The next morning.

Amuro is woken up by a dull explosion.

He struggled to open his eyes, staring at the endless blue sky, stunned for two seconds, and suddenly smelled a smell of burning, and sat up.

I saw that I had been transferred to a familiar lifeboat, one end of which was tied to the barren bushes on the edge of the island, and most of it was floating in the sea.

His teammate was sitting in the bow of the boat, carrying a fried fish, his eyes were empty, as if he was thinking about life.

"What are you doing" Amuro looked at the remains of the fish in Matsuda's hand, and understood why he had heard the explosion just now.

However, Matsuda glanced back at him and did not explain the fish: "You are right, there is a problem with this island, and not long after I left with you, the inn was burned. ”

"Yes" Amuro is not too surprised, the closed environment is indeed easy to nourish some people with a weak sense of law.

Now it seems that the power of the ground snake should not be underestimated, maybe Hideo Kawashima has always been keeping the inn on the attention of the foreign men in black, and this time they are the ones who underestimate the enemy.

Amuro quickly recognized that the position the two of them were now on the other side of the island.

An island that can be inhabited for a long time and will not be submerged by the sea at high tide, no matter how small it is, the same is true of Moonshadow Island, which has some undeveloped areas on it.

That's where they landed last night.

Fresh water and food are usually stocked on lifeboats, and it's normal for Matsuda to think of this place when he hears the reminder.

But

"So what were you doing just now," Amuro couldn't help but ask again.

Although Matsuda had already answered this question just now, Amuro Toru really didn't understand what the burning of the hotel had to do with Matsuda's persecution of sea fish.

He saw Matsuda throw the fish away, pick up a branch that was used as a fishing rod, and put something on one end of the line, presumably a miniature bomb, Toru Amuro had seen him blow up the lock with a similar bomb before.

Matsuda finished fiddling with the props before taking the time to say, "You didn't say don't touch the water on the island. ”

"Amuro finally understood.

Matsuda wanted to fish and use it as food, but he didn't have a good bait and hook, or he simply couldn't catch it because of technical problems, so he used the bomb.

But

He looked down at the food on the lifeboat that Matsuda had turned out to serve him breakfast, and then at the backpack on the boat.

The bags have been brought out, and Matsuda's nutritional paste must still be there, so there is no need for fishing

Thinking about it again, Amuro suddenly realized.

Matsuda must have nothing to do, he wanted to fish and play, and he happened to mention that there was a problem with the food on the island, so he also had an excuse to fry the fish with confidence.

Amuro looked back at the woods, feeling that it was some distance from the town, and no one should be able to hear the underwater explosion, so he was slightly relieved.

Then he sorted out his thoughts, and felt that he couldn't just go back, and that he had to go to the island to find out the situation first.

Yesterday I was unprepared, so I accidentally got hit, but today as long as I am cautious enough, I can avoid danger and get the information I want.

From now on, all the inhabitants of the island must be regarded as enemies.

Shiraishi saw Amuro sitting and pondering for a while, and suddenly began to rummage through his bag to find clothes.

This man's clothes are no less than Belmode's, and they are very different from simple gin and vodka. Probably this is the difference between an organizational backbone and a traitor undercover.

Baishi looked at himself again, very good, not to mention the ontology for the time being, at least the vest is highly consistent with the leader, and he is a qualified salary cheat undercover.

After a while, Amuro changed his outfit and covered it slightly with a mask and hat, looking very different from yesterday.

Of course, the face is still the face of Shuichi Akai, so that even if it is seen, it will be able to avoid a lot of trouble in the future and throw the pot to the FBI.

After Amuro walked through the woods and went to the island to investigate, Shiraishi found an empty mobile phone, took out the black technology USB flash drive that had been inserted into Hideo Kawashima's mobile phone yesterday, and inserted it into this mobile phone again.

Hideo Kawashima's mobile phone has almost burned to slag, after all, the place where the drug dealers are staying is the most hot.

Originally, Shiraishi planned to hand over the information directly.

But now, since Amuro didn't suspect him, he could completely dump the drugged pot on the islanders. A little extra work is also required regarding the data.

After the information was transferred, Shiraishi fiddled with his mobile phone for a while, and then left the boat and followed him into the island.

After taking a cursory look around the island, Amuro realized that Matsuda's misjudgment of the building that caught fire was not the hotel where they lived yesterday, but the community center.

Viewed from the direction of the woods, the two buildings are indeed close to the same line.

It's far away, it's hard to judge the distance, plus he was drugged in the hotel yesterday, Matsuda may have been misled by this incident, and when he saw the fire from a distance, he thought something had happened to the hotel.

At this time, it was discovered that it was the community center that was on fire, and for a moment, Amuro suspected that it had something to do with Matsuda.

But when I think about it, I don't think it's right.

It was their task to deal with those drug dealers.

If Matsuda had really set the fire last night, he would have told himself about it so that he could discuss his next steps, rather than explaining why he was fishing on the boat.

Moreover, if Matsuda had been the one who set the fire, he would not have mistaken it for a hotel.

The story of the wolf can actually be used in reverse. A person who seems to never lie suddenly tells a lie, and it is difficult to be suspected when the evidence is not conclusive.

What's more, in Amuro's eyes, Matsuda didn't have the time to put sleeping pills in the coffee can at all. In other words, there is another force on the island that has malicious intentions towards them, and under this premise, the suspicion of accomplices is naturally ruled out.

In short, Toru Amuro didn't expect that he was backstabbed by his teammates.

After a cursory look at the hotel, he returned to the community center, knocked out a firefighter nearby, changed into the clothes of an unlucky passerby, and went to the scene of the fire to investigate.

This accident, at first glance, does look like an accident, and the cause of the fire is the aging of the circuit.

But Amuro found that apart from a few family members of the deceased, the crowd of onlookers was not very sad, and even a little gloating.

Looking at the name of the deceased, it can't be regarded as an accident.

Hideo Kawashima, Tatsuji Kuroda, Ken Nishiki.

These three people are exactly the goal of their trip.

Thinking of this, the image of Matsuda holding a bomb once again uncontrollably appeared in Amuro's mind.

Then he hit an X and firmly denied it.

After all, in addition to being the target of their mission, these three people have other identities that are easy to find resentment on this island.

The old, the weak, the sick and the disabled could escape from the fire, and there was no reason why these three people could not run, so at that time, there must have been some factor that hindered their movement and forced them to stay in the fire.

Judging by the photographs of several bodies when they were found, the location of the three people was very scattered.

Although the people were charred, judging from the remaining traces, there were no traces of their hands and feet being bound.

Amuro thought about what happened to him, and a key word, sleeping pills, came to mind.

In addition, according to the words of eyewitnesses, the ritual was still going on at the moment of the fire.

At that time, there were twenty or thirty people staring in the hall, and Matsuda was not a ghost, so he couldn't break in and drug people.

In other words, it must have been the islanders who were already in the venue.

And there were not many adult males in the venue, and when the fire was burning, no one noticed the three drug dealers who could not move, and no one took them out

As the information increased, Amuro gradually had a conjecture.

He looked back at the crowd. With the exception of the three who died, the rest of the islanders were at most scorched with their clothes and hair, or stained with some ash, and did not suffer any substantial injuries.

All kinds of situations are very unreasonable, but there is one situation that can achieve the current result perfectly.

It was disguised as an accident

Mass killing.