Conan, I'm an actor

Just as they were talking, gunshots rang out from the pharmaceutical factory in the distance, and the two sides quickly exchanged fire.

Because the pharmaceutical factory was located inside the city, the Self-Defense Forces' armored forces could not be used, and they suffered a great loss in the first encounter. The three Self-Defense Force members who rushed forward first were dragged away by their comrades.

The commander in charge of the battle was already cursing. The intelligence said these bandits might have guns, but it never said they had machine guns! How did these idiots do intelligence work?

Afterwards, the Self-Defense Forces tried to launch several more attacks under the cover of smoke grenades, but those guys seemed to have plenty of bullets, and they directly opened fire on the smoke, regardless of whether they saw anyone or not.

The result of several attacks was that the Self-Defense Forces suffered several more corpses and dozens of seriously wounded.

Of course, the thugs at the pharmaceutical factory didn't come away unscathed either. They had already replaced three machine gunners, and the snipers hiding in the shadows were all killed with a single shot, sending them straight to the River of Three Crossings.

Just as the Self-Defense Forces were discussing what to do, an explosion suddenly occurred at the pharmaceutical factory.

"Where did the explosion just happen?" the commander asked his subordinate, looking at the black smoke from the explosion.

“It should be the production line and raw material storage area.” The subordinate immediately pulled out a map. “Explosions at pharmaceutical factories are usually much more powerful than this. They might be deliberately detonating the production line to cover it up…”

Before he could finish speaking, the commander's walkie-talkie crackled to life, spouting a string of gibberish that boiled down to one thing: take the pharmaceutical factory at all costs. If they couldn't take it within half an hour, they were better off going home and eating their own food.

Faced with orders from his superiors, the commander had no choice but to abandon all tactics and order his men to carry out the plan.

Fortunately, the armored vehicles had already been brought over, which reduced the threat of the machine guns considerably. However, when the ordinary bullets were replaced by armor-piercing incendiary rounds, which rendered both armored vehicles unusable, the commander could no longer maintain his composure.

Yusuke Sakata looked at Shinjo beside him and said angrily, "Why did you give them armor-piercing incendiary bombs too?"

"Naturally, it's to make this information seem more credible. If it's too easy to obtain, they'll suspect it's fake." Shinjo put his hands in his pockets. "Wait until tomorrow..."

Just then, there was a knock on the door. As Shinjo wondered who would be looking for him at this hour, he heard Karen say through his earpiece, "Get down!"

Almost immediately, he pushed Sakata Yusuke, who was standing next to him, down. The next second, the wooden door of the room was blasted apart by something, and more than a dozen bullets pierced through the broken wooden door and embedded themselves directly in Shinjo's body, making a metallic clanging sound.

"Boss!" Sakata Yusuke rolled to the side, drew his pistol, and shouted in fear as he looked at Shinjo lying on the ground.

"Is there anyone still alive?" Rum appeared at the doorway and gave the order to the two men beside him, "Go in and take care of that guy."

"I said, it hurts a lot." Shinjo swayed as he got up from the ground. "Why did you start shooting people with bullets right away?"

Rum stared at Shinjo as if he'd seen a ghost. If it weren't for the bullet holes in Shinjo's clothes, he would have thought that his bullets had missed the guy.

“If I remember correctly, this should be the second time.” Shinjo asked Rum in front of him, “By the way, may I ask you, should I call you Wakita Kanenori or Rum now?”

Rum looked at Shinjou in front of him, snatched the shotgun from his subordinate, and fired several more shots at Shinjou. The expected scene of flying blood and gore didn't occur. The steel pellets hit Shinjou as if they were hitting a steel plate, some even flying off.

"You... are you a human or a ghost?!" Rum's expression turned completely panicked.

"It's a werewolf!" a blond-haired man nearby said in a somewhat frightened tone. "Boss, you go first, we'll hold him off."

“It’s not nighttime, this must be a vampire!” Another blond man took off the cross from his chest and handed it to Rum. “The Lord will protect you, sir, you should go now.”

“Mr. Rum is very knowledgeable, he must know about kung fu,” Shin-chan said with a smile. “You can think of this as kung fu, its formal name is Iron Shirt.”

Sakata Yusuke, listening to Shinjo's serious nonsense, felt a bit of a toothache. He knew that there was a layer of iron plate under Shinjo's chest skin, but he didn't expect that the iron plate would be so hard.

Shinjo went straight to the blond man with the rifle, snatched the rifle from his hand, and then used a grappling technique to break both of his wrists while simultaneously sweeping his supporting leg off his body.

