world's best detective agency

"Eh..." Poe was slightly surprised.

—Then let him steal this.

Ranpo said it confidently, and gave her a bright and proud smile, shining brighter than gems.

What Chiriko instantly thought of was the great waves that these words would cause.

Kaitou Kidd has announced that he will go to receive the largest emerald in the world, the Green Dream.

On the spur of the moment, Luanbu threw Xian Po's important heart, the world's largest emerald, as bait, and the effect was no different from a vicious provocation:

"Hey, you're all mistaken, this is the biggest emerald in the world!"

"The phantom thief Kidd who got the wrong target, do you dare to fight?"

The swarming media will definitely bind the famous detective and the strange thief tightly together, creating a high level of enthusiasm.

Poor Kidd became a food roasted by public opinion, and his whole body was burnt.

You shouldn't, you're as cowardly as a mouse.If you don't dare, you are really inferior.If you don't show up, the wonderful magic tricks that were successful in the past will be severely criticized-even if Kiddxue disappeared eight years ago, Ranpo will definitely have a way to catch the super thief, Chi Lizi will not consider Ranpo's failure.

In addition, the first to bear the brunt is the troupe who used Green Dream as a gimmick.

Losing the title of the world's largest emerald, and being distracted by noisy topics——

The highest peak in the world is known as Everest.

At least half of the people who know the name of the second highest peak in the world.

The birth of this emerald, which symbolizes hope that she will always be lucky, is a heavy blow to the troupe's publicity.

Regardless of other things, Poe's kindness, which is too precious for her to reciprocate, is used as bait.

Although there are random steps, the gems will definitely not be lost.

Moreover, Kid has the virtue of returning the original gem.

Chiriko thought about it, and heard Poe's attitude:

"...I understand, Ranpo-kun, you need an important bait. However, this emerald is the luck I gave to Chiriko, and it has a special meaning. It would be bad if it smelled like a thief... Luck will be stolen. Ranbu-kun, do you want any other gemstones as bait, or I will cut you a bigger emerald than this one, do you like heart shape, square shape, spherical shape, or uh-"

Standing in front of her was Po, whose long cloak was grabbed by Luanbu, staggered two steps, and barely stood still.

Then I got a roaring attack from Luanbu: "Speak louder, please, don't deliberately make people hard to hear! In order to hear your words clearly, I can only stick together with you, and everyone will stick together in the end!"

Poe couldn't help but leaned back, avoiding the roaring wind, obediently raised his voice in response to Luanbu who lowered his head: "... I didn't mean it... okay."

The raccoon on top of his head inevitably tilted its body, its claws tightly gripping the black hair.

Poe wrinkled his face from being scratched, reached out and picked the raccoon off, and put it on his shoulder.

Zhilizi stared intently at Po's movements, skillful and natural.

Like pandas, raccoons are super-cute-looking creatures that are actually super-ferocious, wild and unruly.

A cat or dog with a bad temper will just knock over and bite objects.On the other hand, raccoons, whose claws and teeth are not sharp, can dig holes in wood and walls, and especially like to dig up trash cans and everything they can see.

"...Don't worry, Chiriko, Karl is my most reliable companion! Although he will bite me occasionally...that's very rare."

Poe emphasized heavily.

The raccoon wagged its fluffy tail and jumped to her side.

As if by magic, it holds a delicate white rose in its mouth.

"...Ah, that, I have no experience in giving gifts. This is the result of my comprehensive search of the Internet, consulting papers, and asking experienced people: women like gems and flowers... Chiriko, I don't know which one you like, so just They are all ready. These are the roses that my generation brought from the United States, and I chose the freshest bouquet... It should have been one bouquet, but the plane bumped midway, and the others were broken."

"Ah. Thank you."

Chiriko had taken a rose, and there were slight raccoon tooth marks on the stem.

As Poe says, the outermost petal has two indistinct creases, and this is the only one left.

She vaguely smelled a faint fragrance, inexplicably a bit like the sweetness of honey.

The rose is the national flower of the United States and comes in many colors.

Red roses represent passionate love.The artificially dyed blue enchantress also represents lingering affection.

