Conan: I'm really not the mastermind behind the scenes

Chapter 178 Under the Sun

The sky is a sea of ​​orange and the sun is sinking.

In the Japanese Police Agency, a tall and thin young man held a briefcase under his arm and dragged his tired steps into the elevator. He pressed the button and yawned loudly.

God knows why the Ministry of Public Security is so busy. He has been working overtime for a whole week, and his boss only allowed him to go home for a few days until he almost stank.

He initially wanted to be a stable civil servant, but ended up only getting into the police academy;

After entering the police academy, he originally wanted to enter the relatively safe Section 3 of the Metropolitan Police Department (searching for theft, bag snatching, etc.). Unexpectedly, he was among the top grades and was directly asked to leave by the Ministry of Public Security. From then on, he entered the overtime hell...

The young man who thought he was mediocre was actually very mediocre, standing numbly because his brain was muddled due to excessive operation in the past few days. At this moment, he suddenly felt a chill on his back.

He turned around suddenly and was shocked to see the person standing behind him——

"Mr. Jiang Gu!"

"..."

Feng Guling, who was also in the elevator and had been watching him since he came in, but whose presence had not been noticed until now, glanced at his haggard face, and swallowed all the words he wanted to say that he was too careless.

"You seem to be seriously sleep deprived. Take a good rest after you go back." The young boss said with a dark face.

"……Yes!"

The young man who thought he would be scolded was stunned for a moment and responded loudly.

Soon they reached the first floor and the two got off the elevator together. The young man quickly walked out of the police station and planned to take the tram home, while Rei Fukiya headed to the parking lot.

He got into the Mazda and raised his hand to correct the position of the rearview mirror. His face was reflected in the mirror, and that face seemed to be covered with a layer of shadow that could not be removed.

What happened a year ago comes to mind one by one...

……

As an undercover agent, you are mentally prepared to be exposed at any time.

Therefore, when receiving the notice from Yuya Kazami to evacuate, Rei Fukutani was surprised, but he immediately tried to find a way to fake his own death through the explosion created by Pramea, and quickly returned to Japan.

Although he had long known that many accidents occurred in Japan when he left, when he visited the scene in person and saw the ruins and the rising number of casualties, his brain was still buzzing, and his intense anger could hardly be suppressed.

Fangtani Ling didn't even have time to reconcile himself and Fa Xiao's identities to being exposed. He refused to let Chief Kuroda ask him to hide incognito and personally invested in the investigation.

He took over the apartment bombing case, which involved his contemporary Bai Jiu.

People generally believe that Shirojiu did not recognize that it was a fake bomb, and mistakenly detonated the bomb, which caused the bomb in the apartment to be activated. The police were useless. However, during the follow-up investigation, they found that the criminal was the criminal who killed Hagiwara Kenji four years ago. He was killed by Shirojiu. They were imprisoned in private, and the two had a personal vendetta.

This makes it even more difficult for the police brass.

It was originally a malicious trap that would cause another bomb to be activated on time no matter how it was operated, with the purpose of discrediting the police. Now it has become an extreme revenge caused by the police's private torture.

But Jiangu Ling felt something was wrong.

They checked the prisoner's interpersonal relationships and determined that he had no informants in the police. The situation four years ago also showed that he and his accomplices judged police movements based on current news.

He had no way of knowing the internal personnel arrangements of the police and the schedule of each police officer for the day, so why did the bomb trap he set up happen to be encountered by Bai Jiu, whom he wanted to take revenge on?

Is it really such a coincidence?

Later, Baijiu stabbed his parents until they were seriously injured (more than a dozen stabs missed the vital part, and he later died of excessive bleeding) and then committed suicide. Feng Guling felt incredible about this. He knew how close Baijiu was to his family, so why did he Will it hurt your parents?

Especially after Bai Jiu's mobile phone disappeared, the police found out based on the location that he had returned home at that time, but they couldn't find it after searching the house, which made the case even more confusing.

Rei Fukutani felt that this had something to do with the organization - because the person who took Shirojito to the hospital was Teraoka, and the top floor of the bombed apartment was the Hojo family they were going to deal with that day.

