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"Art is an explosion, hahaha."
Inside an explosion laboratory, Deidara, dressed in a lab coat, excitedly observed the power of the missile.
"I see, Senior Scorpion. The boss still prefers explosive things, and he still approves of me more."
"Humph."
Sasori simply turned his head away without arguing with Deidara.
[Zhuge Cong opened a high-tech portable refrigerator. The moment he opened it, a blast of cold air rushed out, calming his previously agitated heart.]
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Bottles of what appeared to be expensive wines were also on display.
"For every transaction exceeding 500 million yuan, I'll give you one of these, as a tribute to peace." Zhuge Cong said, taking a sip of wine.
[“Hey, Cong.” Zhuge Cong sensed someone making a phone call, pulled out his phone, and saw Zhuge Stan, the current second-in-command of the Zhuge Group, in the video. Zhuge Stan was shirtless.]
"Stan, why are you up? It's still midnight where you are, according to the time difference," Zhuge Cong said, somewhat surprised.
"I can't sleep if I don't know the situation. How did the presentation go?"
"has a problem."
L looked at Zhugestan and said.
"What is the problem?"
Melo and Nia, standing to the side, were somewhat puzzled.
"They must have done this kind of deal many times before, after all, as mentioned earlier, they are a military-industrial group."
"Moreover, the officers and the soldiers at the beginning had different expressions when they saw Zhuge Cong."
"Either you see it frequently or you don't pay attention to it; of course, the possibility of not paying attention is very small."
"Therefore, the situation that Zhuge Stan mentioned is not referring to Zhuge Cong's deal, but something else entirely."
"Look ahead, Zhuge Cong has been kidnapped and his army has been attacked."
"It is clear that someone has exposed Zhuge Cong's itinerary and the army's firepower."
"Otherwise, not to mention the place where Zhuge Cong's location could be accurately found, even a surprise attack by the army would not be possible without a certain degree of certainty."
"And that Zhuge Stan might be the mastermind. The Zhuge family only has Zhuge Cong as their sole heir. If Zhuge Cong is gone, then the most likely person to inherit the Zhuge Group is Zhuge Stan."
As L shared his analysis, he showed the two people the details of the light screen he had previously recorded and some information he had found.
After watching it, the two apprentices of L realized the gap between themselves and their master.
6: There is a mole; halt trading.
"Great, as usual, there's nothing to worry about."
Zhuge Cong's words made L's conjecture more convincing to some extent.
"Good job, buddy. See you tomorrow. Goodnight, Cong." Zhuge Stan on the other end of the line said this and then hung up.
Next, Zhuge Cong got into the jeep that had been involved in the accident at the beginning.
"Hey, Cong." Hachiman Hikigaya stepped forward, about to say something, but was interrupted by Zhuge Cong.
[“Why do you want to ride with me? This is a happy Hummer; the boring Hummer is in the back.” Zhuge Cong gestured for him to sit in the back car.]
"Alright, see you at the base." Hachiman Hikigaya said, turning and leaving.
"Next comes the main event: under what circumstances did Zhuge Cong escape on his own, or did the military manage to get out, or did he die inside?"
Looking at the light screen, Conan Edogawa thought that almost everyone was wondering how Zhuge Cong would get out under such extreme circumstances, let alone after suffering such injuries.
[At this moment, Zhuge Cong was no longer wearing his expensive suit, but a black overcoat with countless layers of leather.]
An oxygen tube was still inserted into his nose, and his chest was wrapped in layers of bandages.
[Zhuge Cong suddenly awoke, looking around in a daze. Then, as the effects of the anesthetic wore off, Zhuge Cong began to experience various negative sensations from his body.]
Zhuge Cong removed the oxygen tube from his nose. His mouth was parched, and he desperately wanted a glass of water. Seeing the water glass that could barely be considered a table beside him, Zhuge Cong reached for it.
However, his body had not yet recovered, and having just brushed with death, he was severely exhausted, leaving Zhuge Cong unable to pick up the water cup. Instead, he knocked it over to the ground.
[“Cough, cough, cough.” Zhuge Cong coughed a few times, noticing the man shaving in the distance.]
[Just as Zhuge Cong was about to move, he felt something pulling at his chest and immediately stopped.]
"I advise you not to do that," said the man shaving, watching Zhuge Cong's movements through the mirror.
Zhuge Cong turned around and saw a car battery connected to his chest.
[Zhuge Cong followed the fuse and tore open the bandage on his chest, revealing a scene that sent chills down one's spine: a circular magnetic coil was embedded in the spot where Zhuge Cong had been shot in the chest.]
