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Chu Ming held the railing tightly to keep his balance and looked out the window. Not far away, the Tower of Babel stood quietly. At this speed, the airship would hit the Tower of Babel in ten minutes.
"When the airship gets close to the Tower of Babel, we'll jump off." Chu Ming stared at the place not far away and made a rough estimate. "According to the airship's current falling curve, it's highly likely that it won't hit the Tower of Babel directly, but will slide down along the side. Let's go to the hatch at the bottom of the airship and wait, and jump off the moment the airship touches the Tower of Babel—"
"No need to go to such trouble." Suzuki Jirokichi waved his hand, "I just called someone to send a helicopter to rescue us. There is a special helipad for the Suzuki Group in Osaka, and it will be here in a while."
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As expected of the Suzuki Group, they are rich.
Look at Conan, who always uses a skateboard and straps to escape when in danger. Then look at the wealthy Suzuki family, who only need to make a phone call to escape.
Everyone was being shaken around in the airship and were trying to make fun of each other when the Suzuki family's helicopter arrived.
The airship was shaking too violently, and the current helicopters could not get too close to the airship. They could only lower a few rescue ropes and let people climb up through the windows along the rope ladders. Those who had lost the ability to move were tied to the ropes and dragged up by the people inside the helicopter.
Because there was still plenty of time and there was no need to be polite, they lined up according to their distance from the window, and Chu Ming stood at the end.
Watching the people on the airship climb up the rope ladder one by one, Chu Ming was just about to release the connection with the robot and go out to see if he could create some magnetic field in the chaos.
Suddenly he controlled the robot to turn twice and finally remembered what he had just forgotten.
Where are his emotional value holders? ? ? ?
He grabbed Conan and said, "Are Ai and the others not here yet?"
Conan's eyes suddenly widened: "They are still on the top floor!"
After saying that, he was about to run outside, but he could not control his balance at all. As soon as his hands let go of the railing, he slid straight out of the airship.
Chu Ming quickly grabbed his collar and pulled him up: "I'll go find him, you stay here."
"Brother Chu Ming, you are still injured, I can go. I was the one who sent them away before, I had to--" Conan was pulled by the collar, and it was a bit hard to breathe. His hands and feet were hanging down, and there was some guilt on his face. He originally wanted to keep the children away from danger, but he didn't expect to put them in a more dangerous situation.
"Little boy, be quiet and don't move. If you slip out, no one will be able to save you in time." Officer Nakamori noticed that Conan behind him was struggling and was almost thrown out of the airship. He was a little anxious, "You two, come in front of me."
Chu Ming put Conan into the hand that Officer Nakamori held out. "Officer, there are four children on the airship. When we escaped from the room just now, they went to the upper deck of the airship. I will go find them."
Conan was not willing to let Chu Ming take risks alone, so he twisted left and right, slipped away from Officer Nakamori's hands like a swimming fish, and slid towards Chu Ming: "Brother Chu Ming, wait for me, I'll go with you!"
Officer Nakamori didn't catch any of them, and the two behind him disappeared. He frowned and was about to chase after them. After all, he couldn't just leave two children to rescue people. But Kudo Shinichi in front of him turned around and said, "I'll go check it out too. Officer, you have to maintain order and watch the people of the red Siamese cat, so you can't get away."
After saying that, he also rushed out nimbly.
Only Officer Nakamori, whose hands and feet were a beat slower, was left standing there, staring blankly at the empty spaces in front and behind him.
At this time, the airship was having difficulty moving forward. Chu Ming used the high-tech grappling claw he got from the organization to move upwards little by little.
"Brother Chu Ming, I'll help you find it."
The sound came from far away and got closer. Chu Ming turned around and saw Conan riding a skateboard on the shaking airship as if it were flat ground. He was moving very fast. Behind him, Kidd was jumping up and down like a bouncing bean and following closely behind him.
