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"Is this Gin's doing?"
Chu Ming blinked. Should he frame Gin or tell the truth?
Oh, so tangled~
Chapter 498 Smart Man
"It's actually not that bad, my brother—"
Before he could finish speaking, Lafitte started to complain on his behalf.
"What's good about that? Boss, you don't know that Gin is too arrogant! I just called him to question him, but he was able to lie calmly, saying that the injury he caused was just a minor one! He said I was making a fuss! Boss, look at this!" Lafitte pointed at the shocking wound on Granburch's body, "Can Granburch's injury be called a minor one? How about letting Gin try this kind of minor injury too?"
Chu Ming blinked, looking at Lafitte's indignation, and said weakly: "Actually, this is me--"
"Don't help him to get away with it!" Lafitte's eyes were clear, and the anger was still there on his handsome face. He was also an old man around the boss, so the boss would not mind if he was a little bit presumptuous. "I know you have been training with Gin before, and you have a deep affection for Gin, but look at you, you have been injured like this, are you still going to help him explain? Did he also damage your brain?"
Chu Ming didn't want to wrongly accuse Gin. After all, this was really Gin's unprovoked misfortune. However, every time he opened his mouth to explain, he was blocked by Lafitte.
What does this mean? This is God’s will.
Even God couldn't stand Gin's previous oppression of him, and was ready to let him vent his anger this time.
In that case, don't blame him for turning his back on the wine.
Chu Ming tilted his head slightly, and when he blinked, hot tears rolled down his cheeks, looking very pitiful: "Lafitte, don't blame my brother, I took the initiative to propose the self-torture tactic, my brother must have been careless..."
Hearing this, Lafitte's anger intensified, his fair face flushed with anger: "Even if you proposed a self-torture tactic, he can't be so harsh!"
"It's not very severe. Big brother knows how to control your blows and he won't really beat me to death. I believe in you." Chu Ming forced a smile, like a small white flower swaying in the wind.
Karasuma Renya was indeed shocked and angry before seeing the photo. He never expected that Chu Ming would be so seriously injured, and this injury was caused by Gin's hands.
But since the call was connected, his expression gradually became strange as he looked at Chu Ming's expression which did not seem to be in pain and his chattering.
If he guessed correctly, this time Lafitte was probably worried and confused.
"You still believe him, you—"
"Okay, Lafitte." Karasuma Renye called out to Lafitte, "Why don't you go and help Granburch sew up his wound."
“Uh…” Chu Ming glanced at the boss’s calm and composed look, and was sure that the boss must have seen through his tricks. He immediately laughed awkwardly and waved his hand at Lafitte, “No need to sew, no need to sew…”
"?" Lafitte looked at Chu Ming who suddenly became full of energy. He was not a fool, and a hint of doubt immediately appeared in his eyes.
Chu Ming looked at his suspicious expression and the boss's expression of seeing through everything. He laughed dryly, reached out and took out a bottle of liquid from his body and sprayed it on the wound. After a while, he tore off a piece of the wound that was disguised. It was actually flesh and skin turned outward, with some white things inside, similar to bones.
But this is just decoration. What can really make the wound bleed like the real thing is actually the system's credit. But now, this piece of lifted skin is enough to explain the problem.
"..."
"..."
Lafitte was silent, but even though he was silent, the points on Chu Ming's system panel showed that he was still not so calm in his heart.
"You—" Lafitte's mouth twitched, "Fake?"
"Well, how could I allow myself to be injured so badly just to lure the FBI?" Chu Ming stretched out his hand and pulled off all the so-called wounds. There were indeed only a few superficial injuries on his exposed chest. "This is what big brother did."
"..." Lafitte thought of his indignation and Chu Ming's behavior of going with the flow, and was silent for a while. He put down the tools for suturing the wound in his hand and slowly took out a scalpel, "Don't worry, I will give you the wound that your elder brother didn't give you."
Then he poked Chu Ming with a grin.
Chu Ming rolled over from the other side of the bed, lowered his head, bent over, and slid from under the bed to the boss's communication screen. Then he pointed and muttered anxiously: "Boss, please take care of Lafitte. He bullies me because of his age!!"
Karasuma Renya smiled and shook his head, then reached out and turned off the phone. Forget it, he was too old to bear to see the younger generation being beaten, so he decided to just go talk to Gin.
