Behind me, Dr. A Li rubbed his eyes with a confused expression. In front of him, Conan and Xiao Ai were staring in my direction with cold eyes like daggers in the crack of the door.
Please tell me what should I do now?
If I say that I just happened to come here and didn¡¯t hear anything, do you think they will believe it?
How about I punch myself and knock myself out No, no, it would be very embarrassing if I didn't faint.
As expected, I still pretended to be asleep. Anyway, I usually have severe narcolepsy. Even if you can't deceive them in the end, you can still deceive yourself. You can only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor.
Breathe calmly, breathe calmly.
Breathe in - breathe in - breathe in
The trick to pretending to be asleep is that you must not deliberately show that you are sleeping. Because the more you care, the bigger your flaws will be. Relax your whole body, relax your muscles, empty your head, think about nothing, and let your eyelids hang down naturally
Okay, that¡¯s it, I feel like I¡¯ve found my groove
¡°Huh~~huh~~¡±
At this time, half-open your mouth and drool a little, which will have an unexpected bonus effect on pretending to sleep.
The door was suddenly opened, and I pretended to be leaning against the wall. Because the door was opened, I lost my balance. My body was like a puddle of mud and slowly spread out on the ground. Don't tell me, the ground was cool, so I pressed my face against it. Extremely comfortable.
"Doctor, how long has he been here?" Xiao Ai asked Dr. A Li directly in a cold voice, seemingly not caring about my state at all.
"Sa" The doctor's voice was a little vague, as if he had something in his mouth, and he had not yet fully woken up from the dazed state: "It seems like a long time, and it seems that I have just come over. I'm sorry, Xiao Ai, I I was so sleepy that I can¡¯t remember it accurately.¡±
"Forget it, let me see if he is pretending to sleep." Following Conan's helpless voice, I felt his breath in my ear.
The surrounding suddenly became quiet.
Although I closed my eyes, I could still feel Conan's sharp gaze scanning back and forth on my face.
After a while, no one spoke. But the situation was terrible for me.
Because Conan has been staring at me closely, his eyes are shaving back and forth on my face like a knife, and he seems to be observing every change in my facial expression bit by bit, which makes me always want to tighten my expression. .
I feel that this weird silence in this state will only last for three more seconds, and I can't keep my heartbeat and breathing steady. In that case, pretending to sleep will definitely be discovered.
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"Well, this guy does seem to be asleep." Just when I felt like I was about to lose my nerve, Conan's voice suddenly relieved my mood.
"Oh? Are you really asleep?" Xiao Ai's voice contained a sense of ridicule.
"Well, the breathing is steady and long, and the pulse is very slow. The mind is in an extremely relaxed state, and the eyeballs hardly move, which is a typical sleep characteristic." Following Conan's words, I felt the touch of a finger on my wrist. .
"Well, just pretend that he didn't hear anything. It's already very late and we've finished what we want to say. You should go back as soon as possible. The kid in the office is probably already waiting impatiently." Xiao Ai There was a slight sense of exhaustion in his voice, and he let out a small yawn.
"Well, that's true. What should we do about this guy?" Conan asked Xiao Ai.
"Of course you are carrying him back. Do you still plan to let him stay here? There is no empty room here." Xiao Ai said in a matter-of-fact tone.
"Me? Carry it back? This guy?" Conan's voice sounded full of surprise.
"This guy is sleeping so soundly, and he can't wake up, so I have to carry him back." Xiao Ai's voice contained a hint of schadenfreude.
"Uh" Conan was speechless by Xiao Ai, and said sadly: "Okay, I carry it's so heavy."
I felt my body being pulled up, and then I was lying on a thin body. I quietly opened my eyes, trying to see Conan's expression, but unfortunately I only saw the back of his head and his grinning mouth.
"Let's go." He said with a grin, and Conan carried me on his back and walked out.
