Daily Spy Life in the Detective Conan World

Chapter 452 The First Candidate for Promotion and the Essence of the Dugong
Bailey sighed with a wry smile. Being caught between two leaders, she was in a difficult position.
However, she was still somewhat shaken. She hadn't expected Joel to be so strong, managing to escape from Gin's clutches!

Although she and Joel were fairly familiar with each other, she wouldn't hesitate to make him her mission target. The reason she felt relieved was mainly because she was worried that Joel's problem would affect Xia Chuan.

The fact that she doesn't need to do this now is a relief for her.

While following in Vermouth's footsteps, she was already considering whether or not to find a way to tell Xia Chuan about it.

I'm a little conflicted.

If you tell Xia Chuan, Joel might be alright; if you don't tell Xia Chuan, Joel might die and she might have a chance to become Anya's stepmother.

Given Xia Chuan's looks and demeanor, he could never repay the life-saving grace, so he could only offer himself in gratitude.

Joel is indeed the biggest stumbling block!
This matter requires careful consideration.
When leaving the base, Amuro Tooru seemed somewhat detached.

Because of Gin, he didn't have time to refute Tequila, so does that count as him agreeing? No, it doesn't.

As for the promotion tasks for peripheral members, Gin did not mention them in front of everyone.

Not only were Kiel and Amuro forbidden from listening, but Cohen was also driven away.

Seeing the codenamed members leave one by one, Gin felt the pain of being short-handed again.

Vermouth had a family to support, and Calvados and Baileys actually listened to him.

Using Bourbon required coordinating time, and Gil's abilities were mediocre; at the time, becoming a codename member was already a difficult feat, and Gin dared not entrust him with many important missions.

They were essentially receiving the salary of codename members while doing the work of peripheral members.

Although the organization basically didn't pay salaries, especially since Gil also had a job as a TV host, Gin used this as an excuse not to pay Gil a single penny.

Oh, and Ireland too.

However, because he was shot by him last time, he is still in Europe. I heard that after learning that Pisco was killed by him, he even threatened to kill him.

Because of that sentence, I still don't dare to come back.

Therefore, all things considered, there are really not many usable soldiers.

Gin gave Vodka a wink, and Vodka, understanding, pulled a piece of paper from his pocket.

Xia Chuan took the paper and examined it.

The first person to be promoted was named Homoto Ichiki; I'd never heard of him.

"Only one person?"

Xia Chuan flipped the paper back and forth; it was about half the size of an A4 sheet, and there was only one person's name written on it.

Vodka gave Xia Chuan a disdainful look: "Do you think screening someone is easy?"

"Isn't it?"

"Please, the organization has thousands of officially registered peripheral members across the country. It's really difficult to transfer a few suitable ones from among them, okay?"

Vodka had a bitter pill to swallow. According to the original process, at least two or even three people would have been selected by now.

Unfortunately, Hara Yoshiaki was the first one chosen.

Although Hara Yoshiaki is not a traditional assassin but a technical talent, Gin just happens to want to train a codename member on the software technology side.

With the development and progress of science and technology, information software technology is becoming more and more advanced, and more and more things can be done through communication and network interaction. Therefore, it is necessary and of paramount importance to train a hacker who can go out on field missions.

Hara Yoshiaki was one of Gin's preferred candidates; he was young and had great potential. However, halfway through gathering information, they were informed about the use of a stepping stone by an internal network engineer.

And that was it; Vodka had to start all over again.

Yasumoto Ichiki was the second choice after Hara Yoshiaki; he was a professional assassin and intelligence gatherer.

He travels frequently within Japan, and when APTX4869 was still being researched, he was even responsible for collecting some of the special materials.

"What are the characteristics of this 'break-even' stock that makes it the top priority and the primary performance indicator?"

Xia Chuan was quite curious. He had never heard of Homoto Ichiki before, and even the one-inch photo on the A4 paper was a face he had never seen before.

To be honest, if they were outstanding peripheral members, they should have appeared in the storyline, so he wouldn't be unaware of their names.

For example, Masaaki Okakura appears in The Darkest Nightmare, Rikumichi Kusuda appears in The Battle of Red and Black, and Kiichiro Numabuchi appears in the TV version.

However, at this time, Numabuchi Kiichiro had become a fugitive murderer.

According to Big Mouth's explanation, Gin disliked Numabuchi Kiichiro because of his repeated mission failures. In addition, Gin believed that Numabuchi Kiichiro's appearance was exposed when he failed, so he arranged for him to become Sherry's guinea pig in her drug experiments.

Unfortunately, Numabuchi Kiichiro was incompetent at carrying out missions but a master at escaping, killing several peripheral members and making a quick getaway.

Vodka pursued the man multiple times afterward, but failed because the man was skilled at escaping. To this day, the man remains on the police's wanted list.

I heard that he committed a robbery and murder case not long ago.

Considering that the other party seemed to be somewhat delirious and the organization did not have time at the moment, they left him outside and no one paid attention to him.

Getting back to the point, since Gin values ​​this Ichiki Tomoto, he must be quite something.

"Ichiki Homoto is mostly not in Tokyo. His main responsibility is to deal with any potential problems left by the organization. He also occasionally collects criminal information on local politicians and businessmen for extortion purposes."

"Oh right, Shirley's still here."

Realizing he had mentioned Sherry, Vodka immediately glanced in Gin's direction and, seeing his older brother looking at him, quickly skipped over the name "Sherry" and continued, "When the development of APTX4869 was still underway, he was the one who collected some of the important raw materials."

"The raw materials for APTX4869?"

This piqued Xia Chuan's interest, and he asked curiously, "What is it?"

Since the Japanese branch had stopped conducting drug research, and since Agave was his third brother, Vodka didn't hide anything: "I think that stuff is called Dugong Marrow, right?"

"The marrow of the dugong?"

Dugongs are among the few marine mammals with a relatively complete skeletal system. Bone marrow, located inside the bones, is an important hematopoietic tissue and immune organ.

In southern Japan, there are indeed legends about dugongs possessing the ability to live forever.

This rumor is particularly prevalent on American Island, where businessmen and politicians frequently travel to the island in search of local shrines because of this legend.

Therefore, it is perfectly reasonable for drug research to primarily use this material.

The island of America is not well-known by name, but it has a nickname—Mermaid Island.

Dugongs were also known as mermaids in ancient Japan. In the Mermaid Island incident, the festival was related to the legend of mermaids, and the "mermaids" mentioned by the island's inhabitants may have been an imagination and association with some unknown or mysterious thing.

Xia Chuan had always thought this thing was just a legend with no real basis, but he never expected it to actually work, which was quite surprising.

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(End of this chapter)