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Listening to the mechanical sound coming from the phone and Suzuki Jirokichi's incredulous shout, Chu Ming took out his mobile phone from his pocket while everyone's attention was focused there, and quietly sent a message to Gin and the others, informing them that they could get ready to leave.
This time he had arranged the plot for Gin and the others, and was waiting for the moment they boarded the airship to officially begin the show.
After Officer Nakamori took the police to check the smoking room mentioned in the threatening phone call, they found an ampoule with a red cat head painted on it. This ampoule was exactly the same as the one left by the robbers at the door of the Microbiology Institute.
Officer Nakamori told everyone the bad news and announced that the smoking room would be immediately sealed off and isolated, with no one allowed to enter or leave.
Just when everyone was worried, Fujioka Takamichi made a hoarse sound in the corner, which scared everyone.
Looking in the direction of the voice, everyone saw Fujioka Takamichi with his back to them, his shoulders shrugged, and a strange noise coming out of his mouth. If Chu Ming hadn't known that Conan was a mystery anime, he would have thought it was a zombie invasion anime, like zombies gnawing at people in the corner.
As if he had noticed everyone's gaze, Fujioka Takamichi turned around with his red hands raised. When he turned around, everyone discovered that his face, palms, neck, arms, etc. were covered with large patches of red, dotted with blisters, which looked shocking.
He trembled as he looked at his unrecognizable palm and staggered towards the crowd step by step: "Save me, please, save me, I don't want to die, please..."
Everyone stepped back in panic, trying to stay away from Fujioka Takamichi, but he still slowly approached them and even tried to reach out and grab someone to take their place.
Just when everyone was panicking, Xiaolan stood in front of everyone and punched Fujioka Takamichi directly in the abdomen, knocking him unconscious and falling to the ground.
"Is he infected?" Sonoko asked tremblingly, looking at Fujioka Takashi who was lying on the ground as if she were looking at a large mass of pathogens. "Xiaolan, please disinfect your hands! Safety first!"
Just when everyone was panicking, a waiter fell down and a rash appeared on his hands.
Conan remembered that the waiter had just sneezed at Yuantai, and his pupils shrank in fright. He turned around and said something to Chu Ming, then went to look for Yuantai and the others who had gone out to explore.
Looking at Conan's receding back, Chu Ming took out his cell phone and took a look. Gin and the others had already set off. They would probably arrive as soon as the red Siamese cat arrived.
Sure enough, before long, Chu Ming clearly heard the sound of chaotic footsteps coming from outside. Then, as the door was kicked open, several men in black with guns rushed in.
Officer Nakamori reacted quickly, and was the first to stand up and lead the police in front of the crowd: "Who are you?"
The leader of the red Siamese cats raised his gun and pointed it at everyone: "How is it, have you found the ampoule?"
"Are you red Siamese cats?" Officer Nakamori looked grim and wanted to say something, but was interrupted by the leader's gunshot.
The leader pointed at the cameraman Junpei Ishimoto of Nichimi TV, whose camera the last shot was fired at, and said, "I told you to behave yourself, or the next shot will be aimed at your heads."
After saying that, he turned the gun around and pointed it at Suzuki Jirokichi again: "Use the radio to call everyone to the restaurant immediately."
Suzuki Jirokichi had no choice but to do as he was told.
After everyone came in one after another, they were all controlled by the red Siamese cat.
The leader signaled his men to take the bags and collect everyone's cell phones. Chu Ming looked at the robber in front of him who stretched his pocket towards him, and then looked at Huiyuan Ai who was pretending to be cute and hiding behind the doctor, and took the initiative to turn his pocket out to show them: "I'm still a student, I don't have a cell phone with me."
The kidnapper looked at Chu Ming's particularly young face suspiciously, and glanced at Chu Ming's body. His pockets were all empty, and it didn't look like he had a cell phone at all. Then he turned and left.
After the robbers walked away, Chu Ming saw Haibara Ai take out the detective team badge and contact Conan. At the same time, Officer Nakamori also began to ask the robbers what the purpose of this hijacking was.
However, the robbers did not say it explicitly, but only said that they had a deep hatred with the Suzuki Group, and asked Officer Nakamori to contact the police, saying that the airship could only continue to fly towards Osaka and could not turn.
Then he took out an ampoule from his side that was exactly the same as the one under the sofa in the smoking room. It was filled with green liquid with tiny bubbles coming out of it.
The leader shook the ampoule in his hand and said arrogantly, "Don't try to subdue us. We have just installed a bomb on the airship and carried a bottle containing the virus with us. If you try to attack us, I will smash the bottle and detonate the bomb at the same time! At worst, the whole of Japan will be buried with us! Hahahaha!"
Just as he was shaking the bottle proudly, there was a sudden commotion outside. Haibara Ai's pupils suddenly dilated. She grabbed the corner of the doctor's clothes, her legs went soft and she sat on the ground. She opened her mouth and breathed in big gulps like a stranded fish, and her face turned pale.
The doctor grabbed her and said, "Xiao Ai, what's wrong with you?"
