Chapter 299: Hidden in the Rice Flower
evening.

Although the scale and impact of this “Ocean Buoy Case” were extremely large, due to the involvement of too many “forces” and the fact that the ocean buoy had been completely blocked by the militaries of both countries, the workload ultimately assigned to the Metropolitan Police Department was even less than that of ordinary cases.

Strictly speaking, the Metropolitan Police Department has only one mission, which is to interrogate Binga, a member of the mysterious organization who infiltrated the ocean buoy.

Apart from that, let alone continuing the investigation, there was not even a symbolic cooperative investigation meeting.

Even without saying it explicitly, Makino and Minister Odagiri understood what was going on.

Obviously, both the senior officials of the Metropolitan Police Department and the National Police Agency intend to pass this “matter that seems to be very troublesome” to Interpol and Europol.

For this reason, Makino and Minister Odagiri returned to the Metropolitan Police Department after briefly visiting several police officers from the National Police Agency.

After coming out of Minister Odagiri’s office, Makino glanced at the time and then drove away from the Metropolitan Police Department.

Not long after, at Kudo’s residence.

Seeing Makino sitting down, Kudo Yusaku immediately got straight to the point: “My friend at Interpol told me that just yesterday afternoon, they carried out a massive operation, and the mission seemed to be related to a terrorist organization.”

Makino nodded and said, “Well, I heard the news too. And it’s not just those foreign organizations. Yesterday afternoon, members of the Ministry of Public Security and SAT troops in various places also received orders from above and were dispatched to carry out a certain mission at the same time.

I was floating in the ocean at the time and didn’t know what was going on, but what I can be sure of is that their mission target also seemed to be ‘a certain terrorist organization’.”

Hearing this, Kudo Yusaku crossed his hands on his chin and frowned, “Could it be that their target is the Black Organization…?”

This morning, after seeing the news of the “ocean buoy being destroyed” on TV, he immediately contacted his friends at the Interpol headquarters.

From him, he obtained information that was “bigger” than the invasion of the ocean buoy.

——At the same time as the ocean buoy accident, almost all the executive commissioners of Interpol headquarters were mobilized to carry out an important anti-terrorism mission.

Not only that, but organizations like Europol and even the FBI seemed to coincidentally be carrying out similar missions at the same time.

It was as if there was an invisible hand controlling all this in secret.

Although this matter has not been officially announced, it is said that the top leaders of various intelligence organizations seem to be busy and overwhelmed by this matter.

Makino glanced at Kudo Yusaku who was lost in thought, and slowly spoke: “The criminal who sneaked into the ocean buoy is still undergoing further interrogation.

Although we cannot find his personal information, he has revealed his name and part of his purpose for infiltrating the Europol base in Frankfurt and the ocean buoy. The most important of these is his name – Binga. “

“Binga?!” After hearing this name that was obviously the name of a wine, the expressions of Kudo Yusaku and Yukiko beside him became extremely solemn.

The appearance of this wine name at least shows that the destruction of the ocean buoy is definitely related to the Black Organization.

After thinking for a moment, Kudo Yusaku said seriously: “In that case, their target is indeed the system developed by Interpol. But why do they want to completely destroy the ocean buoy? For them, this system should be very useful…”

“Maybe it’s because they know they can’t get it anymore, so they want to destroy it completely?” Yukiko guessed.

Kudo Yusaku nodded slightly, then turned to look at Makino, wondering, “Let’s not talk about the strange actions of intelligence organizations from various countries… Makino, what exactly happened on the ocean buoy?”

Makino opened his mouth and briefly explained what happened yesterday afternoon.

After listening to Makino’s explanation, Kudo Yusaku’s brows became more wrinkled.

– An emergency notice from the Europol headquarters, an emergency evacuation order from Interpol and the Okinawa military base, submarines and destroyers suspected to be from the Black Organization, and the Okinawa troops that arrived at the scene in time to sink the submarines and destroyers.

If we add the information he got from his friends and Makino, intelligence organizations and official agencies around the world are carrying out anti-terrorism missions at the same time…

Thinking of this, Kudo Yusaku slowly closed his eyes and rubbed his eyebrows with his hands.

