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

The car stopped.

With his eyes covered by a blindfold, Jinpei Matsuda heard the door of the car next to him being opened, and someone got out of the car first and then helped him down.

After all, he was not a criminal, so the actions of Yuya Kazami and another public security officer who were supporting him were quite polite. Jinpei Matsuda followed them forward and stopped when the other two stood still. He stood there for a few seconds, and the ground began to slowly sink.

"Boom."

When the elevator reached the bottom, Jinpei Matsuda heard the person next to him say, "We're here, Officer Matsuda." He couldn't wait to pull off his blindfold and strode out of the elevator.

He was underground at the moment, but his vision was not dim. With the help of the lighting facilities inside the elevator and on the ground floor, he could see the scene clearly and his eyes jumped violently.

He saw a glass wall in front of him, and the whole room was divided into two areas by this glass. Furukaya Rei was standing behind the glass.

He had a large collar around his neck that looked like a neck brace. When he saw Jinpei Matsuda, he sat up in his chair, picked up the phone next to him, and pointed somewhere with his other hand.

Jinpei Matsuda turned around and saw a telephone. As soon as it rang, he walked over and answered it.

"What's going on?" he asked calmly, suppressing his anger.

Furiya Rei didn't say anything. At this time, another public security officer appeared from the darkness, walked straight to Matsuda Jinpei, and handed over a document and a pen.

"This is a public security mission," said Furuya Ling. "You have to sign a confidentiality agreement before I can reveal it to you... Sorry."

Jinpei Matsuda knew that this was a normal procedure and didn't pay much attention to it. He quickly glanced over the contents of the agreement and raised his hand to sign. The police officer nodded to him politely and left with the document.

Fūya Rei watched this scene quietly until Matsuda Jinpei turned his head and looked at him again. Then he spoke, but his first sentence still did not directly explain his situation.

He asked, "Matsuda, how much do you know about the new type of bomb that has appeared in Tokyo recently?"

Jinpei Matsuda was slightly stunned.

He subconsciously glanced at Fūya Rei's collar, and when he saw the glass tube and the liquid inside, he vaguely guessed why the other party called him over.

"know a little."

……

Tokyo has been as unstable as ever recently.

The police had finally suppressed the news of the hotel shooting, but new explosive news broke late Sunday night.

"An explosion occurred in an abandoned factory building on the outskirts of Ota Ward at around 11pm. A security guard from another nearby factory heard the noise while on patrol and called the fire department. The fire was quickly put out, but during the follow-up search, they found another bomb device in another nearby factory building, so they called in the explosive ordnance disposal team."

"It was just that the explosive ordnance disposal team arrived a little late, and the bomb exploded prematurely. Fortunately, the power was not strong, and there were no casualties in the two explosions. There were some remnants of the explosive device, which were sent to the Metropolitan Police Department for research. I heard about this that morning, and went to take a look out of curiosity."

He paused for a moment and continued, "Unfortunately, there weren't many remnants left, and the inspectors didn't find many useful parts. We could only determine from the firefighters who first discovered the bomb and the eyewitness testimony after the explosion that it was a mixed liquid bomb that would produce purple flames and smoke after the explosion. There has never been a similar case in Japan before, so we concluded that it was some new type of bomb."

Fūya Rei nodded, motioning for him to continue.

"The next thing happened on Thursday afternoon. The police received a call from a hotel in Setagaya Ward saying that a naked gangster had broken into the hotel. The gangster was injured and had large tattoos on his upper body. He was most likely a gangster. The police from the nearby police station rushed to the scene immediately, but they were still a step too late. Before the police arrived, he exploded."

"The first floor of the hotel was evacuated in time, and there were no witnesses at the scene. Later, the police checked the surveillance and found that the deceased was wearing a strange collar around his neck, and purple flames also ignited at the scene after the explosion."

"Since the deceased appeared, the Investigation Division 1 began to investigate. Later, they found out that the deceased was affiliated with a certain gang, so the case was transferred to the Organized Crime Countermeasures Department. The collar was not completely blown up, so it was handed over to the Science Department for investigation. The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team made a similar model based on the photo..."

The Organized Crime Countermeasures Department was established not long ago. It was originally the Fourth Investigation Section, but due to the events three years ago, it was officially split off and became an independent department.

When Matsuda Jinpei said this, his eyes were fixed on the collar around Fūya Rei's neck.

"…So you called me over here so that I can help you dismantle this thing?"

Fūya Rei shook his head and said, "Not for now. You are only trying to dismantle a model. Mine is the real thing with a bomb inside. We need to make a neutralizer first before we can start."

The corner of Matsuda Jinpei's eye twitched again, and he thought to himself, are you too confident in my chemistry level or too confident in those good-for-nothings in the Scientific Research Institute? However, he looked at his friend and didn't say what he was complaining about.