Huiyuan Ai looked through the doctor's shoulder and looked at Chu Ming, looking a little anxious: "I feel--"
Before he could finish his words, the door that had just been kicked flew in with a bang and hit the floor with a loud bang.
At the same time, a bullet seemed to have eyes and shot straight at the ampoule in the leader's hand. With the slight sound of the bottle breaking, everyone's hearts seemed to break along with the bottle.
"don't want--"
On the contrary, the leader, whose hands were covered with the virus in the bottle, did not look panicked. He threw the bottle to the ground angrily, took out a gun and pointed it at the people who were slowly walking in through the door.
Everyone's heart tightened and they looked towards the door.
As everyone's attention was focused, the first person to appear at the door was a middle-aged man with a face full of scars and a fierce look in his eyes. It is not an exaggeration to say that his face is full of scars. It can be said that except for his eyes, nose and mouth, the only parts of his face are scars.
Sonoko took a deep breath and leaned closer to Xiaolan.
Chapter 540: Don’t Do Any Little Things
Xiaolan moved sideways to block the garden more tightly. Everyone covered their mouths and noses at the same time, looking at the figure who had just come in from the door, wanting to see if this ruthless person who smashed the virus right away was crazy.
Following Scarface in came five other people, all of whom had scars on their faces, more or less.
Looking at the people coming in, Chu Ming clearly heard Officer Nakamori complaining: "Are these people choosing the leader based on the number of scars he has?..."
Of course not, these are all arranged by Chu Ming according to their rankings~
Chu Ming tried very hard to hold back his laughter, his face was a little distorted, but he still swallowed his laughter.
"Who are you?" The leader of the Red Siamese cats clenched the gun in his hand and tried to call his men with a pager, but there was silence on the communication and no response was heard at all.
"Red Siamese cat?" Gin asked, his voice hoarse and unpleasant, as if it had been rubbed by sandpaper. "What's the point of a fake virus? Do you want to try the real one in my hand?"
Vermouth behind him cooperated and took out an ampoule of the same type from her side and shook it in front of everyone.
The others didn't feel anything yet, but the leader of the red Siamese cats was sweating profusely.
When he led his men to destroy the microbiology research institute before, he had also seen the viruses and bacteria collected in bottles, which were exactly the same as the ones the scarred man was holding in his hand at this moment.
He dared to use the ampoule in his hand to threaten others because he knew that what he had was a fake and was used to scare people.
Now that he saw it for real, he recalled all the symptoms of the virus that the experts had mentioned on TV, and he broke out in a cold sweat.
Where did this ferocious-looking man in front of me get the virus?
Didn't they blow up all the viruses in the institute's warehouse? How come there are still some left?
The leader's expression kept changing, and his face was extremely ugly. He looked at the virus in Gin's hand with fear, and still couldn't think of resolving the conflict. He asked in a deep voice: "Who are you? Are you also interested in the gems of the Suzuki Group this time? Then we can actually cooperate and win-win. This time we are actually here to seek revenge on the Suzuki Group, so there shouldn't be any conflict with you, right?"
"We are indeed interested in gems." Vermouth smiled contemptuously, "But who do you think you are to discuss cooperation with us?"
"Why waste your time talking to them? Can't you just attack them directly?" Chianti loaded the bullet with a click, his tone was vicious, and the murderous intent between his eyebrows could not be concealed.
Seeing the opposite side so arrogant, the leader's face darkened and he quickly reached for the gun on his waist. However, before he could touch his gun, he was shot in the wrist by a bullet. He covered his pierced wrist and blood dripped through his fingers.
Before he could react, two more gunshots rang out. He felt a sharp pain in his knee. He lost his balance and fell to the ground, covering his wound and screaming.
Following Gin's move, Vermouth, Vodka and others also took out their guns and subdued several members behind the Red Siamese Cat. After putting the gun away, Gin glanced at the people on the opposite side who were watching this side vigilantly. His eyes paused slightly on Chu Ming, probably choked by the fear on his pretended face, and looked away without being bothered.
Seeing that the person negotiating had changed in an instant, Suzuki Jirokichi, who was indeed a man of great accomplishments, quickly calmed down and asked Gin, who was obviously the leader, "Are you here for money? If it's for money, then don't hurt the guests on my airship. As long as it's not excessive, my Suzuki Group can satisfy you."
Vodka glanced at him with disdain, his tone rough, obviously without a voice changer: "Hehe, old man, don't think too much, we are here to chase these cats. As for you, if you are honest, we will not touch you casually, but if you are not honest, humph, you people present——"
Chu Ming rarely saw him so arrogant. Hearing this, he couldn't help but look at him twice. Vodka noticed these two glances very quickly. He took a detour when he was about to say something: "All of you present are doing well at the moment - I hope you can keep it up, otherwise my bullets won't have eyes."
After saying those harsh words, Vodka barely maintained his head held high, turned around, and walked behind Gin, trying to use Gin's body to block his own burly body.
Big brother, save me!
Chu Ming didn't notice Vodka's desire to survive. His eyes were on Haibara Ai who was huddled behind the doctor and shivering. Everyone thought she was frightened by Gin's sudden shooting, and they didn't doubt it. They just tacitly blocked her behind them.
