Chapter 630 The Real Silver Bullet
“There is nothing to talk about about me. Let’s talk about the topic just now.”
Without in-depth portrayal of Bourbon’s ugly behavior of bullying minors, Karasawa He stopped when he was ready, found a pavilion that was not easily observed under the cover of vines and flowers, and continued talking about the topics that he had not finished in the banquet hall.
"So, coolguy is planning to use the antidote to temporarily restore his identity to solve the problem of others doubting him?" Belmode took off the gauze hat on his head, revealing a picture A completely unfamiliar female face.
Belmod, who knew that she was being targeted by the FBI, would not casually come out to contact Goro Akechi and cause him trouble. As usual, she chose a false identity to attend the banquet today.
"That's pretty much it. For him, this is the most imminent crisis." Tangze followed Belmod's logic and let out a few self-deprecating laughs, "Some people use gunpowder to make fireworks; Using gunpowder to bring war... seems to be inherently despicable."
Belmod slapped the carved handrail and laughed as well.
Born into original sin, this is the foundation of their cooperation. She does not need a collaborator who is unclear about her position.
That's good for Kumail.
Then, you just need to confirm a few more details...
Belmod put away his smile and asked in a low and cold voice.
“Is the effect of the antidote stable?”
“In the only two subjects we have access to, it is obviously stable.”
"How long will the effect last?"
"Three to five days, maybe longer, but not much longer."
"What does that kind of medicine look like?"
"It is colorless and odorless. If you smell it closely, there is a slight smell of alcohol..." Slowly getting a feel for Belmode's thoughts, Karasawa thought for a while and chose a slightly The aggressive strategy, he said bluntly, "It's like the final chapter of destiny, isn't it?"
"Yes, a good prescription..."
Belmod put it Lowering his gaze, he put the adjusted hat back on to cover his expression.
Hidden behind the overlapping black gauze, she passed through the thin longitude and latitude lines, looked at the violet night sky outside the flower vines, and finally laughed unscrupulously.
The woman's joyful laughter attracted the attention of the guests in the garden. Following the sound, she saw Goro Akechi's smiling face, and then looked away clearly.
Facing the handsome and considerate young man, the laughter these ladies made seemed very reasonable.
“That’s great, that’s great.” Belmode, who bent down with a smile, clapped softly, “You really picked a good rope for yourself, Shirley.”< br>
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"Belmode, maybe you will find a way to take me away during this period of time?" Haihara Ai's fingers on his knees suddenly He tightened his grip, grabbing the fabric of his pants like a spasm, "Then, should I..."
"Well, I told her the news about the temporary antidote."
Awakened by the sudden coolness on his face, Haiyuan Ai raised his head and watched Tang Ze put the lecherous cream in his hand on her He wiped it on his face.
"This color is almost there." Nodding with satisfaction, Karasawa took the mask handed over by Shimabukuro Kimie and applied it, casually responding to Haibara Ai's question, "She confirmed Kudo's identity. In fact, I guessed how you escaped Ginjiu's sight. The main reason why you stayed still was because of your current appearance."
"...I understand" Haiyuan Ai closed his eyes, "She. Even more afraid of the advent of that kind of medicine than me."
After Tang Ze's explanation, Haibara Ai now understood a little bit of the woman's thoughts.
Although this did not change Belmod's cold and cruel nature, she was able to understand the other party's context a little bit.
In order not to involve Kudo Shinichi, in order to prevent the news of the existence of successful experimental subjects of Drug A from being exposed, Belmode took great pains.
She even created some noise around Mouri Kogoro, so she laid suspicion in order to attract the attention of all followers. If possible, she might use the disguise technique to fake it after killing herself. The realistic record of "Shirley's death" makes everything seem to have nothing to do with those magical drugs.
Thinking of this, she looked at the person sitting in front of her.
No wonder Karasawa was able to follow Bermod's ideas so quickly and use lies and words to quickly gain her recognition. Isn't this a superb pretender who has relied on "Karasawa Akira's death" to conceal the truth? ?
