Shuichi Akai Is Forced to Take Action / You Planned This in Advance, Didn't You?

If they can find a chance to leave before the police can react, they can easily escape.

It must be said that this plan was extremely ruthless; in order to escape safely, they were willing to kill everyone on a bus.

However, it seems that not many people in the car are aware of this.

Most people seemed to be just relieved that the criminals hadn't chosen them. Some even gave Jiang Hang and Shuichi Akai urging looks, telling them to obey the criminals and not to do anything that would provoke them.

In the sight of everyone in the car, Jiang Hang and Shuichi Akai walked up to the two thugs.

Just as Jiang Hang had expected, the two thugs quickly gave them the order to take off their coats.

Jiang Hang, who possesses intermediate thieving skills and advanced Hidden Blade Proficiency, concealed the hidden Hidden Blade beneath his Hidden Blade with astonishing speed when he took it off, so as to avoid being noticed by thieves.

Not only his coat, but even the mask that Shuichi Akai used to cover his face was forcibly removed by the thug.

Jiang Hang noticed that when the assailant reached out to remove the mask from Shuichi Akai's face, Shuichi Akai's body tensed up considerably, as if he was about to launch a direct attack on the two armed assailants.

However, in the end he restrained himself and calmly accepted everything.

Throughout the entire process, he didn't even glance at Jodie Starling and Vermouth sitting in the back of the car to see if they reacted.

Of course, at this moment, Jiang Hang did check the expression on Vermouth's face.

Although Vermouth hid it well, Jiang Hang still caught a fleeting glimpse of mockery on her face the moment their eyes met.

As an important member of the Black Organization, it would be strange if Vermouth didn't recognize Shuichi Akai defected from the organization two years ago.

However, before that, Vermouth probably only had some guesses about Shuichi Akai investigating and tracking her, but had not completely confirmed it.

Now that these thugs have come to her aid, Vermouth must be in a very good mood right now.

Before Jiang Hang could think too much about it, the group of thugs had already started searching the inside of Jiang Hang and Shuichi Akai's coats.

"You little punk, I didn't realize you had so much money on you," the robber said, his gaze turning strange after finding several stacks of 10,000 yuan bills in Jiang Hang 'Jiang Hang coat and wallet.

This guy, who looks to be only in his early twenties, was riding the bus and dressed quite casually, but he was carrying several million dollars in cash.

Upon hearing their words, Jiang Hang immediately feigned a panicked and tense expression. "If you're willing to let me go, I'm willing to give you all this money!"

Clearly, after seeing that Jiang Hang appeared to be a wealthy young man, the criminal seemed to have developed some new evil intentions.

The other thug seemed much more rational. He gave the other a warning look. "Don't think about anything else. Let's deal with this first."

He seemed to be signaling to the thug not to be blinded by the money, and that their plan should not be disrupted.

The thug didn't seem to dare to argue, but he glanced at Jiang Hang with pity before stuffing the money back into his coat.

As the car was about to enter the tunnel, and the police could no longer see what the criminals would do inside, the two thugs quickly took off their windbreakers and threw them onto Jiang Hang and Shuichi Akai.

"You two, put on these two sets of clothes, and then stand here quietly without moving."

Seemingly to reassure the passengers, he also offered a brief explanation.

"Don't worry, we're just having you wear our clothes to buy us some time to leave. Once we're gone, the police will come, and the passengers on the bus will testify that you're not us."

He then looked at the bus driver in front. "Whether we can escape successfully depends on you. As soon as we get off the bus, you should drive off to attract the police's attention."

"I don't need to tell you what will happen if you don't do as I say, do I?"

With the situation at its most critical, the sweating bus driver readily agreed to the threats from the criminals, indicating that he would absolutely do as they said.

Having received the driver's affirmative response, the two criminals smiled, as if they had already anticipated the reaction of the passengers who thought they were saved when they left the bus, only to be instantly taken to heaven by the bomb inside the bus in the instant they gained hope.

At the signal of the leader of the criminals, one of them changed clothes to the side, while the other kept an eye on the passengers in the car with a gun in case anything unexpected happened at the last minute.

But at that moment, Jiang Hang's gaze suddenly fell on Shuichi Akai to the side, making a gesture in Jodie Starling's direction.

Then, with astonishing speed, taking advantage of the man's inattention while he was changing clothes, he tightly gripped the man's neck with his arm, while his other hand twisted the hand holding the gun.

In an instant, the assailant couldn't help but cry out in pain, and then his hand holding the pistol involuntarily loosened, causing the pistol to fall to the ground.

The other gunman was also a little stunned by this sudden turn of events, but he quickly reacted and pointed his pistol at Shuichi Akai.

"You're asking for it!!"

However, just as he turned around, Jodie Starling, who had been sitting in her seat, rushed towards the thug with astonishing speed and delivered a powerful elbow strike to him.

Immediately, the assailant lost his balance and fell to the ground.

