Ke Xue: I picked up a bottle of sherry at the beginning.

Minister Nanajo smiled bitterly, then walked back a few steps to Baiquanyi and spoke to him in a deliberately low voice.

"Inspector Bai, I have something I want to discuss with you."

"Yeah? Minister, do you want to talk to me about something?"

"Keep your voice down, keep your voice down."

"What can I do for you?"

"Honestly, I want to propose to Ryoko."

"Hmm? What's the point of telling me you want to propose to Ryoko? Shouldn't you just ask Ryoko directly?"

"I just don't know if the White Inspector has this intention towards Ryoko. If the opponent is the White Inspector..."

Minister Nanajo looked at Inspector Bai. He was so handsome that he was the public enemy of men. No man could compare to his charm.

"I'm a non-marriage advocate. You don't have to worry about me. I think you should think about how to get Ryoko's consent."

"You don't need to worry about this matter."

"Good luck."

Bai Quanyi smiled faintly.

The group took the elevator to the first floor. Ryoko, seeing Nanajo as a stumbling block, contemplated sending him packing. The lobby was deserted, save for four men and women at the counter, who greeted the Exorcist's group with expressions of surprise. Two of the men, in particular, stared intently at the two beauties in fishnet stockings with their eyes and mouths gaping.

"What are you looking at? What's so good about it?"

Ryoko yelled and they came back to their senses.

"Minister, what on earth is going on..."

"Ah, nothing much. I was wondering if you guys saw Mr. Nakagami?"

"No."

"What about the other attendees?"

Ryoko demanded.

"The symposium just ended, and the teacher wants everyone to go to the underground swimming pool to watch a performance..."

Ryoko spat, "Those perverts!"

"That's man's nature."

Minister Nanajo gave a wry smile; he must have known what the performance was about. The waiter asked speculatively, "Minister, aren't you going to see the show? If you need a private room, room 202 is available..."

Everyone could hear the implication in the words and showed different expressions.

"No, no, don't get me wrong, they are actually the police..."

"Minister, you can go back now! I'll call a taxi for you!"

Ryoko gave the order in a tone that brooked no room for argument, then turned back to look at them.

"Izumi, Yukiko, Kishimoto, go to the basement and drive those perverts away. They're just getting in the way here."

"What's the reason?"

"Why don't you use your head to figure it out! I'll take the minister to the car!"

Shiraizumi Masu asked Yukiko, who had a sore foot, not to follow him to the basement, but Yukiko insisted on going with him.

The three of them went down to the basement and quickly found the swimming pool. They saw about fifty men, glasses of beer or whiskey in hand, constantly cheering obscenely, their male mammalian nature clearly revealed. As a result, no one noticed the intruders.

"Everyone run away!"

Yukiko yelled. Several men turned to look at the voice's owner, their eyes drooling over her. Yukiko declared sternly, "The police will be here soon. If we get caught, it'll be bad luck. Get out of here!"

Baiquan Yi looked at Yukiko in surprise, not expecting her to make up such an outrageous lie.

At the mention of "police," everyone panicked, some even yelling, "We're done for." As we watched everything unfold as expected, a portly man in his fifties interrupted with a hoarse voice, "Hey, why are you so nervous? There's nothing to be afraid of the police! We're not like ordinary people. If we act tough, the police won't be able to do anything to us. Calm down, I've got your back! By the way, you lady with the glasses and fishnet stockings over there, why are you standing there like a statue? Take off your clothes and serve us!"

When Yukiko heard this, she immediately showed an expression of dissatisfaction, and Shiraizumi Masu knew it was his time to show off.

Bai Quanyi strode towards the fat man in the middle, and his greasy face looked at Bai Quanyi.

"W-who are you?"

Bai Quanyi remained silent. His left hand grasped the man's collar, the legislator's badge gleaming brightly. He had the audacity to wear a legislator's badge in such a place, watching such a performance. Bai Quanyi remained silent, forcibly ripping the legislator's badge from the man's collar and giving him a hard shove with his left hand.

Suddenly, a massive column of water rose, and the man fell into the pool. The woman performing the water ballet screamed in shock. Then the man surfaced, shouting and waving his hands. Whether it was a desperate plea for help or intentional, he lunged at the woman performing the water ballet and ripped off her paper swimsuit, prompting another scream.

Half of the men at the poolside stared at the pool with lewd smiles on their faces, while the other half approached Bai Quanyi with beer bottles or rolled up their shirt sleeves.

Monsters in the Cave

"You want to die, don't you?"

At this moment, a deafening bell rang, causing all the men who were preparing to attack Bai Quanyi to stop.

"Fire!"

It was Kishimoto's voice.

"There's a fire! Run away! The fire spreads very quickly. If you're surrounded by the thick smoke, you'll die..."

The men began to waver and looked at each other, not knowing whether to stay or run. Suddenly, one of them shouted, "Run away!" Everyone responded and rushed out of the swimming pool, pushing and shoving each other, bumping into each other, and screaming.

Yukiko looked at me.

"Officer Bai, you are just like the Exorcist Queen at this moment. You have no rationality at all."

"I'm sorry, I was too excited. I was very angry when I saw him say such harsh words to you, Inspector Machimuro."

Yukiko simply waved her hand gently: "However, your actions make me feel very happy, so I have become one of the accomplices."

"This is all thanks to me."

Kishimoto, who had a sudden inspiration and made great contributions, walked over triumphantly.

"You're quite clever, well done, tight fetish."

"Thank you for the compliment. By the way, what does a tight fetish mean?"

"I wonder what's going on on the first floor?"

