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"It's obvious that Noel had been prepared. It wasn't difficult for him to come up with a bargaining chip that would convince the Metropolitan Police Department to cooperate."

The cold light of the computer reflected on the girl's face. Her emerald eyes reflected the dense messages on the computer. Then, she turned to look at the detective who came to her side early in the morning, but it was obvious that the other party had no intention of responding.

"What's up, Detective? Are you finally shutting yourself off?"

The swivel chair turned half an arc, and the girl looked at the silent detective lying on the sofa:

Conan, who had taken the semi-finished antidote yesterday, naturally still maintains the appearance of Kudo Shinichi. At this moment, he is dressed in casual clothes and lying on the sofa as usual.

But now that pair of long legs is no longer large enough to be accommodated by this small sofa, and they are placed on the armrest and then hung down. This posture is not comfortable at all, but more like pretending to be indifferent.

The two of them remained in silence for several seconds.

"Norco should have revealed all the information of the organization, and more," the detective continued, "Given his personality, he must have left other backup plans in the organization. But this time he was clearly prepared to die, so he would only leave these backup plans to the people he trusted the most."

When talking about "dying", the detective's tone was obviously a little stuck, and an unspeakable sadness lingered on him like a shadow. Haibara Ai naturally noticed all this, but for some reason she remembered the first time she met Noel, who already looked like he was seeking death.

However, to everyone in the organization, his behavior was more like an unreasonable act. Even I, who had a little good intention, chose to let it go after being confused and regarded it as a light existence like a prank. But who would have thought that in just a few short years, it would have such a weight that I feel heavy just thinking about it.

I'm afraid even Noel himself didn't expect this.

The girl once again glanced at the detective, who seemed to be thinking something, and refuted her own thoughts in her mind.

He should have known this, but he still made this choice and walked firmly in the direction he found.

So for me, who thought I was his friend, I should be happy for him.

"If you want to cry, do you need me to step away?"

The detective, who didn't know whether his EQ was online or offline, suddenly spoke, his sapphire eyes reflecting the unconcealable sadness on the girl's face.

The girl then rolled her eyes, and the two fell silent again.

Since the confrontation with the organization came to the fore, detectives, who were unofficial personnel and even minors and victims, were naturally excluded from the scope of intelligence sharing. It was not that the police officers did not trust the detectives' abilities. On the contrary, they were very sure that the detectives would choose to hide themselves and conduct secret investigations immediately after discovering the dangerous nature of the organization. However, as police officers, they did not want the detectives to be in danger no matter what.

The two minors, Haibara Ai and Hiroki, who had previously infiltrated the White Alliance, were unfortunately "ostracized". Noah's Ark even took the initiative to block messages for Hiroki, so that this man and the artificial intelligence are still in a cold war state.

"You said he would save the backup plan for the people he trusted the most. Are you referring to the ambush police officers?"

They had shared basic identity information and of course knew that the boy named Natsukawa Hikaru was the undercover policeman Morobushi Kagemitsu who had taken drug A. Naturally, they changed their names and understood that there must be a bond between the two that others could not imagine.

The detective was a little envious, and the girl's attitude was even more complicated, until the sudden sound of the computer brought them back to their senses. The girl turned around to check, and then was stunned.

"What's wrong, Haibara?" The detective straightened up, his intuition telling him that something important had happened.

"Maybe... the people who can be trusted are not just the undercover police officers." The girl's voice was a little dry, and then she couldn't help but curled the corners of her mouth.

The message begins with:

To the detectives and the lovely researchers, maybe you need some information~

——Noel

———

"Sure enough, that Silvani has already started to contact the top management in private," Hagiwara Kenji looked at the information in his hand and sneered without emotion. Matsuda Jinpei on the side suddenly felt that the other party was more like a villain than himself. Of course, he did not comment on this for the time being. At this time, he also had a document in his hand. After reading a few lines, he frowned and said:

"Researchers, haha, have taken as many lives as any code member."

Characterizing Silvani as an innocent researcher who was forced by the organization to assist in the experiment is like putting vomit in bread and feeding it to people. Disgust is still disgusting no matter what is mixed in with it.

"But there will always be people who are interested in what he studies," said Hagiwara Kenji, who already has a good understanding of the organization. "If Conan, Ai, and Kagekotan hadn't become elementary school students, I would have just regarded the pursuit of immortality as a fantasy in a fairy tale."