The case can no longer be investigated at this point. The existing physical evidence has been searched over and over again, but no more clues can be found. The witness evidence shows that the bomber, Baijiu, and Teraoka are all dead. Teraoka's mobile phone was found before his death. It was hacked remotely and all traces were erased.

Next is the investigation of Tojo Hojo.

After Fukiya Rei came back, he immediately asked why they were exposed, and Kazami Yuya gave him the personal journal that Anisette gave to Morofushi Kagemitsu.

The moment he saw the content, Feng Guling felt like he was struck by thunder.

——An undercover agent’s past life in the police academy was revealed clearly. How could he not be afraid? !

Chief Tokugawa didn't pay much attention. He thought it was Shirojiu who told her. Shirojiu and Hojo Tooka had a good relationship. He was their contemporaries, so it was not surprising to know those things.

But Jiang Guling, the person involved, felt it was not that simple.

Hojo's house was bombed, and it was impossible to find physical evidence in the ruins, so the direction of the investigation was Hojo Toyoka's interpersonal relationships, focusing on the chat room.

The chat room is where those articles were first published, and Ani...a member of the organization who uses the codename Anisette and whose real identity is unknown is very likely to be among them.

There were not many people in the chat room, so they checked one by one, eliminated suspicions one by one, and finally settled on two people whose identities could not be found.

One is Artemis and the other is Caspar.

They are very vigilant. There is no identity information on the Internet. There are no photos in their personal space that will reveal their location. IP addresses are encrypted with special software. They will not reply to private messages sent to them. Links to transplant Trojan viruses are sent to them, but they never click... even there. Soon after, both accounts were cancelled.

Fangtani Zero suspected that they were all members of the organization.

He did not give up and found someone to visit the former neighbors of the Hojo family and Toyoka Hojo's former classmates and editors. From their mouths, he learned that she was extremely expressive, liked to be popular, and was quite mean to those who disagreed with her.

So Rei Furitanani began to investigate the social accounts of Tojo Hojo. Based on his understanding of this type of people, they like to post something online in order to gain the attention of others and seek emotional recognition rather than finding solutions to problems. .

Toyoka Hojo is a writer who likes to chase celebrities. In addition to the writer's large account, she also has a small account. The large account is bright and bright, and the small account has a lot of emotional outlets. The two accounts have a total of tens of thousands of tweets.

There were some comments that Jiangu Ling couldn't understand or didn't quite understand. He patiently read them all for clues, which took him a long time.

Finally, he found a few suspicious ones.

Those tweets contained strange garbled characters. He asked experts to help decipher them, but all failed. Other words in the tweets attracted his attention.

[Same kind] and [this world].

She looked like a young man suffering from a chuunibyou, but Rei Fangtani took it to heart. Based on the time she sent the tweet, he used credit card consumption records to deduce her schedule that day and found the surveillance there.

He intercepted the people who had been in contact with her in those days and handed them over to the police for further investigation.

During the investigation of her, there was another point that attracted Jianggu Ling's great attention.

——Many victims of collective headache incidents have been violently abused by Tojo Hojo online.

The impact of this incident is no less than that of the apartment explosion. Many of the victims were members of the Metropolitan Police Department. The public security also sent a large number of manpower to investigate.

They tried their best to collect a list of all the people with headaches, trying to find out the connections between them, but there were so many people that they couldn't find anything in common.

Finally, a police officer from the Internet Countermeasures Section was brought in to help. After seeing the list, he mentioned: Bai Jiu once came to see his colleagues and asked them to help find out the identities of some cyberviolence elements. Some of them had matching names. .

After hearing this news, Fang Guling quickly thought of another thing.

A few weeks before this incident, these people had experienced a collective headache, which caused a wave of shock in the Metropolitan Police Department. Many people went for physical examination afterwards.

——That day happened to be the day that Hojo Touka’s younger brother, Hojo Shinji, passed away! He even went to his funeral after becoming a teacher!

Rei Fukutani connects the two together, and it is almost certain that the headache incident is related to Hojo Touka.

