Survival Manual of the Science Fiction World

Ran and Conan rushed over, "Kazuha, are you alright? I heard from Chu Ming that you accidentally fell off a cliff, so he asked me to help you apply medicine..."

Kazuha thought of how Hattori had grabbed her hand without hesitation, and a sweet smile appeared on her face. She followed Ran into the house, and the two of them whispered to each other as they walked.

"Hey, snap out of it." Conan nudged Hattori's shin with his knee. "He's already inside the room, you can't see him anymore."

Hattori realized what was happening and his expression instantly turned serious: "What? I was just worried about my brother!"

"..." Looking at this straight-laced man, Chu Ming and Conan both didn't want to say anything.

"Seriously, stop being so smug. When are you planning to confess to Kazuha? Be careful not to drag this out any longer and let someone else steal her away~"

Conan, confident in his confession, is now settling in to watch Hattori make a fool of himself.

"I haven't chosen an address yet—" Hattori muttered in a very low voice, so that at least no one except Chu Ming could hear him.

"You haven't chosen an address yet? What kind do you want? We can help you choose one!" Chu Ming shouted mischievously.

"You could hear me even when I was speaking so softly? Ah, no, no—I didn't say anything, what address? Brother Chu Ming, you misheard me. I said we're just brothers, I need to find a place for my brother to calm his nerves." Hattori retorted incoherently.

"...Just keep being stubborn." Conan couldn't help but tease. "We're all brothers, what's there to be embarrassed about? We're not going to snitch on you, and we can even give you some advice."

Even with Hattori's dark expression, Chu Ming could see that the tips of his ears were slightly red, showing how embarrassed he was: "I...I...want to choose a good place, to leave Kazuha with a beautiful memory, but I haven't found a satisfactory place to confess yet..."

Chu Ming stroked his chin: "I think what He Ye cares about is not the location, nor does she need those vague formalities. What she needs is probably just your heartfelt emotional recognition."

"That won't do. I want her to be moved to tears when she thinks back to the day I confessed to her..."

"What do you mean, 'tears welling up in your eyes'? Heiji, what are you doing?" Kazuha, who had finished applying the medicine, came out of the room and asked curiously, "What are you two talking about?"

"No, hahaha, no, it wasn't tears, haha, it's just that I, I was telling them that you just... uh, you just cried your eyes out, hahaha, it was so ugly!!"

"..." Chu Ming and Conan exchanged a glance. There was no hope. Let's just give up.

Chapter 267 Entrapment of Shuichi Akai

The next day, the group boarded the ship for their return journey.

After arresting Mr. Kadoya and discovering that he was not the murderer, the police determined that the murderer was Kadoya Saori. They then issued an arrest warrant for Kadoya Saori nationwide. With nothing else to do on the island, the group took a police boat back to shore.

After saying goodbye to the others, Chu Ming went straight back to the base. It was rare to see Gin still sitting in the base so early in the morning instead of going out to do a mission.

"Big brother, not busy today?" Chu Ming strolled in through the gate with a biscuit in his mouth and saw Gin sitting at the bar drinking with vodka early in the morning.

He moved over and sat down, but Vodka quickly gave him his seat and sat on the very edge himself.

Chu Ming rummaged around inside and finally found a bottle of juice. He poured himself a glass, as the biscuits he had eaten were too dry and he was choking a bit.

Gin took a sip of his drink, glanced down at Chu Ming's juice, and stopped him from bringing it to his lips.

"?" Chu Ming looked at Gin with a puzzled expression.

Gin's slender fingers tapped the bottle twice. Chu Ming tilted his head to look at it. The bottle read: 3% fruit-flavored alcoholic beverage.

"No, brother, I'm not so badly unable to drink even the slightest bit of alcohol, am I?" Chu Ming said with a strange sense of indignation. "There's practically no taste of alcohol left!"

Upon hearing the word "alcohol," Vodka suddenly realized what was happening and rushed over with a speed completely disproportionate to his size. He snatched the glass of alcohol from in front of Chu Ming, then quickly brought over the kettle and teacups from the coffee table, poured them, and placed them in front of Chu Ming.

In the blink of an eye, Chu Ming found that the brightly colored drink in front of him had turned into colorless and tasteless plain water.

