Chapter 221 The Secret Hidden in the Diary
Conan operated the mouse to slide the document, searching for the diary from two years ago according to the date.
"Got it!" Conan shouted in surprise, "On March 3, a man with a Kansai accent came to me. He wanted to ask me to help with a software that was being developed. I refused because my eyesight was getting worse and worse, and sent him away. He was dressed in black from head to toe, and I didn't want to run into him again... Hey, is that all?"
In just a few lines, the author simply mentioned that he met a man in black, and there was no other information.
Conan was unwilling to give up and continued scrolling through the diary, but still found nothing. There was no further mention of Tequila or the organization.
Conan propped his chin up, feeling a little depressed: "Damn it, I spent so much effort and didn't get any useful information at all!"
"Really? It seems you are still a long way to go." Youye raised his eyebrows.
Conan looked at Yuya in confusion: "What do you mean?"
"Scroll up... Yes, right here." Yuya pointed at the computer screen with his free hand and said, "Didn't you notice that there are too many blank lines here?"
Conan was stunned, staring at the screen.
"Don't say that Itakura Taku is a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Even if he is just an ordinary person, if he has the habit of writing a diary for a long time, the format will generally be unified, but there is obviously something different here."
Conan nodded solemnly. He thought of a possibility and circled the blank lines with the mouse. Sure enough, new content appeared.
"I'm tired. If I keep going like this, I'll die sooner or later!"
Conan smiled smugly: "So that's how it is. Mr. Itakura deliberately changed the font to the same color as the background to hide the content and add a cover for the diary."
Yuya nodded and looked at Miyano Shiho as if to take credit: "How about it, am I awesome?"
Miyano Shiho nodded: "Yeah, you're the best." She spoke in a coaxing tone.
Conan:...
Conan was speechless for a moment, then he scrolled to the earliest date in the diary and began to check every place one by one.
Itakura Taku hid a lot of information in his diary in this way, and it started after he came into contact with Tequila. The content seemed to be related to the organization.
·March 3
The pen on the table was moved another five centimeters. Sure enough, someone sneaked into my office.
·March 4
This time, someone broke into the house without permission and called the police, but they did not handle this type of case because there were no signs of a break-in and nothing was stolen.
·March 6
I changed the door lock and installed surveillance cameras but it still doesn't work.
·March 7
Who is it?! Come out now!
·March 12
I'm so tired. If I continue like this, I might be killed one day.
It seems that Itakura Taku was harassed and threatened by the organization for a long time, and a year ago, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and chose to compromise.
·March 1
In order to escape from this horrible life, I left a note on the table for the intruder: "Accept your request."
·March 1
Soon there was a reply. The note I left was replaced by the intruder's note, which had a red OK and a strange phone number. The red words might have been written in blood. Did it mean that if I leaked the secret to others, I would die?
·March 1
After hesitating for a while, I decided not to report the incident to the police and called the number. The person who answered the phone was a foreign woman who spoke in a tone like a queen. She asked me to complete the development of the software within a year and she would get a huge reward. She was indeed an accomplice of the man in black last time.
·March 2
I changed my way of contacting them to email, asked them to pay a deposit first, and stopped lurking around me from then on.
·March 12
No, I still can't do it, not only because my eyesight is getting worse, but more importantly for the sake of all mankind.
·March 2
The deadline for handing it over to them was approaching, so I hid the unfinished software and the deposit I had received in my villa and decided to go abroad. They would inform me of the delivery location and time by email at 5:12 a.m. in days, and I had to escape before that.
·March 2
But what do they plan to do with this software? I have never forgotten the strange words that the woman said when I first called her. Yes, when I couldn't help but angrily asked her "What on earth do you want to do?", the woman sneered and said in English:
We can be both of God and the devil. Since we're trying to raise the dead against the stream of time.
So much for the hidden contents of the diary.
Conan checked the time and said, "The transaction date agreed upon by Itakura Taku and the organization is today, and it will be here in three hours."
Yuya stroked his chin and asked, "What are you going to do?"
Conan smiled confidently, "Of course we have to rush to Itakura Taku's villa to find the software he designed. The software can be handed over to the police as evidence. Since it is a software designed by the organization, it must be used to carry out illegal and criminal activities, which is enough to be evidence of the police's intervention.
Then we will use the computers there to receive the organization's emails. No matter what the other party says, we will try our best to find a time and place that is favorable to us, so that the police can ambush there in advance. In this way, we can catch the organization members who come to trade in one fell swoop!"
Conan told his plan in one breath.
You was a little surprised: "You have considered it carefully, but what will you do if the organization's people are lying in ambush around?"
Conan said confidently: "Don't worry, when Itakura Taku was trading with the organization, he asked the other party not to appear around him. This super obsessive-compulsive person who can even detect a pen moving five centimeters must have very sensitive nerves. The organization will not do that."
Yuya held his chin in thought.
Although Conan's plan was a bit rough, he knew the plot and knew that it was feasible.
If you do it right, maybe you can get gin or vodka or even both of them in together.
As for being able to uncover the organization's information through this, You also thinks the possibility is low.
It’s one thing that Itakura Taku has completed the software, but it’s only a semi-finished product, and it’s still unknown how much can be discovered from it.
If there is nothing sufficient to convict him, as long as Gin insists that it is just ordinary software, the police will be unable to do anything to him without sufficient evidence.
As for getting things from these two people... Gin and Vodka seem to have an apparent legal identity, and his name seems to be Kurosawa or something.
Even with a legal identity, the software is not enough to convict him, and I'm afraid the police will have to release him once the detention period is up.
If you force yourself to stay and delay too long, the organization might send someone to kill you.
You didn't want to see this situation.
As mentioned before, instead of letting the organization send an ignorant person to be in charge of Tokyo, it is better to let Gin, this "old acquaintance", live well.
At least Yuya knew that there was someone who could perfectly restrain Gin.
And this person also happens to be in Beika Town.