Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 214 Alas, Xiaolan, who lacks love, is easily exploited

In the sewer that had been dark for a long time, there was finally a little dim light. Xiaolan looked in the direction of Yingsheng's finger and saw a rusty iron fence on the side of the narrow passage not far ahead. The light was coming from there.

Seeing this long-lost glimmer of light, Xiaolan realized that she had actually turned many corners with Yingsheng. The smell of decay and dampness in the air suddenly became clear, and even a gas mask could not completely isolate it.

And she was so immersed in all kinds of complicated thoughts that she didn't notice it at all.

Putting aside all those complicated thoughts, she only had this one thought.

Fortunately it's not smelly.

The two waded towards the fence entrance that was barely illuminated by light. Halfway through, Yingsheng raised his hand to stop Xiaolan and whispered, "There may be surveillance cameras. Don't move here. I'll go over and take a look first."

Xiaolan nodded quickly, but was quite curious.

With such a gap, a camera can completely cover the view outside the passage. How can Shuiyue-kun pass through without being noticed?

While she was thinking, she was surprised to see Yingsheng squatting on the ground slowly, then lying on his back, exerting slight force with his hands and feet, and slowly crawling towards the target direction.

This……

Feeling the chill brought by the ankle-deep sewage and looking at the suspicious substance floating in the sewage due to the movement of the firefly, Xiaolan was really shocked. Is it really possible to do this?
Although reason told her that for the most important life, such things were completely trivial.

But beforehand, she really hadn't thought about it...

But now that she said that, it seems that she had never even thought about coming here beforehand. Going further, she had never even thought about firing a gun or throwing a grenade...

I don't know whether that person is dead or not.

When she pulled the trigger of the Uzi, she subconsciously aimed it at the man's chest. Later, when she realized that the man might be wearing a bulletproof vest, she moved the muzzle slightly upwards. However, before she could fire a few shots, reinforcements from the winery arrived and she was shot too.

Luckily, the first shot from the other side hit her bulletproof vest. If it had hit the back of her head...

She was gone.

Afterwards, Yingsheng solemnly apologized to her, saying that he had focused his attention on the sniper's position and ignored the rear, and did not expect that reinforcements from the winery would arrive so quickly.

But after she calmed down, she realized that the gunshot actually came from the street, at an angle of about fifteen degrees to the direction facing away from her.

Taking into account the distance between her and the man and the field of vision of her eyes, theoretically, she could actually see him out of the corner of her eye.

However, she was a little too nervous and her eyes were too focused on the target ahead.

No matter how you think about it, she is the one with the biggest problem.

Moreover, Shuiyuejun was being restrained by the sniper on the opposite side, but he managed to eliminate him at the same time as the man fired. This shows that he has super good vision.

Compared to him, my vision is incredibly narrow...

"What are you thinking about? So absorbed."

"Eh?"

Xiaolan's wandering thoughts were instantly gathered, and she saw Yingsheng standing in front of her again, cleaning with his hands behind his back.

"Has it been confirmed?"

She hurried over to help and asked in a low voice.

"Confirmed, there is no surveillance. I don't know what the winery is thinking. There may be some traps inside. We must be more vigilant later." Yingsheng smiled, "Were you lamenting the impermanence of life again?" "It's okay, I just feel that Shuiyue-kun is very powerful."

"I think you are more amazing. You faced a life-and-death crisis on the overpass before, but you still dared to continue."

"Hehe, so it is. Suigetsu-kun asked me to send Miss Aida off, and he rushed to the research institute alone. He just wanted to get rid of me."

Xiaolan said proudly: "But I'm not stupid. You told me about the sewers before, why did you go directly to the research institute? One of you must have lied. And you talked about going to the sewers for so long, and the cause and effect are clear, so of course I am more inclined to believe this."

"awesome."

Yingsheng sighed, "Then you told me that you had to find the sewer yourself. Ha, Xiaolan has turned into a little mouse."

"Because I know that if it comes to this, Shuiyue-kun will definitely tell me the truth to prevent me from acting rashly and letting the winery find out, which would disrupt your plans."

"That's right. If I choose to hide it because I'm worried about you, and it ends up having a bad impact on the matter, then I really deserve it."

After cleaning up the garbage behind him, in order to avoid leaving any obvious abnormal traces in his later actions, Yingsheng turned around and looked at Xiaolan:

"Is your back okay?"

"It's nothing. Even with a bulletproof vest, the impact is not as strong as practicing karate." Xiaolan smiled and shook her head.

"But there is no risk of death when practicing karate."

"Who said that? What if the kick goes astray and hits the throat or temple?"

"........."

Yingsheng was speechless, and tapped her little head through the protective suit: "What on earth are you thinking about in here every day? Guns, blood, life-and-death crises, you accept them very quickly. I feel that the things you care about are stranger than me. It's as if you don't feel anything in reality."

"Because I'm naturally thick-skinned, what can I do?" Xiaolan said casually.

"Well, I think you are just afraid of losing. You are worried that if you don't do well enough, others will leave you. To be honest, there is no need for that."

"...Don't go back to that. Besides, what I did wasn't good enough to begin with."

Xiaolan gestured with her hand to point a gun, aimed forward and shot a few times, then smiled and said, "Besides, there aren't many sharpshooters who can hit the target every time. Most people would aim their first shot at the torso where they have a bigger chance of getting killed. Although I was at risk of dying, the possibility was actually very small."

Yingsheng looked into her eyes quietly for two seconds: "Do you really think so?"

Xiaolan's eyes did not evade: "Of course I didn't think of it at the time, but I thought of it later. For people like Suigetsu-kun and Gin who are used to gun battles, being shot through a bulletproof vest is just a trivial matter.

Although I can't get used to it right away, as long as I think about it, there is no need to be so scared that I can't move. If there is a next time, even if Shuiyue Jun doesn't kill him immediately, I will turn the gun around and kill him immediately. "

Xiaolan's eyes were firm and she clenched her fists:
"Absolutely."

Yingsheng looked at her for several seconds, and his eyes finally softened a little, and he laughed:
"I'm sorry. It seems that I have underestimated you. Your first performance was not first-rate, but you have improved rapidly. The man who shot you before was not a threat. It was just a blind cat that met a dead mouse.

As long as you are not so nervous and pay some attention to your surroundings, you should be able to detect him as soon as he shows up, and you can train yourself later."

Xiaolan nodded and looked at the iron fence on the side:
"Want me to open it?"

"please."

(End of this chapter)