Chapter 233 The people are gone, but the demon remains.
He stopped? Did he notice you?
[Anti-fraud expert #11: Perhaps what he sensed wasn't me, but rather the spacetime energy within us.]
Yes, anti-fraud agents and fate are always at odds, and getting close and checking might indeed lead to their early detection.
[Anti-fraud expert #148: This is bad, this coward is driving back again! Should we just let him go back like this?]
Morofushi Kagemitsu certainly didn't want Karasuma Renya to leave his carefully laid trap so easily. After a moment's thought, he took out Asakusa Sora's phone and sent a text message to the person whose contact was saved as "BOSS":
Gin has betrayed his cause, and the Public Security Bureau is right beside him!
After sending this message, ignoring the anti-fraud officer's bewildered expression, he took out Gin's phone and sent the same information to the BOSS:
[Scotland is a police mole!]
[Anti-Fraud Guru #205: You've managed to use his suspicious nature. This way, even if he doesn't trust anyone, he won't rashly issue any proactive orders.]
[Anti-fraud expert #148: ...Okay, you really know him. After turning the car around, he parked it on the side of the road.]
Karasuma Renya was perhaps being a bit too cautious. She had doubts about the houses in the villa area, but was also afraid of being betrayed if she went back, so she ended up awkwardly standing on the roadside.
Zhu Fujingguang sighed and shook his head, thinking that he should give him a push, otherwise it would be a waste for him to burn spacetime energy while waiting for her. Some things are better done decisively!
He sent a message to Mr. Jin Quan, indicating that it was time to take action against the Karasuma Group and the Seida Company. Old Deng was bound to react after his hometown was raided.
[Anti-fraud expert #11: Done. It just so happens that many in the negotiation team are closely connected to the Karasuma interest group. We can just separate them and interrogate them on the spot; there's no need to go through the trouble of arresting them one by one.]
I think they should have been aware of this long ago. Sure enough, no matter how clever an accountant is, once they've done it, they can't escape the fate of going to jail.
Here's what you'll do: set a timed text message, and in two minutes, tell Karasuma Renya that the group's accountant 'gave away the real ledger,' in the name of Asakawa Sora.
[Anti-fraud expert #26: This is easy to handle. It's infuriating, isn't it? I'm an expert at that! I'll do it!]
Everyone entrusted this matter to him with peace of mind.
At this moment, Morofushi Kagemitsu didn't forget to ask about the situation in Tottori. The plan he and Zero discussed went beyond just deleting the top-secret project data from the base. Zero also needed to keep an eye on those marked projects that the Public Security Bureau had picked up—specifically, those drug formulas that were already circulating in the market and used to make big money—and they would definitely shift the blame to the organization's members. After all, these were ready-made money-making opportunities, and their allure was far greater than those mysterious projects that had not yet been tested by the market.
The police shouldn't have noticed Zero's actions, right? And Curaçao, I remember she was just in the security room of the experimental base. With her abilities, after learning about the police operation, she should be far away from the danger zone by now.
[Anti-Fraud Guru #198: Don't worry, the experimental base has already been surrounded by the police. Zero, as planned, deleted all the important data that the police had managed to pick up and then directly blamed it on Rum and Binga. As for Curaçao, you know her; she's already handed over to the police.]
[Anti-fraud expert #214: Hey, Rum's text message arrived at that exact moment, saying things like "Curaçao betrayed me!" and "Binga, that good-for-nothing, let them get away, Bourbon is chasing them"... basically, he's gone crazy and his defenses have crumbled. With betrayals playing out one after another, including the infamous example of Curaçao, even if Gin has a solid foundation, he won't be able to resist suspicion.]
[Anti-fraud expert #214: ...Wow, this is way too effective! Now, Karasuma no Otoshi isn't going back either; the car is already heading towards the villa area.]
[Anti-Fraud King No. 66: Now he's stopped pretending and headed straight for the villa area he considers safe. Huh? Why are the fluctuations of fate around him getting more and more intense at this time? Strange…]
Could it be that he needs to break some kind of "seal" to enter this villa?
Morofushi Kagemitsu recalled that a similar situation would occur every time the Anti-Fraud King cleared the way for him, so he thought about it in that direction as well.
[Anti-fraud expert #11: It does sound quite similar, except that the energy is completely intangible and unconscious, like a "concept stock," unlike us who actively remind you of these things. It's probably the experience he's gained over the years by finding many scapegoats to test things out for him.]
[Anti-Fraud Guru #66: ...Ah! Sure enough, there's definitely something wrong with him. I can't detect anything special about him anymore! No wonder we always seem to "lose contact" at crucial moments when we're investigating him all these years, so that's why...]
[Anti-fraud expert #205: It's good to find out where the past mistakes came from, but now we should consider what to do if his location is lost in the villa.]
[Anti-fraud expert #66: Then our previously devised "remote control" plan won't work anymore. We'll probably have to go to the villa area ourselves.]
