Chapter 158 Birds and Light (1)

At the corner of the corridor below their exhibition hall, two girls stood with their heads down in a corner where they could not be easily seen. The boy in front of them was not even as tall as their thighs, but he looked like he was going to teach them a lesson, making the scene a little funny.

"Come on! What's wrong with you two guys?" Even though Conan Edogawa's voice was lowered, it was still very obvious in the empty corridor. Even his cheeks were puffed up, making his originally childish and soft profile even rounder, and even his deep blue eyes were wide open. "You actually came back at this time, are you trying to kill yourself!"

Suzuki Sonoko shrank behind Mouri Ran and kept sticking out her tongue. She felt that this kid with glasses was really subtly familiar at this time, and was very similar to a crazy detective she hadn't seen for a long time. "Haven't we all reflected on it? The important thing now is what's going on with Asari-san, he..."

"He's fine." Edogawa Conan's expression looked better now. He put his phone, which had little battery left, back into his pocket and said helplessly, "I'm with Mr. Subaru now."

"That's good--" The short-haired girl breathed a sigh of relief. She patted her chest, "I was really scared just now, but you actually scolded us. What were you, a kid, doing in a place like this? Brother Asari didn't scold you... Wow, he just hit both of us on the head, it hurt so much!"

Of course, Tsukiyama Asari wouldn't scold me... Edogawa Conan twitched his lips and quickly changed the subject, "But Mr. Subaru said that the place collapsed again, and he is looking for a way to leave. He can't meet us now."

"Conan." After listening to the little boy's words, Mao Li Ran couldn't help blinking and said with emotion, "I have been thinking for a long time that you have a very wide social network."

"Yeah, even Mr. Suemitsu seems to have a good relationship with you." Suzuki Sonoko continued. She lowered her head and carefully looked at the ordinary boy in front of her, "Well... he doesn't look special. Mr. Amuro and that high school detective from Osaka also seem to have a good relationship with you. Do they all like children? Especially Asari-san, he has almost made you lawless..."

"Haha... I..." Unexpectedly, the two of them would focus on this kind of thing. Edogawa Conan could only turn his head away in panic. He couldn't think of how to reply for a long time. At this moment, the half-long-haired man who had just gone out to explore the way came back like a savior.

The boy's eyes lit up and he whispered, "Officer Hagiwara!"

"I just went to the front and checked. The stairs are basically collapsed, but the pipes from the outside windows can lead to the roof." Hagiwara Kenji responded and briefly told them about his discovery.

"But we still have to look for..." Edogawa Conan said anxiously. Asuka Kirito's whereabouts are still unknown, and the control panel of the bomb on the goggles has not found a solution. However, before the boy finished speaking, he remembered that Ran Mouri, Suzuki Sonoko, and the hostages rescued by Hagiwara Kenji not long ago were following them. It would be safest to send them up first.

After sending them up safely, he would be able to come down again with this bomb disposal policeman.

"Let's go first. We don't know when this place will collapse due to an explosion again." Seeing that the little boy had no intention of asking further questions, Hagiwara Kenji looked around vigilantly with his pistol in hand, and tilted his head towards the direction he had just come from. "Go from where I just came from. How do you feel now? Are you able to walk?"

He said the latter sentence to the hostage who was originally sitting and resting in the exhibition hall next to him. After hearing this, the man stood up by leaning against the wall. "I'm fine."

It was a gentle female voice. The person saved by Hagiwara Kenji turned out to be Secretary Kikuchi who had introduced the venue to several people before.

Seeing that she was fine, Hagiwara Kenji led the way in front. Next to him were Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko. The man with semi-long hair was close to Asuka Kiri, so he had been paying more attention to these two girls who had a good relationship with the boy. He felt that he was half an elder and couldn't help but say, "I'm telling you two, you were too risky this time."

After being scolded by Tsukiyama Asari, Edogawa Conan and Hagiwara Kenji, Suzuki Sonoko apologized very skillfully and quickly. She was still holding the sweater that made her get scolded and the cute keychain in her arms, and she kept saying, "I promise - I won't do it again."

