Stay away from Conan

Chapter 12 The silhouette of the black organization

Kitajima didn't expect that the police would come so quickly. Before the evidence of his murder was dealt with, the police would come to his home to investigate. Under such circumstances, no matter how much he tried to quibble, it was meaningless, so Kitajima simply confessed.

"I have nothing to hide now. I did kill that man!"

Hattori Heiji was speechless for the prisoner who admitted his crime so readily. His previous reasoning about the prisoner leaving the scene was preempted by the guy named Akechi Takato. He wanted to come here first to have a good exchange with the suspect and find out his flaws in order to win back. One game, now it seems there is no chance.

Officer Otaki entered the prisoner's room and found the knife used to slit the deceased's wrist. He then asked the following police officers to put it away and notified a team of police officers to come over.

"Then why did you kill that man? Is it related to the extortion case you reported before?"

Hattori Heiji asked.

"That's right, I thought I would never see that man again, but I didn't expect that God would let me see this guy again!"

Bei Daojue became more and more excited as he talked, and everyone present did not disturb him. They waited until his mood calmed down a bit before continuing to ask questions.

"What exactly happened in that extortion case?"

Hattori Heiji asked.

"The person who was blackmailed back then was my girlfriend."

Bei Daojue recalled what he knew back then.

The story takes place during Kitajima Kaku's college days, when he was dating a girl named Keiko who was one year younger than him. Originally, the two of them were just like couples of that age, spending all day together, thinking about the future from time to time, without many complications, and their relationship was extremely stable.

The accident happened in Kitajima's senior year. At that time, because they had to do graduation projects and find a job, the two of them spent less time together, and it was in that year that Keiko had an accident. At that time, Kitajima didn't know what happened to Keiko. But every time they met, Kitajima felt that Keiko was absent-minded. But when he asked her, she didn't tell her what happened to her. At that time, Kitajima just thought it was... Keiko lost her temper because of her neglect, but due to the pressure of job hunting and graduation, Kitajima was not in the mood to think about it at the time. She just felt that she could slowly recover after everything got better.

It wasn't until one day when Keiko called him suddenly that she finally told him the truth.

It turns out that Keiko was secretly photographed at some point. Someone hacked into Keiko's commonly used computer and took many private photos of Keiko through the computer's camera. The person who took the secret photos used these photos to blackmail Keiko.

The blackmailer never leaves any real evidence and only contacts Keiko by email every time. In order to prevent the photos from being spread, Keiko must obey the instructions and put the cash in the designated place. Days like this lasted for a long time. Keiko tried calling the police, but all the emails sent by the blackmailers disappeared completely afterwards, and the police investigation went nowhere. Moreover, the blackmailers became more threatening after Keiko called the police.

Under such circumstances, Keiko finally told Kitajima Satoru about the matter.

Knowing the whole story, Kitajima Satoru told Keiko not to be afraid. Since there was no evidence that the blackmailer threatened Keiko, the blackmailer would always come to get cash, so Kitajima Satoru made a plan to make the blackmailer show up.

But the plan failed. A person suspected of being a blackmailer did appear at that time, and that person was the deceased in this incident. However, they took the person to the police station to report the crime. In the end, the police still found no evidence and had no choice but to release the person.

This move angered the blackmailer, and Keiko's photos were spread. Finally, unable to resist the pressure, Keiko cut her wrists and committed suicide.

"So when you saw that man again you chose to kill him yourself?"

Hattori Heiji said this after listening to Kitajima Satoru's account.

"That's right. I'm pretty sure that person must be the blackmailer. After Keiko committed suicide, I reviewed the whole thing and thought that he must be a master of computer technology. He cleared all the online information so that the police could not find evidence. Such a person would definitely not blackmail Keiko alone, so I started to learn computers by myself, hoping to meet him again one day."

