Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

"and then?"

"Then? Then in the morning, I had just arrived when my colleague on night shift told me that you suddenly appeared and returned to the detention room."

Zhixing closed his eyes and thought for a long time before he picked up the diary, as if he was going to record the situation.

"Where on earth have you been? Can you tell me now?"

Zhixing nodded and responded while recording:

"I'm not pretending anymore. I'm coming clean. I was called back by the Future Agency during my two days away."

Chapter 134 is out!

"Do you really think we will believe a lie like this?"

Officer Li frowned and questioned.

"Don't believe it, it's a good thing not to believe it. That way, when you do believe it, you will pay enough attention to it."

Zhixing looked at what he had recorded and began to think about the related experiments.

"Well then, paper... um, Kamijou Touma, I'll just call you by that name for now."

"It's okay, what do you want to say?"

"You said you were taken away by the Future Agency? When and how were they taken away?"

Officer Li tried to use the same amount of time to expose Zhixing's lies, but Zhixing gave the most shameless answer:

"I do not know."

"What? What do you mean by not knowing? Do you know how hard we searched for you after you disappeared?"

Officer Li and several of his colleagues watching behind him had all participated in the search and had a deep impression of the paper company.

"As you know, I was summoned back while I was sleeping, so I have no idea what exactly happened."

"Hmph, so you can't prove your story yourself. Finally, there's something you need to hide. So, let's show you our professional skills."

A police officer standing at the door said this confidently, causing Officer Li, who was near the detention room, to feel a little dissatisfied, but he couldn't say anything directly. After all, the reason why the Second Foreign Affairs Section was assigned to Officer Li was nothing more than to facilitate communication and literacy among fellow villagers, not Officer Li's status.

"Although I cannot prove what I said now, I will soon have evidence to prove it for me."

Zhixing closed the notebook and replied to the policeman at the door.

"Oh? What evidence? Could it be that an accomplice has appeared? Don't say I didn't warn you, you're a complete illegal immigrant now, a stowaway with no one to testify for you. We've already been investigating for a day. Can you still ask some high-ranking official to exonerate you?"

The man at the door said disdainfully that after all, everything that could be investigated had already been investigated, and deportation was a foregone conclusion, so how could there be any other outcome?

"So, is it okay for cases where lives are at stake?"

Zhixing put the things in his backpack and asked with certainty.

"Hahahaha, I thought you had something to say? It turns out it's the same excuse you used to blackmail the family of another company president? You couldn't even get past the family members, and now you're trying to trick us?"

The police officers at the door all laughed out loud. After all, those who had gathered because the paper shop was discovered all knew about what had happened to the paper shop in the past two days. He was just an attempted fraudster who was scared silly by the murderer's shooting and now was a stowaway who wanted to return home for free.

Zhixing looked at the movement over there, and after knowing that they would not believe it, he turned his attention to Officer Li, who was only an iron railing away.

Officer Li lowered his head in thought, remembering the criminal who was killed in the police station. Although he also thought that it would be safer for Zhixing to return to China, he still responded:

"If you are indeed involved in other cases, then as a witness, you can continue to stay here. At least we will have a reason to temporarily reject the embassy's request for someone, but..."

Officer Li shook his head and changed the subject:

"Since you've reappeared here, we will definitely inform the embassy. If nothing goes wrong, someone will probably be here this afternoon."

"Can't you delay coming here?" Zhixing was worried about the consequences of his bad move, but he had to clean up his own mess.

"It's impossible to delay. You escaped from prison and now you're disobeying the guards and stealing the evidence in the office. In this case, we're not letting you stay any longer. Instead, we're accelerating your deportation."

Officer Li shook his head. As the police officer assigned to be in charge of the paper shop, he had a lot of headaches because of the disappearance of the paper shop. After all, the criminal in the next door search section had just been solved by the real murderer in the police station. Now the only relevant witness had also left and disappeared. It was hard not to suspect that there was a traitor in the police station, so there was no way to delay the result of finding the paper shop.

