Chapter 210 The Discovery of Bourbon
◎Day 13 of the Highway Survival Game!◎
It was also during that face-to-face confrontation that Bourbon obtained a lot of information from the intelligence provided to him by Shuichi Akai regarding the cause and effect of his father's disappearance. Bourbon also gradually gained the trust of his superior, Manager Kuroda, due to his outstanding performance during his undercover work in the organization.
After he was promoted to head of Group Zero, he had a private conversation with him about the organization's intelligence that Manager Kuroda knew. This led Bourbon to know about the hotel incident related to the organization from Manager Kuroda's perspective 17 years ago, even before the incident in Scotland.
He just didn't expect that Shuichi Akai's father was also involved in the incident that caused Administrator Kuroda to be in a vegetative state for ten years. Bourbon was able to investigate information such as Shuichi Akai and Jodie being ex-boyfriend and girlfriend.
Apart from the information about Akai Tsutomu recorded within the organization, no other information about Akai Shuichi's father could be found. Naturally, there was no information about the reason why the father clashed with the organization, which was related to the case that Manager Kuroda encountered at the hotel.
This information piqued Bourbon's interest considerably, and he also had a hunch that the disappearance of Akai Tsutomu might conceal the true truth behind the future triggered by the 'Silver Bullet'...
He himself began to take this matter seriously, and after the last train incident, the organization's boss seemed to be interested in information related to Akai Tsutomu and APTX4869, and assigned him some related tasks.
In the past year, besides completing the task that Rum instructed him to investigate how deeply Kogoro Mouri was involved in the organization, he also secretly investigated information related to the disappearance of Tsutomu Akai.
Over the course of a year, through gathering relevant intelligence from various parties and conducting personal investigations abroad, little information was found regarding Akai Tsutomu. The only information found was that 34 incidents involving various forms of sabotage occurred in the United States 17 years ago, suspected to be related to research institutes or laboratories.
Eleven of these occurred within a few months of the deaths of Amanda and Koji Haneda, while only one occurred within a few days of the date on which Shuichi Akai provided him with the last message Tsutomu Akai sent to his family, indicating that they should go into hiding.
It was a major fire at a research institute in Los Angeles that destroyed the entire institute. The cause of the fire is unknown, and all the researchers perished.
Furthermore, investigations into the surrounding area and those who had contact with the research institute revealed no trace of anyone resembling Akai Tsutomu in that area. After all, for a veteran agent like him, concealing his whereabouts was child's play.
He couldn't even find any trace of Akai Tsutomu's investigation at the hotel where the incident occurred. However, the trip to the United States wasn't entirely fruitless. Although he didn't find any information about Akai Tsutomu, he did find some other noteworthy intelligence.
That was 17 years ago, when Kuroda, the manager, received orders from his superiors to come to the United States as a chess enthusiast to participate in an amateur tournament, and there were some things that bothered him that he secretly met with Amanda, a popular presidential candidate in the United States.
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According to his investigation, after the incident involving Amanda, a leading U.S. presidential candidate 17 years ago, the largest amount of campaign sponsorship received by the newly elected U.S. president came from a brilliant pharmaceutical research company.
Bright Dreams is one of the largest research-based biopharmaceutical companies in the United States, or even the world, with research institutes in most countries around the world, especially in countries allied with the United States.
And this pharmaceutical company happens to be the one that the US government is promoting to develop and sell the 'silver bullet' in the future. Of course, such superficial information is not what Bourbon thinks is worth paying attention to.
Even the fact that this pharmaceutical company's research and development direction happens to cover the research and development of biopharmaceuticals to treat various genetic diseases, tumors, heart disease, immunity, etc., and that it vaguely has some connection with the research and development direction of Silver Bullet, is not what he cares about the most.
What really caught his attention was that this long-established pharmaceutical company, founded in the 1800s, initially focused on developing and selling drugs to treat various epidemics and depression. Coincidentally, it began to shift its focus to developing drugs for various genetic diseases, tumors, heart disease, and immune system disorders 16 years ago.
The timing of the initial results was even more coincidental, occurring just a few months after Shuichi Akai joined the FBI. In addition, the initial results were drugs that inhibited tumors, and subsequently, various drugs related to genetic diseases appeared rapidly and defied the norms of scientific research.
This forced Bourbon to agree with Shuichi Akai's reasoning. He was probably right; his father had indeed been kidnapped by some American force and was being held captive in a highly secret research base of the American pharmaceutical company, Glorious Pharmaceuticals.
