A Survival Manual for the World of Science

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Chapter 410 Sister, I saw Kudo Shinichi

When Chu Ming was brought to the organization hospital by Gin in the middle of the night, his consciousness was already a little hazy. He was almost instinctively dragged by Gin to take steps. Lafitte happened to be there looking for some medicine. When he saw Chu Ming being half-dragged in by Gin, he walked up to him and asked in confusion.

“What happened to Granburch? Why is he so embarrassed?”

Lafitte’s tone was somewhat gloating. He had often seen Granburch jumping up and down like a monkey, and now he looked so listless that he couldn’t help but want to mock him.

“He had a fever and was buried in the bed. I dug him out. If he hadn’t come out, he would have burned to death in there.” Gin casually threw the person he was half hugging to Lafitte. “I have a mission to do. It’s a good opportunity. You can take him to see him.”

Gin was on a mission and called Chu Ming to ask him to help. However, he was too busy to help and had to waste time sending Chu Ming to the hospital. He happened to meet Lafitte, so Gin quickly passed the blame on to others, otherwise he would have to ask Vodka to take care of Chu Ming.

Lafitte subconsciously took the person who was thrown to him, and watched Gin turn around and walk away as if he had thrown away a hot potato, and he couldn’t stop him even if he was shouted at.

He turned his head helplessly and looked at Chu Ming, whose body he could feel burning hot through his clothes. He resigned himself to taking him to the ward and gave him some fluid to reduce his fever. God knows he had just returned from a mission and was planning to get some poison at the organization’s hospital on the way. Otherwise, who would wander around the organization’s hospital in the middle of the night for no reason?

Looking at the speed at which the medicine was dripping, Lafitte estimated the time it would take to finish dripping. He turned over and lay on the bed next to Chu Ming. He had been working on the task for several nights and was almost dying of sleep. In an instant, he fell into a deep sleep.

When Chu Ming was woken up by the alarm clock, he felt pain on the back of his left hand.

Is Gin really reliable? No one helped him remove the needle after the potion was finished? The venous blood was almost back to the middle of the tube…

Chu Ming pulled out the needle with one hand, looked at Lafitte who was half-sitting up in the bed next to him, and blinked blankly: “Why is it you? I remember it was Gin who brought me out? Or did I have a fever and was confused, so I remembered it wrongly?”

Lafitte yawned. He looked completely devoid of his celestial aura. Even his delicate features could not hide his haggardness. He reached out to test the temperature on Chu Ming’s forehead. “Gin threw you to me and went to do his own mission. Your fever rises quickly, but it also subsides quickly.”

Chu Ming coughed dryly, half leaned against the head of the bed, lowered his voice and tried to create the hoarse feeling from before: “Really? I feel my throat is still a little uncomfortable.”

Lafitte didn’t doubt it. He stood up and opened the curtains. “It’s past six o’clock. I’ll go buy you some breakfast. You have a sore throat, so just have some porridge.”

???

“No~” Chu Ming sat up straight abruptly, his voice was loud for a moment and then low again, he managed to sing the two words in high and low notes, he coughed a few times to cover it up, “Can’t we have something else? I don’t want to drink porridge.”

“No, no. Why are you so excited?” Lafitte had just been drawing the curtains with his back to him, and didn’t see him sit up suddenly. “Then what do you want to eat? Logically speaking, rice porridge is the best thing for you in your situation.”

Chu Ming didn’t want to drink porridge. He had seen Conan’s hospital meal, which was pure white porridge, bland and tasteless. He didn’t want to eat it just by looking at it.

“Barbecue? Ramen? Hot pot? Or…” Chu Ming counted on his fingers.

Lafitte walked straight out: “Let’s have porridge.”

“Then bring back some fruit–” Chu Ming shouted at Lafitte’s back.

Chu Ming tossed and turned in bed for half an hour, but he didn’t wait for Lafitte who never came back. Instead, he waited for Vermouth who received the news and came to visit the patient.

