Chapter 3392 3404 [Silencing the Witness]
As a design company with nothing to steal, the three veteran employees were clearly impressed by the burglary that had broken into their home. When questioned by the police, they quickly began to speak out:
"The locks on our windows were picked twice a while ago!"
“Nothing was lost, though.”
"I don't know what that thief is up to."
Listening to their words, Haibara Ai lowered her hood lower and lower: eliminate the target without leaving any evidence, come and go without a trace... No matter how you look at it, this is the organization's habit of silencing people.
Although unlike the previous hardcore "kill people and run away" coming and going without a trace, this time the president was actually killed in front of them... But Haibara Ai always felt that she seemed to smell a strong breath of the organization. Could it be that someone with more powerful means than Gin took action?
Conan stroked his chin thoughtfully, then whispered to Huibara, "Your sister just arrived, and thieves broke in here twice in a row. This is definitely not a coincidence. The organization must have suspected that your sister had hidden something here, so they broke in to search after the people here got off work.
"When I checked the restroom just now, I saw signs of a bug installed in it.
"They must have failed to find any clues the first time they came, so they installed a bug, but after monitoring for a while they found nothing.
"So after a while, they broke in a second time, removed the bug and took it back with them."
After briefly reviewing the other party's behavior, Conan pondered and said, "According to the habits of your organization, if you really wanted to silence them, the four people in this company should have died in a gas explosion or fire long ago.
"But in reality, they have survived until today, and then one unlucky person was poisoned to death... I might have been wrong just now. Today's poisoning case may have nothing to do with the organization. It's just a coincidental incident."
After saying this, Conan was suddenly startled: A coincidental incident? This description sounds a bit...
Next to him, Haibara Ai had no idea what was going on in his mind.
The mini-scientist simply shook his head. "You don't understand at all—they didn't kill those four people. Maybe they just wanted to show me today... The organization wanted to kill my father's old friend and then make it appear in the news to put psychological pressure on me. They're totally capable of such a despicable act."
"..." Conan came back to his senses, looked at this fellow sufferer whose paranoia was even more serious than his own, and couldn't help but say:
"They probably wouldn't do that, right? What if you don't like watching murder news? What if you go somewhere else and can't hear about the Tokyo murders? Anyway, don't overthink it. I trust my intuition. The president's death should be just an ordinary murder."
"Heh, intuition..." Although Huiyuan Ai has been trying her best to adjust her mentality, she still finds it difficult to be optimistic when encountering things related to the organization. She whispered:
"In fact, on the day I went to Beihu Building for treatment, when I had a fever and was blurry, I felt an extremely cold gaze, staring at me with contempt, as if I were an ant."
"?!!" Conan was shocked, "Why didn't you tell me earlier!"
Although I always feel that Haibara-san is too neurotic, when I meet a few honest students wearing black junior high school uniforms on the street, I always think of the Black Organization that seems to be everywhere...
But on the other hand, he had to believe in Haibara Ai's intuition about the organization: facts have proven that this bottle of defection wine is often very accurate in identifying members of the organization.
Although I don't know why she also responded to the FBI agent who used a pseudonym, judging from the current situation, there was probably a member of the organization with a high status in the underground garage of Beihu Department Store that day!
"There were only so many people back then." Thinking of the candidate he had narrowed down for Vermouth, Conan broke out in a cold sweat and muttered to himself, "My guess... could it be true?"
After temporarily excluding Judy and Shuichi Akai, the suspicion of "Dr. Shinde" suddenly became prominent.
If I remember correctly, after Dr. Agasa took the feverish Ai Haibara out of the underground parking lot that day, the old man, who loved his grandson dearly, asked Dr. Akaide to come to his home to see a doctor...
What does it mean to let a wolf into the house?
Conan wiped his face vigorously, understanding the word very deeply.
"Given the recognisability of Shirley's appearance, it's impossible for the school doctor who looks like Vermouth to fail to recognise her.
"But if she recognized her...why didn't she kill the doctor, Jiang Xia, Xiaolan and the others, and then capture Huiyuan and me as experimental subjects?
"Could it be that she doesn't believe that the only people behind Huibara are the old man and the students, and wants to play the long game and find the important person behind 'Sherry'?"
If this is true, then there may be another hidden secret behind this case, and it may be a big secret.
No matter how you look at it, the current situation is dire. Conan's head is buzzing, and he can't help but look at Huibara Ai: "How dare you run out at this time? What on earth are you thinking!"
Huiyuan Ai lowered her head to look at the ground, her tone hard to tell whether it was firm or blank: "Because I want to know what kind of people my parents are, and whether their personalities are really the same as the rumors about the organization.
"Unfortunately, it now seems that the rumors were true. My father is indeed a mad scientist. My mother is indeed gloomy and taciturn, and people can never see through her.
"Do you know what everyone in the organization calls my mother? 'Hell Angel', the angel who fell into hell."
Haibara Ai has almost no memory of her parents. Now that she has a rare opportunity to meet them, she is curious about whether her mother is more hellish or more angelic.
Of course, she wasn't about to risk her life just because she saw clues related to her parents. Instead, she asked Jiang Xia first before deciding to set off. But now...
Thinking of this, Haibara Ai couldn't help but look at Jiang Xia.
Then, she was surprised to find that Jiang Xia was actually looking at her as well. As they stared at each other, the high school detective nodded slightly at her. His calm demeanor, which was no different from any other crime scene, made everyone else calm down as well.
“…” Haibara Ai’s violent heartbeat calmed down a little.
Although she had a feeling that the deceased friend of her father on the ground might have been the one being slaughtered as a warning to others, she calmed down and realized that she hadn't sensed any terrifying presence at the scene, except for Jiang Xia.
...And there was nothing that could be done about Jiang Xia having some of the organization's scent on him. They were all second-generation members of the organization, and she understood it very well, so it wasn't a big problem.
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