Conan: I'm really not the mastermind behind the scenes

Chapter 27 The Sin of Jealousy (Part [-])
The next scene gradually faded into darkness.

After going through it several times, Rabbit finally gained some experience. He knew that the clips he was seeing were not switching, but that it was because the owner of the memory, Bai Jiu, was seriously injured and his consciousness began to become chaotic.

A black space appeared in front of him, which was the place where he communicated with the system before traveling.

A demon that is somewhat similar to a whale carries a system pop-up window. It is not the familiar [Character] [Group Chat] [Rules] [Answer] four icons. There is only one very simple sentence——

[You have died, please choose the resurrection method: resurrect in place or move to a safe area and resurrect. 】

Rabbit didn't expect that Bai Jiu was beaten to death with that blow. The person involved even shouted out the question they both shared on the spot:

"Why didn't the protective aura work?!"

[Because what you are facing this time is not an ordinary NPC. 】

Seeing this sentence, Baijiu was stunned; Rabbit was also stunned for a moment, and then remembered the identity of the tall bald man.

Anji Asama!

One of the dead people who appeared in the original Hokutosei Train!

Some episodes of Conan are so classic that they would be played repeatedly on TV when I was a child, including this case.Rabbit has seen it many times and has a very deep memory - even for one of the robbers who didn't appear much, he quickly recalled the identity of the other person.

After realizing the identity of the other party, Rabbit understood something.

Sure enough, the system's next sentence directly verified his conjecture.

[The player's protective halo cannot take effect on the original characters.Now please choose your resurrection method. 】

Rabbit watched Baijiu's face darken, and uncontrollable anger surged in his heart: "Resurrection on the spot."

After he said those words, the surrounding darkness quickly faded away like a tide, and dazzling light came down. At the same time, there was a smell of a hospital.

Before the rabbit's eyes could adjust to the sudden light, a scream made him tremble.

"Ahhhh!!!!"

The one who screamed was Baijiu.He was lying on the operating table, his abdomen where he had been shot was opened with a scalpel, and a bullet was half-buried in the bright red flesh, glowing with a cold sheen under the lights of the operating room.

The rabbit, who had never experienced any blood, took a step back in fear, his stomach churning.But what happened next made his eyes widen again.

I saw the bullet, as if it suddenly had self-awareness, began to squeeze out of the flesh and blood bit by bit, and fell to the ground with a clang.

——The whole process seemed to be felt only by Baijiu and seen by the rabbit next to him. The doctors and nurses responsible for the operation seemed to have pressed the pause button of time and uniformly maintained their original actions.

The scene in front of them was as weird as it could be, and they didn't wake up until the bullets fell.

The doctor holding the surgical forceps looked blankly at the blood hole. Another doctor standing opposite him accused: "Why did you lose the thing?"

"Doctor, doctor! The patient is awake!" The nurse noticed Baijiu's open eyes.

"What?!" The doctor was shocked and his eyes widened, "Didn't you give him anesthesia?"

"We obviously used it!!"

Baijiu was in so much pain that he couldn't even scream. He was covered in cold sweat, his neck was stretched out, the whites of his eyes were bloodshot, and his whole eyes seemed to have turned red.

Rabbit was trembling all over. He suddenly realized what the system meant when it said "it won't block any feelings".

——This is the price to pay for resurrection.

The nurse quickly injected Baijiu with anesthesia, and his ferocious look gradually subsided and he fell into a deep sleep.

It wasn't until he fell into sleep that this long scene began to distort.

……

What appeared in front of me this time was the ward.Baijiu was lying on the bed in hospital clothes, without a quilt, and there were bandages under the slightly open clothes.

Rabbit realized that this was the scene after Baijiu completed emergency surgery.

The door to the ward was open, and voices could be heard in the distance.Rabbit looked at Baijiu, then at the door, and tentatively walked over.

It was strange that Baijiu was obviously lying in the room at this time, and the scene outside the room was also included in his memory.

As expected, Feng Guling and other five people were guarding outside. In addition to them, there was also the instructor who was giving instructions on shooting and a couple who looked very elegant and cultivated.

Rabbit noticed that Hagiwara Kenji and Fukitani Rei had pinholes on their elbows. With such pinhole sizes, he knew at a glance that these two people had donated blood not long ago.

