Chapter 109 Chapter 109 After the Undercover Identity is Exposed
Rum suspects Rei Furuya, and so does Kiel.
Olga didn't learn about this until the early hours of the next morning. She skipped classes that day. Lingling's situation was clearly more important than pretending to be a high school student.
Rum was definitely looking for trouble. As Olga sped through the streets of Tokyo, she felt a sense of unease. But it wasn't entirely because of Rum.
Why are bourbon and kil suspected of rum?
The story begins a day ago.
The morning before, Rum arranged for Kil and Bourbon to go on an arms trading mission together.
While the combination of bourbon and kilograms was a bit odd, Rei Furuya didn't object to Rum's request. He'd never done this kind of mission before, and neither had Kil, of course. Gin and vodka were usually responsible for it. But weapons trading wasn't a difficult matter. From cash in, to delivery, to walking in, the whole process took no more than half an hour.
In addition, Furuya Rei also wanted to investigate something, so he got in the car and went out with Kil, who also had no objection.
Initially, Rum hadn't sent Bourbon and Kil on this mission out of suspicion. It was simply because they were the only two nearby and had the time. After all, what bad intentions could Rum have?
The weapons being traded were a batch of pistols, or more specifically, the type commonly used by Japanese police.
Furuya Rei pulled into an abandoned warehouse outside Tokyo and engaged the parking brake. While waiting for the buyer, he unabashedly disassembled a gun right in front of Kiel, holding a component up to the light.
Sure enough, the police number on it had been completely worn off.
He thought back to when Olga was little and he had taught her how to shoot. Back then, the training pistols the organization had prepared for them were of the same standard, with the police serial numbers removed.
Thinking of this, Furuya Rei had to recall again what Akai Shuichi had said to him half a month ago - the pistol that Kusuda Rikumichi used to commit suicide came from the Japanese police.
It seems that there is indeed a huge loophole in the police system. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the organization to continuously supply such a large amount of drugs to the organization for so many years with just one or two undercover agents in the Metropolitan Police Department.
It was corruption, and it had to be collective corruption. Rei Furuya realized this almost immediately.
Kiel coughed suddenly. Rei Furuya came to his senses, reassembled the gun in his hand, and threw it back into the cardboard box on the back seat of the car.
Inside the cardboard box, a dozen or so pistols of the same make were scattered about, all brand new, buried deep or shallow in countless bullets.
The buyer has arrived.
This group of buyers wasn't any big fish worth noting; they were just members of the Nizan Society. They were just a local Tokyo gang that often took the blame for the organization's misdeeds. They weren't very powerful and were under constant surveillance by the police.
Fūya Rei pushed the door open and got out of the car. He opened the back door and together with Kil, he carried out the cardboard box containing the pistol and bullets.
Then the money is exchanged for the goods.
During this time, the members of the Nican Society showed their low-level thug nature and even tried to refuse to pay part of the money. As a result, they were pointed a gun at their heads by Rei Furuya, who then took out two metal boxes from the secret compartment in the trunk of the car they drove.
In the empty abandoned warehouse, Kil opened the metal boxes one by one, confirmed the amount and authenticity of the cash, then nodded to Fūya Zero and moved the boxes one by one into the back seat of the car.
Finally, Furuya Rei kicked the cunning, sneaky member away, leaving him lying on the dusty, slightly potholed concrete floor. Then, Furuya Rei drove away with Kiel.
The two of them were very quiet along the way. They weren't that familiar with each other, and neither of them was particularly outgoing, so silence was almost natural.
However, after driving through another intersection, Kiel suddenly looked at Furuya Rei with a look of scrutiny in his eyes:
"Why did you take apart the gun just now?"
Why? Of course, because he is a public security officer, he needs to confirm the source of these guns.
Furuya Rei knows that Kiel is an undercover agent, having known this since the Kusuda Rikudo case exam. But Kiel doesn't know that Furuya Rei is an undercover agent, as Akai Shuichi didn't tell her this important information, so now she can only rely on her own guessing.
"Why?" Fūya Rei stared straight ahead at the road, his face expression carefree. "Perhaps out of curiosity."
Kiel still felt something was amiss. But Bourbon was cunning, and no matter how much she probed, she couldn't get any useful information.
