Survival Manual of the Science Fiction World

Ran hesitated for a moment and looked at Chu Ming. Chu Ming was stunned for a moment and shook his head like a rattle drum. What a joke! He didn't want to sleep with Conan!

"Alright, stop fooling around, Conan. Go to sleep quietly by yourself. I'll watch you while you sleep." Ran forcibly picked up Conan and walked towards the room. After all, Conan wasn't a real child, and Chu Ming, who knew his identity, was watching him from the side, so he couldn't bring himself to throw a tantrum. He could only helplessly let Ran carry him away.

Chu Ming stood still, ignoring Conan's resentful gaze, cheerfully waved goodbye to Conan, and then returned to his room, preparing to sneak out that night to pick up a magnetic field.

Chu Ming lay on the bed, listening to the sounds outside. When he heard that Kogoro Mouri had finished drinking and was about to go to sleep, and the whole villa fell silent, he got up, opened the window, and was about to spread his wings and fly out when he suddenly heard some noise at the door.

He jumped back into the room from the windowsill and saw Conan furtively push open his door, making eye contact with him right there by the window.

"What, Conan, are you sleepwalking?" Chu Ming rolled his eyes openly, taking advantage of the fact that his back was to the window and Conan couldn't see his expression.

Conan pounced on Chu Ming and grabbed his sleeve: "Brother Chu Ming, you're still awake? Are you thinking the same thing as me? You're also planning to go to Mr. Akashi's house, right?"

"..." I do want to go, but not in the way you think...

Seeing that Chu Ming didn't speak, Conan, thinking that Chu Ming didn't want to take him along, became anxious: "Brother Chu Ming, take me with you! Take me with you! You can't go by yourself!"

Chu Ming reached out and touched Conan's forehead. Perhaps for a detective, a case is the best medicine, because his forehead was no longer hot: "I just couldn't sleep at night and looked at the scenery. What's with all this talk about going out? No, go to sleep!"

Conan's face was full of disbelief: "Do you need to change your shoes if you get up in the middle of the night to see the scenery?"

Chu Ming glanced at the shoes he had changed into before going out and fell silent.

"Brother Chu Ming, please take me there. My intuition tells me this isn't a suicide case, and it's very likely related to Mr. Akashi. What if he destroys all the evidence if we're too late?"

Of course it wasn't suicide. With death around, why would there be suicide cases?

Chu Ming looked at Conan, who was clinging to his leg like a leech, and sighed softly, "Let's go, let's go downstairs and steal a car. Remember to be quiet, don't wake anyone up."

Conan, having gotten his wish, released his grip on Chu Ming's leg with satisfaction: "Don't worry, I just checked. Uncle drank a lot of alcohol and is now drunk. Ran was clearly very sleepy when she was putting me to sleep, so she's definitely asleep now."

"You've got pretty comprehensive information..." Chu Ming glanced at him. "What are you going to do if I sleep with you too? Just leave by yourself?"

Conan honestly shook his head, took out a small bottle from his pocket containing some water, and held it up for Chu Ming to see: "I plan to wake you up physically, and then have you get up and come with me."

? ? ? ?

Chu Ming looked at Conan, who had clearly gone astray, and felt heartbroken.

Did someone time travel you, kid?

why is it like this?

Why would someone so young have such a vicious idea in their head?

terrible!

This kid is going astray now; looks like he needs a beating.

Seeing Chu Ming's increasingly malicious gaze, Conan chuckled dryly and explained awkwardly, "Ha, haha, I was just kidding, Brother Chu Ming, you don't believe me, do you, haha, hahaha..."

Chu Ming's gaze remained unfriendly: "Well, you're quite humorous, aren't you?"

"I misspoke, I misspoke!" Looking at Chu Ming's flexing wrist, and remembering the criminal whose teeth Chu Ming had knocked out by a single kick, Conan immediately slid to his knees in surrender. "This is something I'm saving to wake myself up tomorrow, hahaha..."

Chu Ming casually snatched the bottle from his palm. "Don't worry, I'll definitely wake you up on time tomorrow."

"..."

While chatting and laughing—or rather, Chu Ming was joking around—the two arrived at the Suzuki family's garage, where several cars were parked, but without exception, all the doors were locked.

"What should we do? We can't just wake Sonoko and the others up and ask them where the key is, can we?" Conan was at a loss.

Chu Ming pulled out a piece of wire from his side: "How about... we use this?"

"..." Conan asked incredulously, "Isn't this a bad idea?"

