The pulsating sound of the heartbeat monitor reverberated rhythmically in the white hospital room, the thin sunlight outside the curtains, and the constant traffic on the elevated road, it seemed that it was a good day today, and the city of Tokyo finally breathed a sigh of relief from the chaos of a few days ago, and regained its vitality and enthusiasm.

The door of the ward was opened, and it was the head of the executive bureau who walked in, Gen Zhisheng, who walked in and glanced at Ryoichi Okubo, who was lying still on the ward for an infusion, and the other party didn't seem to be aware of his visit, lying on the bed with his head tilted and quietly looking at the fluttering white curtains - he looked like this almost every moment these days, and the better thing about being a vegetative person was that he could go to the toilet on his own without inserting a urinary catheter.

Gen Zhisheng took off his inconvenient trench coat and hung it on the coat rack, and sat down on the chair next to the hospital bed while wearing a lined long-sleeved white shirt with his cuffs trimmed, sitting in a position that was impartially blocked between Ryoichi Okubo and the window, forcing the other party's dead-like gaze to move to his face.

"Director." Liangyi bowed slightly, ready to sit up from the bed, but was stopped by Yuan Zhisheng: "It's okay to lie down, the doctor said that you have a lot better treats, how do you feel?"

"It's just a small injury." Ryoichi didn't insist on sitting up anymore, and was lying on the bed looking sideways at Gen Zhisheng.

"Three cuts, two stabs, four gunshot wounds." Yuan Zhisheng crossed his legs and put his hands together on his knees: "The liver, lungs, and ribs have all been traumatized to varying degrees, and the external wounds have been infected and purulent when they were sent to the hospital, and they are also accompanied by internal bleeding, and the doctors say that it is a miracle that you survived." ”

"A miracle." Ryoichi whispered.

"Miracles and magic aren't free." Yuan Zhisheng said.

Ryoichi was stunned, and then looked at Gen Zhisheng's expression a little strange, because the line that the other party said just now is from the classic drama "Madoka Magical Girl", in which magic and miracles are made by the user to pay a corresponding heavy price... He didn't expect that the director of the dignified executive bureau would also know about this kind of anime drama that is biased towards the 'girl department' (in fact, it is dark and deep).

"It turns out that the director also likes otaku culture." Ryoichi whispered.

"It's Eri who has been watching lately." Yuan Zhisheng found that Ryoichi had misunderstood and shook his head and explained: "In comparison, you who can understand this stalk are the hidden house, right?" ”

"No, it's just that my sister has seen it." Ryoichi said, "I just watched it with her." ”

"Just like me." Yuan Zhisheng touched his waist but found that the windbreaker that put the cigarette was hanging on the coat rack, and he gave up taking the cigarette when he realized that he was in the ward now, and instead took an apple and fruit knife on the table and sharpened it: "Your injuries have stabilized, your bloodline has saved your life, in fact, as long as the head is not bitten off, most of the injuries can survive." ”

"Then I'm glad it wasn't me who turned around that night." Ryoichi touched his neck, then looked up at Yuan Zhisheng, who was peeling an apple, and smiled silently inexplicably, and a faint smile flowed through Yuan Zhisheng's eyes.

Originally, the two people who were so far apart from each other probably never sat together and talked about each other for the rest of their lives, but now they are sitting together and talking about something strange like 'magical girl', which is a particularly interesting scene.

Laughing and laughing, and playing with the stalks, when Gen Zhisheng put down the fruit knife and put the peeled apples on the toilet paper on the table, the formal conversation began.

"I want to know what happened to you, who you met in the Elysium, and what happened in the end."

Hearing Gen Zhisheng's question, Ryoichi lowered his eyes, and the former continued as if he hadn't noticed his abnormality: "According to the longitude and latitude directions provided by you at the time, we rushed to the deep mountains of Osaka and found only a raging mountain fire, and after extinguishing the flames, we only found the ruins of a burned down mansion, and there was nothing in it, and the only harvest was a large number of pachinko scrap iron. ”

"In other words, what happened in the Elysium that night is probably only known to the two of you." "I'm surprised that you came back alive to tell you the truth, although the Pavilion of Paradise burned down, the guns and bullet holes left in the ruins indicate that you were in a small encounter, and the firepower of the other side was enough to suppress you to death, but you survived. ”

"Hmm." Ryochi nodded, for he was still lying here intact.

