RNP Chapter 774 The thief shouts to catch the thief
Chapter 774 The thief shouts to catch the thief
Chapter 774 The thief shouts to catch the thief
Ginzo Nakamori pointed at little Martin and gave an order, and the mobile team officers who had already reacted to Kaito Kid surrounded the door.
But when they saw it was little Martin, the leading team member stopped and asked: Why are you here again?
No, there is no injury on the face, it seems to be another one.
"Inspector, he shouldn't be Kaito Kid, right?" The team member turned to look at Nakamori Ginzo and said in an embarrassed tone: "Look at his height..."
"That's true..." Nakamori Ginzo reacted, but was still confused. He looked at Little Martin, then turned his head to look at the crumb Martin in the room: "Then why are there two little ghosts?"
What's even more strange is where did their clothes come from?
Huihara Ai looked at him with dead fish eyes: "I wonder if you, Inspector Nakamori, have ever heard of a biological term called twins."
"Oh, so it's the situation where two children look exactly the same, right? I know, I know!" Nakamori Ginzo suddenly realized, "My daughter and Maori's daughter are twins."
The mobile team officers whispered, "Inspector, was that a fake bar last night?"
"Alright, alright, come in." Nakamori Ginzo urged Little Martin to go in with a smile on his face, then he closed the door and locked it, and asked casually, "By the way, what's your name, kid?"
"My name is Martin." said little Martin.
Martin! Facing the gate, Nakamori Ginzo's eyelids jumped violently, and his pupils shrank a little. Why the hell are you messing with me again? I don't want to play anymore and want to go home, is that ok? What does Huolala transport?
But when he turned around, there was no trace of strangeness on his face: "This name sounds familiar, this should be the first time we meet, right?"
But his eyes seemed to look at little Martin for a moment, but he blinked and broke the eye contact.
"What's the name of the twin boy?"
"My name is Martin." Martin looked at Ginzo Nakamori and said, as if he was expecting Ginzo Nakamori's reaction.
"Ah?" Nakamori Ginzo was indeed confused: "You have the same name? Isn't this abnormal?"
Which one is Martin? Could this guy be capable of mitosis? …Did he find someone who looks very similar to him like last time, or did he just become another person like the time before that?
"No problem. What do you think is the biggest pain point of twins? -- Others can't tell them apart, and it's embarrassing for everyone if they call the wrong person by the wrong name." Martin snapped his fingers: "As long as we call each other by the same name, it can be guaranteed that others will not call us by the wrong name. Please call us high emotional intelligence."
"Haha... that makes sense." Nakamori Ginzo pulled the corner of his mouth, looked at the other children and joked, "Is there anyone else named Martin?"
"How about you also call yourself Martin?" Martin suggested very seriously.
'Nakamori Ginzo': Sure enough, the one with the wound on his face looks more like Martin. The wound on his face must have been caused by someone beating... and biting him, who was playing a prank on him.
"Hehe, you two are so easy to tell apart. One has teeth marks on his face, and the other doesn't." Nakamori Ginzo laughed at Martin with his crescent eyes, "I'm sure you'll recognize him. I won't make a mistake."
Martin waved Little Martin to come in front of him, then put his hands on the shoulders of Little Martin, who had a clear and confused look on his face. He looked very serious and even a little affectionate: "Brother, twins must be exactly the same. We have to eat buns with the same number of folds when we eat buns since we were young, and we can't eat dragon fruit with one seed missing. Now that brother is injured, I'm sorry!"
After saying that, Martin opened his bloody mouth: "Ahhhhhh——"
"Help!" Little Martin screamed in panic.
Suzuki Jirokichi took action, picked up the two Martins one in each hand and separated them, and little Martin escaped.
"Old Deng is great, with Huang on his left and Cang on his right. Why does he always say he is old with this body?" Martin gave a thumbs up.
"You are on my left hand." Suzuki Jirokichi was a little speechless: "Stop messing around, Kaito Kidd is coming soon, you are my special forces this time, I am counting on you."
The three little ones who were entrusted with the important task were extremely excited. Their chests were pounding and they spoke all kinds of lofty ambitions, as if catching Kaito Kidd was a piece of cake.
"It's not 'coming soon'." Martin reminded: "Since the door is locked, Kaito Kidd must have 'already come', otherwise there would be nothing to steal."
"Yeah," Suzuki Jirokichi agreed, looking back at the three uncles and aunts on TV: "Every adult in this room is suspicious right now, even me."
At this time, the adults in the room included Suzuki Jirokichi, Nakamori Ginzo, the TV station trio, and eight police officers, a total of thirteen people. In addition, there were seven real and fake children from the Junior Detective Team, a total of twenty people.
