The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

"Um?"

I thought I would be praised, but unexpectedly I was criticized for being a conniving criminal. Conan was stunned.

At this time, Dr. A Li also came over with the young detective team and asked what happened to the yellow-haired children who ran away just now.

"Nothing, I'm having a friendly exchange with the young people in the town."

"I see, I thought something difficult was going on."

"Dr. Ali, are you here to see the circus performance?"

"Yeah, my friend gave me some tickets, and I just happened to bring the kids to see it."

Dr. Agasa took out a few tickets from his pocket, five of which were for children and one for adults, which matched the number of people. Even Haibara Ai, who was in a mood to appear, could accurately collect the tickets.

Doctor, I suspect that the friend you are talking about is yourself.

"Just in time, I also have a ticket here, let's come together."

Qin Zhibo took out the free tickets given by the young people in the town and checked in with everyone to enter the theater.

Thinking that Minase Youmeng had never seen this kind of performance, Qin Zhibo went to the toilet and poured out Minase Youmeng, and went to the performance hall one person and one ghost.

Entering the performance hall, almost all the seats were occupied by the audience, and there were no good seats left.

There was no way, there were seven people and one ghost in total, so we had to find a seat in the last few rows so that we could watch the show.

After waiting for a moment, the lights went out, leaving only the spotlight on the stage, announcing that the performance had officially begun.

The first thing that started was a clown performance, which made the audience laugh with his funny actions and warmed up the place first.

"Haha~ I'm really laughing to death!" Minase Youmeng screamed.

Next came various talent shows, including trapeze, fire performances, and from time to time, elegant music performances.

The finale of these skill performances is the spinning knife, which is the kind performed by Xingye in "The Variety Star".

Although the girl in the tutu was eye-catching, what Qin Zhibo paid attention to was the actor performing the knife throwing performance, a scarred man with thick paint on his face.

If ordinary viewers don't pay attention, they will think that those shocking scars are special effects makeup, deliberately cosplayed into ruthless characters, but in fact they are real scars.

One of the most horrific scars ran from the upper left side of his forehead to the right corner of his face. It was really hard to imagine what he had gone through.

A beautiful young lady was tied to a Frisbee in a "big" shape, and then the scar-faced man started throwing knives.

Bang, Bang, Bang

Accompanied by the girl's performative screams, the scar-faced man threw all 10 throwing knives in 7 seconds. Each knife missed a key part of the body, sandwiching the girl's slender figure between the throwing knives.

Suddenly, there was thunderous applause.

Next, the performance was upgraded, and the turntable tied to the young lady finally came into use.

The other two ladies turned the turntable, and the pink and white bodies on the turntable began to rotate, dazzling the audience, not to mention the flying knives.

All the audience members knew what was coming next, but they still watched with bated breath with their hearts in their throats.

The scar-faced man still maintained a cold expression, holding the throwing knife between his thumb and index finger, as if taking aim.

The intensive rhythmic drum music played, and the stage lights kept changing. Every time the drum beat turned into a shocking big drum, the scar-faced man threw the throwing knife in his hand, with a rhythm of about 2.5 seconds, and a total of 5 throws.

When the turntable stopped, the young lady on the turntable was still alive, with five flying knives on both sides of her head, under the joints of her arms, and between her legs.

The music changed into a cheerful tune, and the audience did not hesitate to applaud.

"It's so exciting!" Minase Youmeng screamed.

"Wow! That's amazing!"

"I was really scared to death just now. I was so worried that something would happen."

Ayumi is relatively innocent and kind-hearted, and does not completely regard this as a performance, and is even worried that something will happen to the actress on the turntable.

Haihara Ai, who was sitting next to her, explained in a serious tone: "Their performances have been trained for a long time, and they almost never make mistakes."

"Even if it was a mistake, they should have been mentally prepared because once they set foot on some roads, they are destined to be unable to escape the consequences of death."

When Minase Youmeng heard this, he looked curiously at Haibara Ai, this unique little sister whom he had never seen before.

Hello

After listening to the "healing" heroine's speech, Conan next to him, who was so bored that he was holding his chin, glanced at Haibara Ai with his eyelids drooped.

In order to prevent Haiyuan's dangerous speech from damaging the future flowers of the motherland, Conan, who has always been uninterested, took the initiative to explain the principles of the performance just now.

