Chapter 418 Organizational Clues
Chapter 418 Organizational Clues

"This life is so boring." It was another weekend afternoon, and Conan, bored, sat on the sofa with his father watching the video of himself solving cases.

For Dad, the chances of him solving a case while awake are few and far between, but he had such an opportunity not long ago. Although it was because Conan had used up the anesthetic needle in advance, Dad still completed the case with Conan's prompting.

"Xun, you said it's been a while since our last confrontation with the organization, why don't we have any clues now?" Conan whispered to me on the sofa.

"If possible, I hope to have no clues about them in my life." I scratched my head helplessly. "Compared to finding them and confronting them, I hope we can live a peaceful life."

"But if I don't find the organization, I will never be able to recover. How can I face Xiaolan then?"

"Shiho is at the doctor's house. It's only a matter of time before we can create a recovery antidote."

"But..." Conan hesitated.

"Actually... you still want to wipe out the organization, right?" I narrowed my eyes and glanced at Conan. "But I still advise you to give up. Even if your brain can be compared with Sherlock Holmes, you can't stand up to the large number of people in the organization. In the final analysis, you are just one person, and the organization is a huge force. It is undoubtedly like a gnat trying to shake a tree if you want to overthrow them by yourself."

"But, even so, I can't just do nothing." Conan's face was full of despair. "But let alone the antidote, I don't even know what the ultimate goal of the organization is, and you won't tell me anything."

"Don't talk about you. I don't know either. Even Shiho doesn't know. All she knows is that she needs to make the drug APTX-4869. As for me, to put it bluntly, I'm just a part-time worker. I don't know what the boss's ultimate goal is. I haven't even met him, although I spoke to him on the phone once."

"Then his voice... Never mind, it must be encrypted." Conan thought about it and finally shook his head. "But then again, they use assassins to collect funds, let Huibara make those messed up drugs, and are looking for programmers all over the world. What exactly are they trying to do?"

"You're a detective, and you ask me?" Combining APTX-4869 and the Pandora's Heart that Kaito has been looking for, I can more or less guess the ultimate goal of the BOSS, but I don't intend to tell Conan about this. There are too many things involved. If I tell him at this moment, I can't guarantee how things will develop later.

In fact, I have been waiting, waiting for Alcatraz to develop, waiting for a chance to face Gin, Vermouth, or Ling alone. Although I will have different attitudes towards the three people, this is more or less an opportunity. It is a chance to break the current situation.

"Sometimes, I have wild thoughts. Could it be that this organization wants to develop a game program?" Conan said with a look of despair.

"What you said is the most unlikely." I closed my eyes and sighed, not knowing whether to praise him for his rich imagination or scold him for not thinking.

Ring, ring, ring…

As he was speaking, the phone on his dad's desk rang, and Xiaolan, who was sitting not far from the table, picked up the phone directly.

"Hello, this is the Mori Detective Agency... Eh? The game? The software engineer for the game suddenly disappeared?"

"Eh?" Xiaolan interrupted us as we were talking about the game.

"You mean you hope to find this missing engineer?"

"Hey... Hey~ Lan~" Dad muttered quietly beside him. "If you want to look for me, just say I'm not here. I'm busy recording the TV series broadcast by Miss Yoko tonight and don't have time to handle the case..."

"...Yes~ Of course we can handle this case~" Xiaolan looked at her father who looked like he had nothing to do and agreed to it directly. "My father is free today, you can come over when it's convenient for you."

"Hey, hey.. Lan!"

"Stop talking nonsense, tie your tie quickly and tuck your beard. The guests will be here soon." Xiaolan glared at him with dissatisfaction.

“Yes. Yes…” Undefeated, Dad straightened his tie and retreated.

"An engineer is missing... Could it be them?!" Conan looked at me with a serious face.

"How could it be such a coincidence..." I couldn't help but scorn it. Then I thought about it again in my mind.

Lack of game engineers? It's not impossible. After all, not everyone has excellent programming skills like Taiyi. If they really want to develop games, does the organization also want to develop a second world?
————The scent of orchids, the scent of lavender, the scent of home & the wings of angels, the wings of demons, the wings of guardians————

"Oh, this is the missing game engineer. His name is... Itakura Taku?"

About an hour later, several clients came to the office and handed my dad a photo of the missing engineer. Conan also hurried over to take a look, and then looked at me. I just shook my head, indicating that I had never heard of this person.

"But what do you mean when you said that this is not the first time this person has disappeared?" Dad continued to ask.

"In fact, Itakura likes to disappear. I think he plans to do it again this time?"

"What do you mean?"

"It's just to delay the construction period." A middle-aged planner said. "Every time the project is about to be completed, he likes to use this trick to delay the construction period. Last time we asked the police to solve this matter, but they scolded us. So this time we can only ask you, Detective Maori."