When Vermouth came in carrying a bunch of things, Chu Ming was lying on his bed, bored and playing with folding paper using the sticky notes on the bedside table. The bedside table was piled with small paper airplanes, boats, pigs and other messy things.

“Are you planning to set up a stall to sell handicrafts?” Vermouth teased him.

“Others are not qualified to buy something I made myself.” Speaking of handmade things, Chu Ming suddenly remembered the chocolates from before. He pretended to reach into the bag he packed at that time, and then took out the chocolate gift box he had made at that time from the system backpack, “Oh, sister, I made it myself, I’m giving it to you~”

Vermouth raised an eyebrow, took the box and smelled a strong chocolate scent: “You made the chocolate? It’s not a festival, why are you giving me chocolate?”

Chu Ming curled up in bed, his face full of sincerity: “I did it last time when I went out with that detective’s family. Sister, let me tell you, I saw Kudo Shinichi, and I suspect he is not dead.”

Vermouth was about to open the package, but she paused when she heard this. She was silent for a while, as if she felt that this reaction was wrong, and then she smiled and said, “Maybe it’s the situation I mentioned last time. It may be the FBI pretending to be someone else, trying to confuse the organization.”

Chu Ming shook his head and looked at the large amount of points on the system panel with a serious face: “No, I don’t think so. This Kudo Shinichi looks just like the real thing. This chocolate was made when I followed them to Fukito Villa. From their interactions and words at that time, I think this person is Kudo Shinichi.”

Vermouth calmed herself down, knowing that Conan must have taken some medicine from Haibara Ai and temporarily turned into Kudo Shinichi. She guessed that when Chu Ming came out of the hospital, he should turn into Conan again.

She has now confirmed that Shirley is Haibara Ai. Calvados will arrive in Japan tomorrow. When he arrives, she will set out to get rid of Shirley.

Once Shirley dies, Conan will no longer become Kudo Shinichi. As long as he no longer appears in front of Chu Ming, there shouldn’t be any big problems.

Vermouth tried to change the subject: “I have found Shirley’s trail. We will be able to kill the traitor in a few days. You can rest and recuperate. By the time you recover, Shirley will have been dealt with.”

???

How could we not bring him along for such an important event?

“I want to go too! I can help my sister with sniping!” Chu Ming sat up straight and tried to join in.

“Just stay here and don’t run around if you’re not feeling well these days. Calvados will come to help me with the plane ticket for tomorrow.” Vermouth pushed Chu Ming back to the position where he was leaning against the wall with one hand, and stuffed the freshly peeled apple into his hand, “Eat an apple, be good.”

“…” Chu Ming watched Vermouth hurriedly leave, knowing that she was trying to make him forget the topic just now, but…

If we don’t let him follow, will he stay still?

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

Chapter 411 Full Moon – Beginning

Chu Ming stayed in the organization’s hospital for several days before leaving. In fact, he had recovered long ago, but he pretended to be sick at the beginning in order to torment Lafitte.

Later, when he was fed up with Lafitte feeding him porridge three times a day and begged to be discharged from the hospital, he was stopped by Lafitte and Rum who came to visit him.

It turns out that karma always pays off.

In order to take care of Chu Ming, Lafitte didn’t get a good night’s sleep in the past two days. Chu Ming would lie in bed and fall asleep when he was bored during the day, but he would start to make trouble in the middle of the night, listening to stories, eating fruits, drinking water, etc. There were a lot of things to do.

Lafitte had been holding a grudge against Chu Ming for a long time. Even though he knew Chu Ming had recovered, he still deliberately bought him tasteless white porridge three times a day. He only let him go when Lafitte had to go out on a mission and had no time to keep an eye on Chu Ming.

During the time Chu Ming was in the hospital, Kudo Shinichi also called once because he wanted to visit Chu Ming at his home but found that he was not at home.

Chu Ming told him that because he had a fever again, he called Watanabe Wada in the middle of the night and asked him to take him to the hospital. It was nothing serious.

