The high-rise apartment that Machida Sonoko rents has two elevators, each serving two households.

Therefore, there are four residents on one floor.

After confirming that the floor number marked on the wall between the corridors was the 23rd floor where she lived, Machida Sonoko breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that only the elevator display screen was broken, otherwise she and Shichan would have to climb the stairs along the fire escape in pain.

After skillfully opening the door of her house, Machida Sonoko stepped aside to make room for Kasumigaoka Utaha at the entrance, while reaching out to try to turn on the lights in the house.

There was a click, and the light did not come on after the switch was pressed.

"The power is out? That's not right..."

The elevator was clearly running smoothly, and I just saw that the building was brightly lit from outside, so the problem was in my house?

Machida Sonoko frowned, and without changing her shoes, she used the light from her cell phone screen to walk around to the entrance of the power grid, opened the lid and took a look inside.

Kasumigaoka Utaha stood at the door with her arms folded and laughed, "As expected of Yuanzi, a woman living alone can even fix a broken electrical grid at home?"

"Stop nagging! This is a necessary life skill, okay!" Machida Sonoko felt hurt and turned around to glare at Kasumigaoka Utaha unhappily.

Neither of them noticed that several figures sneaked out from behind the door of the fire escape.

Kasumigaoka Utaha was watching Machida Sonoko fiddling with the switch when she suddenly felt a chill on the back of her neck.

She subconsciously turned around and was immediately horrified to see several dark shadows silently moving towards her along the corridor.

Almost instinctively, she ran into the entrance hall, grabbed the security door and was about to close it.

While doing these things, Kasumigaoka Utaha's other hand subconsciously touched the schoolbag hanging on the side of her body. It seemed that the pepper spray inside would come in handy today.

"Well--!"

Faintly, Kasumigaoka Utaha seemed to hear a muffled groan.

She didn't dare to pay attention to these things. With a loud bang, she successfully closed the security door, then quickly locked the door, ran to Machida Sonoko, leaned against the wall and gasped for breath.

When she took out the pepper spray with trembling hands, Machida Sonoko was startled by the sound of the door closing and looked up in dissatisfaction.

"Shi-chan, what's wrong with you? Just close the door, why are you so forceful——"

"There's a pervert!"

Kasumigaoka Utaha bit her tongue hard. The stinging sensation and the smell of blood perked her up a bit. Her limp black silk legs barely supported her body as she trembled as she said to Machida Sonoko, "Hurry... hurry and call the police!"

Machida Enzi: "?"

Her pupils shrank, and she stood up cautiously. She walked to the door and subconsciously wanted to open the camera in the corridor outside the door to check her own door, only to realize that there was a power outage at home.

Machida Sonoko put her ear to the cold door again, and seemed to hear some strange noises outside the door.

In an instant, the editor's face turned pale.

She suppressed the fear in her heart, pulled Kasumigaoka Utaha into the dim house, took out her cell phone and made a call.

After the beeping sound ended, a calm male voice came from the other side:

"Hello."

Machida Sonoko, in a state of panic, didn't notice anything was wrong and quickly explained, "I...I'm going to call the police! There's a pervert in front of my house! The address is..."

"Understood."

The person on the other end hung up the phone without even waiting for Machida Sonoko to finish her words. Although Machida Sonoko and Kasumigaoka Utaha were still frightened, they could only go to the kitchen, each took out a knife and held it in their hands, then went into the bedroom and locked the door.

However, as soon as the door was locked, Machida Sonoko's phone rang again.

"Wow!"

The startled editor heaved a sigh of relief when she saw the caller ID was from the police department, and quickly pressed the answer button.

"The problem is solved, open the door."

Machida Enzi and Kasumigaoka Shiha: ""? ? ? ""

Are you kidding me? It hasn't even been a minute since we called the police.

"We have been tracking this person for a long time. We have already set up surveillance around him."

Hearing this, Machida Sonoko and Kasumigaoka Utaha looked at each other suspiciously. Although they still didn't believe it, the incoming call number from the National Police Agency on their phones...

