Daily Spy Life in the Detective Conan World

Chapter 1019 Choosing a Base
Xia Chuan was slightly taken aback, but didn't feel particularly excited.

Frank was a little puzzled by his expression. This was a huge achievement, yet Xia Chuan didn't seem happy at all.

"Have you seen that villa we were just talking about on the dark web?"

It seems unlikely, otherwise Frank wouldn't have used a tone of "doubt" but would have told himself definitively that this was the place where the distillery trained its peripheral members.

"Yes"

Frank understood.

If the base cannot be found on the internal network, it means that the internal network still has certain limitations.

"Although Karasuma Renya controlled this trusted base, he did not completely trust the people in the base."

The base has access to the distillery's intranet, but it's likely only on the outer perimeter; the true core is outside the base's access permissions.

These words were like a bucket of cold water poured over my head.

Seeing that Frank and Shinichiro both seemed somewhat disappointed, Natsukawa suddenly smiled and said, "But it doesn't matter. The IRS doesn't know about these things. Providing them with so many outposts and bases at once should be enough to get a considerable sum of money."

But if we do this, the truth about Hunhun will likely be fully exposed.

After Xia Chuan finished speaking, he laughed at himself.

It seems that the matter of Twilight has been exposed for some time now, and Gin may have even suspected that Tequila is related to Twilight.

However, it shouldn't be related to Xia Chuan's identity for the time being.

“Okay, I’ll hand these things over to the IRS later. I should be able to get a lot of money from them.”

Whether it's a stronghold or a base, the personnel and equipment are very valuable. If the IRS can't collect taxes, they will naturally dispose of these people and equipment.

For example, selling information to the FBI and CIA, or security organizations in other countries such as MI6.

"You can handle this matter. Let's get back to the main topic. You told me so much about the distillery's base, and even pulled out a map. You couldn't have just been telling me this, could you?"

"of course."

Frank nodded and concluded, "Tsutomu Akai and the Ooka family will likely target these deserted villas and secretly requisition them."

As you are a participant, the rest of us naturally can't just sit idly by.

We can take action against these villas that are currently inhabited.

The image on the screen flashed, and some of the small red dots turned yellow.

“These villas are all occupied, and I plan to forcibly requisition one or two of them.”

The so-called forced requisition naturally means knocking these people down and occupying the place in disguise.

At Frank's signal, Xia Chuan also saw the two locations he wanted to requisition.

"These two are the most suitable places in my opinion."

I've already investigated. One of them is conducting a spiritual prayer service for a deceased celebrity. The other is a wealthy family from Hokkaido who recently came to this villa for a birthday vacation.

"Which one do you think is more suitable?" Frank handed the choice over to Xia Chuan.

Xia Chuan observed carefully.

Both locations are actually within one kilometer of the winery base as the crow flies. They're not far, but they're definitely not close either, since the distance as the crow flies is different from walking on a normal mountain road.

However, for people like Xia Chuan and Yue Er, it's just a difference in straight-line distance.

It has advantages.

"Then let's choose this place where a medium is performing a blessing ceremony. The nature of this kind of activity is quite complex. Disguising ourselves as one of the people there to scout the place first, we can make sure there are no people from the distillery there, which will make us less likely to be discovered." The other option is a family-based organization. Manjou Tachibana doesn't know enough about it, so it would be difficult for him to completely impersonate the family. If the entire family is actually an outsider of the distillery, then we're doomed.

Suddenly, Xia Chuan realized that these deserted villas might not be safer.

Perhaps Gin shares the same thoughts as the Ooka family?
A thought crossed his mind, but Natsukawa did not choose to tell Akai Tsutomu about this guess.

If even this can't be solved, then there's no need for us to cooperate.

Consider it a test.

Two hours later, Xia Chuan obtained all the information about the spiritual medium activities held after the celebrity's death.

Calling it a spiritual medium activity is not accurate.

It should be called a séance.

The people who attended this séance were mostly from the same fan club.

A year ago, a tokusatsu actress named Yahara Akira died in a car accident.

From that time onward, members of his fan club gradually left, and without exception, all of them encountered accidents after leaving the club.

Although there were no fatalities, it still caused some panic within the community. It wasn't a major incident, since no one died.

Until a month ago, a screenwriter who was associated with Yahara Akira's previous tokusatsu drama was murdered, and the name of the tokusatsu drama's protagonist, which was the character Yahara Akira played, was left at the scene.

Everyone suspects that the screenwriter's death is related to Yahara Akira, and that, just like in tokusatsu dramas, it is a witch's revenge that led to this séance.

According to the plan, the spirit séance would last for three days. Xia Chuan couldn't wait for the other party to finish the spirit séance before leaving, so the timing didn't match.

So this time he's going to play one of them and drive all the people attending the séance away.

If nothing unexpected happens, Natsukawa thinks that a murder will definitely occur in this situation.

But with the operation imminent, Xia Chuan couldn't allow the police to get involved, so either no one would die, or everyone would die.

There were seven people participating in this séance.

Xia Chuan is choosing which target he should disguise himself as.

One woman and six men. He first eliminated the woman, then selected from among the many people, and quickly found the most suitable target.

"Frank, can you check if Kogoro Mouri is home?"

After confirming the target of the disguise, Xia Chuan made a disguise mask while asking Frank questions.

Across from Kogoro Mouri's house is the Natsukawa family's house. By simply moving the security cameras in their house slightly, they can see what's happening at the Mouri agency.

"it is good."

After a while, Frank said with a strange expression, "What's wrong with you? Did you already know that Kogoro Mouri was going out?"

He projected the surveillance footage onto the television.

In the scene, Kogoro Mouri is packing his things inside the office window. A Mercedes-Benz is already waiting downstairs, ready to leave.

Natsukawa paid special attention and found that Conan indeed had no intention of going out with them and had not prepared his own luggage; only Kogoro Mouri and his daughter were there.

He smiled and said, "It seems that Conan is taking the operation three days from now very seriously, and doesn't seem to be planning to go out with Kogoro Mouri."

"We've found out. Today, Kogoro Mouri accepted a case from Chiba Prefecture. He'll be investigating a case in Chiba Prefecture for the next three days. If he's planning to take a shortcut, he'll pass by the villa of the Summoning Society."

Frank smacked his lips. "I say, could it be that a case is about to happen here?"

(End of this chapter)