"Let's talk about it." Yuan Zhisheng said: "Talk about yourself, and talk about him." ”

"What does the director mean - Lin Jun?" Ryoichi looked up at Genjisheng.

Yuan Zhisheng didn't speak, just looked at him.

"What does the Director want to know?"

"Everything."

Genjisheng opened the door of the ward and walked out, and in the ward behind him, Ryoichi silently watched his back, and he didn't close his eyes and rest until the door was slammed shut.

At this time, the phone rang at the table.,Ryoichi, who just closed his eyes, opened his eyes and looked at the mobile phone left on the table.,His original mobile phone had already been on the way to Osaka to avoid being tracked and lost by Kaguya.,This mobile phone was recently equipped with public funds.,There are only a few internal phone numbers stored in it.。

Is it Hasegawa Team Leader?

Ryoichi immediately thought of the old man who was worthy of respect and cared for him, and this time he acted privately to think that the other party would already be furious, but because he was seriously injured and lying in the special medical room of his family, he didn't come to scold himself in person, and now it's normal to call.

Ryoshi leaned over and reached for his phone, but he was stunned when he caught a glimpse of the phone number on it.

It was an ocean-going call, no notes, but it went into his phone number, which had just been activated a few days earlier.

Spam calls?

Ryoichi didn't think it would be such a coincidence, he hesitated for a while, picked up the phone and put it to his ear: "Hey? ”

"Hello, you must be Ryoichi Okubo, right?"

The voice on the other end of the phone was a girl, and when he heard her voice, Ryoichi couldn't help but feel a creepy sense of fear in his heart.

He had heard this voice, and it was the girl's voice that came out of Wang Jiang's mobile phone at the night of the Paradise Pavilion a few days ago.

"I am." Ryoichi whispered, his originally dead heart began to quickly calculate and guess, he turned his head to look at the corner of the bedside table and the ceiling, if he guessed correctly, there were at least five bugs installed in this ward, and the law enforcement officers in the background monitored every move in this ward all the time, including his current conversation with the girl on the other end of the phone.

"Don't worry." When Ryoichi was thinking about how to cover up the content of the conversation, the girl spoke first: "All surveillance methods in this ward will be disabled within ten minutes, our conversation is absolutely safe, and this phone call record will not exist at all, you are safe." ”

Ryoichi was shocked in his heart - the place where he was sitting now was the special medical floor of Genji Heavy Industries, and the Snake Eight family would place patients who were difficult to push to outside hospitals into special wards, and Genji Heavy Industries was undoubtedly the core of the family, and even Kaguyahime's computer room was hidden in this building, but the girl on the other end of the phone said that she controlled the communication equipment here?

"That kid has been in your care lately." The girl said with a smile.

"Where is the matter, in fact, he takes care of me." Even if he was amazed and shocked, Ryoichi had to continue the conversation, but his mind was much heavier for no reason.

"Really?" The girl nodded: "Then should there be some price to pay as the one being taken care of?" ”

Liang's eyes lowered slightly: "The price? What do you mean. ”

"Looks like I didn't understand enough." The girl said, "Are you willing to die for him once?" ”

Ryoichi was stunned and didn't reply for a long time.

"I know you didn't tell the people of the Snake Qi Eight Family about that child, including the head of the Yuan family, Yuan Zhisheng, who questioned you about the situation that night just now." The girl said, "You have done a good job, so I am willing to give you a chance to 'repay'." ”

"'Reciprocation'?" Ryoichi asked.

"Yes."

There was silence in the ward for a long time, until finally, he nodded calmly: "I do." ”

"The pact is established from now on." The girl said, and then the phone hung up, leaving only a busy signal.