A Survival Manual for the World of Science

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Xiaolan on the opposite side was so embarrassed that her face turned red after hearing Hattori’s confession.

Chu Ming also patted Shinichi’s shoulder and whispered in his ear: “Xiao Ai’s previous experimental data shows that you will become smaller in about half an hour. If you try to solve the case later, you will not have enough time. You should hurry up and do what you should do. Leave the case to me and Hattori.”

Kudo Shinichi, who was originally a little itchy, decisively pushed his two friends out when he heard that he had little time left: “You two should go solve the case quickly. I will discuss with you later why you two are here!”

The last few words were full of gnashing of teeth.

Chu Ming and Hattori shrugged their shoulders, not afraid at all. With Kudo Shinichi’s weak little body, who could he beat?

Deliberately not putting away the camera, Chu Ming and Hattori planned to solve the case quickly and easily, and then continue to watch Kudo Shinichi’s confession story.

Chu Ming was too familiar with this case. The father and son who committed the crime were solved by the detective father and son. As a result, Kudo Shinichi, who had solved the case, became Conan, and Xiaolan was left alone sitting by the window waiting for Shinichi to come back. This wait was a year in the world of science…

At this time, Officer Megure had already arrived at the scene. Chu Ming was still thinking about the gossip he hadn’t finished reading. After Officer Megure finished his questioning, he pointed at Ohba Satoru and said, “I think you killed President Tatsumi, right?”

Ohba Satoru was shocked by his straightforward identification: “What are you talking about? Officer, who is this guy? Why does he——”

Chu Ming didn’t want to waste time talking to him. He was anxious to see the end of the gossip: “Just now, Miss Tatsumi said that you touched her left ear with your left hand and said that you chose a necklace that matched the color of his earrings, right?”

“First, you could have done it with your right hand, but you had to use your left hand. Is it because you were holding a gun in your right hand?”

“Second, Hattori just found a plastic bag and a pair of gloves in the doll’s eyes. That should be what you use to hide the gun smoke reaction, right? This can detect your fingerprints.”

“Third, and most importantly, Ms. Tatsumi just said that she bought her pink pearl earrings today. You haven’t seen them before, right? Then how did you find out the color of the pearls in the dim stairwell? In the dark, the pearls will only appear gray, unless you opened the elevator door halfway…”

Chu Ming spoke very quickly, and his rapid-fire words left Ohba Satoru speechless, and in the end he could only smile dejectedly.

“Yes, I…”

Chu Ming waved his hands. It was time for the murderer to give his reasons and the detective to elevate the topic, which was the part he disliked the most.

“Officer Megure, I’ll go with you to clear the records in a couple of days. I have something else to do now, so I’ll leave first. Bye~~ I’m leaving, Hattori.”

Ignoring Officer Megure’s hesitant look, the two of them ran back excitedly, walked around and returned to the table where they placed the camera.

Hmm? ? Where is Kudo Shinichi? ? Why is Xiaolan eating alone? ?

No way, no way, the atmosphere is so tense, could it be that Kudo Shinichi couldn’t say it? ?

Chu Ming took back the camera and reviewed the video with Hattori:

After they left, Kudo Shinichi stared at Xiaolan, whose face was flushed, and made up his mind: “Xiaolan, I, I have always wanted to say this to you, that, I, am…”

Xiaolan lowered her head and saw that Kudo Shin had been unable to speak for a long time and his face began to get redder and redder.

“That’s it–do you feel hot?”

Xiaolan waited for a long time, but she only heard this sentence. She couldn’t hide her disappointment, but she still answered him gently: “No, the air conditioner is turned up too high, and I still feel a little cold.”

Suddenly, Kudo Shinichi covered his heart. Intense burning and pain instantly swept over him, but it only lasted for a moment and then slowly subsided after a while.

However, Kudo Shinichi knew that this was a sign that the effectiveness of the medicine was decreasing. If he didn’t say anything, it would probably be too late.

“Xiao Lan, I’ve been investigating a very complicated case recently. I can only come back today because I have time. I will probably have to leave again tonight. Before I leave, I have something very important to tell you…”

Xiaolan listened to what Kudo Shinichi said with a serious look on her face.

“In fact, I never considered you as my childhood sweetheart, because, because I like you!!” Kudo Shinichi finally managed to say this with a red face. With this as a foundation, it was much easier to say the following words. “I discovered a long time ago that my feelings for you had changed, but this change made me unable to figure out where it started and where it ended, even with all the reasoning I had learned. After all, even Sherlock Holmes couldn’t tell what it felt like to like someone…”

Xiaolan’s face turned red after being hit by Kudo Shinichi’s straight ball. She sat in the chair for a long time without coming to her senses. Facing Kudo Shinichi’s focused and eager gaze opposite her, she said something in a low voice with a red face.

Not only did the camera not record it, even Kudo Shinichi who was sitting opposite her didn’t hear it. He stood up and wanted to ask more questions, but his mouth was blocked by the cake handed over by Xiaolan. From the video, the atmosphere between the two was full of charm and stickiness, and it seemed that there were some sparks when their eyes met during the meal.