"Then tell me what happened first. You called me here specially, you can't just not tell me the whole story."

Although Matsuda Jinpei spoke calmly, Furuya Rei could still hear his displeasure and smiled lightly, "Okay."

The smile was fleeting, and soon Furiya Rei became serious and began to recount his own experiences.

"I have been leading people to investigate something in the Shibuya area these days. This morning, the management officer called me and told me that there was a group of suspicious foreigners wandering around the Shibuya area and asked me to go over to investigate."

"Wait, why are we looking for you?" Matsuda Jinpei was puzzled. "You have other work to do, why don't you ask other free public security officers to come over?"

“Because I’ve been around those people.”

When mentioning this, Fūya Rei sighed softly.

"Matsuda, you should still remember the bombing incident at Minato Middle School three years ago, right?"

"I saw you at that time." Matsuda Jinpei nodded, and then realized something: "Could it be..."

Furuya Rei sorted out his thoughts and decided to start from the beginning: "This is not a new type of bomb. It is the masterpiece of a killer named Pramya who has been active in Europe and the United States for many years. Those suspicious foreigners are the victims and their families. Since the foreign police have not caught the person, they formed a revenge team themselves."

"Three years ago, Pramiya committed a serious crime in the United States and temporarily fled to Japan. They followed closely. Since there was a child in the team, they allowed the girl to temporarily attend the Minato Middle School with an international class."

"I didn't know about this at the time. I went there just to investigate Aoyagi Akimitsu, who was hiding his FBI identity and working as a teacher. I discovered from his daily actions and the people he came into contact with that he was there to track down Pramya, and then I found out about the existence of that group."

Having said that, Fūya Rei couldn't help but sigh in his heart again.

When he learned of their existence, he was horrified. An FBI agent who came with an investigation mission would at most be annoying but not harmful. Those who harbored blood feuds were the real dangerous elements.

——Their family members were killed and they were blinded by hatred; they were surrounded by people of the same kind and were more likely to fall into extremes; this was not their hometown and they could act without scruples, all just to achieve revenge.

However, he was still an undercover agent at the time and needed to act with caution. In addition, he had a lot of work to do, so he only informed the police of their existence and did not investigate it personally.

...Then when he finished his undercover work and dealt with those sudden cases, he remembered these people and asked Feng Jian about them. He found out that those people also chased to Moscow at that time, and the police saw that they left on their own initiative and did not care anymore.

Matsuda Jinpei didn't know these details. After listening to Furuya Rei's narration, he got to the point: "So they showed up this time because they saw the purple flame and thought that Pramia had committed a crime again, so they came to Japan again?"

This time, Rei Furuya did not answer immediately.

He fell silent, and the scene in the apartment just now appeared in his mind...

……

Half an hour ago.

In the abandoned apartment, Furuya Ling held his subordinate's foot tightly with one hand, looking at the person who appeared in front of him in astonishment. Because of his excessive surprise, his pupils suddenly contracted.

The man was looking up, revealing a female face under the hood.

"Pramya?!"

Furukaya Rei recognized the other person and subconsciously tried to use the hand that was used to steady his body to pull out the gun, but the blonde woman in front of him was faster. She took a step forward, raised her hand and grabbed his wrist, and the gun was knocked away in an instant.

"Hello, Bourbon... This is your code name in the organization, right?" Pramia said faintly, "I'm so happy to see that you are still alive." Fūya Rei's heart skipped a beat.

Three years ago, he was able to leave the organization safely because he faked his death in the explosion caused by Pramiya. He didn't know what happened to Pramiya afterwards.

It now seems that the other party has not only been captured by Curacao, but has even joined the organization.

Pramiya looked at him with a smile on her face, but her eyes seemed to be burning with endless anger, and her originally beautiful facial features became hideous like a devil.

This look made Fūya Rei feel familiar.

"Click."

Before he could remember where he had seen such a look, there was a slight sound on his neck - Pramiya buckled the open collar in her hand around his neck.

After putting on the collar, Pramiya took a few steps back and was about to say something when her face suddenly changed.

"……what?"

Only then did Furiya Ling realize that she was wearing a pair of headphones between her golden hair and she was talking to someone.

"Why now... Can't you stop me?... I understand."

The other party seemed to be someone that Pramiya trusted more. After a few brief exchanges, she cut off the communication and glared at Furuya Rei fiercely again.

She looked at the collar fastened tightly around his neck and sneered, "Just enjoy it. This is my first gift to you."

After saying that, she ran to the other side, and when she reached the window, she flipped over and jumped down. Her movements were so smooth that there was not a trace of hesitation.

Furukaya Rei watched her back disappear, took a deep breath, and used both hands to finally pull up Kazami Yuya, who had been hanging upside down in the air for a long time.