"Yeah, I promise too." Mouri Ran added while carrying her schoolbag. After she finished speaking, she kept looking at her handkerchief. Both of them had helplessness in their eyes.

"But Xiao Wu really values ​​these things. Once when she was a child..." The long-haired girl couldn't help but speak after following the police officer for a few steps, "It was the time when the crystal ball I gave was smashed by that annoying boy in the class. I remember Officer Hagiwara was there at the time."

Recalling the scene at that time, Suzuki Sonoko smacked her lips and said, "Yeah, he beat that guy up pretty good. Although I felt very relieved at the time...that guy was really too much. He said that glass balls were for girls to play with, and he also laughed at him for the different color of his hair. I wanted to beat that guy up at the time."

The half-long-haired man pursed his lips and quickly recalled what happened several years ago from the other party's narration.

That day was Asuka Kiri's twelfth birthday. He bought a half-man-high teddy bear from the mall early in the morning and went to the school gate to wait for people to finish school. On the way, he was mocked by Matsuda Jinpei as a strange human vendor. As a result, he waited at the gate for a long time but no one came out.

The man, who was not even 25 years old at the time, waited at the gate until the sun set. He watched his childhood friend's expression change from speechless to irritated. In the end, he did not wait for Asuka Kiri who was late to come out, but waited for Tsukiyama Asari who hurried over.

The two of them were able to enter the campus with the black-haired man in the identity of "parents". It was not until they were scolded by the teacher in the office that they learned that the white-haired boy who was celebrating his birthday today was late because he broke his classmate's nose with a punch.

Holding a huge stuffed bear, Hagiwara Kenji stood in the office in a daze for a long time, unable to react to what the somewhat angry and frustrated head teacher in front of him said.

Xiao Wu, a slender boy who could be held by his own hand, broke the nose of a classmate who looked twice as strong as him with one punch.

Broken! Could it be that his hand bones were broken first? !

Until Tsukiyama Asari apologized to the other party's parents and paid the medical expenses, and finally took Asuka Kiri back, the half-long-haired man who had been a sculpture for a long time followed the two of them and stammered to his child, "Xiao Jinpei, the teacher just said..."

"Xiao Kiri broke the bridge of a classmate's nose." Matsuda Jinpei glanced at him and ruthlessly made his child face the fact, "If you don't believe it..."

At this moment, the black curly-haired man happened to pass by the corridor where the incident happened. He "tutted" and turned his head to look inside, motioning Hagiwara Kenji to look at the surveillance above the corner of the corridor.

Ten minutes later, the half-long-haired man, who had been unable to figure out how the boy's thin wrist could have such great strength, found the surveillance.

On the screen, the white-haired boy who was holding the box was wearing a school uniform jacket that was a bit too big for him. He was about to walk into the classroom, but was stopped by a person who was almost a head taller than him. When the person spoke, Asuka Mizuki kept his head down and did not respond. This attitude obviously made the other person angry. After several arguments, the things in the boy's hand fell to the ground, and a half-broken glass ball rolled out of the box.

The next second, Asuka Mizuki suddenly grabbed the other person's collar with his left hand, and instantly smashed the other person's nose with his right fist. The quality of the surveillance video was not very good, but Hagiwara Kenji could also see the blood on the man's nose after the punch.

The white-haired boy did not let go when he threw the punch, still holding the opponent's collar tightly in his hand. He did not let go until he threw the second punch and hit the opponent. The man was knocked to the ground instantly, holding his nose and unable to get up for a long time.

People around him quickly reacted and hurriedly helped the man up. Only Fei Niao Wu stood among the noisy crowd, looking down at his bloody hands. After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly turned around and looked at the location of the surveillance camera.

Hagiwara Kenji outside the screen was stunned, and almost thought that he and the boy on the screen had made eye contact.

