I'm on the scramble

There seemed to be an unfathomable vortex in his deep eyes, and all the suppressed emotions were sucked into that dark purple center.

Ah Li looked straight into his eyes for a long while, then smiled brightly at a moment when he was unprepared, raised his hand to open the car door, and sat unceremoniously on his co-pilot.

"Then please give me more advice, let's go out of the county!"

She obediently pulled on her seat belt, and pointed forward domineeringly as His Highness gave orders to the driver.

Glancing at her in the rearview mirror, the light-blond young man couldn't help smiling, and started the car with the accelerator.

"it is good."

The rear of the car quickly left the current nightmarish scene in Yokohama.Perhaps it was to take care of the feelings of Her Royal Highness in the car. The car drove fairly smoothly. Except for the occasional bumps when rolling over the stones on the mountain road, the ride experience was basically quite comfortable.

But the one sitting in the co-pilot was not an ordinary woman.

Ah Li, who loves to let herself go, silently gave this stable driving skill a slightly inferior evaluation in her heart.

The further you go toward your goal, the more difficult the road seems to be. For some reason, the surrounding ancient trees are messy and crooked on the side of the road, as if they were run over by some heavy object.

"Has there been a battle here..."

During the ride, Ah Li couldn't help observing the surrounding environment.

"Could it be the reason for the recent road rectification here?" Amuro, who was manipulating the steering wheel, naturally saw this scene, and gave a guess as if chatting.

"Hmm..." Ah Li didn't jump to conclusions, feeling that there were still many doubts in his heart.

Fortunately, the driving time passed quickly, passing through the deserted forest, they finally arrived at the mountain hotel used by the detective agency as a refuge.

Naomi and Qi Luozi who originally lived here were secretly arranged to be transferred to other places, and the one who stayed behind as a bait was Mr. Lemon they tied back. Mr. Q in the trap.

It's just that when they drove not far from the hotel, they found that the situation in front of them was different from what they had imagined.

"This... was snatched away by someone!"

Ah Li pushed open the car door and went out, looking in the direction of the mountain hotel with a surprised expression.

The entire hotel is wrapped in a special transparent film, which shows a strange distorted color under the light.As far as the eye could see, many people in jackets fell in disorder.

Those people should be the subordinates of the combination.

"...Is it the enemy who caused Yokohama's current situation?" Amuro also looked at the scene in front of him that transcended reality. Even though the situation was beyond common sense, his identity behind the scenes still allowed him to maintain his calm at this time.

"Stay here for the time being and don't get close. Leave the things inside to me. I'll go ahead to explore the way first."

Ah Li's action was extremely fast, and after explaining to Amuro, he ignored his reaction and quickly walked towards the direction of the crowd.

As she was about to reach the barrier, she untied the string that tied the collar of the sword bag behind her back as she walked, put five fingers on the handle of the knife, and slowly pulled the knife out of its sheath.

The sun's fine golden light spots spread across the blade surface full of frosted texture, shining brightly.When the knife was slowly pushed to the middle, the owner of the sword suddenly accelerated the speed of drawing, aiming at a certain point in mid-air and chopping the tip of the knife forward.

As if the paper was cut sharply, with the blade as the boundary, the film was cut from left to right, accompanied by shattered golden stars, and the two halves were separated, revealing the true content inside.

For a moment, there was a strange mental pressure gushing out along the invisible gap in the air like churning black mud, pressing heavily on the face, making people feel nauseous and want to vomit.

Even Ah Li couldn't help frowning, covered her mouth and nose, and raised her hand to slap her vigorously, only then was the special invisible pressure quickly pushed away within the range of her hand waving.

However, it seemed that she fanned away the unpleasant feeling with her hands, but in fact it was her supernatural ability that wiped out all the energy bodies that came in, diluting the stickiness in the air.

Ah Li boldly walked into the hotel, his heels stepped on the wooden boards in the corridor, echoing a particularly crisp sound of footsteps.

Wherever they passed, the hotel owner, passengers, and even the members of the group all fell to the wall or lay on the floor for unknown reasons.In such a weird scene, if a normal person came in to take risks, he would probably have to tense his nerves all the time, worrying whether there would be monsters suddenly coming out to attack in the corner, and he would end up with the same result as the unconscious person on the ground.

And holding a knife and breaking into the girl who was trying to block and kill gods and ghosts, she was reckless.She ran directly to the room where the lemon was closed before, and pushed open the paper door with a 'swish'.

