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Chu Ming changed the subject and blinked his eyes innocently at Hattori: "Besides, dear detective, these people died because of you. I'm just an executive officer. How can you put all the blame on me?"
"Don't change the subject. Either you kill me today, or one day, I will send you to jail!" Shinichi clenched his teeth tightly, his chest heaving violently. He tried his best to suppress his anger and uttered the harsh words word by word.
"NO NO NO." Chu Ming shook his finger. "Little detective, let me sort it out for you. If you hadn't hired someone to pretend to be you and accompany your girlfriend, your photos wouldn't have been sent to Gin's table. In this way, I wouldn't have to come here during my vacation to deal with the mess you made, and naturally these things wouldn't have happened. So, who do you think is the culprit?"
Shinichi's face turned red with anger after being hit by Chu Ming's specious blame-shifting theory, but he still raised his head with a stubborn light in his eyes: "Of course it's you, you——"
Before Shinichi could finish his long speech, Chu Ming interrupted him directly: "I know what you want to do. You are just trying to delay time by arguing with me. But my patience is not very good. Now, you only have two choices.
Choose Shogi, where you two play against each other, and the winner can take away his treasure and all the remaining villagers; or choose Xiangqi, where after two games, you can take away all the remaining people except the pieces that have been eliminated. Choose your choice.
"Oh, yes, there is another option." Chu Ming added as if he had just remembered, "I remember giving you a key with the letter. That is the key to the door behind you. If you don't want to participate in the game, you can leave at any time. Of course, you two have to leave on your own."
It seems that there are three options, but based on Chu Ming's understanding of Shinichi and Hattori, they only know the first one.
Sure enough, after a moment of silence, Shinichi made a decision: "We choose Shogi."
"Kudo, you--" Hattori wanted to say something, but was stopped by Shinichi. He glanced at Xiaolan who was sitting in the crowd with her head down, and a crystal flashed in his eyes.
He pulled Hattori over and whispered a few words to him, then pulled the frowning Hattori back to the table, "Granburch, no need to compete, I admit defeat, Xiaolan and I will stay here, you don't have to arrest anyone, just release Heye and the rest."
Chu Ming raised his eyebrows. This was beyond his expectation. He glanced at Hattori and deliberately sighed: "I thought you were good friends, but it turned out that you were just like this in the face of life and death. How do you feel about watching your best friend die for you?"
Hattori didn't know whether he was angry or sad, his eyes were a little red. He didn't say anything, but just stared at Chu Ming's disguise, as if he wanted to remember this face firmly in his mind.
Chu Ming didn't care about his look at all. He flicked his hand and an anesthetic needle flew out from his sleeve and pierced Hattori's neck. He swayed and collapsed.
"Hattori!" Shinichi grabbed Hattori's body in panic and was slightly relieved when he saw that he was just sleeping. "Didn't you say you would let them go?"
How could Chu Ming let someone go now? If Hattori went out and found that the room was empty and Chu Ming, who should have been sleeping in the room, was missing, wouldn't that expose the truth?
I originally thought that both Shinichi and Hattori would be eager to sacrifice their lives heroically, but I didn't expect that Hattori didn't even refute Shinichi's decision. There must be something wrong.
So to be on the safe side, let him fall asleep first.
Chu Ming took out the remote control from his pocket and pressed the button. The door in the middle of the railing popped open with a click. He spoke coldly, rummaging in his pocket, and finally took out a few blood collection tubes and handed them to Lafitte: "Draw some blood from him, draw a few more tubes, and fill them up."
Keep promising the boss to draw some blood from him. Conan's blood is easy to draw, but Shinichi's is not easy to come by, so get some and keep it as a backup.
Lafitte reluctantly took the blood collection tube from Chu Ming's hand, rolled up Shinichi's sleeve, confirmed his blood vessels with a quick glance, and inserted the needle.