"Anyway, when she sees Kudo who has returned to his original form, she will also discover this problem." Thinking of Tang Ze's support, Haibara Ai took a breath and calmed down a little, "She should be waiting for the academy now. When Matsuri comes and confirms Kudo's situation in person, she will be ready to take action."
"With her suspicious character, she will not simply accept my words, so she must wait until she sees the real one. After Kudo." He moved the mask on his sister's face to confirm the size, and said lightly, "This is her only chance to bring back the body of 'Miyano Shiho'."
< br>This is why Belmode said that Shirley found a noose for herself.
She has never made a move against Haihara Ai. In addition to needing to distract the FBI and distract other people's attention from her, the main reason is Haihara Ai's current appearance.
Take a smaller Shirley back, and the next unlucky one will be Kudo Shinichi, not to mention that Belmode doesn't want the news that Drug A is nearly successful to spread back to the organization.
In that way, if one Shirley is killed, the next Shirley will emerge, which proves the correctness of this research line. An organization that falls into madness will only be desperate.
However, the emergence of temporary antidote is undoubtedly a new turning point.
As long as she captures Haibara Ai, forces her to take a temporary antidote and then kills her, then Belmode can successfully bring back Miyano Shiho's body, and all her worries will be solved.
"Also, Shiho, if my memory is correct, APTX4869 was not developed so much by you as it was you who took over your parents' research and continued to promote it." After correcting the details of the mask , Tang Ze looked at Haihara Ai's tear-filled eyes, "So, its main ingredients are actually similar to 'Silver Bullet', right?"
Even if you understand that the person sitting in front of you is Looking at her relatives who would always stand by her side to support her, Haihara Ai still lowered her head in a hurry reflexively.
With the pure curiosity and innocence of a scientific researcher, she and her parents touched areas that should not be attempted and released wild beasts that should not be free.
This is a responsibility she can never shirk.
"...Yes, that's true." She answered softly, as loud as a gnat.
"Then there is nothing wrong." Instead of continuing to get to the bottom of it and exploring the cruel consequences of their research as she imagined, Tangze just nodded calmly, "No wonder Belmod is smiling. ."
"Huh?" Haibara Ai didn't understand the causal relationship, and raised his face blankly, just in time to meet Tang Ze's hand.
The cold disguise mask covered her face, suppressing all the words she originally wanted to say.
“Do you think that now that silver bullets and drug A have been released one after another, during the more than 20 years of research and development, the top management of the organization, including some wealthy businessmen and politicians who provided support behind the scenes, will become older. Will they die? Are there any of them who are impatient to try to extend their lives? "Eh?" My thoughts are still lingering on how many people have been killed by the medicine I made. Hui Yuan Ai was stunned for a moment.
"Of course I will." Miyano Akemi, who walked in with the finished wig, snorted coldly and touched her sister's soft hair, "regardless of the cost, regardless of the life and death of other people, the expense Countless financial and material resources have to be spent on research and development. Only those who are old and immortal can do this kind of thing. "
For some people, the biggest pain is that people die and the money is not spent. The words are very true.
If this kind of people didn't feel the threat of death, if they weren't greedy for today's life, such a hugely expensive project that even requires human lives to fill it would not be possible.
"But, I have never seen any patients who actually use these two drugs..." Haibara Ai, who turned his head a few times and followed Tangze's thoughts, couldn't believe it.
“It’s impossible for them to leave medical records for something like this that cannot be cleaned off if it gets stained.” Patting the silly sister’s head, Tang Ze said with pity, “If you think about it carefully, this It's actually a logical question. "
If there is really no results and the organization is still throwing resources at it, then he should suspect that the winery is not a criminal group, but a pharmaceutical complex. It's the wallet company that stole the money.
There is no result, no progress at all. If shareholders are still throwing money into it, then this is not doing scientific research, this is obviously doing finance.
According to Karasawa's suspicion, considering Karasuma Renye's very unscientific age, maybe even the boss himself is a user of this drug.
