It's none of my business. I'm just a lunch box seller.

The Shinsengumi member who was driving and talking on the phone was naturally judged to be fully responsible, and Kagura was naturally sent to the hospital by ambulance.

After Kagura was admitted to the hospital, she found that many people who knew her would bring some fruits or snacks when they came to visit her. And as long as she continued to pretend to be sick, she would not be forced to do housework by Gin-san as usual. Soon, Kagura began to enjoy the feeling of pretending to be sick.

But...

Kagura, who was not seriously injured, did not vomit all the food in her stomach during the car accident. It can even be said that the amount she vomited was less than 1/5 of what she ate. Glutinous rice and rhubarb rice are both very difficult to digest, and Kagura kept eating snacks and fruits while in the hospital.

The food that had already accumulated in the stomach due to indigestion was mixed with various sugars. As a result, not only did the food accumulate more and more in the stomach, but it also began to ferment in the stomach over time.

When Kagura's stomach swelled to a certain extent, her brain had to issue an order to the stomach to "empty immediately". Then Kagura suddenly "sat up in shock from her dying illness" and vomited dozens of liters of food accumulated in her stomach in front of more than a dozen people present.

Among these dozen people is Kagura's best friend. And this best friend's other identity is the younger sister of the Shogun of the Edo Shogunate - Princess Sumiya.

Although Kagura recovered her health after emptying her stomach, she was completely dead in front of her friends and besties. So Kagura had to continue pretending to be sick, and when the atmosphere gradually became so tense that she had to die, she tilted her neck and began her own wonderful adventure of pretending to be dead.

He was just pretending to be dead, but suddenly "resurrected" in the end, apologized to everyone, and finally took on the housework for the next year, asking Gin and Shinpachi to help smooth things over, and this matter could be fooled.

But the true feelings between girls cannot be compared with the plastic friendship after growing up. So Princess Chengye waved her hand and decided to hold a grand state funeral for Kagura.

That's right!

State funeral!

A state funeral with a nationwide live broadcast of the body farewell ceremony.

Kagura knew that if she continued to pretend, she would be cremated alive. After all, this was Edo, not Florida. She didn't want to be burned to ashes to fit in with the atmosphere of a funeral, and she didn't want to post a selfie on WeChat Moments before she was burned to ashes to prove that she was just pretending to be dead.

Kagura decided to stand up straight and rebel against the ridiculous life and the ridiculous world. So when she jumped out of the coffin that was about to be pushed into the crematorium...

Kagura, Shinpachi and Gintoki were almost forced into the crematorium by others.

If it weren't for the wealthy Gintoki's promise to return the gift money and compensate for all losses caused by the state funeral, I'm afraid the three of them would have really fallen into the trap!

But even though they paid the money, the three of them were thrown into jail by the Chief of the National Police Agency, Katakuri Tora Matsudaira, and were locked up for three months!

"In other words, the reason why you disappeared for more than three months is because..." Boss Cheng pointed at the grown-up Kagura, "because she pretended to be dead back then?"

Xinbaji and Zhenbao nodded with regret.

"And then what?" the boss asked again.

"Then, not long after we were released from prison, around the end of April, Gin-san suddenly disappeared. A month later, the White Curse suddenly broke out in Edo."

"White curse?"

0356 Disappearance case caused by pooping

White Curse, the culprit that completely changed and destroyed the world.

This is a super deadly virus that suddenly broke out in Edo five years ago and quickly spread to the world. People will not have any symptoms in the early stage of infection with the White Curse, but once the disease or symptoms appear, the infected person will die within a month.

No treatment method or drug can stop the spread of the virus. Even the original patient zero and the mode of transmission are unknown. And because the infected person's hair will quickly lose melanin after the disease, it is called the White Curse, which means the white curse.

The only way to escape the white curse is to flee the Earth, to flee home. The rich and powerful have abandoned the Earth and immigrated to other habitable planets by spaceship. The only ones left are the poor who have nowhere to escape, and the hooligans and ruffians who take advantage of the vacuum of power in the world to commit crimes.

"Besides, there are only those old stubborn people who are unwilling to pat their butts and leave."

Gintoki clearly remembered that he was teleported here in late April. At that time, Yorozuya received a commission from a small film company, asking them to catch a pirated thief in a cinema.

