Chapter 691 The Dead and the Future
[Falling down in the darkness, leaving for his ideals and the things he wanted to protect... This is his ending, and it is also what you had envisioned for yourself.
If you really embark on that path, will everything get better? The embarrassed posture of lingering on is always reminding you, is it better to die resolutely? This problem has troubled you for many years. Even though your mentality has gradually changed, even today, you still have doubts in your mind.
Then, let him answer you. Never be bound by the world, succeed in a seemingly failed way, use a vision different from the ordinary perspective, open up another horizon for the blind, this is the victim, this is the Hanged Man. 】
[Acquired ability: Determination lv1 (crit rate up in all states)]
The blue tarot disappeared in front of him. Tangze looked at Zhufu Jingguang's face and smiled.
Whether Lyon's words are praise or criticism, the content of the comment is exactly what Karasawa thought.
Those who sacrifice their lives for their country, their ideals and beliefs are heroes, and those who bravely go forward and return home in triumph after completing their tasks are also heroes.
So, what about him?
Having lost his comrades, his past, and all the personal abilities he had gained through hard work, when he opened his eyes again, he thought several times about how he could end his life with dignity and not face the consequences. Coming down in embarrassment and waste.
At the beginning, in order to change Tang Ze's mentality, under the advice of a psychiatrist, Tang Ze communicated with many similar workers who had retired, which indeed relieved his mood, and then he could find a direction for the rest of his life and end his remaining life peacefully.
This time, he could finally ask the person who made another choice what he thought.
"I thought that even if you choose to come back, you still need some time, Senior Zhufu." Letting go of Zhufu Jingguang's hand, Tang Ze grabbed the ice pack on the table and continued to apply it on his face. Chatting casually with Zhu Fu Jingguang, "In addition to Mr. Jiang Gu, you have brothers and other people who need to be contacted."
Although he lost his family due to a murder when he was young, Zhu Fu Jingguang still has The two brothers are very affectionate brothers. They spend less time together and more time apart, but their care for each other has never diminished.
It is one thing to know that it is difficult for Zhufu Jingguang to make a choice outside of the Phantom Thieves. It is another to see him make such a quick decision and come back calmly wearing the clothes he asked for when he left. thing.
"I didn't expect that I would come back so soon." Putting the heavy bass box next to the sofa, Zhu Fu Jingguang also sighed, "But everything has changed so much."
"Tokyo, and There was a big difference three years ago?" Tang Ze raised his eyebrows.
"There's not a big difference. If it hadn't been so long, I might have thought that I just had a ridiculous dream and woke up again." Zhufu Jingguang breathed out .
Shibuya's subway station, bustling shopping streets, roads crowded with pedestrians, wires cutting the sky...
Those shops that I can't remember may have changed, but Time still seems to stand still a long time ago.
Because of this, leaving the familiar Rei Fukiya and walking alone on the streets of Tokyo, he couldn't help but feel at a loss.
In the last moment of death, in that moment of flashback thoughts, he imagined many things, such as what it would be like for Zero to see him and confirm his death, and he had no idea about his whereabouts. When and in what form will the ignorant brother learn about his death...
Recalling carefully, he may have regrets and unwillingness at that time, but at that moment, he was So calm and relieved.
However, it was not until he really crossed the boundary between life and death that Zhu Fu Jingguang discovered that death is not an instant annihilation.
It is like a handful of quicksand, taken away by the wind and time. No matter who it is, they can only watch it slowly drain away.
It can't go faster or slower, and the more you try to hold it tight, the faster it leaves.
In other words, this is a silent countdown. Perhaps at the very beginning, the severe pain will make all the past profound, and those close to you will be hurt by the heavy trauma of this loss. Pain lasts forever, but everything has an end.
Once the countdown begins, it will end. Sooner or later, some traces will disappear and be gradually covered by the silent white snow.
“It’s just because there’s not much difference, but I find that nothing is waiting for me, so it’s inevitably a bit sad.” Zhu Fu Jingguang summed it up simply.
Tangze observed his profile, thought for a while, and tentatively suggested: "If you need other help in contacting, such as more stable encrypted communication..."
"No need." Zhu Fu Jingguang declined his kindness, lowered his head, and looked at the many marks left on his hands by using the gun for a long time, "My situation is a bit complicated, and I haven't really returned to normal yet. When it comes to life, you don't have to rush for some things. "
"But, Mr. Fangtani, he seems to have informed your brother in disguise." Tangze thought for a while and scratched his head sheepishly. Scratching face.
It seems that this blame should be placed on him.
Originally, Fangtani Rei gave Zhufu Jingguang’s relic, the bullet-pierced mobile phone in Scotland, to Datehang, asking him to deliver it to Zhufu Gaoming, but Datehang was also there He died in an accidental car accident a year ago, so this phone lay in the locker without anyone knowing for more than a year.
Rei Fukitani originally did not know that Datehang, his only remaining friend from the police academy, was dead. However, Karasawa's surveillance advanced Bourbon's schedule and allowed him to return to Tokyo.
