Survival Manual of the Science Fiction World

Conan glared at him angrily with dead fish eyes.

"Mr. Itakura is asleep. He must be exhausted from working on three procedures." Subekro joked with a smile when he saw Itakura Taku slumped over the table.

Several people gathered around him, intending to wake him, only to discover that Itakura Taku had already died of a sudden heart attack.

Conan clenched his fists tightly. Damn it, he had finally found a clue about that organization, and now it was gone again!

However, at that moment, Conan saw a disk with the word "diary" written on it in Itakura Taku's backpack and couldn't help but get excited.

Seeing that Kogoro Mouri wasn't paying attention, he tiptoed over, intending to hide secretly.

As his fingers drew closer and closer to the disk, his heart began to pound with nervousness. But just as he touched it, he suddenly found himself lifted into the air.

Ran scooped up Conan, who was once again running around the crime scene, and said, "Okay, Conan, don't run around. These things are important evidence, you can't touch them."

It's infuriating to have the truth right in front of you but be unable to touch it!

——(。?｀ω??。)——

Soon, Inspector Megure arrived at the scene. Seeing the familiar faces in the familiar murder scene, he was now able to calm down and even greet this jerk who was always running around and increasing his workload with a peaceful expression: "Brother Mouri, long time no see. Tokyo has been unusually peaceful these past few days while you were away. I heard you had a rough time on your journey?"

Okay, it seems like nothing was said, but actually everything was expressed.

Kogoro Mouri, as if he hadn't understood the implied meaning, scratched his head and laughed heartily: "Looks like Inspector Megure missed me a lot while I was away. It's just that these incidents are calling for this great detective."

Inspector Megure secretly rolled his eyes. So what if he's a plague god? Why make himself sound so nice?

Conan had just quietly reminded Inspector Megure that the disk might be helpful in the case, but he didn't expect Inspector Megure to take the disk away as evidence. How could that be allowed?

He solved the case with lightning speed, and then knocked out Kogoro Mouri with a single injection.

He forcibly boarded Kogoro Mouri's ship, had Inspector Megure, who always trusted Kogoro Mouri, copy the disk for him, and then began to act decisively, preparing to directly expose the culprit.

“Mr. Ryusuke Soma, you are the murderer, and the evidence is the Go board over there! Mr. Naito, I heard that you have some knowledge of Braille, please take a look at that Go board.”

Naito Sadahira leaned closer to the Go board, examined it carefully, and read it aloud slowly and deliberately: "The murderer is Soma, and the evidence is on his watch."

!!!

Everyone stared in shock at Ryusuke Soma, who wiped the sweat from his brow and protested, "No, maybe someone's framing me, I—"

Conan interrupted his argument with lightning speed: "No, you are the murderer, and as mentioned above, the evidence is on your watch, you—"

At this moment, Inspector Megure, who had been completely confused, couldn't help but interrupt him: "Hey, Mori, could you explain in more detail? I... I don't understand. You went out with Chu Ming, and now your reasoning is starting to resemble his. You're only stating the result and not going to elaborate?"

Conan let out a long sigh, calmed himself down, and slowly began, "Then I'll explain in detail. Actually, Mr. Itakura..."

Chu Ming glanced at Conan, who was blatantly leaning against the table and deducing, and silently changed his sitting posture.

Don't worry, my dear little detective, I will let you meet the organization members you've always longed to see.

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Chapter 330 Save Me Save Me Save Me

Conan patiently continued explaining the case, recounting the details of Soma Ryusuke's crime in detail, and even took the backup disk when Inspector Megure wasn't looking.

After Soma Ryusuke was taken away, Inspector Megure left Kogoro Mouri behind, saying he would take him to the Metropolitan Police Department to give a statement. Chu Ming then led Conan and Ran back.

"...Once time and space are separated, both people and things will change."

