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

In such a situation, if a glimmer of hope appeared, what would you do?

Chen Nuo cut to the chase: "You could have waited for the box to fall and then figured out how to pick it up."

Shirley remained silent.

She didn't immediately refute him because Chen Nuo was right, but she couldn't remain completely calm in that situation.

The two then argued about this issue for most of the day, but neither could convince the other.

Chen Nuo always believed that she should have been more rational at the time, but Shiho Miyano felt that in that situation, it was impossible for a person to remain completely calm.

After talking for a while, Chen Nuo's throat started to hurt again: "Um... is there any more water?"

Shiho Miyano added a piece of wood to the fire: "No, the nearest clean water source is half an hour away, and the journey is very dangerous."

Chen Nuo licked his dry lips and glanced at the rain curtain at the cave entrance.

Shiho Miyano: "Drinking rainwater at this time is a very risky thing to do, and I don't recommend you do it."

"Then what did I drink just now? Wasn't it rainwater?" Chen Nuo asked curiously.

Shiho Miyano: "I went outside to get the water. I was worried that you would die of dehydration here, and my plan would be ruined."

Chen Nuo thought to herself that at a time like this, she still had to emphasize that she was doing it for the sake of the plan, just like the time she cooked before. She seemed to be someone who wasn't very good at expressing affection.

"Is there any water left?" Chen Nuo asked.

Shiho Miyano paused for a moment, then said, "No, that's all."

Chen Nuo felt there was something wrong with her hesitation, so he pressed her for an answer: "I guess someone will come to rescue us soon, and once I recover, I can fetch more water and maybe even find a safe way down the mountain. You don't need to be so cautious."

Chen Nuo felt that she was doing this to save resources, so he advised her against it.

Shiho Miyano: "You really want to drink it?"

Chen Nuo nodded, because he was really thirsty.

Shiho Miyano had a strange expression on her face, then handed one of the khaki boots that was placed at her feet to Chen Nuo.

Chen Nuo took it, stunned for a long time: "What does this mean?"

"Water, didn't you say you wanted to drink water?"

Chen Nuo then noticed that the boot seemed heavier than ordinary shoes. He looked down and found that there was still about a third of water left in the boot shaft.

"You actually want me to drink your foot bath water?!"

Chen Nuo suddenly realized what she meant and stared at her with wide eyes.

"I've washed it thoroughly; it's much cleaner than drinking rainwater directly," Shiho Miyano said, shrugging.

Chen Nuo looked at the water in the boots. Although it didn't smell strange, it had the clarity of spring water and a faint sweet smell.

But his expression still turned somewhat unpleasant.

"Why do you look so disgusted?" Shiho Miyano asked.

"Wouldn't this be the normal reaction for most people?"

"But you seemed to be really enjoying it when you were drinking it just now."

Chen Nuo: "That's because I didn't know. If I had known, I wouldn't have drunk it even if I were dying of thirst."

"Really?" Shiho Miyano chuckled playfully. "If you woke up and found that I had also fainted, would you secretly do something to me? Or would you secretly drink all the water from my shoes?"

"They'll throw you into the campfire and roast you into a delicious roast meat, then share it with everyone," Chen Nuo said, dissatisfied.

"That's really weird."

Chen Nuo felt that she was deliberately retaliating against him for calling her reckless and stupid earlier, and that's why she was deliberately trying to disgust him like this.

That despicable woman.

Chen Nuo felt he had to teach this guy a lesson; otherwise, such a stain on his life as drinking foot bath water might make him unable to hold his head high in front of Shiho Miyano.

He didn't want to be trampled on by a woman.

We must at least let her stay, because she finds it difficult to talk about this ordeal.

Thinking of this, Chen Nuo suddenly picked up her boots—and gulped them down!

He poured all the water into his mouth, but didn't swallow it.

Shiho Miyano looked shocked and incredulous.

Seeing Chen Nuo suddenly act self-destructively, she became somewhat frightened.

"W-What are you going to do?"

Shiho Miyano's voice trembled slightly, and she raised her small, white feet, which were resting on the metal box, ready to retaliate at any moment.

"Of course, I want you to taste the foot bath water too. How can I enjoy such a good thing all by myself?"