The stunned Jianggu Ling, while feeling sad, had no choice but to take out the relic and secretly handed it over to Zhu Fu Gaoming through public security channels.
Now Zhufu Jingguang, except for his childhood playmates like Yamamura Cao who knew nothing about his life after the age of 9, is a dead person in the hearts of everyone who knows him. Naturally, even his own I can't even find the place where it stood.
The hidden danger of the mole in the police department is still there, and no one can be informed of his resurrection. His relatives also acquiesced in his death, and the organization even turned his ashes away...
After a quick calculation, Zhu Fu Jingguang really had no choice but to return to the Phantom Thieves.
"I know, zero has already told me." Zhufu Jingguang spread his hands, a little helpless, "Now it seems that you are the one doing the investigation of me through my brother's situation, right?"
"Yes." Karasawa, who used trivial illegal means, smiled shyly, "As you know, the police database is very fragile to Noah."
There is Noah's Ark. There are artificial intelligences with extremely strong self-evolution capabilities, and almost any database protection in this world is useless to them.
Because of this, unless Karasawa specifically instructs him, Noah rarely handles traces carefully - anyway, there are traces left, and those with poor skills will not be able to detect them at all, and those with good skills will not be able to find them. Who is it? It is not as sensitive to any changes as the internal network of the organization. There is no need to be cautious.
But it seems that Zhu Fu Gaoming, who is very methodical in doing things, belongs to the group that is not easy to fool. He is very keen to discover the abnormal call traces of the files, so he was frightened by them.
"This is good...it can improve the level of protection for him..." Zhufu Jingguang, who thought of something, also looked away guiltily.
Because after waking up, the provocative letter he sent to Jiang Gu Ling caused Ling's stress reaction to be extremely severe.
If the two of them had recognized each other a little later, Zhu Fu Gaoming would have been transported out of the country.
Of course, being inexplicably taken away like this and then taken back inexplicably like this is probably not good for Zhu Fu Gaoming.
The two looked at each other, cleared their throats, and tacitly ignored this somewhat embarrassing topic.
"So, I am now an official member of the Phantom Thieves? Well, do I need to give myself a codename or something? Or is this codename also given by the group?" Zhufu Jingguang touched his finger. Chin, asked uncertainly.
On the way back, Zhufu Jingguang did some research and understanding about the Phantom Thieves of the Heart, a group that was about to join the team, and was surprised to find that the Phantom Thieves, who had a very organized style of doing things, seemed to have a bit of an external image...
Well, should I say that they are flamboyant or that they are playful? In short, it's not that serious.
I have heard a few code names such as joker and shade that are exposed due to appearing in front of others. Zhu Fu Jingguang, who has had many pseudonyms and nicknames, still can't help but dig his toes into the ground.
It may be just right for high school students, but for someone like him who has graduated from college for several years, is it a bit too high school?
"Well, this, we all started it ourselves. However, what you are talking about now probably does not count." He applied it to the face that had been hammered by Miyano Akemi and others until it was almost back to normal. Normal size, Karasawa stood up and patted Zhu Fu Jingguang's shoulder, "There will be a chance." Their code names do refer to themselves, but in theory, the meaning of the code names is to distinguish them in the form of Kaitou. phase distinction.
Although he didn’t know why there was such a strange taboo, Tangze still copied all the work experience of his predecessors.
Zhu Fu Jingguang, who has not yet awakened the mask, and has not even entered the cognitive world to feel the impact of the world view, has no use in asking for a code name now.
"Oh, oh..." He didn't quite understand what the smile in Tang Ze's words meant, and Zhu Fu Jingguang, who was at a loss, could only nod in agreement.
Well, maybe the Phantom Thieves also have their own considerations. When he saw Karasawa acting as a Phantom Thief, he seemed to be specially dressed up.
...So the Phantom Thieves still have professional stylists? Does this also need to be specially customized?
It’s so weird. Have you joined the Phantom Thieves or some strange artist group...
Zhu Fuking didn’t realize what he was about to see. Guang secretly slandered.
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"Mr. Furitani, are you sure that the identity issue has been properly resolved?" Kazami Yuya confirmed in disbelief and with great difficulty.
He lowered his head and first looked at the plans on his left hand that were full of writing and with many progress notes. Then he looked at the printing paper he just got on his right hand. He felt that the newly baked hot paper was so... of coldness.
He suddenly regretted that he was working more efficiently than before under the pressure of Jianggu Zero.
It’s easy to talk about the emergency transfer of witnesses, and the deployment and allocation of teams. The police, running around and doing a lot of useless work in order to collect information, can also be regarded as normal sunk costs for investigation.
For Tang Ze, it is indeed impossible to withdraw the information received with one click, but it is given to him, and it is not a mistake to prepare your cards in advance.
However, those officers who have notified Shangfeng and even begun to arrange an escape route for Jiangu Ling...
"Absolutely sure." After fighting with Karasawa and Zhufu Jingguang for an hour, Fangtani Rei, who had successfully vented his emotions, calmly picked up his coffee and told the truth, "The other party is already dead."
