The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan.

Chapter 1088 Acceptance Process

"what is this?"

"It feels like a ritual, doesn't it?"

"Is this a ritual?"

Looking at the thing covered with cloth in front of him, the corners of Fūya Rei's mouth twitched.

"Based on what happened the last few times, everyone speculates that their situations are probably similar." Zhu Fu Jingguang smiled for a while, wiped his eyes, and reluctantly explained, "This is a laboratory after all. It's not good to make a mess..."

Based on the speculation from the previous examples, Ida Ko's return will probably cause just as much noise.

Except for Zhu Fushi Jingguang who died of gunshot wounds and came back relatively quietly, the two policemen who died in the explosion basically replayed the explosion scene. In addition, the explosion scenes of both people were at high altitudes. The movement of falling straight down in the explosion was symbolic, and even if Haibara Ai could understand that this was a symbolic meaning and could not really affect the equipment, she still couldn't get over the basic laboratory rules in her heart.

This is a biological laboratory whose protection level has gradually approached P4 over time. If anything inside leaks out, it will cause serious problems...

"Okay." Reluctantly accepting this, Furuya Rei looked around the laboratory again, "So, where's Tang Ze?"

According to his understanding, since Tang Ze himself has always been in charge of this matter, if Tang Ze does not come, this matter will probably be difficult to start.

"...Maybe he's making some preparations." Zhu Fu Jingguang looked in the direction of the laboratory door and said nothing.

According to his understanding, since this mechanism was essentially completed by Tang Ze's power, and now that it has reached the final stage, Tang Ze is probably making some preparations.

At this moment in the Velvet Room, Tang Ze was staring at the last few desire stones in his hand. As Leon waved the pen tip, they turned into golden powder and fell into the cup bit by bit.

His judgment was correct. The power absorbed by Pramya alone, even if it was only a part of the power absorbed through the attacks on the shadows and the temple, was almost as much as the total power of Erenika's entire team.

The criminal who could conceive of such horrific murderous intent and harm so many people is essentially a being with extremely intense desires and astonishing motivation.

Pramya is a very valuable target, and she also has intelligence value. This is the fundamental reason why Tang Ze did not send her to death immediately.

"We also have to consider the lack of Yoji Motohashi's ecological niche, right?"

Watching the gold powder fall to the bottom of the cup, and some tiny piles of sand finally accumulated in the empty glass, Tang Ze curled his lips and chatted casually with Leon.

"You mean the hall that runs through the entire Shibuya?" Leon raised his eyebrows.

"Yes. This is all thanks to Pramya's obsession with witnessing her own 'masterpiece'." Tang Ze watched Leon put down the menu and replied casually, "Her palace is even more comprehensive in details than Motobashi Yoji's."

Although Yoji Motohashi is also an experienced criminal, he is far inferior to Pramya in terms of experience and intelligence capabilities.

His palace models are indeed detailed, but due to his limited knowledge of Shibuya itself, he cannot enter every building and every room.

Pramya is different. She is a professional who has studied Shibuya for three years and has put a lot of thought into it.

"That's not bad." Leon nodded in agreement. "She's certainly learned a sufficient lesson."

Burns more severe than those suffered by Yoji Motobashi would cause more complete destruction to her body functions.

Not to mention, Pramya is a woman who is good at taking advantage of her appearance. She may not attach much importance to her appearance, but she knows that she is good-looking and is good at taking advantage of it.

Better appearance, better background, more professional knowledge and ability...

Therefore, becoming a burn patient would be a greater blow to her than to Yoji Motobashi.

"But you still hope that I can change her mind completely, right?" Tang Ze changed the subject and shifted his gaze from the cup to Leon's face. "With such a big target, you must be quite unhappy that her temple has been built in Shibuya all this time, right?"

Leon finished writing what he was doing, glanced at Tang Ze's expression, and slowly tore off the paper on the writing board.