But from the camera’s angle, Kudo Shinichi’s fingers were trembling slightly, as if he was enduring great pain, but he didn’t show it at all. Instead, he continued to eat with Xiaolan and talked to her as usual, until he couldn’t bear it any longer, so he said something to Xiaolan and ran towards the bathroom.

Chu Ming turned off the camera. Hattori felt a little disappointed after watching it: “I guess it will be Conan who will come back later…”

Chapter 228 Lafitte

Xiaolan sat in her seat waiting for Kudo Shinichi to go to the bathroom, but in the end, the one who came was Conan, who was sweating profusely.

“Sister Xiaolan, just now Brother Shinichi asked me to give you this card, and told me that he suddenly had an urgent clue in the case he was investigating, so…”

Conan looked at Xiao Lanyun’s starry eyes and couldn’t say the next words.

Having received Kudo Shinichi’s confirmation, Xiaolan knew that her love was not unrequited. Although she was disappointed that she could not say goodbye to Shinichi properly, she was not too sad when she thought of the sweet confession just now. She smiled and invited Conan to sit opposite her: “Conan, do you want some dessert?”

Chu Ming and Hattori quietly left when Conan appeared. The two walked out of the Beika Center building. Hattori thought about Xiaolan’s smile just now, scratched his head, and asked Chu Ming shyly: “Tell me, if I follow He Ye…”

“Brotherhood has no result, you know that?” Chu clearly knew what Hattori meant, but he still teased him deliberately.

Being pointed out by Chu Ming, Hattori jumped up and down proudly: “That’s not what I’m asking! What I want to say is that if He Ye showed Xiaolan’s expression just now, it would definitely be very ugly, hahaha, haha…”

Looking at Hattori who kept laughing dryly, Chu Ming couldn’t help but give him a thumbs up. You are worthy of being the topic terminator.

“Since you don’t want to learn from me, I’ll leave first. If you regret it, feel free to contact me. Chu Ming’s love class will be open to you at any time~” Chu Ming made a heart shape to Hattori in a frivolous way, waved his hand and slipped away.

Gin just sent him a message, saying that Lafitte had just returned from the United States, and asked him to meet him at the base, so that when he meets him next time, at least he will know that he is a teammate and not attack him.

Lafitte? I haven’t seen him, but it doesn’t matter. I will be his new tool in the future.

Chu Ming was tired of using Shotake Yusuke’s face before, and he had already appeared in front of Conan, so this time he decided to face the new tool man with a brand new look.

“Brother~Vodka Cut~”

Her long brown curly hair was draped softly on her shoulders, her light green eyes sparkled with a cunning light, and the two dimples on her face seemed to be full of playfulness. Because Gin disliked her crooked breasts last time, Chu Ming simply did not wear fake breasts this time, and she looked like a sweet little loli with a flat chest.

Gin’s mouth twitched when he heard the voice. A trace of admiration flashed across Vodka’s eyes at first, and then he seemed to remember who this person in front of him was who particularly met his aesthetic standards, and he couldn’t help but retreat behind Gin.

“Why do you look like that?” Gin squeezed out a few words from between his teeth.

Wearing a pure white gauze dress, Chu Ming, who felt like a little princess, turned around on the spot: “What’s wrong, am I not cute like this?”

Thinking that Gin didn’t seem to have much taste, Chu Ming turned to Vodka and asked, “Vodka Gege, am I cute?”

Vodka looked at the face in front of him, which was a little childish and innocent, but full of charm in his eyes. He adjusted his sunglasses and said to himself: I can’t see, I can’t see, I’m blind, I’m blind…

“Tsk.” Seeing that Vodka was pretending to be cool and ignoring him, Chu Ming sat back on the sofa in boredom, “Didn’t they say that there were new members coming? Where are they? Are they late?”

“I arrived at the base 46 minutes, 33 seconds and 12 milliseconds ago.” As the faint voice sounded, a figure in black clothes and white hair slowly walked down from upstairs. His white hair was untied, and it fluttered slightly along with his black windbreaker as he walked down the stairs. He had a handsome and indifferent face, a pair of ice-blue eyes like cold stars under his long eyelashes, a straight nose, and rosy lips.

Corresponding to his face that looks like a banished immortal is his indifferent temperament.

“Is this Lafitte?” Chu Ming was really surprised. He thought that the appearance of the winery was still relatively high as for Gin, but this Lafitte was even more beautiful.

And this pretentious temperament, wow, even Gin is outshined.

Lafitte walked downstairs, then retracted his empty and indifferent gaze and looked down at the person sitting on the sofa. His pupils shrank slightly for a moment, and even his tone could not maintain indifference: “Are you Granburch?”

Chu Ming raised his chin slightly: “Yes, I am Granburch. I declare that from now on, you are my number one little brother!”

Lafitte continued to maintain his demeanor as an exiled immortal: “Ha.”

Gin watched the two younger brothers in front of him maintaining their own personalities and enjoying it. He took out his gun and pointed it at the two men with a grin, shooting each of them once. The two men were so scared that they rolled on the ground to avoid the bullets and didn’t care about maintaining their own style. He put the gun away with satisfaction: “Can you talk properly now?”