"My uncle and aunt's research began more than 20 years ago, when even Sister Mingmei was not even born." Tang Ze started to analyze with his fingers, "And my parents' research started when I was 2 years old. It started after that, which is about 16 years ago. Strictly speaking, it started after I recovered, which is 8 years ago.”
I went through the timeline in my mind. Haiyuan Ai took the initiative to take over the conversation: "You are right, if they don't have any successful cases, then there is no need to attach so much importance to cognitive learning!" Seeing Haiyuan Ai go around the corner, Tang Ze nodded approvingly. .
People must ensure survival first, and then consider the quality of life. This is the logic.
For those old immortals, if they can't survive, what's the point of the resources that cognitive learning can help them grab?
In short, since the study of cognitive mysteries has been put on the agenda, it means that the prerequisite medical technology has been turned on.
"So, your antidote is really of great significance." Karasawa winked and made a funny expression, "Both you and Kudo accidentally ingested A at a young age. Drug, suddenly turned back into a child. Those old immortals are not.”
As Tang Ze tested before, the shrinking effect of A drug is a positive buff. Not a debuff.
On the contrary, the temporary antidote made by Haihara Ai is the debuff.
To understand it from a game point of view, if Kudo Shinichi, who has turned back into an adult, can be dragged to the cognitive world to form a team to study, maybe after taking the antidote, his health bar will be low, but he will have a countdown. debuff, when the debuff expires, he will change back.
But the question is, what if the same drug effect works on those old people who should have died long ago and can no longer die?
From a state of youth and strength to a state of weakness, it may only take a moment. Their overwhelmed organs will destroy their inner system in an instant.
To put it bluntly, if Kudo Shinichi and Miyano Shiho can change back to seventeen or eighteen years old, if some old gangsters turn back into corpses, then they are really corpses...
Especially, considering Renya Karasuma's age, right?
"So I say, your research is destined to be of great significance." Tang Ze smoothed the gap in the mask on Hui Yuan Ai's face, and poked his sister's head with his finger, "That is not only the antidote to save you and the detective classmate, but also will It's the poison that gives them a fatal blow..."
He picked up the pill box on the table and stuffed it into Haihara Ai's hand as a just-in-case emergency item. Ze clicked on the small box and rolled his eyes.
He made a gun gesture, put it on his temple, and raised it slightly.
““I think this is the real ‘silver bullet’ that can deliver a fatal blow to monsters and monsters. ”
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It was already dinner time when he went to meet Belmode. Since he had never disguised such a young child, it took him a lot of time to return to the villa to help Haiyuan complete the disguise work.
Then the usual information compilation, the Kaitou CH tour, paying attention to the status of the group members, checking the security of the stronghold...
When Karasawa finished a busy day of work, Polo Cafe It's already closed, and it's almost time for the drunkards to find their own bars or izakayas and sleep on the streets.
Human civilization has fallen into a deep sleep, and the streets are silent late at night. Only the signboards of the stores in Mihua Commercial Street are still shining unwillingly.
For people who have adapted to urban life, this kind of quietness is a bit scary, and it is easy to worry that there is some evil hidden in the shadows that has faded away from the mask of civilization.
However, Karasawa, who had never experienced a few days of leisurely life since arriving in Tokyo, was very adaptable to this time period and even felt very peaceful.
Although the public security of Rice Krispies is not good, at this time, even the criminals other than Gin are asleep, let alone the crispy gangsters, so there is nothing to worry about.
Therefore, when Karasawa walked to the door of Polo Cafe to get the key, he was really shocked to find that there was a person sitting at the door, and it was not Toru Amuro, the late emperor.
"Classmate Lan, what are you..." Tang Ze subconsciously raised his hand and made sure that he was still wearing school uniform and would not reveal any strange identity information.
Mao Lilan, who was supporting his head with his hands and biting his head, suddenly raised his head. Before entering the alert state, he saw the face illuminated by the light sign and breathed a sigh of relief: "Tang Ze, you are finally back. .”
