Survival Manual of the Science Fiction World

Seeing Vodka drive up, he grabbed the door and jumped in: "Let's go, let's go, hurry up, he'll be chasing us soon."

Vodka floored the gas pedal, speeding forward: "Where are we going?"

“Back to base? Where can we go? No, he’s catching up. Hey, you keep driving, go wherever there’s a road. I’ll think of something.” Chu Ming saw Akai Shuichi driving his Chevrolet closely following behind in the rearview mirror.

While Vodka wasn't paying attention, Chu Ming seemingly pulled a long box containing a sniper rifle from under the back seat, but actually from his system backpack, and began assembling it.

"When did you put this in your brother's car?" Vodka asked, somewhat shocked.

"Of course, it was when you drove your car over there." Chu Ming kept his hands busy and casually replied to Vodka, "Drive to the outskirts, and I'll blow his car to bits."

Vodka's confidence soared, and he floored the accelerator, roaring off into the suburbs.

Chu Ming set up his sniper rifle and glanced at Gin's rear window with ill intent, feeling somewhat restless. After all, Gin's car couldn't be converted into a convertible, so how was he supposed to set up his sniper rifle?

However, I can't do this myself, otherwise Vodka will definitely complain.

Chu Ming took out his pistol and fired a shot at Akai Shuichi using the rearview mirror. Akai swerved in time, and the shot only shattered Akai's windshield.

Not to be outdone, Shuichi Akai fired several shots at Gin's old car, and amidst Vodka's agonizing screams, the rear window shattered.

"I'm doomed!!! My brother's going to kill me!!!" Vodka cried out in despair as he swerved to dodge bullets. "Brother, this car is going to cost way too much to repair! I was saving up to buy Yoko's limited-edition merchandise!!"

"You talk too much nonsense. Can't you just drive faster? Akai Shuichi was quite far behind us just now, but he's almost catching up!!!"

"That's already the fastest I can go, brother. This car isn't suitable for escaping. The fastest I can go is 140 km/h! I've already floored it!" Vodka used his best skills, driving at high speed while judging the trajectory of Shuichi Akai's bullets in the rearview mirror, trying his best to prevent them from hitting the tires. As for the rest of the car, it was already badly damaged.

Helpless, Chu Ming set up his sniper rifle and fired a shot at Shuichi Akai's forehead. However, the car was speeding along, and both Vodka and Shuichi Akai were turning the steering wheel. So the shot only grazed Shuichi Akai's shoulder and didn't hurt him at all.

Chu Ming fired a few more shots, but sniping requires a high level of skill, and it was impossible to aim at the desired spot from inside the car. He could only outline Akai Shuichi's body. Frustrated, Chu Ming threw down the sniper rifle, pulled out a grenade, aimed at it, and threw it behind him.

With a loud "BOOM," Shuichi Akai's Chevrolet emerged from the smoke and dust once again. After being ambushed by the organization with a bomb while driving last time, he modified his car so that as long as it wasn't in the center of the explosion, some of the aftershocks wouldn't destroy it.

However, Chu Ming's real killing move was the car stopper he threw after the grenade. Under the cover of smoke and dust, Akai Shuichi did not see it clearly. The moment the high-speed car ran over the car stopper, the originally flat object instantly expanded and got stuck in the gap between the tires, firmly locking the spinning tires.

The car's tires suddenly got stuck, and Shuichi Akai felt as if the car had hit thin air. He was thrown forward heavily. He managed to grab the steering wheel and swerve to the side, but he could no longer control the car. The car slid along the road, almost sparking.

Seeing that the car was about to crash into the guardrail on the highway, Shuichi Akai had no choice but to open the car door, climb out of the car towards the bushes, roll twice on the ground, and watch as the car crashed through the guardrail and fell down.

He stood in the middle of the road, frowning as he looked in the direction the Porsche had disappeared, and realized something was wrong.

This shouldn't be Vermouth; Vermouth's marksmanship and methods are not like this.

Although the sniper rifle didn't hit his vitals, the fact that it could still hit him in such harsh conditions shows that his marksmanship is definitely among the best in the organization.

Could he be a code name member of the organization active overseas?

After all, as a new member, he probably wouldn't dare to ride around in Gin's car so ostentatiously.

but--

Akai Shuichi, across the mountain road, saw faint lights appearing in the distance and squinted slightly.

Gin's car had just had its fuel tank hit by a bullet. At their speed, an explosion was only a matter of time.

Although he was also in a sorry state, Gin's beloved car was destroyed, so at least he didn't lose out.

Chapter 336 Thank you to the kind person who sent the Porsche

Chu Ming and a disheveled Vodka stood by the roadside, looking at the burning wreckage of the valuable antique car in front of them, exchanging bewildered glances.

