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"I think it may not be as simple as not being as persistent as before..."

On the phone, Bai He Rui was silent for a long time, then suddenly asked:

"Jing, you just said that Shirley was raised by her father for the past ten years?"

"Yeah." Bai Hejing nodded.

"So can I understand this way, that this 'sister' whom I have never met actually has an unusual relationship with my father?"

"I'm not completely sure about this." Shirakawa Jing hesitated for a moment and replied, "In the past ten years, I have been in Europe most of the time, and have not spent much time in the United States.

Moreover, in order to reduce the risk of my father's identity being exposed, I generally would not meet my father directly when Shirley was present.

But from what I remember, the relationship between the two of them should be pretty good.”

"Then let's temporarily assume this is true, Jing, I have another thing I want to ask now."

Ignoring Shirakawa Jing's uncertain answer, Shirakawa Rui continued to ask:

"Have you investigated the truth behind Shirley's disappearance?"

"My father had a guess before he came back to Japan, because Shirley suddenly disappeared when she was imprisoned by Gin. So after getting the information at the scene, my father suspected that Shirley might have taken an incomplete 'Silver Bullet', which caused her body to reverse time and eventually escape from the organization.

My father was certain of this after seeing Shirley with his own eyes some time ago."

"Jing, do you think that your father expected Shirley to take that kind of medicine?" Bai He Rui suddenly asked after listening to her explanation.

"what?"

Bai Hejing was stunned for a moment. Before she could say anything else, Bai Herui said on the phone:

"I think I may know exactly what my father is thinking. I know exactly...his real purpose for coming back to Japan this time."

When Bai He Rui said this, his tone was extremely solemn.

Without letting Bai Hejing ask any more questions, he slowly began to explain:

"Just like you said at the beginning, Jing, you have spent most of the past ten years in Europe, and have only returned to the United States a few times. Even if you did go back occasionally, it was probably because of the mission. You have neither seen Shirley nor had the time to carefully understand the changes in your father over the past ten years."

"You mean...change?"

"Yes, change. A long period of time is enough to change anyone, especially for someone like my father who knows exactly when he will die and can clearly feel death approaching him every day. It is easiest for his psychology to change under such pressure.

The reason why I deliberately asked my father what he really thought was to confirm this point. After all, what I knew before was about my father ten years ago or even longer, but I know nothing about him now.

Now it seems that my father has indeed changed a lot in the past ten years, but his changes are completely different from what I imagined at the beginning...

Jing, let me ask you, you just said that in the past ten years, in order to advance the research of the 'Silver Bullet', your father has replaced many scientific researchers. What was the final outcome of these replaced scientific researchers?"

"In order to keep the research data of 'Silver Bullet' confidential to the greatest extent possible, those who have been determined to be useless to the research will eventually be secretly executed." Shirakawa Jing replied truthfully.

Bai Heqing never hesitates in this regard. He would never keep some useless trash for nothing.

Over the past decade, the organization has secretly executed batches of scientific researchers in various research institutes in Europe and the United States.

"Has this situation happened every year in the past ten years?" Bai He Rui continued to ask.

"No, it happened more often in the past..." After a brief recollection, Bai Hejing replied.

Especially five years ago, in several research institutes that Bai Heqing paid special attention to, a group of people were replaced on average every year, and these people who were replaced naturally had no way to survive.

However, this situation is gradually decreasing as time goes by.

Even in the past two or three years, Bai Heqing no longer paid attention to the situation in these research institutes. As for those who were slow to make progress in their research, he only ordered them to be strictly monitored and prohibited from contacting outsiders.

Instead of killing them when they are useless and then replacing them as was done in previous years.

In this regard, Shirakawa Jing has always believed that this was a manifestation of Shirakawa Qing's complete disappointment with these researchers.

In addition, in the past few years, Shirley has fully demonstrated her unique talents. At a very young age, she skipped grades and quickly completed high school and college studies, and began to pursue doctoral degrees in medicine and chemistry at the same time.