At this time, Haibara Ai was a little dazed in the strong alcohol atmosphere. She had secretly seen him before, but if such a distinctive face was in the organization, she would definitely not forget it. However, she just had no impression of it. While everyone's attention was focused on Gin and others, Haibara Ai tugged at the corner of Chu Ming's clothes and asked in a low voice.
"They are - have you seen them?" She asked cryptically, but Chu Ming understood.
Chu Ming shook his head: "No, I have never seen it before."
Huiyuan Ai pursed her lips, not quite sure: "I just heard that man's voice a bit like Vodka, do you think he could be--"
Chu Ming was a little surprised at her sharpness: "It does look a bit like it. There was news before that there will be a big task recently. Maybe it's this..."
Then, Chu Ming looked annoyed: "It's all my fault. I didn't take this matter seriously. If I had known that they were going to board the airship, I wouldn't have let you and Conan come..."
"How can I blame you for this..." Huihara Ai was extremely scared, but she still managed to divert some of her attention and tried to comfort him, "By the way, if it is really them, then I will ask Edogawa and the others not to come back yet..."
She took out the badge from her bosom, hid behind the doctor and carefully prepared to contact Conan.
Just at this moment, the reporter from Nichimi TV, Kasumi Nishitani, saw her action, then looked at the leader who was shot to the ground, and thought of Fujioka Takamichi who had planned everything before and pretended to be infected. Her eyes moved slightly. She had to muddy the water so that she could take advantage of the situation to inform Fujioka that something had happened.
So she suddenly asked the photographer Ishimoto beside her: "I remember there were several children before. Where did they go?"
Seeing Gin's gaze coming over, she was very proud and continued to speak louder to Ishimoto beside her: "He was there before, and it seems that the little brother with glasses ran out to find them...Ah, little sister, what are you holding in your hand——"
She covered her mouth as if she had just reacted, and a trace of guilt seemed to pass across her face, but Chu Ming could see clearly the evil and complacency in her eyes.
The doctor stretched out his hand and protected Haibara Ai behind him, while Xiaolan and Sonoko stood in front. Chu Ming always felt that if he didn't move at this time, he would seem very inhumane, so he could only stand in the front.
Gin looked at Chu Ming, who had a righteous look on his face and seemed to be radiating the light of justice, and raised his hand and shot him.
The sound of a gunshot startled everyone. Xiaolan and Yuanzi nervously checked Chu Ming for any wounds, but he pushed them away with a little force: "I'm fine, you didn't hit me."
Chu Ming looked to the side. The person Gin had just shot was Xi Gu Xia who had spoken earlier. At this moment, she couldn't hold the gun steadily. Gin's bullet directly penetrated her wrist bone. With a click, the gun fell to the ground. Gin said in a cold tone: "I told you, don't do any small movements."
After saying that, he walked forward slowly, and for Chu Ming's sake, he didn't take any action. He stopped in front of everyone, and his eyes seemed to penetrate everyone and nailed to Huiyuan Ai: "Bring the things here."
At this time, Haibara Ai was facing Gin's threat head-on, and the only reason she could still stand was because she was holding on to the corner of the doctor's clothes. Her face was pale, and she stared blankly at Gin's scarred face through the crowd, and her fingers were shaking so much that she could hardly hold the badge.
Chapter 541 Absolutely impossible
Looking at the face covered with scars in front of her, Haibara Ai, who had already recognized the sound of vodka, became even more frightened.
The one over there is Vodka, so is there any need to tell me who the one in front of me is?
Last time, Gin had already doubted her identity. If it weren't for Brother Chu Ming's help, she would have been discovered long ago. Now Gin must not be allowed to see her face!
She hid behind the crowd, trembling with fear. Her brain was a mess and she had no idea what to do.
Chu Ming glanced at Gin, and where he wasn't paying attention, he slightly turned sideways and opened his mouth and silently gestured to Haibara Ai.
Huiyuan Ai widened her eyes in surprise, and with the attitude of trying everything possible, she followed Chu Ming's instructions -
——began to cry loudly.
The voice was so loud that even Professor Agasa who was standing in front of her was startled.
"..." Gin's ears were numb from the sound. After the last time Haibara Ai was tested by Potter, his suspicious nature still made him have a slight suspicion in his heart. In addition, when he just came in, he always felt that Haibara Ai's profile looked familiar, but when he heard the loud wailing, he finally threw away the last bit of doubt.
Could this be Shirley?
It is absolutely impossible.
Seeing that Gin was a little annoyed by the crying, he rubbed the gun in his hand for a long time without any reaction.
Chu Ming waited for a long time, but he didn't say anything. He could only step back a few steps, hold Huiyuan Ai in his arms, pat her back comfortingly, and act like he was coaxing a child: "Okay, stop crying, and don't play with that toy anymore. Let's give it to the uncle who looks the most fierce, okay?"
After saying that, he took the detective badge from Haibara Ai, then stood up and handed it to Gin, saying in a dignified and fearless tone: "Sir, this is just a little toy for the child. She is still young and doesn't understand the current situation. Please don't scare the child anymore."