Conan: I'm really not the mastermind behind the scenes

"This case is finally almost over..."

In the evening, at the FBI's New York branch, Judy looked tired when she left the conference room. She moved her stiff neck and let out a long sigh of relief.

The folder in her arms was thicker. In addition to the information on the previous cases, there were also scene photos, identity files and preliminary reports of the three deceased people today.

Akai Xiuyi walked out of the conference room one step at a time. He seemed to be thinking about something, and his eyes fell on a point in the sky.

Judy saw him walking directly forward past her, and quickly stopped him: "Xiu, let's go see Kamel, he should be awake."

Akai Shuichi, who originally wanted to ask the accomplice who was captured alive, stopped, looked back at her, and finally nodded.

"it is good."

……

Because Kamel was only unconscious and uninjured when he was rescued, he did not go to the hospital and was placed directly in the medical room inside the branch.

The doctor arranged a single room for him. When they entered, Kamal was already awake, sitting on the bed and looking at them in surprise - mainly watching Akai Shuichi walk in.

"That's great, Akai, luckily you're okay."

Kamal was so excited.

No wonder he reacted so violently, it was mainly because when Shuichi Akai went to the second floor of the factory to rescue him, the situation was really critical.

Kamel was tied to a walkway, which was made of iron plates welded together. It is quite narrow and can barely accommodate two adults walking on it at the same time, with a chair placed in the center.

He had been nervous since he woke up. Even when he saw Shuichi Akai coming, he first looked happy, then began to shake his head desperately, trying to raise his chin covered with tape, indicating that there was something wrong with the iron plate in front of him.

Akai Shuichi understood what he meant, and under Kamel's horrified gaze, he continued to move forward, and then——

"boom!"

"boom--!!"

The sound of gunfire and small explosions sounded one after another in a short time interval.

Kamel heard a cracking sound that sent chills down his back. He only had time to see Akai Shuichi's eyes widening, and then his vision spun around. There was an explosion in the corridor, and he fell forward.

Then he knew nothing.

Kamel remembered what the doctor said to him when he first woke up - it was Akai Shuichi who rushed over, grabbing the railing that was not completely broken with one hand and his chair with the other hand, supporting the SWAT team to support - face showing more gratitude.

"Thank you for saving me."

He recalled the scene when he was first tied to the chair. In fact, he had observed the situation around and below. There were many discarded escape items on the floor below the aisle. There were air cushions under some cardboard boxes. Even if they fell, they would not fall to death.

But even so, Akai Shuichi still rushed to save him immediately. Thinking of this, Kamel looked at Akai Shuichi's hand worriedly: "Is your hand okay?"

Akai is a sniper, and his eyes and hands are very important parts. If he pulls someone by force in an unexpected situation, will it cause damage to his hands?

Akai Hideichi's face was calm. He raised his hand to let the other party see his palm and wrist clearly: "No problem."

Judy had heard about the situation at that time, and she knew it was very dangerous when she thought about it. She did not accuse the other party of rescuing people, but only said to Kamel: "You are too careless this time, and why did you take Kudo with you? He is just a human being." Students, not even adults!”

Kamel looked embarrassed: "Because he said he didn't want to walk away directly this time."

"What?" Judy didn't understand for a moment.

"Yesterday at the Conservatory of Music, he actually found strange footprints in front of the abandoned concert hall, but his mother and Qingliu didn't notice it and urged him to follow quickly, so he didn't go to check."

Kamel quickly explained, "He may feel guilty about this. He told me that if he had gone in to check, maybe he could catch the prisoner on the spot, and there would be no subsequent cases..."

Akai Shuichi was thoughtful.

Judy didn't know what to say for a moment, so she simply skipped the topic, pulled up a chair and sat down beside Kamel's bed, and took out a photo from the folder.

"Although Kudo has already seen it, you still have to identify it - is this the man who kidnapped you?"

It was a photo of a gangster who was shot dead in the factory. A white man in his thirties fell on his back on the ground. He had several gunshot wounds on his forehead, chest, and abdomen, and pools of blood pooled on the ground under him.

His eyes were staring at the ceiling, a look of horror and despair on his face, and he dropped a handful of Berettas in his hand.

"That's him!" Kamel nodded quickly, and then asked worriedly: "He was directly shot to death?"

"Yes." Judy sighed, "With a gun in his hand and obvious intention to attack, of course the emergency service team will kill him immediately."