What catches the eye is the most conspicuous existence in the middle.

It was a little boy who was born with black and white hair, dressed cutely, and was like an anthropomorphic little boy of a certain mascot Black and White Bear.His whole body was bound to the wall by an unimaginably huge tree, and the thick and tangled roots of the chassis almost occupied the entire room.

There were two unconscious people at his feet, one was the hapless Kajii they used as bait, and it seemed that he managed to survive.The other one was a surprise, it turned out to be a strange blond foreign youth.The veins of the blond youth's neck burst out, and grapevines emerged from the blood hole in his neck, connecting with the branches in the room.

is a member of the group.

This original ecological tree cage room seems to be a masterpiece created by his abilities.

"However, it's too strange that all the people including the group are unconscious." Ah Li muttered to himself, his eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he fell into a thoughtful expression.

While thinking about the suspicious points in this incident, he swung the 'sand blowing' forward in his hand, and under the action of the blade, he easily cut through the vines that were intertwined in front of him like cutting tofu.

Without the support of the branches, the little boy slumped down weakly, and was caught in Ah Li's arms.

Taking 'Yangsha' back into the scabbard, Ah Li walked outside with Q on his back, and secretly checked the situation in other rooms.

She tried to open one door after another, and found that all the guests staying in the room were also unconscious without exception.

Suddenly the boy behind him moved, as if he was gradually showing signs of regaining consciousness because he was by her side.

"Ugh..."

Yumeno Hisaku let out a non-sentence sound from his mouth as if in a dream, and Ari, who happened to check the room to see if there were any survivors, opened a door again, and looked back at him before casting his gaze into the room glance.

"Huh? Are you awake?"

Yumeno Hisaku, who opened his eyes because of her voice, just met the creepy white skirt girl in the room.

At the window, a girl with long black hair was sitting, her back was facing the door, she was alone, and she opened the cardboard to look at the scenery outside the window.

The wind blew up her skirt, just like a female ghost in white that only appears in horror stories.

"Ghost, ghost, wow--"

Yumeno Hisakuro tilted his head, and he fell unconscious on her back not long after waking up.

Hearing the content of his shout, Ah Li ignored his fainting from shock and immediately turned his head back into the room.

Coincidentally, I won the lottery at this time.

"...Are you a resident of this hotel?"

After observing vigilantly for a while, Ah Li speculated from the other party's clothes that she should be a guest who had nothing to do with this incident, and since he didn't feel any malice from there, he tried to shout.

Unexpectedly, a strange voice would squeeze into this space, and the girl in the white dress turned her head following the sound.It was only then that people discovered that she actually had a very delicate face, but her light green eyes were as melancholy as a forest after the rain, casting a layer of gloom on her whole temperament.

Her chest was still heaving slightly, as if she was calming down after waking up from a nightmare, she panted a little.

"Why, would you..."

The voice of the girl in the white dress was very hoarse, like a traveler who hadn't seen an oasis in the desert for a long time, or like shouting hissingly in a dream, which caused her vocal cords to be damaged.

Apparently the girl was surprised by Ah Li who appeared here, it was the first time she saw someone who could walk freely within her ability without defense.

The occurrence of this fact caused her light green eyes to be slightly dyed with a cluster of almost imperceptible light, flickering fragilely.

And Ah Li calmly met the other party's gaze, walked into the Japanese room with Q on his back, and came in front of the girl in the white dress.

"It's dangerous to stay here, please leave with me first."

She stretched out her hand towards the other party, and the girl in the white skirt was obviously at a loss when facing her white palm spread out in front of her eyes.

Seeing that the person was completely unresponsive like a dull puppet, Ah Li couldn't help but directly grabbed her wrist and pulled her up from the tatami.

"Don't be in a daze, get out of here quickly."

The moment he touched the girl's wrist, Ali paused, but in the end she didn't say anything, and pulled him out of the room without a doubt.

"Who are you..." The girl in the white skirt was stumbled and couldn't help but stare at her back and asked.

The other party was weak, and Ah Li had no choice but to follow her pace, carrying the boy behind him on his back, while leading her to the hotel door.

"It's just a well-meaning person who had to rush over to collect 'trouble'. But if you're asking about my identity—"

Ah Li put on the vest of a "good-hearted person" without any psychological burden, and introduced himself: "My name is Fu Zeli, and I am a detective of the Armed Detective Agency."

The girl reacted slowly and repeated: "Detective..."

