Chapter 224 Sneaking around
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[Anti-fraud expert #66: Phew~ things have finally calmed down... Jing, what are you planning to do now...? ? ! Wait, I have to say, this scene looks a lot like a human trafficking case...]
Just as No. 66 finished maintaining the signal that suddenly started acting up, the two childhood friends were already out preparing to elope!
He watched as the two men mysteriously got into an ordinary car, intending to do something secretive and intriguing under the cover of night...
He wished he could immediately crawl out of the space-time rift and see how Morofushi Kagemitsu's brain was structured.
Furuya Rei, who rushed over, managed to abduct Morofushi Kagemitsu with just a few words?!
[Anti-fraud expert #66: Look closely, he's not your zero! Didn't you get enough of his resentful attitude towards you before?]
Hey, have you been hanging out with Number 19 for too long? Why has your speaking style become so ambiguous? The way you guys are acting, I can't even look at some of the words the same way anymore.
Morofushi Kagemitsu, who had just sat in the passenger seat, was not planning to pay any attention to him, but after hearing such a strange description, he couldn't help but defend Zero.
[Anti-fraud expert #66: Oh! I thought you were only interested in going out and fooling around with your childhood friend today, and that you weren't going to talk to me all night~]
Zhu Fujingguang: ...
What are you saying? I'm just going to do something important.
[Anti-Fraud Guru #66: Serious business? What serious business? Tell me, what are you two going to do next?]
Morofushi Kagemitsu quickly checked that he had all the "essential items for an adventure" on him before turning to Furuya Rei, who was driving, and asking, "Where are you planning to go now, Amuro-kun? As your companion, I think it's necessary for me to know."
[Anti-fraud expert #66: ??? Look at this! Look at this! You went with him without even asking where he was going! And you still say this isn't human trafficking?!]
"I was wondering when you were going to ask?" Furuya Rei turned on the car, quickly inserted the key, glanced at him, and said, "You don't even know where you're going with me, yet you dare to get in my car?"
[Anti-Fraud Guru #66: Exactly!]
Morofushi Kagemitsu smiled, glanced at the map that Number 66 had opened in his mind, and said, "It's just a matter for the organization anyway. I don't mind making a nighttime visit to those buildings full of secrets."
[Anti-fraud expert #66: The sound of this engine, the structure, and the bomb you hid in the trunk... this looks so much like the work of Matsuda and Hagiwara!]
...Not only that, I think the temporary opening of this closed section of road was also the squad leader's "masterpiece"?
When Morobuchi Kagemitsu saw that the roadblock used to block the road had opened a small opening that allowed one car to pass through, he had a good idea of how much his other three friends had arranged behind the scenes.
They've used all their reserves; it seems this operation is even more important than I imagined.
"Oh? Why don't you guess it's a mission from 'that person'?" Furuya Rei skillfully reversed out of the parking space, the white Mazda leaving a white streak in the deep night before disappearing into the moonlight.
"Would you trust me to do a mission of this caliber with you?" Morofushi Kagemitsu shook his head slightly and said, "At most, I can only infer from your connection of this matter with Rum that 'that person' provided some help and support to your work. But you trust me quite a bit, aren't you? You're not worried at all that I'll leak information."
After saying that, he felt a pang of sadness. Why was the Prime Minister in his own timeline completely silent about the same person? And why did such a message come from the Cabinet, forcing him to go to great lengths to deceive a few people?
“Since I brought you here, I naturally have a way to deal with this.” Furuya Rei glanced at the roadblock in the rearview mirror and said, “Not only are they watching from behind, but that overly responsible little detective… is also waiting.”
Perhaps because he had just learned that Shinichi Kudo's family might be related to the organization's boss by blood, he hesitated when mentioning this promising junior.
He would rather that Shinichi Kudo and Shuichi Akai were related by blood, since they both have "Ichi" in their names.
"We've already exited the highway..." Morifushi Kagemitsu felt the route looked familiar and asked, "Are you going to the suburbs?"
“That’s right, we’re going to an abandoned drug research center now.” Furuya Rei finally revealed the purpose of his trip. “Rum has been here twice before, and recently he even sent his most trusted team to keep watch in the area. According to some inside information I’ve received, this place is very likely hiding secrets about those specially numbered laboratories.”
“Rum…” Morofushi Kagemitsu silently deduced the current state of the organization’s power based on this.
