Survival Manual of the Science Fiction World

The three real children's eyes lit up: "Of course! What kind of task?"

Conan pointed to the top floor where they had previously discovered the bomb: "I need you to check if there are any remaining bombs there. If there are, notify me immediately via your badges. After we defused the previous bomb, the kidnappers might replant it. If the airship explodes, we'll all be doomed. The safety of the entire airship is in your hands now. Can you handle such an important mission?"

Conan deliberately exaggerated the difficulty of the mission. He didn't want the children to take risks with him, after all, those people in the hall at the time were not ordinary kidnappers, but members of that organization!

They disguised themselves like this, pretending to be mercenaries on a mission from the US; there must be some kind of conspiracy involved!

He's already entangled with the organization; he can't drag the people around him into it too.

The children, completely unaware that Conan was trying to distract them, became excited and their eyes lit up when they heard it was a very important mission. They cautiously crept towards the top of the airship. Ai Haibara followed at Conan's signal.

Before leaving, she gave Chu Ming and Conan a deep look and whispered, "Be careful."

Chu Ming nodded solemnly and led Xiao Lan and Conan forward cautiously as if facing a formidable enemy. However, even after they arrived near the hall, they still did not see a single person.

Ran grabbed Conan, who was about to dash into the hall, and placed him next to Chu Ming. Her expression was firm: "Conan, you stay with Brother Chu Ming. I'll go check over there first. If there's no danger, then you can go over."

“No way,” Conan was the first to object. “I’ll go. I’m short, so they won’t notice me easily.”

"Listen to me, they're after a child, so I'm actually safer. Besides, if we really run into robbers, I can easily beat them up." Ran waved her fist, comforting Conan. "Just stay here and wait for me."

Before Conan could answer, she reached out and ruffled his hair, then stealthily crept into the hall, carefully placing herself in blind spots to ensure that no one in the hall could see her.

Wow, that's pretty impressive.

Chu Ming remembered that he had only taught her this technique once, when he infiltrated Yulong Temple to rescue He Ye. He taught Xiao Lan how to infiltrate silently and without leaving a trace. Now it seems that Xiao Lan's talent is indeed quite strong.

It's a pity that the main characters, especially the ones closest to the main characters, couldn't join the organization.

However, we can't just let them rescue the people like that. After all, the main part of this operation is with the airship, and that's why he left the robot behind.

Chu Ming glanced at the map left on the airship. They were about to reach the Tsutenkaku Tower in Osaka. Seeing Conan intently watching Ran sneak in, completely oblivious to the surrounding commotion, he pressed the switch directly.

“Bang—bang—”

With several loud bangs, the airship began to shake violently, even tilting to the side.

Chu Ming was prepared and reached out to hook the doorknob next to him to steady himself, while Conan slid down to the wall and hit his head hard against it.

Chu Ming steadied himself, suppressed a laugh, and asked anxiously in a soft voice, "Conan, are you alright?"

Conan, feeling dizzy and disoriented, tried to climb up from the wall, but the airship was shaking so violently that he couldn't support his body at all. He could only passively slide down like a ball, gliding into the hall even faster than Ran.

Xiaolan, who was struggling to stand firm and prepare to move forward: ? What just slid past?

Chu Ming spotted his target and slowly slid down the wall to Ran's side: "Conan just slid in! Let's go in and check!"

Xiao Lan was agile, and Chu Ming, being a combat robot, was even more nimble. The two of them moved with ease on the bumpy, swaying airship and quickly entered the hall.

The hall was in complete chaos. The rope Chu Ming used to tie people up was made of a tough material produced by the system, specifically to prevent people like Kidd from carrying many small traps.

So after Chu Ming and the others left, everyone in the hall tried their best, but none of them could break the rope.

At the moment the airship exploded, everyone was still struggling. Fortunately, Chu Ming had trapped them on the railing; otherwise, when the airship swayed from side to side, everyone would probably have had a close encounter with the wall.

The bomb exploded, and the virus slid and spilled out. There were even several bottles of the virus hidden in a corner of the hall. When the airship shook, they fell to the ground and shattered, and the viral liquid even dripped onto everyone.

When Conan slid in like a bomb, the members of the Red Siamese Cat gang were in despair, looking at the red rashes and blisters that had appeared on their bodies.

"Conan? What are you doing here? Where's Ran? How is she?" Kogoro Mouri was the first to spot Conan and kept asking him questions.

