The emergency rescue team arrived in less than three minutes.
However, even they were shocked by the tragic scene before them.
"Quick! Start treatment immediately!"
The unit leader shouted loudly.
The rescue team members reacted quickly, grabbing emergency medical kits and rushing out of the vehicle.
There were simply too many people needing rescue. They could only assess the situation, prioritizing emergency treatment for the most severely injured to temporarily keep them alive, then treating those with lighter injuries.
However, during the examination, they found that there were far too many severely injured people.
"Captain, this one is almost gone!"
"Captain, same here. The injuries are so severe, the bleeding won't stop!"
The rescue team captain was also currently trying to save a dying person.
"I know! I know!"
"Everyone, do your best to treat them. Other rescue teams will be here soon. What we need to do now is make sure they don't die, understand?"
"Yes!"
All rescue personnel understood the urgency of the situation. Instead of complaining, they pushed themselves to work harder.
The captain quickly contacted the other teams while performing rescue operations.
"All rescue teams, hurry over! The number of severely injured here is overwhelming. Our team can barely hold on!"
"Received, we'll be there immediately!"
Other rescue teams rushing over, upon receiving the message, told their drivers not to control their speed but to push forward. It was now a race against time.
In less than a minute, several other rescue teams arrived at the scene.
With their combined efforts, the most severely injured individuals were brought under control, but many who were already on the verge of death still did not make it, especially those whose bodies had been pierced. The massive blood loss simply could not be stopped.
After sending the last severely injured member into the ambulance, the casualties of the unit were finally confirmed.
32 team members were severely injured, and 8 team members were confirmed dead.
"...I understand."
Matsumoto's expression was extremely grim. Such a severe loss of personnel truly exceeded his expectations.
"Superintendent General Hakuba, frontline report: Shirohato Pharmaceutical is under control, but we have lost 8 brave team members. The remaining 32 are severely injured, and several are still undergoing emergency resuscitation."
"This is truly an emergency situation beyond our imagination."
Hakuba had not expected a single operation to result in such heavy casualties.
"Was the footage from the mission recorded?"
"Yes, we've already arranged for someone to retrieve the recordings from the scene."
Matsumoto replied quickly.
Hakuba nodded slightly. Now they needed to first determine what exactly happened at the scene and who caused such devastating losses.
About fifteen minutes later, the field recorder from the mission site was delivered to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's office.
The recorder was immediately connected to the large screen, and the footage appeared.
It showed the interior of Shirohato Pharmaceutical. Bodies were everywhere, and fresh red blood was splattered across the ground.
Even the high-ranking officials of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, who had seen many major incidents before, felt shaken.
"What exactly happened inside Shirohato Pharmaceutical? For such a serious situation to occur internally..."
In peacetime, this was already a very serious incident.
And it happened in Tokyo. From any perspective, it was shockingly abnormal.
"Mutual slaughter?"
Hakuba looked at the screen. He felt that the scene resembled an internal massacre.
Then the footage paused. At the moment the unit members were noticed, those still fighting each other all turned their heads, their eyes glowing green.
Then something strange happened.
In just a second, the footage seemed to skip frames. The people who had originally been tens of meters away were suddenly right in front of them.
Thirteen assassins, unarmed, faced off against forty well-trained unit members.
At the very start of the battle, the unit was stunned instantly.
The higher-ups of the Metropolitan Police Department watching from their office were equally bewildered.
"Stop."
Hakuba halted the video playback.
"Inspector Matsumoto, have the frontline personnel gather all the bodies from Shirohato Pharmaceutical and send them back to the Metropolitan Police Department."
"Yes!"
Matsumoto immediately went to make arrangements.
Hakuba then looked sternly at everyone in the meeting room.
"Everyone, I'm afraid we've run into a very big problem this time."
"Those people from Shirohato Pharmaceutical were not guards. They were assassins."
"From the large number of bodies on the ground, their mutual slaughter is undeniable. But would assassins from an organization really engage in such reckless killing of each other?"
"Furthermore, no matter how fearless a group of assassins might be in the face of bullets and firearms, they wouldn't charge unarmed at a unit wielding guns."
"There's also their condition at the time. I highly suspect they were drugged."
"This was most likely orchestrated by a third party."
"That person probably did this to create chaos, and the reason was likely to seize something from Shirohato Pharmaceutical."
"However, we need to know what kind of drug that third party used to create such a chaotic situation."
Someone raised a hand.
"Inspector Yamada, please share your thoughts."
"Superintendent General Hakuba, I believe that instead of blindly searching for the third party, it would be better to first investigate why Shirohato Pharmaceutical was targeted. If we can find the motive for the third party's actions against Shirohato Pharmaceutical, we can naturally find clues about them."
"Inspector Yamada is right. We need to start our investigation with Shirohato Pharmaceutical."
"Therefore, I also need to discuss some of the information Inspector Matsumoto just reported to me about Shirohato Pharmaceutical."
Hakuba took the opportunity to bring up the earlier report.
"I heard from Inspector Matsumoto that Shirohato Pharmaceutical is actually a base for an assassin organization, and that they were researching special drugs, even conducting human experiments with those drugs through assassinations."
"I want to ask everyone, does this sound familiar to any of you?"
The high-ranking officials of the Metropolitan Police Department began to ponder whether similar cases had happened before.
Then several officers raised their hands.
"Superintendent General Hakuba, I have some impression of this."
(To be continued.)
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