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He finally understood what Vermouth's noncommittal attitude meant when he was deducing Vermouth's mission in organizing this operation.
“Yes, it was my own decision to take you away.” Vermouth responded to his guess, and added considerately: “My original mission was just to use my current identity to notify the police to surround this Edo Street, and to ensure that you would not die in the explosion of the guesthouse. As for the mission of taking you away…”
At this point, Vermouth hesitated for a moment before continuing, "Perhaps it was handed over to Bourbon and Gil..."
She lied.
Vermouth knew Shirakawa Qing's character too well. In this organization where undercover agents gather a lot, Shirakawa Qing is absolutely "nepotistic". Anything he thinks is important will only be entrusted to the people he trusts the most, headed by their daughter Shirakawa Jing.
As for Bourbon and Kiel, although to those who are not in the know in the organization, these two people seem to have gradually been valued by Shirakawa Kiyoshi, based on Vermouth's understanding of him, this is simply impossible.
It is extremely difficult for Baihe Qing to truly trust someone, although he always seems to act like he is "willing to trust others".
And today, Ajing was also in the lobby of the Guest House.
This means that if Shirakawa Qing gave the task of hunting down Shirley to Jing, then everything is normal and the development of things is within Vermouth's expectations.
But if not... that means all her previous speculations were wrong.
Because there is no way that Shirakawa Qing would entrust such an important task as hunting down Shirley to someone he doesn't trust.
"Crack!"
Just as Vermouth was thinking about this, there was suddenly a slight noise on the street outside.
She immediately took out her cell phone and retrieved a camera around the house.
When she saw the images from the camera, Vermouth's heart sank to the bottom.
The person appearing in the surveillance footage is not Ajing.
It's bourbon and kiehl's.
Regardless of their current behavior, their motivation is to do what is best for him.
Chapter 487 Ahahaha, I found you
"Bah!"
Outside the room, Toru Amuro and Rena Mizunashi, who had followed the signal from the detective badge all the way here according to Dr. Agasa's instructions, stood on both sides of the door.
The two men were holding pistols. After looking at each other, Toru Amuro shot the door lock to break it. Then he stepped forward and slammed it hard. The two men quickly rushed into the room.
"Hands up! Don't even think about it... huh?"
Before they could finish their words, the two of them looked closely and found that the room was empty. There was no Igarashi Kiyoko as they had previously speculated, nor were there the dozen or so fully armed and ready dangerous men as they had expected.
[Did I fall into a trap? ]
Just as this thought came to the minds of the two, Conan, who was tied up and sitting in the corner of the room disguised as Haibara Ai, shouted:
"Mr. Amuro, I'm here."
"Huh...huh..."
On the other side of Edo Street, somewhere near the clock tower, Shuichi Akai, covered in wounds, covered his shoulders and walked slowly along the path behind his house.
In the previous Umeshu rocket launcher, although he tried his best to avoid the center of the explosion at the last moment, he was still affected by the impact of the explosion. Not only did he suffer serious injuries, but he also fainted for a few minutes.
After waking up, Shuichi Akai left the clock tower without any hesitation, dragging his seriously injured body.
His intuition told him that there was a very high probability that the person who was sniping with him would come over immediately to confirm his life or death. If he continued to stay there and was blocked by the other party in the clock tower, he would be in real danger in his current state.
So no matter what, he had to leave here first.
As for his mother...
The explosion on the clock tower was too obvious, and Mary must have noticed it. Given her mother's personality, she might not come here in person, but Carly and the other operatives should be moving over here now.
Perhaps he could use this to ambush the person who was sniping against him...
Thinking of this, Akai Shuichi shook his head and smiled self-deprecatingly.
But unfortunately, his communication equipment and mobile phone were broken in the explosion just now, and now he has no way to contact Carly and the others.
Wait for the right time and act when the opportunity arises...
"boom!"
At this moment, there were sudden bursts of violent explosions behind Shuichi Akai. He looked back and found that the clock tower not far behind him was slowly falling down to the other side of the street with a loud noise.
"boom!"
There was another loud noise, but this time it was not an explosion, but the loud crash of the clock tower as it completely collapsed and landed on the surrounding streets and houses.
The earth shook as if there was an earthquake. After the clock tower several dozen meters high fell down, it stirred up a cloud of dust around it.
[I see, you actually blew up the clock tower directly? ]
Leaning his back against the wall to steady himself, Shuichi Akai watched the clock tower collapse from afar and quickly figured out what had happened.
It is estimated that the person who was sniping with him rushed here and wanted to confirm whether he was alive or dead, but was worried about being ambushed by him, so he did not want to take the risk of entering the clock tower to check.
So they came up with this simple and crude method, which was to directly detonate the bottom floor of the clock tower, forcing the clock tower to tilt and collapse.
