In the evening, an advertising screen outside Tokyo Station was reporting the news of No. 14. During the day, many people died mysteriously.

Xia Long got off the train at Tokyo Station, read the report silently for a while, and then left the station through the crowd.

"Aaron," he just returned to the newspaper office and met Hirata who was out. "How is the situation? Did Nagano find anything?"

"Sorry," Xia Long shook his head, "In the end, nothing was found."

"That's it. By the way, the policeman named Ichijo has come to see you again before. He made several calls in a row. He seemed very anxious."

"Officer Ichijo? I understand."

Xia Long walked into the office and immediately used the phone to contact Ichijo Kaoru.

"I heard that you came to me for something..."

"It's okay now, but can I ask you to come over?" Ichika, a girl driving the car and looking at the back seat through the rearview mirror, said, "Professor Natsume's wife and daughter happened to be here in Tokyo. Already..."

"What? Shijia was attacked by No. 14?" Xia Long listened to the call and nodded, "Okay, I'll be there right away."

Zhu Xingtuan looked at Xia Long curiously after making the call: "Aaron, what is your relationship with that policeman?"

"Just ordinary friends," Xia Long put down the phone and said, "Sorry, I'm going back today."

At Chengnan University, Xia Long met Kaoru Ichijo at the school gate as soon as he got out of the taxi.

"The monster No. 14 that appeared today is different from before. It can fly in the sky like a bee and shoot poisonous needles to kill people," Ichichi said as he walked. "In addition, Godai has a new green form. In the afternoon, Godai will kill that guy." Shot down from the sky."

"How is Shiga doing now?"

"She's fine."

One led Xia Long outside the archeology laboratory: "They are inside."

Xia Long followed Yiyi and pushed in the door. First he saw the fifth generation and several others, and then he saw the mother and daughter of Shiga sitting together with their heads down.

"Suga."

Shijia raised his head slightly when he heard the words, and then lowered his head with evasive eyes after seeing the Xia Long beside him.

"I'm sorry, I just came back from Nagano," Xia Long continued, "I almost caused an accident to you."

"Can you go outside for a while?" Mrs. Natsume hugged her daughter, with a trace of sadness in her eyes. She stood up and looked at Xia Long pleadingly.

"OK."

Xia Long looked at Shijia who was buried in his head, nodded and turned to leave the research room.

On the Chengnan University campus, the research building seemed quite quiet at night, with almost no people around. Xia Long, mother and daughter walked out of the building in silence, paused, and took the initiative to say: "Officer Ichijo has already told me, listen. Seriously, why did Shijia suddenly come to Tokyo when he was almost in danger?”

"Recently, I put a stone in my husband's drawer. It looks like something unearthed near the ruins." Mrs. Natsume opened a box wrapped in cloth. "Nagano said that the investigation of the matter has been transferred here. I think this I brought it here if it might be useful for No. 0’s investigation.”

Xia Long held an ancient stone with strange patterns and couldn't figure out why.

"Actually, I went to Nagano this time just to investigate again. It seems that since that time, there have been no clues about Zero," Xia Long put the stone back and said, "I'm sorry, I haven't made much progress."

Mrs. Natsume put away the box and said silently with a trace of guilt on her face: "We have all watched the news on TV these days, and we know that the masked superman is you. Mr. Aaron has been risking his life to fight those weirdos. …”

"I'm sorry." Shijia suddenly choked up on the side, "It's because I wanted to investigate the matter of Zero too much."

"You don't have to say sorry to me, I don't mind. Just make sure you're fine," Xia Long said with a smile, "Stop crying and go back to Nagano first. Believe me, I can definitely find No. 0."

Newspaper agency.

A few weeks later, after sending Mika and his daughter away from the dangerous Tokyo, an unconfirmed life form incident occurred basically every two or three days. Xia Long temporarily left it to the fifth generation to deal with it, while he tried to collect various information. Information and see if you can find any clues.

Over the past few days, he has also discovered that these weirdos maintain a strange organizational form. The later they appear, the stronger they are. From the perspective of the Rose Girl Gurungi he met at the beginning, there should be some kind of strength hierarchy among these guys.

"Aaron," the editor-in-chief asked curiously as he flipped through the newspaper and other information, "What do you think those guys want to do? Only one monster attacks humans every time. I heard that some people saw a group of unidentified life forms that looked like humans often gathering together. It’s really hard to understand that they were in one place, but they moved away after being discovered, as if they were hiding from people.”

