Conan Rick's Investigator

But as the curtain opened, what was revealed was not just a painting, but also Mio Tokiwa "ascending" to Mount Fuji.

Kogoro Mouri, who was slumped in the chair, came to his senses in a second, ran onto the stage immediately, and instructed Secretary Sawaguchi to put the person down first and close the curtain at the same time.

Conan carefully checked his surroundings and found that Mio Tokiwa was hanging on the steel frame above the stage by a steel rope, and was not "flying up".

Behind the stage curtain, there were only three people: Minemizu Kisaragi, Hidehiko Kazama, and Secretary Sawaguchi.

Another three choices...

Qin Zhibo came to the stage and this time finally found the complete "symbol" next to Tokiwa Mio's body.

It was a small wine glass split in two, turned upside down on the volcanic ash. It looked like...

【Survey√】

A symbol resembling a volcanic eruption

……

Inspector Megure, who had been waiting downstairs for several hours, finally heard the news from above and immediately called on his men to take action.

"Someone is dead!"

"Come on!"

Several policemen rushed into the building with legitimate reasons, and the whole scene was captured by Vodka through a telescope on the roof of the nearby municipal building.

"Brother, something seems to have happened in the building. Those police suddenly took action."

Gin snatched the binoculars from Vodka and watched as a group of police officers took the VIP sightseeing elevator straight to the 75th floor.

"Brother, could it be that the bomb we planted has been discovered?"

Vodka's guess was not unreasonable, and Gin quickly picked up the walkie-talkie.

"Hello? How's the situation over there?"

"Hey?"

"Hey!"

Qin Zhibo was busy solving the case and couldn't hear the intercom.

However, this immediately made Gin wonder, could it be that guy had betrayed him?

Or did that guy try to get close to Shirley but was discovered and subdued?

Neither of these two situations is what Gin wants to see.

So Gin made a quick decision and while the bomb remote control was still in his hand, he decided to go all out.

Gin took out the remote control from his pocket with his left hand, aimed the signal transmission direction at the twin towers, and his finger hovered over the detonation button that symbolized the sword of Damocles.

Destroy... everything!

Just as Gin was about to press the button, the phone in his pocket rang.

Gin didn't want to answer the call immediately, so he decided to detonate the bomb in the building first.

But then I thought, it might be that the "organization's accomplice" has changed the phone call to contact me, so I decided to answer it first.

"Hey?"

"Gin, I'm Vermouth."

Gin narrowed his eyes slightly, and said in a somewhat unhappy tone, "If you have anything to say, just tell me quickly."

This woman always disturbs me when I am about to do something important.

The last time Shirley was executed on the rooftop, if Vermouth hadn't called at the critical moment, Shirley wouldn't have taken the opportunity to escape.

This time too.

If it weren't for her seemingly unusual relationship with "that adult", I would have suspected that she was the "rat" hiding in the organization.

Vermouth could also tell that Gin was quite anxious, so she skipped the flirting and asked, "Where are you on your mission now? What mission are you on?"

Gin's eyes narrowed, and his tone became even more sinister and terrifying.

"Why are you asking about my whereabouts?"

Vermouth knew that her status was not enough to make Gin speak, and seduction was not working either, so she could only move on to someone higher up in the organization.

"That gentleman asked me to ask. It seems you recently transferred a large number of bombs from the Equipment Department..."

Chapter 564: The "Mysterious Performance Appraiser" Sent by the Boss

Before making the call, Vermouth did her homework and found out that Gin had recently retrieved dozens of bombs.

With such a large number of bombs, it is absolutely impossible to carry out a small mission.

No wonder Bourbon was interested in Gin's mission.

Gin thought about it for a moment and decided not to go against the will of "that adult".

"I'm in Nishitama City, about to blow up the twin skyscrapers."

"Okay, if there's nothing else, I'll hang up first..."

"Wait a minute!" Vermouth hurriedly stopped her and continued, "Why did you want to blow up that building? Is it related to the organization?"

Gin gritted his teeth impatiently. "A computer engineer who defected from the organization once worked here. Although I eliminated him, the organizational information he stole may still be stored in the database of this building."

"And that traitor, Shirley might be in this building right now..."

When she heard the code name "Shirley", a fierce look flashed across Vermouth's face.

"One last thing. Are you and Vodka still going on the mission? Or is there someone else?"

"Hmph... there's also a nobody who just joined the organization."

Nobody, Vermouth knew that this was the name for the peripheral members without code names.

"How could you possibly use a peripheral member to carry out such an important mission? Who is he?"

Gin snorted again, "He was introduced by 'that gentleman', a foreigner named 'Michael Bay', but he's just a consumable..."