Kudo Shinichi originally wanted to come and see him, but because Chu Ming had been away for three days, the effect of the drug had expired, and he was forced to turn back into Conan. In addition, he received an invitation letter from Vermouth to Kudo Shinichi for an unseasonable Halloween dinner, but the content of the letter began with Dear Edogawa Conan…

This meant that someone in the organization already knew his identity, and he couldn’t involve Chu Ming in it, so he didn’t go to see Chu Ming during this period.

In addition, no one knows what happened to Haibara Ai. The doctor said that she seemed to have caught a cold when she went to the third floor to look at the stars with an astronomical telescope the night before and was blown by the wind. She has been coughing at home these few days.

Even though the doctor found a new doctor, there was no improvement and he looked very depressed. I wonder if it was because he had a cold and had been staying at home all the time.

Maori Kogoro also received an invitation letter…

Everything was happening at once, and Conan couldn’t spare any time to visit Chu Ming. He only found time to call him.

Chu Ming didn’t care about it. He was thinking about how he could maximize his own interests in this main plot.

Although Vermouth won’t take him to play, he can go play by himself~ If possible, rescue the organization’s precious snipers. He can’t wait for him to inherit the organization and then find out that the snipers have been basically used up when he wants to do a mission…

It is not easy to train a sniper. Even if Calvados is just a tool and his face did not even appear in the original book, the organization did spend a lot of money to train this group of snipers.

This is all his money!

——No, it should be after the boss dies, these are the inheritance he will inherit!

Use a little now so he can use less when he takes over later!

Vermouth also heard the call made by Conan because she installed a bug when she went to see Haibara Ai last time. However, because Conan did not intend to involve Chu Ming in all this, she did not tell Chu Ming anything and just expressed concern for Chu Ming’s health.

Vermouth listened to Conan calling Chu Ming with great concern, his deep care evident in his words, and couldn’t help feeling a little jealous.

Her godson had never cared about her so much. Instead, he was too trusting of Granburch, a wolf in human skin. She didn’t know if Conan would be devastated when the truth was revealed.

Chu Ming paid attention to the nano-micro locators that were originally placed in everyone’s body. The position of Kogoro Mouri and Hattori basically overlapped in the Pacific Ocean. He should be busy solving cases on the cruise ship for the Halloween dinner. Vodka’s position was also on it, so he should have been sent by Gin.

Haibara Ai is still at Agasa’s house, but Conan, Xiaolan and Judy’s positions are constantly moving, with Vermouth following closely behind.

It seems like he was discharged from the hospital just in time~

There was no one around and the dusk was getting darker, so Chu Ming spread his wings and flew towards the dock where Vermouth and the others were going to arrive later. He landed from a distance and climbed over a container on the side.

Calvados had probably just arrived and was about to hide when he saw a man falling over from behind. He quickly pointed his gun backwards.

“One of us.” Chu Ming walked out from the shadows, shaking the ring and watch permission card given to him by his former boss, indicating his identity, “Calvados, nice to meet you, I’m Granburch.”

Calvados looked like he was not good at speaking. Those of them who had been on duty in the United States for many years had received notifications from the boss and knew that the organization had a new successor. They had also seen Chu Ming’s photo. He stammered a few times, not knowing how to address him, so he asked in a low voice: “Why are you here?”

Chu Ming stood on top of the container, the wind blowing past, making his long windbreaker rustle. He stared at the dark road in the distance: “Vermouth told you to lurk here, did she tell you anything else?”

“No, Vermouth asked me to be her assistant in operations to help kill Shirley and the woman from the FBI.” When mentioning Vermouth, Calvados’ eyes were twinkling with stars.

Chu Ming couldn’t help but think of the gossip that Bourbon had told him before. Cohen had some special feelings for Chianti because he had been working with her for many years. However, Chianti was saved by Calvados in her early years, so her heart fell on Calvados. However, Calvados only had eyes for Vermouth…

Tsk tsk, such a good organization, why is there a love triangle? Office romance is prohibited!

