The news that Nagatake Ken Baba and Masami Majima were getting out soon spread like wildfire in the staff cafeteria at noon.
Monday noon is supposed to be the time when social animals are most numb, tired and least energetic, but this news seems to be mixed with a shot of chicken blood, making everyone so excited that they can't stop discussing.
Chen Ziang and Tsukigomi Suzuna, who had returned, sat down at the table with their dinner plates. They heard Suzuna ask:
"So, I heard that the new leader is very ruthless, is that true? Baba and Majima got out together?"
"Actually, there is also Takahashi Junsuke." Chen Ziang nodded and said.
"Wow, good going." Suzuna Tsukimiya curled her lips, "I've been leaving work to you all day long. I saw that the racecourse resented you but I didn't dare to protect you. I was also worried that after you were invited back, I would resent him for not protecting you.
, so he cynically made trouble from behind... I don't like this person, so I might as well leave."
Chen Ziang:…………
"So you also know?" He asked in great shock, "Suzuna, then why didn't you tell me?"
"Well, maybe it's because I'm not a good girl who likes to speak ill of others?" Tsukimiya Suzuna said with a smile.
Chen Ziang took a bite of the steaming fried pork chop and said:
"But the new leader is really powerful. You know, she already has a way to catch Mie Saikawa."
After explaining Xia Qingyu's method, Tsukigomi Suzuna sneered:
"What does this mean? Do you think that no one can figure it out? If you set a trap in a busy city and innocent people are killed or injured, who is responsible for Nishikawa Mie or the designer? To put it bluntly, it means that it is inconvenient for everyone to say, okay, really
How smart do you think you are?"
Chen Ziang:………………
"Suzuna." He asked cautiously, "Do you have any objections to this new leader?"
"No." Suzuna Tsukimiya looked surprised and explained, "I just don't like leaders with too tough styles, such as those who leave without handing over the sealed artifact, or those who tell people to get out when they meet."
"Well, I'm okay." Chen Zi'ang nodded and said, "After all, it is Yongjian Yongjian who got out. The biggest contribution he can make to the Public Security Bureau is to get out."
"Indeed." Tsukimiya Suzuna agreed, "So what is the name of this new leader?"
"Xia Qingyu." Chen Ziang replied.
"I'm sorry, what did you say?" Tsukimiya Suzuna asked with a smile.
Not sure if it was an illusion, but Chen Ziang read an uncontrollable murderous intent from her smile.
"Xia Qingyu."
"Is it the fish from 'Sakana'?"
"No, it's Yu who's 'flaws don't hide her excellence'."
"Yeah." Tsukimiya Suzuna put down the spoon she was drinking from the miso soup, "I take back what I said before."
"What words?"
"'No'." Suzuna Tsukimiya put away her smile, "I hate this name."
"But this is the name of the leader." Chen Ziang said in surprise, "Although she...I won't tell others, I'm just telling you, I think although she is vicious, mean, arrogant, and always puts on a high airs,
But after all, he is our future leader, and... he even helped us drive away the racecourse."
"The racecourse would have left without her having to do anything extra," Tsukimiya Suzuna said coldly.
"How to leave?" Chen Ziang asked in confusion.
"Literally... forget it, let's not talk about it." Tsukimiya Suzuna pushed away the dinner plate and stood up.
"Suzuna, what are you going to do?" Chen Ziang asked in shock.
"Let's meet our new leader." Tsukimiya Suzuna showed a bright fake smile again.
Although it’s nice to look at, it’s... a bit creepy?
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Deep underground, a large information library.
Xia Qingyu is sitting on an office chair, wearing an eye mask and taking a nap.
Piles of paper materials that have been looked through are placed on the desk next to them, like a hill.
Suddenly she pulled down her blindfold and opened her eyes, just in time to see Suzuna Tsukimiya push open the door and come in.
"Is something wrong?" Xia Qingyu asked coldly.
"Yes, I have a question." Tsukimiya Suzuna smiled and asked, "Xia Qingyu, why are you here?"
"Talk like a human being." Xia Qingyu said coldly.
"What I mean is." Tsukimiya Suzuna's smile remained unchanged, "Shouldn't you be carrying out a massacre in the capital of Gods at this time?"
"Who do you think I am?" Xia Qingyu said arrogantly, "Or have you been carried away by those memories that you shouldn't have?"
"What are memories that shouldn't be had?" Tsukimiya Suzuna asked.
