Chapter 933 The method of eternal life
"What were you talking about just now?"
After tiptoeing across the road, Mao Lilan and his group sat down on the other side. What they heard was Pu Siqinglan's completely surprised voice.
"What's wrong, don't you understand? It's true that I'm not good at learning." Tang Ze showed a surprised expression, "I just spoke a little bit of Sichuan and Chongqing dialect, which was taught to me by my Chinese teacher. Very non-standard? ”
"...Indeed, I didn't quite understand it. It's a dialect I've never heard before." Pu Siqinglan's eyebrows lowered, showing a little bitterness, "Maybe it's because I've been busy with work in the past few years and have been Traveling overseas, maybe that’s why I haven’t returned to China for several years.”
"That's it. I thought..." Tang Ze laughed and swallowed the rest of the words, which also made Pu Siqinglan's uneasiness even higher.
No one knows better than him, a genuine native of Sichuan and Chongqing, whether the dialect he speaks is standard or not.
Just like a British or American person meets someone with a strong accent and loves to speak slang. Even if the dialect and accent are not so easy to determine, it is difficult to accurately determine the person's specific place of origin, but there will probably be some clues. of.
This is a normal situation for native speakers. It is very difficult to speak a foreign language to an impeccable level, or a language that has not been exposed to the relevant environment as a child.
"China is a big place." Pu Siqinglan calmed down, and soon her expression became natural again, "It is unrealistic to understand all the dialects in China. When you have the opportunity to go abroad, see with your own eyes Go take a look and you’ll understand what I’m talking about.”
"Hey, that's it..."
Suzuki Sonoko, who had heard such a paragraph, turned her head and exchanged blank looks with Mao Lilan.
"So, he is asking her about Chinese?" Toyama and Ye put their heads between the two of them and whispered, "When did Tang Ze learn a foreign language?"
"That's what it sounds like. However, Miss Pu Siqinglan looks so scholarly, and after talking to her, she feels..." Mao Lilan shook his head gently, and seemed to have spent a little effort to deal with the not particularly friendly comments that followed. Swallowing, "Then again, Tang Ze is actually quite good at learning foreign languages. It's normal for him to want to learn a second foreign language."
The focus of Maorilan is different from that of Toyama and Ye.
Pu Siqinglan's appearance does have many un-Asian features, but her outline is also different from that of a complete Slav. Her temperament is gentle and gentle, and she speaks slowly and slowly, as if she is talking eloquently. She tells the story well, so when she claims to be a scholar of history, it is easy to win people's trust.
But when she was talking to Karasawa just now, her tone was obviously different from what she saw with President Suzuki in the morning...
Mao Lilan didn't know how to describe this subtle sense of hearing, but Tang Ze understood it very well.
Simply put, she was anxious.
The more anxious she is, the less Tang Ze will let her go.
By holding up the coffee cup, Tang Ze turned his head without any violation and looked in the direction behind Pu Siqinglan. Soon, the expression on his face turned into surprise.
"Xiaolan, Sonoko, why are you here? Have you finished visiting the shrine?"
"Karasawa, ah, and Miss Usuki Qinglan." Seeing that she had been discovered, Suzuki Sonoko stopped pretending and simply walked over with the two girls, taking the position of Karasawa's right hand as a matter of course, " You are also visiting Osaka Castle. Are you interested in its history? Well, Osaka is also a good historical city. ”
Pu Siqinglan, who was just about to find a way to get up and leave, saw her face clearly and stopped in her tracks.
She was still nominally the scholar invited by Suzuki Shiro to evaluate the value of the egg of memories. Considering that she was seeking to buy the egg from the Suzuki family, she had no reason to neglect the Suzuki family's daughter.
Thinking of this and knowing that she had to accompany her to dispel the possible suspicions of these people, Pu Siqinglan, who had prepared her own identity, trimmed her hair and covered her frustrated expression.
You were careless. You should have pretended not to recognize Tang Ze at all from the beginning, just pretended to be deaf and dumb, turned around and ran away.
Tangze smiled happily as he watched the three girls take their seats, squeezing the originally spacious seats together.
