bookbashuk Chapter 749: Afterimage of One Eye
Chapter 749: Afterimage of One Eye
Ten months ago.
Mount Miho in Nagano Prefecture.
Yamato Gansuke, who belongs to the First Investigation Division of the Criminal Division of the Nagano Prefectural Police, is running in the woods covered with thick snow.
In front, there was a man holding a rifle and running fast.
The man turned back while running and found Yamato chasing him with a pistol. The other man shouted at him: "Stop!"
The man immediately increased his running speed.
Just then, the man discovered a car parked on a forest road that was a bit higher than the mountain trail he was running on.
It was not very clear because of the heavy snow, but I could vaguely see a person wearing a hoodie working outside the car.
"Hey! What are you doing there? Stop right there!"
As soon as Yamato finished shouting, the man running in front stopped, turned around, and raised the rifle in his hand.
Bang—the deafening sound of gunfire resounded throughout the snow-capped mountains.
The rifle bullet grazed Yamato's left eye, and the severe pain made Yamato kneel down on one knee with his face covered.
Blood dripped onto the white snow.
When the echo of the gunshots completely stopped, a huge sound like an earthquake came from above.
Yamato covered his face and looked up at the top of the mountain - he saw a huge white wall rising in the snow and fog.
————It’s an avalanche!
The white wall fell down with a roar.
While falling forward with extremely rapid momentum, it was also rapidly approaching the direction where Yamato was.
The next moment, a strong storm hit Yamato.
In Yamato's eyes, who was blown away, was reflected the rapidly approaching all-encompassing white snow fog.
The white waterfall swallowed Yamato whole in an instant.
The sharp wooden stick mixed in the snow and fog hit Yamato's left eye, and Yamato was left in darkness.
I don't know where I was taken.
Ten months after the avalanche at Mt. Miho.
The National Astronomical Observatory Nobeyama, located on the snow-covered plateau at the foot of Mt. Yatsugatake, is filled with parabolic antennas of all sizes, always gazing at the starry sky.
A huge parabolic antenna standing deeper in the ground slowly rotates while emitting bass sounds.
At the same time, a laser beam shot straight into the night sky from the silver semicircular roof on the top floor of a nearby building.
In the observation room on the second floor of the observation building, a researcher who stayed here, Yuan Jingyuan, was drinking coffee and looking at the display screen.
Just then, the lights in the room suddenly went out.
Madoka looked around the room in surprise, thinking that someone had turned off the lights, but the room was now completely dark.
Apart from the sounds of machines and air conditioners, there was no trace of human presence.
Xiaoyuan took out her cell phone and turned on the flashlight, stood up and walked towards the door, using the light to illuminate the surroundings.
I saw a person wearing a hooded top and a hood standing in front of the wall: "Who is it?!"
The person illuminated by the flashlight blocked the glaring light with his hands and immediately turned around and ran away.
He kept kicking down the machines in the narrow passage and ran forward quickly, while Xiaoyuan followed closely behind him with a flashlight.
The hooded figure turned a corner and stopped.
Xiaoyuan almost tripped because it was pitch black under her feet. She leaned forward and staggered out of the corner, illuminating the front with the flashlight in her hand.
The hooded man turned back halfway and ran over quickly, slamming into Xiaoyuan's body.
"Ah!" Xiaoyuan was hit against the wall and couldn't help but scream in pain. At the same time, the key hanging on the wall was knocked to the ground.
In the darkness, the only sound that could be heard was the hooded figure's footsteps quickly running away.
Next to Xiaoyuan, who had fallen on her butt, there was a rabbit pendant and two keys.
Two plainclothes police cars stopped urgently in front of the observation building of the National Astronomical Observatory Nobeyama.
Uehara Yui got off the car in front and walked towards Madoka and others who came out of the observation building.
They were shown their police manual.
"I'm Uehara from the Nagano Prefectural Police. May I ask who is calling you?"
"It was me. Associate Professor Ochi asked me to call the police." The guard raised his hand and looked at Ochi Yutaka, a middle-aged man who was following Xiaoyuan.
"I heard her scream..." Ochi, who looked very kind, looked at Xiaoyuan and answered.
Madoka looked up with an uneasy look on her face and continued, "Mr. Ochi arrived soon after I was attacked in the Observation Building."
"Then did you see the appearance of the criminal who attacked you?" Yamato Gansuke, who got off the back car a little later, walked in front of Yui with a crutch, and asked Xiaoyuan in a rude tone.
When Xiaoyuan saw Yamato's scary face, she couldn't help but look away.
Yamato, who has dark skin and is too lazy to shave, has two obvious scars on his left eye.
"No, the other person was wearing a hood..." Just as Xiaoyuan finished answering, a sound like an earthquake came from behind Yamato and the others.
Yamato and Yui looked back and saw a giant parabolic antenna looking up at the night sky, slowly turning.
"That's a 45m radio telescope. It's currently observing, so it's constantly rotating." After hearing Ochi's explanation, Yamato looked up at the huge parabolic antenna.
At this moment, the scar on his left eye suddenly began to hurt severely.
Yamato couldn't help but cover his left eye due to the pain. The depths of his lightless eye were throbbing with unbearable pain.
Yamato dropped the crutch in his hand and knelt down on the spot.
"Inspector Yamato? How dare you!" Yui ran over and supported the back of Yamato, who was curled up in a ball, with her hands.
"What's wrong with you? Are you okay?!" Yui asked with concern.
“Ahhhhhhhh!…” Yamato groaned in pain.
The pain deep in my eyes even spread to the side of my neck, and my head felt like it was being cut apart and hurt so badly.
This was the first time that my left eye, which was injured in an avalanche ten months ago, suddenly felt so painful.
What exactly is causing this pain and why is it still so painful today?