hostage

BC Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Miyano Shiho put his hands in the pockets of his windbreaker, stood at the gate of the park, looked up at the signboard for a moment, then stepped into the lobby, pressed the elevator, entered, and pressed the B2 floor.

Finally came back, saw the brightest scene, and now stepped into the darkness again, or the darkness that will return after all, Miyano Shiho didn't know how to feel, it turned out that it was just like a dream.

As soon as the elevator door opened, it was a closed password door. Miyano Shiho pressed a series of numbers, and the door opened in response. It was the strong smell unique to laboratory medicine, and it belonged to her breath.

A man with long silver hair is standing in the passageway in the center of the laboratory, his tall figure is facing away from Miyano's sight, the familiar long black windbreaker is a huge black shadow, shrouded in the dark laboratory, and the suppressed fear sweeps across Coming here made Miyano a little annoyed.

Hearing the sound, the man turned his head vigilantly, raised the corners of his mouth, and gave a half-smile.

"came back?"

"GIN!"

"What? Did you improve after going out for a while? The tone is quite bad."

"How can you take a drug that is still in the testing stage to human trials without authorization?!"

"Heh...you don't use people to experiment with medicine, what can you test with your little white mice?"

"GIN... this medicine... shouldn't be used to kill people..."

"That's right, but no one can guarantee that even if it succeeds, it won't become a murderous potion, can you? Anyway, everything that needs to be silenced will be wiped out."

"Hmph... that's ridiculous, are they all gone?"

At this moment, suddenly a researcher in a black shirt and a white coat ran straight to Miyano Shiho with a document, then reached out and handed over a piece of paper, saying,

"Dr. Miyano, this is..."

boom--

Suddenly there was a loud noise, Miyano looked back for a moment, and watched the researcher's forehead slowly ooze bright red liquid, only to find a bullet engraved into his forehead, and he gradually fell back to the ground, screaming There was a loud bang.Miyano Shiho was terrified for a moment, then suddenly reacted and turned to look at GIN in confusion and horror, maybe it was not visible, but she felt that she was already trembling, her heart was pounding, blood had gathered in her brain, and her scalp was tingling. numb.

At this moment, GIN was cruel and cruel, holding his gun straight up, and said sternly: "There is only Sherry here, and there is no Dr. Miyano. If you don't remember, the end will be the same!"

All the researchers present put down their work, stood there blankly, with expressionless faces, as if all this had nothing to do with them, or were all frightened and speechless, and then the answers of "yes" in twos and threes echoed in the huge silence, After the burst, there is a deeper silence.

Miyano Shiho looked down at the paper falling beside the researcher's body, squatted down to pick it up, and then stood up and pinched it between his fingers to check it. It seemed to be a list. Before he could check it carefully, he found GIN's eyes drifted diagonally upwards.

Her research laboratory is sunken, in an oval shape, and the top floor is hollowed out and elevated, so that the B1 floor she can see from the bottom is a circle of extended platforms, and the fence is also extremely depressing. .At this time, she followed GIN's line of sight to look up, and she saw Vermouth leaning gracefully against the wall of the platform on the B1 floor, and a man stood obliquely in front of her—a man who is closely related to her these days .

Today's Xu Mo also has a deep black coat that can blend into the darkness. He put his backhand on the jet-black railing as if he had been watching for a long time. The smile from before was no longer on his face, and his deep eyes were looking at himself below. And GIN, seem to be able to surpass GIN's ruthlessness, but still have a lot more handsome and elegant temperament than GIN, but this is why Miyano Shiho has the idea that this is a man more terrifying than GIN .

Realizing that Miyano Shiho had finally noticed him, Xu Mo let go of his indifferent expression, turned around and smiled at Miyano Shiho, then folded his arms, put his hands into the left and right pockets of the black coat, turned around and stepped into the platform, his movements were coherent And handsome and elegant.

Vermouth, however, leaned against the wall and stood motionless, with an equally calm and evil smile. He glanced at Xu Mo who was passing by her, then continued to look at the two people who seemed to be confronting each other below, and snorted meaningfully. , then walked in another direction, opened a secret door, and disappeared.

GIN and Miyano Shiho withdrew their gazes looking upward at the same time, and looked at each other again, the coldness seemed to be able to penetrate this dark and deep space. GIN glanced at the list in Miyano's hand, lowered his voice, and said without emotion,

"The unconfirmed death on the list, I have sent someone to his home to check, there is no sign of life, you go to a second investigation and give me a report."

After finishing speaking, he glanced at the man in a black suit and black hat who had been standing obliquely behind him without saying a word, and said, "Clean up, Vodka!"

Just as he was about to leave, the password door opened at the same time. Xu Moshang was standing outside the door, so when he entered and went out, his eyes met, and he kept his cool, then he passed by without saying anything.

When Xu Mo walked to Miyano Shiho's side, the unattractive strong man named Vodka had already dragged the researcher's body out of the laboratory with his hands, and the heavy password door was closed immediately.

