HLnovel Chapter 758 Ring
Chapter 758 Ring
When Chu Ming left, he could still hear the sound of Suzuki Jirokichi arranging people to salvage "Sunflower" from the lake, but the painting was already in Chu Ming's hands, so he was destined to have no gain.
He drove straight to the base, and only took "Sunflower" out of the system backpack and put it in the trunk when he got out of the car. Then he called Lafitte directly to come downstairs to pick it up.
At this time, the painting was still in a fireproof and waterproof box. He would not let Lafitte carry it up because it was so heavy.
When Lafitte got off the car, he saw the painting in the trunk and his eyes lit up: "You really got it? How did you sneak out such a big thing without anyone knowing? I thought you would just stuff the painting into your clothes and think about who to ask to repair it."
As he spoke, Lafitte stroked the painting through the box with his hand, muttering something like a rare treasure, looking particularly perverted.
Chu Ming didn't want to look at his silly look anymore, so he shook his head speechlessly and pushed him aside to go into the base.
After a while, Lafitte dragged the box in and handed a check to Chu Ming.
Chu Ming knew that Lafitte would not skimp on this, so he stuffed the check into his pocket without even looking at it: "Why are you the only one in the base today? Where are Gin and the others?"
"It seems to be Bourbon. Some time ago, I don't know how they found a photo of Shirley that was accidentally taken by someone. It seems that they found some clues in the photo. Gin has been busy with Vodka to deal with the remaining tasks recently, just to free up his hands to hunt down Shirley in the future." After putting the painting away, Lafitte let out a long sigh, sat on the sofa, and poured himself a glass of the drink that Chu Ming had just taken out.
"Discovered Shirley's whereabouts? Such a big thing, even you know about it, why didn't anyone inform me?" Chu Ming once again felt deeply excluded.
He had never heard Haibara Ai talk to him about this, and when he went to the doctor's house before, he clearly heard Haibara Ai say that she went home after school every day for drug research and had not been out for a long time. How come a photo of Shirley appeared now?
No, I have to ask later.
"The boss gave you so many tasks last time, aren't they enough to keep you busy?" Lafitte was also shocked. He had never noticed that Granburch loved work so much.
Chu Ming was speechless. In fact, he had almost forgotten about this matter.
After all, in his mind, these tasks must be distributed out, and it is not his turn to do them at all, so naturally they are not considered his tasks.
However, he did not show it at all. Instead, he looked Lafitte up and down and said, "Those tasks are indeed too many, but - I see that you seem to be quite free recently..."
Lafitte saw that Chu Ming was planning to use his power on him, and he stood up with a start: "I still have a lot of tasks to complete, so I don't have time to take care of you. I'm leaving first, you can have a good rest at the base."
After saying this, he dragged the heavy box and ran out at great speed.
Watching his rapidly departing back, Chu Ming let out a long sigh. It was becoming increasingly difficult to deceive people in the organization, and it was almost impossible to find kind-hearted people to help him with his missions.
It must be that Gin squeezed people too hard.
He drank a bottle of drink in the empty base and was really bored, so he called Gin.
I guess Gin was also slacking off and playing with his phone. He picked up the phone as soon as Chu Ming called.
"what's up?"
"I heard from Lafitte that you found Shirley's trace? You didn't even take me with you on such fun things. Is our friendship about to capsize?" Chu Ming asked lazily while lying on the sofa.
Gin's first reaction was exactly the same as Lafitte's: "Aren't all the tasks given by the boss enough for you to be busy?"
"I don't have to do those tasks myself. I can just keep an eye on them when they are almost finished." Chu Ming yawned and stretched out his voice. "I don't care. I also want to participate in the task of capturing Shirley! You can take Bourbon and Vermouth, and you must have arranged for Cohen and Chianti. Why don't you take me? Am I still a member of the action team? Are you excluding me?"
Gin felt a headache when he heard Chu Ming being so unreasonable and acting as if he was going to complain if he wasn't taken with him.
Take him?
What's the point of bringing him along? Is it because your task is too easy?
Granburch is indeed very capable, but his evil nature of wanting to create chaos in the world is obviously proportional to his ability.
Bourbon had also analyzed that capturing Shirley this time was not a difficult task and Granburch was not needed at all. Bringing him along would only cause trouble for himself.
"Just focus on completing the boss's mission. You are not needed to capture Shirley." Gin refused outright, without giving Chu Ming any chance to interfere in the mission, and then hung up the phone.
Chu Ming gritted his teeth as he watched the darkening interface of his phone.
Damn it! Gin has changed!
In the past, he really liked taking me on missions!!!
Now that he has a higher status, Gin must feel that he can't continue to exploit him, so he simply dumped him!
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. Chu Ming called Vodka. During the brief conversation with Gin, he did not hear Vodka's voice. But Lafitte had just said that Gin took Vodka out with him, so Vodka must have listened to Gin's instructions and left temporarily to do something.
Since Gin doesn't work, he can only take advantage of Vodka when he's alone.
Vodka picked up the phone and after confirming it was Chu Ming, he went straight to explaining the arrangements they were going to make to capture Shirley.
Chu Ming also took the opportunity to find out the specific information from him.
It is said that the photo of Shirley was found by Bourbon in Kogoro Mouri's computer. It was a video shot by the children of the Junior Detective League. In the video, Shirley seemed to have rescued them from a fire. It can be clearly seen in the video that Shirley was wearing a ring on her finger.
That ring was the pass ring of Suzuki's mysterious train.
The ring was being promoted extensively some time ago, so everyone was familiar with it. However, it was later stolen by the sudden release of "Sunflower", so no one mentioned it during this period.
At the same time, because Gin was not there, and Chu Ming called him instead of appearing in front of him in person, Vodka seemed much more talkative.
Chu Ming's calm words got him to blurt out all the information he knew, and he even gave Chu Ming a vivid description of what Gin said when he received the call while he was driving.
There are various literary expressions such as "the best hunting ground", "a prison that can run", "capturing Shirley is like hunting a deer", "don't take action before the Iron Snake returns to its nest", etc.
Chu Ming listened to Vodka while trying not to laugh and secretly recorded the conversation.
Gin is really the old literary youth of the brewery.
Especially when it comes to things related to Shirley.
Record it, then go back to the boss and laugh at him!