After leaving the Suzuki Museum of Modern Art, the six of them originally acted together. It was the three girls who first suggested that they go to the shrine to ask for a signature. When they arrived in front of the door, the two detectives who were all focused on the case couldn't sit still. Soon he left, and Tangze also said goodbye with the same "knowledge and interest", leaving the space to three girls who obviously wanted to say something secretly, and then followed the signal monitored by Noah and ran to block Pu Siqinglan. .
He would meet several girls who came out again near this place. This was Tangze's intention.
The girls who were originally very interested in the mysterious style of Pu Si Qinglan, stacked the buff that did not want Pu Si Qinglan to get too close to Karasawa, and their combat effectiveness was almost immediately increased.
So for the entire afternoon that followed, Miss Thief no longer had the time to pay attention to her precious props.
"Pusi Qinglan, how should this name be written correctly? Oh, oh, that's it, Pusi, well, there are still such surnames in China..."
"Maybe it's just like Edogawa, it's a surname that very few people use, right? Hey, Miss Pusi, speaking of your kanji, it's written... I've clearly heard that there are no words like kana in China. Are they all written and communicated in Chinese characters? ”
"Huh? Isn't this character written very well? By the way, Miss Pusi, how should I say my name in Chinese?"
"Me, and I——"
By the time Pu Siqinglan finally escaped from the siege of several noisy high school students and staggered back to her temporary residence, it was already time for the moon to climb on the branches.
Throughout the afternoon, she had to deal with Tang Ze's occasional comments, and she also had to constantly answer the curious questions of several girls. When she wrote a word, she would be judged sharply on how well it was written. She could not speak more than three sentences. sentence, you will hear the classic "This sentence is in Chinese..." sentence pattern...
It's like an advanced Chinese listening test that looks like a wet market, it's extremely painful and makes your head bloated.
She threw the parts on the table, pressed her temples and rubbed them vigorously.
If I had known this, I should never have said that I was Chinese.
Really, it shouldn't be. According to her estimation, most people she comes into contact with in Japan should quickly keep their distance after hearing about her nationality, right?
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"Is that that person?" Kuroba Kaito asked softly, putting down the telescope in his hand.
There was no one on the roof except him, and it seemed like he was talking to himself. But soon, a clear child's voice came from the breast pocket of his suit, and he answered his question accurately. . "Yeah, that's 'Scobin.'"
Kuroba Kaito let out a breath and held the brim of his hat in distress.
Ever since Tang Ze took the initiative to tell him his true identity, even though Tang Ze would laugh and change the subject in a perfunctory way when it came to questions he didn't want to answer, he had never lied again. .
Just like the attitude shown when he took the initiative to reveal his face, Tang Ze recognized him as a fellow traveler who could cooperate, and when facing his fellow travelers, Tang Ze's attitude was always sincere.
Therefore, Kuroba Kaito did not doubt the information given by Noah at all. Instead, due to the special situation of the Phantom Thief of Heart, he immediately realized what Karasawa wanted to express, and his thinking quickly moved to the next stage.
"She looks like a weak woman with no strength at all. She has also added many labels to herself as weak and lacking in aggression. If no one said anything, no one would suspect that she is Scopin."
"Regardless of how fierce she looks, I have secretly read through Scobin's files." Noah's answer was timely, "She has killed many people just to seize various collections. Thirty or forty years old. This is an evil spirit swallowed up by desire. Don’t take him lightly because of his appearance.”
"Don't worry, of course I won't underestimate her." Putting the telescope back in his arms, Kuroba Kaito jumped back slightly before he was discovered, completely hiding his figure in the shadows, "But, listen, According to you, you haven’t ‘solved’ her yet?”
When he asked questions, he used questions, but he already had expectations for the answers.
"Indeed not yet." Noah said truthfully, "It is one aspect that we cannot find her 'anchor'. On the other aspect, our leader judged that the part about her related to the zoo is probably a bit tricky, not that Easy to solve.”
Hearing the term "zoo" again, Kuroba Kaito's expression darkened.
Since his father disappeared, the mystery surrounding his father's death has been bothering him. Over the years, he has never given up investigating and seeking information related to it.