Perhaps it was Shirley's talent that made Shirakawa Qing finally choose to place all his hopes on her, and thus gave up torturing those poor and useless scientific researchers.

"Jing, your judgment is still affected by your past impression of your father."

However, after listening to her description, Baihe Rui shook his head slightly.

"What I really want to express is, is there another possibility that my father has gradually accepted his impending death over the past ten years, and thus chose to focus the rest of his life on other people?

For example, my mother, Xiaoying, you and me, and... Shiho Miyano, who he raised for ten years?"

His tone was heavy and helpless.

Chapter 576 This is not impossible

"What I really want to express is, is there another possibility that my father has gradually accepted his impending death over the past ten years, and thus chose to focus the rest of his life on other people?"

On the phone, Bai He Rui's tone was heavy and helpless.

"Xiao Rui, this..."

"It's not impossible."

Just as Shirakawa Jing was about to say something in rebuttal, Shirakawa Rui interrupted her again and said:

“Admittedly, my father’s actions in Europe and the United States in recent years are indeed somewhat confusing.

The time when my father stopped making things difficult for those researchers coincided with the time when Shirley began to show her talent. This coincidence really gave people the impression that my father had placed all his hopes for the "silver bullet" on Shirley and had given up on those researchers.

But, Jing, if this is true, how do you explain your father's extremely calm reaction in your memory after he learned that there was a breakthrough in the research on the "Silver Bullet"?

'Silver Bullet' is not just a nice-looking piece of clothing, or an interesting toy, it is a life-saving medicine that my father has been obsessed with for ten years, even at the cost of committing countless murders for it.

If it were me, after so many years, when my life was about to come to an end, when I finally learned that its research had made progress again and could even be completed soon, I don’t think I would be able to be so calm and not even have any unnecessary reactions. "

Bai Hejing fell silent after hearing this. It's not that she couldn't see the problem here, otherwise she wouldn't have told Bai Herui about it when he asked.

"Of course, this can probably be explained by the father not wanting to behave inappropriately in front of his daughter.

But how do we explain Miyano Akemi's death and her father's actions after her death?"

Baihe Rui continued speaking in a calm tone.

"Jing, because I know very little about the organization and the intelligence agencies of various countries that are hostile to the organization, there are many things I don't know clearly. It's just that from the things you just said, I have some immature guesses.

Although the organization has been trying its best to cover up the existence of the "Silver Bullet" research, I think... the top leaders of various countries should know some relevant information about it, right?

Of course, although the top brass knew about it, the agents they sent undercover into the organization probably didn't know about it. This was not surprising. Things were always like this in the world. How could the masters really tell their servants about their "family affairs"?

This is consistent with some of my previous speculations. According to the intelligence I have collected from various sources, the organization should be a large terrorist organization with influence spanning multiple countries and spread across the globe.

Its power is so strong that I am not sure whether it is appropriate to describe it as an "organization"... In some countries, the organization even dares to directly assassinate government officials who may pose a threat to itself, including many high-ranking officials in various governments.

I have never understood why, for such a black organization that is already extremely threatening, the countries that knew about it did not choose to use military force to the utmost to carry out surgical strikes on it. Instead, they just kept sending agents to infiltrate and confront it in this kind of undercover method that can be said to be a small-scale fight?

This is incredible...

However, if we assume that the top leaders of these countries are aware of the organization's research on the "Silver Bullet" and are therefore checking each other, waiting to "pick the peach" from the organization in the end, then perhaps there is some explanation.

It was precisely based on this point that I suddenly understood my father's series of rather abnormal behaviors after Akemi Miyano's death.

Just as you, Jing, once thought, the murder of Miyano Akemi is absolutely bad news for her father. Her death will inevitably stimulate Shirley, the only important person who can promote the research of the "Silver Bullet", thus affecting the progress of the research.

