Chapter 1: Big Case

Sirens buzz.

Dark rainy clouds covered the area.

Kita-Senju Station Exit.

The symphony of the Metropolitan Police Department, SAT, and ambulances created a tense atmosphere. The puddles on the ground reflected the flashing blue and red lights. Passersby formed a human wall and talked among themselves. Some people would rather be late than not hold up umbrellas to watch the excitement and take photos and tweet them.

Several reporters were standing in front of the cordon, wearing raincoats, facing the camera and holding microphones to tell the information they had just learned.

In the footage, the heavily armed SAT and assisting police officers were on guard at various locations. From time to time, medical personnel carried stretchers to carry out the wailing injured and put them into ambulances.

"Section Chief Noguchi, the perpetrator's information has been revealed."

Looking at the subway platform at this moment, it was a mess.

There were dropped mobile phones, briefcases, ties and other objects all around. From this scene, one could immediately imagine how big the riot was and how panicked the crowd was.

This usually happens in crowded places, because the number of people injured in the stampede is often greater than the number of direct casualties.

However, today was an exception, as the number of people killed by the murderer was greater than those injured in the stampede.

Noguchi Takeshi moved his eyes away from the body of the murderer lying on the ground surrounded by colleagues from the Forensic Medicine Department and the Identification Section. He took the file and glanced over it. Instead of relaxing his frown, his whole face wrinkled.

Sato Kafu, 45 years old, an insurance practitioner, deputy section chief, a good guy, with a wife and no children, his social circle is concentrated among his colleagues. People who know him say that he is a normal office worker. They have never seen him get angry. Because of his poor health, he does not exercise. He is a completely ordinary person.

"First, investigate his company and colleagues, and then see if he has contacted people who are not in his circle of friends recently. Also, make his wife a key surveillance target."

"Yes!"

Takeshi Noguchi took a deep breath and stepped into the open door of the train. What he saw was a hell of blood and flesh. The smell of blood hit him in the face. A large amount of blood splattered on the glass, walls and even the ceiling of the carriage. The blood gathered on the ground was like a pool of water, dripping along the edge of the door.

Even the head of the First Investigation Division, who often dealt with various murderers, suffered a great visual and mental shock. I heard that several newcomers in the forensic department could not stand such a "fresh and hot" scene and vomited directly.

His eyes swept over the stumps of limbs that had just been marked with difficulty, and he made a low, hoarse sound.

"Ordinary people, huh."

Shiraishi Hang considers himself an ordinary person.

He didn't think that he would be the protagonist of this world, even though he was a time traveler. But when he traveled to a different world called Tokyo, his identity was not a high school student. He might be just a supporting role, with only two pages of scenes in a comic and only three minutes of screen time in an anime.

Maybe there isn't even a camera.

So he has always lived cautiously.

I was afraid that I would do something out of line and be destroyed by some ordinary high school student who appeared out of nowhere on behalf of the Moon.

Fortunately, the person whose soul he possessed was a NEET.

She has almost no social circle and often has to rely on her brother for support.

But unfortunately, this man's memory is of no value at all.

There are also many versions of suicide notes in the memo, as if he felt that he would definitely die suddenly or commit suicide.

Overall, there is not much to introduce. It can be summarized in one sentence: he is just a recluse who has lost the courage to face interpersonal relationships and communication.

His brother was also disappointed with him, but he had lost the energy to preach. However, the last bit of family affection made him still pay for his brother's water, electricity, broadband and other expenses every month. He also gave the house left by his parents after their death to his brother, and rented a house near his workplace.

It is not an exaggeration to say that he is Tokyo's good brother. He is fully worthy of the identity of brother.

Simple interpersonal relationships allowed Shiraishi Ko to be replaced quietly.

He also began to study his own "super powers".

A superpower that seemed to have appeared because of his time travel.

Parasitism and symbiosis.

He can vomit up several thumb-sized parasites each week, depending on his nutritional intake, but there is an upper limit.

After a person takes it, he can choose to become a parasite or a symbiont on it.

Parasitism is complete control, but it is difficult to control both the main body and the parasite at the same time. After parasitism, the parasite can also be used to produce new parasites, but strictly speaking, it is transferred from the main body, so the more parasites there are, the more parasites will be produced.

The other is symbiosis.

The parasite can share its abilities other than parasitism with the symbiont, and at the same time, give the symbiont a chance to mutate and then give back the abilities to the original host. This is a mutually beneficial relationship.

But as mentioned before, Shiraishi was very cautious, so even when he was doing experiments, he only used small animals such as mice, cats, and crows. He didn't even use dogs. After all, stray dogs were hard to come by, and it would be inappropriate and expensive for him to suddenly buy a dog. In the past year since he crossed over, he has not dared to attack anyone. It's not because he has a high sense of morality, but because he is simply worried about the ordinary high school students in Tokyo.

The information he learned about this world was not his original world at all, and it was even more advanced in terms of technology. He was worried that this was some novel or anime dimension, where beneath the peaceful Tokyo lurked many extraordinary people with different abilities and extraordinary means, as well as a student protagonist who had just made his debut but had extraordinary luck.

His cheat, which only works when others eat insects alive, is no match for these monsters.

This situation continued until the last two months.

One of the stray cats he lived with was caught and tortured by a group of children.

Burning, whipping, stoning.
In pain and laughter, the cat mutated.