Conan¡¯s strength is very small. When I lay on his back, I felt his whole body trembling. I was really afraid that he would just take two steps and throw me away.
The autumn wind at night was a bit cool, but Conan¡¯s back was warm and made me feel very comfortable. Speaking of which, it seemed like this was the first time he carried me on his back. Although he is the elder brother, he has never carried his younger brother on his back. He is really a failed brother.??
"Hey, I've been carrying you for so long, aren't you going to come down yet? If you don't come down, I'll throw you down." Before I could enjoy enough of my brother's "privileges," Conan's embarrassing voice rang in my ears. got up.
Huh? Did he catch me pretending to sleep? Well, he is a detective after all, so he should find some flaws in me.
I thought as I opened my eyes and slid off his body.
"When did you find out that I was pretending to sleep?" I looked at Conan who looked unhappy with some curiosity.
"Of course I discovered it from the beginning. Although you pretend to be like it, the slightly trembling eyeballs cannot be controlled by you. There are some natural reactions of the human body that cannot be controlled by the human body. Don't underestimate me, you idiot." Conan Activity He touched his shoulder, jumped on the spot twice, and rolled his eyes at me as if he was exhausted.
"Okay, okay, let me lose to you. Thank you for carrying me for such a long way." I patted my face and walked side by side with Conan.
"Remember to treat me to steak some other time. That guy Haiyuan is very hard to fool. Thank you I blocked your eyes." Conan muttered as he walked away.
"Hide it from Xiao Ai? No, she has already discovered that I am pretending to be asleep." I recalled Xiao Ai's tone and couldn't help laughing. Sure enough, nothing could be hidden from her.
"She found out?" Conan paused, a little surprised: "I thought I hid it well. Since she found out, why didn't she expose you on the spot?"
"Expose it? Why expose it? Just pretend that I fell asleep and she didn't notice anything. Wouldn't it be nice?" I turned my head and looked at Conan with a smile.
Conan looked at me with a puzzled expression: "I really don't know what you two are thinking."
"Do you know clowns?" I stopped, turned my head and looked at his profile, and asked him seriously.
Brother, this guy knows something about Xiao Ai and I¡¯s past, but he doesn¡¯t understand how complicated the relationship between Xiao Ai and me is.
"What do you mean?" Conan frowned and looked at me.
"Two clowns, this is my current relationship with Xiao Ai. Come and try your reasoning, Mr. Detective." I smiled, said no more, and walked leisurely towards the office, leaving a look on my face. A confused Conan.
Once upon a time there were two clowns, they were each other's closest companions, they were the partners who understood each other best. They have their own pain, but they both want each other to be happy. So, they put on masks to hide their sadness while showing their joy.
Both clowns know what kind of painful and distorted expression is underneath the other's mask, but they only look at the other's mask.
So, what the two clowns reflected in each other's eyes were still two funny and happy faces.
They are connected to each other, they grieve each other, they trust each other, and they deceive each other.
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The next day after school, Conan and I were kidnapped and put on the Young Detective Corps¡¯ chariot to start extracurricular activities. This time, I went to the game company to see the latest game gyadorin, an RPG adventure game.
It is said that this game is very popular in schools now.
Me, Conan, Mayu, Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta, a group of six people, rode bicycles all the way in the direction of the game company. Xiao Ai didn't ask for leave today, but she wasn't interested in our group activities. Facing everyone's invitation, she waved her hand and went back to the doctor's house. She had to say something cool.
I really want to go home
Conan, with two big panda eyes, was riding a bicycle, swaying, looking like he was about to fall asleep at any moment, which made people feel frightened.
"Hey - wake up! Bell! Bell!" I rang Conan's car bell twice, and this guy finally seemed to wake up a little.
"What's wrong with Conan?" Ayumi looked worried.
"Are you just hungry?" Yuantai looked at Conan in confusion.
