Chapter 1982 Dangerous Game
"I'm going to a meeting, you guys go buy some daily necessities and get familiar with the surrounding environment." Duran asked Denise and Conan to find supermarkets and surrounding commercial streets.
This is of course no problem. Denise felt that this was an ordinary world, an ordinary city, and an ordinary residential building. She couldn't think of anything that would make Duran so excited.
The residents of this apartment building have meetings every month, mainly to carry out some activities to increase the familiarity between residents, such as paying money to buy some food, and then getting together to play cards or werewolf. Of course, there are also serious things, such as selecting garbage collectors or people responsible for cleaning public areas.
Originally, these jobs should have been done by the administrator, but now some residents refuse to pay property fees, so the administrator proposed that if they don't want to pay, these jobs will be done by the residents themselves, and the administrator is only responsible for guarding the door.
Of course, not every household has time to attend the meeting. Some people didn't come today.
"Today, the two new families sent people here. This is Duran from 103, and this is Nana Tezuka from 302." The hostess of Room 302 came.
Tezuka was obviously a little restrained, because this was to integrate into a new circle, and it was not easy for her to integrate into the circle with her character of not causing trouble to others.
The composition of the residents in this residential building was quite complex, including doctors, students, retired employees, unemployed vagrants, blue-collar workers and black clubs, and foreign students. Some bought houses, and some rented houses.
Several tables were put together to form a meeting room, and everyone sat together for the meeting. The first issue to be discussed was to elect a garbage manager. After an anonymous vote, the absent Ms. Kinoshita Akane was directly appointed.
Although some people thought that it was a bit bullying to let an absent person serve as a garbage manager, the manager said who made her absent. So it was decided happily.
From beginning to end, Tezuka Nana looked like she wanted to speak but hesitated, as if she wanted to speak for justice, but she was worried that she would be excluded, so she didn't say anything in the end.
In fact, the main topic of today's discussion was the legacy of the last meeting. Now that the discussion was over, they could rest and play. Some people took out snacks, and some took out Werewolf.
Watching the old residents talking and laughing, Tezuka felt excluded. She didn't know how to interrupt or join them. But she saw that Duran was very comfortable and soon became one with everyone. She had no idea how he did it.
These residents were discussing the trivialities of the circle, and they had no idea how Duran inserted himself into these topics that he knew nothing about.
In fact, they were just trivial topics. If you don't know the residents' affairs, then talk about your own affairs, your parenting experience, and your work troubles. Telling your own story is the easiest way to build a relationship with others. Maybe others will be bored in their hearts, but at least it will leave an impression, and it will be much easier to communicate in the future.
If you worry about causing trouble to others, you will never make friends. Of course, if you are afraid that others will cause trouble to you, it is best not to make friends forever.
Friends are the relationship between you bothering me and I bothering you.
Of course, some people are worried that their experiences are too ordinary and not worth mentioning, and they will only make people laugh if they talk about them. Then he obviously didn't know that some people who seem to be good at speaking, their topics are also stereotyped. They can talk about a topic a hundred times or a thousand times, repeating it to different people, but they can make a lot of friends.
Because the topic is only the first step in making friends, the real way to improve friendship is to communicate in the future, and people's hearts will be revealed over time.
In fact, as long as Tezuka Nana has the courage to chat, she can quickly integrate into everyone, but her personality is too traditional, and she is worried that her rash interruption will affect others. From another perspective, it is also because she attaches too much importance to others' evaluation of her and her image in others' minds. This is also a common problem for many introverts. If you attach too much importance to these, you will be thin-skinned.
Duran never cares about what others think of him. His face is thicker than the Great Wall, so he can share his experience with everyone without any obstacles. Although some people who agree with him are sincere and some are false, what does it matter?
Especially when the foreign student heard that Duran was from China, she was immediately happy, because she was also from China. She worked while studying in Japan, working part-time.
Everyone was preparing to play Werewolf, and the atmosphere was pretty good, but the administrator suddenly said, "You all hate me, right? You want to kill me. I know that, you don't have to hide it."
The topic suddenly changed to murder, and everyone said no.
But the administrator was obviously not very emotional, and said excitedly, "Who of you dares to say that you don't hate anyone? Have you never fantasized about killing? Don't look at you all in a decent manner, but I know that you must have had such thoughts in your heart. If killing is not illegal, you will definitely do it."
At this time, the retired employee said, "Of course you can't kill people, it's a felony."
Discussing murder is Nana Tezuka's hobby, because she and her boyfriend like reasoning, so they have also thought about how to kill people without being discovered, so she plucked up the courage to say, "In fact, when the police investigate murder cases, they usually investigate from the interpersonal relationships of the victim, so if the killer has no relationship with the victim, he will usually not be suspected."
Does everyone think so? "Does that mean that if you hire a killer, you can kill people without being suspected?"
But some people say that killers are expensive and can't afford them.
At this time, the doctor suddenly said: "What if it is an exchange of killings?"
Duran spoke first: "It is indeed feasible. If the social circles of two people do not overlap, then the exchange of killings is indeed feasible."
The residents of this residential building seemed very interested in this topic and started a heated discussion.
The administrator wanted to know the people that the residents hated the most, but the residents obviously would not tell. The doctor suggested again: "Why don't we write down the people we want to kill anonymously like the vote just now, and then exchange them. No one can disclose the name they drew. How about it?"
The gossip was already burning. If they knew the names of the people that others wanted to kill, it would be enough to bring a little fun to their boring lives.
It seems that everyone is interested, so let's write it down. Everyone writes down the people they hate so much that they want to kill.
Draw lots, one for each person.
Everyone stood in a circle, and everyone only looked at the name they drew. Duran looked at each of them with different expressions, and he couldn't help but smile. The note in his hand said "World Peace" because he wrote it himself. In order not to spoil the development of the plot, Duran drew the content he wrote.
Others were surprised, confused, nervous... their expressions varied, but everyone was still relatively normal at this time, because this was just a game, and no one would have expected that a game of exchange killing would be about to begin.
Then Conan could play his role and reason with all his heart. In fact, Duran had already seen the spoilers, but he was very curious about how Conan would react after encountering this incident.