Survival Manual of the Science Fiction World

She turned and ran towards the infirmary, where she bumped into Chu Ming at the entrance. She rushed up to him and asked anxiously, "Miss Miyano, what happened? What are you doing in the infirmary?"

Chu Ming feigned a troubled expression: "After you left, I wanted to take the children out to play, but they didn't seem to trust me and ran off on their own. I heard the announcement on the loudspeaker and rushed over. I'm so sorry, you entrusted the children to me, but I..."

"It's alright, I'll go in and check on her first." Xiaolan quickly went in and saw Ai Haibara lying on the hospital bed with a pale face. When the doctor saw her come in, he said, "You must be the patient's family member. Don't worry, your sister is fine. She's probably just tired and has a bit of heatstroke. Stay here and keep her company."

Xiaolan was relieved and nodded repeatedly: "Okay, thank you, doctor."

After the doctor left, she sat down by Ai's bedside and gently touched her forehead: "Ai, how are you feeling now?"

Ai Haibara hid half her face under the blanket, looking somewhat embarrassed: "I'm sorry... Conan—"

"Don't worry about him. Officer Sato and the others have already gone over. Genta and the others said you seemed quite afraid of Ms. Miyano? Why is that? Weren't you two getting along well when you were queuing?" Ran was a little confused. The two of them had been working together to prevent her and Sonoko from leaving, and they seemed to get along very well. How did things suddenly change?

Children can be really hard to understand sometimes...

Compatible? What compatibility could she possibly have with Vermouth?

Ai Haibara huddled under the covers and shook her head. She looked at the figure that had just flashed by the door, her heart sinking. After a while, she blinked her eyes and said in a sweet, coquettish voice, "Ran-neechan, I want to eat ice cream...can I?"

Luckily, her face was hidden under the blanket. At this moment, Ai Haibara was already a little embarrassed. Pretending to be a child can be really shameful sometimes. She doesn't have Conan's thick skin and can't act cute and silly as if no one else is around.

Xiao Lan tucked the blanket around her and said, "Okay, I'll go buy it. You can rest here and I'll be back in a bit."

After saying that, she got up and went out to buy ice cream for Ai Haibara. Once outside, a hint of anxiety and worry slowly crept onto her face. She wondered if Officer Sato and the others had found Conan yet.

After Ran left, Ai Haibara turned to Genta and the others and urged them to go to the amusement park.

“How can we leave? Ai, you’re still sick. How can we go?” Ayumi sat on a small stool by the bed, looking very serious.

"It's a rare opportunity to come to the Fantasy Park, and it's free, so how can I let it go to waste because of me? Besides, Sister Xiaolan will be back soon, so you guys go have fun. Anyway, I'm not that interested in these things, so I'll just rest in the infirmary."

The children were already eager to go out and play, and they were even more excited when they heard this. After being gently persuaded by Ai Haibara, they left as a group.

After everyone left, Ai Haibara threw off the covers and sat up. She looked at the door and said in a resolute voice, "Since you're already here, aren't you going to come in?"

Chu Ming peeked out from the doorway, still staring at the disguise Vermouth had used—Sherry's own face: "What, you sent everyone away, and now you're meeting me alone? Aren't you scared anymore?"

"Don't you have a face of your own?" Ai Haibara's face held a hint of sarcasm. Faced with death, she wasn't so afraid anymore; at worst, she would just die. "Is my face even useful?"

"It works pretty well, but I don't like your tone, so you'd better change your attitude when you talk to me." Chu Ming grinned. "Vermouth is indecisive and reluctant to take action, but I'm not like her. Do you really think everyone in the organization is a good-natured person?"

"Of course I know what kind of people you are." A hint of sarcasm flashed in Ai Haibara's eyes. "I know you all too well. I'll go with you, I'll go back to the organization with you, but please don't hurt anyone! What did you do to Conan?"

"Is this how you beg for help?" Chu Ming stepped forward and grabbed Ai Haibara's chin, his smile wicked, and muttered, "Sherry, Sherry, you've been a stray dog ​​for so long, and you still haven't learned how to please people? Your arrogant temper really makes me—want to break your spine, but alas..."

Chapter 511 Information

Chu Ming looked at Ai Haibara struggling in his hands, then released her, letting her fall to the ground with a thud. He looked down at her and said, "Your pride comes from the Bronx. Last time, to save you, he took on several missions for me. Tch, you idiot. You risked your life for a moment of survival. Only people like you would think it's worth it."

Chu Ming casually gave his main account a wine name and made up a story to break down Ai Haibara's psychological defenses.

"You mean—Brother Chu Ming…" Ai Haibara's eyes widened, her fists clenched tightly. "He—"

Since Chu Ming discovered the secret to wealth, he has become particularly keen on playing the victim for his main account in front of Ai Haibara, who loves to overthink things. The more pitiful he plays, the more money he makes, which gives him a great sense of accomplishment.

