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

Gu Qiao currently lives in Shibuya, in an ordinary apartment not far from the station. Many residents are single office workers, and the neighborhood relationship is indifferent.

Qingliu Binguang sat on the sofa. As it was very late, Gu Qiao did not pour tea. Instead, he took out two bottles of mineral water from the refrigerator, opened one himself, and threw the other to him.

"Thank you."

Listening to the man sitting opposite him politely thanking him, Gu Qiao pressed his temples.

Everything that happened in the past two days came flooding back to my mind...

……

Gu Qiao's mission this time is to confirm a transaction with the freelance writer named Hanchuan Long.

—A transaction involving a figure in the U.S. military that ultimately saw money transferred from one of Goldwasser’s accounts.

As the third in command of the organization, Goldwasser had countless bank accounts. Rum had been keeping an eye on him for years, so he naturally found out some of them. Therefore, after discovering that a former war correspondent who was currently a freelancer in Japan had been robbed of a huge sum of money a few years ago, Rum immediately sent his confidant to investigate.

In order to avoid alerting the other party, Rum specially borrowed Kiel. Ryu Kamikawa used to work at Nichimi TV, so it would not arouse suspicion if she contacted him first.

However, an accident occurred midway through the mission.

The day before Gu Qiao came to Osaka, Aoyagi Akimitsu suddenly informed her in a temporary group chat that the remnants of the zoo organization's spiders had infiltrated the Nichimei TV station and had met with Scoobing, which might affect the mission.

Gu Qiao had read the plot and knew the identity of Scoobing. She originally thought that the disappearance of Kaito Kidd would make the mission easier, but she didn't expect it to increase the difficulty from another angle.

Aoyagi Akimichi not only informed Spider of his arrival, but also directly told her the other party's specific identity. So Gu Qiao turned into an eagle, and when Spider and the TV station arrived at the art museum, she touched his body and transferred half of her vision to him, conducting undetectable surveillance.

She then entered the hotel room given by Kiel and met the undercover agent.

Rum was worried about Gin's men, so he didn't tell Kiel the real purpose and only let her contact her former colleagues at the TV station; Gu Qiao knew that Kiel was from the CIA of the United States, so she also didn't reveal the details of the mission and only reminded the other party to be careful of spiders.

Because of the transfer of vision, Gu Qiao was able to know what Spider did at the same time. At night, after Spider finished his work and left, and the art dealer Qian Jiang walked away angrily after knocking on the door but failing to open it, she went directly to the door.

That’s right, she was the person who entered the deceased’s room after the murderer and before the body was found in the morning.

Moreover, she controlled Hanchuan Long's body through the door panel to open the door for her.

The player's control over the animal messenger that he did not summon depends on the other party's wisdom. Gu Jiao can temporarily affect the five senses of living people by touching them, but cannot control their bodies.

But there are exceptions: dead people are allowed.

Gu Qiao didn't want to desecrate the corpse at first, but Han Chuanlong didn't open the window so the eagle couldn't fly in, the door lock control system was not connected to the Internet, the other spare door card of the room was placed at the front desk where people came and went, and the summoned animal messenger could only appear in the player's palm and could not appear in the room out of thin air...

Controlling the corpse was the most time-saving and least noisy method at that time.

Because Hanchuan Long was shot in the head, after he stood up, blood flowed down his upper body, leaving a trail of blood at the door and his bloody fingerprints on the handle inside, forming a scene trace that could not be explained by normal logic.

When Gu Jiao entered the room, the first thing she saw was the DV with its memory card taken away. When she was thinking about searching the room as soon as possible, Qingliu Binguang's snake appeared.

In the evening, he deliberately broke the door of the room arranged for him by Chairman Suzuki and asked the hotel to change his room. The ventilation duct of the new room was connected to this one.

Under the guidance of the little snake, Gu Qiao found the laptop that Han Chuanlong had placed in the safe. This safe was in the TV cabinet, and ordinary people probably wouldn't know there was a safe hidden inside if they didn't look carefully.

After seeing Gu Qiao informing Rum that the target was accidentally killed and turning on the computer to start copying data, the little snake spit out Hanchuan Long's mobile phone, pushed it under the sofa, and crawled away slowly alone.

Rum has been paying attention to this matter these days. He was very angry when he learned that Hanchuan Long was dead, and asked Gu Qiao to evacuate quickly.

When wondering what to do with the computer, Gu Qiao hesitated for a moment and ultimately did not put it back into the safe. Instead, she placed it on the sofa. Although this might shock the murderer, it would make it easier for the police and detectives investigating the case to see it at first glance.

