Conan: I'm Not a Model Worker in the Winery

Chapter 289: FBI Movements (plus three…)
Cupido Hotel.

This place has almost become a base camp for some people.

Many people coming in and out had alert and serious expressions on their faces, as if something bad was about to happen.

There were only three people sitting on the sofa in the large suite on the seventh floor of the hotel.

Two men, one woman...

"Are you sure you didn't find those people?"

The old man with white hair and a white beard pushed his eyes away, and his expression was not very good.

"No... and these days, those guys are just lying dormant."

The man in the knitted hat shook his head and subconsciously wanted to take out a cigarette, but suddenly realized something, looked up at the ceiling, and silently put the cigarette back.

Shuichi Akai, the man feared and fanatically pursued by countless drunkards, had water poured on his face last time because he was smoking under a fire alarm.

But it may also be related to the fact that too many people drew it together before.

"But tomorrow will be autumn." The foreign woman with blonde hair and glasses was holding an apple with a slightly sad look on her face.

Judy Stelling is currently an English teacher at Teitan High School.

Who knew she would be an FBI agent?

The white-haired old man who asked the first questions was Shuichi Akai's boss, James Blake, the commander-in-chief of the FBI's activities in Japan.

They had just been discussing the death of a subordinate agent.

However, all signs indicate that the subordinate's death was most likely an accident.

——A few days ago, Judy discovered that the target of surveillance had unusual activities. After tracking them, she found that their destinations were the same, so she suspected that the organization was planning to do something big.

So they urgently transferred members who were monitoring in other places to monitor the target location.

The results of the surveillance made them feel inexplicably panicked:
According to Shuichi Akai's previous intelligence, they discovered that at least five important members of the Black Organization were concentrated at the target location.

Among them were Judy's two surveillance targets.

Shuichi Akai did not go to the factory because he was investigating the previous explosion and the software engineer's matter, but communicated through text messages.

Because their manpower was scattered, it took some time to gather them together. By the time about half of them had arrived, the people from the black organization had already left the bar.

Since Shuichi Akai was not present at the time, there was a slight delay in the news, so some members had different opinions on the next steps:

Some people think that they should track those members, find out the base of the organization, and then catch them all in one fell swoop; some people think that they should go to the bar to investigate the situation before making plans; and there is a small group of "egoless people" who will do whatever the captain says.

After a long delay, they sent someone to check the organization's base.

Unexpectedly, an explosion occurred suddenly, resulting in the death of that member...

Some people suspected that all this was a trap set by the black organization, a trap deliberately set to lure them in.

Shuichi Akai, who was the first to suspect this, immediately sent people to investigate undercover.

However, in the end, they found out that their people were not killed by the explosion, but died from excessive blood loss due to glass piercing their internal organs...

And there was no indication that their tracking was discovered by anyone in the organization.

However, Akai Shuichi, who had been deeply involved in the organization for many years, had a very sharp sense of smell and intuitively felt that something was wrong. So he called two people who had some free time to discuss the next action plan.

Judy and James, one is second only to him in status, similar to a vice-captain, and the other is his superior. If he wants to discuss anything, he can only find these two people.

"In the fall... those guys will definitely make a move." Akai Shuichi looked out the window at the night, his expression sharp, "When I was lurking in the organization, I never encountered such a grand gathering."

They have already conducted a comprehensive analysis and discussion regarding the Black Organization's last sudden gathering.

Moreover, Shuichi Akai didn't know most of the people present at all. However, this did not prevent him from judging that since almost all the core members of Gin's group were present, the others were probably core members as well.

Thirteen people in total...

What is the purpose of that organization?
This question has been lingering in Shuichi Akai's mind for a long time, causing his sleep quality to be somewhat poor these days.

At this time, Mr. James sighed and said, "But even if they make any move, we can only follow behind them and cannot stop them at all..."

"Regarding this, I think now is a suitable time to make a comment." Akai Shuichi turned to look at Judy, "Judy has found the real address of that woman."

"Oh? That's great." James' pupils shrank slightly, with a hint of surprise in his eyes. "This way, we have a chance to learn about the organization's movements from them in advance."

Judy put down the apple at this time, her face slightly solemn, "Speaking of which, I found some traces in that woman's home... and my previous investigation results indicated that the other party's target seemed to be this detective."

As she spoke, she took out three photos.

And everyone in each photo looked very familiar to Shuichi Akai.

His pupils shrank slightly, and he skipped over the photo of the brown-haired girl: "These two people..."

He had just seen it before.

And he always felt that these two people looked familiar...it seemed that this was not the first time he had seen them.

"Akai-kun, do you know this kid and this girl?" James turned his head and asked.

"Ah, some time ago, on the night when the software engineer was murdered, I saw them on the street." Akai Shuichi resisted the urge to smoke and continued, "Judy mentioned that these two people lived in the Maori Detective Agency, and that the case of the software engineer named Itakura Taku was also solved with the help of Maori Kogoro."

"That is to say, the organization may think that this detective affects their operations, so they plan to get rid of him, right?"

Old man James narrowed his eyes and made a reasonable guess.

Because Itakura Taku died at the time when the twin skyscrapers exploded... and before that there was the death of Hara Jiaming, it was difficult for them not to blame the Black Organization, even if the murderer in Itakura Taku's case was someone else.

But, what if the murderer is just a pawn?

Judy agreed: "I think this is possible, so I have currently deployed my main personnel near the Maori Detective Agency and the home of the person the woman is pretending to be. I am mainly responsible for monitoring the woman's real address..."

"Akai-kun, what do you think?"

"Judy's arrangement is fine." Akai Shuichi answered without hesitation, but there was an inexplicable light flashing in his eyes, "But, I think it's not enough."

"How to say?"

"Let me first tell you what I found out." Akai Shuichi finally took out a cigarette, "Some information about the organization..."

"About last month, a member of the organization named Pisk died."

(End of this chapter)