Conan: The Self-cultivation of Fake Wine

"This world is so indifferent. Even if someone puts on a false coat for you and gives you a brief hug, you won't feel a trace of warmth. Well... that's it, let's go."

Bird Light stood there without moving, and now there was light in his eyes. Tears. This man lost his parents as a teenager, his wife as a young man, his son as a middle-aged man, and he finally collapsed after losing everything.

"I can't let go, I can't let go. He was only seventeen years old, why wasn't I the one who died?"

Lu Ren turned around, unmoved at all. How gentle his movements were before when he was cleaning Bird Light's face and clothes, but now his expression and posture were so cold. Perhaps compared to Toriyama, he now looks more like a devil to outsiders.

"It doesn't matter whether you let it go or not. No one will care except you. Come on, don't waste my time."

ps1: The animated version of this episode is a Christmas special, lasting two hours. The description of baseball games in this episode is very informative and professional. The fundamental reason is that Qi San himself did draw a baseball comic called "No. 3, 3rd Base". The two main high school players, Nagashima Shigeo and Inao Kazuhisa, are the protagonists of No. and rd base. This is why someone said in the barrage that these two people are very similar to Shinichi, and they both have the face of the protagonist. Because they are indeed the same protagonists as Kidd, hhh.

ps2: When I was writing, I suddenly felt that this game was very similar to this year’s World Cup final. The World Cup final was between Argentina and France. Argentina had the advantage and was overtaken by France. Then they equalized the score and continued to play overtime. After overtime, a penalty kick was taken. This kind of competitive sport may seem dry and indifferent when written about it. But it’s really different when watching the actual live broadcast. Because everything is unknown, you never know what will happen next moment. In addition, Qi San did not specify who won the final. He probably didn’t want to see either side lose.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 406: Hold On

Otaki half dragged and half pulled the collapsed Toriimitsu Yukio up from the ground. Even if they could not pursue or accuse him of the Koshien incident, he must give an explanation to the law for the fire that happened earlier.

Seeing Toriigu Yukio crying, Conan wanted to ask Lu Ren what he had said to Toriigu that could make a guy who called himself a devil become like this.

Conan hesitated for a moment and finally chose to give up.

"Brother Ren, let's go first. He still has a statement to make."

"Yeah. I have something else to do, so I won't go. By the way, I have a dinner party tonight, and I may have to stay here for another day or two after that. You don't have to wait for me when you come back."

"Row."

"Wait, there's one more thing."

"Ok?"

"I just borrowed a bottle of mineral water from that young lady. Go and pay for the bottle of mineral water for me. I wanted to come by myself, but she seems a little afraid of me now."

So what did you say to him that scared the girl next to you?

Conan forced himself to suppress the urge to complain and nodded to show that he understood.

"That's it, I'm leaving first."

Lu Ren said goodbye to everyone, returned to the director's room, and sat next to Bei Dao.

"Is the matter done?"

"Yeah." Lu Ren looked at the big screen. The bottom half of the tenth inning had ended, and the score was still 2-2. They had to go into overtime. "What do you think of their performance?"

"It's a rare and wonderful match. Either of them is fully qualified to win the championship."

"Yeah. That's good."

"Brother Ren, I think we can't give up on our original plan. We still have to interview them. They really put up a great fight."

"Of course, it's possible. But if we do both, isn't the workload a bit too much?" Lu Ren was a little worried about this, but he had no problem with it. The key was Kitajima Shino. Although Kitajima was not as frail as when they first met, he was not much better either, and was still a bit thin.

"It's okay. This amount of work is nothing."

"Okay. Then it's about time we get going."

"Ah."

In the bottom of the 3th inning, the game was decided. Facing Inao's strong pitch, Nagashima hit another home run, and the score was fixed at 2:, successfully leading Minato High School to win two consecutive Summer League titles.

Cheering, clamoring, shouting. Regardless of the sweat on their faces and the dust on their bodies, the young men gathered in a circle, tightly surrounding the long island in the center, enjoying the youth and victory that belonged to them at this moment.

……

It turns out that some people become the center of the storm wherever they go.

At noon, Gin, who was resting in the car, heard a piece of news that concerned him very much from the car radio.

"The first person to contribute to women's baseball, a lifetime honorary member of the Baseball Association, and is expected to become the next chairman of the Baseball Association." After listening to the radio broadcast, Gin couldn't help but light another cigarette.

"He was just watching a Koshien match, how could it be related to these things?"

"I, I don't know."

It's strange that you know this. Gin never intended to get any meaningful answer from Vodka.

Gin took a few deep puffs of his cigarette, "Maybe this guy feels that his previous reputation was too bad, so he wants to do this to restore his reputation."

"possible."

"Then he is just sick. It's okay now, but his reputation will only get worse in the future. Even if he wants to make money, why bother making money like this?"

Gin put out his cigarette, took out his cell phone and called Lu Ren.

"Hey?"

"How long are you going to stay there? Kiel is already here."

"Right away. I find baseball to be quite interesting. When we organize a team-building event someday, we can arrange to play baseball together."

Gin hung up the phone immediately.

