Phantom Thief of Heart!but conan

Chapter 728: Tang Ze, an experienced dramatist

"beep--"

Belmode hung up the call that was always busy, put down the telescope in his hand, and slowly exhaled.

As soon as Kumail entered the mansion, the phone could no longer be dialed. Sure enough, this house seemed ordinary, but in fact it had slowly become his personal safe house during this period of time, and it was completely protected.

After several days of verification by herself, she can now basically confirm that the address given in Ireland is true and valid.

Whether it was Shirley or Kudo Shinichi, they were the focus of attention from all parties in the previous confrontation. Kumail's choice of a residential area near Kudo's house was an extremely risky decision.

However, high risks always bring high returns. Everyone's attention was focused on the two guys who turned into children. Kumail's private actions were successfully hidden in this way.

If he hadn't always been operating on Bourbon's territory and unable to take the initiative, I'm afraid no one would have discovered this secret to this day.

Belmode squinted his eyes and stared for a long time at the house that was tightly wrapped in the greenery of the surrounding residences. He took out the floor plan in the box through his gloves and compared it with the building in front of him to describe it.

If she is not sure of finding the secret in one go, breaking in there will definitely cause a violent backlash from Kumail, and she must be fully prepared.

Recalling the video source files that Calvados sent over as if he were taking credit, Belmod stared at the data in his hands and calculated secretly.

The amount of water and electricity used far exceeds that of a normal building. Kumail has to live in a cafe under a false identity on weekdays. It is theoretically impossible to live here. How should such a large amount of energy that can support a small team be used? Where is it?

In particular, this huge power consumption is comparable to the servers of many technology companies...

Medical equipment? Life support device?
After drawing the picture, she stopped her still overactive mind from wandering and put the heavy secret in her hand back into the box.

There is no point in thinking about any of this now. Seeing is believing, she still should go and see for herself.

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"Is it okay to do it this way?" Shimabukuro Kimie carefully applied paint, making the material at hand the same as the skin color around Karasawa. After looking around, he raised his head and asked Karasawa for his opinion.

Tangze raised his hand, pressed the fake scar made of white glue and composite materials, and nodded with satisfaction.

Just like the art of disguise exists in this world, which can be so fake that it makes plastic surgery pale in comparison, special effects makeup in this world has also been developed like black technology.

And Shimabukuro Kimie, as a makeup artist who participated in a friend's movie creation during college, was able to create the image of a mermaid with amazing special effects makeup, and won relevant awards in one fell swoop. After joining the Phantom Thieves, there were also other makeup artists like Karasawa and Kidd. Two disguise masters who are proficient in the same craft consult and learn from each other, and their skills can be said to have made further progress.

On the American island, Shimabukuro Kimie was able to successfully pretend to be a centenarian in front of the detectives by relying on special effects makeup. Now it is even easier for her to fake an image that does not exist.

Tang Ze stroked the scar, which looked like real skin no matter how he touched it. He was amazed by the subtle touch of the healed skin and the tissue structure that had grown back after the structure had been destroyed.

This skill is really amazing. If my cousin needs to fake his death in the future, he can just ask Shimabukuro Kime to fake the death scene for him.

If it weren't for the fact that people's hearts always jump a few times when they are alive, he thinks that if Gin comes to visit Akai Shuichi's body, the secret may not be revealed...

If you can fool Karasawa, an undercover agent who has dealt with violence for a long time, you can definitely fool Gin, who is blind and good at brainstorming.

With such praise in his heart, Tangze still looked at the marks on his body with the most critical eyes and pointed at a few locations: "Here, as well as the ones on the side of the face, the color needs to be adjusted again. The scars in these locations are very... It’s hard to get it back to a similar skin tone, so you need to add a little more red.”

Shimabukuro Kime followed the good example, picked up the plate again, put a little color powder on it: "Okay, do you have any other requirements?"

"Here, use glue to pinch the skin together a little. Yes, it is slightly wrinkled, more like a new injury. Although it has passed, well, a few months have passed, but people's bodies are different, In my experience, this is more believable.”

Zhu Fu Jingguang, who was looking down at his cell phone with difficulty in speaking, heard this and looked keenly at Tang Ze who was sitting in front of the makeup mirror: "What do you mean, based on your experience, you have suffered serious injuries?"

His phone pauses at a certain frame of the video.