The weather turned suddenly cold, and snowflakes drifted down slowly from the sky. Ran, holding Conan's hand, followed behind Chu Ming. Thinking of what Soma Ryosuke had just said, she stopped in her tracks. Thinking of Shinichi, whom she hadn't seen for a long time, she couldn't help but shed sad tears.

Chu Ming noticed that she and Conan had stopped and looked back in confusion.

Ran can cry freely in front of Conan, but when faced with Chu Mingqing's gaze, she is ultimately a shy girl. She hurriedly wipes away her tears, trying to cover it up: "Some dust got into my eyes just now..."

Chu Ming didn't point it out, but slowed down to walk alongside her: "Don't overthink it, that kid Kudo won't change."

Xiaolan quickly retorted, "I don't miss him, I just... I just—"

Just as Xiaolan was anxiously explaining, the door of a nearby phone booth was pushed open, and Shuichi Akai walked out with a cigarette in his mouth.

You were shot last time, how come you're healed so quickly?

Shuichi Akai's gaze swept over Chu Ming seemingly casually, finally settling on Ran: "Why are you crying again?"

Conan recognized Shuichi Akai as the one who nearly caused Ai Haibara's radar alarm to explode on the bus, and quickly stood in front of Ran.

Xiaolan recognized him as the FBI agent she had met in New York. Seeing that he had seen her disheveled state, she couldn't help but retort, "Can't I cry?"

Conan stared in disbelief at Ran's seemingly familiar conversation with the man in black, completely bewildered.

What? Do you have any stories I don't know?

Looking at Shuichi Akai's nostalgic eyes, Chu Ming automatically imagined a line: "When you cry, you don't look like her anymore."

He felt a chill run down his spine after thinking about it, and shook his head, trying to shake off this melodramatic plot.

Then Shuichi Akai himself said, "No, I just thought of a woman who's a lot like you. She seems calm on the surface, but she cries secretly behind your back. How silly of her..."

Chu Ming listened to the standard opening lines of an idol drama, his eyes full of question marks. What was going on? This was so romantic!

Sorry Conan, I'm starting to really want to ship Akane and Ran (not really).

Shuichi Akai didn't say much to Ran. He glanced at Chu Ming and then walked past the group like a passerby.

Chu Ming watched his departing figure, his eyes narrowing slightly. What was with the look in Akai Shuichi's eyes when he left?

—Something's not right. Shuichi Akai shouldn't have been able to get any information from that peripheral member back then. According to Gin's interrogation results, that peripheral member didn't even have time to say anything to him before Gin and Chu Ming arrived. Moreover, Shuichi Akai clearly mistook him for Vermouth at the time, so why would he suddenly notice his red team vest?

Or perhaps he overlooked something?

It's also possible that Shuichi Akai was misled by Jodie and thought he was a public security officer.

Oh well, we'll deal with whatever comes our way. Anyway, Shuichi Akai can't kill him.

Conan was already anxiously asking Ran who this person was.

Seeing Conan's anxious expression, Ran told him, "When Shinichi and I went to New York, we ran into a silver-haired serial killer, didn't we? He asked me about the killer's whereabouts, but I saw him talking to another man, who might be his colleague. His colleague's jacket had the word FBI on it, so I think he's probably an FBI agent too."

Ran's words made a lot of sense, but Conan didn't believe them at all. He had seen Ai Haibara tremble like a leaf whenever she saw Shuichi Akai.

It's obvious that Ai Haibara only exhibits these symptoms when she sees Gin; when she sees other members of the organization, she at most turns pale and her pupils dilate.

After so many verifications, he had come to trust Ai Haibara's radar quite a bit, so this man! He must be a member of the organization! After the bus hijacking incident, he used Shinichi Kudo's identity to call Inspector Takagi and ask him about it. The man called himself Shuichi Akai.

Hmph, Shuichi Akai, huh? Just you wait, I'll drag out every single one of you from this organization!

Conan patted the disk in his pocket, surprisingly not chasing after them. He thought he should deal with Itakura Suguru first before considering Akai Shuichi's matter.