He had never seen such a “weird” situation.

Just as Kudo Yusaku was lost in thought, Makino looked at Yukiko and asked, “Sister Yukiko, you haven’t told Shinichi about this yet?”

Yukiko shook her head and said, “When I called him at noon, he seemed to be busy with a bomb-related case with Mr. Maori. He said he would call us back when he was done, but he hasn’t called us until now.”

“A case related to the bomb?”

“Well, I heard it happened in a high-end apartment nearby, but I don’t know the details.”

“Really? I was also wondering why he wasn’t here.”

“…”

At the same time, inside a high-end apartment building.

Conan looked at the cordon and the extremely unfamiliar police officer in front of him with a very ugly expression.

–

This afternoon, he, Kogoro Mori, and Ran were having lunch here.

Just as they finished their meal and walked out of the restaurant, several police cars suddenly drove past them at high speed.

Sensing the call of the case, Conan and Kogoro Mouri immediately followed the police car and came to the downstairs of a high-end apartment not far from the restaurant.

Unexpectedly, the people who got out of the police car were not the familiar Inspector Megure and other officers, but officers from the Organized Crime Countermeasures Department and the First Special Criminal Investigation Section.

The police officers from the Investigation Division had left the scene early in the morning.

For the sake of the famous detective Kogoro Mori, these unfamiliar police officers still revealed some information about the case to them.

Early yesterday morning, an explosion suddenly occurred in one of the residents’ rooms.

After receiving the news, Inspector Megure of the First Investigation Division immediately led a team to the scene and conducted an investigation.

There were three unidentified dead persons at the crime scene, and their identities could no longer be identified by their “appearance”.

Since there was no useful evidence at the scene, Inspector Megure and his team shifted the focus of the investigation to the person who rented the apartment. Based on the information provided by the landlord, they conducted a detailed investigation of the tenant who rented the apartment.

Strangely, the information this tenant provided when renting the house was false.

Not only that, after investigating the surveillance footage near the apartment building, they found that apart from the tenant with a forged identity and two suspicious foreign men in black uniforms, there were no other suspicious people before and after the incident.

If someone hadn’t placed a bomb in the apartment in advance, there were only two possibilities:

——Either the three committed suicide, or the two suspicious foreign men in black uniforms had an argument with the unidentified tenant, and the situation got out of control, and the bombs in their hands were detonated.

No matter from which angle you look at it, the most suspicious ones are the three people who were killed in the explosion.

Since this case involves a “bomb” and the death of a suspected foreign yakuza member, this case clearly goes beyond the scope of a “conventional murder case.”

Therefore, Inspector Megure reported to his superiors according to routine procedures, and called the Organized Crime Countermeasures Department and the First Special Criminal Investigation Section, and let these two departments take over the case and the scene.

Although most of these unfamiliar police officers had heard of the name of “the famous detective Maori Kogoro”, they were specially allowed to take a look at the scene.

But just like the results of Inspector Megure and his team’s previous investigation, there was no useful evidence left at the scene.

Apart from the bodies of the three deceased that had been taken away by the forensic doctor, the only things at the scene were the wreckage of a laptop computer and a mobile phone that had been blown to pieces, which provided no clues at all.

The police officers from the Organized Crime Countermeasures Department and the First Special Criminal Investigation Section all believed that the deceased must be a member of a foreign yakuza organization and that they came to Tokyo to conduct some kind of transaction with a yakuza organization.

Otherwise, the tenant of this apartment would not have used a forged identity to rent this apartment as a temporary residence.

As for the source of the bomb, the two departments have completely different views.

The police officer from the Organized Crime Countermeasures Department believed that the bomb was most likely planted in advance by a hostile yakuza organization.

The officers from the First Special Criminal Investigation Division believed that they must have brought the bomb themselves.

Seeing that the investigation was fruitless, and that this case was not an ordinary murder case, Kogoro Mouri did not plan to stay any longer and left the scene with Xiaolan and Conan.

As for Conan, he sneaked back after leaving.