Chapter 342: Chapter 340: Shuichi Akai Forced to Take Action

In just a few seconds, the two thugs were subdued by Shuichi Akai and Jodie Starling, who suddenly sprang into action and worked together to subdue them.

After the two assailants were subdued, the passengers on the bus seemed to be in a daze.

The bus driver was the quickest to react.

Originally timid and submissive, he slammed on the brakes after seeing one thug captured by Shuichi Akai and another thug suddenly attacked and knocked to the ground by Jodie Starling. This nearly caused the people standing in the car to fall over.

Almost half a minute after the bus stopped in the tunnel, several cars appeared from behind the road and stopped around the hijacked bus.

It's immediately obvious that these vehicles were dispatched by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to carry out a tracking mission.

After the bus suddenly stopped, they rushed over immediately to try to find out what was happening on the bus.

Inside the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Inspector Megure listened with a frown as the police officers at the scene explained the situation inside the car.

He seemed a little hesitant, wondering how the two armed thugs had been subdued.

When Takagi Wataru had just rushed from his original standby location to the tunnel where the incident occurred, learned of this, he initially thought it was Jiang Hang's doing.

But he soon learned from the police at the scene that the person who subdued the assailant was another man and a United States woman who had recently arrived in Japan.

Now even Takagi Wataru felt something was off.

The two armed robbers had already been detained without hesitation by several police officers, and Yashima Kunio, who had been released by the police, was arrested again in a short time under the instructions of the Metropolitan Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

Even he probably never imagined that after finally getting out of prison, he would only enjoy an hour of freedom before being arrested again, and that he would have to pay a huge price for that one hour of "freedom".

All passengers who were on the bus have now disembarked under the instructions of the police.

According to normal procedure, these hijacked passengers would have to go to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to give a statement.

"Hey, Jiang Hang, what's going on on the bus?" Takagi Wataru seemed a little unconvinced that Jiang Hang hadn't made a move in the case, so he secretly pressed Jiang Hang for details, "Hey, did you already know about these thugs before you took this bus?"

"I think there must be a reason why you didn't make a move, right?"

After hearing Takagi Wataru's analysis, Jiang Hang couldn't help but carefully observe Takagi Wataru beside him, as if to say to Takagi Wataru, "How come your mind has suddenly become so sharp?"

"After all, sitting on the sidelines and waiting for things to finish isn't like you," Takagi Wataru said to Jiang Hang in a low voice.

In fact, only he had such trust in Jiang Hang. The other police officers that Jiang Hang knew would at most come over to greet him, but they didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this incident.

"You know me quite well. I did refrain from taking action because I discovered something interesting," Jiang Hang said, then looked at Shuichi Akai and Jodie Starling, who had just saved a car full of people not far away.

The two of them were currently surrounded by passengers on the bus, expressing their gratitude. However, because Shuichi Akai maintained a cold expression, they mostly gathered around Jodie Starling seemed quite enthusiastic.

"Those two are no ordinary people. If you're interested, you can try to guess their true identities. It was after I realized who they were that I decided not to take action." Jiang Hang's words made Takagi Wataru's eyes widen slightly.

"They... these two aren't ordinary people?" Takagi Wataru seemed quite surprised.

After all, during the initial questioning by the police, the two men stated without hesitation that they did not know each other. Shuichi Akai simply thought that the time when the criminals were changing clothes was a good opportunity, while Jodie Starling also noticed that the criminals had focused all their attention on Shuichi Akai, which is why she boldly attacked the other criminal like she did in movies and TV shows.

So although the two of them successfully subdued the criminals in the car, the police still gave them a safety education session, telling them not to do such a dangerous thing again if they encountered a similar situation in the future.

However, if the other party is not an ordinary person, it is not hard to explain why the two of them cooperate so well.

However, after hearing what Jiang Hang said, Takagi Wataru's imagination ran wild, and he began to speculate about the identities of Shuichi Akai and Jodie Starling.

They could be secret agents on a covert mission, assassins hiding their identities, or even bodyguards secretly sent by Jiang Hang 'Jiang Hang family to protect him.

"If you're interested in their identities, you can try to investigate them yourself. But instead of asking me these things here, you should think about how to catch the remaining thug," Jiang Hang changed the subject and told Takagi Wataru about the female accomplice.

"Did you see that woman who keeps chewing gum and looks a little nervous? I suggest you ask her some questions when you're taking her statement later. You might be able to find something interesting in her watch, like the detonator for the two bombs in the car."

Although Takagi Wataru knew that Jiang Hang was deliberately changing the subject, he dared not relax at all after receiving the news. After seeing that Jiang Hang was not joking with him, he quickly went to Inspector Megure to report the matter.

Watching Takagi Wataru leave, Jiang Hang couldn't help but sigh softly.

"Sometimes being trusted too much isn't a good thing. I was just slacking off occasionally, and they saw right through me. That's really embarrassing."

He glanced at Vermouth standing in the distance, then walked straight toward Shuichi Akai.

"Jiang Hang is a detective, and I don't know your Your Name yet," Jiang Hang said, extending his hand to Shuichi Akai.

