Chapter 219 Gin's Year
◎Day 13 of the Highway Survival Game!◎
Twenty years ago, during the winter, the FBI investigated many of the organization's secrets, including that the initial research on this drug had been completed, and that an application had been made to arrest members of the organization. The organization had arranged for people to silence all related personnel.
To ensure the organization's secrets would not be leaked again, he also began to move the organization's visible businesses to underground operations, and moved the research institute for the Silver Bullet drug from Japan to the United States.
For several years afterward, the organization possessed complete research and development data on the Silver Bullet and continued related research until 17 years ago when Tsutomu Akai completely destroyed the secret research facility, and the related research was once again withdrawn to Japan...
After obtaining this information, Gin naturally conducted a related investigation. However, as the third-in-command of the organization, he was usually very busy. Moreover, after obtaining information about the future, that man's paranoia increased considerably.
Often, on a whim, he would be assigned some inexplicable tasks, leaving him no time to personally investigate things that seemed incongruous. He could only send people to investigate instead. However, even though he couldn't personally participate in the investigations of some areas, Gin's gains over the past year were not small.
First, it was the fat pig that drew his attention to Itakura Takumi. According to his investigation, he discovered that the organization had coerced and lured him into developing a system called four-dimensional virtual reality projection.
If this can be successfully completed, this system could create a model that is indistinguishable from real human physiological characteristics. By collecting a certain amount of audio recordings of the other party as samples, the system could then be used to create a model.
The virtual reality projection model can be controlled through the system projection to make various actions and speak. It can be said that as long as no one touches it or has close contact with it, no one can tell that the other party is a phantom created by technology just by sight.
However, Itakura Taku died before completing the system, and the system he created was only a semi-finished product with near-3D projection. He also did not expect that it would be put into use at the organization's base last year, no, it should be said that it was three years ago.
The training system used to train the organization's members' shooting skills was the one that the organization arranged for Itakura Taku to make. This task was mainly handled by Vermouth and Tequila at the time, until Tequila was accidentally involved in a murder case and was blown up, after which his deputy Vodka took over.
Vodka was unaware of the details of the mission, and Gin at the time only knew that the organization had 'commissioned' Itakura Taku to make something, but he didn't know the specifics. He was only responsible for ensuring the transaction was completed smoothly.
After finding this out, although he felt that if the system were completed, the organization could use its visual deception effect to save a lot of 'work' troubles, he didn't understand why it was worth that gentleman's attention.
When Vodka went to make the deal, he was worried and arranged for him to go and cover for him. It wasn't until later, because of the information about the Silver Bullet, that he found out a lot more and realized the significance of that system to the organization's BOSS.
It turns out that after Gin investigated the matter of Itakura Taku, in addition to learning about Bourbon's investigation results regarding Akai Tsutomu and the Symbiosis Cult through Vermouth, he and his subordinates also investigated some other related matters.
It has been confirmed that the deputy CEO of the Belend Group is an unknown mole, and he has planted many people within the group. It is highly likely that the mole is a member of the Symbiosis Cult.
After all, those who were assigned to core positions in the organization's surface industry, Bellende Group, had all undergone background checks to ensure that their origins, upbringing, and connections with any country's government were unrelated.
Aside from government officials in various countries, there are only a handful of people who oppose the organization. Judging from the enemy's capabilities, the Symbiosis Cult is the most likely candidate to deceive the organization's investigation and place someone in a high-level position in the organization's core industries.
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Regarding Vermouth, even though he had already reported the suspicious aspects of her in the future information brought by the piglet to that gentleman, he showed no intention of getting rid of Vermouth and continued to trust her as always.
He also told him that Vermouth would never betray the organization, and that the future situation might not be as it seemed. He explained that Fat Piglet was not a member of the organization, and that Dalmo and the others did not hold high enough positions in the organization to have the misunderstanding that Vermouth was a traitor. He told him not to worry about Vermouth's loyalty.
At first, he didn't know why, until he was secretly investigating information related to Akai Tsutomu and discovered that his family members were hiding in a hotel and had to change locations from time to time. He noticed that an unidentified blonde girl looked somewhat similar to Sherry.
Given that she was clearly born after the deaths of Akai Tsutomu and Miyano, and knowing the kinship between the Miyano and Akai families, Gin assumed that the girl was the child of Akai Tsutomu's wife, who had remarried after his death.
