A Survival Manual for the World of Science
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He Ye and Xiao Lan were somewhat interested and expressed that they also wanted to go.
Conan, however, because of his suspicion of Rob, took the earring phone from his side and handed it to Xiaolan: “Sister Xiaolan, take this with you.”
He Ye smiled and joked: “Xiaolan, just take him with you. Although Conan and I are not familiar with each other, I always feel that he will be particularly jealous of you.”
As expected, only a jealous king can understand a jealous king. Is this the tacit understanding between jealous kings? They can see through each other’s nature even if they are not familiar with each other.
Hattori also looked at Conan with a teasing look and winked at him.
Chu Ming looked at the exchange of glances between the two and couldn’t help but sigh that all of Hattori’s emotional intelligence seemed to be on Conan. He was very sensitive to other people’s feelings. If he had put this kind of thought on himself, he wouldn’t have had an ambiguous relationship with Kazuha even after Kudo Shinichi confessed his love to Xiaolan.
“Then we’ll leave first!” Kazuha sat on the truck, leaned half of his body out and waved goodbye to Hattori.
Hattori just said “oh” casually, but Chu Ming waved goodbye to everyone seriously.
He just got in touch with a fresh magnetic field. It seems that Robert has already dealt with Takeda Shinichi and is about to send his disposable tool to prison. He might as well say goodbye to him properly.
The people from the Takeda family gradually dispersed. Hattori and Conan pulled Chu Ming, and the three of them sat cross-legged beside the drunk Mouri Kogoro and exchanged clues with each other.
“There’s something wrong with that guy.”
“Yes, and he is also a big suspect.”
Chu Ming looked at the two people who were playing dumb and said speechlessly, “Is his name too hot to the lips? None of you mentioned his name… You are talking about Rob, right? Since you think he is suspicious, why don’t you stop Xiaolan and the others from going out with you?”
“He hasn’t made a move yet. He will definitely come back.”
Hattori confirmed Conan’s words and added: “Besides, the fighting power of both Kazuha and Xiaolan is not weak either. It seems that Rob cannot beat them both.”
Good guy, I have calculated everything clearly for you.
“Brother – brother -” Takeda Yuzo’s shout suddenly came from outside the door.
Chu Ming opened the door and looked outside, and saw Takeda Yuzo shouting in the room.
“What’s wrong, Yongsan?” The door of the room next door was also opened.
“I can’t find my brother anywhere. I don’t know where he went.”
Conan and Hattori exchanged glances, and the uneasiness in their hearts gradually grew: “What about the warehouse, have you seen it?”
“Ah? I don’t see anyone.”
“What about the second floor?” Chu Ming pointed to the window on the second floor. “I saw it was closed before, but now it’s open. Does that mean that the head of the Takeda family is there?”
“How could that be? Three people hanged themselves there. Everyone should be very cautious about that place and shouldn’t go near it…”
Conan thought of the people who had committed suicide in the warehouse before, and couldn’t help but clench his fists and ran towards the warehouse in a hurry.
Chu Ming and Hattori followed closely behind and rushed all the way to the second floor. Hattori turned the door lock and found that it was locked from the inside. Just as he was about to ask the Takeda family for tools, Chu Ming pulled him away.
“I come.”
He raised his leg, spun around and kicked the door hard. The entire wall seemed to shake violently, and the wooden door shattered, leaving a big hole.
Chu Ming, who thought he could kick the door open, retracted his foot, feeling a little embarrassed. He forgot that this warehouse was quite old and a bit rotten, so he couldn’t help kicking it.
However, the lock had been broken, and the door was pushed open naturally. Several people were shocked when they saw the scene in the room.
In the dark warehouse, only a few rays of moonlight shone in through the narrow air vents. With the faint light, one could see Takeda Shinichi hanging from the beam, his body covered with silvery-white fishing lines.
Chu Ming couldn’t help but murmur: “So this is the puppet that was killed by the spider——”
Hattori was the first to come to his senses. He stepped forward and touched Takeda Shinichi’s neck, then immediately reached out to stop the Takeda family members who were about to step forward: “No, you can’t come in for now! Call the police, the person is already dead.”
Chu Ming shook his cell phone to indicate that he had already called the police, then slowly walked to Conan and started investigating the scene with him.
Chapter 209 Gin is old, Chu Ming should take the lead
“Why are you stopping us? Why are those two allowed to look around?” Takeda Ryuji was full of indignation. “You are just a student. Why are you pretending to be a detective? Go and invite Mr. Maori downstairs.”
