Conan: Rice Flower Spring

Chapter 96 91. Vermouth: What a sin!
Conan stared blankly for a long time and suddenly an idea came to his mind: "Lingge. Uncle Lin! Dear uncle!"

"Hey, this kid is not stupid!" Lin Longma laughed heartily, then gave a friendly smile to Mao Lilan and Vermouth.

Ran Mouri was accustomed to Hayashi Ryoma's smile. From the beginning, Hayashi Ryoma and Kogoro Mouri were equals, so it was reasonable for Ran Mouri to call Hayashi Ryoma uncle.

It’s just that our friendship was limited in the past. Although I had several pleasant “business” dealings with Kogoro Mori, our friendship was basically just business.

Therefore, Ran Mouri and Conan have always called Hayashi Ryoma "President Hayashi" or "Chairman Hayashi".

But now Hayashi Ryoma not only saved Conan, but also indirectly saved Maori Kogoro's life. Maori Ran's calling him uncle is well deserved.

As for Vermouth, she was both angry and amused at the moment. She was angry about Conan's attitude towards Hayashi Ryoma. Her silly son was really sold out by others and had to help count the money.

Uncle Lin is still your close uncle, but how come your close uncle is also organizing a part-time job for you, right?
As for why it's funny, it's even simpler - do you know how old I am and you want me to call you uncle?

"How about I call you Uncle Lin from now on? Lin Shu~?" Vermouth approached Lin Longma with a long tone without any shyness, but was decisively rejected by Lin Longma.

After all, Vermouth is so familiar with Gin and other senior members of the organization, and Lin Ryoma feels that he can't stand it now if these people call him uncle.

"Forget it, forget it, let's talk about our own affairs."

Lin Longma waved his hands repeatedly to refuse.

At this time, Kaneda and Shiraishi also brought the captured Yuda over.

The captured Yutian was in a very miserable state, with his hands and feet twisted to varying degrees. It was obvious that Lin Longma's order was executed very well, and although Yutian was in a miserable state, he was still alive.

There is no way around it. Who made Yuda insist on taking Hayashi Ryoma with him when he attacked Kogoro Mori?

The fact that they were still alive after falling into the hands of Kaneda and Shiraishi was already a factor that they took into account Lin Longma's previous orders.

After the two criminals were "reunited" on their own initiative, Lin Longma called the police, and the search team took the two criminals back.

Considering that it was late today and the fact that the Maori family was a frequent visitor to the Investigation Division 1, the recording session was postponed to two days later for Maori Kogoro's sake.

After Conan recovered, the Maori family was sent back to the office by the car called by Hayashi Ryoma.

After saying goodbye to Mao Lilan, Vermouth got into the back seat of Hayashi Ryoma's Maybach.

Along the way, both Lin Longma and Vermouth were silent. They each had their own thoughts but could not express them out loud.

Compared to Hayashi Ryoma's calmness, Vermouth's emotions were obviously more complicated. It is undeniable that Hayashi Ryoma saved Conan's life. If it weren't for Hayashi Ryoma, Conan and Maori Kogoro alone would not be able to break the situation.

Without Hayashi Ryoma, at least one of Conan and Maori Kogoro would have died. More likely, neither of them would have survived.

Another thing is Conan’s final attitude towards Hayashi Ryoma. Even if someone tells Conan that Hayashi Ryoma is a member of the organization, I’m afraid Conan won’t believe it easily.

There was only one thing in Vermouth's mind: What a sin!
After sending Vermouth to her designated location, Hayashi Ryoma said goodbye to Vermouth. The two agreed to go to the Metropolitan Police Department together two days later, and Vermouth got out of the car without any hesitation.

"Brother, where are we going?" Jin Tian asked from the co-pilot seat. "Let me think about it," Lin Longma thought for a moment and then said, "Let's go to the scientific research base. I have some questions I want to ask Shirley."

"Okay, big brother."

The Maybach was still parked unimpeded at the main entrance of the scientific research base building. After learning of Lin Longma's arrival, Shirley dismissed her attendants as usual, leaving Shirley alone in the entire laboratory.

Lin Longma walked to Shirley's laboratory with ease and looked around subconsciously: "How have you been recently? It seems that you have been very fulfilled."

"Thanks to you, my life is almost too full." Shirley replied unhappily, mainly because she has been too busy recently.

With her eyes open, she fiddled with the mice; with her eyes closed, she fed them drugs. Recently, Shirley dreamed of a group of mice dancing around APTX-4869.

Unfortunately, the probability of Drug A triggering the "degeneration program" is too small, and so far there has been no second case of an adult mouse turning into a baby mouse in her laboratory.

Shirley thought that the organization would become more and more impatient if she did this, but she didn't expect that the always "impatient" top leaders of the organization had no objection to her extravagant experiment.

Did the top leaders of the organization change their character collectively? This was obviously impossible. The only explanation was that the top leaders of the organization knew much more about Drug A than Shirley guessed.

Due to their sensitive identities, Shirley quickly calmed down her emotions: "You never come to visit me for no reason. What can I do for you this time?"

Speaking of it, ever since the two of them met, it has always been Lin Longma who has been helping Shirley, whether it was helping her to bring back her sister who was deceived, or reminding her to make promises to the organization.

This made the sisters' situation in the organization better.

Shirley is not a very strong-willed person, but having grown up in an organization, she understands that no matter whether in the organization or outside, any relationship with one-sided contribution other than that of one's parents can be called a healthy relationship.

Shirley also hopes that she can help Ryoma Kamiya someday.

One of them is the main researcher of the scientific research base, and the other is the head of the risk investigation team of the headquarters. It is unlikely that they will meet often on weekdays.

It was obvious that Lin Longma was not here for a walk since he showed up so late today.

"How much do you know about Vermouth?"

"Vermouth?" Shirley thought about it and said some rumors such as the Thousand-Faced Witch, but she knew that this was definitely not the answer Lin Longma wanted.

The reason why Lin Longma appeared at the scientific research base was because he had some guesses about the origin of Vermouth.

There has never been a saying that the code name of an organization is passed down from father to son, so the claim that Chris inherited the code name of Vermouth after the death of the previous Vermouth Sharon is not tenable.

But according to Lin Longma's observation, Chris is indeed the original appearance of Vermouth, and there is no possibility of falsification.

So considering Conan's outrageous rejuvenation, Lin Ryoma suddenly had a new guess.

If Chris is the real Vermouth, then is it possible that the dead Sharon is Vermouth's disguised identity?
Lin Longma had witnessed Vermouth's superb disguise skills, so it should be easy for him to do this.

(End of this chapter)