Chapter 53: Breaking Through the Bottom Line (Two in One)

"Hey! Are you okay!"

Megure and Maori, who saw his hair turn white in an instant, were a little worried: "What's wrong with you? Do you want to go to the hospital?"

"no need."

Su Beixun casually smeared the bright red blood on his palm on his trouser leg, his good mood was ruined, and he looked at the two of them indifferently.

"You can go now! If I'm not mistaken, the police support entangled with the other party is probably buried in the back. Aren't you going to help?"

Officer Megure was stunned, and quickly took out his walkie-talkie and yelled: "Police Sergeant Matsumoto?! Are you listening? Police Sergeant Matsumoto!"

But there was no response from the other side!
He gritted his teeth and glared at Su Beixun who looked indifferent. He clenched his fists but was unable to strike out.

Before, Su Beixun didn't feel it because he was wearing a mask, but at this moment, looking at that obviously childish face, all kinds of feelings surged in his heart.

His bottom line does not allow him to beat or kick a child...even if the child is a heinous murderer!
“How kind.”

Looking at his face that was obviously suppressing his anger, Su Beixun suddenly couldn't help but feel the desire to completely destroy him, and grinned: "Officer Megure, do you know..."

His voice became hoarse due to the coughing just now, and his laugh was very unpleasant.

"I deliberately injured the legs of those two police officers!"

Veins on Megure's forehead throbbed violently, and he asked in disbelief, "What! Did! You! Say?!"

Su Beixun spread his hands: "Didn't I say that I killed all the enemies in the building, and through the reflection of the glass, how could I not know who you are?"

"I took a long time to aim those two shots before I fired them."

Mu Muqi's breathing became rapid and his nails dug into his flesh.

"Officer!"

Maori Kogoro grabbed Inspector Megure's shoulders: "Calm down! He is deliberately provoking you!"

Megure ignored him. He gasped and his voice trembled: "Why did you do this?! Is it because we are arresting you? But didn't you turn yourself in later?!"

"Why……"

Su Beixun held his chin up, stood on the railing, and looked down, saying: "If I have to say it, it's out of curiosity."

"I thought my chance of survival was with the police, so I took the initiative to surrender myself to you, hoping to rely on your help to get through this disaster."

"But just waiting is too boring, so I want to try and see what the difference is between you righteous companions and a vicious person like me."

The corners of his mouth curled up, and he clapped his hands, as if he was in a happy mood: "Unswerving friendship, courage in the face of sacrifice, anger at losing a companion, regret at kneeling on the ground and blaming himself..."

"Wonderful, really wonderful! I have to say, this is a pretty good farce."

farce?!
Inspector Megure looked dazed. Su Beixun's words floated through his mind, making him feel that reality was so unreal. Today's experience was like a blurry dream - absurd and ridiculous!
"Intentionally injuring the police, suggesting someone else die in their place, and setting off these bombs, was it just for fun?"

Maori Kogoro stepped forward, grabbed Su Beixun by the collar, and lifted him off the railing. He was also furious in his heart: "A beast like you will definitely be sentenced to death! Definitely!"

Su Beixun did not resist, his head tilted to the side, like a rag doll that allowed him to do whatever he wanted: "Haha! Uncle, the Japanese government is reluctant to execute me. After all, which person in power does not want news of longevity?"

He looked at Maori Kogoro's angry eyes, nonchalantly, and defiantly said, "Perhaps, they will treat me well, provide me with a luxurious cell, and send me to prison with someone to pick me up when I go out... Even if I tell them some key information, I might be released for my great contribution."

Maori Kogoro had no way to refute firmly. He was so angry that his hands were shaking: "You...don't you feel any guilt for the people you killed?!"

"Guilt?"

Su Beixun was still smiling on the surface, but his eyes were cold and ruthless: "I once saw a man who would pour molten iron into an ant hole. When it cooled, he would pull up the entire ant nest and describe it as beautiful like a work of art!"

“Even though it was filled with the corpses of countless ants, at that moment, it was endowed with something more valuable to humans!”

"So, uncle, death is not necessarily a bad thing, it is even more meaningful than life!"

"When we describe the birth of a new life, we only use highly homogenized words like joy and happiness. But what about death?"

"Great, shocking, despicable, moving, calm, regrettable..."

