Chapter 157 The Seven-Day Appointment——The Fall That Ushers in the End!

"Thank you...you are a good person."

Inoue Xiu smiled at her, loosened his hand holding the other end of the crutch, and his whole body fell like willow catkins.

"But for my life, ending it today is the best option!"

Scarlet springs gushed out from the ground.

Xiaolan's eyes turned red little by little. She was just that kind of person. No matter what the cause of death was, every life lost made her feel sad.

"Hey!"

Hattori, who also came to the rooftop, rushed over and grabbed Su Beixun by the collar, glaring and roaring: "You bastard! Hurry up and make them stop!! "

Su Beixun spread his hands.

"I can not do it."

He turned his head to look at the figure who spoke next to Inoue Xiou: "After all, they are not my subordinates, but equal partners."

"I help them make their voices heard in society and fulfill their wishes. In return, they leave their lives here to help me overthrow the order that makes them suffer."

As he spoke, he opened Hattori's hand, smoothed out the wrinkles on his collar, and put a finger to his lips.

"Shh, please be quiet! This is a big funeral!"

Hattori gritted his teeth, his eyes blazing with fire, but he sadly found that he was helpless.

The clouds in the sky blocked the sun, and the entire rooftop was shrouded in the shadow of the clouds.

"My name is Takano Hideki..."

"My name is Dr. Yamada..."

"My name is Hasegawa Kei..."

"My name is Rina Chinen..."

One by one, men, women, old and young, expressed their demands to the camera, and then calmly jumped down... numb and shocked!
Conan looked at everything in front of him with melancholy, and in a trance, his heart had already gone somewhere unknown.

He deeply realized that the world would never be able to return to the way it was before.

No matter which country, the social structure is both stable and fragile. Because as long as there are many people, there will be distinctions between high and low, respect and inferiority, no matter what kind of order it is.

Class conflict, uneven distribution, in this kind of social contradiction, there are always some things that cannot be obtained through hard work - thus, absolute differences are born!

The reason why people talk about equality so often is because they know it is out of reach.

Throughout history, the world has never had a truly perfect system. Every one of them has its own problems.

However, in the operation of the social structure, the national level will constantly adjust policies, make up for, or cover up loopholes to ensure the smooth operation of the entire machine.

Although I feel sorry for those who were hurt in the process, in this world, is there anything that does not require sacrifice? If they get hurt, it means they don't have the power to resist.

So, there is absolutely no problem with these!
But now, Su Beixun appeared!

He was like a child who saw an ant hole on the side of the road, curiously poking his finger in. Then, the ant nest collapsed.

Education, health care, housing, land, capital, distribution, employment, equality, rich and poor, system, organization, policy...

With the deaths of twelve people, the big holes that had been covered up were blatantly exposed in front of everyone.

As a result, the stable machine began to crumble.

Everyone will start to wonder——

Is the world really a beautiful place?
Is the system really sound?
Is the law really fair?
Will government agencies really treat every citizen equally?

No one wants to be the burning firewood! When people begin to distrust the government and the country and no longer believe that they will protect their rights, everyone wants to climb higher to gain a sense of security.

In the past, they couldn't do it!

But now, Su Beixun has given everyone a way to advance through Noah's Ark! The greedy upper class wants to gain more power, and the middle and lower classes who take things as they come will inevitably tend to it because of the turmoil in order.

No one can stop it, no one can change it. In the face of the surging trend, even the power of the country is so insignificant!

……

The sun sets in the west.

Figures fearlessly jumped down from the rooftop one after another. The entrance of the hotel was a mess of bones and blood.

——Nothing can be done!
Even though Conan and Xiaolan tried to dissuade them and even tried to pull them away, they just smiled and pushed them away, resolutely leaping towards the future they had chosen.

"Please... don't jump anymore." Xiaolan grabbed the last person and pleaded in a hoarse and trembling voice.

But the man simply brushed her hand away and set off on the same path as the previous eleven people.

Su Beixun slowly walked behind the dazed Xiaolan.

"Don't you think it's ridiculous to talk about the future with a group of people who are determined to die?"

The setting sun burned the world red, as if the fire of purgatory was about to fall.

He stretched out his hand and clenched it towards the sun: "Perhaps for them, there is no worse world than the present one! Living will only bring pain!"

