Conan: Rice Flower Spring

Chapter 26 24. Empty Box in the Utility Room

Ah, Shirley’s words left Lin Longma speechless for a moment.

Girl, your misunderstandings about the organization, about me, and about Gin are extremely huge, right?

"What? Was I wrong?" The sensitive Shirley noticed Lin Longma's silence and became curious for a moment.

She was really curious about what the organization looked like in Lin Longma's eyes, what Gin looked like, and...
"I'll tell you one thing at a time." Lin Longma walked to the bedroom door, pressed the doorknob and pushed the door open.

He didn't rush in, but stood at the door for a while. After the dust in the room had settled, he and Shirley walked in one after the other and started to look around and pick up things.

"You've been in the organization longer than I have. You should know that although there's nothing good here and everything it does is pretty shitty, it also has its own operating rules.

So far, what the organization needs is to keep a low profile, to hide, and to make a fortune quietly. So high-profile behavior is not allowed. "

"And what about Gin? He may be a psychopath or a psychopath in your eyes, but he is indeed the boss's loyal dog and the golden killer in the organization.

This means that Gin will not do anything that is detrimental to the organization. In other words, what you just said about killing the bandits and the children together will not work for Gin.

Because if a child died in a department store it would definitely trigger public opinion, and the police would also try their best to investigate the case.

Gin will not do anything that would increase the likelihood of the organization being exposed."

From the incident at the amusement park, we can see that Gin did not use a gun to kill people because he was afraid of attracting the attention of the patrol police, but chose the new drug developed by Shirley.

It can be seen that Gin's first priority during this period was to hide his organization.

"What would Gin do if faced with that situation?" Shirley asked instead of expressing her opinion.

"If it's Gin, he can arrange snipers along the way, or around the area. When the bandits show up, kill them all.

If several robbers were killed together, the police would only think that they had accomplices who were trying to kill them, and would not associate it with the organization. "

Killing people, especially in Beika Town, is a simple matter. There is no need to go as complicated as what Hayashi Ryoma did, and even have to enter the department store.

If it wasn't for the need to save the lives of the children in the department store, they would have just watched the excitement outside and waited for the police to catch the thief.

Shirley nodded thoughtfully: "What about you? What's the difference between you and Gin?"

"Of course it's different. I was tricked into coming here by the organization. Including Jintian downstairs and Bai Shi outside the door, they were all tricked into coming here by the organization." Lin Longma said as a matter of course:
"Do you think I would be willing to join the organization if there is a choice?"

“???” Shirley’s big eyes were full of confusion. She even wondered if Lin Longma was fooling her.

In essence, she and Lin Longma had just met for the first time, and Shirley felt that it was not Lin Longma's character to be so intimate with him.

"You don't understand why I said that, right?" Lin Longma knew what Shirley was thinking as soon as he saw her slightly defensive expression.

"This is no secret in the organization, otherwise why do you think I don't even have a code name until now?

Otherwise, why do you think Rum is so wary of me? Otherwise, why do you think so many people want to hang out with me? "

"It's just that no one has a choice, but we also want to find a way to survive in the organization. Sticking together is our way to survive.

Each of us will be defeated one by one, either killed by the organization's gun, caught by the police, or killed in a mission. Only by sticking together can we say "no" to unreasonable tasks, and only in this way can we have the right to treat the organization as a part-time job."

"This organization is not just full of psychopaths like Gin who are determined to go down this path. There are many ordinary people like us who are helpless."

Lin Longma was full of emotion. He never minded being known for his true thoughts. After all, if he didn't speak out and do what he thought, how would the like-minded and sympathetic members of the organization know that there was such a person as him?

Rum and Gin knew about this, which means the boss of the organization also knew about it.

The fact that Lin Longma has now become a middle-level manager and is in charge of a large base means that he has the tacit approval of the organization's boss.

After all, if you want to observe a person, you can't just listen to what he says, but you have to watch what he does.

Lin Longma has not done anything to harm the interests of the organization. Secondly, with him in the intelligence support department, the efficiency of the executive department has been much higher.

Is it necessary to make everyone in the organization feel insecure because of some unfounded things?

Even Rum himself knew that the people below were definitely not of the same mind as them, the top brass. But as long as they could complete the tasks assigned by the organization and not betray their own people, they were not willing to care what the people below were thinking.

To be honest, the way an organization operates is the most serious wolf culture - if you want your subordinates to become a wolves, you have to at least give them meat to eat.

The more Shirley listened, the more her worldview was changed. To be honest, in her original impression, there was no normal person or good person in the organization.

But after Shirley's three views were refreshed, she suddenly discovered one thing. That is, this small group gathered by Lin Longma seemed to be very suitable for her!

Although she was very tempted, Shirley still did not make any move. In addition to biochemical knowledge, she had learned one more thing in the organization over the years.

That is caution.

Shirley has actually felt the consequences of her carelessness, just like now. It's not difficult to say that she is living a very uncomfortable life, at least. This is all because her sister was fooled by an FBI agent.

If it weren't for Shuichi Akai, the Miyano sisters wouldn't have fallen to this point.

Shirley decided to observe a little longer.

The bedroom on the second floor was checked quickly and found to be basically unchanged from the last time Shirley was here.

There is only one utility room on the entire second floor that has not been inspected.

It was Lin Longma who opened the door again, and Shirley followed him. The utility room of the Kudo family was quite large, and there were quite a lot of sundries piled up inside.

Such as old clothes that have not been disposed of in time, small appliances that have not been used for a long time, and some things that are of no use but you want to keep as souvenirs.

For example, the clothes that Kudo Shinichi has worn since he was a child.

"Huh?" Lin Longma made a surprised sound after opening the box in front of him with the words "Shinichi's Hours" written on it.

Shirley saw this and walked towards Lin Longma: "What's wrong?"

Lin Longma pointed to the empty box in front of him and said, "When you came to check last time, was this box also empty?"

(End of this chapter)