Chapter 419 Belmode

Chu Ming stared at Conan’s sleeping face, and there seemed to be a flash of murderous intent in his eyes.

Vermouth’s brain was working rapidly, trying to save Conan from Chu Ming’s hands, while she changed the subject: “How is the situation over there? Are Akai Shuichi and Shirley dead? And that little girl named Mao Lilan, she probably doesn’t know anything. You promised me before that you would not hurt her unless it endangers the organization. How is she now?”

“It’s pretty good. No one died. I shot Shuichi Akai three times, and he might have been seriously injured. But he was able to escape from the scene with two people. Wow, that’s amazing.” Chu Ming said half-truthfully, but he was really impressed by Shuichi Akai’s strength.

Of the three shots he fired, except for the last one which was dodged, the other two hit him in the back, and one bullet even grazed his spine. If Akai Shuichi’s reaction had been slower, he would have been paralyzed for the rest of his life.

“Sweetheart, can we not kill this boy?” Vermouth observed Chu Ming’s expression and finally decided to play a straight ball, “Sister cares about him very much, so you can ask for it.”

“Shirley turned into a little girl, so he should be Kudo Shinichi, right?” Chu Ming’s face was indifferent, and no expression could be seen. “Because he and Mao Lilan saved you in the United States, you have been helping them?”

Vermouth knew that as long as Chu Ming showed up here, it would only be a matter of time before he knew the truth, so she didn’t hide it anymore: “Almost.”

“Is one life for one life enough?” Chu Ming stared at Vermouth, “Or do you have other plans?”

Vermouth remained silent.

Chu Ming looked at him with a cold expression and a deeper voice: “Vermouth, you are not going to be like the villains in the novels, using the clichéd routine of being stuck in the mud for a long time and finally seeing a ray of light? Just because someone saved your life, you can’t wait to give your heart to others?”

Vermouth’s mouth twitched when she was told this, it seemed a bit cliché…

“Don’t forget who you are, Vermouth.” Chu Ming’s tone was not fierce at all, but rather unhurried, yet there was a different kind of pressure. “He saved you, it’s true, but he saved you to send you to jail. Don’t go back to jail just to repay a favor, or I’ll laugh at you for the rest of my life.”

Vermouth looked at Conan’s profile, knowing that Chu Ming was warning her in a joking manner. She sighed silently, looked at Chu Ming, who looked particularly serious, and nodded: “I know my limits.”

You know nothing.

Chu Ming didn’t believe it, but he wouldn’t force Vermouth to express her opinion any further.

After all, Conan can’t die now.

After such a long time, Chu Ming has finally understood the nature of the world. This is a world centered on Conan. He wants to solve cases, so there are cases wherever he goes; he wants clues about the organization, so many of the cases he has experienced are inextricably linked to the organization; he wants to hide behind Kogoro Mouri to solve cases, so even if he stands in the open, no one will find him.

Therefore, Conan must not die now. If he dies, the world will probably be destroyed. What he carries now is just a subsystem, which is not as powerful as the system that brought him here. If the world is really destroyed, there is no way to take him away.

As long as the world does not collapse, he can live till the end of time. But once the world collapses and the system has no way to take him away, no amount of points can save him.

So he won’t touch Conan until the main storyline is over.

After all, if it weren’t for this butterfly, the unlucky group like the organization wouldn’t be able to do anything to Conan.

“Sister let him go this time, just consider it as paying him back his life. Next time we meet, you must not be soft-hearted~” Chu Ming returned to his previous smiling face, and his tone was much softer. “I won’t report it this time, including Shirley. And I won’t show any clues when I see them. But, sister, I’ll make it clear in advance, next time they run into the organization, I will not show mercy.”

Vermouth nodded, hiding the complicated emotions in her eyes: “The boss summoned me back. This time I go back, I guess I won’t be able to come out for a long time. Honey, can you help me take care of this child and Xiaolan?”

???

What does it mean to strike the snake while it is still under attack? Isn’t this a textbook-level demonstration?

“Of course you can, but sister, I’ve said before that my appearance fee is very expensive.” Chu Ming blinked, “But if the target is sister, you only need to answer me one question~”

Vermouth tapped the steering wheel: “Ask.”

“What is your relationship with the boss?” Chu Ming looked at Vermouth with a gossipy look, “It seems like my sister doesn’t like the boss very much~”

Vermouth’s eyes suddenly became sharp, and then fell silent: “Have you seen the boss?”

“I have seen it.” Chu Ming nodded.

“Does it look good?”

“It’s beautiful! Even prettier than Gin.” Chu Ming thought about the face he saw at that time and exclaimed in admiration.

