The body was splattered along the floor, the crushed and burnt cement stained with blood. A disgusting sight to many, but an interesting one to Shinobi. Reaching down into the massive crater, he picked up the camera and stood it about where it looked to be at the time of the news hijacking. The body was gone, only guts and a head. The vest of explosives managed to destroy most of the terrorist, sadly. Placing the head of the terrorist in reference to the camera, a clear gunshot wound was recognisable from the gaping hole in their head. Blood had seeped down onto their face, but minimal damage had been done to the face. It seemed the legs, nowhere to be seen, took the brunt of the explosion. While the mayor was still securely tied to a plank of wood, Shinobi noticed something. The camera had also been hit by the bullet. It was interesting, and just as he wanted. Now if the man could get the camera and the terrorist's body into the right position, he could pin point the position of the sniper. With the bullet coming from behind the head, he lined both of them up perfectly. The invisible line appeared on his HUD, signalling that the shooter was in a skyscraper not too far away from here, on the top floor.
Checking the time, it had possibly been 10 full minutes after shooting. That was the Police Department building. Checking his files, he checked through every piece of data in seconds looking at what was in the final floor of the New Tokyo Police HQ. Shinobi was rather surprised. Scavenging the area looking for a bullet, he found a KH 217 rifle slug inside the camera, which must have come from a rifle that was illegal in 15 countries. Searching through a list of possible gun dealers, there was only one who sold any kind of KH 217 rifles.
The files continued streaming in from the internet, and this gun dealer wasn't a mere black market tradesman, but a fire-arm representative from Italy. He had been hired by the New Tokyo government to manage Police weaponry.
"Hmm. Interesting."
Shinobi mumbled as he searched through the Internet. Much more information had popped up, but it looked like there was little to none information he could go on. Except if he could hack into the Police Department's computers, and find any digital recording of gun swaps. Which is exactly what he did. Of course, his decryption codes were not amazing, so he would have to instead get into the computer hardware itself to be able to track the culprit. Many armed and experienced police officers were inside the department at the time, though. How would he be able to get their attention? Shinobi smiled as he figured out how he could do so.
The camera was still mostly functional, or at least the wreckage could be hacked. Looking for the right input code, he managed to link his own retinal scanners with the recording device of the camera. A radiowave would be picked up by the local TV array, but it wouldn't override it. However, by simply transmitting the data, multiple red alarms went off in the TV station as executives went crazy over why there was such a strange feed coming it.
"Incoming, incoming. This is Guanyin, and I applaud you for your efforts in trying to save the Mayor. We are sadly not going to cease in our efforts on destroying this wretched city and its people. Thank you."
It was a terribly-thought up story, with little-to-no evidence to back it up. But like anything in this world, it was taken too seriously and policemen started pouring out into the streets, looking for where the transmission came from. Before it could be traced, Shinobi leaped onto the Police Department roof quickly, while everyone was focusing on the Mahogany tower. Searching the floor, it seemed to have three footprints which entered downstairs. However, it was hard to determine what exact print they were, and there were multiple ones, too.
There was a blip on the radar. The suit had picked up traces of Nicotine in the area, the mechanic was implemented by the manufacturers to make sure the pilot hadn't smoked recently, in case they suffocated. The shooter, or one of their accomplices smoked. Recently. Smashing through the door, no alarms went off as the entire area was in lockdown. It was fortunate though, to be able to slip in so quietly. His super light suit made his footsteps quiet, and since everyone was either sitting in their rooms sorting through files or being sent with weapons to deal with this "terrorist," Shinobi had hit the goldmine. But he would have little to no time to look at the files of all the police. Looking through files, it seemed multiple people in the station smoked.
Deploying multiple drones to covertly search the area, they spun and sputtered as their small rotors took the little robots all around the vacated area of the Police Department. Shinobi just managed to hack into the Police Department files, but the CCTV had been wiped. Looking at registry deals, there were two possible culprits who had used the KH 217 rifle. A man named Wy Jones, and the Head of the Police. Both of them smoked.
Shinobi laughed.
Wy Jones had a history of drug deals, violent assault and other information that pointed any kind of assassination straight towards him. He has had 12 different children with 10 different women, and has on multiple occasions gambled, destroyed public property and abused women. Then it clicked. HE was the most likely person to assassinate the terrorist and kill the Mayor. Shinobi murmured,
"But why . . . ?"
He took a second to realise that all of his drones had gone offline. They must have been destroyed by police as they came to their senses.
"Because Wy Jones doesn't exist."
At that moment he took out the chip, inserted back into his suit, and set his drones to self-destruct mode. As they exploded, he jumped out of the window of the building activating his grappling hook and swinging from the crane back onto another skyscraper. It seemed he had a new person to kill, a corrupted Police Commander. Oh, how he had hoped it would be somebody as big as them. Now the man could truly start an uprising, as the people will not trust any government official ever again. How they had fought they had outwitted everyone, leaving little to no trace, with policemen quickly examining the crater five minutes after Shinobi was there. Clearing the evidence. They even came up with Wy Jones to keep any suspicious person at bay.
Now the Head of Police had to pay.