And the white rose—

"We have checked the language of flowers. This is specially selected by us..." Poe added.

Scratch away the approaching trouble, and there is a little trouble that takes the opportunity to enter.

Ranbu raised his head slightly, staring at the dark man with only half of his face exposed.When he heard the name, he connected all the clues into a thread - last night, he held a special milk black tea to find Zhilizi, exchanged special bonuses and transportation subsidies for her to accompany her on a business trip, and saw Zhilizi's emails.

The mystery novel recommended by Poe, you can understand the follow-up development after reading [-] pages, it's super boring!

The meaning and flower language of gemstones are useless knowledge that he hates.

Compared with inedible gems and flowers, of course the food and answers he shared are more useful and interesting!

"What?" The flower language of the white rose.Ranpo asked useless knowledge.

"In the United States, the most common places for white roses are weddings and funerals. The former represents romantic and pure love, while the latter is a memorial."

Yukiko interjected with a smile, "White roses are not as famous as red roses when used as gifts, but they have a very powerful flower language, which I think is even stronger than red roses: I am enough to match you. White roses are veritable flowers of courtship." Oh. If you checked the language of flowers, this should be written in the most conspicuous place, and it is impossible not to see it. In other words, Mr. Po did not lie, he did choose it on purpose ~ why?"

"...Because I want to have a closer relationship with Chiriko, uh—the reason why Ranpo-kun is suddenly very angry, I have to reason..."

Poe thought gravely.

If you want to understand a person, you must first understand what he hates and why he is angry.

This is a famous saying in the book recommended to him by Chiriko.

Ranpo hates unchallenging events and boring common sense, and this time it doesn't seem to be because of this.

"because of you!"

"Eh, but, I was Chiriko's friend from the beginning...A friend in English, Friend, Fri is the abbreviation of Friday, end is the end, and a friend is someone who can hang out with us after the working day on Friday is over. Friends in Japanese, written as AUDA, have accumulated friendly relationships to the point where they can meet and hang out together, and they are friends. The more intimate ones are called heart friends. Love in Japanese, the following is composed of heart and friends... This is knowledge Satoko told me. I want to upgrade from Friendship to a closer relationship... Can't I use the courtship flower of "I will try my best to match you"? "

"cannot!"

"Why, Mr. Ranbu, can you speak in a low voice..." Po subconsciously covered his ears, his request was completely overwhelmed by the loud voice.

"Not good!" Luanbu said decisively.

"...Ranbu-kun, you are as usual," Poe turned to the thoughtful Zhilizi, "Zhilizi, you don't like white roses either?"

"No. Thank you for your flowers and your thoughts, Mr. Poe. It's just... I'm really sorry, what impresses me about the white rose is the decoration at the night and farewell ceremony."

"Ah," Poe paused.

"By the way, are you here to apply for the job, or to be provocative!"

Luanbu cut off Poe's words uncompromisingly, pointed at him impolitely, and questioned with eyes that didn't meet the requirements: "Do you know how to cook and bake?"

"...I will feed Karl."

Poe whispered.

He took care of Carl in every possible way, and he looked very healthy at first glance.

"As for cooking and snacks, we will hire professional cooks, pastry chefs, confectioners and others. Whether it is Chinese food, Western food or Japanese food, cream cake, chocolate or red bean cake... We have calculated that we only need to hire 71 people , can include most of the food you can think of in the world... There are no restrictions on recruitment requirements, and applicants cannot hire other people... Besides, the cost of hiring, arranging board and lodging and ingredients is only a small amount of money .”

"what?"

Ranbu showed an incomprehensible stiff expression.

Are you stupid?

You are stupid.

Zhilizi watched, couldn't help chuckling, and walked around in a daze.

Poe's approach, in short, is: I can't, I have money.

As for Luanbu, salary and bonuses add up, you can buy snacks as you like, which is far from the same as buying potato chips, choosing ores at will, and hiring 71 cooks.The detective agency has less than thirty employees, and there are only a handful of investigators with supernatural abilities.

Chiriko took out her mobile phone and wanted to take a picture of this wonderful scene.

With a click, what was frozen was a chaotic movement, and the camera only captured a blurred figure with black hair and white shirt.

