Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 410: Death of Vermouth
In the speeding car, Vermouth, who was leaning on Xiaolan's shoulder, suddenly sighed softly.

"It is said that the best way to forget a relationship is to start a new one. It is infuriating that my Angel is just a tool for Liuying to forget the past."

"No one will think you're dumb if you don't speak. We're here, get out of the car." Xiaolan pushed open the car door with an indifferent expression.

"I can't move now, I need Angel to hold me." Vermouth smiled.

The next second, a strong force came from the back of her collar, and she was caught off guard and half of her body was exposed, and she saw a pure white mask and a black and white motorcycle suit.

"Can't you be a little gentler? Miss Lu, no boy likes you being so rough."

Vermouth still smiled.

She is now being taken to the execution ground, so what else is there for her to care about?

"Pray for yourself, Ms. Mouse."

Aoyagi Chiso said casually, nodded slightly to Xiaolan, then carried Vermouth on her shoulders and ran towards the Schindler Company building.

"I need a blessing kiss from Angel. This will increase the success rate of the experiment."

Vermouth's charming laughter floats in the night.

But naturally no one responded.

Xiaolan got out of the car and looked back.

Chiso Aoyagi's Kawasaki Ninja H2 was parked on the side of the road. In order to prevent any danger from the dark, she had been following behind on a motorcycle. The driver was a passerby from the Sumiyoshi clan.

Xiaolan also walked towards the Schindler Company building. After a while, she had just entered the laboratory. Before she could even scan the room, Sonoko, with a panicked look on her face, ran over and hugged her.

"Lan, grandma is dead!"

Xiaolan looked at the platform where the "cocoon" was placed, and saw Professor Agasa and Kashimura Tadaki, both of whom looked very sad, carrying the old lady from the ramen shop that Vermouth knew out of the cocoon.

The silver world shrank into a cold iron coffin, with the decayed body and the ageless witch intertwined on the high platform.

Vermouth suddenly had an unnameable feeling.

The name "Little Sharon" will never appear in the world again.

"We thought grandma was asleep and ignored her. But just now we couldn't wake her up no matter how hard we called out. Then we realized she was dead," said Yuanzi in a sad tone.

"Let's see the cause of death later." Xiaolan said.

She saw Aoyagi Chiso put Vermouth into the cocoon, and she was talking to her with her back to the crowd. She had a bad feeling in her heart.

Fortunately, three minutes later, Dr. Agasa told her a good news...

Well, probably good news.

"Grandma is too old, and she concentrated for too long, so she is exhausted." Dr. Agasa sighed.

"No, no, no, she died of natural causes, a happy death." Thomas Schindler pointed at the old lady's kind face and corrected her, "Look, she died with a smile on her face."

Xiaolan felt a little relieved, clasped her hands together, prayed for the old lady and wished she could become a Buddha.

Sonoko also clasped his hands together and said a few words, then glared at Thomas and said unhappily, "The compensation will be paid by the Suzuki Group. You don't need to be so anxious to distance yourself from it."

Thomas shook his head quickly and said seriously, "What do you mean by compensation? Does this matter have anything to do with the Suzuki Group? Ms. Sonoko is willing to give money to her family only as a charitable act of blessing, and I don't recommend giving too much."

Yuanzi opened her mouth, but no words came out.

She looked at her mother who had run over to comfort her before but now had a cold face. In the end, she just nodded rather depressedly and took Xiaolan's arm to the side.

Suzuki Tomoko glanced at them, then looked at Thomas, "Is Liuying's idea possible?"

Thomas turned his head and looked at Tadaki Kashimura. He himself was a management director and didn't know much about technology.

Kashimura Tadaki has returned to the computer and said thoughtfully, "Theoretically, this is possible, but if you want to reach the deep layers of the brain, the scanning power must be turned to the maximum. The brain of the experimental subject will be charred in a short period of time, just like heating it in a microwave oven."

"..."

"..."

"..."

Everyone wanted to say that you don’t need to add the metaphor at the end.

"Vermouth only has four hours left to live, this is her chance." Xiaolan said.

"If this experiment is successful, it will undoubtedly be a groundbreaking technology," said Tomoko Suzuki.

"Data life...will it be the same as Noah's Ark?" Kashimura Tadaki pondered and began to debug the machine.

Dr. Agasa didn't really want to participate in this experiment, but since things had come to this point, he had no choice but to do it. At the same time, he kept comforting himself with what Xiaolan had just said.

"She is still an unforgivable criminal, and the authorities have indicated that she can be executed immediately," added Toru Amuro.

Dr. Agasa typed even slower.

