Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

At night, a Toyota parked at the gate of Kyoto University.

Kitahara took the note left in Eto's car, took tired steps, and hurried to the location recorded on the note. He also learned about the riots at Kyoto University in the car. This day in Kyoto cannot be described in words.

From the accidental collision with Niwa at midnight and the attack on Eto, to the questioning of Eto's whereabouts at Takeuchi's house in the early morning, to the meeting with Eto again at the castle tower in the afternoon, a pursuit followed, until the final major accident of the Shinkansen train collision occurred. The note in his hand is the final point of this series of experiences.

"Kyoto University Underground Physics Collision Laboratory, second control rod connection of the third simulated collision equipment."

This is what the note says.

What exactly did Eto leave behind there?

Maybe it's a document of great importance, or maybe it's a very important material. Maybe it has something to do with the 500 million yen warehouse receipt pledge incident. Eto said at the castle tower that Japan will face its end. Or maybe there are materials hidden there that can solve Eto's riddle.

Kitahara specially brought a briefcase to store the materials found there.

There was a commotion at Kyoto University, with people coming and going and smoke filling the air. From time to time there was the sound of breaking glass, or fire suddenly appeared in the teaching building. And all of this just provided cover for the lawyer's actions.

The underground physical collision laboratory of Kyoto University is an ultra-luxurious experimental place built with a huge amount of money. It is buried deep underground and can be reached directly via the elevator of the Institute of Physics in a few minutes' ride. At present, many electronic access control locks on campus have been destroyed, and the Institute of Physics is no exception.

Kitahara figured out the location of the laboratory in advance, entered the laboratory elevator and pressed the button.

After a few minutes of landing, the elevator door slowly opened——

What comes into view is an extremely vast underground place, nearly the size of a gymnasium. There is an extremely huge thick metal pipe that looks like a giant silver snake stretching across the venue. It is about 5 meters high and surrounds the entire underground laboratory. The exposed pipe wall is covered with densely packed parts. Viewers are all shocked by its sense of technology and the wisdom of its builders.

Beiyuan had no time to take care of so much and went straight to the location on the note.

At first, Kitahara did not find the so-called third collision device.

After careful study, I realized that this third collision equipment refers to the third section of the entire annular collision pipeline.

Beihara then climbed into the ring pipe and stepped on the wall inside. After a while, he discovered that there was a connected lever at the top, which should be where the note pointed to.

The secret in Jiang Teng's car is right in front of him.

After pursuing this from Tokyo to Kyoto, the mystery is about to be revealed.

I don't know whether it was because of exhaustion or because the final moment of revelation was approaching, but Beihara's hands were trembling a little.

However, the young male lawyer did not know that people from different forces within Kyoto University were also coming to this place.

Beihara almost violently removed the entire control rod and unscrewed the metal casing.

The inside of the control rod was filled with a tangled mess of wires and copper plates.

Nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

Nothing seems to be stored here.

But as I held the case with my hands, I felt that the weight of the case seemed a little different.

After turning it over, the stored items recorded on Eto's note appeared——

The inside of the casing is sealed with heavy tape and is a small black square box.

After closer inspection, you can see that this is a mobile hard drive.

The owner of the hard drive obviously didn't want anyone to get it easily, so he hid it in this incredible location.

There should be some important data stored in it, Beihara thought, and then he tore the tape hard. The wound on his hand that had been cut by the glass opened again and blood oozed out. After many attempts, I found that the hard drive could not be removed because there were screws on it that nailed it to the casing. The shell is connected to the collision pipe through metal sheets and complex glued wires.

There was no other way. Kitahara could only let the casing hang in the air along with the wires. After taking out the computer from the briefcase, he connected the hard drive.

The computer screen flashed first.

Immediately, a discovered device icon appears.

After another 1 or 2 minutes, the graphic turned into a hard disk mark.

It seems that the connection is successful.

Beiyuan didn't hesitate and quickly clicked in.

The moment I entered the hard drive, the entire computer froze. Soon thousands of documents appeared on the screen. Try moving your mouse and clicking on one of the documents. The document opens quickly. There is no preset password that needs to be entered.

However, the moment the document was opened, what came into view was——

A bunch of numbers and letters.

These combinations look disorganized, with letters that do not form words such as English, and strange strings of numbers interspersed with them to break the order of the letters. These large-scale characters are like the mysterious inscriptions found in the tombs of ancient emperors. It is unknown where the characters were engraved.

What exactly is this?

Kitahara obviously didn't know.

The young male lawyer took out his spare cell phone and made the call immediately.

The person on the phone was the hacker girl Sakagami who was in an Internet cafe somewhere in Tokyo. This is an almost genius hacker programmer. The reason why I was able to discover the clues that Eto was in Kyoto was thanks to this hacker girl. If she hadn't first cracked the public cameras in Dongyang and searched for surveillance footage containing Eto for herself, then she wouldn't have been able to find traces of Eto's whereabouts.

From the beginning to the end.

Fate seems to have taken another strange turn.

The story of Kyoto begins with the hacker girl discovering Eto’s surveillance footage, and now it’s her again.

The phone was connected, and the still lazy girl's voice came from inside.

"Sakagami, there is one thing that I need to ask of you urgently. Please help me see what these documents are." Kitahara said.

"I just woke up." Sakagami was on the other end of the phone, stretching and letting out a big yawn. Sakagami took the phone and turned on the Internet cafe computer. As soon as the computer started up, two urgent news from Japan popped up, namely the Kyoto Shinkansen train collision accident and the Kyoto University riot.

Remembering that the lawyer opposite was also in Kyoto, Sakagami frowned and said, "A lot of things seem to have happened in Kyoto. Be careful. Where are you now?"

"At Kyoto University."

"Ah——? That's not..."

"Stop chatting now and help me look at the files on a hard drive. It's a bunch of gibberish."

During the phone call between the male lawyer and the female hacker. Perhaps because Beihara's previous action of dismantling the control rod was too rough, this huge physical experimental device detected some anomaly. Suddenly, the sirens started to sound. Dazzling red lights flashed in the laboratory. Bursts of red light continuously shine into the collision pipe, and reflect an intertwined network of beams.

There is no doubt that once this valuable and extremely large piece of equipment sounds an alarm, someone will soon come to the scene to check it out.

"Sakagami! Hurry! There's no time!"

(End of this chapter)