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Chapter 519 I Bet He Can

No one could have expected such a development. Hattori swallowed, his Adam's apple moved slightly, and he looked at Conan with some concern: "Kudo, you..."

Vermouth also looked at Conan, who was clenching his fists tightly, feeling a little distressed. She turned to Chu Ming and tried to say something: "Granburch, I--"

"You'd better think before you speak, Vermouth." Chu Ming raised his eyes, with a hint of warning in his eyes, and asked knowingly, "Are you trying to plead for him? Do you have any friendship?"

Vermouth was choked by Chu Ming. Of course, she couldn't admit this openly, so she couldn't say the rest of the words.

Seeing that Vermouth had returned empty-handed, Conan spoke after a long while: "I don't want to choose five from six or six from seven. I choose myself."

Seeing Conan intending to sacrifice himself, Hattori was suddenly shocked: "Kudo, you——"

Chu Ming shook his head: "No, Detective, how can you change the question without permission? You don't want to be one of the options~"

Conan suddenly raised his head and stared at Chu Ming's face. Thinking of what Xiaolan had said to him before, there was a rare coldness in his eyes: "At worst, we will both die together. If you really let the bomb explode, then we will die together - Hattori!"

While he was talking, his hands were not idle. He opened the cover of the anesthesia watch with a click and shot directly at Chu Ming.

Hattori had seen the gestures Conan was making behind him when Conan looked up, so as soon as Conan called him, he followed suit.

He leaned over and picked up a stick from the ground, then rushed forward with Conan and stabbed at the opponent with his hand.

Although Hattori's kendo is powerful, he is still not up to par when facing Chu Ming, who has experienced real fighting. He turned his head and calmly dodged Conan's anesthetic needle, dodged left and right to flexibly avoid the wooden stick swung by Hattori, and when the opportunity came, he grabbed Hattori's wrist and used the technique that Gin taught him before to pinch Hattori's tendons.

There was a 'clang' sound.

The wooden stick fell to the ground, and Chu Mingsong kicked the man, sending him flying towards Conan. Hattori couldn't control his body and fell to the ground, knocking Conan down as well, and the two rolled into a ball.

Chu Ming did not continue chasing, but instead took out his gun and pointed it at the two men from a distance.

Hattori and Conan paused, the black muzzle of the gun was pointed at their vital parts, which made people shudder.

"Don't move, it would be terrible if I accidentally fire it~" Chu Ming smiled, and with his gentle face, he looked very gentle, but the words he said were particularly cold.

"Your gun doesn't have a silencer. Once you fire, it will immediately attract the attention of the people downstairs. I noticed when I came up just now that the Red Castle Restaurant has a celebration party downstairs because of the 100,000 customers today. The police are now gathering at the Fantasy Park opposite. You can't leave if you fire the gun." Conan calmed down and tried to negotiate with Chu Ming, "Granburch, you--"

"Guess what I've been doing for so long?" Chu Ming's lips curled up slightly, and he interrupted Conan directly, "I've just been to the venue and left a small gift."

"What do you mean?" Conan was stunned. "You also placed a bomb in the venue below? Are you crazy? There are innocent people in the venue!"

"That's about right. After all, it's incredible that such a big restaurant wasn't bombed."

This is a theatrical version, and it was funded by the Suzuki family...

In that case, let him make up for this thrilling high-rise escape~

"And..." Chu Ming looked at Conan sarcastically, continuing to create his own crazy character, "Why do you think I care about the lives of those ants? I really want to see the blood dye this building red, that's the real 'Red' Castle Restaurant~"

Conan's face turned pale. His impression of Granburr was still the time when he saved him at the Izu Hotel. So he always thought that Granburr was similar to Vermouth, the kind of person who was both good and evil.

But now Chu Ming's performance overturned all Conan's guesses, and he realized at this time that he was wrong.

He should have thought of it earlier. Who could be a good person to get a high position in that organization?

"Tsk, the famous detective is so boring. I changed the topic for you, but you still don't want to choose it?" Chu Ming's eyes showed obvious disappointment. "It's so boring. In that case, you can all go to the underground reunion."

Now even Vermouth was a little anxious. She moved, smiled and walked closer to Chu Ming, pleading for him in a low voice: "Wait, we can't kill him now. What if we need materials for future experiments? Keeping him might be useful in the future--"

"This one doesn't make a difference. We still have Shirley, right?" Chu Ming didn't care at all and slowly moved his finger to the trigger.

Vermouth slowly reached her hand into her pocket, as if she wanted to do something.

Suddenly, an idea flashed in her mind, and she thought of something: "Granburch, I know you want to see his decision because it's too boring, so how about we do something interesting?"

Chu Ming pulled the trigger mainly to scare them. Even if Vermouth didn't say anything, he would have found an excuse to stop. Now that there were steps, he climbed down quickly.

He raised an eyebrow, looking very interested: "What's interesting?"