"Before a life disappears, we create so many words to describe it, praising it with all our might and honoring it with all our might! This is enough to show that it is the most wonderful moment of a life!"

“Think about all the great works that have been handed down to this day. How many of them were given greater meaning and value only after the death of their creators!”

He concluded with a smile: "So, if I can make those deaths wonderful and turn them into art, I will only feel happy. Even if I fail, I will only feel regretful... Guilt? I can't understand what that feeling is at all."

Maori Kogoro's cheeks twitched, and he cursed at him frantically over and over again: "Mad man! You are a fucking lunatic!"

"If you like death so much, why don't you die?"

Su Beixun shook his head, not disguising his double standards: "I like to appreciate art, but I don't like to become art to be appreciated by others."

Kogoro Maori felt his blood pressure skyrocket and his face turned red instantly.

"Perhaps you are right..."

Officer Megure raised his head, stared at him with bloodshot eyes, and walked forward step by step: "When we return to the police station and are taken away by the government, I really will have no way to deal with you. And you can also do as you said and step by step get acquitted..."

brush!
When passing by Mao Li, he snatched the pistol on Mao Li's waist: "But! Why didn't you hide it from me? Why did you tell me what you did?!"

His face was ferocious, and the black muzzle of the gun was pressed against Su Beixun's forehead: "Tell me everything, you are deliberately provoking me, do you think I won't dare to kill you just because you know so much?! Do you think I can't execute you on the spot?!"

"Hey! Officer, calm down! It's not worth it for someone like that!"

When Mao Li saw his trembling fingers, he immediately threw Su Beixun to the ground, hugged his arms and shouted to dissuade him.

If Megure was just trying to scare him, then the hand holding the trigger should be steady! The shaking means that the other party is hesitant and really has an idea.

"Then you shoot."

Su Beixun stood up, opened his arms and smiled.

"You think I don't dare?!"

Inspector Megure's teeth were grinding, but two minutes later, everything was still calm.

"Ah……"

Su Beixun laughed softly, which sounded so harsh on the quiet rooftop.

"Megure, which one do you think is more restrictive to people, law or morality?"

He half raised his head, the sunlight passing through his pupils, reflecting a scarlet light: "If it is according to the law, I would not be too much to die a hundred times for what I have done. Even if you shoot me on the spot, it is not completely against the law."

"And your colleagues and superiors would probably be happy to prove your guilt and exonerate you. After all, the death of a scumbag is definitely not as good as the death of a diligent, kind and upright police officer."

The corners of his mouth cracked wider and wider: "But why didn't you shoot?"

Megure's eyes struggled.

"Because you can't get over it in your heart!"

"The education you received, the knowledge you learned, and everything you experienced and witnessed have formed your unbreakable moral values! And it does not allow you to take my life here!" He looked at me with a scorching gaze: "Megure, you are indeed a good person, a truly good person! Because morality has a higher constraint on you than the law!"

——That’s why I want to see you break through the bottom line!

Inspector Megure was gasping for breath, and the finger holding the trigger was shaking more and more violently.

Kogoro Mori quickly snatched the pistol.

Megure did not resist, he already understood that he couldn't fire the gun at all!
It's really useless!
He covered his face and hid his tears under his palms.

sorry!
sorry!
sorry!
He thought of Officer Inoue, who was afraid but had to die, and apologized loudly in his heart. The surging guilt drowned him like the sea, making it difficult for him to breathe.

If... Su Beixun was really acquitted, how could he have the nerve to inform Inoue's family of his death? How could he tell his colleagues who died that the culprit had received the punishment he deserved?

"Inspector Megure! Mr. Mori!"

At this moment, Gao Mu and other police officers limped onto the rooftop: "Are you okay? The bombing outside suddenly stopped. What happened here?"

Su Beixun looked at the other people who were coming up and suddenly smiled, saying something in confusion.

"Megure, your pain is not deep enough!"

Inspector Megure's heart stopped and he subconsciously turned his head to look at Takagi.

Click!

A crack suddenly appeared between the people!

next moment!
Half of the building cracked and collapsed!

Rumbling...

Officer Takagi stretched out his hand in surprise, but it was too late to say anything!

As the ground fell, they were all swept into the turbulent flow of rocks.

"Takagi! Ye Ye! Ikeno!"

