In a crossover anime, do you believe that a machine spirit can defeat a fake human?

Chen Yi countered with a question.

"...If I had to pinpoint a connection, the only one would probably be that you ruined the Garden's plans. In my intelligence, the Garden seems to be a highly intelligent pseudo-human, so it wouldn't be surprising if they set a trap to retaliate against you. Oh, and let me clarify, my intelligence sources are a few friends at ATSS, so I don't know much."

Dr. Maruki explained.

The two walked down the corridor to the waiting room and casually found a place to sit down.

"Are we just going to stay here?" Chen Yi saw Maruki sit down, so he also found a place to sit down.

"Speaking of which, Mr. Chen, you don't smoke or drink, so how do you relieve stress? You seem to know a lot about this kind of thing."

"woman?"

"...If I had to say, would staying up all night count?" Chen Yi thought for a moment before answering seriously.

Am I a bit caffeine addicted? I'm drinking black coffee and strong tea like crazy, every day.

"They're treating themselves like donkeys," Dr. Maruki remarked.

"It's best to loosen it up a bit, lest it snap off one day," Dr. Maruki kindly advised.

"Let's not talk about my business for now. Are you sure what happened just now is alright?"

"...To be honest, I really didn't know what to do at first, but Mr. Chen, don't forget that I'm a psychologist. I know more about self-regulation."

"Row."

Chen Yi skipped the topic and didn't discuss it further.

......

"Put down your weapons."

ATSS officers pointed their guns at Chen Yi and his group, issuing a warning.

Kelukai and Lorelei obediently raised their hands, not wanting to cause Chen Yitian any trouble.

“Officer, we are the victims,” Dr. Maruki said to the squad leader, pointing with his raised finger into the depths of the corridor.

"The attackers are still inside."

"But there are only two survivors left."

Chen Yi added.

"..." Dr. Maruji gestured to Chen Yi with his eyes to keep quiet, as saying too much would only lead to more mistakes.

"...Detain them first, take them away from the scene, and we'll go in and take a look." The squad leader reported over the radio and used hand gestures to direct the team to split up.

"Phew... Mr. Chen, I've never ridden in a police car before." The armored vehicle swayed slightly, and Dr. Maruki looked out the window.

There seemed to be a lingering smell of gunpowder in my nose, but it was probably just a hallucination. The gases produced by gunpowder explosions are small molecules and mostly acidic oxides, which would quickly diffuse and dilute in the air.

Dr. Maruki talked as much as usual, but it seemed like he was forcing himself to have something to talk about.

"I haven't tried it either."

However, it seems to use less material than the armored vehicles in Ironblood; I don't know if it's just my imagination.

National institutions shouldn't be less well-equipped than businesses, this isn't cyberpunk.

Kroos and Lorelei sat on either side of him, and to prevent others from discovering their secret, they did not take the opportunity to cancel their physical form.

"Dr. Maruki, relax, we'll be fine."

Chen Yi noticed that Dr. Maruki was sitting somewhat uncomfortably and casually offered a word of advice.

"A doctor cannot heal himself, right? But we are indeed fine because there were quite a few witnesses when the attack occurred, and the corridor surveillance cameras also recorded it normally. From the time we left the scene until we got into the police car, we did not see any other victims, right? This means that the witnesses are basically all alive, and we have sufficient proof."

“You’re right, Mr. Chen.”

Dr. Maruki took several deep breaths.

"I suddenly have a craving for strawberry mapo tofu, yogurt rice noodle rolls, and pineapple pizza..."

You ungrateful wretch?!

Chen Yi was filled with rage, his eyes widening.

......

The two were treated fairly well. They had barely entered the interrogation room and hadn't even sat down when they were taken to the statement room, where the person they faced changed from a stern criminal police officer to a slightly more relaxed ordinary police officer.

"They seem to be quite fast."

Kroc and Lorelei were taken to different places to give statements, but Chen Yi was still able to talk to them through his mental space.

"Well... they're mostly pointless questions, because the responsible party for the incident has already been identified, and it's not us."

Klukka replied.

"However, if there are traitors within the ATSS, or connections with the attackers, they might wrongly convict us."

Lorelei then smiled and suggested another possibility.

"...There's no need to worry about that. The commander has been under the protection of the consulate for a long time, and they will not allow wrongful convictions to occur."

Kroc explained.

Revisiting Izu: Chapter 255 Inquiry

Chapter 255

"The attackers were actually the Echo squad..."

