The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan.

"Your dad said he didn't really want to go whale watching?"

"Uh, well, it seems like he's saying that flying isn't very comfortable. Now he's feeling dizzy. He thinks if he gets on a boat right away, he might vomit or something..."

"What a hassle! I've already reserved a seat..."

Conan, who was absent-minded, was slow to go downstairs when he heard the conversation between two girls standing in the hall waiting for someone.

He glanced in the direction of the elevator with a subtle expression before walking towards the gathering place.

It's not surprising that Maori Kogoro doesn't want to follow a group of children to take care of the children, but it feels like he didn't even participate in this activity. Is he carsick from the plane, or did he secretly drink some wine in the hotel and now he doesn't dare to come to see anyone...

"It doesn't matter if he doesn't come. One less person won't affect the boat anyway." Mao Lilan patted her friend's shoulder. "The kids are really looking forward to going whale watching."

"This is Hachijojima's most famous project right now. It would be such a waste for him to come here and not participate."

"Just treat it as a vacation, it's okay to relax a little..."

The group reluctantly accepted this setting and left the hotel, and Conan's sharp eyes caught a familiar figure again.

If I'm not mistaken, the person who got into the car and left was indeed Shiratori Renzaburo, right?

It’s not that the police can’t come on vacation, but according to Conan’s understanding, the Investigation Section will be even busier than before during this long break. Even if he takes leave, he usually won’t be seen at this time. The only reason he will be seen in the hotel is probably that there are no other decent hotels on Hachijo Island at the moment.

It doesn't matter if the police have poor living conditions when they are on business trips, but if they need to contact police officers or officials from other places, there are very few options on this island.

So his presence here is likely related to that Interpol facility...

"Conan, Conan—" After calling out twice without any response, Mao Lilan turned around and urged, "Come over quickly, we need to assign a vehicle."

The hotel sent the long SUV that they had brought from the airport to pick up guests again. At this time, they could only arrange two cars to pick up people and share the seats.

Conan withdrew his gaze from the gate as Shiratori's car left, and quickly grabbed Tang Ze's sleeve: "Let's talk about this together, brother Tang Ze!"

Considering that among their group, the one with the best self-protection ability is actually Tang Ze himself, it is necessary for Shuichi Akai to let him know about Tang Ze's warning.

Otherwise, it would easily turn into a strategy that would not succeed when one is on guard, because Tang Ze did not realize that someone was targeting him, and due to his carelessness, the plot was successful.

According to Conan's understanding, Tang Ze's ability to respond in this regard is still very strong, so it is necessary for him to be more vigilant.

"You said that the organization's people might be near this island?" Hearing Conan's low warning, Tang Ze raised an eyebrow, "They might also do something bad to me?"

"Things are rather complicated. The people from the organization may not be here to snipe you. However, if your identity is discovered by them, someone might take the risk and try to find you." Conan did not directly talk about the case that happened in Europe before, but instead relayed Shuichi Akai's attitude.

Regarding the part about Europol, Conan had a hunch that it would be better not to tell Tang Ze directly.

The organization obviously has an action plan against the Pacific buoy. After learning this, Conan couldn't resist the urge to find out. If he told Tang Ze, he was afraid that the other party would also want to take the risk to find out something.

After all, the purpose of this trip is to relax Tang Ze. Even if it can't relieve much of his mood, he shouldn't add too much trouble to it.

"My trip here isn't as ostentatious as it was to Kyoto. This place is also under the administrative jurisdiction of Tokyo, and I didn't even file any reports." Tang Ze shook his head. "It's unlikely their actions are directed at me. Is there anything going on around here?"

The organization is sniping me? You got it wrong, my friend. I'm here to snipe the organization!

I hope Binga can keep in mind his undercover identity when working on the Pacific buoy, be careful and not reveal any flaws. Otherwise, if Tang Ze is given a chance to kill him painlessly, Tang Ze will really not show mercy.

