Chapter 548 “Miss Asai”’s phone call

Chapter 548 “Miss Asai”’s phone call

After a while.

Belmode, who was "thrown" in the mountains by Lin Xinyi, was not idle either.

She first found Caesar who was thinking about his life alone on the edge of the cliff, and then she pointed a gun at the B\u0026B owner who was the suspect, and they went down the mountain together.

And after Belmode and others slowly walked down the mountain road in a normal human way, she discovered:

Lin Xinyi was already waiting for her at the foot of the mountain.

"Did you catch Mr. Hunter?"

Belmode walked forward with some curiosity.

"Yeah." Lin Xinyi pointed to the Toyota pickup truck parked not far behind him:

After arresting the two spies, they also seized the other party's car.

For no reason, his Mercedes-Benz off-road vehicle was about to fall apart due to the "Tornado Charge Tornado" by Officer Fang Gu. When the whole vehicle was started, except for the horn, it rang everywhere.

For the safety of passengers, it is better to change trains.

"The man has been arrested and is being handcuffed in the car."

"Yeah." Belmode glanced at the car casually, then looked away without seeing it clearly.

"That's right, let's cuff this guy up too."

She pointed at the pale and silent B\u0026B owner beside her:

"He has already explained everything."

"The stolen money was actually found when he accidentally picked up the wrong box in the check-in office where 'Masami Hirota' was stored when he was traveling and staying in a hotel in Tokyo. It was a coincidence that he discovered the stolen money."

"This guy was trying to keep the money for himself."

"But before he could hide the billion yen, he was accidentally discovered by a friend who was traveling with him at the time."

"You can probably guess the rest."

Belmod shrugged:

"The friend who discovered his stash of cash was the deceased."

"The deceased later realized that the money might have come from a wrong way, so he took the opportunity to blackmail him."

"This guy was afraid that the deceased would report him to the police, but he was also reluctant to give him a sum of money to shut his mouth."

"So he didn't stop doing anything. He simply invited the deceased to the mountains where they used to hunt and camp together on the grounds that 'he had buried all the stolen money in the mountains' and 'if he wanted to share the money, he had to go into the mountains to get it.' Killed and silenced the other party."

"As for the stolen money?"

"It's actually hidden under the floor of the B\u0026B hotel where we stayed last night."

"Ask the police to follow him and they should be able to find him easily."

Belmod explained clearly the ins and outs of the case, as well as the specific location where the murderer hid the stolen money.

The owner of the B\u0026B next to him kept his head hanging down, without any courage to retract his confession.

"This" Lin Xinyi was a little surprised: "How do you know this?"

"He even revealed the place where he hid the stolen money?"

Even if a murderer admits to murdering someone, he or she will not disclose the location of the stolen money.

After all, that's 1 billion yen.

As for murderers like the B\u0026B owner who only had one life on their hands, in the past twenty years of Japanese jurisprudence, the average sentence for each person was only about 13 years.

For the murderer, instead of handing over the stolen money in exchange for a few years' sentence reduction, it would be better for him to be stubborn and refuse to cooperate and stay in prison for more than ten or twenty years.

Anyway, the quality of prison facilities in Japan is generally not bad.

There is food and drink in prison, free accommodation, a regular life, and a healthy diet. After being released from prison, there is still 1 billion yen to earn——

This is more cost-effective than working as a "free" inward-beating worker outside for more than ten years.

So in Lin Xinyi's opinion, it should be difficult to pry open the murderer's mouth.

But Belmod asked them all without much effort.

"It's very simple."

Belmod blinked:

"I put a gun to his head and told him I also wanted the 1 billion yen."

"If he refuses to cooperate, I will use the excuse that he is 'trying to grab weapons and escape' to blow open his skull with a bullet so that he can see his own brain before he dies."

"You know."

"I'm good at acting."

"This guy is too cowardly. He didn't last long before he cried and told the truth."

A proud smile appeared on her lips.

The once arrogant murderer next to him was as if he was recalling some horrific nightmare, his face was pale and he was trembling.

"That's it." Lin Xinyi understood:

Prisoners may not be afraid of the police, but they are certainly afraid of criminal police officers.

