Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 266: Yingsheng and Lan Ai's useless efforts and their gains

Under the moonlight, the roads in the abandoned warehouse area are crisscrossed.

The CIA members approached the target cautiously. When they pressed close to the wall, they inexplicably had the illusion that they were walking in a maze, and waiting for them ahead was the terrifying minotaur.

Milotauros!
Gathering information from teammates from all over the place, they came to this conclusion which was not really outrageous.

The flying stone smashed three drones in a row, and a punch blew up the wall, knocking the person behind the wall unconscious on the spot.

WTF?

Is this still a human being?!
As the elites of the CIA, they are of course well-informed and know that there are countless strong people in this world. For example, to the Japanese high school student named Kyogoku Makoto, they have sent him many invitations, but he has always ignored them.

But the problem is, knowing is one thing and encountering it is another.

When their undercover agent Rena Mizunashi, who had been sent into the Black Organization at great cost, said that the other side had fired flying stones with a speed comparable to that of sniper rifles, they all agreed with their superiors' instructions to surround the enemy without attacking them first, and then try to persuade them to surrender after completely surrounding them.

Of course, there is only one target for persuading surrender, and that is Shirley who may be here.

As for the other two, even if they are willing to surrender, with their super-standard military strength, they are completely time bombs. The CIA does not have many people in Tokyo, and does not have the extra energy to be on guard all the time. We can only say sorry to them.

It seems that one of them is holding a child?
Although innocent children are always innocent, sometimes they have no choice.

And she might not be innocent just because she is with such a dangerous person.

Anyway, the child couldn't be Shirley.

However, it is still necessary to induce them to surrender, and then kill them unexpectedly, so that the two men will not fight to the death and cause any casualties.

Everyone agreed with the order from their superiors, but the encirclement had not been completely tightened yet, otherwise they would have started shouting long ago.

The last drone was constantly monitoring the movements of the other side, and the operator would report a point every few seconds.

For nearly a minute, the other party stayed beside the burning Toyota without moving, as if he was shocked by the previous explosion. Or perhaps, his last hope was gone, and he knew he had no way to escape, so he gave up resistance.

In short, victory is at hand.

There were many CIA members who thought so, and as if in response to their thoughts, an unusual light suddenly appeared before their eyes under the rather pale moonlight.

The direction was their target, the Toyota that had exploded and caught fire.

Above it, a red pillar of fire rose into the sky like a fountain, the lower part broke off, the flames swayed and shrank, vaguely converging into a fireball in mid-air, but before the fireball could gather, the scorching flames exploded in the air and instantly blossomed into a flower of flaming fire!

The flames spread out in all directions, illuminating the surroundings like the rising sun, crushing the pale and cold moonlight and sweeping away the surrounding darkness.

In a trance, many people saw a thin, light mist under the reflection of the flames, covering the center of the explosion. They were flying all over the sky in the firelight, like countless tiny stars twinkling in the night sky.

But the brilliance only lasted for a moment, and then the world returned to silence.

The moonlight enveloped the earth again, and the light, misty starry sky also disappeared, making people wonder if they were hallucinating because of witnessing that beauty.

Looking away, many people continued walking.

It is actually very common for a burning vehicle to have a secondary explosion.

Although the sight of the flames exploding in the air was a little unusual, they didn't understand physics, but it happened anyway. The world is magical.

And this clearly points out the way forward for everyone, which is really a good thing.

Agent Gray thought so and quickened his pace.

He suddenly felt an itch in his nose and twitched it twice, but he didn't pay much attention to this common little thing.

A sneeze was heard through the communication headset, and the next second the superior far away in Washington blamed him, asking how could he not even do such a small thing well? Couldn't he just bear with it?
It seems that Tom has rhinitis. What bad luck.

Agent Gray had a random thought in his mind, and when he was about to take another step, he suddenly found that his nasal cavity was even more itchy, and he couldn't help but have the urge to sneeze.

It had only been two seconds since his superior's rebuke, and Agent Gray forced himself to hold it in.

But the next second, the communication channel was filled with the sound of sneezes one after another. He was infected by them and couldn't help but join in.

"Something's wrong, there's something in the air!"

The CIA people are not stupid. One of them coughed and muffled his guess, obviously covering his mouth and nose. Others also expressed their agreement.

The superior in the headset heard the noise here and immediately became serious. He asked if there was any abnormal situation. Everyone said there was none for the time being, which made him feel relieved. He tapped his fingers on the desk and said in a deep voice:
"Everyone, this may just be a trick of the target. This operation is very important and Washington is paying close attention. I hope you can hold on."

No one answered, they just kept moving forward while suppressing their coughs.

They have no room for refusal.

