The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

Qin Zhibo took the 1.2 million banknotes from Ah Fu, but as soon as he took the banknotes, Qin Zhibo noticed something was wrong.

The portraits printed on these 10,000-yen bills are not the 10,000-yen bills in circulation.

Ah Fu saw Qin Zhibo's doubts, so he explained: "These are the money I saved decades ago. Because I never had the chance to spend them, they became old versions of old banknotes."

"But please don't worry, these old banknotes can also be circulated normally, or you can go to the bank to exchange them for new banknotes."

"Anthracene, I understand."

Qin Zhibo put the 1.2 million banknotes aside and asked: "I read the news in the morning. Since you paid the money temporarily, does it mean that Bai Ma hasn't woken up yet?"

Ah Fu shook his head, "The young master is already awake, but I don't want to disturb the young master's rest with this kind of thing, so I will settle the payment for inviting you first."

"Then I'll take my leave first."

Ah Fu turned around and left. Qin Zhibo was still happy with the 1.2 million banknotes.

So far, Qin Zhibo's small treasury has accumulated 13 million, and there is still 17 million left before he can buy the floor upstairs.

Although it sounds like a lot of money is needed, as long as social credit is getting higher and higher, as a detective, the money should come in very quickly.

When he came to the desk, he put the 1.2 million banknotes into the drawer. Qin Zhibo picked up the newspaper on the table and started reading.

Compared with watching the morning news every day, Qin Zhibo does not have the habit of reading newspapers every day.

However, the original owner has subscribed to the newspaper for two months, so after the newspaper is delivered, Qin Zhibo will read it a little in his spare time.

It's yesterday's newspaper. Today's newspaper is outside the door and hasn't been brought in yet.

Since it was yesterday's newspaper, Qin Zhibo was not very interested and just glanced at the headlines of the major pages.

Just when I turned the newspaper to the advertisement page on the last page, a bright investigation point suddenly appeared on the page.

This was the first time Qin Zhibo encountered this situation, so he paid a little attention to the content above.

[In the Showa era, there was an important thing that most Japanese people kept. Do you still have it now?

As long as you still own this precious item that is almost completely extinct, you have a chance to get a free Ogasawara dolphin tour.

Seats are limited, first come first served.】

Seeing this advertisement, Qin Zhibo felt "wary of new scams".

In the future, this scam will use a riddle with an obvious answer to attract people to call and take a prize, but in fact it is to defraud phone bills.

Qin Zhibo, who was young and innocent, was once deceived like this and paid an IQ tax of 10 yuan.

From then on, Qin Zhibo no longer believed that there was a free pie in the sky.

In Qin Zhibo's judgment, this should be an ancient version of the TV prize-winning scam, which changed the media from TV to newspapers.

But now Qin Zhibo has become somewhat interested in this scam.

Because the department responsible for handling smart crimes such as fraud is the Police Department's Investigation Section 2, where Officer Nakamori works.

If you can detect this scam, you can be invited to the police station for tea, meet Officer Nakamori, and ask about Spider.

If you go directly to Officer Nakamori to ask, it will seem a bit deliberate and may arouse suspicion.

But if it happened to be due to other cases, it would be much more natural to casually ask about what happened last night.

After all, "Qin Zhibo" could see the situation in the Hell Exhibition Hall through the surveillance camera yesterday. He didn't know anything about Spider, and it was only natural to ask casually.

Thinking in his mind, Qin Zhibo started a secret investigation.

Although the riddles of this kind of scam are usually very simple, Qin Zhibo is not Japanese in either past or present life, so he can only rely on investigation.

【Secret Word Survey√】

[Old 10,000 yen banknotes with the portrait of Prince Shotoku in circulation during the Showa era]

Wait a minute!

Qin Zhibo quickly opened the drawer and took out the 1.2 million that Ah Fu had just settled for him.

Isn't this a coincidence?

This happens to be the old version of the 10,000 yen bill!

When Qin Zhibo got dressed and came to the port, there were already dozens of people participating in the prize betting standing outside the port, and more people came to line up.

These people all brought their families or male (female) friends with them and their suitcases, as if they were preparing for a quick trip.

It seems that in this era, the concept of this scam is still very new, and it can deceive a lot of people.

In order to expose the scam quickly, Qin Zhibo also hurried over to queue up.

The people in front of the queue guessed a variety of answers to the riddles, some were Rubik's cubes, some were records, some were comic books, and some were samurai swords.

There are even more outrageous people who directly dug out a lot of department store products from their bags and wanted to take them out one by one to try out. However, they were told by the staff that there was only one chance to guess, and they were politely asked out.

From the people who failed the guess, Qin Zhibo didn't hear what price they needed to pay for the guess, which was slightly different from the formula of the TV prize-winning guess.

However, Qin Zhibo guessed that this place was offline after all, and once the crowd got excited, it would be easy to cause an accident.

Therefore, the real scam should be focused on a small number of people who succeed in betting, and defraud these people out of money in the name of travel groups.

The answer is banknotes, so it's probably a trick to get a deposit or something.

The losers came one after another, and finally it was Qin Zhibo’s turn to bet.

Behind the curtain, Qin Zhibo took out the 10,000-yen note from his pocket and showed it to the staff.

"Congratulations on your correct answer, please come on board."

When Qin Zhibo walked through the door, he discovered that a luxurious medium-sized cruise ship was docked in front of the port.

A red carpet extends to the boarding ramp, and the service staff smiles at home.

Qin Zhibo nodded approvingly, but what he was actually thinking was something else.

Well, this scam is quite expensive.

When Qin Zhibo came to the front desk of the cruise ship, the waiter at the front desk politely congratulated him.

Just when Qin Zhibo thought he was about to start talking about money, the waiter just handed Qin Zhibo a room key.

"Sir, are you alone? If so, Room 110 happens to be a single room."

This caught Qin Zhibo off guard, because if the cruise ship really sailed, the price would be high. After all, he didn't like the feeling of staying at sea.

"Don't you charge a deposit or something?"

The waiter smiled and replied: "The cost of this charter has been fully paid by Mr. Furukawa, so you don't need to pay any additional fees."

Um?

Just when Qin Zhibo was wondering if pie would really fall from the sky, some familiar voices came from behind.

"This looks like a hotel!"

"It's really nice to take this kind of boat to Ogasawara. The most important thing is that it's completely free."

"This is all thanks to Conan for guessing the correct answer!"