The establishment of the Time Travelers Alliance began in the first year of Conan

Chapter 80 It turns out that detectives in the detective world are really useful (please vote for more, two chapters in one)

"Damn it! Does that mean they're just ordinary bandits?!"

"We've all been fooled!"

This was General German's first reaction after receiving the interrogation report.

……

"We are really just ordinary bandits! Please spare us! We really don't know anything!"

In the nearest interrogation room in the military base, Kawana's voice was no longer as arrogant as it was before.

He was dying, almost curled up in the corner of the interrogation room and trembling. Every wailing and crying coming from next door made his body tremble.

Now it is Dino Cabane, the former leader of the Italian bandit group, who is being "questioned".

This group of robbers was originally supposed to be taken over by the Tokyo police.

But for the [Red Team], who had found the clue of the World Jewelry Exhibition under the guidance of the [Gray Team], even a so-called "external support room" had much greater authority than the so-called police.

The main reason is that in many things, they don’t have to go through the procedures because of their military status.

"Transfer them to a safer location for interrogation immediately!"

For General German and everyone in the external support room, the first priority is to protect the "clues" in their hands.

The second priority is to get specific information about the Gray Party from these four people as quickly as possible.

Any news will do.

As long as it is true, they can immediately gain the trust of the higher authorities through this information, and may even become a new investigation department.

Germann even considered the composition of the personnel in his external support room.

When the trusted soldier he had sent in ran in to report to everyone that they had captured the four important figures, Hermann gave the soldier a look.

His tone was a little subtle.

"We don't have that much time to mess around, understand? To avoid alerting the enemy, we have to be quick! I just want results!"

Hattori Heiji obviously didn't understand the twists and turns in the command.

As for the other experts, some of their expressions changed slightly, but in the end no one stood up to say anything.

……

"When I hid those 15,000 maple leaf gold coins on top of the Tokyo Tower..."

In the interrogation room, Dino was no longer conscious. No matter how the interrogation experts tried to induce him or ask him questions, the conclusion they came to was very simple -

This is just an ordinary and somewhat stupid gang of robbers.

They had completely messed up.

The final conclusion made the atmosphere in the external support room a little heavy, especially for Hermann.

His face looked very ugly.

This action was a gamble for their external support department, and even more so for himself.

And it is true that all of them do have certain privileges in this operation against the [Gray Party].

But this is based on the result that there will be an answer in the end.

If...if I fail to achieve results...

Then the risky action will be recorded in the file as reckless! This means that you will give others a handle to attack you!
After smoking three cigarettes in silence, Hermann forced himself to calm down and immediately called his intelligence officer.

He can't bear this blame alone.

"The three teams I sent out, and the plainclothes team provided by the police... almost a whole company of people! Aside from those four guys, we didn't encounter anything unusual!"

He almost squeezed these words out from between his teeth.

"Are you sure the clue you got about the Gray Square is the Central Park in front of the treasure exhibition?!"

"Yes, sir!"

The intelligence officer immediately saluted him.

"The source of the intelligence is very clear. It's information leaked from Group A's investigative department. They are absolutely certain that the Gray Party's funding has been linked to the World Treasures Exhibition!"

"And we intercepted a very clear instruction! The content is 'Valentine's Day'!"

The intelligence officer was certain that the information passed on to each department by his superiors was absolutely accurate:
"General, no one dares to tamper with this operation! I can guarantee the accuracy of the intelligence source!"

"Is it possible that this is a cover-up?" Hermann was interrupted by Hattori Heiji as soon as he asked.

"General, I have an idea."

Logically speaking, asking questions without reporting is undoubtedly an act of exceeding one's authority.

But not only was Heiji not reprimanded for his words, on the contrary, everyone in the support room focused their eyes on the young detective.

A smile immediately appeared on Hermann's face. He felt that he had not made a mistake in choosing the right person.

"Brother Heiji! I knew that the person who could enter our place was not an ordinary person. Tell me what you think."

For Hattori Heiji, he was very keenly aware that something was wrong with this reconnaissance operation.

"I think this operation should be true, and what we have caught is the most crucial clue."

Hattori Heiji walked to the map table in the center of the support room and pointed to three other areas in the direction of the entire park.

Then he looked up at the intelligence officer.