Luanbu raised the raccoon beside her, sat still, took away the white rose, and fed it to the raccoon casually, her expression had already returned to a happy look.

"He did it on purpose—knowing that if you ask Mr. Po like this, you will definitely get an answer that ordinary people can't understand. It's just right to divert Sensang's attention and make her laugh. White roses are used in Western-style funerals, and Japanese-style all-nighters." It is rare to see the farewell ceremony, and it is likely to be the funeral of the same person. Generally speaking, only one person with ordinary relations should attend the all-night and farewell ceremony. Sensang attended both, and it should be someone close to her... Edogawa Ranbu-kun, rumored to be very capricious, but actually very gentle."

Yukiko heard Yusaku Kudo's analysis from the earphones.

She is good at disguise, she can't perfectly imitate the voice, she can switch to other voices, call it super change, it's the most appropriate.

In the form of applying for a job, she explored all aspects of the firm.Including whether Ranpo's reputation is genuine, the position of the firm, Conan's safety, and future countermeasures.

Dr. Ari is in charge of the props.

She was wearing the ultra-miniature bluetooth headset earrings that Dr. A Li rushed to make overnight.

In the fluffy little dress, there are tracking stickers, bugs and tiny camera tools.

Yusaku Kudo is the main force responsible for the analysis.

Yukiko naturally has her feelings.

The famous detective is very gentle, obviously limited to the target.

Just the right "Huh?", Zhilizi wanted to capture the moment when the detective was stunned, and then there was a topic that would go further and further away, occupy Zhilizi's full attention, and make her throw her thoughts thousands of miles away:

"This is a sneak shot without permission. Zhilizi, you are the most familiar with the law. You know the law and break the law on purpose! The mobile phone is designed so that you can't turn off the recording sound, just to prevent you! Phew, Zhilizi, why did you take a picture of me like this , It's completely blurred!...Well, since you said so, now I can take a handsome picture~ I really can't help you."

The famous detective disposes of the white rose, and the buds are chewed by the raccoon so that they cannot be recognized.

Jumping back to the raccoon in the arms of its owner, Volume [-] of Nature carefully wiped the plant juices stained by the raccoon with a handkerchief.

Yukiko glanced at the blond Ikemen who was judged to die from overwork, and then looked at the natural volume No. [-] beside her.

At first glance, it looked like a harmless smile, but just now she approached her to confirm Yi Rong and the props she was carrying, really, her acting skills are remarkable.

It's just a random reason, it's too lame.

— May I ask you to die in love with him?

Even illogical third-rate idol dramas would not use such lines.

Yukiko maintained a decent smile, threw all the pleasant compliments out of her head, and responded with appropriate words.In terms of acting skills and ease of handling, she is super confident and will not lose to anyone.

For example, her interruption just now was intentionally designed.

The detective is very angry.

Nature Volume [-] actually had to seriously and seriously consider the reason why the famous detective suddenly became angry.

If the goal of Nature Vol. [-] was to make famous detectives angrier, he succeeded.

Yukiko's gaze finally fell on Conan, who had shrunk to a six-year-old body. As Ranpo said, he would really cause trouble.

But now it's super-cute!

As expected of her son!

Yukiko smiled brightly at Conan, hoping to convey a sense of security to him.

Conan wrinkled his face and thought deeply. He put on his glasses and looked at the third applicant. There must be something wrong.

For the first and second places, Ranpo gave a detailed score.To the third Toru Amuro, the only two words are, "You, will you die from overwork?" and "There will be many things for you."Karoshi, as the name suggests, is overwork, leading to sudden death.Whether it is purely literal or has some deep meaning, I don't know for the time being.

And the fourth one, Zhilizi called Mr. Po.

Conan immediately thinks of Edgar Allan Poe, the American detective who bears the same title as the writer of the same name, the Giant of Knowledge.Poe seldom made public appearances in recent years, so he didn't expect to be attracted by this recruitment, let alone Poe's true character...it turned out to be like this.

The world's number one detective agency really gave him surprises beyond imagination every moment.

Conan complained, and then saw an even more astonishing development.

