Chapter 18

Taking advantage of the night, Amamiya Keisei and Tsushima Shuji quietly left the hotel and went to the address given by Masada Yoshiko.

It was a place located downstream of the river, with an abandoned wooden house there. Amamiya Leisheng looked around and felt that this was most likely the location where he had found the fake son.

Because it was late at night and pitch black all around, they moved very carefully for fear of disturbing anyone. They didn't even choose a particularly bright flashlight. They tiptoed with a knife, cut off some branches of the bushes, and walked into the cabin.

The wooden house had been abandoned for a long time. There were several large holes in the wooden walls bitten by insects. The inside was empty and at first glance, there was no place to hide anything.

"Maybe it's not in the house?" Tsushima Shuji said, "It would be too obvious in the house." This is not called hiding something, right?

This is the address that Masada Yoshiko gave, and she didn't specify where exactly she was hiding. Amamiya sighed and planned to search the area around the house first.

"If we keep looking like this, we won't be able to find it until dawn, right?" Yu Gong sighed. He was fine, but children always need to rest. How could they stay up all night?

"How about we come back during the day?"

Tsushima Shuji thought for a moment and said, "In the daytime, our target will be too obvious."

"Although I'm definitely being targeted, I can't let something be snatched away before I even get a look at what it is."

He was sure that, at least tonight, those people would remain silent until dawn.

Amamiya Raisei: "After you get the things, will you contact your father?"

The boy frowned slightly and said, "...No."

Even though he didn't have the ability and power to deal with these things, Tsushima Shuji was unwilling to give up. He felt that he should at least show his dissatisfaction and resistance. If possible, he even wanted to take the things for himself. Even though he was too weak now, he wanted to try.

If you don't try, then you really can't do anything. Don't forget that Shuji Tsushima is still in his rebellious period.

Then Amamiya Ruisei scanned Tsushima Shuji's expression in the dim light and sighed in his heart.

"Okay, let's keep looking."

They searched the house carefully, searched around the outside of the cabin, and dug in the soil with a knife, but found no trace of the suspected box.

"It can't be in the river, right?" Amemiya looked suspiciously at the river not far from the wooden house.

It's not impossible, but going into the water in this weather... they haven't prepared any equipment for going into the water, so it would be terrible if something went wrong.

Not only Amamiya Keisei was looking at the river, but Tsushima Shuji was also looking at it.

The boy narrowed his eyes with a puzzled look on his face, and actually walked towards the slowly flowing river.

"Hey, Shuji-kun?!" Amamiya Rei hurriedly grabbed him, "Do you want to go in the water? How is this possible?"

Not to mention going into the water late at night, I wouldn’t even dare to go in during the day. If you’re not careful, someone could die!

"I'm just taking a look." Tsushima Shuji knew that he didn't want to die yet, so how could he jump into the river without any preparation? "If he's underwater, we can't pull him out, right?"

Amamiya Reizo didn't let go of his hand. He walked closer to the river with a worried look in his eyes, muttering, "You don't want to jump, but what if you slip and fall in?"

Tsushima Shuji sighed deeply, as if he was dealing with a child who was making trouble for no reason, and put his wrist into Amamiya Reishi's hand, saying, "Then hold on to me tightly, so I won't fall."

Amamiya Leisei smiled twice, raised his hand and touched his nose, then tightened his fingers and held the boy's slender wrist: "I understand."

"Let's look around later. If we still can't find it, we'll have to go into the water during the day to look." Tsushima Shuji stood by the river. The splashing water wet the corners of his trousers. His eyes moved around, as if he could see the scene at the bottom of the river through the dark water at night.

"I don't know when this problem can be solved." Amamiya was depressed, "I originally wanted to take you out to relax, but ended up getting involved in even more troubles..."

It seemed that as soon as he came to Tsushima Shuji, the boy's life began to go wrong.

"Sir, don't blame yourself. Like I said before, even if you didn't bring me here, my father would have let me come here sooner or later. It's just a matter of time." It's better to say that he is old enough and trouble will come naturally.

Tsushima Shuji half-closed his eyes and forced a smile: "Let's stop here tonight, shall we go back first?"

Amamiya Reizo: “Okay.”

Just as Tsushima Shuji was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye.

His movements froze, his head tilted, his gaze fixed on the water in front of him. It was as if the slowly flowing water had stopped in his eyes at some point, still and dark, as if it was going to swallow people up. Where he was staring, dots of light gradually emerged, like a lamp lit in the long dark night, firmly captivating his gaze, tempting and confusing.

"Shuji-kun? What's wrong?"

