Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"how's it going?"

The sky was gradually getting dark. It had been half an hour since Conan and Hiroki entered the restaurant. Looking at the child sitting opposite him who kept pointing his fingers, even Conan felt a little distressed.

[If it were me, my fingers would have cramped long ago. ]

"Another point."

Hiroki's eyes were fixed on the mobile phone window, and he looked at the upper right corner from time to time to prove that he was currently opening multiple accounts.

"Wipe your sweat."

Hiroki didn't even raise his head after receiving the simple instruction, and Conan on the opposite side immediately took out two pieces of toilet paper to wipe the sweat off the child's forehead.

"drinks."

The straw was handed to the boy's mouth, and he took two deep sips without hesitation.

"Their protection was very strong. I kept putting on fake bodies outside, but they kept dismantling them. It took me half an hour to get just a simple piece of information."

Conan could naturally tell from Hiroki's unwilling tone that he didn't get much useful information, but the other party had worked hard, so Conan naturally didn't say anything. He just threw the bracelet over and signaled him not to be polite.

"The intelligence we collected was incomplete, and a lot of it was lost."

Hiroki ordered two more parfaits and returned the bracelet to Conan, then began to talk about what he had gotten.

"European...Police headquarters, invasion, and the last and most important place, codenamed Binga."

"Distilled liquor, it's a man."

Conan covered his mouth with his hand, remembering the destroyed headquarters he had seen on the news: "What was that headquarters used for?"

Hiroki concentrated on his food after receiving the parfait. "I'm in charge of a portion of the European surveillance. Those of us who work on software on the Internet have heard that the International Police has developed a new software that can search for missing people or wanted people across ages."

"Across ages?"

Conan immediately became alert. Analyzing from the name of the system, this so-called cross-age system should be able to infer a person's fixed characteristics, and achieve the effect of finding the target for those who have disappeared for a long time and have changed a lot.

"You guessed it, right? Once this system is completed, or connected to Japan's surveillance authority, those people will be able to find out the relationship between Kudo Shinichi and Edogawa Conan as soon as they investigate."

Hiroki disassembled all the equipment and put it into his backpack. "From the information I got, I guess Binga hacked into the Interpol headquarters in Europe just for this system."

"If someone from the organization were to gain access to this system, there's no telling how much trouble it would cause."

Conan looked out the window in confusion. The sun had already set. The only lights near the entrance to the island were the guard lights and the lighthouse on the island. The eastern part of the island was almost completely dark, which made the other three directions more lively. "There is an Interpol headquarters near Hachijo Island. It's a new one. I think it has something to do with this cross-age recognition system. I've always wondered why they built the base in the sea."

"Of course it's for heat dissipation. If we want to connect to police surveillance throughout Japan, the cost of cooling the servers would be a whopping amount if the base is built on the ground."

Hiroki waved his hand and said, "Instead of investing a large amount of money in equipment maintenance later on, it is better to do it all at once during construction. It is definitely more cost-effective."

"So, the organization's target this time is that base. They want to gain surveillance rights in Japan."

Conan looked at Hiroki affirmatively, then stood up and sat next to the child, holding his shoulders with both hands.

"You have to help me, I have to dive to the ocean buoy."

"it's out of the question."

Hiroki raised his index finger and shook it. "The ocean buoy is the focus of Interpol's first phase of the cross-age monitoring program. It's a base built in the sea. Not to mention the defense capabilities, there is no architectural layout, and we can't even find the entrance."

"Damn it!" Conan scratched his hair on both sides so hard that it would make him bald.

"Or else, you can just hack into Interpol's design database and find the base's design drawings for me..."

"Hey..." Hiroki grabbed Conan's cheek and easily turned it 120 degrees: "Is this something a law-abiding person can say?"

"I can't help it. This is a necessary sacrifice to protect those who may be targeted by the organization. In order to stop the evil group's conspiracy, I, a righteous detective, have no choice but to do it."

Conan straightened his chest and snorted twice at Hiroki's contemptuous look of "you have no shame".

"I've said so much, but you're just afraid that the organization will find out about you. Don't even think about it. I won't help you break the law."

Hiroki shook his head, but before Conan could despair, he analyzed: "How do you think Interpol can connect its system to the Japanese police surveillance management system?"

"Is there any need to ask? Of course, we need to obtain the data operating system and then access it using the terminal at the base..."

Conan paused as he spoke: "So someone must have sent an operating system to the ocean buoy recently."

The Public Security Department, which had completely lost power after Minami Masamune came to power, naturally could not accept such an important task. The most likely party would be the Police Bureau, and several leaders of the Police Bureau were now on the island...

"I understand. If we want to get to the base, we have to keep an eye on Officer Nogami and the others!"

Conan grabbed Hiroki's hand, and after he put the bag on his back, the two of them rushed outside and rode their skateboards to the wedding scene.

(End of this chapter)