Shinichi did not resist. He let Lafitte take tube after tube of blood from him. His face was a little pale, but his eyes were always on Lafitte.
Granburch didn't do it himself, but handed it over to this masked man. Could he be the doctor of that organization?
But this person gave him a very familiar feeling, as if he had seen him somewhere before...
Seeing that Shinichi's eyes were still on Lafitte, Chu Ming did not stop him. He just stood up and dragged Makoto Yada out.
"You promised me that you would release them all." Shinichi's voice was a little hoarse, perhaps due to excessive blood loss.
Chu Ming looked back in surprise: "You know I'm not a good person, why do you think I will keep my promise?"
Shinichi, who had always met members of the organization who kept their promises, was stunned. He pressed the bleeding needle wound on his arm, his face pale: "You——"
Chu Ming quickly pulled out his gun and shot Makoto Yada in the middle of his eyebrows. Blood splattered on his face, and he wiped it off without caring.
When Makoto Yada appeared, Chu Ming had no intention of letting him go. After all, Gin had been tracking down Kudo Shinichi's whereabouts. Although he knew that Conan was Shinichi, he could not capture him for the time being due to the boss's order. So this mission must have an end.
And Makoto Yada is the best scapegoat.
Chapter 656: Edited by Myself
Shinichi stared at Yada Makoto's body lying on the ground in a daze: "You killed him? Why?"
Chu Ming looked at Shinichi's face with a refreshed worldview, stood up, and kicked Yada Makoto's body away: "Why? Detective, are you a little too naive? I didn't kill you, except for Vermouth's face, there should be some other reasons, you should have some idea in your mind, right?
You are just betting that I will still be like before, no matter whether I torture you or not, I will not kill you in the end."
Shinichi's lips moved twice but he couldn't say anything. He was indeed gambling. After all, Granburch had let him go many times before. Whether it was because of Vermouth's plea or other reasons, he had indeed escaped death from Granburch many times.
He vaguely guessed that the reason Granburch didn't kill him, besides the influence of Vermouth, might also be for him, the little white mouse who had successfully shrunk. This guess became more certain after Granburch had his blood drawn.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Chu Ming sneered: "You are very smart. You know that Belmode indulges you, so when you need any information, you can ask her directly; although I have never been very happy with you, after letting you go a few times, you also realized that I would not kill you, so you dared to stay with your childhood sweetheart and let me let the others go.
What a pity, Detective, you missed it. I have never been a person who follows the rules. On the contrary, I prefer to control the rules. Whether you live or die has nothing to do with other things. It all depends on my thoughts. "
Shinichi's mental activities are actually quite easy to guess, as it can be seen from the points. At the beginning, he was quite generous in providing points, but later on, his points decreased significantly. This shows that he had some inner reliance and began to relax, and was not as nervous as before.
That's why Chu Ming was certain that Shinichi thought it was impossible for him to kill him, so he killed Makoto Yada in front of Shinichi.
Kudo Shinichi is a smart man, and a little knock on the smart man is enough.
Chu Ming approached Shinichi, pushed him back to the chair in front of the table, put his hand on his shoulder, leaned his face over his other shoulder, and lowered his voice: "Kill him, then your identity will be dead in Gin's eyes. I helped you a lot, Shin-chan~"
Shinichi felt as if he was wrapped by a poisonous snake. His muscles were tense and his blood seemed to be frozen. The tail tone of Granburch's words in his ears had a strange upward sound. He shook his body and tried to break free from the hand on his shoulder, but to no avail.
He raised his hand and tried to push Chu Ming away: "I don't need you to pretend--"
Chu Ming put more force to hold him down, his words full of temptation: "You really don't need it? Even if your identity is exposed and you want to kill the people around you, you don't need my help?"
Feeling the body's struggle weaken under his palm, Chu Ming smiled a little wider: "Look how good I am to you. I can let you choose between two options: either your identity is exposed and your family members are killed; or kill him with your own hands and let him die in front of your face, once and for all. But I know you can't do it, so I helped you~ How about it, detective, am I considerate?"