Miyano was not in the mood to talk to Xu Mo, she read the words on the list one by one: Zong Zongming, dead; Oishi Yoshio, dead; Kudo Shinichi, unknown; Toyoda Minoru, dead; Haneda Koji, dead...

The unusual report message in the middle made Miyano Shiho frowned, and she couldn't help but think of the test that made her shudder in the process of her experiment. The mouse still didn't survive in the end, but the reason was also Only she knows.She is a scientist, a top-notch pharmacologist in the organization, but she can't make any obvious achievements, and even has to do research that she doesn't want to do—but what can she do, on the one hand, she Clearly, this is an experiment capable of achieving devastating effects; but on the other hand, this is an unfinished experiment left by her biological parents, and she still wants to use this to know that those things that can only be pieced together in dreams past.

"What? This is, do you need me to continue the research and development project with you?"

Hearing Xu Mo's question, Miyano Shiho lowered his hand holding the list, and looked at Xu Mo in a blink of an eye.

"Is it scary, killing people invisible."

"If I remember correctly, this drug was not intended to kill people."

"Defying the torrent of time, revive the dead. If the resurrected Evoler can still have superpowers, he can even control his mind...Professor Xu, what do you think?"

"To overturn the world."

"Ah……"

"Afraid?"

"What about you? Are you afraid, or...?"

The word "excitement" was stuck in Miyano Shiho's throat, and she couldn't express it out of her mouth. She had thousands of preconceptions, but she didn't want her to mistake Xu Mo in the end. Bloodthirsty is luck.

The luckiest of luck, after Xu Mo was silent for a while, he replied: "Emotions are nothing to me, so there is no fear or excitement, just do what should be done..."

Xu Mo paused for a moment, looking around, the people around them were still busy with their own affairs, as if they didn't hear anything, but in fact, how many GIN's eyeliners, how many Vermoth and organization bosses, or maybe BlackSwan's , Xu Mo couldn't tell the difference for the time being, but just raised his eyes and took a deep look at Miyano. Miyano seemed to understand Xu Mo's unfinished words. Maybe, they were all the same, lingering in this huge black shadow, for the more important thing in their hearts. People and things, she has parents and sisters who she cares about, so why not Xu Mo?

"It's time to go to the house called Kudo Shinichi." Miyano Shiho gave up his deeper speculation about Xu Mo, and instead said it lightly.

Kudo House, No. 21, No. [-] Street, Mihua Town, Tokyo, Japan.

This is a detached house, which seems to have three floors of a European-style building.Opening the door, there is a deathly silence, only the magnificent bookshelves with high storeys can be seen. It is more like a unique library than a home.

Xu Mo seemed to be more interested in this. He walked in slowly and looked straight ahead. Most of the books were collections of detective reasoning, various translations and even various language versions of Sherlock Holmes, and some serialized detective left texts. series and the "Night Baron" series whose author is Yu Kudo for various versions.

"I'll go upstairs and take a look."

Hearing the sound, Xu Mo turned his head and saw Miyano Shiho with his hands in the pockets of his white coat, calmly watching the other organization staff next to him touch the handrail of the stairs, and then stretched out his fingers to give Miyano a look.In fact, the gray layer of the handrail of the stairs is already visible to the naked eye. Of course, Xu Mo knows that no one lives here, and even guesses that no one has ever been there. Of course, if he is Kudo Shinichi, he is lucky to still be alive in this world , and will never come back.

But in the final analysis, as for the master himself, whether he is missing or dead, he is not sure. Miyano Shiho seems to have reservations about her medicine in the testing stage, but it doesn't matter to him, and he doesn't care about it. He didn't really want to know too much, but he followed Miyano Shiho's footsteps up the stairs, and when he reached the door of a bedroom, he couldn't help but froze.

The door was open, and Miyano was already inside, looking around, a little dazed.

This bedroom is a suite, but the furnishings that catch the eye, the large workbench by the window, the single sofa facing the side, and all the decorations on the fireplace against the wall, all have a strong British atmosphere. style, even like...

"221 Baker Street..."

Miyano Shiho seemed to have the same feeling, and made a definition before Xu Mo, Xu Mo smiled lightly: "It seems that the owner here is a Sherlock Holmes fan, or a serious one."

"Ah."

Miyano Shiho doesn't seem to care much about such details. On the contrary, Xu Mo is more interested in it. Perhaps it is due to the relationship between living and studying in the UK for a long time. Seeing this scene is somewhat nostalgic, or perhaps, there is always a very weird feeling I have a hunch that things may be beyond imagination again.

Sure enough, when he came back to his senses, he saw that Miyano Shiho, who was squatting beside the bed, was stunned. He walked over quietly and found that Miyano had opened the bottom drawer of the closet near the bed, but he didn't seem to notice Xu Mo's movement.

Xu Mo stretched out his hand and patted Miyano's shoulder. Miyano came back to his senses and tried to stand up with the wardrobe, but found that his legs were a little weak. Fortunately, Xu Mo gave her a hand, and he heard his low voice asking:

"What did you find?" Xu Mo asked, glancing at Miyano's opened drawer, curious, "An empty drawer, what's the problem?"

