After performing a scene of "I tied myself up", Asuka Mizuki stood in the back of the alley and pulled out a black duckbill cap without any pattern on the top from her bag.
It seemed to be related to the rules of the world. The security system here was very underdeveloped. Generally speaking, only the roads were monitored, and the security of other buildings, whether banks, shopping malls or residential buildings, was so lacking that criminals could sneak in and plant bombs at will.
But it saved a lot of trouble.
She covered her conspicuous hair with the duckbill cap and threw her backpack to the ground.
Although Asuka Mizuki could not distinguish the color, she could tell from Tsukiyama Asari's perspective that it was a light green canvas bag, very clean and beautiful.
He unzipped the bag, took out some of the stuff inside, put the tools he needed into a canvas bag and put it on his shoulder. He looked at the dirty and dusty ground in the alley, and reluctantly stepped on the surface of the bag twice.
Asuka Mizuki avoided the roads with surveillance throughout the journey, and took a detour for more than 20 minutes before arriving at the apartment building where Kenji Hagiwara was in charge. He took the elevator directly to the 20th floor.
Under the bright-colored icon "20" on the wall was a pot of bright black and white artificial flowers. He knocked on the cabinet where the pot was placed, and the sound was crisp.
The brighter one should be green leaves, right? What color is the darker flower, red?
Fei Niao Wu's thoughts cast an anchor for a moment and then quickly retracted it, focusing his attention on the bottom of the cabinet.
The front was a whole piece of bright porcelain, which would shake if it was slightly touched. He took out the thin long wire in his pocket, bent it into a straight line, inserted it into the gap around it, and then changed direction to hook it outward.
The bomb should be found...
There was unexpectedly a large space inside, and the bomb was not placed in the middle, but on the outside right. Fei Niao Wu poked his head in to take a look, but outside the bomb, there was only a smooth cubic space, and there was no place to fix the other end of the chain. If he was handcuffed outside, he would not be able to observe the timing of the bomb.
His sight moved downwards, landing on the top of the bomb, on a thin handle next to the LCD screen.
What is this thing?
Whether it was the Asuka Kiri vest or Tsukiyama Asari underneath the skin, he knew nothing about bombs. He swallowed, prepared to be blown away at any time, and reached out to slowly touch the handle.
No reaction.
Then handcuff him here.
The boy first took out banknotes from the canvas bag, then lay on the ground and wrote something threatening like, "There are sensors on this boy's handcuffs. If you police dare to open the handcuffs before handing over 1 billion yen, I will directly press the detonator."
I don't know what the fax received by the Metropolitan Police Department looks like. It would be risky to print it out and pretend it was a fake. It's better to just write it myself.
Writing crookedly and pretending to be threatened, Fei Niao Wu looked at the wrinkled paper and hesitated whether to leave some "tear marks" on it.
Forget it. I am a reserved person with no expression and much more mature than my peers. If I react too much, it will arouse suspicion.
This is just right.
He stuffed the paper under the bomb through the gap, and then threw the pen and bag outside. Fei Niao Wu crawled into the small space in the cabinet, being careful not to touch the bomb. After he lay on his side in the space, his legs just curled up in the gap left on the left side of the bomb.
I wanted to seal his mouth, but it was really troublesome to use tape, and I couldn't leave it outside like I did with the other things that could be said to have been "stolen by the criminals"... Which kid would carry wide tape that can seal his mouth!
One end of the chain was handcuffed to the handle, and after installing the sensors provided by Yu Gu Miao on both ends, he carefully put the porcelain cover back and handcuffed the other end to his hands in the dark.
The chain was deliberately made very short so that the bomb could always be within his sight.
But if it wasn't gagged, how could it have stayed still for so long... Fei Niao Wu gritted his teeth and slammed into the inner wall with all his strength, making a muffled "dong" sound.
He only felt dizzy, but he could feel liquid flowing down his forehead. Because he didn't feel any pain, he couldn't assess the extent of the injury. He was afraid that if he bumped into it again, he would really get hurt, so he stopped moving, just leaned his head gently against the inner wall and closed his eyes. Forget
about pretending to be dizzy, or pretend to be awake for a while. If he was discovered by Hagiwara Kenji and others and then woke up, a normal child would definitely be terrified in this environment. No matter how precocious he was, he would still be afraid for a while. It would be a waste of their time to comfort him while they were researching bombs. It would be better to pretend to be awake for a long time and have adjusted his mentality.
On the other side, seeing that Asuka Kiri was almost done, Tsukiyama Asari no longer looked for opportunities to delay. After telling the news he knew, he was invited to rest aside. Because of the threatening letter, the entire Metropolitan Police Department quickly became alert and deployed a large number of police forces. The two bombs were led by Hagiwara Kenji and Matsuda Jinpei of the Security Department Mobile Unit's ** Processing Team, each responsible for one side, and they were quickly dispatched.
The only ones left for this kidnapping case were a few detectives from the Investigation Section 1. Tsukiyama Asari's water in his hand had already gone cold. He looked listless, but in fact he was sitting in his head chatting with the system in a random manner.
