Chapter 139 Thirty-three Cats
When Gin came out of the action team, he accidentally heard Vodka chatting with others.
"No one in the action team is based on a German Shepherd." Vodka thought for a while and said decisively, "That guy must be from the research department. He is trying to curry favor with the future boss. The research department always does this."
Future BOSS——Kaluuya, why did you suddenly mention him? Gin was quick to sense that something was wrong. He frowned and asked behind Vodka what he was talking about.
Vodka, who was caught slacking off by his boss, trembled and immediately told everything he saw with a bitter face: "Brother... when I just came out of the intelligence team, I saw the future in the corridor, ahem, I saw Kalua, and I also saw a German Shepherd helping Kalua push a suitcase..."
They have the knack of distinguishing one of their kind. Even Vodka could tell that it was not an ordinary dog. He probably thought that it was one of its kind playing with the future boss, so he complained to others speechlessly.
Vodka didn't know, but Gin knew. The store manager had just separated from them outside the action group not long ago. If he had been to the research department, he would have gone straight to the physical examination. And according to the store manager's previous two actions, he would not have stayed in the headquarters for long after the physical examination, let alone let the people in the research department return to their original form to help.
...No, pushing a suitcase?
Gin remembered that the store manager had brought a large black suitcase with him when he came! He didn't ask much at the time for various reasons, but now that he looked at it, the suitcase seemed to be just big enough to fit the German Shepherd, a large dog.
He narrowed his eyes: Was he overthinking? Or was it really an outsider that the store manager brought in in a suitcase?
There is no point in just speculating here. If one wants to verify it, one must go directly to the store manager himself. But Gin knows without thinking that if it is the latter, how could he answer him truthfully since the store manager had hidden the outsider in a suitcase in order to bring him in?
Anyway, Gin was now standing outside the door of the manager's private lounge.
He learned from Bermode a few minutes ago that the store manager was doing an inspection in the research department, so he decided to take advantage of the time difference to check it out.
If he was too suspicious and thought too much, then he would go and ask the boss for punishment himself, but if the one who made the mistake was the store manager, he would not turn a blind eye - Gin had already become impatient with the life of catching traitors in the organization during this period.
Conan was standing on a shelf close to the door when his ears suddenly twitched. He subconsciously looked down at the two elite undercover agents who were confronting each other in front of the data.
Sure enough, they also showed alert expressions and looked towards the closed door.
It's impossible for the store manager to knock on the door when he comes back. He will just come in and take them away, so the person outside can only be someone else... The problem is that this is the headquarters building of the organization.
There is no doubt that the candidates for "others" are basically members of the organization.
At this moment, Conan no longer cared about wanting to stay away from the battlefield between the two childish adults. He stood still with bated breath, making sure not to make too much noise to be heard by outsiders. Then, just as he was about to do something, he heard another low voice coming from through the door.
"Gin?" The store manager's voice sounded harmless. "Are you here to see me?"
The three people in the room felt a sinking feeling in their hearts: this was the worst possible outcome, the person who came was Gin.
They now know that the organization's true purpose and behavior are very different from what they imagined, but it takes time to change their inherent ideas. At least they still think that Gin is a very dangerous guy.
"Have you finished your physical examination?" Gin's tone was emotionless, and it sounded so calm that it seemed like he was just asking casually.
The store manager was in a good mood and answered cheerfully, "Yes, the report has also been sent to Grandpa."
There was silence outside for a few seconds.
In the blink of an eye, Conan found that the Siamese cat and the German Shepherd had both come to the door, with their ears pressed against the door and listening attentively. He couldn't help but twitch his mouth.
Don't they remember that in their original form, their hearing is several times better than that of humans, and they can hear clearly what is being said outside even if they stay still...
Gin looked at the store manager's impeccable expression and felt a rare sense of difficulty in his heart. Fortunately, the store manager opposite him didn't make him feel difficult for long.
The store manager looked at Gin quietly for a while, then bluntly pointed out the other party's intention.
"You, you want to know what I brought, right? Gin-chan." The 'Gin-niang' that was called to cater to Karasuma Renya was replaced by the more intimate and creepy 'Xiaoqin' in this sentence. The long-haired young man put his hands behind his back and curled his lips, "Well, do you want to go in and take a look?"
He didn't seem nervous at all. His hair, which was tied up for the physical examination, fell on his shoulders, forming a sharp contrast with the white lab coat he was wearing. His watery red eyes looked at Gin without blinking. It seemed that his round pupils changed from those of humans to the vertical pupils of some animals for a second. Gin wanted to dodge back the moment he realized this, but the store manager didn't give him a chance.
Just before he lost consciousness, Gin suddenly remembered that the last sentence the manager said was not a question at all, but an affirmative sentence.