"Is it really impossible?" Three times is enough, Zhixing confirmed it one last time, but he had already started thinking about other solutions in his mind.

Officer Li opened his mouth and was about to deny it as before, but suddenly thought of something and asked:

"Let me ask, if you can delay it, how many days are you willing to wait? If you want to wait, there should be a specific timeframe, right?"

Officer Li thought about the names on the death list and knew that it was impossible for them to gather together and be killed together, so it was most likely just a trick to hide the real deceased.

With Zhi Xing's mysterious disappearance, Officer Li had to waver in his attitude towards the death list.

"Probably after dinner. Well, I should say after the students get off work and before their families start cooking dinner. Then it's about an hour's drive."

"Huh? Today?"

"Well, today, if today is indeed January 19th."

Officer Li swallowed his saliva, and his heart, which had originally scoffed at things like the Future Agency, began to waver.

After all, according to the normal logic of lying, using an uncertain date or a possibility to make an excuse is a trick exclusive to those charlatans in their own country.

But now it is so close, although the time does not seem to be clearly stated, but it is inexplicably specific. It does not seem like a delay, but a real thing.

"The life-threatening case you mentioned happened tonight?"

"Correct."

"One hundred percent sure?"

"That's hard to say. After all, the purpose of choosing me for the experiment is to test the time paradox, although I call it the conclusion of fate."

Zhi Xing blinked, looked at Officer Li with a glimmer of hope, and asked:

"Can it be delayed? After that, I can stay normally."

Officer Li raised his hand, thought for a moment, and then said:

"Assumption, I didn't believe what you said, I just assumed."

"If there really is a murder tonight, then tell me now, and I'll bring people to stop it. In this way, wouldn't it also be a test of your fate?"

After hearing this, Zhixing immediately shook his head, which made Officer Li start to doubt whether the people he was helping were bad guys.

"You can't stop this incident, and it's impossible to stop it."

"Why? Has the case already happened?"

"You could also say that this case has nothing to do with my death list, so as a first step to prove myself, I've done some research. I know exactly who the deceased was, how they died, who the murderer was, and what their motive was."

"Hearing you put it that way, isn't it simple? We just need to find the murderer and dispel his motives. At the very least, we can give him more time to commit the crime."

Officer Li looked confused. After all, in this era, there were no full-time psychologists in the police force, so most police officers had been taught some methods to persuade criminals to stop committing crimes, although the success rate was not high.

"Can impulsive suicide be dissuaded in advance?"

"You mean, the deceased is the murderer?"

Officer Li covered his face with his hands, looking as if he had wasted his time.

"Huh? What? Suicide is not a human life?" Zhixing asked in confusion.

"Do you know how many people like this there are in a year? In this situation, even if you are right, you will not be allowed to stay. Even if you are allowed to stay, you will probably be charged with incitement."

After listening to Officer Li's earnest advice, Zhixing thought about the twisted anti-self-harm hotline in "Magic Circle", and also thought about the story background at this point in time. Without the intervention of magic, it is very likely that the country has experienced a bubble era and is in the recovery period.

He couldn't help but worry about the importance of this case, so after hesitating for a while, he raised his stakes.

"Well, if you would let me see the case tonight, I can give you a preview of the day I'll be back next time, is that all right?"

"What do you mean? You mean if you stay here, you can still disappear?"

"Most likely yes."

Officer Li pondered over the possibility that there was a loophole in the police station here, and that this was an opportunity to buy time and watch a person commit suicide?

The purpose is probably to have companions to pick him up on the way to see the place, or to find a chance to escape.

If I don't agree now, won't this guy just disappear for a second time? After all, according to the police on duty, the other party came back to the detention room without any fear.

Thinking of this, Officer Li no longer hesitated and nodded immediately:

"Since we're from the same hometown, I'll do my best to help you. Whether I can delay the situation or not is not up to me, so don't have too high expectations of me."

"It's okay, as long as you're willing to help, thank you."

The paper bank president breathed a sigh of relief, and then saw Officer Li return to the hall door and close the door, making the entire detention room quiet again.

