Secrets Exposed

"Captain, we've got the people."

The person walking in front said this, but the people in the yard did not respond immediately.

The strong smell of alcohol filled the air, and Tiaoye Caiju reminded him again: "Captain?"

"Hmm?" The middle-aged man with short white hair finally turned around, raised his glass and squinted his eyes, "It's a wild one, do you want a drink?"

Tiaoye Caiju shook her head, spread her hands and complained: "I told you to drink less. It will delay things."

"We'll probably be fine once the captain sobers up." After waving her hand, Tiao Ye Cai Ju confidently left with Suehiro Tetsuchi.

Although the old man looked drunk, he never made any mistakes in serious matters.

The door to the yard closed again. This was an old house located in a remote area, with imitation old wooden buildings and a long corridor. There was also a small pond in the yard with a few small red fish swimming in it.

This seemed to be someone's private residence. The grass in the yard was neatly trimmed and the corridor was clean.

This was Luanbu's first time here. He looked around curiously and finally squatted beside the pool made of blue and white stones.

"Burp." Fudi burped and squinted his eyes to look at the two of them with difficulty.

The silver-haired figure just stood there quietly in front of him, his eyes locked with hers, and the hand holding the wine glass paused slightly.

"Hahaha, it's Fukuzawa, I wish I had prepared some good wine earlier."

Fukuzawa's originally stern face showed a helpless expression. He sighed and walked forward: "Do you have tea?"

The suit jacket was taken off and neatly folded aside. The knife was also put down. For a person who has been walking in dangerous areas for many years, this is an extremely relaxing environment.

Fu Di stood up dazedly, and finally pointed to a place vaguely, and then Fu Ze went to find it. He wandered around the yard and came back with his nose pinched in disgust.

“It smells terrible.”

The disgusted expression of the man in front of him didn't seem fake. Fudi laughed twice, and then subconsciously wanted to reach out and touch the hairy head.

Of course, Luanbu easily avoided it. He sat cross-legged beside him with his hands on his knees: "Mr. Fuze - I want yam steamed buns!"

"Meow." 005 also meowed a few times.

But it was obvious that there was no such thing here, and Fukuzawa came out with tea in his hand: "No."

“Hey.”

The tea leaves in the cup floated up and down, and the boiling tea went down my throat, slightly bitter. After sitting for a while, I couldn't sit still anymore and started running around the yard.

"We need to give them some time to talk, right?" 005 followed closely, thinking he had discovered what Shika-nin was thinking.

Shika Ninja did not deny it. He put his hand into the water and teased the fish in the water with 005.

"Genichiro, Ranpo did come out of the laboratory, but he will definitely not harm anyone." Fukuzawa put down his teacup and corrected immediately.

"Ah - I know." The drunk man seemed to have suddenly sobered up and chuckled. "It was the young detective who wrote to us personally, hoping that we would arrest him."

"It seems that we shouldn't call him detective?"

Fukuchi looked at the person in front of him, and the familiar feeling made him realize that Fukuzawa in front of him was definitely not a "copy". They understood each other, which could not be imitated by copying appearance and memory.

Ranbu had already walked along the corridor towards the backyard, stroking the outer wall of the cup, and Fu Ze began to explain from the beginning.

"To be precise, we are from another world. We came here because of some accidents."

After listening to the story, Fukuchi also showed an expression of surprise. He frowned and focused on the "black-covered book" mentioned in Fukuzawa's words.

"Is that... a book?"

The two looked at each other, and then they understood each other's thoughts. Fukuzawa closed his eyes and nodded: "It seems so."

The existence of the Book is not a legend. Whatever is written in the Book will become reality.

Fukuzawa didn't know where Ranpo found the "Book" from, but given the current situation, this was the only guess he could make.

"Is that so?" Fudi's expression changed, and then he asked casually, "Fuzai from another world, what is the other world like?"

"Nothing is different." Fuze took another sip of tea and said casually, "After I separated from you, I met Ranpo, and then I took over the port mafia."

These few simple sentences contained too much information. Fudi shook his head and said, "Ah? You mean after you broke up with me?"

"The war is over, and it's time for us to return to normal life." Fukuzawa said, turning his head again, his expression slightly more serious, "This is what you said, but unfortunately, it is a bit difficult to be like ordinary people."

After the war, they were no longer useful. Although they became "heroes", it was completely impossible for them to return to ordinary people's lives.

During that time, whenever I closed my eyes, I felt like I was back on the battlefield. Dead companions, blood everywhere. The wounds left by war are not so easy to heal.

At this time, Fuze received a task from above to secretly execute a product that failed in an experiment.

This experiment was carried out in secret for decades, and it seemed that it had been shelved because the subjects being studied were not yet fully mature.

But now an accident has occurred in the experimental research, resulting in a laboratory explosion that has killed hundreds of people, making the escaped experimental subject an extremely dangerous entity.

Fukuzawa thought that any task he could be assigned would not be easy, so the person he needed to execute should be a strong person. But he completely misjudged it, and when he found the target, he even doubted the information he had received.

It was a boy of only fifteen or sixteen, standing barefoot in a dirty alley. His thin and frail body couldn't even run for a long time, and after a simple test, Fukuzawa found that the boy was just an ordinary person.

But this ordinary boy guessed his identity at a glance, and judged the reason why he couldn't sleep at night at a glance. Fukuzawa's eyes widened, and when he reacted, he had inexplicably brought the boy back to his home.

This is ridiculous.

Just because he survived the disaster, he was speculated to be a powerful supernatural being. Therefore, he was raised in a laboratory, and after his intelligent brain was confirmed at the age of five or six, decades of research began.

Fukuzawa, who had found out everything through his identity, could not suppress his anger. He used some tricks and finally destroyed the laboratory. In the dusty data, on the paper burned by fire, the subject code-named "005" found his name again.

