Chapter 484: The irresponsible psychic

 As for now…

Jiang Xia lowered his head and glanced at the hand that he had just snapped.

 The bomb was assembled by arsonists.

 The fuse was pulled by an arsonist.

 And he just happened to pass by, and happened to try out a new skill nearby.

　　…If the arsonist had not pulled the fuse, and he had snapped his fingers until the handle was worn, the explosion would not have occurred… In short, what does all this have to do with him, a passing psychic.

 —Jiang Xia skillfully anesthetized his conscience.

 Then he looked at the two charred corpses by the river, trying to see if the shikigami had the same idea as him.

 Monsters are indeed not that easy to appear.

The arsonist’s body was motionless—no ghost fetuses emerged, no shikigami were generated, and it looked exactly like a suicide.

 As for Nagai Tatsuya, who was taken as a hostage, a new shikigami gradually emerged.

Shikishen paused in a daze for a moment, then slowly drifted towards the arsonist's body and laid his hands on the body's calf.

 After scratching it for a few seconds, it seemed that the touch felt wrong. It slowly raised a corner and looked up.

 After a while, it was discovered that the arsonist's vital signs had completely disappeared, and the Shikigami's obsession with revenge also dissipated. It relaxed and drifted away in the wind like a piece of paper.

Unfortunately, before I could float to the distance of freedom, I was blocked by a mermaid ghost and hugged me.

With this handful of mermaids, you can catch more than one shikigami.

 She caught four.

 —In addition to the shikigami the hostage turned into, there were two old shikigami hanging on the hostage’s legs, and one on the arsonist’s leg. As soon as they died, all the shikigami were lost.

 The murderous aura in the hostages and arsonists also fell off and drifted away with the death of their masters.

The mermaid hugged the ghost and couldn't free her hands to catch more things. She tried to raise her tail, but failed to catch the murderous aura that passed by.

Miss Spider behind her rolled up her sleeves and watched for a moment, then spread out her eight pointed legs from behind, accurately poking at the murderous aura passing by.

 Then she floated back to Jiang Xia gracefully with a murderous aura on her side, like two light black veils.

Different from the appearance of the ghosts having a good harvest, the crowd watching was now very panicked.

 The explosion occurred at close range, causing the crowd to rush and flee in panic.

In the chaotic flow of people, Nishitani Saori stared blankly at the place where the fire was rising. The scene of the stalker being swallowed up by the explosion replayed in her mind. She felt like a huge pie hit her head, and her expression was blank.

　　After staying for two or three seconds, her expression suddenly became distorted, revealing whether she was crying or laughing. There were big tears brewing in her eyes. But before the suppressed emotions could burst out, the person who fled in the chaos accidentally bumped into her. Nishitani Saori let out a soft scream and stumbled backwards.

However, before the stampede happened, a hand reached out from the side and held her steady.

Nishitani Saki subconsciously held the good Samaritan's arm and stumbled to stand still.

 She raised her head in shock and saw that the person supporting her was a strange young man.

The good Samaritan looks to be in his early twenties, wearing a black casual suit, no tie, and the collar casually open. His hair seems to be naturally curly, slightly fluffy but not messy, and he wears a pair of light-colored sunglasses on the bridge of his nose. Looking at each other, the handsome man in black nodded slightly to her, and at the same time naturally raised a hand and touched her side lightly. It looked like he was brushing away dust, or like he was taking off something stuck on his clothes.

 Before Nishitani Saori could recover, the other party had already finished the action.

 Then he took back his hand and asked politely: "Can you stand still?"

 During the delay, many people had already run far away from this dangerous explosion area. Nishitani Saki is standing firmly now, this is obviously a knowing question.

However, it is not difficult to understand the intention of the man in black.

— Nishitani Saki came back to her senses and let go of the hand that was tightly holding the other person's arm to stabilize her body: "Sorry... um, thank you just now."

Jiang Xia glanced at the fresh murderous aura he had just picked from her body, and nodded to her in a friendly manner.

 Then he left among the crowd and walked towards the guard hut where he came from.

—The guard did not return to his hut. Perhaps out of fear, he reflexively ran towards the sunset with most of the others.

Jiang Xia then drove the new puppet, pushed the door in skillfully, and returned to the cabinet. Exiting here is the least likely place for people with normal views to see you.

The moment the puppets were dismissed, the door of the guard room was pushed open.

Immediately afterwards, a familiar voice sounded at the door, with a hint of uncertainty and disbelief in the voice: "Matsuda?!"

 …is the voice of Officer Sato.

After coming to this conclusion, Jiang Xia silently increased the speed of disbanding the puppets to three times the speed.

 The puppet quickly collapsed into a large piece of shikigami and disappeared silently.

 …

Matsuda Jinpei used to be a bomb disposal expert in the mobile team of the National Guard.

 Seven years ago, after his friend Hagiwara Kenji died, Matsuda Jinpei insisted on transferring posts in order to find the prisoner.

 But his superiors also knew what he was thinking and were worried that he would be impulsive and cause trouble. It was not until three years ago that Matsuda Jinpei was transferred to the first serious crime team of the Investigation Section. After that, Matsuda Jinpei, as a "newbie", was led by Miwako Sato for seven days.

 In the first six days of working together, the young police officer Sato was so angry at his unorganized and undisciplined colleague that his liver ached.

On the seventh day, the mysterious bomber suddenly took action—he sent a fax to the Metropolitan Police Department, marking the location "No. 72, Cupido Shopping Mall Ferris Wheel" in code.

Matsuda Jinpei was invited, and in order to get more clues about the criminals, he quickly rushed forward. He has been good at dismantling since he was a child, and later accumulated a lot of experience in bomb disposal. Disposing of the bomb mounted on the Ferris wheel was a piece of cake.

However, the prisoners did not respect martial ethics, and the competition was not about bomb disposal skills - the Ferris wheel compartment 72 containing Matsuda Jinpei was forced to stop in mid-air, and after activating the mercury rod, the display screen of the bomb in the compartment showed the information that the prisoners had left in advance. According to the message, he wanted to "play a game with the brave police officers."

—Three seconds before the Ferris wheel bomb explodes, a string of text will be displayed on the screen.

The bomber had installed a heavy bomb in a crowded place in advance. The bomb screen in the Ferris wheel shows the location of the huge bomb.

In this case, if Matsuda Jinpei continues to defuse the bomb and cuts off the power supply, the display screen will lose its function and the police will not know where the other bomb is hidden. As a result, countless citizens may lose their lives.

If he wanted to see the text on the display screen, Matsuda Jinpei could only give up disarming the bomb and wait to be blown up.

—The bomber wants to read the script of "the police ignore the safety of the people in order to protect themselves", and then publicize this and retaliate against the police.

 (End of this chapter)