Chu Ming leaned against the wall to steady himself: "Why are you two following me?"
"I'll help you look for them. Where are the four children? If one of them gets hurt and can't move, you can't do anything by yourself—" Conan glanced back at Kid who had stolen his identity, "This guy is also good. Although he's not a good person, at least he can help."
"..." Kidd was speechless. What do you mean he's not a good person? It's just borrowing someone's identity. What a big deal. He's really a vengeful detective.
"I'll try calling them with my detective badge. If they're still conscious, they should respond to me." Conan took out the detective badge from his pocket and tuned to the calling frequency. "Haibara, Haibara, can you hear me, Haibara?"
"Okay, Edogawa, is everything okay on your end?"
"It's okay. Where are you now? The spaceship just exploded. Are you injured?"
"No, we are now at the grid ladder right below the airbag of the airship. Ayumi said this is where you first discovered the bomb. At the moment of the explosion just now, I used ropes to secure several of us, so no one was hurt even though the spaceship was shaking."
Huihara Ai's voice came from the badge, and at this moment it seemed particularly calm. Conan breathed a sigh of relief: "You guys wait for me there. Mr. Suzuki has called for a helicopter rescue. We will be rescued when we get up there."
It happened that the airship was no longer shaking like before. The three of them quickened their pace and soon arrived at where Haibara Ai and the others were.
On the grid, four children were tied neatly, hanging on the escalator like sausages. The moment they saw Chu Ming and the others, they shouted happily: "Conan, Conan, here, here!"
Chu Ming was the first to reach out and hook the ropes of several people. A blade popped out from his fingertips and cut directly: "Quick, go over now while the airship is not shaking so violently and the ground is still relatively stable. If the airship is not shaking now, it means it will fall straight down soon. Hurry up."
The children did not dare to delay and got up and hurriedly followed. Only a series of hurried footsteps echoed in the empty corridor.
Just as he was about to rush into the hall, the airship suddenly tilted downward. In just a moment, the ground under his feet turned into a wall. Chu Ming reacted quickly, threw the grappling claw forward and grabbed the hanging lamp firmly. While holding the grappling hook with his right hand to stabilize his body, he swung the rope in his hand downward and circled Genta's feet. Genta grabbed Mitsuhiko and Ayumi's hands, and the four of them swayed in the air.
On the other side, Kidd also grabbed the chain on the wall with one hand and pulled Conan and Ayumi with the other hand.
The hall is not far below, but this short distance seems so close yet so far away.
Chu Ming and Kidd each held a string of candied haws hanging in the air and looked at each other.
Chapter 555 Where is Brother Chu Ming?
Compared to Chu Ming, Kidd is closer to the hall.
Looking at the hall door not far away, Chu Ming frowned. Looking at the string of dolls in his hand, he struggled to maintain the holding posture and took out a rope from his pocket and tied it on his hand, letting the rest hang down.
Then he said to Mitsuhiko who was held by Genta, "Mitsuhiko, do you see the rope? Tie the rope around your waist and Ayumi's waist. Genta, let go after they tie the rope, and then I will try my best to swing you towards Conan and the others. Genta needs to grab Conan and Ai while swinging over, and Ayumi and Mitsuhiko need to quickly tie the rope on themselves as well. Can you do it?"
The children had been following Conan all along, and they had experienced many ups and downs. After the panic, they listened to Chu Ming's calm arrangements and nodded vigorously: "Yes!"
Kidd was not stupid, and he immediately understood what Chu Ming wanted to do: "You want to take all the children and let me go to the hall to meet you? I have no problem with that, but the weight of five children will be in your hands at that time, can you handle it?"
"It's okay. I know the weight." Chu Ming showed no reluctance at all.
Time was urgent, so Kidd didn't refuse: "Okay, I understand."
Seeing that Kidd was fine, Chu Ming reached out and wrapped the rope around his right hand a few more times to secure it, then swung his left hand hard to the side.