No, the National Police Agency!?

In Japan, the National Police Agency is under the National Public Safety Commission and is the highest administrative body in the Japanese police system. It is responsible for formulating policies and coordinating cross-regional cases, but does not directly participate in local policing.

The prefectural-level agency under it is called the Metropolitan Police Department, and the police stations below it are grassroots organizations similar to the Todai Police Box.

"Why is it the National Police Agency calling?" Machida Sonoko asked subconsciously.

This is as outrageous as if you encountered a hooligan at Shenzhou University of Science and Technology and called the police, but the call went straight to the Ministry of Public Security and the minister answered your call.

There was a moment of silence on the other side, and then the male voice said faintly:

"Wrong, wait a minute. We are not familiar with the business."

Faintly, they also heard strange words coming from the other side, such as "It's over, it's over, the commander is going to scold us", "Big Sister Beifa will beat us to death", "You go to the recycling furnace by yourself".

Then, the two women watched helplessly as the police department number on their phone screens turned into a call from a local police station, and the male voice sounded again.

"Hello, this is XXX. "

The corners of Kasumigaoka Utaha's mouth twitched wildly: "...Is this really okay? Isn't this too perfunctory?"

You should at least change someone! Your voice hasn't changed!

It’s confirmed, the person on the other side is a liar!

"Shi, Shi-chan... why don't you try calling?" Machida Sonoko turned her head and suggested to Kasumigaoka Utaha in a tearful voice.

The girl quickly dialed the local number with her mobile phone. After the call was connected, the man's voice rang from both the girl's phone and Machida Sonoko's phone.

"Hello, this is XXX.

Kasumigaoka Shiu, Machida Enzi: ""...""

Spicy balls!

It seems like the other side has hijacked the mobile phone signal!

Despair appeared on their beautiful but extremely pale faces.

Just at this moment, the two heard the sound of a door opening outside.

Kasumigaoka Utaha's heart sank to the bottom in an instant.

As the footsteps got closer, the two women had huddled in the corner of the bedroom.

With a click, the locked bedroom door was easily opened from the outside as if there was no lock at all.

At this moment, the room was dim. Kasumigaoka Utaha and Machida Sonoko could only see a blurry but extremely tall man standing at the bedroom door.

“Ah ...

A shrill wail sounded at the same time.

Chapter 28: Hunting Tracking

After the two men stopped screaming, the man at the door spoke softly, "Hello, I'm Heinz Guderian, sent by XXX."

The man spoke with a German accent, and as soon as he finished speaking, a female voice sounded behind him.

"That's a mistake. Your name is Hans now. Hans von Franz."

"No." The man who called himself Guderian shook his head firmly. "It's Hans von Hohenzollern—the commander only said the first name should be ordinary, not the last name. I like this last name very much."

A royal surname paired with a common name is like the famous poet Li Qingzhao, whose surname was Li, given name Qingzhao, but whose courtesy name was Cuihua and pseudonym was Erya Jushi...

Only then did Kasumigaoka Utaha and Machida Sonoko notice that there seemed to be a slightly slender female figure behind this towering man.

Perhaps seeing a woman, the two men relaxed a little. Machida Sonoko took the initiative to protect Kasumigaoka Utaha behind her, and bravely asked in a trembling voice: "Excuse me, are you really the police?"

Her face was full of suspicion. How could a Japanese policeman have a German name?

The man didn't answer, but turned around and made some space at the door.

"Look, the criminal has been subdued. You are safe."

Machida Sonoko and Kasumigaoka Utaha looked helpless - it was already completely dark, there was no electricity at home, and it was so dark that they couldn't see anything.

"Sorry, I forgot that you can't see at night." The man, who didn't know whether to be called Heinz Guderian or Hans von Hohenzollern, casually pressed the light switch at the bedroom door.

With a click, the bedroom light came on, and incredible thing was that the lights in other parts of the house also came on.