“My name is Hattori Heiji, and I’m also a detective. This time I came here because I received a murder notice from someone else…”
Takeda Ryuji’s expression eased a lot. He had also heard of Hattori’s name.
“Then the two of them…”
Takeda Ryuji pointed at the two people who were circling the corpse.
Hattori laughed dryly and covered for Conan and Chu Ming: “Those two are my assistants, assistants!”
“Assistant? Are things so complicated these days that such a young child can be an assistant…” Takeda Ryuji muttered in a low voice.
“Brother Chu Ming, how do you think the murderer escaped? The air vent was not big enough for him to crawl out, and the door was locked…” Conan asked Chu Ming in a low voice. At this time, they were following several people from the Takeda family into the room.
After just inspecting the scene, Conan and Hattori already had someone they suspected, but they had no evidence, so they wanted to ask Chu Ming, who always took an unconventional approach, if he could give them a new direction.
However, after asking the question, there was no response. Conan looked up in confusion, only to see Chu Ming frowning and following them with a thoughtful look on his face.
“Brother Chu Ming, Brother Chu Ming?”
“Hmm?” Chu Ming raised his head as if waking up from a dream and looked into Conan’s questioning eyes. “What’s wrong?”
Conan repeated the question helplessly. Chu Ming thought for a moment and said, “Maybe the murderer didn’t even enter the house. He might have set up a mechanism, such as attracting Mr. Takeda’s attention downstairs, leading him to the window, and then strangling him with some mechanism… In this way, even if he didn’t enter the house, he could still kill Mr. Takeda.”
Seeing Conan and Hattori lost in thought, Chu Ming patted Conan on the head and said, “There is a problem with an order from a company in Tokyo. I need to go back to deal with it. I will go back to Tokyo later. Good luck to you two.”
Conan and Hattori were both awakened by the possibility raised by Chu Ming. After saying goodbye to Chu Ming, they hurried into the room to think about the case.
After Chu Ming left the vicinity of Takeda’s house, he took out the big box that Negishi Wada had given him when he traded with him from his backpack. After seeing Robert kill someone, Chu Ming directly took back the money he had traded with him before, and also took out the cash from a previous transaction in Negishi Wada’s safe. After all, a thief never leaves empty-handed.
The reason why he rushed back to Tokyo in such a hurry was that the whereabouts of the FBI that Gin had asked people to investigate had finally been found. Akai Shuichi had been in the organization before, so he was familiar with many faces, and Vermouth, who was an expert in disguise, had fought with him too many times.
Out of caution, Gin decided to let Chu Ming suspend his task and sent Vodka to take him back to Tokyo first. He wanted Chu Ming to cooperate with him and Vermouth to find out the FBI’s movements.
“So should I go on this mission in my own style?” Chu Ming was sitting in Vodka’s car, talking on the phone with Gin.
“What are you thinking?” Gin turned the question around and asked him, “The boss intends to use your public identity as a sharp knife to penetrate the Metropolitan Police Department. If necessary, he can also swing it at the FBI, CIA and other official forces. The higher your reputation in the outside world, the deeper your sharp knife can penetrate. It stands to reason that you shouldn’t be put in front of Akai Shuichi so early. After all, his acumen should not be underestimated. Once he finds out, you will have to abandon your public identity and exist only as Granburch of the organization. You can only rely on disguises to travel.”
Perhaps it was because he rarely talked to Chu Ming about such a long paragraph of truth in one breath, Gin paused for a moment and continued, “The boss originally planned to make you famous enough in society before confronting Akai Shuichi, so that even if he had doubts about you, he would not make any big moves, just like he had been tracking Vermouth but could not openly do anything about her celebrity status. Now, tell me what you think.”
Chu Ming couldn’t help but smile after hearing such a long string of words: “Boss cares about me so much~ How can I be so virtuous~”
“…” Gin didn’t say anything, just watched Chu Ming perform a one-man show quietly.
Gin refused to take the role, only Vodka, who was driving, shook with nausea, and Chu Ming curled his lips in boredom.
“Brother, why aren’t you talking? Is it because you just talked too much in one breath, so your mouth is dry now?”
“Granburch, you haven’t been to the training ground for a long time, so you are drifting now?”
Chu Ming looked at the levels he had increased over this period of time, especially the big words behind Fighting: S (lv91), and revealed an evil and arrogant smile.