"Montai-kun, can you please stop thinking about eating?" Mitsuhiko said at a loss of whether to laugh or cry: "Maybe Conan just read a little late yesterday, right, Conan?"
"Huh? Ah" Conan turned his head, his reaction was extremely slow, like a robot that forgot to put oil on its neck.
"No, Conan is basically a useless person. I don't know what he's up to. He's been looking like he's dying since he got up early this morning.
Soon, we arrived at the door of Sunshine Club, the game¡¯s publishing company. An animation adapted from the game is playing on the large LED display in the company's office building.
The children were all excited and excitedWhile watching the animation, I saw the Tanaka Real Estate store not far from Sunshine Club.
Tanaka Real Estate is a real estate company whose main business is renting houses, also known as a housing agency. Although the area we are currently in is not the center of Tokyo, it is also a quite prosperous area. Logically speaking, this should be The place is bustling with people.
But at this moment, the door of this store was locked, and there was no one around, making it look quite deserted.
Well, the president has been arrested for murder, and the company is also facing a takeover. The company's employees are probably worried and have no intention of working. There is nothing they can do if the business is not deserted.
I don¡¯t know how Caomu¡¯s mergers and acquisitions are going. If it takes too long, it will be detrimental to the business¡¯s turnaround.
¡°If Tanaka Real Estate is successfully acquired, the company¡¯s stock price can be raised through stock market operations, and then some cash can be used to start work. It would be even better if we can successfully obtain a piece of land
"Does Minghui know about gyadorin?" Just when I was thinking about how to use Tanaka Real Estate to do something else, Ayumi's voice interrupted my thinking.
"gyawhat?" I didn't react for a moment.
"It's gyadorin! Really, we are indeed relatives. Minghui-san is as slow to games as Conan." Mitsuhiko shook his head and looked at me with a sad expression on his face.
"Nonsense, I'm obviously much better at playing games than Conan." I argued with reason.
"Poor guy, the only way to gain a sense of existence is by competing with Conan." Genta looked at me mockingly.
"Now in school, only Minghui and Conan don't know about this game, right? How pitiful." Ayumi looked at me and Conan with a sympathetic look.
"So pitiful." Mayu also looked at me with the same expression as Ayumi.
Although I don¡¯t really care, what¡¯s going on with this unpleasant feeling?
"Shall we go in and take a look at this store together?" Just standing outside and watching promotional animations can no longer satisfy the curiosity of the naughty children. Genta's suggestion immediately received strong responses from Ayumi, Mayu and Mitsuhiko.
So a few naughty kids left me and Conan and ran into the company office building happily.
A few kids who rush in rashly will be kicked out by the security guards. I shook my head and patted Conan, who was still staring blankly: "Hey, wake up, what's going on? You look like you're on the verge of death?"
"clown."
"Huh?" I looked at Conan with some confusion.
Conan looked into my eyes seriously and said word for word: "As for the clown you talked about yesterday, I thought about it all night, but I still didn't understand what it meant."
I go, is it because of this that Conan is so depressed today? I stroked my forehead, not knowing what to say.
"Can you tell me?" Conan still refused to avoid the topic.
"No, clowns don't make any sense. I made them all up yesterday. Just forget about it." I waved my hand and said, dumbfounded.
"No, although I haven't figured it out yet, I know that there must be some special meaning in it. If you don't tell me, I will guess it myself." Conan shook his head and said firmly.
"Well, it's up to you, but should we go look for those kids first?" I shrugged and pointed to Conan at the door of Sunshine Club.
I have a very subtle feeling about Conan's persistence. I hope he can understand it, but I also hope he will never understand it.
¡°If my brother really breaks the delicate balance between me and Xiao Ai, unexpected developments may occur.
When Conan and I walked into the lobby of the office building, the children had run away and I had no choice but to ask the receptionist.
"Oh, are you friends of Genta Kojima? He just had an urgent need to urinate, and he went upstairs to borrow the bathroom with a few children who came with him." The receptionist who was wearing a brand name "Yugari Yasuka" smiled. The ground said to me.
