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It was almost noon, and the dull atmosphere caused by the Imperial Pillar Pagoda incident that occurred last Christmas had been swept away, and the whole building was busy.
Although they had not yet formally reinstated the head of the Fourth Division of the Family Registration Division of the Tokyo Legal Affairs Bureau, they had already returned here to deal with the backlog of affairs in the post-Dresden Slate period.
After the destruction of the Dresden Slate, perhaps because they possessed a powerful king, the superpowers possessed by the members of the Blue Clan did not disappear immediately.
In stark contrast, they have arrested a large number of members of the Green Clan on the streets in the past few days. After the Green King lost all his power and died instantaneously due to the destruction of the Dresden Slate, the superpowers granted by the Green Clan through his power were almost instantaneously terminated. Now most of them are just a group of ordinary gangsters, but because they used to be the identity of the Midori clan, when they are arrested, they are still handled by Sceter 4 on the spot, and after confirming that the other party has lost their superpowers and is not afraid, they will transfer the disposal power to the Metropolitan Police Department as a person who is a suspect of ordinary people's identity.
In addition, after so many days of the disappearance of the Dresden Slate, the city is still full of a large number of outsiders whose abilities have not yet disappeared. While this is surprising, it's not something that SCETER 4 can't handle. Of course, everyone is still working at near full capacity as before, and the long-awaited holiday shows no signs of coming soon.
Although there are also worries about whether the green power in their bodies will disappear when they wake up, the vast majority of the elite of SCETER 4 still try their best to overcome this trouble, rushing to all corners of the city.
Today, it seems that Reiji Sonata of Blue no King is going to visit a big man after lunch, so he summons Awashima Seri, the deputy head of SCETER 4, and Fushimi Sarubiko, the third person, to discuss the matter in his office.
By the time the horn on the wall sounded a high-pitched alarm, some of the members of SCETER 4 were already sitting in the dining room and starting their meal.
Akiyama Ice Du is one of them. He arrived at the restaurant early because he had to go to the Metropolitan Police Department for a meeting immediately after lunch to discuss the follow-up of the recently arrested "outsiders" who had been created by the Green King's wanton release of the power of the Dresden Slate by the water flow. As soon as a bowl of ramen was served, the horn on the wall of the restaurant went frantically.
Akiyama immediately put down the bowl, stood up, and followed everyone out of the cafeteria to the large office of the special forces of the fencing mobile division.
Someone in the office was already monitoring the real-time footage from the probes everywhere. When Akiyama stepped into the office, it was only a few minutes before the first alarm sounded, and it had already been determined that someone had trespassed on the roof of the SCETER 4 building with unknown intentions, and had not received any unsolicited contact from the other party to initiate, identify, or intend to do so.
That's a bit of a weirdness.
Moreover, it is very strange that the surveillance probes located in various places on the roof of the building did not photograph this person, let alone any process of this person's illegal incursion. If it weren't for the infrared sensor system on the roof of the building, everyone would have thought that this was a rare false alarm.
The Sceter 4 is an extremely well-trained elite team. This was fully realized by Akiyama when he arrived at the fire door leading to the roof.
It had not been more than ten minutes since the alarm sounded, but the mobile forces had already set up an attack on both sides of the fire door, and just waiting for the arrival of high-level cadres and an order, they could quickly break down the door and arrest the mysterious person who had escaped all the surveillance cameras in the SCETER 4 building.
Akiyama stood in front of the door, and from the intercom headset he was wearing, came the order of Deputy Chief Awashima Shiri.
"After making sure that there is nothing abnormal on the roof, you can break down the door"
Akiyama replied "yes", and then began to command "confirm the real-time footage of all the surveillance cameras on the top floor to search for the intruder again"
The team members who were sitting on the side nervously operating the laptop computer quickly responded, "Captain Akiyama, all the surveillance cameras have been confirmed, everything is normal on the roof, and there is no picture of the intruder"
Akiyama's brow couldn't help but furrow.
It is probably impossible to say that the surveillance cameras installed in the building of Sceter 4 have blind spots. If he did this, he would not have been able to pass the careful verification of the deputy chief of excellence, Awashima Shiri, and it would be impossible to escape the eyes of the Blue King Sonata Reiji who seemed to know everything that happened in this land.
However, it is on the roof of this most disciplined, heavily guarded building, which should be without dead ends, that there is a strange intruder at this moment. Even if there is not a single surveillance camera to back it up, the alarm system has just passed another comprehensive check, and it is impossible to go wrong.
This means that the mysterious intruder has some kind of superpower such as shielding surveillance cameras
It's tricky.
Akiyama paused.
"The first and second squads, after an order, will be dispatched first, and immediately disperse and search according to the plan after rushing into the rooftop of the building, and the third and fourth squads will keep a standby watch before they have a new order, the other party is likely to be an illegal outsider that we have not yet monitored, everyone be careful."
