Phantom Thief of Heart!but conan

Chapter 1091 Reliable Source of Information

"…You should have a good rest first. We won't let anyone disturb you, and please don't contact anyone during this period. For safety reasons…"

"I understand. I won't talk to anyone except Akai himself."

"Well, you'll understand."

James nodded, his eyes passed over Rena Mizunashi's bed, and he glanced at Curacao who had his eyes closed and was still unconscious. He finally closed the door of the ward and looked at Shuichi Akai who was standing in front of the door.

"It's still too risky." Perhaps considering the poor sound insulation in the ward, he lowered his voice, "If you fail to successfully lure out the rescuers this time, and instead make her arouse Gin's suspicion, this nail will be completely useless."

"Even if that's the case, there's still Kumail." Akai Shuichi replied calmly, "Even if this incident didn't happen, her brother found Tokyo and her situation was already unsafe."

"Their situations are different after all..." James shook his head, but looking at Shuichi Akai's confident look, he didn't say anything else.

Shuichi Akai didn't explain anything further, but he understood what James meant, and he also understood that the other party was concerned about his position and did not elaborate.

After Shuichi Akai was exposed and defected, the FBI has in fact lost its precise grasp of the organization's specific actions.

Kumail is a good backup option, but Shuichi Akai did not disclose all the information he had to the FBI because of Tang Ze's special identity background and possible intelligence value.

——It was later proved that his cautious choice was not wrong. Tang Ze's depth in cognitive science was beyond imagination and enough to drive anyone crazy.

For the FBI, Kumail is an uncontrollable variable, but Rena Mizunashi is an easy target.

Although they have different backgrounds and departments, Rena Mizuno has lost contact with her original department due to her father's death. She also has her brother as her weak point. If she sits down to negotiate with them, the possibility of her being recruited is very high.

Shuichi Akai understood all of this.

Precisely because he understood this, he had to proceed with his plan.

"Forget it. It's too late now. She encountered an explosion during a live broadcast, and the footage of you rescuing her has already spread. It's too late to change the plan." Although he seemed to have no hope for his plan, James shook his head and continued to arrange it step by step. "We must be wary of the organization using other means to test the situation of the two of them. Only by keeping their sobriety transparent to the outside world can we force Gin to adopt a more radical strategy."

"Their other methods are basically limited to using other less familiar men who we won't notice to test and investigate." Akai Shuichi nodded, "Fortunately, we all know who it is most likely to be..."

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"Huh? You want me to investigate Kiel's situation? That doesn't make sense."

Tang Ze answered the person on the other end of the phone in a subtle, sarcastic tone and very rudely.

"I used my own method to deal with Pramiya, and I didn't arouse anyone's suspicion throughout the whole process. What was wrong with the way I completed this task? She was dragged into this because of Keel's bad luck. What does it have to do with me?"

"...The explosion in Shibuya didn't have to happen." Gin squeezed out a sentence while biting the filter.

"I've already warned her in advance." Tang Ze was very impolite and almost retorted tit for tat, "Not to mention Curacao. I told her very considerately that I was going to use some special means to complete the mission in Shibuya, but she still came here desperately. This can't be blamed on me, right?"

Gin, who was already irritable, took a deeper breath when he heard the name "Curacao".

After confirming that the video that Vermouth showed him was indeed a live broadcast, Gin spent a whole day confirming the situation in the midst of his busy schedule.

——Because even if we don’t count the fact that Curacao was also involved in the disappearance after the explosion, before she lost consciousness, Rum had already collected enough NOC lists to keep him busy and unable to spare the time to focus on the problem here for the time being.

He knew that there would be many traitors from different institutions in the organization, some of whom were official organizations, while others might be people from other places with ulterior motives.

The organization has existed for too long and has enough influence to be the target of too many things.

But when he got that long list, even though he knew that he would not have this feeling eight hundred years ago, he still couldn't help feeling like he was about to get a migraine.

"…Things in Curacao are even more troublesome." Gin's voice became even colder. "I have other things to deal with. I'll give you three days to find out their situation and where they are. If possible, bring them both back."

Tang Ze raised his eyebrows, noticed that Gin's mood was getting worse, and suppressed the corners of his mouth that were about to turn up.

Tang Ze fully understood where Gin's irritability came from.

Putting aside the fact that the two code members were suspected to have fallen into the hands of official organization personnel, the completely misleading list of traitors that had been revised by him and Akai Shuichi and others was enough to make Gin furious.

On the one hand, it was because of the length of the list, and on the other hand, it was actually obtained from the database of the Japanese Public Security Bureau...

It is truly shameful that the organization was completely unaware of something that the Japanese public security authorities could investigate.

Tang Zeduo paused for half a second to avoid making an overly happy sound, and then he slowly replied: "If your request is to use any method, I can guarantee the 'task completion rate'. Well, it's just that if I use my method... you don't mind whether you come back dead or alive in the end, right?"

This is a necessary performance for the character, but also a test.

I believe we can get a glimpse of how the organization understands his abilities and what their definition of Kumail is from Gin.

Gin is by no means a top leader of the organization in name, but compared to Rum, Gin obviously has his own intelligence channels and his own understanding of many things in the organization.

Gin on the other end of the phone answered more quickly and decisively than Tang Ze had imagined.

"They each have their own value. Without solid evidence, they cannot be disposed of at will. Use all your means to confirm their status. If there is any abnormality, deal with it directly." Perhaps thinking of Akai Shuichi seen on the screen, Gin sneered sarcastically, "I will solve other problems when I come back."

This means that he is indeed regarded as the equivalent of Goro Akechi, a supernatural killer who can come and go freely and has a good grasp of intelligence.

As for these three days, Gin will probably have to spend a lot of time on that seemingly plausible list.