However, Gintoki had no idea that the "pirate thief" who appeared in the cinema was actually a time machine made by the first inventor of Edo, Gengai. So when Gintoki took the time machine to the toilet and planned to blackmail the other party, he was teleported to the present five years later.

The time when Boss Makoto was teleported here was 17 days later than when Gintoki was teleported from the cinema! This means that the White Curse was likely to have broken out in Edo Castle a few days after Boss stepped on the table and broke it.

But the problem is, from Kagura and Shinpachi's perspective, Gintoki actually disappeared not on the day they caught the pirated thief in the cinema, but three days before the boss came here.

Although Gintoki has been elusive since he completed the commission of the cinema, until 3 days before the boss came here...

"We all thought that Gin had sneaked out to gamble on horses again, lost all his living expenses and dared not come back. We firmly believed that this guy would come back with a smug face after hiding for a few days. Until the Shinsengumi handed us this notebook."

Kagura took out the notebook that Gintoki always carried with him and turned it to the page with the words "White Curse" written on it.

"A Yin knew about the existence of the White Curse before it broke out. And he knew very well that the so-called White Curse was actually a nano-mechanical virus that could replicate itself."

"Nanomachines?"

Hearing this word, Boss Cheng couldn't help but frown, because once the word "nano" appears, it means that this matter is definitely related to "heaven and man". And the nano-machine virus is ravaging the earth...

"It is enough to prove that the 'White Curse' was released by aliens or accomplices. It is very likely that Yin discovered this and wanted to prevent the tragedy from happening, so he acted alone. According to the notes, when he was only one step away from his goal, because..."

"Why?" Zhenbao and the boss asked in unison.

Kagura sighed and said helplessly: "Because he accidentally ate poisonous mushrooms, he fell on the side of the road."

"What does this have to do with Bai Zhu? He died just because he was so mean!"

"Does he think he's a super Yunnanese? I don't even dare to cook mushrooms of unknown origin!"

Kagura turned the notebook back two pages and showed them the page that said "I ate poisonous mushrooms and my stomach hurts." She also guessed, "I'm afraid Gin has been starving because he has not eaten or drunk anything and has been hunted by the enemy. In the end, he was so hungry that..."

"He died?"

Kagura shook her head and told the two: "I borrowed the toilet of a convenience store near this (referring to the Yorozuya), but after Gin entered the toilet, he never came out again. He disappeared into thin air in the toilet, leaving only this notebook. At least that's what the store manager who gave this notebook to the Shinsengumi said."

Just when Zhenbao was about to complain about his death in the toilet, the boss asked Kagura to hand over the notebook to him. Kagura handed over the notebook, and the boss took out the note that caused him to travel through time. Then, the boss matched the note with the half page next to "stomachache" and found that the note with the ugly calligraphy perfectly matched the small half page on the notebook.

"Did you notice?" the boss pointed to the page behind the note and asked the three people.

"No ink stains!" Zhenbao noticed that the next page, where the three words "Kill me" were written with a brush, did not have any ink stains on the half page of paper soaked in ink.

"That's right!" Boss Cheng continued, "If Gintoki didn't put something else under this page before writing, then there is only one possibility!"

Shinpachi pushed up his glasses and answered, "Gin-san tore off half a page from his notebook before leaving the bathroom in secret and left it for us on purpose."

After saying that, Shinpachi blamed himself and said, "Before, we always thought that the missing half page of paper was torn off by Gin-san to wipe it..."

"But it's only this big of a piece of paper!" Boss Cheng swung the note in his hand and complained, "He had a stomachache at the time. Aren't you worried that he might accidentally rub it on his hand?"

"Just wash it." Kagura pretended to be used to it and added: "Things like tearing paper are inevitable in life."

Shinpachi squinted his eyes at Kagura for a long time before refocusing his gaze on the note from Makoto. As Gintoki's friends, even if the boss didn't explain, Shinpachi and Kagura could tell who left the handwriting on the note.

"Boss, your note is..."

Before Shinpachi could finish his question, Boss Makoto pointed to the plaque above his head and explained, "It was to get this note that I stepped on Gin's desk and then activated the teleporter switch hidden inside the desk, so I was teleported here."