"Ran is right behind me..." Conan barely managed to grip the curtains, slowly moving to Kogoro Mouri's side, preparing to untie the ropes for him.

"No, this rope won't work. We have to untie it from the source. It was started by Officer Nakamori who tied it. Go and see if you can untie him."

Just as Conan was struggling to pull on the knot in Inspector Nakamori's hand, Chu Ming and Ran also entered the living room with a nimble and elegant air.

With the efforts of the three, all the ropes were untied except for those belonging to the red Siamese cat.

Seeing the red rash appearing on Kogoro Mouri's body, Ran's eyes reddened: "Daddy..."

Kogoro Mouri dodged Ran's lunge at him, a bitter look on his face: "Dad has a virus, stay away from me, don't get infected..."

Chu Ming glanced around and realized that because the virus had been splashed at close range and had come into direct contact with their skin, many people in the hall already had symptoms of infection.

On the contrary, Ran and Conan did not seem to be infected because the virus was thrown on the ground and did not come into direct contact with their bodies. In addition, Conan made his own mask and burned the air with fire.

Tsk, too bad, Conan escaped again. He truly lives up to his reputation as the protagonist.

Chapter 554 Escape

There were quite a few infected people in the hall, but since they were all adults, their resistance was stronger than that of children, and none of them lost consciousness immediately.

However, in this critical moment, no one cared about the virus anymore. After all, no matter how deadly the virus was, it still needed time to develop. If they didn't find a way to escape now, they wouldn't be able to wait for the virus to break out. Once the airship crashed, none of them would survive.

The airship was now violently shaking due to the bomb explosion and was accelerating its descent.

Chu Ming gripped the railing tightly to maintain his balance and looked out the window. Not far away, the Tower of Babel stood silently. At this speed, the airship would crash into the Tower of Babel in ten minutes.

"Let's jump when the airship gets close to the Tower of Babel." Chu Ming stared intently at the distance, making a rough estimate. "Judging from the airship's current descent trajectory, it most likely won't crash straight into the Tower of Babel, but will glide down just around the edge. Let's go to the boarding hatch at the bottom of the airship and wait there. We'll jump the moment the airship makes contact with the Tower of Babel—"

“No need for that trouble.” Jirokichi Suzuki waved his hand. “I just called and had a helicopter come to rescue us. There’s a dedicated helipad for the Suzuki Group in Osaka, so we’ll be there in no time.”

6.

As expected of the Suzuki Group, they really have money.

Look at how Conan escapes danger using skateboard straps and other extreme methods. Then look at the Suzuki family, who have money to burn, they only need to call for backup to escape.

While everyone on the airship was being rocked and swayed around, making light of the situation and joking with each other, the Suzuki family's helicopter arrived.

The airship was shaking so violently that the helicopters could not get too close. They could only lower a few rescue ropes so that people could climb up the rope ladders from the windows. Those who were unable to move were tied to the ropes and pulled up by the personnel inside the helicopter.

Since there was still plenty of time and no need to be polite, they lined up according to their distance from the window, with Chu Ming standing at the very end.

As the people on the airship climbed the rope ladder one by one, Chu Ming was just about to disconnect the robot and go out to see if he could create some magnetic field in the chaos.

Suddenly, he made the robot spin twice and finally remembered what he had just forgotten.

Where is his emotional intelligence?

He grabbed Conan's arm: "Hasn't Ai and the others arrived yet?"

Conan's eyes widened suddenly: "They're still on the top floor!"

After saying that, he prepared to run out, but he completely lost his balance. As soon as he let go of the railing, he slid straight out of the airship.

Chu Ming reacted quickly, grabbing his collar and pulling him up: "I'll go find him, you stay here."

"Brother Chu Ming, you're still injured. I'll go. I was the one who sent them away earlier, so I have to—" Conan was being pulled by the collar, struggling to breathe, his limbs hanging limply, a hint of guilt on his face. He had originally intended to keep the children away from danger, but he hadn't expected to put them in an even more dangerous situation.

"Kid, behave yourself and don't move around. If you slip out, no one will be able to save you in time." Inspector Nakamori was a little worried when he noticed Conan struggling behind him and almost being thrown out of the airship. "You two, come in front of me."

Chu Ming placed Conan's hand in the outstretched hand of Inspector Nakamori: "Officer, there are still four children on the airship. When we escaped from the room, they went to the upper deck of the airship. I'll go find them."

