Survival Manual of the Science Fiction World

Xiaolan clenched her fists: "Then I can video call my mom so that my dad and mom can see each other more often. Maybe that will make them reconcile."

Conan, worried that Chu Ming would talk too much, pulled him up from the sofa and said, "Sister Ran, I want to go to Chu Ming's house to play. We'll go now!"

After saying that, he dragged Chu Ming out.

Chu Ming let him drag him along, huffing and puffing as he moved forward like a calf pulling a cart.

"I didn't invite you to my house," Chu Ming teased him deliberately.

"Oh no, Brother Chu Ming, what if Ran really calls me on video later? Come with me to find Haibara and ask if she can get me more antidote. I always feel that Haibara is easier to talk to than to me..." Conan walked and talked to Chu Ming, completely ignoring Chu Ming's teasing.

"Really?" Chu Ming thought for a moment and felt that it might be because Ai Haibara thought they were on the same side, and since he had given up the opportunity to leave the organization to save her, she might feel guilty towards him, which was why she was a little easier to talk to.

When they arrived at Agasa's house, Ai Haibara opened the door while yawning and saw Chu Ming standing behind Conan. Her eyes widened instantly.

"Brother Chu Ming?"

Chu Ming smiled gently and ruffled her hair: "Why does Xiao Ai look like that?"

Sigh, he's really nailed this persona. Look at that expression, look at that action, tsk tsk, even a rock in front of him would be moved.

Chapter 450 Forgot

Unlike Conan, Ai Haibara knew Chu Ming's identity as a member of the Black Party. Since Chu Ming's house was not far from Dr. Agasa's house, she would often go upstairs to observe whether Chu Ming had returned home using binoculars.

However, during this time, the lights in Chu Ming's room were never turned on.

She knew Chu Ming was definitely busy with the organization's mission, so she couldn't help but worry about him.

As far as she knew, Chu Ming should belong to the action group, which followed Gin and carried out very dangerous missions.

If Chu Ming were a researcher, she wouldn't be so worried. But she can't tell anyone about this worry, otherwise she would really be harming Chu Ming.

Now that I've finally seen Chu Ming in peace, a weight has been lifted from my heart.

Ai Haibara gave a faint smile and ushered the two into the house: "It's been a long time since I've seen Chu Ming-ge. Why did you suddenly come with Edogawa?"

Chu Ming waved his phone: "The software developed by my company is complete and currently being promoted. Conan is here to ask you for help."

Chu Ming explained the software's functions and Conan's request to Ai Haibara. Conan also sincerely assured Ai Haibara, "I really had no other choice but to come to you this time. In order to prevent Ran from finding out, please give me a few antidotes. I won't use them recklessly! I will absolutely not use them unless it's an emergency."

"You've lost my trust, Great Detective." Ai Haibara's expression was not good. No matter who repeatedly told him to keep a low profile, he would turn around and steal the limelight to solve cases. No one would give this little detective a good look.

“But I have to keep it from Ran.” Conan said with a bitter face, “Otherwise, once Chu Ming’s software becomes popular, I won’t be able to fool him anymore. I can’t keep making excuses not to answer, Ran will definitely become suspicious. You should blame Chu Ming for this, he just created a video call function without telling us.”

Ai Haibara immediately defended Chu Ming, saying, "What does this have to do with Brother Chu Ming? It's clearly your own problem."

Seeing that Ai Haibara was getting angry at the mere mention of Chu Ming, Conan raised his hands in surrender: "Yes, yes, it's my fault. Can you give me a bottle of antidote?"

Chu Ming spoke up for Conan: "Ai, why don't we just give him one? We can see how he behaves later and then decide whether to give him a second one. After all, we really can't afford to have any problems with Ran."

As for why Ran shouldn't know Conan's identity, Chu Ming said he didn't know either; it was Conan who kept saying that Ran shouldn't know.

Actually, Ran doesn't care at all that she knows Conan's identity. Even if she knew, would she go around telling everyone that Shinichi Kudo has turned into a child? I don't understand why they keep all this information hidden. But anyway, it's Conan's own choice to keep it from Ran, it has nothing to do with him, and keeping it from him makes it easier to rack up points!

