The bustling streets that used to be bustling with people now looked like a scene of doomsday - the shocking fire accompanied by the explosion swallowed up the entire building almost instantly; the broken bricks and walls collapsed,
All those who had no time to flee were buried!
A cordon was slowly raised under the hands of the police officers who arrived in time, instantly separating the two worlds——
People outside were crying and wailing;
The people inside were filled with helplessness and despair.
Under the ruins, the victims are incalculable!
"My child is still in there! My child is still in there, please save her! Please!"
"My wife is inside! Don't stop me!"
"Dad! Mom! Dad!!! Mom!!!"
There were people who had lost their loved ones roaring and trying to attack the cordon, while there were children with dusty faces beside them crying helplessly - the once prosperous commercial buildings were now reduced to ruins, and they were devastated at a glance.
It's been a long time since a tragedy of this magnitude occurred in Tokyo.
When Katsumi Uehara and Miwako Sato arrived at the scene of the explosion, they saw such a scene.
The two people with heavy hearts looked at each other, took a deep breath to calm down the anger surging in their hearts, calmly showed their IDs to the police officers who were protecting the scene, and put on their gloves.
"The Metropolitan Police Department's Criminal Division, Investigation Section 1, Violent Crime Section 3, Police Department Substitute, Miwako Sato."
The old inspector general who had been struggling to support the scene finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the people from the Metropolitan Police Department. He motioned to his colleagues to let the two officers from the Metropolitan Police Department in quickly. This kind of big news was not something they could interfere with.
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"Sato, Uehara, are you responsible for this?"
The fire department officer who had completed the fire extinguishing work and was launching rescue operations was directing his subordinates. He rushed over immediately when he saw two faces he had seen in the Metropolitan Police Department.
"Ida, how is the situation at the scene?" Seeing that an acquaintance was leading the team, Miwako Sato also omitted self-introduction and asked straight to the point.
"It's very bad. Although the fire is extinguished, the places where the walls collapsed are high-risk areas."
"Where are the casualties?"
"So far we have rescued 57 people from the rubble, and 13 people died."
"..."
The cruel and cold data made Miwako Sato unconsciously glance at the emotional crowd outside the cordon. She suddenly felt that her throat was a little dry.
On the side, Katsuki Uehara, whose face had lost the usual smile, knelt down, frowned, reached out and pulled out a menu from the pile of rubble - no, it should be said to be a third of the menu. He shook off the pebbles that fell on it.
After blowing some dust, the first thing that caught my eye was the huge "New Store Opening" font right below the menu.
"Asahiju?" Katsuki Uehara, who muttered the name of the store, raised his head, his eyes fell on the ruins in front of him with firefighters coming in and out, and he carefully looked at every inch of scorched earth.
After finishing the conversation, Miwako Sato walked around and stood still. She put her hands on her hips and pressed her tongue across her dry lips. She turned her head and looked at more and more people outside the cordon behind her. She frowned and said, "How is it? Yes, yes."
Did you find anything?"
"Obviously this is a new store that has just opened less than a month ago. The main specialties are bullfrog meat and snake meat." Uehara Katsumi raised a third of the menu in his hand, stood up and handed it to the left
In front of Fujimi Kazuko, his eyes also turned to the group of media reporters outside the cordon who had already taken up their duties: "The boss's work phone number is on the menu."
Miwako Sato took the menu and immediately took out her mobile phone from her suit pocket: "I'll contact him."
The woman's slender thumbs quickly pressed the keys on the keyboard, but what followed was a shutdown sound.
"Did the fire department confirm the cause of the explosion? A natural gas pipeline explosion? Or was it a bomb as we suspected?"
"It's not confirmed yet, but judging from the situation on site, it's hard to say."
Miwako Sato, who had tried five times but failed to get through, put her phone back into her pocket and looked around at the scene where firefighters and police officers were working together to transport the injured to the ambulance. Her tone was a little low: "We are now
I can only pray that this is best just an accident caused by a natural gas pipeline explosion, otherwise..."
A criminal who dares to use bombs and can take care of people's lives - once their previous suspicions are confirmed, the police will face a madman who does things without regard to the consequences.
What’s even more frightening is that the quality of the bombs traded reached military-industrial level.
"Generally speaking, it is difficult for a natural gas pipeline explosion to blow up a building like this." After looking away from the cordon, Katsuki Uehara continued to look at the ruins at his feet.
After the firefighters, the police officers responsible for cleaning up the rubble were busy running back and forth, their soles squeaking against the gravel.
Perhaps because there were too many people coming and going, some of the rubble blocks and remaining bricks that were meant to be covered were moved out of position. A sudden reflection was clearly captured by Uehara Katsumi, and he subconsciously asked him to walk over.
"I'm going to check on the wounded. I'll leave this to you Uehara."
"Wait a moment Sato."
Lying on the ground, he stretched out his hand and took out the object that caught his attention from the gap. Uehara Katsuki, who glanced down, narrowed his eyes and called to his partner without looking back.
"Um?"
"We...seem to be in big trouble."
A card with a metallic color under the sun was held in the hand of the man who slowly stood up and displayed in front of the woman.
The entire silver card surface was covered with extremely mixed scratches, and it looked like it had been beaten in the collapsed restaurant; and in the center of one side of the card surface, there were four letters clearly engraved -.
——?!
Sato Miwako's eyes suddenly widened in shock: "This is?!"
"Shiratori found out about the serial murderer, and the criminal mark left on the body after the murder." Turning over the metal card in his hand, which had no decoration except letters, Uehara Katsuki's eyes were solemn: "The murderer committed another crime again.
.”
"..."
Miwako Sato reached out to take the card and rubbed the card surface repeatedly, subconsciously biting her lower lip with her teeth: "I'll tell Shiratori to come over."
After saying that, he reached out and took out his mobile phone, looked up Shiratori Rensaburo's number, and pressed the dial button——
"Ring ring ring!"
About three to five seconds later, the two people who didn't wait for anyone to answer the phone suddenly heard the phone ringing from under the ruins.
Although the sound is not loud, it is still obvious.
Miwako Sato, who was holding her cell phone tightly, raised her eyes and glanced at Katsumi Uehara. Then they both looked at the area in the ruins where the ringing sound came from with unbelievable horror.