「2.12

I killed Mr. Fukuzawa.

He was infected, and Ranbu-sama killed him."

Awashima narrowed his eyes. Did the "think tank" of the Ark Base have such an experience?

He had never heard of this "Fukuzawa Yoshikichi".

Judging from the diary, Edogawa Ranpo seemed to like this "Fukuzawa Yokichi" quite a lot?

Awashima flipped through the book again and found some other things written in it. When he came across a familiar name, he stopped again.

「4.19

Today it's Dazai and Mr. Mori's turn to go out on a field trip, and Dazai isn't a special person...ah, it's because of that.

Dazai came back alone and told me: Mr. Mori died.

Awashima stroked his chin.

He has an impression of this incident.

On April 19th, Dazai Osamu, the leader of mankind, almost fell into an extremely dangerous situation, but a man named "Mori Ogai" saved him.

Speaking of this Mori Ogai, Awashima had heard a lot of rumors about him, such as how he led a team to invincibility, how he had superb medical skills, and how he had a very good character.

He is estimated to be a man with great personal charm.

Such a person sacrificed himself to save the leader of the Ark human survival base...

That makes sense.

In other words, Awashima actually admires this kind of character who sacrifices himself for humanity.

He didn't look through it anymore, left the room and looked somewhere else.

As he watched, he sighed and felt a little sorry for humanity's defeat.

This so-called "Ark" is mankind's beautiful fantasy about the future. There was also a mythical story called "Noah's Ark" in the West before.

In this Ark Base in Yokohama, one can also vaguely see the level of human cultural development.

This so-called Ark Base can be said to be the final condensation of human culture.

Unfortunately, this final product of human culture is now in a state of disrepair. Whether it is the spider webs on the corners, the layer of dust on the ground, or the smell of time in the air, everything shows——

——The last crystallization of humanity has been discarded.

He sighed and couldn't help feeling a little sad about such an ending.

I walked around Awashima twice and didn't meet anyone.

At this moment, he already had a vague guess in his heart.

——Are all humans... gone?

Even though he had become an infected person similar to a zombie, and had been socially separated from his human identity, he still couldn't help but lament over such an ending.

After all, how many people want to break away from the scope of human beings?

If the power brought by the DV-748 virus was not uncontrollable, he would not be willing to wander outside the Ark base.

Awashima turned around twice more and finally found a door deep in the corridor.

The door was locked and Awashima didn't have the key.

But it was not a big problem. The man stretched out his hand expressionlessly, and a layer of blue light gradually condensed on his fingertips.

When the fingertips touched the door, the blue light grew stronger and finally attached to the entire door.

Two seconds later, the door shattered.

Amid the low temperature and the dust raised by the steam and fragments of water droplets in the air falling to the ground, Awashima walked in.

This is a cold storage, and you need to go down a flight of stairs, about five to ten meters.

Only after you go down can you officially see the entire picture of this cold storage.

But in fact, the layout of the entire cold storage is very simple - or rather, very empty.

Cold storage is supposed to be used to store perishable food, so there should be some shelves and other things inside.

But this cold storage was completely empty. Not only was there no shelves, there was not even any food. The only things in the cold storage were three tables made of ice blocks that came from nowhere in the middle of the cold storage.

As luck would have it, all three tables were full.

What’s even more coincidental is that he knew all three people on the stage.

Ranpo Edogawa, Osamu Dazai, Fyodor.

The way each person died was different. Dazai Osamu and Fyodor both committed suicide, but Edogawa Ranpo was different. He did not have any wounds on his appearance.

Awashima initially estimated that Edogawa Ranpo was probably killed by some kind of psychic power.

Otherwise, most of the world's methods of killing that can leave no apparent wounds will reveal themselves elsewhere.

Dazai Osamu died by hanging, while Fyodor was killed with a dagger.

Since no one has done any follow-up work for him, the entire cold storage still looks a bit messy.

Especially on the table where Fyodor was lying, the blood almost dyed the entire table red, and just two meters away from his body, there was a dagger.

Awashima didn't know their plan, so he just stood not far from Fyodor, thinking with his eyes downcast.

He was wondering what kind of thing could kill the last three remaining sparks of humanity.

Is it because... there is no hope?

This conjecture made Awashima feel even more depressed, and he walked forward quietly.

The white-haired man cleaned up the snowy area around Fyodor, picked up the dagger, and when he left, he used his supernatural powers to repair the door and put the dagger into Fyodor's room.

Good night then, little heroes.

——

When Awashima regained consciousness after being distracted for some reason, only one minute had passed.

However, during this minute, Nakahara Chuuya did not launch an attack on him.

Awashima didn't quite understand why people from any world seemed unwilling to take action against him.

In the past... In their world, I was just a walking experimental material in their eyes, so the Ark Monster's instructions were usually to capture him alive if they encountered him.

Of course, I never caught one.

So here, why don't these people kill him?

You know, here, there is not much time for them to slowly study the so-called infected people.

The reason why Nakahara Chuuya did not attack was, firstly, because he suspected that there was some conspiracy that he had not seen, and secondly, because Dazai Osamu hinted him not to move.

There was a stalemate between the two men for a while, and then Awashima waved his hands and said, "It's your fault that you didn't seize this opportunity."

After saying this, he turned around and left.

Just as he took two steps towards Leibo Street, Dazai Osamu suddenly asked, "I heard that only special people can kill infected people. How can you be sure that the virus can kill you too?"