The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan.

Following the clues provided by the surveillance, the group indeed found scattered cleaning uniforms and an overturned cleaning cart on the dry deck's sea access passage.

There is no need for a detective to explain, this scene is enough to illustrate the problem.

"Can this hatch lead directly to the outside world?" After stopping Makino Yosuke who wanted to touch it directly, Shiratori Renzaburo confirmed.

Although judging by the surveillance footage, it seems unlikely that the person who took Naomi away would leave behind such low-level evidence as fingerprints, this is probably the only clue to track the missing person now and cannot be destroyed at will.

"Yes, after all, we're a sealed, airtight building. We can't have just one entrance and exit, and that wouldn't meet safety requirements." Makino Yosuke nodded. "But the problem is, we're almost a hundred meters deep out here, and the nearest Hachijo Island is over five kilometers away. How are they going to take Naomi away?"

There was a heavy meaning in his words, and everyone present could hear it.

In this situation, we have to consider that the people who captured Naomi… had no intention of letting her live.

If a person is thrown directly into this depth, even the strongest swimmers will find it difficult to swim to the surface and will quickly lose their life.

"Who can open this door?" Kuroda Bei crossed his arms, observed the environment, and asked the key question directly.

The entrances and exits built in this location cannot be opened at will. The building needs to maintain airtightness to ensure the safety of personnel. If the door in the sea can be opened at will, then building this thing will be a population elimination game.

In this case, as the main manager, Makino Yosuke could not fail to set a threshold for opening this door.

"The door on this side of the cabin can be opened at will; it's purely mechanical. To get to the outside, we need to perform an airtight procedure, close this side's door, and then open the outer one." Makino Yosuke quickly understood what he meant. "As for the seawater side, only I and a few core engineers have permission to open it."

"In other words, the accomplice who kidnapped her is among these people." Kuroda Bei directly stated the conclusion.

"That's logical, but..."

Shiratori Renzaburo didn't intend to listen to his struggle and directly said to Kuroda Bei: "Anyway, I will inform the Metropolitan Police Department of the situation and ask them to send police as soon as possible."

This sentence announced that more Japanese police officers would directly enter the facility because of this case and might intervene in the system.

This is what Makino Yosuke least wants to see.

The corners of Makino Yosuke's eyes twitched twice. Seeing the work clothes dropped on the ground, he didn't say much, but his expression became more serious.

Conan, who had come along to watch, narrowed his eyes and after a brief thought, decisively took out his cell phone.

Considering the information passed on by Shuichi Akai, the most likely person to take Naomi away now is someone from the organization.

Then he had to consider his own situation and Huiyuan's situation. The two of them could be exposed at any time because of this system.

The people he can turn to for help are very limited, and the people who can actually help them are also very limited...

Opening the email page, just as Conan was about to start editing the record, a new email arrived in his mailbox at the same time.

After clicking on the content and reading only two lines, Conan's eyes widened and he looked around suspiciously.

They sent the message so quickly. Could it be that they had already noticed Naomi's disappearance? Or had their people already infiltrated the facility?

When did it happen? Why didn't I hear any movement? They were moving so quickly, it felt like the danger was greater than the organization...

After hesitating for a moment, thinking about his own safety, Haibara Ai, and the safety of many more people who might be involved in this incident, Conan realized that he had no choice for the time being.

After saying sorry to the staff of the Pacific Buoy in his heart, he turned around and decisively chose to follow Shiratori Renzaburo who was leaving quickly.

After making the decision, Conan even felt relieved in his heart.

This system can certainly provide necessary assistance to police in various countries to a certain extent, but based on the current situation, while providing assistance, it is inevitable that it will pose a threat.

Rather than establishing a transnational service system, it would be more meaningful to persuade Naomi to provide technical assistance to countries willing to build this platform.

Of course, the premise is that after experiencing such a dangerous situation, Miss Naomi can survive and is willing to continue to provide help...