It wasn't the policeman who kept coming to save her, the nurse who took care of her mental state, or the source of her nightmares, but a detective who said he would take her away.

For the first time, this word fell so clearly in her heart.

When they got outside the hotel, Amuro's car was still parked where it was.

Seeing Ah Li leading someone out, he hastened to meet him.

"I have checked all the rooms in the hotel. Basically, everyone seemed to be in a state of mental attack and fell into a coma. I only found a girl who was still awake in one room."

"Is that her..."

So Amuro's eyes fell on the girl in the white skirt next to her, showing a harmless and gentle smile: "What's the lady's name? Are you injured?"

Even though it was a short distance from the room to the outside, the girl in the white skirt still exhausted a lot of energy by running out. Panting for breath, she shook her head in resistance as if unwilling to open her mouth, and only said one sentence.

"Asuka well... Wood record."

At this time, Ah Li put the Q behind his back on the ground, and exhaled as if adjusting his mood.

"There are still a lot of people inside. I can't move them all out alone. There are many enemies who don't know when they will wake up. Let the police come and clean them up."

In this situation, she will not stick to letting the detective agency take all the credit.As long as Q doesn't fall into the hands of the group, it doesn't matter whether it's in the detective agency or the police.

That is, the port mafia may have to spend more effort to get people back.

Just thinking about it made her happy.

The light-blond young man leaning against his beloved car nodded towards Ah Li, and took out his mobile phone at her gesture.

Skillfully dialed a series of numbers on the keyboard, he explained the accident on the other side of the phone, and then hung up the phone. The whole process did not take 3 minutes.

While waiting for the police to arrive, Ah Li squatted down halfway to look at the boy who was placed on the ground by her.

Move his bangs to measure his forehead temperature, and open his sleeves and neckline to check his physical condition.

"There is no trace of being abused by the enemy, that is to say, did you faint because of a mental shock before..."

Ali whispered thoughtfully.

On the contrary, the spirit of the mind control system was destroyed by the enemy at the psychological level, which is no different from the consequences of humiliation.

While she was doing a physical examination on Xiao Zhengtai, Amuro was asking about the situation of the girl who appeared in the hotel.

"From the appearance of the lady, she should be a resident of this hotel. Before everyone in the hotel passed out, did you stay in the room and never go out?"

Hearing his question, Ah Li, who temporarily came to the conclusion that there was no problem after the inspection, couldn't help but cast him a condemning look.Seeing this, Amuro immediately raised his hand and surrendered helplessly.

"Sorry, I didn't mean it maliciously. It's just that as a detective's occupational disease, I couldn't help but ask a few more questions."

But after learning that he was a detective, the girl opposite did not show any disgust.Hearing this, she got rid of the melancholy expression of vague resistance, and answered his question more cooperatively than expected.

"...I came to the mountains to recuperate, and I have arranged to live here since a few days ago. I just woke up from a nightmare not long ago, and found that the outside has become like this."

Asuka folded his arms uneasily, his complexion was so pale that he could clearly see the pale blue veins under his skin.Her fingertips moved slightly to her wrist, and she could still feel the warmth left there before.

Unknowingly, due to a kind of tranquility that gradually sank down, the barrier that wrapped the entire building disappeared and returned to its original appearance.

"That's it, thank you for your cooperation." Amuro politely sent a comforting smile at the right time.

Adhering to the reason that it is not good to irritate the victim, Amuro temporarily stopped inquiring. Anyway, the police will dutifully record her testimony when they arrive at the scene next time.

But he didn't expect that the tea chestnut-haired girl who had shown him a condemning look would speak more pungent words than he did.

"Actually, it was you who made everyone in and out of the hotel unconscious."

Amuro was startled when he heard this.

So that look is not condemning him for questioning at an inappropriate time, but is condemning him for not asking forcefully enough...

Having been exposed, Asukai unconsciously tightened his fingers grasping the wrist bone, his eyes were bewildered, and he didn't know how to answer.

"As expected...is it me?"

In fact, she more or less knew in her heart that the culprit of all this was her rampage, but every time, she was unwilling to face the truth.Because the price she paid for admitting this was that she dared not close her eyes every night, for fear that if she closed her eyes, she would be greeted with countless scenes of being tortured to death in her dreams.

"When I held your hand, I already discovered that the energy substances released unconsciously from your body are the same as those surrounding the building."

Ah Li glanced at her and said, "Regardless of why you did this, it did me a great favor. It saved me the trouble of arresting all those people one by one."

