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Or is it……
At this moment, Carly suddenly remembered the brief noise coming from the communicator just now. She hadn't thought about it before, but now that she had calmed down, she felt more and more that something was wrong.
The communication equipment they used this time was military standard. From a hardware perspective, there would be no such strange noise, unless the signal was subject to some special interference or hijacking...
"Whoosh!"
Just as Carly realized this, she heard slight noises behind her and suddenly felt a chill.
Her heart tightened and her body reacted before her brain. Carly dodged sideways almost instinctively, looking behind her.
Almost at the same time, a dagger passed by her cheek, cutting off a few strands of hair by her ear.
After dodging, Carly quickly stepped back and tried to create some distance, but the figure holding the dagger had anticipated her movement, approached her, continued to stick close to her, and swung the dagger at her again.
A silent battle quickly unfolded on this empty street. The two figures were very close to each other. Carly, who was unarmed, was completely at a disadvantage in front of the figure holding a dagger and was forced to retreat continuously.
After just a few exchanges, Carly gradually realized that the opponent's target was very clear, and it was coming towards her.
The figure moved very lightly, and even deliberately used cold weapons instead of hot weapons, just in order not to attract the action team on guard around them by the gunfire.
But Carly couldn't figure out where the other party had been hiding before. How could he know the locations of the action teams she had deployed around him, avoid them quietly, and find her location accurately?
"Well!"
There was no time to think about all this. With her back against the wall, Carly, who had been forced into a corner, fought hard. Despite being stabbed on the wrist, she grabbed the wrist of the figure holding the dagger with both hands and twisted it hard, trying to remove the dagger from the figure's hand.
There was no strong resistance as expected. As she twisted her body, the figure easily let go of his hand and let the dagger in his hand fall to the ground.
Then, in the moment when Carly was stunned, the figure's other hand grabbed the falling dagger and swung it upwards quickly.
The figure's sudden change of tactics caught Carly off guard. In a flash, with her adrenaline rushing, she quickly reached out and grabbed the wrist of the figure's hand that was swinging towards her from a tricky angle.
But at the same time, the figure's other hand broke free from her original restraints in an instant, pulled out another dagger from his waist, and swung it directly at her neck.
"Ala?"
Blood continued to drip onto the ground along the blade of the dagger. Looking at this scene, Meishu made a rather surprised expression.
"You are really very patient. Doesn't this hurt?"
At the moment when her dagger was about to cut the throat of the blonde woman in front of her, Carly, in a critical moment, actually grabbed the blade of her dagger with her hand and stopped the blade from cutting her neck.
The situation of the two at this time was that Carly was forced to retreat to the front of the wall by Umejiu's series of attacks. His right hand grabbed her left wrist, and his left hand was across her neck, tightly grasping the dagger in her right hand.
Blood kept dripping from Carly's cut palm. She endured the pain and looked at the plum wine in front of her. It was only at this moment that she finally had the chance to look at the figure in front of her.
She was dressed in black and had a mask covering her face, but from her body shape one could barely tell she was a woman.
"Are you... Umeshu?" Carly asked, her voice trembling a little due to the severe pain in her hand.
"Yes, I am Umeshu."
After easily admitting her identity, Meijiu asked with a smile, "You are the woman who refused to talk to me on the phone before, right?
I thought that the signal source that hadn't moved for a long time must be you, and I guessed right, it seems that I have good luck..."
【Signal source?】
After listening to her words, Carly finally understood how Meishu avoided the people she arranged and found her location accurately.
The noise in the communicator before should be the reaction of their communication signal being hijacked. It was by comparing this that Umeshu determined her location...
"Okay, I'm in a hurry, so I won't say anything useless. I have one last question for you. What do you think about what we talked about before? Are you interested in joining our organization? Seriously~"
"impossible……"
"Okay, bye."
Carly answered without any hesitation, and Umeshu also raised his knee and hit Carly's abdomen hard. Then, taking advantage of the moment when she let go in pain, he broke free from her hand that was holding his left wrist, swung the dagger, and stabbed her neck hard.
"Bah!"
At this moment, gunshots suddenly rang out behind him.
I don't want to type, I just want to lie down (﹃)
Chapter 489 What is your purpose?
[Something is wrong...]
On the other side of Edo Street, Mary Akai glanced at the clock tower slowly falling down in the distance, then retracted her gaze and recalled everything that had happened this morning with a frown on her face.
Because of the voice and name, she had always believed that the mysterious detective who appeared in the guesthouse was Shirakawa Kiyoshi himself, so she impulsively gave the order to pursue him.
But now that she had calmed down, she quickly realized that there was something unusual about it.
The most obvious point is that, assuming that the mysterious detective is indeed Shirakawa Kiyoshi himself, what is his purpose in appearing at the guest house? What is his motive for deliberately exposing himself in this way?
Even if we equate the two identities of "Baihe Qing" and "Reger", it can only explain the purpose of his appearance in the guesthouse, but cannot explain why he exposed himself.
This is where Mary finds doubtful.
