frightfiction Chapter 553 Infection
Chapter 553 Infection
Chu Ming stopped talking, and under the heartbroken gaze of Huihara Ai, he slowly crawled out of the hole that Xiaolan had dug.
His face was still flushed. Although the red rashes on his face had disappeared, the blisters on his neck and body had burst, and blood was slowly oozing out. His lips were also a little cracked due to lack of water, but he still insisted on following Conan and the others.
Conan looked at Chu Ming with some concern, and couldn't help but dissuade him: "Brother Chu Ming, why don't you find a room to rest? You don't look very well now..."
Chu Ming shook his head: "The fever just now should be just a protective mechanism of the body's immune system. I feel much better now, and there should be no problem. How can you two face so many armed bandits?"
"But you're all bleeding—well..."
Conan felt helpless. Looking at Chu Ming's determined face despite his weakness and injury, he knew he had no way of convincing him. He could only repeatedly remind him to rest if he felt uncomfortable and not to act stubbornly.
The corridor was empty at this time. Conan and a few children sneaked towards the living room and didn't meet anyone along the way.
"What's going on? Why are all the robbers gone?" Mitsuhiko asked in a low voice, "Did they take away all the people on the airship?"
"How is that possible? Why did they capture all the people? Those bad guys clearly said they wanted to use us to infect them with the virus." Ayumi retorted.
Yuan Tai also quietly joined in the discussion: "Maybe they are locking everyone in a big room and spraying poison inside. Isn't that what they see on TV?"
Conan looked back at the children, then turned around with a serious expression: "I have a very important task for you, are you capable of doing it?"
The three real kids' eyes lit up: "Of course, what's the mission?"
Conan pointed to the top floor where they found the bomb before and said, "I need you to check if there are any bombs left there. If there are any, notify me immediately through your badge. After we dismantled the previous bombs, the kidnappers might install new ones. If the airship explodes, all of us will be doomed. The safety of the entire airship is in your hands now. Can you handle such an important task?"
Conan deliberately exaggerated the difficulty of the mission. He didn't want the children to take risks with him. After all, those people in the hall at that time were not ordinary kidnappers, but members of that organization!
They disguised themselves like this and pretended to be mercenaries who accepted a mission from the United States. There must be some conspiracy!
He is already entangled with the organization, and he cannot drag the people around him into it.
The children had no idea that Conan was trying to get them out of the way. When they heard that it was a very important mission, their eyes lit up with excitement and they carefully moved toward the top of the airship. At Conan's signal, Haibara Ai also followed.
Before leaving, she looked deeply at Chu Ming and Conan, and whispered, "Be careful."
Chu Ming nodded seriously, and moved forward cautiously with Xiaolan and Conan as if facing a great enemy, but until they arrived near the hall, they still didn't see anyone.
Xiaolan grabbed Conan who was about to run to the hall, and put him next to Chu Ming with a firm expression: "Conan, you stay with Brother Chu Ming, I'll go over there first, if there's no danger, you can go over there."
"No." Conan was the first to object. "I'll go. I'm short and they won't notice me easily."
"Just listen to me. They want to catch the child. I will be safer. If I really encounter robbers, I can just knock them down." Xiaolan waved her fist to comfort Conan, "Just wait here for me."
Without waiting for Conan to answer, she raised her hand and stroked Conan's head, then lurked towards the hall with light steps, stepping in the blind spots of the hall at every step, making sure that no one in the hall could see her at all.
Wow, that's pretty impressive.
Chu Ming remembered that he had only taught her this skill once, when he sneaked into Yulong Temple to rescue He Ye. He taught Xiaolan how to sneak in silently and without leaving any trace. Now it seems that Xiaolan's talent is indeed very strong.
It’s a pity that the members of the protagonist group, and the ones closest to the protagonist, cannot join the organization.
However, he couldn't just let them rescue the people like that. After all, the bulk of the operation was on the airship, and that was also why he left the robot behind.
Chu Ming looked at the map left on the airship. They were about to reach the Tower of Babel in Osaka. Then he saw Conan staring at Xiaolan as she sneaked in quietly, not paying any attention to the movements around him, so he just pressed the switch.
“Bang—bang—”
With a few loud bangs, the airship began to shake violently and even tilted to the side.
Chu Ming was prepared. He reached out and hooked the door handle beside him to steady his body. Conan slid to the wall and hit his head hard on the wall.
Chu Ming steadied himself, held back his laughter, and asked anxiously, "Conan, are you okay?"
Conan was dazed and tried to get up from the wall, but the airship was shaking so violently that he could not support his body. He could only passively slide down like a ball and slid into the hall faster than Xiaolan.
Xiaolan, who was trying to stand firm and move forward, said: What just slipped by?
Chu Ming aimed at the target and slowly slid along the wall to Xiaolan's side: "Conan just slid in! Let's go in and take a look!"
Xiaolan is agile, and 'Chu Ming' is a combat robot and even more flexible. The two of them walked on the bumpy and shaking airship as if it were flat ground, and soon entered the hall.
The hall was in chaos at this time. The rope Chu Ming used to tie people up was made of tough material produced by the system, which was designed to prevent people like Kidd who had many small devices on their bodies.
So after Chu Ming and others left, everyone in the hall tried their best to wear the rope loose, but none of them could do it.
At the moment the airship exploded, everyone was still struggling hard. Fortunately, Chu Ming trapped them on the railing, otherwise when the airship swayed from side to side, everyone would probably have a close contact with the wall.
The bomb exploded, and the virus slid and spread. There was even a few bottles of virus hidden in a corner of the hall. When the airship vibrated, they fell to the ground and shattered. The virus liquid even dripped onto everyone.
When Conan slid in like a bomb, the red Siamese cats were looking at the red rashes and blisters appearing on their bodies in despair.
"Conan? Why are you here? Where is Xiaolan? How is she?" Mouri Kogoro was the first to notice Conan and asked repeatedly.
"Sister Xiaolan is right behind us..." Conan barely grasped the curtain and slowly moved to Kogoro Mouri, ready to untie the rope for him.
"No, this rope cannot be separated. It must be untied from the source. At that time, it started with Officer Nakamori. Go and see if you can untie him first."
Just as Conan was trying hard to pull the knot in Officer Nakamori's hand, Chu Ming and Xiaolan also came into the living room swiftly and elegantly.
With the efforts of the three people, the ropes of all the people except those of the red Siamese cat were untied.
Seeing the red rash on Maori Kogoro's body, Xiaolan's eyes turned red: "Dad..."
Maori Kogoro dodged Xiaolan who rushed towards him, with a bitter look on his face: "Dad has a virus, stay away from me, don't get infected..."
Chu Ming glanced around and found that many people in the hall had already shown symptoms of infection because the virus had been splashed on them at close range and had just come into contact with their skin.
On the contrary, it was Xiaolan and Conan, because he threw the virus on the ground at that time and it did not come into direct contact with their bodies, and Conan decisively made a mask by himself and burned the air with fire, so they did not seem to be infected with the virus.
Tsk, what a pity, Conan escaped again, he really deserves to be the protagonist.