Chu Ming retracted the wire and pulled out a baseball bat from behind him, which he had taken from the stairwell when he came downstairs: "Shall we use this?"

"Come on, Chu Ming!" Conan jumped up and grabbed his hand. "You're not here to rob us! There are security cameras here. If you keep this up, the security guards will come!"

Chapter 477 (Question unknown)

Conan stared in disbelief as Chu Ming, taking advantage of being a guest of the Suzuki family, managed to trick the security guard into revealing the location of the car keys. Then, Chu Ming drove off with Conan in tow, while the security guard waved to them with a smile in the distance.

Conan turned his head and looked at Chu Ming with admiration: "Brother Chu Ming, your eloquence is amazing."

"Likewise." Chu Ming and Conan were exchanging pleasantries while driving, though it wasn't really boasting. Conan had the protagonist's buff, so he would answer any question from an ordinary person.

"Let's park the car a little further away and sneak over to see if he's destroying evidence," Conan suggested.

Chu Ming freed one hand and waved the phone he had prepared: "Don't worry, I'll film all of this as evidence."

"...It's the middle of the night, is it even possible to film it?" Conan was somewhat doubtful.

"Whether we can get a picture or not, if we happen to run into him, we can use it to fool him."

The two got out of the car some distance away. The lights in the villa were still on. Chu Ming and Conan stealthily approached from the woods behind the villa and were surprised to find that the police car was still parked at the door.

The two men exchanged a glance, somewhat puzzled. From the time Kogoro Mouri received the call and Misao Yamamura asserted it was a suicide until they arrived, at least two hours had passed. Shouldn't the police have been out of there by now?

Why are the police cars still parked inside? Could it be that Shan Cun Cao, unusually astute, discovered something?

Knowing that the police were still there, Conan immediately had an idea. He stopped hiding and openly took Chu Ming's hand and walked inside.

The forensic investigator at the door seemed to recognize Conan. He was shocked to see Conan leading Chu Ming in through the door: "Isn't this the little brother of Detective Mouri? What are you doing here so late?"

Conan falsely claims to have received an imperial decree: "Uncle Mori sent me. He said he thought of some suspicious points and asked me to come and take a look."

The forensic investigator didn't suspect anything at all and just let Conan in sideways.

How come you don't have any doubts at all? Is Kogoro Mouri's name that useful? What adult would be so unreliable as to send a child over in the middle of the night to check for any suspicious activity?

After entering, Conan didn't rush forward. Instead, he stopped and asked the forensic officer, "Uncle, wasn't it already said to be a suicide and the case closed? Why hasn't Officer Yamamura left yet?"

"When Officer Yamamura was about to leave, he noticed that the light cord was a bit long. Mr. Mori believed that the victim was still alive before they left because he found the light was off halfway there. But Officer Yamamura just felt that this might be a trap set by Mr. Akashi."

For example, the light cord could be lengthened, and then a mechanism could be used to turn off the light at a fixed time, creating the illusion that the person was still alive.

The deceased was clearly hanged, yet blood was strangely flowing from his mouth, and there were also signs of binding on his wrists. There are quite a few suspicious points; Officer Yamamura is currently questioning him…”

Chu Ming began to look at Shan Cuncao with new eyes. He had initially thought he was a stupid policeman, but it turned out he had some discernment.

"Thank you, Uncle. We'll go in now~" Conan greeted sweetly, then pulled Chu Ming inside.

As soon as he entered, Yamamura Misao spotted him immediately: "Conan! Isn't that Conan! Where's Mr. Mori? Where is he? I knew Mr. Mori would also notice something was wrong. Looks like I'll get to hear Mr. Mori's great deductions again today! Hmm, has Mr. Mori not gotten off the train yet? I'll go get him!"

Conan quickly stopped the enthusiastic Officer Yamamura: "Wait, Uncle Mori didn't come. He just felt something was wrong, so he sent me and Brother Chuming together. Officer Yamamura, you haven't met Brother Chuming yet, have you? He's Uncle's eldest disciple. Uncle said his reasoning skills are already good enough to graduate, so Uncle sent him here this time."

Chu Ming looked puzzled. Conan's ability to lie through his teeth really improves when he's around police officers involved in cases.

However, he cooperated well, and when Yamamura ran over enthusiastically, he still put on an official smile and said nonsense: "Officer Yamamura, I've heard my master mention you. He said you have sharp eyes and can see through loopholes at a glance. Seeing is believing."

