“Dear, let’s go watch a movie.”
At the entrance of the cinema in the department store, a young couple was standing there.
The girl tugged at the boy’s sleeve and said, “I heard the newly released “WALL-E” is pretty good.”
“What’s so good about animated movies?”
The boy looked toward the poster of “Coming Soon” on the wall.
“Let’s watch a horror movie instead.”
“No, I’m most afraid of horror movies…”
“What’s there to be afraid of?
I’m here.” The boy patted the girl’s head.
His thoughts were quite beautiful.
Later, when they saw a terrifying scene, the girl would definitely scream and throw herself into his arms.
At that time, he could hehe…
Suddenly, a huge force came from his shoulder.
Someone had slammed into him hard!
The boy suddenly turned his head, only to be shocked to discover that there was nobody beside him!
Hiss…
He could not help sucking in a cold breath.
At this moment, when he looked at the terrifying ghost face on the horror movie poster on the wall, all the hair on his body stood up!
“I think, how about we forget it…”
The boy immediately backed down and said somewhat fearfully, “Watching animated movies once in a while is pretty good too.”
And the culprit who caused all this had already run far away.
A transparent person invisible to outsiders was quickening his steps and running toward the supermarket.
Huff, huff, huff…
Leon sprinted all the way while glancing at the Digivice.
[9:00]
He still had time, so he calmed himself and began thinking.
What exactly had happened with the supermarket explosion?
First, judging from the mission requirements of “Deadly Countdown”, the explosion was not an accident or coincidence, but man-made.
Someone had planned all of this!
Second, he carefully recalled the ten minutes before the explosion happened.
During that period, he had encountered several people and had also run into some unexpected situations.
Especially the final explosion.
He had personally seen the fireball of the explosion erupt from inside the supermarket.
In other words, the bomb should be inside the supermarket!
Moreover, besides asking him to find the bomb, the mission also required him to find the culprit.
Judging from this, the culprit was very likely also inside the supermarket before the bomb exploded.
The other party had placed the bomb somewhere unknown inside the supermarket, then escaped from the supermarket before the bomb went off!
Then…
Who the culprit was, and the specific location where the bomb was planted, were the keys to this mission!
But he did not have much time.
Asking one person to search for both the bomb and the culprit was simply impossible.
Fortunately, he was not alone.
Thinking this, Leon stopped and quickly put down his backpack.
He opened the zipper, revealing Koromon’s pink face.
Due to the effect of the Transparency Potion, even Koromon was not solid, but in an illusory, semi-transparent state.
Just like Leon, the outside world also could not discover it.
However, Koromon’s eyes were slightly closed, as if it was asleep.
“Koromon, wake up, stop sleeping.” Leon patted its face.
“Uu…”
Koromon slowly opened its two large red eyes, looking drowsy. This chapter was taken from g.com without permission.
“Leon, are we home?”
“No.
We’re still outside.” Leon shook his head.
“Didn’t you say that before we go home, I can’t casually come out of the backpack?” Koromon asked in confusion.
In fact, Koromon and Leon had an agreement.
That was, when they were outside, without Leon’s permission, it could not casually come out of the backpack.
So after Koromon ate its fill at the buffet restaurant, it had been sleeping inside the backpack the entire time.
“Let’s not talk about that first…” Leon asked seriously, “Do you still remember the explosion just now?”
“Explosion…” Koromon looked completely confused.
“What explosion?”
As expected…
Leon’s eyes narrowed slightly.
Although the supermarket explosion had affected Koromon earlier, judging from this, it had no memories from before time reversed.After the Time Destroyer skill was activated, it seemed that only he himself still remembered what happened before.
Thus, he could only quickly explain the whole matter regarding the explosion to Koromon from beginning to end.
“What?
In ten minutes… the supermarket will explode?”
Koromon was greatly shocked after hearing this.
“Then what should we do?”
“I think…”
Leon’s gaze sharpened.
“I already have a suspect in mind!”
…
[7:45]
Inside the huge supermarket, there was a massive shelf filled with all kinds of alcohol.