"Ah, Mr. Po, you brought me a meeting gift, didn't you give it to Luanbu?" Zhi Lizi asked about the results of her watering.

"Of course there are... for Ranpo-kun, I brought a reasoning game that I have devoted six years to complete!"

Hearing this, Luanbu let out a wow with great interest.

Poe hugged the raccoon and said confidently.

"Six years ago, we had a detective duel with you, and we lost... The humiliation of that day drove us to study the language every day, improve our grammar and vocabulary, just to—"

Ranbu's interest in reasoning games suddenly decreased by one.

In a tone of reason, he instructed: "I want to fast forward! The bedtime story is skipped, you can jump directly to the topic."

He is not AI intelligence, and the cause and effect are not the unimportant parts that can be omitted casually.

In order to be at the same level as the rampant slope, he bent down slightly, and suddenly bent like a withered leaf, his body was precarious.

"Mr. Poe, as a bystander, I know and remember your efforts clearly. Based on my experience in playing games, the list of game producers, testimonials and behind-the-scenes stories are usually displayed after the game is over. Therefore, Can you follow the rules of the majority and our habits this time, and introduce the game first?" Zhi Lizi smiled, changed his rhetoric, and asked.

"...Ah. Good, Chiriko."

Poe groped and pulled out a twenty-centimeter-thick hardcover book with a gold-rimmed and dark-stamped cover and no title.

He exhaled a breath, joy and anticipation flooded out, Luanbu was an old enemy worth six years to defeat.

This time he came to the interview in one go, and he also brought gifts for his friends and challenges for his old enemies.

Clang clang clang!

Poe seemed to hear the loud background music that began to play for him.

"Just read this mystery novel and find out the truth about the serial murders!"

"Boring!" Chaos shouted.

Around the chaotic sitting, books are piled up high, which is a complete set of comics, with transparent glass beads and unpacked snacks on them.

The solid wood bookcase he selected was used in the room, and mystery novels only accounted for a small part, and Luanbu's preference is obvious.

Poe was about to give reasons one by one, but Chiriko was a moment faster than him and asked first.

"Mr. Po, I have some doubts about this reasoning game. Can you please answer them?"

"...Huh?" Poe uttered short syllables.

"If I don't read it in the order from front to back, and just turn to the incident resolution chapter, won't I immediately know who the culprit is?"

No.

Poe denies it.

It's his power, The Black Cat of the Rue Morgue, that pulls readers into his mystery novels.

The plot moves forward bit by bit, and will not take the initiative to give answers or hints.

Zhilizi's doubts were not the only one, the soft voice flowed slowly like running water.

Poe listened carefully.

Zhi Lizi gave him very important inspiration in the conception of the challenge book.

Her ideas may be very informative.

"Mr. Po, if you have already considered that this novel lacks the release of the prisoner's solution, or this book is only the first volume, are you sure that you have given enough clues to decipher the truth in this novel? Can all the logic and details withstand careful scrutiny? The most important point is that the answer you prepared is correct and unique? What if the answer I made up temporarily is reasonable and even more ingenious than yours? "

Eh?

Is there a unique answer to the mystery novel?

Poe blinked.

His forehead hair covered his eyes tightly.

He could see Chiriko's eyes through the gap in his forehead hair.

Chiriko looked straight over, it was really not convenient for her to have the feeling of looking at each other.

"For example, Mr. Po, you are a classic book of logic first. Then, I use the narrative tricks of the new book to answer. It doesn't meet your standard answer, but there is no problem in logic. What should I do? Say Wake up, the first applicant this morning, Ayatsuji, the reasoning writer with the same name, is very good at narrative tricks. I have recommended his works to you, such as "The Fall of the Suspension Bridge", "The Unexpected Murderer" and so on of."

Poe couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.

His well-prepared reasoning game uses narrative tricks that deliberately mislead readers.

In Ayatsuji's works, there is a similar technique, the murderer is actually "I".

Zhilizi continued to speak in a calm manner.

