hostage

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

Perhaps, an answer is not enough, and it cannot be regarded as a promise, but whether it is true or false, Xu Mo hesitated, and it took a long time to say "yes", a solemn word, and the heavy breath that Xu Mo uttered, Xu Mo was already full. With cold sweat on his forehead, he walked to the bathroom, propped himself on the edge of the sink, and looked at himself in the mirror. The hot water bubbling from the faucet evaporated into mist, blurring the mirror and blurring his eyes.

He raised his hand to cover the place where his heart was, the powerful beating seemed to shake every thought in his mind, and the pain that faintly spread to the nerves invaded and diffused little by little. How embarrassing.

There was a crisp doorbell ringing next to his ears, Xu Moqiang supported himself against the wall and moved to the door, opened the door, and saw Miyano Shiho standing outside the door with a cold face.

"Come in and sit."

Xu Mo weakly invited Miyano Zhibao in, and Miyano consciously closed the door for him. He glanced at Xu Mo who was leaning against the wall and looked very uncomfortable, then turned his back to him and said,

"Looks like I came just in time."

After finishing speaking, he took a glass bottle full of small white pills from his bag, turned around and handed it over: "Can you still come by yourself?"

Xu Mo took a deep breath to calm himself, and took the medicine bottle: "Thank you."

"When needed, three tablets at a time."

While talking, Miyano Shiho walked towards the living room as if familiar, and poured a glass of water for Xu Mo.Xu Mokong swallowed the pill, calmed down for a moment, walked up to Miyano, took the water glass, and took a few sips.

And Miyano looked around, and his eyes stayed on the monitor screen next to the TV for a while, but he was silent, not surprised or questioned, and suddenly saw the screen on the monitor screen went dark, he looked back at the man who had returned to normal breathing rate Xu Mo sat on the sofa without saying a word, his posture was natural and elegant but as indifferent as ever.

"I've seen your physical report." Miyano seemed to ignore Xu Mo's slight embarrassment, but explained why he came, "However, it seems that the onset is faster than I thought, Tao Leisurely is different to you, isn't it?"

"I do not know."

"Some things are too extravagant. You are different from me, or the organization is different from your BS. What you can have is less than me."

"I understand, you can't empathize."

"It's cruel, but it's not a bad thing for you or me. Remember what I said, in this dark world, once there is a bond..."

"It is undoubtedly putting TA in danger."

"Ares, don't let people control you so easily, if one day you don't need it..." Miyano looked at the medicine bottle still in Xu Mo's palm, and continued, "Please also pretend that you have it." rely on..."

What Miyano Shiho hadn't finished, Xu Mo understood that in such darkness, no matter if it's an enemy or a friend, whether it's attachment or dormancy, he can't easily expose the bottom line to others. man's greatest protection.

"Thank you."

"Since it is a partner fighting side by side, I also hope to be a healthy and strong partner."

Speaking of which, Miyano got up and walked towards the gate. When passing by, he still turned his head to look at the monitor. Xu Mo followed her eyes, coughed, and said softly,

"Sorry, I didn't mean to spy on you."

"It's okay... each other, you can continue."

Xu Mo understood the implication, that is, a cooperation that had to be avoided, but how could organizations that did not trust each other monitor and restrict each other.

On the other side, Tao Youran was sitting in front of Anna's desk at the moment, resting her head on her left hand, with a sad and wandering look on her face, while her right hand was pretending to be holding a pen and writing and drawing on the notebook.

Anna took a deep look at her, sighed, walked around behind her, and glanced at the contents of her notebook. It turned out to be a portrait sketch, and the person in the painting was very familiar. Anna recognized it at a glance. Professor Xu's appearance instantly felt angry and funny. She patted Tao Youran's head from behind, and asked seriously,

"what are you doing?"

Tao Youran seemed to be taken aback, and quickly sat upright, covering the drawing on the notebook with one hand, pretending to look at Anna blankly, and replied angrily: "I...I'm thinking about the practical homework plan for this shooting... That's all..."

"Well, so, your plan is Professor Xu?"

"..."

"Do you need an explanation?" Anna covered Tao Youran's hand that was stretched out on the book, gently squeezed it away, and asked with a sigh, "Silly girl, do you understand what kind of feelings you have for him?"

"...Actually, I didn't want to understand. I just thought he was very good. Oh, Sister Anna, I don't have the heart to think about it now. Dad, he hasn't..."

Before she finished speaking, Anna patted her hand, signaling her not to continue talking, then moved a step, opened the drawer on the side of the desk, took out an envelope and handed it to Tao Youran, saying,

"A plane ticket to Japan."

Tao Youran took it hesitantly, and looked at Anna puzzled, then heard Anna explain,

"This time we happen to have a travel program to be produced, I can't leave, you go, and then I will introduce the photographer and other colleagues who will go with you."

"This... I have never been formally involved in program production..."

"That's why you need to practice it. Without the concept of process, how do you write a plan? It also happens to coincide with the holiday, so go try it."

"Uh……"

"This is business. No matter when Mr. Tao comes back, you will inherit Nanshan Film and Television. You..." Anna pointedly looked at Tao Youran's notebook and raised her eyes.

