Conan’s Corpse Picker

Judy: "I found some in the corner when I was cleaning the cabinet, so I took them all here to avoid wasting them after they expire..."

Halfway through her words, she saw James' expression and realized that something was wrong.

Judy scratched her cheek awkwardly under the gaze of her boss: "I see you don't drink coffee often, so you probably don't like it... uh, you don't like it, right."

James: "..."

He took a deep breath and chose to endure like a mature old man: "Since the drama was interrupted by a murder not long after it started, the coffee should not have been sold out, where is the remaining coffee?"

Judy's voice gradually became smaller: "The police took it away, along with the machine, saying it was physical evidence..." Seeing her boss's face, she immediately changed her words, "But it's not a big problem! It should be back soon."

James: "..."

Judy glanced at him secretly and used a trick of surrounding Wei to save Zhao: "Well, there is some bad news..."

James' hand holding the cup trembled slightly, and his face was calm: "You say."

Judy pointed at Shuichi Akai: "We lost a pistol, just at the venue just now."

James fell silent.

The person involved Shuichi Akai was still calm: "If I had known this, I should have added a locator to the gun, maybe I could try it next time."

James' eyes jumped: "..." You still want a next time! I haven't figured out how to explain this to the Tokyo police!

He pressed his forehead hard, silently reviewed the glorious resumes of these two agents ten thousand times, and finally managed to suppress the irritation in his heart: people make mistakes, horses stumble, and even the strongest agents will always make mistakes. As a boss, he must learn to be tolerant...

James took a deep breath and temporarily put his precious coffee behind his mind: "How could a good gun be lost?"

Akai Shuichi: "This is a long story..."

At first he thought Uzo wanted him to be shot in the head by the bank robber, but later, he felt that the other party seemed to just want him to be involved in the case and label him as a suspect.

Later, he thought Uzo wanted him to be involved in the case and become a suspect, but in fact Uzo wanted to expose the fingerprints he had covered up.

He thought that Wu Zo wanted him to expose his suspicious behavior of covering fingerprints in front of the police, but now it seems that... that person actually took advantage of his psychology of evading search. After attracting most of his attention with the painter and the case, he easily took away his weapons, and he knew nothing about it.

Then the question is.

"Why does he want your gun?" Judy recalled the information about the organization she knew, "Just some smuggled pistols, the organization can have as many as they want, Wu Zo definitely didn't go for the gun itself... Taking away the weapon you use to protect yourself, is this a provocation and warning from him?"

"What a bad character." James sighed, he suddenly remembered that Shuichi Akai had been investigating Wu Zo recently, so he turned to him and asked, "How is the progress of your investigation?"

Shuichi Akai instantly appeared in the pile of names that were still growing in his mind: "..."

Being optimistic, in fact, not a few have been ruled out.

He nodded, "There is some progress."

"Not bad." James was slightly relieved, "The man's identity is hidden too well, which makes us feel like we have no way to start. But in fact, as long as a person keeps moving, he will inevitably leave traces - although it seems to be progressing slowly now, in fact, as long as we grasp these traces and successfully find out his true identity, then victory is just around the corner."

The two FBI agents nodded in agreement.

At this moment, Akai Shuichi's phone vibrated and received an email.

He casually opened the mailbox and glanced at it. Seeing what was on it, the FBI ace's eyes suddenly froze - there was a photo attached to the email, and in that photo, it was a familiar style of pistol.

Jericho 941, slightly worn... This is the gun he just lost!

Seeing that his expression was not right, Judy glanced over here curiously. When she saw the picture clearly, her face also changed: "This is... Is this a message from Uzo?! How did he know your email address?"

Akai Shuichi turned the email back to the beginning. He looked at it carefully without missing any details, and said: "This is the email I left for the police as a witness just now - maybe his subordinates peeked at the content above, or maybe..."

He didn't finish, but his experienced colleagues understood what he meant. James looked a little ugly: "There is Uzo's spy in the Tokyo police, and the news is quite well-informed!"

If this is true, then the last time Akai Shuichi lost his gun, the impact was far greater than they thought - if Uzo had only doubted the identity of their group before, then after James negotiated with the Tokyo police about Akai Shuichi holding a gun on the street, Uzo must have confirmed their origins.

"If this is the case, our surveillance of Belmode... has it been completely exposed?"

Judy's heart skipped a beat, and then she tried to be optimistic. She comforted herself and James, who looked unhappy: "Only you and Shuichi showed up when the gun was lost. The rest of us are still hiding our identities, so there shouldn't be any problems. And there is a traitor in the police station, but it's just a guess - maybe the painter stole Shuichi's email?"

Akai Shuichi shook his head: "I registered after him, and he didn't touch the notebook that recorded the contact information of witnesses. But he went to the Metropolitan Police Department because his album was detained, so maybe he saw it there."

After a pause, he said: "Even if there is a mole inside the police station, this may not be a bad thing."

Judy was stunned at first, not knowing why he said that, but soon she remembered Shuichi Akai's notebook filled with names: "Do you want to..."

Shuichi Akai nodded: "The scope of investigation from the society is too wide, but it's different inside the police station - there must be not many people who can enter and leave the Metropolitan Police Department and have access to the witness registration book. It is not difficult to screen out the target we want to find from them."

Judy: "..." But before that, your suspect list may be thicker... Forget it, Shuichi is the trump card of the FBI, and he has his reasons for doing this.

She quickly shifted her attention from the suspect list and looked at Shuichi Akai's mobile phone again: "Besides that photo, what else did Uzo say?"