"Of course it's him. He's a codename member now, and the organization has treated him with the utmost kindness, but he's still stubbornly clinging to his ways. He was badly injured last time because of you, wasn't he? When he heard that Gin was going to capture you, he rushed to me in a panic, hoping I could help him."

"Although he helped me a lot when he was an outsider, I've already repaid the favors I owed him. If he comes back for help, it'll be a different story. I didn't hold back then; he probably can't even get out of bed yet." Chu Ming's smile didn't reach his eyes. "But you got so badly injured because of you, and you can still come out and have fun like nothing happened. You're really carefree. Tsk tsk, I really feel sorry for him."

Chu Ming gave Ai Haibara a good beating, successfully making her guilt level go up, up, up.

"You—Chu Ming clearly considered you a friend, how could you treat him like this?" Ai Haibara bit her lower lip. Before, Chu Ming saved her, saying that it was Granbury who showed mercy so that he could escape death, but what happened?

"I told you last time, I don't need that kind of thing." Chu Ming chuckled, reached out and grabbed Ai Haibara's wrist, fiddled with it a couple of times, and then removed the bracelet from her wrist, casually placing it on the pillow in the infirmary.

Suehiko Ito's methods were too crude. He put the bomb in the bracelet, which was electronically controlled. Wasn't that just handing him points?

He can see the entire world of Detective Conan, and the number of people whose computer technology surpasses his can be counted on one hand.

By temporarily blocking the bracelet's signal and then simulating a fake bracelet signal using a program, it would be easy to dismantle this deadly bracelet containing a bomb.

Ai Haibara looked at the bracelet that had been removed in a single glance and felt a surge of sadness. She had originally planned to rely on this bracelet to exchange one for one with Chu Ming, but before she could even put it into practice, the bracelet was removed.

"You're not thinking of anything bad, are you?" Chu Ming teased, noticing Ai Haibara's eyes darting around the bracelet. "Your Ran-neechan will be back soon. Both you and Vermouth seem to like that girl quite a bit? Coincidentally, my favorite thing is watching something someone likes disappear~"

Ai Haibara's expression changed instantly. She glared at Chu Ming and said, "No, you can't touch her. Vermouth wouldn't allow you to do that either, would she?"

"Vermouth?" Chu Ming shifted his position on the bed, using this angle to look Ai Haibara at eye level. "You don't think I'm afraid of her, do you? Using her to threaten me might not work~ How about you find another bargaining chip~"

Ai Haibara clenched her fists so tightly that her nails dug into her palms: "What do you want?"

"Your research materials." Chu Ming finally revealed his true intentions. He hadn't managed to get any information out of you using his main account before, but this time he finally had a chance. "The research materials your parents left you, you should still be somewhere in the organization where you didn't bring them out, right? As long as you hand them over to me, I won't touch that girl. Not now, and definitely not in the future. Although I'm not a good person, at least I'm someone who keeps my promises."

Ai Haibara remained silent for a long time before saying with difficulty, "That's not enough. Not just that girl, but you can't involve anyone other than me."

"Being too greedy is not a good thing." Chu Ming said casually, then changed the subject, "I need those materials to go a step further, but if your materials are valuable enough, I might even let you go."

Ai Haibara had no choice; she was almost completely defeated in this confrontation: "On the second floor of the laboratory at Base 7, next to my old office, there's a warehouse. Go to the abandoned electrical distribution box on the right side of the seventh shelf in the warehouse, pry it open with a knife, and pry the whole box out. There's a CD and a key inside."

The CDs were left by my parents; they contained experimental data from the Silver Bullet experiment and references from my previous experiments. The key was the key to a warehouse I rented when I was in the US; some experimental equipment and drug records were there… The rest were in the original lab; aside from what was taken, the rest were probably destroyed by Gin.”

A satisfied smile appeared on Chu Ming's face. He stood up and praised without reservation, "Not bad, that's great!"

I don't know if this information will be of any help to the BOSS's research.

Chapter 512 Buy Five Get One Free?

Ai Haibara looked at Chu Ming's satisfied smile and pursed her lips tightly: "Can you let Ran and the others go now?"

"Of course. But you better not lie to me. If I don't find any discs in Warehouse Seven—" Chu Ming straightened up and drawled, "I'm the kind of person who loves to take what you like~ Of course, I keep my word. If I can find these materials successfully, I'll pretend I never saw you this time."

Chu Ming guessed that Ai Haibara was probably not lying. Everyone's lives were now in Chu Ming's hands, and she wouldn't tell such an easily exposed lie.

Chu Ming waved his hand and walked straight to the door: "See you next time—Shirley..."

"Wait—" Haibara Ai, emboldened by some unknown source, stepped forward and grabbed Chu Ming's sleeve. "Could you also take off the bracelets on Ran and the others' wrists?"

?

Chu Ming returned a questioning look, a half-smile playing on his lips: "What? Am I too good-tempered? How dare you push your luck?"

