After that, Bai Heqing thought that the old fox would continue to attack him, but he didn’t.

After the incident in the warehouse, nothing wrong happened around him, or anyone appeared who made him feel wrong. The same was true for Okino Mina.

It was as if everything was over with the death of Commander Kato.

Of course, Shirakawa Kiyo’s intuition told him that this was impossible. Renye Karasuma was not the kind of person who would give up halfway. Since he had the idea of ​​attacking him, it was impossible for him to stop just because of such a small move.

Either the old fox was calmly planning a bigger killing move, or… something stopped him and made him temporarily give up on Bai Heqing and continue his attack.

Shirakawa Kiyoshi was not surprised at all that he was hostile to Karasuma Renye and wanted to get rid of him quickly. It would be better to say that because of Keiko, if Karasuma Renye was not hostile to him, he would be surprised.

Of course, no matter what the truth is, these movements are enough to show that Renya Karasuma, who has been hiding in the American Empire since being ambushed by Keiko at the airport several years ago, is finally planning to return to Japan.

Well, but these actually have little to do with Bai Heqing…

As a good and law-abiding policeman, he just wants to live a good life and deal with troubles within the scope of his duties. He doesn’t really want to worry about other things.

In other words, as long as Karasuma Renye doesn’t conflict with his life, Shirakawa Kiyoshi doesn’t bother to care about his affairs.

He just wants to live well by himself.

Although he thought so, Tokyo has been quite restless recently.

Three years after the incident in the warehouse, Bai Heqing’s life once again returned to a fairly peaceful routine.

The reason why I use the word “fairly” is because several things that need to be remembered have happened in the past three years.

The first thing is that he was promoted again. Two vertical bars were added to his police rank. From Shirakawa police officer to Shirakawa police chief, he was appointed as the head of the criminal department of the Metropolitan Police Department.

Although there is nothing surprising, this seems to be the only thing directly related to him…

In addition, Okino Mina’s writer husband passed away.

Bai Heqing also didn’t feel too surprised by this. After all, her husband, a writer, has never been in good health, and his condition has been getting worse in recent years. To be honest, Bai Heqing had actually prepared a similar mentality for a long time. Prepare.

He thought that having already experienced Keiko’s death, he would not feel too sad in this regard, but when this moment really came, he still couldn’t help but feel a little sad and regretful. After all, he lost another friend.

By the way, this writer husband may have sensed that his end was approaching in advance, so before he passed away, he worked overtime to complete the first draft of his series of detective mystery novels based on Shirakawa Kiyoshi as the protagonist. Finally, he asked Shirakawa Kiyoshi to help him revise the draft and then sent it to the publishing house for publication.

Well, it was a special experience to revise the manuscript of a novel written by a friend with myself as the protagonist…

Due to the death of her husband and to take care of her young daughter, Shirakawa Kiyoshi’s other good friend Okino Mina rarely traveled far away in the past two years.

Before this, this woman liked to run outside quite a lot, often going to remote villages in remote mountainous areas for folklore inspections. She often didn’t go home for twenty days in a month.

But his writer husband had no complaints about this, at least Bai Heqing had never seen one… Of course, couples have their own way of getting along, so he wouldn’t meddle in his own business here.

Out of concern for his friends, Shirakawa would often visit the mother and daughter in his free time. He vaguely noticed that Yoko’s child seemed to be a bit repulsive to her mother…

The above are more or less things related to Shirakawa Kiyoshi. In addition to these, in Tokyo in the past few years, a lot of secret things have actually happened that are related to him, but they are not very related. They say they are not related, but maybe they are. Something related.

Some time ago, he uncovered several extortion cases against certain companies. These companies were in different industries and the presidents were not directly related to each other. However, they were all attacked by an unknown person within a very short period of time. Organized blackmail.

The presidents who were blackmailed did not know anything about the situation of this organization. They only knew that the personnel of this organization got some black information from somewhere that they did not want to spread to the society, and used it as a handle against them. Carrying out blackmail.

If it was just about money, it would be easy to deal with. The presidents whose secrets were exposed might just accept it.

But the point is, what this unknown organization wants is not money, but the shares in their hands, and their company.

Good guy, it’s better to “rob” people to fish than to “rob” people to fish, right?

Of course, this unknown organization does not seem to have gone so far. According to several corporate presidents who came to report the case, this organization seems to want to use suitable money to trade their shares, and the dirty information is just forcing them to do so. The means to agree.

In other words, some less legal methods are used to conduct private transactions in exchange for control of these enterprises.

Some of these presidents could not accept the conditions proposed by this unknown organization, so they reported the case to the police even at the risk of their own dirty laundry being exposed.

As a result, these cases came into the hands of Bai Heqing.

After a simple information integration, Bai Heqing quickly came to a conclusion.

This is definitely not a simple blackmail case. A mysterious and unknown organization with a large amount of money is trying to illegally acquire and integrate many large companies in Tokyo.

Moreover, we learned from the corporate presidents who had reported the case that this mysterious and unknown organization seemed to be quite wealthy…

He is quite rich, and he can get all kinds of dirty information about the corporate presidents, and he is also trying to unify the business world behind the scenes…

Although he was very reluctant, Bai Heqing could not help but think of a familiar figure in his mind.

It’s really troublesome. It’s obvious that he just wants to live his own little life peacefully…

Chapter 720 Bai He, do you want to jump?