Shinichi closed his eyes in pain. A life was lost in front of him. As a detective, he should have been irreconcilable with the murderer and sought justice for the deceased. However, listening to Granburch's provocative words, for a moment, he actually thought along the lines of Granburch's description and even felt a little fortunate for it...
He pushed Granburch away as if in a state of stress, mumbling to himself, not knowing whether he was trying to convince Granburch or himself: "It's not like that. This is a human life. It's not a bargaining chip or a shield as you say. He doesn't even know about this..."
Chu Ming looked at him as if he was furious and moved away from him, so he didn't get close to him again: "Famous Detective, I can abide by the rules and let you take these people away, but there is a condition."
When Shinichi's eyes returned to him again, he continued, "I need you to help me keep an eye out for someone. But I don't know what his name is, where he will appear, what he looks like, or what his characteristics are... but you have to help me find him."
???
Shinichi originally just wanted to hear Granburch's conditions, but the more he listened, the more he felt something was wrong.
Asking him to look for someone under such conditions is no different from looking for a needle in a haystack.
No, it is much more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack, after all, the latter also knows that what you want to find is a needle...
As Chu Ming spoke, he realized that something was wrong, but there was nothing he could do. He didn't know what image Shuichi Akai would appear in, but the only thing that was certain was that Shuichi Akai would appear near Haibara or Conan.
"I don't need your judgment, but if there are strangers who approach you intentionally, take a photo and send it to me." Chu Ming casually took out a piece of paper with the SIDE number he had just registered, forced it into Shinichi's clenched palm, and whispered in his ear, "Work hard, my dear - non-staff member of the organization~"
"I can't possibly—"
Chu Ming interrupted his harsh words in time and reminded him: "You know, I have put a nano bomb into your little childhood sweetheart. If I want her to die at any time, are you sure you want to reject me?"
Shinichi's face changed slightly. He looked down at the note in his hand and slowly clenched it: "I know..."
"Don't try to deal with me." Chu Ming smiled, put his five fingers together and then opened them, making an explosion gesture, "Otherwise, your little childhood sweetheart will - 'bong~'"
"Oh, by the way, if the righteous detective wants to call the police, you can try~" Chu Mingyan smiled and said, "Let's see if the police find me first, or if the people around you are sent away by me one by one first."
"...I won't." Kudo Shinichi looked embarrassed. He didn't know whether his choice was right or wrong, but at the moment, he had no choice but to agree to Granburch's request.
He could feel that his bottom line was being pushed down step by step by Granburch, but he could do nothing about it.
"Okay, detective, you can leave with your childhood sweetheart and your friends. As for the rest of them, I'll have someone make arrangements for them."
People cannot be killed for the time being, and threatening them will have limited effect. Chu Ming can only earn some points by destroying their hearts.
Alas, it’s not easy to make extra money.
In front of Shinichi, Chu Ming walked to the wall and kicked over several plastic barrels next to the wall, and a smell of gasoline spread.
Chu Ming played with the lighter in his hand and tore off his first layer of disguise, revealing the face of the fake "Gin". He had thought of it when he was planning to let Lafitte and others perform an escape. It didn't matter how big a fuss he made this time, because he had already found a scapegoat.
"Remember, detective, you accidentally discovered in the forest that the drug dealers on the run were hiding in this cabin. They also held several hostages. In order to escape, they set fire to the house... You can make up the rest by yourself~"
Chapter 657 I will never watch his fun again
After the wooden house caught fire, Chu Ming directly left the finishing work to Lafitte and Bourbon who was on standby outside.
Lafitte was curious as to why Granburch planned to fake Shinichi's death by using a cosmetically reconstructed corpse when Gin was clearly trying to capture him. Hadn't he and Gin always had a good relationship? Did they have a falling out?
