Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

"I know what Hongzi is busy with." Chi Feichi noticed a servant passing by outside the restaurant and did not say it too clearly. "We have a friend in the United States. She should have gone to meet that friend for a party last night. , Don’t worry, that friend is not a bad person.”

"Since you said that, I'm relieved," Nanatsuki Koshizu thought that a servant might come in at any time in the restaurant, so he didn't ask any further questions and said with a smile, "Akoko didn't come back until five o'clock in the morning, so let her have a good rest. Well, let me go shopping in a nearby shopping mall later to see if there are any suitable gifts for the children..."

The two of them finished breakfast in the restaurant. Chi Fei was late and changed into a black formal suit in the bedroom. He went downstairs and got into the car driven by the bodyguard. He went nearby to meet the appraisers from Takiguchi Metallurgical Industry and Umbrella. , headed to the Bronx together.

Each district in New York has relatively affluent and safe areas, as well as chaotic neighborhoods where gang members are active. The two types of neighborhoods are intertwined. Safe neighborhoods and chaotic neighborhoods may only be separated by a few streets. Passers-by start from the safe neighborhoods and walk a few more streets. If you go down a street, you may stray into a chaotic neighborhood where security is not so good.

Generally speaking, security in tourist areas and wealthy areas is much better.

In these communities with relatively high tax payments, various public services will be better, including security services provided by the police.

There are often police cars patrolling the streets in these communities. The police's handling efficiency and service attitude towards reporting cases are also relatively good. If something happens on the street that affects the safety of the community, the police will even call, text or email. Notify residents in the community and ask them to pay attention to safety.

As for those neighborhoods where the permanent residents are complex and cannot pay much taxes, the police's level of concern is not that high.

And because the police don't pay enough attention, some violent gang members like to gather in those neighborhoods, making the environment in those neighborhoods more complex. Coupled with the circulation of guns and other reasons, the police are becoming less willing to go to those neighborhoods to meddle in other people's affairs. The environment in those neighborhoods has fallen into a vicious cycle.

Chi Feichi and the appraisers took three cars respectively. The convoy drove through streets lined with high-rise buildings, past areas with open parks, and through chaotic neighborhoods where gang members looked at them, and finally arrived at an environment in the Bronx. In a quiet and quiet villa residential area with good security, I found a meteorite collector contacted by Kotaro Takiguchi.

This meteorite collector's name is Jason Johnson. He is not only a meteorite collector, but also a treasure hunter who likes to search for meteorites around the world and has extensive experience in wild survival. He first made a fortune by selling meteorites, and then occasionally made a fortune. Some other rare treasures were used to make a profit, and a considerable fortune was accumulated.

When Chi Feichi and his party arrived at the villa area, Jason Johnson personally went to the roadside outside his villa to greet the group. After a group of people parked their cars, he led the way into his villa and warmly greeted Chi Feichi and others. Go and admire your own collection.

There is a vault-like room in Jason Johnson's villa. The walls are surrounded by thick metal. There are multiple air holes inside for ventilation. There are no windows. The only door in and out is made of thick steel plates, and the door lock is also Vault grade mechanical combination lock.

This room is specially used by Jason Johnson to collect rare treasures. Half of the glass cabinets display meteorites of different sizes and shapes, and the other half of the glass cabinets contain antiques, jewelry, and other items from different countries. Crafts.

Jason Johnson took Chi Feichi and his group around the collection room, introducing some of his proud meteorite collections and treasures to the group.

After Chi Feichi saw a pottery that was said to be from the Chinese Shang and Zhou Dynasties, but was actually more like last week, the jealousy in his heart about Jason Johnson's large number of meteorites disappeared instantly. Then he looked at Jason Johnson's confidence, pride, and As he was chatting, he suddenly felt a little worried about the authenticity of Jason Johnson's meteorites.

If Jason Johnson just doesn't know how to identify antiques and was deceived when purchasing a collection of Chinese antiques, that would be okay. What he is worried about is that Jason Johnson himself knows that some of the collections are fakes, but he still doesn't blush. Without a beat, he boasted about his collection, boasting these things to the sky, trying to arouse his interest in these collections...