On the screen, a hand wearing black gloves is holding a slender butterfly knife. The sharp blade is cutting open the human body below, and the distinct layers of flesh and blood are cut open layer by layer by the sharp tip of the knife.

Before he paused the playback, the background sound of the video was filled with a suppressed nasal sound of extreme pain. Coupled with the blood gushing out on the screen, it was obvious that the person suffering from sharp weapon trauma was still a living person.

No matter how he looked at it or studied it back and forth, this video didn't seem to be fake.

Hearing Teru Hoshikawa explain that the cooperation between Karasawa and Rei began after this disguise, facing this flawless image and imagining Rei Furuya's feelings at that time, he couldn't help but sympathize with Kazuo.

Although the guys in the organization are cruel in their methods, there are not many perverts who like to play sadistic and killing games. Zero, who was unprepared, suddenly saw a young child he had known for many days being subjected to such horrific cruelty. Zero's mood when he returned to the cafe must have been extremely depressed, and only then did he accept the situation with a huge backlash after the facts were reversed. Karasawa's explanation.

It's really not easy to become a regular partner with such Karasawa, Zero.

"Well, not now. I just know better about the prognosis of large-scale trauma." Tangze thought for a while, chose a more medical description, and answered vaguely, "I'll fix the color for a while, and try to make this outfit look as good as possible." It should be waterproof, and with Noah helping to adjust the light in the room, I am sure that even if Belmode touches it directly, there will be no flaws. "

In order to create the illusion that "Aki Karasawa did not die after Kumail's massacre," Karasawa, who has always been rigorous in his work, is checking the video frame by frame to confirm the location of the trauma, and then asking Shimabukuro Kimie to help create corresponding traces.

If it were someone else doing this, it would be very difficult to make everything watertight, but if Tang Ze is allowed to do it...

In his previous life, he was a guy who survived a torture that was more terrifying and longer than the video he faked. He was a ghost crawling back from hell in the true sense.

After he received treatment and completely separated from normal social life and lived alone at home, he even lost the ability to take care of himself at that time. He could only observe the wounds on his body in boredom every day, watching how they healed little by little, turning into ugly and twisted look like.

It's hard to say if he should be asked to play something else, but "Aki Karasawa who survived Kumail"?
Tang Ze can guarantee that he is definitely an experienced person.

"It has to be like this..." Xingchuan Hui stared at the fake scars on Tang Ze's face for a few seconds, but couldn't help but look away.

He was the only living audience member who accompanied Tang Ze to complete the performance. Another audience member was cut into pieces by Tang Ze and turned into black mud soon after.

As long as he imagined for a moment, if Tang Ze really encountered such a terrible thing and had to survive in extreme pain, he couldn't help but tremble in his heart.

Inexplicably, from Tang Ze's calm and even teasing expression, he could see a vague feeling that made him feel something bad.

——Tangze seems to be really familiar with this situation.

What has this guy been through...

"Don't worry, you don't need to spend too much effort." Tang Ze waved his hand and said boldly, "You only need to answer the call from Belmode. No matter what reason she finds to call you away, use the trick to leave the villa. Just leave the rest to me." Belmode has been testing Kumel's cell phone signal since yesterday. According to Karasawa's estimation, as long as "Akechi Goro" leaves their stronghold today, she will find a way to touch it. coming.

The Phantom Thieves' stronghold with Noah's Ark is not as simple as it seems. Noah will let Belmod see what she wants to see.

A carefully disguised deception, a play with only one audience, this was Karasawa's special preparation for Belmode from the beginning.

She is his assistant, a pitiful pawn stepping on the boundary between light and darkness, but she is also the blood of the organization and the executioner who has caused too many tragedies.

That is... Karasawa's enemy.

"Come on, the show is about to begin."

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"Since yesterday, something has been wrong with you."

Pressing down the helmet on his head, Belmod heard the voice on the phone becoming softer and softer, and his already cautious movements couldn't help but become more cautious.

She had been communicating with Kumail for a long time and understood that when this guy spoke like this, if he was not trying to create a false face to deceive the public, it meant that he was in a bad mood.

Kumail, who is in a bad mood, can be quite irrational at times, so you need to be careful when dealing with such situations.

"You called me four times in two days. You seemed very anxious, but you refused to tell me what you were doing. What exactly happened? I thought the basis of cooperation was a certain degree of candor on both sides."