The children at the other end of the rope also stretched out their hands and tried hard to reach Conan and the others, once, twice...
Finally, in another swing, Mitsuhiko grabbed Conan's clothes with his hands, and then used his hands and feet to wrap himself around Conan with great effort, and tied himself and several others up tightly with ropes.
Kidd felt a lightness in his hand, and he immediately pulled the rope and aimed in the direction of the hall. He leaped towards the door frame, grabbed the door frame to steady his body, and then slowly leaned his body inside.
At this time, Officer Nakamori was stuck at the window of the hall, holding the rope ladder lowered by the helicopter, looking over here anxiously. When he saw Kidd go in, he hurriedly asked, "Where are those children? Have you found them? Hurry up, the airship will hit the Tower of Babel soon!"
Kidd didn't bother to answer. He stepped on the fulcrum to keep his balance, tied the rope in his hand firmly to the window frame, and shouted to the outside of the door: "Okay, let the children move slowly along the rope to this side!"
One end of the rope was on Conan, and the other end was tied to the window frame. The location of the hall was perpendicular to where Chu Ming and the others had just hung. If Chu Ming held Conan from behind, the children could slowly slide down along the rope he had tied.
Chu Ming also saw the rope on Conan. He stretched out his foot and wrapped the rope around his leg a few times to prevent the rope from strangling Conan when the children climbed down. Then he helped the children slowly slide to Kidd's current position.
After all the children slid past, Chu Ming signaled Conan to hold him tightly, and then at the moment of releasing the hook, he swung himself towards the main door of the hall. The moment he landed behind the door, he aimed at the door frame and fixed himself with another hook.
The two people's falling bodies suddenly fell. Chu Ming, who was controlling the robot, maliciously set some blood to seep out of the robot, which made Huibara Ai, who was climbing up and staring at this side anxiously, gasp.
The wound on Brother Chu Ming’s body burst open!
She didn't shout out loud, but just kept it in mind. When she got on the helicopter, she would give Brother Chu Ming some medicine as soon as possible...
Chu Ming had just pulled Conan to stand firmly when Kidd had already persuaded Officer Nakamori to escort the children up. At this time, only Chu Ming, Kidd and Conan were left in the airship.
"Let's go, the airship will be here soon--" Before Chu Ming could finish his words, the ground beneath his feet suddenly shook violently. The three of them lost their balance and fell forward. The airship seemed to have hit something, making a loud noise.
The rescue ladder that was visible just now disappeared in an instant. Chu Ming grabbed the window bar and leaned out to see that the airship had crashed into the Tower of Babel. While the spire was knocked crooked, the airship was also seriously damaged and was about to crash.
Chu Ming pushed Conan into Kidd's arms and said, "Hurry, I know you have a hang glider, so it should be no problem for you to take care of a child. Take Conan and leave quickly."
Kidd subconsciously hugged Conan who was pushed over and looked at Chu Ming: "What about you?"
Chu Ming smiled slyly: "Of course I have a way. I originally wanted to use it to take everyone to escape, but Mr. Suzuki called a helicopter, and now I am the only one who needs to run like this."
He pointed out the window and said, "I said before that the airship will not hit the Tower of Babel directly, but will slide down along the side. I will go to the hatch at the bottom of the airship and wait. When the airship touches the bottom of the Tower of Babel, I can jump down and escape. At that time, the airship will be only about two or three meters away from the Tower of Babel. With my skills, I can handle it without any problems."
"Okay, don't listen to my escape route. What you need to do now is to run with Conan. Don't let me run away, and you, who have wings, can't."
Being urged by Chu Ming again and again, Kid raised his head proudly: "How is that possible? It's just Conan, there's no problem at all."
After saying that, he jumped down holding Conan in his arms. When passing through the clouds, he spread out his hang glider and dived towards the ground.
When the airship hit the top of the tower, Haibara Ai, who had just climbed onto the helicopter, suddenly rushed to the door and looked down anxiously with Xiaolan.
