In less than five minutes, Oyamaya was able to contact someone who could speak to the Sumiyoshi Kai boss - the former manager of a trust company under the Tsubame Group.
On the way to the target street, Chi Feichi talked on the phone with the manager of the trust company.
"Counsellor, Mr. Dashan said that you have something to ask me. I wonder if there is anything I can do for you?"
"Do you know the street where Ji'an Real Estate Company is located?"
"Ji'an Real Estate Company...ah, I know where it is! Most of the properties on that street are owned by the Sumiyoshi Club. The big boss of the Sumiyoshi Club hosted me for dinner there before!"
"Building 15 on that street," Chi Feichi asked about the location marked by Conan, "is it also a Sumiyoshi-kai property?"
"Yes, that building is also the property of the Sumiyoshi Kai." The manager of the trust company paused and softened his voice. "I heard that there is an underground casino owned by the Sumiyoshi Kai there..."
"Underground casino?" Chi Feichi asked, "Are you sure?"
When the manager of the trust company asked Chi Feichi specifically, he was no longer vague, "At the beginning of this year, the Sumiyoshi Kai leader invited me to have dinner on that street. When we were eating in the restaurant, he told me that the 15th
They had a newly renovated casino downstairs and invited me to play there for a while, but that day my wife suddenly felt unwell and I was in a hurry to go home and take my wife to the hospital, so I turned him down."
"Is that casino still open?"
"I don't know this..."
"Can you help me find out? In order to avoid trouble, I hope you won't reveal my identity to them. Just say that your nephew has just returned from abroad and is interested in these things. He wants to go and see it tonight..."
"No problem, I will keep it secret for you. Then...I will call you now to find out the news."
"Although it's not good to rush, I still want to get the results as soon as possible."
"Don't worry, I can give you an accurate answer within half an hour!"
"I'm sorry to bother you, please contact me immediately if you have any news."
"OK!"
After hanging up the phone, Chi Feichi looked at the time displayed on his phone and put the phone into his coat pocket.
Conan sat in the passenger seat and asked aloud, "Brother Chi, you just mentioned the underground casino. Could it be that the place we are going to is an underground casino run by Sumiyoshi Kai?"
"That's right," Chi Feichi said, "but the manager doesn't know if it's still open there. I've asked him to find out."
"I remember Officer Memu said before that the gang of robbers that my uncle was undercover also robbed an underground casino last year, right?" Conan said thoughtfully, "Underground casinos will collect a lot of cash during the operating period, and gambling is illegal.
Behavior, if an underground casino is robbed, the robbed guests and casino operators will worry about being held accountable by the police after calling the police. As long as the loss is not large, they will not choose to report the crime. Even if the casino operator wants to report the crime, the casino guests will not
80% will not come forward to help testify, so that gang of robbers may have robbed underground casinos more than once. It was only last year that they killed someone during the robbery, which made the police pay attention to their gang of robbers. In other words, if
The burned map in the trash can is related to the bandit gang. The bandit gang is probably targeting the underground casino again this time. Their target is the casino Sumiyoshi will run on that street... Tonight, the underground casino should be
Will be open for business!”
Twenty minutes later, the car drove to the street near its destination and parked on the side of the road.
Conan used his mobile phone to send an email to Mumu Shisan, reminding Mumu Shisan that the bandit gang might attack the underground casino. The rhetoric he used was naturally, 'Brother Chi asked me to tell you.'
Soon, the manager of the trust company called Chi Feichi and told him that the casino was still open and that he had obtained the invitation letter for Chi Feichi.
When he learned that Chi Feichi was going to bring a child in, the manager of the trust company hesitated a little and implicitly reminded, "Consultant, it's not a good idea to bring a child to a place like that, isn't it?"
"It's okay," Chi Feichi noticed that Conan put his head close to the phone and glanced at Conan, "I'm just taking the kids to satisfy their curiosity, I won't stay in the casino for too long."