Lafitte casually took out a rubber band and tied up his hair: “Gin, you are really getting more and more violent. This is just the first time I met Granburch, and I want to leave a good impression on her. How about it, did I look handsome when I just came down the stairs? Am I handsome? I spent a long time to create this look. In order to appear the most handsome at the first time, I squatted by the stairs for a long time, and my feet are numb~”

Chu Ming also pouted and continued to speak in a loli voice: “That’s right, how could Brother Gin shoot? It’s so dangerous~ I’m so scared~”

“…”

Gin began to wonder whether he should send Lafitte back to America. Why did he not want to let him come back? Wasn’t Chu Ming enough of a headache for him?

It doesn’t seem worth it for just one Akai Shuichi.

Chu Ming and Lafitte looked at each other and confirmed with their eyes that both of them were in a good mood.

Seeing that the two seemed to have some sympathy for each other, Gin decisively gave the task and drove them away: “Vermouth has sneaked into Teitan High School and has contacted the FBI prosecutor. The woman named Judy likes to go to the video game arcade on weekends. Granburrch, if you want to get close to her, you can seize the opportunity this weekend. In addition, Lafitte, your current task is to do your best to find out the news about Akai Shuichi. You can continue to use the identity you used in the United States. The news that the genius surgeon Watanabe Wada has returned to Japan and has become the chief surgeon of Beika Hospital has spread. After that, you will go there to lurk.”

After finishing the task, Gin couldn’t wait to get up and leave, without even having time to greet Vodka.

Chu Ming came up to Lafitte and said, “Lafitte, I don’t have a car and I haven’t had time to eat yet. Do you want to…”

Lafitte’s hand touched Chu Ming’s cheek, and with a little force, he pulled up a piece of fake skin: “Who taught you this disguise? It’s a bit fake. A professional doctor can see through it at a glance.”

However, since Gin agreed that Granburr could disguise himself in the organization, Lafitte did not tear off the fake face.

“Sister Vermouth taught me~”

Lafitte changed his words in a second: “That’s because you didn’t learn it well. Vermouth’s disguise technique is simply the best in the world, unparalleled, superb and outstanding—”

“Oh, I’m flattered that Lafitte thinks so highly of me~” Vermouth appeared behind Lafitte at some point, smiling brightly.

Chu Ming saw Lafitte quietly wiping his cold sweat behind him, no longer having the same banished immortal look as before, and he sighed with regret.

He just saw Vermouth coming in, and was about to trick him, but he didn’t expect Lafitte to react so quickly~

Chapter 229 You Will Get Beaten Like This In The Future

“Hey, Wada Gege, when you go to the hospital, please pass by the amusement center in front and put him down~” Chu Ming sat on Lafitte’s Ferrari and swung his legs, with a sweet smile on his youthful and pretty face.

“Don’t talk in such a disgusting tone.” Lafitte complained unhappily while driving.

Yesterday, because Granburch had been sitting on the sofa, he didn’t see anything wrong with the skeleton, so he thought Granburch was just a girl, just disguised. But then when Vermouth came over, Granburch stood up to greet her, and he saw from the pubic bone that –

——Damn it, Granburch is a man! ! !

He thought this was really an underage girl, and he was thinking that it was rare to organize a real loli with relatively strong strength…

In the end, the minor is real, but the loli is fake…

A waste of his feelings.

“Then Wada Gege, please stand up straight and take out that air you had before. We are not familiar enough to communicate with each other using our true nature, so please put on your character and talk to me!” Chu Ming leaned on the backrest coquettishly. The little fairy boy is pleasing to the eyes, but the complaining guy is a fool. No matter how good-looking he is, he still has a mouth.

Lafitte sat up straight, putting away all the unnecessary expressions on his face, and glanced at Chu Ming with an inanimate look: “I’ll give you three seconds to get out of the car. I’ll close the door in three seconds and twenty milliseconds.”

Chu Ming quickly gave him a thumbs up, got out of the car, and waved to him: “Goodbye, Hetian Gege.”

Before he could finish his words, the car sped away.

He went into the bathroom to change his clothes, but unexpectedly met a man at the door. He blushed and said, “Little girl, this is the men’s bathroom. Um, you went to the wrong place…”

Chu Ming smiled playfully, but when he opened his mouth, he spoke in a rough voice with a strong flavor of corn: “I’m not in the wrong place, haven’t you seen a man dressed as a woman?”

“…”

As the man walked away in shame and anger, Chu Ming hid in the cubicle and changed his disguise. He only came out after making sure the man had left.

I’d better not wear women’s clothes when going out next time. It’s not very convenient to change clothes…

While waiting for Judy at the game machine in the amusement park, Chu Ming had a lot of fun. He tried all kinds of games, including shooting, boxing, racing cars, and catching dolls.

“Brother Chu Ming? Is it really you? Wow~” Chu Ming had just finished a fight and took off his helmet with his eyes shining. Before he could continue, Yuanzi grabbed his arm.