After leaving the hotel, Gu Shao returned directly to Tokyo. Because she left in a hurry and Rum asked her not to worry about Kiel, she did not inform Mizunashi Rena. As a result, the female host did not know that the target of this mission was dead until she was summoned by the police.

What's even worse is that she didn't trust Glenn and didn't take the reminder from this second-in-command's confidant in the afternoon seriously. She still came into contact with the spider without any precautions and was hypnotized by it. She was almost identified as the murderer by the police.

Fortunately, this was eventually resolved safely.

……

After finishing his reminiscence, Gu Qiao drank some water and felt dizzy.

This year she was really exhausted, running around to gather local Japanese underworld forces, and giving tons of money to the organization... 996 is an understatement, not to mention that she sometimes had to study in the space. Thinking of this, she glanced at Aoyagi Akimitsu.

"What did you do at the zoo?" she couldn't help asking.

Gu Jiao did not forget that Spider was a member of the zoo organization whom Qingliu Bingguang met when he was an undercover agent on three sides. She always wondered where he got so much energy from.

His skill clone seems to be able to share the burden, but once it is released, all the fatigue will return to the original body, and ordinary people cannot bear it at all.

Although the zoo organization at that time was not as tyrannical as the winery, it was also a huge behemoth lurking under the ground of several countries. How did it get destroyed?
Aoyagi Binguang was drinking water. When he heard her words, he showed a reminiscent expression: "It's nothing, actually. I just want to find a reference to see how chaotic a criminal organization with internal strife can be."

"I let the rich businessman go, which led to the internal investigation of the undercover agent. The two sides did not work together. They hoped that the undercover agent was the other side's man. Even if he was not, they tried their best to put the blame on him."

He added calmly: "Finally, the conflict broke out after I transferred some of the stolen money to help myself pay taxes."

Gu Qiao felt that she had heard something incredible: "Tax refund?"

"Yes." Aoyagi Binguang said helplessly: "This is how it is in the United States. Even the president can only pardon agents for killing people, but not for tax evasion. That is a right only for the rich."

"I didn't want to be targeted by the IRS after I came back, so I wanted to pay the taxes a long time ago. Although I don't value money, I don't like to pay out of my own savings, so I waited until the opportunity came."

Gu Qiao was speechless.

She silently reviewed today's actions, and thinking that Kiel had already left the Osaka Police Headquarters, she casually mentioned another topic.

"I didn't expect Bourbon would go along with that ridiculous plan of yours."

Think about it, before she traveled through time, even if it was the daughter of a criminal, they would be cautious in their actions and were unwilling to drag the other party into it, let alone actively involve innocent people.

Aoyagi Binguang smiled.

"Of course he will agree..."

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the other side.

At the bottom of the tower, Kudo Yukiko put on a disguised appearance and stuffed her shrunken son into the passenger seat. As she got in the car, she was still muttering, "Really, Shin-chan isn't cute at all now."

Edogawa Conan looked at her with his half-moon eyes: "Haha, you know I've become smaller and you still want to pretend to be someone from the organization to scare me, is this fun?"

"It's all Yusaku said. I want to give you a test."

Yukiko Kudo could tell her son was unhappy, so she explained and then turned the tables on him: "You are also not at fault! You didn't inform us immediately when such a big thing happened! We didn't know you had shrunk until we asked Dr. Agasa!"

Edogawa Conan shut up.

Seeing him calm down, Kudo Yukiko calmed down. She remembered what Aoyagi Akimichi said when they met just now: "By the way, Aoyagi said you guys are very busy today, what's going on?"

"Nothing, just everyone set up a trap to help the police catch international criminals..."

Edogawa Conan roughly recounted what happened in the Osaka hotel and castle.

Yukiko Kudo frowned as she listened, "What a bold plan. Forget about Aoyagi, the United States is more dangerous in some ways, but why is the Japanese police doing this?"

Not the police, but the public security.

Edogawa Conan added silently in his heart.

If it was the public security department, it would be very normal to agree to such an outrageous plan that was equivalent to using a few ordinary people as bait.

After all, the justice of the public security is different from that of ordinary police. In their minds, sacrificing a minority for the greater good is completely acceptable, and they will even take the initiative to promote it when necessary.

Spider has brought a lot of men with him this time, all of whom are former thugs and killers of criminal organizations. Once they blend into the crowd and develop a vengeful mentality towards society, the damage they cause will be difficult to predict, so the public security will arrest these people in advance at all costs.

...Mr. Aoyagi probably knew this, so he proposed this plan, right? (End of this chapter)