18 Chapter 18
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Chapter 18 [Who says fan fiction authors can’t be real people?]
Zhu Fu Jingguang glared at Jiang Gu Ling, "I just threatened you in front of Lei Yi, 'Don't touch my woman.' It's not appropriate for you to try to poach my woman in just two days."
"That way the organization will spread the word that 'Bourbon and Scotland are at odds'. Isn't that what Hiro wants? To prevent the organization from discovering our true relationship."
"But that would make exchanging information difficult." He thought for a moment, and seemed to have come up with a good idea from similar thoughts: "Instead of looking for my girlfriend, why not look for Lei's girlfriend?"
"Lei's girlfriend? Isn't she a peripheral member of the organization?"
Peripheral members of the organization can recommend "talents" to the organization and become code members at a similar speed to them. If they feel that there are some problems with them, there seems to be nothing wrong with it.
This proposal of Morufushi Kagemitsu should just be to hope that Furuya Rei can get information from other members of the organization, rather than focusing on "stealing other people's girlfriends".
Furuya Zero raised an eyebrow and said doubtfully, "I don't think the peripheral members can provide much valuable intelligence, and this will only worsen my relationship with Lei."
He couldn't think of any benefit from it.
Even though Bourbon and Rye's relationship has never been good, there are too many people in the organization who have lukewarm relationships with other members and are on guard against each other, so the relationship between the two is not special.
But Bourbon's initiative to seduce Rye's girlfriend was a different matter. If Bourbon's intentional or unintentional attempts to gain intelligence and extract information from others were part of the intelligence team's professional habits, then stealing someone else's girlfriend was a clear provocation and an act of creating hostility.
Even the mystic Bourbon has to think carefully before taking action.
Zhu Fujingguang made such a suggestion, and even if the relationship with the child was very good, a proper reason must be given.
"I think it's very subtle that peripheral members have the right to recommend members to the organization." This reason given by Zhu Fujingguang seemed to have been in his mind for a long time and had no direct connection with the recent situation.
Perhaps it was Bourbon's words about wanting to "steal" his girlfriend that reminded him, making him remember that he still had this doubt that he had not yet solved.
If his initial words about helping Zhufu Jingguang to gather intelligence had some playful meaning, then now Fūya Ling's expression was completely serious.
"Has Hiro investigated Hirota Masami?"
"Well, after reconnecting with her online, we sent someone to investigate, but nothing was found. Her information is very complete. Both her parents are deceased, and she grew up in an orphanage. After graduation, she borrowed money from a loan shark to repay the funds provided by the orphanage, and that's how she joined the organization."
"Since the information is complete, why do we still need to investigate her?"
"Because the information is so comprehensive, it seems more like a deliberate fabrication, a false image created to clarify a person's background."
Perhaps in the information age, all personal information has been archived since the moment a fertilized egg was formed, with birth, growth, work, and marriage all clearly recorded, making it normal for personal information to be complete. However, if we look back 25 years, the situation is different.
Japan has only been promoting the digitization of personal information for less than ten years①. If information from 25 years ago is lost, forged, or altered, and the original is lost during the digitization process, tracing the source will become an impossible problem.
What Morufushi Kagemitsu didn't mention is that, based on his personal experience, Hirota Masami's experience was extremely bizarre. First, children's welfare homes are welfare institutions, subsidized by the state treasury and private donations. Funds spent on children's upbringing should not need to be repaid.
There are signs that, while Hirota Masami wasn't exactly living lavishly while at school, she certainly wasn't financially strapped. She was able to participate in normal social activities and school-sponsored events, covering extra expenses well, and didn't act out of character due to lack of money.
Most importantly, there's no record of Hirota Masami working part-time jobs. If she was so poor she had to borrow money at high interest rates, why wouldn't she resort to the simplest means of self-help?
In addition, the early photos of Hirota Masami look quite cheerful. Her eyes and movements are like a clear stream, which can be seen to the bottom at a glance without a trace of haze.
While it's not appropriate to judge a person by their appearance, the saying "appearance reflects the heart" still holds true. Zhu Fujingguang trusted his intuition for no reason.
Fūya Rei scratched his hair, his brows knitted into a figure nine, "Just because of this reason..."
Seeing that Furiya Rei was feeling awkward, Zhufu Jingguang quickly waved his hands and said, "I'm not forcing Zero to take this approach. I just think it's a little strange."
They have been in the organization for some time. As code-named members, the tasks they carry out are becoming more and more "tough", but the intelligence they can obtain from within the organization is still extremely limited.
In Japan, a society that values seniority so much, even illegal organizations follow strict hierarchical relationships and a culture of seniority and seniority. For newcomers like them who join later, the most difficult thing to do if they want to gain trust and get promoted is to accumulate seniority.
They have the opportunity to desperately gain merit, using both black and white and some gray means to perform better than real criminals.
But getting inside the organization? That's still a long way off.
If you want to find another way to obtain information, perhaps adopting Zhu Fushi Jingguang's suggestion would be a good idea?
Fūya Rei touched his chin and thought seriously.
Zhu Fujingguang put the remaining food into the refrigerator and tidied up the half-used kitchen and their safe house.