Bei Daojue said excitedly, "Then, finally a few days ago, I finally saw him near the Internet cafe, so I pretended to be injured and asked for leave. I have been following him these days and found that he goes to the Internet cafe at a fixed time every day. There is a fixed box, so I tampered with the ventilation duct of that box and killed him today! I want him to experience the pain that Keiko went through!"

"So in order to take revenge, you deliberately killed the deceased by cutting his wrists?"

Gao Yuan asked at this time. He noticed this detail. Since Keiko committed suicide by cutting her wrists, Kitajima Sakuya, who wanted revenge, just cut his wrists and kill the deceased. There was no need to scare the deceased to death.

"That's right, I knocked him unconscious and cut off his arteries. This is what I learned these days. As long as I cut off two arteries with two knives, he will definitely die if no one else comes to save him."

Bei Daojue replied.

"Does that mean you didn't scare him after cutting his wrists?"

Hattori Heiji said doubtfully.

"After slitting his wrists, I took his things and left. Why did I scare him?"

Kitajima Kaku didn't understand what Hattori Heiji meant by his words.

"Then what did you take from him?"

Gao Yuan thought for a while and asked, "For example, a disk or something."

"There is a disk, but when I opened it with my computer, I don't know what program was triggered, and the data in my computer and the disk were destroyed together."

Bei Daojue said helplessly.

Soon, the police ordered by Officer Otaki arrived at the scene and took Kitajima Satoru away. The police investigated what happened next.

But for Gao Yuan, this matter is not over yet.

The settlement panel was triggered twice, once after Gao Yuan concluded the matter, and the other time when Gao Yuan believed that the case had been solved.

Now Gao Yuan doesn't think this matter has been resolved, and he hasn't summarized the incident yet, so the settlement panel has not been triggered.

If you think about it carefully, if Kitajima's words are true, then the reasoning about the death of the deceased as revenge for others, although the result is right, the process is wrong.

So what is the truth of the case?

The deceased may be related to the black organization. The truth cannot be completely confirmed by myself now, so I can only consider the possibility of the entire case.

Consider that the deceased was actually a member of the black organization.

Considering that the organization had collected information on programmers on a large scale, and because it knew that the Internet cafe's database contained the data of the head office, in order to steal the information about programmers, the organization sent deceased people who were good at hacking techniques to steal the information.

However, because there was too much information in the Internet cafe database, the deceased could not tell which ones were useful information, so he could only use Trojan horses to steal them all. It was also because there was too much data and too much bandwidth was used to transmit the data that he, who worked part-time in the Internet cafe, discovered the clues.

Today, while stealing data, he was killed by Kitajima Kaku. Perhaps due to the program settings, the deceased had not operated for a long time. The program judged that an accident had occurred and urgently triggered the "Night Baron Virus" to remove all traces. Elimination, resulting in all data in the Internet cafe server being destroyed.

Okay, it makes sense to think so!

Gao Yuan felt that he had clarified the context, so he continued to think about it.

Then let’s get back to the matter of the deceased being killed. The deceased who was knocked unconscious by Kitajima and cut his wrists actually woke up before death, but lost the ability to call for help because he had bled too much. In such helplessness and despair, did he scare himself to death?

No, the expression of the deceased was not just despair, it was definitely real fear! But his fear does not come from the murderer, but from the organization!

If you think about it this way, everything makes sense!

"The reasoning is over, let's start closing the case."

As soon as I thought of this, the settlement panel was triggered.

…

As night fell, on a dark street outside the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters, a black Porsche 356A started its engine and drove away.

In the passenger seat, a burly man in black with sunglasses put down the cell phone he had just finished making a call on, and said to the silver-haired man driving the car: "Brother, I found out, that guy is just someone who was blackmailed by him back then. My friend killed me just to avenge the person who was blackmailed.”

"Yeah, that's good."

The silver-haired man said calmly, revealing his eyes half-covered by his bangs.

"Anyway, the 'Night Baron' is perfect and will not leave any evidence. A person who doesn't even have a code name will die."

"But if he dies, what will happen?"

"Don't worry, let's leave the next thing to 'Tequila'."