Shuichi Akai looked at Jiang Hang with a cold expression.

It's clear that he's not in a good mood right now.

After all, his secret trip to Japan to investigate Vermouth, an important member of the Black Organization, had just been exposed to their target because of those two thugs.

This operation can be described as a complete failure.

Chapter 343: Chapter 341: Was this something you planned in advance?

Despite being attacked by thugs, Shuichi Akai remained inside the car, silently observing the situation.

He wanted to know what Vermouth would do in this situation.

At the same time, he was also observing Jiang Hang, who was sitting next to Vermouth.

He knew from Jodie Starling, who was sitting in front of him, that Jiang Hang was a detective who had recently become quite famous, which wasn't surprising in theory.

But for some reason, he felt an intense sense of crisis from Jiang Hang, who seemed harmless.

He didn't know where this sense of crisis came from, but these kinds of people only felt this way in truly crucial situations. So, after sensing this threat from Jiang Hang, Shuichi Akai began to silently observe Jiang Hang.

However, he couldn't discern anything from Jiang Hang. For an hour after the thugs appeared, Jiang Hang made no move whatsoever and completely obeyed their demands.

Shuichi Akai wasn't stupid. Jiang Hang knew that the criminals' plan was to detonate the bus and then pass it off as the real thing, and he could figure that out as well.

As the criminals' plan entered its final stage, and seeing that Jiang Hang still made no move, for his own safety and the safety of all the passengers on the bus, he had no choice but to take action and subdue the criminals.

Ultimately, he still couldn't bring himself to sacrifice the lives of ordinary people in order to complete his mission.

Realizing that their identities had probably been completely exposed to Vermouth, and that they had no clue why Vermouth had suddenly come to Japan, they figured that as long as Vermouth passed this message on to the organization, Gin and Bourbon would probably come running.

Vermouth might even have already informed the people in that organization.

For these reasons, Shuichi Akai's attitude towards people naturally couldn't improve. He just wanted to finish the police statement as soon as possible, then go into hiding again to think about his next plan.

When Jiang Hang approached him to greet him, he only did so because he had felt a sense of crisis from Jiang Hang. So he simply told Jiang Hang his name, put his mask back on, and stood aside indifferently without saying a word.

This time, he chose the same name he used when he infiltrated the organization, Dai Moroboshi. Even the Black Organization probably didn't expect that Shuichi Akai, this traitor who defected from the organization, would dare to continue using his original identity after returning to Japan.

However, after this incident, he will probably need to adopt a new identity to cover his tracks.

Shuichi Akai maintained his aloof demeanor, while Jodie Starling seemed to have remained largely unchanged.

She probably knew that her identity had been exposed to Vermouth, but she still had to maintain the persona she was projecting and not let others see through her facade. This was a necessary attitude for an FBI investigator.

"That man is so cold and uninteresting. We worked together to take down the thug, and he still gave me that sour look. It's really annoying." Seeing Jiang Hang run into a wall with Shuichi Akai, Jodie Starling didn't hesitate to start complaining about Shuichi Akai as well.

Vermouth, however, stepped in to defend him. "Maybe that's just his personality. In any case, it was you and him who risked your lives to save us all. Without you, we would probably all have been killed by the bomb."

Listening to Vermouth's insincere thanks to Shuichi Akai and Jodie Starling, Jiang Hang couldn't help but think to himself: They risked their lives to save the other people on the bus. If you were the only one on the bus, I think they would have preferred to be shot dead by those two thugs.

She's getting a good deal and then acting innocent; Vermouth really knows how to be disgusting.

Jiang Hang had no idea how uncomfortable Jodie Starling would feel after hearing Vermouth say those words.

Even Jodie Starling had to put on a proud demeanor when accepting Vermouth's thanks.

Taking statements is a time-consuming process, especially in hostage situations where everyone has to be questioned.

Jiang Hang left Professor Agasa's house around 3 or 4 pm. After more than an hour of hostage situation and taking a statement, it was already 8 or 9 pm by the time everything was settled.

By this time, the museum had long since closed, but it was clear that neither Vermouth nor Jodie Starling had much interest in it.

But Jiang Hang eventually met Vermouth at the entrance of the art museum.

"You shouldn't be followed this time, right?" Jiang Hang asked Vermouth as he met her.

Of course, with Altair patrolling the sky, no one could escape his gaze, and this time Vermouth had no little tail following her.

Vermouth had now returned to her original appearance, and in this deserted art museum, she no longer needed to worry about being recognized as the famous Hollywood actress Chris Vineyard.

"I imagine they're busy dealing with the traces and clues they left behind in Japan. After all, to be honest, it was quite a major oversight for them," Vermouth said with a smile.

"Of course, I also have to thank Mr. Jiang Hang for not dealing with those thugs in advance, otherwise I wouldn't be able to take the initiative like this now."

"And after returning to Japan, I seemed to have become a bit lax, and those two almost found out about our date," Vermouth said to Jiang Hang, shaking her head.

However, her words seemed to easily lead one to think of something else entirely.