I'm in Detective Conan, but it's a chaotic battlefield.

Chen Nuo couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement.

Why did the PhD student ultimately choose the option that was abandoned from the beginning?

Even if the sponsor is an elderly lady, isn't it a bit too disrespectful to use such a direct approach?

Chen Nuo feels that the probability of winning a doctoral award is declining.

But then he thought, maybe the original plan for the competition was destroyed or something, so this was used as a substitute?

"It's so ugly, how could something like this possibly win an award?" Shinnosuke couldn't help but say, but his attention was more focused on the screen where no one was answering the connection.

After flying for more than ten minutes, the drone carrying the "gospel potion" was approaching the fireworks display site.

The intense white flash on the screen just now is proof of that.

But what are this kid's trump cards?

If he was hoping to use the fireworks at the fireworks display to shoot down the drone, he was likely to be disappointed.

Because the drones were set to fly at an altitude of around 120 meters, which is far below the height of the fireworks explosion, there was no need to worry about them being affected.

In the blink of an eye, the drone footage on the computer screen showed the scene of the fireworks display.

The beach area was packed with people watching the fireworks display, while a separate area near the sea was set aside for the contestants.

Shinnosuke felt happy.

Although his vision was somewhat blurred due to the blood covering his eyes, he could still roughly make out that the drone had entered the preset flight area.

According to the program settings, the carried medicine will be dispersed within 30 seconds.

Shinnosuke wanted to laugh out loud, but he was worried that it would upset Chen Nuo, so he had to hold it in. His badly injured leg and the betrayal of his assistant were causing him double torment, both physically and mentally.

But he'll be free soon, won't he? Although he can't keep his promise to personally humiliate Chen Nuo's woman, Shinnosuke believes his successor will avenge him. Seeing Chen Nuo's remorseful expression before he dies is enough.

Chen Nuo gazed into the distance and suddenly spoke up: "Actually, I also participated in this competition."

"Hmm?" A bad feeling welled up in Shinnosuke's heart.

Before he could even ask a question, countless dazzling fireworks shot into the sky from all directions.

The barrage of bullets, resembling anti-aircraft missiles on a battlefield, wove into a massive net in the air, covering almost the entire night sky.

Shinnosuke was shocked.

He immediately looked at the computer screen and found that the monitor had turned into a snowy screen, with the text indicating a signal interruption slowly moving across the screen.

The drone was intercepted?!

Shinnosuke stared at Chen Nuo in shock, unable to utter a complete sentence for a long time.

Seeing the other party's appearance, Chen Nuo felt that he should behave more elegantly at this time, so as to cause greater psychological damage to the enemy.

So Chen Nuo walked to the vending machine in the corner of the exhibition hall, reached through the broken glass, and took out a can of Coke that wasn't too cold.

Then he walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, gazing elegantly at the distant night view: "Mr. Shinnosuke, what score would you give my entry?"

The voice just fell.

The barrage of bullets that successfully intercepted the drones caused a secondary explosion. Similar to Professor Agasa's entry, a picture appeared in the night sky—

Ai Haibara's face?

Below that is an extremely cheesy love confession, so cheesy that anyone who sees it will want to dig their toes into the ground.

Chen Nuo's lips twitched slightly.

What's going on? Didn't I tell her the more subtle the fireworks effect, the better? Sherry is way too eager to confess her feelings!

But you should have considered the occasion; this has really lowered his status.

Moreover, Chen Nuo clearly felt that Vermouth's gun barrel moved slightly in his direction.

Chapter 78 Xiao Lan: Lord City Lord, please choose your preferred way of dying.

The fireworks display was forced to end prematurely.

Although Ai Haibara added a composite gel to the fireworks launcher she used in the competition, which could absorb the harmful gases leaking from the villain's drone.

But eventually it will all come to fruition.

Subsequent isolation and sampling are equally essential steps; if a secondary leak were to occur, the consequences would be unimaginable.

After the enemy took concrete action against tourists watching the fireworks display, the local officials in Izu no longer dared to obstruct them.

The entire Metropolitan Police Department was mobilized.

One of the teams went to the air show to capture Shinnosuke, Tetsuken Juro, and the mysterious organization fabricated by Chen Nuo.

More police officers were deployed to the beach to completely control the area around the fireworks display, ensuring the safety of tourists and checking the crowd for any other accomplices.

Meanwhile, Amuro Tooru's men were lying in ambush, taking people who looked suspicious into the car.

They conducted even more rigorous interrogations.

However, to everyone's surprise, even though the fireworks festival was only less than a third of the way through and many contestants' fireworks had not yet been displayed, the champion had already been chosen.

He's the guy who confessed his love to his girlfriend in public and said a bunch of cheesy things.

The contestants and the audience were puzzled as to why Chen Nuo could win the championship when his fireworks were incomplete—because they hit the drone and couldn't form a pattern properly, so Chen Nuo's fireworks pattern was missing a piece.