Out of respect for Chu Ming, Ai Haibara reluctantly took an antidote and handed it to Conan: "You can't take too much of the antidote. I haven't figured out how to improve it yet. Taking too much of this medicine will cause drug resistance, and the transformation time will become shorter and shorter. Maybe it will have no effect at all in the later stages."

Conan was overjoyed and quickly put it away, nodding repeatedly, "Yes, yes, I know what I'm doing."

Seeing this, he didn't take it to heart. However, speaking of medicine, while Conan went to get water, Chu Ming quietly asked Ai Haibara if there was a new version of the drug that allowed him to drink freely. The one that Ai Haibara gave him before was no longer very useful. At most, it would only make him go crazy less severely. In fact, Rum, that sixth brother, even managed to find out his little secret last time.

This is not okay.

So Chu Ming thought he'd see if he could come up with something new for Ai Haibara.

He had also gone to see Potter before. Logically speaking, the organization's drug research should be more complete than Ai Haibara's, after all, the equipment and manpower are there. So he took the medicine made by Ai Haibara to the laboratory to see if he could improve it based on this. But that bastard Potter mocked him, saying that he would be drunk after one cup, which made him so angry that he turned around and left without even taking the medicine.

Hmph, Potter must have deliberately provoked him because he was no good. It would be better to go find Ai Haibara instead.

Ai Haibara frowned and shook her head, looking somewhat apologetic.

Chu Ming thought for a moment and changed his approach: "Is there any kind of drug that makes you fall asleep as soon as you drink? So that I won't say anything I shouldn't say when I'm drunk. Or a drug that reduces other people's alcohol tolerance would also work, since magic can defeat magic, and if everyone is drunk, then my drunkenness is irrelevant."

We'll use the system to record everyone's embarrassing drunken antics!

Let them laugh at me all day long!

From this perspective, it's much easier than making someone who can't drink alcohol drink more.

Sure enough, Ai Haibara hurriedly took a few bottles of medicine from the laboratory and handed them to Chu Ming. When Chu Ming leaned over to take them, from Ai Haibara's angle, she could see a piece of red-stained gauze peeking out from Chu Ming's collar.

!!!

Conan was reading Professor Agasa's book on the other side of the room and was completely unaware of what was happening here.

Ai Haibara's expression changed drastically, and she asked in a whispered voice, "Brother Chu Ming, are you injured?"

Chu Ming followed her gaze to her collar and saw that it was still the wound that Gin had poked her with during the day. He had casually wrapped it with two bandages to play the victim, since apart from the little blood stuck to the gauze, it hadn't bled at all since.

He casually straightened his collar, not taking it to heart: "It's nothing, the old wound has long since healed, I just forgot to change the gauze."

Ai Haibara didn't believe it at all. She herself was a student of biomedical science, how could she not be able to tell whether it was old blood or fresh blood?

The color is clearly fresh blood that has just seeped out today.

But since Chu Ming wanted to keep it from her, she didn't say anything more and just silently handed over the medicine.

A short while later, Chu Ming, carrying several bottles of medicine, left Professor Agasa's house with Conan. Only after seeing Conan off and returning to his long-missed room to lie down did he realize that he had forgotten to tell Ai Haibara not to follow Conan to the 'Cocoon' press conference, otherwise Gin might catch them.

After all, he was planning to lure Gin away, since his older brother had been training him really hard these past few days, and he wanted to take him out to play a game to relax.

Forget it, I'll talk to Ai Haibara in a couple of days. There's no rush, I have plenty of time.

Chapter 451 Chat Group

Chu Ming had already figured out the software. At this time, he created a group chat with the people he was familiar with in the Japanese action team: Gin, Vermouth, Rum, Laffitte, and Vodka. After thinking for a moment, he also added Bourbon, along with Chianti and Cohen. Chianti then invited Calvados.

After changing the group's profile picture to a tacky red heart and naming it "A Loving Family," Chu Ming nodded in satisfaction. "That's a good name. The distillery is our home, and the mission depends on everyone."

Because the members within the organization all used a limited version of the software that was forcibly installed by Rum through a message, Chu Ming directly obtained their data from within the organization, added them as friends, and even helped them set up their respective profiles.

Soon someone started talking in the group chat.

[White-haired veteran actor]: ? ? ? What is this thing? It can even chat?