Conan wasn't about to let Chu Ming take the risk alone. He swayed left and right, like a fish, and slipped away from Inspector Nakamori's grasp, sliding towards Chu Ming: "Brother Chu Ming, wait for me, I'll go with you!"

Inspector Nakamori missed one of them, and the two behind him disappeared. He frowned and was about to chase after them, since he couldn't just watch the two kids go to rescue someone. But the 'Shinichi Kudo' in front of him turned around and said, "I'll go take a look too. Officer, you have to maintain order and keep an eye on the people with the red Siamese cat later, so you can't get away."

After saying that, he nimbly darted out.

Only Officer Nakamori, who was a beat too slow, was left standing there blankly looking at the empty spaces in front of and behind him.

At this point, the airship was already struggling to move forward. Chu Ming used the high-tech grappling hook he had taken from the organization to slowly incline it upwards.

"Brother Chu Ming, I'll help you find it."

The sound grew louder as it approached. Chu Ming turned around and saw Conan riding a skateboard on the swaying airship as if it were flat ground, moving at great speed. Behind him, Kid, bouncing up and down like a bouncy bean, followed closely.

Chu Ming braced himself against the wall to steady himself: "What are you two doing following us?"

“Let’s help you look for them. There are four kids. What if one of them is injured and can’t move? You can’t do anything by yourself—” Conan glanced back at Kid, who was impersonating him. “This guy, although he’s not a good person, at least he can help.”

"..." Kidd was speechless. What do you mean he's not a good person? He just borrowed someone else's identity. What's the big deal? He's such a vengeful detective.

"I'll try calling them with my detective badge. If they're still conscious, they should respond." Conan took out his detective badge from his pocket, tuned it to the calling frequency, and said, "Haibara, Haibara, can you hear me, Haibara?"

"Okay, Edogawa, is everything alright on your end?"

"Everything's alright now. Where are you? The spaceship just exploded, were any of you injured?"

"No, we're currently at the grid ladder directly below the airship's gasbag. Ayumi said this is where you first discovered the bomb. Just now, at the moment of the explosion, I secured us with ropes, so we weren't injured despite the ship's turbulence."

Ai Haibara's voice came from the badge, sounding unusually calm at this moment. Conan breathed a slight sigh of relief: "Wait for me there. Grandpa Suzuki called for a helicopter rescue. We'll be rescued as soon as we get up there."

Just then, the airship stopped shaking and swaying as before, and the three quickened their pace, arriving at the location of Ai Haibara and the others in no time.

Four children were neatly tied to the grid, hanging from the escalator like sausages. Upon seeing Chu Ming and the others, they excitedly shouted, "Conan, Conan, over here!"

Chu Ming stepped forward first, hooked his hand on the ropes of the group, and flicked a blade from his fingertip to cut them: "Quick, get over there while the airship isn't shaking too violently and the ground is still relatively stable. The fact that the airship isn't shaking now means it's about to plummet straight down. Hurry up."

The children didn't dare to delay, so they got up and quickly followed. Only a series of hurried footsteps echoed in the empty corridor.

Just as they were about to rush into the hall, the airship suddenly tilted downwards. In an instant, the ground beneath their feet turned into a wall. Chu Ming reacted quickly, throwing the grappling hook forward and firmly gripping the hanging lamp. While his right hand gripped the grappling hook to stabilize himself, he swung the rope downwards, looping it around Genta's feet. Genta, holding onto Mitsuhiko and Ayumi's hands, swayed precariously in the air.

On the other side, Kid was also holding onto the chain against the wall with one hand, while pulling Conan and Ayumi with the other.

The hall is just below, yet this short distance feels like an insurmountable distance.

Chu Ming and Kidd each held a string of candied hawthorns, hanging in the air, looking at each other in bewilderment.

Chapter 555 Where is Brother Chu Ming?

Compared to Chu Ming, Kidd was closer to the hall.

Looking at the hall door not far away, Chu Ming frowned. Looking at the string of babies he was carrying, he struggled to maintain the carrying posture and took out another rope from his pocket to tie to his hand, letting the rest hang down.

Then, he said to Mitsuhiko, who was being held by Genta, "Mitsuhiko, see the rope? Tie it around your and Ayumi's waists. Genta, once they've tied the rope, let go. Then I'll try my best to swing you towards Conan and the others. Genta needs to grab Conan and Ai while you're swinging, and then Ayumi and Mitsuhiko need to quickly tie the rope around them too. Can you do that?"