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"No, Hirota Masami was murdered. When I went there, someone happened to visit him. His body was about to be discovered. I didn't have time to look closely, so I took all the disks with me. As for this pile, it was taken by Hirota Masami's murderer after he killed him. I don't know why he was interested in this. I brought him back with me. He is just outside the door."
Gin nodded with satisfaction. Granburch always did things flawlessly and took every aspect into consideration.
"Glenburch—"
Chu Ming looked over and saw it was Rum. In the dark screen, his voice was erratic, "You promised to come back to Tokyo to see me, didn't you forget?"
"No, I've been busy lately. I just got some free time."
"Oh? Busy solving a counterfeit money case?" Rum looked through the recent deeds of his subordinate Chu Ming, "You have been in the spotlight in the newspapers recently--"
"I'm free right now! Which newcomer do you plan to meet, Uncle Rum?"
"Why don't you come to my intelligence team to discuss this in detail? Here——"
Gin coughed heavily and interrupted Rum: "Another interview for new people? The last time you recruited ten people, eight of them were undercover agents, two were from the police, one was from the FBI, one was from the CIA, and four were from gangs. Did you go to their bases to post the recruitment notice?"
"How can it be so easy to recruit new people? Think about the requirements you want in a member of the action team. They must be good at fighting and smart, and they must be available 24 hours a day. I see that the vodka you recruited doesn't meet all of these requirements."
Seeing Gin being criticized, Chu Ming belittled Vodka without thinking: "How is that the same? Vodka is a driver! As long as he can drive, it's fine."
Gin and Rum were choked at the same time. The boss, who was watching the two henchmen bickering with each other, spoke up at this time: "As for recruiting new people this time, Granburch, you go. Rum will give him the information later, and Gin, you tell him the requirements. Granburch, once you find the undercover--"
"Kill without mercy." Chu Ming narrowed his eyes with murderous intent. He knew what the boss wanted to hear.
"Our undercover agent in the Metropolitan Police Department has reported that Shigehiko Tsuchiguchi is suspected of taking bribes, and the police are now secretly investigating him. He cannot be caught. The organization has many secret lines that are laid through him. Once he is caught by the police, the organization's sphere of influence in Japan will shrink by 15%. In one month, the Haido Hotel will hold a memorial service for director Sakamaki, and we need to kill him there." Rum told Chu Ming, who had just come in, about what they had just discussed.
Neither the boss nor Gin expressed any objection, assuming that Chu Ming was qualified to listen to this.
Chu Ming's eyes flickered. "Why wait a month to assassinate him?" Then he thought again. "Do you suspect that there are still undercover agents in the organization?"
Gin leaned back a little on his chair. It was indeed more comfortable to talk to an intelligent person. He could tell someone's intention with just a slight mention.
"Yes, we will spread the news within the organization. Those rats want to use this to weaken the organization's strength, but they don't know that we are also trying to use this as bait to catch those hateful rats."
Chu Ming nodded: "I understand. I will pay attention to those who have made unusual moves in the organization recently."
But unfortunately, not only did he fail to catch the mouse, but Gin also smashed a bottle of old wine.
After discussing the details, the boss hung up the call. Rum said that he would send the details of the people he had his eyes on to Chu Ming later, and then he hung up as well.
Chu Ming lay on the table, listening to Gin talking about his little requests to the team members.
Help, brother, you are the type you are talking about, except for you and the previous undercover Akai Shuichi, there is no one else. After all, you are all the kings of staying up late.
"Buzz-"
Chu Ming took out his cell phone in surprise. Hiss, it was Conan calling. He wanted to tiptoe out to answer the call, but when he glanced at Vodka standing guard outside, and remembered Conan who had absolute pitch, Chu Ming chose to sit opposite Gin and answer the call directly. After all, the most dangerous place is the safest place, right?
"Brother Chu Ming, are you still in the company?"
Gin listened to the faint childish voice coming from the other end of the receiver, then looked at Chu Ming opening his mouth to lie to the child skillfully. He sneered silently, and no longer cared. He pushed the computer to Chu Ming and asked him to log into his email address. He was more concerned about what kind of people Rum recruited this time.
Chu Ming was typing away on his computer while talking to Conan: "Yeah, I guess I'll have to work overtime today. What's wrong? Did everything go well for you guys this time?"
"No, not at all - Brother Chu Ming, where is your company? Can I come to find you?" Conan clenched the microphone nervously. He had just solved the case, and although he knew that the murderer was Shirakura Yang, he was missing.
