Chapter 40 (Exclusive to Jinjiang Literature City)
After assigning tasks to the children, Jingyuan relaxed considerably, humming a little tune as he walked.
Conan Edogawa, standing beside him, hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't.
"What's wrong?" Jing Yuan, having enjoyed the child's conflicted expression for a while, asked, "You want to ask about what happened earlier?"
Conan Edogawa nodded: "Why would the Kamo family get involved in the Yokohama affair? Aren't their sorcerers only active in Tokyo and Kyoto?"
"Look at what you're saying." Jingyuan flicked his little head. "Even if Yokohama is nominally independent, its geographical location is still within the Tokyo metropolitan area. Moreover, this place is practically a no-man's-land, making it the perfect place for them to cause trouble."
"But isn't the world of jutsu traditionally reluctant to interact with the outside world?" Conan Edogawa was puzzled. "Why would those old-fashioned folks, who look down on the supernatural world, easily cooperate with the lab?"
"It seems you've done some research on the world of jutsu during this time. Not bad, not bad." Jingyuan really liked kids like Edogawa Conan. "The Kamo family once had a criminal who used a cursed spirit to force a woman to become pregnant, resulting in the birth of nine freaks, which are the Nine Phases Diagram that has been sealed by the Jutsu High School."
"A cursed spirit can make a human pregnant?" Conan Edogawa was shocked. "How is that possible? A cursed spirit is something like that..."
“That woman’s physique is special and extremely rare, otherwise the world of sorcery wouldn’t only have the Nine Phases Diagram,” Jing Yuan said. “Humans fear the power of cursed spirits, yet they covet their power. Once they discover that they can take something from cursed spirits, they are capable of doing all sorts of heinous things.”
This is human greed.
Conan Edogawa understood this: "But how much pain must that woman be in?"
For ordinary women, childbirth is a brush with death, let alone for a woman carrying the child of a cursed spirit.
"What's her name?" Conan Edogawa asked.
Jing Yuan shook his head: "I don't know."
Her name was not recorded in the world of sorcery.
Perhaps the Kamo family wanted to erase their stain and wipe away all traces, or perhaps her family considered it a disgrace and kept silent about her existence.
In short, no one knows the poor woman's name, let alone erects a tombstone for her.
After a long silence, Conan Edogawa finally asked, "So that's why you think the Kamo family is connected to the Yokohama laboratory?"
“The Kamo family has a very special technique—Crimson Blood Manipulation. As you can probably guess from the name, it’s a technique for controlling blood,” Jing Yuan said. “Moreover, the blood trade is extremely lucrative. Earning tens of billions of dollars a year is a piece of cake.”
Conan Edogawa is a clever kid, and he immediately figured out the key point.
“The laboratory serum!” Conan Edogawa exclaimed. “The Kamo family has been supplying serum to the Yokohama laboratory?”
“Not bad.” Jing Yuan nodded.
He discovered the connection between the Kamo family and the laboratory by investigating the source of the serum.
"But what does all this have to do with you?" Conan Edogawa looked up at Kagemoto. "Why are you so concerned about this? And why are you dragging the Port Mafia into it? What is your purpose?"
Jing Yuan didn't answer his question, but instead asked in return, "What do you think?"
"I don't know," Conan Edogawa said bluntly. "I've never understood what you're thinking."
He thought he had met all sorts of people, but Jing Yuan was the first one he had ever met.
"Don't overthink it." Jing Yuan smiled and ruffled his hair. "Kids should act like kids. The world isn't so bad that it needs a minor like you to worry about it. By the way, the antidote for ATPX4869 has been made. Do you want to take it now?"
"So fast?" Conan Edogawa exclaimed in surprise.
Jingyuan took a small box out of his pocket and handed it to him, saying, "Of course, Gin is a reliable partner."
After taking the antidote, Conan Edogawa asked, "After I take the antidote, will you erase my memory?"
“That’s right,” Jing Yuan said.
"Then, what about the Black Organization..." Conan Edogawa stared at the antidote in his hand with mixed feelings.
“Three days,” Jing Yuan said. “After three days, the Black Organization will cease to exist.”
Although Conan Edogawa never stopped thinking about eliminating the Black Organization, he still felt a sense of unreality when the news of the Black Organization's impending demise reached his ears.
Is such a massive criminal organization really going to be wiped out?
"Cheer up, boy," Jingyuan said. "You're about to end this miserable life of living behind a mask. Speaking of which, you haven't fallen behind in your studies, have you?"
"Of course not," Conan Edogawa said confidently.
Over the years, he has never neglected his duties as a student because of his profession as a detective.
He was very intelligent and a good learner, so his grades were always outstanding. Otherwise, his teachers would have expressed their dissatisfaction with him long ago.
"Will I ever see you again?" Conan Edogawa asked.
