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

Pear brandy silence.

After a few seconds, he turned away and handed over the small document bag.

"This is something you forgot to take with you. Check to see if there is anything missing."

"Thank you."

Anis raised his right hand to take it, opened the bag in person, took out a USB flash drive and an adapter, took out his mobile phone and connected it directly.

William watched his movements, and looked away from the moment the phone screen lit up and text flashed on it.

But he wasn't too far away. His eyes slowly moved upward, looking at Anis's face, silently recalling what happened this month.

During the month that Goldwasser set out to kill the traitor and kill the undercover, Anis stayed at his house.

At first, William thought Anis was looking for help, but he said, "Just a small favor." During this month, Anis occasionally went out, but most of the time he was alone in the guest bedroom, borrowing an ordinary computer without organizational system protection, and kept tapping away.

William was once worried that being so "homely" would lead to the failure of the mission. When the deadline was approaching, he tried to persuade him, but he only received one sentence from the other party - "Thank you. Don't worry, I always know what I am doing."

Then the mission is accomplished and Venom suddenly dies. On the day Snake Venom left the bar, the emergency service team determined that he had taken hostages and was also a suspect in the FBI's serial murder case, and shot him directly.

Then the next night, Anis left without saying goodbye, leaving behind the computer with the USB flash drive inserted and the screen showing that the data had just been copied.

At that time, William was stunned for several seconds facing the empty guest bedroom. Thinking of the fate of those members who touched things randomly, he did not dare to stay in it any longer, and immediately sent an email asking what to do with those things.

As a result, Anis didn't know what he was busy with and didn't reply until late at night. He said that he could just unplug the USB flash drive and made an appointment to meet at the stadium today and hand the things over to him.

——He did not give any orders or threats throughout the process not to peek at the information inside.

After finishing his recollection, William stared at Anis' face, a little distracted.

Even though he was not threatened, he did not peek. He knew that Anis had a special status and was the only remaining descendant of Goldwasser, the third in command.

Real names are kept secret, age is kept secret, past is kept secret, surface work is kept secret, most tasks are kept secret...

William didn't even know whether the face was real or whether it had been "kept secret" in some way.

In the dim passage, under Anis' short black hair was a mediocre but gentle Asian face, with smooth and delicate skin, without makeup or disguise.

Maybe he looked at it for too long. Anis, who was already sensitive to sight, looked up, and his green eyes glowed like the scales of poisonous snakes.

"What's on my face?" Anis asked.

"……without!"

William came back to his senses and answered without thinking. Maybe he felt that the atmosphere was a bit awkward. This time he looked at the document bag Anis had casually tucked under his arm.

"The scratch papers on the table are also in it. I didn't know if you still wanted them, and I didn't dare to deal with them casually, so I put them all in..."

Anis asked: "Have you read what it said?"

"...I saw it accidentally."

William answered honestly, after all, all the content was written on the first page, and it was written in such a large size that it was impossible not to see it as long as you tidied it up.

"But I can't understand it. It's not written in English."

Many members of the organization, especially those at the top, basically speak multiple languages. William is just an ordinary member and can only speak two languages, one of which is his mother tongue that he has not used for many years.

After confirming that there was no problem with the content, Anis kept the phone and USB drive connected, put them into his pocket together, and then pulled out the scratch paper with the content written on it.

"This is... language."

He spoke a vague word, his voice seemed to be suddenly abandoned by God, William did not hear it clearly, he heard him continue: "[Justice], [Doubt], [Narcissism], [Infatuation] and... [Father and Son].”

This time William didn’t understand.

He looked at the Ultimate Riddler with a confused look, and Anis just smiled at this: "These are actually not important, you can just treat it as a rough draft when doing the questions... Of course, I am still very happy that you can remember to write it down." bring me."

Anis stuffed the draft back casually and changed the subject even more casually: "By the way, have anyone from the FBI been to the Girasol Bar in the past few days?"

When mentioning this, William's face looked a little ugly: "Been there."

Although the information on Snake Venom's computer and dark web was cleared, and there was no surveillance in the bar, the FBI used surveillance on nearby roads to check the stores there one by one to determine where Snake Venom had been on the morning of his death.

And he couldn't stand the investigation at all.

Seeing William couldn't help but sigh, Anis suddenly asked: "Do you want to go to other countries? If you continue to stay in the United States, you will be traced easily."

William was stunned.

"Going abroad?" He thought about it. "If I really want to leave, I'm afraid I can only go to Canada or the United Kingdom, which also use English. Australia is not very powerful and Goldwasser won't let me go. And..."

"Japan."

Anis spoke about this country on behalf of the Asian young man in front of him.

"In addition to other countries whose lingua franca is English, you can also visit your home country. After all, you haven't been back for so long." He said gently.

William scratched his cheek and murmured in a low voice: "Is that so..."

Anis looked at him with a smile.

After confirming that the information had been delivered, William planned to leave this place with a somewhat subtle atmosphere as soon as possible. Before leaving, he looked at the toilet again.

The sound of something dragging across the ground was completely gone.