After Chu Ming took Conan and Ran home, seeing that the snow was about to fall heavily, he didn't linger any longer, said goodbye to the two, and left.

After leaving the street, Chu Ming went straight to the nearby safe house and called Vodka. Chu Ming had already inquired and found out that he had finished all of Gin's missions during this period. Gin didn't have anything to do in Japan and had gone to the United States to chase after an undercover agent. He probably wouldn't be back until next week.

This shows that in a vast country like Japan, the sky's the limit and the sea's the freedom to leap!

He, Granburg, will temporarily replace Gin this week, becoming—

—His double!

Chu Ming looked at himself in the mirror in the safe house, admiring his exceptionally handsome appearance after disguising himself as Gin. He touched his face, straightened his long hair, and tried to put on a cringeworthy and wicked smile, but unexpectedly, his smile looked like a muscle spasm on his face.

Chu Ming composed himself. Damn it, Gin's face has been expressionless for too long; it's not suitable for a bright smile anymore!

Chu Ming immediately called Vodka and asked him to come pick him up from the safe house. He also specifically instructed Vodka to drive Gin's Porsche. Before Vodka could make an excuse to refuse, Chu Ming hung up the phone.

? ? ? ?

Vodka looked at the phone that had been hung up, glanced at the deep night outside, and really wanted to just leave Chu Ming there waiting while he went back to sleep.

But... but Gin is far away in America, not in Japan. It seems that no one can stop Granburg, that little madman. He dares not refuse Chu Ming's orders, for fear that he will hold a grudge and do something underhanded to him next time.

But if he went, Vodka felt that it was obviously not a good thing. What if Granburg didn't like him and wanted to trick him out to beat him up or just make him disappear?

Moreover, Vodka never dares to drive his brother's car on missions when his brother is not around, for fear that he will damage the car and make Gin angry and smash it when he comes back. But Granburg insists on driving a Porsche...

Caught in a dilemma, Vodka ultimately didn't dare to confront Chu Ming's tyranny head-on, and got up with a bitter face to drive to pick him up.

QAQ Big brother, I failed to protect your beloved car, and I failed to protect your little brother. If Granburch manages to secretly kill me this time, you must avenge me!

Chapter 331 I caught you

A safe house in Mihana Street.

Vodka rushed as fast as he could and finally arrived at the safe house within the twenty minutes allotted by Chu Ming, knocking on the door according to the code.

Upon seeing who opened the door, Vodka exclaimed in surprise, "Brother, you're back from America? What are you doing at the Granbury safe house? If you had told me you needed me, I would have come right away!"

He even secretly wanted to whisper a complaint: "Big brother, Granbury—"

As he spoke, he followed Gin into the living room. Seeing that the room was empty, his usually dull mind suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He stiffly looked up and carefully examined his older brother's face. His eyes were no longer filled with murderous intent and coldness as before; instead, they were full of cunning and malice.

Knock!!! This isn't the big brother, it's Granbury!!

What the hell is this story?!

Startled, Vodka stammered, "—He, he's so nice..."

Chu Ming reached out and hooked his arm around Vodka's neck: "You recognized me? It's okay, from now on you'll treat me like your older brother."

Vodka's honest face was full of frustration, but he still spoke up honestly without any struggle: "B-Big Brother..."

Chu Ming passed the task to Itakura Taku: "You should have received this task before. Originally, your older brother was going to do it with you, but now he has transferred it to me. So you can come with me. Go there and send the email to Itakura Taku, telling him the time and place of the software transaction."

Vodka resigned himself to his fate and went to work. Now that his older brother was not around, and he was no match for Granbury, he knew that discretion was the better part of valor and he had to endure it!

Chu Ming, with his legs crossed, leaned back on the sofa, watching Vodka work. Unexpectedly, Vodka suddenly stood up: "He received the email, but didn't open it. Is that guy trying to run away?"