Asuka Mitsuki's eyes, which were originally very light in color, became a cold metallic color under the low-quality surveillance. There was a strange emotion in his eyes, but it only lasted for a second or two. After two girls and a boy who seemed to have hurried over from the other side of the field with a football in his hand ran to his side, he quickly retracted his gaze.

Just that one look made the ace police officer of the bombing team remember it until now, so that when the two girls mentioned this incident, he immediately remembered it, and even remembered the scene clearly.

Because of this incident, Hagiwara Kenji didn't want to give a safety education class to Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko for a while. He just said a few words casually and raised the flashlight and continued to go to the meeting.

As the group walked out led by Hagiwara Kenji, Edogawa Conan couldn't help but turn his head to look at the woman walking beside him, still wearing the same work clothes as before, "Ms. Kikuchi, how did they catch you?"

Because of Kuboman, he was a little more vigilant towards Secretary Kikuchi, who was Kuboman's secretary, but Kuboman never mentioned that his secretary or other people in the company were involved in this matter. She looked completely unaware of everything that happened before, and now she still had the goggles on her face, and it seemed that she didn't even know that there was a bomb inside. He could only temporarily bury that vigilance in his heart.

"I don't know either..." Secretary Kikuchi replied in a low voice, looking frightened.

But this is really a bit strange. The young detective had some doubts in his heart. Before he and Hagiwara Kenji met by chance, this very capable policeman had already sent out a group of rescued hostages. According to him, they were all people who had made great achievements in technology research. Because of the special goggles used by Kuboman in this exhibition, and because he himself was a technology company, it was not surprising to invite these people to participate.

It was in line with what Kuboman said before his death, that the organization wanted to quietly bring back some very valuable people through this event.

But Secretary Kikuchi obviously could not be counted as a person of great value to the organization.

Before Edogawa Conan had time to come up with some ideas, he suddenly heard Hagiwara Kenji, who was walking in front, utter a low voice, "Go in quickly", followed by a burst of gunfire and chaotic footsteps.

A group of gangsters that had evacuated had come back for unknown reasons. Although Hagiwara Kenji and Edogawa Conan both had guns, they were outnumbered and were surrounded in the exhibition hall next door after a few minutes.

Hagiwara Kenji raised his gun and frowned, blocking the others behind him. He didn't dare to take his eyes off the group in front of him for a moment, and his forehead was full of beads of sweat. The boy next to him held the gun in almost the same way as him.

There were only four or five people who were still able to move in the previous confrontation, but everyone had a gun in their hands, which was not easy to resolve.

Neither side had any intention of fighting for the time being, and the stalemate lasted for a while, and finally someone broke the silence.

The subtle sound of leather shoes hitting the floor was infinitely amplified in the exhibition hall. Several gunmen slightly moved aside to allow the man at the back, who was not dressed like a fighter and was carrying a suitcase in his hand, to walk to the front.

"No need to be so nervous, introduce yourself." He nodded slightly to a few people and said, "I'm Bomore, I want to discuss something with the police."

"Since you want to talk, at least show some sincerity." Hagiwara Kenji snorted coldly from his nose. He squinted his eyes and felt that the face of the man in front of him was familiar. "Isn't it too perfunctory to introduce yourself with a random wine name?" Although

he said this, the man with half-long hair frowned because of the wine name. He also had some speculations about the undercover work that his best friend who ranked first in the police academy was currently doing. It seemed that this person was a gangster in that organization.

"I think with the chips in my hand, this perfunctory should not be a problem?" Bomore said with a smile.

Kenji Hagiwara had just heard Conan Edogawa talk about the bomb on the goggles. After Tsukiyama Asari and Takagi Wataru had a phone call, the police outside also attached great importance to this matter. After the man finished speaking, he quickly reacted to what the other party wanted to talk about, and fell silent for a moment, waiting for the other party to continue to make conditions.

"We just want to leave. You have to sacrifice the lives of more than 200 people to let us leave." Researcher Bomore looked up at the people who were blocked by Kenji Hagiwara and gestured, "Should we make some calculations? I don't think you know, but they put something in the goggles. And I advise you not to attack me. No one can unlock this thing except me."