'Have you adjusted the surveillance? '
[Adjusted, no suspicious persons or vehicles have been found so far. ]
'Yes. '
After a moment of silence, the system seemed to have sensed something and spoke again.
[You've been feeling a little off since Kenji Hagiwara got into trouble. What's wrong?]
'Nothing. I suddenly thought of those two guys.
How sad it would be if I finally came back and found that my friends had died a long time ago...'
Tsukiyama Asari stroked her hair. From the system's previous progress analysis, her friend Furuya Rei was probably a person favored by the rules of the world, although not as good as Kudo Shinichi and Mori Ran, the childhood sweethearts. But other friends were not so lucky, and then there was the matter of Kenji Hagiwara.
He suspected that the rules of the world were pushing Rei Furuya down the so-called "beautiful, strong and tragic" path. The first step of "tragedy" was Rei Furuya's experience of being excluded because of his appearance since childhood, and the second step was probably the friends who left him one by one.
His heart was chilled.
If the so-called rules must push his friends to a dead end, he could help them avoid the explosion this time, but what about the next time? Did he have so much energy to charge the time conversion card and change the outcome time and time again? He
suddenly regretted spending the energy that could have been used to rewind three years to collect data. This energy should have been saved for emergencies.
[Don't think too much, maybe it's just a death node, and it will no longer exist after you avoid it.]
There was a pause, and then added.
[Besides, I'm still here, what are you worried about.]
Hearing this, Tsukiyama Asari couldn't help but burst out laughing, and he drank the cool water in one gulp.
'You are so amazing? '
[Huh, of course. ]
The cold male voice spoke in such a proud tone, and Tsukiyama Asari frowned uncomfortably and complained, 'Your voice is really not suitable for what you usually say...'
[That's because using this voice to report to the headquarters is very suitable for work. And the system mall refuses returns. ]
'I've wanted to ask for a long time, what are the things in the system mall? '
[Well... the more expensive ones are the simulated human voice and the simulated body, but I can't afford the simulated body until now. The rest are books and snacks and fruits... ah, I just bought some melon seeds yesterday, they smell like gasoline. 】
Just as he finished speaking, the sound of cracking
melon seeds came from the other side. There were so many points to complain about that Tsukiyama Asari didn't know where to start. Just as he was about to open his mouth, the cracking sound stopped.
【Someone is coming.】
Ida Kou walked quickly into the Investigation Section 1 and saw a slightly hunched figure sitting in his seat. The young man was just holding the cup in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.
He suddenly felt a little reluctant, but the guardian had to be notified of this matter, so he just paused for a moment.
"Mr. Tsukiyama?" Date Kou coughed lightly, "We found..."
The young man raised his head quickly. His excitement due to the news sank to the bottom again when he saw the serious expression of the other party. His lips moved a few times, "...What's wrong?"
"The situation is a bit complicated, you...be prepared."
After reporting the situation on his side, Hagiwara Kenji let out a long breath, and he tentatively reached out to the child curled up in the space inside the cabinet.
"Hello?" The man with long straight black hair made full use of his advantages and smiled at the little boy with a wink.
In stark contrast to his relaxed tone, he had been feeling particularly heavy-hearted since just now. After the team quickly locked the location of the bomb, they checked it layer by layer. Because of the discarded items next to the cabinet on the 20th floor, he originally wondered why the criminal deliberately left things next to the bomb. If the police quickly found and dismantled it, it would not be of any benefit to the criminal.
It turned out that he had kept this trick.
The boy leaned against the cabinet, and his drooping hair cast a deep shadow on his face because of the light, making it difficult to see his expression. The white hair and light eyes, which seemed to be caused by the disease, made the dried bloodstains spreading from the head even more terrifying. All the detectives present frowned and suppressed their anger.
Using children as hostages is really too crazy!
It's simply a scumbag!
I don't know if the criminal who was accused for no reason sneezed, but Asuka Mizuki sneezed a little because of the dust raised by the porcelain mask. Then he remembered his sick setting and coughed a few times.
"Little friend?" Hagiwara Kenji slowly introduced his occupation and name, and saw the other party's tense shoulders relax a little, and tried to speak. "Can you move?"
The boy reacted for a while and did not reply. Instead, he carefully moved his ankles and then moved out a little bit. Hagiwara Kenji did not urge him, but waited patiently for him to move out of the cabinet. The boy stretched his legs out of the cabinet, sat side by side with the bomb, and whispered, "I can't move."
Because the chain was too short, if he moved out any further, it would pull the bomb.
Kenji Hagiwara's eyebrows furrowed, then quickly relaxed. He smiled again, the same as before, and reached out to touch the boy's soft hair, smiling, "The brothers are very capable, and will definitely bring you back safely."
The boy only nodded lightly and said nothing. Seeing that he was in a stable mood, the medical staff who had just been pulled over quickly came over to bandage the wound on his head.
"Captain Hagiwara, protective clothing." The man holding the shield reminded.
"It's okay, it's okay. Wearing this outfit takes too long. It's better to start researching this bomb earlier." Hagiwara Kenji smiled and lowered his head to observe carefully. "It's a very common type."
The boy, who was not visible to him and allowed the gentle medical sister to treat the wound on his head, heard this conversation and narrowed his eyes dangerously.