The man in the couple looked a bit similar to Bai Jiu. He bowed deeply to them: "Thank you for saving Quan Zi. Without your blood, I'm afraid it would have been a few months..."

With a friendly smile on his face, Hagihara Kenji said to the man: "This is what we should do. Without him, we would not be able to subdue the robber so easily."

Mr. Baijiu smiled bitterly: "There's no need to comfort me like this. I... know my son very well. He is timid and afraid of getting into trouble. He doesn't have the courage of any man. It's good that he didn't cause trouble for you guys."

As Rabbit listened, his heart suddenly twitched.

He looked back at the ward. This feeling was conveyed to him by Baijiu - he heard his father's words in the room.

By the way, Bai Jiu used to be a single-parent family, and his father was a policeman who died in the line of duty very early... For him, does this game allow him to have a complete family again?As a result, now, his father said this about him...

"Please don't say that."

Hagiwara Kenji suppressed his smile and looked at Mr. Shiroji with a serious expression, "No matter what he was like in the past, he is an excellent police academy student now - when he encountered danger at noon, he rushed over immediately."

Another blood donor, Jiang Guling, looked at Mr. Baijiu and frowned slightly, as if he wanted to ask something but was hesitant to speak.

Mrs. Baijiu noticed his expression and asked with a gentle and kind expression: "Jiang Gujun, do you have anything to say?"

A boy with blue eyes and slightly raised corners patted Fang Gu Ling's shoulder. Fang Gu Ling came back to his senses, turned to look at him, and then turned to the Baijiu couple.

"Are you the president of Baijiu Pharmaceutical Company?"

Mr. Baijiu smiled bitterly and nodded: "I didn't expect that after more than ten years of company closure, there would still be people who remember me."

Rei Fukutani asked seriously, "Did Shiroji Company's R&D team have a couple named Miyano in the past?"

"Yes, Miyano Atsushi and Miyano Elena, they are very outstanding scientists. After our company was acquired and closed down by the Karasuma Group, they did not accept Karasuma's invitation and returned to their hometown to open a clinic. Later, they opened a clinic The clinic was suddenly closed..."

"Then do you know where they went after closing the clinic?" Rei Fukutani asked.

"This one……"

Mr. Shirojiu frowned and fell into memories: "Maybe it was the Karasuma Group. After they left, Houji often contacted me. He said that the Karasuma Group contacted him many times and offered generous rewards, hoping that the couple could join the research. …”

While they were talking, Hagihara Kenji turned around and whispered something to Matsuda Jinpei next to him. Matsuda nodded, and then Hagihara Kenji turned around and entered the ward.

As soon as he entered, he closed the door gently and met Baijiu's eyes.

"You are indeed awake. I felt someone looking out just now. How do you feel now?"

Baijiu saw the pinprick on his arm: "...it's okay."

As the door closed, the scene outside the ward was blurred, and the rabbit had to go back into the house together.

He looked at Shirojito, who looked unhappy, and then looked at Hagiwara Kenji, who was smiling.The emotions of the person whose memory was read were once again transmitted to him simultaneously.

Baijiu's mood was very complicated this time.There was the fear of facing death, the fear of coming back from the dead and the anesthesia failing during the operation, the dissatisfaction that they had stolen his limelight, and a little bit... the gratitude of seeing them donate blood to save him and hearing him speak for himself. .

All kinds of emotions are superimposed together, like tree roots entangled in knots underground. Even the person involved cannot tell which emotion is heavier.

Baijiu closed his eyes and smiled self-deprecatingly: "You just..." He paused, "My father's words are right. I don't have any courage. Even if I do, it's only a little bit."

Rabbit knew he was telling the truth.

When he first heard the screams, Baijiu actually wanted to help, but the subsequent gunshots made him hesitate.

"No matter how small the courage is, it is still courage."

Hagiwara Kenji walked to the bedside: "You can have more confidence in yourself, you are outstanding. Just like your previous shooting training, your results were much better than mine, and the instructor even praised you."

He showed a hearty smile to Bai Jiu: "Can I ask you for advice next time I train?"

Rabbit looked at them and breathed a sigh of relief.

This time, Baijiu's emotions were no longer full of depression, and a ray of sunshine shone through the dark clouds.

It's so comfortable to be with good people. If it were someone from the organization, who would comfort an unfamiliar co-worker?Even the young detective team, as children, are far more heartwarming than them.