Aoyagi Chisou looked at Amuro Toru and said, "I didn't expect you to still be here. Aren't you afraid of death?"

"The elusive shadow killer wants to kill me, there's no way I can escape, I might as well wait for you here." Amuro Toru spread his hands, "The Metropolitan Police Department heard news earlier that there were unusual movements in the warehouse where they stored the stolen explosives from the Eastern Arsenal..."

"It's not me. I said I wouldn't vent my anger on others and I never thought of using explosives." Qing Liu Qian Su interrupted, "And if that person was me, you wouldn't have found out."

Toru Amuro frowned slightly, and hurriedly walked aside to report. Soon his whole face turned as black as charcoal.

"Taking advantage of the chaos tonight, Moritani Teiji escaped." Amuro Toru replied.

"The police are really good at shirking responsibility." Qingliu Qiansu said casually, not caring who the person was.

Amuro Toru was speechless for a few seconds, and like everyone else, he looked at the screen in front of Kashimura Tadaki that was constantly refreshing the data.

After a while, the trial calculation was completed.

SUCCEED.

Regardless of whether they could understand the previous steps or not, everyone breathed a sigh of relief when this green character popped up.

Of course, except for Vermouth in the cocoon.

Although she also understood that this was her only hope, after experiencing such a long torture tonight, it was naturally unlikely for her to still have any attachment to the world.

The only thing that could make her feel at peace at this moment was the warmth from her palms.

"Angel, I'm going to die."

Vermouth smiled gently, without much reluctance in her tone, but with a kind of...

It feels like this day has finally arrived.

As an evil party, they have been wantonly depriving others of their lives for so long, and they should have had this awareness a long time ago.

Xiaolan gently held her hand, her eyes showing pity, "If you hadn't hurt Miss Elena back then, after she developed the antidote for the silver bullet, you wouldn't be like this now."

"That's not necessarily true."

Vermouth said: "If Karasuma Renya wanted to give me the antidote, he didn't need to let me know that Miyano Elena is not dead, he could just find a reason. It doesn't matter whether there is a complete version of the antidote or not, he just wants to use it to control me."

Xiaolan was silent for a few breaths, "He is dead."

"Yes, dead... Haha, I hope so, I can rest more peacefully." Vermouth caught a glimpse of Qingliu Qiansu walking towards her, "Ms. Lu, can you find Cool Guy? I will cooperate better then." "Let a righteous detective deeply understand how sinful you are, do you think he will wish your soul to ascend to heaven?" Qingliu Qiansu asked.

"Cool Guy is very kind, of course." Vermouth sighed softly, "But you're right, for someone like me, with such an ending, it's better not to get close to him."

"When you have a firm enough belief, the success rate of ascension will be higher." Aoyagi Chisou said, "If you can successfully revive, how about I send you to be classmates with Kudo Shinichi? You will grow up together, fall in love, and get married."

Vermouth's eyes lit up slightly, and she chuckled, "Are you so kind?"

"If you think we are hostile to you, or to anyone in this world, then you are totally wrong. You can do whatever you want with your affairs." Qing Liu Qian Su looked at Xiao Lan, "What do you think, Miss Lan?"

Xiaolan nodded slightly, looked at Vermouth and said: "Shinichi himself has a good impression of you, and you have saved him. As long as you can turn over a new leaf, this kind of thing is absolutely possible."

Now it was Vermouth who was a little hesitant, wondering whether a villain like herself was worthy of such a pure and innocent heart.

But time was running out. Aoyagi Chisou had already stepped forward and pressed the button to close the lid. She said to her, "With the idea of ​​marrying Kudo Shinichi, concentrate your consciousness and try your best to survive. That way, everything will be solved. The same goes for the karma of your life."

Xiaolan put Vermouth's hand back on her lower abdomen, took a step back, and clenched her fist to cheer her up.

"Come on, you can do it."

Vermouth smiled slightly and slowly closed her eyes in the trace amount of anesthetic gas sprayed out of the glass cabin.

"Goodbye, Angel."

Regardless of whether the experiment was successful or not, as Chiso Aoyagi said, Vermouth, Sharon Wynyard, and Chris Wynyard are all truly dead.

All past causes and consequences and sins come to an end here.

Not long after, when the system prompted that "Cocoon" had completely taken over Vermouth's five senses, Kashimura Tadaki carefully confirmed the generalization network of each neural connection and called up the official operation interface.

But his mouse pointer stayed on the "Run" key and he didn't take any further action for several seconds.

Aoyagi Chisou stepped forward and helped him click the left button of the mouse.

"Relax, I was the one who killed him."

Kashimura Tadaki gave her a grateful look, and the next second, a shrill scream came from the direction of Jian.

