Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

Not long after, Aoyagi Binguang came back.

"Mrs. Yukiko is already downstairs." He said, and held out his hand to Edogawa Conan, "I'll take you down now."

……

At the same time, in another apartment somewhere.

Gu Jiao returned to her residence. She took off the guitar bag on her back and placed it at the entrance. She unzipped it halfway and began to change her shoes.

Two small green snakes crawled out of the bag one after another through the zipper.

Gu Jiao put away her shoes and prepared to walk into the room, but the moment she turned around, a man's figure suddenly jumped into her eyes.

Qing Liu Bingguang, who had turned back into human form, raised his hand. He did not feel any discomfort after turning into a snake. The little snake that he gave to her, an undercover agent who changed his career halfway, was wrapped around his arm. He tilted his head slightly and looked at her.

"It's so rare for me to see you as Glenn," he said.

Chapter 296 A Different Kind of Justice

Gu Qiao currently lives in Shibuya, in an ordinary apartment not far from the station. Many residents are single office workers, and the neighborhood relationship is indifferent.

Qingliu Binguang sat on the sofa. As it was very late, Gu Qiao did not pour tea. Instead, he took out two bottles of mineral water from the refrigerator, opened one himself, and threw the other to him.

"Thank you."

Listening to the man sitting opposite him politely thanking him, Gu Qiao pressed his temples.

Everything that happened in the past two days came flooding back to my mind...

……

During this year, Aoyagi Akimitsu worked in the United States as an FBI agent and occasionally delivered important information to the organization.

And she has been staying in the organization, carrying out organizational tasks while collecting various intelligence.

For example, her task this time was to confirm a transaction with the freelance writer named Ryu Kankawa.

- A transaction involving a senior figure in the U.S. military, in which the money was ultimately transferred from one of Goldwasser’s accounts.

Goldwasser was the third in command of the organization, and his subordinates had countless bank accounts. Rum had been keeping an eye on him for years, so naturally he found out some of them. Therefore, after discovering that someone had been robbed of a huge sum of money a few years ago, Rum immediately sent his confidants to investigate.

In order to avoid alerting the other party, Rum specially borrowed Kiel. Ryu Kamikawa used to work at Nichimi TV, so it would not arouse suspicion if she contacted him first.

However, an accident occurred during the mission.

The day before Gu Qiao came to Osaka, Aoyagi Akimitsu suddenly informed her in the temporary group chat that he was going there too, and that some remnant spiders from the zoo organization had infiltrated the Nichimei TV station and had met with Scoobing, which might affect the mission.

Gu Qiao had read the plot and knew the identity of Scoobing. She originally thought that the disappearance of Kaito Kidd would make the mission easier, but she didn't expect it to increase the difficulty from another angle.

Aoyagi Binguang not only notified the Spider of his arrival, but also directly informed him of his specific identity. So Gu Qiao turned into an eagle, and when the Spider and the TV station arrived at the art museum, he touched his body and transferred half of his vision to him to monitor him.

She then went to the hotel room provided by Kiel to meet her temporary partner.

Rum was worried about Gin's men, so he didn't tell Kiel the real purpose and only asked her to try to contact the former colleague from the TV station. Gu Qiao knew that Kiel was from the CIA of the United States, so she also didn't reveal the details of the mission and only reminded the other party to be careful of spiders.

Because of the transfer of vision, Gu Qiao was able to know what Spider did at the same time. That night, after Spider finished his work and left, and the art dealer Qian Jiang walked away angrily after knocking on the door but failing to open it, she went directly to the door.

——Yes, she was the person who entered the deceased’s room between the murderer and the body being discovered in the morning.

Moreover, she controlled Hanchuan Long's body through the door panel to open the door for her.

The player's control over a messenger that was not summoned by himself is determined by the animal's intelligence. Gu Qiao can temporarily affect the five senses of living people by touching them, but cannot control their bodies.

The only exception is that dead people are allowed.

Gu Qiao didn't want to desecrate the corpse at first, but Han Chuanlong didn't open the window so the eagle couldn't fly in, the door lock control system was not connected to the Internet, the other spare door card of the room was placed at the front desk where people came and went, and the summoned animal messenger could only appear in the player's palm and could not appear in the room out of thin air...

Controlling the corpse was the most time-saving and least noisy method at that time.

Because Hanchuan Long was shot in the head, after he stood up, blood flowed down his upper body, leaving a trail of blood at the door and his bloody fingerprints on the handle inside, forming a scene trace that could not be explained by normal logic.

When Gu Jiao entered the room, the first thing she saw was the DV with its memory card taken away. When she was thinking about searching the room as soon as possible, Qingliu Binguang's snake appeared.

In the evening, he deliberately broke the door of the room arranged for him by Chairman Suzuki and asked the hotel to change his room. The ventilation duct of the new room was connected to this one.

Under the guidance of the little snake, Gu Qiao found the laptop that Han Chuanlong had placed in the safe. This safe was in the TV cabinet, and ordinary people probably wouldn't know there was a safe hidden inside if they didn't look carefully.

After seeing Gu Qiao informing Rum that the target was accidentally killed and turning on the computer to start copying data, the little snake spit out Hanchuan Long's mobile phone, pushed it under the sofa, and crawled away slowly alone.

Rum has been paying attention to this matter these days. He was very angry when he learned that Hanchuan Long was dead, and asked Gu Qiao to evacuate quickly.

When it came to how to deal with the computer, Gu Qiao hesitated for a moment, and ultimately did not put it back into the safe. Instead, she placed it on the sofa. Although this might shock the murderer, it would make it easier for the police and detectives investigating the case to see it at first glance.

After leaving the hotel, Gu Shao returned directly to Tokyo. Because she was in a hurry and Rum asked her not to worry about Kiel, she did not inform Mizunashi Rena. As a result, the female host did not know that the target of this mission was dead until she was summoned by the police.

