Chapter 288 Sky Eye Intelligence System
“A member of the Makino family’s side branch?” Makino was slightly stunned when he heard this question.

He originally thought that Kudo Yusaku had called him here because he had found out information about the Black Organization or the Ooka Family, but he didn’t expect Kudo Yusaku to ask this.

After a brief recollection, Makino slowly shook his head and said, “I still have some impression of some of them, but I haven’t contacted them for a few years. Yusaku-nii, why are you asking this?”

Kudo Yusaku nodded and said, “My friend from Interpol told me before that they are working together with Europol to advance a mission. They plan to build a large ocean facility – an ocean buoy.

The system inside can be used to connect the surveillance owned by police around the world to more quickly find and lock in those transnational criminals who are difficult to arrest.”

At this point, Kudo Yusaku subconsciously lowered his voice: “The construction of that marine facility is almost finished. The address is near Hachijojima Island in Tokyo. As for the top manager of that marine facility, it is a man named Makino Yosuke.”

After hearing this, Makino also knew why Kudo Yusaku asked him that question just now.

When he heard Kudo Yusaku mention “large-scale marine facilities”, he roughly guessed what it meant.

Although he didn’t know how Kudo Yusaku knew that “Makino Yosuke” was a member of their family’s side branch, he did have some impression of this name.

To be precise, Makino Yosuke is indeed a collateral member of the Makino family, but he has only heard of the name and has never seen this person in person.

It can even be said that if Kudo Yusaku did not put the name “Makino Yosuke” together with “Ocean Buoy”, he would not be able to remember who this guy was at all.

After thinking for a while, Makino nodded and said, “Indeed, there is such a person, but I have never seen him.”

Kudo Yusaku chuckled and said, “It’s okay, it’s not important. I just suddenly remembered that I forgot to tell you about this last time. My friend happened to have worked with this man named Makino Yosuke, so he knew all this.

When the facility is completed, the Metropolitan Police Department will definitely take action. If you have the chance, you can go and visit it. I think their facility may be able to help us find the whereabouts of the members of the Black Organization and pull those guys out of the darkness. “

Before Makino could speak, Yukiko suddenly interrupted Kudo Yusaku and said, “Wait, Yusaku, if that facility is really that powerful, wouldn’t it have been targeted by the Black Organization long ago?
I remember you said before that the Black Organization may have undercover agents and informants in many intelligence organizations. If that’s the case, then this system developed by Interpol and Europol may have been targeted by those guys a long time ago, right?”

Kudo Yusaku: “!”

Kudo Yusaku was silent for a moment, then turned his head and looked at Yukiko with surprise, as if he didn’t expect that his wife could think of this.

“Yusaku! What’s that look in your eyes? Huh?!” After seeing Kudo Yusaku’s gaze, Yukiko immediately pricked up her eyes.

……

A few days later in the afternoon, in the laboratory of Dr. Agasa’s home.

Makino and Dr. Agasa looked at the screen in front of them, their eyes filled with joy.

All the second-phase private satellites were successfully launched and their systems are functioning normally.

At this point, most of the “functions” that Makino had originally envisioned could be implemented.

In order to thank Dr. Agasa for his efforts, Makino specially added an additional 50% bonus and some shares of the company to Dr. Agasa on top of the originally agreed ” billion yen labor fee”.

Although he and Dr. Agasa were no longer simply “ordinary friends or normal trading relationships” – Dr. Agasa even proposed to charge only a basic service fee of around one million yen.

But he is well aware of a simple truth – only when interests and emotions support each other can a more unbreakable relationship or alliance be formed.

What’s more, there is still the so-called “third stage” that requires Dr. Agasa to continue researching, and there is no guarantee that there will be other things in the future that will require the help of Dr. Agasa, “one of the best black technology inventors in the world of science.”

Not long after, after chatting with Dr. Agasa for a while, Makino said goodbye to Dr. Agasa and Aunt Fusae on the pretext of preparing for a “date”.

To thank him for saving Xiaolan and Kissing Eri, Maori Kogoro invited him to dinner many times and said, “No matter how many times I thank you in person, it is not too much.”