Relying on his weak presence and the fact that he was a child and was not easily noticed, Conan followed Shiratori to the working floor, quickly turned a corner and ran into the bathroom.

The second before he stepped in, he couldn't help but think of Naomi who disappeared as soon as he stepped in. He calmed himself down before walking in.

Without even searching carefully, he found the item mentioned in the email on the sink: a slender black USB drive.

Conan quickly grabbed it in his hand, looked around with a guilty conscience, and put it in his pocket.

As long as Noah finds the correct interface and connects things into the system, can he easily solve the problems he and Huibara have?

This was, of course, a stopgap measure in a dangerous moment, but when he thought about Noah's Ark's utterly unreasonable power, its dimensionality-reducing attack-level dominance over any network system in the world, he had the illusion that he had come to Hachijo Island to serve as an agent for the Phantom Thieves...

But then again, the fact that a physical cracking device could be placed here directly means that someone from the Phantom Thieves has already sneaked in here.

He had clearly already infiltrated, but he still had to hand the things over to Conan to deal with. Either this person had no way to approach the control room directly, or he needed to create an "alibi" to eliminate suspicion of his identity.

Well, it's getting more suspicious...

By the way, I don’t know if the remaining three engineers and Makino Yosuke are easy to deceive. Well, he said, whether they are easy to talk to. I wonder if we can borrow some surveillance to check who has been to the bathroom before him?

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While Conan, who was holding the physical hacking device in his hand, was still suspicious, Tang Ze, who had left a USB flash drive with him, had successfully entered Binga's hall and met up with his teammates.

The reason why the rest room is in the men's room is quite straightforward.

Firstly, for personal privacy reasons, the restroom is one of the few areas in the Pacific buoy that is not covered by surveillance;

Secondly, Binga, who had been dressed as a woman for five years, really couldn't enter the men's restroom...

"Where is the area that needs to be unlocked?" Tang Ze asked directly, ignoring the shadowy black mud that was slowly crumbling and disappearing on the ground.

"The dormitory area, I guess it's Binga's dormitory." Zhu Fujingguang lowered his gun and said directly, "As the chief engineer, his treatment is quite good. He has a private room."

So if he left any clues related to the organization in the facility, the most likely place to find them would be his dormitory.

"Let's go then."

As Tang Ze spoke, he synchronized the explored areas into his navigation through Noah. After looking at the map a few times, he couldn't help frowning.

If you think about it carefully, the structure of the Pacific buoy is actually not complicated.

The bottom layer is a steel connecting structure directly connected to the seabed, plus several other connecting rods, forming the overall structure. Upwards is the emergency entrance and exit, which is the path that Vermouth and the others took away Naomi today, and then there is the living and working floor where the main control room is located.

As for the area above, as Naomi and others introduced at the beginning, it is the huge server part that exists for system operation, docking and intelligent computing, which constitutes most of the volume of the entire Pacific buoy.

But when applied to the hall of Binga, the structure suddenly becomes much stranger.

Various spatial dislocations due to distortion are very common in the hall, and the exterior and interior often do not match.

However, this distortion often occurs in areas that are more controllable by the owner of the hall and represent deeper desires, but in this hall it is the opposite.

The living area here is similar to the real Pacific buoy, with clear horizontal and vertical corridors that are easy to identify.

The server floor above it, however, presents an almost insane maze-like route, with intricate walls covering the entire floor. Moreover, the earthen walls inlaid with rocks, which look very historical, are constantly flashing various indicator lights, giving it a very punk style.

"We can get more intelligence here than we thought. This time we might have a good harvest." Seeing Tang Ze's expression and guessing what he was thinking, Asai Narimi said softly, "This may be related to the environment."

"He was able to participate so deeply in system development under disguise thanks to his five years of undercover work," Zhu Fujingguang echoed. "For an undercover agent, this process is extremely unfriendly."

Not knowing what he was thinking of, Asai Narumi showed a subtle smile on his face and nodded in agreement.

Even for those of them who were undercover in the organization, the real high-pressure period was actually only the first one or two years.

