Chapter 553
When Binga carried the little girl out, he was still wondering when he had become so timid.
Although he usually kills without drawing blood and prefers to snap people's necks directly, he has seen big scenes. Why did I feel uneasy when I saw Potts just now?
Just as he was thinking this, Binga suddenly heard something strange beside him. He turned his head and found that his car had started and was driving forward.
Binga: "...???"
Wait a minute, there's a cliff just ahead!
Although they originally planned to use the car only once and then throw it into the sea to destroy the evidence, they could have just adjusted the accelerator; there was no need for them to stay in the car and drive themselves!
"Potnis!"
Binga called out, but it was no use. He could only watch helplessly as Potts suddenly accelerated, then shot off in an arc and disappeared from his sight.
Binga: "…………"
He said, "Why did you stop so far from the cliff? It turns out you wanted to accelerate at that moment!"
Potts is seriously out of his mind! Isn't he afraid of dying?!
Binga broke out in a cold sweat and quickly grabbed Ai Haibara and ran down the river. They finally managed to get to the beach and saw that the submarine had surfaced and the entrance above was open. Potts was standing at the entrance talking to the people inside.
As for the car, he didn't see it; he guessed it had sunk to the bottom.
He carried the little girl in his arms onto the inflatable boat he had previously placed on the beach, and headed to the submarine, where Vodka took over.
As Vodka took it, he asked him in a low voice, "What happened to Potts?"
Binga also answered in a low voice, "I don't know, it was like this when I came, and he even drove straight down the cliff! Did he suffer some kind of trauma?"
"What are you talking about? Hurry up and go inside," Bo Yezaki urged. "Put the inflatable boat away too."
Vodka quickly carried the child into the submarine, while Binga squatted on the submarine to deflate the inflatable boat.
For some reason, in the middle of the night, Botnis, soaking wet, insisted on standing on the submarine and refused to go inside. Binga felt like he was being watched, like a thorn in his side.
Binga quickly packed up the inflatable boat, then turned and got into the submarine, asking, "Isn't Potts coming in?"
“Let me check if there’s anything that needs to be finished,” Bo Yezai sighed. “Everyone in the organization is so unreliable.”
Binga: "..."
Usoppai stood on the submarine, staring at the [Omnipotent Navigation] and silently counting.
...Three, two, one...
Conan Edogawa chased after the Detective Badge until he reached the top of a cliff, where he peered down at the sea.
Because of what happened today, both he and Ai Haibara are a little worried about what the organization might do, so they've kept their detective badges on all night so they can react immediately to any unexpected events. (*Official original novel version)
At first, everything was fine. In the middle of the conversation, Ai Haibara suddenly said she needed to go to the restroom and then turned off her communication. He could understand that, but as the disconnection lasted longer, he felt something was wrong. He called her for a long time without any response, and he couldn't get through on the phone either. He had Ai Haibara covering her face with his own glasses, so he quickly checked with his spare glasses and was shocked to find that the location of the detective badge was actually moving away from the hotel!
Conan Edogawa quickly contacted Professor Agasa so that he could drive him to catch up.
Because they discovered it too late, the chances of catching up were slim, but Conan Edogawa wasn't one to give up easily, so he gritted his teeth and begged Professor Agasa to speed things up.
Not long ago, Conan Edogawa discovered that the GPS seemed to have stopped and was no longer moving forward. This unusual situation made him more vigilant, wondering what had happened. It wasn't until the car reached the edge of a cliff that he realized with shock that the GPS location was probably the sea.
Did the organization just kill Haibara and dump her body in the sea?!
When Conan Edogawa jumped out of the car before it had even come to a complete stop and ran towards the cliff, he didn't even know what kind of scene he hoped to see.
As long as it's not Haibara's corpse, he—
Conan Edogawa stood on the edge of the cliff, his eyes wide with shock.
The moon hung high in the sky, and the reflective sea surface shimmered with a white, silky sheen. The silver-white hair of the person standing on the submarine shone brightly in the moonlight, almost blending into the background seawater.
Conan Edogawa adjusted his multi-functional glasses in disbelief, magnifying the image in that area.
The man stood there leisurely, seemingly talking to someone inside the door.
He was still dressed in the same outfit that Conan Edogawa was very familiar with, only now he was covered in a terrifying amount of blood.
The other person suddenly raised their head and looked precisely in the direction of the cliff, as if they could see him from this distance. Their light green eyes curved, and a smile appeared on their lips.
Conan Edogawa murmured his name as he called out to the other person.
"Brother Bo Ye..."
The silver-haired youth, covered in blood, smiled and raised his hand, pausing briefly with his index finger in front of his lips before turning and jumping into the submarine entrance.
Conan Edogawa didn't chase after it. He just stared blankly as the submarine closed its doors and descended. His mind was almost completely blank, and it wasn't until Professor Agasa ran over and asked him what was wrong that he slowly came back to his senses.
Bo Ye is also a member of the organization?! Isn't he the son of a Japanese public security officer?!
So, is Brother Bo Ye actually an undercover agent?
But... judging from Haibara's level of cooperation, and the fact that Usopp is here now, it seems that Usopp handed Haibara over to the organization this time... because the organization assigned her to it?
But what about the blood on Bo Ye's body...? Did Bo Ye personally kill Haibara...?
Professor Agasa was still asking, "Should we call the police now?"