"Oh?" The man with semi-long hair stared at him for a while, "Then how can you guarantee that you will really unlock this thing?"

Given the personalities of these guys, they are likely to regret it at the last minute. Most of the hostages have seen the faces of the Red Scorpion members that cannot be covered. It is safest for them to keep silent. Kenji Hagiwara frowned and thought, but he couldn't say these thoughts out loud now. If he directly angered the other party, it would be troublesome. He could only delay time as much as possible.

It would be better to find an opportunity to get rid of everyone else, and then force the guy in front of him who looked like he couldn't fight to take them to the control station.

He thought of it in a rather simple and rough way. Before he could think of other solutions to this sudden situation, he heard Conan Edogawa suddenly shouted anxiously, "Be careful!".

Along with the sound of the gun that came along with this shout, Kenji Hagiwara's right shoulder went numb, and the gun in his hand was immediately snatched away by the man behind him.

"Ms. Kikuchi?" Ran Mouri turned her head and murmured in disbelief.

The man whose name she called smiled with his eyes bent, the gun in his hand still pressed against the policeman's right shoulder that was shot through, the heat from the bullet still not being pushed away.

"I'm so sorry." Secretary Kikuchi still held the gun she had just snatched in her left hand, she glanced at Conan Edogawa who was the only one with a weapon, and said with a smile, "It's so dangerous for a kid to hold a gun, throw it away, or else..."

Seeing her pointing the muzzle of the gun at the back of Hagiwara Kenji's head like a threat, the boy gritted his teeth and threw the gun to the ground.

Damn it, I should have been more vigilant.

The severe pain in his right shoulder made Hagiwara Kenji sweat on his forehead. He covered the wound with his left hand to stop the bleeding, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. I

was careless again this time. I don't know how I will be trained when I get out...if I can get out this time.

The communicator on the man's waist that was used to communicate with the outside world was taken off by Secretary Kikuchi and thrown over. Bomor caught it steadily and smiled, "Well done, Suz."

Conan Edogawa widened his eyes slightly. Secretary Kikuchi is actually a member of the organization!

"I've never heard of a negotiation that requires shooting through the opponent's shoulder before it can begin." Hagiwara Kenji covered his wound and spoke tentatively, "It seems that you don't have the sincerity at all."

"It's better to have more bargaining chips in negotiations." Bomor said helplessly, "You go and contact them."

After he finished speaking, as if he wanted to say something alone, he asked the people behind him to take the communicator and go to the corridor to negotiate with the police.

"If I remember correctly, you are the girl who was with 124 at the time?" The man put down the suitcase in his hand and walked a few steps forward, motioning Suz who was still holding the gun to go out, "I still suggest that you don't think of taking advantage of the opportunity to hold me hostage. Only I know how to unlock the goggles. If something happens to me, it will be troublesome."

"I'm different from them. I don't have any expectations of running away, and I don't care whether I can escape or not." After saying this, he lowered his voice and whispered in a voice that only Hagiwara Kenji and the others could hear clearly, "If you can figure out a problem that has troubled you for a long time, it's not a problem for me to help you remove the goggles unconditionally."

It felt that he couldn't say anything good next, but there was no other solution now. Hagiwara Kenji sank his face and asked in a low voice, "How do you know that I can solve the problem that has troubled you for a long time?"

He was a little sensitive to the number '124'. It was the mark he saw on the back of Asuka Kiri's neck when he was in the hot spring hotel a long time ago. At this time, Mao Lilan exclaimed softly and explained in a low voice, "It was him who took Kiri away at that time."

"Are you friends?" The researcher deliberately used a very light voice when pronouncing the word 'friends', which made several people feel uncomfortable subconsciously. "I can only ask you this question. I want to know when his sense of taste disappeared."

After discovering that some of the experimental subjects from that year were still alive a few months ago, he had been researching in the laboratory almost day and night, wanting to know why the other party had survived to this day when all the other rescued experimental subjects died within two years.

