Chapter 180 Failure to Stop Gin
Day 12 of the Highway Survival Game!
However, one thing I'm certain of is that, given Gin's personality, he would never allow his sister to associate with the Japanese Public Security Bureau, let alone meet with them in such a dangerous place.
Given that this is the organization's hunting grounds for 'the princess,' and despite their complicated relationship, it can be roughly determined that they are here for an organizational mission, or...
One could reason in another way: after the earthquake disaster in Scotland, he wasn't missing or unknown, but rather he had already been found by the organization and, for some reason, wasn't killed by them, but instead recruited into the organization as a true member?
But their every move is under the surveillance of the organization's members? And Granwitt and Dalmore are friends of the organization members who have known them since Bourbon joined the organization 7 years ago?
Bourbon knew long ago that Scotland had been turned by the organization, but only met him today? That seems to make sense, but he still feels that something is not right. It's as if this reasoning can barely explain the current situation, but it can't convince his intuition.
Perhaps we should rely on the intelligence of that Sherlock Holmes-like detective? If it were him, maybe he could uncover the truth? But today's matter is information I obtained through hacking.
Conan and his friends are currently under Vermouth's surveillance. If they contact her and she reacts strangely, Vermouth, with her keen perception, will definitely have a negative impact on his and Yukiko Kudo's plan to fake the 'princess's' death within the organization.
Perhaps Vermouth will discover it before I succeed? I'd better do it myself! In the end, even if I use Conan's intelligence to deduce, it's all just speculation without real evidence.
Didn't they just say Gin would be here in a bit? Luckily, before this operation, Professor Agasa was worried about their plans and provided them with a lot of gadgets to help them. Now they can finally put those to good use.
Thinking of this, Shuichi Akai took out a bug that Professor Agasa had specially made after learning from Kir's lesson. It could automatically degrade over time after being activated, and one side of it had an automatic adhesion function. He walked quietly to the door of his carriage, placed it with the adhesive side facing up.
Knowing Gin's keen perception, if a situation like the one just occurred, where he was walking in front and Bourbon was behind, even if he had altered his physique with clothes and shoes and made some simple disguises on his face, he would have been able to prevent it.
It was impossible for him to recognize his own body shape from behind. He and Gin had never gone on a mission together during their time in the organization. He had only been in close contact with Gin as Rai, which allowed Gin to become familiar with his scent.
That guy's inexplicably accurate intuition also sensed his suspicious behavior, so Shuichi Akai simply made preparations, activated the bugging device, and headed towards the carriage room that Yukiko had reserved...
As expected, after Gin arrived, even he didn't notice anything unusual after stepping on the automatically degradable listening device that Shuichi Akai had set up to enter the carriage.
This also meant that most of Gin's conversations with Hagiwara, Matsuda, and Bourbon were overheard by Shuichi Akai. In addition, the dungeon dimension's ability to amplify electronic signals meant that even the words spoken by the Wind Guardian were not spared.
However, even if Akai Shuichi heard what Fuusei and Gin said in code, he wouldn't understand it. Also, some of the messages were difficult to understand because the signal on Japanese trains is not as stable as in China, and the eavesdropping function would gradually weaken during the automatic degradation process of the eavesdropping device.
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As a result, Shuichi Akai did not fully overhear their conversation. He could only hear some background noise after hearing Gin scolding his sister for relapsing into her old habit of mixing up the lunar and Gregorian calendars. He couldn't hear the rest of the conversation.
Even so, what he heard made the FBI agent turn pale with shock. If he hadn't experienced anything unusual before, he would have immediately assumed that they had discovered his eavesdropping and were deliberately making up this fantastical story to mock and ridicule him.
However, before this, Shuichi Akai had actually experienced two memory hallucinations. One was a memory hallucination of his own death three years ago, and the other was a memory of two different Scottish fates that inexplicably appeared in his memory last year.
And two memories related to the outcome of his cousin Akemi Miyano: one is that he received a text message from her in the United States, saying that she wanted to try to break away from the organization, and if she succeeded, could she become his real girlfriend?
If he failed, he entrusted Shiho Miyano to him, hoping that he would protect her only sister. However, not long after, he received intelligence from his Japanese undercover colleagues that she had died in the warehouse of a Japanese cargo ship.
The other one is from the time Conan and I had another encounter on the bus and on the night of the full moon during the Rena Mizunashi incident. After Conan heard about me and Ayami from Jodie, no! I mean Akemi, he told me that she was still alive, but her memories were currently hidden somewhere.
