Phantom Thief of Heart!but conan

Chapter 1106 Hitting the bullseye
"Well, the number of people and the number of transmitters roughly match."

Gin glanced at the red dot on the other window, checked the received image, and nodded calmly.

"There's a person lying in the back seat," Chianti reminded, "it could be Kiel."

"Let's wait and see what happens to the other cars."

Without making any judgment in advance, Gin shook the cigarette in his hand.

The FBI is not completely stupid, it is impossible not to guess their plans.

Even if I have to pretend, I have to pretend to be an alternative option to distract their attention.

Soon, images from three different trackers were transmitted over, and Gin opened them one by one and compared them.

There were also 9 people in the second car, similar to the number in the first car, and none of them carried any transmitters.

There were only two people in the third car.

"It's like some kind of puzzle."

In the headphones, Kumail, who had been silent for a while, suddenly said something, causing the smile that had just bloomed on Gin's lips to freeze for a moment.

He knew that this guy wouldn't stay quiet.

"Shut up and mind your business. Don't bother with my judgement."

"Yes Yes……"

The sound of fabric rubbing against each other disappeared from Kumail's side, and the room fell into silence again, as if the microphone had been turned off.

Gin was too lazy to judge what was going on on his end, and just assumed that he was deliberately making trouble, so he looked through the three images again.

"Okay, Gin, have you made up your mind?" Chianti's impatient voice soon rang out, "If you delay any longer, the rifle on my back will be too hot to hold!"

She was saying that without clear instructions, she would not bother with confidentiality and would just open fire and spray the vehicles in front.

Anyway, the people sitting in the top positions are either the FBI or someone connected to the FBI, so it would not be unfair if they were all killed.

"Do you need to rule out my options first?" Vodka spoke up quickly, lest Gin be really angered by Chianti and Cohen, the two abstract people. "There are only two people, and their route is completely wrong. They are circling the hospital. They are probably just interfering with the project."

Gin pressed down the brim of his hat and was about to give clear instructions when another voice came through the headset, prompting him to connect to the communication.

"Gin, sorry to have kept you waiting. I have already locked onto Akai Shuichi's location."

"Vermouth, you're too slow." Gin said bluntly, "Kumair has already caught up with Curacao, and you just found him."

"There's nothing I can do. My opponent is that Akai Shuichi." Vermouth laughed, her eyes accurately fixed on the passenger seat of the vehicle in front.

When she was passing by the car just now, she noticed with her sharp eyes that the seat belt on the passenger seat was inexplicably stretched out.

The person in the passenger seat was completely invisible from the rear angle, but if it was just to conceal Kiel's position, Shuichi Akai actually didn't have to deliberately fasten the passenger seat belt.

Not only will it fail to have a misleading effect, it will also be seen through at a glance.

Unless... there's someone in the passenger seat.

A person who can sit with Akai Shuichi, who can't be observed from behind...

"Akai probably expected that someone would target him. He did not park his car in the hospital parking lot, but more than a kilometer outside the hospital. It took me some effort to look for him." Vermouth's heart tightened slightly, but her tone remained relaxed.

"What about the location? Where exactly is Shuichi Akai?" Gin ignored her defense and just asked.

"We just passed Haido Park and haven't entered Beika Town yet." Vermouth narrowed her eyes and finally made up her mind, "It's closer to the second car. Maybe it's guarding it."

In fact, Shuichi Akai's vehicle was not chasing the second car at all.

But at this point, Vermouth could not change Gin's plan much except blurring the direction of the vehicle.
If you can't see someone using the seat belt from behind, there is only one possibility: the user is a very small person, such as a child.

And being able to stay with Shuichi Akai, no matter if he was a cool guy or the hateful Shirley, she couldn't easily sell them out to Gin.

Cool guy was the one she had to protect, and Shirley's life was now closely related to Tang Ze Zhao's.

These were all her soft spots that she had to use her caution to protect, so she had to be careful.

"It looks like the answer is the car Cohen followed." Chianti's voice sounded, and he snorted in boredom, "In the end, I had nothing to do with it. How boring."

"I will meet up with Vermouth as soon as possible." Cohen said knowingly, "Leave Akai Shuichi to me..."

"No, not yet. Cohen, don't follow the second car to change lanes." Gin interrupted him.

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is that the real target is either in the third car, or in the hands of Akai Shuichi."

Gin's voice was cold and deep, causing Tang Ze to pause slightly in his forward steps.

Without interfering with the original arrangement at all, Gin still provided a second option that was different from the original route.

How is this done? Could this be another way for the enemy of science to sense things?
Tang Ze shook his head helplessly, but still opened the car door and started the car.

As the only reliable pillar of the organization, Gin is a tough guy. When Akai Shuichi made a slight change, he seemed to have noticed the problem and responded very quickly.

Everything seemed to be brought back on track... Fortunately, Tang Ze was well prepared.

“Why do you think so?” Vermouth felt her palms sweating as she gripped the handlebars of the motorcycle, her voice still smiling, “Akai Shuichi himself is such a conspicuous target, there’s no reason to put Gil in such a dangerous place, right?”

"He's taking advantage of your mentality," Gin retorted. "With Akai Shuichi's driving skills, if he really wanted to draw fire away for the real target, there's no need for him to do a defensive cruise. He could just provoke us directly to attract our attack. Driving so methodically is not his style for escaping. You've seen what he looks like when he's being chased."

Vermouth recalled the brief confrontation in Gunma Prefecture and raised her eyebrows without refutation.

In the critical moment, Shuichi Akai was completely slippery, which can be described as a man of great skill and courage.

