I'm in Conan, I'm not a gangster

Chapter 547 The Bomb's Weight Was Just Right, Not Too Much and Not Too Little (1st Update)
Inside the ventilation ducts above the laboratory, Kogoro Mouri, now shrunken, moves swiftly through the narrow metal passage like an agile weasel.

"Bang! Bang!"

He fired his submachine gun in quick succession, and two men in black who were trying to climb the pipe to pursue him fell to the ground. But there were simply too many enemies; bullets grazed past his ears, sending sparks flying against the metal pipe walls.

"Damn it... are these guys cockroaches? The more I kill them, the more there are!"

He glanced back at Conan and Heiji, who were hiding around the corner—the two high school detectives, though brilliant, seemed hesitant and awkward in the face of real combat.

Conan and Heiji both tacitly chose to shoot from the shadows.

This made Kogoro Mouri's blood pressure skyrocket!
He couldn't help but curse, "These two bastards don't know how to respect their elders at all! So I'm the only one drawing fire in front of them?"

"They're both high school students, so why is there such a big difference?"

"Look at Shiraishi E, wielding a submachine gun and slaughtering everyone! You two can only hide in the back and shoot from the shadows!"

In response, Conan said irritably, "Uncle Mori, you were the one who barged in recklessly, what does it have to do with us?"

"Yeah, yeah!" Heiji said speechlessly, "You could have just hidden away and stayed in one spot, but you insisted on running around everywhere!"

"Sneaking around and taking shots is not my style!" Kogoro Mori snorted.

Just as he was shooting and retreating.

boom! ! !
A deafening explosion suddenly came from the lower level of the laboratory, causing the entire pipeline to shake violently.

Immediately afterwards, a barrage of gunfire erupted like a torrential downpour!
Kogoro Mouri was taken aback at first, then overjoyed: "It's Shiraishi! That kid's here to help!!"

Shinichi and Heiji exchanged a glance and simultaneously breathed a sigh of relief—they were good at deduction and solving cases, but real combat amidst gunfire? Let's leave that to the professionals!

With the cover of fire, Kogoro Mori immediately launched a counterattack.

He used his small stature to maneuver between pipes, specifically targeting blind spots in the enemy's field of vision to fire.

In less than five minutes, the men in black inside the ventilation duct were all cleared out.

"Phew... We're safe for now."

He wiped the sweat from his forehead and crouched down to observe the situation in the lower laboratory through the gap in the pipes.

However, this sight almost made his heart stop—

Three female bandits wearing pink hoods and carrying cartoon-painted submachine guns are charging straight ahead without any tactical awareness!
Although the hood covered her face, those familiar movements and figure...

"Ran?! And Sonoko and Kazuha too?!"

Kogoro Mouri's face turned deathly pale instantly.

These three girls are practically risking their lives!
They had no idea how to advance using cover, and they were even shouting and yelling as they ran—

"Kazuha! There are enemies on the left!"

"Watch this—da da da!"

The most outrageous thing was that the submachine guns they were using had Hello Kitty pendants hanging on them, and when they ran out of bullets, they frantically changed magazines, just like they were playing live-action CS.

"They're insane... completely insane! What is that bastard Shiraishi doing?! Just letting them run wild like this?!"

Just as he was enraged, he suddenly noticed a man in black sneaking out of a side door, attempting to ambush them.

"Oops!!"

Kogoro Mouri jerked his gun up, only to find the barrel stuck in a gap in the pipe. Just as he struggled desperately—

"boom!"

The man in black's head exploded.

In the distance, a man wearing a bandit mask slowly lowered the rifle in his hand.

—It's Emi Shiraishi!
Kogoro Mouri then realized that Shiraishi had been lurking about ten meters behind the three girls.

He seemed to let them charge freely, but in reality, he used precise bursts of fire to eliminate all potential threats. Whenever an enemy attempted a sneak attack, the bullets would always arrive first.

"This kid..."

Kogoro Mori slumped in the pipe, feeling both lingering fear and admiration.

Using three rookies as bait to draw enemy fire while he hides in the shadows and reaps the rewards… Only this guy would dare to use such a daring tactic!!
He had intended to go out through the ventilation duct and say hello to them.

But then he realized that he had become a child again.

Kogoro Mouri hesitated for a moment, but ultimately decided against letting Ran see him in his current state.

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Shiraishi glanced up at the ventilation duct, her keen intuition telling her that someone seemed to be inside.

But the other party showed no hostility or intention to attack, so he didn't bother to investigate further.

—He's not a serial killer, there's no need to go to extremes to eliminate them all.

As long as the other party is sensible enough to stay out of the way, he's happy to turn a blind eye.

Turning their attention away, Shiraishi E led Ran, Sonoko, and Hagiwara through the corridor, eventually arriving at a heavy laboratory door.

The door was flashing with the cold light of an electronic lock, clearly requiring a password to enter.

"Why do I need a password everywhere? It's so annoying." Sonoko muttered as she stepped forward and randomly entered a few sets of numbers—"1234", "0000", "4869"—and unsurprisingly, they were all wrong.

"Oh no!" Sonoko stamped her foot in frustration. "I should have left a few alive so they could open the door!"

Xiaolan and Ye also looked frustrated. "Yeah, what do we do now? Can we use bullets to open it?"

“No, it’s impossible.” Shiraishi E said as she stepped forward, reached out and touched the laboratory door, tapping her knuckles lightly on the metal surface, then a smile appeared on her lips.

"Don't worry, this door isn't made of explosion-proof material; it can be blown open."

As he spoke, he took off his backpack, pulled out more than twenty C4 plastic explosives, and skillfully distributed them to the three men.

"Bombing them one by one is too troublesome. It's more efficient if everyone packs them together."

Ran, Sonoko, and Yoh took the bomb, looked at each other, and quickly nodded in agreement—it was indeed the fastest way!

They had to find Yusaku and his group as soon as possible; there was no time to waste.

If we keep dawdling, who knows what unexpected things might happen?
Shiraishi gave a brief explanation of the installation points, and the three of them immediately got to work, evenly sticking C4 onto the laboratory door.

"On average, three doors are installed per door to ensure a thorough demolition."

Soon, the gate was neatly covered with explosive blocks, looking at first glance as if it were covered with "explosive talismans".

Everyone quickly retreated to a safe distance. Shiraishi E handed the detonator to the three girls, a slight smile on her lips, and said, "Come on, let's all count down together."

"Three, two, one——"

“Rumble——!!!”

A deafening explosion instantly swept through the entire corridor, and the intense shockwave blew the laboratory door off its hinges. Even the walls on both sides were shattered, with brick fragments flying everywhere and smoke filling the air.

As the smoke cleared slightly, everyone looked closely—

Not to mention the main gate, the entire wall was blown away!

The interior of the laboratory was completely visible, and where the door frame should have been, only bare ruins remained, as if some giant beast had devoured them.

Xiaolan looked at Shiraishi Hui with a guilty conscience: "Did we put on too much?"

Shiraishi E shrugged and calmly strode into the laboratory: "No, no, the amount of bomb is just right, not too much and not too little!!"

(End of this chapter)