Chapter 221, Seventy-Third Cycle (51)
【Sakura Team】
[Zero: It's April 1st, and this scene really happened around this time. I knew this memory was strange.]
But since it's a major event on April 1st, it wouldn't be surprising if something absurd happened.
It doesn't matter if he goes undercover and enters the police station in uniform.
Even though the police department had intelligence on undercover spies from all over the world, and the Black Organization stole it... I'm still furious!!!
[Zero: This is the twentieth April 1st event, and also the first time I've truly participated in the storyline. My role is quite significant, so it's a good opportunity to see how much I can change the plot within this April 1st event.]
They were unable to actively participate in the major events of April 1st, and their changes were limited; only the butterfly effect itself altered the plot slightly.
Only Hiroki and Noah's Ark entered the storyline during the sixth April 1st event, and they did indeed change many things through their own will. However, because they were still in the experimental stage and dared not easily alter the world line at that time, coupled with Hiroki's own will, the overall development remained roughly the same in the end.
This 20th April 1st event was the first time that Rei Furuya was truly involved.
Unsurprisingly, everyone connected to Rei Furuya can naturally get involved.
Especially Scotland, which replaced Rum's storyline.
Hiro: Yeah, I'm ready [laughs]
[Hiro: But Zero, you really told us everything, right? Even something as harmless as the baker stalking us, you should have told us! [angry]]
Mazda: If you have any complaints, you'd better confess sooner rather than later [angry]
Following behind was a long string of other people with neatly arranged angry emojis.
Rei Furuya recalled the things he hadn't mentioned: fighting with Shuichi Akai on the Ferris wheel, defusing a bomb just a second before it exploded, running to save people in a Ferris wheel that collapsed after being strafed by armed helicopters, and so on. He answered no without changing his expression.
Since he already knows the future and can change it, he just needs to avoid doing dangerous things.
This time it definitely won't be so dangerous or reckless.
After all, everyone is watching him and will be very worried.
Well, unless something unusual happens.
*
Rei Furuya has been inside for half an hour.
Shuichi Akai parked his car in the adjacent parking lot at the back, in a spot where he could see the white Mazda and the police headquarters building.
He didn't have binoculars, but the sniper's excellent eyesight proved that nothing had changed in the police station after Furuya Rei entered; even the number of lights on and off remained the same.
Shuichi Akai gently swayed the unlit cigarette between his fingers.
Rei Furuya secretly returned to the police station in the middle of the night, probably because he overheard that Scotland was sending someone to infiltrate the police station to steal undercover intelligence, so he laid an ambush in advance to arrest the person.
So here's the question.
Scotland most likely knows that Bourbon is actually Rei Ryouya, and he certainly knows how Rei Ryouya will react. Would he remain completely indifferent?
Even if he had always been more inclined to side with Furuya Rei himself, and his undercover identity was unlikely to be exposed, that did not mean he wouldn't harm Furuya Rei.
Conversely, based on previous intelligence, it can be inferred that Scotland simply doesn't allow others to harm Bourbon, but he himself actually quite enjoys bullying and harming Bourbon and those Bourbon values.
The plan to find an undercover agent was initiated by Gin, but he only brought in Scotland to cooperate.
In other words, this operation was jointly planned by the two leaders of the action team and the intelligence team.
Therefore, even Scotland could not hide the fact that Bourbon was an undercover agent at will.
Gin isn't so easily fooled.
Once the information that Bourbon is an undercover agent is exposed, no matter what Bourbon's previous status was... no, it should be said that the higher his previous status and the greater his power, the more dangerous it would be.
Shuichi Akai frowned.
Is it possible that Scotland, seeing Amuro Tooru's growing power and the increasing difficulty in controlling him as Bourbon and Furuya Rei, and knowing that Furuya Rei and his three fellow police officers were too close, finally couldn't stand it anymore and decided to do something big?
Could Scotland be using this as an opportunity to punish Bourbon for his growing power and increasingly intolerable behavior?
For example, directly using swift and decisive measures to destroy the police's undercover forces and cause the only surviving member, Rei Furuya, to lose the police's trust and fall into complete darkness.
Or perhaps you could simply sever the abilities of both Bourbon and Furuya Rei's identities, using your initiative and the merit of capturing so many undercover agents to save Furuya Rei's life from the organization's perspective, but completely destroy him and lock him up.
So, under such circumstances, who would Scotland send to steal intelligence?
He came in person?
Is she still Vermouth who can disguise herself?
But can Scotland trust Vermouth? After all, Vermouth and Bourbon had such a good relationship...
No, Scotland probably wouldn't send members of the organization who are familiar with Bourbon.