But looking at Bourbon who was busy with his work beside him with a gloomy face, he swallowed his doubts.
Lafitte was previously forced by Vermouth to join Chu Ming's camp. Lafitte, who hated the struggle for power, was hesitating between pretending to be deaf and dumb to hide it or breaking off ties with him and reporting to the boss, when the boss contacted him first.
When he knew that the boss not only knew about all this and condoned it, but also secretly helped Granburch plan it, Lafitte just felt that the clown was himself.
Logically speaking, Gin should have also received the notice from the boss and should have cooperated with Granburr in everything.
Why did Granburch go through all this trouble to hide this from Gin?
Could this be the first step in Granburch's journey to power?
I don't understand, but I can't ask. After all, Bourbon doesn't seem to be a part of this play. I have to keep it from him and not let him know this information.
Lafitte, who couldn't eat the melon, sighed and felt that he had no energy to work.
Bourbon on the side was watching the increasingly tight time. They needed to move some of the bodies of the drug dealers before the police arrived. The fire with the addition of accelerant could successfully help them destroy the traces and prevent the police from tracking down the drug dealers to avoid finding out any information about the organization. They also had to clear the traces of their coming from outside.
He was so busy that his hands were almost leaving afterimages. Looking at Lafitte beside him who was inexplicably becoming sad and not working, Bourbon silently clenched his teeth.
Next time I will never watch the excitement in Gran Birch again!
I didn't get to see the excitement, but there was a lot of work to do, and my teammates were not very capable!
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The big fire in the forest attracted the police who were still in the village. Shinichi successfully fooled the police with his excellent eloquence and credibility with the police.
Because of the addition of accelerants and the fact that the cabin was in the forest, the police were busy cutting a barrier, so it was particularly difficult to put out the fire. When the fire completely devoured the cabin, the police barely put out the last bit of flames. A total of more than a dozen bodies were found in the burned cabin.
Based on the surveillance video provided by Chu Ming, the police had already identified the group of drug dealers, who were one of the small-scale drug dealers that had appeared in Osaka before.
The police were just about to issue a wanted warrant when they heard from Shinichi that he had seen a group of drug dealers taking hostages, and after a confrontation, the drug dealers set themselves on fire in the forest. It has been confirmed that the corpses at the scene, except for some villagers involved, are the bodies of the drug dealers themselves.
It seems that the group of people knew there was no hope of escape, so they simply committed suicide after setting the fire. It's a pity for the villagers who were innocently involved.
Inspector Megure looked at the solved case. Although he felt sad about the people who died in the case, he stepped forward and patted Shinichi on the shoulder to comfort him, "Brother Kudo, don't punish yourself with the cruelty of criminals. Although the death of innocent people is indeed painful, the real murderer has been brought to justice, and you have saved many people. Don't be too sad."
Inspector Megure thought Shinichi felt guilty for not being able to save everyone, but in fact, what made Shinichi more uncomfortable was that he was forced to get involved with the organization. Not only did he fail to save people, but he could only watch the murderer leave in front of him, and he had to help him cover up his lies.
For the young boy whose sense of justice was almost overflowing, this was like a fanatic betraying his own beliefs, but he had to do it anyway. He could not say anything in response to Inspector Megure's comfort, and could only force out a smile.
Inspector Megure thought that he had not yet recovered, and patted him hard again, feeling a little emotional. Both Chu Ming and Shinichi were good young men with a sense of justice and high ideological awareness.
Chu Ming didn't know what Inspector Megure thought of him. He was pretending to sleep in the hotel room at this time. He originally wanted to pretend to wait for Shinichi to come back, but he actually fell asleep.
It was not until Shinichi and Hattori came back and woke him up that Chu Ming opened his sleepy eyes and rubbed his temples: "Why did I fall asleep? No, why am I here? Didn't I follow you out...hiss——"
Shinichi looked a little down, completely losing his previous high spirits: "Brother Chu Ming, are you okay?"