Vermouth's brain was working rapidly: "How about we make a bet? Didn't Kudo Shinichi say that he could save everyone? Then you can set up levels for him and see if he can get the best out of the dilemma. During this period, neither you nor I can interfere or help. How about it?"

"Oh? It's really interesting. Okay, I'll make a bet." Chu Ming moved his wrist slightly, and the gun turned lightly at his fingertips, and he took it back into his palm. "I bet he can't do it."

Vermouth looked at Conan with some concern. She had already tried her best to help Conan. Now it all depended on him: "I bet he can do it."

Chapter 520 [The title is the shape of love for you]

"I placed several bombs in the main venue of the Red Castle Restaurant downstairs, and made some linkage measures. Once the main venue of the Red Castle Restaurant downstairs explodes, the elevators in the entire building will explode. And after that, at regular intervals, the floors below will explode one after another."

Chu Ming shook the black shielding device in his hand, took out an ant-sized microchip from it, and stuffed it into a capsule. He suddenly stepped forward, pinched Conan's cheek, stuffed the capsule into Conan's mouth, pinched his jaw and poured some water into it.

After confirming that Conan swallowed it uncontrollably, Chu Ming smiled contemptuously: "And this is the bomb shield. As long as this shield is still within range, all bombs will not receive the explosion signal - whether it is the bomb in the restaurant or the bomb on your girlfriend."

"In two minutes, I will rewrite the program of the shielding device and remove the shielding of your girlfriend's bracelet positioning system. You must escort your girlfriend and her group back to the amusement park within these twenty minutes to prevent them from being blown into fireworks; however, once you leave this building, the bomb in the building will explode, and the others who remain in the building will die~"

"Should you protect the lives of the people you care about and send them to the amusement park safely? Or should you stay in the building and watch your loved ones explode into fireworks, but save the lives of the vast majority of innocent people~"

"Of course, you can also try to remove the bracelets I reinforced on the six people within 20 minutes. Maybe you can do it~"

After explaining the rules, Chu Ming pointed to his own eyes and said, "I will keep my eyes on you, Detective. I hope your next performance will not disappoint me."

Then he turned to Vermouth and said with a half-smile: "Although I suggest you go with me, it seems that you want to stay with them more?"

"How is that possible?" Vermouth chuckled and glanced at Conan with complicated eyes, "But I still have something else to do, Granburch, you go first, don't worry, I won't break your rules."

"What is it? Helping?"

"Of course not, it's a secret." Vermouth put her finger on her red lips, "A secret makes a ——"

"Okay, okay, I get it. You can handle it yourself." Chu Ming was speechless. He stopped caring about Vermouth and left. Nothing would happen anyway. He had his robot to support him here.

And just in that short moment, Conan had already provided him with a large amount of points.

Watching Chu Ming leave, Conan's face looked extremely ugly. He tried to reach out to dig into his throat to see if he could spit out the capsule that Chu Ming had just forced to feed him, but after digging for a long time, it was of no use.

Seeing the time passing by, Vermouth looked at him doing useless work, her face solemn, and stopped him: "Stop it, let's go, let's send Xiaolan and the others back to the amusement park first, and then let the person who just defuse the bomb for you help them remove the bracelet-"

"No, I can't leave!" Conan looked painful, but his face was still serious. "I can't leave here. Today, the Red Castle Restaurant has more than 100,000 customers, and at least half of them are still stranded inside. Once I leave, these tens of thousands of Japanese people will--"

"It's already this time and you still have the mind to care about others? What about Xiaolan?" Vermouth was angry. She stepped forward and tried to use force. After all, he was just a human shielding device, and even if he was knocked unconscious, it would be enough to carry him by her side.

Conan took two steps back, frowning: "-Even if we want to leave, it's not now..."

"Then when? When the bracelet on Xiaolan's hand explodes!" Vermouth's face changed, and her anger reached an unprecedented level.

Conan knew he couldn't delay any longer. He looked at Hattori and Kidd behind him and said solemnly, "Listen to me. We only have 20 minutes now. I can't leave here for the time being... Hattori, notify Officer Megure and the others to come over and evacuate the crowd as quickly as possible. Especially those above the 15th floor must be evacuated quickly. From what Granburch said, even if the bomb explodes, it will explode from top to bottom, and there will be a certain amount of time in between."

"Okay." Hattori made a prompt decision, turned around and took the elevator down. Kazuha was also among the group of people. He was also very anxious, but the sense of justice in his heart still drove him to do what he should do first.

"Kid, take this gentleman downstairs to find Xiaolan and the others later. I'll also trouble this gentleman to help them remove the bracelets. Please remove as many as you can. Come over to me while you're removing them..."

"Then - there's no time to open it..." Kidd was a little confused. He couldn't leave this multiple-choice question to him...

Vermouth took advantage of the opportunity and said, "Give it to Xiaolan first—"

"No——" Conan's fingertips trembled, "You dismantle others first, and leave Xiaolan for last... I will accompany her, I will find a way..."