Bomore didn't care whether he could get out or not, and he also knew that the police would not let them escape easily. Now on the surface, they were holding everyone's lives in their hands, but in reality, there was a possibility that they would be caught by the police outside. The final result of the negotiation was uncertain, but he didn't care about the result. What he said just now was just to temporarily stabilize the criminals and Suz who obviously didn't trust him.

The purpose of his trip was only to solve the problem that had troubled him for several months.

Taste...?

Hagiwara Kenji was stunned for a moment, because he didn't react to this sentence for a long time. The expression on his face could barely maintain the previous look, but the two girls next to him instantly widened their eyes because of this sentence and looked at each other in disbelief.

This look quickly gave Bomor the answer, "It seems that you don't know that there is something wrong with his sense of taste? That's something that happened recently, which is quite interesting..."

"Interesting?" Edogawa Conan couldn't help but frown because of this word. What he was most dissatisfied and hated was the attitude of the organization towards other people, as if in their eyes people could only be divided into valuable people and worthless white mice.

Seeing the boy's cold eyes, Bomor curled the corners of his mouth. He looked at the people in front of him who were defensive and dissatisfied, and said puzzledly, "It seems that you like him very much."

"Xiao Wu is so good, who would not like him." Suzuki Sonoko couldn't help but put her hands on her hips and retorted dissatisfiedly. It felt that this person was exactly the same as those boys in the class who always liked to talk about the color of Asuka Wu's hair. He was annoying. "I think you just can't stand others being good."

"Good?" The man suddenly laughed, as if he heard something too funny. He passed the short-haired girl and looked at the half-long-haired police officer opposite with a mocking look, not caring about the terrible and serious expression on the other's face. "Should I say that he has changed his temperament or that his acting skills are very good."

"What do you mean?" Edogawa Conan asked with a frown.

He subconsciously thought that the other party was lying or instigating them to give up the search for the taken away bird mist, but as Bomor just said, he could see that the seemingly abnormal researcher in front of him really only cared about his own confusion. In this case, there was no need to lie to them, at least he would not get any benefit from this.

No, not necessarily. The boy gritted his teeth and added that maybe this guy just liked to see his friends break up, just like a long time ago, there were always classmates in the class who wanted to isolate people they didn't like by spreading rumors.

"What do you mean?" Bomore didn't care about their hostile looks. He opened the suitcase he had just put down and took out the only tube of blood mixed with other drugs. The drugs and blood inside had not yet completely merged and reacted. "It seems that there is still some time before the results come out. I can explain to you... 124 has never been a good boy. I am really surprised to hear you describe him like this."

The drug inside was developed by him. It can slowly react with the buffer used by those bigwigs who have also undergone experiments, showing another deep purple color. The only possibility he can think of now is that 124 has been injected with a buffer, otherwise there is no other reason to explain why he is still alive now.

If it is indeed a reliever, it may be related to the sudden attack of the disease caused by the failure to inject Cointreau in time. I didn't expect these two people to be related...

The researcher's thoughts were quickly interrupted by the words of the person opposite him. Mao Lilan even raised her eyebrows and said angrily, "He is not 124!"

The long-haired girl was at the scene at the time. She saw the other party being taken away with her own eyes. The powerlessness and self-blame finally broke out in the other party's chattering. She clenched her fists, and the bones of her hands made a teeth-grinding "clicking" sound because of this action. "Asuka Mizuki is Asuka Mizuki. What on earth do you want to say, you weirdo? Where is he now?"

"Asuka Mizuki? This is the name he gave himself." The man avoided the girl's last inquiry and thought to himself, "It seems like his style."

The name he gave himself.

Edogawa Conan frowned, but couldn't help but associate the other party's words with something.

Asuka Kiri is actually a somewhat strange name. Although Asuka is a relatively common surname, the name Kiri is not. Generally, when parents name their children, they always want to put in some words with good meanings, such as "朝里" and "奕永" both represent brightness, and "兰" represents expectations and blessings for girls. But the word

"霧" is very uncommon as a name, which seems particularly strange.

