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His ears were filled with a strong tinnitus. After the shot, Bai Heqing vaguely heard the bearded man's screams.
【do you died? 】
As soon as this thought popped up in his mind, Bai Heqing felt as if something suddenly hit his abdomen. He instantly fell to the ground and slid several meters on the floor.
"Fake..."
"Shirakawa!"
Realizing that he seemed to have been kicked away, Bai Heqing seemed to hear the bearded man's curse again, as well as Mary's anxious exclamation.
"Boom! Boom!"
Then there were a few more gunshots, and Bai Heqing felt as if someone was approaching him. He subconsciously wanted to raise the gun, but his hand was suddenly held down by someone, and then the figure helped him up.
"Baihe...what..."
Faintly, Bai Heqing heard Mary's voice again, this time the voice was very close, as if it was right next to him.
[It’s Mary…]
This was the last thought in Baihe Qing's mind before he fell into a coma.
For Mary, the counter-terrorism operation ten years ago was a great success.
Not only was the terrorist leader captured alive, but most of the hostages were also rescued, with only a few dying in the conflict between the action team and the terrorists.
Everything is close to perfect, except Baiheqing.
At the last moment of the operation, Shirakawa Kiyoshi suddenly fainted for some reason and was almost killed by the terrorist leader.
If Mary hadn't noticed the abnormality behind her and knocked down the bearded man in time, Bai Heqing might have been in real trouble.
After that, the unconscious Shirakawa Kiyoshi was also included in the list of injured people and was rushed to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment.
By the time Mary quickly completed the handover with her superior and hurried to the hospital, Bai Heqing had already woken up and had taken the initiative to complete the discharge procedures for himself. There seemed to be nothing abnormal at all.
In response to Mary's question, he just smiled and said that it was an old injury that had recurred, and told her not to worry too much.
At that time, Mary completely believed Shirakawa Kiyoshi's explanation.
Because she saw clearly that before Bai Heqing fell into coma, he had been holding his chest with his hands.
She remembered the time when they first met, when Shirakawa Kiyoshi was almost shot through the heart in Paris...
At that time, she thought that the shot that almost took his life had left some sequelae in Baihe Qing, and she even fell into deep self-blame.
It was precisely because of this emotional interference that Mary subconsciously ignored the fact that Baihe Qing, who was able to kill the sniper without changing his expression after being shot, fainted because of the pain of the sequelae more than ten years later?
Why, when she knocked down the bearded man and tried to help Bai Heqing up, he seemed not to recognize her voice and even raised his gun to aim at her...
These small details were inadvertently ignored by Mary, who was immersed in self-blame and remorse at the time.
Now that I think about it, Bai Heqing's sudden coma was definitely not as simple as the "old injury" he mentioned...
"call……"
On Beika Edo Street, Mary, who had carefully sorted out her memories of ten years ago, stood by the river and breathed a sigh of relief.
Mamiya Shin once speculated that Regel returned to Japan from Europe and the United States because of Shirley, and he also made it clear that during Shirley's time in the organization, she had been secretly leading a very special research.
However, before Mamiya Shin could investigate, Shirley disappeared, and he himself was killed by the organization not long ago.
Shirakawa Kiyoshi's obsession with Shirley, his sudden health problems ten years ago, his hasty second fake death, Shirley's mysterious research...
[Really? You look like you’re only in your early thirties…]
The words she once said to Shirakawa Qing came to her mind again, and Mary suddenly noticed another extremely important person whom she had previously ignored.
Sharon!
She suddenly remembered that not only Bai Heqing, but his wife Sharon... also seemed to look very young?
She had met Sharon when she was in Andrew Kingdom some time ago. Compared with ten years ago, Sharon's appearance had not changed at all? !
These two people's ageless looks...
Missing Shirley...
The mysterious research of the organization...
Physical side effects...
In an instant, a dark line hidden beneath the deep pool gradually connected together in Mary's mind.
She slowly raised her hand to cover her mouth, with disbelief and shock in her eyes.
She finally understood why the organization was so obsessed with the missing Shirley...
She finally knew the secret that had been hidden by the organization...
【How can this be……】
She couldn't believe the madness of the organization and was shocked by the answer she came up with.
However, Mary did not have much time to digest this shock.
Because when she guessed the answer, she also guessed the real purpose of Shirakawa Kiyoshi setting up so many tricks in this Edo street.
He was going to find Shirley.
The real Shirley!
Realizing this, Mary quickly took out the communicator on her body.
[I hope it’s not too late…]
At the same time, at Dr. Agasa's house in Beika Town on the other side of the city, Shirakawa Kiyoshi raised his hand and rang the doorbell.
