Chapter 193 Unreasonable
[Anti-fraud expert #234: That's enough, that's enough. Even though you can't feel the temperature, it's cold enough tonight. No need for any more lame jokes.]
Morofushi Kagemitsu silently scoffed to himself, realizing that Morofushi Takaaki's gaze was still on him. He had no choice but to abandon his slightly slacking attitude and brace himself to deal with the many matters to come.
Since he hasn't been sent back to the past yet, it means this matter is far from over. He still needs to find a way to overcome the "conditions for passing the test" that he hasn't figured out yet.
Morofushi Takaaki was well aware of his own power and stopped dwelling on the internal power struggles within the police force. Instead, he brought up another topic: the attack they had recently suffered.
To blatantly throw bombs at a police car, and even attempt to fire shots after the occupants have escaped, is an act of extreme arrogance. Even local gangs wouldn't be this reckless.
"...However, based on the results of the investigation so far, many things have been beyond our expectations." Morifushi Takaaki told Morifushi Kagemitsu the report he had just received. It wasn't something that needed to be kept secret. "Kobayashi has already verified the identity of the person who attacked us. He's a street urchin who's always hung out with the biggest gang in the area. So far, we haven't found out why he suddenly attacked the police."
"It was probably just bait." Morofushi Kagemitsu was familiar with this tactic, and in his view, it was more like a scapegoat deliberately arranged by Kitada Yu. It was just that there was a problem with the execution, which led to his death.
“That’s what we thought too.” Zhu Fu Gaoming nodded and said, “Kobayashi just brought me a brief report on the shooting incident at the foot of the mountain. It has been confirmed that both Kita Tenyou and this young man on the street are dead. Both of them died from gunshot wounds. Judging from the wounds and the cleaned-up debris, the guns that caused the fatal shot were the same type.”
[Anti-fraud expert #234: ...Are you sure you really switched the items? You don't seem like the type to willingly expose your own incriminating evidence to the police.]
Now that you mention it, I'm not so sure either. But the only electronic system capable of briefly fooling your surveillance cameras is an evolved anti-fraud app. Surely fate can't be turning the wheel for someone else, can it?
[Anti-Fraud Guru #234: ...]
Number 234 suddenly fell silent. Facing Gao Mingge's distraction, Morofushi Kagemitsu did not ask for details for the time being, but instead said, "It's probably from the same batch of goods. Mine was just recently received."
Zhu Fugaoming had heard this kind of generic answer many times. He recalled what the police officer had said, his eyes darkened, and he said, "Even if it's from the same source as a member of some organization?"
...It turns out Zero's gun was also exposed.
However, since my brother mentioned the organization, it seems that the Public Security Zero Group has revealed quite a bit of information.
He shrugged slightly, simply implying that it was a coincidence.
Of course, in this context, it can usually be understood as the default.
[Anti-fraud expert #234: ...You should really explain yourself. It's a pity I didn't stop you just now, otherwise you definitely wouldn't have responded like that.]
What does that mean? Could it be that there's a problem with the supply?
[Anti-fraud expert #234: To be precise, it's not the source of the goods, but the source of information. I just adjusted my perspective to look at Officer Kobayashi's report, and Zero pinned the discovery of that gun on Rum.]
Zhu Fujingguang: ...
[Anti-fraud expert #234: From your older brother's perspective, you were indeed sitting at the same table as Rum, the villainous mini-boss. To avoid him misunderstanding that Black Guest is "two-timing" or cooperating with the Black Organization, you'd better clarify your relationship.]
Before Morofushi Kagemitsu could even put down his shrug and raised hand, he met Morofushi Takaaki's probing and profound gaze.
He couldn't care less about his and Zero's actions of heading in opposite directions, and quickly explained, "What I mean is..."
He couldn't think of a very reasonable excuse for the time being, so he could only try to smear Rum: "...Rum may also have some unknown ulterior motives. He is loyal to his own interests, not to any organization."
Of course, it would be even better if these words reached the ears of a member of the organization.
Zhu Fu Gaoming raised an eyebrow in surprise and said, "Are you going to reveal the source of the goods?"
Morofushi Kagemitsu naturally shook his head and said, "You have intelligence on the Black Organization's logistics, and so do we. We, Black Guest, are not just limited to online operations."
In the end, he still managed to gloss over the matter with his riddle-solving style, convincing Gao Ming that his actions had a deeper meaning.
As for the middleman who got him the gun, he certainly wouldn't just sell him out so easily. He was hoping to get some intelligence from the gray area in the future, so why would he be stupid enough to cut off his own escape route?
He just wanted to draw attention to Rum and hide himself as much as possible.