Just when the rabbit was relaxing, the scene in front of him began to change again.

——There is a hint of ominous smoke in this change.

……

A high-rise apartment building comes into view.

Next to a police car with the Metropolitan Police Department logo, Kenji Hagihara appeared again, but the clothes he was wearing were not police school uniforms, but orthodox police uniforms.

He raised his head and looked at the tall building in front of him, and ordered to the others: "Team [-] and I will come up. Team [-] will be waiting here to report the latest situation at any time!"

"Roger that!"

After Hagiwara Kenji finished speaking, he looked at the heavy explosion-proof suit inside the police car.

The rabbit who saw his movements immediately realized what scene this was.

——This is the plot of Hagiwara Kenji’s death in the line of duty in the original work.

"..."

Rabbit felt heartbroken. This time, it was entirely his own emotions.

Although this policeman doesn't appear much in the original work, from the scene where he stopped Bai Jiu's father from commenting on his son and comforted him, we can see that he is a very good person.

And now, this good policeman is about to count down his life.

Rabbit tried to calm his breathing, but suddenly remembered something and turned around to look for Baijiu.

He did not forget that the mission of the player with the ID "Jealousy" was to save.

But Baijiu...are you willing to save him?

There were many police officers present, many of them wearing helmets. Before Rabbit could find anyone, the turbulent emotions inside him suddenly choked him and he fell to his knees heavily on the ground.

The empathy this time was stronger than any before. The depressed feeling stimulated the rabbit's brain to buzz and hurt, and he wanted to scream out.

He struggled to look up and finally saw Baijiu in the crowd.

——He stood there, motionless, and the system pop-up window appeared quietly in front of him.

Rabbit, who had only seen the name of his skill before, finally saw the description of his skill clearly this time.

[Active skill - Light in dark room: 90% chance of disabling bomb, cooling time is 1 hour. 】

[Passive skill-Ben Jing Ming Xin: Randomly hear other people's voices. 】

Rabbit felt so happy that he didn't care about the ability to hear other people's voices for the time being. He focused entirely on Baijiu's active skills.

Such skills are simply the nemesis of Bomber and Conan in the movie!In this way, Hagiwara Kenji can be saved now, and Matsuda Jinpei can be saved a few years later...

But soon, he couldn't be happy anymore.

——Because he saw Shirojiu, who had such skills, standing there, watching as Kenji Hagihara was about to lead the team up.

At this time, Rabbit clearly understood the feelings in his heart.

It's fear and hesitation.

Unlike the unwillingness and jealousy that seemed to explode at any time like dynamite before, this feeling now weighs heavily on the heart, making people breathless - Rabbit even suspected that Baijiu really hadn't been there for a long time. Breathe.

Baijiu stood there not motionless, the hands on his side were shaking, and his expression and eyes were struggling.

He wanted to save.

However, he dared not.

Maybe it was the empathy that allowed Rabbit to understand Baijiu's character and thinking mode to some extent, and he immediately understood the reason for Baijiu's fear.

——Because he died once.

Someone has said that many people who commit suicide will not try again after failing once because they experience the fear of death.

The same goes for Baijiu.

The success rate of this skill is not 100%.The previous death was excruciating pain just from expulsion of the bullet from the abdomen and waking up from anesthesia. If the skill didn't work and he was blown to pieces by the bomb, how painful would it be when he was resurrected?

So he doesn't want to go.

He didn't dare to bet on the 10% possibility of failure.

Hagiwara Kenji came to Shirojiu: "Little Shirojiu, you are waiting here. Remember to pay attention to Xiaojinpei's phone call."

Baijiu's mouth moved, but he couldn't even say "be careful". He could only use the only strength in his body to nod.

The excellent policeman who had kindly comforted him and saved him once patted him on the shoulder and showed a reassuring smile: "Don't worry, I can deal with this bomb soon."

Baijiu watched him leave.

From beginning to end, he never said "I'll go for you", nor even raised his hand to try to stop the other party.

A small amount of courage was finally extinguished by the fear of facing death.

……

Amid the deafening explosions, Rabbit and Silent White Dove watched the mission update together——

[Mission: Let more than half of the police academy team survive to the end (4/3)

Details: You have been living in unwillingness, arrogance and extremely low self-esteem for a long time. Are you willing to save someone who is better than you? 】

(End of this chapter)