Then, they ran into a little trouble.
After completing the arms deal, they needed to return to one of the organization's bases to hand in the cash they earned. However, their previously planned retreat route - which was almost the only way to the organization's base - was now being stopped by a police car.
Kiel looked at Bourbon in surprise, but saw that he still looked calm.
Could he have called in the police for a surprise inspection? Kiel's mind raced. No, impossible. Even if he was truly undercover, there was no need to do something so easily exposed. There were a thousand more subtle ways to target the organization's dealings.
But they definitely couldn't drive forward now, as there was a checkpoint at the intersection ahead. By then, it would be difficult to explain the guns they carried with them and the many boxes of cash in the car.
"What should we do?" asked Kiel.
"Take a detour."
Bourbon said this and turned the steering wheel. The car made a U-turn before entering the checkpoint, followed by another big turn, and turned into a commercial district in a driving style that almost threw Kiel away.
Kiel managed to steady himself by gripping the roof rails. After turning several corners, Rei Furuya still didn't slow down; instead, the needle on the dashboard kept moving right.
Behind them, a police car was chasing them in the distance, with red and blue lights flashing and sirens blaring.
Although he avoided the inspection, he was spotted by the patrol police for illegal driving and speeding.
“Are you crazy!?”
They had arrived at a commercial district, the kind dotted with surveillance cameras. The speed limit in places like this was usually 35 mph, and in some places it was even 15 mph. But Furuya Rei was driving at a speed of at least 120 mph!
Although there weren't many people on the street because it was a weekday, Kil's heart still jumped to his throat when he saw Rei Furiya squeezing in between the numerous cars at such a high speed.
But Rei Furuya didn't seem to understand Kiel's concerns at all, and even smiled excitedly. As the car continued to speed up, Kiel looked in the rearview mirror and saw that the police car that was chasing them was far away, until it disappeared from sight.
She heard the voice of Rei Furuya:
"Don't worry, the license plate is fake and the car windows are one-way transparent."
The implication is that there is no need to worry about the police finding them.
But is that the point?
Just as Kiel was calming his heartbeat, which had accelerated from the speeding, and silently complaining in his heart, his vision suddenly went black - they were speeding through an underground parking garage - but thanks to Furuya Rei's speed, bright sunlight once again shone into the car in less than three minutes.
But the sudden darkening of his vision also made Kiel ignore the look of surprise that flashed across Fūya Rei's face in the underground parking lot.
In short, Bourbon and Kil finally managed to shake off the police and sent all the cash they earned from the transaction to the organization's money laundering base.
*
The accident happened in the afternoon.
The Japanese transit account used by the organization for money laundering was targeted by the police, and all related overseas accounts were frozen. Secondary intelligence about the organization's money laundering channels in Southeast Asia was leaked.
Before the transit channel was hit, the last payment was the cash obtained from the arms trading mission that Bourbon and Kil were responsible for.
Of course, it was just a money laundering account, so the financial loss to the organization wasn't that great. The real problem was that one of the organization's undercover agents in the Metropolitan Police Department had gone missing.
From noon to night, Rum tried to contact the undercover agent, but failed.
Finally, Rum lost his temper. He made the final decision and activated another undercover agent in the Metropolitan Police Department, a more secretive and higher-level undercover agent. He retrieved all the surveillance footage from Tokyo that day, selecting only those showing members of the organization. He personally stood in front of an entire wall of surveillance screens, determined to personally catch the "rat."
Then, he naturally discovered that Bourbon and Kiel had allegedly met Kuroda Heibei, the management officer of the First Investigation Division of the Criminal Division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, in the underground garage of Omotesando that day.
The garage entrance and exit were monitored by surveillance cameras, which clearly captured Bourbon and Kiel entering through Exit A and exiting through Exit B. They remained in the underground garage for approximately three minutes. Shortly thereafter, Kuroda Beibei drove out through Exit D.
However, since the surveillance camera in the garage was broken that day, it was unknown whether they had actually made contact. But after seeing this surveillance video, Rum's expression immediately changed.
*
At the same time, Furuya Rei also received a text message from the director behind the scenes in the early morning.
