Officer Takagi sighed. "There was more than one person in the elevator. The woman you mentioned was an innocent passenger who got trapped by accident—she and a child were in the elevator when the culprit suddenly detonated the bomb. Jiang Xia only had time to pull the child out."
The staff member frowned. "Defusing a bomb isn't that simple. I thought Jiang Xia was the one who'd defused it, but now..."
Officer Takagi pictured the scene and said helplessly, "There was nothing they could do. They didn't know there was a bomb on top of the elevator. After they got trapped, they must have planned to escape through the ceiling, so Jiang Xia gallantly helped the lady up first. Then Miss Shirai suddenly discovered the bomb on top of the elevator.
"Miss Shirai was helped up, so her movements were relatively steady and wouldn't trigger the Mercury Column. But after she got up there, Jiang Xia was the only one left in the elevator. If it had been an ordinary elevator, he might have been able to jump up and climb onto the top, but with the Mercury Column there, that would've been too dangerous. At this point, there's no use regretting it. Think of a way to guide Miss Shirai through defusing the bomb first."
The staff member looked miserable. "That's all we can do for now."
In the elevator shaft.
Curacao sat on top of the Elevator Car, catching the bag that had been carefully lowered before her eyes. She glanced upward. "..." What were those annoying cops babbling about?
The people above couldn't see the situation below very clearly. When they felt the tension on the pole ease, they hurriedly asked, "Have you got it?"
Curacao removed the hook from the bag and replied, "I've got the