Michael Bay...

When she heard this name, a sense of déjà vu flashed through Vermouth's mind, as if she had heard this name somewhere before.

correct!

It was at the memorial service at the Beihu Hotel!

"Are you sure his name is 'Michael Bay'?"

"Yes." Gin's tone was a little doubtful, "Why? You know him?"

Vermouth immediately replied seriously, "I think I met him once, at the memorial service at the Beihu Hotel last time."

"you sure?"

"Yes." Belmode said in a firm tone, "That time, 'that gentleman' asked me to support Pisco. At the memorial service, I met a man named 'Michael Bay' who claimed to be a film director."

"Film director?"

Gin thought about it and realized that this "organization partner" he knew did look a bit like a person working in the film and television industry, specializing in playing foreign old men who couldn't speak Japanese.

"What other characteristics does he have? Tell me in detail!"

Vermouth's words aroused Gin's strong interest, one could even say it was a kind of obsession.

What exactly is this old foreign identity?

Vermouth continued: "He claimed to be an unknown low-budget film director who was very fond of shooting large scenes and said that 'art is explosion'..."

“Art is explosion?”

Gin frowned. Although he felt that this line had a bit of crazy temperament, it seemed somewhat similar to the "organization accomplices" he knew.

That "accomplice of the organization" also exuded the temperament of a mad artist as soon as he got the pistol, as if he had some kind of almost pathological obsession with firearms.

Could it be... that they are really the same person?

If this is true, Gin also understands what it means.

A new member who should have just joined the organization happened to appear in an important mission previously carried out by the organization.

If this is not a coincidence, then this person has been a member of the invisible organization from the beginning!

The rank of this veteran member is so high that even high-ranking members of the organization like himself and Vermouth are unaware of his existence!

As far as Gin knows, the second-in-command of the organization is currently Rum.

But he had seen all kinds of Rum, not including this foreign old man.

And most importantly, Rum is impatient.

That day, he was hanging out in the air like "Michael Bay" on the top floor of the apartment building for five hours. With Rum's impatience, he would have given up long ago.

If it was Rum, there would be no need to lurk around him so carefully.

Introduced by "that adult"...

Not rum...

That can only be a senior member who is one step higher than Rum and directly reports to "that lord"!

……

At this moment, Vermouth on the other end of the phone was also thinking.

Now thinking back, how could an ordinary third-rate film director be qualified to be invited to attend Director Sakamaki's memorial service overseas?

But if the person behind him is "that adult", then it all makes sense.

Although "that adult" nominally arranged for him to assist Pisco, he actually arranged for another member of the organization.

This time I thought the boss was on the third floor, but actually the boss was on the fifth floor!

Why do we need to arrange one more person?

Vermouth thought about it and came up with a very likely answer.

In recent years, the scope of the organization's activities has become increasingly larger, and "that adult" has run out of energy and cannot take care of many aspects of things.

This has led to many senior executives in organizations having enormous power in making decisions on many matters, and they often act first and report later.

A typical example of this is Gin, who kills people without blinking an eye and has the final say on things like blowing up skyscrapers.

There is also Pisco, who used the strength of the organization to climb to a high position, but began to slack off by relying on his seniority.

No leader of an organization wants to see power fall into the wrong hands.

Therefore, "that Lord" secretly sent a close confidant to supervise the actions of all the top leaders of the organization.

When she was on a mission at the Beihu Hotel before, Vermouth was still wondering why "that adult" suddenly asked her to convey the order to execute Pisco, and she even knew that some media had uploaded photos of Pisco shooting.

Logically speaking, "that adult" who is busy with all kinds of affairs should not pay attention to such details.

It now seems that it was this "Michael Bay" who tipped off "the Lord" and made him decide to execute Pisco.

It seems that this "Michael Bay"'s position in the organization is equivalent to that of a "secret performance evaluator" sent by the company's top management to evaluate the work of the company's senior management.

The organization has grown to a size far beyond that of a multinational corporation, so it wouldn't be surprising if the boss made such an arrangement.

It seems I have to be careful next time. If he finds out about my Angel...

As a member of the organization's senior management, Vermouth also has a selfish desire not to be discovered by the "secret performance evaluator."

……

"Ahem... Do you have anything else to say?" Gin broke the silence first.

"No more..." Vermouth replied.

The two hung up the phone on each other.

Vodka came over and reported, "I just cracked the police's internal communication. It seems that a woman has died, and the police are conducting an on-site investigation."

"Once the investigation begins, our bomb may be discovered..."

"Should we detonate all the bombs now?"