Vermouth turned around, raised her head slightly, and looked at Chu Ming affectionately and intently: “Then look at me, do I look like him?”

At this time, the moonlight slanted down from the forest and fell on the ground, leaving a ray of silver light on Vermouth, which removed some of her charm and added a bit of holiness that was rarely seen in normal times.

It was precisely this holiness that made Chu Ming’s eyes widen in surprise when he looked at Vermouth’s face.

It seems that she and the BOSS are quite similar.

“Sister, are you the boss’s daughter?” Chu Ming blurted out.

Vermouth smiled slightly: “No, Boss never married.”

“That–“

“My mother is the youngest sister of the boss.” Vermouth looked far away and fell into deep thought. “In terms of kinship, the boss should be my uncle. At the beginning, my mother was determined to marry a foreigner, and even eloped with him and gave birth to me abroad. But at that time, the status of the Japanese in the United States was not high, and the man my mother wanted to marry was not a good person. He only approached my mother because he coveted the wealth of the Karasuma family. But my mother gave up everything and followed him to the United States. In his eyes, my mother became a burden…”

Belmode’s tone remained calm, as if he was talking about a completely unrelated person.

Chu Ming listened to Vermouth’s story and gradually understood why she had resentment towards the BOSS.

Chapter 420 The Reason for Repeated Jumps

Vermouth did not have a very good life in the United States when she was a child. After all, the poorer the place, the more chaotic it is. In addition, her mother inherited the excellent genes of the Karasuma family, and her outstanding appearance turned into a fatal poison after she fell into the slums.

How could a weak woman with a child survive there safely?

But her mother did it. Relying on one different man after another, she took her to different men. The young Vermouth had seen too much of the glamour and debauchery.

Because of this experience, her mother did not live long. Although Karasuma Renya was her mother’s biological brother, the age difference between them was so great that the two did not have much interaction. The years when her mother wandered overseas was when the Karasuma family was gradually declining.

At that time, Karasuma Renya was pursuing immortality, and those were the craziest years. He didn’t care at all about where his sister, with whom he didn’t have a deep relationship, had gone.

After her mother died, Vermouth had been living in the slums since she was a child. All the nephews looked like uncles to her. Vermouth’s appearance became more and more charming. She was excellent in her studies and had an outstanding appearance. There was an endless stream of people chasing after her, including some rich second-generation Americans.

However, Vermouth, who had been accustomed to all these things since childhood, finally chose a man who was ordinary but very kind to her.

When Vermouth talked about that man, her eyes became soft, and her usually charming eyes now flashed with a hint of water.

That man disappeared one year after they got married, when they were at their sweetest.

She investigated openly and secretly for a long time, and finally found clues about the organization. She infiltrated it and tried to rescue her lover.

Not long after she entered the organization and went undercover, she was able to apply for a code name because of her outstanding performance. During this process, she was spotted by Karasuma Renya.

Although Vermouth is not very enthusiastic about recognizing her relatives, if her uncle is the leader of this organization, wouldn’t it be much easier to rescue her lover?

Unfortunately, her lover was captured by the organization and used as a human experiment for the sake of Karasuma Renya’s immortality.

The last thing Vermouth saw in the laboratory was her lover who had been dissected for the Miyano couple’s experiment. His body was empty, and his removed brain was placed in a glass dish next to him.

In order to compensate her, the boss fed Vermouth the silver bullet developed by the Miyano couple, which is the predecessor of APTX-4869.

From then on, time seemed to have stopped for Vermouth. Her face no longer changed, and she remained youthful for decades.

But Vermouth didn’t like this change, which was caused by the death of her lover, who was caused by the experiment of the Miyano couple.

That’s why she hated him so much, to the point of hating everyone in his family.

Vermouth was very vague in some aspects, but Chu Ming basically guessed the whole situation.

He probably guessed the reason why Vermouth kept jumping back and forth between the red and black sides. On the one hand, she hoped that the boss’s experiment would be successful so that his lover could be resurrected, so she was still very concerned about the organization’s tasks in this regard;

But on the other hand, her lover died because of the boss’s ambition to live forever. After seeing the zombies of those experimental subjects, she would rather the organization’s plan fail and let her lover sleep forever. In addition, she probably saw hope in Conan to destroy the organization because of the will of the world, so she showed mercy to the red side for Conan and Xiaolan.

In this way, it is easy to get Vermouth back to the black side – making the boss’s experiment successful.

But this is not cost-effective. As long as the boss is alive, he is just a prince and will not be able to control the organization.

Chu Ming’s mind was full of thoughts, but his face showed no sign of it. He looked satisfied after hearing all the gossip, and winked at Vermouth: “Don’t worry, sister, leave your angel and the little boy you like to me. As long as the other members of the organization don’t find out, I can basically protect him.”