【White-haired Old Drama Queen】: ? What kind of weird name is this? I'm going to change it!

[White-haired old drama queen]: Why can't I change my name? Did you do this to Granbury? Change it back!!

【Thousand-Faced Witch】: Is that Lafitte upstairs? That name suits you quite well. But the profile picture Sweetheart chose for me is nice; I really like this cat.

【Perverted Crybaby Fat Otaku】: ? Why is my profile picture a pair of sunglasses? What's wrong with my name? Is the big brother in this chat room too? Is the big brother here?

[White-haired Old Drama Queen]: How come this suits me? I think I should be called White Elegance. And this profile picture, why did you choose a wrinkled orange peel as my profile picture?! Is my photo something I can't show to others??

[Dark-skinned Hot Girl]: ...Granbury, when did you take this picture of my profile picture?! How did you manage to take it without my permission?

[White-haired veteran actor]: Wow, not bad, quite good-looking. Is that Bourbon upstairs? Are you Thai? I see your skeleton is male, but you look like a girl. Could you be transgender?

[Dark-skinned hottie]: ...Where are the Granburgers?

【I want to be more beautiful than Kotoko】: Hehe, suddenly appeared.jpg

【Thousand-Faced Witch】: ...Your name...I underestimated you. You are terrifying. Gin, do something about your apprentice. He seems to have lost his humanity.

【I want to become more beautiful than Kotoko】: Hmph, Gin can't control me now, the BOSS says he's under my control now!

[White-haired old drama queen]: You're just bragging, @Gin, look at what your apprentice is saying.

【Thousand-Faced Witch】: You wrote it wrong, you should @Spicy Hand Destroys Wine Qinqinzi, tsk tsk, sweetheart, you really dare to do that.

【I want to be more beautiful than Kotoko】: Ahem, let me clarify this: this is a built-in function of the software. It automatically generates a nickname that suits each user based on their usual performance, and it has nothing to do with me! If we really have to talk about it, we should ask Rum, since he's the one who sent the software to my email. If the software can install automatically, why can't it also create some nicknames? That old rascal is really wicked.

[Where is the old servant's hair?]: The software has no problems. I clearly defaulted to everyone's codenames. I only changed mine...!!! I clearly wrote "this old servant," how did it change?? Granbury??!!!

【I want to become someone more beautiful than Kotoko】: Vodka hugging himself and crying.jpg, why are you calling me? It has nothing to do with Granburg. This may all be God's will, fate's arrangement.

[Perverted Crybaby Fat Otaku]: Why did you post my photo and write on it?! Where are you crying and wailing? I was just curled up on the sofa.

[Dark Circles]: Is this the organization's new app? It's so lively! Now I'll have someone to chat with when I'm bored. But what's with this name? What "dark circles"? That's my eyeliner!! Makeup, do you even know what makeup is?! Why is Vermouth the only one whose name sounds normal? Did you do this?

【I want to become more beautiful than Kotoko】: Yes, yes, sister, are you crying wolf? Look, you're the only one using the most common form of address, which makes you stand out from us. You'll never be able to integrate into our loving family like this!

[Dark-skinned hot girl]: +1

[White-haired veteran actor]: +1

[Where is the old servant's hair?]: That makes sense.

[Perverted, Crybaby, Fat Otaku]: +1

【I want to become someone more beautiful than Kotoko】: Rum, you've ruined the formation!

[Aba Aba is silent]: +1

[Obsessed with the goddess, crazy about the goddess, banging my head against the wall for the goddess]: Impossible! Vermouth wouldn't do such a thing! I did it all! Blame me if you want!

【I want to become someone more beautiful than Kotoko】: ...Congratulations to Vermouth for getting a scapegoat.

【Thousand-Faced Witch】: Calvados, don't speak. Where's Gin? Why isn't he here? He's the only one who hasn't shown up.

【I want to become someone even more beautiful than Kotoko】: He probably feels a little embarrassed to show his face because of his name, so let's give him some encouragement and applause.

[Dark Circles]: ...I'm outta here, Cohen. Let's not go back to Tokyo anytime soon. Let's get another mission out there, preferably to America.

[Aba Aba doesn't speak]: Hmm

【The Thousand-Faced Witch】: [Applause][Applause][Applause]