The scream made everyone shudder, but it was only a brief moment, and the scream completely disappeared, making people almost suspect that they were just hallucinating.

The large model remotely connected to the supercomputer immediately began to rapidly calculate various complex data. Regardless of their purpose, everyone in the laboratory was looking forward to it.

But before them, Yingsheng on the American island had already received the news in advance.

"The experiment failed." said Noah's Ark.

"The main reason is that I don't know enough about the limbic system deep in the brain, including the hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus, etc. They are responsible for emotional regulation, memory, and motivated behavior, etc., which are vital to humans, but I can't simulate them."

"The calculations I usually participate in in the 'Cocoon' mostly only involve the cerebral cortex, which affects the five senses of human beings. I rarely conduct experiments related to personality and memory. The data is too little."

"Also, the scanning intensity of the cocoon is too low, and there is a lot of missing data in the deep brain areas."

"The scanning speed was not fast enough. Her consciousness was not frozen in time. There was a tiny time difference between the neural potentials, which made it very difficult to restore."

After hearing this, Yingsheng pinched his eyebrows, feeling quite distressed.

"It's really a headache. Am I really so fanciful?"

Indeed, in his previous life, it was not so easy for humans to ascend to become data life.

But the difficulty at that time was mainly in condensing one's status and maintaining one's "self" after ascension. If someone didn't mind becoming a ghost or monster, it would be very simple.

That's why he proposed before that after the scan was completed, all the data should be sealed up, and the ascension should not be completed, but kept for the clone to use later.

Little did he know that the world couldn't even completely scan the brain at present, and he had thought too much before.

"If there are enough experimental subjects, when can you do it?" Yingsheng asked.

"I'm not sure how complex the deep parts of the brain are, but my preliminary estimate is that it will take about a year," said Noah's Ark.

"…The grass has grown on Qingzi's grave. We can only think of other ways." Yingsheng tapped his forehead and sighed for a while. "According to what you said, your scan of Vermouth's cerebral cortex should be successful."

"Yes, but that is just water without a source."

"Without a body to provide variables, once exposed to external data, she will be infected quickly, right?" Yingsheng said with a sigh, "This level can't even be called a demon, at most it's a residual soul. Forget it, give her a result."

"it is good."

After Noah's Ark finished speaking, a deep red flashing window immediately popped up and enlarged in the rapidly surging data stream on the computer screen in Schindler's laboratory.

FAILED!

Everyone's expression froze.

But before anyone could speak, other characters immediately lit up on the window:

"Based on the results of the cerebral cortex scan, we are now rationally calculating the death scenario of the experimental subject."

The next second, the flashing window suddenly enlarged and occupied the entire screen. After a burst of dazzling white light, the scene of the laboratory appeared on the screen.

In it, the glass cover of the cocoon slowly opened, revealing the dazzling golden hair of the Sleeping Beauty inside.

Several people who were watching the screen turned their heads hurriedly to look at the platform, but the cocoon there naturally did not move at all.

The scenes on the screen keep playing.

Vermouth woke up from the cocoon and stood up by herself. Xiaolan was standing at the edge of the platform. She walked up to her, gently hugged her, kissed her cheek, and then took her away.

A black Porsche Taycan was parked at the edge of the square in front of Schindler Company. Kudo Shinichi, wearing a blue suit, stood by the car door and looked at them with a smile.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time. Let's go to Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto."

The scenes on the screen kept jumping like a dream. After a few frames in the car, the three of them soon arrived at the suspended platform of Kiyomizu Temple to see the mountains covered in red.

The mountains are undulating and the maple leaves are stacked layer by layer, shining with golden red in the autumn sun, connecting the sky and the earth into one.

Vermouth's eyes were no longer able to focus and gradually became blurred.

The red leaves were like a tide, whispering in the gentle breeze. A maple leaf brought by the wind gently brushed against her fingertips. The touch was illusory and fleeting, and then it fell off the platform.

She moved her body slightly, leaned on Kudo Shinichi's shoulder, and breathed shallowly.

She stretched out her hand to Xiaolan, but her hand dropped halfway due to exhaustion.

But before her hand fell on the wooden board, Xiaolan had already held her hand very tightly.

The corners of Vermouth's lips rose slightly, her face was pale as a mirror, but it reflected the red light between heaven and earth, making her seem to be glowing with dazzling vitality.

"Thank you, Angel..."

Her breathing gradually slowed down, and the red maple trees in her sight became as silent as the sea. The world was so quiet that only the sound of the wind could be heard.

"I'm so unwilling, Shirley..."

There was a flash of black light, and the screen suddenly fell into darkness.

Belmode.

died.

(End of this chapter)