Conan: Another Famous Detective

Tokyo, in a high-end villa.

Rum leaned slightly against the soft leather sofa, holding an expensive cigar in his mouth, squinting his eyes slightly, silently waiting for news of the action.

At a certain moment, his phone vibrated.

Rum took out his cell phone and saw a new message - from Bourbon.

He sat up slightly and clicked on the message.

The next moment, his expression changed slightly!

There was only one simple sentence in the message: [Mission failed, Curacao suspected of betrayal]

Betrayal in Curacao?

This news really surprised Rum.

Curacao was his confidant who had been following him for many years. In order to ensure her loyalty, he even brainwashed Curacao.

Curacao has also undergone strict interrogation resistance training. Even if the other party uses severe torture to extract a confession, it is not that easy to get Curacao to surrender.

However, the news from Bourbon said that Curaçao had betrayed, and when put together with [mission failed] in the first half of the sentence, Rum couldn't help but think about it.

Could it be that Curacao had joined the group of mysterious people who took her away and helped those people deal with Bourbon and the others who came to rescue her?

what happened?

Rum frowned gradually, but saw another message from Bourbon.

This message did not have any valuable information, it just said that they were currently evading the police pursuit, and he would send a special email to report the details later.

Seeing this, Rum frowned even more tightly. He valued time very much, especially since this matter also involved the betrayal of his confidants. He didn't have the patience to wait for Bourbon's report.

It's not like he doesn't have other channels to learn the specific details.

So he called the butler in.

"I need to know the specific details of Bourbon's mission, the more detailed the better!" Rum said lightly.

"Yes! I'll do it right away." The butler replied respectfully, and after confirming that Rum had nothing else to do, he withdrew.

After the butler left, Rum made another call.

"Hey! It's me." Rum said in a deep voice.

"Oh? Let me guess, you want to ask me about Bourbon's mission?" Belmode's playful voice came from the other side.

Listening to Belmod's tone, Rum felt inexplicably unhappy, always feeling that the other party seemed to be gloating about his misfortune.

But after all, he still had to find the other party to understand the situation, so he had to reply patiently: "Yes, Bourbon reported that the mission failed and Curacao is suspected of betraying the organization."

On the opposite side, Belmode was silent for a while and then said: "What Bourbon said is indeed not groundless."

"What did you find?" Rum's tone dropped slightly.

Belmode replied: "You know, my injury is not healed yet, and there are people from the police there, and there are those guys who are not easy to mess with, so I don't dare to get too close."

"Bo should have had a fierce battle with the guys inside. Judging from the current results, he was at an absolute disadvantage."

"I personally saw three men in black robes leaving the scene with Curacao, and Curacao's movement was not restricted."

Rum narrowed his eyes: "Are you sure it's Curacao himself?"

"She put on some disguise, but I'm fairly familiar with Curacao, so I'm about 80% sure it's her." Bermod replied.

In fact, she wasn't that sure. The Curacao was indeed similar to the one she remembered, but she had been deceived by someone who pretended to be the real Curacao, and she knew that some people could do this.

However, she didn't mind telling a little lie, because she had roughly guessed the identities of those men in black robes.

"What about bourbon?" Rum asked.

"He was much more embarrassed." Bermod replied: "Most of the people he brought were caught by the police. Including him, only three people escaped, and almost all of them were injured."

"Just before you called, he had just left the safe house with the only two remaining operators and seemed to be looking for another place to stay."

After listening to Belmod's narration, Rum showed a thoughtful look on his face, pondered for a while, and said, "Did anything unusual happen to Bourbon during the mission?"

Belmode replied: "No abnormalities have been found so far. During the entire operation, except for necessary communications with other operators, he had no other external contact records."

"There was nothing wrong with his preparations before the mission."

Belmod's tone was quite determined.

Although the operators brought by Bourbon were Rum's people, due to Rum's instructions, some of them had secretly become her informants, assisting her in monitoring Bourbon.

Therefore, almost every move that Bourbon made after joining up with other operators was under Belmode's control.

Belmode also knew the entire rescue plan including Bourbon's arrangement.

She was quite attentive to the surveillance work arranged by Rum and did not take it lightly.

She was actually curious as to whether there was anything wrong with bourbon.

So far, Bourbon does appear to be innocent.

Bermod didn't know what Rum was thinking, but she still remained suspicious of Bourbon.

Because last time, in order to confirm whether the new song of the famous singer Boturu Road was related to the Haneda Koji case seventeen years ago, she and Bo Ben went to investigate together, and happened to meet Hanemiya Akira and his party.

After that incident, Bourbon intentionally or unintentionally helped cover up Hanemiya Akira and others during the conversation.

Even if it is not ruled out that Bourbon is a principled person and does not want to involve innocent people, Hanemiya clearly has nothing to do with innocence.

It was doubtful to be in that place with them.

Moreover, Akira Hanamiya knew the identity of Bobon. She told the other party personally. Bobon originally came to work in the dessert shop downstairs of the Detective Agency, and he also came to investigate Akira Hanamiya.

Under such circumstances, if Bourbon had no problem, Bermod really couldn't figure out why Bourbon would cover for Hanamiya Akira.

Therefore, although there is no evidence yet, Belmode has not let go of his doubts about Bourbon.

Of course, because this doubt involves Akira Hanomiya and Conan, Belmode will not expose this doubt.

However, she still wanted to investigate Bourbon's position.

The other party had an important secret of hers, and because of this secret, she had to reach some agreements with the other party.

But as a dignified Witch with a Thousand Faces, she doesn't intend to be controlled by others forever.

Therefore, she doesn't mind collecting more information about the other party at all.

Even if there are some clues involving Ha Gongming and others, she will not really announce them, but Bourbon does not know their relationship. For Bourbon, this is a real threat.

And this is Belmod's bargaining chip.

It’s just that I don’t know whether the other party is really okay or is acting too cautiously. Belmode has never made a breakthrough.

But she wasn't in a hurry, it was just her whim, and it would be best if she gained something, and it didn't matter if she didn't.

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