This "resurrection progress" is essentially a task list that Leon handwrote to Tang Ze. It is actually more specific than Tang Ze's so-called vague requirements of "collecting information and collecting desire stones."

There are many detailed rules according to the current progress requirements.

For example, key information that needs to be understood, interpersonal relationships that need to be confirmed, cognitive situations that need to be changed, etc.

The reason why Tang Ze only told others two vague requirements was that, firstly, it would be a bit shocking to tell others about such requirements, and secondly, Tang Ze could complete most of them by himself.

Now that they have all been achieved, it is naturally the stage of final acceptance.

Tang Ze took the paper and looked at the items on it.

"Rather than saying 'what I have to do', it's more like a manual on the prerequisites for resurrection," Tang Ze commented. "I'm afraid the connection between you and 'me' is much deeper than you've told me."

This sentence sounded like a question, but Leon, who understood Tang Ze's subtext, just smiled, bowed slightly, and put on an attitude of "listening attentively".

Tang Ze picked up the pen on the table and signed his name on the first blank line.

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"You asked me how I felt? Well, actually, I didn't feel anything." Accompanying Furuya Rei as if at a ribbon-cutting ceremony, Zhu Fushimi Jingguang peeled back the cloth covering the egg. Looking at the increasing number of cracks on the eggshell, he replied, "It felt like I just closed my eyes on the rooftop one second, and the next, I was lying in an unfamiliar place."

"I was actually shocked." Hoshikawa Teru, who was sitting on the other side of the table, whispered.

"I can't blame myself for this, right?" Zhu Fu Jingguang was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. "You know, my identity is too sensitive. I'm more afraid of my death causing unnecessary losses than dying myself."

Due to some strange mistakes, his identity is really fatal.

Finding out he was an undercover police officer was a minor issue. But if his family was implicated, or even if the organization traced his life trajectory and discovered clues about Furuya Rei...

"Then I would rather die more completely."

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"The order of resurrection is what it is now. On the one hand, it is arranged according to the order of Furuya Rei's own regrets and wishes. On the other hand, it is also related to the difficulty of resurrection. The easiest one is Morobushi Kagemitsu first."

"I don't deny that." Leon nodded. "He was an undercover agent, and his identity needed to be kept strictly confidential. Even after his death, his relatives were not clearly informed. Few people have the clear understanding that 'Zhufushi Jingguang is dead.'"

The fewer people who know about it, the easier it is to shake it.

"As long as most people are willing to believe he's still alive, this perception will be easily transformed into reality." Tang Ze also nodded, agreeing with Leon's statement. "Plus, the only two people who witnessed his death were Furuya Rei and Akai Shuichi, which further reduces the difficulty. Combined with Furuya Rei's own strong regret, the process becomes even simpler."

As he spoke, his gaze moved to the next name.

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"As for me, well, looking at the records later, it seems that I was even knocked unconscious." Matsuda Jinpei rubbed his neck.

"How do you feel?"

"Well, it's probably a little stronger than Master Jing's. After all, I really felt the explosion and the flames, and even the intense feeling of weightlessness that followed..."

“And it landed here the next second?”

"Yeah." Recalling the first time he woke up, Matsuda Jinpei couldn't help but complain, "The lab bench really isn't a good resurrection spot. It's really too hard."

Ai Haibara, who was busy adjusting the instrument in her hand, turned her head and glanced at him silently.

"I know, I know. You're worried about negative consequences and you want to study this phenomenon. I understand." Matsuda Jinpei raised his hands in surrender. "But seriously, could you please prepare a cushion?"

"So isn't this preparation for your next one?" Haibara Ai was unmoved.

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"The difficulty with Jinpei Matsuda and Kenji Hagiwara lies in the fact that so many people witnessed and knew about their deaths. They were bomb disposal officers who died at the scene. Their colleagues and even reporters who heard the news recorded the moment of their death. This news even spread widely along with their achievements."

"But correspondingly, dying in an explosion also has its advantages."