"I'm not so sure either."

Xia Long thought of the Rose Girl who was very different from other Gurungi: "Maybe someone is taking care of them."

"Are you saying they also have a boss?"

"Um."

Xia Long took a look at the witness information of an unconfirmed life form, stood up, picked up his backpack and said, "Editor-in-Chief, I'll go out and investigate again."

The Metropolitan Police Department and Investigation Headquarters are holding a meeting regarding unidentified life forms.

"At present, these unconfirmed life forms have appeared on the 20th. More and more people, including police officers, have died. We must find their lair no matter what, and use our police power to catch them all."

"I'm Shibasaki from the police dog training center," a police officer said at the signal of the search director, "The police dogs' initial reaction to those unconfirmed life forms is that they will strongly resist our orders because of fear. However, after more than a month of patient training, we found one of the 31 military dogs that can distinguish their special smell and can be used to track those guys."

"Officer Sakurai," the director turned to a young policeman and said, "You will work with him to use the police dogs to conduct investigations and search the Shinagawa, Ota, and Meguro districts where the most reports have been received."

"Yes!"

...

In Shinagawa District, Xia Long walked around with a backpack and observed, and finally found a witness who was said to have seen an unconfirmed life form.

"Hello, I'm a reporter from the Xinsheng Newspaper. Can I ask you something?"

After ringing the doorbell and leaving a message, Xia Long waited at the door for a while, and a middle-aged man who looked a little nervous opened the door.

After the middle-aged man looked behind Xia Long, he immediately let Xia Long into the house: "Come in."

Xia Long followed him through the messy living room and found a lot of newspaper clippings on the wall, all of which were reports about unconfirmed life forms, including news about him fighting monsters as a masked man.

"Do you need something to drink?" the middle-aged man asked with a cup of water.

"No need," Xia Long stood in front of the briefing and looked at it for a while, "I just came here to find you to learn more about those monsters. I heard that you have seen them before."

"That's right," the middle-aged man swallowed his saliva and said in fear, "Those guys have turned into human beings, wearing strange clothes and strange tattoos. I thought they were just a group of thugs and yelled at them a few words. Later, I saw the news and found out that they were all monsters."

"Didn't they attack you?" Xia Long continued to ask, "Then, do you know where they went?"

"I don't know," the middle-aged man still had a look of fear in his eyes, "I dare not go out these days."

Xia Long noticed that the middle-aged man's fingers holding the water cup were trembling slightly, and he sighed secretly, and finally gave up asking.

"Excuse me."

After leaving the witness's house, Xia Long walked to the side of a tunnel where Gurongi had gathered. There was no clue left at the scene, and it looked like a temporary base.

However, there have been many incidents in Shinagawa District during this period, and those guys are likely to stay in Shinagawa District or the surrounding area of ​​Shinagawa District.

Xia Long passed through the tunnel and stopped on an overpass. He looked around the buildings and streets and suddenly saw a familiar policeman on the other side with a police dog, who seemed to be looking for something.

"It seems to be Officer Sakurai from the Metropolitan Police Department... Is he also looking for those guys?"

"Ding ding!" Xia Long's recently bought mobile phone suddenly rang in his arms. He didn't care about Sakurai and quickly opened the phone and found that it was the number of the newspaper.

"Along, something happened!" Editor-in-chief Zhu Xingtuan said anxiously, "Where are you now?"

"I'm in Shinagawa District, what's wrong?"

"Those guys have appeared again, anyway, you have to go to Taito District quickly! No matter what, you have to bring Hirata back!"

"Senior Hirata?"

Xia Long's face tightened when he heard this, and he hurriedly left the overpass.

...

In Taito District, Xia Long hurried to the seaside square. After searching for a while, he finally saw an accident scene blocked by the police.

Along the way, Zhu Xingtuan didn't explain clearly. He barely knew that on the 21st, someone was killed in Taito District, and then he went to the port area. There were chaotic sirens everywhere.

"Senior Hirata!"

Pushing through the crowd of onlookers, Xia Long noticed Hirata kneeling on the shore in the blockade area. He rushed in, shouting, "Senior Hirata, are you okay?"

Running into the scene of the incident, Xia Long gradually slowed down his pace and finally stopped behind Hirata.

Hirata was not seriously injured, but he was crying against the shore guardrail, holding a piece of burnt paper in his hand, his face was squeezed into a ball, and his tears were completely out of control.

"Senior Hirata..."

