Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, 10:12am.
Due to the police's last operation to round up the stronghold, a lot of things left by the Gurangji were found in that warehouse. At this time, Kaorimasa Ichijo and Morimichi Sugita were discussing in the conference room.
"They did leave a lot of things behind." Sugita sighed.
There were two things in plastic bags on the table, one was a white plate edged with white copper, and the other was an iron wrist wheel that Kaoru had captured once before.
"The things that were specially collected are obviously not modern and purely belong to them. There are only these two items. According to the intelligence of No. 1, these are the tools they use to count during the game."
"But no matter how the experts calculated it, it was wrong. There is no way to add, subtract, multiply or divide these things." Sugita also raised his own questions.
"Maybe it's because of the base system." A detailed explanation said: "When I asked No. 1 yesterday, he told me that it was not confirmed that the life forms use the nine-base algorithm, although this is very illogical..."
"That's right, indeed." Sugita quickly understood the unreasonableness here. Although he is only a policeman, he still knows something about the evolution of some things in human evolution.
"Because everyone has ten fingers, they will gradually evolve into the decimal system when counting. Who would have thought that this group of ancient people who also have ten fingers would actually use the nine-digit algorithm. This is really wrong."
"Ding-ding-ding-" Kaoru Ichijo's cell phone suddenly rang.
"Excuse me."
He stepped aside and connected.
The voice of young police officer Kameyama came from the other end of the phone. He is still far away at the Nagano City Police Headquarters.
"Is it Mr. Ichijo?"
"Kameyama." Kaoru Ichijo smiled rarely.
Kameyama grabbed the receiver tightly and asked impatiently: "I heard that due to the reorganization of the investigation headquarters, is Mr. Ichijo really going to be officially transferred to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department?"
"Well, I'm afraid so." Kaoru Ichijo answered him affirmatively.
Kameyama suddenly had a disappointed expression on his face, "Why is this like this? I still thought that you would come back immediately after the incident was resolved."
Ichijo Kaoru was a little helpless about this. This young policeman named Kameyama seemed to admire him very much, but he was not very interested in personality worship, so he criticized harshly: "How can you say that? Unidentified life forms They’re still showing up one after another.”
"That's true, but..." Guishan was speechless.
At the same time, the police alarm phone on the table rang, and Sugita Morimichi stepped forward to answer it.
"Investigation Headquarters, what? Got it."
"There's an incident, hang up first." Realizing that something happened, Kaoru Ichijo hung up Kameyama's phone decisively and looked at Sugada Morimichi.
Sugita quickly explained the situation, "This is a request for dispatch. A new unconfirmed life form has appeared. In Koto District, witnesses said that all the people on the cruise ship were massacred!"
In Setagaya Ward, Shin Futoko Bridge.
Yusuke Godai drove his motorcycle speeding on the road, heading towards Gu'e District.
Thirteen years ago, he completed his elementary school studies there and made an agreement with Teacher Kanzaki to meet again.
The thought of seeing the teacher again soon filled Godai's heart with excitement.
"Beep!" The communication signal light on the locomotive turned on, and then Xun's voice came out.
"Fifth generation, unconfirmed life form No. 23 has appeared."
"where?"
"Koto District."
"I understand." Although he said there was still an agreement, Godaihao turned the car around without hesitation and rushed towards Kodong District.
Sorry, teacher, I might be late. Godai expressed his apology to the teacher in his heart.
…
polepole restaurant.
After Higashino Ryusuke collected a plate, he sat eagerly at the dining table nearby, while the new Asahina Nana was very busy.
Nana washes the dishes, and the boss takes over to dry them. The two of them cooperate very well. In a short while, the dozens of accumulated dishes were all washed. This speed made Ryusuke ashamed.
The phone on the counter suddenly rang, and the three people were alerted at the same time and reacted together.
"Let me do it!" Ryusuke shouted and was the first to rush forward and grab the phone.
Nana and Shidama Saburo looked at their wet hands and could only give up.
"Hello, this is a unique restaurant... Fifth Generation? What's wrong?" Ryusuke answered the phone and was about to start selling, but on the other side of the receiver was a familiar person.
Next to the highway, Godai Yusuke found a phone booth and was talking to Ryusuke at the moment.
"Ryūsuke-san, I would like to ask you to help me go to the appointment on my behalf. An unconfirmed life form has appeared. I will deal with it and he will come here soon. The location is Tachibana Elementary School in Gu'e District. Waiting for someone named Kanzaki there. Teacher, please rest assured, he is a very good person."
"Okay." Ryusuke agreed without hesitation. In fact, he had long wanted to meet the fifth generation teacher. Maybe he could find some answers to his concerns from him.
"Boss, something happened to Godai, I'm going to help." Ryusuke informed, and immediately stood up and left polepole.
…
Tokyo, Koe Station.
A middle-aged man got off the bus here and walked slowly to another bus stop. He looked a little heavy-hearted, and there was a tag hanging on the leather bag he carried with him, with the word Kanzaki on it.
He was the teacher Kanzaki Shoji who had come all the way from home. He had the picture album in his bag. When he arrived at the bus stop, the notice board showed that the next bus to Yamabe Parallel would be in two hours.
He said a strange "Huh" and walked towards a country restaurant on the roadside.
"Country mountain bean porridge, please take your time." An old woman brought a cup of clear porridge, and then said to the cook from the window: "One serving of adzuki bean porridge."
Kanzaki Shoji took a sip from the cup. He hesitated and asked the old woman, "Well, it seems that there are fewer buses to Yamabe? There used to be a lot of them."
"Because people have left here. Have you lived here before?" The old woman sat next to him and started chatting with him.
"No, I worked."
"That's it."
Kanzaki Shoji looked at the porridge in the cup and fell into silence. Thirteen years have passed, and even the place in my memories has changed.
After a long time, he said sadly: "I want to meet the student I taught before! Thirteen years ago, he was just a sixth-grade student."
"Really?" Mother-in-law listened quietly.
"But will he come?" Shoji Kanzaki raised his head in confusion, "If he doesn't come, I may have to give up being a teacher."
Before he finished speaking, a young and beautiful voice suddenly came from outside the door.
"Yes, he will definitely come. I promise!"
Then a figure panted open the door and walked into the shop. He greeted Shoji Kanzaki with a smile and sat down beside him.
"Sorry, you must be Mr. Kanzaki!"
The person who came was not Higashino Ryusuke, but Sakurako Sawatari who came here after being entrusted in a hurry.
