Chapter 46 Standing at the entrance to the Devil's Abyss
"Of course we..."
White Bird opened his mouth and stopped mid-sentence.
He is not qualified to decide life and death for others. He dares to sacrifice himself, but if he knows that there may not be a good result, who will rush forward with his head on his head.
"Huh, those high-sounding words you said are just a kind of idealism,"
When Hong Shi saw that he stopped answering, he taunted him: "Thankfully you are still the leader of the Criminal Division, and your impulsive mind is not as good as that of a pig."
Shiratiao suppressed his blush and was about to retort when there was a knock on the door.
"Boom!"
Tomoko walked in with a piece of information:
"Sir, this is the relevant information for all the residents in the entire basement. Due to time constraints, there may be errors and omissions in some places."
"It's really fast, but there might still be mistakes? Miss Snail," Sequoia clicked her tongue twice, "I thought you would take it over after all the residents in the basement are dead."
Sequoia flipped through the information and quickly locked his eyes on a woman's name - Chiyo Hasegawa.
The information at the back shows that the woman is 21 years old, works in a nearby restaurant, and recently moved here. The house number is D-020, and a photo of the woman is also attached.
"Why does this name look familiar to me? Come and take a look."
Sequoia waved to Tomoko.
"Hey, this...Hasegawa Chiyo..." Tomoko came over and took a closer look, "Oh, this is the girlfriend of Kawamura Ryuichi who committed suicide because of Satomi's grandma's weird incident. After Ryuichi's death, Chiyo temporarily lived in
It’s here.”
"バカ(idiot)."
Sequoia slapped the table, "Why didn't you get this important information earlier? As an assistant, you don't even have this basic information sensitivity. You are so stupid that you go out on the street to sell rice balls and no one wants them."
To crack the rules, this one is enough!"
Tomoko was completely numb to Hong Shi's curse part, and could only hear her last words in her ears, and asked: "Uh, how do you say this?"
"Wow, not only are you stupid, but you also have a bad memory. Do you have trouble remembering where your car is parked when you get off work every day?
If you think about it carefully, when you introduced the Fujino case before, did you tell me that when Fujino was still alive, he could always sense Chiyo's position no matter how far away it was?"
"Yes... However, it seems that Fujino could only sense the approximate range and direction at that time, and could not determine the specific location of Miss Chiyo... Ah! What do you mean-"
Tomoko quickly understood, "Fujino followed Chiyo's breath to the basement of the Nara apartment?"
No wonder Fujino had to knock on the door at each house. Even if it turned into a weird thing, he still couldn't accurately locate Chiyo, so he turned the original process of searching for Chiyo into the weird rules now.
Tomoko felt terrified in his heart, was this an evolution from reality to grotesqueness? The rules also followed the behavior and habits during his lifetime. When he thought about it carefully, it was really scary.
“Finally, I’m not really stupid enough to be a pig,”
Sequoia snapped his fingers, "I know the way to solve Fujino's weirdness. Since the other residents are just innocent victims and Chiyo is Fujino's real target, then we don't have to take other detours to adjust Chiyo
Go to room D-004...wait!"
As she spoke, she suddenly turned to look at Bai Niao, with the corners of her mouth raised, "Of course, this matter must be approved by the Bai Niao Police Department first."
"Um?"
Baitiao was stunned for a moment.
"It's time to explain the current situation to you——"
Red Shirt tilted his head and looked at White Bird with a playful expression.
"According to our analysis, if Chiyo is moved to room D-004, Fujino's weirdness can be ended 80% of the time.
However, this means that we, the police who maintain social fairness and justice, push innocent citizens directly to the crematorium. It is really not fair to Ms. Chiyo.
If the rooms are not changed, then the tenants before Chiyo will die innocently. But it is very likely that during the time when others continue to die, we can come up with a solution that can solve the weirdness without letting Chiyo die.
Find a way.
What should we do? Should we push Ms. Chiyo into the fire pit, or should we watch the tenants who could have been saved be approached one by one by Mr. Fujino?
The Shiratori Police Department, which firmly pursues fairness and justice and protects the safety of citizens, added, now, I leave the choice to you, you can make this decision."
Although Shiratiao is serious, he is not a fool. He immediately understood the intention of Hong Shi's words——
No matter which choice you make, you can't get the best of both worlds in the end, so let's just leave the conflict to Shiratiao, who was standing on the moral high ground just now. You can enjoy Shiratiao's jokes, and avoid giving others the excuse to cause trouble for the red shirt in the future.
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Let's talk about the matter. What Hong Shi just said has already analyzed the whole matter thoroughly.
How should we choose? Should we be responsible for one person or more residents?
Looking at the fundamentals, if we choose to let Chiyo push into the front room, it is not just a matter of who is responsible.
It was the police, or rather Shiratori, who was now in control of the decision-making process, who personally pushed Chiyo into Fujino's wood crusher. Wasn't this a murderer in a certain sense?
What troubles Shiratiao the most is——
If you choose to let Chiyo not go to the top for the time being, but wait according to the original order of the rooms, during the waiting period, maybe Hong Shiro can think of other solutions, and Chiyo may survive in the end.
Even if this (if there may be other solutions) is just a joke made by Red Shirt to deliberately embarrass White Bird, White Bird must seriously consider it and must not treat it as a joke.
This is really...if Chiyo is destined to be killed by Fujino sooner or later, Shiratori still has enough reasons to persuade Chiyo to sacrifice voluntarily, because it is really a last resort.
And the situation like this now... doesn't allow for careful consideration at all.
Having said that, the red shirt who handed the knife to Shiratori was really a living devil.
Who would have thought that the other party could kick the white bird off the moral high ground with just a multiple-choice question and stand at the entrance to the devil's abyss.
For the white bird, the simplest and most trouble-free way at this moment is to kick the ball back and return the knife to the red shirt.
But in doing so, it is equivalent to the white bird giving up its position, giving up its persistent pursuit of fairness and justice, and hiding like a shrunken turtle.
From now on, Shiratiao no longer has the confidence to stand up and speak in front of Red Shirt, or even in front of all the weird investigators.
Thinking further in the long term, if he becomes a deserter in this fierce battle, Shiratiao will doubt whether he will have the confidence to continue to stand in the ranks of the police force that protects fairness and justice from now on, and go on unswervingly.
Already.
"How about it? You haven't decided yet? But time seems to be very tight - Fujino will go into the basement soon,"
Hong Shi gently tapped the watch on his wrist and looked at the white bird jokingly,
"If Shiratori-san is really having a hard time making a choice, you can give the choice back and let me be the villain. Anyway, we weird investigators who don't care about human life are not bad at this time."
As Hong Shi said, he stood up and walked towards the door.
"etc!"
White Bird stretched out his right arm and held Red Shirt in front of him.
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