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The current elevator cannot withstand any vibration, and it is very likely to cause a second fall. Chu Ming held the little girl tightly with his hands to prevent her from moving.
"Little sister, don't be afraid. Brother is not a good person. No, brother is not a bad person." Chu Ming curled his lips and winked at the little girl, giving her a stunning beauty attack, and while she was in a daze, he passed the person out through the gap.
He doesn't have time to coax the child, so it's best to be simple and rough.
The little girl's mother breathed a sigh of relief, took the little girl in her arms, stepped back a few steps, and made room for Chu Ming to come out.
Amid the deafening cries of the little girl, Chu Ming carefully leaned out, just in time to see Conan and Officer Takagi rushing in. Chu Ming even had the mind to lean half of his body out and wave at them.
"Come out now!" Amuro Toru stretched out his hand to pull him away unhappily, "Can't you wave your hand when you come out?"
"Brother Chu Ming, be careful!!!" Conan's eyes widened instantly.
The entire elevator suddenly shook violently, and then fell rapidly downwards.
Chu Ming was quick to retract his half-extended leg and hand, as he was almost amputated by the rapidly falling elevator.
"boom--"
Chu Ming quickly stood up, half-crouched on the elevator, and fell down with the elevator.
The elevator suddenly shook and stopped halfway. Chu Ming tilted his head to look at Amuro Toru, who was half-squatting in the same cool pose as him, and covered his face with his hands.
"Mr. Amuro, the elevator is falling down. Others can't even run away in time. Why are you coming in? Are you stupid?"
Chapter 347 I'm Afraid You're Afraid
"I was afraid that you would be scared in there alone, so I came in to keep you company." Toru Amuro tilted his head slightly, looking sincere.
"...Really? I don't believe it. Did you just try to pull me out but got dragged in? You should have just let go." Chu Ming's face looked a little helpless. He originally wanted to be a lone hero, but what did Amuro Toru mean by this?
The bomb couldn't kill him, so he originally wanted to fake his death to trick Conan's mood level. But now there's Toru Amuro, so how can he fake his death?
Conan outside saw the elevator carrying Chu Ming rumbling down, and even the previous member of the organization jumped down without hesitation. He couldn't help but frown.
Was it really Chu Mingge that the member of the organization was targeting? Was it because of Chu Mingge's outstanding performance at the crime scene that the member wanted to win him over?
Thinking of some of the stories Officer Sato had told him about the bomber, Conan didn't bother to consider Toru Amuro's intentions and quickly made a phone call to ask Chu Ming about his current situation.
"All the cables of the elevator were broken, which probably triggered the emergency stop device. Now the elevator has been stopped urgently, and we are all fine."
"That's good. Brother Chu Ming, is there a bomb in the elevator?"
"No, I'm going to go up and see if there's anything unusual in the elevator."
Chu Ming turned on the speaker and put his cell phone in his pocket. He stepped on the handrail of the elevator and pushed open the partition above. He grabbed the edge of the partition and climbed up. Then he reached down and pulled Amuro Toru up.
The two men stared at the bomb placed above the elevator and fell into deep thought.
Because of the vibration caused by the two people climbing up the elevator, the mercury column inside the bomb was trembling slightly. Once the liquids on both sides merged, it was estimated that both people would die at the same time.
Toru Amuro quickly maintained his squatting posture without moving, looked at Chu Ming who was standing, and whispered to him to slowly squat down.
"Brother Chu Ming, Brother Chu Ming? Why aren't you talking? Look at where you are now. Officer Takagi said he'll call someone to rescue you later." After a long time without Chu Ming's response, Conan couldn't help but started chattering.
"Don't worry, is Officer Takagi next to you? Tell him that a bomb was found on the elevator." Chu Ming squatted down slowly, thought about it and sat down gently on the ground. "It will explode in more than an hour, and there should be no way to get the bomb disposal team to come because Mr. Amuro and I made a lot of noise when we climbed up just now. If there is any more unusual movement, the bomb will probably explode immediately."
"What?!!"
"Conan, ask the police in the bomb disposal team to hang the bomb disposal tools down from the elevator shaft above via slings, and then have someone direct me to defuse the bomb." Chu Ming's fingertips lightly passed over the bomb line. Although he had no idea how to defuse a bomb, he did not feel guilty at all.
After all, Gin had remotely directed him to defuse a bomb before, so rounding it off, he could probably do it.
Amuro Toru widened his eyes and asked quietly: "Can you defuse bombs?"
Chu Mingli was not righteous but confident, and said shamelessly: "I don't know how to do it, but the police from the bomb disposal team will teach me later. I just need to cut the wire according to his instructions. Isn't it enough to have hands?"
"..." Amuro Toru's eyes were full of doubt. He had really learned bomb disposal from Matsuda and Hagiwara. Chu Ming's words and actions clearly showed that he was a novice. He couldn't help but recommend himself, "How about letting me do it?"