“But in our impression…”

"But in your impression, the table has never been broken, right?" Boss Cheng was so angry that he laughed a few times, "That's why I said that I was screwed by that old bastard Hiraga Gengai!"

After getting the answer from Boss Dao, Shinpachi began to wonder why Gintoki hid the note behind the "Sugar" sign. And why did old man Gengai send Boss Makoto five years later? What was the meaning of "Kill me" written by Gintoki on the note?

"Don't fall into the trap." Boss Cheng reminded: "Although I guessed that there was something hidden behind the plaque because I saw Yin's footprints on the table. But this does not mean that Yin left the footprints on the table himself, nor does it mean that Yin hid the note behind the plaque himself."

"what do you mean……"

"That's right." Boss Cheng frowned and guessed, "I suspect that both the footprints and the note were placed by someone on behalf of Yin. The purpose is to attract a guy who is very familiar with Yin and likes technical lock picking to come here (referring to the Wanshiwu) to find out. But these can only remain in the guessing stage for the time being. Only if we find..."

"You found Hiraga Gengai, right?" But Kagura said, "If you really want to find old man Gengai, it will take some effort."

"We have to find him no matter how difficult it is!" Zhenbao, who had been silent because of his identity, suddenly said, "Perhaps he dragged us to this era just to let us know the truth about our future. So that after we investigate the source of the outbreak of the White Curse, we can go back to five years ago to completely solve this disaster. After all, there is such a guy!" Zhenbao pointed at Boss Cheng and said, "Who can guarantee that the past, present, and future can't be changed by him?"

suddenly!

Shinpachi was very excited when he heard Zhenbao's guess. He rushed to Boss Cheng, grabbed his apron, and asked him, "Boss, can you really go back to the past and rewrite the future?"

The boss shook his head and said frankly: "I don't know!"

Shinpachi was very disappointed when his boss said, "I don't know." But he regained his confidence after his boss said, "But I can try."

However, as to why Shinpachi lost himself first and then regained his confidence, Boss Cheng did not want to ask, while Zhenbao did not dare to ask. After all, both of them had already guessed the answer from Shinpachi's face.

So the question comes back to the old man who runs a scrap collection station and sells second-hand electrical parts.

Boss Cheng sneered and said, "How hard can it be to find him? As long as he's not dead, even if he's sent to hell alive, I'll bring him back!"

"Is it really possible?" Kagura said immediately, "Don't worry, at least old man Genwai hasn't gone to hell yet."

"But unfortunately," Shinpachi told his boss, "Gengai Hiraga will go to hell around noon tomorrow. But he won't go to hell alive."

"Instead, they will be beheaded and die in hell."

"Eh? Eh!"

"Why should he be beheaded when he is a guy who collects waste as a main job and makes small inventions as a hobby?"

"There's no 'why'. Old man Gengai participated in the Anti-Foreign War, so he has always been a wanted criminal by the shogunate, but he has always been hiding his identity." Kagura explained to the boss: "But after Gin disappeared, the old man's alcoholism problem became more serious. As a result, when he was drunk one time, he suddenly had the idea to transform Colonel Kaifengcai into the ultimate killer."

"Kaifeng cuisine? Colonel Sanders? Big killer? That's great!" The boss complained viciously, "If I hadn't been misled by Kaifeng cuisine, I wouldn't have thought that people in New Orleans like fried chicken!"

Shinpachi and Kagura glanced at the boss, thinking that the trauma caused by the New Orleans-style fried chicken rack to the boss must have been very great. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the boss to always remember that "we New Orleans people don't eat New Orleans fried chicken."

"And then?" the boss asked again after complaining, "How was the old man caught?"

"While he was modifying the Sanders Destroyer, he was caught by the patrolling police!"

0357 What are you doing without salary for two months?

The boss who has always abided by the law and the three people from the Yorozuya who have always been timid and fearful decided to take action tonight!

What? You ask what kind of action?

Nonsense, of course we are going to the death row to break out of the prison! Otherwise, how can we go out to pee in a group?

That's not even called fighting, it's better to just call it going to the bathroom!

The four people chose to rescue the death row tonight because Hiraga Gengai will be executed tomorrow at noon. Generally, in movies or TV series, the best time to rescue a death row inmate is when the inmate is being taken to the execution ground or before the execution ground is about to execute the death penalty.