Belmod's black-and-white performance must have frightened the other party.

"That's fine." Lin Xinyi couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief: "With the murderer's complete testimony and finding the stolen money he hid, this case will be perfectly concluded."

"Get this guy in the car too."

"Just leave it to Officer Furuya to deal with it next."

"but."

He paused slightly and reminded in a strange tone:

"Chris, wait until you see the prisoner in the car."

"Don't be surprised."

"Surprised?" Belmode was a little confused.

But she still smiled very confidently:

"Do not worry"

"No matter who the prisoner is, I'm sure of him."

As an old artist with many years of performance experience, Belmod believes that no matter what unexpected scenes he sees, he will never be surprised by them.

but

"This? Akai Shuichi!" Just walking a little closer, Belmode was startled by that familiar face.

Akai Shuichi himself is not that shocking.

After all, this case involves Miyano Akemi, and Belmode has long been mentally prepared for his appearance.

And when she discovered that there was an uninvited guest with unpredictable concealment skills hiding beside her, she had not thought that the other party would be this ace agent from the FBI.

But what she never expected was:

Akai Shuichi would actually appear in front of him in this way——

At this time, his body was covered with grass blades and dirt, and his handsome face was swollen into a pig's head.

His hands were still locked with a pair of stainless steel handcuffs, and together with his big-faced accomplice, they were "tied" to the door handles on both sides of the rear compartment of the pickup truck.

How does this look like the cold and elegant ace agent?

He looked like a third-rate country thief who had just been beaten up in the field by the villagers.

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Belmode was speechless:

She really couldn't believe that the disgraced prisoner in front of her was actually the killer "Silver Bullet" Akai Shuichi who almost killed her in New York a year ago.

"Did you fight?" A flash of brilliance flashed in Belmod's eyes: "You can beat this guy?"

She knew that Lin Xinyi was very skilled, but she didn't expect that he was strong enough to kill Shuichi Akai without any damage.

"No." Lin Xinyi shook his head: "It was Police Officer Jianggu who beat him."

"And it's not really a win."

Akai Shuichi restrained himself throughout the whole process and did not fight back. There was no real armed conflict between the two sides, so naturally there was no winner or loser.

Although he looked miserable and embarrassed now, he had only accidentally received two powerful and heavy "Friendship-breaking punches" from Officer Furutani, so he was not at a disadvantage.

This did not answer Belmod's doubts, but made her even more curious:

"How can a person like him be so obedient as to be captured?"

"How did you make him bow his head?"

"It's very simple."

"I have evidence that he communicated with G."

Belmode: "???"

The ride back was very quiet.

Because there were not enough seats, the owner of the B\u0026B was thrown directly into the back of the pickup truck.

The five people and one dog in the carriage never spoke much.

First of all, dogs cannot speak.

Secondly, Shuichi Akai and Kamel encountered unprecedented failure and humiliation in their FBI careers, and they always had a straight face and were unwilling to communicate with others.

And because he didn't want the two FBIs to capture any information from their conversation, Feng Guling didn't chat with Lin Xinyi and Belmode on the road.

No one took the initiative to say anything, and Belmode did not want to risk being noticed by his old enemy Shuichi Akai by opening his mouth to test the identity of Officer Furuya.

And as an outsider, she had no motive to chat with the two "foreign spies."

As for Lin Xinyi, his feeling is even more subtle:

He sat in the middle of the back row of the carriage, sandwiched between Akai Shuichi and Kamel, one on the left and the other on the right.

The two men had handcuffs on their hands and always had solemn expressions on their faces. Coupled with the solemn and dead air along the way, Lin Xinyi was in a trance, thinking that he was the arrested prisoner.

that's all.

There were 2 Japanese policemen, 2 FBI, and 4 organization members in the carriage, a total of 5 people, and they drove quietly back to Tokyo from Gunma Prefecture.

"Why has it become winter in Tokyo?"

“It’s still early spring in Gunma County next door!”

Lin Xinyi couldn't help but use the weather as a topic introduction, breaking the silence that made people feel like they were passing through the year.

And the few snowflakes falling outside the window really shocked him.

But the other four people in the carriage didn't say anything to him:

Isn’t this weather normal?

