Survival Manual of the Science Fiction World

"Okay, go plant the bomb."

"Oh no!" Conan clutched his knees tightly. What was he going to do now? If the bomb was planted, how was he going to escape? Calm down, Shinichi Kudo, you need to calm down. You'll definitely find a way.

Just as Conan was at his wit's end, a police siren sounded in the distance.

"It's a police patrol car! Don't plant a bomb, get out of here!"

Chu Ming put away the phone that was playing a recording on the window, followed the Kudo couple downstairs and got into the car. As soon as they drove away from the small building, a burst of loud laughter erupted in the car.

The patrol sirens gradually faded into the distance, and the sounds of cars starting up downstairs also faded away. Conan used his stiff hands to push open the partition above his head, crawled out on all fours, and collapsed on the floor, unable to recover for a long time.

Chapter 76: Were the Doctor and Ai Haibara also arrested?

"No, they have another deal at 1 p.m. today. I need to find out if there are any clues! I don't know if they left the drug in the house, but it's probably impossible, since they're planning to blow up the house."

Conan muttered to himself in his room, trying to calm himself down after the tension he had just felt.

However, after searching the entire room, they found no clues.

"No good, I can't find anything!" Conan plopped down on the floor, panting heavily. He leaned back instinctively and accidentally knocked over the trash can.

"Huh? What's this?" Conan pulled a newspaper from the bottom of the trash can; it was full of holes.

Could it be that the way those men in black traded was by cutting out words from newspapers and pasting them into letters?

Conan immediately became excited. He spread out the newspaper, carefully examined the contents, and determined that the missing characters were '饭' (fan, rice), '米' (mi, rice), '大' (da, big), '店' (dian, shop), and '花' (hua, flower). Combined with the markings on the calendar on the wall, he confirmed that the clue was:

"Mihua Grand Hotel, 30!" He threw down the newspaper and ran downstairs.

When he changed his clothes and sneaked into the Mihua Grand Hotel, he was completely unaware that someone upstairs was watching him with binoculars.

"He's here! I saw him come in! Okay, he's running to the garage! Quick, get ready, he might be coming up soon! Doctor, hurry up and put on your gear and go down!" Chu Ming excitedly called to the four people in the room.

Yes, four people—besides the Kudo couple, there's Professor Agasa and Ai Haibara.

Conan followed Professor Agasa, who was disguised as a big guy, in the parking lot and learned that the transaction location was room 301 of the Beika Hotel. He secretly followed Professor Agasa, thinking he was being very discreet, but in fact, everything was being seen by the people in the room.

Professor Agasa had already installed a hidden camera in the hotel corridor. Watching Conan sneaking around behind a flowerpot, Chu Ming opened the door to let Professor Agasa in while they changed clothes to buy time.

"Conan is next to that potted plant. Yukiko, go to the entrance of 301 and tell him to hide somewhere else. Professor Agasa and Ai are still changing clothes."

"Okay." Yukiko slowly approached the room door. The others watched as Conan, looking completely lost, finally sneaked into the guest room next door.

Professor Agasa emerged from the giant's clothes and placed the lifelike doll he had made on a chair. Yukiko tucked a blood pack inside the clothes, striving to make the scene look even more realistic when she turned around to fire.

Chu Ming pulled out two ropes from behind and tied Professor Agasa and Ai up, placing them behind the curtain. The two of them cooperated by falling down and pretending to faint.

"Knock knock knock—hello customers, your food has arrived."

Just as everything was set up, there was a knock at the door.

Yukiko flung open the door, her face contorted with rage: "This isn't the food we ordered! You've got the wrong order!"

"But we did receive a phone call..."

Kudo Yusaku let his son's clumsy scheme go, after all, it wasn't good to stay at the door for too long: "Let him in, I'm hungry anyway."

The waiter looked at the strange-looking people in the room and cautiously pushed the food cart in. He was especially frightened when he saw the mask on Kudo Yusaku's face after he turned around. He trembled a little.

Yusaku Kudo shoved him out the door: "Alright, the food's been delivered, you'd better get going!"

Conan sneaked through the door while the waiter was delivering the food cart and hid in the closet. There was no other way; the closet was the closest and most concealed spot in the entire room after opening the door.

He peered through the crack into the room. Besides the members of the three organizations—Vodka, Rum, and Mary—there was also the big guy who had just come up. He was facing away from the door, looking at a box, presumably the item they were trading.

What intrigued Conan most was that behind the partition curtain, he could vaguely see two figures. Who were they? Were they also members of the organization?

When Kudo Yusaku entered, he locked the door and fastened the security lock. He couldn't let a repeat of yesterday's incident where Yukiko left the car door unlocked, almost causing a traffic accident for Conan.

How embarrassing would it be if Conan recklessly ran out shouting for help?

Chu Ming approached the food cart as soon as it entered: "The food at this restaurant smells pretty good. Mary, Rum, shall we have a drink?"

Yusaku Kudo said with a cold laugh, "Before that, we need to give a proper introduction to an uninvited guest."

He slowly raised the gun in his hand.

"An uninvited guest? You mean, that brat is here?" Yukiko yanked open the cover under the food cart, revealing it to be empty.

No, you must have made a mistake.

"Hmph, the car is just a smokescreen. The real place that brat is hiding is in the closet!"

He yanked open the wardrobe and, sure enough, found Conan inside, his mouth agape in shock.

"Alright kid, the detective game is over. Come out now." Yu pointed a gun at Conan, forcing him to come out of the closet.

Just as Conan touched his tranquilizer watch, Chu Ming swiftly tied him up from behind with a rope. No matter how many times this has happened, Conan still can't learn to avoid danger from behind.