Since the intelligence report states that "people will be sent," it's unlikely that Scotland himself will participate.
Shuichi Akai picked up his phone with a conflicted expression, wondering whether he should call Rei Furuya. Would the other party trust him and cooperate to deal with the organization, or would they be wary and angry about his investigation and surveillance?
The current situation didn't give him much time to hesitate.
The once quiet police station was suddenly thrown into chaos. With the sound of shattering glass, a woman in high heels and a skirt nimbly leaped from the high-rise building, rushed to the roadside, kicked a panicked passerby, and sped away in his car.
The guards still standing at the door hadn't even reacted yet.
Instead, the blond youth who followed them out rushed into the car and chased after them.
Shuichi Akai tossed aside the cigarette that had been crumpled into a mess, stepped on the gas, and followed.
It was Curaçao.
Indeed, Curaçao has been under Scottish control since Rum's death.
Curaçao's situation is special; she has been brainwashed and, despite her great strength, she is not trusted by the organization's boss. She is simply a sharp knife to be handed over to Scotland along with Rum's troublesome affairs.
This is troublesome. Curaçao is not so easy to deal with. He should go along and help solve the problem. He absolutely cannot let Curaçao leave safely with the intelligence of spies from various countries.
"Aka! Well! Show! One!!!"
Well, even if Furuya Rei gets angry, there's nothing he can do.
However, in order not to anger people to the point of having a heart attack again, he should keep quiet and say less.
*
April 1st.
Nine o'clock in the morning.
The Dongdu Aquarium officially opened today.
It was a holiday, and the Junior Detective League members, along with Professor Agasa and Ai Orikasa, went to this newly built luxury amusement park.
Although it's called Dongdu Aquarium, it's actually a comprehensive amusement park. It's just that compared to other amusement parks, it has a huge aquarium, and its logo is a blue dolphin, so it's simply called that.
Moreover, they were more interested in the world's first two-wheeled Ferris wheel than the aquarium.
"Ferris wheel! Ferris wheel! Let's go ride the Ferris wheel first!!!" The children jumped and skipped, pulling Professor Agasa ahead of them.
Conan Edogawa, Ai Haibara, and Ai Orikasa walked behind.
"What? Are you still reading the news about the car accident that happened last night? Are you that concerned?" Ai Haibara found his reaction a bit strange.
"No, it's just that the photos from the scene are a bit strange." Conan Edogawa couldn't figure it out, so he switched the page to the photos and handed it to Ai Orikasa. "Orikasa, take a look at this watch. Can you see anything strange about it? Could there be something like a listening device or a tracking device installed inside? Can such a thin digital watch be modified?"
“You can’t tell anything just by looking at the photos.” After looking at the photos, Ai Orikasa handed the phone back to Conan Edogawa with a helpless expression. “There are a lot of these kinds of electronic watches now, and they all look pretty much the same. It’s hard to know what’s inside without taking them apart and examining them.”
Ai Haibara glanced at the blond young man on the phone who was serving food to a customer, and said with dead fish eyes, "What are you thinking? This should just be a normal electronic watch, right? How could there be a listening device or a tracking device inside? He's a famous mystic."
"It's really unlikely. I'm just a little curious why he suddenly started wearing a watch." Conan Edogawa couldn't reveal that it was Shuichi Akai's suspicion, so he could only use his own watch as a shield. "I was wondering if his watch has a similar function to mine."
"Ability comparable to Professor Agasa's must be the organization's technology. You'd better not mess around with it." Ai Haibara warned him, "The organization's technology is terrifying. Even as a researcher, I don't know how far their research has progressed, but it is absolutely terrifying beyond human imagination. It has even almost broken through the boundaries of science and reached the realm of magic that humans cannot yet understand."
Conan Edogawa recalled the few words left behind by Taku Itakura.
"What kind of software is it that was halted for the sake of all humanity? Did they continue developing it after Itakura Taku's death? What stage has it reached now? What would they do to affect the safety of all humanity?"
Conan Edogawa frowned in thought.
"And that saying, 'We are both God and the devil,' because we want to reverse the flow of time and bring the dead back to life. Reversing the flow of time probably refers to aptX4869, right? And bringing the dead back to life? Is it Pandora?"
Ai Haibara's body stiffened.
Conan Edogawa looked at her.
Orikasa Aiya stopped and turned around to look at him.
Ai Haibara lowered her head and remained silent for a few seconds before looking up at the azure sky.
The bird spread its white wings and soared into the sky, but after circling a few times, it eventually fell to the ground and was almost hit by a passing vehicle.
"Humans cannot defy the flow of time; if they try to change it, they will only be punished..." she murmured.
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