Conan: Rice Flower Spring

Chapter 137 131. Why is this broken organization like a sieve?
"Wait, I didn't hear you clearly just now. What did you say the organization lost?" In the president's office, Lin Longma stared at Bourbon in front of him with wide eyes, his eyes full of shock.

"The Dark Night Baron." Bourbon repeated to Lin Longma word by word, fearing that Lin Longma might not hear clearly again.

"The Dark Night Baron. Is that the Dark Night Baron I know? Isn't it true that the organization can even throw away this thing now?"

Lin Longma only felt a buzzing pain in his head. He was originally a little curious about Bourbon's purpose.

However, he did not expect that after just a few words with Bourbon, he would tell him this "earth-shattering" news.

What is the "Night Baron"?

The Dark Night Baron was originally a villain created by the world-class mystery novelist Yusaku Kudo.

This character is sometimes a chivalrous thief active at night, and sometimes a cold-blooded murderer. Almost all mystery enthusiasts know him.

But within the organization, Dark Night Baron has its own reference - a virus developed by the organization's scientific research department, specifically used to keep the organization's internal information confidential.

For example, if someone copies a document from within an organization and fails to enter the correct password when opening the document, the Dark Night Baron virus will immediately and completely delete the file.

Then, the location of the data anomaly will be reported to the organization as soon as possible. It can be said that the "Night Baron" virus is one of the important guarantees for the secrecy and mystery of the organization.

Now Bourbon actually told him that the "Dark Night Baron" virus was suspected to have been leaked?
What's wrong with the organization? Why is it leaking everywhere like a sieve?
Is this right?

Seeing that Lin Longma realized the importance of the matter, Bourbon slowly took out a newspaper and said, "In fact, the "Dark Night Baron" may not have been leaked.

Look at this. "

Lin Longma picked up the newspaper and looked at it doubtfully, and then soon found an advertisement in the newspaper.

The above briefly describes a themed suitcase called "Mysterious Journey to Izu".

The advertisement says that in this "mysterious journey", the first person who deduces the identity of the organizer "Dark Night Baron" can get the famous virus "Dark Night Baron".

"Do you still remember that when the Dark Night Baron virus was first developed, it was put on the market by the research department to test the virus's completeness and function?
We now suspect that the organization's Night Baron virus may have been obtained by someone outside."

The more Lin Longma listened, the more his brows furrowed.

"What's the point of just guessing about this? Didn't you go to the Research Department to investigate?
Even if you don't have the authority, you should have rum and gin."

Bourbon nodded: "Rum does have this authority, and so does gin. But it is because they both have this authority that it is so troublesome now.

A member of the research team that created the Dark Night Baron virus showed signs of rebellion and was taken away by Gin.

In the end, this member was executed by Gin, but Gin did not find any signs of leakage from the Dark Night Baron at that time. "

"It's just that now people have put the virus in the newspaper ad space with great fanfare, and it's really unsettling if I don't investigate it."

Lin Longma finally understood that it was because he had no way to check Bourbon that he had to use this stupid method.

There is no doubt that this evil task was assigned to Bourbon by Rum.

If you want to investigate this tour group, you have to go to Shizuoka Prefecture and Izu. But because Gin had investigated members who were suspected of defecting, the risk of the virus being leaked was low.

But because the person was already dead, there was no way to confirm it. So Bourbon could only be asked to carry out this mission that didn't have much "money".

If the Dark Night Baron virus reported by the organizer is fake, Bourbon's trip would be in vain.

As for the possibility that the virus is real, it is not impossible, but it is really unlikely. After realizing that the virus has not really been leaked, Lin Longma finally breathed a sigh of relief, threw down the newspaper in his hand and asked Bourbon:

"So? Are you coming to my place to borrow someone or for something else?"

As for Bourbon, he is a lone wolf working for Rum and is also a mystic like Vermouth.

He is the kind who doesn't talk well, is nowhere to be seen all day, and won't show up in front of you for a year or two unless you take the initiative to look for him.

If Bourbon came to him to borrow someone, Lin Longma thought it was reasonable.

After all, the mystics can't transfer people from the Intelligence Support Department. Doing so is not mysterious at all.

"No, to be precise, I'm here to invite you to go to Izu with me." Bourbon's words really surprised Lin Ryoma.

"Invite me to Izu?"

After becoming the company's chairman, Lin Longma is not as busy as before, but he still has some work to do.

To be honest, if I were to go to Izu just for vacation, Hayashi Ryoma wouldn't be very interested.

When Bourbon saw that Lin Longma looked uninterested, he understood what he was thinking, but he was not in a hurry.

Because he holds the trump card that is enough to convince Lin Longma.

"I was also surprised when Rum assigned me the task, and then I looked up the interrogation report of Gin on the research department staff at that time.

To be on the safe side, I went to investigate the member of the scientific research department from that time.

This time, I actually discovered something that Gin didn’t discover.”

"What do you mean?" Lin Longma was really aroused by Bourbon at this moment, and asked involuntarily.

"At that time, Gin thoroughly checked the member's home and various accounts, even his wife's account was checked by Gin.

At that time, there was no cash in his home, and no large amount of money was transferred in his account. Gin's judgment at that time ruled out the suspicion that this member was trading the Dark Night Baron virus. "

"But this time I did a wider investigation. I investigated not only the account of the member himself, but also the accounts of his relatives and friends, and his wife's relatives and friends.

I found that an account of that member's wife's mother, that is, his mother-in-law, which had not been used for a long time, suddenly had a large amount of deposits after that period of time.

The money is currently being transferred to the member's wife in installments of a certain amount each month.

This phenomenon means that

“It means that the member may have really sold the Dark Night Baron, but Gin didn’t find out.

But that doesn’t make sense.”

Lin Longma followed Bourbon's line of thought and reasoned, but he always felt that it was not quite reasonable.

If this Dark Night Baron virus is really sold, no matter who the buyer is, he will have to use it, right?

Would anyone spend a huge amount of money to buy such an awesome virus just for their own collection?
Collecting a string of code? This sounds even more unreasonable.
　Continue tomorrow

　　
　
(End of this chapter)