Chapter 2407 2419 [Invitation from Uzo]
Judy: "I found some in the corner when I was cleaning the closet, so I took them all over here to avoid wasting them after they expire..."
Halfway through her words, she saw James's expression and realized that something was wrong.
Judy faced the gaze from her boss and scratched her cheek awkwardly: "I see you don't drink coffee often, so you probably don't like it very much... uh, you don't like them, right."
James: “…”
He took a deep breath and chose to endure like a mature old man: "Since the play was interrupted by a murder not long after it started, the coffee should not have been sold out yet. Where is the remaining coffee?"
Judy's voice gradually faded away: "The police took it away, along with the machine, saying it was physical evidence..." Seeing her boss's expression, she immediately changed her words, "But it's not a big problem! We should be able to get it back soon."
James: “…”
Judy glanced at him secretly and used a trick to save Zhao from Wei: "Well, there is some bad news..."
James' hand holding the cup trembled slightly, and he said calmly: "You say."
Judy pointed at Shuichi Akai and said, "We lost a pistol at the meeting place just now."
James fell silent.
The person involved, Akai Shuichi, was relatively calm: "If I had known this, I should have added a locator to the gun. Maybe I can try it next time."
James' eyes jumped: "..." You still want to do it next time! I haven't figured out how to explain this matter to the Tokyo police!
He pressed his forehead hard, silently reviewed the glorious resumes of these two agents ten thousand times, and finally managed to suppress the irritation in his heart: people make mistakes, horses stumble, and even the strongest agents will always make mistakes. As a boss, he must learn to be tolerant...
James took a deep breath and temporarily put his precious coffee aside: "How could such a good gun be lost?"
Akai Shuichi: "That's a long story..."
At first he thought Uzo wanted him to be shot in the head by the bank robber, but later he felt that the other party just wanted to involve him in the case and label him as a suspect.
Later, he thought that Uzo wanted to involve him in the case and make him a suspect, but in fact Uzo wanted to expose the fingerprints he had covered up.
He thought Uzo wanted him to expose his suspicious behavior of covering his fingerprints in front of the police, but now it seems... that person actually took advantage of his desire to avoid search, and after using the painter and the case to attract most of his attention, he took away his weapon effortlessly, and he didn't even know about it.
So here comes the question.
"Why does he want your guns?" Judy recalled the information she knew about the organization. "They are just some smuggled pistols. The organization can have as many as they want. Uzo definitely didn't go for the guns themselves... He took away your weapon. Is this a provocation and warning from him?"
"What a bad guy." James sighed. He suddenly remembered that Akai Shuichi had been investigating this Uzo a lot recently, so he turned to him and asked, "How is the progress of your investigation?"
The growing list of names instantly appeared in Shuichi Akai's mind: "..."
If we think optimistically, quite a few have actually been ruled out.
He nodded: "There is some progress."
"That's right." James was slightly relieved. "That person's identity is so well hidden that we feel like we have no idea where to start. But in fact, as long as a person keeps taking action, he will definitely leave traces. Although it seems that the progress is very slow now, in fact, as long as we catch these traces and successfully find out his true identity, then victory will be just around the corner."
The two FBI agents nodded in agreement.
At this moment, Shuichi Akai's cell phone vibrated and he received an email.
He casually opened the mailbox and took a look. After seeing what was on it, the FBI ace's eyes suddenly froze - the email was accompanied by a photo, and in that photo, there was a familiar style of pistol.
Jericho 941, slightly worn... This is the gun he just lost!
Judy noticed that his expression was not right, and she glanced over here curiously. When she saw the picture clearly, her expression also changed: "This is... Is this a message from Uzo?! How did he know your email address?"
Akai Shuichi turned the email back to the beginning and examined it carefully without missing any details. He said, "This is the email address I left for the police as a witness just now. Perhaps his subordinates peeked at the contents, or perhaps..."
He didn't finish his words, but his experienced colleagues understood what he meant. James looked a little unhappy: "There are spies of Uzo in the Tokyo police, and they are well-informed!"
If this is true, then the impact of Shuichi Akai losing his gun last time was far greater than they thought - if Uzo had only doubts about the identity of this group of people before, then after James negotiated with the Tokyo police about Shuichi Akai carrying a gun on the street, Uzo must have confirmed their origins.
"If that's the case, has our surveillance of Vermouth been completely exposed?"
Judy's heart skipped a beat, but she tried to be optimistic. She comforted herself and James, who looked unhappy. "When the gun was lost, only you and Shuichi showed up. The rest of us are still hiding our identities, so it shouldn't be a big problem. And it's just a guess that there's a traitor in the police station - maybe the painter stole a piece of Shuichi's mailbox?"
Shuichi Akai shook his head. "I registered after him, and he didn't have access to the notebook that recorded the witness' contact information. But he was detained because of the album, so he went to the Metropolitan Police Department. Maybe he saw it there."
After a pause, he continued, "Even if there really is a spy inside the police station, this may not be a bad thing."
Judy was stunned at first, not knowing why he said that, but she soon remembered Akai Shuichi's notebook filled with names: "Do you want to..."
Akai Hide nodded: "The scope of investigation in society is too wide, but it's different inside the police station - there must be not many people who can enter and leave the Metropolitan Police Department and have access to the witness registration book. It is not difficult to screen out the target we want to find from them."
Judy: "..." But before that, your list of suspects will probably be longer... Forget it, Shuichi is the trump card of the FBI, and he has his reasons for doing this.
She quickly shifted her attention away from the suspect list and looked back at Akai Shuichi's phone: "Besides that photo, what else did Uzo say?"
(End of this chapter)
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