Chapter 194 Questions

Day 12 of the Highway Survival Game!

"Achoo!" Conan finally managed to leave Uncle Mori's side, found the person that Phantom Thief Kid was disguised as, and was about to speak when a loud sneeze suddenly came out, spraying the person opposite him in the face.

The old woman, disguised as Kaito Kid, revealed her crescent-shaped eyes and complained, "Luckily, this disguise has a veil. If it weren't for the veil, it would be disgusting to have your snot sprayed all over my face."

"Heh... that's just sprayed on your fake face. If you're so capable, show me your real face!" Conan retorted without any politeness to Kaito Kid, but in his heart he was thinking that it must have been Haibara who gave him the cold germ.

Tsk! How many times has this happened? Ever since I grew up, I've almost always caught a cold whenever someone around me has one. No wonder people say that children have weak immune systems. But I didn't catch colds this easily when I was a kid, did I?

Kaito Kid, speechless at Conan's retort, retorted, "Is this how you ask for a favor?"

"It's not about asking for a favor," Conan said matter-of-factly. "It's about you repaying a favor. Don't forget you owe me one last time."

"OK! Tell me! How exactly do I do it?" Well, considering that this guy's face looks a lot like his own when he was a kid, I'll just consider it a return gift. Besides, offending this famous detective would be a real problem. Kaito Kid agreed while thinking to himself.

Seeing that Kaito Kid had relented, Conan quickly took out a clear video clip from his phone showing the paused moment when Ai Haibara saved Ayumi in the Gunma Mountains after taking the antidote, and showed it to Kaito Kid: "In a moment, you'll disguise yourself as her..."

"Hey! You're really going to put me against such a dangerous guy? You, the great detective, really know how to offend people..." Kaito Kid couldn't help but complain as he listened to Conan's plan...

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So Gin, Bourbon, Vermouth, and several low-ranking members of the organization pretended not to know each other and walked to the back of carriage number 7 under their respective disguised identities.

Vermouth whispered into the mini microphone, "I've found out that Sherry booked a room in carriage number 8. Based on what I know about her, after we instill enough fear in her..."

If she realized she couldn't escape, she would probably find a secluded spot where no one else would be around and she wouldn't endanger the other passengers, and wait for us to arrive. I bet she's probably trembling in one of those two carriages right now, waiting for death!

"So the problem now is to find out which room she's hiding in?" Hearing the voice coming through his earpiece, Bourbon looked around. Because of the termite attack earlier, the passengers were still shaken and had run to the front of the carriages where there were no termites to take refuge.

The carriages behind were empty and dilapidated, gnawed by termites. The man, whose true nature was hard to discern, raised an eyebrow and said into the mini microphone attached to his collar, "This doesn't seem difficult."

"After all, she's the daughter of a Hell's Angel. Everyone else was running to safety, but we didn't see Shirley as we were coming. I guess she did the opposite, choosing to stay in the most dangerous place to avoid endangering the other passengers."

"It shouldn't have been eaten by termites, right?" Vermouth's beautiful eyes darted around, and although she said no, her voice seemed to be filled with some kind of expectation.

"Hmph! Those insects disappeared too quickly. Most people would only suffer a bite at most. Even though Shirley is a scientific research talent trained by the organization, she has still undergone the most basic training in organizational self-defense techniques."

She might get hurt, but unless she prefers dying from the mouthparts of insects to dying at the hands of the organization, she won't die. Gin said as he walked forward, checking the condition of the carriage.

As I watched, he suddenly revealed a ferocious smile, like a beast seeing its prey and being filled with intense hunting desire. The corners of his lips turned up so dramatically that they revealed his clean, white teeth.

He looked like a shark about to launch an attack: "Heh... the passengers seemed to have fled in a hurry; most of them didn't even have time to close their compartment doors."

"So, which of these rooms behind us has its door closed? That's where Sherry might be hiding?" Bourbon's face was ashen, but his eyes were filled with an unusual seriousness.

But that didn't stop him from saying, "It seems my previous preparations weren't in vain, especially our search for her hiding place room by room. Why don't we use my backup plan?"

"A backup plan?" Vermouth turned to look at Bourbon with some surprise. Having confirmed that there were no passengers in the back carriage and knowing that there were no surveillance cameras in the corridors of the Suzuki Express, she simply stopped pretending to be a stranger to Bourbon and asked directly.

At the same time, she wondered if Bourbon knew that she had tricked a lot of bombs out of Vodka and was just waiting for Bourbon to force Sherry into the cargo compartment at the back of the car and press the remote control, so that Bourbon would not choose to capture Sherry and bring her back to the organization.