"Pandora" and "zoo" are exactly the concepts he came into contact with during this process.
"I don't know the origins of those people, but in the limited few encounters, I did find that they are 'unusual'. Could it be that they are a little similar to you?"
When it came to the second half of the story, Kuroba Kaito's tone was unconsciously reassuring, revealing a tentative tone.
To be more precise, this suspicion was one of the reasons why he tried to keep in touch with Joker and the Phantom Thieves even after being attacked by box weapons after he first came into contact with them.
There is not so much magic in this world, and supernatural power will definitely lead to the same destination at some point.
"I don't know whether they are similar or not, but they may indeed be valuable targets for us. Take me out a little and show you some information."
Kuroba Kaito's brows twitched, and he resisted the urge to emphasize that this was his cell phone and that Noah was the one who came. He took out the cell phone as he was told.
The interface has automatically opened to the Kaitou Line page, and a series of links and pictures quickly passed by, and then opened one by one under Noah's control.
Among the bouncing pages, Kuroba Kaito quickly captured several keywords.
"Rasputin? Have you confirmed that she is a descendant of Rasputin?"
"How should I put it? It's a bit incredible, but at least she believes in it so much." Noah said, showing a photo.
In the photo, a woman wearing a cheongsam wears a pendant on her chest. The shooting angle is a bit special. Compared with a serious shooting, it seems to be a secret shooting from a lower angle, but it can be vaguely distinguished. The open pendant shows a black and white photo of a man with a thick beard.
Kuroba Kaito, who has always been very smart and has a considerable reserve of knowledge, made a strange expression.
"Could it be that this is why Scobin is so crazy about hunting the treasures of the Romanov dynasty? She is the kind of admirer of Rasputin who thinks that the inheritance of the Romanov dynasty should belong to her ancestors? What? Paranoid patient.”
What he said was speechless and helpless, and he wanted to roll his eyes.
The zoo will target his father, inseparable from his father's conflict of interest with them surrounding the gems and collections, as long as he begins to use the name of Kaito Kidd to continue his activities, convinced that he has eliminated the real one eight years ago. The zoo members of Kaitou Kidd will definitely find him again, and they will definitely have sharp conflicts with him because he continues to steal gems...
This is the reason why Kuroba Kaito chose to become Kaitou Kid II after so many years of secret investigation. He has always been mentally prepared to confront the opponent sooner or later.
...But I didn't expect that they would end up facing each other for such a funny reason.
"I planned to return the Egg of Memories, which belonged to that lady's ancestor, and which carries important memories and the origin of her bloodline, to its original owner. How did I end up provoking such a paranoid lunatic?" Kuroba Kaito held on to his top hat. I was speechless, "Are you sure she is a member of the zoo?"
Through Scobin, a criminal who is not mentally normal, he now has a bad premonition.
To describe it concretely, maybe the fact that his father was missing from the zoo was not as bitter and vengeful as he thought, or there was a shady secret behind it. The real reason might be more funny than that.
It's really hard to describe the feeling I felt when I thought I had provoked a big villain with a deep conspiracy, and after working hard for a long time, I found that I was facing a group of simple idiots.
"Well, since you know Rasputin, you should have heard of his 'legendary story'. According to rumors, the process of killing him was not simple. He was first fed 8 pieces of cake mixed with potassium cyanide, and then I drank an entire bottle of liquor that was also laced with potassium cyanide, but still had no reaction. Then, the assassin shot him in the chest, piercing his lungs and even scratching his heart. Just when everyone thought he was dead and ready to dispose of his body, he shot him again. Suddenly I opened my eyes and escaped from control..."
Of course Kuroba Kaito knew this information, and the corners of his mouth became straighter.
An assassination went from a momentary attack to a long-term tug of war. In the end, the body was even thrown under the ice, but the forensic identification result was drowning...
"She worships Rasputin because she thinks he is indeed immortal and longs for this kind of eternal life?" Kuroba Kaito made it clear what Noah wanted to imply both inside and outside his words.
Eternal life, eternal life again...
Noah's voice was light and airy.
"Yeah, pretty unoriginal, right?"
(End of chapter)