Chu Ming looked at his phone. Based on the FBI’s recent operations, Vermouth had figured out their bases and movements. Judy had originally arranged for people to ambush at this dock, but Vermouth, who had disguised herself as Judy, announced the cancellation of the mission and went back.

Knowing that the person they wanted to arrest was the organization’s Thousand Changes Witch, no one from the FBI called Judy from beginning to end to ask whether she had really canceled the operation…

But thanks to the stupidity of these FBIs, currently in the FBI, Judy is chasing Vermouth, and Shuichi Akai is also rushing here. Now there are probably only some small fry in the FBI base.

Chu Ming took advantage of the time difference and said hello to Gin, asking him to take down the base. There were probably quite a few FBI agents inside, which would give Gin a chance to stretch his muscles.

Although it’s a bit of a waste of talent, Gin is indeed not suitable to be here. He should just do his job as a killer.

Chapter 412 Full Moon 2-Face the Wind

From a distance, Chu Ming saw two car lights passing by at the end of the road. He quickly told Calvados to lie down and not stand there so that he could be seen.

Chu Ming watched as Vermouth, dressed as the newly arrived doctor, made a sudden turn and stopped Judy’s car, and got out with a worried look on his face: “Where are you taking that girl?”

Lying on the container, it was quite far away from the dock. If Chu Ming had not been strengthened by the magnetic field for so long, he would not have been able to hear what they said.

Calvados, who was standing next to Chu Ming, couldn’t hear what was being said over there, but he probably didn’t want to know. At this moment, Calvados’ mind and eyes were full of Vermouth. He used the lens of his sniper rifle as a telescope, staring at Vermouth without blinking.

Judy got out of the car, looking like a villain, and leaned on the hood of the car: “No No No, I just took her out for a ride. I’m not like you, a busy doctor. I have a lot of free time.”

Vermouth had no idea what Judy was up to, so she didn’t respond. She just stared at Haibara Ai, whose hair was the only thing visible in the car, with a worried look.

“The murder case that Dr. Shinide experienced is about to be tried, and you will have to go to court to testify. But Dr. Shinide, perjury is not a good habit. In fact, the person who pulled the trigger at that time was Miss Yasumoto Hikaru who came to help, right? You concealed the fact that it was she who killed your father, but don’t try to hide it from me. I had already overheard the truth from Detective Mori.” Seeing that Vermouth didn’t speak, Judy tested Vermouth according to the method Conan had just said in the car.

Conan, who was wearing Haibara Ai’s disguise, sat up straight when he heard this. He was the one who taught Judy to say this on the way.

Because at present, Judy and Dr. Arata are obviously two opposing groups of people. The letter he received before was written on the cover as “received by Kudo Shinichi”, but the beginning of the content was written to Edogawa Conan, which means that someone has already known his identity and is trying to lure him to the ship where the Halloween dinner is held and capture Haibara Ai at the same time.

So Conan asked Hattori to help him pretend to be Kudo Shinichi and attend the dinner, while he pretended to be Huibara Ai. He was waiting at home before, waiting for who would contact Huibara Ai first and try to take her away. Whoever wants to take Huibara away is the culprit.

It turned out that it was Dr. Shinde who called, and Conan then determined that Dr. Shinde was the one who set up the trap, and also the signer of the letter – Vermouth.

But just when he was sure, it was teacher Judy who took him away first. In addition, Conan had doubted Judy’s identity before, so in the uncertain situation, Conan still took the risk and followed Judy.

In the car, Judy told Conan her identity as an FBI agent and the trap set by Vermouth tonight, but Conan didn’t believe anyone at the moment. He remembered the file on the case of Kogoro Mouri that was stolen from the Metropolitan Police Department before, so he told Judy the truth about Dr. Shinide’s case. If this Shinide was fake, then she would not know the truth just by looking at the file.

This is the best way to reveal her identity.

Conan had a good plan, but what he didn’t know was that he had a super undercover agent named Chu Ming by his side, who leaked everything to him, and Vermouth had already learned the real truth from Chu Ming.