But after checking here, he couldn't continue the investigation, because Tojo Hojo was also dead, and her mobile phone was also inexplicably lost.

He had no other choice but to continue to stare at the suspicious people related to her, hoping to find new clues from them.

……

The Mazda was driving on the way to the hospital. Rei Fukiya, who was forced to end his undercover career and returned to ordinary formal clothes, remembered the performance of the newcomers just now and sighed helplessly.

The low level of newcomers is another impact of the incident a year ago.

——When the organization saw that Teraoka was exposed, it posted surveillance video of him using his police ID to trick innocent residents into opening their doors and then shooting him to death.

After the apartment explosion, public opinion was filled with disappointment and worry about the police. The release of this video completely ignited public anger and fear.

especially……

Fang Guling held the steering wheel tightly.

Especially on that day, there was another reporter, a righteous reporter who had been warned by the underworld for insisting on publishing reports on drug cases and who was regarded as a voice for them in the hearts of the people. He died inexplicably at the Metropolitan Police Department.

Kotomine Qiao Na has eye-catching red hair and looks just like Kotomine Qina. Japan also likes to announce the appearance of the deceased when reporting murder cases. Many people recognized her at the airport and saw her being taken away by the police.

How terrible the grand occasion was at that time, how distorted the folk rumors were, Feng Guling didn't want to recall it a second time, it was wrong to think that they could breathe at that time.

The explosion of public opinion directly affected the police academy enrollment at that time, and the quantity and quality of this batch of new recruits plummeted.

Just like the person just now, he could only be an ordinary professional police officer, but now due to lack of manpower, he has joined the public security police with higher requirements in all aspects.

Because he and Hiro both evacuated, the police urgently needed to send more people to infiltrate the organization. However, many elites fell into coma due to the previous headache incident, so the chief selected the first two of these newcomers for training. One of them has already gone and has not yet received a code name; another has some family troubles and has not yet set off.

Mihua Yakushino Hospital was right in front of him. Rei Fukaya made sure that he was not being followed and there were no suspicious vehicles around, so he drove to the parking lot.

He opened the door and got out of the car. The sun hadn't completely set at this time, and it was dusk when it was easy to encounter evil spirits.

The afterglow of the setting sun shone on him without a trace of warmth, but the black shadow under his feet was stretched very long, forming an indissoluble black in front of his eyes.

Fangtani Rei walked forward calmly.

While undercover, he killed innocent people to hide his identity, thus incurring revenge from his family members, which indirectly led to the exposure of him and Hiro.

This is his crime. Killing undercover is also killing. Being an undercover is no reason to cover up this evil deed. But just when he finished the investigation, handed over the matter in his hands to Kazami and other subordinates, and wanted to surrender for trial, Kuroda Biewei stopped him.

Because this will have a great impact on the mentality of future undercover agents.

Undercover work is inherently dangerous, and only a few can evacuate safely after being exposed. If the younger generations see that they finally come back and go to jail, they will be suspicious or even ostracized.

——"If you feel that your conscience cannot bear it, put this energy into destroying the organization."

——"To destroy the organization, to protect more innocent people from being harmed by the organization..."

So after learning about the situation of the Kuroki father and daughter, Fangtani Rei began to search for hospitals to help contact better doctors.

He was busy for many days just to save Sachiko Kuroki.

——By saving more people and protecting more people, he will atone for his sin of killing innocent people.

He planned to do this, and so did Zhufu Jingguang. He killed Mrs. Hojo that day and also stained his hands with the blood of innocent people.

It's just that Zhu Fu Jingguang is more persistent than Fang Gu Ling. He has set his sights on "Anisette" who really caused them to be exposed, and he will pursue her at the slightest sign of trouble. It was this persistence that helped the police find the Kuroki father and daughter.

Fangtani Rei walked towards the side door. There was no surveillance in this area. Just when he took out his mobile phone and wanted to ask two colleagues inside about today's situation, he felt a black shadow passing above his head.

"!!"

A sense of crisis arose spontaneously, and his well-trained body reacted before his brain, and Fang Gu Ling swerved aside.

