Chapter 54: Alchemy is not a panacea
"What's wrong with him?"
Seeing that Hughes suddenly seemed to be a deflated balloon, and the whole person was filled with an aura of sadness that was greater than death, Nagato Yuki asked Ryoko Asakura with concern.
Ryoko Asakura couldn't stand it anymore, and said to Ayana: "If he goes on like this, he'll be finished, Ayana, knock him out, let him calm down." β
After Ayanami knocked Hughes unconscious, Ryoko Asakura picked up the newspaper that Hughes was holding tightly in his hand, sighed and said, "Mrs. Hughes and her daughter seem to be dead......"
"Ahh Nagato Yuki was stunned for a moment, and said urgently, "Mrs. Hughes is dead?" How did you die? Why did he die? β
For this news, Nagato Yuki felt unacceptable, although he didn't get along with Mrs. Hughes and his daughter for a long time, but when they borrowed from Hughes's house, they were taken care of a lot by Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. Hughes is a very gentle, kind and good person, and their daughter is also very cute and well-behaved, why did they suddenly die?
"The newspaper said it looked like we killed him." Ryoko Asakura pointed to the newspaper and said to Yuki Nagato while thinking. Yuki Nagato knows what Ryoko Asakura said about "we", that is, the members of the SOS group.
"Impossible!" Nagato Yuki immediately denied that no one of them would do such a thing, so it was Ah Xu's side, but Nagato Yuki also trusted Ah Xu very much, thinking that Ah Xu had no reason to kill Mrs. Hughes.
"Could it be the one who will transform?" Yuki Nagato thought of Enwei who he met before, and if it comes to planting blame, no one is more suitable than Enwei.
"It's possible." Ryoko Asakura nodded, "However, it doesn't seem to be necessary, Lady Hughes is far more useful as a hostage than a dead person. Moreover, I can't think of any good for them to kill Hughes's wife and daughter, to provoke Hughes, to drive a wedge between us? It doesn't seem to be of much use, we rescued Hughes by the way, and Hughes has nothing to do with us, no matter what kind of attitude Hughes has towards us, it will not affect us. β
"Besides, the speed of this news is too fast......" Ryoko Asakura stared at the time on the newspaper, her eyes flashing, "This is what happened in Chuo City the night before yesterday, and we saw the newspaper in the eastern city today...... They don't have the Internet, so how efficient can the news be? β
This news is not the kind of news with a huge impact when the president hangs up, but just the death of a person who has almost nothing to do with ordinary people, and such news is only seen in the eastern city one day later.
"It feels more like it's deliberately put out for us to see...... Why let us see it? Indicating that they don't care about Hughes's actions at all? Don't need hostages to threaten? Or rather, Ah Xuan they went to Central City, what happened, and the death of Mrs. Hughes and her daughter. Maybe they weren't dead yet, Hughes's wife and daughter were rescued by Ah Xuan and others, so they could only wait to release fake news to deceive the public. β
Hearing Ryoko Asakura's speculation, Yuki Nagato pointed to the picture in the newspaper suspiciously and said, "However, this is indeed Hughes's wife and daughter." β
"You're stupid, you can change even a living person at will, what's so difficult to get two corpses that are exactly like Hughes's wife and daughter? Moreover, the bodies of Hughes's wife and daughter are so complete that their faces are clearly recognizable, as if they were posed. β
Hearing this, Nagato Yuki thought in his heart that there was indeed such a possibility, and nodded.
"Let's see if the piano is good."
The two walked to the backyard, which was originally a garden, but at this time there was a behemoth, and Kotomi was standing in front of the behemoth in a daze.
"What's wrong?" Ryoko Asakura asked.
"I can't spread the signal, I can't reach my father." Kotomi shook her head.
"Why?"
Kotomi said guiltily: "I used alchemy to forge this ground base station that transmits signals, but I haven't learned communication programming......"
It is equivalent to Qinmei can use alchemy to refine a computer, but the computer's chip needs to be implanted with a code program to run normally, and Qinmei does not understand this kind of code, so there is an empty computer shell, but it cannot be started at all.
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Ryoko Asakura was speechless, none of them understood this aspect at all.
"So what do we do now?" The phone still doesn't work, and I can't get in touch with Ah Xu, so Yuki Nagato asks Ryoko Asakura, "Do we want to go to Chuo City?" β
Just now, Ryoko Asakura also speculated that Ah Xuan and the others might have gone to Chuo City to join them, so Nagato Yuki asked such a question. Both teams happened to miss it.