"Actually, the knife-throwing performance is not that dangerous. The turntable was stationary at the beginning of the performance, and the actors threw the knives continuously in a quiet environment, just to leave the impression in the audience's heads that the knives were thrown from their hands. ."

"Then the turntable rotates, and the knife-throwing actor only has to pretend to throw the knife. In fact, he just hides the throwing knife in his sleeve, and the actor next to the turntable will control the fake throwing knife to pop out from under the turntable."

Conan explained this somewhat boringly, because with his life experience of a rich second generation, he has seen too many such performances.

If it weren't for the fact that he was a primary school student, he wouldn't have watched such a boring performance.

Although Conan explained, Mitsuhiko still felt something was wrong, "But if the flying knife hadn't been thrown, wouldn't the audience at a closer distance have been able to see it?"

"No, because during the second part of the performance, the lights suddenly changed, affecting the view of the audience in front. The same goes for the sound. Drums were used to cover up the sound of the flying knife not hitting the target."

"This type of performance is like this, nothing interesting."

Conan performed a flying knife show to reveal the secret, causing the audience in the front row who accidentally heard the answer to turn around and look at it with disdain.

Where do these self-righteous elementary school students come from?

Next to her, Haibara Ai still insisted on her point of view, "But even if there is a mistake in the first performance, the actor will probably be injured or die, right?"

Conan: That's enough

Qin Zhibo, who was sitting next to him, had been listening to "Several Children's Debate" and felt that Hui Yuan Ai's words made more sense.

In fact, when he was watching the knife-throwing performance just now, Qin Zhibo had been watching it very seriously. Because Conan, the god of death, was present, he had to be careful about performances of this nature.

So during the second stage of the knife-throwing performance, Qin Zhibo used a telescope to carefully observe the scar-faced man's throwing knife. In fact, it was actually thrown, not hidden in his sleeve.

As for whether the flying knife landed on the turntable or somewhere else, the lights were too bright to see clearly.

However, Minase Harumu can float in the air and should be able to fly to the stage to see the situation clearly.

Qin Zhibo raised his eyes and glanced at Minase Yangmeng. She was watching the performance with great interest, so he didn't bother him.

After the human performance, the circus's signature animal performance comes next.

The stage changes to a tropical jungle setting, and various animals appear in turn.

Elephants playing with gymnastics sticks, equestrian performances, and monkeys riding bicycles. In short, as long as animals do things they don't need to do, they will receive applause from humans and a small reward from their trainers. They are really forced to go out of business.

The most outrageous thing is that there is actually a giant panda performance, a black and white four-legged beast, also known as the "iron-eating beast" and the "prison-sitting beast."

"Wow! This is called a giant panda, right? It's actually real!" Minase Yomeng screamed.

When the three pandas swayed onto the big ball and stood upright innocently, Qin Zhibo saw the black zipper between the pandas' crotches.

panda?

Pandaren, right?

Although there was a slight flaw in the prop, no one noticed the flaw. Minase Yomu also lay on Conan's head and watched with relish.

Seeing this, Qin Zhibo stopped doing anything inappropriate. After all, he was not here to crack down on counterfeiters.

Only Conan still had a droopy face, with the word "bored" written on his face. At the same time, he felt that his head seemed a little heavy today.

A large number of animals have finished their business one after another. Accompanied by a piece of surging music, today's finale performance is the lion.

In order not to awaken the hunting habits of carnivores, circuses perform performances by carnivores and herbivores separately.

Three female lions appeared on the stage, sitting on the round platform respectively, while the only male lion lay lazily on the terrace behind.

This lion is different from the African savanna lions shown in the animal world. It has white hair all over its body and is so rare that even Conan couldn't help but look at it carefully.

A fire ring was erected in the center of the stage. As the animal tamer girl waved her whip to create a whipping sound, the memory engraved in the muscles made the white lion jump over the fire ring. The flames blackened a small amount of white hair, and did not forget to look around. The circle bowed to the audience.

This time, the audience's applause reached its climax.

Although Qin Zhibo didn't know how to tame animals, animals were instinctively afraid of flames. It definitely took a lot of effort to get animals to actively approach flames.

After all the performances were over, the disappointed Qin Zhibo and Dr. A Li walked out of the performance hall with a few little ones, and found Hawke's Wonderful Circus peripheral products on sale in the lobby store.