"I see. Then I'll wait for your good news, Gin-senpai?"

Gin didn't answer him again and the call was hung up mercilessly.

It was obvious that once he started talking disgustingly, Gin didn't want to hear a word. Tang Ze put away his phone with a smile, looked at Akai Shuichi in front of him, and gave a definite answer: "Well, Rum has indeed received the list. Gin will probably have to fly around the world in the next three days to deal with the most difficult ones."

Compared to those fatal names in the original computer room, this list is obviously much less lethal.

There are several names of code-named members in it, but they are either not undercover agents at all, but existing members of the organization whose identities have been discovered by the FBI or the Japanese Public Security Bureau. Or they are indeed from some special intelligence departments, but there are many problems with their identities, and they are likely to have been subverted or betrayed.

Gin will personally carry out the execution. This is a great opportunity to use the power of the organization as a gun, and no one will miss it.

"You are right to be cautious." Akai Shuichi curled his lips. "However, it is unexpected that the Japanese Public Security Bureau actually stored the intelligence that Bourbon had investigated, including Bourbon's own information, in the database."

"Confidential database." Tang Ze corrected.

"That's also a database." Akai Shuichi was not convinced. "Keeping it on paper is risky. Some information can only be stored in some people's brains..."

Having said that, he looked at Tang Ze meaningfully.

The only exception is probably the one in front of him, the Phantom Thief of Hearts, who can read the true "database" of humans...

"So, you are so confident in choosing this plan because you deleted your data more cleanly?" Tang Ze understood his implication and just pretended to be stupid and changed the subject.

It's better to just know about this kind of thing. It would be impolite to say it out loud.

"Well, no biological information was left behind." Akai Shuichi nodded calmly, as if it was a matter of course, "Otherwise I wouldn't dare to make such a risky plan."

He said this very easily, but Tang Ze's expression when he looked back was a bit complicated.

Tang Ze knew that what Shuichi Akai meant was that for a person who was ready to devote himself to the undercover career, anything left in the original department would only become an obstacle in the future, but the meaning behind this sentence was far more serious than that.

Any past relationships or omissions may become accidents in the long undercover career and become hidden dangers that destroy the perfect disguise.

Almost all the undercover agents who were exposed to the organization, including Ethan Hondou, Morobushi Kagemitsu, etc., fell at this step.

This choice could only be made by Shuichi Akai, who ran away from home and had no contact with his family for many years in order to concentrate on investigating his father's condition. He also gave up his friends and even lover in the United States without hesitation for the next mission and walked on this path for ten years without hesitation.

Because this choice means...

"Your informant was not Judy or Carmel, but someone else." Tang Ze tilted his head, "If your informant also died, like Ethan Hondou's partner, you would end up in a more miserable situation than Mizunashi Rena."

For an undercover agent whose past records have been erased, if unfortunately all his contacts and superiors are killed, then even if he is still alive and still holding his ground, there will be nothing in the world that can prove his identity.

Those helpless actions during the undercover period, those tacit sacrifices and choices, will no longer be corroborated and will only be treated as part of the criminal facts...

"Yes. They are. The two of them came to Japan because I notified the FBI that they needed to take away the special witnesses participating in the witness protection program." Akai Shuichi did not deny it and nodded.

Judy and Kamal are his trusted colleagues, but their past relationships and years of collaboration make them unqualified for this position.

The roles they originally played were similar to those of the other members of Rei Furuya's Zero Team.

"Thinking about it now, I feel a little regretful. If I hadn't called them both over, maybe I wouldn't have been exposed to Gin so easily." When Akai Shuichi thought of this, he could only shake his head helplessly.

They were not his closest contacts, so naturally, they were not as vigilant in this regard.

"It's hard for me to say..." Thinking of Yuya Kazami who would blurt out Mr. Furiya whenever he spoke, Tang Ze could only say that it was difficult to comment.

Who knows, maybe an undercover agent who has no flaws of his own just needs a few teammates who are a little bit stupid. This is part of the law of the world, in order to show a balance of combat power...

"By the way, do you know that the old man who set up the trap for you that day was Rum himself?"

Thinking of this, Tang Ze suddenly said something.

"Hmm?" Akai Shuichi frowned, "That person is Rum?"

"If I'm right, it's him."

"I just realized that his identity was not simple... If I had known earlier, I should have left later."

"What? Stay a little longer to observe the situation? Then you might not be able to leave so smoothly. Gin reacts very quickly."

"No, I should have ignored the respect for the elderly and just killed that man before leaving. No mercy, this is the only thing I hesitate on, I really shouldn't have done that."

"Then according to the principle that whoever you want to kill should die first, maybe he will obediently commit suicide..."

"Ok?"

"Nothing. I mean, you're pretty good at this, Brother Xiuyi."

By the time Conan knocked on the door and came in, the two of them had already finished a conversation that was so packed with information that it should have been censored if it was broadcast to anyone. Only Shuichi Akai was left flipping through the photos and comparing them methodically.

"...You look quite relaxed." Conan's mouth twitched, he closed the door, and looked at the room carefully.

It was very clean and tidy, even cleaner than when he lived at home himself.

After all, this is just a guest room, which is not used frequently. If Xiaolan hadn't been watching and reminding him, he would not have done any major cleaning...

"There's no point in being impatient. Now's the time to counterattack." Akai Shuichi nodded calmly, and while handing the photo in his hand to Conan, he said, "I have a reliable source. Gin doesn't have time to confirm the whereabouts of Mizunashi Rena within 72 hours. This is the list of patients who have been admitted to the hospital in recent days. We can screen for suspicious persons."

Because the elementary school student suddenly came back and was about to jump out of the window to return to the base, the "reliable source" who was still hanging outside the window said: "..."

(End of this chapter)