Yamamura Misao was overjoyed upon hearing this: "Really? Mr. Mori really praised me like that? I knew only Mr. Mori was my confidant, able to see through my outward appearance to my true nature! But you're not bad either. A good teacher produces a good student. With a teacher like Mr. Mori, you might even catch up to me someday, hahahaha..."

Conan looked at the smug Yamamura Misao and Chu Ming, who was also somewhat speechless but still maintaining a smile. He couldn't help but chuckle. These two really were a pair—one dared to speak and the other dared to listen…

Putting everything else aside, when has Uncle Mori ever mentioned Officer Yamamura? The only time he did, he didn't seem to say anything good about him...

After a brief exchange of pleasantries among the adults, Chu Ming cut straight to the heart of the matter: "Officer Shancun, what have you found out in your investigation?"

Akashi Hiroto looked on angrily and said, "Mr. Chu Ming, you've come at the right time. This police officer keeps saying that I killed my father, and that I deliberately stretched the light cord so long to make it easier to commit the crime. But I didn't do that. You've all met my father before and know that he's rather short. I only extended the light cord to make it easier for him to turn the light on and off himself. It has nothing to do with my method of committing the crime!"

"So what method did you use?" Chu Ming suddenly asked abruptly.

Akashi Hiroto didn't react for a moment: "It's definitely not this!"

The words had barely left his mouth when he realized something was wrong and angrily exclaimed, "I already said it wasn't me! How could I possibly kill my own father!"

"He's not even my biological son." Chu Ming stared at him. Previously, Chu Ming had copied the Noah's Ark program using a copier and attached it to System 33 so that he could call the DNA tracing technology at any time.

When Chu Ming realized that Akashi Hiroto might have killed his father, he did some research and found that they were indeed not father and son.

No wonder they could bring themselves to do it.

"How did you know?" Akashi Hiroto was somewhat shocked. He had clearly not told them any of these things, so how did Chu Ming know?

"I guessed." Chu Ming glanced at Akashi Hiroto and replied casually, "You're so tall, and your dad is so short, you don't look like a family."

"..."

Chapter 478, Chapter 2 of Today

"That's incredibly rude of you." Akashi Hiroto looked furious, making no mention of his earlier slip of the tongue. "I am indeed an adopted child of my father's, but whether adopted or not, he is still my father. Why would I kill my own father!"

"Why? I'm not you, how would I know why you want to?" Chu Ming's eyes were filled with a sense of helplessness.

Seeing Chu Ming pressing him on the subject, Akashi Hiroshi's face darkened. "Mr. Chu Ming, when you were in trouble, I didn't kick you when you were down, did I? I took you back immediately, and I didn't even have time to think about my father, failing to notice his attempt to end his life in time..."

As he spoke, Hiroto Akashi even choked up, saying, "But how could you—"

Seeing that Akashi Hiroto was even trying to shift the blame as he spoke, Chu Ming stopped him immediately. It was ridiculous; he was always the one shifting the blame, and no one had ever been able to take the fall for him.

"Excuse me, Mr. Akashi, after you dropped us off, you clearly said in the car that your father was very sad and wanted to commit suicide." Chu Ming emphasized the word "suicide." "Under such circumstances, you actually stayed at our destination for more than two hours after dropping us off. Compared to your current act of being a filial son, isn't that a bit ironic?"

Chu Ming didn't think much of Akashi Hiroto's murderous behavior, but he did feel something when Akashi Hiroto pretended to be a loving father after the killing, and his acting was really bad.

tui~

Hiroto Akashi was speechless. Just as he was about to retort, Conan, who had just squeezed upstairs, came running back, followed by an officer carrying an identification bag: "We just found a tooth in the curry rice that the victim ate, and it has been determined to be the tooth that the victim lost. Also, there was a handkerchief next to the victim, and this little boy found some marks on it that look like they were bitten."

Chu Ming looked around, lowered his eyes and thought for a moment. There was no clear evidence to prove that Akashi Hiroto was the one who did it. Even if the facts could be deduced through reasoning, it would not be possible to convict Akashi Hiroto.

After Chu Ming arrived here, he had already obtained the magnetic field, so he wasn't very enthusiastic about solving the case.

"Mr. Akashi, is today the anniversary of your wife's death?" Chu Ming had just overheard some police officers chatting outside, saying that Akashi Hiroshi was quite unlucky; his wife died unexpectedly on this day a few years ago, and now his father had committed suicide...

“Yes—” Akashi Hiroto’s eyes sharpened as he thought of his wife. “She collapsed in this forest and died from exhaustion caused by the rain.”