However, after comparing the information with the organization's internal database, it was discovered that the blonde girl looked very similar to Akai Tsutomu's wife. Of course, it would be normal for most people to think that mother and daughter look alike.
But Gin is no ordinary person. With his knowledge, he knows very well that even biological parents and biological children will not have 100% identical appearances. If they look so alike, they are unlikely to be mother and daughter.
He had previously seen the list of people the organization used to eliminate witnesses with APTX4869 in the APTX4869-related materials provided to him by that gentleman, as well as the rule that one must wait on-site for 30 minutes to check whether the target was dead.
It was confirmed that the only target on that list who used APTX4869 to cover up their identity was someone from London three years ago. The organization's boss wanted to arrange for Vermouth to infiltrate the British intelligence headquarters to see if Akai Tsutomu had passed on any information about APTX4869's development to the British headquarters before his disappearance.
In order to determine whether her disguised infiltration was based on intelligence that Akai Tsutomu was still alive, or that he was hiding in the British intelligence headquarters, or that his family had close ties with the British intelligence headquarters and knew that he was probably dead.
Vermouth went to London disguised as Akai Tsutomu and fished for a few days. She successfully caught Akai Tsutomu's wife and, in order to keep her quiet in the crowded situation, she forced her to eat APTX4869.
After swallowing poison, Akai Tsutomu's wife fell into the river while struggling, and her fate is unknown. There have been no news reports in the UK that seem to indicate she has died, so her status on the list is "unknown".
Another person in the same situation as her is Akemi Miyano, whom he killed with APTX4869 four years ago. At the time, he was unaware that there was a small chance that APTX4869 would allow the user to survive the poison. In addition, someone was coming, so he had to leave immediately in order to avoid being exposed.
The fate of Akemi Miyano was not confirmed at the scene. In later reports, the Japanese police only mentioned that the female suspect who robbed 1 billion yen was missing and suspected that she had committed suicide by jumping into the sea. Her body was being retrieved.
Similar to the situation with Akai Tsutomu's wife, without confirming the body, the organization, being cautious, would only mark the person's fate as unknown on the APTX4869 user list.
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Gin only remembered that he had used APTX4869 a few times after learning about its effects. One of those times was when a famous Japanese high school detective was given APTX4869 after being hit on the head with a club.
However, there was no news of the high school student's death published in the newspapers afterward, nor were there any news reports related to his body. The information provided by the organization regarding APTX4869 did mention that the organization had arranged for someone to infiltrate the home of a high school student named Kudo Shinichi with Sherry to conduct an investigation.
Later, Sherry signed his death certificate, and the organization stopped confirming his life or death. Therefore, he was listed as a death on the APTX4869 death list. However, Gin was very suspicious of this record. Given his personality, he would not have known that APTX4869 was not a 100% lethal poison.
He would erase the target of the drug from his mind, but when he learned that there was a possibility of survival after taking APTX4869, and saw those ambiguous records, his cautious and suspicious nature would make him doubt.
He examined the gas chamber Shirley escaped from several times afterward, and from any angle, he couldn't believe that an adult could have escaped, except for that narrow space that could only be passed through by a small child.
Previously, I didn't know about the effects of APTX4869 and only regarded it as a kind of traceless criminal poison that Sherry was researching. Naturally, I wouldn't use the perspective of black technology to deduce it. But after learning about the effects of APTX4869...
Considering that the Silver Bullet will be able to achieve effects that even customize age, it is possible that APTX4869 at this time may already have the effect of rejuvenating. Sherry, as the developer, may have used the effects of APTX4869 to escape the gas chamber.
He had almost guessed this shortly after seeing the organization's intelligence on the Silver Bullet. He believed that if his reasoning was correct, the three targets whose fates were unknown, along with the defector Sherry, were all except for Akai Tsutomu's wife, who was in England.
The remaining three likely survived the toxicity of APTX4869 and suggested that the organization's boss use his power to screen all children in Japan. Unexpectedly, the organization's boss rejected this suggestion without hesitation, insisting that the possibility was extremely small.
That unprecedentedly resolute attitude left this 'cleaner,' who was paid to do the bare minimum of his job and never contradicted his boss, with no choice but to obey. [On the surface]
Even though his reasoning was logical, the organization's boss firmly opposed it. He wouldn't believe there wasn't something fishy going on, especially since he suspected that he might have been tricked to death by the Symbiotic Cult because of this drug. Gin naturally wouldn't pretend he hadn't noticed anything.
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