"Shinichi, Conan and Chu Ming are still on the airship, hurry up and save them--" Xiaolan turned back in panic and looked at Suzuki Jirokichi.
"It's not that I don't want to rescue, the airship is falling, and the helicopter can't get close at this time--" Suzuki Jirokichi was a little embarrassed.
"Ah—it's Kaito Kidd, it's Kidd, he's bringing Conan out!" Genta suddenly burst into cheers.
Xiaolan's heart slowly calmed down. Yes, Shinichi's true identity is actually Kaito Kid...
If everyone knew about this, wouldn't Shinichi be——
"It turns out that Mr. Kidd is here in disguise as that Kudo guy. I was wondering when Mr. Kidd would show up~" Sonoko held her face and looked at Mr. Kidd flying through the clouds below. "Sure enough, Mr. Kidd is the most charming when he is flying~"
Xiaolan slowly breathed a sigh of relief and slowly loosened her clenched hands. Fortunately, it was okay...
She was relieved, but Huibara was sad and she bit her lower lip.
Although the voice was soft, it was like a thunderclap striking everyone's heart.
"Kid and Conan are out, but where is Chu Ming? Where is he? How is he going to get out?"
Chapter 556 I Can’t Think of a Topic
After Kidd flew away, Chu Ming directly activated the robot's flight mode. The violently shaking and bumpy spacecraft had no effect on him at all. If he was not on the helicopter now, everyone would definitely be looking at him from above, and he could fly out of the window.
But now the only way is to use the airship to fly from the landing port on the bottom floor to the Tower of Babel and leave.
Anyway, Osaka has now evacuated all nearby residents because of the news that an airship is about to arrive and is filled with the virus.
When he reached the Tower of Babel, he raised his head slightly. The top of the tower had been knocked crooked by the airship, and the direction of the airship was also knocked crooked by the tower. It was now facing the ground. In addition, the airship was set on autopilot, so it was rubbing against the Tower of Babel, falling towards the ground with sparks and lightning all the way.
During the fall, wisps of flames shot out from the airship and quickly grew rapidly with the help of the wind, soon sweeping across the entire airship. The burning of the airbags caused the airship to lose its upward support, causing it to fall even faster.
With a loud "boom", the airship wrapped in flames splashed beautiful fireworks on the ground.
Haibara Ai stuck her head out of the helicopter and looked around anxiously, but could not find any trace of Chu Ming.
"Xiao Ai, stop looking. Brother Chu Ming will be fine. He is even better than me. He is probably almost at the bottom of the tower now." Xiao Lan was also very anxious, but she still tried to keep smiling in front of the children and comforted them, "Let's go find him as soon as the helicopter lands, okay?"
Haibara Ai knew that it was useless to worry here, so she could only follow Xiaolan's force and get into the helicopter and sit down. She never believed in gods, but at this moment she was praying for gods' protection.
The helicopter found an open space nearby and stopped. Xiaolan and Haibara Ai were the first to run out and ran towards the Tower of Babel.
From a distance they saw Chu Ming leaning against the wall weakly and tiredly, his face pale, miserable and embarrassed. Just as they were about to rush over there, a black car suddenly stopped, and a man in black clothes got out and took Chu Ming away.
Huihara Ai suddenly stopped and looked at the ordinary Toyota. The alarm in her brain kept blaring. She grabbed Mao Lilan, who was about to shout over there with some doubts: "Wait, no need to go. That should be someone that Chu Ming knows. Maybe they are taking him to the hospital..."
In fact, Haibara Ai herself didn't believe what was said, but the person who took Chu Ming away was obviously from the organization, so she had to help Chu Ming cover it up.
Mao Lilan did not doubt it. Seeing this, she touched Huiyuan Ai's head and said, "Look, I told you that Chu Ming-ge is so skilled, he will be fine. You are not worried now, right?"