The team members were full of energy and shouted "yes" in unison, and then Daoming Temple took the lead, taking the lead in slamming open the fire door, and then the members of the two teams poured into the roof of the SCETER 4 building.
Since the surveillance camera system could not track the specific images of the intruders, not only the elite members of the Fencing Mobile Division Special Task Force, including Akiyama, Bencai, Kamo, Domeiji, Enomoto, Fushi, Goto, and Higako, were all dispatched, but also the chief, deputy chief, and Fushimi, who were in a meeting at the time of receiving the report, also rushed to the scene to inspect the scene.
As the commando captain of this operation, Daoming Temple held back his strength and took the lead in rushing to the rooftop.
The rooftop was as calm as ever. As far as the eye could see, there were white clouds floating in the clear blue sky, and a breeze blowing on the face, this was the most ordinary noon, as if it were exactly the same as the weather at the time of the Yomitomon incident a few days ago, the event of the unforeseen decisive battle with the Midori clan, it was so good that it was not like a good day where anything bad would happen.
Akiyama, as the de facto fourth person of SCETER 4, temporarily played the role of on-site commander when the first three bigwigs had not yet arrived at the scene. When Daoming Temple rushed to the rooftop to start the search, he remained near the fire door, watching the team in charge of the computer part nervously continue to debug and monitor the display and readings of various systems.
Suddenly, one of the team members shouted with a little excitement.
"Report that the location of the intruder has been successfully detected by means of an infrared detection device"
Akiyama rushed over to take a look, and sure enough, in the corner of the screen, there was a slender figure that was sensed by infrared heat energy and outlined on the computer screen.
"It's a woman," Akiyama muttered to himself.
Why was the infrared detection device suddenly able to capture her figure, it stands to reason that this detection device should have entered a tense state of work the moment the alarm was activated, but before this, wasn't there no figure that had been caught, so what is going on now?
Before he could think further, the orange figure on the screen that was displayed by infrared heat suddenly began to move
The team members who had quickly dispersed and deployed on the entire rooftop immediately followed the pre-rehearsed plan, and all of them calmly entered the state of imminent battle.
Akiyama watched as the figure got closer and closer to the frontline of their defense
When the figure was about to go around a rooftop water tower that blocked his or her figure and approached the front-line guards, the breathless Daoming Temple suddenly shouted, "Ah, according to the plan, I'll go first, everyone is on guard"
Akiyama's heart froze, and for some reason he suddenly had a bad intuition; he just wanted to open his mouth to stop Daoming Temple, when he heard Daoming Temple shouting, "Daoming Temple, urgently draw the sword" and then jumped up, the sword in his hand was condescending, just above the head of the figure that appeared in the infrared rays, and slashed down sharply
The next moment, everything was still.
That's right, literally.
Daoming Temple still maintained the action of jumping up in the air and raising his sword to slash, but his whole person was frozen in mid-air like a movie
All the team members
Akiyama realized something in an instant.
Just as he was about to call out the other party's name, the fire door on the roof of the building slammed open again.
Awashima Seri and Fushimi Saruhiko stood at the door. The moment the two of them made contact with the Daoming Temple, which was still frozen in the air, their faces showed a look of surprise.
But the next second there was a soft cough behind them.
"Uh-huh"
Awashima and Fushimi were shocked, and immediately opened the door, lined up on both sides, and made way for the passage
The Blue King Sect statue Reiji, with his hands behind his back, stood there.
He first raised his gaze slightly and glanced at the Daoming Temple that was frozen in the air, and snorted lightly, and a faint smile actually appeared in the corner of his eyes.
He strode towards the rooftop, and as he passed Awashima, he paused briefly and glanced at her.
Awashima immediately understood what he meant, and shouted, "All staff, lift the alert now, stand on both sides in a ceremonial formation, and all members stand upright."
Fushimi lowered his eyes, as if he had no energy, as if he had no energy, and stood up lazily and straightened up.
In less than a minute, all the SCETER 4 team members on the rooftop were standing in two columns on the left and right.
Although there were doubts about the attitude of the head of the room and the order issued by Awashima, no one would question it. Standing upright with a ceremonial position is obviously what the head of the room meant. This is clearly a rhythm intended to greet unidentified intruders on the rooftop, rather than arrest and dispose of them.
Reiji Munakata slowly walked up to the rooftop, but he didn't directly walk past the Sceter 4 members lined up on both sides and walk over to see what was going on.
He stood in the queue of the two sceter 4 team members who were standing upright and straight, with his hands still behind his back, raised his eyes and glanced at Daoming Temple, which was frozen in the air, coughing more than a meter above the ground, and his jumping ability was really good, slightly hooked the corners of his lips, revealing a smile.