As early as when he heard the news that “among the dead there were two suspicious foreign men in black uniforms”, he already had a vague guess.

Those three dead were most likely members of the Black Organization!

This would also explain why there was no evidence left at the scene. People from that organization never leave any evidence at the crime scene!
Although Conan wanted to go back to the scene to investigate more carefully, he also knew that these strange police officers in front of him were not as easy to talk to as Inspector Megure and others, and there seemed to be no evidence at the scene…

“Damn it! I’d better ask Officer Makino to help investigate…”

……

night.

In front of a single-family house next to Jufuku-ji Temple at 4-chome, Beika-cho.

Makino, who had already changed his appearance, looked up at the not-so-old single-family house in front of him, and a strange light flashed in his eyes.

Although Rum did not have any important information related to the BOSS, Makino still used the intelligence and information provided by Vermouth, as well as the intelligence he asked Bane to collect in the organization’s bases around the world, to successfully identify the “suspected BOSS”.

When he learned that the location that Bane obtained using the [Cross-Age Recognition System] and the [Sky Eye Intelligence System] was Mihua, he felt a little subtle.

The boss that Rum has been looking for all over the world, the boss of the Black Organization that Conan is trying his best to catch, is actually in Beika Town?

This… is it really the darkest place under the lamp?

No wonder the crime rate in Beihua is getting higher and higher. It turns out that in addition to the two death gods Conan and Maori Kogoro, it is also your contribution, right?
After calming down, Makino walked slowly forward and rang the doorbell.

After a moment, a middle-aged man with a hooked nose and wearing glasses and looking very kind slowly opened the door.

After seeing Makino outside the door, the middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then he opened the door with a smile: “Please come in, although I expected you to come, but I didn’t expect it to be so soon.”

After saying that, the middle-aged man nodded to Makino, then turned and walked into the living room.

Seeing this, Makino didn’t say much. He closed the door, followed the middle-aged man into the living room, and sat down on the sofa face to face with him.

After observing Makino’s face for a while, the middle-aged man shook his head and smiled, “As expected, you are the one who can destroy the organization I have spent so many years to build in just half a day. Your disguise skills are the best I have ever seen.”

Hearing this, Makino chuckled and shook his head: “It seems that you really want to sever ties with the organization, Karasuma Renya. No wonder Rum has been trying to find you for so many years~”

Hearing Makino say his real name, Karasuma Renya slowly closed his eyes and smiled.

After a moment of silence, Karasuma Renya put away the smile on his face and said calmly: “You are right, I do want to sever ties with the organization. Anyway, the current organization is no longer the organization I founded back then.

It has no use to me anymore. The moment I saw you, I was more convinced of this idea. Don’t worry, I don’t want to know why you want to destroy the organization, nor do I want to know how you do it.

Compared to these…Since you can find me, you should already know what happened to me, right?”

Makino stared at Karasuma Renya in front of him for a few seconds, then chuckled and said, “Are you talking about the thing about ‘becoming smaller’?”

Karasuma Renya nodded slightly, with an inexplicable light flashing in his eyes: “Yes, this is why I am not only alive, but also in this state. Seventy years ago, my two sons died one after another within five years, leaving the world before me.

The pain of losing my son, the awe and fear of death… At that time, a bold idea came to my mind! Why can’t humans compete with the torrent of time that represents life and death? Why can’t humans achieve eternal life?
After I had this idea, I immediately set about building a research team and used money, power, connections… everything I had to advance this research project! During this period, I also attracted many people who had the same idea as me to jointly advance this research project, which I named “Vahagan”.

The research did not go smoothly at the beginning. Although I invested a lot of money, time and even manpower and “people”, the project never made any substantial progress. At one point, I thought I would die before the research was successful.

But more than 10 years ago, my adopted daughter accidentally swallowed a drug that was the result of a failed experiment, and her body actually became smaller! Although I didn’t know what happened, I immediately asked the team to conduct a very detailed examination of her body. The examination revealed that not only her body size, but even the cells in her body had regressed to the level of about years old! “

Hearing this, a hidden light flashed in Makino’s eyes.

(End of this chapter)