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"Yes."
Nodding to confirm his question, James coughed twice and asked back:
"Shuichi, what is your impression of the organization's influence in Europe?"
"Europe..."
Akai Shuichi lowered his head in deep thought, and after thinking carefully, he replied:
"I don't know the situation over there very well, but it's true that in Europe, there are rarely such high-intensity confrontations as in Japan."
Compared to the organization's influence in Japan, the situation in Europe has been much calmer over the years. Things like bombing buildings and trains rarely happen in Europe.
But in Japan, these have become commonplace. Every confrontation between the FBI and the organization eventually turns into a terrorist attack...
This situation is also consistent with the FBI's internal assessment of the organization's situation.
Japan is the organization's main base, while Europe and other regions are just incidental branches. The organization's main strength has always been concentrated in Japan.
"What about North America?" After hearing Shuichi Akai's answer, James did not comment, but asked again.
"North America?" Akai Shuichi frowned slightly, hesitated for a moment, and finally replied:
"It's a stagnant pool of water."
Yes, he used the word "stagnant water" to describe it.
If the organization could occasionally stir up some waves in Europe, it was completely stagnant in North America.
When Shuichi Akai was in the United States, he had participated in several FBI crackdowns on the organization's North American forces, and his evaluation of the North American members of these organizations was also just one word.
That is vulnerable.
These people are far inferior to their companions in the Japanese headquarters. They are a group of idiots with no fighting power at all. They can do nothing except selling banned items on campus and collecting protection fees from students in private.
To describe them as a terrorist organization is an insult to the word terrorist organization.
It is precisely because the organization's influence in North America is so weak that it is so easy for the FBI to deal with them.
In the past decade, the organization's influence has never caused any waves in the United States.
"Indeed." James nodded again, as if agreeing with Shuichi Akai's statement.
"But, Shuichi, have you ever thought about a question?"
James suddenly changed the subject, looking at Akai Shuichi, and asked quietly:
"If the organization's influence in North America is really so weak, even to the point where we can easily control it... then why haven't we arrested Regel in the past ten years?"
This question stumped Akai Shuichi.
Because this is indeed true.
No matter how vulnerable the organization's power in North America is, in the ten years that Reger has managed the organization's European and American branches, the FBI has never arrested the organization's top leader in Europe and the United States.
Not to mention arresting him, they still don't even know what Regler really looks like.
And the most ironic thing is that according to their intelligence, Regel probably never left the United States for most of the past ten years.
It is indeed a shame that the enemy has been roaming around in their home for ten years, but they have not been able to touch a single hair of the enemy.
"Why, when the organization's influence in North America had already been so corrupted, was Regel still able to sit in this position for ten years? In the end, he was even transferred back to Japan due to some special reasons?"
James looked at him and asked again.
"Could it be because Regal and the boss of this organization are too incompetent?"
"No." Akai Shuichi shook his head slightly and replied seriously: "Regel is an extremely difficult opponent. His ability even far exceeds Rum. When fighting him, any negligence on our part will be It may be turned into a fatal flaw by him.”
“Yes, he is such a tough opponent, why are the European and North American branches under his charge so corrupt?
It looks even worse than the Japanese headquarters that Rum is in charge of... Shuichi, why do you think this is?"
【why? 】
In an instant, Shuichi Akai thought of the answer.
He raised his head suddenly, looking at the silent James in front of him in disbelief.
The answer to this question lies in James's first sentence.
The organization's European and North American branches are not really that vulnerable.
The so-called stagnant water is just an appearance deliberately created by Reger.
Hidden beneath this stagnant water is Reger's uninterrupted reverse infiltration into the intelligence agencies of European and American countries over the past decade!
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Chapter 353: Speculations about Regel
"We may have undercover agents planted by Regel in our ranks, and there should be quite a few of them."
In the lobby on the first floor of the villa, James and Shuichi Akai were sitting on the sofa. James raised his hand to cover his mouth and coughed twice softly.
“This is not surprising considering that Reger has been leading the organization’s presence in Europe for at least a decade.
It is even possible that some of the undercover agents he has planted may be of a higher rank than me..."
At this point, James smiled bitterly, and the two thick mustaches on his lips rose upwards.
"Isn't this a little too... unbelievable?" Akai Shuichi frowned slightly, as if he didn't quite agree with this view.
"On the contrary, Xiuyi, this is the most likely truth." James shook his head slightly and explained:
“Whether in Europe or North America, the organization’s influence in these two regions is too weak and too peaceful. Compared with its influence in Japan, it is really a bit unsightly.
It would be fine if Regel was incapable, but from the previous operations in Japan, I believe you all have experienced to some extent that this person is definitely not an ordinary person, and the two areas he is in charge of should not be like this.
