Dice has to give me spoilers for the plot of Ke Xue

As a semi-retired residence, Taku Itakura now lives in a villa in Mount Gunma.

After getting out of the car and looking around for a while, Liya found that the programmer was really far away from the crowd.With a radius of several hundred meters, apart from a looming cabin in the forest, there are only tall pine trees as neighbors.

She took a few more glances, and the curly-haired young man who had just walked over also looked in that direction: "Is there something wrong?"

"Just curious." Looking back, Riya shook her head, ignoring the inexplicable concern.

After Shancun Cao parked her car behind and followed her, she took the lead on the steps and knocked on the closed door.

"Hello... Mr. Itakura," the voice paused for two seconds before continuing, "We have received your report about the illegal invasion of your home."

While taking out her ID to show her identity, her eyes quickly swept over this haggard middle-aged programmer with a high hairline.

In my heart, I wasn't too surprised, on the contrary, it was more of a feeling of "as expected".

【The silent testimony left behind】

[Task Status: In Progress]

[Mission Location: Gunma County Mountain Villa]

[Mission objective: Hope to produce software that can defeat the "celebrity of chess", but the explorer in the dark unintentionally embarked on another path.Please help him get rid of endless horrific entanglements. 】

[Task Reward: Points * 30, recover the item "Iss' Memory Book". 】

Recycling... When was it used?Riya's eyes froze slightly.

After carefully looking at the documents and confirming the identity of the young woman in front of him, Takuo Itakura pushed down his glasses, the deep lines on his forehead eased a little, and let him open the door: "Please come in, three police officers."

"It's troublesome." Wei Wei lowered her eyes and suppressed the strange color. When she raised her eyes, her complexion had returned to normal.

Perhaps it was designed for single-person living. This villa is not big, and the interior furnishings can be seen clearly at a glance.

The eye-catching printers, bookcases and computers are placed in the corner of the room, which seems to belong to the workshop; except for these working equipment, the other parts are very empty, obviously this programmer is a workaholic who doesn't care much about the quality of life.

Inviting a few people to sit down on the sofa, Itakura Zhuo just wanted to ask them what they were going to do, when the female police officer spoke first: "Mr. Itakura, can you please introduce the situation in detail?"

"Ah, okay."

After being slightly taken aback, Itakura Takuo responded.

Of course, out of a cautious attitude, he didn't mention the man in black who came to him; he just gave a brief account of the continuous harassment that he couldn't get rid of during this time.

Knowing the cause and effect from Belmode, Liya could of course hear that he was trying to hide the real cause of the incident, but he didn't mean to interrupt.

It wasn't until the other party stopped talking and pondered for a few seconds that she asked unhurriedly.

"...Regarding the invasion, Mr. Itakura, do you still remember when it started?"

"July. I don't remember the exact date. I just remember that someone came to me and asked me about the development of a software, but I rejected it." Itakura Zhuo recalled a little and gave the answer.

"...Actually, I just dropped my pen and messed up the order of the documents in my office. I went home and changed the lock for a few days."

"But things have become more serious in the past two days," the middle-aged programmer rubbed his face, looking exhausted, "near my house, there will be screams from someone at night... I was afraid that I would be killed if I went down, so I couldn't stand it so I called the police."

Hearing his screams, Yamamura shrank silently.

"Did the camera capture anything?" As soon as Matsuda Jinhei came in, he noticed the camera turning by itself from time to time in the corner of the room.

Itakura Zhuo smiled wryly and shook his head.

"Nothing can be photographed. The intruder is very good at avoiding the indoor surveillance range; the cameras installed outside the house before were destroyed several times, and they couldn't survive the whole night."

"I said... Do you want to do a ritual?" A trembling voice suddenly sounded.

Seeing that other people's eyes were attracted, Shancun Cao swallowed unconsciously, and made a guess in a low voice: "If there is no one at all, I think it is probably a ghost or something..."

The curly-haired police officer beside him cast a sharp glance, his words stopped abruptly, but he felt aggrieved in his heart.