Although he didn't spend much time with Jingyuan, it didn't stop Conan Edogawa from considering him a friend, especially since they were comrades-in-arms fighting against the Black Organization.
“Of course,” Jing Yuan said.
He really liked Conan Edogawa, and every time he saw Conan, Jingyuan would think of Yanqing.
Yanqing used to be just as spirited and would occasionally show a childlike expression, but unfortunately, she has now started to develop in the direction of an old woman.
Even though he was the master, Yanqing always treated him like a child. The pioneer even said that this was because "when he reached a certain age, his natural talent for being a male mother naturally awakened." Even Danheng nodded in agreement.
No, old friend, aren't you going to refute this at all? Oh, I almost forgot, the Trail Blazers and March 7th are your big brothers.
How to put it? The infertility problem that the Dragon Masters have always wanted to treat has been solved in a way.
Look, Danheng already has the air of a single mother.
We've gone off on a tangent.
After considering it for a while, Conan Edogawa still did not take the antidote.
"What's wrong?" Jing Yuan asked him, somewhat puzzled. "You don't actually want to restore your identity, do you?"
“No, that’s not it.” Conan Edogawa shook his head and said, “I want to wait until the Black Organization is completely destroyed before I eat it.”
"Are you afraid that some might slip through the net?" Jing Yuan asked.
Conan Edogawa nodded: "I'm afraid that my sudden return will attract attention and bring danger to Dr. Agasa and Ran."
Jingyuan understood his concerns, so he didn't say anything more.
The two of them strolled leisurely through the streets of Yokohama, and before they knew it, they had arrived at Chinatown.
Conan Edogawa couldn't help but reveal his crescent-shaped eyes when he recalled being terrified by his father and his friends during his last visit to Chinatown.
His parents have terrible personalities and always like to tease him.
"Here you go." Jing Yuan handed him a string of candied hawthorns, and took one for himself as well.
Taking the candied hawthorn, Conan Edogawa said helplessly, "I was just thinking about something, I didn't want this candied hawthorn."
Don't treat him like a primary school student and try to fool him.
“I know,” Jingyuan said, “but I want to eat it.”
Conan Edogawa: "..."
Three days later, the Black Organization was destroyed—physically destroyed.
When Conan Edogawa learned of this news, he was completely stunned.
How should I put it? As expected of Gin.
When he was the Black Organization's sharpest blade, he dared to straf the Tokyo Tower from a helicopter. So, as the knife plunged into the heart of the Black Organization, it wouldn't be surprising if he blew up Karasuma Renya and the organization's headquarters... right?
Conan Edogawa looked at the lazy silver-haired man sitting opposite him, and his expression twisted drastically for a moment.
Unlike the boy's inner turmoil, GIN himself was remarkably relaxed.
He no longer wore the long black trench coat that gave Conan Edogawa PTSD; instead, he wore a black shirt and black trousers, with the top two buttons of the shirt undone, revealing a string of numbers printed on his neck.
That was the mark of his past as an experimental subject of the organization.
"I've given you the antidote, why haven't you taken it?" Gin asked, taking a sip of his drink. "Afraid I'll poison it?"
Conan Edogawa nodded subconsciously, then immediately shook his head.
He still wasn't used to sitting and chatting with Gin so calmly.
"What about the organization..." Conan Edogawa hesitated for a moment before asking, "What will happen?"
GIN lifted his eyelids and glanced at him: "The authorities will handle it."
"...Which official?" Conan Edogawa asked.
He knows of the FBI, CIA, M16, and Japanese Public Security Bureau, and now he has to add the South Korean government officials who were implicated because of Jingyuan.
Gin gave a knowing smile: "What do you think?"
The Black Organization's research has yielded results that can reverse aging; in this world, no force can resist the temptation of immortality.
so……
"Such a great invention should be known to the whole world!" Shinra stood at the top of Tokyo Tower, his arms outstretched like a bird about to take flight.
When the secret to immortality is no longer out in the open, what kind of future will human greed lead the world into?
Information about ATPX4869 was continuously sent to various organizations, both official and unofficial, as no one could resist the allure of immortality.
"Hi~" A playful female voice rang out on mobile phone screens all over the world, followed by a video.
It's a video of laboratory mice changing from an adult state back to a toddler state.
Before people could recover from this miracle, a new video was played.
That was the entire process of Shinichi Kudo becoming Conan Edogawa.
"Shinichi!"
Professor Agasa clutched his chest, struggling to stay upright and not faint, while Ai Haibara beside him was deathly pale.
It's over, everything is over.
Human desires are terrifying. When rejuvenation was only a legend and fairy tale, crazy humans paid the ultimate price for it. Now, the hope of immortality is right in front of us. How can we ignore it?
“Look, immortality is no longer a legend~” the playful female voice said. “This drug that makes people young again is called ATPX4869, and its main developer is Shiho Miyano. Of course, you can also call her Ai Haibara.”
"She lives in..."
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