After all, the BOSS still wanted to capture Sherry and solve his current physical problems. Also, because the original developers of that drug were Sherry's parents, Akai Tsutomu destroyed most of the research data and samples of that drug.

Three years ago, Sherry returned to Japan to participate in research. In just a few months, she initially restored the APTX4869 version that Atsushi Miyano and his wife had created 20 years ago, and soon after, she developed another effect that the BOSS wanted.

However, the side effects of that drug are even more terrible than the version developed by Atsushi Miyano and his wife. The software that was commissioned to be developed by Taku Itakura failed due to Taku Itakura's death. The BOSS now urgently needs a way to remove the side effects of APTX4869.

However, the research progress on APTX4869 in the various research institutes of the organization has almost come to a standstill since the two genius researchers, Sherry and Juliannek, defected one after another. These circumstances led the BOSS to subconsciously believe that Sherry still had the greatest chance of success.

So even though Sherry's sister clearly infiltrated the FBI, had thoughts of defecting from the organization, rebelled against the organization for her sister's sake, and later chose to defect during the interrogation stage, the BOSS's mission order for Sherry was still primarily to capture her alive.

Gin and Bourbon were the ones who decided to kill her, and Bourbon was one of Rum's confidants. Rum also wanted to capture Sherry alive to continue that stupid research so that he could get his eye back.

From Bourbon's perspective, he would definitely choose to capture Sherry alive and return her to Rum. Because he was worried about this, he deliberately tampered with the cargo hold. Bourbon made other arrangements because he discovered this.

Now, fearing that he might take the opportunity to force Sherry into the cargo hold at the rear of the vehicle, he wants to use another plan to guide Sherry to avoid death so that he can bring her back to the organization to continue that foolish research?

Although Vermouth is very good at disguising herself, making it difficult for most people to see her emotions, she has never hidden her malicious intent to kill Sherry, so Bourbon knows very well what Vermouth is worried about.

Therefore, with a sunny and handsome face that seemed completely innocent, he dispelled her unnecessary worries: "Well! To entertain Sherry, I prepared a generous gift for every room in the carriage where she was hiding in Vermouth."

It's a poison gas device developed by the organization, a super-concentrated version. Just one inhalation will kill her quickly. This way, eliminating her from a distance will also prevent her from putting up any pointless resistance.

What kind of trap did she set to harm our people! Even if she doesn't dare to resist, her accomplices might. Don't forget, it was her accomplices who saved the day last time, resulting in you getting injured too! Gin!

In any case, Sherry must die today. Jurenik has already made himself amnesiac. Now, Sherry is the only one most likely to develop the silver bullet. So only when she dies will the future that will cause great harm to humanity all over the world disappear.

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Meanwhile, after the termites disappeared, Shuichi Akai noticed something was wrong by hacking into both Conan's and Ai Haibara's phones. He even overheard his ex-girlfriend Akemi Miyano appearing with Haibara.

He intended to go see his two cousins ​​immediately to resolve their current crisis, but as he peeked out of the carriage, he happened to see Gin, Bourbon, Vermouth, and several lower-level members of the organization.

They moved in a seemingly unrelated but distinct group, their familiar hunting tactics of flanking and surrounding their prey were all too familiar to him.

He immediately signaled to Yukiko to hide in the carriage room. Fortunately, the carriage room Yukiko chose was quite a distance away from the carriage where Conan and the others were entertained by the Suzuki family, and was not within the organization's hunting range.

They quickly passed through the carriage, ensuring the two of them encountered no danger. After Akai Shuichi and Gin's figures disappeared from the carriage, they quickly arranged for Yukiko to hide in the front carriage to avoid the organization's eyes and ears.

Worried about his two cousins, he quietly concealed himself and followed the group, having learned the location of their hiding room from the overheard conversation.

Given the organization's current hunting plan, that location will soon be discovered by the organization's people. Even if Akemi prepares an evacuation plan, with Gin's sharpshooting skills, flying into the air will only make her a sitting duck, with no way to escape.

He had already guessed Bourbon's identity and thought that given his status, he didn't have the same strong killing intent as Vermouth and wouldn't kill Sherry. He even noticed that the carriages and rooms seemed to contain remote-controlled miniature poison gas compressor canisters.

I also think it was either Vermouth's doing, or it was filled with hypnotic gas, or it was just smoke. After all, several passengers who boarded today had post-fire trauma, and their reaction to the smoke could create panic and disrupt the situation.

But unexpectedly, those canisters weren't just filled with real poison gas; Bourbon had installed them himself. Why? Wasn't he a member of the Japanese Public Security Bureau? For the sake of his undercover mission, he had to do things he shouldn't, shouldn't have, and didn't want to do. But was killing Sherry really necessary?