Conan Moslin

"Beep beep-"

The driver honked the horn hard, but the car that suddenly stopped in front did not move. The driver felt something was wrong, so he got out of the car to check.

Because the driver's seat of the bus is higher than that of the car, you can't see anything when looking down from above.

When the driver got out of the car and approached, he could vaguely see a round mark on the front windshield through the dark rear glass.

He continued walking forward and looked around from the passenger seat.

The front window near the driver's seat was covered with circular mesh cracks.

There is a hole in the middle of the crack.

Inside the car, a man in the driver's seat had his eyes closed and his chest no longer rose and fell.

There was a bloody hole in his chest, but his foot was firmly on the brake, not moving.

He has a handsome face, with some fine stubble on his chin. Judging from the shape of his closed eyes, he should have a pair of beautiful phoenix eyes.

Or a cat's eye?

The driver took two steps back in fear. There were some tall bushes behind him. He stepped on the steps of the bushes and fell backwards. Then, his consciousness became blurred.

When he stood up and was about to quickly return to the car to call the police and emergency services, the driver's door suddenly opened.

“Ghost—Ghost!!!”

The cry startled a white dove.

……

After the car was turned off, the interior was quiet for a few seconds as Li An had expected, and then an even louder noise broke out.

In these few seconds of silence, Li An finally heard the specific location of the special sound.

Tick-tick-tick - as if it were a death warrant knocking on my heart.

It was inside the package left by the previous person who was standing next to Haruyama Megumi.

Castagna said she is now feeling irritated.

Those people placed the bomb so accurately, right at her feet.

Or just detonate it directly in the illusion?

So fast.

And it’s a one-time solution, she doesn’t even have to go out of her way to close the illusion.

Once they all enter the nightmare, she can defuse the bomb in peace...

Forget it. It’s not good if everyone in the car faints. What if someone can’t bear it?

Moreover, it would be a shame to let Mr. Mikami Teru and Mr. Longzhong come here for nothing.

Li An sighed and dispelled the small-scale illusion. He told Mrs. Haruyama Hui beside him that he seemed to see a familiar car, the one in front, and wanted to take a look.

Mrs. Chunshan was somewhat puzzled by the sudden change in her expression when the car was turned off for a few seconds.

Under the lady's puzzled gaze, Castagna naturally picked up the package that had been placed at her feet, and then got out of the car amid the surprised eyes of a group of people.

Through the gaps between her fingers, Mrs. Chunshan vaguely saw a flickering red light.

……

There were two people standing in front of us. The driver looked terrified, while the other looked confused.

He was a young man, wearing a dark blue jacket, with a gentle look in his dark blue eyes.

The driver discovered that the face of this young man was different from the one he had seen before. Although their outlines were somewhat similar, they were definitely not the same person.

After seeing another person getting off the bus, the man's originally puzzled expression relaxed.

"It's Castagna, what a coincidence, you are also on this gentleman's bus?"

"So it's Mikami, are you going to Ekoda too?"

Mikami Hui shook his head: "A friend invited me to dinner at a restaurant not far from the Mika Bank."

He pointed to a restaurant not far away.

The driver was still in shock. He pointed at Mikami Teru with a shaking finger: "You...you are not..."

Mikami Teru felt a bit of a headache: "Mr. Driver, I have explained to you that my car just suddenly broke down and I have turned on the hazard lights... Why don't you believe me?"

"But...but I clearly saw you being shot..."

Mikami Teru signaled to Castagna with his eyes: Captain, did you do it?

Castagna's eyes wandered for a moment, and he shook his head firmly.

No!

No wonder, Mikami Teru sighed and said to the driver, "I'm very sorry that I almost caused an accident. I wonder if anyone in the car was injured?"

"I... I'll go back and ask..." The driver looked at this living person and finally thought that he might have hallucinations because he had been driving for too long, so he went back to the car to check if anyone was injured.

He turned around and didn't see that Castagna handed the package to Mikami Teru.

"Three more minutes, is that ok?" she asked.

Mikami Teru fixed his eyes on the countdown and nodded.

He found some tools in the trunk and defused the bomb under the pretext of repairing the car.

"The police officer I saved a year ago said he would treat me to a meal, but he caught two sneaky guys on the road. They said they left a bomb on a bus."

"And I heard him say there was a white dove with special eyes standing on the roof of the car. I guessed you were also in the car, so I rushed over."

"After all, you probably don't have the tools to defuse the bomb..."

"I heard from those two people that their target was a woman in dark green clothes and two children. On many buses on this route today, there were people carrying packages containing bombs. If they hadn't boarded the bus, these people would not have pressed the start switch and would have left with the bombs."

"I know - I know there is a bomb. I got the news a long time ago and I don't need you to remind me." Castagna's voice sounded with a smile, and she held a playing card in her hand.

"He and Miss Natalie took those two people to the police station to report the case. After what happened today, they may have to go to the hospital for a checkup. He is clearly not fully recovered yet, but he still tried to be brave enough to capture him..."

Although Mikami Teru complained, his hands moved very skillfully.

After the bomb was defuse, he suddenly realized what Li An had just said.

A playing card was handed to Mikami Teru.

There are some uneven information on the playing cards, which were pecked out by citron.

He looked at the raised marks and deciphered the information in a special code.

[They activate the bomb, and the countdown starts in ten minutes.]

"You knew there was a bomb???"

……

At London Airport, a young detective in Sherlock Holmes costume was questioning a passing security guard, during which he glanced at his pocket watch again.

就算是现在立刻起飞，他也只能在冬令时下的东京时间1月17日1点00分00秒到达了。

And, apparently, the flight was delayed not because of weather reasons, but because the captain who was supposed to be waiting on the plane was missing.

The young man calculated the time seriously, which seemed obviously a little confusing, and then sighed again in his heart.

"When did the captain disappear?"

"It was about an hour and a half before the plane took off. The maintenance staff would perform pre-flight work about an hour and a half before, and that's when we found out."

"Was he here before?"

"He was spotted by a flight attendant."

"Any other clues?" asked the young detective, "or where did he go today?"

"Let me think... He was basically in the lounge all day today. Oh, and he seemed to have gone to the warehouse once, but someone saw that he had already returned."

"Take me to the warehouse!"