Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 348 Beware of New Types of Scams
Qin Zhibo took the 120 million banknotes from Ah Fu, but as soon as he got the banknotes, Qin Zhibo realized that something was wrong.

The portraits of people printed on these [-]-yen bills are not [-]-yen bills in circulation.

Ah Fu saw Qin Zhibo's doubts, so he explained: "These are the money I saved decades ago, because I have never had a chance to spend it, so it has become the old version of the old banknotes."

"But 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 120 million bills aside first, and asked, "I read the news in the morning. Since you paid the money in advance, it means that Baima hasn't woken up yet?"

A 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."

Ah Fu turned and left, Qin Zhibo was still flattered with the 120 million banknote.

So far, Qin Zhibo's small coffers have accumulated 1300 million, and there is still 1700 million left before he can buy the upper floor.

Although it sounds like a lot of money is needed, as long as the social credit is getting higher and higher, as a detective, the speed of money should still be very fast.

Coming to the desk, putting the 120 million banknotes in the drawer, Qin Zhibo picked up the newspaper on the desk and read it.

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

However, the original owner had already subscribed to the newspaper for two months, so after the newspaper was delivered, Qin Zhibo would 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 too interested, and just glanced at the headlines of the various pages.

Just as the newspaper turned to the advertisement page of the last page, a bright investigation point jumped onto the paper.

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

[In the Showa era, there was one important thing that most Japanese would keep. Do you still have such a thing?

As long as you still have this precious item that is almost completely extinct, you will have the opportunity to get a free Ogasawara dolphin tour group.

Seats are limited, first come first served.]

Seeing this advertisement, Qin Zhibo had the feeling of "beware of new types of deception".

In the future, this kind of deception is to use a riddle with an obvious answer to attract people to call for a prize quiz, but in fact it is to defraud the phone bill.

Qin Zhibo, who was young and inexperienced, was once cheated in this way and paid an IQ tax of 10 yuan.

Since then, Qin Zhibo no longer believes that there are free pies in the sky.

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

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

Because it is responsible for dealing with such intelligent crimes as fraud, it is the second search section of the Metropolitan Police Department, the department where Officer Nakamori works.

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

It would seem a little deliberate to ask Officer Nakamori directly, and it might arouse suspicion.

But if it happened because of other cases, it would be more natural to casually ask about the situation last night.

After all, "Qin Zhibo" was able to see the situation in the hell exhibition hall through the surveillance camera yesterday, and he is not ignorant of Spider's affairs, so it is only natural to ask casually.

Thinking in his heart, Qin Zhibo started the secret language investigation.

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

[Secret language survey √]

【The old ten-thousand-yen banknote with Prince Shotoku as the head of the person circulating in the Showa era】

Wait a minute!
Qin Zhibo quickly opened the drawer and took out the 120 million that Ah Fu had settled for himself just now.

Isn't this a coincidence?

This happens to be the old [-]-yen bill!
When Qin Zhibo packed his clothes and came to the port, dozens of people who participated in the prize quiz had already stood outside the port, and more people came to line up one after another.

These people all brought their family members or male (female) friends with them, as well as suitcases, as if they were going to take a quick trip.

It seems that in this day and age, the concept of this scam is still very new and can fool a lot of people.

In order to expose the deception quickly, Qin Zhibo also hurried over to line up.

The people who lined up in front of the quiz guessed all kinds of answers, some were Rubik's cube, some were records, some were comic books, and some were samurai swords.
There are even more outrageous people who directly dig out a lot of department store products from their bags, trying to take them out one by one to try and make mistakes, but are told by the staff that there is only one chance to guess, and they are politely invited out.

From the people who failed the quiz, Qin Zhibo didn't hear what price he had to pay for the quiz, which was slightly different from the routine of TV prize guessing.

However, Qin Zhibo guessed that this place is offline after all, and once the crowd gets excited, accidents can easily happen.

Therefore, the real scam should focus on the few people who guessed successfully, and defraud money from these people in the name of a tour group.

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

The losers followed one after another, and finally it was Qin Zhibo's turn to guess.

Behind the cloth curtain used to cover it, Qin Zhibo took out the [-]-yen banknotes that hadn't been warmed up from his pocket, and showed them to the staff.

"Congratulations, you got the answer right, please get on board."

When Qin Zhibo passed through the door, he found a luxurious medium-sized cruise ship docked in front of the port.

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

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

Well, this scam is quite costly.

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

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

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

This caught Qin Zhibo a little off guard, because once the cruise ship really sailed, the price would be high, after all, he didn't like the feeling of being at sea.

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

The waiter smiled and replied: "Mr. Furukawa has already settled all the expenses of chartering the boat this time, so you don't need to pay any more."

Ok?
Just when Qin Zhibo was a little wondering that there would really be pie in the sky, some familiar voices came from behind.

"This place looks like a restaurant!"

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

"It's all thanks to Conan who guessed the answer correctly!"

(End of this chapter)