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Chapter 48 Tears

In the evening, an advertisement screen outside Tokyo Station was reported on the No. 14 news, and many people died bizarrely during the day.

Xia Long got off at Tokyo Station, read the report silently for a while, and walked through the crowd and left the station.

"Aaron," he returned to the newspaper and met Hirata who was out, "How is the situation? Did you find anything there in Nagano?"

"Sorry," Xia Long shook his head, "I found nothing in the end."

"That's it, by the way, the policeman who called you had looked for you before and made several calls in a row, and seemed to be very anxious."

"A police officer? I get it."

Xia Long walked into the office and immediately contacted Xun on the phone.

"I heard you have something to come to me..."

"It's okay now, but can you please come here?" A girl who was driving a car and looked at the back seat through the rearview mirror. "Professor Natsume's wife and daughter are coming to Tokyo..."

"What? Shijia was attacked by No. 14?" Xia Long nodded as he listened to the phone, "Okay, I'll go there right away."

Zhu Xingtuan looked at Xia Long curiously after making the phone call: "Along, what is your relationship with that policeman?"

"It's just an ordinary friend," Xia Long put down the phone and said, "Sorry, I'll go back first today."

...

At Chengnan University, Xia Long met Xun at the school gate as soon as he got off the taxi.

"The monster No. 14 that appeared today is different from before. It can fly in the sky like a bee and shoot poison needles to kill people," Yi said as he walked, "In addition, Wudai has appeared in a new green form. In the afternoon, Wudai shot that guy down from the sky."

"How is Shijia now?"

"She's fine."

One brought Xia Long outside the archaeological research room: "They are inside."

Xia Long followed a push door and first saw the Wudai and several others sitting together with Shijia and his daughter.

“Seriously.”

Shi Jia raised his head slightly when he heard this, and when he saw Xia Long beside him, he lowered his head in a dodge.

"Sorry, I just came back from Nagano," Xia Long continued, "I almost got into trouble for you."

"Can you go outside for a while?" Mrs. Natsume hugged her daughter, a trace of sadness flashed in her eyes, and she stood up and looked at Xia Long with a pleading look.

"OK."

Xia Long looked at Shi Jia who was buried in his head, nodded and turned around and left the laboratory.

On the campus of Chengnan University, the research building at night seemed quite quiet, and there were almost no one. Xia Long and his mother and daughter walked out of the building in silence, paused, and took the initiative to speak: "A police officer has told me that he almost encountered danger. Why did he suddenly come to Tokyo?"

"Recently, I had a stone in my husband's drawer, like something unearthed near the ruins," Mrs. Natsume opened a box wrapped in cloth. "Nano said that the investigation of that matter has been transferred here. I thought this thing might be useful for the investigation of Zero, so I brought it here."

Xia Long held the ancient stones with strange patterns, and couldn't tell what was going on.

"Actually, I went to Nagano this time to investigate again. It seems that since that time, No. 0 has no clues," Xia Long put the stone back and said, "Sorry, I have not made any progress."

Mrs. Natsume put away the box, and said silently with a hint of guilt on her face: "We have watched the news on TV these days, and we also know that the masked man is you. Mr. Aaron has been risking his life to fight those weird people..."

"I'm sorry." Shika suddenly choked up and said, "I want to investigate Zero very much."

"Don't say sorry to me, I didn't mind, it's just that you're fine," Xia Long smiled, "Stop crying, go back to Nagano first, believe me, I can definitely find Zero."

...

Newspaper.

A few more weeks passed. After sending Shijia and his daughter to leave Tokyo, there will be basically an unconfirmed life event every two or three days. Xia Long is temporarily handed over to the Five Dynasties to deal with it, and he is trying to collect various information to see if he can find any clues.

Over the past few days, he has also discovered that these weird people have maintained a strange organizational form, and the stronger they appear later. From the Rose Girl Gulangi he met, these guys should have some kind of strength level relationship.

"Aaron," the editor-in-chief looked through the newspaper and the information and said curiously, "What do you think those guys want to do? Every time there is only one monster attacking humans. I heard that someone saw a group of unidentified living organisms that looked like humans often gathered in the same place, but those guys were moved away after being seen, as if they were hiding from people. It was really hard to understand."

"I don't know much, either."