Chu Ming was directing the policeman with tools hanging from the top to slowly lower the rope. Upon hearing this, he turned his head and glanced at Amuro Toru, with shock written all over his face: "You can do this, too? Isn't your business scope a bit exaggerated?"
Amuro Toru smiled innocently: "I learned a little bit before. After all, I have to take part-time jobs everywhere. It's easier to get orders if I know more."
Chu Ming looked at Toru Amuro who was lying with his eyes open, and he turned sideways to reach out to take him over slowly. After all, the slightest vibration would cause the mercury in the bomb to lose balance.
"Okay, if you can do it, go ahead." Chu Ming didn't waste any words. After Amuro Toru squatted beside him with light steps, he opened the tool bag he had just put down, put the headphones on his ears, and handed the pliers to Amuro Toru, "I'll help you."
Toru Amuro skillfully put on the infrared equipment and removed the bomb's casing quickly and efficiently, keeping his hands extremely steady from beginning to end.
At this moment, the bomb disposal police officer's careful warning came from the phone: "We will turn off the lights in the elevator later. Remember to wear infrared glasses. Don't worry, this bomb is not difficult to dismantle. We have dismantled it before. It is very simple. So please don't be nervous and don't touch the mercury column outside..."
"Yeah, don't worry... okay, okay... um... right..."
Chu Ming responded perfunctorily while watching Amuro Toru cut the bomb wires one by one with extraordinary calmness and stability. He couldn't help but hold up his chin and look towards the monitoring device hidden next to the bomb.
"...Okay, now there are only a few threads left. You guys did a great job. I—"
"No, I can't cut it anymore." Amuro Toru suddenly stopped his hand, and his hand, which had been steady all the time, was actually shaking slightly. "I can't cut it anymore."
"What's going on!" the police officer who was directing the operation shouted anxiously, "Why can't we cut it? We only need to cut the last few wires. If we cut the yellow wire connected to the LCD screen, the white wire connected to the mercury column, and the black wire used by the criminals to remotely control the bomb, the bomb will be defuse! You have completed such complicated prerequisites, why did you stop when there were only three wires left?!"
Chu Ming looked at the words that appeared on the LCD screen and chuckled, "Because the criminal left a few words saying that he had placed another bomb. This bomb will display the information of the next location three seconds before it explodes. If we cut off the bomb now, we won't get any information about the other bomb."
"What—" After hearing Chu Ming's words, the people around were a little speechless, "But how can we let you sacrifice yourself just for the information about the criminals..."
"Okay, I'll hang up first to save the battery. I'll call you again to tell you the bomb information when it's about to explode." Chu Ming decisively hung up the phone with Conan.
Conan was so anxious that sweat began to appear on his forehead. He unfolded the warning message sent by the bomber and brainstormed desperately, trying to find clues so that Chu Ming could dismantle the bomb and escape.
I must have missed something. I quickly thought about what it was.
Chapter 348 Are You Talking Nonsense?
At this moment in the elevator, Chu Ming was quietly sticking a loudspeaker sticker next to the monitoring device under the puzzled gaze of Amuro Toru.
Seeing Amuro Toru's surprised face, Chu Ming gestured and asked him to chat with him casually.
Then, as if taking out a treasure bag, he took out a palm-sized monitor from his side and installed it on the elevator shaft next to him.
Although Toru Amuro and Chu Ming did not have much tacit understanding, he also knew that with the presence of monitoring devices, what Chu Ming was doing could not be known to the criminals, so he could only find ways to talk about it.
"Are you afraid?"
Chu Ming was busy with his hands while answering casually, "Of course I am afraid. I am only a freshman, not yet an adult. How can I not be afraid of death? But there is a Chinese saying that I think is very true: Everyone has to die, some are heavier than Mount Tai, some are lighter than a feather. I died in such a glorious way, can I barely be considered a hero?"
In the narrow and dim elevator, because no one could see his expression clearly, Amuro Toru's face slowly showed sadness: "Hero——"
I don’t know if people like Hagiwara and Matsuda can be called heroes.
I wonder how proud those two bastards would be if they knew they were called heroes.
"I see Mr. Amuro often works part-time here and there. He must be having difficulties in life, right?" Chu Ming said, "You could have evacuated safely with everyone else, why did you come in to accompany me? One more person died in vain. Do you think life is too hard and meaningless?"
"..." Toru Amuro's sadness was instantly broken by Chu Ming. Do you know how to chat? What the hell is this!
Chu Ming tugged at the rope that the police had tied when they lowered the backpack, and found it was quite strong. He then handed a miniature microphone to Amuro Toru, signaling him to use it to speak.
Toru Amuro looked at the series of preparations made by Chu Ming. The combination of the miniature microphone and the sound-amplifying stickers could prevent the bomber who was eavesdropping from noticing that the two were escaping. Similarly, the installed surveillance cameras could clearly see what the prompts given three seconds before the bomb exploded were.