“That’s right, Gin, you can go to the training ground and wait for me when I get to Tokyo. Hehe, the three-year period is up, and it should be my turn to be the leader of the action team.” Chu Ming stood in front of the co-pilot and spoke loudly, “It is said that the position of team leader takes turns. Now it’s my turn. It’s time to take charge!”
Gin laughed in anger, and the cold murderous aura seemed to be transmitted through the phone: “Okay, Granburch, I’ll wait.”
“Dududu-“
“You’re hanging up the phone right now. What a bad mood you have~” Chu Ming shook his feet happily.
Vodka stepped on the brake. He had been listening to the two of them talking about business. Vodka was still sighing that the boss and the eldest brother really valued this little lunatic Granburch.
But just as he finished expressing his feelings, what did he hear?
Granburch seemed to have forgotten the previous experiences of being beaten to the ground and started to challenge the big brother!
Looking at Granburch with an arrogant look on his face after he hung up the phone, and thinking of his previous experience of being implicated, Vodka felt like crying but had no tears.
Will Big Brother arrange for someone to place a bomb on the road and kill this bastard?
What about him? He is innocent——
Chapter 210 Let Granburch take over my position
Vodka here is doubting his life, while in the base on the other side.
On the screen at the main seat of the conference room, the silhouette of a crow symbolizing the BOSS was clearly lit, and sitting next to it were Vermouth and Gin. Even Rum came to the base in person and sat opposite Gin.
After hearing Chu Ming’s bold words on Gin’s phone, Rum couldn’t help but laugh silently.
Gin hung up the phone, feeling murderous.
“Has Granburch improved a lot in fighting recently?” The BOSS’s voice sounded with a laugh, and the black crow silhouette on the screen trembled slightly.
“When he comes back later, I’ll try it and we’ll know.” Gin grinned, revealing a sinister smile.
The boss thought for a moment and suggested, “Go to training ground No. 6. The cameras there are the most – the field there is the most suitable for you to perform.”
Rum coughed lightly, “Boss, can Granburch really not be assigned to our intelligence team? Gin is young and strong, why have you already started to train a successor? I am an old man, but I still don’t have an heir. And you see Granburch, has he been beaten stupid by Gin? Why not let him come to my intelligence team——”
In order to win over the next generation he believes in, Rum even lost his dignity and, relying on the fact that he looks older than Gin, wants the boss to assign Granburch to him.
“Heh.” Gin looked at him sarcastically, “Why don’t you deal with your intelligence team first? Weren’t you looking for an undercover agent last time? Did you find one?”
Rum touched his artificial eye. “Of course, I have asked Curacao to deal with him. It was the Russian FSB who intervened. Gin, Granburch is definitely a good candidate for intelligence. You give him to me. Ireland is coming back. How about you train him? He is Pisco’s adopted son and grew up in the organization. Loyalty is natural, and he is also good at fighting—”
“You wishful thinking. Why don’t you train Camus? He is also in charge of intelligence work in the UK. You can let him take over.”
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As the two were arguing, they suddenly looked at Karasuma Renya at the same time.
Karasuma Renya was enjoying watching the two faction leaders he respected arguing over Granburch, but he paused when he saw that both of them were looking at him at the same time.
What are you looking at me for? You guys start quarreling first while I’m just watching.
“Then why not let him take my place.” After dropping such a big bomb, Karasuma Renya looked at his two right-hand men and was stunned for a few seconds at the same time.
Originally he wanted to scare the two of them, but after Karasuma Renya finished thinking about it, it made more and more sense. Yes, Chu Ming is a capable kid, and he has a sense of the overall situation. Both the action team and the intelligence team, the two current team leaders have affirmed his abilities, and Porter, the current head of the experimental group, allows him to use drugs at will. Isn’t he the best successor?
His body has been getting weaker recently, and the experimental results of the experimental group can only barely keep him alive. If he wants to wait until the day when the experiment is successful, he must not spend any more energy. If there is an heir…
There was a gleam of light in Karasuma Renya’s eyes. He wanted to take another look and polish his thinking. With Chu Ming’s current personality, if he really kept him by his side, he would live a hundred years less.
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At this time on the mountain road, Chu Ming and Vodka looked at each other.
“Why are you stopping here? Is your car out of gas? Broken down? Got a flat tire?”
Shouldn’t this be the treatment that the protagonists receive? Would he also have to face this? Could it be that he has really been with Conan for too long?