"I understand, I understand, I will do the serious thing first."

Tao Youran closed the notebook again in a panic, and pulled Anna's arm awkwardly and coquettishly.

"Hey...you have to grow up quickly..."

A few days later, Tao Youran and a group of staff from his father's company arrived in Japan safely.

He checked into the hotel near noon, and after packing everything up, he sent a message to Xu Mo with a box of instant noodles.She didn't know where Xu Mo was, and of course she didn't really want to disturb him abruptly, so she waited for a long, long time with anticipation and anxiety, but there was no reply.

At this time, Xu Mo was in a remote movie theater. Xu Mo was not watching the film very carefully, but saw a man in the film being hit hard by a black car quickly, and said with difficulty, "Anyway... This is the fate of a traitor." When he raised his eyes, he turned his gaze to Miyano Shiho who was obliquely facing him in the first two rows.

In the dim movie theater, he couldn't read any information from her blurred back, but he understood the reason why Miyano watched this movie.Born in the shadows, but in the end still hesitated before the deeper darkness, and even the sudden withdrawal became stronger and stronger, and the thoughts gradually occupied the mind, however, it was not the time yet.

After the movie came to an end, the warm-toned lights came on, and Miyano Shiho got up, but still turned his eyes precisely to where Xu Mo was sitting.At this moment, Xu Mo had no intention of leaving the venue quickly, or even did not mean to avoid Miyano Shiho, but was still sitting peacefully in his seat, looking at Miyano Shiho in his spare time, and smiled gently and apologetically.

After Miyano's eyes confirmed, he slowly stood up and moved towards the outermost direction until he came in front of Miyano Shiho.Miyano did not stop, but walked side by side with him, and walked out of the screening hall.

"Does it mean that you need to report all the videos I watched?"

"No, this is just my personal curiosity, sorry."

"Ah……"

"We still have a long way to go."

Miyano Shiho couldn't help but glanced at Xu Mo, the man beside him withdrew all his expressions, those purple eyes were blurred and deep, but it was brewing with an obscure feeling, she could probably guess what was going on in the man's heart However, it is too difficult, she does not have enough ability, or the courage to accompany him, to reverse and subvert, and the current him is not enough.

After walking out of the movie theater, they turned on their mobile phones respectively, and their expressions changed in response to the news they received.

Xu Mo received two, one of course was from Tao Youran telling him that he was in Japan, and the other was from Anna:

"Professor Xu, it's your first time participating in a program production in Japan, I hope you can take care of me."

Xu Mo's gaze sank, thinking of that girl who was a bit reckless but still not lost in general, she couldn't help but smile, just for a moment, realizing that Miyano Shiho was still by her side, You put back your smile, and looked at Miyano Shiho who was reading the text message, but was a little dignified.

Miyano received the news from none other than her sister Miyano Akemi, who just said that she wanted to meet her, but Miyano Shiho felt very uneasy.After returning to Japan, she was taken by Vermouth to another secret base, and met Mingmei by chance, but it was too hasty, and they couldn't have a good chat after all, and they were interrupted by their respective affairs. .

But this time, Mingmei suddenly took the initiative to invite a meeting, which made Miyano feel that it was an unusual meeting, and his heart beat a little faster. Bad premonitions came one after another, as if it meant...

"Edogawa Conan?"

Miyano Shiho and Miyano Akemi met in an empty cafe, and sat facing each other in a booth in a corner. Suddenly, Shiho heard Akemi mention a name that was unfamiliar and strange to her.

"Well, it's the boy wearing glasses that I mentioned to you last time. Didn't you say that you were going to someone's house in Mihua Town for someone?"

"Shinichi Kudo."

"That's right, he lives in a detective agency nearby. I always thought he was different. Although he was a child, he was surprisingly calm. He seemed very mature."

Hearing this, Miyano Shiho's heart sank. How could she forget that when she was testing the medicinal properties of APTX-4869, the experimental white rats turned into pups? You have made your own coffin, Conan Edogawa?

As long as she knew it, she glanced at her elder sister, her elder sister's expression seemed to be telling something curious and fun, and she didn't seem to make any associations, so that's fine, some things, some will bring danger and trouble to her elder sister She can't know about it, and even, there is no need to continue such a topic.

Moreover, more importantly, she wanted to know about Miyano Akemi's recent situation, as well as about Miyano Akemi and Mr. Tao, but how should she ask?Quietly lowering her eyebrows and looking around, there was no one else in the cafe except the two of them, but she also knew that if she asked directly, Miyano Akemi would not tell her.

She wanted to protect Mingmei selfishly, and for the same reason, so did Mingmei.So in the end, Miyano Shiho just interrupted Akemi's topic anxiously and asked,

"Sister, don't talk about it. How are you?" Miyano Shiho pondered for a moment, then changed his voice, and said softly, "I heard that you are not doing well recently?"

