Chapter 354

Fortunately, Conan Edogawa hadn't forgotten what he had said to Shuichi Akai. After seeing everyone off, he moved to the Kudo residence, where the two began a private chat.

"I didn't expect you two to run into each other today. It gave me quite a fright," Conan Edogawa remarked. "But now, Mr. Akai, you understand why I said that before, right?"

Shuichi Akai rubbed his fingers together, suppressing the urge to smoke in front of the child: "Indeed... it's obvious at a glance. But you didn't mention that he used to be a policeman. Why did he quit?"

At that moment, Shuichi Akai's mind was filled with reasons such as "violation of discipline" and "serious accident".

Conan Edogawa hesitated for a moment, then summarized the information he had gathered and said, "Because Mr. Hankawa didn't like some of the Metropolitan Police Department's rules, such as overtime, working hours, and having to write a self-criticism after doing certain things... so he resigned."

Although Mr. Hanchuan never works overtime and is always late, and he doesn't write his own self-criticisms, he is indeed unhappy to be a policeman because of these trivial matters. After all, in Mr. Hanchuan's words, it's tiring to make excuses.

This shows that Mr. Hanchuan's concept of justice is nothing more than this... but that's Mr. Hanchuan, and Conan Edogawa expressed his understanding.

When someone seems to be doing something inhuman, even if they live a normal life, as long as they don't do anything bad, it can still make people feel relieved. This shows that lowering your bottom line from the beginning will save you a lot of trouble.

Akai Shuichi: "..."

The reason was surprisingly mundane, but considering how proud Hanchuan Shenliu was, asking him to endure this was indeed asking too much.

Geniuses always have privileges.

It's all thanks to Conan Edogawa's comprehensive summary. Otherwise, if he were like Kenji Hagiwara, only picking out the key points and saying "because he wanted to sleep in," Shuichi Akai, who was just thinking about Potts, would immediately think that Potts was just as outrageous.

Dissatisfaction with working hours, in the context of the story, sounds more like a challenge to rules and regulations, which fits Hanchuan Shenliu's unconventional personality.

Language is truly an art.

Next, Conan Edogawa explained the matter of the crime consultant and entrapment, answering some of Shuichi Akai's questions.

The question was answered, but Shuichi Akai still looked as uncomfortable as if he had a fishbone stuck in his throat.

"This model actually succeeded..."

Conan Edogawa looked up at the sky: "It's because Mr. Kankawa's temperament is really strange..."

Shuichi Akai still felt something was off.

He had met many people with a dangerous aura. Many of the criminals the FBI had to deal with were extremely vicious, but none of them gave him the same feeling as Shinryu Hanchuan.

Even if it were the American Mafia boss himself, there should have been a proper negotiation, with both sides making demands and so on. It shouldn't have been like what happened just now, where the other side was so scared that they surrendered after just a few words.

Even Gin wouldn't go that far!!!

"A while ago, Mr. Hanchuan said he didn't want to be an advisor anymore and that he wanted to investigate the organization that recruited him," Conan Edogawa said worriedly. "I have a bad feeling about this."

It's certainly worth pondering what kind of organization would specifically recruit someone like Shinryu Samakawa. Shuichi Akai also understands Conan Edogawa's concerns.

But why immediately assume it's the Black Organization?

"On one hand, it's because Gin's attitude was subtle. That shot at the Twin Towers was so targeted; he definitely remembered Mr. Kankawa. On the other hand, it's because of me... I overheard a bit later." Conan Edogawa pondered, "I heard Inspector Hagiwara and Mr. Kankawa's conversation. Inspector Hagiwara said he was definitely going to do some shady things over there, and Mr. Kankawa replied that he was just observing out of personal interest and told Inspector Hagiwara not to worry..."

Because he inexplicably gives the impression of having an unfathomable bottom line, even though Han Chuan Shenliu has never really done anything irreversible, people always feel that it would be normal for him to have actually done something.

On the bright side, it's just curiosity; he took a look and came back. On the other hand... even if Hanchuan Shenliu really did something, he says he didn't, that he was just looking. Given his level of expertise, it would be very difficult for others to verify what he's trying to hide!

Shuichi Akai fell into deep thought after hearing this.

Based on his understanding of the organization, he would indeed be very fond of someone like Hanchuan Shenliu. Although Hanchuan Shenliu seems unruly, he is actually easy to communicate with and might even be very cooperative.

But if he actually makes contact with the organization, he might be able to extricate himself unscathed, as would his family and friends—

Conan Edogawa said with a gloomy face, "Mr. Hankawa also said, 'Orphans can do whatever they want.'"

Akai Shuichi: "..."

He's really annoyed by these self-centered, willful guys.

It's completely impossible to predict what they'll do next, and their thoughts are completely different from those of normal people.

However, since it's related to recruitment, he does have some ideas.

Then, the lone wolf Shuichi Akai, after asking Conan Edogawa some other questions, politely asked him to leave.

After that, he poured himself a glass of wine and sat down at his desk to ponder for a while.

Actually, he now has a very convenient way to find out if the Black Organization is recruiting Han Chuan Shenliu, which is to ask Botnis directly.

Regardless of how indifferent Potts usually is, he is indeed in charge of the Black Organization's recruitment efforts. As long as Potts can be made interested in Han Chuan Shenliu, he will naturally ask the organization directly if there are any recruitment plans.