Sure enough, although the reasons she gave were considered sufficient, frequent tests would still arouse Kumail's wariness. Just superficial organizational movements that were innocuous could not really mobilize Kumail.

"It's indeed an emergency. I'm back in Japan, Kumail." Belmode thought for a while and chose to throw out a little signal.

"Oh? Are you back now? What you said last time was so serious, I thought you were going to be taken back to the laboratory and locked up for a while."

His tone became slightly more relaxed, but he didn't completely let down his guard yet.

"Actually, I came back a little reluctantly. The effects of the drugs on my body have not worn off, and I feel terrible now."

"Then why not just wait a little longer? If you stay calm for a while, the boss might be more tolerant."

"I also want to do this, but time waits for no one." Belmod chose to continue to increase the pressure, "You know Ireland, right? The guy you bumped into last time. He has a police-related mission that may endanger the children. safety.”

The children mentioned by Belmode could only refer to Kudo Shinichi and Maori Ran.

They both knew this, so Kumail's tone turned completely cold: "You actually let him get involved in those things?"

"I contacted you precisely because I didn't want to let it go. The two of them are in danger now. Kumail, I don't have the ability to act yet. I can only leave it to you."

Kumail cursed twice on the other end of the phone, and Belmode gave a few addresses in a timely manner and climbed down from the telephone pole.

As she put on the maintenance worker's overalls and slowly walked down the maintenance ladder, the young detective holding the suitcase tensed his face and walked quickly past the maintenance vehicle, passing by Belmode who was walking down the stairs.

The plan was going smoothly. Belmode, who was undoubtedly there for him, picked up the maintenance box as if heading to the next electrical box. He turned slightly and walked into the alley on the other side.

Wait a little longer and keep Kumail away.

The address she gave was not a complete smoke bomb. Ireland was conducting preliminary investigation work for the next mission, and the address she gave was the main place of recent activities in Ireland.

Just as major intelligence agencies have undercover agents in their organizations, organizations also have spies in the police circles of various countries.

In the past year, Tokyo's spy loss rate has suddenly increased, reaching an abnormally high level. Recently, even some informants within the police have been eliminated, so Ireland started a new job with the task of investigating the situation.

As a result, his work had not been carried out for long. The initial breakthrough point, Shigehiko Tonko, became Pisco's target, and then Pisco was gone. His investigation was still in progress, and the loss rate rose instead of falling, which made this guy He was no longer in the mood to stare at Kumail.

I hope this guy from Ireland is brave enough to hold off for as long as possible - it doesn't matter if he can't hold on, just don't let him discover the clues too early.

With this thought in mind, and after waiting for half an hour to confirm that his multiple attempts at the back door did not arouse any alarm, Belmod finally climbed over the low wall made of hedges and railings, and gently fell into the backyard.

She unfolded the suitcase in her hand, and the emp equipment she had prepared in advance took effect. She approached the underground garage of the villa as quickly as possible and turned on another layer of protective equipment.

This was a device she brought to Tokyo from the experimental facility. She couldn't imagine what kind of defense measures Kumail would prepare for her safe house, so she could only prepare as much as possible.

She glanced at the camera and infrared tripwire installed at the entrance, took out the prepared fingerprint disguise, and opened the entrance below.

The moment she opened the door, the imperceptible fluctuations dispersed gently.

Noah, who was sitting in front of the screen, opened his hands and data flowed in his eyes.

Following his movements, the figure of Belmod, dressed as a maintenance worker, was displayed on the huge screen in front of him in a multi-camera format.

"Wow." Zhufu Jingguang, who came to Noah's palace for the first time and experienced the panoramic screen, couldn't help but admire, "Is this what Karasawa said, you don't need to use the special case of navigation in another world?"

"Yes." Noah in robot form tilted his head, "I can freely travel between the real network and the cognitive world without the need for navigation in other worlds... Naturally, I can also bring other people in."

Opening a door is equivalent to opening the entrance to another world, and stepping into a trap without any defense...

Zhu Fujing nodded clearly.

No wonder Karasawa would say that with Noah here, it doesn't matter that everyone in the world knows that this house is the stronghold of the Phantom Thieves. No matter how many people come, they are just delivering food.

Noah raised his head and stared at a certain location on the giant screen.

As he watched, a new window opened and expanded, showing a scene from another direction.

The boy in the wheelchair lowered his head, his brown hair covering his eyes, and was quietly waiting for his prey to fall into the net.

(End of this chapter)