Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

"Little new!"

"!!"

He turned around suddenly and saw Kudo Yukiko, who had also taken notes, walking angrily, with worry written on her face: "Why do you do such a dangerous thing! What if the police shoot you?!"

"I……"

Kudo Shinichi knew that he was in danger just now.

Due to different national conditions, many ordinary prisoners here may be armed with guns. In order to save their lives while enforcing the law, the police often behave in a radical way in the eyes of foreigners - for example, if a person does not hear or understand the warnings, or does not immediately do as they ask, the police may open fire.

To be politically incorrect, if his skin color had been darker, or if he had raised his hands just a little slower, he might have become a hornet's nest...

So Kudo Shinichi honestly admitted his mistake: "I will pay attention next time."

Kudo Yukiko understood him. She was just scared, and half of her anger was gone when she saw that he was fine.

Seeing that his mother's anger was gradually dissipating, Kudo Shinichi put on a smile and was about to coax her a few more words when he suddenly thought of another person.

"Where's Teacher Aoyagi?"

He was so busy telling the police everything he saw in the parking lot and in the car that he almost forgot about it.

Kudo Yukiko was completely involved because of her son, so she made a note early and asked her friend about the situation: "He was making notes on that girl."

Kudo Shinichi was puzzled: "Is he a policeman here? How do you know each other?"

When he met Aoyagi Binguang in Minato City two years ago, he was just an ordinary foreign teacher who taught music. How did he suddenly become a policeman?

Kudo Yukiko glanced at her son proudly and showed a superior smile as if she had more information.

"He is not an ordinary policeman, he is..."

"Swipe-"

The opening of the electronic door not far away interrupted Kudo Yukiko's words in time. Kudo Shinichi heard a sound of footsteps and subconsciously looked up.

He saw another man with long hair.

The man was tall, with green eyes, an Asian face, and black hair that reached his waist under a knitted hat. He was wearing a high-collar windbreaker, and the left pocket of the clothes was somewhat bulging - there might be a gun in it.

The hairs on Kudo Shinichi's back stood up. He felt that the man in front of him looked inexplicably familiar, but he was shocked by his aura.

The man and his partner were accompanied by a sheriff. As the three men passed by Kudo Shinichi, Kudo Shinichi heard him ask the sheriff, "Who is this boy?"

“The first person to discover the crime scene.”

Kudo Shinichi watched them leave. At this time, he saw three large bright yellow letters printed on the back of one of them's coat——

FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation).

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Shuichi Akai no longer paid attention to the young witness.

The police sergeant who received them spoke to his partner who was traveling with them: "You came very quickly this time. Did you come by special plane?"

"No, we came from the Bronx, and several other members of the group are still packing their luggage there..." His partner smiled bitterly, with a hint of lack of rest in his eyes.

Akai Shuichi said: "How is the situation at the scene?"

"At 2:45 p.m., at the intersection of Fifth Avenue in Queens, New York, a passerby saw a young girl crying on the street. Based on her identification, we found a body in the trunk of a car in the shopping mall parking lot. Male Corpse."

"Preliminary inspection showed two fatal wounds on the deceased. The first one was on the chest, where a dagger pierced his ID and penetrated directly into the heart. The second one was on the neck. There were five obvious finger marks on both sides of the neck, one on the left and one on the right. Fourth, the deceased’s third neck bone was completely shattered. The specific results are still awaiting autopsy.”

Having said this, the police chief observed Akai Shuichi's face.

"There are words carved on the back of the deceased..."

Before the police chief could say anything, Akai Shuichi stopped. It turned out that they had arrived at a special interrogation room.

In some cases, children will become witnesses. These special little witnesses will certainly not be pressed into a cold interrogation chair like adults. Such a special interrogation room is exclusively for their use.

Akai Shuichi and his companions opened the door and walked in, leaving only the police chief outside.

The police chief looked at the closed door, thinking of the document pierced with a dagger he saw when taking out the body, and muttered:

"This is the fourth FBI agent to be killed this month..."

……

Through the transparent surveillance window, Shuichi Akai saw a cozy children's room that was out of place in the entire police station. A mixed-race girl was sitting inside with a toy in her arms.

Kneeling beside her was a long-haired man with a bun. He was not wearing a police uniform, and he was talking to her with his head down, his expression gentle and warm.

Akai Shuichi looked at him quietly.

The companions around me were confused by this scene. Generally, it is more appropriate for young girls to be taken care of by female police officers: "This person is..."

"Green Willow."

Akai Shuichi opened the door, and the people inside looked at him.

He called out the other party's name: "Qingliu Binguang."

……

Aoyagi Binguang.

Twenty-six years old, both biological and psychological gender are male, an agent in the Counter-Terrorism Division of the FBI New York Branch.

He is said to be a Japanese agent, but he is only one-quarter Japanese and can hardly be seen from his appearance. It is said that this bloodline comes from my grandmother.

In the FBI intelligence database, he has a clear and checkable resume——

Before he was ten years old, he lived with his mother in "Hell's Kitchen" in Manhattan; when he was ten years old, his mother passed away and was murdered by his mother's half-brother, his uncle Velez (then a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and now a justice) 1) adopted and went to live in Maine.

At the age of sixteen, he returned to New York and was admitted to the New York University School of Law. After graduating from his undergraduate degree, he worked as an assistant in a law firm. He resigned after refusing to defend a sinister boss.

At the age of twenty-three, he entered the FBI despite the minimum age limit. Due to his excellent physical fitness, he joined the hostage rescue team directly after completing the training and performed outstandingly in several bomb attacks. He was once sent to Japan by his boss to secretly investigate a dangerous international bomber.

Akai Shuichi unexpectedly met him once during that investigation.

However, it was another experience he had that really caught his attention.