Even if you don't want to believe it, reality is right in front of you.

"...Examine the clues left at the scene, and also, pull up the surveillance footage. I need to know where their weapons came from."

call......

Although we cherish old friendships, the only course of action now is to handle this matter officially; otherwise, we cannot give the public and the victims an explanation.

"...It's been found out. More than an hour ago, the entire Echo team forged the doctor's discharge papers and went to the weapons storage room to take away weapons."

"?"

Miao Mu paused in his smoking.

"What's going on? Does that mean they're still using government-issued guns?"

"As it stands... the SIG MCX, judging from its weapon model, is indeed a police weapon, but the serial number is still being investigated."

"Where is the person in charge of the hospital's weapons storage room? Doesn't retrieving weapons from the weapons storage room normally require at least three levels of signatures?"

Miao Mu pressed for an answer.

“...They were silenced,” a squad leader said.

It was also due to the negligence of the person in charge of the weapons storage room who thought no one would do such a thing as an attack... But clearly, sometimes, even fellow human beings have to be on guard.

"..."

The sapling fell silent.

Kujo, what are you doing...?

"What happened to the two bandits who were still alive?"

"Although the victim spared the other party's life in self-defense... the two robbers were confirmed to have no vital signs when we tried to transfer them to the emergency room."

"Hoo..." Miao Mu took a deep breath.

The clues are all mixed up.

"Take me to the monitoring room."

The scene was handed over to forensic experts and other professionals, while Miao Mu went to the monitoring room himself to look for video footage of the scene.

"...Stop, start from here."

Miao Mu's eyes narrowed as he stared intently at the screen.

"The first one to draw his knife and attack was the squad's sniper."

Why? Why did they attack?

The seedlings were completely incomprehensible.

Then, in a flash, the female victim, who was two or three body lengths behind the young male victim, suddenly moved forward at an extremely fast speed that the surveillance could not capture, and instantly completed her defensive and counter-attack actions.

"Wait, it was played again, at 0.5x speed."

Miao Mu frowned.

"Still can't see clearly..."

The woman moved very quickly, at a speed that seemed impossible for a human to achieve... but clearly, this clue had little to do with the overall case.

The municipal hospital's surveillance system is quite old, so it's not impossible that it looks like something out of a superpower, considering that other civilians on the adjacent screen also left afterimages.

"It seems the victim was quite defensive; even though they successfully counterattacked immediately, they didn't kill the attacker outright..."

"From a legal perspective, the victims are now in an extremely advantageous position."

The second attacker, carrying a rifle, fired a shot against the direction of the crowd.

Then, another female victim, dressed in a suit, threw two unidentified objects at the attacker, who then collapsed.

"...?"

Why does that female victim look so familiar? I feel like I've seen her somewhere before.

Miao Mu's mind raced.

"That 16LAB?"

I remember now, the firsthand information at the time came from 16LAB.

The impression became clear all of a sudden, and the identity of the male victim became clear as well.

Miao Mu had met the other party.

"...But why?"

Why did Kujo attack that high school student?

What is the motivation?

The video continues, and as the second attacker falls, the figure of the third attacker emerges from the crowd.

He was holding a rifle.

"Kujo..."

In the surveillance footage, Kujo's movements were somewhat stiff, as if he had just recovered from a serious illness and had not yet regained his motor skills. His posture while holding the gun was also somewhat awkward.

He then walked to the doorway of the room where the victims had hidden, and while shooting with one hand, he pulled a grenade out of his pocket with the other.

"Grenade!"

Guns aside, why are explosives stored in the hospital's storage room?

"I really want to shoot the person in charge of the weapons storage room..."

But the thought that the person in charge of the weapons storage room was dead gave Miao Mu a feeling of frustration that he had nowhere to vent his anger.

Was it an ambulance or our own car that took Echo to the hospital?

"It looks like an ambulance..."

Well, then we'll be arguing and shifting blame again.

Miao Mu took a deep breath and decided to put aside these upsetting thoughts for the time being.

As the grenade exploded, the nine men holding it were also blown to pieces, along with the two immobilized attackers on the ground, their bodies smeared red and black in the corridor.

As the smoke cleared, a few sporadic gunshots rang out before falling completely silent.

The useful part of the surveillance has ended; what remains is the final stage, the time until they arrive at the hospital.

"What was the motive for the attack?"

This is the most crucial and mysterious point of contention in the entire case.

In terms of social relationships, could there be some entanglement between them? But to have entanglements with five people at once... is that really true?