Besides, they did not start large-scale signal interference right away, so the other side was able to contact the outside world. Judging from Shirley’s reaction before, the other side might have left someone outside to watch the situation and asked for support from teammates early in the morning. Of course, they had to fight quickly and decisively.

If another Militaurus comes from outside, ordinary people like them won’t be able to handle it.

It's just a cough, what...is that...?!!!
Agent Gray's steps suddenly froze, and bang! His heart roared violently, and with it as a drumbeat, countless unimaginable pains emerged from his body!

It started with the trachea, which felt like being torn apart by a rough, rusty sickle. The scorching heat, with the smell of rust, burned the nasal cavity and inhaled the scorching flame into the lungs, burning every inch of his alveoli.

With the lungs as the center, the severe pain quickly spread along the blood. Every blood vessel seemed to have magma surging with black smoke, igniting every bit of flesh and blood it passed through.

The chest, abdomen, limbs, and the entire human body.

Boundless pain came from deep in his bone marrow, and the illusory flames were licking his flesh and blood inch by inch!
"Ahhh——!!!"

Every cell in his body was emitting a sharp cry of pain, which merged into Agent Grey's mouth and turned into a shrill scream that resounded through the night sky. Before him, in his headphones and under the night sky, this kind of sound had already been heard one after another, becoming one!
"It's over..."

The superior far away in Washington murmured and sat down dejectedly. Those guys in Tokyo had wasted a great opportunity and might even have lost an undercover agent.

What a mistake.

I hope someone survives. He wasn't at the scene, so he can't write the report himself.

"Medicine A is really overbearing."

Next to the bonfire lit by the Toyota, Yingsheng listened to the endless symphony around him, praised with admiration, and turned to look at Huiyuan Ai who was still in Xiaolan's arms, and gave her a thumbs up:

"Did you also go through such pain back then? That's really admirable."

Huiyuan Ai's eyes were complicated: "I fainted at the time and didn't feel much."

She listened to the screams echoing around her, her eyelids drooped further and further, and blood rushed towards her, completely drowning her soul.

"Maybe it won't kill people. These are big particles, so the absorption efficiency may not be that high." Yingsheng said.

Huihara Ai shook her head and said nothing.

This is indeed the truth, but it would be a bit self-deceptive for a person not to die at this point.

And even if that was true, this experience undoubtedly reminded her of the past. The drug A that came from her hands has claimed countless lives so far.

Her hands were already stained with sin...

"I said, it's not the research of Drug A that's evil, it's just the distillery. Who said this before?" Yingsheng sighed softly, "If you want to blame someone, you should blame me and Gin, the executioners who use it. As a researcher, why do you put so much psychological pressure on yourself?

correct. "

Yingsheng quickly raised his eyes to look at Xiaolan and reminded her, "You can breathe, you are not still holding your breath, are you?"

"........."

Xiaolan said speechlessly: "I heard the sneeze from the corner and knew I could breathe, but you were comforting Xiaoai, and I couldn't say anything."

She thought for a moment and said, "Besides, you can't guarantee that the drug powder is uniform. What if there are smaller particles? I think it's safer to hold your breath."

Generally speaking, particles larger than 10 microns are most likely to irritate the upper respiratory tract such as the nose and throat, causing sneezing and mild coughing. The minimum filter diameter of the gas mask filter they wear is 0.3 microns.

Even if we take into account the penetration of the respiratory tract and entry into the alveoli, the diameter of the dust particles will be smaller, with a difference of one decimal point, so the possibility of being safe and secure is very high.

Yingsheng was quite surprised: "Xiaolan, you are so unresponsive to the things around you?"

"Did you think I was joking?" Xiaolan sighed, "In this life-and-death situation, is there any other choice? And those people outside are all evil, right? I think it's okay."

"Um……"

Yingsheng looked suspicious: "You are not forcing yourself, are you? If you have an idea, you should speak it out. If you keep it to yourself, it will end up in a very bad situation."

"How bad?"

"Just like Xiao Ai is now."

"........."

Haibara Ai was immersed in a depressed mood. Hearing these words, she was temporarily pulled out of the water for a moment. She was about to sink again when she heard:
"If you feel you are guilty, then go and atone for your sins. What's the point of just shrinking back?"

Huiyuan Ai did not answer, but she clearly looked up at Yingsheng. Yingsheng spread his hands and continued:
"Just like what Akechi is doing now, trying to cure Alzheimer's. You are an absolute genius, and since you think you are guilty of so much, why don't you try to cure some other diseases that threaten human life, such as cancer.

If you can conquer it, everyone in the world will benefit from you, and the number of lives that will live directly because of you will be at least tens of millions.