"Wow, it's incredible just to look at."
Kiritani Kazuto looked at the object on Zhuge Cong's chest in the light screen and said.
"Okay, I'm suddenly not envious of you anymore."
Looking at Zhuge Cong's miserable state, Sato Kazuma said, "Having something like this in your chest is unbearable even if you don't die, and it's terrifying that you'll have to carry a large battery with you wherever you go in the future."
The man was simmering a pot of rather mushy porridge, whistling as he did so, while Zhuge Cong sat beside him with a troubled expression, looking at the object on his chest in a mirror.
"What did you do to me?" Zhuge Cong asked, looking at the man before him.
"What did I do?" the man asked with a smile.
"What I did was save your life. I tried my best to remove a lot of shrapnel, but there's still a lot left inside you that I can't get rid of, and they're still moving towards your heart. Want to see them? I've left a souvenir. Take a look." The man said, handing Zhuge Cong a glass tube.
Zhuge Cong took the glass tube and looked at the shrapnel inside.
"I've encountered many others here with the same injuries as you. The locals call them corpses because it takes about a week for shrapnel to penetrate vital organs," the man began again.
【"What's this?"】
"This is an electromagnet, connected to that car battery. It can attract shrapnel and prevent it from entering your heart." He nodded, seemingly proud of his technology.
Zhuge Cong looked up and saw a red dot flashing above the dark cave ceiling; it was undoubtedly a camera.
"Yes, that's what you're thinking of, smile."
However, Zhuge Cong showed no sign of happiness and couldn't even manage a smile.
"You might not remember, but we met once before, at a technology conference in District K."
"I don't remember."
"Of course. If I were as drunk as you, I wouldn't be able to stand, let alone give a speech on integrated circuits."
Zhuge Cong had no time to listen to the man's recounting of the past; instead, he asked a question he was eager to know the answer to.
【"Where are we?"】
Before the man could say anything, a commotion and unintelligible language erupted from outside the large iron gate.
The man, also looking very nervous, said to Zhuge Cong, "Stand up, quickly, do as I do, raise your hands."
Zhuge Cong obediently raised his hands as the man had instructed.
At that moment, the large iron gate was opened, and several men carrying rifles walked in.
"Those are guns I developed. Why would they have them?" Zhuge Cong immediately recognized that the guns those people were developed by their Zhuge Group.
"So, it seems there's a mole within the Zhuge Group, secretly selling those guns."
As Zhuge Cong's friend and future subordinate, Shirogane Miyuki said that he was still very worried about Zhuge Cong's safety, but fortunately the scene on the screen seemed to be from the future.
"And it must be someone with a lot of power, otherwise Zhuge Cong wouldn't have been unaware that someone was secretly selling his guns. I guess it's that Zhusstein."
Kaguya Shinomiya said that as a member of the Shinomiya family, she naturally knew Zhuge Cong, the only son of the Zhuge family.
"I'd like to know whether Zhuge Cong was rescued by the army or whether he miraculously saved himself, although the possibility of self-rescue is almost nonexistent."
Yu Ishigami said that, after all, it was unthinkable to be able to save oneself in such a harsh environment.
"Don't talk too much, just do what I do."
The burly, dark-skinned man at the head of the group, with a happy expression, spread his arms wide and chattered away. Then he slowly walked towards Zhuge Cong. Of all the words he uttered, the only one Zhuge Cong could understand was his own name.
After the burly man finished speaking in a string of gibberish, he gestured for the man beside him to translate for Zhuge Cong.
[“He said he welcomes Zhuge Cong, the infamous mass murderer. He's honored and wants you to build him a missile—your newly developed Jericho missile.” Then the burly man handed over a photograph, which clearly showed a picture of the Jericho missile.]
This also confirms that there is a mole within the Zhuge Group.
7: He will appear sooner or later in a way that will shake the world.
"I refuse."
"Is he out of his mind? How dare he refuse in that kind of situation?"
Seeing Zhuge Cong's answer, some people were naturally puzzled. After all, Zhuge Cong was now like a fish on a chopping board, completely at the mercy of others.
After the translation, the fat, dark-skinned man was clearly dissatisfied with Zhuge Cong's answer. He said something to the men behind him, and those burly men rushed in front of Zhuge Cong.
[Zhuge Cong, who was not very strong to begin with, was now severely injured and had no chance to resist. He was dragged by several people to a large bucket of water, and his head was shoved down hard.]