"…What can I do? I really don't like dogs."
Outside the door, Chijiang Nayue squatted down slowly, stretched out her hand to poke the handsome big dog with a dark body on the ground, and held her chin with her other hand with a distressed look on her face.
Really, didn't he say that? Although his [Hypnosis] skill was copied from his subordinate's ability that can only be activated by sound, the medium he used the skill has always been the eyes.
Oops, I forgot that Koto-chan couldn't have known that.
Inside the door, seeing that there was no sound outside after the manager finished speaking, the three of them became more alert and anxious to varying degrees. They were very worried about what Gin would do to the manager... until the door in front of them was finally opened from the outside. The three of them had no time to dodge and met the eyes of the manager squatting outside the door.
The store manager bent his index finger, scratched his face, and said "ah" in embarrassment.
"I'm sorry, you won't be able to hide in the suitcase when we leave..." the black-haired young man said in a cute tone, "I want to empty the suitcase to put him in~"
…
Conan and Akai followed the manager's hand and looked at the unconscious big dog on the ground, while Furuya took a deep breath and let out a series of angry meows. He slapped his paws hard on the back of the manager's hand, and his figure overlapped with Hagiwara and others who had previously taught the manager a lesson.
"Manager! You can't bring everything home!!"
The store manager stuck out his tongue and said confidently: "But he wants to go home with me!"
"Oh, really? Did he tell the manager that while he was sleepwalking?" Fūya remained unmoved and asked with a sneer.
The store manager thought for a moment and seemed to nod.
Suddenly, everything went dark before Jiang Gu's eyes.
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After hearing this, Hagiwara didn't know whether to laugh or cry as he smoothed the fur of the black cat who was pretending to be deaf on his lap, and asked in a cooperative manner: "So you really brought that... uh, Gin Bar? Back here?"
“Isn’t this great? Hahahaha!” Matsuda next to him almost laughed himself to death. He pounded the sofa in a pretentious manner, “This way, none of you will have to worry about exposing your identity… Haha, hahaha! You are worthy of being the store manager!”
Despite having a headache, Zhufu tried to cheer himself up and comfort his childhood friend: "What Matsuda said is actually true... Zero, relax a little?"
Fūya showed a sharp look that saw through everything: "Hey, you guys just want to appease the store manager!"
The three of them looked away silently.
The process of their leaving the headquarters building was something that Fūtani really didn't want to recount. Anyway, he was back now, and the only thing he had to worry about, apart from the news he had heard in the headquarters, was Gin who was currently locked in the room upstairs.
Fūya still doesn't know what he was thinking this afternoon. How did he let the store manager actually take Gin (in Doberman form) home! !
The black cat lying on Hagiwara's knees had an expression that said, "I'm a cat and I don't understand what you are talking about." This made Fūya laugh and cry, and his anger was mostly extinguished by the store manager's expression.
Who can really get angry at a store manager like this? Foul!
He sighed.
"We can discuss Gin's matter later." Fūya pursed his lips, his expression gradually becoming serious. "Regarding the organization, I will check those things again in the next two days. The efficacy of drug A has been proven to be as they said. The rest is..."
When this was mentioned, Morobu's expression also became strange.
After they came back, Shirley and Conan went to the laboratory arranged by the manager to fiddle with the data, while Akai was upstairs guarding his arch-enemy Gin, so for the time being, they were the only ones talking about this.
Speaking of this, the others looked at each other with strange expressions.
They originally thought that the organization was a global terrorist organization, but now they are told that the organization is actually a global "endangered species" protection organization - aren't these few of their kind endangered species?
Honestly speaking, the loss of such a huge terrorist organization should have been a good thing, but the true purpose of the organization made them unsure of how to deal with it for a while, and they couldn't just leave it alone. The organization's ideas were indeed too extreme, and not much different from what Fūya's boss had described before as "against human nature."
"If it's true, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the higher-ups to handle this matter." Zhu Fu held his forehead in pain. He didn't say another sentence, but everyone present understood the implication of his words.
That is, if the true purpose of the organization is reported, the existence of these people will be exposed.
Perhaps Furuya and his companions could ignore this for the sake of their own jobs, but they could not guarantee that their fellow people who were living peacefully would not be dragged into the situation once the higher-ups knew of their existence.
What to do? They had to come up with a solution that would give them the best of both worlds.
They didn't notice that Chijiang Nayue's tail, which was lazily wagging behind him, suddenly paused.
When Akae Nayue suddenly came up with the idea of taking Gin back, he suddenly thought of the so-called best of both worlds solution, but he originally wanted to wait and see if others would have a better plan that they could do on their own.
After all, he was just a person who came to this world for fun on vacation, and the solutions he came up with might not be accepted by them at the first time.
But what's wrong with cats? Cats just want to help humans.