……

Aoyagi Binguang's skill clone watched William's back disappear from sight. In the past month, his skill clone has temporarily stayed at William's house. Based on his understanding of him, he will not report this trivial matter to Goldwasser. Goldwasser will not ask about such trivial matters as long as the task is completed. .

Qingliu Binguang didn't stop pinching his face and turned around to enter the bathroom.

Thanks to the foresight of the stadium owners in the initial design, the bathrooms in this 10,000-person stadium are very large, big enough to accommodate some large... pets.

Qingliu Binguang raised his head and looked at the giant python with a body width of more than one meter in front of him.

He is not someone who cares about appearance. In his eyes, things that are well-behaved and docile and currently under his control are quite cute. He raised his hand and stroked its big mouth that could swallow an adult in one bite.

"Sere, are you full?"

The big snake opened its mouth, and a low-quality sneaker covered in saliva fell from its tongue.

Aoyagi Binguang looked at the sneakers and the document bag in his hand, and suddenly realized something: "There are some things that are difficult for you to digest, and eating them will make you uncomfortable, right?"

The big snake couldn't answer. The huge snake squirmed slowly on the tiles, as if it was saying something silently.

"Sorry, I will pay attention to it in the future."

Aoyagi Binguang apologized to it, and the giant snake quickly disappeared from the bathroom, leaving him looking at the things in his hands and on the ground, thinking about how to deal with it...

……

No matter what gloomy things are happening outside, they can't affect the passion on the court.

The two sides are still 0-0, and in one minute, the first half of the game will be over.

Aoyagi Binguang watched the battle below. A New York City FC player caught the ball and passed it crosswise to his teammate. The opponent caught the ball and ran towards the goal quickly. When he was about to be overtaken, he passed it to another teammate on the left.

The player who received the ball ran as fast as a flying man. There was no one else around him to defend him. He raised his foot and shot a single shot!
"Thunder! Quick, stop him!!"

Seeing the opponent approaching his own goal, Kudo Shinichi was so excited that he stood up without even holding his binoculars. He clenched his fists and shouted on the spot.

Ray Catis, wearing the No. 8 jersey, lowered his body as low as possible, opened his arms, and stood in front of the goal like a copper wall.

As if he had predicted the opponent's movements in advance, he swooped to the right and firmly blocked the ball with his palms!

The football flew out in an arc, a perfect save. In an instant, the away fan section was jubilant and the whistle sounded at the end of the first half at the same time.

"As expected of him!!!"

Kudo Shinichi turned to look at Aoyagi Binguang, his cheeks flushed with excitement: "Aoyagi-sensei, have you seen his performance!"

Qingliu Binguang smiled and nodded.

There were 15 minutes of intermission. Kudo Shinichi had not drank water on the way here or during the game. There was no need to solve any needs at this time, so he sat down again.

Qingliu Binguang watched as some people around him got up and left, while others were discussing with their partners on the spot, their thoughts drifting uncontrollably to a certain passage.

Counting the time, his skill clone should have obtained the information from William.

The past month has been really busy. In addition to monitoring Goldwasser, some of the fog particles from [Wind and Rain Ruhui] also flew to Rum. With the sheath present, positioning is very convenient.

It's just that Rum is not responsible for American affairs, so he separated them and checked a little bit about other things, about the inside of the organization, the "umbrella" above, and... the new undercover agents sent by the public security.

All the information Wu Li heard and saw at that time was remotely synchronized and transmitted to the clone who used the skill. He knew that his memory was average, so he honestly used a computer unrelated to the organization to record everything day and night.

This time the Japanese police sent two more undercover agents, another pair of students at the same time. One of them is married, one has a girlfriend, and the latter has not broken up.

One of the four families was special. It was like suddenly receiving a favorite gift on a birthday. Aoyagi Binguang was surprised and pleasantly surprised when he found out.

In addition...

"They all have... such obvious flaws."

Aoyagi Binguang, who had no ill intentions towards the undercover agent, was extremely happy.

A joy that comes from within.

……

Kudo Shinichi is still thinking about the game just now.

"Those reports are indeed slanderous!"

The young detective angrily thought back to the sports reports he had read.

Ray Catis used to play football in Europe. He was forced to retire because the media exposed his "drug abuse scandal." His wife couldn't stand the pressure of public opinion and chose to commit suicide.

Although he later took the reporter to court and proved that it was slander, he successfully made a comeback in the American League. But the attention he received was no longer what it used to be, and those doubts were always with him like a shadow.

Kudo Shinichi was furious when he first learned about this report. He kept reviewing the game videos and carefully cut out every frame of the opponent's appearance to show others his idol's physical condition and face, proving that he was not an addict at all. , but a star who has always been serious.

He is such a person. If the person he likes is rumored and doubted, he will try his best and use every method to prove the other person's innocence.

——But if it’s the other way around…

……

The sun gradually climbed higher amid the noise, and was blocked by the roof above the stadium. Part of it continued to set, and part of it turned into shadow.

Kudo Shinichi didn't notice that the former music teacher he liked beside him stayed quiet for a long time.

Qingliu Binguang sat in the shadows with no intention of leaving. There was a clear distinction between him and Kudo Shinichi, who was still bathing in the sunshine next to him. (End of chapter)