There was still a long time before the scheduled dinner time, so Makino returned home first and continued to discuss the construction of the “Sky Eye System” and the “Intelligence System” with Bain.

Thanks to the success of the Private Satellite Phase 2, many things that were previously impossible are now possible.

At present, Bain has formed a simple “Sky Eye System” using satellite and ground monitoring.

Although this was originally a function that Makino thought of for the purpose of “protecting important people around him”, with the addition of Bane, the applicable scenarios and depth of this function have undoubtedly changed greatly.

It can be said that anyone who appears on the ground and is ordered by him to be “under continuous observation” will be tracked and monitored around the clock without knowing it.

Rather than protecting important people, the “Sky Eye System” is more of a “Black Organization arrester” for Makino today.

From this moment on, no matter if they are peripheral members or formal members of the Black Organization, or important characters like Rum, once they are targeted by him, they will never be able to escape.

Simply put, this Sky Eye system is more than one level higher than the so-called “ocean buoy monitoring network system”, and the two are simply products of different eras.

In addition to the “Sky Eye System”, what Makino undoubtedly values ​​more is the “intelligence system” built with Bane as the core.

Although it is still just a prototype, as the number of satellites increases and as Bane “conquers” more places, the upper limit of this intelligence system will be much more terrifying than the Sky Eye system.

– Precisely manipulate information and news in secret, arbitrarily deploy resources and manpower and material resources, and even paralyze enemy communications and tamper with data and intelligence…

To put it in an exaggerated way, as long as he wants… he can immediately become the “king of the world of information and intelligence.”

By then, he would be able to decide the fate of the winery and other organizations at will without even having to personally intervene.

Thinking of this, Makino pinched his eyebrows and shook his head vigorously.

If this continues, won’t he soon become the leader of an evil organization that is even more terrifying than the winery? Although this evil organization only has him and Bane…

……

In the evening, outside a two-Michelin-star French restaurant.

After getting off the car, Makino looked at the French restaurant in front of him with a hint of doubt in his eyes.

No way… Is this really the restaurant that Maori Kogoro booked to thank me? It’s not an izakaya?!
——”Brother Makino!”

Just then, a familiar voice sounded, and Xiaolan waved and greeted Makino with a smile.

After seeing Kisaki Eri next to Xiaolan, Makino immediately understood the whole story.

He said that with Kogoro Mori’s style, he would never choose this kind of restaurant to treat him to a meal.

After greeting Xiaolan and the other three, Makino was led into the restaurant by everyone.

While Xiaolan and Kisaki Eri were chatting with each other with smiles in front of them, Maori Kogoro quietly walked up to Makino and whispered, “Makino, it was Eri who insisted on booking here. Don’t worry, I’ve already spent a lot of money to buy a few bottles of good wine! After dinner, I’ll find a reason to send that guy away, and we’ll go back to the office and have a few drinks~”

Makino, Conan: “…”

Not long after, in the restaurant’s private room.

There are not many French restaurants with private rooms.

Without a soundproof private room, they would not be able to talk freely about the previous case.

Obviously, Hibiki Eri had already considered this, so she specially booked this restaurant with a private room.

After everyone chatted casually about the dishes in this restaurant, Kisaki Eri sat up straight and looked at Makino across from her with a serious face:
“Makino, although Xiaolan and the others may have already expressed their gratitude to you, I still want to thank you in person again! If it weren’t for you, Xiaolan, I… and that guy would probably…”

Having said this, Kisaki Eri bowed slightly to express her gratitude.

Xiaolan, Maori Kogoro and even Conan on the side made similar gestures, leaning over and looking at Makino with gratitude.

Seeing this, Makino glanced at Conan beside him, waved his hand and said with a smile: “Sister Eri, you are really making a fuss out of nothing. Even without my help, you will be fine~”

Although he cannot say it explicitly, with Conan, the veritable “God of Death”, and Xiaolan, the “Goddess of Luck” who has both great luck and strength, even if he does not take action, Xiaolan and the others will probably be able to escape danger in the end, but it just won’t be so soon.

However, in the eyes of Kisaki Eri and others, Makino was just being humble and didn’t want them to feel too grateful or indebted.