Due to an operational error by a temporary worker of the Metropolitan Police Department, the public security department, which had been closely monitoring the organization's money laundering account, had to close the net early, hit the account, and secretly arrested a traitor to the Metropolitan Police Department, one of the organization's undercover agents in the Metropolitan Police Department - Slivovitz (Plum Brandy).
The main purpose of Kuroda Heibei's text message was to inform Furuya Rei of the emergency and to remind him to be careful recently so as not to be discovered by the organization.
Fūya Rei stared at his phone screen in silence for a long time. Finally, in the small, dark safe house, he typed a line of words:
[Bourbon: Did you appear at the No. 4 underground parking garage in Omotesando around 11:32 this morning?] Read
[Kuroda: That's exactly right. How did you know? What happened, Bourbon?]
However, Kuroda Heibei waited for nearly ten minutes and still did not receive even a single word of reply from Furuya Rei.
At this moment, Furuya Rei leaned back against the hard wooden back of his chair, tilted his head back, and rested one forearm on his forehead. He closed his eyes and exhaled deeply, feeling somewhat tired.
He knew that Rum had already begun a vigorous surveillance check that afternoon. So, Rum would definitely have discovered his encounter with Kuroda Heibei in the underground garage that morning, even though they had only passed by each other without any interaction.
However, the final transaction before the money laundering account was shut down was made with the proceeds from his transaction with Kiel today. The organization's undercover agent in the Metropolitan Police Department was immediately arrested.
They had been secretly monitoring this undercover agent for several months, and today was not the scheduled closing time. Kuroda Bei must have considered many factors and was afraid the undercover agent might get wind of something and run away, so he acted so hastily and ahead of schedule.
There's no problem cracking down on money laundering networks. There's no problem catching undercover agents. There's no problem running into Kuroda Heibei on the street.
But as fate would have it, countless coincidences collided. Given Rum's suspicious nature, he would suspect that he and Kiel were almost a done deal.
Rum might not be like Gin, who would kill people based on a single suspicion, but in terms of difficulty, Rum was clearly several levels higher than Gin.
Temporary worker made an operational error.
Really... Furuya Rei rubbed his forehead. Sometimes, reliable teammates are really important.
Perhaps Kuroda Heibei felt that Furuya Rei had collected enough intelligence and evidence of the organization, so even if he was exposed now, it would not be a big problem. After all, in Tokyo, they could always pick up Furuya Rei and let him leave the organization safely.
But it wasn't the right time yet. Furuya Rei began to think about countermeasures to deal with any potential challenges and provocations from Rum. Now wasn't the right time yet; he couldn't be exposed, couldn't just leave the organization.
Soon, Furuya Rei received an encrypted text message from Rum:
[Rum: Target: Residents of 22 Beika-cho 2-chome, the wife and daughter of Slivovitz, a traitor to the organization who was undercover in the Metropolitan Police Department. Clean up completely, leaving no trace.] Read
Here they come. In the dark safe house, the pale light from the phone screen illuminated Rei Furuya's pupils, making those gray-blue eyes appear unusually sharp.
Furiya Rei read the text message over and over again, word by word, and finally became convinced that in addition to Slivovitz, the Metropolitan Police Department had other, higher-level undercover agents.
But that was all later. The most pressing matter now was to deal with Rum's suspicions.
Almost at the same time, Kiel also received an encrypted text message from Rum:
[Rum: Confirmed that the Japanese Public Security Bureau will transfer the traitor Slivovitz, who was originally undercover in the Metropolitan Police Department, at Pier 3 in the port area at 11:00 PM tomorrow night. The organization has decided to eliminate him, and Kiel will be in charge of the operation.] Read
Kiel realized that because the money laundering account was hit and the undercover agent lost contact, she and Bourbon were suspected by Rum.
What Kiel didn't know was that another reason why Rum suspected them was that they had passed by Kuroda Heibei in the underground garage of Omotesando that morning.
After all, it was perfectly normal for Rum to suspect Bourbon and Kil simply because the last payment through the money laundering account came from them. Kil had never met Rum in person, but she knew he was a suspicious and cautious person.
Kil hesitated for a moment and did not contact the FBI, but made another call.
The phone rang for a long time before it was connected. A pleasant voice came from the other end, but it was a little vague and the tone was not very good:
"It's three in the morning—you better be okay, Kiel."
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