"When Houtaro was in high school, he and Amuro-san went shopping for groceries now, and it was the natural roll that received you just now. Gonghui, who is Houtaro's older sister, introduced him to the seniors who were in the first grade. The seniors entrusted Houtaro: They The drama of Banwei Movie was injured, and the shooting had to be suspended. Since the script is in a state of being fully conceived but not yet written, please watch the part that has been filmed and deduce the ending. Mr. Po, this is very similar to your reasoning game?"

"The vocal cords and hands of the play were injured at the same time?" Ranpo was curious.

"No." Chiriko denied.

"It's not reasoning, it's continuation." Luan Bu nodded.

"Great, random steps!"

Chiriko smiled brightly at Ranbu who saw through, and applauded lightly.

Luanbu grinned big and loudly, like ten ducks quacking around him.

Among the rattling sounds, Poe heard Zhilizi's soft voice.

"In short, the style of the play is to imitate the classical style of Arthur Conan Doyle, and strictly follow the Knox rules of fairness: the method cannot be unknown drugs and machines that require complex scientific explanations; the detective itself cannot be the murderer— — Mr. Poe, you who write mystery novels should be more familiar with Knox’s Ten Commandments than I am, so I won’t repeat them one by one. The purpose is that the clues held by the author and the reader must be equal. Let me briefly describe what has been filmed Good content: six people, went to explore an unowned dilapidated house, scattered separately, one of them was cut and wounded. May I ask who the murderer is, Mr. Poe?"

"...Chiriko, you hardly gave any key information, the names, identities, backgrounds and action routes of the six people, nothing..."

"It's one of the six people. It doesn't matter which one. Houtaro's continuation of the ending is a narrative trick that is a hundred times more interesting than the original setting: the prisoner is the seventh person besides the six people. Videography. Houtaro continued writing a classic Hongepa script into a new Hongepa narrative trick, which just confirms my thinking is reasonable: Mr. Po, is the answer you prepared correct and unique? If the first Two, third, ten, a hundred reasonable answers, what to do?"

Poe's hand holding the hardcover book slowly dropped.

"I, always find the mystery dramas that are on the air, the discussions are very interesting. Because the audience will brainstorm and come up with endless possibilities, and there will be more exciting and perfect stories than the screenwriters - continue to write the story, the correct answer It’s not the only one, this method is good, that angle of view is superb, so it can be done like this!”

"Mr. Po, your reasoning game, including other mystery novels, I think, is just my personal feeling. It should not be called "finding out the truth about serial murders", but "reasoning your creative ideas", right? "

Poe opened his round eyes in surprise.

Heart pounding.

"——Ranbu is not interested in seeing through the creative thinking of mystery novels. If you don't mind, I can try it and deduce your creative thinking. I read very fast. It's just that it doesn't guarantee the answer you want. "

Covered by thick forehead hair, Po went straight into Zhilizi's fresh green eyes, as if they had absorbed the spring light and filled with soft light.

He has carefully studied all the books that Chiriko recommended to him.Japanese is almost as proficient as my mother tongue, so I can have a fluent conversation with Chiriko and Ranbu. At this moment, I feel that my vocabulary is extremely scarce, and it is difficult to describe the light and mood I saw.

His mood is probably that he has completed a super-satisfactory work.

And that light is pure and penetrating, clean and bright.

It will be cherished and remembered together with his experience of being defeated by Luanpo.

Sure enough, face-to-face conversations are more exciting than emails and the few phone calls.

Sure enough, I want to have a closer relationship with Chiriko!

Sure enough, I think about it even more now!

Zhi Lizi gently took the book.

ehhhhh-

Conan stared incredulously at the empty seat.

When Chiriko opened the page, she and the rushing Luanbu disappeared out of thin air!

The author has something to say: *Poe. Besides, it only cost me 2000 million US dollars, and the position of the design team leader ranks third in the group. So this money is just passing by. →Bing Guo, the dead end of thousands of people* Novels that use narrative tricks, such as some of Ayatsuji’s works that appear in this chapter, are very interesting. Thanks to dream_chaser for throwing a mine and Jiang Ting, Frozen Lemon Tea, Cherry, Walnut Liangzai, Coconut Sago, A Quiet Kid Paper, Pluto, Warm Sunflower Sunshine, dream_chaser, Bird in a Cage, Did Da Da update the nutrient solution today?