Chapter 81 Thirty-two Shotas
Half a month has passed since returning from Nagano. During this half month, the three undercover agents who had privately discussed the cooperation matters again had already sent this extremely important intelligence back to their old employers.
Not to mention how complicated the FBI and the public security officers felt after learning that all of their undercover teammates were actually undercover agents, at least now the FBI has temporarily reached a cooperation agreement with the public security department regarding the organization.
In fact, the FBI also knows that the CIA next door has also sent agents to organize undercover agents. However, they can't just go over and ask the CIA directly (although they really want to do so), "Who is your undercover agent and what does he look like?"
Therefore, other intelligence agencies that were completely unaware of the situation only noticed that there seemed to be some commotion between the FBI and the Japanese Public Security Bureau recently, but they were still unaware of the two parties' decision to cooperate.
It's not their fault.
As a terrorist organization based on the Karasuma family of Japan, the Black Organization could never have developed to its current level in the beginning.
When the outside intelligence agencies heard that this was an organization that was secretive from the boss to the subordinates and whose most outrageous behavior was some illegal arms trade or human trafficking in the country, they didn't take it seriously at all. At most, they would be more vigilant, such as sending a few undercover agents from the Japanese public security to take a look, but other people basically didn't take it seriously.
After all, Japan is a country where corruption is legal. Even if this organization does all kinds of illegal things, most of the companies exposed on the surface are legally registered companies. The top boss is still the real richest man in Japan hiding behind the three richest men. In Japan, a capitalist country, it is almost like walking sideways. It is not difficult to hide one's existence from domestic and foreign intelligence agencies.
But everyone thought that even if it was a violent group, it would only be violent in the small place of Japan - what era is this? Truly global terrorist organizations are rare. With the overwhelming strength of the Black Organization when it was first established, what could not be better than being a terrorist organization?
To establish and develop such an organization, an unimaginable amount of money is necessary, and there was no news of crazy money-making during that period, which is enough to prove that the boss behind the organization is very rich. Even if basically no one guessed that it was Karasuma Renya, the scope can be almost defined, and what else does a person with that much money lack, excitement?
The facts tell everyone that what the Black Organization lacks is not excitement, but respect for life.
The ultimate goal of this organization is to research the resurrection of the dead, and to this end they started with projects on immortality and rejuvenation.
This hits the spot for some people.
Of course, not everyone knows this purpose. If the organization wants to develop in the long term, it must have a latent period. If it reveals its purpose too early, it will only get into trouble.
Therefore, only a small number of people were informed of this purpose, and in the eyes of most people, they were still very low-key.
And it is precisely because this small group of people were targeted by the organization and were about to be recruited as accomplices that they were given the power to know.
People always have desires, and those who can reach that position are never short of money, power, and beauties. What they lack is the same thing that Karasuma Renya lacks. Presumably, this is also the reason why the organization goes to test their reliance.
There are always people around the world who are studying or have studied the organization's current propositions, and the organization is standing at the starting line closer to the finish line than everyone else. How could this not tempt those "small number of people"?
Over time, relying on the organization's private research and its astonishing wealth, the organization gradually developed deep connections all over the world, in politics, economics, science... They seemed to be everywhere, and by the time the FBI, public security and other agencies discovered them, the organization had already become a transnational terrorist organization.
What's even more annoying is that each member of the organization is more mysterious than the last. Even the age of the leader who has been in hiding for decades is a mystery, let alone their purpose.
It was from then on that everyone more cautiously sent more undercover agents to investigate the organization, and only after a long period of time did they gradually piece together the general shape of the organization.
Nowadays, the most mainstream speculation about the organization's boss is still the second generation theory.
In any case, half a century has passed since the organization first appeared. Judging from the steady development of the organization, the leader does not seem to be the type who gets more incompetent as he gets older. But even if the leader was only ten years old when the organization was established, he should be in his sixties or seventies this year... This is why the identity of the BOSS has been hidden from the outside world for so long.
Karasuma Renya, who was already over 100 years old forty years ago, was excluded by most people at the beginning!
Who could have imagined that such a huge organization, with a purpose that goes against common sense and science, would be backed by an old man who apparently died forty years ago?
Now they thought of it, because the three undercover agents obtained a lot of intelligence related to the organization and even Karasuma Renya from A and Granti. After confirming the authenticity, they immediately sent it back.
Granty and the others are expendable, and A is a captive experimental subject. In the past, no one in the organization would have suspected that these children would betray them one day.
Because they never considered Granty and A as human beings - how could tools betray? How could they have the conditions to betray? Wouldn't it be enough to just break them?
Bourbon thought that the researchers in the research base died at the hands of the vengeful Grantis with such thoughts in mind.
However, discussing the specific details of the cooperation and modifying the actions against the organization are the tasks of the public security and FBI agencies in the future. Before that, the task of several undercover agents is to continue to lurk in the organization.
For Bourbon and the other two, the most important task at the moment is to rescue A.
Hmm? Why do you say rescued?