Conan thought of the man in black who jumped out of the window, and then thought of Chu Ming who left in a hurry. Conan, whose mother was a master of disguise, pursed his lips and couldn't help but guess the possibility that Chu Ming = the man in black.
Haibara Ai cried for a while because of her sister and fell asleep. Conan was strolling alone on the street and couldn't help but call her from a pay phone.
Since there are doubts, then investigate and do your best to clear Brother Chu Ming's name.
Chapter 52 Rum, You're Done
Chu Ming sat on the top floor of the software company, waiting for death to come.
When he heard Conan asking him where he was and saying he wanted to visit him, he knew that Conan was suspicious of him.
While laughing and asking him why he came here to delay time, he quickly typed to ask if there was any company in the Gin organization that was relatively clean and not afraid of being investigated.
Gin directly listed several nearby companies for him. After telling Conan a computer software company that was not too far away, he rushed over quickly, directly hacked into the network and modified the surveillance.
Just after the modification, Chu Ming saw on the surveillance camera a child on a skateboard entering the security booth, and after some gestures, he walked into the building.
Chu Ming chose this company after careful consideration. There happened to be a hacker from the organization here tonight to maintain the anti-theft system. Although the security guard didn't see anyone, he knew that someone was here to maintain it tonight, so he could fool Conan with the general details.
Conan pressed the elevator button with his skateboard, his expression relaxed a little. He just asked the security guard, and the security guard said that a car drove directly in at night. Although he didn't see the people in the car clearly, he heard that there was a problem with the security and anti-theft system, and a big shot came to fix it personally, and he has been upstairs ever since.
This is almost consistent with what Chu Ming said. Conan breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, fortunately - he also knew that his guess was a bit far-fetched. If Chu Ming was really an accomplice of the man in black, he would have been arrested long ago, not to mention that Chu Ming was injured in order to save him.
After entering the office, Conan ran to Chu Ming's side, put his hands on the table and looked at Chu Ming's desktop. A bunch of complicated codes flashed. He looked around and saw that the half-drunk coffee was a little cold, which meant it was not freshly brewed. There was a takeout order with a time of six o'clock...
——Various details indicate that Chu Ming has indeed been working here until now.
"Brother Chu Ming has been busy till now."
Chu Ming glanced at the detective who had clearly put aside his suspicions but was still peeping at his desk out of professional illness: "Yeah, why didn't you have a smooth time tonight? Didn't you get the disk?"
Conan sighed: "When we went there, Professor Hirota had been killed. A man in black was slipping away from the window. I saw his face. He was the one who saved me at the Izu Hotel last time, but I didn't catch him."
"Did he kill Professor Hirota?"
"That's not the case. I have cracked the murder method. The criminal, Shirakura Yang, has already escaped. The police will issue a warrant for his arrest. But all the disks are gone... Now the antidote is nowhere in sight."
"Don't worry. Since the developer of the poison is here, it's only a matter of time before the antidote is available."
Conan nodded and became excited again: "Since we have confirmed that the man is a member of the Black Organization, he also had a companion at the time named Bourbon, who was a very dark-skinned and easily recognizable person!"
Chu Ming paused without leaving a trace. It seemed that Bourbon had been tricked. It didn't matter. It was nothing. It was nothing more than that Maori Kogoro's eldest disciple had fled. As for Bourbon being discovered working and being followed by Conan, it was not a big deal.
Chu Ming asked Conan out of the blue: "So you came here late at night because you suspect me?"
"Yeah, after all, the timing of your leaving was a bit coincidental - hey, brother Chu Ming, what are you talking about, hahaha..."
Chu Ming rolled his eyes at Conan who was pretending to be stupid, and pressed Conan's head hard: "As people get smaller, does their brain capacity also get smaller? You can even come up with such a guess?"
"Hehe, a detective has to make bold assumptions and verify them carefully—" Feeling a little guilty, Conan did not struggle to break free from the hands that were rubbing his head.
"By the way, Brother Chu Ming, the sister of Huiyuan Ai who was killed by those men in black was the bank robber last time - Hirota Masami..."
Feeling that Conan's mood suddenly dropped, Chu Ming comforted him half-heartedly: "You can't save everyone, just do the best you can."
The famous detective who had experienced death many times quickly adjusted his mood and wanted to make up for today's mistake by inviting Chu Ming to play together.
"Brother Chu Ming, Yuan Tai and the others invited me to go fishing tomorrow. Do you want to join me~"
Hanging out with the Grim Reaper = having magnetic field = points = improving strength = defeating Gin.
So as long as you hang out with Conan more often, you’ll be able to clean the floor of the training ground with Gin one day!
