Masked Rider: Infinite Journey

It's sour and astringent, in short, it's very hard to drink.

I don’t know why, but even though he’s using the best coffee beans in the city, other people’s coffee makes fragrant and delicious black coffee, but his coffee is… well, hard to describe.

He swallowed the coffee with reluctance, and suddenly heard the sound of the door opening.

"Clang clang clang, look what this is!" Asuka came in and showed the paper bag in her hand to Shotarou with a smile.

"Ashuko, it's so late, why haven't you gone home yet?"

"There's nothing I can do. The staff are still working hard, and as the director, how can I be lazy?"

Akiko sat down across from Shotarou and, as she opened the paper bag, she called out, "Philip, come out for a midnight snack!"

"coming."

The curtain at the back of the living room was opened by a white hand, and a handsome young man walked out slowly, holding the book that he almost never put down in the office.

Except for the fact that his hair had turned green for some reason, Philip's appearance was almost unchanged.

Sitting next to Shotaro, Philip opened the food box in front of him and gently stroked the steaming steam with his hand. The hot and spicy aroma of red oil and ingredients immediately hit his face.

"Hmm, what a delicious smell." He picked up a piece of very soft and sticky potato and said with interest, "Is this spicy hot pot? How interesting."

As the owner of the Earth Library, there are very few things in this world that can arouse his interest, except food.

It seemed that every delicacy he had never tasted could arouse Philip's strong interest.

He does not mean that.

An idea flashed through Shotaro's mind, and his hands paused, and the bamboo shoots he had picked up fell back into the bowl.

But he no longer had the heart to eat. He stuck his chopsticks into the bowl, stood up and shouted excitedly: "Delicious! Yes, this is it!"

Under the two people's puzzled gazes, Shotaro quickly ran to his own desk, bent over, took out a black object, then closed his eyes and took a deep sniff.

Only then did Yashuzi see the true appearance of the thing and her eyes widened in shock.

Shotarou still had his eyes closed, immersed in his own world, unaware of the impending danger.

——The fragrance of some plant, like fruit, no, it should be some kind of flower that can bear fruit.

Got it!

Shotarou opened his eyes in surprise: "I know, it's...ah!"

Bah!Bah!Bah!

The hard soles of the shoes repeatedly hit the detective's body. Akiko yelled angrily, "Shotarou, I didn't expect you to be such a pervert! I really misjudged you!"

"Ah, this is not it. Let me explain!" Shotaro dodged the slippers in embarrassment.

"What else is there to explain?" Ya Shuzi picked up the fallen high-heeled boots and asked coldly, "What's the matter with these boots?"

Shotarou answered immediately, "The detective next door gave it to me."

Yashuzi was stunned, and slowly, her eyes became wider and rounder.

After a long moment, she sighed, put down her boots and took out her cell phone.

"Hey, husband, I want to call the police..."

"Ah~! No, listen to my explanation carefully!"

After finally calming down the furious Akiko, Shotarou told his director and partner in detail about what he had investigated today.

"Hmm, I see." Philip scratched his chin. "So, these are the witch's shoes, and you just thought of using the scent of the morning glory on them to find her whereabouts?"

Facing Akiko's disgusted look, Shotarou nodded awkwardly: "Yes, that's it."

He finally realized that his previous action seemed quite abnormal.

There's no way around it. This is just Shotaro's personality. When he suddenly discovers a clue like this, his body often moves faster than his brain.

But Philip had other ideas.

"There's one thing that really concerns me. According to what you said, Shotaro, the witch is just like flying in the sky, but the detective next door almost caught her."

"I'm afraid that detective is not an ordinary person either."

Shotaro, Asukiko:!

"Yeah, why didn't I think of that?!" Shotaro slapped his forehead and suddenly realized.

Yashuzi thought for a moment and asked, "So, the witch and the blue light red are both impurities?"

"No, I can't be sure yet."

Shotaro picked up his hat and covered his head with it to block his sparkling eyes.

"Let's go check it out tomorrow. Actually, we haven't even officially visited this new neighbor yet."

……

The next day, eight o'clock.

Shotarou got up early and was eager to explore the blue light red, but found that someone had already got there first.

A police car was parked at the door downstairs of the Maori Detective Agency.

Shotaro's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

He recognized that this car was the private car of two old acquaintances of his, Haseno and Makura from the Fuuto Police Department.

This is not a good thing, because the cases they usually respond to involve homicide.

Could it be that Blue Light Red has already...

Before he could finish imagining the worst-case scenario, two detectives appeared from the stairs with the lively Lan Guanghong.

Shotaro:......

If he is not the victim, then he is the suspect?

"Hey, good morning, Shotaro." Lan Guanghong, who was coming down the stairs, saw Shotaro and greeted him with a smile.

Shotaro's face suddenly darkened.

This guy looks so relaxed, he doesn't look like he was caught doing something bad at all.

He took two steps forward and whispered to Renye, "Mr. Renye, what happened? Why did you take this...detective away?"

Renye asked curiously: "Why? Do you know him?"

"We can be considered friends for now."

"Well, I can't say much more. Anyway, he's involved in a murder case, and we need to take him back to the police station." After thinking for a moment, Renye added, "But don't worry, it's very likely he didn't do it. We're just conducting a routine inquiry."