Chen Nuo stood up with water in his mouth, and walked towards her while answering incoherently.

Chapter 33 Sherry's Night Raid is a Battlefield

Chen Nuo may have just woken up, and his logical thinking is still a bit muddled.

That's why they did something that hurt the enemy a thousand times while also injuring themselves twelve thousand times.

However, since the water has already been drunk...

There's no going back now; he has to use Shiho Miyano's lips to heal the emotional wounds he suffered.

Because the cave wasn't very big, and he and Shiho Miyano were sitting around the fire.

So Chen Nuo arrived in front of her in the blink of an eye.

Shiho Miyano only had time to lift her legs and try to push Chen Nuo away with her small feet, which were slightly white from being soaked in water.

However, due to the difference in strength between the two.

Normally, Shirley wouldn't be able to push Chen Nuo away.

Moreover, after taking off her socks, her fair and soft little feet were more like attack speed boosting items than defensive items.

But Chen Nuo froze in place after the other person lifted their foot, and did not continue to move forward.

"W-What are you going to do?"

Shiho Miyano's voice sounded flustered, but more so confused.

Chen Nuo's gaze fell on the sole of one of her bare feet, which was not wearing a sock. He noticed that it was covered with tiny wounds. Although the bleeding had stopped, the density of the wounds was enough to make one instinctively feel uncomfortable.

Clean water is far away, boots are filled with water, and there are wounds on the feet...

This information is put together.

They quickly formed a logical line.

Yes, if she uses boots to carry water, she'll have to walk back barefoot.

Why didn't you wear my shoes? Or you could have easily used my shoes to bring the water back.

Chen Nuo looked down and realized that her shoes were gone.

Could it have been swept away by the water when it fell into the waterfall?

Thinking about it that way, it's possible. Shiho Miyano was wearing boots, which would have been more securely tied to her feet. She was wearing casual shoes when she went up the mountain, so it's not surprising that they were washed away by the water.

But that's not the point.

The key point is that, faced with Shiho Miyano like this, Chen Nuo felt too embarrassed to bully her anymore.

Chen Nuo walked to the vicinity of the cave entrance and spat the water he had been holding in his mouth onto the ground.

When she turned around, she found that Shiho Miyano had already pulled her legs back and put her feet on the box containing the ore.

“I thought you would drink it.” Shiho Miyano stared at the fire in front of her.

"Who would drink that kind of stuff?"

Chen Nuo subconsciously retorted; arguing with Shiho Miyano seemed to have become a habit.

Chen Nuo walked to the fire and sat down, but this time he deliberately turned his back to the cave entrance.

This will help block some of the wind and rain that are blowing in from the cave entrance.

Chen Nuo added a few more pieces of wood to the fire.

They moved the fire closer to her.

When Shiho Miyano noticed these two small details, her gaze softened considerably, but she said, "Don't misunderstand, I just don't want my lab rat, which I've raised for so long, to die here like this."

Chen Nuo: "Okay, now you can tell me about us, right?"

Shiho Miyano hesitated for a moment before saying, "Actually, I only know part of what you're about..."

Do you believe that people can reverse aging?

Outside, the torrential rain continued to rage, and lightning ripped through the gray sky, but the narrow cave seemed like a completely independent safe house.

The crackling sound of burning wood, the girl's cool voice, the fresh scent of damp earth, and the faint, almost imperceptible fragrance of Shirley's perfume.

These things are put together.

It gave Chen Nuo a strange sense of tranquility.

Moreover, because the truth told by Shiho Miyano was so bizarre, Chen Nuo listened with great interest, as if he were listening to a story.

Basically, Sherry discovered that Shinichi Kudo had shrunk, and then thought that this medicine was an opportunity for her and her sister to escape the organization.

So they used the pretext of helping the organization cultivate loyal "suicide squads".

A new research project has been launched.

Unexpectedly, because Gin was short-handed, he forcibly took the half-finished potion she had researched and used it.

Shiho Miyano was unaware of the specific details.

She was excluded from the project because she strongly protested against experimenting on humans with immature drugs.

All she knew was that the organization had recruited many people with different constitutions through various channels, probably thinking that even if the drug wasn't mature, they could still achieve their goal by increasing the dosage.

Human lives are being used to accelerate the development of this drug.