"They're not targeting you, but I'm not sure what they're going to do." Conan said vaguely.

Shuichi Akai, who informed him of the information, and Rena Mizunashi, who also delivered the information, both mentioned that the organization seemed to have some intentions towards this newly established facility, but what exactly they were going to do was still unclear at this stage.

The only thing Conan knew was that no matter what they wanted to do, they should not be allowed to succeed due to various circumstances.

A surveillance system that can be established across the globe will undoubtedly have a strong impact on crime. Even if the coverage area is small, it is never a bad thing to use new technologies to assist in criminal investigations.

If an organization feels threatened, it may be invaded and disrupted at the very least, or directly destroyed at the worst, which will be a huge loss.

"It's not about me, but you're definitely doing something nearby." Tang Ze touched his chin and pretended to take out his phone to search. After a while, a look of sudden realization appeared on his face. "Is it about this 'Pacific Buoy' thing?"

Conan shrugged and didn't argue.

Hachijojima is really too small. Even if we try to add more cultural colors and tourist attractions to it for tourism, it cannot be denied that this is a small island that can be visited in a day and a half.

There are very few targets for the organization's people to appear here. Since they are not coming for Tang Ze, they must have other purposes. Tang Ze can be found with a little search, so he is not surprised.

"The news says this is a cybersecurity center that uses new technologies to combat transnational crime. It's primarily used to connect police surveillance cameras from various countries. Oh, and there's also a facial recognition project, but they're vague about how advanced it is or what it is..." Tang Ze flipped through the news, a rather emotional expression on his face. "Is the organization targeting this?"

"They're more likely to want to destroy it, or to take the technology for themselves." Conan glanced at the mountains outside the car window and lowered his voice. "I've carefully investigated this project and feel there's a connection."

"Really? Tell me in detail?" Tang Ze, who knew a lot about it, was really curious about Conan's thoughts and asked directly.

Conan, who had already read the relevant reports, naturally did a lot of research. After Shuichi Akai called, he also looked up other information and even went to read the paper published by the person in charge who appeared on TV.

Wanting to hear Tang Ze's opinion, he started talking about the main projects currently being promoted by Pacific Buoy.

Naomi Argento, this young-looking lady is indeed not very old, she is only 19 years old this year, but she is already a doctoral student at Stanford University, majoring in artificial intelligence and anthropology. She has very rich knowledge accumulation and strong technical capabilities in related fields.

The surveillance system she developed does not simply use facial recognition technology for fuzzy matching, but combines artificial intelligence technology to analyze a person's photo data from childhood and adolescence, predict their orthopedics and appearance after growth, and then select the matching people through the facial features captured by the surveillance video.

Her original intention for developing the product was very simple. According to what she said in an interview, she hopes to use technology to find missing people, especially abducted teenagers. She hopes that the development of technology can benefit mankind and break down more barriers. However, because this technology requires citizens' personal information and surveillance data as support, the partners she can choose are very limited.

"It would definitely be a good thing if this system could be developed and used correctly, but now it's under the responsibility of Interpol. I can't say whether that's a good thing or not..." Conan, who fully understands the difficulties of this kind of cooperation, said helplessly.

This technology requires many prerequisites. It would be fine to let the police of a certain country use and develop it, but if Interpol is involved, it would be easy for them to hinder each other, which would eventually lead to the technology not being used well and being abandoned.

"It's easy to imagine that successful cooperation is difficult," Tang Ze replied without hesitation. "If you want to use this system effectively, you have to provide the system with relevant personal information, including childhood photos and the like. How is this any different from directly selling citizens' information?"

A basic problem is that it is impossible to choose people who have no knowledge of technology to participate in this kind of project. Even after training, technical strength is required to maintain this constantly updated system.

But since the screening is based on technology rather than other factors, it is impossible to avoid employees having professional ethics issues and risks. Look, Binga just found a way to get a job in Interpol, and it was so easy for him to get in. How can we guarantee that the people who use this system are all high-quality employees with qualified moral character?