"Could Kaito Kidd have come in through the tunnel?" Nakamori Ginzo was still discussing seriously. He squatted on the ground and touched the ground with his hand to confirm the damp and rotten floor under his feet: "It seems that there is still nothing underneath."
Apparently in order to preserve Sanshui Kichiemon's mechanism, Suzuki Jirokichi limited the renovation of the ancient temple to the four walls and the roof.
"I didn't move the floor, but I surrounded the base of the house with wire mesh." Suzuki Jirokichi obviously considered this point: "If Kaito Kid dares to drill in, he will be trapped."
"Hmm..." Nakamori Ginzo nodded, seeming to be still thinking.
The TV trio spoke up: "Everyone, the time is almost up, let's start the live broadcast."
The three little ones, who had just given a military order to Suzuki Jirokichi, rushed to the camera and got ready when they heard that their most desired dream of becoming famous on TV was about to come true.
At the beginning of the live broadcast, the reporter first greeted the audience, then introduced the location and origin of this place, and then introduced the pride of Suzuki Jirokichi and Sanshui Yoshiemon's mechanism, emphasizing that if Kaito Kid wants to steal the gems, four accomplices must turn the key at the same time.
"Martin." Conan quietly patted Martin's shoulder: "Do you know anything about the Chinese mythical beasts?"
"I've tried most of them." Martin blinked. "You want to ask about Qilin? But I've never seen a real Qilin with only one horn."
"I've tasted it..." Conan was controlled by Martin's words for two and a half seconds, and then continued: "I'm not asking about the Qilin, but the four mythical beasts that are as famous as the Qilin."
"?" Martin tilted his head, then continued to tilt his head, and then tilted his head again, until his head was tilted to 90 degrees, still looking at Conan with some confusion: "Which four beasts?"
"It's the Azure Dragon and the Vermillion Bird. These four often appear together in legends, right?" Conan looked at the four platforms in the corner and pointed at one of them. "Look at that red platform. There's a faint Chinese character '雀' on it. It should mean Vermillion Bird, right?"
"Green, red, white, and black... east, south, west, north... they are almost the four symbols." Martin nodded. These four platforms indeed corresponded to the Azure Dragon on the left, the White Tiger on the right, the Vermillion Bird on the top, and the Black Tortoise on the bottom. As for the east, west, south, and north, he couldn't tell the directions while staying in the room.
Then Martin sighed: "So you Japanese have messed up the Chinese culture...When did the Qilin get put together with the Four Elephants?" "Huh? Isn't it?" This time it was Conan Cheese Mango's turn.
"The so-called four symbols are actually the constellations in the sky. The ancient Babylonians divided the constellations into twelve constellations and then divided them into four groups according to earth, water, fire and wind. Ancient China divided them into twenty-eight constellations and divided them into four symbols in groups of seven according to east, west, south and north."
In 1928, the International Astronomical Union re-demarcated the boundaries of the constellations, dividing the sky into constellations, of which are zodiacal constellations, namely the twelve constellations we are familiar with plus Ophiuchus. (However, the zodiac is still divided into twelve parts, namely the twelve zodiac signs.)
"So the four directions and four symbols are actually constellations, and there is no place for Qilin in the sky." Martin spread his hands, "But later it was linked to the five elements, that is, gold, wood, water, fire and earth. The Azure Dragon in the east represents wood, and the White Tiger in the west represents gold... In this way, the most important position of 'Middle Earth' was vacant."
Conan's eyes lit up: "So the Kirin was added in?"
It just so happens that the Qilin statue in this room is in the pillar in the middle of the room.
Martin didn't say anything, just looked at Conan and sighed.
"It seems not?" Conan shrank his neck.
"Great Detective, if you think so... the Zhu in Suzaku means scarlet red, you know that. The Xuan in Xuanwu means reddish black in ancient Chinese, and later it also means pure black, do you know that?"
Conan: "The word Xuan means black?"
Martin: "That's right, so fantasy novels are actually novels that describe 'dark fantasies'."
Conan: "Brother, this is off topic."
"Look, the naming method of the Four Symbols is actually very simple: a green dragon, a red bird, a white tiger, and a black turtle." Martin counted on his fingers and said, "Look at the Qilin. What color is the Qilin? Khaki?"
"So?" Conan listened very carefully. After all, this mechanism was based on the symbolic elements of mythical beasts, and the solution to cracking it might lie in it.
