put his cargo box in, and squeezed into the elevator.

The elevator door closed slowly. The man adjusted the brim of his work hat and was about to look down at the cargo box in front of him when he saw that the elevator door, which was about to close, suddenly stopped.

A plush bear's hand was on the edge of the door. The elevator door, which was about to close, recognized the obstacle and slowly opened again. The guy in the plush clothes squeezed through the obstacle with some difficulty and stood in. He whispered, "Sorry, please move a little further inside."

The man didn't say anything, but just pulled the cart a little closer to him and pressed the negative button.

"Aren't you going to evacuate with the others?" Kasugawa Shugo tried hard to press the button for the floor he wanted to go to, but his furry palm failed to press it for a long time. He said helplessly, "Can you help me press the button for the first floor?"

"Leave here after delivering the last batch of goods. If you don't deliver it in time, the boss will deduct your salary." The man smiled in a good mood. He withdrew his hand, and soon the elevator door belonging to the first floor opened in front of him. The plush bear next to him looked out, but did not go out. He just watched it close again and descend again.

"What's so important..."

A muffled voice came from the bear mask. Kasugawa Shugo probably has the potential to act in a horror movie. He looked outside the elevator door that opened again. It was empty and the light made the plastic eyes on the outer layer of the plush mask shine with a layer of weird light.

The man was stunned and subconsciously reached out to touch his waist. Before his hand touched the hard object, the clumsy plush bear directly controlled his hands and counterattacked it.

"If you wear this kind of clothes, the wrinkles will squeeze your hands when you raise your hands. The handle of the gun." Kasugawa Shugo narrowed his eyes and said helplessly, "Carrying a gun with you to transport goods, you must be a bad guy, right?"

The grassroots member in charge of transporting goods to the organization's base couldn't help but stare wide-eyed. He probably never thought that he would be caught by a stuffed bear in his life. He turned his head and looked at the inorganic eyes, his expression was a little blank.

Who is the bad guy who set fire to the mall and arrested people in this way? !

"I caught the member of the organization responsible for transporting goods!" Kasugawa Shugo immediately reported the news. He looked in the direction the other party just mentioned. There were a lot of supplies disguised as goods, but the door inside was never opened. It seemed that only at certain times would someone open the passage from the inside to get things. After explaining it

to the other party, the man stared at the member who was scared and sweating with his weird sparkling little bear eyes, "You must have more than one exit here, right? Otherwise, if the mall is closed or something happens, how are we going to leave...?"

The code member looked outside sweatily, in the direction of the original fountain. This made Kasugawa Shugo inside the plush cover raise his eyebrows.

What is this? Can this suit improve the efficiency of the interrogation? Otherwise, he can just buy it after the end and take it back to the General Affairs Office...

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