Megure roared at the top of his lungs, rushed to the broken balcony, knelt on the ground and looked down.

A dazzling red light slowly seeped out from the cracks in the gray-black stone pile.

Another person was pierced by steel bars while falling, and was exposed outside the pile of rocks at an angle. He looked at Megure above with fear, and stretched out his hand as if to beg, but soon fell silently.

Inspector Megure's hands moved unconsciously on the ground, leaving white marks on the hard cement surface. With the intense friction, his nails broke in two, forming miserable bloodstains.

He screamed with tears in his eyes: "You did it? You did it!!"

"Yes."

Su Beixun looked at him and admitted without hesitation: "It's so pitiful, Megure. The reason why they died in such pain is because you are too cowardly!"

"The root of everything lies with you!"

"If you had killed me decisively just now, Gao Mu would not have died."

"If you had been so cruel as to throw me out before, Inoue wouldn't have died."

"Even before that, if you had found a way to convict me in the Jiang Gu Yichuan case, then no one would have died afterwards."

"I am cowardly and incompetent. I only want to live in the light. I don't have the courage to go to hell together. I am obsessed with procedures and laws. I am always a step behind in everything. That's why I lose more and more."

Was it me? Was it all my fault? Was it my actions, my bad decisions, that caused them to die for me?
What can most cause a person to fall is not the blame from others, but his own regret!
Mumu's eyes were confused. He turned his head and saw Su Beixun had a calm expression on his face, even with a faint smile on his face.

Obviously he was also wrong...

He is obviously the culprit...

He was the direct cause of the death...

Why... can you still laugh?
In just a moment, the last string of reason was broken!

His eyes were red, and he snatched Mao Li's pistol like a madman and fired repeatedly at Su Beixun.

The magazine was emptied directly, and several streams of blood spurted out from Su Beixun's body.

"Officer! What are you doing?!"

Maori Kogoro staggered as he was robbed. He looked at the scene in disbelief. He couldn't believe that the always reliable big brother in his heart actually killed someone? !
After being brought back to consciousness by the shouting, Megure looked at Su Beixun whose face was gradually turning red. The gun in his hand fell weakly and his body went limp and he fell to the ground.

An indescribable feeling surged in his heart, the pain of losing his colleagues, the joy of revenge, and the emptiness of killing someone with his own hands. All these emotions intertwined and eventually turned into a complete collapse.

He grabbed his head and knelt on the ground, tears flowing silently.

but!
A hand suddenly patted his shoulder.

He looked up, it was... Su Beixun? !
The other party covered his bleeding wound and whispered, "Megure, look at my face and remember this scene!"

"This is how the world is. You have to take something before you can protect something."

He gently touched Inspector Megure's head: "A strong sense of morality is your further restraint. Abandon it! Break it! Only then will you truly embrace your own justice."

“Killing is not necessarily a bad deed, it is your means of protecting more people.”

After saying that, he actually looked up and fell down from the rooftop!

Kogoro Maori was shocked. He quickly looked over and saw Su Beixun falling into the gap between the ruins and there was no sound anymore.

After a long time, Officer Megure, who was kneeling on the ground, shouted in a hoarse voice: "Why do you want to change me? Why do you force me? Do you really want to be killed by me? Huh? Why? Answer me!"

But on the empty rooftop, there was only the breeze and the lingering echo.

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At the bottom of the ruins covered with rocks, Su Beixun sat up from an old mattress.

Although the effect of [Disaster] was gradually weakening, his luck was still pretty good. He landed accurately after falling upside down without any injuries.

He tore off his tattered, blood-stained coat, leaving only his innermost bulletproof vest - which he had put on when he went out.

As for the blood, it was just a blood bag that he stuffed into the lining of his clothes when Takagi and the others fell from the building.

I looked up and looked around, and found that among the ruins made of countless bricks and stones piled up to support each other, there was indeed a road leading to the distance.

He walked briskly towards the light ahead, and the road behind him collapsed a second time after he passed by, completely covering all traces.

"Megure, this world is too stereotyped. All police forces seem to have the same set of justice. What kind of person will you become after this baptism? I'll wait and see."

　Sorry, sorry, when I pasted it, I pasted some of the content that I had written previously.

　　Then there is the Hokkaido plot, and then the Phantom of Baker Street

　　
　
(End of this chapter)