Shiraizumi Mashi ignored Kishimoto's question and walked up the stairs. As soon as he reached the stairwell, he heard a lot of noise outside the house.

Ryoko came towards me, and I explained to her why the ringing had just happened, and asked about Nanajo's situation.

"I kicked the minister out."

"That's good, but why is it so noisy outside?"

"They're just a bunch of curious high school students who gathered here after hearing the BB Call information."

"But it's not even eight o'clock yet."

"Don't forget, the show starts at 8 o'clock!"

"Ah, that's right. It's already this time."

Time passed faster than I thought. It seemed that it took Ryoko and Yukiko quite a while to change out of their wet clothes and put on their fishnet stockings.

At this time, Shiraizumi noticed that there was an object in Ryoko's hand that looked like a small computer. Ryoko caught his gaze and immediately smiled slyly, gently raised it and showed what was in her hand.

"This thing is quite useful, you'll know later."

The bell rang intermittently, and many people could be seen running in the halls and corridors.

"The group of women performing the water ballet seem to have disappeared."

Kishimoto said.

"I feel really bad for getting them involved."

The group went upstairs again, but the elevator was completely stopped because the fire alarm was activated, so they had to take the stairs instead.

"Touring actor Yukiko, shouldn't you leave first?"

However, Yukiko rejected Ryoko's suggestion. Kishimoto, observing Ryoko's expression, suggested, "Then I'll go outside and tell her the news."

Ryoko nodded in agreement. Having received permission, Kishimoto happily walked out of the hall, still holding the paper bag. Only three people remained in the team.

The three of them went to the second floor and looked out the window at the courtyard.

Outside the main gate, a dense crowd of high school students, both male and female, huddled together. Fire trucks, sirens blaring, attempted to approach the gate, but were blocked twenty meters away by the throng, practically unable to move. This scene attracted even more eager to join in the fun, and the crowd grew larger and larger.

The usually quiet Mita residential area was experiencing a commotion far exceeding that of a movie set.

Inside the gate, a group of men who had just rushed out of the house were running around. They must have been eager to get out of the gate, but the heavy door was locked tightly. Even if they wanted to go out, they were powerless. Even if they could get out,

If you encounter a wall of high school students, you will probably find it difficult to move forward.

"I've also contacted a photography magazine, so I should be able to capture a lot of precious shots."

"You really do everything well."

"I don't fight a battle I can't win. By the way, I heard from the traveling actor Yuki that you just confiscated the parliamentary badge of one of the politicians."

"Yes, in my pocket..."

"Ah, no need to take it out. Remember to keep it safe. If you get the chance one day, leave it at the scene of the dismemberment murder."

"You're kidding me."

"Oh, ha ha—of course, that goes without saying."

It's just a bad joke, but the political life of this politician whose parliamentary badge was torn off by Shiraizumi Yoshi has fallen into Ryoko's hands, and his future is probably going to be very dangerous.

The three of them began to investigate the interior of the now-vacant house. It would likely take the firefighters and police officers some time to break in. At this point, Shiraizumi finally understood the purpose of the seemingly small computer in Ryoko's hand. It contained a card that could unlock all the electronic locks in the house—the very card she had just obtained from the receptionist, impersonating Minister Nanajo.

After a while, I found a suspicious door at the end of the second floor with a "No Entry" sign hanging in front of the door.

This brand excited Ryoko so much that she immediately opened the electronic lock and entered.

The room was in complete darkness as the blinds on the small window were completely closed.

Bai Quanyi groped for the switch on the wall and turned on the light. The moment he did so, he whispered, "It's human bones..."

"I saw."

Ryoko lowered her voice.

Dozens of skulls with empty eye sockets were staring at the uninvited guests, making people feel cold.

"These bones appear to be quite recent."

Yukiko's tone was calm.

"It's much better to see a pile of bones than to see rotting corpses... Just count the skulls and you'll know how many people there are."

"Nakagami and Hyakumeki are suspected of disposing of the body. I think they were also involved in the murder."

Ryoko was about to put down her cane when she spotted the bones on the ground and quickly retracted it. Rather than respecting the dead, it would be more accurate to say that Ryoko used the cane as a weapon to punish the living.

When Yukiko, who was counting the bones, reached thirty, she suddenly whispered with a sense of nervousness that she hadn't known for the first time that day, "Isn't that Inspector Hyoto..."

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Although Bai Quanyi hated Hyoto from the bottom of his heart, he could not face the situation before him.

The soldier's shrunken body leaned against the pile of bones, its skin glued directly to the bones. Its eye sockets were empty, meaning its eyeballs were gone; and although its skin had lost its elasticity, its recently squeezed brown skin looked like a freshly exhumed mummy.

"...He was alive and well just a moment ago."

Yukiko's voice trembled.

Ryoko and Shiraizumi Masu looked at each other in silence.

Next to the pile of bones was a door. Shiraizumi opened it, and what came into view was a scene not unlike a museum. In the dim light, he could see about a dozen round glass cabinets, each about the size of a telephone booth, filled with bizarre statues. Yukiko tilted her head in confusion.

"Officer Bai, is this a specimen?"

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"How can they be specimens? These creatures don't exist in reality. They can only be considered models, and they are made to look incredibly lifelike."

The reason they don't say "just like the real thing!" is because no one has ever actually seen these creatures. They're neither human nor zoo animals, but rather a strange blend of mammalian and reptilian features.

Ryoko looked closely at one of the round cabinets.

"This is Hydra, a seven-headed snake. Suggestions vary as to the number of heads, from eight to fifty to a hundred."

Bai Quanyi's gaze turned to the next monster.