Everyone looked at him with such blank eyes.

Lin Xinyi was speechless and simply closed his mouth.

It seems that we can no longer talk today.

They were about to part ways with Officer Furuya, and if they wanted to test each other with tricks, they would have to wait for the next opportunity.

That's what he was thinking.

Suddenly a cell phone rang, breaking the silence in the car.

Lin Xinyi took out his mobile phone from his pocket and took a closer look.

I saw the caller ID saying:

"Miss Asai?"

Lin Xinyi's pupils shrank.

He subconsciously wanted to hide the phone screen.

But Akai Shuichi, who was sitting next to him, had already curiously poked his head over and read the name displayed on the screen of Lin Xinyi's mobile phone.

"Ms. Asai, do you mean Narumi Asai from the forensics class?"

"But according to the intelligence we have collected, Department Chief Asai should be a 'sir', right?"

Akai Shuichi asked, minding his own business.

Intelligence is the life of an agent.

Therefore, as long as they find something that conflicts with the information they have at hand, no matter whether the information is important or useful, they will not be able to help but come forward to investigate.

This made Lin Xinyi's face darken: "Why is your FBI collecting information on Asai Narumi?"

"Just by the way."

Shuichi Akai answered without hesitation:

"Because Mr. Lin, you were involved in the last attack at the Rice Flower Hotel."

"So while we were investigating the terrorist attack carried out by that organization, we also collected some simple information about you and the people around you."

"Don't worry." He also added honestly: "We collected the information legally from public channels and have not launched any special investigation against you."

"Hmph!" Lin Xinyi snorted with an unhappy look on his face, not wanting to talk to him anymore.

But Akai Shuichi continued to explore without interest:

"Aren't you going to answer the phone, Mr. Lin?"

Lin Xinyi: "."

Of course he didn't want to answer the phone.

Because he knew very well that the caller marked as "Ms. Asai" was not Narumi Asai at all, but

Borrowing the identity of Asai Narumi’s sister

Miyano Akemi!

He hasn't had time to tell Miyano Akemi what happened in Gunma County yet.

She didn't know that Akai Shuichi was here.

What's more, I didn't expect Akai Shuichi to be sitting next to Lin Xinyi now.

And the long and comfortable life of a stay-at-home girl has made Miss Mingmei lose the vigilance she developed in a tiger's den.

Therefore, Lin Xinyi and Miyano Akemi became more and more casual when chatting on the phone. Sometimes they accidentally let something slip, and even mentioned the name "Shiho" directly on the phone.

And when she called suddenly this time, Lin Xinyi didn't know what she would say on the phone.

If they say any sensitive information on the phone and the two FBI agents with sensitive ears accidentally hear it, they will be in big trouble.

This phone call is like a bomb fuse, it will explode as soon as it is answered!

Lin Xinyi didn't want to answer this call next to Akai Shuichi.

And now looking at this guy's plain and unpredictable eyes, he could only bite the bullet and say perfunctorily:

"It's not an important call."

"No need to answer."

Lin Xinyi made an excuse vaguely.

Then I just turned off the annoying phone ringtone.

The carriage finally became quiet again.

But this quietness is only temporary.

Because the call from "Miss Asai" has aroused the curiosity of Akai Shuichi, the great spy.

"In Mr. Lin's social circle, it seems that the only people named Asai are the family of Department Chief Asai."

"Ms. Asai, does she mean the sister of Department Chief Asai?"

"I think her name is Asai Kana, right?"

"Department Chief Asai seems to have a sister who has married abroad."

"What, Mr. Lin, do you still know her?"

Akai Shuichi asked casually.

It wasn't that he was deliberately probing, he was just instinctively collecting these tiny bits of information.

For agents, it is useless without information. In other words, their job is to find information that is useful to them from countless useless information, like gold mining.

This gave Lin Xinyi a headache.

There is no need to hide this theoretically "insignificant matter". If he persists in refusing to answer, he may turn the other party's unintentional casual probing into a lingering curiosity.

Once curiosity deepens, it can turn into doubt at any time.

So Lin Xinyi had no choice but to force himself to answer calmly:

"Well, I am the sister who knows Department Chief Asai."