Chu Ming jumped up and down in Lafitte's safe house. Although Lafitte couldn't beat him, he was concerned about him this time after all. So in the end, Chu Ming used the IOU for Lafitte's two boxes of bombs as a condition in exchange for Lafitte's continued cooperation with his next action.
Lafitte looked at Chu Ming with a cold face as he reapplied the medicine and bandaged his wounds, then stepped forward to help him suture the fake wounds and wrap them with bandages.
"What do you want to do?" Lafitte was packing up his tools. "The FBI is not so easy to fool. The only advantage of you going first is that you are in the dark and they are in the light. No one knows your identity at the moment, but you only have this one chance. Once your identity is leaked, you will be targeted by those hyenas as soon as you show up, just like Gin and Vermouth."
Chu Ming smoothed the bandages on his body and said meaningfully: "I have already investigated clearly last time. Akai Shuichi still has feelings for Miyano Akemi, otherwise he would not have let down his guard so easily against my disguise. So, if he knew that his girlfriend's sister had defected from the organization and her current hiding place was about to be discovered by the organization, do you think he would show up?"
In particular, this time Chu Ming plans to use the real Haibara Ai as bait.
Gin and the others thought that Haibara Ai was a smoke bomb released by Chu Ming after he disguised himself, but Akai Shuichi didn't know that.
Shuichi Akai has already discovered that Haibara Ai is Miyano Shiho. Once he feels that the organization is targeting Haibara Ai, he must come forward, whether it is to protect his girlfriend's sister or to protect the FBI witness.
This is a conspiracy.
And it was a conspiracy that Shuichi Akai had no way of refusing.
"You are so sinister." Lafitte sighed, "You look like a decent person, but how can you be so vicious?"
"Thank you for the compliment." Chu Ming accepted it all. "As a member of the organization, I will take your description as a compliment to me. But fishing is not something that can be rushed. We can't let him know this clue so easily. We have to be careful and not let him find out until the last moment. If he accidentally finds a clue, he will deduce the conclusion himself. By the time he finds out, time is already urgent and he can't be suspicious. We must rush to the scene immediately."
"At that time, he won't have time to think too much. He will definitely show up." Chu Ming showed a sly smile: "Akai Shuichi is a smart man, and smart people trust their own judgment the most."
Chapter 499 Happiness
Chu Ming stayed in Lafitte's safe house for several days. During this period, Conan and Haibara Ai wanted to visit him, but were persuaded by Chu Ming to tell others that he was in a meeting again and not to disclose his whereabouts.
Although the Lafitte safe house has been semi-publicized among various Japanese gangs, it is still better to forget it when facing a child of the world like Conan.
Once Conan comes, we will directly deliver information to him.
Chu Ming turned over on the sofa upstairs, but it was really boring to stay here all the time.
He had disguised himself and gone out for fun a few times before, but the days without magnetic field and points were always so difficult.
"Stop sighing. There's a fantasy park that's quite popular recently. Why don't you go and have some fun? You can disguise yourself anyway." Lafitte couldn't stand someone sighing like a tape recorder while he was reading. He wanted to get the person out, so he threw him a flyer for the fantasy park.
A new park?
"But it's too boring to go to an amusement park alone! Everyone else is in pairs, and I'm all alone. Isn't it boring?" Chu Ming put his feet on the back of the sofa, lay down on the sofa, and muttered to himself.
Lafitte watched him change his posture every 20 seconds on average, and he closed his eyes tiredly: "Then you call Bourbon to come along, he's busy with Vermouth's mission recently, take him to the amusement park to relax."
"Ah, I don't want to. What's the point of hanging out with a man? I might as well call Vermouth—" Chu Ming sat up straight, "Yes, I can call Vermouth!"
Lafitte was as if he had been pardoned: "Yes, yes, yes, Vermouth has been very bored these past few days. Yesterday, he even said in the group that he was going to mold!"
Chu Ming directly made a video call, and Vermouth picked up the call within two rings.
"What's wrong, sweetheart? Do you have something to talk to me about? Do you want to help me share some of the tasks?" Vermouth winked at Chu Ming and smiled charmingly.
"Sister, give the task to Bourbon. I'll take you out to play!" Chu Ming shook the flyer in his hand. "It is said that the roller coaster here is super fun. Last time, my elder brother took Vodka to Dorobica Park and he didn't take me with him. We won't take him with us this time!"
Vermouth leisurely lit a lady's cigarette and exhaled a puff of smoke: "Okay, but I heard from Lafitte that you seem to be pretending to be sick and can't go out now?"
