Chapter 718 Gin: I Feel Good, Blow It up for Me

"——For their own selfish interests, they do whatever it takes to devour the public interest——"

Joker's voice was still echoing, and the police who rushed into the venue could no longer care about anything else and began to try their best to maintain order at the scene.

"Turn on the lights, turn on the lights quickly!" Megure Jusan pushed aside the crowd and shouted to the bewildered lighting control staff, "Someone fell to the ground, this will cause an accident!"

"Where is the power supply for the speakers!" Takagi Wataru and Shiratori Renzaburo ran to the backstage room that controlled the venue from another direction, "Just turn them off, don't cause more panic to the guests!"

"I, we don't know..." Sawaguchi Chinami's lips trembled with cold fingertips, and her delicately made-up face was reflected by the screen in front of her, with a pale despair, "The speakers in the venue are installed on the top embedded broadcast, and the power supply route needs to be controlled from the main control room..."

"Then let the main control room turn it off!" Shiratori Renzaburo scolded decisively, "The venue is too chaotic, if we let them continue to occupy the broadcast, something will happen!"

When he said this, Shiratori himself looked helpless.

All the events about the twin towers skyscraper this time made people feel helpless.

The high-profile appearance of the Phantom Thieves not only represents the possible chaos, such as the noisy outside, but also means that there must be many unknown dark inside stories in the Tokiwa Group and this building.

Out of a simple sense of justice, it is actually the best solution not to interfere with the activities of the Phantom Thieves and let them punish the dark behind-the-scenes masters. However, as police officers who need to maintain order, they have to find ways to prevent the Phantom Thieves from causing cases that undermine public order...

They even want to cut off the charges and trials listed by the Phantom Thieves, such as now.

"I, I just contacted the control room." Sawaguchi Chinami's lips trembled, and her voice was filled with fear and crying, "There was no response over there..."

Shiratori and Takagi looked at each other, and their brows were also tightly furrowed.

"Congressman Oki was killed in the hotel. Did they, did they also..."

"Don't talk nonsense!" Takagi Shigeru stopped her from making more disturbing speculations, "Where is the control room!"

"On the 66th floor..."

The two ran without hesitation and rushed downstairs.

"——With the help of the great power of industrial civilization, it almost reached the sky in one step, nailing an unhealable wound to the city——"

Listening to the noise of the scene in the headset, Zhu Fujingguang moved his shoulders that were slightly sore from the high-intensity movement of the sniper rifle, and couldn't help feeling puzzled.

"Issuing such a notice and then blowing up the building, won't it cause misunderstandings about the Phantom Thieves?"

Asai Chengmi, who released the bowstring, raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Are you sure it's a misunderstanding? It was indeed us who blew it up."

"But, the order to blow it up came from the organization, and the explosives also came from the organization. We..." Zhu Fujingguang pursed his lips, not knowing how to continue.

"The leader planted the explosives, prepared the explosion plan, and even the remote control might have been pressed by him." Hoshikawa Teru spread his hands, "Didn't he always say that he is the Phantom Thieves, and we will always stand together? It was indeed us who blew it up."

"Uh..." Feeling that there was something wrong with the logic, Zhu Fu Jingguang was speechless.

"Don't worry, we have been prepared, and they won't blame the Phantom Thieves." Miyano Akemi smiled, turned the fan in her hand over, and covered her face again, "Including Oki Iwamatsu. When it comes to getting away with it, the leader never loses to anyone."

It seems that there is nothing wrong with the logic, but when you think about it, there are problems everywhere: "..."

The cause of the incident was obviously the programmer who inexplicably used the company computer to directly send the organization data. This is the culprit who attracted so many eyes and made Gin order the bombing with murderous intent.

As for the Phantom Thieves' change of heart, that was a sideshow for Gin who was in a bad mood. Why did his teammates talk like they were the real culprits behind the scenes? Is it because being the culprit sounds more powerful?

But think about it carefully, it was definitely Karasawa who instigated Zero to blow up the entire building directly and not add costs to the citizens...

Zhu Fushiki Kagemitsu gave up thinking and shook his head, just holding up the sniper rifle again.

"Karma also solved the names on the list, and the timing was very accurate. Then, there is only one last target left."

"Yes. There is only one left, Tokiwa Mio herself."

"——Your desires are insatiable, your greed is insatiable, we accept it!"

When Takagi Wataru and others rushed to the control room as quickly as possible, they happened to see the Phantom Thieves' logo disappear from the screen with an animation.