Even if you say that you have to save a hundred people to offset one life, with a simple addition and subtraction, you will still have immeasurable merits, and you may even have Buddha's light behind your head.

With so much goodwill lingering around you, will your heart see the light again? Will your soul return to peace and joy? Will you usher in the happiness that belongs to you?

I think the answer is of course.

You can even find peace right now, if you just let go of your excessive sense of responsibility."

Under the pale moonlight, Huibara Ai remained silent for a long time, until the screams around her gradually disappeared and this abandoned warehouse area returned to its former tranquility.

There was a gentle breeze, grass rustling and insects chirping. If it weren't for the embers still burning on the frame and the black smoke rising into the sky, it would seem as if nothing had ever happened.

"I will try my best."

Huihara Ai raised her head with a firm gaze: "Technological progress is to make the world a better place, of course. I will conduct research on human diseases. And this evil force of the organization must be eliminated!"

clap clap clap-

Yingsheng applauded her and smiled softly: "That's good. I don't want to take care of the children every day."

"Hey, I'm not a child."

"Yes, you are a big kid who is too kind. You know that the world is not black and white. Why are you so hard on yourself?" Yingsheng curled his lips, and when Huiyuan Ai opened her mouth to speak, he spoke first:
"I'm a bad guy with a mean pass, you don't need to remind me of that too much."

"I……"

"There's something important for you to do now," Yingsheng interrupted again, "Call Mizunashi Rena and tell her that you just had an accident and it's been resolved now. See how she reacts."

Huiyuan Ai was completely speechless and glared at him fiercely: "Can't you let me finish my words?"

Yingsheng smiled and said, "It's mainly because I think you get more angry when you're mad."

Huiyuan Ai: “…………”

She took out her cell phone and twisted her body: "Now you can let me go by myself."

"It's better not to. Who knows if there will be any fish that slip through the net? Your safety comes first."

Yingsheng took the lead and walked towards the warehouse where Amuro Toru was hung upside down at the beginning. It was not far away. He entered the door and walked around the shelves to take a look. The warehouse was empty except for the straight hanging rope and a basin of dog blood below it.

Oh, and there are also newspapers and dog carcasses.

At this time, Haibara Ai had also called Mizunashi Rena, and the other party spoke first:
"Ms. Shirley, can we continue the interview?"

The tone was quite joyful and anxious, mixed with the roar of a car engine.

Huiyuan Ai did not answer, but looked up at Yingsheng. Yingsheng came over and muted the microphone of her mobile phone, and asked:
"Hopefully, is there any vehicle passing outside?"

"There's none in my direction. Um... I found one. There's a black BMW heading towards Chiba Prefecture. It was one of the cars those people drove here. But it's facing away from me. I can't tell if it's Rena Mizunashi inside even with the telescope."

Huaying said hopefully.

After she finished speaking, she seemed to remember something and said hurriedly, "Brother, didn't I puncture their tires before? Now you've let it slip."

Yingsheng laughed: "There are still roadblocks?"

"Yes!"

Huaying hoped to be surprised, so she pretended to be disappointed and said, "That guy's driving skills are so good that he actually avoided the roadblock."

Her tone immediately rose again: "Was the previous fire explosion the power of big brother? What a pity, I didn't see it up close. And when big brother wanted to get on the car before, did he want to use other powers? What was that?"

"I'll tell you later, thank you for your hard work tonight."

After saying that, Yingsheng looked at Huihara Ai and said, "Just tell the other party that Amuro Toru has been rescued, and you want those things to be published in the newspaper tomorrow. If she is afraid, she can publish it anonymously. If she doesn't even dare to be anonymous, let her keep it secret. This is for her safety."

Haibara Ai nodded, turned on the microphone and relayed the meaning.

Rena Mizunashi said that she would think about it carefully and give an answer before noon today. She also expressed regret for Toru Amuro's escape and wished Haibara Ai safety.

It was already 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, and the morning edition of Nichimi TV had been roughly finalized. If Mizunashi Rena was really an unrelated person who had nothing to do with the matter, Haibara Ai didn't want to make it difficult for her to work overtime overnight, so she agreed.

And it may sound a little strange, but...

After what happened tonight, she no longer seemed so anxious to find her sister. At least at this moment, she wouldn't be in a hurry to find her sister for more than a day.

Of course, it didn't drop much.

If it was 100 points before, it is now 99 points. The missing point has flown to who knows where.

The phone hangs up.

Yingsheng said: "I didn't hear any sound from this side just now, and the rope didn't swing. They probably found Mr. Amuro as soon as they came in and rescued him. There was a car that escaped, and now we can't catch up. Let's go out and take a look."

