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12 The Faceless Man (9)

Under my gaze, Adam stated in detail the morning's past.

*

At 7:30 in the morning, after Adam had breakfast outside, Hasegawa called her and said he wanted to discuss the future plan.

Adam first found a more hidden place, completed his disguise, and then went to meet Hasegawa.

The two met in a fountain square. As soon as they met, Hasegawa said: "I really think that if you want to track down the mysterious organization, you must follow the clue of the Sheepskin Killer to find a reliable opportunity."

"I have the same idea, too." Adam nodded, "but the problem is that the sheepskin killer is dead, the body seems to be gone, and your divination and psychics are useless."

"Not that." Hasegawa shook his head, "Even if there is no body of his body, if there are any remaining blood stains before his death, or relics closely related to him, I will be able to use this to divine his whereabouts for a period of time..."

At the end, he seemed to have lost a lot of confidence, "Uh... Okay, I said a big talk, but I wasn't so sure. Maybe the result would be that I thought I could use this to find clues to the mysterious organization, but I dig out some idle information that had nothing to do with the mysterious organization..."

"But it's worth trying." Adam encouraged him, patted his shoulder, affirmed his plan, and said, "Let's go, I should know where the sheepskin killer died. The faceless man only took up two hours from the departure, to finding the sheepskin killer, and then killing him. He probably marked the information I gave him, where the sheepskin killer was most likely to appear, and completed his actions."

Hasegawa said "yes", then turned around and walked towards the parking lot, "I'm responsible for driving, you're responsible for guiding the way."

After getting in the car, Adam sat in the passenger seat and sighed: "I believe the mysterious organization did not expect this kind of development. They should hope that the sheepskin killer will eventually be arrested by the police."

Hasegawa was stunned when he heard this and asked, "Why do you say that?"

"You should have also seen the online wanted page of the Public Security Bureau for Sheepskin Killers." Adam smiled and pointed out the key points, "According to the Public Security Bureau, someone has witnessed the Sheepskin Killers, and there is only one person. Don't you think something is wrong?"

Hasegawa admitted: "Indeed, sheepskin killers know how to 'pretend'. As usual, there will be no witnesses at all."

"But the problem is that not only witnesses appeared, but such a strange testimony appeared," Adam said slowly, "'The sheepskin killer must add a sheepskin outside no matter what clothes they wear inside'."

"What's wrong with this..." Hasegawa said casually, but when he said that, he suddenly frowned.

After a while, he said, "How come this testimony sounds like...has he witnessed a sheepskin killer many times before?"

"Because this witness actually witnessed a lot of sheepskin killers," said Adam. "The police must have noticed this immediately, but based on the information I obtained, the witness quickly disappeared after leaving his testimony."

"Is it possible that this witness is the minion of the mysterious organization!" Suddenly, Hasegawa suddenly realized, "The mysterious organization has prepared a series of clues and physical evidence needed to frame the sheepskin killer after being arrested by the public security. Therefore, in order to make the plan go smoothly, they have provided convenience for the public security to arrest the sheepskin killer!"

Adam looked at Hasegawa and showed a strange expression, as if there was a wild cat who often passed by his doorstep. One day, he would suddenly walk on both feet, and could also use his front paws to cross his waist and speak with his eyebrows.

"What expression do you have?" Hasegawa was angry and embarrassed, "Do you think I'm just a fool and can't even understand this?"

"That's what I thought."

"What!?"

"Just, kidding." Adam chuckled.

However, she seemed to regard Hasegawa as a fool, but in fact she never neglected and careless.

Because she didn't know what Hasegawa was. Indeed, she met Hasegawa earlier than me, but this earlier was only one or two days earlier.

Although Hasegawa said that he tracked the mysterious organization for the sake of his abducted sister, who can prove it? Maybe Hasegawa seems clumsy, but in fact he is a cunning person. And such a person is not completely invisible in her experience.