But Machida Sonoko and Kasumigaoka Utaha no longer cared about this abnormality. At this moment, they finally saw clearly the man and woman in front of them.

The man was estimated to be almost 1.9 meters tall, and his body was truly like an iron tower. His straight suit was bulging out, and he looked like a muscular monster at first glance. The head on his neck had a square face full of righteousness, and the sunglasses he wore made him look more like the suited thug protagonist in a classic Hollywood movie than a policeman.

There is no doubt that this is a foreigner.

Moreover, he was the kind of macho man who could kill a kid with one punch, and whose body didn't tremble even when he lifted a six-barreled Vulcan cannon with one hand and fired at full speed.

So it is absolutely impossible that they called the police!

"Could it be the US military stationed in Japan?" Kasumigaoka Utaha murmured.

"No, no, Shi-chan, this guy is German~" Machida Sonoko quickly retorted, but soon felt that something was wrong - there were quite a few Germans in Nishi University.

At this moment, the woman who had spoken just now walked past Hans and into the bedroom.

Compared to the iron tower-like Hans, this woman looked much slimmer. Although she was taller than the average Japanese woman, and her fitted suit gave off a military air of solemnity, she obviously gave the two of them less of an oppressive feeling.

This made Kasumigaoka Utaha and Machida Sonoko relax.

The woman glanced at the two men and said bluntly, "My name is Christina. Don't worry, the intruder has been subdued, but you two need to come back with us for a detailed investigation."

The woman named Christina also had a typical Western face, with long golden hair and blue eyes on her fair face that showed no emotion.

It's simply not like a human being.

Although they really wanted to ask about the identities of the two people in front of them, after carefully looking at Christina and Hans behind her, Kasumigaoka Utaha and Machida Sonoko felt scared and had to nod with great uneasiness.

When they left the bedroom together, Machida Sonoko and Kasumigaoka Utaha saw that there were three unconscious "perverts" lying on the ground in the living room, piled up together.

They wore strange khaki cloaks with hoods covering their heads.

But Machida Sonoko's pupils still shrank suddenly, and she realized that the face under the hood of one of the people looked familiar.

She didn't care about the others, squatted down, took off the man's hood, and exclaimed: "Editor Yamada!!!"

"How could it be him!?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha stood next to Machida Sonoko and looked down at the man called Editor Yamada.

He is slightly overweight, wears glasses, and looks like a typical office worker who sits in the office for a long time.

He is a person who will quickly blend into the crowd no matter where he is.

Machida Sonoko was so shocked that she didn't come to her senses until she was taken out of her house by Hans and Christina - her door was still open and there were three cloaked perverts lying in the room!

"Don't worry, our people will take care of those people."

Christina's glance made Machida Sonoko and Kasumigaoka Utaha subconsciously shut up.

……Dividing line……

The location is in a building in the most prosperous commercial core area of ​​Ginza, Japan.

This building is registered in the municipal zoning as the "Ginza Argentum Tower".

Argentum, the academic name for the Latin word for "silver", symbolizes the protective will of Belfast's silver holy sword.

Tower: The vertical building is a metaphor for the capital matrix constructed by the maid, which penetrates the political and economic fields of mankind like the Tower of Babel.

This is the core headquarters of a huge consortium founded by Belfast to meet Jiang Lianqiu's utopian living conditions as the only master of the mechanical servant civilization.

Outsiders only know that this building belongs to a global tycoon that has surpassed the national level, but no one knows that the interior and underground of this building are already filled with countless tentacles of an interstellar civilization that humans cannot understand.

Even the real native Earthlings working there have already had chips implanted in their brains, ensuring their absolute loyalty.

In the eyes of the mechanical servants, except for Jiang Lianqiu, the highest authority, all other humans can be classified as "alien scum".

At this moment, in a research institute deep underground in the Silver Crown Tower, Jiang Lianqiu was under the nervous gaze of Belfast and a group of mechanical servants, pressing his palm on the manuscript of the second volume of "Love Metronome" brought from Hiratsuka Jing.

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