He stared intently at Vodka without saying a word, which startled Vodka, who had returned to his corner.

Gin scoffed lightly: "Alright, stop scaring him. Vodka, go drive the car to the door. Granbury will be coming with us later."

Seeing Vodka respond and leave, Chu Ming was dumbfounded. What was he doing? He just got back, why was he going out again?

"Brother, I just got back and haven't rested yet! And did Vodka just drink? If I go with you guys, won't we get a DUI check? I don't want to—"

Gin ignored Chu Ming's ramblings completely, tilted his head back and finished the drink in his glass, then casually picked up Chu Ming, who was clinging to the bar, like a bag, and they went out together.

"Wait—Big brother, disguise, I haven't disguised myself yet..." Chu Ming was being held by Gin, looking utterly hopeless.

"There are materials Vermouth used before in the car. Go to the car and disguise yourself." Gin opened the car door, threw Chu Ming into the back seat, and got in himself.

"Big brother, where are we going?" Chu Ming was forcibly dragged into the car by Gin, not even knowing where they were going. If he had known that Gin would go on a mission after drinking that glass of wine, he would have preferred to sit at the Mouri Detective Agency for a while before coming back.

“Murder,” Gin said succinctly.

Chu Ming, who had been listless, suddenly perked up: "Big brother, you should have said so earlier! If you had said it was such an interesting thing, I wouldn't have needed to trouble you to carry me. I would have carried myself up long ago!"

Then, her eyes sparkled as she looked at Gin: "Who to kill!"

Gin's murderous intent was now impossible to conceal, and a cold, sinister smile curled at the corner of his mouth: "Of course, it's that most cunning rat."

Chu Ming blinked: "Shuichi Akai? Then aren't we too few? Although I don't really want to flatter Shuichi Akai, what if he gets away with just the three of us? Besides, didn't Big Brother say last time that we should wait until the FBI was all there and then catch them all?"

Upon hearing this, Gin's face darkened even more: "Those surveillance team members were too useless; they lost track of the person."

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no? ? ?

Chu Ming carefully considered the meaning of Qin Jiu's words: "Lost the person... So you don't know where they are? ? ? How are you going to kill them then?"

Is Gin's recent routine consisting of sitting in his car every morning, patrolling the entire Beika district, trying to find traces of Shuichi Akai?

Are they patrolling here?

Gin ignored Chu Ming's speechless look. He wasn't looking for Shuichi Akai specifically; he was going out on a mission anyway, and what if he ran into him?

Feeling like he'd been tricked by Gin's empty promises, Chu Ming leaned back in his seat. Suddenly, he exclaimed excitedly, "I know how to lure out Shuichi Akai!"

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"Impossible! I absolutely will not agree to such a thing!" Bourbon's face darkened as he rejected Chu Ming's suggestion without hesitation, turning to Gin: "You're just going to let him go crazy like this? Do you really think this method is feasible???"

Chu Ming, wearing Matsutake Yusuke's face, looked completely innocent: "Why not?"

"Then why don't you go yourself?" Bourbon's purplish-gray eyes seemed to be spitting fire.

"Because Rye doesn't know me. I heard that back when he hadn't betrayed the organization, you and he were mortal enemies." Chu Ming was as thick as a rock.

Bourbon gritted his teeth: "And what about Gin—"

"Whoosh—" Before he could finish speaking, Gin fired a shot at his feet, a clear warning: "Think before you speak."

"Then there's absolutely no way I could dress up as a woman to lure Shuichi Akai out!!! Isn't there any normal way???"

“We can’t find it through normal means.” Chu Ming pulled Bourbon aside and gave him some psychological counseling. “Think about it, although you need to dress up as a woman to lure people out for the time being, we can use that to capture Shuichi Akai!”

"Couldn't I just go and be the bait? Why do I have to cross-dress..." Bourbon gritted his teeth, "Are you sure you didn't do this on purpose?"

"How could that be? Think about it, if you saw your arch-rival Shuichi Akai dressed as a woman today, wouldn't you follow him to take a look? And maybe even laugh at him?"

Bourbon thought for a moment and nodded: "Yes."

“That works too. Shuichi Akai thought so too. If you go directly, he will definitely use you as bait and won’t make any rash moves. But it’s different if you go in women’s clothing. He will definitely not think that you are willing to lure him out in women’s clothing. Moreover, he will be very curious about what kind of mission would make you dress up as a woman to do it. Most importantly, he will definitely not miss the opportunity to laugh at you.”