In this case, Jason Johnson is probably the kind of liar who specializes in deceiving wealthy people, and there may be quite a lot of fakes in those meteorite collections.

Upon closer inspection, Jason Johnson does possess some of the characteristics of that type of liar.

When Kotaro Takiguchi first contacted Jason Johnson, he had already made it clear that he wanted to buy meteorites. When he contacted Jason Johnson, he also said that he came here to buy the meteorites that he was interested in, but after After they arrived, Jason Johnson took them straight to the collection room. He kept introducing his collection as if he was showing off to his friends, but did not mention a word about buying meteorites. During the period, an appraiser mentioned, "This is what we have this time." "You want to buy a meteorite?" Jason Johnson casually made a haha ​​and quickly changed the topic...

In the transaction of buying scarce goods, many savvy businessmen do this - do not talk about the transaction when they meet the customer, but talk to the customer about other things, judge the importance of the goods in the customer's mind by seeing whether the customer is distracted during the conversation and whether he pays special attention to the goods he wants, or judge whether the customer's personality is impatient by the customer's reaction to changing the topic, and then decide the sales strategy based on the customer's real demand for the goods and the customer's personality, so that the goods can be sold at a better price.

However, when Kotaro Takiguchi contacted Jason Johnson, the two sides had already discussed the price of the meteorite. Regarding Jason Johnson's offer, Kotaro Takiguchi tried to lower the price, but when he saw that the price could not be lowered, he did not insist on lowering the price, saying, "As long as the meteorite is real, then the price you said will be the price." Jason Johnson also said, "You are welcome to come and inspect the goods. I believe my collection will not disappoint you."

When both parties had reached a preliminary agreement on the transaction, Jason Johnson was still trying to cover up and talk nonsense when receiving him. This behavior was very dishonest and unkind.

Was he dissatisfied with the price agreed upon before and wanted to try to raise the price?

Or was the meteorite itself a fake and wanted to see if he could be fooled into paying the bill?

Or was he trying to fool him into buying other fake collections and slaughtering him as a fat sheep?

In any case, Jason Johnson's behavior directly conveyed a signal of "I want to fool you".

If Jason Johnson just wanted to raise the price, that would be fine. He didn't mind spending a little more money to buy the things. What he cared about was whether the meteorite in Jason Johnson's hand was real.

If Jason Johnson fooled him and made him go for nothing, don't blame him for being cruel.

The sin of jealousy has been tormenting him recently. Killing a liar to vent his anger is not too much... right?

Chi Feichi had murderous intentions in his heart, but on the surface he calmly followed Jason Johnson to look through the collections, and did not point out the signs of fakes on some of the collections. He followed Jason Johnson back to the living room and sat down.

Jason Johnson did not mention the meteorite transaction, and Chi Feichi did not take the initiative to mention it. He led people to drink tea with Jason Johnson, and guided the appraisers he brought to talk to Jason Johnson about tea culture and meteorite knowledge.

The appraisers came here only to be responsible for appraisal, not for trading. Since Chi Feichi did not issue the appraisal task, the appraisers were also happy to be idle. They sat in the living room drinking tea and chatting with Jason Johnson about meteorites. Two of them even became more and more excited as they talked, pulling Jason Johnson to talk about meteorites from meteorites to astronomy, and then from astronomy to meteorites.

Chi Feichi did not stop the two appraisers. He sat aside and drank tea leisurely, watching Jason Johnson being pulled by the two appraisers to chat. He watched Jason Johnson gradually become absent-minded and slow to react during the chat. He did not expose Jason Johnson's lack of state. Instead, he spoke up from time to time to make fun of the two appraisers and guide the appraisers to pull Jason Johnson to continue chatting.

He reserved a whole morning for the purchase of meteorites. Now there is still plenty of time. Since Jason Johnson is not in a hurry to talk about business for the time being, he is not in a hurry either. He just takes it as a time to slack off during work time.

He wanted to see how long Jason Johnson could last in a restless state.