Regarding this point, before his death, Mamiya secretly submitted an analysis report to the senior management of the headquarters. "
"Before Mamiya sacrificed himself..." Akai Shuichi was slightly stunned when he heard this.
【Sure enough...】
In the days before the rescue operation at Mika International Hospital, he had already noticed some abnormalities in Mamiya Shin and had asked Mamiya Shin about it in person.
But at that time, Gong Xin did not answer him directly, and because the rescue operation was imminent, Akai Shuichi did not continue to ask.
But he didn't expect that Mamiya actually did so many things behind his back during those few days...
Such urgency, Mamiya, is not like your style.
Or did you already have a vague premonition of your impending end at that time?
"The earliest intelligence that the headquarters had about Regel's appearance was twenty years ago."
For some reason, James suddenly brought up this matter. He looked at Akai Shuichi and asked:
"Xuyi, do you know who provided this information?"
"Judy." Akai Shuichi replied immediately.
"Yes, it's her." Nodding, James continued:
"Twenty years ago, in the arson case that occurred at Stelling's residence, Mr. Stelling, who was then an investigator investigating the organization's intelligence, and his entire family were killed. Only Judy, who was still a young child at the time, survived. According to Judy's description, the mysterious man who killed her parents that night called himself Regel.
This is also the earliest information we can confirm about Regel's appearance. In the following years, Regel was mainly active in Japan and left a lot of records with the Japanese Public Security Bureau, including an eyewitness record of Regel.
It is said that Regger has a pair of pure purple pupils. Of course, we still cannot confirm its authenticity.
In the following years, Reger seemed to have disappeared from the world. No matter in Japan, Europe or North America, there were no reports of his whereabouts until ten years ago..."
Ten years ago, this was a relatively special time point. According to their speculation, Reger probably began to dominate the organization's influence in Europe and North America from this point in time.
"Ten years ago, Regel began to lead the organization's affairs in Europe and the United States for a long time. However, when Mamiya was looking up information in Europe, he discovered something that had been overlooked by the top leaders before..." James couldn't help but cough twice, and continued:
"It was also during this period that Broosin appeared in Europe."
"Him?" Akai Shuichi was a little surprised.
Buluoxin, according to rumors within the organization, this person should be Regel's absolute confidant. His identity is unknown and his whereabouts are extremely secretive. Most of the time, he appears with Regel.
"Well, ten years ago, Broosin appeared in Europe, and MI6 organized an arrest operation for him, but it ended in failure.
Of course, most of the European reports on Broosin’s whereabouts were concentrated in this year. After that, all the reports on this person’s whereabouts that could be confirmed to be true or false returned to the United States. "
"Ten years ago, Brooshen should have received orders from Regel to go to Europe and reorganize the organization's European branch." Shuichi Akai made a quick guess.
Given such a special time point and such concentrated reports of whereabouts, this possibility is the greatest.
"Yes, this is indeed the biggest possibility."
James confirmed Shuichi Akai's speculation.
"But Xiuyi, have you noticed a suspicious point? If Bloosin really went to set up a European branch ten years ago, then why was there only a report on Bloosin's whereabouts in MI6's records at the time?
What about the other members of the organization? Where were they at the time? Why did they not show up until Bullo's departure from Europe? "
The reason is actually very simple. After James pointed out that this could be done, Shuichi Akai had already realized it.
"A great man hides himself in the city. This is a very philosophical saying I heard in the East. Maybe my understanding of this saying is biased, but I think it is very appropriate to use it here now," James said.
“Based on all the past intelligence related to Regel in the headquarters that Mamiya sorted out, combined with his experience of fighting Regel in Japan some time ago, Mamiya came to a conclusion.
It is very likely that the management method adopted by Reger in Europe and the United States is completely different from that of Rum.
If Europe and the United States are viewed as a whole, Reger should have divided the members of the organization's European and American branches into two completely different categories.
The low-level discarded people who can be abandoned at any time, and the organizational cadres who need to be trained with emphasis.
Reger absorbed both types of people into the organization based on two different standards, and managed or trained them in different ways.
Among them, those who can be abandoned at any time are on the surface. Most of these people are the dregs of society, with no ability and value to use. They can be driven at will by promising some meager benefits. They are a very easy-to-use type of people. "
At present, the organization's influence in North America is revealed to be just these people, incompetent and useless. The only harm they can cause to the United States is to blackmail students and sell some banned items.
To describe them as terrorists is an insult to the word terrorist.
Its only purpose is to help the agents at headquarters improve their performance at the end of the year.
"But Shuichi, this is just the organization's apparent performance. At the same time, it is also a trap set by Regal to paralyze us."