Actually, he wanted to use that baseball bat to help him remember, but Conan's parents were there, so he couldn't bully their son in front of them.

Conan was suddenly tied up. Looking at Chu Ming behind him, a man with long silver hair and a menacing expression, staring at him with eyes that seemed to hold the murderous intent of countless people, he exclaimed, "You—"

Chu Ming spoke coldly, "If I had known, I should have just shot you dead that day. I shouldn't have given you those drugs. But it doesn't matter, because of you, I also found the traitor in that organization..."

Conan frantically looked up: Could it be—

Sure enough, as Chu Mingyang pulled back the partition curtain, Conan's eyes widened in fury.

—Behind them were Professor Agasa and Ai Haibara, lying on the ground with their backs to the door, their fates unknown.

Chapter 77 Three years old or no more

"Doctor! Ai Haibara!" Conan couldn't help but shout.

"Stop yelling, you'll be going to hell together later." Chu Ming casually tossed his long hair, almost throwing off his wig. Luckily, Conan's attention was completely on the two people inside, so he didn't give himself away.

Dr. Agasa's legs were getting numb from lying on the ground for so long. Seeing that the others were hesitant to take the next step, he decided to go himself.

"Alright, I don't care about your organization's farce. I've brought what I was supposed to trade. Where's what you promised me?" The big guy with his back to Conan suddenly spoke up.

—In reality, the professor was using a speech generator, taking advantage of the fact that Conan couldn't see him speaking.

Chu Ming was the first to react: "Of course, what the organization promised you, you can—go to hell to get it!"

As he spoke, he took out a replica gun from his side and fired it at the model with a 'whoosh'.

"Ugh—" With a low scream, the big man slowly slid off the chair, blood seeping out little by little.

Conan's mouth dropped open in shock, and his fists clenched tightly: Damn it, these people actually murdered someone right in front of me!

"Weren't we supposed to use him for drug testing?! How could you kill him!"

Chu Ming raised his chin and pointed towards the door: "Killed them, so be it. Lacking test subjects is easy. We can just grab one from outside."

After the big guy's scenes were over, Professor Agasa pretended to have just woken up and took the opportunity to stretch his body. He thought to himself, "I should have known better than to choose this role. It's tiring to just lie still!"

Ai Haibara slowly opened her eyes. Faced with Chu Ming's current face and the dark aura he unintentionally exuded, even without acting, her face quickly turned pale: "It's...it's you—"

Chu Ming squatted down and said, "Yeah, Sherry, if we hadn't discovered that this brat was Shinichi Kudo, we wouldn't have known that you had shrunk too and were hiding next to him. Hmph, on the road to the underworld, blame this brat for being too attention-seeking!"

Conan was now consumed by deep remorse. If he hadn't solved cases using Shinichi Kudo's name before, he might not have been found by the organization. Ran, it seems we can only meet again in the next life...

Looking at him, Chu Ming began to stab him in the heart: "By the way, I remember this kid has a childhood sweetheart, the daughter of the detective agency he's staying at, I think her name is—Ran Mouri? After we're done here, remember to go there and kill that girl and her whole family too. Who knows if this kid leaked any secrets of the organization while he was staying here."

"No! Don't touch Ran! She doesn't know anything!" Conan couldn't help but raise his head and glare fiercely at Chu Ming.

"You should worry about yourself. The organization's influence is all over the world. You have time to worry about your childhood sweetheart, but why don't you worry about your parents who are wandering the world?"

Yusaku Kudo and Yukiko blinked as they watched Chu Ming suddenly improvise. It seemed like there weren't any scenes for them in the script.

Ai Haibara rolled her eyes inwardly. She knew it! This guy was completely unreliable. Every time he got carried away, he'd just spout nonsense and forget all about the script. It was the same last time…

"My parents—?" Conan murmured a few words.

Chu Ming realized he had gotten carried away and quickly packed up.

"Hmph, don't try to trick me into telling you anything. The organization's plans won't be told to you. You'll just be a confused ghost on your way to the underworld!"

Feeling guilty, Chu Ming glanced at his watch and urged the other two, "Alright, let's finish this quickly. It's getting late. Let's kill these people and then go out and arrest that waiter. He saw our faces; we can take him back as test subjects."

Yusaku Kudo was speechless. He raised his gun and pointed it at Conan's forehead: "Hmph, famous detective, you can regret what you've done when you get to the underworld!"

With a sharp "snap," accompanied by Conan's terrified scream, a suction cup appeared on Conan's forehead.

Seeing his dazed expression, the group burst into a burst of wild laughter, and Chu Ming even took out a clapperboard.

"Click——"

Yusaku Kudo removed his mask, smiled, and winked at Conan: "It's me, the world's foremost mystery novelist—Yusaku Kudo~"

"Dad, then this lady is—"

"That's right, it's me, the Japanese actress who captivated men worldwide and won a major award at the tender age of 19—Yukiko Kudo~"

As Conan's speechless gaze turned to Chu Ming, Chu Ming blinked. This... did it have to be this awkward? This self-introduction... how was he supposed to respond?

Is he going to say—I am the youngest executive in the distillery—Glenbury?

He dejectedly removed his wig and tore off his disguise: "That's right, it's me, your good friend who was supposed to save you from dire straits but ended up willingly boarding the pirate ship—Chu Ming~"

Too low, too low. Even though the format is similar, the quality is much lower QAQ

Professor Agasa and Ai Haibara, who were in the distance, also pulled the rope themselves and walked over.

"Doctor, how could you lie to me like they did?!"

Conan lay on the sofa, pouting and glaring at everyone.