Ryoko Asakura shook her head: "No, since the androids have sent out this news, I think Ah Xu, they haven't found us, and we must have left Chuo City." Since Ah Xu and the others went to Central City to prepare for the meeting, it means that their business has been done, since this is the case, then let's wait! Wait here, if you can't find us in Chuo City, Ah Xu will definitely come to look for us where we first appeared. β
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Without pause, Tsuruya took Mrs. Hughes and her daughter Alicia all the way back to Daplis, and according to the address, went to Izmi's house, but all he saw was a man going to an empty house.
"Are you looking for Ah Xu?"
Just as the crane house was looking for clues as to whether the black cat had left any clues, a big bald head with a cowering tail emerged from the corner.
The strange appearance scared both Mrs. Hughes and Alicia.
Tsuruya stared over and guessed that the man was a synthβthough it was significantly taller than Nina's synth, at least humanoid.
Could it be that Edward and the others were arrested by the military?
Tsuruya remembers that the synthesizer should be a combat weapon researched by the military, but if it is caught by the military, it should not be so questioned, but a bunch of people, or even artificial people, to surround themselves.
"If you're looking for Ah Xu, come with me." The cowering seemed to be a large bald synth made by a lizard, and gestured to Tsuruya.
"Follow me." Tsuruya asked Mrs. Hughes to pick up Alicia, admonish her, and followed.
The synth led them around the alley to a basement, where they saw an unruly man in black, Glied.
When Greed was looking at Tsuruya, Tsuruya was also looking at Greed.
"Follow me." Glied waved his hand at the crane house, and then without looking at what he was doing, a hole suddenly opened in the ground, and rows of stairs spread down from the hole.
Tsuruya followed directly, and down the stairs, Tsuruya finally joined Ayu.
"Your people brought it to you." Leaning against the wall, Glide took out a ball of paper from his pocket and threw it to Ah Xu, who then wrote an address on it, and Glid said: "The foreigners of the terrorists that the military is tracking, you should also be looking for them, right?" That's their address, and they've been seen in the eastern cities. β
"Why are you helping us?" Edward asked curiously, this guy is an android, and not long ago, the two sides were still hostile.
Glitter pursed his lips and laughed, "How can I, Glitter, help others?" I'm doing this for myself! Let you hurry up and fight with your father, and I will be able to reap the benefits of the fisherman! β
"Explanation is a cover-up, a cover-up is the truth, and the facts are what it is." Ah Xu commented on this.
The expression on Greed's face was very subtle, and he snorted angrily and turned to leave.
"I'm getting more and more interested in him." Ah Xuan said, when Tsuruya heard this, he looked at Ah Xuan with disdain: "I didn't expect that after only a few days, you will become this taste!" β
Ah Xu ignored the ridicule of the crane house, and looked at the mother and daughter who followed the crane house in: "You are also amazing, I didn't expect that I hadn't seen you for a few days, and I had already brought back a big and a small, and I sighed to myself that it was better to ......."
Ah Xu's eyes glanced at the bottom of the crane house, Rao is crane house couldn't help but have a fever on his face, ashamed and angry, and smashed a fist at Ah Xu: "You guy will die a hundred times for me!" β
However, she was stopped by Artoria - at least until her wish was granted, she couldn't let Axu die lightly.
"Who is she?" Artoria and Tsuruya asked Ah Xuan in unison.
Ah Xuan briefly introduced the identities of the two parties, in a word-in short, they are both companions. Then Ah Xuan asked Tsuruya, "Who are the two of them?" β
"Mrs. Hughes!" Edward and Alphonse called out Mrs. Hughes by name, and the two knew the Hughes family because of Roy's relationship.
"Great! You're alive! When we read the newspapers, we all thought you were dead! Edward and Alphonse were pleasantly surprised, and Mrs. Hughes saw that Edward and Alphons, two acquaintances, had finally returned to their original places in their throats for days.
Mrs. Hughes told everyone about her experience, and Tsuruya supplemented her speculation with a bunch. Seeing Haruhi lying in Ah Xu's arms, he asked again in a seemingly state, and Ah Shu also explained the situation of Kasuga to Tsuruya.
Tsuruya returned, and then Ah Xu and the others set off to the eastern city to join Kotomi.