[Anti-Fraud Guru No. 148: Self-driving is on... By the way, no wonder the police car is a newly modified, latest model; it's very easy to drive.]
[Anti-Fraud King #26: Modified? Could this also be a modification by Matsuda and Hagiwara? This is a police vehicle!]
[Anti-Fraud Guru No. 11: Didn't you notice? When we launched the final operation, our police colleagues on the front lines didn't hold us back at all, and there weren't any incidents of mass disconnections or people being impersonated and scammed, were there?]
[Anti-fraud expert #148: Hey! I was already prepared for several places to be breached, but so far there haven't been any reports of anything going wrong! Do they actually have an internal anti-fraud center?]
[Anti-fraud expert #205: ...That's definitely not the case. Didn't Jing bring back the design blueprints that Matsuda and Hagiwara were working on from the future? With that, and the Public Security Bureau providing them with ample support, they can easily upgrade the equipment of their frontline colleagues.]
[Anti-fraud expert #214: There's also the squad leader; he proposed many methods for the two police departments to cooperate, and he used the case to instruct the two departments of the First Investigation Division to patrol key locations, figuring out how to subdue those restless members of the organization.]
[Anti-Fraud Guru #26: After carefully reviewing the data packets, it seems that's indeed the case...]
[Anti-Fraud Guru #66: Tsk, how come you, someone who lives on Earth, don't understand things as well as I, who lives in the space-time rift... Ah! Oh no! There's something wrong with the energy fluctuations over at the villa!]
As No. 66's voice changed tone, the originally relaxed and cheerful atmosphere suddenly changed, and Morofushi Kagemitsu's gaze also became sharp.
[Anti-Fraud Guru No. 198: The surrounding temperature has started to drop at a steady pace, and judging from the cloud map... why is it foggy?]
[Anti-Fraud Guru #11: The drone malfunctioned as soon as it got close to the fog; looks like we need to imbue it with some of our scent and energy. #148, speed up, we need to get closer to the villa.]
[Anti-Fraud Guru #148: Great! It'll be here soon!]
When No. 148 said "very fast," he really meant very fast.
Not long after, while they were still trying to locate Karasuma Renya, the car had already quietly stopped at a secluded spot near the villa area.
Zhu Fujingguang instructed the nearby police to keep their distance, leaving only a few snipers to scout the situation at any time.
[Anti-fraud expert #66: This position is almost good; we can already see inside the villa... I see the bodies, those people we marked earlier.]
Are there any other survivors in the villa?
[Anti-fraud King No. 205: The corpse's identity matches that of someone close to Karasuma Renya. He's probably the only one still mobile in this villa now, which doesn't surprise me at all.]
[Anti-Fraud Guru #198: We found him. He went to the artificial hill in the garden. Is this... an underground secret room?]
[Anti-Fraud Guru No. 66: This is bad, there's something wrong with the energy fluctuations around him!]
Immediately, No. 66 transmitted a string of code. After the anti-fraud team read it, Morofushi Hiromitsu, who shared the same field of vision with them, immediately noticed something amiss in the blurry image transmitted by the drone.
This Karasuma Renya is too slow-witted.
[Anti-Fraud Guru #198: The drone is following him so closely, why isn't he reacting? And there was no warning from the fluctuations in his body. A scan of his physical characteristics… Ugh! He's a corpse too!]
What? You mean... Karasuma Renya is dead?!
[Anti-fraud expert #11: Calm down. We can't conclude he's dead yet. His state is very similar to your state in the future timeline, the only difference being that the consciousness driving his body isn't proactive.]
[Anti-Fraud King #214: ...Phew, that's true. Analyzing his energy structure more closely, it feels... well, a bit like he's possessed.]
Possessed by an evil spirit?
Does this mean the people have been driven away, but the demons have remained?
Morofushi Kagemitsu thought as he looked at Karasuma Renya, whose eyes were glazed over.
[Anti-fraud expert #66: This "possession" isn't the kind of possession you're thinking of; it's just a more common way of describing it. You can also think of it as a side effect.]
So, it's very likely that he suffered a backlash because he overused the energy of destiny?
Morofushi Kagemitsu shared his speculation.
[Anti-fraud expert #66: This is also a possibility.]
Then it's clear that Karasuma Renya couldn't possibly be unaware of the current situation. The only goal he's trying to achieve, even while operating on pure instinct, is to trace back.
[Anti-fraud expert #205: Let me see... Hmm, it still doesn't work...]
[Anti-fraud expert #26: #205, what code are you modifying?!]
[Anti-Fraud Guru #205: Just checking one last time... Huh? How come I...]
[Anti-fraud expert #198: They were just holding back; luckily, there was the example of #234 before them.]
[Anti-fraud expert #66: ...We'll settle the score with him later! For now, use the drones to block Karasuma Renya; I'm going to destroy this place!]
"Buzzing—"
"drop--!"
Centered on the villa, all electronic devices within a radius of hundreds of miles were compromised.
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