The staff member blinked, seemingly a little confused.
Not only him, but even Inspector Shiratori was somewhat confused.
"All the computers in the hotel's server room can connect to the internet..."
The final answer I received was one that left me feeling anxious and utterly devastated.
Yoruichi slapped his forehead with a "smack".
Dude, is your hotel's management system connected to the internet?
Why not just invite someone to invade?
But this obvious flaw—no, it can't even be called a flaw, it's downright ignorance! Apart from Akechi casting a meaningful glance at Yoruichi Toyama, everyone else present was clearly still in a daze.
"Is...is there a problem?"
Because Yoruichi Toyama's performance was the most intense, the staff treated him as a professional and quietly consulted him.
The distant mountains at night left me speechless for a moment.
How would I know there's a problem? All I know is that your computer is at risk on a public network. If you want me to explain, I don't understand!
Aren't you the professionals?
On second thought, in the era when he traveled to Japan, government departments were still using 3.5-inch floppy disks to store documents. Now, it seems like we're going back another ten or twenty years.
So, it's normal that even engineers responsible for building the company's LAN lack common sense in this area... right?
It seems that Mingzhi had gone through a similar mental process, and finally convinced himself not to be sarcastic, but simply said: "Someone must have hacked into your system through the network and deleted the surveillance video."
"Huh? This, this..."
"This is so high-tech!" Completely ignoring the atmosphere, the one who exclaimed loudly was, as expected, Hattori, the high school detective from Osaka Prefecture.
Mingzhi, who was staring thoughtfully at the computer and monitor screen, didn't even glance at him.
Hakuba Saguru glared fiercely at Hattori Heiji.
"What are you doing?" Hattori Heiji wasn't afraid of Hakuba Saguru and was even quite interested in competing with him, so he retorted on the spot.
"Now that the surveillance footage is gone, where do we start to find the person who planted the bomb?"
Yoruichi Toyama herself lacked technical skills, but she understood the principles, so she first poked at Akechi.
"Can I win her over?"
"It depends on whether the other party has experience..." Mingzhi answered subconsciously, but as he thought about it, his brows gradually relaxed.
"Probably not. If there were, why would they just delete the file? They could just replace it with another file, making it much harder to detect."
"Therefore, it's highly likely that the other party didn't even know to erase the traces of their intrusion, or simply didn't have the time..."
He kept muttering to himself, not caring whether others understood him or not, and suddenly turned to the staff in the monitoring room.
"Give me one of the computers in your server room that can connect to the internet."
...
Once inside the computer room, Mingzhi threw himself onto the computer and stopped talking.
Yoruichi Toyama knew what he was going to do and understood the principle behind it, but she couldn't understand it.
Inspector Shiratori and the others didn't even understand what he was doing.
The group had no choice but to withdraw, while those who needed to investigate continued their investigations and those who needed to report reported to their superiors.
Hakuba looked around to make sure no one was watching, then pulled Toyama Yoruichi along, and the two walked to the end of a secluded corridor.
"Look at those people in the hotel, who looks most like an accomplice of terrorists?"
Hakuba Saguru's voice was low, but when he opened his mouth, it was with such a bombshell question.
Yoruichi Toyama chuckled twice.
Even if you know the truth, it's best not to alert the enemy without evidence or even clues.
"That person" is unaware that Mingzhi is about to find out about his accomplices, or rather, his men's hideout, through an unseen means.
"Perhaps the so-called 'accomplices' aren't even in the hotel?" Yoruichi Toyama dodged the question. "Aren't there still native inhabitants on this island?"
Hakuba Saguru nodded, then suddenly understood.
"You see, you also believe those people have 'accomplices'."
“Michikazu said those two didn’t go to the island,” Yoruichi Toyama explained helplessly. “They probably didn’t plant the bomb.”
“There’s another possibility.” Hakuba Saguru’s eyes lit up when it came to the deduction part.
"Why don't you assume that those two people came to the island beforehand to plant the bomb, then left, and then mingled with the guests at the press conference to come back to the island?"
“I think the problem is,” he continued without waiting for Yoruichi Toyama’s reply, “that poison gas bomb needs a detonator to detonate, but the detonator wasn’t fully installed.”
"Assuming those two people are coming tomorrow... or rather, today, it would be too rushed to have them come to install it this afternoon."
"And another point, what do you think their purpose is? Even terrorist attacks need a purpose, right?"
Good heavens! Yoruichi Toyama thought to himself, if this reasoning continues, we might even be able to deduce who was targeted in the attack.
If they were to investigate the hacker from the other side, they could probably uncover everything about the other party without lifting a finger.
I often feel that as someone who spoils plot points, I have absolutely no sense of superiority over you academic high-achievers.
"...If it were an indiscriminate attack, they wouldn't have bothered to bring poison gas bombs to such a small island."
"So those people are targeting either the Lanze Group or the Schindler Group!"
It seems that Hakuba Saguru was holding back a lot, as he pulled Toyama Yoruichi aside and talked non-stop, revealing all his speculations.
"The purpose of planting the poison gas bombs was likely not to kill people, but to threaten the police."
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