frightfiction Chapter 1062 This version of the past
Chapter 1062 This version of the past
Chapter 1062 This version of the past
"'Pramya' means flame in Russian."
The bearded man, or should he be called Oleg Labrunchev, followed them to the restaurant under Tang Ze's persuasion. After briefly introducing himself, he refused the invitation to go to the Maori Detective Agency immediately.
The man looked even paler and more nervous than before he went to the Metropolitan Police Department. It was obvious that he was not used to being associated with the police and the detectives who had close ties with the police.
Taking advantage of the fact that the translator Karasawa was still there, he left the message to Kogoro Mori, and after re-arranging the meeting time, he left in a hurry.
Tang Ze could see a kind of tension in him that made him unable to relax at all, and he could somewhat understand his feelings.
This is a vengeful man who is walking in an invisible direction. He has targets to avenge, but he also has people he wants to protect even more.
Even though he had let down his guard against Kogoro Mori and others because of Karasawa's words, he would definitely not trust others so easily before investigating and making sure that what Karasawa said was true.
"'Pramya', so the bomber we encountered three years ago was Pramya himself." Matsuda Jinpei sighed, "This is really something I didn't expect."
Funny enough, he had no idea that he had ever faced such a dangerous criminal in person, and then not long after meeting her, he died at the hands of Yoji Domotobashi, who was weaker than Pramia.
And now, Yoji Motohashi has died at the hands of Pramia...
"Fate is such a ridiculous thing. Can this be considered a kind of 'food chain'?" Matsuda Jinpei laughed at himself. "No wonder she spent so much energy to set up this plan."
"So, why did Pramiya target Shibuya? This doesn't make sense." Maori Kogoro looked at the content displayed on the webpage and frowned deeply. "This person rarely travels in Japan, and there is even very little content that can be found on the news website."
"Well, I did find some foreign websites that mentioned a criminal who used special explosives to frequently set off bombings across Europe, causing many casualties..." Mao Lilan flipped through the pages, her expression gradually becoming serious. "The explosives used by this person can cause a fire that is difficult to extinguish. Ordinary firefighting methods are not very effective, so there are very few survivors left..."
This type of chemical burn causes much more damage than simple explosions and fires.
"The flames caused by this kind of explosion sometimes last for a long time, like the fire from hell, destroying the victims and buildings together. Since it mostly appears in Eastern Europe, and the most active place is Russia, the victims are mostly Slavs. This unknown bomber is called by people in fear -"
"'Pramya' means flame in Russian." Tang Ze handed the information compiled by Noah, along with the part from Team Zero, to the others, and comforted Matsuda Jinpei who was in a complicated mood, "Don't look at her, she is Pramya, and you are Prometheus now, you should be one level lower than her."
"What and what..." Even Matsuda Jinpei, who was in a complicated mood, couldn't help but laugh at what Tang Ze said, "Is there such a comparison?"
"Why not? Concept God is just a little bit more awesome." Tang Ze shrugged, "Besides, the problem you just mentioned, maybe Pramiya would kill Motobashi Yoji with the same intention. The policeman she failed to get rid of fell into the hands of another bomber. It's normal for her to want to meet him?"
"Don't make it sound like I'm some bomber's bidding product..." Jinpei Matsuda rolled his eyes.
"Compared to this, I'm more curious about how you two met three years ago." Tang Ze touched his chin and asked what he wanted to know most, "Senior Jingguang should have died earlier than you, right? Then, the man named Oleg should have known you one or two days before you died?"
"That's about right." Matsuda Jinpei lowered his eyes behind his sunglasses, as if he was reading the information in front of him, but his voice couldn't help but become low. "You know, that time is very close to Hagi's death anniversary, so no matter how busy I am, I will make time to go to Sensō-ji Temple to see his tomb..."
"...That sounds very strange." Kenji Hagiwara, who was sitting across the table, lowered the newspaper in his hand with a twitching mouth.
"What's so strange about that? You talk as if I don't have it." Jinpei Matsuda accepted it well.
The two men looked at each other and then looked at the last person present who had a similar experience.