Akemi Miyano obviously didn't expect Shiho to ask such a question, she was stunned for a moment, but as if she had made up her mind, she smiled brightly and said,

"You don't have to worry, everything is going well. It's you, I'm worried about you, so don't make those medicines anymore." Miyano Akemi said words to appease Shiho, picked up the bill and stood up, passing Miyano Beside Zhibao, he immediately looked back at Zhibao, his movements were done in one go, but his tone was helpless and pretending to be relaxed, "The only thing that matters is getting a boyfriend quickly. My sister has nothing to worry about."

Miyano Shiho was in a daze, watching Miyano Akemi's slender back walking towards the counter, and then towards the door, just passing by a man with an elegant and gentle temperament. The man was standing inside the cafe door, looking back at the black The eyes of the woman with flying long hair sank slightly, and then quickly turned back to look at Miyano Shiho, who was still sitting in the deck and hadn't recovered.

Zhibao raised his eyes to meet Xu Mo's, didn't move, but watched Xu Mo approaching, her fingers that were slightly resting on the edge of the table stretched upwards, and her palms were on the table, trying to use her strength to stand up, but Being held down by Xu Mo, he put one hand on the back of Miyano Shiho's hand resting on the table, and the other on her trembling shoulder, bent slightly, and asked softly,

"Are you OK?"

"fine."

Miyano Shiho calmed down, and glanced at Xu Mo: "Why are you here?"

As soon as he asked, Miyano suddenly thought that maybe he was being followed by this person again.However, Xu Mo couldn't help but smiled and said to Miyano Miyano's suddenly sad and clear eyes,

"This time I'm not following you, but just passing by, um..." As he spoke, he looked up at the floor-to-ceiling windows next to the booth, his eyes drifted across the road, and found that there were only passers-by coming and going, so he Then he said, "I saw you on the other side as if you were with your sister, so I thought of coming over to say hello."

"You know she's my sister?"

"You are not the only ones who can investigate me."

"makes sense."

"Let's go, do you need me to take you back?"

"No need." Xu Mo let go of his clasped hands, Miyano Shiho stood up and walked outside together with him, "I didn't ask directly."

"what?"

"The matter between my sister and Mr. Tao."

"Um……"

"Ares!"

"Ok?"

Xu Mo stopped involuntarily, looked at Miyano Shiho, and heard her say,

"Actually, you know everything about it, right?"

"I said, do what you want, but it doesn't include knowing what you want to know, even if you guess something, but don't confirm it, it doesn't do you any good, and it doesn't do Minmei, do you understand, Sherry?"

"Heh... I can go back by myself." Then he walked straight in front of Xu Mo, leaving Xu Mo with an indifferent back.

Xu Mo was hurting himself secretly. Did he never think that all these things would come to this point? Everything has changed. It was just a cooperation with ulterior motives in the BS project, but he didn't know that today, almost everyone They are all trapped in the endless darkness.

He turned his head again and looked at the opposite side through the floor-to-ceiling windows. There were still only the bustling passers-by, and he sighed deeply, hoping that the little girl would not be caught in it.

However, what Xu Mo didn't know was that Tao Youran was tossing and turning on the hotel bed at the moment.In fact, she and Xu Mo made an appointment to meet near that cafe today.What he didn't expect was that when they passed by the cafe, Tao Youran saw Miyano Shiho drinking coffee with a woman, and that woman was the one Tao Youran had heard about and saw on HBS TV.

Leisurely couldn't help but want to go over and ask, but was held back by Xu Mo, Xu Mo asked her to go back first, she was unwilling at first, but Xu Mo said,

"If she really has something to do with your father's disappearance, then if you go there now, there is no guarantee that you are not in danger. Leave it to me to deal with it. I don't want you to be in danger."

Hearing this, Tao Youran raised her eyes and stared at Xu Mo for a while. She knew that Xu Mo cared about her, and also knew that he said these words sincerely. Seeing him raising his hand and rubbing her head, Tao Youran seemed to be As if being appeased, he couldn't help but nodded, so Xu Mo hailed a taxi, watched Tao Youran get into the car, and walked to the cafe.

It's just that the driver seemed to be delayed by other things, apologized to Tao Youran, and then stopped on the side of the road for a while, but Tao Youran witnessed Xu Mo's subtle movements when he arrived at Miyano Shiho's side in the car, In Tao Youran's eyes, what Xu Mo showed was his meticulous concern for Miyano Shiho, and such soothing gestures seemed to be better than Xu Mo's treatment of her.

She didn't know what was going on, she just felt depressed, but she couldn't explain where it came from.She thought about it wildly, and knew that compared to herself, a talented person like Dr. Miyano is more qualified to stand side by side with Xu Mo, but she didn't want to do anything at first, but she always thought of Xu Mo inadvertently , that's all.

But what is the relationship between Dr. Miyano and the person who was at the scene of his father's disappearance?Or, Dr. Miyano himself has something to do with Dad's disappearance?She didn't dare to think at all, what about Xu Mo?Thinking of Xu Mo's vague attitude and not wanting to interfere by herself, she felt very uncomfortable, but she made up her mind again. I know what kind of mood is driving it, it's just like this for no reason and unconditional——

Deep in the maze, believe it.

——TBC——