"As this operation shows, not only us, but four other investigation teams also participated in this operation. Unlike us, they didn't make any additional discoveries, right?"

"Yes!"

The intelligence officer saluted nervously, then glanced at his superior. General German gave no other instructions, so he continued speaking.

"I haven't reported the results of our operation yet! The other teams currently believe this robbery is just an isolated incident!"

"That's the problem!" Hattori Heiji slammed the table. "Doesn't anyone find this suspicious?"

"Why would a borderless scientific research organization, an organization dedicated to theoretical physics research, focus on a pavilion or an exhibition?"

"The information we have received so far is that the exhibition has been deliberately postponed until the day before Valentine's Day."

"Why? If postponing the exhibition is so important to them, then their purpose is..."

Hattori Heiji's expression became more and more solemn, and no one dared to even breathe. Their thoughts were guided by this high school detective, guided in the direction of his reasoning.

No one thought what he said was wrong.

"correct!"

Hattori Heiji hit his palm with his fist, and his detective intuition told him the answer.

"This means that the case they need us to investigate happened the day before Valentine's Day! And it happened right outside the exhibition hall!"

"But is there any connection?"

Germann didn't think this inference was logical at all, and he couldn't understand the purpose of the Gray Party doing this.

"Why would they do this? Just to give us those ten thousand gold coins?"

"No, there's more important places than just this one point," Hattori Heiji thought more and more and felt like he had walked into a gloomy maze. He stood up suddenly and almost rushed to the intelligence officer.

"Are you sure that only our group has made this progress? Are all other departments not making this progress?"

"Yes, sir!"

For an intelligence officer, any mistake means demotion or downgrade. The intelligence officer immediately refuted Hattori Heiji's suspicion.

"I'm sure of that," Hermann said, defending his lieutenant. "That's why I was able to obtain ownership of that gang of robbers from the police, because the other teams didn't think it was important." He looked at Hattori Heiji, his tone tinged with malice. "Go on, Heiji."

"I don't think this is a cover-up, but rather something the Gray Party wants to accomplish at that location, right before Valentine's Day!"

"Think about it, it's all crystal clear. The only thing that's out of the ordinary is the appearance of that bandit gang. This shows they're using them to accomplish some purpose."

Then Heiji's clues of reasoning stopped here.

The subsequent inference in my mind didn't make sense.

"But this case happened more than a year ago—"

The person who said this was undoubtedly a smart person. He was very keenly aware of the inconsistency in what Heiji said about "the guidance of the Gray Side".

"If the interrogation results are correct, these four individuals have not had any contact with any organization since the incident over a year ago. We have also verified all other intelligence activities through other channels."

This is where Hattori Heiji hesitates.

According to the information he had obtained, the Gray Party appeared and was established this year, or even a few months ago.

This case occurred a year ago. If the Gray Party had provided guidance to this group of Italian robbers, it means that this organization must have had intelligence activities a year ago.

But this is obviously impossible.

Beads of sweat began to appear on Hattori Heiji's forehead. He was wandering in the huge maze in his mind, as if he had already seen the exit of the maze, but when he ran over, a river suddenly appeared and blocked his way.

The timing doesn't make any sense at all, which makes his entire logical reasoning become an unconvincing guess.

This is also one of the biggest difficulties encountered by the entire [Red Team] in the operation.

With the support of the alliance, the [Gray Side] does not have to follow the normal planned order in the [Cycle]. In extreme cases, they can even guide the result of something to happen first, and then fill in the cause before the end of the [Cycle].

Just like Hattori Heiji, even though he had keenly realized that the Maple Leaf Gold Coin Case was indeed an important point——

Unless he can directly conclude that the organization behind this is an organization that spans the "timeline", his conclusion will reach a dead end at the very beginning of the argumentation stage.

"But it doesn't look like they need the money at the moment, do they?"

Hattori Heiji tried to persuade General Gorman to support him indirectly.

"And if they knew the entire gang's whereabouts, why didn't they just go and get the 15,000 maple leaf gold coins hanging on the Tokyo Tower?"

"This shows that their goal is to have that gang of robbers arrive at that location on that day!"

The feeling of being a detective in his mind made Hattori Heiji finally decide to stick to his own opinion -

Even he himself found it a little unbelievable.

After all, this reason is really far-fetched.