In this case, no matter whether he is dead or alive, as long as he stays in the tower, he will definitely die.
This is really... As expected of a member of the Black Organization, his methods of doing things are always so violent.
Fortunately, Shuichi Akai didn't think of hiding in the tower to launch an ambush and counterattack, otherwise he would have become a "meat pie" in the ruins.
He complained silently in his heart, and just as Akai Shuichi turned to leave, he suddenly stopped and looked back in the direction of the clock tower.
and many more!
It is true that he escaped, but Carly, who was likely to come to support him, doesn't know this yet!
Now that the clock tower has collapsed, if Carly can't contact him, she will definitely find a way to come over to check the situation. If the organization's sniper has left, it's fine, but if she is still lying in ambush there...
"Tsk!"
Realizing this, Shuichi Akai quickly turned around and rushed towards the clock tower again.
When Carly led the rest of the action team to the vicinity of the clock tower, the building, which was dozens of meters high, had collapsed. The brick and stone walls completely smashed the street buildings in the direction of the collapse into ruins, and the dust that had been stirred up had gradually dissipated.
"The target may not have gone far. First occupy the nearby commanding heights and advance carefully." Hiding behind a nearby house, Carly gave orders through the communicator.
"Roger that! Nothing unusual on the left block."
Under her command, the various action teams began to move, dispersing and occupying the commanding heights of the houses in the area near the clock tower.
Soon, reports from various teams came one after another through Carly's communicator.
"There's nothing unusual about the north side block."
"The block on the right... Zi Zi... Nothing unusual."
【Um? 】
There was a sudden sharp sound of electricity in the communicator. This strange noise came quickly and went away quickly, disappearing before Carly could react.
“There are no anomalies in the south side blocks either.”
Reports from other action teams were heard again on the communicator. The voices were normal, with no signs of interference.
[Is it a problem with the communication equipment? ]
Although she was somewhat puzzled by the noise just now, Carly did not have time to think about it. Her top priority now was to confirm the situation inside the clock tower.
Although she didn't think that Akai Shuichi would die in there, she couldn't get in touch with him after the explosion. If she didn't confirm it with her own eyes, she would feel uneasy...
Therefore, even though she knew that Umeshu was most likely still lying in ambush nearby, she still had to take the risk and command those people to come over to confirm the situation.
It's not a big deal, just be careful...
What's more, she was actually still some distance away from the clock tower and not too close to it.
"Team one, approach the clock tower and confirm the condition of the ruins." Putting aside the distracting thoughts in her mind, Carly gave the order again.
"receive."
As her order was given, an action team from the block near the clock tower began to approach the ruins using the cover of the surrounding streets.
At the same time, not far from Carly and the operatives, Umeshu, who was hiding in a house, looked at the several signal sources reflected on the special computer in front of him and suddenly laughed.
"Ahahaha, I found you."
Chapter 488 A brief fight
Near the clock tower, the action team has approached the ruins. They roughly searched the situation inside, and then reported to Carly: "We have not found any people in the ruins so far. Further search is difficult. Do we need to continue searching?"
"Continue searching, the second team will go to assist, and the rest of the teams will continue to guard the surroundings." After hesitating, Carly gave the order again.
"Roger that!"
Under her order, the second team, which was originally guarding the commanding heights of the houses around them, left their original position and headed towards the ruins of the clock tower. Two people were separated from the nearby third team and rushed to the position guarded by the second team to take over.
It was during the brief gap between the two teams that a figure that had been hiding in a nearby house suddenly rushed out and headed towards a certain direction at a high speed.
"The third team has taken over."
Soon after, the replacements from the third team arrived at the commanding heights of the house, but by then, the figure that had suddenly appeared had already disappeared.
"keep alert."
As time passed, the two teams cooperated with each other and quickly searched the ruins of the collapsed clock tower, while Carly leaned against the wall behind her, quietly waiting for the result.
She sincerely hoped that the two teams would find nothing in the end, because that would mean that Akai Shuichi had escaped from the clock tower before the explosion, which at least proved that his life was not safe...
Come to think of it, Carly had been on guard against a possible attack from Umeshu, but so much time had passed and there had been no movement from the other party. Could it be that he had really left the vicinity?
[No, this shouldn’t be possible…]
Shaking her head, Carly denied her optimistic guess.
In the unexpected communication between the two of them, Umeshu's words were intentionally or unintentionally luring her to the clock tower. It was obvious that he wanted to ambush her there. There was no way that woman would leave so easily.
She must still be lying in ambush nearby, perhaps waiting for the right opportunity.
Carly was absolutely sure of this.
But what she didn't know was what the woman was going to do.
Could it be that they are planning to challenge the limits of human beings and kill them all with the cooperation of several action teams?