Zhu Fu Jingguang took a few seconds to react and realized what they were waiting for. He blinked and said slowly: "Then I really don't have it. After all, I have a special identity..."
"Yes, that's what I want to ask." Tang Ze snapped his fingers and pointed in the direction of Morobushi Kagemitsu. "Kagemitsu-senpai has a special status, so he can't be buried. Does that mean Mr. Furiya is just an ordinary person? How did Plumia target him? He was there that day? Did you go to visit the grave of Hagi-senpai together?"
Tang Ze still understood that this theater version suddenly turned around to sell the feelings of the dead.
It was precisely because he understood that he felt it was so outrageous.
Huh? An undercover agent who needs to keep both identities secret meets up with a former classmate to visit the grave of a deceased classmate? Is this true?
Tang Ze put himself in the shoes of his past self and imagined what it would be like to do such a thing, and he found it unbelievable.
"…Zero, he was definitely there." Matsuda Jinpei pursed his lips and said, "But of course they didn't go together. How is that possible? We don't know where they went or what they did after leaving the police academy."
It may seem a bit hellish to describe this incident as "only finding out what the missing classmates did after they died", but this is really the situation.
The last thing he, Hagiwara Kenji, and Date Kou knew about these two colleagues was that Morifushi Keimitsu seemed to have been spotted by the public security department and had not been heard from since, while Furuya Rei had even disappeared without a trace.
"Zero and I will go there every year. As long as we have the chance. You know, we didn't have that much freedom in the first year. We didn't have the final say on whether we were in Japan or whether we could go to Tokyo." Zhu Fushi Jingguang took the initiative to explain, "But starting from the second year, we will go there to take a look."
"Just because you never say hello to us?" Matsuda Jinpei glanced over.
"Knowing that you are doing well is the result of our hard work." Zhu Fu Jingguang smiled.
Even though this was a tacit understanding, Zhu Fu Jingguang only participated in the meeting across time and space twice.
"Well, I admit that even if I knew that person was Pramya, I wouldn't think there was anything wrong with it. Maybe I would even think it was a good sign..." Matsuda Jinpei smiled, "'Warming up the hands', isn't it?"
"Not only the identity, but you don't even know whether the other person is a man or a woman, old or young, and what country they are from?" Kogoro Mouri, who had just called Kisaki Eri, had almost wrinkled his brows.
Only then did he begin to understand a little bit why the man was so weird and alert.
If what this neurotic bearded man Oleg said was true, the situation in Shibuya would be very dangerous. This was an absolute emergency.
But if he cannot produce any evidence to prove this matter now, and only makes empty statements, it would be wishful thinking to expect the police to believe his statement and take targeted actions.
"Then why did he want to find Officer Matsuda?" Mao Lilan quickly closed the video on her phone, turned her eyes away from the ominous flames, and asked in confusion, "Does he think that if it were Officer Matsuda, he would believe him and even help him convince the police?"
"Hmm..." Conan was also looking at his mobile phone, but what was displayed on it was not the Pramya they were investigating, but some news pages from the past three years.
He was also keenly aware of the problem with the business card - that special business card theoretically only existed for a limited time, and if the man got hold of it, he would say that Oleg had come into contact with Jinpei Matsuda during this time period.
As Conan was flipping through the pages, his attention was attracted by a news headline and his finger stopped sliding on the screen.
"No, he probably thinks..." Looking at the news, Conan said slowly, "Officer Matsuda had dealt with Pramiya when he met him. He believes that only Officer Matsuda can understand and believe what he is going to do."
As he spoke, he turned his phone around and showed the headlines of the news to the two people.
"There's a gas leak, so the residents are evacuated... Uncle, you were also a policeman, you understand, right?"
"So what happened that day was..." Tang Ze turned his gaze to Matsuda Jinpei.
"I went to Sensoji Temple first. In the morning, uh, I think I caught two robbers with Sato, stopped a bus from going out of control, and saved a person who wanted to commit suicide... I can't remember anything else. Anyway, it was a normal shift." Matsuda Jinpei touched his chin, "In the afternoon, when I took out my phone to send a text message to Hagi, I saw the time and suddenly realized that I should go over there to take a look."
