When Qianyu and the others returned to the hotel where they were staying, it was already late at night, but they found that everyone was not asleep.

"What the hell is going on?" Mitsuhiko asked. "Did you go to the Shinsaibashi where we went before?"

"yes?" Chiba replied after glancing at the expressions of Kohiko, Ayumi, and Motota.

"Did you go to Umeda?" Mitsuhiko asked again. "It's about the north side of Shinsaibashi."

"Why are you asking this?" Qian Yu was a little puzzled and asked Mitsuhiko rhetorically.

"We were watching TV," Dr. Asasa said. "Then all of a sudden, a message came out that something strange had been found over there in Umeda, and the police were intervening and would give a detailed report as soon as possible."

"Do you have anything specifically?" Qian Yu frowned. "We were at the scene, and there was a group of guys who claimed to be red Siamese cats who made a statement on TV and then claimed that they had placed several small container bottles with banknotes in the smoking room on Shin-Umeda Esophagogue Street – and from the content of the statement, it looks like they might have published something similar the other day."

"Red Siamese cat? Is it that terrorist group from previous years? But the tone of the TV report sounded like they didn't know anything about what you said about what you had published before — if the people you were talking about really called themselves red Siamese cats and did make a statement the other day, the TV stations would have scrambled to follow up on it, and we would never have been ignorant of it like this. Dr. Asa frowned. What the hell is going on? ”

Just as they were bewildered by the discrepancy in the information they had obtained, the latest emergency news came - the TV station said that the police headquarters would hold a press conference tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. about the status of the suspected biochemical attack by Umeda, and the follow-up explanation of the situation would be followed in the next program.

Just then, the phone in their room rang.

"Hello, there is a young man who claims to be Heiji Hattori who claims to be an acquaintance of yours, would you like to provide him with your room number?"

"Heiji Hattori?" Qian Yu and Gray Yuan exchanged a look of surprise.

What is this guy doing here now? Surely they weren't here to hang out, but was there something to ask them about when they had just returned from Umeda?

……

In the room, Chiba opened the door, and sure enough, he saw the figure of Hattori Heiji.

"We'll meet again," Hattori Heiji touched Chiha's head. "I'm here to ask you what's going on over there in Umeda."

"What's going on over there with Umeda?" Qian Yu asked rhetorically. "They said on TV that they had made a public statement two days ago, but the news reports looked like they didn't know anything about the previous public statement."

"The police headquarters know a little bit about the red Siamese cat itself, but not much about the Umeda incident," Hattori shook his head. "So I'm here to ask you for details – at the moment as an eyewitness you are the most reliable witness we can rely on. After asking, I'll tell you everything we know. ”

……

"That's why you know about the previous two public statements," Hattori Heiji thought after listening to Chiba's account. "So they're picking on ...... matter"

"So what the hell is going on?" Qian Yu asked. "What exactly were the first two public statements?"

"First of all, I told you about the previous situation, it was a day or two ago," Hattori Heiji sighed. "On the night of July 7, the Tokyo National Microbiology Research Center was invaded by outsiders and stole the virus inside. And then just two days ago, the TV program you saw suddenly got a call from the red Siamese cat, and then they announced on that day's show that they were responsible for the theft of the virus that they had committed before, and at the same time claimed that they were throwing money in Osaka Castle. ”

"Actually?" Qian Yu asked. "Did they really throw money at Osaka Castle?"

"yes, at the same time." Hattori nodded. "After inspecting the amulets that had not been sold, we then identified the banknotes inside, which were all very beautifully made counterfeit notes. Although the money detector can find the problem of these banknotes, but after identification, it is found that the degree of simulation is very high, and it is very easy to get through the manual inspection - we invited the bank's money counter to manually check, only half of the personnel found the counterfeit banknotes from the ten banknotes after being informed in advance of the existence of a counterfeit banknote, and in the experiment of finding all the counterfeit banknotes from the thirty banknotes, less than a third of the money counters correctly distinguished the fake banknotes from the real money. ”

"How much did they spill?" Qian Yu asked again. "Also, why check for amulets that aren't sold?"

"Not much," Hattori shook his head. "They did their tricks in an amulet shop and filled some amulet bags with some bills. Based on the number of sales and the contents of the remaining bags, we estimate that half of the amulet bags sold contain a bill in addition to the amulet, and the total value is about 200,000 yen. ”

"Why are they doing this?" Qianyu's expression was quite incomprehensible. "To attract attention?"

"It looks like the average criminal gang wouldn't go to such a great deal of trouble after all." Hattori shook his head. "Because the situation was too serious, the police headquarters interviewed the newspaper and asked them to only report on the counterfeit money in the amulet bag itself, and avoid talking about the red Siamese cat - in fact, it was not the newspaper's intention that Umeda's incident was reported today, but a stunned young man who was interviewing nearby poked the incident out."

"Tsk!" A thousand feathers are staggered. "It's just the announcement of the first day, right? What about the next day? ”

"The next day, they installed a money-throwing device on the top floor of the Tsutenkaku, and the next day, while posting a second statement on the same program, visitors to the Tsutenkaku found a small bag falling from the sky, containing a thousand-yen bill and an information card about the virus they had robbed."

"Is it the data card of the virus that was snatched away?" Qian Yu was stunned. "What's the main emphasis? How can you tell if the symptoms are ......?"

"Emphasis on infectivity and lethality." Hattori said solemnly. "So although we don't know the specifics, the people who know about it are probably panicking...... Especially after the announcement of the red Siamese cat is received on the program of the TV station in the Osaka area, many people may think that they will launch the next terrorist operation in the Osaka area. ”