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

Chapter 393 Telephone Elf Gin

into the night.

Somewhere on Honshu Island...

"Fire!"

"Where are the firefighters? Call them! Go get some water over there!"

"Here! There are people here..."

"Hey! Is there anyone there? Wake up!"

The dazzling flames dyed the sky red, and the seaside town suddenly became lively.

The fire broke out in an old warehouse.

There is a small bungalow next to the warehouse, which is usually where the warehouse manager lives, but now the fire is about to spread here.

People's shouting continued for a while, and the door of the management room was finally pushed open.

A middle-aged man with staggering steps hurriedly ran out, his mouth wide open, looking at the warehouse full of flames, and muttering as if he had lost his soul:
"…It's over, everything is over…I will die, the boss will not let me go…"

……

Fires broke out in four or five places in succession in one night.

Gin slept all day and woke up in the middle of the night. After receiving these reports, he smacked his lips and reluctantly got up from the bed. After making himself a cup of wolfberry water, he slowly turned on the computer and began to report to the unscrupulous boss:
[Okayama B6, Saitama F7, Shizuoka A2... A total of five armories have caught fire. All managers have been evacuated. Do we need to send someone to find the cause? - Gin]

After sending this message, Gin held his cheek and waited for his boss's reply.

Not long after, a reply popped up:

[Don’t act rashly before the person I arrange arrives——****]

[Yes, I will follow your instructions——Gin]

【Don't let me down——****】

Gin was just about to reply with an "understood" when he saw the window jump once, then again. He had sent a message, and then quickly received another new email.

Gin: "..."

Oh god, why did he forget to turn off the auto-reply?
...But, it seems that the unscrupulous boss also set up an automatic reply, right? The reply was so smooth.

I don’t know what expression the unscrupulous boss has now.

Gin closed the email of the unscrupulous boss feeling guilty.

The current situation is like an employee slacking off and being discovered by the boss, and then the employee discovers that his boss is also slacking off...

Then, Gin gave instructions to the few people who had reported up, asking them to stay on standby near their management locations and not to act rashly.

"It seems that the unscrupulous boss really doesn't want me to do anything."

Gin thought, stroking his chin.

I was even a little bit wary of him, but not completely.

But Gin thought about it and thought, he didn't seem to have done anything out of the ordinary, right? Although the fire that burned down the organization's warehouse was also done by their people... Not only was it burned, but all the equipment inside was also carried away.

In fact, he had wanted to do this for a long time, but he had never had the opportunity. This time it could be said to be a godsend.

Even if the warehouse was burned down and things were stolen, he could simply blame it on the FBI. The most he could do was take the blame for dereliction of duty, which was a good deal.

But this time, the unscrupulous boss seemed too lazy to care about his negligence and was determined to send someone else to rectify the situation.

The unscrupulous boss's intention was very clear before, which was to make Gin quit and wait for new people to be sent from the European headquarters before restarting the organization's activities.

It's obvious that he doesn't trust Gin to do it alone...

Of course, if you think positively, it's because you feel sorry for Gin and want to lighten his burden. But, how could an unscrupulous boss be so kind?
Gin yawned, thought about what he could do now, and called his subordinates one by one, "Hello? Ireland, are you healed? No? Then don't forget to gather at the base the day after tomorrow."

He was going to have a meeting with Vermouth, Ireland and some other members, and after that Noah pretended to be him and reported to the boss.

In this regard, the unscrupulous boss did not refuse and agreed very readily. So from this point of view, Gin felt that his credibility with the boss should be quite high. The reason for not letting him act on his own might be that he felt that the losses of this operation were too great and he was a little too cautious about the FBI.

——Although there are many people who can replace the core members of the organization, to be honest, it is very troublesome.

The most important thing for a core code member is actually prestige. If the renewal is too fast, or the core members are not capable enough, it is inevitable that those members without code names will have opinions.

Among the members who have no code names or only pseudo-code names, there are certainly some who can compete with the core members, and that number is not necessarily less.

But too frequent changes will eventually lead to some turbulence in the hierarchical structure of the organization.

I think this is something that unscrupulous bosses and other senior executives don't want to see.

After briefly consoling Ireland, Gin thought for a moment and continued to be a customer service elf:
"Clarett...intelligence activities? Oh, stop it for now, this is the boss's order...nothing to do? That's normal...No, try not to go to bases and strongholds casually to prevent the FBI from monitoring us, that's all."

"Chianti, you stay with Cohen and Calvados... Calvados is not here? Where did he go?... Okay, I'll ask Vermouth later."

Gin hung up the call, raised an eyebrow, and continued dialing.

Did Calvados really go to Vermouth? Was that guy awake?
"Gin..."

"Oh, Bourbon, the information from your side..."

Halfway through his words, Gin belatedly realized that Bourbon was no longer his subordinate.

"……what?"

Bourbon's confused voice came from the other end of the line, "What information?"

"It's okay, I forgot you were in Chablis... No, that's not right." Gin said halfway, holding his forehead, "Bourbon, you, are you in Scotland, right?"

It's so annoying, his intermittent amnesia has come back again.

I almost forgot that Bourbon is no longer a member of the organization, but he is not on his side either. The other party's overall position is still on the side of the public security.

Bourbon on the phone was speechless, and stammered, "No, no, I went back to Tokyo secretly this morning to investigate something..."

"Oh yes."

Gin rubbed his brows, thinking of some previous questions, "Okay, you check it out, but don't let the organization find any traces of you..."

Everyone else in the organization knew that Bourbon had followed Chablis to Yokohama. If Bourbon was the only one alive and the others were missing, that would be too suspicious.

So Bourbon’s current status is actually unknown...

"Okay, I'll pay attention." Boben responded.

But Gin discovered a problem, "You haven't cancelled your original phone number yet?"

"...I cancelled it." Comrade Bourbon was also a little confused, "I was wondering why you knew my new phone number..."

Gin: "..."

He silently moved the phone further away.

A few lines of prompts popped up on the display screen:
[[Noah-Planet] The call assistant has automatically transferred your call to the contact's latest number]

【Welcome to use [Noah-Planet] mobile assistant——Are you still worried about not being able to find your friend after he changed his phone number? Noah Planet will help you never lose contact with your friends again! 】

Gin: "..."

I always feel that the last sentence of the advertisement is redundant.

But to be honest, this feature seems to be quite useful.

(End of this chapter)