"Uh..." Kazami Yuya, who was looking through the new action requirements, froze in his movements. He raised his head and carefully looked at Fangtani Rei's expression for a while.
So, the reason why they suddenly and unilaterally terminated the communication and asked them to close the team was because they confirmed that there was only one person on the other side, and Mr. Fukitani simply refused to do anything...
That really meant that communication should not be maintained. Although there were many things that Fangtani Rei, an undercover agent, should have done, it was only human nature that he did not want others to hear.
However, it was just a short meeting to kill someone. Could it be that the other party seriously angered his boss, causing Mr. Furitani, who has always been relatively stable in controlling his emotions, to go into a rage? He mentioned something that was particularly sensitive. topic?
Oh, about another undercover police officer who died, Kazami Yuya seemed to have heard about it. Rei Fukiya, the number one student in their police academy that time, indeed seemed to have a very good relationship with several other classmates.
It seems that the victim is a sensitive topic that cannot be touched casually. No wonder Mr. Feng Gu's mood suddenly dropped. It's not obvious on the surface, but he is actually feeling sad now.
Hey, talking about this matter...
Thinking of that extremely provocative email, thinking of the details that could only be known to a few people, and thinking of Feng Guling who was out of control...
Kazemi Yuya’s eyes widened involuntarily.
Oh my god, could it be Shuichi Akai who sent the email, and the other person has been killed by his irrational boss?
Since he is identified as an FBI agent, will there be any disputes if he does this?
You are right. It is with the blessing of undercover status that Jiang Guling can pull the trigger without any scruples. After all, this is what bourbon should do...
The more he thought about it, the more reasonable he became. Yuya Kazami couldn't help but observe his boss who was calmly staring at the screen as if nothing was happening.
"What are you thinking about?" Fenggu Ling, who was considered very sad and had just killed his enemy, felt a strange disrespect in his subordinate's eyes and frowned, "Why don't you go? Is there anything you don’t know about doing things? ”
"Yes, yes!" After shaking his head, Feng Jian Yuya stood upright, completely forgetting the initial complaints, "Promise to complete the task!"
No matter how you look at your current boss, you feel that It looks quite cruel... I hope Mr. Fangtani, who has already obtained the sacrificial flag, can control his emotions.
How come this guy Feng Jian finally worked overtime and went crazy for no reason? Then remind the administrative side and force him to use his annual leave.
Having not understood the brain circuits of his subordinates, Fangtani Rei shook his head and immersed himself in the information in front of him again, trying to find what he was looking for from the clues.
King is right, Karasawa must know Akai Shuichi. He must discover the connection between them...
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"What's wrong, Xiu?"
Out of the ward, watching Haihara Ai's running figure disappear at the end of the corridor, Judy, who was wearing a hospital gown, turned her head, Just as he was about to say a few words of emotion to Shuichi Akai, he saw the other party pinching the back of his neck hard and frowning.
"It's nothing." Shuichi Akai, who had repeatedly confirmed that there was no foreign object, glanced at the air conditioning vent above his head suspiciously.
Okay, maybe the wind blows too cold in order to maintain a constant temperature in the ward.
Taking a step away from the wind, Shuichi Akai, who was dressed as Souhisa Iwai, confirmed in a low voice: "James only knows Shiho's identity, but he doesn't know Karasawa's situation, right?"
In the FBI's field of vision, The plan to assist Karasawa was successful with the help of a new informant. In exchange, their protection plan candidate was changed from Karasawa himself to the informant's relatives.
Karasawa's secret and Kumel's secret are still only known to a few people in their group.
"Yes. Moreover, Miss Shiho not only rejected the witness protection plan he proposed, but her words were also very sharp, leaving no room for error. I think they will not take her idea for the time being." Zhu Ti recalled the cold yet sharp gaze of that little girl, and finally felt a little bit from this quiet and cute child that she had indeed grown up in the organization.
"The organization is a visible tomb, and you are an invisible cage. Just because I want to escape the fate of destruction does not mean that I am willing to accept invisible shackles. Please come back, we have nothing to talk about."
The decisive words were still in her ears, and Judy sighed softly.
Even if she herself is a successful case, Judy cannot deny that this is not only due to her own active efforts, but also because her father is a high-level FBI agent. A gaze that could see the essence directly, she really couldn't say any gentle words.
Akai Shuichi got the answer from Judy's hesitant expression, but he just shook his head indifferently: "It doesn't matter, they will give up."
"Is there any new news?" Judging from Akai Shuichi's determined expression, Judy understood what he meant and couldn't help but ask.
"Yes. Belmod's transfer route is too complicated. Her purpose is not to escape completely. She may return to Japan again soon. James and the others may not have time to worry about the children's problems."< br>
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“Hello? This is——”
“Of course I know who you are.” Before he could finish his opening remarks, the person on the other side of the phone quietly interrupted Tang Ze Then, he said in a resentful tone, "I said, have you forgotten something? I have worked hard for so long, but you just pretended to be someone else and didn't tell me. In the end, I had to disguise myself to get it." Prize? ”
(End of this chapter)