"Boom!!!"

A loud noise came in front of him almost at the same time as he jumped away.

Something fell from the sky to the ground, hitting him right in front of him. Some liquid splashed out, something was smashed and flew out, and large areas of scarlet quickly spread on the ground.

Fang Guling wiped his face, his fingertips were as sticky as honey.

He lowered his head and stared at the human-shaped fleshy flesh in front of him, whose original face could be vaguely discerned, and froze in place.

----

The rabbit couldn't say anything.

He was sitting in the car, in a safe environment, but he knew everything that happened in Heimu's room through the hearing he had transferred yesterday to get information.

He heard a steady stream of gunfire.

He heard the sound of bullets piercing human bodies.

He heard Kuroki's painful screams and Gin's cold interrogation.

He heard the man's pleading, hoping to gain some empathy, but Gin was unmoved, broke his hands, and had people drag him out to deal with...

At the same time, in front of him, he saw a black figure falling from the roof of the hospital.

Because the distance was too far, Rabbit couldn't tell whether there was anyone around the other person, whether he jumped by himself or was thrown by someone else... The moment he saw the person falling, he felt unprecedented pain exploding in his mind. .

"【】ah!"

"If you feel like it, just [ ] come down! We are all waiting to see!!"

"[]![]![]!"

Those roars of laughter rang in his ears again. Rabbit didn't know where those sounds came from. He only felt extremely painful, but no shouts came out of his mouth.

By the time he came to his senses, Glenn was already back in the car.

【...Did your mission succeed? 】

"……Um."

Glenn responded softly.

"I temporarily controlled their five senses when handing out the items and took the person out..."

The greedy animal messengers are [Eagle] and [Human].

She can create living humans with breathing, heartbeat, thoughts, feelings and memories as messengers, but they cannot speak Japanese and can only use their native language.

She cannot control the thoughts and actions of people in reality, but she can control their five senses for a short time through physical contact.

Rabbit couldn't say anything for a moment.

He knew that even if Glenn had such an animal messenger, it would be difficult to save Sachiko Kuroki.

This is not their home country, and her help here is limited. She cannot just put those people in danger just to save a non-citizen.

Gin is very suspicious and may be spying on Glenn, and if she is soft-hearted, her identity could easily be exposed.

Sachiko Kuroki is seriously ill, what should she do after she is rescued? Send her to another hospital? Who pays for the expensive medical bills? What if the organization or the police find out? If she is exposed to the police, her fate will not be better than that of the organization.

Rabbit thought of many reasons for Glenn to take action, but all the words came to his mouth were reduced to one sentence.

[Is there really... no way to save her? 】

It was dusk at this time, and the afterglow of the sun shone through the car window, covering Glenn's face.

Rabbit couldn't see the exact expression on her face, he could only see her pursed lower lip.

"It can't be saved."

There was no tremor in Glenn's hands or voice.

Rabbit looked at the group chat. There was no reminder about camp switching. Instead, he received the system reminder first.

[It has been detected that your willpower is 11. Do you want to exit the game? 】

……

The black Toyota left the hospital and Glenn contacted Gin.

"She fell to death."

Upon hearing this report, Gin sneered, his cold voice without any ups and downs.

"Father and daughter died in the same way."

Glenn forced himself to listen calmly to what he said, his voice still calm: "How is Shirley now?"

"She is at the base. After you pick her up, the self-destruction process will be started here. In addition, your and her residences have been checked and nothing unusual has been found, but to be cautious, you'd better change your residence." Gin said.

This was the reason why Glenn had to bring Rabbit with him this time. She was worried about him being left alone to face the inspection.

"I see," she said.

Gin seemed quite satisfied that Glenn didn't bully him and accepted his proposal honestly, and he also gave her a "reminder".

"Rum is very dissatisfied with your failure to take good care of the laboratory this time, which resulted in the information being almost leaked. He will punish you."

"——Get ready to go to America."

　This chapter is a good one. It mainly writes about the follow-up of Bourbon at that time. It seems a little watery? ...The protagonist's plan is not 100% perfect, and others can detect clues and respond.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)