Although the smile is very friendly, I just feel that the smile of the woman in front of me is a bit dangerous.
Having been a killer for so many years, I have always trusted my intuition. This feeling has saved me many times in the past.
I went back and shook Conan next to me to make him look more awake: "I'll go up to find Ayumi and the others. You stay here. Once they come down, remember to take them out of here immediately."
"What's wrong?" Conan looked at me doubtfully.
¡°I don¡¯t know, I just feel like they are a bit dangerous,¡±Maybe I feel wrong. "As I explained to Conan, I ran towards the spiral staircase. There are two spiral staircases in this building from the first floor lobby to the second floor. They are listed on both sides of the hall like a pair of wings.
However, before I could go up, the children were already running downstairs screaming, followed closely by a young man about thirty years old, chasing after him while putting his hand into his arms, as if to Take out something. Behind him were security guards and others.
Although I can¡¯t see it clearly from a distance, this posture is so familiar to me that there is no other possibility except that it is a gun. I immediately realized that these brats must have seen something they shouldn't have seen, and they had to silence them, otherwise they wouldn't be chased with guns.
Yuantai and the others were chased so hard that they didn't even have time to say hello to me and Conan, so they ran away with horrified expressions on their faces. The adults who followed them didn't notice the existence of Conan and I at all, and followed closely. go out.
Although I can raid and seize the man's gun now, it is difficult to ensure that the security guards around the man also have guns. Even if they only have one gun, if they take it out and shoot randomly in the hall, it will be very dangerous. I have to consider it. To the safety of my brother.
Therefore, the best way to deal with it now is to sneak out of the office building while no one is paying attention to me. As long as I get outside, I am not afraid even if they have guns.
But when I got outside, I discovered that a few kiddies had already run away on bicycles. This escape skill was so slippery that I couldn't help but grin.
"Let's split up. You go find Yuantai and the others, and I'll follow these adults to see what's wrong with this." Seeing that something was wrong, Conan glanced at the adults who were wandering angrily at the door of the company, and thought After thinking about it, he said to me.
"Okay, please pay attention to your safety." I nodded, and without talking to him, I rode my bike directly to a corner and dialed Bumi's cell phone.
The most critical question now is whether these little ghosts know the seriousness of the matter and how dangerous they are now. I must contact them immediately and ask them to stay in a safe place and wait for me to come over!
The cause of the matter is secondary, let¡¯s leave it to Conan.
"Hello, classmate Minghui?" Ayumi's voice was full of fear and anxiety, with heavy breathing.
"It's me, where are you now?"
"We are here in the Riverside Park. I am so scared. Didn't those scary uncles chase me?" Ayumi was already crying faintly.
"Ayumi, don't be afraid, those people are not chasing you." In order to appease their emotions, I tried to speak as calmly as possible: "Listen Ayumi, you two don't go back to Mihua Town or school now. Don¡¯t go home, just stay in a crowded place in the park and wait for me to pass.¡±
I remember that when I asked the lady at the front desk about Yuanta and the others, the lady at the front desk accurately called out Yuanta's name, which meant that the people in the game company had remembered Yuantai and the others' identities, perhaps because they had seen Yuanta and the others' school nameplates. , if you go back to school at this time, you will inevitably not be blocked by those people, and even when you go home, you are in danger of being blocked by them on the road.
"Okay, classmate Minghui, come here quickly."
"Okay." I hung up the phone, quickly got on my bike and rushed to the park. It's not far from the park, only about ten minutes away. It's around five o'clock in the afternoon, which is exactly the time when many people are walking in the park after dinner. , there are many people in the park, and children are still very safe.
Arriving at the park, I soon found four haggard figures on the lawn below the river embankment.
"Classmate Minghui, you are here!" Seeing my figure, the children seemed to have a backbone and came towards me happily.