Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 1512: Route in the Pacific Ocean

"Where did he go?"

Megure glared at the small table in front of the confessional chair, on which lay a pair of untied handcuffs.

"His companions probably rescued him while we were still discussing countermeasures in the room..."

Alfonso's analysis is correct.

The Metropolitan Police Department is now in a completely paralyzed state. Anyone can enter at will and take the keys to the interrogation room and handcuffs from the unconscious police officers.

The Black Feather Bandit next to him had a gloomy expression and added, "In other words, the organization's accomplices can act freely without being affected..."

"They can now wreak havoc as they please in any city around the world."

Kuroba Toichi's words couldn't help but make Megure and Alfonso feel a chill on their backs.

It will take some time for Qin Zhibo to find the organization’s lair and engage in a decisive battle with it.

If the organization really had this idea during this period, it would be enough to bring unbearable disaster to any city in the world.

"No!"

"This kind of thing must not be allowed to happen! At least in Tokyo..."

Suddenly, Megure's eyes became firm, and there seemed to be a raging fire burning in his pupils.

In Tokyo, this city, lives the person he loves most.

Even if it is to protect the woman he loves, he will not allow the city to be destroyed.

What's more, he is a policeman who took an oath under the cherry blossoms.

Seeing Megure's firm attitude, Kuroba Toichi also thought of his wife Kuroba Chikage at home and his son Kaito at the opening ceremony.

Although he was not clear about the specific situation, he roughly guessed that these two people had been tricked.

"I agree."

"But first we need to organize all the forces in the Metropolitan Police Department..."

……

Pacific buoy.

After a brief discussion, Director Makino ordered the facial recognition system to be connected to the global monitoring server several hours earlier.

Fortunately, after Hiroki Sawada's remote evaluation, the green signal did not invade the internal police systems and monitoring centers of various countries, and can now be accessed normally.

"First connection..."

As the progress bar on the big screen finished, the North American server showed that the connection was successful.

After a brief debugging, we continued to connect to the South American server without stopping.

In this way, North America, South America, Oceania, and Africa were connected in sequence.

Together with the Asian server that was already built on the Pacific buoy, and the European server that was successfully connected yesterday, the layout of the six oceans has been completed.

"Now we will start cross-age identification of the target person..."

Based on the photos taken by Tsutomu Akai on the ship 17 years ago, and combined with the cross-age recognition system developed by Naomi Argent, Hiroki Sawada searched for relevant people in global video surveillance data.

Since the preliminary construction of the Pacific Buoy began in the early years, a large amount of video and population data from the past few years has been accumulated in the server.

The predecessor of this program has different names in different countries. For example, in Japan it is called "Platinum Data" and is led by the White Horse family.

Hakuba Tan once used this system to analyze Kaito Kid's characteristics and possible identity, but was severely slapped in the face by Kudo Yusaku.

Since then, Baima Detective no longer uses "Platinum Data" to solve cases.

In the United States, this system is called "Prism"... As time goes by, red dots continue to appear on the global map on the large screen in the center of the main control room.

Each red dot represents the appearance of the person in the photo retrieved from past video surveillance data.

When all the searches were completed, at least 400 red dots appeared on the global map.

Most of these red dots are distributed in Japan, the United States, and Europe.

The frequency in coastal areas is higher than that inland, and the frequency in famous port cities is higher than that in ordinary coastal cities.

"Now let's start analyzing the route..."

Hiroki Sawada's super AI began to work, mapping out the ship's routes over the years based on the distribution of these points.

Combined with the changing patterns of the world's ocean currents and the possible impact of typhoons at sea over the years on shipping routes, a relatively clear route appears on the main screen.

Finally, based on the time of these red dots, a rough sea area is drawn on the map to reflect the current progress of the route.

"151°1′ east longitude, 13°41′ north latitude."

"About 2800 kilometers from the Pacific buoy..."

Qin Zhibo, Conan and others looked up at the punctuation of Hiroki Sawada, and combined with the route, they found that the next stop of the ship was an island called Pohnpei in the South Pacific.

The South Pacific is also said to be the place where Cthulhu sleeps.

The organization's ship is heading to the South Pacific at this time, and it is hard not to think that the organization's next plan is to awaken the sleeping Cthulhu.

"It seems that the location of the ship has been basically determined. The next step is to catch up with them..."

There are currently only two options within the Pacific Buoy.

One is the organization's submarine, and the other is the Aegis-class destroyer Hotaka that came to support.

Generally speaking, the speed of a submarine is slightly faster than that of a destroyer, but it is also limited.

However, both submarines and destroyers are not much faster than ordinary ships.

What's more, the organization's ships are already 2800 kilometers ahead, and it will take at least half a month to catch up with them by submarine.

But the world that has been controlled by the green signal may not be able to withstand this half month.

Then the only option left is to take a plane.

The closest airport to the Pacific buoy is the nearby Hachijojima Airport.

……

Half an hour later, Qin Zhibo, Conan and others arrived at Hachijojima Airport.

At this time, all the people in the airport were in a state of infection, similar to what was seen in the monitoring system of the Pacific buoy beforehand.

Fortunately, when the green signal began to infect, there were no planes taking off or landing at Hachijojima Airport, and the airport had not suffered large-scale damage.

However, since there are flights between Hachijo Island and Tokyo only, both the airport size and the number of aircraft in stock are pitifully small.

In addition to a Boeing 737-300F cargo plane, the only other thing in the hangar is a small plane with a maximum capacity of only four people.

In order to catch up with the target 2800 kilometers away in one go, the only choice is this cargo plane.

While the mechanics on the Hotaka were checking the condition of the aircraft, Qin Zhibo and others began to determine the list of people boarding the plane.

Although cargo planes can carry a large number of people, there are hundreds of active-duty Maritime Self-Defense Force soldiers on the Hotaka, who can just board the plane and go together.

But Qin Zhibo and others discussed it and decided that a large-scale frontal combat was not a good plan.

Because the only way to get into a ship from an aerial aircraft is to airdrop, and a mass airdrop would be too large and would likely make them sitting ducks on the sea.

The only plan that worked was a covert infiltration.