【Super Strength】【Rigid Body】

This ordinary rural cat broke free from the tight ropes and clawed at a child amidst the crying, scraping off strips of flesh and leaving deep bloody marks on the bones.

Even clothes cannot protect against sharp cat claws, just like paper against a samurai sword.

The children ran away crying, and the cat only caught up with one of them, the one with the most vicious means.

He poked out one of its eyes with a branch, and it returned the favor by taking away one of his eyeballs with its claws. Then, in full view of everyone, it made a few ridiculously high leaps and disappeared from the sight of several witnesses, leaving behind only a wailing, heartbroken child. In the end, the incident even made the news.

No one has seen this cat since then, or perhaps there were too many cats like it, and the relevant departments had no choice but to euthanize a group of them symbolically under pressure. This angered many animal rights activists, who gathered around the shelter to protest every day, and even the process of sheltering and euthanizing stray dogs was interrupted.

Bai Shi Hangtou received the feedback of symbiosis. This feedback was not simply based on the increase in strength, but was adjusted according to the user's physical condition.

He tried it and found that he could probably lift an ordinary car, about a ton.

For humans, it is indeed a truly extraordinary power.

This ability also complements the rigid body. After all, the force is mutual. You have the ability to smash concrete with one punch while your bones are almost shattered at the same time.

The rigid body increases the density of skin, bones, muscles, etc., improves physical defense, and avoids the situation of killing a thousand enemies and losing a thousand of your own.

With these two abilities, Bai Shihang started to become a little bolder.

I turned my attention to a special company that I had learned about in the past year, which was one of the few.

"I'm just an ordinary housewife. I couldn't contact my husband at night, and I saw the accident in the news, so I came to the police station. I don't understand why you asked me these irrelevant questions. Did something happen to my husband? Can I see him? Can you please let me see him? Please--"

The two police officers in charge of the inquiry looked at each other.

Standing behind the one-way glass of the interrogation room was Takeshi Noguchi, who was on the subway that morning. As the head of the Criminal Investigation Division's First Investigation Section, this case was of such a serious nature that even the Ministry of Public Security did not want to compete for the main control, and only established a nominal joint investigation department, and the dominant power fell directly on him.

Mrs. Sato was the wife of the murderer, so he immediately arranged for people to stake out her in an attempt to dig out some information. However, the logic of this wife's behavior was indeed similar to that of an ordinary housewife.

I did housework at home for a while, then cooked, ate, and took a nap. After waking up, I practiced dynamic dance following the TV channel. I bought groceries around four or five o'clock and started cooking dinner at half past five. After I finished cooking, I saw that my husband had not come back yet, so I called to ask. If the call couldn't get through, I called my colleagues and the company.

Those people did not know that Sato Kafu was the murderer in the subway attack that shocked the country today. They just told their wives that police officers were collecting information about Sato Kafu from them today.

So the anxious wife rushed to the nearest police station to inquire about the situation.

The police officer who was monitoring her had no choice but to report to the section chief, so she was taken to the Metropolitan Police Department, and the current interrogation took place.

Takeshi Noguchi picked up the special data analysis of Mrs. Sato, which had just been printed out and was still warm.

[Having the habit of participating in a certain company's activities, a fixed amount of money is regularly remitted from a certain account in the bank flow, which is suspected to be a donation. ]

[He had a suicidal experience and his left leg was slightly inconvenient to move. Neighbors and employees of the store he frequented confirmed that he had the symptoms until the day before yesterday, but since yesterday, June 6, it seems that his left leg has no inconvenience. When he came to the police station, he ran and reported to the monitoring police officer like an ordinary person, with no inconvenience.]

[I had a miscarriage experience, and my medical records showed that I could no longer have children. I only participated in company activities after that.]

[He went out on the morning of June 6th, and was suspected to be participating in a company group activity. His destination was near Kita-Ayase. The specific location and related group have not yet been determined. 】

[Analysis point 1: Mrs. Sato had a miscarriage and was unable to have children, so she had the idea of ​​committing suicide, but she failed and instead suffered a leg disease. In the end, she was targeted by a certain company and recruited as a member.]

[Analysis point 6: She participated in a company event on June 5. When she was buying groceries that afternoon, a familiar employee discovered that her legs and feet were no longer inconvenient. That night, Sato Hefeng went home for dinner. On the morning of June 6, the mysterious tragedy occurred. There must be a connection between the two.]

[Analysis point three: The relationship between Sato and her husband was very deep. It is recommended not to reveal that Sato Hefeng was dead. For the sake of her husband, we should thoroughly understand where she went on June 6, which company's activities she participated in, where the headquarters is, what strange things happened, what communication she had with her husband at night, and how her legs and feet got better.]

[Analysis point 4: To be on the safe side, it is recommended to deploy a firepower team to be on standby at all times. ]

"Tell her that her husband is currently under serious suspicion and cannot meet with her yet. She needs to cooperate with the questioning. If her husband is innocent, this is the only way to help him clear his suspicion as soon as possible."

The male police officer heard the instructions from his superior through the headset and said in a gentle tone, "Mrs. Sato, your husband is currently under suspicion because of his involvement in the case. I think you also hope that he can get rid of the suspicion as soon as possible. So you should cooperate with our inquiries and answer our questions truthfully. Only in this way can we have a chance to help your husband."

Mrs. Sato looked pale, and she gently tugged at the corners of her clothes with both hands. She lowered her head for a long time before she responded, "Please continue asking."

(End of this chapter)