A man wearing a peaked cap was standing in front of this shelf.
His entire face was hidden beneath the peaked cap, revealing only a pair of constantly darting eyes, making him look extremely sneaky.
Although he was standing in front of the shelf, he did not reach out to take any alcohol.
Instead, he kept looking around, occasionally turning his head back as if guarding against something.
Leon noticed that there was a long scar on his face, running through his right eye, making his gaze look extremely fierce.
“This person looks so scary…”
At the same time, beside another shelf not far away, Koromon whispered, “Leon, is he the suspect you were talking about?”
Leon stared at the man’s back, and a vicious voice could not help echoing in his mind.
“Brat, are you blind?!”
He remembered.
The last time, when he had just arrived at this supermarket, he had accidentally bumped into this fierce man wearing a peaked cap.
At first, Leon had not cared, but now it seemed—
This man might have a problem!
Moreover, with how sneaky he looked, maybe he was afraid of being discovered after planting the bomb!
Just as Leon was thinking, the man seemed to have made up his mind.
He reached out and pressed down the peaked cap on his head, then turned around and hurriedly walked toward the supermarket exit.
His steps were extremely fast, and his face looked very nervous, as if he wanted to leave this place as quickly as possible.
“Leon, quick, quick.
He looks like he’s leaving.” Koromon carefully poked Leon with its ear.
“Koromon, don’t let him run!”
Leon immediately said in a deep voice.
“Got it, leave it to me!”
Koromon suddenly shot out.
Its two big ears wrapped around its face, completely transforming it into a ball-like afterimage as it rolled across the ground, then forcefully slammed into the man’s knee! This story is hosted at novelping.com.
“Ouch!”
The man was knocked into a stagger, lost his balance, and fell to the ground.
But even though his body had fallen, his hands were still tightly protecting his chest.
However, in the next second, that thing leaked out from his clothes.
Bang!
It was a can of beer.
Because of the violent shaking and impact, it cracked open the moment it rolled out, and beer foam continuously surged out from the crack!
This commotion also drew the attention of the supermarket staff.
A security guard rushed over and subdued him, then found several more bottles of alcohol inside his clothes.
Uh, this…
Leon instantly froze.
So this person was not some bomb-planting culprit at all, but someone who came to steal alcohol!
It was not him…
Then who else could it be?
Watching several security guards take the man away, Leon’s mind began spinning rapidly as faces appeared one after another in his mind.
At this moment, he thought again of the farce that happened at the cashier before the explosion.
“I’m telling you.
If you keep doing business like this… this supermarket will be blown up sooner or later!”
After that middle-aged woman said this so confidently, the supermarket exploded not long after.
It was as if… she had already known there was a bomb inside the supermarket!
Could it be that she was the true culprit?
Leon and Koromon began searching the supermarket for that woman’s figure again.
He glanced at the Digivice in his hand.
[6:05]
Time passed second by second, but they still had not found the whereabouts of the bomb or the culprit.
If things continued like this, he had to give up the mission as soon as possible and think of a way to evacuate the people inside the supermarket.
But… how should he evacuate them?
Trigger the fire alarm?
Just as Leon was thinking wildly, he inadvertently saw something.
There was a room ahead.
That place was precisely this supermarket’s surveillance room!
…
Inside the surveillance room, a security guard was drinking coffee while playing on his phone, not seriously watching the surveillance at all.
Bang bang!
Suddenly, a knocking sound came from outside the door.
“Who’s outside?”
The security guard raised his head and glanced over, asking impatiently.
But after waiting for a long time, nobody outside answered him.
He curled his lips and continued lowering his head to play on his phone.
Bang bang!
At this moment, the knocking sound rang out again.
The security guard angrily walked toward the door and opened it furiously.
“You’d better give me a reasonable explanation, otherwise…”
But when he opened the surveillance room door, intending to demand an explanation, he discovered that there was nobody outside.
“What the hell?”
He looked around in confusion.
After discovering that there was nobody outside, he turned around and walked back.
However, he did not notice that behind him, a fire extinguisher had actually flown up by itself and slowly arrived above his head!