Some people even went to the organizers to cause trouble.

However, since the purpose of this competition was to find the most beautiful fireworks in the old lady's mind, the judging mechanism was entirely up to her.

The protests were ineffective, and the participants could only accept a fairly substantial participation prize, while secretly cursing that jerk might as well have failed in his confession and been rejected.

Unfortunately, things turned out to be the opposite of what everyone had predicted.

To punish Ai Haibara for acting on her own initiative, Chen Nuo revoked her right to enter his castle that very night.

It's not that you can't enter at all.

You just need to make an appointment in advance and pay a certain fee.

However, later, seeing Ai Haibara's tearful face...

Chen Nuo still softened his heart.

"If you really can't afford it, having your sister wear a maid outfit and help me clean the castle would be a good alternative," Chen Nuo said with an evil grin befitting a city lord.

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half a month later.

Chen Nuo finally received a call from the event organizers, saying that the old lady who sponsored the event wanted to meet him.

He then went to a coffee shop with the people sent by the other party and chatted for several hours.

Chen Nuo finally figured out why his entry won the award.

It turns out that this old lady met her husband when she was in school. They went to university together and then got married.

When I was young, I didn't have much money and had to work overtime until very late, so I couldn't even attend festivals like fireworks displays.

So the two of them squeezed into the cramped rented room, looking at the stars in the sky and imagining them as fireworks.

Because the distribution of stars is random, no matter how much you try to make connections, there will always be flaws.

Chen Nuo's fireworks for the competition happened to achieve a similar effect by accident. In addition, his bold act of confessing his love to his girlfriend in front of everyone reminded the old lady of her youthful and innocent memories.

As a result, Chen Nuo unexpectedly won the championship of this fireworks festival.

"What unwavering love!" Chen Nuo forced out two tears, then called Eri to ask her to help with the handover of the castle before saying goodbye to the old lady.

Before leaving, he promised that he would spend his whole life protecting this hard-won love.

However, he secretly added a sentence in his heart—to protect all the hard-won love around him.

Although it might sound distasteful, there's nothing that can be done about it. After all, this is the semi-sci-fi world of "Detective Conan," and the country he lives in has its own unique circumstances. Great writers and politicians can keep mistresses without their wives intervening; in fact, their wives often deliberately give the two of them time to be together.

In short, since there is no law governing this kind of thing, Chen Nuo will not meddle in other people's business, unless relevant laws are introduced in the future.

I believe Naoko's mother will also help him find a reasonable way to avoid this.

Chen Nuo came out of the coffee shop.

Under the blazing sun, cicadas chirped incessantly, and the sweltering air was oppressive, leaving pedestrians looking listless.

Chen Nuo suddenly felt somewhat lost.

Vermouth has already contacted him about the Black Organization, and he hasn't received a reply yet, but it seems like there shouldn't be any major problems. As for Gin's feud with the Miyano sisters, we'll just have to wait until his cheat abilities become even stronger before we can figure that out.

This was also something Ai Haibara strongly requested.

Her exact words were: "The organization is more terrifying than you can imagine. If you lose and get killed, my sister and I will have to risk our lives to avenge you."

However, Chen Nuo still secretly remembered this matter in his heart.

If I can just mine for another 5 years, I should be able to easily crush Gin and Vodka, right?

The current situation is that Chen Nuo doesn't need to worry about the organization's crisis for the time being, and the external mining operation is on track. Even without replenishing new souls, he can still earn a considerable amount of experience points every day, so he doesn't need to go to great lengths to find Conan to gain experience.

The girls recently spent about two weeks in Izu. After the incident, they all returned to work and studies and haven't contacted him recently.

Since Chen Nuo transmigrated to the world of Detective Conan, the tension he had been holding back suddenly eased, and he didn't know what to do next.

After thinking it over, he suddenly thought of taking Xiaolan to see the new castle, since they had already agreed to live there in the future.

"You said you got the prize from the fireworks festival?" Xiaolan's voice was full of surprise on the phone. The sound of hitting protective gear could be faintly heard from her end, probably from the karate club.

"Yeah, why don't we go take a look and pick a room we like?" Chen Nuo said with a smile, "Once we're late, someone else will snatch it up."

Xiaolan sighed: "How can you ask a girl out like that? If you just say there are other people you can choose the room for, you'll get killed and thrown into Tokyo Bay."

Chen Nuo: "I thought you were used to it."

"Not yet, hurry up and say something nice to coax me." Xiaolan suddenly lowered her voice, probably worried that the juniors in the karate club would hear her.

Chen Nuo thought for a moment and said, "Well... actually, I was the first person to call you."

"Barely satisfactory."

"Oh, I see. I'll ask Yuanzi if she's free." Chen Nuo said, about to hang up the phone.

"No time!!!" Xiaolan shouted to stop her, then seemed to walk to a more secluded corner and said in a low voice, "Yuanzi and Aunt Pengzi went to the orchard for a party, they probably won't be back until the day after tomorrow."