If it weren't for Bourbon's desperate driving skills, there would be no need to send out a helicopter. He would have been able to completely leave the organization behind halfway. "But brother, there are only two people in the third car. The driver is indeed an FBI agent. I just went around to the other side to confirm." Vodka spoke up in time to confirm again, "Do you really want to follow them?"

"Maybe the person in the passenger seat is Gil." Gin sneered, "Even if it's not Gil, it could be Curacao."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"There are very few female members in this FBI operation, and most of them are in the second car." Gin flipped through the images again and again, and explained his judgment clearly. "The only one who has the decision-making ability should be the woman with glasses. She has been encountered and subdued by Kumail. It is definitely impossible that she was in the car."

The person responsible for driving at this moment must be the one with the best driving skills in their team.

The person sitting in the co-pilot seat will be the one responsible for making calls via the radio.

Without Judy, the remaining options suddenly became much smaller.

"Both Curacao and Kiel are women. Taking advantage of everyone's subconscious belief that the patient would be placed in the back seat, they could easily put the unconscious Kiel or Curacao in the passenger seat and take him away."

"So, is this also why we went back to the hospital?"

“They thought we wouldn’t investigate the hospital again. It was a move that capitalized on inertia. It was really Rye’s style.”

Suddenly, Gin uttered the name "Rye" for the first time in a long time, and there was a brief silence in the communication for a few seconds.

Before being exposed, rye whiskey had already occupied a very important position in the action team, and it and gin had already formed a situation where the kings did not meet each other.

It was precisely because of the situation at the time that there was even a vague rumor in the organization that "Rye Whiskey was not actually an undercover agent at all, but was just a hindrance to Gin's position and was forced to rebel in the struggle."

As members of the action team, they are all well aware of Shuichi Akai's dominance in this regard. The silence at this moment is the best answer to Gin's speech.

"Today is the day he dies. Everyone, follow them."

"This does not include me, right?"

Just when the atmosphere was extremely tense, Kumail's soft, careless voice broke in again, once again suppressing the corners of Gin's mouth that had just been raised.

"…Just do your own thing and shut up, Kumail! I told you, this operation has nothing to do with Rum!"

"Well, if you say it's irrelevant, then it's irrelevant. You're not near Haido Park, are you, guys?"

“…I just passed by, but I turned around and followed Akai Shuichi in the other direction.” Vermouth blinked and glanced at the traffic behind him. “Are you going to do anything, Kumail?”

Her expression under the helmet was more cheerful than before, and she couldn't help but smile.

If Cool Guy was really dragged into the forefront of the conflict, she was willing to believe that Kumail, like herself, would make some radical choices for the safety of the children.

That’s what complicity is all about.

"It's good that you're not here. I can't control you if you're here. Everyone, hold on to your seat belts."

Yuya Kazami glanced at the rearview mirror, checked the time on his watch, and tightened his grip on the steering wheel slightly.

He knew that Tang Ze was always on time, and he also knew how serious Tang Ze was in this regard.

He wasn't worried about any problems with the implementation of the plan, he was just worried that the plan would be too realistic...

"boom!"

Almost at the moment when the pointer on his dial pointed to the exact time, a car in the traffic flow on the side suddenly accelerated, changed lanes, and hit the vehicle he was driving with a clear purpose.

Even though he had rehearsed and knew the other party's plan, when his car lost control, Yuya Kazami still instinctively panicked because of the huge force.

He knew it, he knew it! What about turning the steering wheel to cooperate, this collision is definitely real!
There was a loud noise of vehicles colliding behind her, followed by the sharp sound of brakes rubbing against the ground, and then the more violent sound of hitting a hard object. The series of noises distracted her a little and she almost hit the vehicle next to her.

"I got it. Ten rings."

In the communication, only Kumail's voice, which was still soft and joyful with a slight smile, could be heard.

As if it wasn't him who had carelessly crashed into another car, causing an extremely eye-catching car accident.

"Kumair, you--!" Vermouth's surprise did not require any acting.

It was not because of anything else, but because they were not driving on flat ground, but on a bridge.

Following Kumail's attack, the car he hit, along with Kumail's car, directly crashed through the side guardrail and fell towards the water below in full view of everyone.

The entire lane was briefly paralyzed by the accident.

Whether it was the vehicle that braked suddenly from behind or the vehicle passing in front, they all slowed down, which soon caused a series of small car accidents. Vermouth had to stop the motorcycle, change direction, and avoid the possible attention of Akai Shuichi.

The collision was real, and even with the most agile people, accidents in such incidents are extremely difficult to avoid.

She knew that Kumail, who was out of the plan, must have his own tricks, but she was still surprised by how direct and desperate he was...

"Don't worry, I'm safe."

"...You are too much of a fool!" Chianti's voice was almost screaming, "I was right behind you! Damn, the car in front of me rear-ended me, and I almost hit the curb."

"Haha, isn't this great? Or do you prefer the chase game to the traffic jam caused by car accidents? Come on, seniors. This is not a police and gangster movie. That would be too boring."

"Kumel!"

Tang Ze, who was hanging on the edge of the bridge with the hook in his hand, took off his headset and moved away a little.

Even though it was muffled in the helmet, when Chianti screamed loudly, the decibel and tone were still extremely harsh, like a screaming chicken toy being stepped on.

Tang Ze waited until the earphones were quiet before putting them back on, gently shaking the hook in his hand and grabbing another load-bearing structure under the bridge. He also cleverly avoided the crowd that was gathering, approaching, and looking down from above.

He looked down at the two cars slowly sinking below, and watched Kazami Yuya who was ejected, hugging the frowning Curacao who seemed to have fainted again, and rolling awkwardly on the grass on the embankment, also hiding in the shadows from above, with a smile on his lips.

"This is a good way to get Curacao out of their grasp. You said it yourself, life or death, didn't you, Senior?"

(End of this chapter)