Xia Long remembered the rose girl who was very different from other Gulangi: "Maybe someone is in charge of them."

"Did you mean they have a boss too?"

"Um."

Xia Long looked at the sighting information of an unconfirmed life body, got up and lifted his backpack and said, "Editor-in-Chief, I'll go out to investigate again."

The Metropolitan Police Department, the Search Headquarters is holding a meeting on unidentified living organisms.

"At present, these unconfirmed living organisms have appeared in No. 2o, including police officers, and the number of people sacrificed is increasing. We must find their nests and use our police force to catch them all."

"I am Shibazaki of the Police Dog Training Center," a police officer said at the sign of the search minister. "The police dogs will strongly resist our orders because of fear when the initial reactions of unidentified living organisms. However, after more than a month of patient training, one of the 31 military dogs can distinguish their special breath and can be used to track those guys."

"Officer Sakurai," the minister turned to a young policeman, "you just use the police dog to investigate with him. So far, the most frequently reported Shinagawa, Ota and Meguro districts are searching."

"yes!"

...

In Shinagawa District, Xia Long walked around with his backpack and observed it, and finally found a witness who was said to have seen an unidentified life object.

"Hello, I am a reporter from Xinsheng Newspaper. Can you ask you something?"

After pressing the doorbell and leaving a message, Xia Long waited at the door for a while, a middle-aged man who looked a little nervous opened the door.

After looking behind Xia Long for a while, the middle-aged man immediately let Xia Long into the room: "Come in."

Xia Long followed through the messy living room, and there were many briefings posted on the walls, all of which were reports about unconfirmed life forms, including news about him fighting monsters with his identity as a masked man.

"Do you need something to drink?" the middle-aged man asked, taking a water cup.

"No need," Xia Long stood in front of the briefing for a while, "I came here just to find you to learn more about those monsters. I heard you have seen them before."

"That's right," the middle-aged man swallowed, and said in fear, "Those guys have become humans, wearing strange clothes and strange tattoos. At first I thought it was just a group of gangsters and shouted at them a few words, but then I came to see the news and found out that they were all monsters."

"Didn't they attack you?" Xia Long continued, "Later, do you know where they went?"

"I don't know," the middle-aged man still had a look of fear in his eyes. "I don't dare to go out these days."

Xia Long noticed that the middle-aged man's fingers holding the water cup were trembling faintly, and sighed inwardly, but finally gave up and continued to ask.

"I've been disturbed."

Leaving the witness's house, Xia Long walked to the edge of a tunnel where Gulangi gathered. There was no clue left at the scene, and it seemed that it was just a temporary stronghold.

However, there have been many incidents in Shinagawa District during this period, and those guys are likely to remain in Shinagawa District or around Shinagawa District.

Xia Long passed through the tunnel and stopped on a overpass. After looking around the buildings and streets, he suddenly saw a familiar policeman on the other side following a police dog, as if looking for something.

"It seems that the police officer Sakurai from the Metropolitan Police Department... is he looking for those guys too?"

"Didi!" The phone that Xia Long bought recently suddenly rang. He didn't care about Sakurai and quickly turned on the phone. It was the newspaper's number.

"Along, something happened!" Editor-in-chief Zhu Xingtuan said anxiously, "Where are you now?"

"I'm in Shinagawa District, what's wrong?"

"Those guys are showing up again. In short, you should hurry up to Taitung District! No matter what, you have to bring Hirata back!"

"Senior Hirata?"

Xia Long's expression became tight when he heard this and hurriedly walked away from the overpass.

...

In Taitung District, Xia Long hurried to the beach marina. After searching for it, he finally saw an accident scene blocked by the police.

Zhu Xingtuan didn't make it clear along the way. He barely knew that on the 21st he killed someone in Taitung District, and then went to the port area, with chaotic sirens everywhere.

"Senior Hirata!"

After squeezing away the onlookers, Xia Long noticed Hirata who was kneeling on the shore in the blockade area. He rushed in without regard to the police's obstruction: "Senior Hirata, are you okay?"

After running into the scene, Xia Long gradually slowed down and finally stopped behind Hirata.

Hirata was not seriously injured, but just stood on the guardrail on the shore and cried bitterly, holding a piece of burning paper in his hand, his face squeezed into a ball, and his tears were completely out of control.