The Phantom Thieves, who had finished talking, finally gave up their riddled control system, while the staff who were working in the high-tech industry but were controlled and unable to move were still incompetent and furious.

The two looked at each other helplessly, and could only calm down their emotions and restore the lighting control of the venue.

So, the lights in the dim banquet venue came on belatedly, as if to cooperate with the extremely arrogant thief Liang, and illuminated all the people in the whole venue whose faces changed drastically.

"I just heard you say that Councillor Oki was in trouble..." Tokiwa Mio, who could no longer stand straight, hugged her body and asked this question reluctantly.

Oki Iwamatsu showed signs of being changed, and something happened immediately. Others in the scene might misunderstand that it was the work of the Phantom Thieves, but Tokiwa Mio knew who did it.

He was killed immediately when he might have leaked the secret. This kind of thing...

"I'm sorry, Ms. Tokiwa, Councillor Oki Iwamatsu was found dead in a guest room on the 67th floor." After confirming that no other injuries occurred during the cutscene, Megure Jusan turned around and replied, "We are still investigating the situation, but I sincerely suggest that you announce the end of the meeting and evacuate the guests now... You also saw that the situation is not optimistic."

As the guests' emotions calmed down a little, the panicked screams subsided.

So the voices of those guys who were obviously the targets of the Phantom Thieves suddenly stood out.

Some of them were practitioners in related industries, some were other wealthy businessmen and celebrities. It is not known whether they were all stakeholders related to the situation during the construction of the skyscraper as the Phantom Thieves said, or they were shot for no reason, but in short, no matter what the situation was, they had already begun to confess.

Having experienced similar situations several times, Megure Jusan was relatively calm, but their topic had gradually become sensitive.

Keywords such as "finance", "overseas remittances", and "leak of trade secrets" came one after another, and the expressions of innocent passers-by who didn't quite understand what was going on had changed from fear to surprise.

If they were allowed to continue talking, something would happen if nothing happened.

"Councilman Oki is dead?" Fengjian Hidehiko, who was originally standing on the stage, waiting to introduce the paintings and go up to give a speech, was shocked, "How did he die? Didn't they say that he had an acute illness? Was he poisoned?"

Megure Jusan looked at him and was also shocked: "Are you okay?"

There were even grassroots clerks among the people rolling on the ground. He thought that Fengjian Hidehiko, an architect who was highly involved in the project, would rush over to hug him and yell that he would be taken in quickly.

It's not that he has a prejudice against architects, it's that this guy's teacher, Moriya Teiji, is in a similar situation in the bureau...

"Why would I be in trouble?" Fengjian Yingyan, who was implicated by the client, made an innocent voice, "So, Councillor Oki was also tricked by the Heart Thief? They can kill people."

"It shouldn't be." Glancing at the master and apprentice Kisaragi Minemizu who came over calmly as if to listen to gossip, Megure Jusan briefly explained, "We quickly inspected the scene. He was hit by a long-range sniper bullet. When he was killed, he was lying on the desk in the guest room writing a confession..."

Assuming that the Heart Thief's purpose was indeed to expose his crimes, there was no need to kill him when he began to confess. It was more like he was killed because he was about to tell a terrible secret.

"So, evacuate the guests as soon as possible, Ms. Tokiwa." Megure Jusan did not point out this fact directly, but persuaded again, "If there are people in the audience who are in a similar situation as Councillor Ohki, then the murderer may strike again at any time. The 67th floor is only a few floors lower than the 75th floor."

If there is a sniper who can snipe the target on the 67th floor, then it is not difficult to kill anyone in the field at this time.

"For the safety of everyone." Megure Jusan looked at her with complicated eyes, "We can only give you five minutes to consider, and then we will arrange for forced evacuation and control the scene."

Not only Megure Jusan, including other people on the stage, but also Maori Kogoro and Conan who walked through the crowd and walked onto the stage close to Megure Jusan, are staring at Tokiwa Mio.

Oki Iwamatsu has changed his mind, and so many Tokiwa Group employees in the venue have changed their minds.

However, Tokiwa Mio, the helmsman who is most likely to be unclean, has not responded yet.

Is she really innocent, or is she cunning enough to not be caught by the Phantom Thieves for the time being...

"I, I..." Holding her pounding heart tightly, Tokiwa Mio slowly recovered from her panic, raised her head blankly, and looked around the venue.

She was actually let off so easily? Could it be that...

Tokiwa Mio took a breath and almost cried with joy. She looked at the police's straight faces and had to say, "Okay, I will cooperate with you immediately..."