"Don't sugarcoat your motives!" Xiaolan wiped away the tears from her eyes and stared at him stubbornly: "You are simply taking advantage of their pain!"

"Heh." Su Beixun smiled softly: "Maybe."

He put his hands in his sleeves and looked at the hazy and blurred horizon. The huge setting sun was halfway down, like a plate hanging above his head. The incomplete light gave him infinite sadness, depression, and dimness... It actually gave him an illusion of divinity.

Su Beixun took a small jump and took a step forward, standing at the edge of the guardrail where the twelve people were before. The city below was in chaos. He took a deep breath and laughed loudly at the camera: "Everyone! It's not time to relax yet! If you want to stop the nuclear bomb, you need a thirteen-digit code!"

what? !

Conan was stunned in depression: "Thirteen...but you clearly said..."

He suddenly stopped talking halfway because he remembered that the other party had indeed used the empty word "more than ten" to refer to the number.

Su Beixun opened his arms. At the boundary line between night and dusk, he looked up and said, "There are always thirteen martyrs who intend to die here today."

Conan obviously didn't understand: "What... do you mean?"

"Don't you understand?" Su Beixun smiled and said, "After I came here today, I never planned to live."

"But... why?" Conan didn't understand.

Su Beixun lowered his head indifferently.

"Because in this world, no one will allow the existence of a god. They will accept an artificial intelligence over their heads, but they cannot tolerate being ruled by a fellow human being."

"Only after my death can people put aside their concerns and use Noah's Ark without any worries! Only then can my rules blossom and bear fruit in the world at the fastest speed!"

Conan pursed his lips. He suddenly thought of what happened before and couldn't help but mutter, "Is that why you exposed your position... and why you said I would never be able to catch you?"

But he shook his head violently and said sternly, "No! You are not that kind of person! You must be trying to play some tricks, right? Just like the two times you faked your death before!"

Su Beixun looked at him calmly.

"You think so... That's right, after all, I have a criminal record."

He reached into his arms and pulled out a shiny fruit knife!
Conan immediately became alert: "What are you going to do?!"

Su Beixun ignored him.

He grasped the knife by the handle and pressed the blade just below his eyelid.

Suddenly, a trickle of blood slowly flowed down his cheek.

Conan didn't know why.

Su Beixun smiled gently, then suddenly exerted force with his right hand, and in front of everyone's horrified gazes, he actually tore off a large piece of flesh from his face!

Blood spilled everywhere!

!!!

Everyone was stunned!

In the increasingly thick bloody air on the rooftop, countless pairs of stunned eyes could see the pale facial bones under each other's eye sockets, and the white teeth on the right side of the face!
"You..." Conan opened his eyes wide and was speechless for a moment.

Su Beixun ignored him, bent down to pick up the face skin that fell on the ground, pierced it with the blade, and threw it at Conan's feet.

"I don't have a mask on my face, so I'm not a stand-in at this moment... If you're really worried, take that thing and do a DNA test."

His cheeks trembled unnaturally because of the pain, and his voice became hoarse and leaky, but the depths of his eyes were as silent as water, without the slightest emotion! It was as if he was cutting off someone else's flesh!

Xiaolan lowered her head to look at the flesh stuck on the blade, and saw his gums moving when he spoke. She felt her stomach churning, and she suddenly covered her mouth, feeling an urge to vomit!

This scene was too exciting even for her who was used to seeing corpses!

Conan couldn't hide his gaffe when watching this scene.

He felt as if his throat was blocked by a stone, and it was extremely difficult for him to speak: "You... are actually willing to go this far? Are you really that confident in that system?!"

“Not faith.”

Su Beixun said frankly: "Compared with the current system, I cannot solve any problem in society."

“Even if we stretch the time to thousands of years from now, the conflict between the vested interests of the forerunners and the latecomers will only be more brutal than the current class struggle.”

"After all, all of this is just something I came up with on a whim - a deformed order placed on Noah's Ark, which is far from being a system."

"But...what does it matter?"

Su Beixun's terrifying face looked ferocious even when he was smiling: "Don't you think this kind of future is really super interesting?"

"...Interesting?" Conan disagreed: "Just for fun?"

"Isn't that enough?" Su Beixun asked back. He opened his hands and laughed hoarsely, "I can't wait to invite you to join this game!"