[Anti-Fraud Guru #234: Getting Rum investigated is a good idea. That way, the police and the organization will focus their attention on this old man, making it much easier for us to catch the "mastermind."]
The mastermind behind this... Is there someone else involved? Even you didn't notice? Who is it?
[Anti-fraud expert #234: I believe that what deceived us this time wasn't a specific period of time, but most likely fate.]
Zhu Fujingguang: !!!
How much it doesn't want me to complete this task! It's just gathering energy, is it really necessary...?
Wait a minute, since fate has intervened again, why didn't it just make my mission fail? Instead, it went to all this trouble by restricting the anti-fraud team's support for me at the very beginning.
[Anti-fraud expert #234: What you said makes sense, so I think he might have used the same "retrograde" technique that happened to Melo again. Perhaps this time someone foresaw the trap at the foot of the mountain and changed their fate.]
When do you think the person who changed your destiny found out?
[Anti-Fraud Guru #234: I've always been trapped in a temporal gap, so my monitoring of the future is more comprehensive. Aside from you being thrown onto this timeline, I haven't sensed any unusual fluctuations. Therefore, it's very likely that the fluctuations that occurred back then overlapped with yours.]
So, this time, besides completing our mission, we also need to find the person who changed our destiny.
[Anti-fraud expert #234: That's what I think too.]
Zhu Fujingguang understood the situation.
He glanced at the time, then, using the excuse that he had other "business" to attend to, told Brother Gao that he should leave the police station.
Morofushi Takaaki was reluctant to let go of such a person with a secret, but since even his superiors were planning to let Midorikawa Osamu go, he naturally had no excuse to continue suppressing him and had no choice but to release him.
However, it is essential to send additional police officers to secretly keep watch.
Morofushi Kagemitsu is now focused on finding the person who changed his fate. As long as the police stalkers behind him don't get in his way, he won't react excessively.
He read through all the unread messages on his phone, replied to Zero's message, and silently breathed a sigh of relief. Then, he and Number 234 began to gradually narrow down the scope of the "suspects who changed their fate," writing down the names of all the people involved in their notebooks.
They first eliminated several people who would suffer a terrible fate, such as Kitada Yu, who lost his life, and an unknown cannon fodder, as well as Rum, who schemed but was still tricked by Zero.
[Anti-Fraud Guru #234: On the other hand, we need to pay more attention to those who reaped the biggest benefits or narrowly escaped death this time. Furthermore, I suggest excluding friendly personnel.]
...Should we also consider "balance" in this?
[Anti-fraud expert #234: From a fate perspective, it's very necessary. Otherwise, looking at the outcome, Zero is the person most likely to change their fate.]
But my gut feeling tells me that he isn't.
[Anti-Fraud Guru #234: Sorry, we electronic beings don't take intuition-based variables into account. But since you thought zero wasn't it, why did you seem relieved when you replied to his text?]
That's just being thankful.
[Anti-Fraud Guru #234: It's not our allies changing our fate, so why should we be happy?]
Fortunately, Zero and I still have good chemistry; it's just that the additional interference methods temporarily caused a slight mishap in our teamwork.
[Anti-fraud expert #234: ...Is that all? Wasn't it back when you had version 1.4?]
Morofushi Kagemitsu sighed silently, finally understanding why Zero in this timeline had such an awkward attitude.
Put yourself in his shoes; if you were facing an electronic being who doesn't understand human nature and is wearing a Zero shell, your attitude would probably be even colder.
However, it's time to put the task of understanding emotions from the fragments of one's own consciousness on the agenda.
[Anti-fraud expert #234: Let's forget about this kind of thing. Generally, people who have been dead for no more than five years will retain some emotions from their past life in fragments of consciousness, but these emotions will gradually dissipate over time. If too much time passes, even consciousness will tend to become electronic, eventually leaving only a template of imitation.]
Oh, I see.
Morofushi Kagemitsu thought of those other anti-fraud figures who hadn't posted in years; could they have already...?
[Anti-fraud expert #234: There's no need to spell it out; you should understand.]
Morobuchi Kagemitsu silently crossed out the names of several of his own people from the notebook and looked at the names on the other side.
One of them, in his view, was highly suspicious.
Jin Xixiangyi.
The most crucial figure in this bombing case, despite the intense scrutiny from both the police and himself, seemed to have vanished without a trace.
[Anti-fraud expert #234: I haven't found any trace of him in Nagano yet. #205 remotely guided me to check some private security cameras, but he wasn't there either. Logically, we could probably let him go.]
Logically speaking...
To date, regardless of the timeline, many events have occurred that defy common sense.
Perhaps the key to seeing the truth lies in being unreasonable.
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