Most of the dazzling array of peripherals include animal-image ornaments, coasters, ashtrays and the like. Because Japan is a big neighboring country, many viewers chose to join in for a second time.

Ayumi and Haihara Ai each purchased a white lion cell phone pendant, although neither of them seems to have cell phones at the moment.

"So cute~ I want this too!"

"Buy me one too~Qiuli paste!"

Minase Yangmeng continued to scream in his ears, making Qin Zhibo a little irritable.

You are a ghost! There is no need for this thing.

And why do you want such a child’s thing!

But in full public view, Qin Zhibo couldn't reason with Minase Youmeng, so he could only shamelessly ask the shop owner to buy a pendant of the same white lion Leon.

"Uncle Qin, you also think this lion is cute, right?" Bumi came over and asked.

".Ah yes"

Conan was surprised to see Qin Zhibo at the counter actually favoring such children's gadgets.

Haihara Ai walked up to Conan, with a mysterious smile on her face, and teased: "Are you thinking that even he would be interested in this kind of thing?"

"Let me tell you, he is not like you. He only reads bloody detective mystery novels every day. This should be what makes him better than you."

"I want your dick~"

Conan replied feebly, but when Haiyuan Ai said this, he felt a little eager to give it a try.

Speaking of which, Qin Zhibo does seem to have a penchant for collecting small items, such as the secret badge in his wallet, the handkerchief he lent him, the 100 yen coin he lost to him, and the metal disc he gave to Mao Lilan before.

Could this be the secret to becoming a famous detective like him?

On Qin Zhibo's side, when he was taking out his wallet and preparing to pay, a sight from behind suddenly stimulated Qin Zhibo's sixth sense.

As a former FBI, he has a strong sense of what is happening behind his back. This ability is really metaphysical. It sounds like a bit of a paranoia, but it usually works.

Qin Zhibo calmly picked up the small peripheral mirror sold on the counter, pretending to check the goods, but in fact he used the mirror to look behind him.

The hall behind was crowded, but at the corner of the corridor, Qin Zhibo found that the scar-faced man who had just performed a knife-throwing performance was wearing large sunglasses and observing him secretly.

When he noticed Qin Zhibo picking up the mirror, the scar-faced man turned around and left quietly.

Qin Zhibo put down the mirror, feeling a little confused.

Do they already know that I was sent by the Nine Angels organization to monitor them?

Qin Zhibo did not forget his mission this time and went to watch the show with Conan. He also felt that if Conan could trigger the case, he would be able to meet the legendary "Randy Hawke" openly.

But I didn't expect that Conan was more "conscience" this time and didn't commit any more murderous crimes.

For now, I can only pretend to be an ordinary audience member and leave the theater, and then find other opportunities to get closer.

After walking out of the theater door, in order to save magic power, Qin Zhibo quietly put Minase Youmeng back into the glass bottle.

But as soon as they reached the open space outside, the commotion of the crowd attracted the attention of the young detective team.

A group of journalists-looking people surrounded an older, middle-aged foreigner, asking endless questions.

"Mr. Hawke, how long do you plan to stay in Japan this time?"

"Mr. Hawke, I heard that you donated half of your circus income to the zoo. Is this true?"

"Mr. Hawke."

Yuantai asked puzzledly what the identity of this person was, and Dr. Ali also patiently explained.

"Oh, he is the funder of this circus, Mr. Randy Hawke."

"He is from Oklahoma in the southern United States. He made a lot of money after drilling for oil. Collecting animals was originally just his hobby, but gradually more and more animals were collected, and he toured around the world, using animals for performances. Stunts to entertain everyone.”

"His picture is on the last page of the circus brochure."

Ayumi took out the manual that Dr. Agasa got from her "friend", and sure enough, the last page contained Randy Hawke's life history.

However, this is very different from the information Qin Zhibo received from the Nine Angels Organization. It said that he established the circus because his children also liked animals, but in fact, his children had died long ago.

"I heard that Randy Hawke's ancestors were cowboys. He doesn't need to bring bodyguards wherever he goes. There's nothing he can do about being surrounded by reporters," Dr. A Li complained lightly.

But as soon as he finished speaking, Qin Zhibo, who was staring at "Mr. Hawke" in the crowd, spoke.

"This man is not Randy Hoke."