"If it hadn't been determined that the drug had a very low chance of success, it would have been discovered immediately and caused a sensation."

"So you hid their existence from the higher-ups," Matsuda Jinpei said directly, "After all, even if the success rate is very low, it has been successful. If you study these successful cases together, you will always find a pattern."

Hagiwara Kenji could only smile bitterly, while Matsuda Jinpei ignored him and looked at the message on his phone and said:

"That young detective is very unhappy with your protection."

Compared to Hagiwara, Jinpei Matsuda has a closer relationship with Conan. Jinpei Matsuda is a person who doesn't care about other people's views and external standards. After discovering that Conan's personality is quite to his liking, they naturally became friends. In short, for Conan, Jinpei Matsuda, who has a more direct personality, is easier to ask for intelligence than Kenji Hagiwara, who seems difficult to deal with.

'I'm sure you can get through this, little Zhenping.'

Kenji Hagiwara really didn't want to tell this detective who was bent on fighting the organization that he was not only guarding against information leaks to the organization, but also to the top executives of the Metropolitan Police Department where he worked.

What if it breaks the detective's beautiful expectations?

"I've explained it to him clearly," Matsuda Jinpei's fingers quickly tapped the keyboard, and under Hagiwara Kenji's stunned gaze, he clicked send. Sui Hu raised his head and said, "Don't always think too much. He's not stupid. He can't be that naive after going through so much. Otherwise, he would have asked the police for help a long time ago."

"You're right..." What else could Hagiwara Kenji say? He could only look at the young boy who made his own decision with resentment and bring the topic back to the main business:

"According to the information from Zero, it is clear that Noel has reached a cooperation with Silvanida. I am afraid that he used the identity of Ikaros to promise the other party something, but he will not fulfill it."

"And Silvani is not stupid. He probably agreed because he thought that even if Ikaros didn't fulfill his promise, he would still have the opportunity to study... or maybe he didn't believe it in the first place, so he started to contact the top leaders privately in an attempt to defect."

"I won't let him have this chance..."

After struggling to come up with this conclusion, Hagiwara Kenji said, and then repeated it again: "There will be no such opportunity. Keimitsu has already taken action."

"And a certain gorilla is here too, so we don't need to worry about Silvani's affairs," Matsuda Jinpei continued.

This topic came to an end, and the atmosphere in the office seemed to no longer be so solemn. Piles of paper documents were piled up in every corner of the table, along with many records of private investigations into incidents related to the organization on the floor, which were in considerable conflict with the official's earlier reports.

Apparently, the Metropolitan Police Department had been infiltrated and had its data modified long ago. Apart from the big fish found last time, the densely packed undercover agents who were not in high positions but in key positions also gave them a headache for some time.

During this period, Kenji Hagiwara felt a chill down his spine countless times because of the size and caution of this organization.

Now they finally see hope of victory, but...

"Xiao Zhenping, do you remember the first time we met that kid..."

"I wasn't there when you first met him."

"It seems so," Hagiwara Kenji nodded, and continued: "When I first met him, although I felt that he was a little strange, he was just a strange little kid."

"But who could have thought that this little brat would be so cruel to me."

It is shocking that he used his own body as a bargaining chip to cooperate with his enemies just to prevent the organization from discovering his connection with the police and thus affecting his own layout.

If Hagiwara Kenji would have been angry in the past, angry at the other party's self-deprecating behavior of treating him as a tool, but now, he can only feel the firm belief and the lost and regained human resistance revealed in every step.

You're growing up too fast, Noel.

It's so fast that it makes people feel painful.

———

When Grappa was thrown into Silvani's laboratory, Bermode just watched coldly.

In her eyes, the cause and effect of this incident were so absurd and ridiculous, especially the latest report given by Silvani, not a single word of which was credible.

Grappa, Noel, how could the students she taught be so easy to give everything away? Do you really think that she is the kind of teacher who won't teach anything because she is afraid of starving the apprentice to death?

If this is indeed his final move, it will be after his goal has been achieved. In that case, what will happen next?

Thinking of this, Vermouth put aside his pretentious serious attitude, and a hint of expectation flashed in his aqua eyes. He then took out his cell phone and slowly typed out a response.

/Let's meet. /