"Oh, it's okay." Chu Ming waved his hands and smiled like a cat stealing fish. "I have already thought about how to go."
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"What do you think? This is a good idea, right~" Chu Ming put one hand in his pocket, touched the makeup on his face with the other hand, raised his chin slightly, and stood at the door of the fantasy park with a proud look on his face.
“…Is that so?” Vermouth had a blank expression on her face, and a feeling of dissatisfaction lingered all over her body.
At the entrance of Fantasy Park, people come and go, all with happy and bright smiles. The laughter and screams of the children in the park compose a harmonious melody.
In this atmosphere, Vermouth, with her depressed and dejected look, stood out particularly.
"Hey, be happy. Why aren't you happy when you're out having fun? Think about it, today you're going to ride some roller coaster or pirate ship or some other facility that would affect your image. If you don't use your face, you won't embarrass yourself~" Chu Ming tried to persuade.
“There’s no need to use that woman’s face!” Vermouth gritted her teeth in a rare and unpresentable manner. She believed Chu Ming’s lies and let Chu Ming choose the identity she needed to disguise herself in today. But now, Chu Ming chose an identity she didn’t want at all. “What if Gin saw her and mistakenly killed her for that woman——”
"Oh, no, I told him in advance, and told him that this was part of my plan." Chu Ming looked proud, "How could I not think of this~ Okay, sister, stop making excuses, let's go in!"
Vermouth looked at Chu Ming, who was disguised as her godson, and then thought about herself wearing the shell of Shirley. Her eyes went dark and she raised her hand to tear off the disguise: "Since you have disguised yourself as Kudo Shinichi, why can't I disguise myself as Mao Lilan? Why must it be Shirley?"
"That won't work. I told Gin that we appear to be here to play in the amusement park, but we are actually here to fish." Chu Ming raised his hand to stop Vermouth from trying to change her disguise. "Although we are here to play, we must have an attitude of completing a mission. This disguise is the best attitude! And what if Xiaolan comes here to play today? Wouldn't it be embarrassing if we bump into her?"
"..." Vermouth's face turned black, "Do you believe this nonsense?"
"I don't believe it." Chu Ming said straightforwardly, but he still tried to seduce Vermouth. "Don't you want to see what other expressions this face can show besides coldness?"
“No.” Vermouth bit her back teeth and said, “Wait for me here. I’m going to change my face.”
Chu Ming looked at Vermouth regretfully as she walked towards the alley on the other side without looking back, and sighed with some regret.
Just as he was leaning against the entrance of the park, touching his phone and waiting for Vermouth, he suddenly heard someone shout in surprise: "Shinichi?"
Chu Ming didn't realize that someone was calling him at first, until the voice got closer and closer, and finally the voice became angry, and a hand slapped him directly on the shoulder.
Chu Ming tilted his head sharply, and just as he was about to attack, he abruptly retracted his attack, forcing a smile: "Xiao Lan? What a coincidence, why are you here too?"
Good man, what he said came true. He was just fooling Vermouth, but now the real person appeared...
He glanced at the system map calmly. Okay, it was confirmed that it was a real person, not Vermouth in disguise. But if Vermouth came over later, wouldn’t it be a Shura field?
Hehe, he loves watching this.
But since Xiaolan appeared here——
Chu Ming looked behind her but did not see the familiar short and stocky figure.
"Shinichi, what are you looking at?" Xiaolan also looked back, "Are you looking for someone?"
"Let me see why the little dwarf who always follows you is gone. Hasn't he always been sticking to you?" Chu Ming said casually.
"You mean Conan? He seems to be the 100,000th lucky visitor of the amusement park. He was left there with his father. His father came here because he accepted a commission. The client also gave us a bracelet. It is said that with this, we can play all the facilities!"
Xiaolan said this, shaking the bracelet on her hand and smiling like a flower.
Looking at the familiar bracelet in front of him, Chu Ming felt like he had some impression of it.
It seems that this bracelet is full of bombs? Can it be activated when entering the amusement park?
Wuhu, if Vermouth knew that her angel could become a real angel at any time, wouldn't she get more points?
Chu Ming's eyes flickered slightly, and his tone suddenly became enthusiastic: "I came here to investigate a case. Let's go in first and talk while we walk."
Xiaolan nodded and turned to look: "By the way, I just saw you running over. The children haven't come in yet, they are Conan's classmates."
Classmate? Haibara Ai?
Oh, doesn't that mean all his sources of points have arrived?
so happy~