How to start Meursault

Bin Zhongcao, 57 years old, is a criminal consultant.

Just as he considers himself a contemporary Professor Moriarty and always wears a suit and vest in the office, Haminaka is a Western-style school.

Correspondingly, drinking is the type of going to a bar rather than an izakaya.

There was one bar he went to the most, and today was no exception.

However, when Hamaka walked to the bar and was about to ask the bartender to take out the wine he had stored before, he found that the seat he usually sat was already occupied.

Usually it's fine, but—

This is obviously a minor!

Although the content of the job is to plan crimes for others, Hamaka feels that it is not appropriate for the bartender to let minors into the bar.

And this kid is sitting in front of the bar, so the bartender is also turning a blind eye?

Before Hamaka took a step forward to say something, the person sitting there turned around and looked at him.

"If you're asking why the bartender let me in, it's because I told him I'm not Japanese and in France you can drink alcohol legally at the age of 16."

The person who spoke to Hamaka was a boy who seemed to have never reached the age of 18, and the boy was holding a book in French on the cover.

"Levisible etl'invisible, the visible and the invisible? Merleau-Ponty doesn't look like a book your age would like."

In fact, the boy's jumpy opening is somewhat impolite, and generally speaking, Hamaka is not interested in talking to this kind of "children" who have no hair yet, but for some reason, under the slightly dim light After the other party's blue eyes, Binaka naturally read out the title of the book written by the other party in response.

Even the biggest flaw - the other party was in a bar, and reading under this kind of light, it didn't enter Binzhong's brain.

After hearing Binzhong read the title of the book in French, the boy's eyes flickered indistinctly.

“It’s normal to have a bit of an existential crisis at my age,” he says with a smile.

"Then I can only say that young people in this country will read "Setting Sun"."

The boy simply laughed out loud as if he was amused, and tapped the spine of the book lightly with the index finger of his left hand at the same time, before stopping after a while.

"My name is He Jianjingren." This is what it means to be ready to make friends.

"Binzhong exercises."

Binaka said his name and sat down next to Herami.He had a hunch that tonight would be very interesting.

"So you're not actually French?"

"Hmm, in the United States, the legal drinking age is higher than in Japan. However, I don't order alcoholic beverages."

As He Jian said, he picked up his cup and took a sip—it was actually soda water.

And the bartender inside the bar had to pretend he didn't hear after pushing the drink that Hamaka had ordered over.

As a minor, he came to the bar specially, but only ordered a glass of soda water. Hamaka could feel a sense of humor from Hemi's behavior.

"Did you intend to study here?" he asked.

"Not exactly. A bar is a good place to practice observation."

"Observation practice?"

"Well... because I'm a high school student detective? According to what you say here." He Jian's tone was a little uncertain and hesitant, as if he was not very confident in his own level.

When the word 'detective' came out of Hasami's mouth, Hamaka's smile faded for a second.

"Oh? In fact, we are very destined. I am a writer who writes mystery novels." Hamaka said slowly, taking a sip of whiskey.

The difference between 'crime novels' and mystery novels is not very far.

"A mystery novel?" He Jian pondered for a moment, "Mr. Binzhong, in fact, in my opinion, the author of a mystery novel is on the opposite side of a detective."

It's hard to describe Binzhong Cao's mood when he heard this sentence.

He seemed to have been split from the top of his skull with an axe.At the same time, I felt unspeakably thirsty.

Hamanaka took another swig of his wine.

"Because the reasoning writer is the one who actually created the case, isn't that so?" He said nonchalantly.

"That's right. One side is the builder, and the other side is the interpreter. However, the opposite is not opposite, because I think the existence of the detective is part of the complete puzzle. The drama needs a critic—" He Jian said halfway, as if Feeling that what he said was a bit too much, he added, "Of course, this refers to the situation in the mystery novel, not the reality."

"Quite a classical reading. Does the Moriarty-Holmes counterpoint reflect the Conan Doyle-Holmes counterpoint?"

Hamaka didn't respond completely voluntarily, but the words were already slipping from the tip of his tongue.

Sure enough, He Jian did not miss the hidden meaning.

"For example... It seems that Mr. Binzhong is quite confident in his works. I wonder if I have a chance to read them?"

of course not.Because all of Haminaka's 'works' have never been published, and they are not suitable for 'readers' to read.

But maybe it was because he drank alcohol today, or maybe it was some other reason, Binzhong didn't want to say no to the boy.

When he didn't answer for a long time until He Jian's expression turned to "Am I being too rude?", Binzhong Cao finally came up with a wonderful way of answering.

"Speaking of which, you are a detective. Shall I create a new mystery novel for you?" he said.

As Hamaka expected, He Jian's attention was immediately diverted from the previous "reading works".

"You create a puzzle and I solve it as a detective. Is that what you mean?"

There was an unbelievable surprise on the boy's face.