He had always thought that this name was the name Asuka Kiri had before she was captured. If the name was given after she was rescued, she would probably share the same surname as the director of the welfare home, or the surname of her guardian, Tsukiyama Asari.

But this speculation is actually very unreasonable. The children in the laboratory were all given numbers, and it was impossible to record their names. Now that I think about it, the most reasonable thing is that the white-haired boy gave this name himself.

But why did he choose the surname "Fei Niao" and use the strange word "Wu" as his name, or did he just choose it randomly?

Conan Edogawa felt that his mind had become a complete mess. He tried his best to figure out what the man in front of him was up to, "What do you want to say?"

"Mr. Bomore." Hagiwara Kenji paused for a moment at the obviously emotionally unstable boy, frowned and said, "Nowadays, elementary school students are unwilling to do things like sowing discord, or is this part of the mystery you want to solve?"

"Of course it is a part of it. I'm just curious how he can make friends with his personality, and it is said that he has forgotten everything that happened before." Researcher Bomore spread his hands, recalling the boy with an indifferent expression in his memory, "Maybe he really forgot, but who knows, maybe for some purpose, he deliberately said that he didn't remember, so that he could be protected as a victim and completely break away from the past?"

"Come on! He was only five years old at that time." Suzuki Sonoko's anger rose instantly, she was still holding a soft sweater in her arms. After Asuka Kiri received the gifts from them, her frowning expression was completely different from the boy she was talking about, "What can a five-year-old child understand?"

"A five-year-old can already know a lot of things. He is very smart, too smart. I really feel sorry to see him wasting such a talent on going to school with you guys and meaningless painting. It seems that you have never really understood this friend."

The malicious smile that suddenly appeared on the man's face made the people opposite him panic. Hagiwara Kenji's Adam's apple rolled up and down, and suddenly he didn't want to hear what the other party said next.

"A five-year-old is already old enough to kill people."

Bomore chuckled and said, as if he was enjoying the blank expressions

of several people in an instant, "You, the righteous policeman, do you know how many lives he has committed?" "What nonsense are you talking about?!" Hagiwara Kenji's tense expression finally could not be maintained. He interrupted the other party in disbelief, and felt a chill all over his body. Apart from shock, he only questioned the sentence and was annoyed at the man's inexplicable slander. Even the pain in his shoulder seemed to disappear briefly at this moment.

"What? You don't want to listen? Does it destroy the obedient and pitiful image in your mind?" Looking at his appearance, Bomor raised the corners of his mouth in pleasure, and seemed a lot more relaxed than before. "No wonder he has to pretend to be like this. How can he be accepted if he doesn't

pretend to be the good boy you call him?" "Didn't you ever doubt it? He has suffered so much from so many children but has such a non-aggressive personality. Has he never revealed any of his unusualness?"

Mao Lilan suddenly fell silent.

She did have doubts many times. From the beginning of their acquaintance, she could sometimes see that Fei Niao Wu was actually very smart and could handle any subject easily. However, in exams, it seemed as if he did it on purpose. His grades were always in the middle, in a position that would not be blamed and would make his parents happy, but not particularly eye-catching.

As for the rest, if there were any times when her childhood habits were different, they were mostly when they were in danger or bullied, especially when Chao Li Ge was almost shot by those people on the cruise ship. He suddenly changed into a different person and blocked the other person's action with his pistol.

Regardless of whether what the person in front of her said was true or not, she and Fei Niao Wu had been friends for so many years, so how could she not feel whether the other party was pretending to treat them.

The long-haired girl frowned, and in this situation, she almost indiscriminately protected her friend who was not present yet. She was about to speak when she was interrupted by Conan Edogawa's voice.

"After all, no matter what kind of person he is, it's not your turn to say!" Although the boy's voice still carried a childish tone, it was particularly firm, and it didn't sound like a child at all. "You said this just to make us give up on him, or do you want to use this to wash away your image as a perpetrator?"

Just like the housekeeper who assisted Hiroshi Hanetani in testing drugs with those innocent children, he said that the captured Tsukiyama Yiyong was a monster, thinking that he could wash away his sins by doing so.