Random, but no last name.

At first, Fukuzawa was not used to waking up every night to find someone sleeping soundly on the bed next to him. But gradually, he seemed to adapt to this kind of life.

By chance, at the request of Mr. Natsume, he took over the largest mafia organization in Yokohama.

Hearing this, the smile on Fukuchi's face disappeared, and he said seriously: "Battlefield... Fukuzawa, have you ever been to the battlefield?"

Fukuzawa thought for a moment, then quickly understood. The reason why he was different in this world seemed to be that he had not directly participated in the war.

"Because you asked me to do so, and I don't want the war to continue."

Fudi slowly widened his eyes and his whole body became stiff.

"Genichiro?"

"Uncle!" Ranbu suddenly popped up, stretched out his hands and pulled Fudi's beard, "Wake up, wake up."

Fudi held his forehead with one hand, laughed dryly and made excuses: "Haha, it seems that you can't drink too much."

Fukuzawa showed a helpless expression, while Ranbu shook his head seriously: "No, I brought Mr. Fukuzawa to see you just to let you know that we can discuss anything."

"You are thinking of starting a war alone, right? You want to cause chaos in the world, and the Detective Agency is your first target." Ranbu said logically, "And you probably have the remaining pages of the Book in your hand. And you should have written something."

These words made both of them stunned. Fukuzawa frowned and wanted to stop Ranbu, but when he saw the increasingly solemn expressions of the people around him, he understood clearly.

Luanbu is right.

Fudi did not try to fool around with a smile. Instead, he placed one hand on the sword at his waist and then stood up with a serious expression.

"You foresee that a war will break out in the future, and that war will lead to the death of many people." Ranbu did not stop, he continued, "So you want to do something to prevent that future."

"The leader of the Five Degenerates of God and Heaven, this is also one of your identities."

Every word revealed the secret thoughts, and the sword at the waist was drawn forward and stabbed straight into the fragile neck.

Luanbu did not dodge or evade, but Fukuzawa, who reacted in time, had already blocked in front of him with a knife.

"Genichiro, is this all true?" Fukuzawa asked. "Is everything Ranpo said true?"

Fudi did not deny it, he just showed a distressed expression: "Ah, you are really smart. Luanbu, I have many ways to make sure you can't tell others."

"No, you can't do it with Mr. Fukuzawa around." Ranpo said confidently.

He hid behind Fuze and poked his head out: "I have the [Book]. There are many things I can know even if you don't reveal your true identity."

"What happens in this world has nothing to do with us, but aren't you curious why I'm saying it?"

If Fukuchi really wanted to kill, he would probably be able to get out alive with Fukuzawa. Ranbu was very confident, so there was some recklessness in his tone.

"Because we shouldn't have appeared in this world. It is because of our arrival that the future will change."

Fudi frowned, he did not believe it immediately, but his squinting green eyes slowly opened.

"If you do what I say, you can avoid such a future." Ranbu stated the purpose of this trip, and said firmly, "You will agree."

The situation was deadlocked for a moment, and then Fukuzawa was the first to put away the knife. Looking at the head sticking out from under his arm, he was angry and helpless: "Why didn't you discuss this matter in advance?"

Ranpo was still hiding behind Fukuzawa, and stuck out his tongue at Fukuchi's calm attitude. "Because, it was Mr. Fukuzawa who made Uncle Fukuchi give in. If you had known in advance, it wouldn't have had this effect."

After putting away the knife, Fudi resumed his cross-legged sitting position. He sighed and waved to Luanbu: "Come here and tell me what you learned from the book."

The setting of the "book" is completely nonsense. He walked over and sat down under 005's incredulous and admiring gaze.

〖You actually convinced Fudi so easily?〗

"He is not a bad person." Lu Shinobi replied, "Everything he did was to prevent that future. I just need him to help me do something. As for whether he can avoid that future..."

〖005 You can do it, even if we can't avoid such a future, but because we have changed the plot, we can get back on track in another way.〗

Shika Ninja was right. Because they were involved in the plot, any changes that occurred would, due to force majeure, lead to the plot being what it should have been.

But it was precisely because of this that 005 felt a cold sweat on his back. When did Shika Ninja, who didn't even have a script, discover all this and start planning?

It was not easy to convince Fukuchi, and this was just the first step. His attitude was softened only because Fukuzawa was present, and if the two of them fought, it would be easy to expose their true colors.

But Ranpo is still confident. He believes that with the relationship between Fukuzawa and Fukuchi, they can "understand" each other.

If there was someone to discuss with, if there was someone who was in the same situation as him, then perhaps some of his actions would not be so extreme.

His brain was overloaded with rapid thinking and planning. After he sat down, his head moved lower and lower. He frowned and felt the tingling in his head.

The pain, as if he were being pierced by countless fine needles, temporarily made him unable to think.

"Are you "setting" limits on me because you're afraid your secret will be discovered?" Shika-nin said with a slightly tired look.

After intense thinking, the brain will feel tingling due to the burden. But this is not just because of the experiment, but also due to 005.

In order to prevent some secrets from being discovered, some restrictions are set.

005 coughed guiltily, but after that question, there was no more sound from the deer ninja.

Fu Ze stepped forward at the right time, took out a candy from his suit pocket and stuffed it into Ranbu's mouth, then helped him lie down: "I'll explain it later, take a rest first."

Luanbu rested his head on the pillow on which his coat was piled, closed his eyes and stopped talking. Fudi didn't understand what was going on, and was given a sidelong look while stroking his cheek.

"We won't run away, so don't worry." Fu Ze explained softly, "As for why you did this, you can explain it in detail if it's convenient."

“Ahem.”