Hearing this, Shotarou breathed a sigh of relief.

"By the way, Shotaro." The blue-glowing figure in the police car suddenly poked his head out and asked with a smile, "Did you catch any clues about the witch?"

"Is this it?" Shotaro pointed with four fingers in annoyance.

"Awesome, you're worthy of being the Fengdu Detective!" Lan Guanghong gave him a thumbs up and got back into the car.

Makura glanced at the two of them, not knowing what they were talking about. He stepped on the accelerator and the police car whirred away.

Shotaro frowned as the vehicle disappeared from his sight.

It seems that there is no way to find out the details of Lan Guanghong for the time being, so the only thing we can do is...

"Let's continue looking for the witch."

Chapter 194: Very Good Police Officer/E's Rice Bowl

Going to the police station is a completely new experience for Lan Guanghong.

"It's much more spacious than I thought. By the way, will there be any pork chop rice later?"

Seeing Lan Guanghong's relaxed look, Ren Ye felt a little helpless: "Hey, this is a serious crime case, aren't you nervous at all?"

"Why are you so nervous? I'm not a criminal."

Basino:......

He decided to skip the nonsense and get straight to the point: "Mr. Lan Guanghong, where were you between 10:30 and 11:40 yesterday?"

Lan Guanghong recalled briefly that he was looking for the witch at the T-junction at that time, and finally beat up a bald man.

He frowned: "Is that bald guy dead?"

Upon hearing this, both Renno and Makura's faces became extremely serious.

"How do you know the deceased was bald? Were you at the scene?"

Makura was rather impatient, and finally adopted an interrogative tone: "Answer the question!"

"Don't question me!" Lan Guanghong glared at him.

As if seeing the figure of another person in him, Makura shuddered, subconsciously stood up and straightened his body and responded: "Yes!"

Basino:?

Looking at the strange look from his senior, Makura blushed and shouted in anger, "Hey, you! Give it to me..."

"Let me guess, most of the deceased's body is missing, leaving only some broken limbs, with smooth cuts and burn marks?" Lan Guanghong interrupted Zhencang's anger and asked calmly.

Renye was a little surprised because everything the other party said was correct, and he didn't look like the murderer, but rather someone who knew the murderer very well.

"That's right. Besides, this isn't the first time. We've found similar bodies near that T-junction building many times." Haseno asked thoughtfully, "You're a detective like Shotarou. Have you figured out who the murderer is?"

"I don't know yet, but I have some clues."

"Well, can you tell us about it?"

Lan Guanghong smiled and shook his head: "I can say that, but not to you."

Basano, Makura:?

…A few minutes later, the blue light and red light of a fully enclosed small conference room appeared, and the person he requested arrived.

Unlike the low-key casual clothes of normal police officers, the visitor was wearing a bright red leather jacket, just like his fiery heart, extremely eye-catching.

"I'm Superintendent Terui Ryu of the Paranormal Crime Investigation Division." Terui Ryu put his hands on his hips and said imposingly, "What's going on? You have to see me before you can tell me."

Lan Guanghong smiled slightly and made him sit down quietly with just one word: "Dopant."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Jinglong's face immediately darkened. He sat opposite Lan Guanghong and said seriously, "Tell me in detail."

Lan Guanghong did not hide it either. After all, that guy was very cruel, and every moment of delay might result in one more victim.

"The criminal's true identity is a 'road' impure entity. For some unknown reason, it will continue to eat people. Its attack method is to fire high-heat light wheels from its wrists and light bullets from its fingertips."

"So that's how it is!" As soon as Terui Ryu heard it, he understood why the bodies found were always incomplete, and how the wounds on the broken limbs were formed.

One question was solved, but a bigger question also lay before him.

"Ordinary people wouldn't know so much about a dopant. Who are you?"

"No, no, no, let me correct a mistake of yours." Lan Guanghong raised his index finger and then retracted it, then spread out his five fingers, making a bursting gesture.

"There is more than one 'road'. This road is the third one I know of."

Terui Ryu:!

"As for me, I'm just a famous detective passing by." Lan Guanghong adjusted his glasses and smiled sweetly.

……

At noon, in a building far away from Tachikawa Building, Renye put down the telescope in his hand and rubbed his sore eyes.

"Senior, let me do it."

"Well, please."

After handing the binoculars to Makura, who was taking over, Haseno sat down next to Lan Guanghong and rested for a while in silence before asking, "Detective, how sure are you that the criminal is someone from the Tachikawa Building?"

"About 80 percent," Lan Guanghong explained, shaking his legs in boredom. "The owner of that building, Tachikawa Renshi, is a so-called entrepreneur, but he's actually a leader of a criminal gang. Not many people would go looking for him in the first place. Add to that the murders and the witch legend, and anyone with any sense would definitely not go there. So, the only ones left in that area are the Tachikawa gang."

"And in this case, the criminal was able to accurately capture every lone person and always escape before being discovered. I don't need to explain what this means."

Renye naturally understood that in this case, there was a high probability that the crime was committed by an insider.

However, he still had some doubts: "But, someone witnessed that witch at the crime scene before..."