Xia Long looked at Hirata with trembling shoulders, opened his mouth, and turned his eyes to the busy policemen on the side.

Two figures were drawn on the ground with white chalk, and the victim's body seemed to have been moved away by the police...

"Mr. Hirata," a policeman walked up to Hirata and looked at the remains of the paper and advised, "I'm sorry about your daughter, but can you give us this report card? It's a very important piece of evidence."

It was then that Xia Long noticed that what Hirata was holding in his hand was part of a report card, and there was a girl's name on it.

"Kuri..." Hirata held the paper tightly against his chest, calling his daughter's name over and over again, choking with pain as if his heart was aching.

"Mr. Hirata," Xia Long sighed and squatted down, "Let's go back first."

After losing his daughter, Hirata looked like he had lost his soul. Compared with his usual hard work, he was like a completely different person, and finally fainted at the scene of the incident.

With the help of the police, Xia Long carried Hirata on his back and silently called a car to return to the newspaper office in the port area.

"His wife passed away a few years ago and he only has this daughter. Although he doesn't have a good relationship with his daughter, he has been working hard to support her education," said Moroboshi Tuan silently, looking at Hirata who was still mumbling in his sleep. "I know he actually loves his daughter very much. He even risks his life to find exclusive news in order to make money. Maybe his daughter is everything to him."

Ayako took good care of Hirata and lay down in the vacated lounge. She said to the editor-in-chief, "What should we do now?"

"Let's leave it alone for now. Don't report on the 21st. Wait for Hirata to recover for two days."

"This is the only way."

The editor-in-chief and Ayako fell into silence at the same time. The atmosphere in the whole office was a little low. Xia Long looked at the two of them and walked aside to make a phone call.

First, he called the Bore Bore restaurant to inquire about the situation of Godai. After learning that Godai had been called out by Ichijo, he tried to call Ichijo again, but the call didn't go through. He was just told that the other party was driving.

Ichijo was probably very busy now. Xia Long had no choice. Godai didn't even have a phone. He usually contacted Ichijo through the communicator on the motorcycle.

"Editor-in-chief, let me go." Xia Long put down the phone and said, "I'll go investigate No. 21. At this time, we should find out the situation of No. 21, right?"

"You?" The editor-in-chief shook his head, "What can you do?"

"Bang!" As he was talking, a series of noises suddenly came from the lounge, followed by the sound of someone stumbling and pushing the door and running out.

"Senior Hirata?"

Xia Long glanced at the empty lounge and immediately rushed out. When he got downstairs, Hirata had already opened the door of the newspaper's news car.

"Mr. Hirata!"

Xia Long rushed forward and grabbed Hirata: "Where are you going? The editor-in-chief told you to stay at the newspaper!"

"I'll fight that guy! Let go!" Hirata found that he couldn't get rid of Xia Long, and said with red eyes, "Along, I have nothing left!"

"Mr. Hirata..."

Looking at Hirata's dry eyes, Xia Long's hand loosened involuntarily, but he didn't let Hirata leave. When the car started, he whispered: "Even if you find No. 21, what? What can you do? It's just a waste of life, and you will only become a sacrifice in front of that guy."

Hirata seemed to have listened to Xia Long's words, and finally did not continue to start the car. After hysterically hammering the car window, he hugged his head and leaned on the steering wheel and sobbed, as if he was sad for his powerlessness.

"Let me do it." Xia Long did not disturb Hirata who was venting his pain. He whispered to himself and turned away silently.

...

In the afternoon, Xia Long found another incident scene in the port area. The same as the one in Taito District was committed by 21. It is said that the victims were all killed by the explosion.

Xia Long walked to the shore of the harbor and turned his eyes to the water. An eyewitness said that after killing people, 21 finally jumped into the water.

"Ding ding ding!" The ringing of the mobile phone on his body brought Xia Long back to his thoughts.

"Ma Xia Long," Ichijo contacted, "what's the matter?"

"Nothing," Xia Long paused, and then asked, "Officer Ichijo, can you tell me about No. 21?"

"No. 21?"

Ichijo Kaoru paused, and after a while, he said in a deep voice: "It disappeared after fighting with Godai in Arakawa District, and Godai was almost killed by him."

Xia Long was surprised and said: "Godai? What's going on?"

"He is very strong," Godai was right next to Ichijo, and took the phone and said, "He will spit out a liquid that will explode from the front, but when I went around to hit him from behind, the attack seemed to be absorbed."

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