In other countries, unless the gangster has hostages or is doing something extremely harmful, the police will simply incapacitate the gangster and will not choose to kill him directly.

As for the United States...the police here are more martial and virtuous. Even if they only have a knife in their hands, they will shoot and hit someone in a critical situation.

Kamel naturally understood the trend here. He scratched his head and suddenly thought of an important point: "Is he the murderer of the FBI serial murder case? The doctor mentioned it when I woke up just now."

"The test results of the bones in the basement came out and they were confirmed to be those of the murdered detectives. His fingers also matched the pinch marks," Judy said.

Kamel was happy at first, then frowned: "Is the clue broken?"

"No, Xiu and Qingliu caught a member installing bombs in the factory. Although he had no tongue and could not speak, from his handwritten confession, it was determined that he was a member of that organization."

Kamel's eyes widened when he heard "organization": "It was really that organization that did it?! What else did he confess to?"

Judy looked at Akai Shuichi with questioning eyes. Akai Shuichi, who was thinking about other things, noticed her gaze: "It's okay, just tell me everything."

"He is a low-level member here in New York. He was imprisoned for planting bombs. He was released from prison a year ago. He joined the organization at that time and he happened to live near the factory. According to his confession, he did not know that the organization was planning an attack on the FBI. As an act of revenge, he only received an order from a member who had previously stolen the steam company manager’s car.”

Judy said, looking at the photo: "The member who ordered him is Aaron Lucas. Lucas's code name is 'Snake Venom Beer' and he joined the organization a long time ago."

When Kamel heard this, he couldn't help but interrupt: "How long have you been joining? Is this what the bottom person told me?"

"No, after I got the on-site photos, I immediately sent them to James at the headquarters. He compared them in the database and found that they were very similar to a recorded member many years ago."

Judy paused and pulled out another photo from the file bag: "Twelve years ago, the FBI captured traces of a codename member, and they worked hard to instigate her rebellion. Unfortunately, she was exposed not long after and was killed by the organization. "She revealed some of the organization's strongholds. The FBI immediately investigated a few of them, but others were a step too late and were destroyed by the organization in advance. One of the strongholds was not far from the bar. There was a drunkard who passed out on the roadside. When someone entered, the FBI asked him to describe the person's appearance."

Akai Shuichi looked at another photo. It was a black and white sketch of a snake. It was drawn based on the description of the drunkard. It closely overlapped with the appearance of Venom, but it was much younger.

The more Kamal heard, the worse his face became: "He is actually a member who has been a member for a long time. If we can capture him alive, maybe we can get more information... It's all my fault..."

Judy had to get up and comfort him: "It was an accident."

But after she finished comforting her, she frowned slightly.

"The data on the computer in the basement and his mobile phone were completely deleted. When the technicians tried to restore it, the implanted virus was activated instead... The encryption level of the bottom member's mobile phone was not that high, but only a few emails were recovered without any important clues. ”

Akai Shuichi was silent beside him, mentally reviewing all the clues and the content discussed in the conference room just now.

Aaron Lucas is a member of the organization. He has a job and even started a family. He took advantage of the magic troupe's tour to kill several local FBI agents and their relatives.

Originally, he had done a very clean job, but the FBI had not found him for the time being. The morning visit was due to another murder case, and his strange attitude aroused suspicion.

However, the deceased Crystal Crow who was found in the morning was most likely killed by him. There was a luminol reaction in the basement, and there was blood stains of the victim in the scratches of the pet dog's paws.

This young lady was not an FBI agent, and none of her relatives or friends worked in the FBI. During the meeting, everyone speculated that her death might have been an "accident."

According to her colleagues, she has no sense of boundaries and often breaks into other people's rooms without saying hello...so it is very likely that she entered the basement when she was staying, saw the bone wind chime and the corpse in the freezer, and was silenced.

Originally, the FBI suspected that it was the murderer of another serial murder case of women, and came to ask if there were any clues. However, an accident happened midway, and Snake Venom and his wife had a dispute - maybe they were dissatisfied with her husband for killing his best friend, or they just found out that her husband was a The murderer... In short, she was strangled to death. Because of her death, Venom showed strange emotions when questioned by the FBI and was caught by the agents.

He sensed that a large number of FBI agents were about to come and planned to escape. However, Kamel's driving skills were excellent and he got there before the others. The car happened to be parked near him, so he simply hijacked them.