Chu Ming was the first to react, immediately shifting the blame: "How could you drive like that! You've blown up my car! You're finished!"

Vodka stared blankly at the car in the middle of the road, seemingly oblivious to everything around him. Hearing Chu Ming shift the blame, he turned around incredulously: "You're the one who told me to bring my brother's car over!"

"Don't talk nonsense. I don't have the key. I was just giving you a suggestion. If you drive over, I'll definitely take a ride. I'm just an accomplice at most. You're the mastermind!" Chu Ming threw the pot that Vodka had thrown back at him and slapped it hard on his head. Then he quickly changed the subject. "So what do we do now? Big Brother will be back in a few days."

Vodka scratched his head, the 180-pound giant squatting on the ground, staring at the car that had been reduced to a pile of scrap metal, lost in thought: "What do you think about us disguising ourselves as terrorists and throwing two bombs at the base where Big Brother used to park his car, then randomly finding two undercover agents and pinning the blame on them?"

"You're quick-witted..." Chu Ming looked at Vodka with a completely new gaze. "You don't want to get beaten up by Big Brother, you want to get shot by him. Have you ever thought that if you blow up the base, you might be discovered by the BOSS before you even have a chance to escape? Big Brother's car is parked at Base 3, and all the odd-numbered bases are under the BOSS's complete control, don't you know that? Blowing up a base with a bomb, you're more of a spy than a spy yourself."

Vodka, after being teased by Chu Ming, covered his head in frustration.

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Chu Ming considered for a moment, then kicked Vodka, who was squatting on the ground: "Stop squatting, let's go, let's get one."

"Where can we get it?" Vodka stood up, his face full of hope.

“Back to base, I’ll hack into the official database. Usually, people who get these antique cars that are roadworthy have registered them. I’ll see if there are any near Tokyo, and then we—” Chu Ming stretched out his hand and made a gesture.

Vodka nodded knowingly and said in a simple and honest way, "I have enough savings to buy one."

"..." Chu Ming was speechless. "You're a gangster, why are you acting so innocent? Let's rob someone! But first we need to call someone to come pick us up..."

——?(=゜ω゜)ノ——

Back at the base, Chu Ming typed away on the computer for a while, while Vodka sat behind him, waiting anxiously.

“Got it.” Chu Ming pressed the confirm button. “Hobuki Eiji, 39 years old, single, lives alone in Beikacho 7-43. He just bought a green Porsche 356A three months ago. It doesn’t matter if the color is wrong, we can get a car cover. He lives nearby, and the car is in good condition. He lives alone and doesn’t have many friends. Perfect, he’s the one!”

Vodka jumped up, checked the map location, and tried to run out, but Chu Ming stopped him: "What are you doing?"

"Go steal a car, huh?" Vodka asked, somewhat puzzled.

Chu Ming sighed, truly unable to persuade him: "You're going to steal a car in broad daylight in a busy downtown area? What were you thinking?"

"Then let's wait until tonight?"

Chu Ming pointed to his head: "We need to use our brains. Blatant robbery is definitely not an option. I just checked. When he was young, Fudai Ruiji liked racing cars, and from some of the blog posts he wrote, it can be seen that he has an impulsive and easily angered personality. I'll pretend to be one of his former defeated opponents and send him a provocative text message, saying that I'll wait for him on the mountain road in the suburbs. Let's go, have someone take us there."

"The mountain road...the road we were just on? Go back? But we only saw on his blog that he had a defeated opponent, but we don't know what that person looks like..."

"It doesn't matter, as long as he gets out of the house, that's enough."

Vodka didn't understand, but he knew that if he asked any more questions, he might get beaten up by Granburg, so he obediently agreed and went out to call for help.

Chu Ming disguised himself as Baileys at the base. When they arrived in the suburbs, Chu Ming chased Vodka behind a tree, saying that his appearance was not good and that he should hide so that people wouldn't be scared away.

Then, standing alone by the roadside, he saw a green Porsche driving towards him in the distance, so he stood by the roadside and waved to it.

Seeing a beautiful woman stop his car and with no one else around, Hotei Ruiji stopped without suspicion, rolled down the window, and asked in confusion, "Miss, what's wrong? Are you in trouble? Do you need my help?"

Chu Ming nodded and said pitifully, "My car broke down at the bend ahead. It's the middle of nowhere here. Could you please give me a ride?"

"At the bend?" Following Chu Ming's finger, Hotei Ruiji instinctively leaned out the window to look, but the next second everything went black and he slid down.

Chu Ming put away the poisoned needles in his hand, quickly opened the car door, dragged the person out, and gestured for Vodka to come and help.

“This is what…” Vodka took the person and saw Chu Ming lead him to the ruins of Gin’s car. He seemed to understand what Chu Ming was going to do.

