Chapter 112: Playing on Behalf
Perhaps in anticipation of Kaito Kidd's arrival, a floor clock was placed in the exhibition hall.
When the hands pointed to nine o'clock, the melodious chimes of the clock and the light hypnotic gas echoed throughout the exhibition hall.
With such a not-so-loud explosion, the ventilation duct that had been welded shut above the gem display case was blown open by micro-explosives, and the thief in a white dress landed lightly on top of the display case.
However, they were well prepared for this. Except for those who were standing close to the fire, everyone else immediately put on the gas masks that had been prepared in advance.
Rum immediately pressed the button to cut off the local surveillance of the venue. The venue's exhaust system quickly sucked out the hypnotic gas in the venue. The mechanisms in the surrounding passages that were originally left for Kaito Kidd to sneak in were immediately activated, turning the entire exhibition hall into a metal-filled secret room.
As the heavy sounds of locks slamming shut echoed from multiple locations, the security guard standing next to the White Horse Agent reached out from behind and tightly grasped the White Horse Agent's throat. He pulled out a gun from his waistband and pressed it against the White Horse Agent. "Kaito Kidd, if you don't want him dead, stand right where you are and raise your hands."
The plan went smoothly, and Rum wanted to get information from Kaito Kidd about how to make a deal with the zoo.
Even though they had been mentally prepared by Amuro Toru's warning that the winery was doing dirty things, Hakuba Tanaka and Kaito Kidd did not expect that the winery could be so dirty.
They actually threatened Kaito Kid by holding him hostage! Even a zoo wouldn't do such a thing!
"How despicable! You never told me you would use this method before!"
The security guard disguised as a killer at the winery sneered, "You're too naive, kid."
Facing the dozens of black muzzles in the arena, Kaito Kid raised his hands. Even with his chest brimming with rage, he maintained a poker face. "Hey, hey, you're really trying to threaten me by holding this guy hostage? I stole the things, so what does that have to do with me?"
Killer: "Who told him to be involved with you here?"
Bai Ma Tan retorted, "Heh, I think you're too useless, so you can only rely on Kaito Kidd's unextinguished conscience to try to control him."
"I didn't expect you to care about the life and death of your mortal enemy."
The well-trained killer was not angry about Bai Ma Tan's words. Instead, he was convinced that these two people were indeed the kind of people who cared about the lives of others and were easy to control.
The killer tightened his grip around Bai Ma's throat, making his already restricted breathing even more difficult. "You're already in this state, so stop worrying about others, kid."
Bai Ma Tan: "Heh.....is it your professional habit as assassins to choke someone without even having to fight? Is that all you have?"
Spider, you too. Why do all of you killers love to strangle me? Is strangling people a common perverted habit among you killers?
Kaito Kidd: "Is this the point?"
Bai Ma Tan: "Nonsense, you're not the one being choked... Ahem! Don't raise your elbow so high, do you want me to hang myself in your elbow?"
The killer lowered his elbow slightly, but the muzzle of the gun remained unchanged. "If you don't want to suffer, keep your mouth shut."
For ordinary people, the time it takes for the body to react after receiving information is 0.2-0.3 seconds, while people who have received professional training can shorten the reaction time to 0.1-0.2 seconds.
No one present today is an ordinary person, and a lot can happen in these short 0.2 seconds.
At a certain moment, Kaito Kid felt as if he was hit head-on by something invisible. Before he could react, his right hand automatically flipped over, and the poker gun on his sleeve slipped into his hand.
After 0.15 seconds, all the killers began to react to Kaito Kid's actions. Their eyes were all focused on Kaito Kid's hands. The killer holding Hakuba Sen also focused his attention on Kaito Kid's hands.
After 0.01 seconds, a tiny time interval that most humans would not notice, Bai Ma felt as if something invisible hit his body, and then his body moved on its own.
Bai Ma Tan did not resist and allowed the existence to control his body.
"His" right hand gave up resisting the arm that was strangling his neck, and instead loosened its grip on the gun between his temples. He clamped the trigger with his thumb and forcibly deflected the muzzle, pointing it at the vulnerable jaw of the killer holding him hostage. Then, he slid his thumb over the trigger and gently squeezed it.