After thanking Makino again, Kisaki Eri changed the subject: “The criminal who kidnapped Xiaolan and me is called Junko Koizumi. I hadn’t seen her for several years, so I didn’t recognize her at the time.

She was related to a lawsuit I took three years ago. In that lawsuit, my employer was the victim’s parents. Their son “Hirota Nagasawa” was pushed onto the train track by his college classmate “Hiroshi Koizumi” and died on the spot. Junko Koizumi was the mother of the murderer, Hikaru Koizumi.

There was nothing suspicious about the case. Whether it was the surveillance cameras in the station or the testimonies of the people around and the classmates and friends of the two, they all proved that Koizumi Hikaru had been “bullying” the victim, Nagasawa Hikaru, and even threatened to kill him frequently.

At this point, Hibiki Eri shook her head and said, “On the night before the case was accepted, Junko Koizumi and her husband came to my office with a large sum of money. They wanted me to help their son reduce the charges as much as possible in the lawsuit the next day.”

“Ah? But mom, aren’t you the victim’s lawyer?” Xiaolan frowned.

“That’s right. They want me to let the opposing defense lawyer win the case and try my best to help their son get rid of the crime.” Kisaki Eri nodded.

Hearing this, Xiaolan clenched her fists, and a rare look of anger appeared in her eyes.

A look of anger also appeared on Kogoro Mori’s face.

It would be fine if Kisaki Eri was hated because she lost a case, or won a case that she shouldn’t have won, but I didn’t expect this to be the case.

There are actually such guys in this world!
Thinking of this, Maori Kogoro suddenly turned his head to look at Makino beside him, frowned and said: “By the way, Makino, I remember that your previous criminal profile seemed to mention something similar, right? How did you know?”

Makino nodded slightly: “From the fact that Junko Koizumi was able to make the bomb on her own and the completeness of the plan, her IQ is very high and she is a typical rational criminal.

Such a criminal would not commit crimes “randomly”, her motives must conform to a certain logic. And you and Sister Yingli are a former police officer and a current lawyer.

So I guess the reason why she specifically included your family in her revenge plan should be related to her family situation.”

Upon hearing this, Kogoro Mouri lowered his head and fell into thought, while Kisaki Eri and Conan beside him showed an expression of “I see”.

Seeing that the atmosphere seemed to be getting more “heavy”, Makino smiled and changed the subject: “Anyway, I’m glad that Sister Eri and Xiaolan are okay~”

Maori Kogoro frowned and said, “By the way, how did you get kidnapped by that Koizumi Junko?”

After hearing this question, Conan’s ears immediately pricked up. He had actually wanted to ask this question for a long time.

With Xiaolan and Auntie Hibiki’s skills, how could they be kidnapped by a mere middle-aged woman? !

At this time, Makino also looked at Xiaolan and Kisaki Eri curiously. He actually wanted to know how Xiaolan and Kisaki Eri were knocked unconscious by a middle-aged woman who was not even capable of tying a chicken.

Xiaolan had briefly mentioned it before, saying that a woman asked them for help and then they were knocked unconscious.

But this obviously cannot explain why both of them were knocked unconscious.

Logically speaking, even if she “sneak attacked” from behind, Junko Koizumi could only knock out one of them at most, not both of them at the same time.

Hibiki Eri also turned to look at Xiaolan and frowned, “Xiaolan, do you remember what happened at that time? I only remember that Koizumi Junko asked us to help her find the key that fell on the ground, and then she lost consciousness.”

After noticing everyone’s gazes, Xiaolan blinked embarrassedly: “When my mother was helping her find the key, she suddenly fainted. Ms. Koizumi asked me to come over to check on you. I was very nervous at the time, and just as I picked up my mother…”

After listening to Xiaolan’s explanation, everyone understood the situation.

That Junko Koizumi deliberately separated Xiaolan and Kisaki Eri on the pretext of “looking for the key on the ground separately”.

She first knocked out Kisaki Eri while Xiaolan wasn’t paying attention, then used this as an excuse to call Xiaolan over and used the same method to knock out Xiaolan, who was anxiously checking her mother’s condition.

I have to say that although this method of “taking advantage of the kindness of Xiaolan and her daughter” is a bit sloppy, it still seems to be effective…

(End of this chapter)