Hagiwara Kenji's eyebrows twitched. He looked at Matsuda Jinpei's calm profile, pursed his lips, and didn't say the rest of the words.
This sounds nonchalant, as if no one was trying to remember it, and only remembered the anniversary halfway through the day, but everyone knows the truth.
Precisely because he cared too much about this matter, the closer the day got, the more Jinpei Matsuda devoted himself to investigating the bombing case. He lost track of time in his busy schedule, and only reacted when he took out his cell phone and saw the date on it.
"It just so happened that I had nothing to do in the afternoon, so I said hello to Sato and got off near Sensō-ji Temple and walked over alone." Matsuda Jinpei took out the last few pages of the file, which was about the gas leak and explosion in an abandoned house, and put them on the table. "Then I met the squad leader there."
Two old classmates, after many twists and turns, are about to work together again in the Investigation Section, and they meet in front of another classmate's grave.
This is certainly a reasonable development, but that kind of complicated mood cannot be summed up in a few words.
"We talked about some things related to the Investigation Division, and then prepared to go back to the Metropolitan Police Department to continue working. As we got into the squad leader's car, he received a radio call for help nearby. A patrol officer said that he received a call for help. A fight broke out in an abandoned building. There were even noises similar to gunshots and screams..." Matsuda Jinpei poked the photo on the file with his fingertips, "We are the nearest police car, so it is our duty to go and provide support."
"Then you met this Oleg and dismantled a bomb in Pramya?" Tangze took out the internal structure diagram of the bomb provided by Furuya Zero and spread it on the table.
All the wires of the bomb in the photo have been cut, and the outlet for the liquid to flow out has been tightly blocked with a piece of chewing gum. It is obvious that it has been defused.
"Yes. I found the bomb. I immediately asked the squad leader to notify the nearby police to evacuate the residents as soon as possible. Then I stayed behind to deal with the bomb..."
"Pramya can use bombs, not just bombs. It's quite risky for you to do this." Hearing this, Zhu Fu Jingguang expressed his disapproval.
"Well, you guessed right, she turned back soon and wanted to shoot directly." Matsuda Jinpei said this and suddenly laughed, "Then Zero suddenly appeared like some kind of, um, guardian spirit or something."
"In fact, he was following you secretly and was worried about you, so he witnessed this scene, right?" Zhu Fu Jingguang guessed reasonably.
"Yes. Oh, come to think of it, Master Jing, you weren't there that day?" At this point, Matsuda Jinpei realized something belatedly and opened his eyes wide in surprise, "That's impossible. When Zero came that day, there were clearly two people..."
Jinpei Matsuda's speech speed gradually slowed down.
Because they had been separated for many years, even after being resurrected, Matsuda Jinpei had not remembered to check the time of Morobushi Kagemitsu's sacrifice and the time of his own death.
Tang Ze, who knew so much about their life experiences and death information, had only been asking himself about Pramya...
"You must have seen Zero, and then, when Zero was chasing Pramya, you heard someone shooting." Zhu Fushimizu looked unsurprised, made a simple judgment, and then met Matsuda Jinpei's gaze, and did not avoid it, "Of course it wasn't me. At that time, I should have been dead."
The death of Zhu Fu Jingguang was a watershed, a watershed in Bourbon's position in the organization.
Among this group of newcomers, after the death of Keimitsu Morobushi, who was the watertight one screened out, the remaining people were naturally assigned to more important positions. In this way, Bourbon had more freedom of action and could understand the situation of the same period without any scruples around the anniversary of Kenji Hagiwara's death.
Jinpei Matsuda adjusted his sunglasses, obviously shocked by the information.
"What? So, who exactly is that sniper—?"
"Puff! Cough cough cough cough--" Realizing what might have happened, Tang Ze couldn't help but choke on his coffee. He started coughing violently while wiping the documents that he had soiled.
What? What did he just hear? Could it be that Akai Shuichi is also involved in this? !