"Bang!"
The sound of gunfire and the unusual explosion direction of the blood mist once again attracted everyone's attention. This sudden scene required more brain calculations and more complex body reactions, and naturally took more than 0.3 seconds.
The killer holding Bai Ba Tan hostage was worried that Kidd would use a small prop to open his gun-holding hand to create an opening, so he chose to stand in the middle and back area of the team, giving his teammates more time to turn around and adjust their guns.
It only takes 0.001 seconds from pulling the trigger to firing the bullet, and the initial velocity is 300-400 meters per second.
That is to say, even in 0.3 seconds, it is enough for the bullet to fly 90 meters and penetrate a person's head at close range.
This was not enough time for the bullet to reload automatically, but it was enough time for a demonic spirit that could sneak into any shadow to switch between willing hosts.
After getting rid of the gun on Bai Ma Tan's head, Cheng Xiaoyu, whose soul had left her body, immediately returned to Kaito Kid through the shadow of Bai Ma Tan's sleeve, and controlled Kaito Kid to shoot the back of the neck of each turning killer with the card gun in his hand.
This poker card gun belongs to Kaito Crow. It has been specially modified. Compared with the gun of Kaito Kidd II, it can shoot multiple times in a very short time, and the power of each shot is enough to cut the cards in the metal barrel.
Shot at close range with playing cards powerful enough to cut through metal, the killers lost control of their bodies before they even knew it.
Damage to the C1-C4 area of the spine can cause high-level paraplegia.
"Reload."
Kaito Kid heard "himself" open his mouth and make this lip shape, and then he felt that the invisible existence that was covering him and controlling his actions was pulled away.
Cheng Xiaoyu left.
Kaito Kidd quickly reloaded the poker gun with ammunition and fired to destroy the hidden machine gun extending from the ceiling. The killers who were hit also began to fall. The situation that changed twice in one second caused them to fall into a brief panic.
Time seemed to start flowing again.
But the devil will not stop her harvesting claws.
From Hakuba Tan's perspective, he could only see himself being surrounded by gunmen. He saw Kaito Kidd shooting at the killers. Afterwards, several killers felt their bodies hit by something again and fell to the ground. Soon, the familiar feeling of collision came again, and his body started moving "on its own" again.
Bai Ma Tan saw "himself" raise the gun in his hand and shoot a bullet, breaking the right wrist of a killer who was about to shoot at him. He saw "himself" bend down at an extremely tricky angle to avoid the bullet of the second killer, pick up the gun of the fallen killer, rush to the second killer who was raising the gun, shoot him and break his wrist holding the gun, then raise his foot and step on his knee and stomp it hard on the ground.
Bai Ma Tan clearly felt the sound of a broken bone under his feet, but he didn't know whether it was the tibia or the kneecap that was broken, because at this time "he" had already jumped up and hit the back of the neck of another killer next to him with the butt of the gun.
There was another crisp sound of bone breaking.
Detective Bai Ma, who is familiar with human anatomy due to his exposure to many murder cases, immediately realized that the ghost was trying to stop or terminate the actions of these killers by destroying the human vertebrae C1 to C4.
This period was enough for Kaito Kidd to replace his ammunition and Cheng Xiaoyu to switch accounts again, so the remaining killers also felt a chill on the back of their necks.
This thrilling assassination ended within five seconds. Afterwards, Cheng Xiaoyu used Kaito Kid's body to shoot all the killers lying on the ground in the back of the neck, ensuring that each of them received the gift package of high-level paraplegia.
This was the first time that Hakuba Tan and Kuroba Kaito knew what kind of deadly killing moves their bodies could perform, and it was also the first time they witnessed close combat with guns.
This was even after the ghost had promised them that he would hold back and spare their lives. Even the killer who was shot in the jaw had only his jaw and part of his upper jaw shattered by the bullet due to the deliberate deflection of the gun, without damaging his brain.
In the face of this sudden change, even Rum, who was always good at planning and reacting quickly, could only watch his men fall down and watch Hakuba Sen and Kaito Kidd dismantle and destroy the cameras and eavesdropping devices he had set up one by one.
He had committed many murders, and precisely because he had done so many, he was more aware of how horrific the scene he had just seen was.
