[Conan Doujin] The Mystery of Theseus

Puzzle14 Twilight, also known as □□□□.

Later, all the chess pieces were placed on the chessboard, and they were all in their positions.

Play the first piece calmly, or flip the board in front of your opponents, the options are many.

Finding the not only best among the thousands of possibilities, exhaustion is the simplest and most direct evolution.

There will be thousands and thousands of correct routes.However, different routes lead to the same goal.

Even after thinking about it, he couldn't summarize any special information from Kuroba's limited network, and the depressed Edogawa couldn't get out of the brainstorm caused by Haibara's simple sentence until the end of the day's schoolwork.If you want to get more information, it's not a good idea to ask the person directly - even if the other party can't lie, it doesn't mean that he won't hide and pretend to be stupid.

Asking people around you is also not a perfect solution.The answer formed by the intersection of thousands of lines of sight, the subjective color contained in it is like a filter that varies from person to person, some lines are directly exaggerated in color blocks, and some are ambiguous and nothing can be seen clearly.Coupled with the addition of a layer of filters from the inquirer's own subjective consciousness, it is simply impossible to correctly observe the real body of the observed object.

Sure enough, it is more intuitive to go and see for yourself... After quickly finalizing the plan after class, Edogawa went straight to the tram stop after leaving the gate of Teidan Elementary School.Of course, he didn't forget to ask Hui Yuan, who was an allied army, to help him cover.

"If you see Lan," he said hastily, as if it was a matter of course for elementary school students to return home late, "tell me, I will go back later today."

Despite dropping by, Huihara didn't seem willing to do the owl's job. "Since you already thought of asking for instructions in advance," she folded her arms indifferently, "why don't you send a text message yourself?"

Edogawa said lightly that this is just a strategy of cutting first and then playing.

"If I had said it in advance, it might have been rejected at the beginning."

Jian Jian and Hui Yuan finalized the reason for returning late, and Edogawa immediately put his plan into practice.He quickened his pace and walked through the not dense crowd in front of the station, looked up at the tram map and calculated the most trouble-free route planning.

The destination is clear - Jiang Gutian High School.

At this point in time, high school students should not have left school.If you have to participate in club activities after school, you will have more time.

Speaking of which, I don't know what kind of club that guy will join...

Enter the platform, wait, get on the train.Hearing the wheels hitting the track regularly in the swaying carriage, Edogawa suddenly had doubts about his too smooth actions.

Why am I so sure that the destination is Jiang Gutian High School.

There is absolutely no need to ask this question, and Edogawa himself is well aware of this.It only takes a little searching in memory to get the answer in no time.When he was still Kudo Shinichi, he had heard the words "Eichi Furuta High School" in the conversation between Ran and Aoko Nakamori.

Nakamori and Kuroba are classmates, and they both study at Ekoda. This is a fact that can be grasped through logical thinking that cannot be regarded as reasoning.Although the source of information for this fact is more or less hearsay, its credibility is still [-]% tentatively.

After leaving the station, he walked for nearly a block... Looking at the navigation route on his mobile phone, Edogawa was not uncomfortable with the unfamiliar scenery in front of him.Along the way, at least two worried ladies kindly asked "Are you lost?", but he rejected the stranger's kindness with "I know the way".

As long as you know where you're going, you're not lost even if you don't know what's going to happen in the next block.

Anyway, Jiang Gutian High School will definitely be there, and the area indicated on the map will not be an empty space, right?

While teasing from the bottom of my heart, the outline of the destination is already in front of my eyes.

It's really slow...

Edogawa, who didn't intend to break into the high school campus as a primary school student, waited on the opposite side of the school gate, watching the students leave the school in twos and threes.

Impatiently looking at his watch again, Edogawa felt that he urgently needed to do something to divert his attention.He shifted his gaze to those students.

Stand-up collar uniform and sailor uniform... He looked up and down Eguda's uniform thoughtfully, always having the illusion that he was standing at the gate of a junior high school.But among the students who walked out of the school gate, there was no familiar face.Forget about Kuroba, even Nakamori didn't see it.

The setting sun was already slanting badly, and students who participated in club activities should have started to leave school by this time.

After waiting and waiting, even the sky began to turn gray.He almost lost his composure and sent a text message to Hei Yu, asking what the other party was still dawdling in school at this moment, but considering that if he let the other party notice, he might not get the observation result he wanted, He had to give up.

In other words, I haven't heard from Kuroba recently that there will be a school festival here, and it's not the right season to hold a sports meeting.At this time, there should be few students who choose to spend the night at school, right?Shaking his head and forgetting that outrageous assumption, Edogawa secretly planned to wait another 5 minutes, and if he still couldn't see anyone, he would end today's observation operation.

sixty, fifty nine...

In the last minute, he began to count the seconds in his heart.

No one was seen coming out of the school anymore.

……one.

Let's go back.

Self-comforting, maybe he missed the other party's figure just because he was distracted for a moment, or maybe that playful guy played truant to the game center today, Edogawa was not too frustrated because of the failure of the squat.After all, I just wanted to see that guy's defenseless side.

Who will be talking to, what route will be taken to go home... It sounds like enough everyday fragments, but if you don't see it with your own eyes, God knows whether these scenes that you can imagine with your eyes closed really exist.

Tomorrow, tomorrow should be able to meet it.

Edogawa thought so as he walked towards the station.

However, the next day, there was still no trace of Kuroba at the gate of Jiang Gutian Middle School.

This is not normal.

Edogawa stared blankly at the empty Ekoda campus, which looked like an old photo yellowed by the setting sun.

This is absolutely not normal.

Not showing up at school for two consecutive days is not an extremely low probability event.But in the past two days, I haven't even seen Aoko Nakamori, which makes no sense.

Edogawa didn't think that his attention would miss the figures of those two people.Even if they all have black hair and wear uniforms that are indistinguishable from other students, for acquaintances, their appearance is not indistinguishable from the crowd at a glance.

Leaving the gate of Ekoda High School again, Edogawa didn't take the tram back immediately, but wandered around there aimlessly.For a moment, he half-jokingly wondered if he had really lost his way, lost in a strange world where the whole world was strangers but himself.

If all the cards in a deck of poker are replaced, when the deck is turned over again, it is naturally impossible to choose the card you originally selected.What a simple magic trick, a fool can do it.

Resignedly smiling and giving up the idea of ​​"seeing what that guy is doing while he's not paying attention", Edogawa resignedly took out his mobile phone and sent a text message to Kuroba.

"Where are you?"

Almost the second after he pressed "send", Edogawa heard the voice that he was so familiar with that he would ignore it.He looked around in bewilderment and found himself standing opposite a bar.

And in the storefront of the bar, Kuroba was tinkering with an old cue very seriously, talking to the old man at the bar counter who was cleaning the glass goblet.