"The abandoned factory was right on his way home from the magic troupe. Based on what we know about the characteristics of the organization, they like to use that kind of place as a meeting point... The bottom member also admitted this."

"Once the identity of his organization members is confirmed, the FBI will inevitably check similar buildings around his residence and workplace. It may be that with this in mind, he destroyed the factory before escaping. All the bombs he carried were used to make the house It’s a trap, so we can only call in the lower-level members who live nearby to help.”

Judy said this in one breath and sighed again.

"The bomb was taken from the factory. There are several boxes in a lounge on the first floor, as well as some firearms and medical supplies... Unfortunately, due to the hostage situation, a large number of rescuers rushed in to search, and there may be clues such as fingerprints and cigarette butts left behind. , all destroyed.”

It was speculated at the meeting that this might be the reason why they were not killed on the spot, but taken hostage instead——

The first is to create a trap that has to be stepped into, and once stepped into it, more people will be sent to hell. The second is that in case the bomb fails to explode in time, as long as a large number of outsiders are attracted in, the messy scene will also be impossible to search.

……

After confirming Kamel's status, Shuichi Akai and Judy left the medical room.

As Akai Shuichi walked outside, he was still thinking about this serial case over and over in his mind.

The travel trajectory is exactly the same as the previous case, the information in the database corresponds to the appearance, and the admission of the bottom members...Aaron Lucas is indeed the murderer of those FBI agents before. This is what organizations do.

But Akai Shuichi just felt vaguely weird.

Why did the cunning murderer, who they had no clues about before, suddenly overturn in New York?

It is unknown whether Snake Venom's wife is a member of the organization, but since she dares to make bone wind chimes at home, she must have taken sufficient protective measures. Why can an ordinary female photographer break in casually?

There was also the second case in New York, where the detective's Japanese wife was killed. This was the only case that was broadcast live on the Internet, even on the dark web.

That kind of behavior is more like a provocation than retaliation, exuding malice in a high-profile and unscrupulous manner, and the other party seems to want to provoke them.

Shuichi Akai thought of the victim's face.

She is about thirty years old, with long, smooth black hair, a gentle and beautiful appearance, a typical Japanese beauty...

——Somewhat similar to Miyano Akemi.

"Xiu, is your hand really okay?"

When I thought about my girlfriend in the organization, my ex-girlfriend who broke up with me because she went undercover sent me caring greetings.

Akai Shuichi said again: "It's really no problem."

They walked to the tea room and found that Kudo Shinichi and Kudo Yukiko had not left. This unlucky boy also did not go to the hospital. He was talking to Aoyagi Binguang.

"Are you going back to Los Angeles or Japan?" Aoyagi Binguang asked.

Kudo Shinichi denied: "I'll go in a few days. My childhood sweetheart is coming to New York soon - it's Mao Lilan, you met her that time - we made an appointment to go to a musical together, and there will be a ball game in a few days." …”

Speaking of this, he looked at Aoyagi Binguang with expectant eyes: "Teacher Aoyagi, will you be free in four days? Neither my mother nor Xiaolan are interested in football. If possible, I would like to invite you to watch it together."

Akai Shuichi glanced at Kudo Shinichi's expression and found that he had a good face. He was obviously just a sixteen-year-old boy, but his mental quality was even better than Kamel's.

Suddenly his eyes stopped and he looked at Qingliu Binguang's hand.

Aoyagi Binguang is also left-handed, and the shooting results left by his right hand are equally good... At this time, Akai Shuichi saw his right hand trembling slightly as if trying to suppress great pain, especially the index and middle fingers, which seemed to have a black line wrapped around them.

But when people looked carefully, the black line disappeared, and Qingliu Binguang's hand just hung naturally by his side, without any trembling.

"If I have time, I can accompany you." He heard Aoyagi Binguang say with a helpless tone: "It's just Kudo, I don't want you to encounter another case."

"How can it be so exaggerated..."

The conversation between the two was very relaxed. Akai Shuichi did not listen to their conversation anymore, nor did he step forward. Instead, he said hello to Judy and turned back to the medical room.

Seeing him suddenly turning back, Kamel looked puzzled: "What's wrong?"

Akai Shuichi thought for a while and then asked:

"——The gangster who kidnapped you, does he know you?" (End of Chapter)