"It's just as disgusting as the rapist in the interrogation room who shouted that the other party seduced him first." Hagiwara Kenji narrowed his eyes.

"Do you have a grudge against him? Why do you keep talking about him?" The short-haired girl poked her head out from behind the others and said angrily. Even she could clearly see that the so-called negotiation was just a cover for him to suppress the other criminals. The guy in front of him had no intention of removing the goggles on their faces, nor did he want to help those guys who could not even be called companions to escape successfully.

He was doing things completely based on his own likes and dislikes. It seemed that he just wanted to squeeze out all the playability and value of his new toys in this precarious building, and then bury them in this hellhole with everyone else.

There was no point in talking to this crazy person who couldn't communicate. It would be better to catch him and find the so-called control panel by himself. At least this way he could have a chance of survival.

Hagiwara Kenji narrowed his eyes, but the biggest problem now was that he was shot in the right shoulder, which hindered his movement. The ** had been taken away by Secretary Kikuchi. Now they were all unarmed. If he forced his way in, he couldn't guarantee that he could protect the people behind him.

"Sorry, sorry, I'm just curious. Because the way he looks now in your words is very different from the past, and... it's really surprising to see him still alive. After all, after the police rescued them, we set fire to the entire experimental base in order to destroy the evidence." Bomore didn't pay attention to their words, but seemed to be waiting for something, "Afterwards, when we went back, we found a lot of bodies of experimental subjects that the police didn't find."

Why did he say these words with such a nonchalant expression? !

Conan Edogawa felt that he was about to be swallowed up by intense rage and sorrow. Because of Asuka Kiri, he had read many reports about the incident after coming into contact with the organization. The children who were rescued in the old photos were almost skinny to the point of being just skin and bones, which made people unable to help but be shocked. How could he so nonchalantly treat them as experimental subjects whose lives could be taken away at will?

"...There was a child who was wearing 124's clothes. His upper body was buried in the ruins, so his appearance could not be identified. However, he had a red band around his ankle. He was the only one in the laboratory with the red band, which represented his cultivation value." The experimenter touched his chin and smiled. "So at that time, we all thought he was dead. Now that I think about it, this might be 124's preparation for his new life?"

"And I don't think we can be blamed for the color of his hair. I thought you knew this. He was born with white hair. Otherwise, why would his parents and villagers regard it as a bad omen and throw him into the mountains to sacrifice to the gods? In the end, I rescued him."

"He doesn't..." The boy's voice was a little hoarse when he spoke. He actually knew that the man in front of him was probably not lying, but he still couldn't help questioning, "There's no need to hide this."

After the voice fell, there was a sudden noise outside the house, accompanied by the sound of bullets and hoarse curses, and Suz's raised voice, which was particularly harsh and threatening. The few people who had not yet recovered from this speech that almost subverted their cognition instantly tensed up and paid vigilant attention to the situation outside.

Hagiwara Kenji gritted his teeth and protected the few people behind him, and tried to understand the situation outside by side-earing.

"Is it unnecessary? I do know why he would keep it secret." On the contrary, Bomor, who was sandwiched between the rioting gangsters outside and the obviously alert Edogawa Conan and his group, had a nonchalant expression, as if he had predicted this situation. "Gray hair is a sin he was born with. Wouldn't he feel better if he blamed it on the experiment rather than on his birth? At least he can get rid of the not-so-friendly title of 'Death Star'."

After saying this, he raised his voice, as if he deliberately wanted everyone in the corridor to hear it.

"From the looks of you, you are completely unable to accept the true appearance of 124? But it's also true, the change is so great that even I find it hard to believe. Maybe there are two people living in his body?" He smiled, "Since you completely don't accept such a friend, then separate the 124 in my mouth and the Bird's Fog in your eyes. Will it be easier to accept this way? Anyway, what you really like to accept is just Bird's Fog."

"He deceived you and himself. But he can't deceive me."

approached a little bit from the corridor