"Well, that means no one will witness the entire death process up close. In other words, 'no body seen'...hiss, I'm starting to think our discussion is getting a bit hellish, Leon."

"You know what hell is, so why don't you just stop dillydallying? Sign it now."

Tang Ze wrote down his name twice without hesitation, and glanced at the condition on the paper: "shake the clear knowledge that the person is dead."

"Now that I think about it, I was being completely honest with Jinpei Matsuda, saying I didn't mind them contacting their old friends and family, but in reality, I was kind of using that to shake the perception that Hagiwara Kenji was doomed... That was pretty despicable."

"Really? I thought you'd call it a win-win situation."

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"That can't be called a cushion..." Hagiwara Kenji, who originally didn't want to join the battle, couldn't help but interrupt, "I fell and it hurt too. It's just that you didn't have time to stay in Tokyo at the time, so you were worried that if I woke up suddenly, I wouldn't be able to handle the situation, right?"

"That's one reason." Huiyuan Ai didn't deny it, "but I think the more important reason is that I'm afraid that Matsuda-kun will be upset or have some concerns because he doesn't have the chance to hatch the eggs."

"Hey, hey, I'm listening here, Miss Shiho..."

"I admit, I don't like having outsiders walking in and out of my lab every day."

"Tang Ze is obviously more diligent than me..."

"He's not an amateur." Huiyuan Ai corrected seriously, "He has rich experience."

"Pfft-cough-cough-cough..."

Having heard Tang Ze's jokes about being an experimental subject and his main position in the laboratory being a test subject more than once, Xingchuan Hui couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of water and started coughing.

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"Now, there's only one left."

Leon watched Tang Ze move the pen tip to the last blank space. He did not urge him, but asked meaningfully: "You took the extra time to talk to me about this today. Did you discover something, guest?"

Sitting down and chatting with Leon is something Tang Ze does every day.

Although Tang Ze has greatly optimized his sleep in fact, out of the most basic respect for the rules of drug use, Tang Ze will still ensure a basic sleep time every day unless there are special circumstances and he has to stay up all night.

Chatting with Leon is not only a way for him to organize his own thoughts, but also a way to relieve stress.

In this world, there is no one else except Leon who can fully understand Tang Ze's existence and understand Tang Ze's many weird words.

But before going through the process today, he came to him and talked so much. It must be that Tang Ze had some ideas, half asking, half testing.

"I've indeed made some discoveries." Staring at the last signature, Tang Ze blinked. "In short, they really aren't cognitive puppets. They're real, living people, right?"

"Of course. I should have answered this question a long time ago, guest. Don't worry, you didn't do anything you shouldn't do. The boundary between life and death is indeed taboo, but you, as you said yourself, are here to perform miracles."

Tang Ze nodded, said nothing more, and signed his last name.

As he wrote the last stroke of the Chinese character, the cup that Leon had placed on the corner of the table made a slight shattering sound.

Its glass was intact, but many cracks quickly appeared on the surface, like a broken mirror, reflecting many things in an instant.

The bright red color, the moon, the clock... the eyes...

Tang Ze stared at it, watching the cracks appear and disappear. After observing the whole process, he stood up from the bar.

Knowing that this was the purpose of his visit, Leon did not stop him. He just bowed again and watched Tang Ze walk to the door.

"Well, so this is actually some kind of ability similar to Maruki." Grabbing the door handle of the bar, Tang Ze said without looking back, "I think I understand. Thank you, Leon."

"squeak--"

There was a grinding noise, like a rusty door being opened and closed, or like the harsh scraping of brake pads on the road.

Before the people around could react, the huge egg shattered into pieces in an instant, just as they had expected.

"boom--"

"Snapped!"

As soon as he opened the door, he saw such a chaotic scene. Tang Ze couldn't help but feel gratified for his foresight.

"I knew that putting up a cloth was the right decision... Otherwise, this lab would be completely destroyed..."