Stay away from Conan.

"The vodka doesn't matter, they already know the vodka was caught."

Akai Shuichi looked at the other party's reply, which did not answer his question, but only explained the current development of the situation -

As a result, Akai Shuichi frowned slightly, and couldn't help but feel confused about the other party's purpose, not knowing what the other party meant.

After all, as the other party said, vodka itself is not very important, but the other party is also a member of that organization after all, especially the other party is Gin's follower.

In this way, when Judy failed to gain anything in dealing with the situation on Vermouth's side, and even Calvados, who stayed at the scene, successfully committed suicide, the successful arrest of Vodka can be considered a gain. Especially when it was completed so smoothly. In fact, there is no reason to give up on Vodka even if this matter has been known by those people.

However, one point worth thinking about is that the whole process of arresting Vodka can be said to be extremely easy. Apart from Vodka, there seemed to be no other members of the organization present at the scene, otherwise this matter would not have been so smooth. So the gang knew about Vodka's current situation. There was only one possibility, that is, the person who made the plan deliberately revealed it to the group of people in the organization.

Of course, there are actually other explanations besides this, that is, until now, everything is a conspiracy of the organization. They want to gain something at the cost of Vodka being captured by themselves, and then eventually even Vodka will be rescued, with no intention of leaving anything for themselves to trace.

After all, normally, this is the most important thing to consider when encountering this situation...

Thinking of this, Miyano Akemi's gentle smile could not help but appear in Akai Shuichi's mind——

"So, after all, it was because of you that I chose to believe..."

With a self-deprecating smile, Shuichi Akai felt that his actions in this situation were a bit naive.

But at the same time, think about it carefully. If everything is really as I thought and everything until now is a conspiracy, the other party should not say anything to me anymore, so that those people on my side who don’t know the organization will already know the situation, so that I will not have time to react in the end. This is the most correct approach.

However, the other party seemed very naive to do so, as if they thought that based on the other party's words, they could just give up Vodka who had already been captured.

This made Akai Shuichi even more confused.

  That is, what exactly does the other party want to do?

He let his own side capture Vodka, and then informed the organization about it and asked the organization to rescue him. Was he simply playing a trick on himself and the organization?

So what is his purpose?

  You can't just want to see a fight between you and the organization, right?

If that's the case, there's no need for the other party to notify me, so -

"who are you?"

After thinking about it, Akai Shuichi did not choose to continue thinking about this question, but returned to his original topic and asked about the other party's identity, wanting to see what explanation the other party would give.

If the other party still wants to continue chatting with you.

After all, the other party's intention has been very clear, which is to make me give up the vodka halfway and return it to the organization, but the choice of this matter is now on my side. Even if the organization will send elite operations, in the final analysis, I still have to fight with the other party. It is unknown who will win and who will lose at that time. It is even possible to successfully capture a few more members of the organization, which is not impossible.

Therefore, as long as he did not respond directly to the other party, if the other party wanted things to continue to develop according to his ideas, he would have to face his own problems. In this way, Akai Shuichi waited for the other party's response, but the answer he got was——

"Mingmei asked me to say hello to you before she died!"

Suddenly, after seeing this sentence, Akai Shuichi's expression froze, and he immediately recalled an incident that had happened before -

At that time, because Judy wanted to try to get close to the two children that Vermouth was interested in, she followed them nearby to be on the safe side. As a result, at that moment, she noticed someone in disguise appearing in the mall, so she could not help but follow him and fought with him.

But in the end, I forgot that the person who was present at the time had a companion, so even though I almost suppressed that person with force, they still escaped in the end.

  And before they escaped, the person who fought with them said to them, which is the text message sent back by the other party now!

——“It’s that guy!”

At this moment, Akai Shuichi understood that it must be the guy who had fought with him before and was suspected to have disguise skills. It was just that at that time he thought that the other party should be Vermouth's accomplice, but now it seems...

The other party's identity seemed to be told to him directly, literally -

  The other party is the person Mingmei entrusted before her death!

Therefore, the other party would know the content of the last text message Mingmei sent to him...

In this case, since Mingmei could entrust someone with this before her death, and it seems that the other party knows a lot about the organization, then what is the purpose of this action by such a party?

……

At this time, on the other side, Gao Yuan, who was sitting in a rented car, sent a message to Akai Shuichi's number. The message was the same one he had said to Akai Shuichi when he and Miyano Shiho had disguised themselves and met him in a shopping mall. When they had a fight and left, he said:

A very straightforward explanation is that he is related to Miyano Akemi.

Besides, after all, the previous conversation with Shuichi Akai was conducted by Miyano Akemi herself.

So this response is also a disguised explanation of the sense of familiarity that Shuichi Akai must have felt when he talked with Akemi Miyano before.

This answer was not a lie, or it could be said that this plan was also partly suggested by Miyano Akemi.

Now, the plan has gone smoothly to this point. To be honest, actually speaking, it doesn't matter to me to let the organization fight with the FBI. But if I leave it alone, once the subsequent impact of this matter reaches an uncontrollable level, Vermouth may not necessarily give me away.

Therefore, I still have to find a way to keep this matter within an acceptable range.

After all, his original purpose was to find bargaining chips for negotiation with Vermouth. Now that he had obtained the bargaining chips, his purpose had been achieved. At the same time, he had also accidentally established contact with the FBI. However, for now, he had no intention of contacting them directly, so he should continue to act in secret...

However, before that, there is one more thing I can try to do... (End of this chapter)