Conan's last few words were close to whispers. He was in pain, but there was no way out. He had no choice. If there was really no other way, he chose to stay with Xiaolan...

"Then I'll go..." Kidd couldn't bear to see Conan make such a painful decision, but he thought that with the puppet given by the Demon King as a backup, nothing big should go wrong. At least Xiaolan's life could be saved, right?

However, he couldn't tell Conan about this matter in detail. As long as the person was fine, he didn't waste any more words with Conan. He turned around and went downstairs directly. When he left, he did not forget to drag away the robot that was standing there like a piece of wood.

“How dare you—!” Vermouth’s eyes were bloodshot and she reached out to grab Conan. She simply could not accept that her angel had suffered even the slightest harm, and she could not bear to see her light disappear from the world.

"Listen to me. I'll stay here. This jammer can block the signal from downstairs, so the height of the building is probably its shielding range. The main venue of the restaurant is on the 15th floor, and we are on the top floor now, so I estimated that the shielding radius of this jammer should be about 10 meters."

Conan gestured with his hand, pointing to the living room where the client had met him before, and continued: "There is an extended terrace on the balcony of the top floor lobby. A little further out is the scope of the fantasy park. I'm on the top floor trying to find a way to locate them within the park without going downstairs..."

Vermouth also calmed down a little. She looked at Conan deeply and said, "If you and Xiaolan die, I will definitely send Shirley down to accompany you."

"Don't worry, I will try my best to keep us all alive." Conan forced an ugly smile.

"So what do you need me to do now?" Vermouth did not continue the topic.

"No more. You should leave here quickly, otherwise it will be difficult for you to explain if Granburch finds out. Wait..." Conan shook his head, thought for a moment, and suddenly added, pointing to the secret room they came out of, "How about you take Ito Suehiko with you as well..."

Belmode: "..."

Seeing Vermouth carrying the corpse-like Ito Suehiko and leaving in the elevator, he turned and ran towards the house where the client had met them before.

I don’t know if twenty minutes will be enough…

Xiaolan, believe me! I will definitely take you away safely!

Chapter 521 [Today I Still Love You]

Chu Ming was lying in the car with his legs crossed, holding a watermelon and eating it luxuriously, while feeling the surging points from Conan and watching the surveillance in the corner of the system panel like watching a show.

Oh, life is so beautiful~

However, in the end, Conan still chose Xiaolan to defuse the bomb last, because he knew it.

Tsk, although if Xiaolan were to choose, she would have made this choice 99% of the time, but when her boyfriend made this decision himself...

He knows that Conan loves Xiaolan very much. When Xiaolan is in danger, he will save her regardless of the danger. When Conan is in danger, Xiaolan will also save him regardless of her own safety, as if they have a couple connection. It can be said that it is a two-way journey.

But when faced with this kind of righteousness problem...

Alas, it turns out that he doesn’t have such sentiments. But Conan dares to put Xiaolan at the end, so he must have some confidence, right?

Otherwise, would he have the courage to do this?

Chu Ming did place a bomb in the building, but it was not a bomb that would explode directly without shielding. Instead, it was controlled by a robot brought to the scene by Kidd.

At this time, the robot was standing beside Xiaolan and others, bending over and removing the new bracelet on Ayumi's hand.

The children were naughty and scared, but they did not cry or fight. They all agreed that Ayumi should be the first to dismantle the demolition.

Officer Megure also rushed to the scene and began to evacuate the crowd. This building was funded by the Suzuki family. Sonoko made the final decision and ordered the activation of all passenger elevators, sightseeing elevators, and even freight elevators to evacuate the crowd. However, there were too many people and they could not be evacuated in a short time.

In the living room on the 15th floor, only Xiaolan and the others were left. Looking at the boy in front of her who looked younger than her seriously removing the bracelet for Ayumi, Xiaolan pursed her lips and said, "So there is really something wrong with our bracelets? But this is the bracelet we replaced, and it was replaced by Officer Megure specifically for us."

“According to the bomber, the new bracelet was specially made by him. Maybe he tampered with it at the moment you exchanged the bracelets…” Kidd scratched his head. Fortunately, he found the Demon King in advance, otherwise what would he do?

Yuan Tai pulled tentatively, but the bracelet, which had fallen off like a toy in Chu Ming's hand before, now seemed to be welded to his hand. No matter how hard he pulled, the bracelet was firmly bound to his hand.

"Hey, what happened? That weird aunt just pulled it and it fell off..." Yuan Tai scratched his head, with a confident look on his face, "It must have been her who did it! I knew she wasn't a good person! She even scared Huiyuan before!"

"Ms. Miyano doesn't seem like that kind of person." Xiaolan was a little helpless, "She even helped us take off the bracelet, didn't she?"

"Xiaolan, you are too trusting. Who knows why she approaches you?" Sonoko holds Xiaolan's hand. No matter how Kid persuades her, she refuses to leave. She insists on watching Xiaolan's bracelet being removed and then leaving with her. "The same goes for Kudo. Why would he throw his own client to you..."