Another blond man tried to stand in front of Rum, but he didn't even last a single move before Shinjo knocked him down, unable to get up.

Shinjo walked straight up to Rum and grabbed his neck with one hand. "I suggested to Vermouth that I kill you, but she didn't agree. That old bastard Karasuma Renya thinks you're still useful, but that can't be your excuse to come after me."

"Heh, about you betraying the organization." Rum, though his neck was being gripped, still looked relaxed. "Once I'm dead, it'll naturally be sent to the BOSS, and then..."

"Do you think Karasuma Renya knows about my betrayal of the organization?" Shinjo looked at the elevator behind Rum. "Someone's here. They're on the third floor now. Let them climb the stairs for a bit."

Rum tried to look back at the elevator, and then he felt the restraint on his neck tighten even more.

“Someone told me that villains die from talking too much,” Xincheng said with a smile. “I’ll give you five seconds to say your name, and I’ll have it engraved on your tombstone. Five, four…”

"you……"

"One." Shinjo skipped three and two, directly crushing Rum's throat and then throwing the body aside.

At that moment, the hotel elevators started operating again from the 2nd floor. The elevator doors opened, and Gin and Vodka appeared on this floor.

Chapter 280 Explanation of Cognac

Gin's eyelids twitched as he looked at Rum's corpse on the ground, and Vodka beside him was also startled by the scene before him.

Two hours ago, Rum sent Gin a text message asking him to come over, saying he needed to talk to Cognac and hoped he would be there too. Could the corpse next to Cognac be Rum? He's the organization's second-in-command, how could he just die like that?

"A rare guest indeed. Did you come to my rescue because you knew someone was trying to assassinate me?" Xincheng asked with a smile. "Or are you here to kick me when I'm down?"

“Someone told me you leaked organization secrets, so they sent me over to check it out.” Gin pulled the slide and raised his pistol. “So, what do you have to say?”

He didn't believe the guy in front of him didn't know what Rum looked like. With his intelligence-gathering abilities, he probably knew all about Rum's various fake identities. Rum was indeed going to get rid of this guy, but…

"And then what did you see?" Shinjo said with a forced smile. "You're not saying that I leaked the organization's secrets, are you?"

"Don't……"

"I know, it must be those two, right?" Shinjo abruptly interrupted Gin, then aimed a bullet at the two bodyguards behind him who were still barely alive, ending their groans.

Gin's eyelids twitched wildly. This kid was too arrogant, trying to silence him right in front of him.

"Alright, the guy who was about to leak organization secrets has been taken care of." Shinjo shrugged.

Vodka felt a slight toothache. He recognized one of the two men; he was one of Rum's henchmen, and Cognac had just silenced him right in front of his boss. Now, whatever New Town said was the truth; there was no way to prove it. As he pondered this, he reached into his jacket pocket, pulled out a black pistol, and released the safety.

As soon as Gin's gun goes off, he'll fight this arrogant guy in front of him to the death.

"Can you put the gun down now?" Xincheng asked, frowning. "Don't be stubborn and end up getting what you deserve."

Gin's breath hitched. Had this guy lost his mind? There were two people on their side, and the safety on their pistols was already off, while he was unarmed.

“You don’t have any explosives on you, do you?” Gin said with a gloomy expression. “And there’s nowhere to hide a shotgun on you either.”

“Yes, that’s right.” Xincheng smiled brightly. “But haven’t you forgotten one thing? This is my territory.”

Just then, the elevator behind the two opened again, but this time instead of a car, a machine gun appeared, with a bright yellow chain hanging on one side.

"Stop trying to scare us. There's no gunner for this gun. How are we supposed to fire it?" Vodka scoffed when he saw the machine gun.

Xincheng simply clapped his hands, and the next second, a burst of bullets blew the hat off Vodka's head, the bullets grazing his scalp.

"Wow, I didn't expect you to shave your head, Vodka. The hairdresser Tony here is pretty good. Can you recommend him?" Shinjo looked at Vodka's head under his hat. "Next time, I'll go get my hair cut by him too."

Vodka stared at the hat not far away, then stiffly turned his head toward the elevator. Seeing the blue smoke coming from the muzzle of the gun, he plopped down on the ground.

"Even if he's a driver, this driver is far too timid," Shinjo said with a smile.

Gin merely glanced at Vodka and asked, "Was it you who did that thing at that pharmaceutical factory over there?"

"I did it." As Shinjo finished speaking, a bullet grazed his cheek as he turned to the side.