"This Miss Kana temporarily returned to China to settle down because she had some relationship problems with her husband."

"Her home is very close to my friend Dr. Ali's home."

"Plus Asai is the head of the department, so we all know each other."

Lin Xinyi bit the bullet and said the character he had made up in advance.

This made him a little nervous.

Because this character cannot resist investigation at all.

Originally, it was because Lin Xinyi had no way to get a false identity for Miyano Akemi, so he temporarily let her borrow the identity of Sister Asai.

Later, with Dr. Agas as a channel, they didn't even think about helping Miyano Akemi change her disguised identity.

Because Miyano Akemi has been staying at home and not going out, seeing no outsiders and not causing trouble, she is very safe with a stolen identity.

But now, because of a sudden phone call

The name "Kana Asai" actually came into the sight of Shuichi Akai and Rei Fukiya, the two great spy chiefs.

If this is targeted by one of these two people, it will be a big trouble.

But it’s okay:

Even if Shuichi Akai had ten thousand heads, he would never have imagined that the "Miss Akai" who just called Lin Xinyi was actually the girlfriend he had been pursuing but could never find.

Not only did he not know much about "Kana Asai", he also had no special interest in getting to know this "pure stranger" better.

Lin Xinyi made a casual excuse and explained the reason why he and "Kana Asai" knew each other, and Akai Shuichi stopped asking any more questions.

This little turmoil seems to be coming to an end.

But

"Dingle bell bell bell bell"

Lin Xinyi couldn't catch his breath yet.

The phone rang suddenly again.

It was "Miss Asai" who called.

"This" Lin Xin froze there with numbness in his head. He didn't answer it, and it didn't matter if he didn't answer it.

"What?" Akai Shuichi cast a curious look again: "Does Mr. Lin have any conflict with Miss Asai?"

"You don't seem to want to answer her call?"

"I" Lin Xinyi was speechless for a moment:

what to do.

His unusual behavior of not wanting to answer the phone has been noticed.

How should I round it now?

"Don't answer!"

Lin Xinyi was having a headache, and Belmode, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, suddenly hummed angrily:

"You promised me that you would never have any contact with this woman again!"

Lin Xinyi: "???"

He was slightly stunned at first, and then he came to his senses:

Belmod was just adding a temporary extra to fill the loopholes in the story!

And the movie queen deserves to be the movie queen.

In just one line, she explained the reason why Lin Xinyi was unwilling to answer the call from "Ms. Asai".

And he also gave him a grand reason to refuse to answer the other party’s call:

"Mr. Lin and that Miss Asai... Is it possible?"

Even Officer Furuya, who had always remained silent, couldn't help but join the conversation with gossip:

"Did Mr. Lin and Miss Chris have relationship problems some time ago?"

"Is it because of Miss Asai?"

"Cough cough cough" Lin Xinyi's face turned red.

Sitting next to his boyfriend, he was really embarrassed to admit that he had an affair with Miyano Akemi.

"No, don't listen to Chrissy's nonsense."

"We are only good friends at best, there is no relationship beyond friendship at all."

"You know."

"I'm often involved in scandals, and I can't get rid of them even if I want to."

This is true.

Suzuki Sonoko has publicly expressed her favorable impression of Lin Shinichi before.

Later, Mao Lilan got too close to his teacher, so he became the gossip of some middle-aged women in the Metropolitan Police Department.

Similarly, Miwako Sato only collaborated with him on one case, and Lin Xinyi temporarily became a lifelong enemy in the eyes of countless single male police officers.

And the most outrageous thing is

Even Narumi Asai had scandals with him.

Moreover, this scandal also took advantage of the huge traffic of Manager Lin and the special appearance of Asai Narumi, and spread more and more widely in some small circles of special hobbies, so that it extended to many eye-catching fan articles. .

Lin Xinyi had no way to deal with them.

After getting acquainted with Noah's Ark in the past two days, he actually thought about asking this artificial intelligence to help him block the website and report for deletion of posts - if possible, it would be best to help him send a few letters to the lawyer represented by Fei Yingli Law Firm. letter.

But Noah's Ark said he was just a child.

It hasn’t had the courage to engage with this art form yet.