Furthermore, he estimated that the person who captured Akai Tsutomu was someone who had infiltrated the organization's APTX4869 research institute with him to completely destroy the institute's research data. The other party must have secretly collected and hidden the organization's research institute's data.
However, the information the other party had hidden was not as comprehensive as what Akai Tsutomu had memorized. So, in the past 10 years, they had only conducted research in this area and had not produced any results until Akai Tsutomu's son, Akai Shuichi, walked right into the trap and voluntarily joined the FBI.
The United States' all-pervasive intelligence network discovered his father-son relationship with Akai Tsutomu, and used Akai Shuichi and the rest of his family to threaten Akai Tsutomu, forcing Akai Tsutomu to 'compromise' with them.
This Akai Tsutomu seems to be much smarter than his son, and he didn't stay idle during his imprisonment. He must have broken down the silver bullet research data he had memorized into various parts during the 10 years he was trapped.
After his 'compromise,' the researchers at Glorious Biopharmaceuticals, who had obtained the data, could only develop various drugs that seemed related to the silver bullet, but in reality, they couldn't replicate the effects of APTX4869. Instead, they could only develop targeted therapies to inhibit and treat various gene diseases...
Meticulous in his actions, leaving no stone unturned, and possessing a photographic memory, he can digest information over time and even analyze profound medical knowledge in his mind. Tsutomu Akai is a terrifyingly powerful figure, far more formidable than Shuichi Akai. If he were an enemy, he would be a major headache.
No wonder that after Rum and the organization's boss were exposed as undercover agents in Rye Whiskey and discovered that he was actually Akai Tsutomu's son, they both ordered their subordinates to report any leads about Akai Shuichi immediately.
Whoever kills him will receive a high-level reward. There are even rumors within the organization that Shuichi Akai, who inherited Tsutomu Akai's bloodline, will become the silver bullet that pierces the heart of the organization...
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He was extremely disgusted by Akai Shuichi's actions at the time, which had led to Scotland being pushed to the brink of despair. He felt that the organization had overestimated Rye Whiskey, thinking that all he was was a sniper with good deductive reasoning skills and the ability to anticipate the enemy's moves during missions.
Hiro and I could do it too, let alone the fact that he would carry out such a crude plan to capture Gin and expose his undercover identity in such an idiotic way. It's too much of an exaggeration to say that such a skill is considered a silver bullet to destroy the heart of the organization.
Now that I know so much information about Akai Tsutomu, I finally understand why the organization thinks so highly of Akai Shuichi. Tsk! A bunch of guys who only care about bloodlines are really annoying.
Of course, this is not all the information that Bourbon personally investigated in the United States that he felt he should pay attention to. In fact, given his inquisitive nature, if he found that Glorious Biopharmaceuticals was highly suspicious, he would naturally conduct an in-depth investigation.
What really concerned him was what he discovered during his in-depth investigation: that the ordinary employees working at Guanghui Biopharmaceutical were doing well.
Research-related staff rarely leave their jobs; those who do leave always encounter various misfortunes soon afterward, either dying or losing basic communication skills.
Without exception, all the former employees he was able to investigate had left their posts. So, it took a lot of effort and great difficulty to find some uncertain information among the belongings of a researcher who had once drunkenly cursed his boss as scum and his colleagues as maggots with his friends at a bar.
Through deduction and by deciphering the riddles left in the other party's belongings, he found a secret diary in the sewers of a homeless area. The other party had recorded some horrifying things in that secret diary.
The above initially records his joy at successfully joining such a large company, followed by various things that made him uncomfortable in the work environment, and the company's rules that forbid recording or disclosing anything about the research base in any way.
Ordinary daily routines were not allowed, and classified information was even more unacceptable. He originally did not want to violate the rules of his workplace until he discovered this research base, or rather, a major secret within this research base, during his work.
After witnessing firsthand the news that a colleague who was dissatisfied with this top secret, expressed his opposition on the spot, and insisted on exposing the matter, died "accidentally" the next day, he knew that if he couldn't go along with it, then one day he would suffer the same fate.
He understood his own character and knew that day would inevitably come. In order not to die in vain when that day arrived, he decided to create a mystery and hide the secret, hoping that one day someone with enough wisdom and ability would discover it and perhaps solve the crisis behind it.
From then on, he pretended to be a lover of songs and recorded various secrets he obtained at the research base in his handwriting with incorrect spelling of lyrics. Only those who could solve the riddles he left behind could decipher them.
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