Neuropathy……

"Is there a hospital in Tokyo that specializes in treating mental illness? Please make an appointment with him."

"Brother, I think Glen is doing pretty good now." Vodka whispered, "It's better than when he used to kill people over a disagreement."

Gin thought about it for a moment and realized that it was true.

"Yes, let him keep it."

……

"Immediately" is a magical word, a few minutes or a few hours can be immediately. But Lu Ren's "immediately" may be a little too long. After talking to Gin on the phone, Lu Ren, who was about to go back, stayed in Osaka for another three or two days. This is understandable, after all, his sense of time has always been very poor.

Fortunately, Gin didn't call him again to urge him.

A week later, Lu Ren returned to Tokyo. This time he was away for a longer time, and naturally gained a lot.

The proposal to have women's baseball enter Koshien was successfully passed and adopted. It will probably be a while before we can see them in Koshien.

Of course, this kind of charity is only done once. It is really troublesome, laborious, and has no practical benefits.

What Lu Ren said to Bei Dao before was true. The problem was that no matter how good the newspaper sales and program ratings were, it had nothing to do with Lu Ren, and Sato Kiyoshi was unlikely to give him more money.

The only substantial benefit may be that Bei Dao's rank has been raised again. She is now the editor-in-chief of the sports section of the Eastern Daily. The former editor-in-chief has been demoted to Bei Dao's deputy. She is now the head of two departments at the same time.

Also, when walking on the street with Bei Dao, a few high school girls would occasionally run up to him and say thank you.

Well...it's okay.

Of course there were other gains as well, but they had nothing to do with baseball.

Bei Dao was mainly responsible for the subsequent negotiations on women's baseball. Lu Ren was only responsible for being a qualified writer. After finishing the manuscript, he would walk around the streets of Osaka alone.

One is to learn how to make octopus balls, and the other is to solve cases and accumulate lottery tickets.

Maybe it was because he had been with Conan and Maori for too long. Lu Ren found that he seemed to have the ability to attract cases. Although the frequency was not as high as Conan's, one or even two cases a day, but there were still cases of one case every two days.

Of course, since the protagonist Conan is not here, all the cases that Lu Ren encounters in Osaka now have nothing to do with the original work, so naturally there is no plot hook.

But again, Conan and Hattori were not here. Without these two beasts competing with him, Lu Ren really didn't care much about the speed at which the police solved the case.

Identification + profiling + psychological perception. Lu Ren was not a problem with ordinary murder cases, at most he was just a little slower in solving them. It took him more than half a day to solve a case that Conan and Hattori could solve in two or three hours.

The first step to solve a case is to put on the two-piece suit of the marginal person. If there is an idea to solve the case, then solve it. If it can't be solved, just leave. For example, Lu Ren really has no way to solve the mystery with secret codes.

He also doesn't have the same sense of mission and responsibility as Conan Hattori, who has to find the murderer and solve the case. In Lu Ren's opinion, if the case can't be solved, then it can't be solved. It's better to say that this is the norm.

In real life, there are very few cases of premeditated murder that can be solved. Many cases remain unsolved for a year, two years, more than ten years, or even a lifetime, and are left piled up in the archives.

Solving one homicide case a year is an achievement, solving three or five is something that deserves to be written about and reported in the newspapers, and you'll be paid and given honors. If you can solve more than a dozen homicide cases, then you have to reflect on what's wrong with the public security in your area. Are there many murderers here?

Without mentioning other things, the fact that famous detectives like Conan and Hattori have an almost 100% crime-solving rate is itself a very mysterious thing. Otherwise, why does Megure call him "brother" so affectionately?

In his line of work, there is basically no reward for doing a good job, and you will be criticized for doing a bad job. It is a very stressful thing. But when you are walking on the street, you suddenly meet a kind-hearted person who does your job quickly and well without asking for money.

The best part is that his ambition is not to be a police officer, but a detective. He doesn't have to worry about losing his job. At most, he will be scolded for incompetence by his superiors and the media from time to time, which will be a little embarrassing. But in front of a 100% case-solving rate, what does this matter?

What stands out is the opening swing.

The same was true for Lu Ren. He had no sense of responsibility and would leave if he couldn't solve the case. He successfully solved three cases in seven days and successfully accumulated ten consecutive draws. He drew them directly when he returned home. After all, it was not convenient in Osaka. If he drew a big one, Lu Ren would not be able to explain where he got it from.

If there is anything regrettable about this trip to Osaka, it is that Bei Dao's writing skills have not yet made a breakthrough. During this week, Lu Ren burned all the remaining incense sticks. Lu Ren felt that he had made some progress, but Bei Dao had not made any progress at all and was still stuck at the advanced level of specialization.

After observing and accompanying the writing for a period of time, Lu Ren also noticed something.

Although he is only a junior master now, a junior master is still a master, and has also entered the highest hall of the field of writing. Lu Ren can responsibly say that any literary master has his own unique writing style, and it is impossible to become a master by blindly copying and imitating.

In other words, if you want to break through specialization and become a master, you must have something of your own.

But Bei Dao didn’t, not at all.