Ai Haibara stared blankly at Chu Ming for a long time, her face pale, but she still held onto Chu Ming's clothes tightly, her knuckles turning slightly white from the force.

"Isn't the organization tempted by APTX-4869's ability to shrink people?" she asked Chu Ming, biting her lip as she negotiated.

"Shirley, did your brain shrink along with your body? Do you think you'll still be standing here once the organization finds out? We only brought you to the organization because of suspicion. What, are you going to send yourself back to the organization now?" Chu Ming was speechless.

“That’s not what I meant…” Ai Haibara seemed to have made up her mind. “I became like this after taking the drug, and I’m also conducting experiments on myself, so I want to make a deal with you. I can give you my research data on this topic as well…”

"Oh?" Chu Ming became interested. "So your condition is that you need to remove the bracelets from those people's wrists?"

“Not only that. There’s also Chu Ming.” Ai Haibara said in a low voice, “Since even Vermouth has to take orders from you, your status in the organization must be much higher than Chu Ming’s. I want you to take care of Chu Ming in the organization. I can study the information you need. I don’t think anyone in the organization knows more about this information than me for the time being.”

"Tsk tsk, is this what mutual affection is?" Chu Ming praised exaggeratedly. "Is this the friendship between you two? It's truly touching!"

"Stop talking nonsense and agree or not?" Ai Haibara had made a huge decision, but she had no other choice. She owed Chu Ming too much and couldn't let him continue to be isolated and helpless in the organization. She needed to help Chu Ming find an ally in the organization.

Otherwise, based on what she had witnessed last time, Chu Ming's current lowly position in the organization would be in grave danger if he took on any more dangerous missions.

“Sure,” Chu Ming readily agreed. “But this help will definitely be limited. You’ve been in the organization before, and you know very well that there’s no excessive pampering in the organization. You have to rely on yourself more.”

"Do you have any influence with Gin within the organization?" Ai Haibara asked tentatively.

"Pshaw, Gin?" Chu Ming's competitive spirit flared up. "You've got it backwards. It's Gin who has the right to speak to me."

Ai Haibara's first reaction was disbelief.

But seeing Chu Ming's confident and disdainful expression, she still hesitated: "Really? Can you let Brother Chu Ming leave the organization?"

That won't do. He's the heir now; leaving would be pointless!

"Let's change it." Chu Ming chuckled. "You're too late. After these missions, Bronx has already come into the BOSS's sights. You should know very well that the only way for a codename member who is under the BOSS's attention to leave the organization is to defect."

"Defection..." Ai Haibara thought of herself, lowering her eyes slightly. "I understand. I hope you won't take any missions that are too dangerous—"

"Ai-chan—" Ran rushed in with an ice cream, and saw that Ai Haibara had sat up. Chu Ming was also standing to the side. "Miyano-san is here too. Is Ai-chan feeling better?"

Ai Haibara nodded, using her body to cover the bracelet on the pillow, secretly hiding it behind her back, and then softly asked, "Ran-neechan, I feel much better. Why don't you go check if Inspector Sato and the others have found Conan? I was just a little dizzy, nothing serious, it's just that I lost my bracelet—"

Ai Haibara was a little embarrassed and clearly found it difficult to say: "Um, um, could your bracelet... could it..."

Ran seemed to realize something and reached out to pull off her bracelet and hand it to Ai Haibara, but she couldn't pull it off no matter what she did: "Huh, what's going on? Why can't I take it off?"

"This bracelet has a little mechanism, let me help you," Chu Ming reached out and, with a push and a pull, removed the bracelet in an instant.

Ran hands the bracelet to Ai Haibara: "Here you go, then I'll—"

"Hiss—" Chu Ming suddenly gasped softly, while Ran and Ai Haibara stared at him blankly.

Chu Ming looked at the children on the mini-map who were slowly approaching the exit, and for a moment he didn't know how to start the conversation.

"Ms. Miyano, what's wrong?"

"Uh—it's nothing. My leg was poked by a sharp corner of the bed. It probably hit a nerve." Chu Ming made up a casual excuse.

"Then be careful," Xiaolan said casually, without paying much attention.

Ai Haibara knew that this was definitely not the reason. Seeing Ai Haibara staring at him, Chu Ming made a 'three' gesture. Ai Haibara was stunned and did not react for a moment.

Chu Ming gestured with his hand to indicate Ai Haibara's height, then held up three fingers.

"Three...children?" Ai Haibara's eyes widened.

"What kind of riddle are you two playing?" Ran had just finished her call with Kogoro Mouri. She had just remembered that she hadn't had a chance to tell Kogoro about Conan being taken away.

"We're playing a game where you act it out and I'll guess." Chu Ming's ability to make up nonsense is getting better and better; some excuses just come to him on the spot.

Just as Ran was about to say something, the detective badge next to Ai Haibara suddenly started beeping.