What's even worse is that because she didn't trust Glenn, she didn't pay attention to the warning given by this second-in-command's confidant in the afternoon, and still came into contact with the spider without any precautions. She was hypnotized by the spider and was almost identified as the murderer by the police.

Fortunately, this was eventually resolved safely.

……

After finishing her reminiscences, Gu Qiao leaned back on the sofa and sighed softly.

There were really a lot of things going on this year. She ran around everywhere to gather local Japanese underworld forces and gave tons of money to the organization... 996 is an understatement, not to mention that she sometimes had to study in the space.

Thinking of this, she glanced at Aoyagi Binguang.

"What did you do at the zoo?" she couldn't help asking.

Gu Jiao did not forget that Spider was the member of the zoo organization whom Qingliu Bingguang met when he became an undercover agent. She always wondered where he got so much energy.

His skill clone seems to be able to share the burden, but once it is released, all the fatigue will be accumulated on the original body, and ordinary people cannot bear it at all.

Moreover, although the zoo organization is not as domineering as the winery, it is also a behemoth entrenched in the underground of several countries.

How did it get destroyed?

Aoyagi Binguang was fiddling with the snake's tongue. When he heard her words, he looked reminiscent: "...It's nothing, actually. I just accelerated the speed of their internal fighting."

"I let the rich businessman go, which led to the internal investigation of the undercover agent. The two sides of the conflict would not work together to investigate. They would only hope that the undercover agent was the other party's man. Even if he was not, they would try their best to put the blame on him."

He paused and added calmly: "Finally, the conflict broke out completely after I transferred some of the stolen money to help myself pay taxes."

Gu Qiao was listening attentively when he suddenly felt that he had heard something incredible.

"pay an overdue tax?"

"Yes." Aoyagi Binguang was helpless. "That's how it is in the United States. Even the president can only pardon agents for killing people, but not for tax evasion. That is a right only for the rich."

"I didn't want to be targeted by the IRS after I came back, so I wanted to pay the taxes. Although I don't value money, I don't like to pay out of my own savings, so I kept waiting until the opportunity came..."

Gu Qiao was speechless.

She looked at Aoyagi Akimitsu, who was leaning on the sofa with a gentle expression, and she knew that there were some things he had not finished saying.

In addition to the three reasons of stealing gems as positioning coordinates, destroying the zoo organization so as to return to the FBI as soon as possible, and paying taxes, there is actually a fourth reason why he pushed for the early destruction of the zoo organization: testing.

Test how the different forces will react and how chaotic the internal situation will be when a criminal organization falls into internal strife.

——As a sample and reference for future crackdowns on the Black Organization.

As his ally, Gu Qiao would naturally not blame him for such behavior.

Just mentioning the zoo, she naturally thought of the spider and Aoyagi Binguang's actions today, and her expression became a little subtle:

"I didn't expect Bourbon would go along with that ridiculous plan of yours."

Think about it, before she traveled through time, even when facing the daughter of a criminal, they would be cautious in their actions and were unwilling to drag the other party into it, let alone push innocent people to face danger.

Aoyagi Binguang looked at her and suddenly smiled.

"Of course he will agree..."

……

the other side.

At the bottom of the tower, Kudo Yukiko put on a disguised appearance and stuffed her shrunken son into the passenger seat. As she got in the car, she was still muttering, "Really, Shin-chan isn't cute at all now."

Edogawa Conan looked at her with his half-moon eyes: "Haha, you know I've become smaller and you still want to pretend to be someone from the organization to scare me, is this fun?"

"It's all Yusaku said. I want to give you a test."

Yukiko Kudo could tell her son was unhappy, so she explained and then turned the tables on him: "You are also not at fault! You didn't inform us immediately when such a big thing happened! We didn't know you had shrunk until we asked Dr. Agasa!"

Edogawa Conan shut up instantly.

Seeing him calm down, Kudo Yukiko calmed down. She remembered what Aoyagi Akimichi said when they met just now: "By the way, Aoyagi said you guys are very busy today, what's going on?"

"Nothing, just everyone set up a trap to help the police catch international criminals..."

Edogawa Conan roughly recounted what happened in the Osaka hotel and castle.

Yukiko Kudo frowned as she listened, "How bold! Forget about Aoyagi, the United States is more dangerous in some ways, but why are the Japanese police doing this?"

Not the police, but the public security.

Edogawa Conan added silently in his heart.

If it was the public security department, it would be very normal to agree to such an outrageous plan that was equivalent to using a few ordinary people as bait to face danger.

After all, the justice of the public security is different from that of ordinary police. In their minds, sacrificing a minority for the greater good is completely acceptable, and they will even take the initiative to promote it when necessary.

Spider has brought a lot of men with him this time, all of whom are former thugs and killers of criminal organizations. Once they blend into the crowd and develop a vengeful mentality towards society, the harm they cause will be difficult to predict. Therefore, the public security department responsible for maintaining national security will arrest these people as soon as possible at all costs.

...Mr. Aoyagi probably knew this, which is why he proposed this plan?

Chapter 297 A brief moment of overlap (Part )

Yukiko Kudo was just complaining simply. Since her son was fine, she stopped caring and started the car and left.

"Come on, I'll take you back to the hotel."

Edogawa Conan was stunned: "Not going home?"

Kudo Yukiko glanced at him speechlessly: "You are a detective, but didn't you understand the way Xiaolan looked at you when I picked you up just now? She is obviously suspicious of you. If you go back there now, it will directly prove that you are Shinichi."

She paused for a second and added, "I heard from the doctor that you have been hiding your identity from her since you became smaller."

Edogawa Conan fell silent.

He did exactly that.