Chapter 276 We can only save people’s hearts, not their causes and effects
“What, you still look like a child.”
“Huh?” Mouri Kogoro was pushed aside He raised his eyebrows and turned his head to look at his daughter's expression.
"Conan." Mao Lilan pointed at Conan who was surrounded by a group of people, touching his head and pinching his face. "His usual appearance is really not like a child, and compared with him My classmate seems to be more familiar with Tang Ze.”
She did not say the following words directly.
Whether it is that the child is too precocious, too withdrawn, that leaving his parents has caused certain psychological problems, or other more ridiculous speculations... it would be rude to say it directly.
She skipped these messy thoughts and continued: "It seems that Conan just has a special hobby. His classmates are not old enough to read mystery novels, so they don't have the opportunity to talk to anyone. But this , It's really similar to that guy..."
"That guy?" Mouri Kogoro glanced at her unhappily.
“That’s the one who is proud and likes to be cool...”
“Holmes is severely obsessed, an amateur in reasoning and a tone-deaf person. The most important thing is that after winning a game against me, his whereabouts were erratic. It's a mystery..." A voice came from behind, catching Mao Lilan's words, "Kudo Shinichi, right?"
"Hey, Hattori-kun?" Startled by the sudden voice, Mao Lilan turned around and saw Hattori Heiji's iconic black face.
Conan, who finally broke free from the hands of a group of uncles and aunts, couldn't help but turn his head and look over.
“Are you also a Sherlock Holmes fan?” Mao Lilan nodded her cheek and couldn’t help but wonder if she was making a fuss. Maybe the young detectives admired Sherlock Holmes?
"Well..." Hattori Heiji secretly glanced at the other people in the field.
Although the car he followed was not Conan and his group, he also felt the confusion of these people.
His strong desire to survive made him take a step closer, and whispered to Mao Lilan: "I'm here to see Kudo. I think he would be interested in activities related to Sherlock Holmes, right?"
As a result, Kudo's girlfriend's family came...
Hattori Heiji sighed sadly when he thought of how he had read "Sherlock Holmes" all night long and managed to get a spot.
He clearly likes Ellery Queen, but in order to block Kudo once, he memorized the works he didn't like that much...
What a loss.
"Hmm!" He coughed, attracting everyone's attention. The organizer Hiroyuki Kanaya pointed to the clock above his head, "Now that everyone is here, let's explain the schedule for these two days. It's late today. Now, everyone can go back to your room and rest early. Tomorrow after dinner, we will start our annual highlight - the super difficult reasoning question and answer session!"
Hiroyuki Kanaya waved his hand and served with freckles on his face! Iwai Hitomi put on her gloves with understanding and carefully picked up the things in the box behind her.
"Those who get perfect scores will get the first edition of Sherlock Holmes' "A Study in Scarlet", a rare collection of books!"
Conan's eyes immediately focused. on that book.
"A Study in Scarlet" was not originally sold as a single volume. It was published in the 1887 Beeton Christmas Almanac.
Due to the popularity of the work, a single volume of "A Study in Scarlet" was released the following year. Very few of them exist, and it is more difficult to obtain than the published work in which it was first published.
Even with Yusaku Kudo's financial resources and connections, their family only has one copy of "A Study in Scarlet", which was reprinted in 1988 by the British Sherlock Holmes Society to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Sherlock Holmes' last case.
The Beeton Christmas Almanac has a record of being sold at an auction for 200,000 pounds, so this, from 1988, is the real first edition book...
For a time, The eyes of everyone in the hotel were fixed on the old book cover, unable to take their eyes away.
Feeling the hot and envious eyes, Hiroyuki Kanaya straightened his back, quite enjoying the attention.
In fact, rather than gathering fellow enthusiasts to exchange experiences, his biggest motivation for holding events every year is just for this moment.
Feeling a sense of accomplishment amid a small exclamation, Hiroyuki Kanaya continued: "Before starting the question and answer, everyone, please prove your love and admiration for Sherlock Holmes. Prove that you Are you qualified to get this treasure?"
"Proof?" Mouri Kogoro, the only one in the audience, scratched his head, "Do I want it too?" "You are a special guest, you only need to participate in the Q&A. , and just give an evaluation and speech for the event at the end." Hiroyuki Kanaya motioned to the waiter to hand out questionnaires to everyone. He also took a copy in his hand and weighed it. "Of course, if you are interested in participating, that would be great too. The honor..."
"This is?"
"This is a large questionnaire that I carefully selected and produced, "1000 Sherlock Holmes Questions"! Please hand in the written questionnaire before dinner tomorrow. Only those with a total score of 990 or above are eligible to participate in the after-dinner interview. Reasoning question and answer." The proud Hiroyuki Kanaya waved the document in his hand.
There was a thick stack, containing at least 30 or 40 pieces of questionnaires, which made Mouri Kogoro completely silent.