I have said before that her writing style is very similar to that of the God's Pen. She may have imitated it, and the result is still the same now. After reading Bei Dao's article, Lu Ren could not find any part that was unique to Bei Dao.

To put it bluntly, this kind of imitation is just a clumsy plagiarism. If Bei Dao can't find her own way, then her ceiling is now, specializing in high-level.

Whether this is good or bad is not a definite conclusion. If an ordinary person is asked to copy the articles of masters, can he copy them to a high level of expertise? Bei Dao is undoubtedly extremely talented. And for the news industry, high level of expertise is completely enough. Not to mention that in the future, in the era of new media on the Internet, the role of writing will be further weakened, and anyone can write articles and news.

Under such circumstances, it would take a lot of time and effort to start over again, and the key is that you may not succeed. Is it really worth it?

Lu Ren didn't know the answer, so he gave the choice to Bei Dao, letting her make her own decision.

Faced with the dilemma, Bei Dao also did not give a clear answer, but only replied, "I understand, I will consider it."

"Row."

ps: The author read the manga No. 3, rd Base. The original work also has a victory in Minato High School, but the author does not recommend it. The protagonist Nagashima's personality is not worth mentioning, and Inao is a completely unpleasant villain. The personalities of these two baseball players in Conan have been optimized and reset.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 407 Helping Others

"To Kaitou Kidd, I have the big gem [Miracle of the Sea] you want. If you want it, come and get it. Suzuki Jiroyoshi, advisor to the Suzuki Zaibatsu."

In Sato Kiyoshi's office, Lu Ren was sitting on the sofa, reading this morning's morning paper.

After sending Bei Dao to the office and receiving a wave of compliments and congratulations from his colleagues, Lu Ren opened the door of the president's office, ready to see what the old guy wanted to ask him to do again.

As soon as he entered the door, Lu Ren found today's morning newspaper spread out on the coffee table in the office. Out of the professional habits of a literary worker, Lu Ren subconsciously read the contents of the newspaper.

Just this look made him frown immediately. Lu Ren pointed at the newspaper, "Who wrote today's morning paper? The writing style is average, but the layout is messy. These few lines of text take up a whole page. Without Bei Dao, there is no way for Dongbao to take action. Are you here?"

Facing Lu Ren's question, Sato Kiyoshi was not annoyed. He smiled, picked up the tea on the table, took a sip, and said calmly, "Mr. Suzuki wrote this himself, and the typesetting was specially requested by him. He is rich. There’s a lot of money.”

"That's okay."

Damn, it feels good to have money.

Lu Ren closed the newspaper and pushed it aside. Out of sight and out of mind, he looked at Sato Kiyoshi again, "Why did you call me here?"

"That's it. Our previous plan to deal with Kaito Kidd has to be changed." Sato Kiyoshi stood up from behind his desk, locked the office door, and sat next to Lu Ren.

"This morning, Mr. Suzuki Shiro called me. The general message was that his cousin, Mr. Suzuki Jiroyoshi, is a bit old. He is 72 years old this year. Mr. Suzuki doesn't want to see his brother wandering around the world anymore, especially Go to some more dangerous places.”

"You also read the report just now. What Mr. Suzuki means is that since his cousin has found a new toy. He hopes that this toy is new enough, fun enough, and durable enough."

Hearing this, Lu Ren opened the previously closed newspaper again. Although he didn't want to admit it, when it came to scum, his reading and comprehension skills were particularly strong and he could make sense at a glance, "You mean, we need to change our strategy." , from Kid Black to Kid Blowing.”

"That's right! There are no eternal enemies. Mr. Suzuki no longer cares about Kidd's previous offense against the Suzuki Zaibatsu. After all, Miss Suzuki likes Kidd. And a powerful enough prey can better arouse the hunter's interest. Let's From now on, we need to praise Kidd, the higher he is, the better, and the stronger he is, the better."

"Then there's no need to call me here. Just let that Inujiro write the flattering manuscript."

Akiyama Inujiro, Akiyama Ergouzi. This man's dog-licking articles were still fresh in Lu Ren's memory. In this kind of article that praises others and praises their merits, the writing style is actually secondary. The key is to pass the test in one's heart and to be shameless enough.

Lu Ren wrote a manuscript, and Dongbao only gave him 50,000 yen. Lu Ren felt that this little money would not allow him to violate his conscience.

"It's definitely not for this. The main reason is that Mr. Suzuki wants to ask you to do something. You have performed very well in several previous operations against Kidd. So Mr. Suzuki wants to ask you to secretly protect Mr. Suzuki Jirokichi. Phantom Thief After all, Kidd is just a thief. You can't have any hope in a thief's moral quality. What if he hurts someone."

Lu Ren was wary, but he said calmly, "This is not a joke. If the protector doesn't hire professional bodyguards, why would he want me as a reporter?"

"Because Mr. Suzuki Jirokichi is more competitive and strives to be first in everything. He also has a very strong self-esteem. If he notices that he is being protected by others, he will definitely be angry. But he will never think that you are the one The one who secretly protects him.”

Kiyoshi Sato said meaningfully, "Who would doubt a reporter who looks ordinary?"

Lu Ren started the appraisal in silence.