Late at night, Okino Mina walked into a high-end apartment building.

She got on the elevator with ease, stopped at a higher floor, and finally walked to an apartment door in the corridor and opened the door with the key on her body.

“Shirakawa, I brought you what you asked for~”

She pushed open the door, holding a brown paper bag in her hand and said with a smile.

Yes, this is Shirakawa Qing’s apartment.

After the death of the young lady from the Hatoyama family several years ago, Bai Heqing no longer lived in the Hatoyama family. Instead, he moved out and rented an apartment alone.

Of course, the old man Hatoyama didn’t stop him.

As for Okino Mina, as a friend, she often helps Shirakawa Kiyo do some things that are not… well, legal, so she needs to come in and out of here frequently, so she was given a key to him by the way.

Tonight was the same. She had just put her daughter to sleep when she went to investigate a few targets that Bai Heqing had asked her to investigate. After she succeeded, she hurried here…

Really, she hasn’t been a phantom thief for many years, so why does it always feel like she is still repeating a life similar to that of a phantom thief every day?

It’s just that the place of infiltration has changed from major museums to the headquarters building of the Japanese Public Security Bureau and various private residences…

“Shirakawa?”

As soon as she opened the door, Okino Mina noticed something strange.

No one responded to her shout, but the lights were on in the living room. She looked carefully and there was no one in the room.

【Did you just go out? 】

As soon as this speculation came up, Okino Mina shook her head and rejected it.

impossible.

Although this sentence may be a little inappropriate for her, in the past few years of getting along with him, she believed that she knew Bai Heqing’s personality and living habits quite well.

He is definitely not a person who likes to waste time. No matter how urgent the situation is, Bai Heqing will never leave the room without turning off the lights.

[Did something happen? 】

Thinking this in her mind, Mina Okino was about to search the rooms in the apartment when she suddenly noticed that the thick curtains in front of the living room seemed to be blown by the night wind, and the part close to the floor fluttered slightly twice.

Okino Mina, who had been to this apartment countless times, naturally couldn’t help but know that behind this layer of curtains was the balcony of this apartment.

For a moment, some uneasiness in her heart surged rapidly. Okino Mina quickly stepped forward and opened the curtains with force.

As she expected, behind the curtains was the beautiful Tokyo night view that could only be appreciated from high floors, and Shirakawa Kiyoshi, who was leaning on the balcony railing with both hands, staring blankly at the neon night view.

He just stood by the guardrail, his mouth slightly open, his eyes unfocused, staring blankly at the hustle and bustle of traffic in the distance below. His whole body gave people a very peculiar feeling. Although he was clearly standing here, there was no corresponding sense of reality at all, as if his consciousness had drifted far away.

Finally, it seemed that he heard the sound of Okino Mina hurriedly opening the curtains, and Shirakawa Kiyoshi’s eyes gradually returned to reality.

At the same time, the unknown illusion that enveloped him quickly faded, and his sense of reality as a person began to gradually condense.

This process seemed to last for about ten seconds?

Shirakawa Kiyo finally came to his senses completely, turned his head and looked at Okino Mina standing behind him, with a slight surprise on his face.

“Mina? When did you come?”

He didn’t seem to notice the movement of Okino Mina entering the house before.

This kind of negligence was simply unbelievable to the man in front of him.

“White River.”

Facing the smiling face that Shirakawa Kiyoshi habitually put on, Okino Mina looked at him deeply with a frown on her face.

“How long have you been standing here?” she asked.

In fact, Okino Mina knows the answer.

Bai Heqing was not left to work overtime today, and he was still wearing his police uniform, which meant that he had probably been standing here since he got off work…

Is this two hours? Is it still three hours?

“It does seem like it’s been a while…”

Bai Heqing smiled again, turned back and looked at the night scene outside, and said:

“Suddenly I discovered that the colors of those neon lights are quite beautiful at night, so I couldn’t help but stand here for a while longer…”

At the same time as he said these words, Okino Mina once again noticed the unreal feeling in him that made her uneasy, as if she couldn’t touch it.

Yes, she described this feeling as uneasy.

As Bai Heqing’s only “real friend” in the past few years, she is too aware of the true heart of the man in front of her.

The gentleness, sunshine, and smile that made people feel warm when they saw it, all of these… were actually all fake.

All of them are disguises that Bai Heqing deliberately made to cater to those around him in order to show the signal that “I am fine, I am fine.”

The only difference is that other people’s disguises are just to deceive outsiders, but Bai Heqing is trying to deceive himself.

Not only did he want to deceive the people around him, he also tried to make himself think that he was really living a good and satisfied life.

However, it is always easy to deceive others in this world, but it is most difficult to deceive yourself.

Because it is difficult for others to see your true heart, but you can see it all the time.

No matter how subtle the lie is, you know in your heart that it is a lie, and it is a lie you made up yourself.

No matter how much Bai Heqing deceives himself and hides himself, there will always be such a voice in his heart, which cannot be erased and will not disappear if he deliberately ignores it.

Without even thinking about it, Okino Mina knew exactly what Shirakawa Kiyo wanted to do standing here.

Watching the night view?

What night scene would make you stand here looking at it for hours?

What night scene is so beautiful that you don’t even notice that I opened the door and came in?

What’s more, what your eyes are really looking at is not it at all…