Chapter One Hundred and Twenty Two: Cast a Wide Net
"Boss, oden for three people."
"Come on!"
There was an oden stall floating on the street. The red curtain was lifted, and the stall owner wearing a white chef's hat greeted his gaze with a smile on his face. But when he saw the three people sitting in for the first time, he suddenly had a look of surprise and uncertainty on his face.
look.
The owner of the oden stall is considered to have seen a lot. A mobile food truck is roaming the streets of Tokyo. What scene has he not seen? The customers who come to eat at his place include drunken office workers, who stumble to help.
Girls, and even groups of bosozoku, but today's scene was truly the first time he had seen it.
Three young men, all dressed in dark clothes and with dark faces, sat in the booth without saying a word. Each of them was black from the ears to the forehead, and there was no white spot on the whole face.
Filled with a strong smell of smoke.
"Is this... your guest getting off work?" the stall owner asked tentatively as he brought three black porcelain plates that fit the occasion and placed them in front of the three of them.
"Yeah." One of the boys, whose dark facial features showed that he was younger, nodded in agreement.
The stall owner was a little confused. He hadn't heard that there was a coal mine here in Shinjuku, but he had heard before that there was a black coal mine under a certain women's college that stunned female college students to dig coal. Could it be that these three escaped from it? But the three of them
There is only one woman in there.
"A bottle of cold beer." The girl with blond hair dyed black coughed twice and said, but in English, the stall owner didn't understand it for a while.
"Two bottles of cold beer." The man on the right spoke and translated in authentic Tokyo accent.
"And a bottle of juice." The younger boy said, with an inexplicable Osaka accent.
"Okay, here we go." Even though he was confused, the stall owner chose to ignore this strange scene and turned around to go backstage to prepare a drink. What scene haven't you seen in Tokyo, a city full of people and people? It's just that now It was three coal mine workers who met up to eat oden and drink cold beer after get off work. It was very reasonable!
"I feel like we are like coal diggers." In front of the stall, Mandy stared at herself reflected in the tea cup, who could tell whether I was a male or female, with a sad face on her face.
"Don't feel it." Okubo Ryoichi calmly took a sip of tea: "The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating suspicious people two blocks away. It's best for us to be treated as coal diggers now."
"I want to kill the entire family of the Unabomber." Lin Nian silently poured the tea on a tissue and wiped his face.
The three of them were silent for a long time, and finally sighed together.
Ten minutes ago, a box-contained time bomb exploded in a building in Kabukicho Ichiban Street. The shock wave shattered the natural gas pipeline and caused a large fire again. The three of them escaped from the fire scene.
Five seconds before the explosion, Mandy wanted to take the box into the corridor and throw it away, but Lin Nian stopped Mandy from this behavior that might bring her own death. Behind them, Ryoichi
Without hesitation, he expanded an area with a diameter of three meters. When the fire filled every corner of the office, the word spirit named "Dustless Land" had been released, and the heat, shock waves, and flames were all released.
Being blocked, the three of them were spared the tragedy of being bombed.
If it was just a simple explosion, of course the three of them would not be in such a mess. The trouble is that the explosion caused a natural gas leak and ignited the entire floor. Most of the buildings above the third floor were folk. At this point, there were many people in the house, so the fire was bound to spread upwards.
Innocent people would be trapped, and the three of them had to temporarily become firefighters, constantly rescuing people from the fire. This coal kiln face was created while rescuing people.
"I thought the danger level in Tokyo in the Conan movie was just an exaggeration, but I didn't expect it to be true." Mandy straightened out her beautiful blond hair that had been permed into girly curls and was about to cry without tears.
"Normally, the tasks we deal with usually don't involve gun battles or... explosions." The more Ryoichi said, the more pale his explanation became. He seemed to have been slapped in the face more than once today.
"There's also a bottle of wine to hit on the head." Mandy picked up any bottle she didn't like.
"I really want to say it was an accident, but the current situation seems to be that I was wrong." Liang Yi took a breath.
"I don't mean to question our family's prestige. I just want to know who the hell sent the bomb. Does your senior have any clue?" Lin Nian took out a few more tissues and handed them to Mandy and asked Xiang Liangyi.
"The situation was critical and I didn't have time to think too much. When I was rescuing people from the fire, I sorted out my thoughts and roughly understood what kind of situation we were in now." Ryoichi rinsed his mouth with tea and took a skewer from the soup pot.
He stuffed the meatballs into his mouth and chewed them expressionlessly.
"Do you know the murderer's background?" Lin Nian asked.
"Absolutely." Liang Yi swallowed the meatball and picked up another meat skewer. It seemed that the fire scene had consumed a lot of money: "But if my guess is correct, we will probably be in big trouble in the future."
He paused for a long time after saying this. Both Mandy and Lin Nian felt the solemnity within a few seconds and waited for the next chapter. After that, he hammered his chest and let out a sigh of relief: "Swallow it..."
"Cough cough cough..." Mandy choked on her beer and coughed.