Hearing the voice of Amamiya Ruisei in his ears, Tsushima Shuji did not reply. He instinctively took a step into the river, wanting to chase that light.

“——Shuji-kun!”

The force of the pulling on his hands made him stumble backwards and fall to the ground. Tsushima Shuji was gasping for breath and felt dizzy.

The stopped river began to flow again, and the sound of water along with Amemiya Reisei's screams burst into his ears, shaking his head. Tsushima Shuji looked into the river again in a daze, but could see nothing.

"What's wrong with you? You scared me to death!" Yu Gong Leisheng grabbed the boy tightly, his fingers were so tense that they turned white, "Did you want to jump into the river just now?"

It took Tsushima Shuji a long time to regain his lost voice. He spoke hoarsely: "...I don't know, I seem to have seen something."

Amamiya Raisei looked in the direction the boy was looking, but saw nothing: "What?"

Tsushima Shuji shook his head in confusion: "I don't know, sir, let's go back first."

He felt a little nervous. He had lived in the world of ordinary people for ten years and had only known about the existence of superpowers for a short time. But even so, he could guess that the thing that so many people were fighting for must be related to superpowers and must be very important. So, the reason he was attracted to jump into the river might also be the characteristic of this thing.

But besides feeling nervous, Tsushima Shuji was also a little excited.

This is an area he has never touched before. It is so fresh and vast to him. If he can get this thing, does it mean that he has taken the first step to break the current shackles?

…

Amamiya Keisei brought Tsushima Shuji, who was obviously in a bad condition, back to the hotel.

Because he was worried about the child's condition, he watched the boy fall asleep before returning to his room. However, he buried himself in the quilt and could not fall asleep.

He was thinking about the Tsushima family, Hisako, the forces hidden behind them, and all kinds of things he didn't know. He made random guesses in his mind, and also thought about what Tsushima Shuji had seen. His mind was in a mess, and he thought about this and that.

In the end, I couldn't figure out anything.

Yu Gong sighed, sat up again, walked to the small courtyard attached to the room, sat down, propped up his head and stared at the sky in a daze.

At this moment, the system popped up: [Host, I'm back! ]

[Ah, it’s the system…] Amamiya said listlessly, [What about the thing I asked you to do?] He had asked the system to carefully check whether the identity of this vest was correct.

[This, this ah——] The system immediately began to hesitate, even trying to pretend that its chip was not repaired, and its speech was stuttering, [About this question...]

Amamiya Ruisei had a very bad feeling: [So, it really exists?]

Oh no, he couldn't really be someone sent by the head of the Tsushima family, could he? That would be terrible! The children would cry to death!

[Yes, there is... but it has nothing to do with the head of the Tsushima family! Host, please rest assured!] The system explained in a panic, [Uh, host, you are, you have a different identity.]

Is there any other identity?

Amemiya was shocked.

So among the several forces behind Tsushima Shuji's incident, he is still one of them? Can the system be a little less reliable? !

Amamiya Rei was silent: [So, what is my identity?]

The system spoke weakly: [It seems, it seems to be related to the Special Powers Division...]

Special Forces Division.

Amemiya Rei suddenly had a headache. He didn't know much about the situation in the Special Powers Division. The person he had the most contact with was Sakaguchi Ango, but he roughly knew some of the situation.

The government agency, the Special Power Agency, was established not long ago. In the era he lives in now, it may have been less than ten years old. Its power in all senses is weak. The identity of Amamiya Tadashi being sent to participate in this incident should be an attempt by the Special Power Agency to gain power.

[System,] Amamiya Reizo's tone was heavy, with a hint of disappointment, [I can understand your weakness, so when you are creating an avatar with insufficient energy, you will refer to my original body's situation.] He himself can be considered as a member of the Special Powers Division.

[But I want to make a deal with you. When I have enough energy for the next mission, please don’t give me these weird identities, okay?]

[Ooo ...

[But the identity of the vest is not unchangeable, as long as there is enough energy...]

Amemiya Ruisei: ...It's the same as not saying anything.

Now they are all poor.

The system continued: [I have detected the energy of the pillar of the world in the host - different from the target Tsushima Shuji, has the host just come into contact with anything? If I can get it, I can modify it immediately!]

[What can I access...?]

Huh? Amamiya Reizo was stunned for a moment, remembering that just now at the riverside, Tsushima Shuji's reaction was very strange.

He couldn't see what was in the river, but if the thing that Masada Yoshiko was talking about was also the pillar of the world, it should be normal for Tsushima Shuji, who had the same status as him, to resonate with it, right?