As soon as he stepped onto the stage, he received Tokiwa Mio's grateful eyes with tears in his eyes before he could figure it out. Maori Kogoro, who looked very strange:?

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"That..."

"I've already told you, stop talking nonsense, Vodka." Gin, who had already aimed at the venue again, said impatiently, "Just tell me the name and features. If you can't describe it, bring me a photo. Hurry up, next one."

"No, no, big brother..." Vodka looked at the new email notification on the computer, his face full of sorrow and sadness to the extent that even sunglasses couldn't cover it.

"If you have something to say, just say it." Gin raised his head from the crosshairs unhappily and turned his head to take a look.

He saw that there were six or seven names listed in the email on the screen.

Each one was in the same format, without any special marks, which meant that these were all guys marked by Bourbon as having been confirmed to have changed their minds and could be shot directly.

Vodka stretched out his hand tremblingly.

He turned the wheel.

"Not over yet?" Gin's forehead veins suddenly bulged.

"Not yet. Bourbon said that the situation on the scene is very chaotic now. The Phantom Thieves took advantage of the darkness in the venue to change the hearts of nearly 20 people in one go. He is still trying to figure out who among them is related to the organization..." Vodka tried his best to organize his words, trying not to irritate his eldest brother who was obviously already challenged.

Other things, Vodka couldn't say, but there was one thing he could assert, that is, the efficiency of the Phantom Thieves was really much better than that of the organization's employees.

It's better not to remind the eldest brother of this for the time being.

Gin gritted his teeth and took a breath. From his trembling breath, Vodka fully felt how much anger he suppressed.

"... There's no time to kill them one by one." Gin's expression returned to a cold and indifferent state. It took only a dozen seconds for him to adjust his rest again. "Notify Bourbon and detonate directly."

"Brother Gin, didn't the technical team ask us to retrieve the original Garmin work computer..."

"Don't listen to their nonsense. Let Binga, that idiot, figure it out himself." Gin interrupted him indifferently, "Blow them all up, and you don't need to worry about which one is the port of data leakage."

As for Shirley and these wastes that need to be eradicated...

When they are like ants about to be burned, queuing up to squeeze out of the small hole, he will have a way to distinguish them one by one.

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Hearing the information prompt, Amuro Toru, who was standing near the bunker, confirmed the content and frowned.

In fact, pressing the detonation button now is not a big problem. The first wave of explosion targets they set are the office area on the 1st to 4th floors and the server area on the 40th floor of the building. At this stage, the conference hall on the 75th floor and the key communication bridge to Building B will not be affected, and the people in the conference hall have enough time to escape.

But now, Tokiwa Mio has not been dealt with by the Phantom Thieves, and other members of the Phantom Thieves, such as Hiro, are likely to be somewhere in the building...

Amuro Toru quickly looked around the venue and knew that time was running out.

He quickly approached the edge of the stage from the backstage and said the predetermined code according to the plan prepared in advance.

"Mr. Kitagawa Yusuke, I found your lost items."

Karazawa, who was listening to Maori Kogoro and Megure Jusan's random analysis and waiting for Tokiwa Mio to lead the guests downstairs, frowned and turned to look at Amuro Toru.

Karasawa was standing very close to the edge of the stage. Amuro Toru, who approached from the backstage, was still standing in the shadow of the curtain. No one noticed him except Kisaragi Minemizu who turned back to check the situation.

Is Gin so impatient? At least wait a few more minutes. In ten minutes, half of the people in the venue may have moved out.

I sent out the names in one breath. He was probably in a bad mood now. If I didn't do it, he might not be able to help but shoot Tokiwa Mio in the head.

Okay.

The two undercover agents who had confirmed each other through eye contact nodded slightly. Before Kisaragi Minemizu could react and ask him what he had lost, they reached a consensus.

To prevent accidents, the activation procedure of the explosion needs to be confirmed by them together.

Amuro Toru reached into his pocket, and Karasawa also retracted his hand and grabbed the button in his sleeve pocket.

"Boom-boom-"

On the 40th floor and the bottom of the building, in the empty office area at this time, after a few seconds, the activated explosive devices were activated at the same time.

The orange-red flames surged, and the huge energy expansion shattered the smooth exterior glass, and the vibration quickly transmitted to the top floor.

"Ah-what's wrong, is there an earthquake?"

"What happened again?!"

The venue that had just lit up went out again, and this time, all the lights in the entire building went out together.

Standing on the rooftop in the distance and watching all this, Gin finally showed his first happy smile of the night.

"Run, run, little ants." Gin aimed his crosshairs at the only place in Building A that still had light.

The magnificent sightseeing elevator.