Conan Edogawa snapped to attention: "Contact Mr. Akai! No, I should contact the Japanese Public Security Bureau! I'll make the call right now!"
Professor Agasa could only advise Conan Edogawa to get back in the car and make a phone call on their way back, as it was not advisable to linger there.
Conan Edogawa answered absentmindedly, his mind completely absorbed on the phone.
Although it was the middle of the night, the Japanese public security officer named Morofushi Kagemitsu answered the phone quickly: "Hello?"
"Mr. Morofushi!" Conan Edogawa exclaimed immediately, "Is Usui-san a member of the organization?!"
Morofushi Kagemitsu paused for a moment: "Why are you suddenly asking this?"
"It certainly looks like it!" Conan Edogawa said urgently. "Is he an undercover agent? He took Ai away. When I saw him, he was covered in blood... If it was him, Ai should have cooperated a lot. We didn't encounter any police or anything along the way. Who could have injured him like that? There's so much blood, and I didn't see Ai..."
Morofushi Kagemitsu realized that Edogawa Conan was suspicious of something, so he quickly said, "Calm down, don't call the police. I'll contact the people in the organization right away... All I can say is that Usopp has never killed anyone himself, and he always pushes similar missions onto others."
He didn't even dare to say that Usaku Saiki wasn't actually an undercover agent, for fear of provoking Edogawa Conan. Fortunately, that last sentence made Edogawa Conan relax a little.
“I see… Speaking of which,” Conan Edogawa recalled his past suspicions, “his codename, is it Potts?”
"……yes."
Conan Edogawa: "…………"
Just how many things has Brother Bo Ye been hiding from him?!
He desperately wanted to believe Bo Ye, but what could have happened along the way that would cause Bo Ye to be covered in so much blood?!
Did she cause internal strife among the organization members because of Haibara? But there were no bodies found along the way, and in the end, she still returned to the organization's submarine, right? And she was covered in blood and didn't try to hide it; she'd definitely be asked what she did!
After much thought, the only possibility that Conan Edogawa could think of was that he killed Ai Haibara on the way...
His trust in and doubt about Usakabe Saiki were constantly wavering, his mind was in a mess, and he could hardly think straight.
Damn it, looking back now, it's not that he didn't suspect Brother Bo Ye, but he was always dispelled by suspicion.
For example, a few years ago, he was carrying a gun and thought it was a model on a film set; when he was in England, Bo Ye wore a black trench coat and his aura really became dangerous, but it turned out to be a joke, which made him desensitized; when he found out that Bo Ye and Bourbon had known each other for a long time, he also had his doubts, but Bo Ye said that Bourbon was his father's colleague, and then it was revealed that Bourbon was actually a Japanese public security officer...
Second-generation organization leader + bad personality + mental illness + fun-loving person... Actually, apart from the mental illness not quite fitting, these descriptions are very similar to Brother Bo Ye!
Why did he always so easily believe Brother Bo Ye?
If Haibara really gets into trouble this time, he feels that a large part of the responsibility lies with his over-trust of Usoppei-kun...
What if, what if Haibara's body is in the sea right now? Even if Usopp really is an undercover agent who had to do this to ensure his infiltration, I feel like he wouldn't be able to treat Usopp normally anymore.
Considering that Usui Saiki seemed to have a better relationship with the Japanese Public Security Bureau, Edogawa Conan dialed Akai Shuichi's number, intending to ask about the situation here again—Mr. Akai, you're quite good at keeping secrets from me too!!!
Meanwhile, Vodka was asking Potniss a question with confusion.
"I've already brought the submarine aboard, why did you still jump into the sea? Is all this blood on you some kind of new performance art? It's still dripping!"
"When I watched 'Ace vs Ace' back then, I wanted to try what it felt like for the protagonist to drive off a cliff. Today, I finally got to drive... and there was a cliff right in front of me, so I couldn't resist."
Usakabe Saiki coughed, then said calmly, "As for the blood on my body, it's because I was shot."
The people who were busy inside the submarine suddenly stopped for a second.
"Shot?!" Vodka exclaimed in shock.
Vermouth also walked over with a frown, lifted up Usui Saiki's shirt, and sure enough, found a bullet hole in his chest. In an instant, the beautiful woman's face turned green.
"How did you get shot?! How can you be completely unharmed after being shot in this spot?! Don't you feel pain?! And look at the amount of bleeding..."
"Since I can still stand, it means the injury isn't serious. It definitely didn't hit my heart; it probably just grazed the gaps between my internal organs... cough... cough... What does this mean? It means I'm lucky... The bleeding has decreased now..."
Vermouth couldn't stand it anymore, so she picked up Princess Usui and carried her to the room to examine and bandage her wounds.
Binga stood behind, dumbfounded.
At that moment, he finally understood why he, with all his knowledge and experience, had been inexplicably afraid of Potts just now.
Because his subconscious had already sensed the source of the bloodstains on the car, but Potts' nonchalant demeanor confused his judgment...
What he feared was precisely this kind of madman who didn't care about his own life at all!
No wonder Potts wasn't afraid of hitting the reef and drove straight towards the cliff!
It seems Vodka wasn't just spreading rumors out of personal grudge; Potts really is mentally ill!
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With his all-powerful navigation system and a ton of luck-boosting items, Usoya Saiki wasn't afraid of hitting a snag... He'd been itching for something more exciting for ages.
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