Chu Ming listed a series of equations in his mind and almost couldn't wait to agree to Conan's proposal.
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At two o'clock in the morning, Chu Ming was awakened by a series of email messages. He opened his phone sleepily and found an interview list sent by Rum.
"..." Chu Ming directly replied with a string of ellipsis.
A group of nocturnal creatures! Who are these people? He is still growing! Without a good sleep schedule, how can he become a pillar of the organization?
Perhaps he sensed Chu Ming's resentment, or perhaps Rum suddenly remembered that he had not sent the list in the middle of his sleep, so he got up, sent it, and went back to sleep... In short, Rum did not reply.
Only Chu Ming, who was woken up, couldn't fall asleep for a long time. He could only get up and look through the list.
Rum, just wait, Wakita Akira won’t even be able to be a butler in the next novel!
Chapter 53 Gin is the biggest undercover
Under the shimmering water, many small fish were darting around. Chu Ming never expected that when the famous detective invited him to catch fish, it would be just a few children who walked barefoot into the creek and reached out to touch the fish.
Thinking back to the time before every holiday in China when teachers would stress at the top of their lungs about drowning prevention, he looked at the four children in front of him who were not accompanied by their parents and who would have gone into the water together if he hadn't stopped them. He felt quite a headache.
If someone slips, Conan, the fake child, is the only one who knows how to save himself. Are the others just going to have to wait for the accident to happen and rely on Conan to rescue them?
Each child was given a net bag and taken to a shallow area downstream where the water was only up to the calves. They were told to use the net bag to catch fish. Forced by Chu Ming's previous cruelty and Conan's lack of objection, the children had no choice but to obey.
But the children were having fun playing whatever they wanted. After a while, Chu Ming stood by the river, watching Conan perfectly integrated into the children's lives. He secretly took out his mobile phone and took a picture of this scene. He would sell it together with the previous video later. As for who he would sell it to...
For example, it would be nice to have Xiaolan who knows Conan’s true identity in the future, Conan’s mother, or even secretly and anonymously sell him to Vermouth.
The tired kids gathered around to eat. Suddenly, Ayumi pointed at an electric boat towing a balloon in the water and asked in surprise, "Look, what is that?"
Chu Ming looked at the boat speeding in the water, and suddenly looked towards the abandoned building opposite. Thanks to the previous magnetic field, he clearly saw four men on the building opposite, one of whom was holding a rifle and aiming at the balloon.
There was a gunshot and the balloon burst. Conan took out a telescope from his side and looked out.
"You come out to slack off and bring a telescope with you?" Chu Ming was quite incredulous.
Conan said as he looked at it: "I am afraid that the situation like yesterday will happen again. If it wasn't so dark last night, I wouldn't have lost the trace of the man in black. It will be easier for me to find him with the telescope."
"..."
The reflection of the telescope shone on the man's face from afar. He looked back thoughtfully, moved his fingers slightly, and threw something on the ground.
"Brother Chu Ming, it was a rifle, and the person who fired the gun seemed to be under duress!"
"Then let's go take a look—" Chu Ming was a little weak. It seemed that there was no magnetic field this time, and he lost motivation instantly.
Arriving at the unfinished building, Conan squatted on the ground and searched around, trying to find something that could be used as evidence.
"Found it!" Conan picked up the calculator he had just picked up, looked at the string of numbers on it, and fell into deep thought: "Is this the signal he left behind... He seemed to feel that I was looking at him at that time."
"Signal? Let me see, let me see!" Yuantai snatched the calculator from Conan's hand, and his fingers accidentally touched something.
"Return to zero."
"..."
"Genta, what are you doing?!" Conan jumped up from the stairs in a hurry.
Chu Ming looked at this scene in amazement. When he was watching the animation, he thought it would be fun if the number was accidentally reset to zero. How could this actually happen?
Conan was so angry that he stamped his feet on the spot. Chu Ming laughed secretly until he had enough and then handed Conan a piece of paper: "Don't jump, I just wrote it down."
Conan then breathed a sigh of relief, took the note, looked at Genta warily, and began to study him with his butt facing him.
Chu Ming directly used the telephone summoning technique to summon Officer Megure.
"Hey, brother Chu Ming, these few days are consecutive holidays, and most of the search personnel are on vacation..."
"Inspector Megure works all year round? So miserable?" Chu Ming's face was full of surprise.
"Not really, the main reason is that there are indeed a lot of cases in Tokyo recently--" Inspector Megure glanced at Conan meaningfully and whispered to Chu Ming. "Look, Brother Maori didn't go out today, so there were no murders."