——Aoyagi Akimitsu also worked as an undercover agent.

Chapter 217 Undercover Enemy IRS

Two years ago, Aoyagi Binguang failed to investigate the bomber Pramea, who assassinated a senior Russian official again and then disappeared.

Afterwards, he returned to the United States, and a senior FBI official gave him a new task, asking him to work as an undercover agent in an organization.

It was a criminal organization that liked to collect gems. It had attacked many museums and jewelry exhibitions, killed many rich people, and also attacked the European royal family. Its members were codenamed after various animals.

Aoyagi Binguang spent a year and a half collecting the addresses, member information and criminal evidence of all the organizations' properties. Because he also obtained a real account book signed by the leader of the organization during the process, the Internal Revenue Service became involved in the investigation.

Six months ago, the Queen of the Principality of Ingram planned to visit the United States with the gem "Crystal Mother". Before she arrived in New York, the FBI decided to close the network and join forces with the local police to eliminate this organization.

All the top leaders of the organization were arrested, and the few members who escaped were foreign killers hired at high prices. The possibility of active revenge was very low, but Aoyagi Binguang was still in trouble.

Because he was also investigated by the IRS.

IRS: Sir, put aside how many things you robbed and how many people you killed while undercover. What we are concerned about is, did you evade taxes during this period?

In the United States, except for the rich who can legally avoid tens of billions of dollars in taxes through charitable foundations in their names, daily "zero-yuan purchases" are subject to tax, and undercover agents are naturally not immune.

Qingliu Binguang's ability to master so much information means that he must have reached a high level, and his gray income will not be a small amount. The IRS discovered that the other members were major tax evaders and immediately targeted him.

Shuichi Akai, who was also undercover, had never experienced such a thing. He had to evacuate after his identity was exposed, and the incident happened in Japan, so the trouble of the IRS was not involved.

During that time, Aoyagi Binguang was very busy.

While receiving psychological counseling from the FBI for undercover agents, he dealt with IRS inspectors and studied under a magician. The magician had been persecuted by this organization. In order to express his gratitude to Aoyagi Binguang, he was willing to teach him some magic skills.

The investigation took a full month, with auditors scrutinizing all of Aoyagi's accounts and cutting open the walls of his safe house's escape route in search of cash. It turned out that not only did he pay taxes honestly on every sum of money, but he even helped his second-in-command (the only son of the eldest son) make up a large sum of money.

Satisfied, the IRS skipped over the second-in-command and prosecuted others in the organization for tax evasion, combined with robbery, first-degree murder and other charges. Those people were sentenced to decades, life imprisonment or the death penalty.

After completing the review, Aoyagi Binguang returned to the FBI, but he did not return to the HRT unit. The senior management felt that his investigative skills were good and directly transferred him to the New York branch, which was short of personnel.

Except for that chance encounter in Japan, Shuichi Akai never met Aoyagi Harimitsu in person. He only saw the information, and it was James who opened the back door. After all, Aoyagi was an undercover agent who successfully returned, and the confidentiality level of his identity file was very high.

He was quite interested in him.

His experience in that "zoo" organization, what he did to destroy a criminal organization in a year and a half, what tricks the magician taught him, and...

——As the nephew and adopted son of the Chief Justice, as a relative of such a high-ranking official, why was he sent on a dangerous undercover mission?

Akai Shuichi thought a lot, but now is not the time to focus on these. He has more important tasks to deal with now.

Judy and the others were still in the Bronx, and his colleagues who came with him to the scene of the new crime followed him into the room. Seeing them, Aoyagi Binguang stood up and showed them his FBI ID.

Aoyagi Binguang explained: "This is a Japanese mixed-race girl. There are no other police officers who understand Japanese in the police station, so I helped them complete the transcript work."

The colleague looked up at the camera above, and then at the activated voice recorder next to him. For witnesses who do not understand the language, the entire communication process must be videotaped and audio-recorded to facilitate review by others.

At this time, the police chief also came in. As soon as he came, he heard Qingliu Binguang's words and said proactively: "Yes, that's it. I asked Binguang to help. He has always been an enthusiastic young man."

Hearing this, Akai Shuichi glanced at the police chief.

Although the FBI has the highest priority to investigate many cases, many police officers are dissatisfied with this and feel that they are always dictating from above. Unless there is an order from a superior or the situation is critical and requires help, they will not hand over the case, let alone actively seek help from a detective.

Before Aoyagi Binguang resigned from the law firm and joined the FBI, he served as a Mountie in the New York City Police Department for three years. The information stated that he was quite popular at the time, which seems to be true.

The colleague stepped forward and extended his right hand enthusiastically: "Thank you for your help. I am Robert Otto, a detective from the headquarters. This is my boss Akai Shuichi. He is the person in charge of this case. Now we are taking over the case. ... Are you from the branch? Will you join this investigation?"

"I'm on vacation recently, and I think the director will send more experienced agents to help you."

Qingliu Binguang said as he shook hands with them respectively.

He did not ask for details of the case - it would be offensive for people other than investigators to inquire about major cases that the headquarters is responsible for - he exchanged a few words with the girl, explained in words that a child could understand that someone else was here to help her, and then left. room.

Shuichi Akai watched him leave, then turned his attention to the younger girl.

Given his height, looking down from such an angle was definitely condescending.

The little girl was staring at him too. The girl who had been well taken care of by Qingliu Binguang faced his gaze, her body trembled, she hugged the toy in her arms, and then she sobbed softly.

Akai Shuichi: "..."

Colleague Robert Otto quickly said: "Please, Akai, smile - this is just a child, not a prisoner! You look too vicious now!"

Akai Shuichi, who usually had a gloomy face but was not expressionless due to the seriousness of the case, was silent for a moment and smiled at the girl.