"So the earth-based mythical beast added in the middle was called 'Yellow Dragon', which was actually a name change for Yinglong... Yinglong is also called Zulong and Laolong. The five-clawed golden dragon that was later used to represent imperial power was also evolved from it, which is the most awesome dragon in the mythical beast list." Martin looked up at the ceiling, recalling his past experiences in a certain fantasy world while explaining to Conan: "Mao Du gave birth to Yinglong, Yinglong gave birth to Jianma, and Jianma gave birth to Qilin. I guess when you Japanese moved these mythological elements into your own homes, you felt that the Qinglong was already a dragon, and adding the Yellow Dragon would seem repetitive, so you just randomly added Qilin into the mythical beast list."
Qilin, like Pixiu, is an auspicious animal and does not work in the same system as the Four Symbols.
Conan: "So you are the cheap horse (Ding) caught between Yinglong and Qilin?"
……
Maori Detective Agency.
Suzuki Sonoko and Mouri Ran were sitting in front of the TV watching TV together. After the reporter lady introduced the mechanisms of the house, she briefly introduced Nakamori Ginzo and Suzuki Jirokichi, and then focused on introducing the Boy Detective Team which was the most likely to grab ratings and headlines.
A group of kids go to catch Kaito Kid, who the Metropolitan Police Department has tried to catch several times but has failed. This theme is very gimmicky.
"It's great that they can be on TV and meet Kid-Sama." Suzuki Sonoko said enviously while drinking juice through a straw.
Behind them, Kogoro Mouri was drinking a can of beer through a straw. Since Xiaolan locked the refrigerator, he only had a quota of this can of beer per day.
Kogoro Maori took a small sip carefully, holding about three to five milliliters in his mouth. Just as he was about to savor the aroma of the malt, it had already slipped down his throat without him noticing.
Well, it’s soft in the mouth and a smooth texture in the throat!
No, this is the only one I have left. I have to drink it sparingly! However, when he realized what was happening, Maori Kogoro's mouth was already wrapped around the straw. It looked like this can wouldn't last more than a few minutes.
Hearing Suzuki Sonoko's envious voice, Maori Kogoro was a little puzzled. How could there be something that this rich lady couldn't get? "Then why don't you go too?"
"My uncle rejected me over the phone!" Suzuki Sonoko complained, "He said that if I went, I would become a disguise target for Kaito Kid."
Xiaolan was comforting Yuanzi on the side. At this time, the three little ones had finished their performance in front of the screen, and the reporter aunt continued to introduce the other children.
Haibara Ai had already told them in advance that she didn't want to be on camera, and Conan was the favorite to fight against Kaito Kid, so the reporter aunt guided the camera towards Conan and Martin who were still immersed in studying the history and mechanisms of the mythical beasts: "Children, are you studying how to catch Kaito Kid?"
"No, we are studying how to open the mechanism and steal the gems." Martin said without turning his head, and Conan nodded.
Suzuki Sonoko, who was outside the TV, was a little confused: "Who is this foreign kid with glasses? I've never seen him before."
"He..." Kogoro Mori was about to speak with a complicated expression.
On the TV, the reporter was indeed an experienced veteran. She was not at all flustered by Martin's unexpected answer and directly replied, "I see. It is actually a way of thinking that exchanges positions. By thinking about the possible theft methods that Kaito Kid might adopt, you can predict his actions in advance. You are indeed the hope of catching Kaito Kid!"
"Can you please come and say hello to all the friends watching on TV?"
As soon as he heard the TV, Martin, who had been indifferent to the reporter lady, turned around and revealed his face full of scratches and teeth marks: "Hello everyone, I'm Gin... No, I'm used to seeing the camera. Hello everyone, I'm Martin."
"Puff!" Outside the TV, Suzuki Sonoko sprayed a mouthful of juice evenly onto the coffee table: "Why is it this guy!"
"That's right!" Suzuki Sonoko suddenly realized: "As long as I ask this guy to turn me into a child, I can go see Kid-Sama!"
Then she started to freak out: "Ahhhh! Why didn't I think of this trick earlier! No, now that I've turned into a child, how am I going to show Kid-Sama my feminine charm? Ahhhh what should I do!"
Maori Kogoro, who was about to complain about Martin's outrageous behavior at school today, was the most surprised one: "Can this kid's face-changing be used on other people?"
A flash of lightning flashed behind Kogoro Mouri's head, and it seemed as if something vague was suddenly about to emerge from the back of his head... His head itched, and I felt like I was going to grow a brain!
Xiaolan stood up suddenly without saying a word, opened the refrigerator and took out another can of beer, then quickly walked back and stuffed it into Maori Kogoro's hand: "Drink more!"
"Great!" With beer in front of him, Kogoro Mouri smiled and swallowed back the brain that was about to grow out.
(End of this chapter)