With Brandy semi-retired and "Mello" not involved in the internal strife, the majority of the organization's power in Japan is still in the hands of Rum and Gin. Considering their recent actions, Karasuma Renya might indeed be temporarily storing some important items with Rum.
But what kind of event could have made that old man, who wished to bury the secret forever, decide to move?
[Anti-Fraud King 66: I've already told you all the important intelligence about the organization during this time. I don't think Rum's discovery will alert the BOSS. If that thing is really important enough to call it our final battle, then it must be due to other external factors. Let me stabilize our spatial environment first, and then expand the scanning range a bit more.]
Morofushi Kagemitsu agreed, and asked, "Besides this news, have there been any other... strange news or rumors circulating in the organization recently?"
"There are always plenty of outrageous rumors circulating in the organization, you've seen them, haven't you?" Furuya Rei's lips twitched, probably thinking of that utterly unserious forum. He glanced at Morofushi Kagemitsu and then looked away. "But since you specifically asked, you probably want to know some rumors about the BOSS, right?"
Morobuchi Kagemitsu did not deny it.
“…That must be the rumor about ‘time-space text messages’,” Furuya Rei said after thinking carefully.
"Time-space SMS?" Upon hearing that the rumor was related to time and space, Morofushi Kagemitsu sat up straight, and Number 66 also stopped muttering and quieted down—he couldn't find this on the forum, so it was very likely that the message had been processed, and it was necessary to collect some information.
When Furuya Rei realized that Fushigi Hiromitsu was indeed unaware of this, he joked, "I thought you Black Guest guys could dig up any kind of information."
[Anti-fraud expert #66: ...Unfortunately, since landing, fate has severed our connection. I can't contact the anti-fraud experts in this timeline at all.]
Rei Furuya continued, "It happened at the Electronics Technology Department. They said that more than one person in the lab received a message from the past, which was just a jumble of gibberish. No matter how they tried to trace the data or analyze the data, they couldn't find the exact source. The only information they could understand was that it was from four years ago. That's why it's called a 'time-space message'."
"Four years ago?" Upon hearing this crucial point in time, Morofushi Kagemitsu couldn't help but think of his own timeline.
“Yes.” Furuya Rei’s expression unconsciously turned serious as he said, “At first, I didn’t pay much attention to this. After all, electronic technology is prone to bugs, and I thought this was just a small accident. However, a couple of days ago, I discovered that the researcher who told me this news had disappeared, and even the rumor was no longer allowed to circulate within the organization. That’s when I started to pay a little attention.”
"Besides not being able to determine the source, what other characteristics do those messages have?" Morofushi Kagemitsu quickly asked.
Rei Furuya shook his head and said, "That's all I know for now. It's probably very difficult to find out any more details. The lab's information blockade is even tighter than I imagined."
[Anti-Fraud Master No. 66: Could it be... that those signals are also a product of interdimensional communication? Given the circumstances and opportunities that led to our time travel, I think this trip will inevitably revolve around the issue of "communication." This happened before we arrived, and was mentioned by Zero, so it must be somehow importantly connected to our purpose.]
We were supposed to be working overtime again tomorrow after we did something naughty tonight...
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[Anti-Fraud Guru #66: Huh?! What's going on? The signal's acting up again? Could it be because of the chain reaction we were discussing interdimensional communication? +&…/#……Jing, you handle this for now, the alarms are going off too often, I'll go take care of it!]
Zhu Fujingguang frowned, feeling that this was not a good omen.
"Are you worried because of this rumor?" Seeing the slightly uneasy look on the person next to him, Furuya Rei said, "If our operation tonight goes smoothly, I can help you investigate further."
"...I was just thinking about other things." Morofushi Kagemitsu shook his head. He didn't want Zero to get involved in the time-space issue, and said, "Let's put this aside for now. Are we heading to that drug center now?"
“…Yes.” Furuya Rei felt that the mystery surrounding Midorikawa Osamu seemed to have thickened, but because he had a bold guess about this man’s secret, he was in no hurry to ask. He simply said, “Although Rum has increased his manpower quite a bit, some obstacles have already been cleared for us tonight. We need to hurry up and search this place thoroughly.”
The car then rounded the taller buildings at the intersection, and a town of some size could be vaguely seen in the distance.
Morobuchi Kagemitsu felt that all of this was extremely familiar.
Wait, that drug center...
"This area has always been in Melo's hands. Someone suggested establishing a drug center here to slowly infiltrate the region. Unfortunately..."
Rei Furuya stared silently at the building that had been abandoned halfway through construction.
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