"I remember seeing the word spirit 'Pure Land' in a textbook. It's a very high sequence, and it consumes a lot of money. Take it slowly to regain your strength. The Metropolitan Police Department probably won't be able to find us for a while, right?
After all, your family should have received the news about such a big incident." Lin Nian handed Ryoichi the cold bottle of beer that the stall owner had placed on the table.
"To be specific, our law enforcement officers have arrived at the scene around this time. The nature of this kind of explosion is extremely bad. Most of us will think that the case itself is related to the mixed race." Ryoichi opened the beer and took a sip of breath.
"What about the facts?" Lin Nian put a bunch of shrimp dumplings on the plate and dipped it in some yellow mustard: "The gunmen who were in the office before were probably ordinary people. At least until the final interrogation stage, no mixed race was revealed.
Characteristics of the species—except for their unseen team leader.”
"The problem probably lies with the team leader." Liang nodded: "The Qingfang Group can now be determined to be a group of temporary grass-roots teams. They are unorganized and undisciplined. They are selling goods everywhere. They rely on their confidence.
Just enough arms."
As he spoke, Ryoichi took out a crumpled brown paper bag from his arms. From a place where only Lin Nian and Mandy could see it, a black pistol could be seen wrapped inside.
"The MP-443 pistol with a capacity of 17 rounds, AKA Black Crow, is produced in Russia and is now widely used in the equipment of special forces. Nowadays, the common smuggled arms in the underworld are just outdated Russian Makarov pistols.
New ordnance is considered first-class contraband even in Russia, let alone domestic ones. This stuff is simply not something that a new organization can get its hands on." Ryoichi picked up the string and said calmly.
"The magazine is an extended version and is very well made." Mandy took the gun under the table and fiddled with it: "I remember the instructor from the school engineering department in the college said that an extended magazine of this size can only be used if the process is rigorous.
You can only get it from the military factory."
Liang nodded: "The Qingfang group does seem to be just a cover. At first, I thought it was just some fledgling mixed-race people who wanted to play a game of dominating the underworld, but now it seems that the water behind it is deeper than I thought.
Many, standing behind the Qingfang Group is an entire huge organization... In other words, the entire Qingfang Group is just a facade concocted by that organization, and it was used as a trick to deceive the three of us. The Qingfang Group
It doesn’t matter to them whether it’s destroyed or not, as long as they can attract the three of us to deal with it, they’ve achieved their goal.”
"Attracting 'the three of us' to your door? I thought this terrorist attack was aimed at my family... not to mention who dares to target your Sheqi family?" Lin Nian was startled for a moment, and his mouth was filled with fish plates.
It's hard to swallow. Compared with the Dustless Land, the consumption of the instant is not low. He has used the instant to shuttle through the flames to save people in the fire scene more than once before.
"That's what I thought at the beginning. It's not like there's no one in Japan who can compete with us - it's not really a struggle, it's more accurate to say it's a stumbling block." Ryoichi said: "That organization is said to have existed.
It has been more than several decades, but few people within the family know of their existence, and I don’t know why all eight family heads have uniformly concealed the existence of the Fierce Ghosts. Even I only recently visited the upper class of the Inuyama family.
I only found out the relevant information during the meeting.”
"An organization that can cause trouble with our family?" Lin Nian stopped eating oden and realized the seriousness of the problem. Mandy on the side also stuffed her mouth full of kelp with a dazed look on her face.
"The name of this organization is the 'Fierce Ghosts', and more than 70% of its members are dangerous hybrids." Ryoichi said calmly, and the bubbles in the oden pot made a constant gurgling sound.
"The Fierce Ghosts? Never heard of it, brother! 70% of the members are dangerous hybrids. How can this kind of organization exist in Japan for so long?" Maybe it was because she had been under the command of the secret party in Europe for a long time, Mandy was a little unbelievable.
The situation in Japan is actually so serious. The gathering of three or two dangerous hybrids to cause trouble in the headquarters is already considered a high-risk event that seriously endangers the rule of the secret party. There is actually a man who has been entrenched under the nose of the family for decades.
Terrorist organization?!
"I was shocked when I first received the news. I also asked team leader Yilong why our family didn't launch a jihad against the fierce ghosts and completely pay them off. The answer the team leader gave me was that the heads of the Ju family have never made up their minds.
A war will bleed. We are not sure of the true size of the Oni clan, nor can we estimate the extent of the blood loss after the war begins. Once our family suffers heavy losses in the war, and both sides suffer, the entire Japanese underworld will face an unprecedented crisis.
Tens of thousands of people will die on the streets, and the order in Tokyo will most likely return to the chaotic period when ronin was rampant in the Edo period." Ryoichi explained softly.
"Are you sure it was this 'fierce ghost' who attacked us?" Lin Nian confirmed.
"Do you still remember the mask in the box?" Liang Yi whispered: "It is said that the leader of the fierce ghosts, the guy nicknamed 'Wang Jiang', always wears a mask that looks like an evil ghost on his face."