When everything was in order, he put his hands on his hips and looked around with satisfaction, patting his hands up and down as if to shake off the last bit of dust on his body.
The "pa pa" sound woke up Jōgō Rō who had been in deep thought for a long time. When he looked up, there was still some confusion in his eyes as if he had not yet come to his senses.
Then, thinking he was being rushed, he hastily replied, "That's a bit strange. I'll add this to my subsequent investigation plan."
"Hirota Masami might be a good breakthrough point."
Whether it is to collect intelligence on the Black Organization or to understand Lei, a rising member of the organization.
Ever since he'd spoken to Rei about Hirota Masami, Morobushi Kagemitsu hadn't seen Rei for nearly a week. It wasn't clear if Bourbon had received a mission from the organization and had to keep in touch "for work," or if he was liaising with the police and had to keep in touch.
In short, he lost contact with Rei Furuya.
Coincidentally, the organization has not assigned any tasks to Scotland in the past few days.
Zhu Fujingguang had to go to the store every day to work as an honest worker from nine to five, actively interact with his new girlfriend in his spare time, and then find time to practice in the organization's training ground to maintain the most basic feel of a sniper.
It is actually even busier than the days when I was running around for tasks assigned by the organization, making my life seem fulfilling and romantic.
Such a fulfillment made Zhu Fujingguang a little uncomfortable. He was afraid that he would indulge in the beauty of daily life, and even more afraid that he would really fall in love with that girl.
The girl brought him meals every day, asked about his well-being, and shared her own paintings.
Apart from avoiding the question that Morofushi Keimitsu wanted to know most, "Where did the doll that looks so much like me come from?", Agatsuma Sayuri is impeccable as a girlfriend - at least in Morofushi Keimitsu's judgment.
Sometimes, Morofushi Kagemitsu would wonder if he had revealed his true intentions somewhere, causing my wife Sayuri to notice that his real purpose was to solve this problem, which is why he always avoided talking about it.
During this week, Morobushi Kagemitsu invited my wife, Sayuri, to his house for dinner almost every day. He succeeded three times and failed four times. My wife, Sayuri, invited him back 0 times.
There was no progress either by getting information directly from the other party or by searching their home.
It seems that there is still a long way to go to achieve one's goal.
During this busy and troubled week for Morofushi Keimitsu, my wife Sayuri was also busy.
Ever since she and "Zi'an Liang" became a couple, all kinds of inspirations and images have been popping up in her mind. Her desire to create has been expanding as strongly as the birth of the universe, and she is so anxious that she is about to explode.
She only went to the milk tea shop once this whole week. If she hadn't been diligent in updating her original works every day and notifying the store manager seriously, the store manager who had rescued my wife Sayuri would have knelt in front of her crying, hugged my wife Sayuri's thighs and asked, "Are you going to abandon me?"
Don't doubt it, this uncle can really do it. Otherwise, my wife Sayuri wouldn't insist on working in a milk tea shop after she could make a living with her original works.
The store manager is a very responsible man, but when he feels wronged, he can really cry a lot of tears.
My daily routine became: cooking breakfast, lunch, and the occasional dinner for my boyfriend, and creating the rest of the time. My wife, Sayuri, also lived an overly busy life. Even her responses to Ryo Koyasu's messages were routine—once in the morning, once at noon, and once in the evening, all at the same time, always before she was about to deliver food to him or meet him.
Agatsuma Sayuri felt the intention of Ryo Koyasu asking about the "Morofushikage" doll pendant several times. As an undercover agent, he was simply worried that his true identity would be exposed.
She hid the "evidence" that could expose Scotland's connection with Zhu Fujingguang, leaving only the peripherals that were more in line with the image of Koan Liang, and simply said to the outside world, "This is my boyfriend."
But my wife Sayuri is not only doing these things to enrich herself, she also has other things going on in parallel.
First, investigate several of Zhu Fujingguang’s friends of the same period.
According to the timeline of the original work, when Morifushi Kagemitsu was 25 years old, it meant that Hagiwara Kenji had died in the line of duty, and Matsuda Jinpei and Date Kou were also dying.
For an ordinary person with limited fighting skills and demolition skills, saving someone in a closed space with a bomb was nearly impossible. However, the car accident that Ida Kou had encountered might have had some chance of being saved—in reality, finding a police officer who frequently worked late nights to prevent a particular incident while investigating a case was also extremely difficult.
Do you expect my wife Sayuri to follow a police officer from the Investigation Division for a long time without being discovered?
But Date Kou died after Morofushi Kagemitsu, so she still had some time.
The other thing was to find Miyano Akemi, or even her fake identity, Hirota Masami.
If there is anyone whose death in "Detective Conan" is hard to let go, then the death of this woman is one of the things that my wife Sayuri feels most regretful about.
【Author’s words】
① Japan started to implement the electronicization of personal information in October 2015, and it was not mandatory at first. Until September 22, the electronicization process was less than 50% (49.9%) of the total population.
② Hirota Masami should be the pseudonym used by Miyano Akemi after she received the 1 billion yen mission, and it was used here in advance.
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