"..." Bourbon remained silent.

Chu Ming continued to persuade him: "All you have to give up is a tiny piece of women's clothing, but you get a chance to catch Shuichi Akai. So, tell me if you're in or not!"

“I don’t wear skirts…” Bourbon squeezed out the words through gritted teeth.

"Okay! Sure! Quick, Vodka, bring me all my tools, don't let him back out!!"

Chapter 268 Black Hot Girl

Chu Ming didn't apply heavy makeup to Bourbon, but softened his angular face slightly, leaving his overall features unchanged. He put a golden wig on him to prevent him from having difficulty moving around because his hair was too long, and Chu Ming even tied two low ponytails for him.

Because Amuro Tooru refused the dress, Chu Ming brought him a sexy crop top and hot pants. The moment Amuro Tooru saw the clothes, he tried to get up and run away, but Chu Ming pressed him down.

"Why are you running?" Chu Ming asked knowingly. "I finally finished my makeup, don't smudge it."

"What kind of weird clothes are those?" Amuro Tooru squeezed out a few words through gritted teeth.

Chu Ming looked down at the clothes in his hand: "Sexy girl outfit."

Amuro Tooru held back for a while, but he couldn't hold back any longer and punched Chu Ming. Chu Ming dodged to the side and grabbed his wrist: "Calm down, or I'll cut your pants even shorter."

"..." Amuro Tooru stared at him with a death stare.

Chu Ming tried to explain to him, "With your skin tone, the sweet and girly style won't work. You can only go for a fit and edgy look. When you wear a crop top and show off your abs, and since you don't have any leg hair, when you stretch out your long, muscular legs, wow, you'll look like a hot babe!"

Unfortunately, the more Chu Ming described him, the more Amuro Tooru wanted to back out: "I think..."

Chu Ming shoved the clothes at him: "I don't care what you think, I care what I think. Go change now."

Seeing that Amuro Tooru was holding his clothes and remained motionless with a sullen expression, Chu Ming forcibly led him inside. Just as the two were struggling, Gin clicked his tongue impatiently and said, "Hurry up."

Amuro Tooru felt his fist harden. What's with the rush! If you're so capable, wear it yourself!

Amuro Tooru clutched his clothes, glanced around, and knew that he couldn't drag Gin into this mess, but he still needed someone to take the fall: "If anyone comes with me, I'll wear it. I can't be the only one to suffer, or I'd rather not do this mission!"

Chu Ming casually grabbed a skirt: "It's nothing serious, no need for big brother or vodka, I'll go with you." It's not his face anyway, so he can be carefree.

"..." Amuro Tooru looked at Chu Ming with the eyes of someone looking at a pervert, and went into the inner room to change clothes with a strange expression.

While Amuro Tooru was dawdling over changing his clothes, Chu Ming had already changed his clothes and disguised himself. He hacked into the traffic system to check the surveillance footage and discovered Akai Shuichi's current whereabouts.

"He ran off to Saitama Prefecture? Hmph, no wonder I didn't see him in Tokyo. He really is a rat, quick as a flash." Gin scoffed when he heard Chu Ming's report on his whereabouts. He should have brought Granbury back sooner. Those useless guys searched for him for a week without finding him, but Granbury found him with a simple hacked surveillance camera.

Gin began deploying defenses in Saitama Prefecture, having people arrange bombs and other items along the route back to Tokyo. Chu Ming had just seen on the surveillance footage that Shuichi Akai was chasing a police car towards Saitama. Inside the police car was a foreigner, who seemed to be a high-ranking FBI official, Shuichi Akai's superior—James Black, who was also a big fish.

This must be when James first appeared, right? He was originally supposed to meet Shuichi Akai, but because he looked too much like the circus owner, he was mistakenly kidnapped by the kidnappers. During this time, Conan led the Detective Boys and the police to chase after him and successfully rescued an FBI agent.

Now that they've found Shuichi Akai's trail, there's no need for Bourbon to disguise himself and lure him out, but—

Since we've already done all the makeup, how can we not take Bourbon out for a stroll and do justice to Chu Ming's hard work in creating this look?