If his father really still cared about the research on the 'Silver Bullet', he should have told Shirley the truth about Miyano Akemi's death, and then relied on the special relationship between him and Shirley to calm Shirley's emotions and ensure that the research on the 'Silver Bullet' could continue.

Even if they were concerned about the existence of undercover agents in the organization and chose to conceal the information temporarily, they should have informed the organization afterwards.

But my father did not do that. Instead, he made the worst choice for the organization.

He concealed the truth about Miyano Akemi's death from Shirley, and made Shirley mistakenly believe that her sister died at the hands of the organization. Her father, whom she once trusted and promised to save her sister, deceived her on this matter.

From Shirley's perspective, what does this mean?

In a very short period of time, she not only lost her only blood relative, Akemi Miyano, but was also betrayed by her father, a person she trusted so much.

For Shirley, who was only seventeen or eighteen years old, it was a very natural thing for her to have the idea of ​​rebelling against the organization.

It’s not that my father didn’t think of this. On the contrary, he knew it very well.

My father even felt that this might not be enough and wanted to continue adding fuel to the fire.

So, Jing, your father starts to ask you to spread the message within the organization about Shirley's absolute importance to the organization.

Regardless of whether Shirley herself has similar thoughts because of the death of Miyano Akemi, your father still wants you to spread the news that Shirley has become disloyal to the organization and even wants to defect from it.

Of these two things, the former was to expose Shirley's importance to the intelligence agencies of various countries through the undercover agents within the organization, while the latter was the father trying to encourage these intelligence agencies to compete for Shirley.

After all, even if the undercovers don't know, the senior executives behind them will definitely have some guesses in their minds after learning the relevant intelligence:

The research that Shirley is currently conducting is very likely about the dream drug that can reverse time and rejuvenate, and she herself is very likely to have the ability to complete this research.

I think, after realizing this, few people can resist this temptation. After all, from a normal logic point of view, the higher the position one holds, the more he cares about his life. There is nothing strange about this.

Therefore, in order to obtain this rare talent who is currently the only one who can advance the research of the "Silver Bullet", the undercover agents who received the relevant orders are likely to launch a series of actions against Shirley.

And this is exactly what his father wants to see.

Chapter 577 Shirley has an irreplaceable specialness

"Therefore, in order to obtain Shirley, the only rare talent who can currently advance the research of the 'Silver Bullet', the senior officials of various countries who have obtained relevant intelligence are very likely to order their undercover agents lurking within the organization to launch a series of actions against Shirley.

And this is exactly what my father wants to see.”

Finally getting to the core point, Bai He Rui paused and continued:

"In Shirley's case, my father needs these undercover agents to get involved.

Among all the people related to the organization, according to my understanding, I think they can be roughly divided into two camps.

The first is naturally the organization camp, which we can replace with the black side. The people in this camp are all members of the organization with evil roots, and all their actions are in compliance with the orders of the organization.

The second one is another camp formed by the intelligence agencies of various countries. We can replace it with the Red Team. In addition to the top leaders of various countries and their intelligence agencies, this camp also includes elite agents sent by them to go undercover in the organization.

The two camps have been fighting each other for many years under the banner of justice and injustice, but in fact only their respective core personnel and top leaders know that their real purpose is to fight for or protect the miracle that can reverse time, that is, the 'silver bullet'.

Jing, after we unfold the situation based on this premise, we will find that there is a very special person here, that is Shirley.

She has an extremely special and irreplaceable quality, that is, she is the only person in the world who can advance the research on the "Silver Bullet" since the death of the Miyano couple you mentioned.

Let’s make an assumption. If the people from the red camp successfully snatch Shirley from the organization, what do you think will happen?

In fact, there is no need to think too much, because the answer is very simple.

First of all, they will definitely try every possible means to verify whether Shirley can complete the research on the "Silver Bullet".