Lin Nian ate the oden in silence and thought for a while before asking: "But I still have the same question. You just said that the Qingfang group was a pretense to trick the three of us into coming... Why 'the three of us'? Even if the person who did it was
What a bunch of fierce ghosts, but as you said, this organization has an endless hostility relationship with this family, can't it be like what you said before, this was all an accident, and it was because we were unlucky to receive this mission that we encountered
Was this explosion an ambush?”
"I understand your concerns. No one wants to be targeted by a group of lunatics... But the word 'fortunately' on that mask already has a very profound meaning, but indeed it may be just a joke and a bad taste. It can
Make fun of any unlucky law enforcement officers who arrive at the scene and see the mask." Yoshihiro said expressionlessly: "I thought all this was an accident at first, because the distribution of internal tasks in our family is completely random, and no one can know what we are doing today.
What kind of mission was it? Unless there was a spy, but this was unlikely... But it wasn't until I saw a map in the Qingfang-gumi's office that I was completely sure that the other party was waiting for the three of us to come.
of."
"map?"
"A map marked with a red marker." Ryoichi said, "That's the detailed layout of Tokyo, with several addresses circled on it."
Lin Nian suddenly raised his head, only to see Ryoichi looking at him and nodding slowly: "Narita Airport, Tamamo-mae Club, Aobo-gumi Office, the Park Hyatt Hotel where you are staying, and Shinjuku are three unfamiliar buildings to me that cannot be called landmarks.
location."
"Four out of the seven locations are related to you. This can hardly be a coincidence. To be precise, this attack is most likely directed at you two headquarters commissioners who are visiting Japan!" Ryoichi said in a deep voice: ".
..I’m afraid someone has been watching you since you got off the plane.”
Lin Nian and Mandy fell silent for a moment, and the oden stall was filled with dead silence.
Ryoichi quietly took a few sips of cold beer before asking: "What do you think? Go back to your home and apply for protection from other law enforcement officers?"
"No, I want to find them and have a good talk. There must be an explanation for why he made me look so black for no reason," Lin Nian said.
Well, let's talk about it.
Ryoichi said nothing, took another sip of beer and looked at Mandy.
"I'm wondering if I can still transport the more than 50 kilograms back to the college alive." Mandy swallowed and said.
Compared to the domineering and arrogant 'S' class, the 'B' class students seemed to have very little ambition. She was so shocked by this statement that she couldn't even eat her food, and she couldn't drink the beer anymore. She felt like a man sitting in front of the booth.
On the back.
Being targeted by a terrorist organization whose members are suspected to be composed of dangerous hybrids? The most terrifying thing in her life is that she was targeted by a stalker in school! She is an otaku who makes fun of people in class and binge-watches dramas after class.
How could He De be treated like this!
"This bomb attack was probably just a 'meeting gift'. If they really wanted to kill us all, the box bomb should have been triggered, not timed. If we arrived late, the same would happen to the office
We will be blown up by bombs, and we will also realize that someone is targeting us." Ryoichi said, thinking as he stared at the oden on the plate.
"In other words, those seven people will all die... They are really arrogant and lawless." Lin Nian also gradually sorted out many doubts in the explosion case and said coldly: "Seven lives are used to give us
Say hello, these 'fierce ghosts' are really generous."
"I'm very confused why the target of the fierce ghosts is you." Liang Yi tapped his finger on the table: "There are so many important people in power in our family, why did they focus on you? Do they want to kill you to provoke our family and
Is it a conflict within the headquarters?”
"Compared with why we are, what the other party is going to do to us next is the most important question, right?" Lin Nian rubbed the handle of the short knife hidden in his sleeve.
"They've already blown up. What else can they do? Another bombing? I've eaten enough." Mandy grimaced, holding a bunch of oden in her left hand and right hand: "Narita Airport is where we get off the plane.
The Tamamo-mae Club is where the head of the Inuyama family received us, and the Aobo-gumi office has been bombed, is there any other place that is circled?"
"Three places I can't name and the Park Hyatt Hotel where you are staying." Ryoichi said.
"Then they won't be so crazy that they even blow up a five-star hotel, right?" Mandy pounded the table angrily: "How much makeup remover do I have to use with this dark face mixed with makeup? If they can use bombs as a greeting gift, they can do it
Blow up all the circled areas!"
Lin Nian and Liang Yi were stunned for a moment, and looked up at each other. They didn't speak for a while, and the atmosphere seemed a little stagnant.
"You just said that it is basically impossible for the tasks assigned by our family to be leaked, right..." Lin Nian asked in a low voice.
"Yes..." Liang Yi's expression was a little abnormal, because he guessed what Lin Nian wanted to say.
"So...how many tasks may we need to handle at the same time in the Shinjuku area tonight?"
"When you're busy, there are probably...three or four things at the same time?"
Mandy was stunned for a moment and turned around to see the strange expressions of the two of them. Her heart skipped a beat, and she understood what they meant: "...You can't tell the truth, can you? My cosmetics, clothes and bags are still in the hotel suitcase.
.”
Lin Nian and Liang Yi stood up suddenly, took out a big bill, slapped it on the table and turned around to leave. Mandy behind them also jumped up with an inhuman scream and followed them.