"So, if you find him, please contact our company immediately." A fat planner took out a business card, but the middle-aged man held his hand.

"Are you kidding me? You should know that it is our company that paid the most money this time."

"Wait a minute, it's our company that asked Bancang to design the program this time." The young planner sitting next to them joined the argument.

"Wait, wait, aren't you three from the same company?" Dad looked confused.

"No, I came to Mr. Itakura to design Go software. My name is Subekro."

"My name is Naito Sadahei. I asked Itakura to design the chess set." "My name is Soma Ryusuke. I asked him to make the chess software."

"Can this guy named Bancang take over three different software at once?" Dad was a little incredulous.

"That's why we have to ask him clearly. This has violated our contract!" The man named Xu Bei looked unhappy.

"Not only that, when we approached him to inquire about the progress, he even told us nonchalantly that he had not signed a contract with any company yet and that we could just rest assured!"

"So when did you know about this?"

"We received such an email at the same time a few days ago." As he said this, Naito Sadahei took out his notebook and turned the screen to his father.

I saw Itakura looking superior, holding a glass of red wine and talking leisurely.

"Ah, I've really taken on three cases at once, and it's really a bit too much. Since my heart is in good condition recently, I decided to give up the work at hand and find a place to spend a vacation. As for your case, don't worry, I will continue to work on it after I come back."

"Eh? So it's this guy." Xiaolan recognized the person in the video. "I didn't recognize him when he was wearing glasses just now. Isn't this Itakura Taku famous for his CG animation?"

"Yes, but he wears contact lenses when he is in public."

"However, after he damaged his eyes three years ago, he gave up CG production and focused on game software."

"Since he is so famous, could he have been kidnapped by someone?" After hearing what everyone said, my father asked subconsciously.

"Now that you mention it, it doesn't seem impossible." Soma Ryusuke recalled. "About two years ago, I went to Mr. Itakura's company again, and I saw a burly man with a beard and a black suit, and I spoke to him with a Kansai accent."

"Huh?!" Conan was startled when he heard this.

"Haven't you seen him too? He was at the software launch conference held by Mantiantang this year. Unfortunately, he was killed in the explosion."

"Tequila!" Conan blurted out.

"Who?!" I looked sideways at Conan.

What the hell? Did I really run into this by accident?
"What else did that big guy say?"

"Eh?"

"What else did that person say when we were at the company?" At this moment, Conan no longer cared about anything else and rushed up to ask.

"How would I know? When I arrived at the company, I only heard him say that you were no longer useful. Then he left with a sour face."

"Is that all?" Conan's expression changed. "There must be something else, right? Think carefully about it!"

"Conan..." Seeing Conan suddenly interrupt his father's conversation, Xiaolan hurriedly took Conan away. However, Conan had lost his facial expression at this time. How long has it been? Since the last confrontation with the organization at the Haido Hotel, there has been no clues about the organization for a long time. This time, Conan's eyes became excited after catching the traces related to Tequila.

"Well, what we have to do now is to find him." Dad coughed lightly and brought the topic back to the topic.

"I think he should be in a hotel now?" said Xubeklu.

"But the hotel will definitely protect the privacy of its customers and keep everything confidential. How can we find it?"

"Chess, Go, and international chess... Haha, this uncle is so weird. He actually put three sets of different chess games in the room at once. Does he have the ability to clone himself? Can he split himself into six people to fight?" Seeing Conan winking at me wildly, I had no choice but to come up and point at the video and act stupid.

"Hmm..." Dad stared at the screen thoughtfully. "Have you ever heard of Itakura taking these three chess pieces on vacation?"

"No, I just heard that he only takes his laptop and a few disks with him every time he goes out."

"Is that so? That's easy." Dad's eyes were full of confidence. Conan on the other side also gave me a triumphant look. It made the corner of my mouth twitch.

Although this is a bit different from what I thought, since Conan has found the clue about Tequila, I will accompany him to check it out.

　It’s a new year again, and another year of delayed updates. Lao Feng would like to wish everyone a happy new year!

　　The computer disk was damaged a few days ago, resulting in the loss of more than 10 manuscripts and more than 40 manuscripts for the new book. To be honest, I am so upset that I don't want to write anymore.

　　Fortunately, my group friends still understand and support me. Thank you all.

　　Life goes on, and I will continue to delay the update. I will continue to work hard to delay the update in the new year (laugh~)

　　I am going to re-code the new book and start over. I will also update the devil as I see fit. I have no intention of making a living from novels. So I hope you can understand.

　　There will be some adjustments in my work next year, so I may be busy periodically. There will also be some rest periodically. I will try my best to update then.

　　So, once again, I wish you all a happy New Year, good luck in the Year of the Ox, and a prosperous future!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)