Who would believe that the only clue revealed by an organization that can steal nuclear bombs from secret bases in various countries is that it suspiciously guides the whereabouts of a group of robbers?

And judging from the fact that they stole the nuclear bomb and killed those experts, they were able to cover up their tracks very well.

Another expert was even a little bit unconvinced about his own conclusion.

"It's as if they are deliberately guiding us..."

"report!"

Another soldier pushed open the door and ran in, shaking his head at Hermann. "General! The location of the Maple Leaf coins has been confirmed! Team A intercepted our results and they believe there might be some kind of hint or secret code on those coins!"

"Those sons of bitches!"

Seeing that the intelligence and clues he had obtained were intercepted, this veteran who had actually been on the battlefield immediately reached for his gun.

"I'm going to kill those bastards! I'm the one who has to take the blame for all the bad things. Why should they take all the credit and clues—"

"General, General Hermann?" The messenger seemed a little embarrassed. He coughed twice, interrupting Hermann's roar.

"Strategic Command has preliminarily agreed to the Intelligence Sharing Agreement you proposed. The intelligence regarding the 'Scientific Frontier' held by other investigation teams will be delivered to us in approximately two days."

"They should take the clues I found!"

General German didn't care what others thought. He just felt that it was worth it to exchange a clue that was no longer useful for intelligence sharing among various departments!

"However, this intelligence sharing agreement will only take effect within the GSSRA's Intelligence Analysis Center."

For the major powers that were anxious about the theft of nuclear bombs and the disappearance of scholars, their will on this matter was remarkably consistent.

In fact, after the decision-making departments of major countries had a phone call with each other, the establishment of GSSRA (Global Strategic Security Response Alliance), also known as the Global Strategic Security Response Alliance, was immediately put on the charter.

"Considering the contribution of your External Support Office to this operation, you should be approved to join the Intelligence Analysis Department."

Obviously, as a messenger, he couldn't completely ignore the general's words. "If you think that joining might cause conflicts with investigators from other groups..."

"Absolutely not! Absolutely not! All of us in the External Support Room are more than happy to join us!"

……

After seeing off the great god, Hermann took off his hat and threw it aside in a very ungraceful manner. Hattori Heiji could see that the entire brim of his hat was soaked with sweat.

"Then our next move—"

"There's no further action to take," Hermann concluded. "Since the order has come from above, we'll just have to wait for further notification in two days."

"All we have to do is obey orders and not create unnecessary complications at this critical moment. Do you understand?"

The veteran came over and patted Heiji's shoulder. "You need more practice, kid, haha!"

"But--"

"Nothing but!"

Hermann walked up to Heiji and met his unyielding expression. "All we have to do is find the location of those nuclear weapons! Didn't you realize that my unannounced private interrogation was an overstep of my authority?"

"If you continue to mobilize those resources without consequence, do you know the magnitude of the impact? If this results in us being unable to gain access to that GSSRA intelligence department, can you bear the responsibility?"

Unable to come up with a complete conclusion of reasoning, Heiji ultimately failed to successfully convince the general to support his ideas.

It was impossible for Hermann to continue "overstepping his authority" and conducting an investigation just because of a guess made by a high school detective.

He was very clear about the underlying meaning of what the herald had just said—

Give other departments the opportunity to perform.

An "external support room" and a ragtag army achieved results that several regular armies could not achieve.

Even if it was just luck, what would the higher authorities think when they found out?
The herald's hint just now couldn't be more obvious—

"If you feel that joining might cause conflicts with investigators from other groups..."

If they don’t want to have conflicts with their colleagues in the future department, it’s better for their department to be quiet before the results come out in two days.

Regarding the fact that the detective failed to convince others, the [story timeline] did not argue much with the [real timeline] on this point.

After all, as a detective, Hattori Heiji was unable to provide conclusive evidence this time.

Unless the [story timeline] directly makes him realize that "there is something wrong with the timeline".

Before Dr. Agasa's recent threat, the [story timeline] might have been inclined towards this approach that could cause trouble for the CYZ Alliance.

But now it won't do that.

Besides, Conan is the most important. The [story timeline] must ensure that the real deceased must appear in the second case after Conan becomes smaller.

This is of great help and more important to its integrity and further encroachment on the proportion of "reality".

But like every detective in this world—

Hattori Heiji has decided to conduct a secret investigation after returning.

(End of this chapter)