"...I will think about it." Itakura Takuo had no expression on his face.

"Sorry, please show us the possible entrances and exits." Sighing slightly, Riya gently pulled the curly-haired young man to stand up, turned his head and left the source of trouble politely, "Officer Yamamura, please go first Check at the back door, we will meet you after we see the front."

Hesitating to speak, Yamamura really wanted to protest that he should be a senior in terms of age... At least adding an honorific name would sound more pleasing to the ear.

But facing the vicious Tokyo duo, he just muttered something in his heart and gave up struggling.

Really, Mingming looked very similar to Police Officer Uehara at first, and thought she was a restrained and gentle female police officer.But after getting along for a while, I feel that she is more terrifying than the cold-faced curly hair who doesn't talk much...

Without hesitation, he chose to give up pulling his teammates, and Riya began to check the places where traces of invasion might be left.

And Matsuda Jinpei was as reliable as she expected.

"There are no signs of prying open the windows and door locks here, either they didn't invade from here, or they probably got the keys and entered directly from the main entrance."

After entering the working state, the curly-haired youth immediately became focused, and quickly came to a conclusion after carefully checking the windows on the first and second floors and the front door.

"...Of course, I haven't seen the back entrance yet, this is just an incomplete speculation."

Nodding, Itakura Zhuo added: "I think so too."

Standing aside, Riya pretended to be contemplative for a few seconds and then made a guess: "Mr. Itakura, if the belongings are still intact, I have a guess. Could it be that the person who ordered the software was rejected by you and became angry and wanted revenge?"

"What kind of software is it worth the other party's trouble?"

"What I'm making is just a shogi software. It shouldn't be because of this." His pupils shrank for a moment, and Itakura Taku answered very quickly, almost without thinking.

Nodding noncommittally, Riya opened the window and looked, and found that the hunter's hut was not far behind.

Absently, she asked casually, "Is there anyone living there?"

"That's the hunter's house in the mountains. They occasionally live there...but there are no windows, it's very hot, and there's no one in summer, and there's no door lock." Itakura Zhuo glanced at it and didn't care too much.

"Have you checked there?" Matsuda Jinping frowned, "If someone wants to spy on you, it's a natural hiding place."

"...I've seen no one before, and I haven't seen anyone coming in or out these few days." Itakura Zhuo was also a little hesitant when asked.

He never saw the lights on there, and the first few times he visited it was empty, so he gradually ignored the small room.

The curly-haired youth quickly made a decision: "Let's go there and have a look."

Glancing at him, Riya nodded in support without hesitation, and secretly took a deep breath.

"Are you going there?" Following behind them, Yamamura Cao was so surprised that he couldn't control the volume.

"Maybe there will be some clues." Riya glanced at his slightly bulging side waist, raised his eyebrows slightly, "Yamamura-kun, you are the only one with a gun among us, please be ready."

"Do you want to use a gun?" Shancun Cao's face turned pale.

"It's possible..." Matsuda Jinpei, who was walking in the front, paused, and immediately became alert, reminding in a light tone, "It's very likely now."

She heard it too.

——The sound of "jingling", as if some metal chain was being pulled and shaken.

Glancing at the young man with curly hair, Riya immediately made a decision: "Yamamura-kun, the moment the door opens, you draw your gun and aim at the person inside the door."

When they were on the second floor, they had already seen the structure of the wooden house. It was all wooden, and the only entrance was the front door... Fortunately, they still had a gun, so they wouldn't be too passive.

Following up tremblingly, Shancun Cao clenched the cock, swallowed nervously, and opened the safety after thinking for a while.

Glancing at the newcomer in the professional group, Riya didn't say anything, just took the handcuffs from Matsuda Jinpei, and stood on both sides of the door with him.

inside the door.

Kiichiro Numabuchi stopped his movements when he heard the sound, and was carefully listening to the footsteps outside.

——Three, two men and one woman, very vigilant... stopped at the door.