"I will complete the correction of the questionnaire myself, but I will say something ugly first," Hiroyuki Kanaya puffed up his chest, but because of his body shape, it looked like he was just puffing up his belly, "I This event is designed to entertain real Sherlock Holmes fans. If you don’t reach 900 points...get out of my hotel!”
His eyes crossed his face intentionally or unintentionally! The boring Hattori Heiji.
Hattori Heiji secretly rolled his eyes, but he honestly took the questionnaire that the waiter handed to him.
"You all know how precious the first edition of the book is, so as a precaution, please hand over your mobile phone and related books that you carry with you to Hitomi. We don't want anyone to use cheating methods. However, it doesn't matter even if you don't hand it over, every time We have installed monitors in every room. Please answer the questions within the shooting range of the surveillance cameras." Hiroyuki Kanaya made a gesture and asked Hitomi Iwai to hold the tray and receive what all the guests handed over.
"It's really troublesome..." Mouri Kogoro sighed, without any intention of being unsocial, he also took out his mobile phone and put it in the tray.
“You are invading privacy by doing this.” Maria Toda muttered and glanced at the phone that vibrated due to the incoming call, but she honestly put the phone and the Sherlock Holmes-related book in her bag. Handed over.
Hattori Heiji, who opened his backpack and took out a book, couldn't help but glance at the mobile phone she took out.
Different from her style of wearing gold and silver, with her hands full of rings, what this aunt took out was a very business-like, black and simple model, which was completely different from her dressing style.
He thought that for this kind of people, mobile phone cases would usually be decorated with rhinestones or silk, making them extremely gorgeous.
Is he too stereotyped?
"It doesn't matter. Boss Kanaya can only take pictures of the desks in the house. You just need to sit down at the desk and write." Toba Kento, who has participated in the event more than once, shrugged indifferently.
Conan took the thick questionnaire, smelled the scent of ink, and couldn't help but smile.
This is great. Even if he is a child and answers the question correctly, no one will question it, right?
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"Why is Hoshikawa so sleepy?" Sitting in the car, Tang Ze looked at Hoshikawa Hui, who was unconscious in the back seat with his glasses hanging on the side, and couldn't help but ask. .
"He said that he could never update a function on the web page, so he went to the subway to look for Ehara Tokio. He has been bored at home these past few days and watched front-end courses." He glanced in the rearview mirror and fell unconscious. There, Hoshikawa Teru and Miyano Akemi, who did not wake up even if Karasawa opened the door and got into the car, shook their heads helplessly, "He is doing most of the manual screening work for Kaitou CH. I guess he didn't sleep well yesterday. Let's do it."
After observing Xingchuan Hui for a while, he did see a green and black color under his eyelids, and Tang Ze reflected with a rare conscience.
Otherwise, just ask Dr. Ali if he knows any outsourced programmers.
The Phantom Thieves are not a vocational training class. One year after joining the Phantom Thieves, the members successfully transformed from unemployed vagrants to glorious coders. What does it look like?
"Anyway, there is still a little distance on the road, so I will let him fall asleep in the car first and call him when he gets there." Miyano Akemi, who was wearing a mask, released the brake, stepped on the accelerator, and headed towards He drove in the completely opposite direction to Feng Guling's car, "Ah Zhao, didn't you say you don't care about this matter?"
"It's true that I don't want to care about it, but they are just a little crazy Forget it, the crime will not lead to death." Tang Ze operated the phone and began to enter the names one by one, "I can't guarantee that if we take action, they won't kill each other."
"Even if the twisted desires disappear? "
" Even if the twisted desires disappear, good and evil have nothing to do with a person's character. Their ending is determined when the cause occurs, so in many vendettas, even the murderer is the one. The most sober one. You can tell how many of us who have changed our minds are murderers, and how many of them are originally scheduled to die, sister." Looking at the street scene receding in the night, Tang Ze said lightly, "We. It can only save people’s hearts, but not the cause and effect. There is no need to force a good ending.”
Miyano Akemi glanced at his expression, and her lips under the mask curled up.
The words are so ruthless. If it really doesn't matter, why bother traveling all night?
Although the image of joker that Karasawa uses externally is exaggerated and distorted, and is not completely consistent with him, what he may not be aware of is that when he acts as a joker, or More or less, some of your own ideas are revealed.
The so-called "cutting off the cycle of evil" speech in the middle school, to a certain extent, does represent Karasawa's thoughts.
He only prevents unnecessary misunderstandings and reparable grievances, and sometimes even allows crimes to occur. He highly recognizes the concept of blood revenge.
Looking at what he did for Xingchuan Hui, it is not difficult to find this.
After all, if sinners who have not been punished by the law die under the knife of the victim's anger, isn't it cutting off sin?
Someone reminded me that the group was full. I looked at it and saw that there were 200 people.
It increased to 500 people, and now it’s even bigger
(End of this chapter)