In addition, because the bomb was about to explode, no one was staying near the Tokyo Tower at this time. Chu Ming and Amuro Toru's skills were enough for them to escape easily without leaving any trace, so no one would know that the hero they called who was not afraid of life and death had already climbed out of the elevator shaft nimbly along the rope and was hiding on the bottom floor of the Tokyo Tower, waiting for the bomb to explode peacefully.
Time passed by minute by minute, the people outside were getting anxious, while the two people inside were chatting idly into the microphone while staring at the palm-sized surveillance screen in their hands and waiting patiently.
With ten seconds left, in order to repay Conan for his contribution to his emotions, Chu Ming maliciously called him again: "Conan, remember to turn on the speaker. Okay, here comes the prompt. It's the English letters E, V, I, T, C, E, T, E, D——"
"boom--"
The moment the explosion sounded, Chu Ming hung up the phone, feeling his emotion level soaring. The ground beneath his feet was shaking, and the power of the bomb was too strong. The entire upper part of the Tokyo Tower was blown apart. Fortunately, the elevator was stuck relatively high at the time, and the bottom of the tower was relatively safe. Apart from some falling rocks from time to time, there was no danger.
Chu Ming stuffed the microphone and surveillance screen back into his pocket. "The police will probably come in to search us later, but there will definitely be reporters from the TV station reporting on us. If they report that we are not dead, the criminals might get angry and detonate another bomb prematurely. So we should not meet them and sneak away from behind. It's a good opportunity that they haven't reacted yet."
Toru Amuro glanced at Chu Ming's pockets. He was very curious about where such strange equipment came from for a freshman. Not to mention the sound amplification stickers, just the palm-sized surveillance device did not seem like something an ordinary person could take out.
Aren’t all the surveillance cameras currently on the market large and bulky?
Even within the public security system, there is no such convenient and compact surveillance.
Toru Amuro felt that Chu Ming's identity was now shrouded in a mystery. He couldn't ask just now because he was being monitored, but now that he could ask, he couldn't help but start asking questions.
"Mr. Chu Ming's props look very interesting. Did you find someone to customize them?"
Chu Ming was not shy about it. He took out a monitoring screen from his pocket and said, "What are you talking about? This is a new defective product made by my company. Originally, the R&D personnel wanted to make a battery-powered device for remote monitoring, but the current battery technology can only supply power for half an hour, and it can only monitor in real time, and there is no way to store the images. The one next to me is a defective product that they are going to eliminate and destroy, but I personally think that even the worst products have their uses, so I put it aside. Look, it's being used now."
After listening to Chu Ming talk about the drawbacks of this inferior product, Toru Amuro also realized that what he thought was a divine weapon seemed to be quite useless in reality.
However, because of this, he discovered that Chu Ming's brain was indeed very quick. It just so happened that the explosion occurred in this hidden and invisible elevator room. The criminals could only rely on eavesdropping to determine whether people were still there. They could not monitor the situation here in real time, which allowed people to find an opportunity to exploit the loophole.
"Your company?" Toru Amuro was a little confused. The information he got did not mention that Chu Ming had a company... This must be a breakthrough point!
"Yes, it's my company. My elders gave it to me." Chu Ming unceremoniously treated the company that Karasuma Renya temporarily let him manage as his own. Anyway, he was getting all the profits from the company, so how could it not be his? "Although it's not under my name, it's mine after rounding it off."
"..." The corners of Toru Amuro's mouth twitched. He asked why he couldn't find any information. Do your elders know that you are so shameless?
"I already know where the second bomb is." Chu Ming didn't want to be tricked by Amuro Toru, so he changed the subject. "Those English letters just now are "detective" in reverse, which means detective. He reversed the English letters, which means to read "detective" in reverse, which is - Teitan."
"There are schools named after Teitan, ranging from kindergartens, elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools to universities. However, Xiaolan said a few days ago that today is the day of their school's national mock exam. In addition, Xiaolan is usually very lucky and would never be absent when encountering such a bad thing. I think the criminal must have placed a bomb in Teitan High School."
After listening to the previous reasoning, Toru Amuro felt as if he had suddenly realized something, but when he heard the particularly idealistic reasoning at the end, he couldn't help but have a lot of question marks in his mind.
What does such a big thing have to do with a person’s physique?
Are you just making this all up?
Chapter 349 This is Granburch!!
Chu Ming saw Amuro Toru's distrust and couldn't help but hook his shoulder: "Don't disbelieve me, I'm serious. How about we sneak into Teitan High School and take a look?"
Toru Amuro stood there in a daze, not saying anything for a long time.
"Mr. Amuro?" Chu Ming couldn't help but shook him.
Amuro Toru quickly adjusted his emotions: "Oh, oh, okay, um, okay."
???
Chu Ming looked at Amuro Toru suspiciously, who suddenly became strange, with confusion written all over his face.
Toru Amuro lowered his eyes and looked at Chu Ming's hand on his shoulder, his heart in turmoil.
This feeling--
This kind of familiarity, the feeling of casually putting your hand on his shoulder——