"...Sure enough, I shouldn't have tried to understand you." Conan was silent for a moment and let out a breath.

Su Beixun curled the corners of his mouth.

"Don't always look so resistant."

He halfheartedly persuaded: "Think about it from another angle. As long as your level is high enough, the black organization that made you smaller can't cause any trouble at all!" "You can locate their position and search for information in their database."

"You can even find information about eternal life."

Conan's expression suddenly changed: "You...you bastard!"

Su Beixun viciously put the camera in his face and transmitted the sound to the world.

"Kudo Shinichi, if you don't want to be captured for human experiments, then work hard to obtain the power of Noah's Ark."

Seeing Conan's increasingly ugly face, Su Beixun couldn't help but laugh happily despite the pain on his face. He didn't stop until the blood had stained the black dress.

"Okay." Su Beixun wiped the blood on his chin: "Let's get back to the topic."

He looked at the pale-faced Mao Lilan beside him.

"It's easy to get the last number to stop the nuclear explosion."

He took out a pistol, slid along the ground to the other person's feet, and smiled expectantly.

"As long as you shoot and kill me with your own hands! That's all!"

"……what?"

Xiaolan was stunned, her eyes widened, and she pointed at herself in disbelief: "Me...me?"

"Yes."

"No, no! I can't do it!" Xiaolan shook her head and waved her hands.

Su Beixun's expression softened: "Do you remember the question I asked you?"

"If one day, my existence threatens countless lives, and you are the only hero who can save them! Then, can you get rid of me?"

He held out his hand: "Pick up that gun."

Xiaolan subconsciously lowered her head, and stepped back as if she was scalded, repeating the words of refusal in a dull voice.

"No...No! I really can't do it!"

Su Beixun sighed softly when he saw her like this.

"Although I want to tell you to just hesitate, after all, there are still 30 hours before the nuclear missile launch...but I really don't want to wait that long."

Su Beixun reached into his bosom and pulled out a knife: "Let's play a game."

He snapped his fingers and swung his right hand violently! The sharp tip of the knife instantly pierced into his left wrist! With a slight flick, the purple blood vessels ruptured, and the tiny wound instantly spurted out a vigorous blood mist!
Tick, tick, tick...the blood quickly flowed out like beads and formed a pool on the ground.

Su Beixun's face suddenly turned pale, but he still didn't care and looked at Xiaolan, whose complexion was the same as his.

"Ten minutes." He said weakly, "With the amount of blood I'm bleeding now, I'll fall off the building from shock in about ten minutes."

"If you don't kill me yourself before then, the nuclear bomb will be launched towards Japan the moment I fall from the building."

Conan's eyes were about to burst: "Mad! You crazy!"

Hattori also widened his eyes in confusion. Every time he thought he knew Su Beixun well enough, he would do something beyond his imagination.

He really couldn't understand the mindset of this kind of person, who would actually force others to kill him by self-mutilation? !

"If you really want to die, just go and die by yourself! What does this have to do with Maori-san?"

Su Beixun did not answer.

The massive blood loss quickly took away his strength, and he began to stagger even when just standing.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Tick ​​~
Tick ​​~
Tick ​​~
The blood flow slows down.

Su Beixun's pupils were dim, like a deep wellhead that could not emit a single ray of light. But he still opened his mouth wide to try to absorb every inch of oxygen, forcing his heart to continue beating, and stared at Mao Lilan's face stubbornly.

"kill him!"

"kill him!"

"kill him!"

The hotel was suddenly surrounded by people, who shone flashlights upwards and shouted in unison.

Xiaolan's face turned even paler than paper! But even so, she still hadn't made up her mind.

"Lan." Conan stretched out his hand distressedly, wanting to dissuade her, but he didn't know what to say.

He would not approve of killing one person to save 1 million people, because in his mind, life is never compared by quantity. Therefore, he is willing to save those who jump off the building.

But what if it was Su Beixun compared with 1.2 million innocent people?
Conan didn't know.

Therefore, he could only take a deep breath and stand firmly beside Xiaolan: "Lan, no matter what choice you make, I am willing to face it with you!"

A police officer flying in the sky couldn't help but shout: "Ms. Maori! It doesn't matter! He is a terrorist! There will be no problem killing him!"