From a hindsight perspective, if Shirakawa Kiyoshi's purpose of appearing at the Guest House was to take Sulli away, then there was no need for him to deliberately stage a scene that exposed his identity.
After all, the violent explosion in the guesthouse would immediately disrupt her original arrangement in the lobby. If Bai Heqing really wanted to take Shirley away, he wouldn't even need to show up deliberately. He could just wait for the explosion to happen and take her away. There was no need to go to such lengths.
This is the first point.
Secondly, before and after the explosion, Shirakawa Kiyoshi escaped from the guesthouse, and then attacked their operatives outside the guesthouse, and has been chased by them all over the streets of Edo until now.
This is very wrong.
If we also equate "Baihe Qing" with "Reger", his top priority should be to take Shirley away. Even if he is worried that they may have other arrangements and needs to arrange someone to restrain them, he should not do it himself.
As the No. 2 of the Black Organization, does he not have a single useful person under his command? He actually needs to act as bait to attract fire?
This didn't make sense, and it didn't fit with the intelligence Mary had that indicated that Regel "gives priority to assigning tasks to his subordinates and rarely takes action personally."
The series of events that happened this morning always gave Mary a feeling that she couldn't believe: that is, Shirakawa Kiyoshi seemed to have known that it was her who appeared here today, and also knew that she was looking for him, so he deliberately showed up in front of her this time to attract her to circle around this Edo street.
That’s right, going around in circles.
Mary's decades-long career as an agent was not easy, although it seems that it is their people who are constantly hunting down Bai Heqing.
But she had already noticed from the beginning that the person they were chasing, Shirakawa Kiyoshi, had actually been leading their people to stroll around this Edo street repeatedly.
This Bai Heqing's skills are obviously extraordinary. He can obviously easily shake off the operatives chasing after him.
But every time this happened, he would appear in another direction and attack their operatives, luring them to continue chasing him...
Do you want to keep them confined to this Edo Street?
But what is your purpose in doing this?
After all, Mary could no longer be sure whether the person they were chasing was Bai Heqing. After all, it was no secret that Regler could disguise himself and change his voice.
[I can’t waste any more time…]
The ground beneath her feet was shaking slightly, and the vibration caused by the collapse of the clock tower in the distance even reached her.
Mary suddenly felt a little worried about Shuichi Akai, but quickly shook her head and put this emotion aside for the time being.
"Boom! Boom!"
Gunshots were heard again not far away. It was probably another conflict between the pursuing personnel and the detective who looked like Shirakawa Kiyoshi.
[Now is not the time to think about these things. ]
[No matter whether you are real or fake, no matter what your purpose is, as long as I catch you, I will naturally figure it out. ]
After confirming this, Mary quickly moved and ran towards the direction where the gunshots came from.
"stop!"
"Bah!"
At the same time, Bai Hejing, who had disguised herself as a detective and had been leading the group of men in suits for a walk in the nearby streets for quite some time, once again took advantage of the surrounding environment, hid in the back corner of the house, and shot and killed the two men in suits who were chasing her.
"Ugh……"
With a soft sigh, she looked at the few bullets left in the magazine, turned and ran in another direction.
She had never wanted to complain so much before. Why was the Japanese police so inefficient? She had been walking around here for quite a while, but the police outside hadn't taken any substantive action yet. This was really...
Considering her father's previous identity, she did not say any words that were too harsh.
Thinking of this, Bai Hejing sighed again.
Of course, she was not complaining because she was almost exhausted. On the contrary, she still had plenty of physical strength and energy, so it was no problem for her to walk those men in suits for a while longer.
She was mainly worried about the situation inside the guesthouse.
Although after she left the guesthouse, she asked Vermouth, who was still staying there at the time and disguised as Igarashi Kiyoko's mother, to help look after her two friends, she had not confirmed their safety with her own eyes, which made her feel a little uneasy.
She wanted to finish the mission quickly and go back to see if they were safe...
As Bai Hejing was thinking about it, he stopped.
Because she suddenly realized that the men in suits behind her seemed to have been accidentally thrown away by her.
She had no choice but to stop and wait. If the men in suits couldn't find her for a long time, who knows where they would go. It would be difficult for her to find them then...
This is a street along the river. On the left side of the street is the river, and on the right side are ancient brick and tile houses lined up. At this time, Bai Heqing is standing on the corridor under the eaves of a house, with his back against the wall, quietly looking at the river in front of him, while adjusting his breathing.
"Click."
Time passed by minute by minute, but before she could enjoy this tranquility for too long, Bai Hejing suddenly heard a slight noise coming from above the house behind her.
The noise was like something stepping on the tiles on the roof.
"Click! Click!"
Before she could make a judgement, the sound suddenly became rapid and obvious, and approached her position at a rapid speed.
She immediately realized that the person on the roof was coming towards her, and Bai Hejing, who was under the eaves, quickly stepped back, while raising her gun and pulling the trigger at the roof.
"Bah!"
"Bah!"
Chapter 490 Are you Ajing?
Chapter 490 Are you...Ajing?