People with supernatural powers are not uncommon in this world, and Ah Li didn't bother to investigate her details.

However, Asukai found a loophole in her words.

"...Not all of them are here."

She hesitated for a while, but still told the truth: "There is a person, he is not controlled by this ability. He turned into a huge monster that has never been seen before, and left in the direction of the city."

"monster?"

Ah Li's expression froze for a moment, and he kept asking: "When did it happen? Where did you see him go?"

"I left 20 minutes before you arrived, and I should have gone a long way by now. When I just woke up, I heard the voice next door saying that they received information about an underground stronghold. That monster... has a purpose. Headed for Yokohama."

The underground stronghold... is Wanxiangtang!

"It turns out that the destroyed trees I saw on the side of the road were caused by that enemy..."

After thinking about this for a while, Ah Li's expression changed instantly.She bit her nails anxiously, and turned on her phone to contact the detective agency to remind them of the news.

But I don't know what emergency happened far away in Yokohama, and no one answered the phone for a long time.

"It's just this time... Could it be that Hong Kong gangsters deliberately exposed it to them? Is it because they want to retaliate and draw firepower..."

Ah Li tried to deduce in his mind, the most likely thing was that the port mafia did it, they were the only ones who knew the location of Wanxiangtang except all the members of the detective agency.

"Miss Li, we should hurry back now before it's too late."

Seeing her anxious expression, Amuro gave a suggestion from the side.

But Ah Li gradually calmed down, and gritted his teeth: "No, we have to wait for the police to come, otherwise no one will guard the group of people in the hotel."

This is a task that she must complete herself. Everyone in the detective agency is working hard, and she must believe in Ranpo and them in her heart.Ranbu must have seen through all the developments of the matter, so he should be prepared.

That's what she said, but the flames in her eyes burned more and more.The toes moved slightly, and the side of her feet didn't touch her branch at all, and it just disappeared into golden dust in the spreading abilities.

"Ranbu should stay obediently in Wanxiangtang..." Ah Li tirelessly redialed the contact number, anxiously waiting for the moment when he would be connected.

——If he didn't tell Luanbu to stay there and wait at the beginning, then he would leave early without any psychological burden, damn it.

Finally, the called police car arrived at the scene at a critical moment.

"I'm Kazumi, a criminal police officer from the Public Security Department of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Did you report the case?"

The person who came was a police officer with black-rimmed glasses and a serious demeanor.He rushed to the scene with a team of colleagues armed with batons, guns and other explosion-proof weapons. When he approached, he took the lead in taking a look at the light-blond young man behind them.

But before Amuro exchanged glances with him, Ah Li rushed up ferociously and grabbed Kazami by the collar and shook it.

"Yes! Come and help us hear you!"

Yuya Kazami, who was so forcefully pulled back and forth that he couldn't speak: "..."

It's not like asking for help at all, but looking for revenge.

He provided testimony for the police officers as fast as a tongue twister, and then entrusted Asuki and Q to the police, and explained to them the identities of these dangerous people inside, Ah Li was finally able to relieve the burden of this heavy responsibility.

When she was about to turn around and leave quickly to go back to Yokohama non-stop, the girl in white skirt who was taken away by the police covered and said a word to Ari when she passed by.

"Wouldn't it be better to leave us irrelevant people behind and do your more important things?"

Ah Li suddenly stopped and looked back at her.

Although the situation is urgent, the principle of being a human being must be adhered to.

"You are not irrelevant people. Since it is the task I took, I will not give up casually." Ali waved his hand and said, "And, how could I allow myself to leave a girl who is obviously very scared Stay here alone."

Asuka was startled, and then lowered his eyelashes after a while.

"You are such a strange person..."

During the time she was meditating, Ah Li had already rushed to the car without further delay, and only turned around to leave her behind.

Ari got into Amuro's Mazda faster than ever before, urging Amuro to return to the driver's seat while fastening his seat belt.

"You know I'm in a hurry, whether you're cutting a red light on a railway or playing Grand Theft Auto, fly back to Yokohama within half an hour!"

Ah Li clenched the seat belt on his chest and kicked his legs restlessly on the seat, wishing he could grab the steering wheel from his hand on the spot and drive across the map in a rampage.

Hearing what she said, a subtle expression appeared on the face of soul driver Toru Amuro, but soon, he turned his eyes back to the front, and his angular profile showed a bit of confidence.

"Since you've made such a request, don't regret it next time."

After all, he was a man who lived wild in Singapore.