Due to these restrictions, participation in and use of this system will undoubtedly face many obstacles. Using an international platform to develop it will easily cause the system to remain idle, which will become a waste.

"This algorithm also sounds very familiar..." Conan said this and sighed deeply, but did not elaborate.

Regarding the issues of the Tokiwa Group, Tang Ze was not involved in the Twin Skyscrapers incident and may not know much about it. Conan, who almost got himself into trouble, actually came into contact with the prototype of the missing engineer Hara Yoshiaki.

According to their investigation, Yuan Jiaming was one of the main reasons for the destruction of the Twin Towers.

Mio Tokiwa did make many mistakes. She put all her eggs in one basket on the building, hoping to boost market confidence and raise stock prices through this action.

But these were not enough to make the organization target her and want to silence her. That happened after the Phantom Thief of Hearts marked the building in a high-profile manner.

As for Gin, Conan had met him when he first visited. It can be seen that the organization first intersected with the Tokiwa Group because of the technology developed by Hara Yoshiaki at that time.

Yuan Jiaming has cooperated with the organization and developed the same algorithm as Naomi Argento. Therefore, the organization has long been interested in this technology and has made some developments.

Perhaps Yuan Jiaming had sensed the true nature of his partner and was considering withdrawing. He used the company's servers to transmit information and content related to the partnership to a third party, which was discovered by the organization and led to the explosion...

Their goal has always been to destroy the computer room of the Tokiwa Group. After all, if they just wanted to kill Tokiwa Mio, they would have plenty of ways to do it, and there was no need to take such a conspicuous risk.

Because of Yuan Jiaming's non-cooperation, he was "dealt with" by the organization, which led them to turn their attention to the Interpol project...

"Anyway, their target is the Pacific buoy, that's for sure, right?" Tang Ze blinked, guessing what he was thinking, and followed his meaning and passed over the topic.

Just as Tang Ze had thought at the beginning, the people most likely to be threatened by this system are people like Conan, who have aging problems after taking APTX or Silver Bullet.

So it's not that he can't understand where Vermouth's resistance comes from.

As an ageless witch, her appearance has not changed for decades. When she coexisted with Sharon, she could use makeup to create an old look to distinguish the two of them, but in front of this algorithm, her disguise can easily fail.

It's easy to fool ordinary people by using the excuse that he looks like his mother, and considering the era, it can even fool the screen, but it's difficult to fool the algorithm.

No matter how similar they are, there are no two exactly alike people in the world. Even identical twins with exactly the same DNA will have differences after development, let alone mother and daughter?

Vermouth, who was threatened by it, would definitely want to destroy it even without orders from above.

"Yes, no matter what they want to do, their target is definitely this." Conan pursed his lips, "It's a pity that nothing has happened so far. Even if they were warned, I'm afraid they wouldn't be taken seriously..."

He could indeed contact Judy and others to get the FBI to issue an advance warning that someone would attack the facility, but considering the special geographical location and environment of the Pacific buoy, its protection factor is naturally high, and the possibility of such a warning being taken seriously is very low.

This is a network center that spans continents and has real-time connections. It also uses artificial intelligence for calculations. Most of the entire Pacific buoy is actually used to house a huge computer server cluster, and there are only a few floors of actual living and working areas.

In other words, its entrances and exits are very limited, and the security factor is very high. It is unlikely that outsiders can sneak in, and it is really difficult to ask them to be vigilant.

"Okay, I understand what you mean." Tang Ze raised his hand and patted Conan's shoulder. "Wait for my news later."

"W-what news..." Conan, who was still thinking about how to break the deadlock, was stunned for a moment.

"Don't ask, just watch me operate it."

Okay, stop talking. I know you really want to get on the Pacific Buoy soon. Brother, I'll take you there.