"Why are you still up so late?" Tang Ze raised his head and looked at the darkened Maori Detective Agency. "Is there something going on? Did you have a quarrel with Uncle Maori?"
While he was talking , still a little guilty.
Karasawa's own routine is completely contrary to the state of ordinary high school students. People who really regard him as a simple student will easily detect problems from his high-intensity work state.
Not to mention, Mao Lilan was obviously here to block her.
After quickly reviewing the recent situation and confirming that he had nothing to offend Mao Lilan, Tangze straightened his back again: "Is it okay not to rest so late? Tomorrow is the school festival, and you just did it today Discharged and returned home.”
"I just slept in the hospital for too long, so I couldn't sleep and had some insomnia." Mao Lilan shrugged.
Looking at her attitude of making up her mind about what she wanted to talk about, Tang Ze thought for a moment and pointed to the closed door of the cafe: "Okay, do you want to come in and sit down? I'll give it to you. Hot milk?"
"No, I..." After hesitating for a moment, Mao Lilan looked at the hanging moon and stood up, "Okay, please, Tang Ze."
< br>Going through the door, he went up to the attic to pack his clothes and bags, took Noah's doll off the bag and stuffed it into his pocket. Tangze looked at himself in the floor-to-ceiling mirror for a moment, then took a breath and walked downstairs to give it to him. Mao Lilan prepares hot drinks.
The reason why Tangze cares so much about manners is not because he has been a star detective for a long time and has the burden of being an idol, but mainly because he has vaguely guessed the purpose of Mao Lilan's visit.
Tangze feels that he has been quite peaceful recently, and has not caused any troubles that require friends to enlighten him in the middle of the night. So what else could be the reason for Mao Lilan to find him?
As expected, after taking the hot taro milk from him, Mao Lilan rubbed the cup for a while, and finally broke the silence.
"Karasawa, I want to ask you a question. I hope you will answer me very seriously."
Straightening her back, she walked through the warm yellow light of the bar and stood still. Ding looked directly at Tang Ze's face, trying hard to strengthen his momentum, with a serious look on his face.
"Who is Conan? Do you really not know his identity?"
Did you discover that there was a problem with his identity very early, so you had close contacts and close relationship with a primary school student? Obviously you are not like this at all to other Conan classmates. Obviously when you faced me and Sonoko, Occasionally, I will show a wide and gentle look like looking at a child;
Is it because you know the inside story that you will mention my relationship status with Shinichi from time to time, as if if my mood does not change, then It's like I can't face this relationship.
Are you, are you...
Being with him, you are cheating on me.
Mao Lilan's lips trembled slightly.
After receiving these emotions from those bright, even pleading eyes, Karasawa, holding a cup of hot tea, hesitated briefly.
On the issue of Conan's identity, he did not completely agree with Conan's approach of not even informing the Maori family of the danger, but from an overall standpoint, he could fully understand Conan's choice.
At the time when he made the decision, Conan didn’t know what kind of opponent he was going to face, or when he would be able to return to his original state. He almost instinctively chose the environment he had lived in for more than ten years. He chose a relationship that he didn't want to abandon...
After breaking it down and analyzing it carefully, he could tell that he was wrong and ill-considered, but in Tang Ze's eyes, for an eighteen-year-old child, This decision itself represents a great courage to make a choice.
Not everyone can make decisions independently and bear all the consequences.
But from the perspective of a rational person after the fact, anyone can be Zhuge Liang.
So in terms of actual actions, Tang Ze never had any intention of taking Conan's vest from Mao Lilan. Instead, he chose to use various means to help him cover up several times.
This is not something he should decide for others. He respects Kudo Shinichi's choice.
But it is undeniable that Mao Lilan is also his friend, and she has done a lot for herself. As a friend, she has never failed to live up to Tang Ze's expectations.
Cheating is cheating, and white lies are also cheating.
Looking at Mao Lilan whose face was mixed with hope and begging, Tangze knew that his next words would probably determine the direction of many things.
He took a deep breath.
“Have you ever heard of undercover, Mr. Lan?”
(End of this chapter)