I came out and went to the place where I first heard the sneeze. Lying on the ground was a muscular white man with blond hair and a hooked nose and wearing a plaid shirt.

Yingsheng searched his body for a while and only found two Snickers bars. Finally, he sniffed his breath and his eyes lit up.

"Young lady, come here and feel it."

Huiyuan Ai finally got down to earth after a long time. She stretched out her little hand to feel the man's breath, and after a moment she said in surprise:

"He's not dead yet!"

Yingsheng smiled and said, "Does this make you feel relieved? It seems that the dosage of drug A is not enough."

Huihara Ai nodded with bright eyes: "That should be it. Wake him up and we can torture him for information. I still have some truth serum on me. It wasn't all destroyed in the car explosion."

Yingsheng had the same idea, so he took out smelling salts and put them on the man's nose, but the man didn't react. He pinched his Ren Zhong point and slapped him in the face, but there was still no reaction.

Yingsheng asked suspiciously, "Could he be brain dead?"

Huihara Ai shook her head: "APTX-4869 will programmatically kill cells throughout the body, but it will not harm the brain. Otherwise, even if it can rejuvenate a person, it will also erase all the user's memories and even turn them into idiots.

As my testimony, it will never cause brain death."

Yingsheng was curious: "What's going on with him?"

Huihara Ai thought for a moment and said, "Maybe the pain is too severe and the brain is protecting itself. Amphetamine plus adrenaline should be able to wake him up."

"Unfortunately, we can't find those things here now." Yingsheng spread his hands and stood up, "Let's go see the next guy, maybe he has a higher tolerance for pain. Alice, continue to hold the little lady."

"Why do you call me by my code name sometimes and by my name sometimes?" Huibara Ai asked curiously when she was picked up.

"The first thing is to be casual, and the second is to avoid eavesdropping." Yingsheng looked up at the sky and said with a sigh, "That thing is still there. In case they have reinforcements, we have to speed up our actions."

He picked up the pistol on the ground, took aim, and shot the man dead with murderous intent.

The opponent probably thought that he had no chance of hitting him, so he didn't even try to dodge.

When the drone spun and fell, Yingsheng had already arrived in front of the next man, who was also a white man. He searched him first, and again only found Snickers. He then used smelling salts and pinched his Ren Zhong, but there was still no sound for a long time.

The most important thing is that Yingsheng found that this guy's breathing was different from the previous one, and he seemed to be really dead.

Are there such huge individual differences in drug A?
Yingsheng stood up as if nothing had happened, looked at Huiyuan Ai, and said with a smile: "This one is also alive, do you want to try to breathe?"

Huiyuan Ai didn't try to get down to the ground, but just thought: "Could it be that the flames also caused the potion to become inactive? Oh, by the way, how did you make the capsule explode in the air wrapped in flames?"

"I didn't bring a gun, but I had a few bullets on me. The effect was so good, maybe it was the blessing of the goddess of luck."

Yingsheng responded casually and went to find the next person.

"Brother, a large force has arrived, including special police. One, two, three, four, five... lots and lots of cars."

Huaying's hopeful voice rang out in the headphones.

There was no other choice but for Yingsheng and the other two to keep on running, with Huaying constantly reporting points in their headphones.

"The other side is outflanking us, there's someone inside, someone got off the car on the left, and they're using a rifle..."

Yingsheng and his two companions did not want to have a head-on conflict with the police, so they could only quicken their pace. Finally, they managed to slip through a gap before the police encirclement closed.

"call--"

Hiding behind a small tree, Yingsheng let out a sigh of relief and said with a frustrated look, "It was all in vain tonight. I got nothing."

"No, I feel like I have gained a lot."

Xiaolan chuckled and looked behind her. She saw red and blue police lights flashing everywhere. She warned, "Let's go, it's still very dangerous here."

Yingsheng looked back reluctantly: "I actually wanted to take someone alive with me."

Having said that, others have caught up with Xiaolan.

"I met another one on the way out just now. I think I can escape if I carry him on my back." Xiaolan said.

Yingsheng shook his head: "That would be too much of a stretch. Your own safety is the most important thing."

In fact, the most important thing was that he was worried that it was a dead person.

If Haibara Ai finds out that her drug A has killed someone after all, won't she be depressed again? That would be a waste of time and effort.

After all, Yingsheng didn't care too much about who the people here were.

Anyway, it's either related to Toru Amuro or Rena Mizunashi, it's almost the same.

Just verify it later.

The warehouse area can be considered a suburb, but there is no place that is really too desolate around Tokyo. After sitting for not long, they returned to the brightly lit world. Xiaolan also let go of Haibara Ai and just walked with her hand.

“I also gained a lot today.”

Huihara Ai said.

(End of this chapter)