Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 771 Provocation

At 5:3 pm, the Metropolitan Police Department's operator received a call. Originally, the Metropolitan Police Department did not have an operator, and the emergency calls were generally connected to the police stations in each district. Later, in order to deal with major cases that some police stations might not be able to handle, the Metropolitan Police Department also set up operators so that other police stations could transfer the calls. However, the Metropolitan Police Department's emergency line is only for internal use, and ordinary people cannot call in unless it is transferred by a local police station.

The operator pressed a button, adjusted his headset, and asked habitually, "Hello, which police station are you from? I'd like to be connected."

The sound coming from the headset had some interfering noise signals, like a "sha, sha, sha" sound. The operator felt a little strange after hearing it, so he asked again:

"Hello, may I ask who you are?"

"My name is Eriko Asanuma. Today, I'm calling to tell the Metropolitan Police Department something." A female voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Excuse me, which police officer are you calling from?" the operator continued. She still subconsciously treated the call from the other end as a transfer call from a certain police station.

At this moment, the operator suddenly found something wrong. She found that the alarm system could not lock the caller's phone number, and it only showed a virtual phone number.

The operator immediately became a little nervous.

Eriko's voice rang out from the headset on the other side: "Please tell the Metropolitan Police Department. I have planted bombs in five locations, namely the head office buildings of Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, Mizuho Bank, Tokyo Central Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and Shinsei Bank. I now request to have a conversation with the senior management of the Metropolitan Police Department."

Bomb... a bomb?! The operator was stunned. Perhaps she had never experienced such a scene before. Her mind went blank for a few seconds before she reacted. Her heart skipped a beat, and she felt like she was thrown into a basin of ice water. Her voice was trembling:

"Okay, I have already received what you said. Please wait a moment. I will give you feedback immediately."

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"What?! Someone installed bombs in the buildings of five banks at the same time?!" Yokokawa heard the news in his office at the Metropolitan Police Department. He couldn't believe it and jumped up from his chair.

He immediately rushed to the operations meeting room on the lower floor. Because the situation was extremely urgent, the bomber's phone had been immediately taken over by the Metropolitan Police Department, and the Metropolitan Police Department sent a top-notch negotiation expert to replace the original operator. At this time, all the important figures of the Metropolitan Police Department gathered in the operations room.

Yokogawa walked straight into the door. The war room was divided into two rooms. Eriko's phone was connected to another room, and a negotiation expert was currently negotiating with her.

"What's the situation now?" Yokogawa asked.

A police officer replied, "The Superintendent and others are on their way back from a business trip. They are already on the police helicopter, but it will take at least 40 minutes. During this time, the command of the scene is in your hands."

The police officer finished speaking.

All of the people in the operations room immediately looked at Yokokawa. Today was the day when the Metropolitan Police Department's top brass went on a group visit, so only the division heads and the department heads stayed behind. All the top brass above the rank of Superintendent of Police were out. Although the top brass could get back to Tokyo in less than an hour by taking the police helicopter, they were still caught in the gap.

Yokogawa frowned and could only take the lead. He then asked, "What is the criminal's intention? What is her request?" "She is asking to see the senior officials of the Metropolitan Police Department." said the police officer

"Do you know where the bombs are installed?" Yokogawa asked, "Since we already know that the bombs are installed in the head office buildings of the five banks, let's organize the evacuation first."

The police officer shook his head. "There's nothing we can do. It's just after 5pm. Although the bank is closed, it is currently conducting internal light settlements. All doors have been sealed and locked, and bank employees can't get out at all. Moreover, the other party threatened that if she found that anyone in the head office buildings of the five banks was evacuated, she would immediately detonate the bomb!"

The situation was so complicated. Yokogawa felt extremely difficult. This was probably the first time in his life that he knew the location of the bomb but was helpless. The special closed nature of the bank and the special time period for inventory and accounting after the business was over were actually taken advantage of by this criminal! Using the bank's own system, he turned the bank into a huge secret room to imprison hostages.

"Where's the criminal's information?" Yokokawa asked.

"She admitted her identity. She claimed to be Eriko Asanuma. After investigation, she was the former deputy governor of the Tokyo Central Bank. She was fired about ten years ago because of the bank's bad loan incident. We initially determined that she might have been dissatisfied with the bank's decision to fire her and carried out this revengeful behavior."

"Your motives are a bit hasty. You fired me more than a decade ago, and you're seeking revenge now?" Yokokawa said, "Besides, is it possible for a former bank employee to get his hands on explosives?"

However, although Yokokawa raised this issue, he currently has no more reasonable motive than revenge for the bank's decision to fire him.

Yokogawa was somewhat suspicious that this former bank employee named Eriko was just making a simple bomb threat. In fact, there was no bomb in the bank building. After all, Tokyo was under his jurisdiction, and he didn't believe that such a large number of bombs would really flow in.

However, no one dared to bet.

Naturally, Yokokawa didn't dare to gamble.

Suddenly, the negotiation expert in the next room sent a signal, indicating that the situation was urgent and Eriko must meet with senior officials of the Metropolitan Police Department immediately.

Yokogawa had no choice but to go into the next room. He came to the side of the negotiation expert and said into the microphone:

"Hello, I'm Yokogawa, the chief of Section 1 of the Metropolitan Police Department's Security Department."

Eriko's voice came from the other side, "Just the section chief? I've already said that if officials above the level of the Metropolitan Inspector General don't come forward, I will detonate the bomb immediately."

Eriko's words instantly caught everyone in the room off guard.

Just as Yokogawa was about to speak, he suddenly heard a loud noise coming from all around him. "Boom!!!" It was like a bolt of lightning directly struck his ear, and a loud ringing sounded. Yokogawa felt that his whole body was almost out of balance and fell to the ground. As the loud noise was heard, the entire Metropolitan Police Department building began to shake! What's going on? ! The section chief of the security department thought to himself, could it be that the Metropolitan Police Department headquarters was attacked by a bomb? How is this possible? !

Yokogawa immediately rushed out to the corridor. Through a meeting room with windows, he saw a building next to the Metropolitan Police Department on fire. Eriko detonated a bomb in full view of the Metropolitan Police Department. This woman was provoking the elite police of Japan...

(End of this chapter)