He asked him to sit down against the wall and briefly checked his wounds. After confirming that the unfortunate subordinate was not seriously injured and had just fainted, Fūya Rei breathed a sigh of relief, then slowly slid down the wall and sat down.

At this moment, Fūya Rei's phone vibrated.

He took out his phone, which contained no message from the men who were traveling with him this time, but from other colleagues in the police department:
[Fōgiya, according to the news from the inside, that organization is planning to attack you in the near future. The mission is temporarily suspended, return immediately.]

"..."

Fūya Rei looked at the black words above and pressed his forehead weakly.

"It's too late..."

He grumbled softly, but he didn't complain too much in his heart.

He knew that this was from one of the two new undercover agents. As someone who had been an undercover agent before, he knew very well how difficult it was for an undercover agent to secretly pass on information. So instead of complaining about the late arrival of the message, he was actually a little worried about the other party.

I hope that the other party's reminder will not arouse the suspicion of the organization...

……

After temporarily ending his memories, Furuya Rei looked at Matsuda Jinpei again and answered his previous question.

"Yes, and I saw her just now, but the situation was urgent and I couldn't arrest her."

"She?" Matsuda Jinpei noticed the pronoun, "Is this killer a woman?"

Furuya Rei nodded again: "This is all the information I can give you at the moment. You don't need to worry about the Revenge Squad and Pramya. The public security has already found their equipment in this building. It's only a matter of time before they track us down."

"So the bomb in your neck is what I have to deal with?"

"Yes."

Jinpei Matsuda digested all the information silently. He was very proactive and would often take the initiative to get involved when he encountered something that interested him. However, the situation was urgent and he had to prioritize speed and safety and give up his personal preferences.

He thought about it and made a suggestion: "Since he is a killer with a criminal record in Europe and the United States, does the police there have any information on bombs?"

After thinking for a moment, Furuya Rei said, "There should be, but she has never committed a crime in Japan before, and the public security has never negotiated with them or contacted Interpol to ask for information."

This is the normal process of transnational crime. Once a criminal leaves the country or a foreign criminal comes in, the local police have to contact the relevant foreign agencies. Sometimes the negotiation time is longer than the arrest time.

"What about the FBI?"

Matsuda Jinpei looked straight at him and spoke again, "You said he came to Japan three years ago to track down Pramya. If that's the case, he must know the relevant information, right? And he is in Tokyo now."

Fūya Rei's eyes turned subtle, and he gently reminded her, "He is a diplomat with a special status. He is also connected to the US troops stationed there. Don't involve him unless necessary."

Matsuda Jinpei naturally knew what happened last Saturday night: "I know your concerns. But this killer has been committing crimes recently and has already killed people. For public safety reasons, the Japanese side has every reason to apply."

Furuya Rei quickly thought of the "first gift" that Pramiya mentioned before she left: "...I'll ask the administrator to help make the contact. Don't take the initiative to go there yourself."

"Row."

Thinking about the scene he saw a few days ago, Jinpei Matsuda naturally agreed: "Then I'll go back first."

……

After Jinpei Matsuda put on his blindfold again and left.

Fūya Rei put down the phone, looked at the empty room, and slowly leaned back in his chair. His back was as tense as a piece of iron, without any relaxation at all.

It is now nine forty in the morning.

He reviewed in his mind the series of events that had taken place in the morning and the subsequent responses, but perhaps because there were too many things to do, he was distracted for a rare moment.

He thought of Jinpei Matsuda who had just left, and also of Morobushi Kagemitsu.

The organization found out he was still alive and sent members to deal with him. I don't know how Hiro is doing. He hasn't told the other party that he was wearing a bomb. After all, Hiro also has an important mission today.

Hope he is doing well...

As soon as this thought flashed through his mind, Fūya Rei suddenly noticed that Yuya Kazami outside took out his mobile phone and seemed to have received a call.

The glass wall not only blocked the signal to prevent the prisoner from remotely controlling the bomb on his neck to explode, but the strong material also perfectly blocked all sounds, so Fūya Rei couldn't hear what Kazami Yu was saying.

However, he clearly saw that the expression of his subordinate became even more panicked than when he woke up and found that he was wearing a bomb.

Fūya Rei suddenly sat up straight in his chair, and suddenly had a worse premonition in his heart.

As soon as Yuya Kazami finished his call outside, Rei Furuya picked up the receiver and dialed out. Yuya Kazami was stunned for a moment, looked back at him, and answered the phone hesitantly.

"What happened?" asked Furuya Rei directly.

"Mr. Fūya." Yuya Kazami looked at him from a distance, his expression horrifying. "The Cyber ​​Crime Countermeasures Division has received news that a live broadcast was launched on a video website 20 minutes ago."

"A live broadcast of the killing of a public security police officer." (End of this chapter)