Stay away from Conan.

Because of what happened at the Tokyo pharmaceutical factory, in order to track down the intruder, Gin and Vodka, at Rum's request, began to search for the intruder's whereabouts.

However, if that person truly possesses a disguise technique similar to Vermouth's, then finding their true identity would be extremely difficult unless they revealed themselves.

However, the organization couldn't ignore such a person, so after deploying all available resources, any possible clue would do. Thus, after repeatedly reviewing everything known about the infiltrator's actions, Gin indeed found a starting point for a problem—

"Dark Baron Virus!"

Although the organization's database and all the operations this person performed on the organization's computers are completely untraceable and unrecoverable due to the use of the "Dark Baron" virus, the only thing that can be confirmed is that this person used the "Dark Baron" virus!
Even though it's currently impossible to explain why this person was able to run the "Dark Baron" virus on the organization's computers, this alone is enough to warrant an investigation.

That is, where did this person's "Dark Baron" virus come from!

According to Shirley's testimony, the virus used by this person was carried on a floppy disk that he brought with him, so it was impossible for him to have intercepted it from his own organization's system at the time.

In this way, Gin is aware of the extent of the organization's control over the "Dark Baron" virus. Every use of this virus is recorded, so normally, it would be impossible for outsiders to obtain the "Dark Baron" virus.

Therefore, how did this person obtain the "Dark Baron" virus? This is a key point.

Therefore, based on this line of thought, Gin prepared to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the organization's use of the "Dark Baron" virus to see where the problem might have gone wrong, leading to the virus being leaked to that person.

Of course, if the investigation here yields no results, then Gin and his team will have to think of other ways...

However, with Gin having this idea and Rum's orders, and with all parties in the organization working at full capacity, it wasn't long before they had thoroughly checked all the locations within the organization where the "Dark Baron" virus was stored. As a result, Gin and his team indeed discovered an unusual place—

There is an outer member of an organization who is currently in charge of searching for skilled programmers around the world for the organization. To facilitate his operations, this person has a floppy disk containing the "Dark Baron" virus.

As for this peripheral member, there was usually someone responsible for contacting him to ensure that he was still under the organization's control. Therefore, for this inspection, the person responsible for contacting him was notified to meet in person to check and confirm whether the "Dark Baron" virus was safe and whether there were any traces of its use.

But here's where the problem lies—

Normally, this person would always reply to our messages, but this time, when we notified them to come for a meeting for inspection, they suddenly disappeared!

In this situation, with no progress in other investigations and the problem only occurring here, Gin and his team, upon receiving the news, immediately launched an investigation into this discovery—

As a result, Gin and his team discovered that this person must have been in trouble long ago.

Tracing this person's whereabouts, it was discovered that his credit card usage records had ceased long before the incident at the pharmaceutical factory.

This person's spending habits usually involve using credit cards most of the time, so tracing the credit card usage records could basically reveal their whereabouts. However, just before the Tokyo pharmaceutical incident, the credit card that was usually in use had no usage records at all, which was clearly suspicious.

Considering the timing, Gin and his team immediately deduced that this peripheral member must have already met with misfortune. It seemed likely that the "Dark Baron" virus originated from this peripheral member. Therefore, tracing back the person's movements, Gin and his team tracked them down, eventually confirming the likely location of the incident in Osaka Prefecture—

An internet cafe.

After some investigation by Gin and Vodka, one thing can be basically confirmed: a person named "Gao Yuan" who came to the internet cafe to apply for a job and worked there for a few days, but then disappeared, is highly suspicious!
After all, the time this person left the internet cafe was very close to the time when Gin judged that the peripheral member of the organization had an accident, and after that, this person also left the internet cafe. Therefore, it should be that this person went to Tokyo after leaving Osaka, and the timing matches perfectly.

And so, just like that, after Gin and his team obtained a description of the person's appearance and had a member of their organization capable of drawing portraits create one, confirming the person's likeness and finally feeling that the investigation had a clear direction, they left the internet cafe and returned to Gin's beloved black Porsche 356A. There, they were astonished to find the letter prominently displayed on the steering wheel—

At that moment, just as his investigation was beginning to make progress, someone dared to provoke him so boldly. This instantly ignited an overwhelming killing intent in Gin.

Clearly, the current situation is basically certain: this so-called "Gao Yuan" must be the identity used by the infiltrator we are investigating.

However, instead of hiding from the organization's investigation, this person took the initiative to provoke them!

To be able to stake out one's own car here, and even pry open the door to stick a letter on the steering wheel—this person's actions...

"Big, big brother..."

At this moment, seeing Gin facing the letter pasted on the steering wheel, his eyes filled with murderous intent, Vodka couldn't help but feel very nervous, a little worried, and unsure of what to do. In the end, Vodka could only tentatively ask a question.

At this point, faced with this situation, Gin is left with only one question—

Should we open this letter or not?
Logically, out of caution, Gin wouldn't bother with something that's been delivered directly to his door like this, but...

The problem now is that we only have one clue about that person's whereabouts, but the direction of our investigation is now clearly known to that person, so continuing the investigation may not necessarily yield any results.

But this letter, delivered to him unsolicited, seemed to...

"Open it!"

From the internet cafe, Gin had Vodka randomly pick someone and forcefully bring that person to his car, ordering them to open the letter stuck to the steering wheel. Gin and Vodka both got out of the car and waited for the person to open the letter.

Finally, faced with the threat, the man reluctantly opened the letter. Gin and his team found nothing amiss. After shooting and silencing the man, Gin then retrieved the letter from the pool of blood and looked at the words on it—

"Want to find me? Want to know how much the organization has been hiding from you? Come find me at the Twilight Villa during the Obon festival..." (End of Chapter)