After these two memories appeared in his mind, he had previously thought that he had developed mental problems such as psychological disorders due to the guilt he felt for taking advantage of Mingmei, because he had done many things against his conscience while infiltrating the organization. He even went to see a psychologist for this reason.
Now, after hearing their words, I realized that these two memory problems were probably the same as those encountered by Bourbon and Gin. It was the result of some causal relationship between Gin's sister and the other two members of the organization when they traveled through time and space multiple times to change other people's fates.
After realizing this, although he had many questions about the things he overheard about the game and the future, he never suspected that the organization was just making things up to fool him, an FBI agent.
Upon hearing this information, Shuichi Akai's first thought was not about the Yellowstone eruption or the crisis the United States would face, nor was it about whether the game had captured players in the United States or how many American citizens had been victimized.
His first concern was what would happen to his mother, brother, and sister if these things actually occurred 10 years from now? Had they been captured by the game? If they had been captured, how would he contact them in the future?
Or could they have done something in the past to change their fate of being captured by the game? Also, what does it mean that the two future organization members mentioned the time loop, and Gin's sister said that "she is more concerned about the side effects of the Silver Bullet because they seriously affect her life," while easily ignoring other things that don't affect her?
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He had heard about the time loop and the speculations, and he knew that even the two future members of the organization and Gin's sister could only speculate, and there was no evidence to prove the real reason for the time loop.
But what about the side effects of the silver bullet? Why can Gin's sister compare this to the Yellowstone volcano eruption in the United States, which would affect the whole world for at least 10 years, severely damage the environment, and possibly cause a mass extinction?
Another question is why Gin would tolerate Scotland? From what I overheard, he clearly behaved the way I had heard, and he was extremely disgusted with traitors to the organization, spies planted by other forces, and other people who were not loyal to the organization.
But his actions toward Scotland just now, rather than being an attempt to kill him, were more like a deliberate intimidation, an implication that he should stay put around his sister. I didn't detect any real murderous intent in his words or actions.
Moreover, in the subsequent conversation, the person called Darmo suggested that Scotland had helped them analyze the parallel worlds and the convergence of world lines. Gin's first reaction was not to question Scotland's reasoning, but rather to proceed with the next step by believing in Scotland's reasoning...
Just as Shuichi Akai was in a state of extreme shock because he had overheard these things, his mind was in a whirlwind of questions and worries, and his brain was about to overheat.
Seeing Akai Shuichi's furrowed brows and obvious distress, Kudo Yukiko couldn't help but ask curiously in a joking tone, "Okiya-san, did you discover something just now that made you look so troubled? By the way, was your request for me to use my connections to expedite the train's departure earlier related to the problem you're troubling?"
"Actually, when I was heading to my carriage just now, I discovered..." Hearing Yukiko Kudo's question, and adhering to the idea that collaborators need to be honest, Shuichi Akai did not hide the fact that he had discovered Bourbon, Vermouth, and others on this train.
He also mentioned other members of the organization and explained why he asked Yukiko Kudo if there was any way to get the train to depart earlier: "When I discovered that there might be more members of the organization here, and heard that Gin would also be coming."
We were worried that with too many members on the train, especially with Gin, Bourbon, and other high-ranking members, our plan would likely fail. Our best hope was to prevent Gin from boarding by departing early, but unfortunately… it seems we failed.”
Although he mentioned that Gin and the others were also on the train, Shuichi Akai did not tell Yukiko Kudo the information he had overheard about the future, time travel, and the arrival of the game.
First, Yukiko Kudo herself did not experience memory correction caused by someone else's time travel. Second, she would definitely inform the FBI leadership of this information, but currently she has no way to convince the US government to believe it.
He also didn't want to reveal that he had experienced time travel and memory correction. After all, as an FBI agent, he knew very well that the US government sometimes had no bottom line, and he didn't want to be so honest with the US government.
So, it's estimated that it won't be long before I'm undergoing brain surgery in a US lab. Therefore, I can't tell Yukiko Kudo before I have another way to convince the FBI leadership of this information.
She has a cheerful personality, but she's not good at keeping secrets. If he knows, it's the same as Kudo Yusaku and Kudo Shinichi knowing. If they know, then many more people might know before the US authorities, since this also relates to whether they will be captured by the game in the future...
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