"That's right. And you can choose the type, murder in a secret room, or..." Because he switched to a field he was familiar with, Binaka subconsciously wanted to talk endlessly.

In the end, He Jian interrupted: "There is no need for this. Before the case happens, the detective should not know the information in advance."

- Then it's up to me to decide.

For a second Hamaka thought he could take this conversation lightly—he hadn't really written mystery novels at all—but the thought disappeared almost instantly.

Whoever creates the case, no, the one who creates the puzzle does need a detective.

The thought seemed as natural as it had been in his brain before.

When acting as a criminal consultant, considering the client's needs, it's better not to show up as a detective, but at this moment——

Mystery novelist 'Hamanaka Misaki' would have no problem wanting a detective.

'Binaka's reaction, to be honest, made me change my opinion of him. '

After chatting with Binzhong about classic tricks and reasoning for more than an hour, He Jian had to admit that the level of this criminal consultant was not that low.Even if you really treat him as a speculative novelist, his works may be quite good, but crimes in reality don't need so many tricks after all. As far as the concept of "perfect crime" is concerned, there is no difference between paper and reality. The situation is almost exactly the opposite.

Well, considering that this is the world of Detective Conan, let’s admit that Hamaka’s style is enough to complete a more feasible criminal plan.

It's just... When Binzhong suddenly said that he was going to write a novel for "He Jian Jingren", He Jian was really surprised.

The so-called "reading works" is just an excuse for He Jian to read the criminal plan planned by Binzhong before, not really want to read any novels, but since Binzhong took the initiative to speak, He Jian doesn't mind the other party writing.

To this end, he also exchanged an email address with Hamanaka, and after he really received the beginning of the article a few days later, he seriously wrote the idea of ​​'He Jian Jingren' as a detective.

On the other side of Nagano County, Akiyama Nobusuke, who also experienced subtle changes after meeting He Jian, was asked not to leave the police station after returning to the police station, and if he wanted to leave, he had to act with his colleagues.

"What happened?" he asked innocently.

"...Shikano is missing." Yamato Kansuke took a deep look at Akiyama and said.

When Yamato Gansuke and Zhu Fu Gaoming arrived at Shikano Akira's house, the door was locked, but no one came out to answer the door.

After forcibly breaking down the door, there was no one inside.

There was no sign of haste to pack things away, no attack or fight.

And the records of his case in Lu Ye's study are also in their original places, and there is no missing or abnormal shift.

"How is it possible? Didn't Officer Luye go home to check the information?" Akiyama asked.

Since Kano Akiji has the habit of keeping a case record at home, he was defaulted to go home before he "needed to check things" and did not return to the police station.

"He was supposed to go home, but when we went there was no one there."

The old apartments along the street are not monitored, and it is during working hours.There is no way no one has witnessed it—but is the person who took Lu Ye good at avoiding sight, or Lu Ye who left by himself deliberately avoided sight?

Or maybe Lu Ye never went back at all?

What is certain right now is that there must be something wrong with Shigeru Takeda's death.

It's just that, there is no need to tell Akiyama Nobusuke.

Yamato Gansuke and Zhu Fu Gaoming glanced at each other, relying on the tacit understanding of You Xunran to understand the meaning of the other party.

——In addition to searching Shikano Akiji, there is probably no better way than fishing.

Akiyama Shinsuke did not change his mind because of being restricted in action.

In fact, since Akiyama's third target, Saneda Mamoru, was also at the county police station, he also got a lot of opportunities, as long as he was mentally prepared to be arrested after killing someone.

And this chance will remain ample until Kano Akiji's body is found.

No corpse, no case-although this sentence is not intended here, it is very appropriate.

When Kurodabei asked Mori Kogoro to stay, he guessed whether his immediate boss, who was airborne before, knew a thing or two about the Woodpecker Club. Fortunately, it turned out that the other party obviously did not know that the entire Takeda class was a member. Otherwise, the three of them would never be allowed to ask if there were any witnesses.

Lu Ye will "want to go back and check something" is actually not planning to check the case records, but to check the account books - the serial number of the gun has not been worn out, and it can be found that it was seized by him - Lu Ye wants to check Is the gun supposed to be in the 'warehouse' or has it been sold.

The location of the account book is at Shigeru Takeda's house, so in fact it was Akiyama and Luye who went to Taketa's house, but Akiyama didn't mention it when he reported it to the jurisdiction.

When Kano Akiji hastily took out the account book from Takeda Shigeru's drawer interlayer, Akiyama wrapped a rope around Kano's neck from behind him and began to exert force.

A few minutes later, he took the fresh body away in a suitcase that had been placed downstairs.In fact, when Yamato Kansuke called, he had just finished pouring a concrete column.

Akiyama felt that Lu Ye's body would probably not have a chance to be exposed before he killed Saneda Mori.