The purpose of any organization recruiting people is labor. It also costs money to equip the soldiers on the front line with a supervision team. It is impossible to waste all the costs on constantly monitoring everyone's loyalty.

——What's more, it's ridiculous that you talk about loyalty in such a huge place whose nature is even more outrageous than that of ordinary illegal organizations. People with such good character generally don't come to you if they want to commit crimes, right?

The Pacific Buoy itself is developing monitoring algorithms, so there is no reason not to install monitoring in the facility.

It's not just pretending. According to the actual situation that Tang Ze saw, these employees are the first-line testers of the system. Except for places involving essential privacy such as dormitories and bathrooms, all your actions in this facility will not escape the eyes of the system with just a few keystrokes and press Enter.

If Binga were in this situation, he would inevitably develop an instinctive aversion to this facility and feel particularly depressed here.

He was already in disguise, a man dressed as a woman, so his strength might be even higher than Asai Narumi's.

"Given his conditions, it's not easy for him to disguise himself as a woman," Asai Narimi commented objectively with the tone of a veteran. "His bones aren't slender enough, and his appearance isn't androgynous enough. Plus, he's actually a well-trained assassin..."

Think about it, under Binga's skirt, she has well-developed muscles.

The fundamental reason why Asai Narumi was able to hide his true identity was that he was weak and sickly since he was young. It was because of his illness that his parents sent him to Tokyo for long-term recuperation, which greatly affected his growth. He was relatively slender and not tall, so it was not easy to be recognized at a glance.

What about Binga? It's already incredibly difficult, with no emotion involved, just skill.

A person like this, staying under surveillance and maintaining a female body shape for 24 hours, must be going crazy.

"That's why he's so anxious." Tang Ze put away the navigation and followed them forward, answering casually, "There's no need to rush."

Do you really think the mission of kidnapping Naomi is that urgent? Actually, not really.

The excuse that the boss gave to Vermouth and Amuro Toru was that this system would threaten the safety of the organization's members and might even capture some people's situations, such as Gin. That's why they needed to solve the technical problems and hide their identities before the system was completely built.

The problem is that the prerequisite for finding the person is to have a sample, someone to report the case, and someone to investigate. It has to proceed step by step according to normal criminal investigation procedures.

But is Gin a killer in that style?

He usually kills people as soon as the car stops and then turns around and leaves. He may not appear at the scene of death. He has a strong anti-reconnaissance awareness and has no direct personal relationship with the victim.

Perhaps the only time in his life that he was unlucky enough to be caught at a crime scene was the time with Kudo Shinichi, and he was the one who committed the crime.

The reason of "covering up the identities of Gin and other members of the action team and erasing the records" is therefore untenable. As for other reasons, they can just wait until the system starts running, and then use Binga's identity to secretly make use of this system.

The reason why the video is fast-forwarded to the kidnapping and the time is this, can only explain one thing.

Binga couldn't stand it anymore and was completely anxious. He couldn't wear women's clothes for a moment and just wanted to blow up the place.

"He's so anxious. He's so anxious that the shadows in the entire hall are running wild." With Tang Ze's assistance, after quickly pushing back to the accommodation area, Matsuda Jinpei, who had been working hard for half a day, pointed ahead. "If there's any indicator here that proves that Binga may indeed have cognitive protection awareness, this is it."

In short, there are always monsters piling up on his map, which has become a shit map, and the experience is extremely bad.

"Has Gin been found yet?" Looking at the bright red letter K on the door in front of him, Tang Ze untied the two loops of his scarf in anticipation and asked the question that concerned him most.

"Nothing." Matsuda Jinpei pointed to the top of his head. "I feel..."

"I think I might have guessed what the gin here is." Zhu Fujingguang coughed twice and controlled the corners of his mouth. "Considering Binga's perception of gin... You know the story of the Minotaur bull, right, Leader?"

Tang Ze, who was pulling his scarf back from the door, choked.

...No, he's taking advantage of Gin a bit, so why is there an ethical issue involved?