"This... okay, I'll tell the other party and ask their bodyguards not to stop you," the manager of the trust company said implicitly, "Also, although you are just curious to visit, gambling is illegal after all. If you are
The police discovered that the police may not believe that you just went to have a look. In order to prevent your reputation from being damaged, I can ask the other party to make some special arrangements, such as receiving you upstairs. If there is an accident, the casino bodyguard can also come first
It’s safer to protect you and leave for a while, what do you think?”
"But I want to visit a lively place. If I leave the crowd, the visit will be meaningless," Chi Feichi said. "As for the police, you don't have to worry. Even if the police raid the casino, I can get away."
"Since you are prepared, I don't have to worry about it," the person in charge of the trust company asked proactively, without further ado, "Where should I send the invitation letter?"
"Send it to the nearby Garden Hotel..."
Chi Feichi agreed with the person in charge of the trust company on the place and method of handing over the invitation letter. He hung up the phone and called the Garden Hotel to book a room. He took Conan nearby to buy two dresses and went to the Garden Hotel room.
I changed into my dress inside and waited for the invitation to be delivered.
According to the manager of the trust company, the casino will open at eight o'clock tonight. The location is Building 15. Enter from the side door. Since the guests received by the casino are all wealthy people or people with a certain social status, everyone
Guests are required to wear formal attire to enter.
At the same time, the casino does not allow guests to bring guns, knives, or cameras into the casino. Before entering, you need to check the invitation letter, undergo security inspection, store prohibited items at the door, and there will be mobile phone signal jammers indoors.
After the guests officially enter, they can ask the waiter to provide them with some free food and drinks, or they can specify some expensive food or drinks, but in that case they will need to pay separately...
"Has the manager really never been to that casino?" Conan stood in the hotel room, straightening the bow tie on his dress, and whispered in a speechless voice, "He obviously knows it very well..."
"Don't worry so much," Chi Feichi also adjusted his dress jacket, "after all, we have to go to the casino later."
Article 185 of the Japanese Criminal Code clearly stipulates that gambling is illegal.
However, there are some additions to the law regarding 'gambling'. Officially organized betting such as horse racing and boat racing does not count as gambling. In addition, entertainment activities without direct monetary transactions do not count as gambling.
For example, if friends and family get together to play mahjong or poker, as long as no money is used to bet, it is not gambling.
Another example is playing small steel balls. It does cost money for guests to play small steel ball machines, but what the customer wins is a physical prize. In this way, there is no direct money exchange. Therefore, playing small steel balls is a legal entertainment activity. As for the customer who wins the physical prize,
If you went to another store to exchange cash, then the law will not care...
Of course, the casinos run by these Yakuza organizations will not include legal projects such as horse racing and small steel balls, but some gambling projects that are not allowed by law, including but not limited to roulette, dice, poker and other gambling games, and every day
The gambling turnover is a large amount, and any customer who enters a place like this is violating the law.
If the trust company manager admits that he has been to that casino, doesn't that mean he admits that he has violated the law?
It would be okay for the two parties to talk in private, but they just communicated on the phone, and the phone calls can be recorded. Everyone will definitely be more careful and will not casually admit that they have done illegal or criminal things.
"It's different when we go to the casino than when they go to the casino," Conan said jokingly, thinking of what Chi Feichi said before, "because even if there is a police attack, we can still get away~"
"Buzz..."
The phone on the table vibrated.
Chi Feichi picked up the phone and answered the call. The manager on the other side of the phone said that the invitation letter had been delivered to the hotel. He reported his room number and asked the other party to put the invitation letter at the front desk of the hotel.
Conan called Mumu Shisan and learned that the police had also found channels to obtain the invitation letter and were preparing to send people to sneak into the casino. He felt relieved and went to the front desk on the first floor with Chi Feichi to get the invitation letter.
When going out, Conan did not forget to explain in a low voice, "If Officer Memu knew that we planned to sneak into the casino, he would definitely not agree, so I didn't tell him about the invitation we got..."