In short

Manager Lin has no shortage of scandals.

It is normal to have one more "Miss Asai".

Lin Xinyi tried hard to express this meaning, but both Akai Shuichi and Fukitani Rei understood this.

So Lin Xinyi naturally used the excuse of "fearing his girlfriend to be jealous" to hang up the call from Miyano Akemi again.

Things are about to pass before our eyes.

What I didn't expect was

"Dingle bell bell bell bell"

Lin Xinyi's face darkened:

What's going on?

Do you have to call him now? !

"That Miss Asai called again, haha."

Officer Fangtani joked without hesitation:

"It seems that Miss Chris is right to worry——"

"She is still very loyal to Mr. Lin!"

"Haha." Lin Xinyi smiled awkwardly.

Belmod took the opportunity to get angry:

"No answer, Shinichi!"

"Hang up her phone!"

"Okay, okay, I'll hang up now."

Lin Xinyi couldn't wait in his heart, but on the surface he hung up the phone reluctantly.

But what he never expected was.

"Dingle bell bell bell bell"

Miyano Akemi called for the fourth time without stopping.

"This" Lin Xinyi's heart sank:

He hung up the phone three times in a row. The other party must have realized that it was not convenient for him to answer the phone now.

But Miyano Akemi still dialed the phone right away.

this means.

"She must be in a hurry, right?"

Akai Shuichi asked calmly:

"Mr. Lin, are you still not going to answer?"

These words made Lin Xinyi a little unsure.

What urgent matter could Miyano Akemi have to contact him immediately?

Could it be that Shiho encountered some trouble?

Many bad thoughts flashed through Lin Xinyi's mind, so he did not dare to hang up Miyano Akemi's call casually.

In desperation and tangle, Lin Xinyi could only carefully put the phone to his ear and press the call button nervously:

"Hello? Miss Asai?!"

Lin Xinyi preemptively shouted "Ms. Asai", hinting that the other party should be careful about speaking with a false identity.

And Miyano Akemi is not stupid either.

She was hung up on three times in a row, so she could naturally guess that Lin Xinyi must be inconvenient to talk to her for some reason.

So Miyano Akemi deliberately lowered her voice so that only Lin Xinyi on the other end of the phone could hear it.

Although the voice was soft, the tone was extremely anxious:

"Mr. Lin——"

"Something bad is going to happen!"

"Dr. Ali took the children to ski today, but was kidnapped by gangsters on the bus!"

"What?!" Lin Xin was dumbfounded.

At this time, he couldn't help shouting out:

"The bus that Xiao Ai and Dr. A Li were traveling on was hijacked by gunmen!?"

"That's right." Miyano Akemi explained anxiously:

It turns out that Dr. Ali took the children to the ski resort as planned today.

As a result, as soon as the group boarded the bus leading to the ski resort in Miwa Town, the bus was hijacked by two gunmen.

The gangsters took away the passengers’ mobile phones.

Haibara Ai was able to contact her sister in a narrow and dangerous way through the radio detective badge she carried, plus the fact that she was still in Miwa Town when the bus was hijacked, and the distance from her home was still within the effective range of the radio.

"Now I have Xiao Ai's spare radio badge."

"This is the only way the outside world can communicate with the inside of the car."

Miyano Akemi explained anxiously:

"I have now driven to chase the hijacked bus."

"Mr. Lin, if you are in Tokyo, come quickly and meet me!"

"Meet you? Where, Miwa Town?"

Lin Xinyi hurriedly asked for the address.

After he finished asking for the address, he suddenly reacted belatedly:

He is now riding in someone else's car.

There are also Rei Furitani and Shuichi Akai in the car!

Take Rei Fukiya and Shuichi Akai and go with Miyano Akemi to rescue Miyano Shiho

Just thinking about this scene makes my head spin.

But this time it was his turn to hesitate.

Officer Furitani, who was in the driver's seat with a righteous attitude, roughly guessed the situation as soon as he heard the key words "hijack the bus", "come and meet", and "Mika Town".

So before Lin Xinyi made a decision, Jiang Guling stepped on the accelerator to help him decide:

"Mr. Lin, I will send you to find Miss Asai right now!"