Chapter 4 Chapter 3 In Crisis

The train was heading east now, and it was getting darker and darker. After Bangxiong finished eating the bento his aunt made for him, he opened the magazine and tried to relax.But he worked hard for a long time, but he couldn't even read a word. From time to time, his eyes secretly looked at the travel bag on the net rack, because the black box was hidden in the travel bag. A week has passed since the shipwreck of the "Nizuki Maru". The police still haven’t caught the man with the prosthetic limb, and the motor boat he was riding on was abandoned on the coast about two nautical miles (eight kilometers) from Shimotsuri.Strangely, none of the nearby residents had seen the man with the prosthetic limb.

The murderer who killed the lighthouse keeper, Kenzo Furukawa, and destroyed the lighting equipment of the lighthouse has not been caught yet, and the police are not even sure whether the murderer is related to the man with the prosthetic limb. Bang Xiong thinks the whole thing is really complicated. (What was their purpose in destroying the lighthouse lighting? If the "Nizuki Maru" was shipwrecked, the golden candlestick would likely sink to the bottom of the sea, so why did the young man say that the person who destroyed the lighthouse should be the person who coveted the black box? )

The more Bangxiong thought about it, the more confused he became. The only thing he knew was that the man wearing the prosthetic leg knew his name, and the next target of the other party must be himself. In addition, Bangxiong really couldn't figure out what to do. However, just when he finished stretching and was about to take a nap—— "Little brother, let's eat something!" Hearing the sound, Bangxiong instinctively turned his head to look at the passenger next to him, only to see a beautiful woman looking at him with a smile. The woman was about thirty years old, wearing a black dress, a black overcoat, and a black veil under her black hat.

Surprisingly, the overcoats, clothes, and shoes the woman wore were all shiny and high-end products, and she also wore a ring inlaid with luminous gemstones on her finger. Bangxiong really didn't understand, how could someone as rich as her come to take this cheap ordinary car?However, when he saw the candy gold that the woman handed him, he couldn't help but blush. "Ah! Thank you, but I just had a bento..." It's not that Bangxiong doesn't like candy, but he's more cautious because he heard that golden light parties often appear in the car recently. "Then, let's have some fruit after dinner!"

After putting away the candy box, the woman in black took out another apple. This time, she skillfully peeled the apple, split the apple in two, and handed half an apple to Bangxiong. Bangxiong was also embarrassed to refuse the other party's kindness again, so he had to say thank you to her, and then reached out to take it.However, he still hesitated for a while, until the other party took a bite of the other half of the apple, and then Bangxiong began to eat it with peace of mind. He didn't know that when the woman in black was cutting the apple, she had quickly smeared sleeping pills on one side of the knife, so only the half of the apple in his hand was problematic.

Not long after eating the apples, Bangxiong suddenly felt that his eyelids were so heavy that he couldn't open them. He thought something was wrong, and quickly turned to look at the woman in black beside him. The eyes of the woman in black behind the veil shone like a poisonous snake. Bangxiong wanted to yell out, but his tongue was no longer in control; he struggled for a while, and finally couldn't resist the attack of the Sandman, and fell into a deep sleep. The compartment of the ordinary car was full of passengers, but no one noticed this trivial matter. At seven o'clock in the evening, the train had already passed Himeji Station and was preparing to slide into Shin-Kobe Station.

At this time, the woman in black also began to organize the luggage at hand, and took Bangxiong's travel bag from the rack. After she took down the travel bag without changing her expression, she followed the crowd and walked slowly out of the car door. Although there were quite a few passengers in the regular car, none of them noticed what the woman in black was doing, and Bangxiong was already sleeping very soundly under the hypnotic effect of the powerful medicine. The woman in black took Bangxiong's travel bag and came to the platform calmly. Although this was a very bold move, but because she was dressed in a very fashionable and noble manner, no one would suspect that she was drugging apples and stealing other people's things.

At this time, a man walked out quickly from the previous train. When the man saw the woman in black, he immediately waved to her; when the woman in black saw the man, she also ran to the man with the travel bag. "Akaru, is everything going well?" "Yes, it went well. This..." The woman in black - Kaoru proudly picked up the travel bag in her hand and shook it twice in front of the man. When the man saw the travel bag, his eyes lit up immediately. "Is that thing in the duffel bag?" "Well, I can't be wrong, I sneaked." "Well done, now I can sit back and relax."

As the man grinned, the train began to move forward slowly. "Ah! It's not good, it would be bad if that child saw it. Hey, let's get off the platform!" The man put away his smile and replied nervously. But Kaoru said quite calmly: "Don't worry! That child's medicine has not worn off yet! How could he see us? Here, look!" At this time, the carriage that Bangxiong was on passed by the two of them, and the man finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Bangxiong was asleep with his head leaning against the window. "You're right, well done, well done!"

So the man took Kaoru up the stairs leading to the ticket gate. If Bangxiong woke up at this moment and caught a glimpse of the man standing next to the woman in black, I believe he would be quite shocked. Because that man was the big man who asked Bangxiong about the lighthouse keeper that night on the way to Eagle's Nest Cape. At that time, the big man was wearing a rain hat and turned up his collar, so Bangxiong couldn't see his face clearly.But seeing him in such a bright place, Bang-hyung would know he was a rugged man with a beard. As for the little man at that time, it was this woman named Kaoru.

After Kaoru got out of the car, a young man with double O-legs and squint and a man with a blindfold and a prosthetic leg entered the car where Bangxiong was sitting, and came to his seat. "Hey, Bangxiong, Bangxiong!" The man with the prosthetic limb called and shook Bangxiong affectionately, but Bangxiong still slept soundly. "It seems that the effect of the medicine has not disappeared yet!" The man with the prosthetic leg smiled. The squint-eyed man was still worried. "But the effect of the medicine will disappear at any time! To be on the safe side, give him another injection of sleeping pills!" "Hush..." The man with the prosthesis looked around and said after seeing that no one had noticed them: "Okay, let's do that." So he took out the syringe and injection from his pocket, and stuck a needle in Bangxiong's left arm. "Ah! Oh..." Bangxiong moved a little, but then fell asleep again. "Hahaha, in this way, he will definitely sleep in Tokyo. After we arrive in Tokyo, we will force him to tell everything." No one in the packed ordinary cars noticed that such a terrible thing had happened, and the train continued to drive eastward in the night without stopping.