Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator - Page 294
The other person was the waitress who secretly looked at her before the second performance began.
The woman had short hair, delicate features, and was wearing a waitress's work skirt. Her exposed arms and calves showed no signs of long-term exercise.
When Curacao sneaked into the hotel, she looked at the information of all the employees and didn't notice anything wrong at the time. But after seeing the other person up close, she had a strange feeling.
Her appearance and figure were unfamiliar, and it was certain that this was the first time we met. There was no trace of makeup or plastic surgery on her face...
——But it gave her an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as if she had seen it somewhere before.
In the few seconds that Curacao was thinking, her cell phone buzzed again.
She looked down and saw another email from Rum.
There was no text on it, just a screenshot taken from a certain program with the TV station's logo on top.
The picture shows a young girl with medium-length black hair. She wears a baseball cap and loose pants. Her face, which has obvious traces of mixed blood, has a look of surprise and she is looking straight at the camera.
Curacao's pupils shrank slightly. She was not face-blind and usually did not identify people by their hairstyle. She recognized that it was Shirley's face at a glance!
She looked at Shirley in the photo, feeling confused and a strange thought flashed through her mind.
Why did Rum post the photo now?
Normally, if someone is found running away and disguised, as long as the video footage is available, it will be immediately passed on to the person looking for the person. Even if there is no video footage, the person's current attire will be briefly described verbally as soon as possible to facilitate the search.
But Rum didn't do that. After the hastily sent her a text message asking her to find someone, she didn't receive any other emails. It was only a few minutes ago that he sent her another evacuation plan.
It was decided that she should withdraw, so it was obviously illogical to give her the information at this time. Rum's impatience sometimes caused him to fail, but he would never make a mistake like missing an email.
and……
Curacao stared at Shirley's pants in the photo, and the fleeting scene he saw on the surveillance camera before came to his mind.
The clothes on Shirley are different!
A strong sense of crisis instantly enveloped Curacao's whole body. Years of dangerous life made her body instinctively act before her brain. She turned her head quickly, and at the same time, she heard the sound of a door opening. Two people came out from the next room and pointed guns at her.
"Don't move!"
The young man among them shouted, his hand holding the gun trembling slightly, perhaps because of nervousness or excitement.
Curacao raised an eyebrow and looked over, recognizing that this was the public security officer whom she had seen in the banquet hall not long ago, and whose identity she had identified because his surveillance actions were too obvious.
Jiang Teng Daizo looked at the woman in front of him. Seeing that she was not afraid of the gun, he immediately determined that she was not an ordinary person.
"Put your hands up, surrender, you..."
He held the gun, staring at the other person without blinking, and finally couldn't help asking the question that had been on his mind for a long time:
"Where did you take the others?"
Curacao looked at him and suddenly smiled contemptuously.
……
"Ha ha……"
In the small laundry room on the third underground floor, there was a sound of heavy breathing.
Miyano Shiho...or rather, Haibara Ai who turned back into a child again, curled up uncontrollably because of the lingering pain from the high temperature.
The trouser suit hung loosely on her body, but she no longer had the strength to open her eyes.
Chapter 349: Familiar Person
minutes ago.
"Ah!"
The door to the emergency passage was forced open, and a slender figure rushed into the semi-dark stairwell.
Miyano Shiho only felt that all the blood in her body was rushing to her eardrums. She had no time to breathe or stop, and continued to rush forward without slowing down.
——The organization is chasing her, she has to escape to an empty floor as soon as possible to avoid getting affected by Professor Agasa and the crowd.
The heavy door was hastily pushed open, and then closed heavily after losing its support. The dull sound told the people outside the direction in which the prey fled.
But Miyano Shiho didn't care. She didn't hesitate and chose to run upwards.
Da da da da——
The hurried and chaotic footsteps echoed in the stairwell. Miyano Shiho's body almost stuck to the inner handrail as she turned. She had no time to observe the surrounding environment and just kept running.
People cannot feel pain when they are extremely nervous, but she soon felt another kind of discomfort coming from her feet. Since she suddenly turned into an adult, she was now wearing a pair of women's leather shoes she found in the laundry room.
The shoes didn't fit her feet well, they were a full size too big, and after running at full speed, her feet kept sliding in them, which was quite uncomfortable.
Miyano Shiho knew that if she continued running like this, she would sprain her ankle sooner or later, so she quickly kicked off her shoes and kicked them aside. Before she could make the next move, she heard the following voice:
"Oh!"
The door opened and closed heavily again, and the man came in.
Miyano Shiho's pupils constricted, and all her internal organs seemed to be mixed together in an instant.
Although her purpose was to lead the other party away, when she really had to face the members of the organization again, the fear that had been ingrained in her bones since she was a child almost made her collapse to the ground on the spot.
puff.
It was like adding insult to injury. The moment she heard the door close, Miyano Shiho felt her heart skip a beat.
"!!"
She covered her heart and her face turned pale as paper.
As someone who had experienced shrinking once, she knew very well that it was not just the accelerated heartbeat due to extreme fear, but also the effect of the drug.
The drug was about to take effect! She would soon become a child again like Edogawa!
This thought made Miyano Shiho's body shudder, but at this moment, a curse suddenly came from below -
"what?!"
At the same time, there was the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground. The person might have tripped over the stairs or something else.
Miyano Shiho came to her senses and quickly seized the opportunity given by the other party's fall. She hurried to run up the stairs in front, pushed open the door with a number marked on it, and returned to the hotel.
Miyano Shiho had just been to the basement, the lobby on the first floor and the banquet hall on the 20th floor. This was her first time in the hotel's guest room area. At a glance, the corridor was filled with identical doors.
She didn't remember how many floors she had visited, but a rough calculation showed it was the fourth floor. Because the number was unlucky, few of the few guests who could check in early chose this floor.
Miyano Shiho didn't dare to stay there for too long. She ran some distance and tried to open a door at the corner. The door opened suddenly. She immediately went in and closed the door tightly.
The room was pitch black. Miyano Shiho managed to calm herself down. Without turning on the light, she took out her cell phone to provide some illumination.
A beam of light illuminated the room. It was not a guest room but a utility room.
The cleaning cart was parked against the wall, and several employee uniforms were thrown into a large clothes basket in the corner. There was also a pipe opening on the wall - it was 50 centimeters long, enough for a child to slide in easily.
Miyano Shiho took a look and recognized that this should be a conveyor pipe for others to throw their dirty clothes directly in. When she was hiding in the laundry room and growing bigger just now, she saw a similar passage there.
puff.
Her heart twitched again, and Miyano Shiho's legs went weak. She could no longer support her body and fell to the ground leaning against the wall.
Plop, plop, plop.
Along with the abnormal beating of her heart, a familiar and unbearable pain came from her body. Her bones felt so hot that they seemed to melt. She even saw a white mist coming out through her skin.
Miyano Shiho clenched her teeth tightly to prevent herself from crying out in pain.
Her vision became shaky, and in the constantly shaking scene, the only thing she could see was the transmission pipe that was so close to her.
A thought suddenly flashed through her mind:
The people from the organization were chasing her upwards following the sound of her footsteps. If she slid down using this pipe, would she be able to escape again like she did that day when she successfully escaped from the organization... ?
Miyano Shiho felt her body shrinking inch by inch, and it was a hundred times more uncomfortable than before. This time she did not fall down, she used up all her strength and almost crawled towards the pipe opening.
She supported herself on the entrance of the pipe with her hands, and finally fell headfirst into it when her body completely turned back into that of a child.
With a gurgling sound, the room returned to darkness and silence.
The door was quietly closed.
From beginning to end, there was no sound of footsteps outside.
……
In the corridor, a man in black clothes climbed up from the ground.
He had fallen very hard, and had hit himself on a step, knocking out two teeth. Now blood was dripping from his chin.
"What kind of hotel would put so much junk in the corridor?!"
He cursed and looked at the thing that tripped him.
When he saw this, he was stunned.
Click.
There was a barely perceptible sound of a door being pushed open from above, so quiet that it didn't alert anyone.
A figure stood quietly beside the handrail, looking down at the man in black. His face was pale and tired, without any expression.
……
laundry room.
A small figure slid out of the passage at an extremely fast speed, fell into a pile of dirty laundry, and was swallowed up by all kinds of clothes.
When Huiyuan Ai opened her eyes, she found that her body had stopped changing. She wanted to crawl out, but her arms were so weak that she couldn't support her body. She fell out from the pile of clothes and rolled to the ground.
"Ha ha……"
She fell to the ground with her eyes closed, not trying to stand up, and heavy gasps came out of her mouth.
In a trance, she seemed to hear her cell phone vibrate, but her mind was in a mess and she didn't care at all.
There was no one else in the laundry room and the door not far away was closed. It was so quiet that the only sounds I could hear were my own breathing and the sound of my heart beating wildly.
Huiyuan Ai felt her hair wet with sweat, sticking to her forehead. In her worst state, her thoughts gradually became clear...
In fact, Haibara Ai has some self-destructive tendencies.