That’s right, it’s the scene of robbing the execution ground that the audience loves to see the most. So those who are responsible for escorting the death row prisoners and executing the death penalty also know where and when to increase security forces.

Therefore, Boss Cheng decided to think in reverse and go to the most heavily guarded place at the most unlikely time to rescue the death row prisoner who was going to meet the devil tomorrow.

Actually, it's not impossible to go tomorrow. But as a law-abiding small vendor, Mr. Cheng thinks that the influence of illegal (criminal) acts such as jailbreaks or court robberies should be minimized. After all, they should pay attention to the negative impact that their illegal acts may have on social atmosphere.

Even the small group engaged in the "housekeeping service industry" felt that Boss Cheng's plan made sense, because none of the three wanted to teach the children bad things.

"We will enter the village quietly, no guns fired!"

The boss who gave the advice kicked down the prison gate and swaggered in, attracting the attention and firepower of all the prison guards. Zhenbao, Kagura and Shinpachi took the opportunity to climb over the wall and sneak into the death row.

But when they sneaked in, they found that the guard in charge of the key had also rushed out to fight the intruder to the death. And none of the three of them was proficient in lock picking.

Shinpachi, who is calm, rational and doesn't like to complain, asked the other two people: "So why didn't the four of us sneak in here together just now, but let the only guy who knows how to pick a lock go out to fight?"

"Do you think there is a possibility..."

"What's possible?" Shinpachi and Kagura asked at the same time.

"He just wanted to kick the prison's front door."

Shinpachi and Kagura didn't answer, but judging by their boss's past habit of dismantling the safe door, they both felt that this possibility was very high.

In the closed corridor leading to the supervision area from the main entrance of the prison, various guards were lying behind Boss Cheng. About 5 meters in front of the boss, a police siren was clearly falling on the ground. This was the closest police siren to the prison guards, and it was also the last police siren they might get.

Because the other guards holding sirens had already fallen behind Boss Cheng.

After all, this is a prison, and mobile phones are prohibited during working hours. Besides, the guy who holds the key to the storage room has already fallen behind the boss, so the guards know that they can only call for backup by blowing the siren.

Three of them planned to team up to grab the police siren on the ground. They rushed towards the boss at the same time, two of them rushed straight at him, and the other one made a feint and bent down to pick up the police siren on the ground.

But the boss' figure appeared like a ghost beside the guard who picked up the siren, and then the boss stretched out his big hand and pinched the back of the brave guard's neck, and the guard immediately fell asleep.

The other two guards rushed back immediately, but they didn't expect the boss to turn around immediately. Then, the two guards saw the nearly 2-meter-tall strong man with his hands raised, and while the two guards were wondering why he was raising his hands, he gently gave two crisp and loud head bangs.

After all, the boss is at 50% unlocked, so even if it's just a seemingly ordinary head crash, the actual impact force is more than 50 kilograms. 50 kilograms does not look like a lot, but concentrating 50 kilograms of force in an area of ​​1.5 square centimeters is actually no different from being hit on the head by a hammer.

Of course, there is still a slight difference between the two, that is, Boss Cheng's fingers are a little softer than the hammer head.

However, the boss's three non-lethal blows also made the prison guards fully understand that the big man who broke into the prison had no intention of killing anyone.

Now, everyone is more courageous and brave! After all, you won’t die if you rush forward, and you don’t have to worry about losing your life in a job that has been owed two months of salary in the end times when the White Curse Virus is rampant.

The worst that could happen is that they would be knocked unconscious or have broken bones or something. After all, the few people in prison were not worth losing their lives for. As long as the other party was not prepared to kill them, everyone would dare to rush forward and kill them within their duties!

Not long after, Boss Cheng walked leisurely towards the supervision area. Behind him, the ground was full of "sleepers" lying quietly on the ground.

"Boss, it looks like the jailbreakers are gone."

"Don't talk, just keep pretending to be unconscious."

"That's right, Jianghu is not about fighting and killing, it's about the human relationships and worldly wisdom."

"He gave us a chance to live, so we have to give him face."

"These days, who cares whether or not to expel the foreigners?"