"I have seen the video recordings taken by the assistant. Here, there should be some elementary school uniforms and some children's clothes..."

"What do you mean?"

"That medicine..."

"Silver Bullet?" It seems that he has read the information. Both the Black Organization and BS named this project that way. If he remembered correctly, it was the name given by Miyano Shiho's parents, Miyano Koji and Miyano Elena.

"No, I call it: APTX-4869."

"what?"

"Apoptosisandtoxin induces programmed cell death, but at the same time strengthens the activity of telomerase, thereby increasing the ability of cell proliferation. The drug in the test phase generally causes the death of the user, but there is a special case, in the cell self-destruction program Under the accidental action of the brain, all the cells of bones, muscles, internal organs, and hair except the nervous system have degenerated to the childhood stage..."

"you sure?"

"Not very sure, only once, my little white mouse..."

"... Remove all illusions, and the remaining explanation, no matter how impossible, is the truth."

Miyano looked back at Xu Mo in shock. There were some unbelievable and some noncommittal. Next, should he report to the organization to inspire the organization, or make a conclusion based on selfishness?She stared at Xu Mo's deep and beautiful eyes, trying to find some answers that could support her, but found nothing. Xu Mo just smiled, turned around and walked out the door, but left a word between the two of them. in the air:

"Do what you want to do."

GIN reappeared in Miyano Shiho's laboratory again, sat arrogantly on Miyano's office chair, lit a cigarette, held Miyano Shiho's last report, and asked with a snort,

"Confirmed death?!"

"Yes."

"Live to see people, die to see corpses."

"Based on my inference, it is impossible for him to live. As for why the body is not seen, I'm afraid you have to ask GIN yourself, why are you so careless?"

"Oh...you..."

"I trust Sherry's judgment." An elegant female voice came from not far away, and then heard the sound of high heels hitting the ground, who else but Vermouth said, "GIN, do your thing, Kudo Shinichi's business has arrived So far, you probably don’t want the boss to know about taking the test item out without permission.”

"Hmph...then stop here and confirm your death." GIN seemed to have no desire to delve into it any further, so he stood up and walked towards the door, then looked back at Vermouth, "Where's your new follower, oh , I mean that BlackSwan man?"

"You have no right to ask about Ares, oh yes, and you can no longer ask about any experiments involving Sherry."

"cut."

The implication is that from then on, Sherry and his GIN are no longer related. Although GIN is unwilling, but more disdainful, it doesn't matter, as long as that woman is still under his control, Sherry can't do anything, huh...

At this time, Ares is Xu Mo sitting on the sofa in the rented apartment, or in the apartment designated by BS. There are two monitors on the workbench diagonally opposite, and one shows the live situation of Miyano Shiho's laboratory. However, he He didn't seem to care about Miyano Shiho's every move, but was engrossed in the TV screen directly in front of his eyes, as if watching a black and white movie with relish, after a while, he seemed to think of something, and couldn't help but with a smile.

Ding--

It was the notification tone of WeChat, Xu Mo picked up the phone and looked, it was Tao Youran's.He glanced at the TV again, and his smile deepened. Is there a word in this world called: heart-to-heart.

After clicking on it, Xu Mo gradually restrained his smile, what is this little girl playing with? !

"Who are you? Why can't I remember?"

"What? What's wrong with you?"

"You sound familiar to me, but I can't remember them."

At this time, Xu Mo wanted to make a video call immediately, but after thinking about it, he seemed to feel that something was wrong, so he continued to probe:

"Don't be afraid, maybe it's only temporary. What do you remember?"

"I vaguely remember childhood memories... I had a big brother..."

"?"

"Pfft, I can't pretend anymore...Sorry, I'm playing amnesia with my roommate."

"Yeah. You, it's fine, I'm worried."

Xu Moshu let out a sigh of relief, remembering that she didn't come to the airport to see him off that day, so she thought that she didn't want to have any more contact with him from now on, but she still thought of herself while playing games, did that prove that she was an important person in Tao Youran's mind? people? !What happened to me?Why do you care so much.

"Worry?"

"I, I didn't expect me to be worried that you would really forget me."

"Uh, Xu Mo, um, if one day I really lose my memory, I think, I forgot my name and bank card password, and I probably won't forget you either."

I don't know what it feels like, Xu Mo's heart seemed to miss a beat, and he couldn't help covering the position of his heart with his palm. This unexpected mischievous prank seemed to be caused by a quilt The thread drawn by people passes through and stirs a certain nerve in him, and awakens the so-called emotion buried in the deepest part of his heart, which seems to have never existed.

He raised his eyes and looked at the monitor screen. On the screen, Miyano Shiho was concentrating on pouring and merging the reagents again and again in front of the experimental bench, recording every change. His expression was so indifferent and gloomy. Xu Mo came to his senses and thought, if All of this is also a prank belonging to the dark world, that's all.

However, there was no way out for a long time. He pondered for a moment, then picked up the phone again, and replied lightly but full of hope:

"it is good."

——TBC——