After lunch, Zhixing confirmed that no one from the embassy had arrived in the afternoon, and then he told Officer Li a clue, "Chong Ye's report."

Officer Li was also very considerate. In front of the paper shop, he negotiated with Officer Takagi, who delivered the paper shop, and asked him to notify him after receiving the relevant case.

Then Officer Li asked the deceased's name several times again, but the name was concealed by the paper clerk who was not good at remembering names and, more importantly, had not paid any attention to the deceased's identity.

When it was dinner time, Officer Li, who should have been off work, brought a few people with him and asked Zhixing to have dinner early. Then they started chatting in the hall of the detention room, and even argued about whether the case Zhixing mentioned was true.

"Dulululu~"

The voice coming from Officer Li's mobile phone cast silence on those who were chatting in the hall.

"Hello? Is this Takagi?"

"Yes, we received a report from Yoko Okino, but how did you know about it?"

After the volume of the mobile phone was turned up, several police officers and paper merchants present could hear it.

"Did a crime really happen?"

"Yes, really. We are on our way there. I will contact you as soon as possible."

"Where's the location? Why did you report the case?"

Officer Li asked impatiently to the other end of the phone, hoping that maybe his colleagues in the paper business had planted a body on Yoko Okino's way home from get off work, triggering the alarm, but...

Officer Li saw the paper line facing him from the corner of his eye, and it seemed as if it was staring at him as he said, "See, I was right, wasn't I? I'm from the future."

"Well, this shouldn't be discussed. This is a matter for our Investigation Division."

"Hurry up and tell me! If there's anything, I have someone in charge here."

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, and then the voice came again.

"I'm Inspector Megure from the First Investigation Division, and you're Officer Li from the Second External Affairs Division, right? You asked Brother Takagi to pay attention to Okino Yoko's report in advance. Do you have any leads on this?"

Officer Li opened his mouth, wanting to tell the other party that he might have committed suicide, but considering that the information was provided by the paper company, he hesitated and told the truth:

"That's what Kamijou-san, who passed it on from you, said."

"Kamijo? Is this the witness to the master's shooting?"

Inspector Megure glanced at Takagi. Although the case was handed over to Takagi, Inspector Megure was also very concerned about it. After all, being silenced in the police station was not a common thing.

"Yes."

"Shouldn't he have been taken away by the embassy people long ago?"

Inspector Megure felt something was wrong. The Ministry of External Affairs was informed for the safety of the witnesses, with the intention of repatriating Kamijou. But was the real murderer really so powerful that he could delay the embassy and its people until today?

"Um, things are a little complicated. Can I take someone with me to take a look over there?"

Officer Li looked at Zhixing and did not dare to repeat what Zhixing said. He could only choose to bring the other party to Inspector Megure.

"Why are you involved? This is not a diplomatic case."

"This concerns Mr. Kamijou's fate. Moreover, Kamijou obviously knows more clues. Doesn't Inspector Megure want to know?"

Officer Megure thought for two seconds and quickly made a judgment:

"Then bring Kamijou-san along. Do you need us to pick you up?"

"No, no thanks, we still have enough manpower."

Both parties agreed that something might happen to Zhixing this time, but in the end, Inspector Megure did not change the itinerary, but said:

"Then let's meet at the crime scene. The person who reported the case found the deceased in his own home. The address is..."

"Yeah, okay, we got it. We'll be right there. Yeah, thank you, Inspector Megure."

After obtaining the other party's consent and address, Officer Li hung up the phone and watched as his colleagues around him stopped talking one by one and began to prepare for the trip. With mixed feelings, he took the key to the detention room and came to the door of the paper shop.

"Did you know this would happen? Didn't you say it was suicide? How come there were other bodies in Yoko Okino's house?"

"Wouldn't it be clearer if we went to the scene?"

Officer Li hesitated to speak, and then did not take away the backpack that Zhixing was carrying, and tacitly agreed to let Zhixing leave the police station.

Zhihang walked out the door and looked at the six cars of police officers around him without any concern. Instead, he raised his head, looked at the free night and whispered: