amaotonovel Chapter 45 Explosion is Art
Chapter 45 Explosion is Art
Why have I been completing tasks so slowly lately?
Listening to Gin's emotionless questioning over the phone, Bai Yexiu felt a little panicked. He was a classic case of being caught slacking off at work by his boss.
He had just arrived at the restroom intending to call Peño, but Gin beat him to it and called him first.
"After all, some tasks are quite troublesome..." Bai Yexiu tried to bluff his way out.
"You could have easily taken down those two robbers last time and taken the money directly. And I don't know what you were doing, but you wasted more than a day," Gin calmly analyzed with a frown.
He had recently noticed that Jundu's speed in completing tasks had slowed down significantly. If even a simple debt collection task was taking several days, then there was no doubt that Jundu was slacking off.
If that's the case, then he can rightfully teach Jundu a lesson.
Thinking about it that way, Gin actually kind of hoped that Cointreau would slack off.
Bai Yexiu wasn't unaware of this possibility. According to the plot in his mind, the events unfolding in this house had already dragged on for three or four days. If his mission really did take three or four days, wouldn't Gin have a perfectly legitimate reason to happily skin him alive?
What a pity, what a pity.
Jundu regrets that he cannot stay to watch the fun, slack off, or cause trouble.
"Okay, I'll try to finish this quickly." Bai Yexiu hung up the phone, feeling slightly guilty.
He glanced at his watch; there were still three hours until the murder. As long as he didn't get involved in the murder, he wouldn't have trouble extricating himself.
Bai Yexiu tore off his disguise, took off his trench coat and suit vest, and hid in a toilet stall.
At this time, Conan and his group were still in the living room, while Nagato Dozo was in the bedroom with his secretary, Hinata Shin. Now was the perfect opportunity to collect the debt.
dong dong dong.
Nagato Michizo and Hinata Shin's attention in the bedroom was drawn by a knock on the door.
"Who is it? Is there something you need?" Hinata Shin opened the door with a puzzled look, then froze.
It was a boy he had never seen before.
She didn't remember this person being among the guests...
The boy in front of me was about the same age as the boy surnamed Long Ze among the guests. Although they were about the same age, the boy in front of me inexplicably gave off a sense of pressure.
"Big sister, Miss Nobuko needs to see you," Bai Yexiu said with a smile.
"Huh?" Hinata Shin looked at Nagato Dosan with a puzzled expression, wondering if this person was also a guest invited by the master.
Nagato Dosan noticed Bai Yexiu's attire—a black shirt and black suit trousers. This all-black outfit was the color most commonly worn by the group of people he had seen before.
It's time to come.
Nagato Dozo waved for Hinata Shin to leave. Only Byakuya Shu and the old man lying on the hospital bed remained in the room, staring at each other.
"The old man is quite sensible." Bai Yexiu sat down on the edge of Changmen Daosan's bed, pulling out a palm-sized thunderbolt from somewhere and fiddling with it in his hand. "You should know why I'm here, right?"
“I knew you would come. I put the money in the drawer by the bed, but I’m not feeling well enough to give it to you.” Nagato Dosan pointed to the first drawer of the bedside table and seemed to sigh.
There was indeed a card in the drawer.
"Are you sure there's 5 million in there?" Bai Yexiu twirled the card in his hand.
“Of course,” Nagato Dozo said with certainty.
"If you dare to play any tricks, I'll have your daughter arrested right away." Bai Yexiu's cold expression only lasted for a moment before returning to his original kind expression: "I wish you a speedy recovery."
Although these two sentences seem completely unrelated, it's not uncommon for Bai Yexiu to say such things.
After leaving the third bedroom in the long passageway, Bai Yexiu pulled out several iron balls the size of marbles from somewhere. These were miniature bombs recently developed by the research team, and they gave him a few so he could test their power when he had the chance.
It just so happens that Nagato has been in arrears on his debts for so long, so it's not unreasonable to charge him some "interest," right?
……
Bai Yexiu, now disguised, returned to the living room and met with Conan and the others, and began to think about how to escape.
After thinking it over, Bai Yexiu, in a dramatic mood, took out his phone and pretended to answer a call in front of Conan and the others.
"What? My father is hospitalized? Which hospital and what happened?" Bai Yexiu deliberately raised his voice, his tone filled with an anxiety that Conan and the others had never heard from Bai Yexiu before.
Even Conan, who was daydreaming, was drawn to the scene.
"Okay, I'll be right there." Bai Yexiu put down the phone, looked at the surprised looks on everyone's faces, and said urgently, "My father has had a relapse and has been admitted to the hospital. I have to go to the hospital right away."
Before they could reply, Bai Yexiu rushed out of the living room in a great hurry. He perfectly portrayed a "filial son" who was worried about his father's health.
Bai Yexiu rushed out, hoping the boss wouldn't hear what he had just said. Yes, the boss was healthy, but he had used the boss as a cover more than once.
In a previous mission, to escape, he played the victim to the police, saying he had no parents. Then, in another mission, he said his father was paralyzed and needed care…
If you calculate it that way, he's cursed the boss many times.
Conan watched Bai Yexiu's departing figure, thinking that something like this could have happened to Long Ze's father. Moreover, this was the first time he had seen Long Ze with such an anxious expression, which showed how serious the matter was.
"Hey, where's Ryuzawa? Is he still in the bathroom?" Hattori Heiji came in from outside the living room with a puzzled look on his face.
"You're too late. Ryuzawa's father had an accident; he just went to the hospital," Conan explained to Heiji Hattori.
At the entrance of the Nagato mansion, Bai Yexiu showed no trace of the anxiety and dishevelment he had just displayed. Instead, he strolled leisurely with his hands in his pockets, a stark contrast to his earlier demeanor.
The police officers he had seen when he arrived at the Nagato mansion were no longer downstairs. This meant that Hattori Heiji's father must have left, and he could now collect his interest with peace of mind.
Bai Yexiu calmly pressed the remote control in his pocket, and took out a lollipop with his other hand.
boom!
The enormous Nagato mansion exploded—but only half of it.
The other half of the Nagato mansion was shrouded in smoke and flames, and the buildings collapsed one after another.
Bai Yexiu, with a lollipop in his mouth, listened to the loud crash of the collapsing building and slowly walked out the door. Behind him was a mansion that was now only half intact.
Bai Yexiu gazed at his masterpiece from afar, marveling at the impressive power of this miniature bomb.
He had never blasted out such interesting ruins before.
A mansion that was half-destroyed by a bomb is actually quite aesthetically pleasing.
Bai Yexiu silently took out his camera and took a picture.
Conan and the others, who had just evacuated the house, stared at the mansion, now only half intact, and fell into deep thought.