Chapter 515 Baihe, I'm Sorry (Key Points)
Ten years ago, San Francisco.
After helping Mary resolve the terrorist attack, Shirakawa Kiyoshi immediately ended his second trip to London and returned to San Francisco as quickly as possible.
He is looking for something.
At this moment, he vaguely realized that his sudden physical accident in London was most likely related to the experiment he participated in a few years ago.
The severe pain that started from the heart spread throughout the body, he could not see, could not hear, had shortness of breath and failed breathing... and he had been feeling an increasing decline in physical strength over the past few years.
He was a person who was extremely good at discovering the truth from clues, and just combining these reactions together was enough for Bai Heqing to come to the conclusion.
Something definitely went wrong with that experiment.
Fortunately, he was not completely ignorant of this. A few years ago, before the fire in the laboratory that killed the Miyano couple, Elena Miyano had sent him an experimental notebook.
He thought that the answer he wanted might be there.
"Where will it be..."
After returning to the Shirakawa family's residence in San Francisco, Shirakawa Qing quickly went to the study on the second floor.
The house was very quiet at this time. Sharon was still on the set and had not returned yet. Xiaoying probably went to the hospital again, and Ajing was probably still sleeping in the room.
Without even disturbing the nannies in the house, Bai Heqing entered the study and dragged out a large wooden box from under the bookshelf.
The surface of the wooden box looked quite clean, as if someone had wiped it frequently. But when Bai Heqing opened it, a musty smell of books immediately hit him. It was obvious that the wooden box had been here for a long time without being opened.
It was filled with a bunch of miscellaneous items.
These were the things he and Sharon had brought from their old house when they moved to San Francisco from Tokyo a few years ago, things they had thought they might still need but that they had never used.
If Bai Heqing remembered correctly, the experimental notebook that Elena sent him was finally placed in this box.
It didn't take him too long to search. After taking out the things on the top of the box one by one, Bai Heqing quickly found the one that was pressed underneath: an old notebook with a thick cover.
The name Elena was written in English on the cover of the notebook. When the notebook was opened, it was obvious that the handwriting inside was from a woman. These mixed Japanese and English handwritings densely filled page after page, and the contents were all related to the experiments a few years ago.
After roughly scanning the previous content, Shirakawa Qing quickly turned to the end of the notes.
The last page of the notebook was also filled with words, but unlike the previous contents, although the last page was written by the same person, the font was very neat, and their owner seemed to have written them in an extremely calm and peaceful state of mind.
This page seems more like it was written by Miyano Elena specifically for Shirakawa Kiyoshi.
And it is indeed the case. This page does not record the results of the experiments as the previous ones did. The first sentence it opens with is:
[Baihe, I'm sorry, please forgive me for deciding to leave first...]
"dad?"
Suddenly, a voice sounded behind Bai Heqing. He turned around and found that Bai Hejing, who was wearing pajamas, was standing at the door of the study, looking at him puzzledly.
Judging from the somewhat messy hair on Shirakawa Jing's head, she probably just got out of bed.
"Ajing? Why did you get up?" Bai Heqing subconsciously closed the notebook, looked at her with a smile and asked.
"I heard from the maid that you came back in a hurry, so I was a little worried..."
Rubbing his dry eyes, Shirakawa Jing was very keenly aware of Shirakawa Qing closing his notebook, but he did not ask any more questions, only asked:
"Did something happen in London? I thought you wouldn't be back for a few days..."
"Well, it just happened that a terrorist organization was carrying out an attack. I helped your Aunt Mary deal with the incident and then came back directly. Don't think too much about it..."
Bai Heqing explained with a smile, but concealed the abnormality in his body when he was in London.
"London?" Bai Hejing blinked when she heard it. "I remember Rum mentioned to me before that he was planning to plan a terrorist attack in London these two days to retaliate against MI6's previous action of inciting high-level cadres to defect..."
"Huh? So this is still a thing?"
On the day when Shirakawa Qing and Sharon went to the beach for vacation, the two of them happened to deal with the traitor who was carrying a large amount of intelligence from the organization and wanted to seek shelter from MI6.
"Well, he originally wanted you to cooperate with him, but when he contacted me, you had already gone to London, so I rejected him on your behalf..."
"This is really..."
Bai Heqing smiled bitterly and shook his head helplessly.
"If I have a chance later, I'll go and apologize to him..."
Just as he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a dull pain in his heart again.
"Well, I'll go back to sleep then."
After a brief chat about this matter, Bai Hejing once again looked at the notebook that Bai Heqing had been pressing on the desk with his hand, but in the end she still didn't ask.