"Do you naively think that you have traveled from the future back to the past?" Xia Qingyu sneered and asked, "You should know that any form of time travel will inevitably attract the pursuit of time hounds."
"Of course I know the Time Hound." Tsukimiya Suzuna's smile quickly faded from her face, turning into a deep, terrifying indifference and cruelty, "But even the memories from the parallel universe are still my memories."
"Since I formed memories, they have been part of my consciousness. What reason do I have not to believe them, and what reason do I have... not to hate you?"
"Hate me?" Xia Qingyu showed a disdainful smile, "What have I done to make you hate me so much?"
"Is it because in your memory, I failed to play the role of savior and let you take on that stupid responsibility? Or is it because you think I didn't..."
At this point, Xia Qingyu's voice suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong? Keep talking?" Tsukimiya Suzuna stared at her and said faintly, "Your nails have grown back, doesn't it make you very happy?"
Under her feet, the crawling shadows began to spread in all directions.
These shadows sealed the door, climbed up the bookshelves, and spread unbridled along the walls, as if they were going to completely turn the place into a gloomy ghost.
"I understand." Xia Qingyu stood up from the work chair and commented in a condescending manner with the same cold and arrogant tone, "People who are incompetent always like to vent their anger on those who can make decisions, and blame their failures on those who can make decisions.
Blame it on the mistakes they made.”
"You would actually admit that it was a mistake?" Suzuna Tsukimiya showed a vicious smile, "I thought you would grit your teeth and refuse to repent."
"But...it doesn't matter, Xia Qingyu."
The shadow finally completely sealed the entire room, all light sources disappeared, leaving only deep and sinister darkness.
"Because you are going to die here today."
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In the staff cafeteria, Chen Ziang finished his pork chop rice and looked at Tsukinomiya Suzuna's untouched plate, frowning in surprise.
This girl said she was going to meet the new leader. Why did she stay there for so long? She didn't even eat.
He decided to take a look for clues.
After leaving the canteen and taking the elevator to the intelligence team, Chen Ziang was surprised to find that no one was watching at the front desk.
Well, maybe they all went to have lunch.
Arriving at the door of the large intelligence library, Chen Ziang knocked on the door.
"Is anyone there?"
There was silence behind the door, not even any echo.
"Is there anyone there?" Chen Ziang knocked on the door again to confirm.
After a while, Tsukimiya Suzuna's voice suddenly sounded:
"What's wrong, senior? I'm chatting with the new leader?"
"Oh, it's okay." Chen Zi'ang replied, "I'll come over to check on the situation."
Xia Qingyu's voice came from behind the door again:
"If everything's okay, you can leave."
"Okay." Chen Ziang responded. Just as he turned around, he felt something was wrong.
With Xia Qingyu's character, even if she asked me to leave, she should have said coldly, "Why don't you leave?", "Do you want to be a watchdog?" or "Go away". Why would she say "It's okay" and "You can leave"
These hypothetical polite statements?
With the previous experience of being plotted by Xichuan Meihui in Lingyi Town, Chen Ziang was also a little worried and knocked on the door again and said:
"By the way, I have something to report about the afternoon meeting..."
Before he finished speaking, the door was pushed open, as if someone turned the door handle from behind.
Xia Qingyu was sitting on the work chair with an expressionless face, like a sculpture; Tsukimiya Suzuna was leaning against the wall next to her, her expression seemed a little embarrassed.
"What's the matter?" Xia Qingyu asked coldly.
"You said the afternoon meeting was at two o'clock, but you didn't say which conference room it was in." Chen Ziang said quickly.
"Just make your arrangements." Xia Qingyu said impatiently, "Now, get out of here with Yue Gong and stop disturbing my work!"
"Let's go." Chen Ziang said in his heart that Suzuna had indeed had a conflict with the new leader again, and he quickly winked at her.
Tsukimiya Suzuna seemed a little reluctant, but under the urging of Chen Ziang's eyes, she still left with him.
After the door was closed, Xia Qingyu was silent for a moment before slowly opening her coat.
An abdominal cavity soaked in blood with most of the internal organs destroyed was exposed.
She stretched out the five fingers of her right hand and pressed it on the wide wound in her abdominal cavity. She sucked in air, gritted her teeth, and bent her four fingers down with difficulty, as if she was holding something that didn't exist, and then pulled it out with force.
His intact flat belly was revealed again, as if he had never been injured in any way.