Because half an hour ago, A was kidnapped when he went to the mall to buy things with the other two people.
"Is he from the organization? Or someone who knew his identity from somewhere?" Bourbon put his hands on the table, his face gloomy, "How dare they take action while we are still here..."
"It can't be someone from the organization. If it were, the organization would have first investigated the fact that we hid A instead of kidnapping him quietly like this." Lei still looked calm, but Scotland saw that his hand was already on the backpack containing the gun.
The only relatively rational adult present said, "Let's check the surveillance first. We can do anything after we find him..."
As Scotland spoke, the surveillance screen on the computer that Bourbon had hacked into showed the surveillance video they were looking for.
In the video, a weak and cute little boy walked out of the elevator in the underground parking lot. The next second, a pair of hands stretched out from the shadows behind him and covered half of the boy's face with a white cloth that was probably soaked in something. After a while, the boy lost consciousness and his limbs fell limply.
The kidnapper in the shadows did not stop there. He quickly took off the boy's iconic coat and threw it on the ground, then grabbed the boy and retreated back into the shadows.
Not long after, a car with a covered license plate drove away from the parking lot.
After a few seconds of silence, Scotland asked, "Separately or together?"
A drop of cold sweat rolled down Bourbon and Ley's forehead: Don't talk about looking for them separately or together as if you were going to dismember the prisoner!
Lei finally discovered something was wrong, dragged the video progress bar forward, and finally pressed pause.
"Here." He pointed at the child on the screen who was being manipulated like a puppet and said firmly, "He is not dizzy, he is just pretending."
Scotland looked puzzled: "How did you know that?"
Lei was silent.
Ley put it simply: "He's very good at pretending to be a corpse."
To be more specific, whenever A was picked up by Lei from their daily hide-and-seek game in various places, he would always pretend to be a corpse or a rag doll, with his limbs hanging naturally and shaking as if the power was off.
Both Scotch and Bourbon sensed a subtle meaning in Ley's words, and for a moment they were at a loss for words.
Even though the relationship between Scotland and A was completely relieved after returning from Nagano, Bourbon was the first person to accept A and was approached by A...
What we can't forget is that A actually lived in Lei's room. Compared with Bourbon, who needed to get in close contact with the target, and Scotland, who was well-balanced in all aspects and could do anything, Lei, who had the highest sniper level, rarely had to end up like Bodo in a mission.
Even though Lei's close combat skills are very high, in order to avoid becoming a corporate slave like Gin, he, who is simply an undercover agent, only defines himself as a sniper. Apart from important promotion tasks, he usually keeps a low profile.
Therefore, he became the most common wearer of 'Binding Pendant A'. Now after careful observation, it can be seen that A in the video did not really faint.
This makes people even more curious. Why did A leave them and go to the underground parking lot alone? Why did he pretend to be unconscious and let himself be kidnapped? Could it be that the people behind this were really organized? !
From Chijiang Nayue's perspective, this matter is actually not that complicated.
He just went to the bathroom to wash his hands normally while the three adults were having dinner, but he accidentally overheard someone discussing a criminal plan in private.
Initially, Chi Jiang Na Yue was not prepared to follow, but when he opened his phone to send a message to the adults outside, he heard a key word.
bomb.
In order to force the police to release one of their accomplices, this group of criminals directly kidnapped an entire class of elementary school students who seemed to be planning to go to the museum for extracurricular activities. They also arrogantly placed a bomb in the closed room where the hostages were staying to threaten the police.
Why another bomb? Kidnapping a child?
The savior who liked children very much clenched his fists and showed a sneer that was inconsistent with the A setting in the corner.
Then he secretly followed the two prisoners outside, deliberately revealing himself so that they would discover him, and successfully let the two cautious prisoners kidnap him and take him away in the parking lot.
Before being 'kidnapped', Chi Jiang Na Yue specially used the mobile phone of 'Granty' that was used to contact the undercover team - in fact, it was the mobile phone he brought from the main world - to send a timed message to the three people, which contained the real-time location of A's mobile phone.
Not to mention how many times Bourbon and the others complained in their hearts about the increasingly cruel behavior of Granti and others after receiving the location sent by Granti, and how many times they secretly complained "Didn't A say that you can't install location?", Chijiang Nayue's operations here were still going smoothly.
The prisoners probably didn't think that a child who looked no more than five years old could do anything. They simply took A's phone and threw him into the group of hostages without even taking out the "Grandy's phone" hidden by Chijiang Nayue.
Business capabilities need to be improved, the savior thought.
After the gangsters left the room, Chijiang Nayue stood up amid the shocked gazes of the crowd, and the rope that simply tied his wrists behind him fell to the ground.
There is no rope in this world that can tie up Chijiang Nayue.
He glanced around and found that there were a total of twenty-four children here, basically first graders, and there was a female teacher who was protecting the children together and who subconsciously caught him when he was thrown in.
...female teacher?
Chijiang Nayue's gaze lingered on the teacher for a second imperceptibly, and then moved away naturally.
Oh, I met an acquaintance.