I, holding a long sword in my hand, only know one move

Ueno looked at Shinoda's situation, stood up, took off the backpack on his head, and rummaged through it.

Suddenly, his wrist was tightly held by Shinoda.

"Master!"

"Hey, didn't I tell you not to yell like that outside..." Ueno lowered his voice.

"Help me...help me, please...I really, really don't know what to do...I'm so scared!"

Ueno quickly looked around and found that no one noticed the situation on his side, then turned back and whispered: "What are you afraid of? What's wrong?"

Shinoda raised his eyes subconsciously and looked in the direction where the officer had just walked, but was immediately stopped by Ueno.

"Don't look around when you feel guilty. You will attract more attention. Stop crying and put your tears back. Choking up your words will not convey your meaning clearly. Even if I want to help you, I won't be able to help you."

"....yes!"

Shinoda took off his glasses, pulled up his sleeves to wipe away the tears on his face, took a few deep breaths, took out the candy wrapper he was holding tightly in his hand from his pocket, and secretly handed it to Ueno Hajime.

"Candy wrapper?"

"It was given to us by the military to appease the children who received injections. Master...do you know the origin of this candy, Doctor Ueno?"

"Isn't it just an ordinary candy?"

"Loose candies do not have trademarks and there is no ingredient list. Although it is rare, it is not unheard of... but I have never seen this brand."

Ueno Hajime narrowed his eyes and leaned his head to check.

【IV】

"Doctor Ueno, before we retreated today, we didn't even have that

News about (the fourth dose of the vaccine) coming? "

As someone who has been there, Ueno immediately guessed what Shinoda meant. The hand holding the candy wrapper trembled suddenly, and then he put it in his pocket.

"Shinoda...if this bold guess comes true, we will lose our lives!"

"Master! Do you think there are other insiders in this car besides the two of us?!" Shinoda pulled Ueno's sleeves hard, his suppressed voice unable to stop trembling.

"Those are children! They are so young!! If we don't help them, they will die too! Maybe——"

Maybe it would be more terrifying than [death], a result that could be called relief.

Because this was an extremely secretive human drug trial that even involved the military, even all the lower-level soldiers, doctors, nurses, and middle-level officers involved in the incident knew nothing about it.

Ueno Hajime was silent, and time passed by minute by second. With the shaking of the car and the roar of the engine, only these two were left resonating in his mind.

"what can we do?"

"..."

Shinoda's eyes went straight to Ueno's pocket, and when he saw this, he took out the candy wrapper.

"The truth." Shinoda pointed at the bright pink wrinkled translucent candy wrapper and said word by word.

"Where's the time?"

Faced with Ueno Hajime's last question, Shinoda bit her lower lip. The smiles of Ruri and other children, and the beautiful memories of spending time with them day and night flashed through her mind.

Her eyes suddenly glowed with an unwillingness to admit defeat.

“It’s not enough but enough!”

After a long journey, the bus finally drove out of the mountains and faced the first hurdle, which was a comprehensive inspection and disinfection of all personnel on the bus.

If it was really to assist the biohazard leak, there would be nothing wrong with this approach, but only Ueno Hajime and Shinoda Kazuzou knew that there was no such thing as a biohazard leak in that village.

But... something bad is going on that could lead to a biohazard leak!

"Go forward, men go to the left, women go to the right!"

There are two separate disinfection inspection channels for men and women.

"Take off all your clothes, including your underwear."

"What?"

Shinoda blinked, looked at the female nurse registering at the door, and subconsciously covered the candy in her pocket.

【——A few hours ago——】

"If you want to know the truth, you must have clues." Hajime Ueno rubbed the candy wrapper in his hand, "And what do you think you can know by just using this wrapper?"

Shinoda couldn't answer for a moment and could only purse his lips tightly.

"Rizono." Ueno suddenly turned around and spoke to the female nurse sitting behind him.

"Yes, Doctor Ueno?"

"Do you have any leftover candies in your pocket? Shinoda got car sick because she had low blood sugar, so I just lost all of mine."

"Oh, there are some leftovers for the children, okay?"

"certainly!"

The act of delivering candy was carried out in a swaggering manner under the watch of the officer, but he didn't say anything about it. He just glanced at it and continued to rest with his eyes closed.

Sure enough - no one in the car knew about the candy, not even the officer.

Only this is the safest.

Three candies with different packaging colors were handed to Ueno. He smiled and said thank you before turning back to his body.

"...This is not good, Shinoda."

Ueno stared at the candy in his hand and slowly raised his head to look at Shinoda who was also surprised.

They were clearly the same batch of candies delivered to the nurses by the military, but the three candies left in the Liyuan nurse's pocket did not have the obscure [IV] mark on them.

"Mixed samples?!"

"I'm afraid it's only a small amount. The purpose is not to be easily discovered that something is wrong."

"Now what?"

Zila....