Killing is not difficult in itself, but what is more difficult is to ensure that the enemy is completely subdued and alive when armed with deadly firepower. And the two teenagers in front of them even fought against more than a dozen armed killers with their bare hands.
"...two monsters in human skin."
Rum didn't want to admit that he was filled with a feeling he hadn't felt in a long time: panic. He was now extremely glad that he had dispatched the Curse Master to the scene on standby.
"Ogami, Kurisaka, act now!"
Those two guys inside are no longer something that ordinary humans can deal with. We have to use monsters to fight monsters!
"There are also pinhole cameras in this place, so you know why I asked you to carry a small screwdriver with you, right?"
Cheng Xiaoyu, who was holding Bai Ma Tan's body, showed Bai Ma Tan a pinhole camera she had just found at the socket, and then pierced it with a screwdriver.
If she hadn't wanted to pretend to be a person who conforms to the materialistic worldview in front of Rum, she would have simply exploded all the cameras that Rum had hidden in the dark.
Detective Hakuba knew in his heart that he should now focus on listening to the instructions on how to find hidden cameras, which would be of great help in his subsequent detective activities, but he could not ignore the groans and curses coming from all around him, could not ignore the still warm blood splashed on his face, and could not ignore the bloodstains slowly spreading on the ground.
His hands were even shaking uncontrollably, and he felt a lump in his throat, not knowing whether he wanted to vomit or cry.
Although he knew when he was planning that the ghost would use his own body to attack, Bai Ma Tan thought he was mentally prepared, but now it seems that he has greatly overestimated his psychological endurance.
"I didn't kill anyone with these hands. It's none of your business."
Perhaps because they were now sharing a body, the ghost noticed that something was wrong with him, and took the initiative to turn his head to divert Bai Ma Tan's sight away from the fallen killer, asking him to look in the direction of Kaito Kid, while he blindly dismantled a hidden camera.
"Hey, Kidd, are you done over there?"
"Ah...it should be soon."
Kaito Kidd's tone was not as light as usual.
Although he had seen dead people several times, this was the first time he had seen such a bloody and violent scene, and the shock to him from these living people was no less than that from the dead.
They were groaning, crying, cursing, and twisting their heads on the ground trying to control the movements of their unconscious bodies. It was hard to say whether they were more terrifying than the dead who could not speak or move.
Even the corner of the white cloak was stained with blood.
"...It's hard to see your own kind being slaughtered in front of you. Even if you know they deserve death, even if you know they're acting in self-preservation, you still feel physical discomfort, right? That's good, it proves you have a normal outlook on life. Humans are social animals, and it's normal to resist and fear the death and injury of others in front of us. Nausea, dizziness, and vomiting are all normal physiological instincts."
Cheng Xiaoyu quickened his pace in removing the cameras and eavesdropping devices.
"I know the feeling."
"Can you really understand?"
Bai Ma Tan regretted saying this as soon as he said it. He knew that he had not controlled his tone and the way of asking questions well.
Bai Ma Tan whispered: "I'm sorry, I don't mean to blame you, it's just that I'm a little bit out of control right now."
He swore that he had no intention of losing his temper with the ghost, and he definitely had no intention of being angry with the ghost. He knew it was not her fault.
He was just feeling a little uncomfortable so he didn't notice the tone. Bai Ba Tan felt like his body was completely torn apart. He wanted to vomit, maybe even cry a little, but the other part of his body that belonged to the ghost was very calm. The two conflicting emotions were fighting for control in his body, and the reaction of his stomach, as an emotional organ, was even more obvious.
It was contracting and emitting gastric juice for a while, but just as it showed signs of discomfort and vomiting, it was suppressed by another calm emotion and calmed down. The two conflicting feelings seemed to tear the white horse apart.
"It's okay, I know you're feeling bad right now."
Cheng Xiaoyu crushed the last hidden camera on the side that Bai Ma Tan was responsible for with her fingers, controlled Bai Ma Tan to walk towards Kuroba Kaito, raised her hands and gently touched their heads, and spoke in an extremely rare gentle tone.
"When I was your age, I was also a human. You are already amazing, much stronger than I was back then."
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