Gin expressionlessly emptied the magazine of his Beretta, but even after he emptied it, not a single bullet hit the despicable guy opposite him. Seeing this, Vodka's mouth gaped open in an "O" shape. Dodging bullets? Wasn't this something you only see in movies?

“If they want to deal with me, they’ll have to use something like this.” Shinjo bent down, picked up the assault rifle from the ground, and tossed it to Gin. “They’re not very strong, but they at least know to take advantage of their equipment.”

Gin took the assault rifle, quickly inspected it, and then asked, "Why did you lure them into that pharmaceutical factory?"

Even if Rum hadn't called him, he would have come looking for Cognac today.

He had previously instructed Vodka to monitor personnel, so Cognac's actions naturally couldn't be kept secret from him.

He wanted to see what Cognac was up to, which is why he didn't let Vodka stop Cognac's actions. But by the time he realized something was wrong, Cognac had already sent the man inside, and the police and FBI had already surrounded the area.

"If you ask why, it's probably just to give them some bait." Shinjo stared at the assault rifle Gin was holding. "Why don't you give it a try? I've never tried dodging a rifle bullet before."

Gin rolled his eyes. This guy dared to throw him a gun, which meant he wasn't afraid of the threat of firearms at all. If he made another move, this guy might fight back.

"What's this about the bait you mentioned?" Gin asked, staring at Shinjo.

If Shinjo's answer today doesn't satisfy him, he will still try to kill the guy in front of him, even if it means risking his own and Vodka's lives.

"Is it really okay for him to be here?" Shinjo asked with a smile, pointing to the vodka beside him. "If it's okay, then I'll have to tell you. If he gets silenced because of this, that's none of my business."

“There should be another Sakata Yusuke in the room. If we really want to silence them, we’ll kill them both.” Gin chuckled. “You don’t actually think we didn’t make any preparations just because Rum called us over, do you?”

“You should know about the predecessor of APTX-4869, right?” Shinjo stretched. “I don’t know where they got the news from, but they said that the drug had been successfully developed, which is APTX-4869.”

Gin looked at Shinjo, and after a moment he managed to stammer out, "Do you think I'm an idiot? Or do you think those politicians are idiots? There are quite a few rats in the organization. APTX-4869 was rampant in the organization before, and many of them had access to this drug."

"Hmm." Shinjo returned to his room and took out a laptop with more than a dozen videos on it.

"what is this?"

“Meeting minutes, police meeting minutes.” Xincheng pulled out a chair and sat down. “I got them from one of my subordinates. You can take your time looking at them. Oh, and there are also some meeting minutes between politicians, as well as recordings of several phone calls.”

Gin picked up the listening headphones next to him, but after listening to a few recordings, his expression changed.

Chapter 281 The Melee Ends (Part 2)

Just then, another explosion occurred at the pharmaceutical factory across the street. This time, the explosion was very powerful, and even their location could feel the tremors.

Gin looked up in the direction of the pharmaceutical factory, then turned his head to look at the location of the new town.

“There are some chemical raw materials for the drug inside. If you’re going to make a show of it, you have to go all the way.” Xincheng shrugged. “There are also some finished products of APTX-4869 left inside.”

"So, you can tell me how you got the pharmaceutical technical data," Gin asked, staring at Shinjo.

While obtaining the finished drug APTX-4869 is not difficult, the technical data for manufacturing the drug is classified within the organization, and even the researchers in charge of this research may not be able to obtain the complete set of data.

“Sherry and I are barely acquainted.” Shinjo stroked his chin. “By the way, before Sherry left, she asked me to help her and her sister get revenge.”

"You agreed?"

"How could that be? I'm a member of the organization, and I'm absolutely loyal to it."

Gin took a deep breath, calming his impending outburst of anger. "Tell the truth."

“Her offer wasn’t enough, so I didn’t agree to it.” Shinjo sat down directly at the desk.

Gin nodded. Although there was no evidence to prove that Shinjo was telling the truth, it was still easier to believe than the previous reason.

Just then, Xincheng's phone rang, and the caller ID showed it was Lei Siling calling.

"What's wrong? What's the situation at the pharmaceutical factory right now?" Shinjo didn't try to hide anything from Gin and immediately put the call on speakerphone.

"Several raw material storage tanks have exploded, and the fire is quite large now. If they want to get in, they have to go through the fire." A voice with a distorted tone came from the loudspeaker. "However, the situation inside the pharmaceutical factory is also terrible. There is a lot of smoke, and they are preparing to break out."

"Have those desperados evacuate via the designated route, and you will evacuate via the underground passage," Shinjo said directly.

"clear."

"Oh, right, blow up the explosives I planted inside the pharmaceutical factory."