The sound of tearing off plastic candy wrappers came from the side. The two people, whose nerves were stretched to the limit, instantly looked to the seats on the other side of the aisle. A doctor had just taken out a brightly colored candy from his pocket, and seemed to feel that As if bored on the journey, I tore it open and put it in my mouth.

"....Wait a minute!" x2

Ueno and Shinoda leaned their upper bodies forward, one on top of the other, restrained in their seats by seat belts, and at the same time they spoke to stop the doctor.

"Um?"

The candy that was put into the mouth stopped in mid-air, and the doctor cast a doubtful look at the two of them.

"What's wrong, Doctor Ueno?"

"Ah...ah! This is——!" Ueno seemed to have an idea and picked up a candy in his hand.

"I prefer that flavor, should we change it?"

"..."

"ha?"

........

Back to the present moment, among the candies that could be collected reluctantly for various reasons in the car, only the male doctor who almost ate them and the other accompanying nurse had wrappers marked [IV] in their hands.

Of the 7 candies collected in total, only two were defective. One was in Shinoda's left lab coat pocket, and the other was in the innermost secret pocket of Dr. Ueno's backpack.

The only condition that can prevent accidents from happening in Qixing Village is to find out what they are doing. Otherwise, they will just rely on guesswork.

, no one can believe it, and there is no way to stop it and save the children.

What's more, it's completely unclear whether this unknown supporter of human experimentation comes from the national level.

...can it only be studied privately and secretly?

But the problem that lies before us now is——

The nurse in front of him was constantly urging him, and the colleagues who walked into the disinfection room all took off their clothes and were disinfected all over their bodies. All their accompanying belongings were subject to the most stringent inspection.

How to bring out candies that can be used as research materials and valuable evidence! ?

Chapter 79 The Scars of Qixing Village (5)

"Sorry! I... need to go to the bathroom first." Shinoda smiled apologetically, quickly quit the team, and walked to the simple bathroom next to the checkpoint.

He turned around to look for Dr. Ueno in the crowd, but Shinoda did not see him.

There is no way, I have to imagine the worst situation, if only this sample in my hand is left...

Entering the narrow bathroom and locking the door, Shinoda couldn't help but hold his breath.

.....so delicious!

Taking out the candy with the wrapping paper from his pocket, Shinoda stared at it for a long time. Then, as if he had made a difficult decision, he gritted his teeth and took out the sanitary napkin from the bag, and carefully pulled off the film wrapping bag. Open, replace the contents with candies, and tie tightly.

She felt a little hot on her face, but in the end Shinoda overcame her shame. In order to save Liuli and the others, for the children of Qixing Village, and for the truth not to be concealed...

"If you can't take it out yourself, you can only ask Dr. Ueno... ugh!"

...

Shinoda pushed the door out of the toilet again and walked slowly towards the disinfection passage. As he took off all the clothes on his body, he put his bags and luggage in the numbered plastic basket and walked in.

As long as there is an X-ray scan, he will be dead.

Shinoda couldn't explain to anyone except Hiro Ueno why he wrapped a candy in a plastic bag and stuffed it in that place...

After walking nervously through the disinfection passage that seemed to be a kilometer long, it was actually only ten meters... Shinoda finally walked out of the inspection checkpoint.

After putting on his clothes again and getting his luggage back, Shinoda checked it carefully.

"Sure enough...all the candy is gone, marked or not..."

Fortunately, there is no X-ray scanner at the checkpoint. I am probably thinking that no one will notice this and sneaking things out of the village. It is just a quarantine checkpoint. Setting up an X-ray scan is too easy to arouse suspicion. .

Heaving a sigh of relief from the bottom of his heart, Shinoda twitched the corners of his mouth, covered his lower abdomen where he felt a slight foreign body sensation, and prepared to leave.

"Group C No. 024 - Shinoda...who is Shinoda and Kanade?!"

Suddenly there was a voice calling his name from behind.

Eh?

Three soldiers suddenly walked toward him, making Shinoda's legs feel weak.

Has it been discovered? !

Feeling guilty, he stood there like a statue, even having no strength to look back. Until the soldiers came to him, the leading soldier saluted him.

"Kazana Shinoda, trainee nurse No. 024 of Team C - you are correct, right?"

They held up a table and compared the photos above.

"...Ah...ahem! It's me." Shinoda cleared his hoarse throat and replied.

"You forgot to take your phone away."

The soldier handed himself a cell phone with a number and name written on it in a plastic bag. It was his cell phone that was taken away before entering the mountain.

It took so long that I completely forgot about it.

"Thank you..." Shinoda frightenedly took back his long-lost mobile phone from the soldiers, and nodded to them in thanks.

"It doesn't matter, this is what we should do. Rather, many of you have forgotten about mobile phones... Hahaha, thank you for your hard work for the past two years of medical assistance."

"Ah...where is it! You have worked hard too!"

The soldier gave himself a friendly smile and left.

.....

"Phew! You scared me to death!"

Shinoda held the phone and kept tapping his pounding chest.

I habitually pressed the power button - as expected, the battery was completely out of power.