“Even if he doesn’t have many friends, the police will still find out he used to own a Porsche. If he just disappears into thin air, it will really be difficult for him to travel. So, what do you think of this scenario: a man goes out racing and is unfortunately killed when the fuel tank of his old car leaks and explodes?” Chu Ming chatted with Vodka while staging the crime scene. “By the way, have the outer team erase all traces of our gunfight with Akai Shuichi along the way, so as not to cause any unnecessary trouble.”

Vodka watched as Chu Ming calmly poured tissue-specific accelerant on the corpse, stuffed it into the wreckage of the car, and set it on fire. He quietly took a step back. It was a murder scene he was used to seeing, so why did Granbury make it so horrifying?

Gin's Porsche, having exploded and caught fire, no longer showed any signs of being hit by bullets. In addition, Chu Ming rearranged the scene and dripped some gasoline along the road to make it look like an oil leak. The whole scene looked flawless and was more than enough to deal with the police. Even if Conan were to run into him, he might not be able to spot the flaws.

"Let's go, take the car to the organization's repair shop and give it a makeover~" Chu Ming hummed a song as he called Vodka to leave.

The car explosion is such a small matter, how could it possibly stump him?

Well, a kind person donated one to us!

Thank you to the stranger for the Porsche. May good fortune be with you throughout your life—well, may good fortune be with you in your next life!

Chapter 337 Identity exposed?

Perhaps because he had been repairing cars for so many of the organization's members, a familiar Porsche appeared in front of Chu Ming and Vodka a little over an hour later.

"The outside is all set, now it's time to go inside. Do you remember what your brother usually keeps in the car? Some small decorations and such. Hurry up and get it done, we need to make sure he doesn't notice anything when he comes back!"

Vodka nodded vigorously and then began to change the interior of the car. He was used to the cigarette lighter and the small corners of the car. Vodka was quite familiar with this car, and he could easily fix most of the changes.

So, three hours after receiving the car from the kind person, the familiar Porsche reappeared in front of the two of them.

Chu Ming patted Vodka on the shoulder: "Let's go, let's see Big Brother's new car back in its place. No one is allowed to touch it again until Big Brother comes back!"

The main reason was that he was tired of riding in this old, slow car. If he had been driving the sports car that Vermouth gave him, he would never have been hit in the gas tank by Shuichi Akai! It wasn't that he was afraid to ride in it.

Vodka nodded in agreement, then sauntered forward to drive the car away.

Gin is going back to Japan in a few days, but he hasn't been able to complete several of the tasks Gin gave him because Kogoro Mouri suddenly changed his route back to Tokyo.

These tasks cannot be given to Bourbon, for fear that he might collude with the police to secretly rescue people and interrogate them for information about the organization, so...

Chu Ming's gaze gradually fell on Vodka, who was driving with the joy of surviving a disaster.

—Isn't this just a ready-made tool?

After getting into the car, Chu Ming leaned back and said, "Vodka, if it weren't for my heroic efforts, you would have been finished."

Vodka nodded, then realized something was wrong and muttered under his breath, "It was clearly your fault..."

Chu Ming ignored him, saying that he had caused trouble and that there was no such thing. He continued, "I went to great lengths to get a Porsche for my brother, and you basically didn't contribute anything. I'll give you a chance to make amends."

As he spoke, he moved his fingers and forwarded several tasks to Vodka: "Here, these are Big Brother's tasks. If it weren't for getting this car, I probably would have finished these tasks long ago. So these tasks are yours. We'll split up and try to finish them before Big Brother returns home. Is that alright?"

You do the tasks while I rest; we split up and work separately—no problem.

Vodka felt that Chu Ming's words made a lot of sense, and since the two of them were dividing the tasks, he didn't feel any pressure and readily agreed. He looked at the tasks and they weren't too difficult; there were only five kill tasks and three trading tasks, which was what he usually did when he followed his older brother.

“Okay, take me to the safe house that picked me up before, and then hurry up and do your mission.” Chu Ming tugged at his clothes. “I’m going to take off my disguise.”

After Vodka saw him to the door, Chu Ming tossed a small bottle to Vodka before getting out of the car: "This is water to remove disguises. You can use this face to do these tasks. When you want to remove it, spread the water in the bottle evenly on your face, and the disguised skin will float up in twenty seconds. Why are you making that face? It's not like I'm using sulfuric acid! Use it or not, it's fine as is if you don't want to."

Seeing this, Vodka quickly put away the small bottle, stepped on the gas, and sped away. However, to be honest, he hadn't had a chance to see what his disguise actually looked like yet. When he called the outer members to pick them up earlier, he felt that the member's eyes were strange... Could it be that Granbury had given him some kind of weird disguise?

No, I have to go back and check on things right away.