Vermouth also breathed a sigh of relief. She shot and destroyed the recording device that Conan was carrying, then looked at Conan and said, “What should we do with this child now?”

Chu Ming picked up Conan and threw him under the big tree nearby: “Just leave it here, let’s go. Didn’t he just say that he had an accomplice? When he saw the signal from his heart stop, his accomplice must have received the news. He must have a positioning device on him, so his accomplice is probably coming here now.”

Vermouth looked at Chu Ming disapprovingly: “I tore his clothes. He will catch a cold if he leaves them here.”

After saying that, he put his suit jacket on him.

Chu Ming sat directly on the passenger seat where Conan had just sat, and urged Vermouth who was looking at Conan kindly, “Hurry up, let’s go. If you are any slower, his accomplice will come. Will you kill him or not? Take the FBI behind back to Lafitte, and we will go meet up with Gin…”

Vermouth looked at Chu Ming, who was already sitting in the passenger seat with his seat belt fastened, and drove speechlessly: “Can’t you drive? Can’t you be a little more gentlemanly?”

“I’m still a child. Why should I be gentlemanly? This is not a blind date.” Chu Ming lazily laid down the backrest. Judy was stuffed into the trunk by Vermouth halfway. There was no obstruction in the back seat, so he lay comfortably.

“Where did you arrange Calvados?” Vermouth finally remembered the dog who had been ignored by her until now.

“I’m going to support Gin. Akai Shuichi has left the base. Judy, who has a bit of brains, is also confronting you. The FBI gathering place you explored at the beginning is now left with a few small fish. I will let Gin complete the mission and wipe out that place at the same time.

Although not very powerful, after all, there are more people, and more snipers are more guaranteed. Calvados and Chianti have cooperated before. But Gin is done, let’s go and gather now.”

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Lying in the car, Chu Ming calculated the points he had obtained from this full moon chapter. After getting so much points, he could be considered rich overnight. The points were enough for him to buy several realm-breaking pills. So, which aspect should he upgrade now?

Memory and comprehension must be upgraded, otherwise the brain will not be enough to handle all the files assigned by the boss;

The computer also needs to be upgraded. The boss has already caught up with me about writing the novel. I must not let Rum catch me, otherwise he will definitely let everyone in the organization know about it, especially to Gin.

But he really wants to improve his fighting skills. If he had the same fighting skills as Kyogoku Makoto, would he still be afraid that Gin would know the novel he wrote?

With that level of fighting power, he could even stand in front of Gin and write and read to him!

Chapter 421: Never Get Drunk

By the time everyone got together, Gin had already cooperated with several snipers to wipe out the FBI base. He was leaning against his car impatiently smoking a cigarette. When he saw Vermouth and Chu Ming coming, he casually crushed the cigarette under his feet and asked, “Why did it take so long?”

“I met Akai Shuichi.” Chu Ming rolled down from the passenger seat lazily, “I wanted to catch him, but it took some time.”

“He got away again?” Gin was not surprised at all. After all, if Akai Shuichi was so easy to catch, he would not have been able to jump around until now and would have been on the organization’s experimental table long ago.

Vermouth also pulled Judy out of the trunk and threw her to the ground: “Yes, she’s lucky enough to run away again.”

Chu Ming added: “But not only did I make a few holes in his body, I also caught his ex-girlfriend.”

“Why bring her back? Can’t you just kill her?” Chianti used his toes to turn Judy over, and was shocked to see Judy with Vermouth’s face. “Why did you disguise her as Vermouth? Do you want them to kill each other at the critical moment?”

Vermouth held back her laughter and told everyone about Chu Ming’s amazing move. Chianti was the first to burst into earth-shaking laughter, and even Gin couldn’t help but smile a little.

Chianti looked at Chu Ming’s face, incredulous: “How did you put on that fake face layer by layer? Aren’t you too thick-skinned?”

“?” Chu Ming was confused. These words didn’t sound like good things.

Chianti also realized that his words were ambiguous, and quickly supplemented: “No, no, what I mean is, with so much makeup on your face, won’t you feel bored?”

“No, the ultra-thin mask that my sister researched before is very useful. I always use that and makeup, and don’t use only disguise materials.” Chu Ming tore off the face of Matsutake Yusuke from his face and handed it to Chianti.

Chianti had always known that Granburch was in disguise to get along with them, but when he saw him tear off his face with his own eyes, and found that the face under the mask was still Shuichi Akai, his expression couldn’t help but twist.

Seeing Chianti staring at his face, Chu Ming winked at her playfully: “Why, are you impressed by Akai Shuichi’s handsome look? How about I go shopping with you in this look?”