The problem is, he's still faking his death.

Although he suspected that Potts might already know... what if Potts was just habitually toying with people?

He wasn't even sure if those ambiguous words were derived from cold reading, a technique commonly used in divination. He started to see himself in the description—Potnis's eccentric behavior really did resemble that of a diviner.

He had never consulted a fortune teller, and his knowledge of fortune tellers was limited to cold reading and psychology. However, he knew that many fortune tellers could use their skills to say things that made you feel like you were in a relationship, even without knowing anything about you.

Even though he was in disguise in front of Potts and didn't know how Potts judged people, it was still normal for Potts to be able to analyze some of his true nature from the disguise and summarize some elements that matched "Shuichi Akai".

Even Conan Edogawa, who knew nothing about the entanglement between him and Subaru, said something that made people's hearts skip a beat: "I'm worried that you and Subaru might be enemies from many years ago, and now that you've met, one of you recognizes the other, but the other doesn't."

There are many reasons to convince myself that he hasn't been exposed yet.

But to convince himself that Potts had recognized him, he only needed one sentence—that was Potts.

Botnis, who never makes sense.

Shuichi Akai sighed.

He was still unwilling to accept it. Last time, when the undercover operation had just started, he was immediately recognized as an FBI agent. He had already lost completely. This time, even though he faked his death, he was still recognized at a glance. Doesn't that prove that he is really no good?

Although Shuichi Akai is a person who can accept reality, he also has his pride. Before Potts exposes him, he doesn't really want to contact the other party to admit defeat unless it is absolutely necessary.

Besides, if they really made contact, who knows what Potts would want to use him for?

I always felt that dying would be more peaceful. It would also maximize my profits.

Whether the organization recruits information about Sukagawa Shinryu is not important enough for Akai Shuichi to risk his life for.

"...Whether Hanchuan Shenliu will genuinely work for the organization after being recruited is another matter."

With this self-centered attitude, it would be a miracle if he didn't become the next Potts!

Shuichi Akai's concerns are actually quite reasonable.

Usui Saiki is now willing to play the guessing game with Akai Shuichi to raise suspicion levels, but if Akai Shuichi reveals the truth, the FBI's value will be much higher than his disguised college student identity, and then Usui Saiki will not be polite to Akai Shuichi!

As the system listened to Usui Saiki scheming about how long Akai Shuichi could endure, analyzing the other party's mentality, it couldn't help but mutter with a hint of exasperation: "You've never been polite before either..."

"You don't understand, but Shuichi Akai does." Usui Saiki retorted. "By the way, remind me at midnight tonight; I'm going to do 100 pulls straight away."

As time went by, the probability of drawing valuable items for Usoppei from the daily lucky bags decreased, especially for low-level items, which were easy to duplicate. Usoppei eventually stopped bothering to draw every day.

At first, I would draw once a day, then I would save up for ten days to do a ten-draw, then I would save up for a month and draw on the first of each month, and now I only draw when I remember.

The system went from being initially apprehensive, worried that Bo Yezhai would pull out the [Substitute Doll] and thus stop spending points to buy the one in the shop, to having a more peaceful mindset—this daily lucky bag seems to contain a lot of items, but the signers may profit, and the system will not lose.

Even the suspicion system suspected that the undercover system had stuffed all the unsellable items from its warehouse into lucky bags, and that there was nothing of particular value in them, just some trivial things that seemed useless but were actually somewhat useful.

Usoya Saiki also had such doubts, so he had lost interest in drawing lucky bags. He would only draw one when he remembered, like a fortune telling, to see what his luck would be.

Therefore, although this 100-pull event looked grand, Bo Yezaki didn't even look at the system backend; he only glanced at it during breaks in the game.

Then he was blinded by the golden light.

Even the system gasped: [It's actually a gold card item—]

Please don't let it be a substitute doll, please don't let it be a substitute doll, please...

Under the close watch of the individual system, the golden light dissipated, revealing the true nature of the prop.

"……gun?"

Usakabe Saiki was a little confused because he had drawn at least dozens, if not hundreds, of guns. The real guns that threatened people and the model guns that fooled Conan Edogawa were all drawn, but they were all ordinary items, at most adding some points to certain stats. But this gun was actually a gold card level. What kind of effect was so amazing?

Is it possible to kill someone from halfway around the world?

He read the instructions with a puzzled look, and then gasped in shock.

"My God... the undercover system is so generous, putting all this into the lucky bags? I thought it was just putting in trash!"

A few days later, in Scotland, a group of people went to one of the organization's bases. As soon as they entered, they saw Saiki Usaba holding a gun and moving it back and forth between his forehead and temple, as if he was comparing something.

Scotland asked slowly, "...What are you doing?"

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This gun wasn't used for staged suicide or faked death, this article didn't involve a faked death, and it wasn't intended for Scotland (I can already predict the comments section).

Beyond that, feel free to use your imagination; I'm just eliminating two incorrect answers.

The ability to only reveal spoilers is a very useful effect, befitting a gold card.

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Han Chuan: Orphans can do whatever they want.

Akai: I've had enough of people like this!

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Akai is currently 80% convinced that Usui already knows, 20% clinging to a sliver of hope and unwilling to admit defeat, and unwilling to expose the truth due to vested interests.