Is it someone from the organization, he thought indifferently, he was already ready to attack.

He tried his best and escaped before being sent to the laboratory. He would never go back... If it wasn't for avoiding the last batch of pursuits by the organization, he wouldn't be forced to hide in such a deep mountain. Inadvertently, he was seen and called the police when he was dealing with a guy who was chasing him closely.

Holding the dagger he grabbed earlier, he was ready to rush out after opening the door for a moment.

And outside the door.

Seeing that Matsuda Jinpei had nodded his head slightly, and seeing Yamamura Cao raised his gun to the door with a nervous expression on his face, Riya counted for three seconds in silence, then twisted the doorknob and pushed the door open forcefully, at the same time shouting— —

"Stay where you are, the police are here!"

In fact, it would be more deterrent if the two male policemen shouted, but they wanted to draw people out, so it would be more appropriate for her to shout at this time.

After yelling, if he is not a suspect, he will only obey the words honestly; on the contrary, if the person rushed out, he is definitely a suspicious person, and he should be arrested directly.

police?After being stunned for a moment, Numabuchi Kiichiro sped up his feet even more, holding the dagger and rushing out.

Muscles were tense, Matsuda Jinpei was ready to knock him down when he saw the suspect going out, and Riya clenched the handcuffs tightly, but the two of them froze for a second at the same time——

"boom!"

The gunshots rang out much earlier than expected.

Kiichiro Numabuchi, who had just rushed to the door, was panicked at first, but when he realized that the bullet had gone somewhere and he was unharmed, his face immediately became happy, and he rushed towards the panicked rookie outside the door with a dagger in his hand.

And Shancuncao's face turned pale, and he broke out in a cold sweat instantly, his trembling and sweaty hand could hardly pull the trigger.

The first round was loaded with blank ammunition according to the regulations. In fact, Riya asked Yamamura to raise the gun because it was more deterrent than offensive. After all, the prisoner who faced the gun didn't know that much.

But now... Her thinking froze, and she watched the curly-haired youth reach out without hesitation to grab the hunchbacked man who was rushing forward, and threw him out.

As expected, the gleaming dagger did not stab, and Yamamura Cao gasped for breath, watching the curly-haired police officer attract the murderer's attention, narrowly dodging the knife point, and kicking the man out, but he lost his balance and staggered, feeling completely lost for a moment. Can't react.

"Give me the gun!" The woman's hasty and cold voice.

When the mind was blank, the wrist was suddenly hit hard, and under the pain, Yamamura Cao subconsciously released the palm that was holding the handle of the gun, and lost the weapon in his hand in the blink of an eye.

"Bang—" The second shot rang out.

Just before Numabuchi Kiichiro climbed up again and was about to rush over with the knife, the bullet penetrated his arm with strong kinetic energy, causing a spray of blood.

"Boom, boom, boom—"

There was almost no stagnation, and three consecutive gunshots rang out, completely nailing Kiichiro Numabuchi who was still trying to fight back, and after screaming, he twitched and lost his ability to move.

The gurgling blood stained the ground red in the blink of an eye.

And Riya didn't even look at it, and threw the empty gun back with his hands, and returned it to the rookie in the professional group who was stupid and motionless, stepped across the distance, and knelt down in front of the curly-haired young man who was standing on the ground with one hand and was about to get up .

The downcast eyes swept across his whole body quickly, and when she spoke, her tone was especially cold, and her tense voice was unconsciously hoarse: "Mr. Zhen Ping, are you not injured?"

——The suit jacket from the chest to the waist was scratched, if it was a little deeper, it would definitely be a fatal wound...Damn it...

She wanted to lift her skirt to take a look, but just as she raised her hand, she was pushed forward and fell into a familiar embrace without any warning.

"I'm fine, don't be nervous."

Fingertips lightly brushed the tense and stiff back of his hand, Matsuda Zhenping sighed slightly while hugging the person, but his voice was unbelievably soft, almost raving.