"Senior Hirata..."

Xia Long looked at Hirata with his shoulders trembling, opened his mouth and turned his gaze to the busy policemen.

Two human figures were chalked on the ground, and the victim's body seemed to have been removed by the police...

"Mr. Hirata," a policeman walked up to Hirata and looked at the wreckage and persuaded, "I am sorry for your daughter's affairs, but can I hand over this transcript to us? This is a very important evidence."

Only then did Xia Long notice that Hirata was holding part of the transcript in his hand, and there was a girl's name on it.

"Chestnut..." Hirata grabbed the piece of paper and pressed it tightly on his chest, calling his daughter's name in his mouth, choking in pain like heart spills.

"Mr. Hirata," Xia Long sighed and squatted down, "Let's go back first."

After losing his daughter, Hirata looked like he had lost his soul. Compared to when he was working hard, he was completely like a different person. In the end, he fainted directly at the scene.

With the help of the police, Xia Long carried Hirata on his back and silently called a car to return to the newspaper in the port area.

"After his wife passed away a few years ago, she was only such a daughter. Although she had a bad relationship with her daughter, she always worked hard to support her daughter to study," Zhu Xingtuan looked at Hirata who was sleeping and muttering, and said silently, "I know he actually loved his daughter very much. In order to make money, even risked his life to find scoops. Maybe his daughter is everything to him."

Aiko took good care of Hirata and lay down in the vacant lounge and said to the editor: "What should I do now?"

"Let's leave it for now. Don't report on the 21st incident. Wait for two days to wait for Hirata to slow down."

"That's all."

The editor-in-chief and Aiko fell silent at the same time, and the atmosphere in the whole office was a little low. Xia Long looked at the two of them and walked aside to make a phone call.

First, he called Borebore Restaurant to ask about the situation of Wudai. After learning that Wudai had been called out by one, he tried to call him, but it did not make it through, just prompting the other party to be driving.

Nowadays, I am probably very busy, and Xia Long has no choice. This guy from the fifth generation doesn’t even have a phone number. He usually contacts him through the communicator on the motorcycle.

"Editor-in-chief, let me go." Xia Long put down the phone and said, "I'll go to investigate No. 21. At this time, we should have to figure out the situation on No. 21, right?"

"You?" the editor-in-chief shook his head, "What can you do?"

"Boom!" As he was speaking, a series of noises suddenly came from the lounge, followed by the sound of stumbled and pushed the door and ran out.

"Senior Hirata?"

Xia Long looked at the empty lounge and rushed out immediately. When he arrived downstairs, Hirata had already opened the door of the newspaper news car.

"Mr. Hirata!"

Xia Long rushed forward and took Hirata: "Where are you going? The editor-in-chief said that you will stay in the newspaper!"

"I'm fighting with that guy! Let go!" Hirata couldn't get rid of Xia Long, and said with red eyes, "Along, I'm nothing!"

"Mr. Hirata..."

Seeing Hirata's eyes drying, Xia Long couldn't help but relax his hands, but he didn't let Hirata leave. When the car moved, he said softly: "What if he found No. 21? What can you do? It's just a waste of life and will only become a victim in front of that guy."

Hirata seemed to have heard Xia Long's words, but did not continue to move the car after all. He hammered the car window hysterically, then leaned on the steering wheel and sobbed, as if he was sad for his powerlessness.

"Let me do it." Xia Long did not disturb Hirata, who was venting his pain, and silently turned around and left.

...

In the afternoon, Xia Long found another incident scene in the port area, and there were 21 cases in Taitung District. I heard that all the victims were killed by bombing.

Xia Long walked to the shore of the harbor and turned his eyes to the water. Some people who witnessed him said that after killing the person on the 21st, he finally jumped into the water.

"Didi!" The phone rang out on her body and pulled Xia Long back to her thoughts.

"True Xia Long," a contact said, "Is there anything wrong?"

"Nothing," Xia Long paused, and asked, "A police officer, can you tell me about No. 21?"

“No. 21?”

Yikun's words stopped, and after a while, he pondered: "It disappeared after fighting with Wudai once in Arakawa District. Wudai was almost killed by him."

Xia Long said in surprise: "Fifth Dynasties? What's going on?"
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