Conan: On the possibility that Whiskey is an undercover agent

Sirens sounded one after another, accompanied by noisy voices. Not long after Jinpei Matsuda entered, the electronic screen of the department store lit up, and scattered areas also lit up. The sudden situation made Kenji Hagiwara immediately alert, but after seeing the text message clearly, it was like a bolt from the blue.

These lit up places are where the hostages are trapped. If we count one person in each place, there are at least dozens of people.

Gojo Yoshiharu immediately dispatched personnel to check, "Search the first floor first, and pay attention to Officer Matsuda's situation."

[The banquet will end in an hour, and we will present the most grand fireworks show to the guests! ]

"We won't have enough time to keep going like this!" Gojo Zenji gritted his teeth when he received the report. "These lights are misleading. Some people are hidden in a more secluded place!"

"Officer! Officer! Save my child! She is in the stairwell from the second to the third floor!"

The woman, whose clothes were a little disheveled, tightly grasped the maintenance worker's hand, her expression was agitated, and her voice was trembling to the point of breaking.

The crowd began to riot again. The flow of people tonight was far greater than before. Almost all the manpower that could be mobilized had just been used for search and rescue. Naturally, it would be more difficult to appease the masses.

"We have notified the search and rescue personnel in a timely manner. With the specific location, we will definitely find your child soon."

As he spoke, Hagiwara Kenji waved his hand at her soothingly. Before Gojo Zenji could try to appease the crowd, he rushed in with a toolbox and said, "I'll go help Xiao Zhenping first! The support from the Explosives Department will be here soon. Uncle Gojo, please contact them!"

"Hey! You kid—

The other person disappeared halfway through the conversation. The department store stood alone in the dim night, with speckled black shadows like hollowed-out eye sockets, staring coldly at the crowd on the ground.

Scotland didn't expect to run into Jinpei Matsuda here. He even confirmed with the people from the Metropolitan Police Department that this guy was responsible for contacting support outside. Fortunately, there was no light on the stairs, and he was standing on the third floor without being illuminated by the flashlight. This man purposefully found the stairwell and broke in. The door there was just closed.

After a noise, Scotland took a step back. The sniper's good eyesight enabled him to clearly see the child in the latter's arms and vaguely heard her calling "rabbit". As the distance between them was getting farther and farther, he had no intention of following her. What worried him even more was the email he had just sent to Tokaj, for which he had not received a reply until now.

However, Lei replied very quickly, and Scotland almost threw his phone after reading it.

They haven't reunited yet.

Lei could no longer be relied upon, and Scotland regretted not following in. He mixed in with the crowd of people who had just escaped only after he discovered that the situation here had changed.

The mission hasn't been completed yet, but his teammate has left the team first, and that teammate is the weakest and most fragile among them. He is now feeling overwhelmed because of one very troublesome thing.

Tokaj cannot die.

At least not now. Scotland doesn't want to be implicated before completing the mission. What's more, this guy is safer and easier to obtain intelligence than other missions.

Scotland ran quickly in the corridor, passing through the shelves where light and dark met. His rapid breathing was accompanied by a heart that was about to beat out of his chest. He had to rush to the theater immediately. That was where Tokaj was going according to their plan.

Suddenly, something under his feet was kicked and slid a long distance. Scotland paused and walked closer to take a look, only to find that it was a mobile phone with a shattered screen. The style looked somewhat familiar.

Maybe it was a phone that someone dropped when escaping, so he thought about it and didn't pay any more attention to it. He went straight to his destination and didn't notice that the screen flashed twice after he left.

It's really terrible.

In the cramped space, even the air was hot. Ye Shiyi could feel the hot air she exhaled condensing into water vapor and hanging on her skin, moist and scalding in temperature.

There is no light here, it is eerily quiet, and even the pulse and heartbeat seem abrupt. Of course, what makes people most emotional is the sound of the electronic timer coming from behind.

It is the death warrant from the King of Hell.

Tatsu's method was very clever. After he clearly revealed the location and gave time, if the police could not rescue all the hostages, then public opinion would inevitably show a one-sided trend. And he happened to choose City A, which had just undergone a major change and was seriously short of manpower. Even if he tried his best to rescue the hostages, he could not get all of them out. No matter what he did, he would be attacked by public opinion.

Forcing the police to choose between two options...why does this routine look so familiar?

What is his purpose?

He has a gun. If he really wants to kill Iori Yemuro, why would he go through all this trouble? That means Tatsu was either being instructed by someone else, or he had some other... personal grudge?

Iori Yemuro was more inclined to the former. His notebook was issued by the organization. As far as he knew, hackers who could break through the organization's firewall were not just any random people. Even Luka said that his computer was almost impeccable - if he remembered correctly, the Slav seemed to be using his computer to operate it.

It turned out that the man's favor was not in vain, but the price was a bit too high. This Russian guy is really evil-hearted.

That is to say, that guy had already reached this point since then. If the computer had not been hacked, Ye Shiyi would not have thought that it was him.

The brain is still running at high speed, which will consume more extra energy, but in fact, Iori Yemuro no longer has the strength to control himself from thinking about these things. The rapid loss of oxygen and sugar, and the uncontrollable thoughts are like an out-of-control flood, and can only flow at a high speed in the direction just determined.

Why him? What is his purpose? How to deal with it?

The most urgent thing now is that he can no longer feel the flow of time. If Scotland misses the message he left behind, Iori Yemuro will die here.

If he hadn't expected the Nordic demons to intervene in this matter, Ye Mu Yizhi would never gamble with his life even if the mission failed. The reward if he won the bet was indeed tempting, but he was more afraid of the outcome of losing.

He couldn't afford to gamble, and Ye Mu Yizhi was a low-level gambler.

If there hadn't been that email, would it have gone undetected?

He felt his consciousness gradually becoming confused, and he muttered to himself with gnashing teeth.

—Fuck Ley.

The lights in the theater were on. Scotland immediately became alert after seeing the situation. The person sitting in the seat was not Tokaj, but the target of the mission whom he encountered most unexpectedly. Paxton had his eyes closed and seemed to have lost consciousness.

Paxton leaned against the seat, which was squeezed and deformed and could not bear the weight. There were no obvious wounds on his body, so the cause of his condition could only be other factors.

He had seen the other person like this before. This guy had gone mad during a mission before and killed everyone along with his partners, causing the mission to be interrupted. He didn't know what they had done to make him stop. His blood-stained hair stood up one by one. Gin ordered his men to escort him back with an unhappy look on his face.

Now it seems that it should be some kind of method to control Paxton, just like unplugging the power supply of a hacked computer, simple and effective.

Scotland has its own plans in mind. Tokaj has already met with Paxton. Judging from the current situation, it seems that something unexpected has happened in the negotiations.

It was indeed the worst outcome.

His breathing quickened slightly, Scotland was silent for a moment, trying to ignore the uneasiness, and following Tokaj's previous instructions, he took out his cell phone and turned on the computer, which required a power-on password.

A young man's voice with a hint of laughter came from the phone.

【zero——】

Almost at the moment the words fell, the man's right eye opened mechanically, the scarlet blood iris reflected the metallic luster, and moved at an angle that humans could not do. Such a realistic prosthetic eye seemed to be really looking at someone, and finally the red light hit Scotland, which was cold and inhuman, yet extremely similar to human appearance, which was creepy.

This is an unbelievable and bizarre scene that would make ordinary people scream in fear.

Scotland showed no expression, or perhaps he no longer had the time to be surprised.

He needed to find Tokaj immediately. He absolutely could not let him die here in such an unclear manner.