Hasegawa snorted, started the car, drove out of the parking lot, and then, under Adam's guidance, moved all the way to the "less small street" where the sheepskin killer died.

"To be honest, who is that faceless man?" Soon, Hasegawa seemed to finally be unable to hold it in, and he began to ask.

On the contrary, Adam was quite surprised, "Don't you know?"

"Why do I have to know him?" Hasegawa was a little angry. "I know the 'no-faceless murderer', but is this 'faceless man' really that famous?"

*

Just as Adam stated this, I curiously interjected, "What is a murderer invisible?"

Adam took out a bottle of mineral water to nourish his dry mouth, then twisted the cap and explained: "It is a terrifying urban legend that has only started to become popular this year. The unpredictable murderer is the legendary monster. It is said that he has no face, his hands and ten fingers are blades, and he can freely shuttle through the shadow world. If someone walks alone at midnight, and accidentally lets his back face any shadow with just the right area, the unpredictable murderer will suddenly stretch out his hands from the shadow and drag the unpredictable ghost into the shadow world. Sometimes, the unpredictable murderer will trap the victim in the shadow world forever, repeating the torture of life rather than death without fatigue; sometimes, he will be very compassionate, giving the victim a pleasure, and then throwing the body back into the real world."

After listening to it, I sighed casually, "It sounds really scary."

“Is it scary?”

“It’s scary.”

“How scary?”

"Why did you suddenly ask this?"

"Because the prototype of this urban legend is you."

"Ah?" Even if I could play the role of a cold and powerful man, I couldn't help but be stunned at this time.

I actually became the prototype of urban legends? When and why?

Adam looked at my expression and smiled, then continued to describe what happened in the morning.

*

"Of course it's famous. The unpretentious murderer is based on the faceless man." Adam looked at Hasegawa's sudden stunned face and asked, "You have confronted the faceless man before. How did you feel at that time?"

"This... is scary." Hasegawa seemed unwilling to increase the prestige of others and destroy his ambition, but he still told the truth. "I feel that he can preview all my movements. The moment I was going to teach him a lesson, I seemed to have seen the scene of my outstretched arm being broken, and no matter what action I did at that moment, my arms would inevitably be broken. Even if I wanted to take further movements, he might even cut off my throat."

Now, Adam was surprised, "Your inspiration is so keen, but will you be previewed by faceless people?"

"My inspiration is enough to preview the opponent's 'next step', but someone like him who has rich combat experience can even preview my 'next step'. I have no advantage in this regard." Hasegawa can only admit his shortcomings.

"It seems that the faceless man is even more terrifying than I know." Adam sighed, "Is there anything else?"

"There is also the case, I noticed later that his presence is far thinner than that of ordinary people, as if the surrounding environment is water, and he dissolved himself into the water." Hasegawa continued, "He should be proficient in martial arts, so he is very good at blocking his breath. In addition, he is an ordinary person who does not have psychic power. Just by inspiration, his presence is far less than that of psychic power, so it is easy to ignore it. Even as a psychic medium, I am afraid that ordinary psychic power can't lock him with inspiration."

"You're right." Adam admitted, "Many of the psychics who were killed by him in the past were killed by him with assassination techniques, and he didn't even have room for his psychic energy to exert."

"This kind of person is simply the nemesis of the psychic, the psychic in the black area of ​​Beaver City. How could he allow him to continue to exist?" Hasegawa asked in surprise.

"Of course it's impossible to allow it, so a year ago, his partner might have betrayed him, and he himself was surrounded by a team of psychics led by the super-level psychics." Adam said, "After that time, the faceless man, the faceless man's partner, and that team all quit the stage of the city."

"The team led by the special psychics..." Hasegawa was stunned.