Tears flowed unconsciously from the corners of Xiaolan's eyes. She squatted down stiffly, trembling and groping for a long time before she grasped the gun in her hand.

But...she still didn't open it.

"Shoot now! What are you hesitating about?!"

"Damn it! Do you really have to kill all of us?"

"Please! Save us!"

"My child is only three years old, he hasn't seen the world yet... Please, save him!"

"..."

Countless voices gathered from all directions to the rooftop, making the noise unbearable. But Xiaolan seemed to be able to distinguish every different word.

Listening to the words of urging, cursing, or begging, she gently pulled the trigger with her trembling fingers.

[Should I press it…]

[Do you really want to press it? ]

[Do I really... want to kill someone? ]

The police officer on the horizon cried out again, "Hurry up! Miss Maori! Time is running out! We have already paid such a huge price... Please, don't let us sacrifice in vain!"

In vain...sacrifice?
Xiaolan couldn't help but glance to the side. On the dim rooftop, several bodies were lying. The police uniforms on two of them were so eye-catching!
"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!!!!"

Xiaolan closed her eyes and yelled in despair, pulling the trigger hard!
The dark muzzle spit out bright flames! In the aftermath of the sound, she fell to the ground powerlessly, and the gun in her hand flew out.

Guilt, pain, regret, torture... her long-held outlook on life suddenly collapsed, and the absurdity of killing someone to save others made her feel hopeless in an instant.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"

Su Beixun, who was standing on the rooftop, suddenly laughed! The bullet pierced through his heart, and a stream of dark red blood spurted out!
His body fell backwards, but he kept on staggering on the stage with his legs. His pale face became ruddy due to the last bit of energy, and the lost strength also continued to emerge.

"It's this expression! It's this expression!" Su Beixun scratched the bloody side of his face frantically, like a sated child who had eaten delicious food.

"That's awesome! I've always wanted to see all these expressions when you kill me!!"

He spread out his fingers covered with minced meat, bent over and laughed wildly, and the creepy sound could be heard from far away.

But the next moment.

Su Beixun's twisting limbs suddenly stopped! The light in his pupils disappeared instantly, and he fell down from the rooftop powerlessly.

then.

In the muddy flesh and blood on the ground, there was another new pool...

Looking at this horrible world, it seemed that even the moon in the sky was afraid and hid itself quietly behind the dark clouds.

——Night is coming!
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"Big...brother!"

In a secret base in Tokyo, Vodka watched TV with a complicated expression.

Gin glanced at the 13th number that appeared on the screen, bit his cigarette, and looked through the camera at the boy in the blue suit who was comforting the girl.

"Kudo Shinichi? I seem to have heard this name somewhere."

Vodka quickly reminded him, "It was the detective kid we met during the transaction at Dorobiga Paradise! And I remember... at that time, big brother, you clearly fed him the poison developed by the organization!"

"APTX4869?" Gin looked at the child on the screen, a dark light flashing in his narrowed eyes: "It seems that the research on this drug is not a complete failure!"

He put out his cigarette butt on the table: "Vodka, send someone to bring him back, don't kill him."

"yes, Sir!"

Just as Vodka was about to turn around, Gin called him back with an icy voice: "Wait a minute!"

He leaned back in his chair, thinking about Miyano Shiho who mysteriously disappeared in the prison cell: "By the way, check out Shirley, especially her childhood appearance."

"Brother, you mean..." Vodka was stunned, but quickly changed his mind: "I understand."

After his younger brother left, Gin focused his attention again on the pool of flesh on the ground.

"Has the message of eternal life been passed on?"

His eyes were filled with gloom, and there was a hint of unwillingness in his cold laughter: "It seems that in order to protect the secrets of the organization, I have to play by your rules."

"Oh, you are amazing, Su Beixun... You'd better really die!"

##
After leaving the shabby rental house, Jiang Shouhuang was sent to a private hospital under the name of the consortium for treatment.

He was lying on the hospital bed, watching the second half of the TV program with mixed feelings. His hand, which was receiving an injection, clenched unconsciously.

"Eternal life..."

In the quiet ward, a longing murmur was heard.

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Everyone has their own standpoint and what they want. When they intersect with each other, they will weave a grand chapter of the world.

Where will the future go?
That’s another story…

(End of this chapter)