"Everyone wants to believe that the faceless man is dead, but no one can give exact evidence. In addition, the faceless man is good at disguise and his whereabouts are unpredictable, so he becomes a ghost hovering in the hearts of local psychics, an indescribable monster, a terrifying incarnation, and a symbol of unknown, violence, and death." Adam said slowly, "When rumors in the black zone spread to the surface society and deteriorate under the effect of communication, it becomes an urban legend, that is, the 'figureless murderer' that you know."

Hasegawa was speechless.

After a long time, his face gradually became ugly, as if he had thought of some bad possibility.

"You said, could the Faceless Man be a member of the mysterious organization?" he said suddenly.

Adam was looking at the scenery flying outside the car window, and was stunned at this moment and asked, "Why do you say that?"

"In theory, the Faceless Man was surrounded and killed by the psychic team. Even if he did not die, he should have been seriously injured, even if he was disabled." Hasegawa said, "But now he has no trace of injuries... I don't suspect that he is not the Faceless Man's true master. There will be no other martial artist of that level, and Beaver City will not appear in the short term. But do you think, could it be a mysterious organization that cures him?"

Adam didn't comment, "Continue."

"A person like the faceless man who is not a psychic, but is so powerful must be very eager to have psychic power. Even if it is just the most basic psychic power, it is enough to make him a monster that the super psychics look forward to. Maybe it is enough to compete with the legendary 'battle expert of the Demon Subduing Bureau'." Hasegawa said, "And if it is a mysterious organization, it will be able to provide him with such an opportunity. It is not an exaggeration to say that both sides are perfect matches made by heaven and earth."

"The faceless man does have a sufficient motivation to join the mysterious organization, but what about the evidence?" Adam asked again.

"Although there is no evidence, think about it carefully, why did the Faceless Man suddenly come back at this critical moment? He killed the sheepskin killer who is very critical to us, and just couldn't find the body of the sheepskin killer? If it was just accidental, it would be easy to say, but when several consecutive "accidental" combined with the "natural allies of the mysterious organization", it would be unoptimistic." Hasegawa rarely expressed a well-organized opinion.

But Adam was quite cautious, "Maybe it was really just a chance. Besides, since the mysterious organization hoped that the sheepskin killer was arrested by the police, why did the faceless person kill the sheepskin killer?"

"Because my joining halfway disrupted the plan of the mysterious organization." Hasegawa said with confidence, "If I were asked to find the sheepskin killer, or his body, they would be caught by me in the sun! Maybe they were not afraid of me, but they must be afraid of me calling the police! So they changed their plan and dispatched the faceless person to silence the sheepskin killer."

"It sounds like this, but it's not reasoning at all, it's just suspicion, not to mention that there are some flaws that cannot be ignored..."

For example: Since the faceless man is an enemy, why not kill everyone and others while they met last time.

Just as Adam was about to say this, her cell phone rang.

She looked down and said, "It was a call from the faceless person."

"Maybe he has a way to monitor our whereabouts." Hasegawa was full of soldiers at this time. He suddenly stopped and said, "I know I am actually not good at reasoning. The reasoning just now is also very immature and lacks decisive evidence. But don't you think that now is a great opportunity to test the faceless man?"

Then, his eyes became more serious, "If he knew our current plans, tried to persuade, or even warned us that we should never look for clues to the sheepskin killer, then he would definitely be black."

Adam stared at Hasegawa for five seconds before answering the phone.

After a moment, the call ended.

Although Hasegawa put his hands on the steering wheel, he still strengthened his hearing with his psychic energy and listened to the entire content of the call.

And after Adam put away his phone, he said to him: "As you said, the faceless man knows what we are doing and warns us to give up our current itinerary."

"In other words, the faceless person is no longer trustworthy." Hasegawa said confidently.

"Indeed, I am actually not happy to believe in accidents. If the Faceless Man is really a member of the mysterious organization, then all the accidents before can be transformed into inevitable." Even Adam agreed.

But she changed her mind and said, "But I still suggest that you should believe the faceless person's words and turn it back immediately."
Chapter completed!
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