Chapter 933: The Way to Eternal Life

"What were you talking about just now?"

Mouri Ran and her group tiptoed across the street and sat down on the other side. The first thing they heard was Pu Siqinglan's surprised voice.

"What's wrong? Didn't you understand? It turns out that I'm not very good at learning." Tang Ze showed a surprised expression, "I just said a little bit of Sichuan and Chongqing dialect, which was taught to me by my Chinese teacher. Is it very non-standard?"

"... Indeed, I didn't understand it very well. It's a dialect I haven't heard before." Pu Siqinglan's eyebrows turned down, revealing a little bitterness, "Maybe it's because I've been busy with work in the past few years, running around overseas, and haven't returned to China for several years."

"Is that so. I thought..." Tang Ze laughed and swallowed the rest of the words, which also made Pu Siqinglan feel more uneasy.

No one knows better than him, a genuine Sichuan and Chongqing native, whether the dialect he speaks is standard or not.

Just like a British or American who meets someone with a heavy accent and loves to use slang, even if the dialect and accent are not so easy to determine, it is difficult to accurately judge the specific place of origin of the other person, but there will probably be some points.

This is a normal situation for a mother tongue. It is very difficult to speak a foreign language, or a language that you have not been exposed to in a relevant environment when you were a child, to an impeccable level.

"China is a big place." Pu Siqinglan calmed down, and soon, his expression became natural again, "It is unrealistic to want to understand all the dialects in China. When you have the opportunity to go abroad and see it with your own eyes, you will understand what I am talking about."

"Hey, is that so..."

Suzuki Sonoko, who heard this content at once, turned her head and exchanged blank looks with Mao Lilan.

"So, he was asking her about Chinese?" Yuanshan Heye put her head between the two people and whispered, "When did Tang Ze learn foreign languages?"

"It sounds like that. However, Miss Pu Siqinglan looks so scholarly. After talking to her, I feel that..." Mao Lilan shook her head gently, and it seemed that she spent a little effort to swallow the unfriendly comments at the end. "Then again, Tang Ze actually learned foreign languages ​​very well. It's normal for him to want to learn a second foreign language."

Mao Lilan's focus is different from Yuanshan Heye.

Pu Siqinglan's appearance does have many features that don't look like Asians, but her outline is also different from that of a complete Slav. She has a gentle and soft temperament and speaks slowly, as if she is telling a story. So when she claims to be a scholar of history, it is easy to convince people.

But when she was talking to Tang Ze just now, her tone was obviously different from what she saw at President Suzuki in the morning...

Mao Lilan didn't know how to describe this subtle listening experience, but Tang Ze understood it very well.

Simply put, she was anxious.

The more anxious she was, the less likely Tang Ze would let her go.

With the action of picking up the coffee cup, Tang Ze turned his head without any disobedience and looked in the direction behind Pu Si Qinglan. Soon, the expression on his face changed to surprise.

"Xiao Lan, Sonoko, why are you here? Have you finished visiting the shrine?"

"Tang Ze, ah, and Miss Pu Si Qinglan." Seeing that she had been discovered, Suzuki Sonoko no longer pretended, and simply pulled the two girls over, taking the position of Tang Ze's left and right hands as a matter of course, "You are also visiting Osaka Castle, are you also interested in the history here? Well, Osaka is also a good historical city."

Pu Si Qinglan, who was about to find an excuse to get up and leave, saw her face clearly and stopped immediately.

In name, she was still a scholar invited by Suzuki Shiro to do a value assessment for the Egg of Memory. Considering that she was seeking to buy the egg from the Suzuki family, she had no reason to ignore the daughter of the Suzuki family.

Thinking of this, knowing that she had to accompany them to dispel the possible suspicion of these people, Pu Siqinglan, who had prepared her identity, combed her hair to hide her frustrated expression.

She was careless. She should have pretended that she didn't recognize Tang Ze at all from the beginning, and just pretended to be deaf and dumb and turned around and ran away.

Tang Ze smiled and watched the three girls take their seats, squeezing the originally spacious seats together, and was in a good mood.

When they left the Suzuki Museum of Modern Art, the six of them originally acted together. It was the three girls who first suggested going to the shrine to ask for a fortune. When they arrived at the door, the two detectives who were all focused on the case could not sit still and left quickly. Tang Ze also said goodbye in a "knowing and interesting" manner, leaving the space for the three girls who obviously wanted to say something secretly, and then followed the signal monitored by Noah to block Pu Siqinglan.

It was Tang Ze who deliberately met the girls who came out again in this area.

The girls, who were originally very interested in Pu Si Qinglan's mysterious personality, did not want Pu Si Qinglan to get too close to Tang Ze's buff, and their fighting power was almost fully increased immediately.

So for the whole afternoon, Miss Thief no longer had the spare time to pay attention to her precious props.

"Pu Si Qinglan, how should this name be written correctly? Oh, oh, so, Pu Si, um, there is such a surname in China..."

"Maybe it's like Edogawa, a surname that very few people use? Hey, Miss Pu Si, by the way, your Chinese characters are written... I clearly heard that there are no characters like kana in China, and everything is written and communicated in Chinese characters?"

"Hmm? Isn't this handwriting good? Oh, yes, Miss Pu Si, how should I say my name in Chinese?"

"Me, and I——"

When Pu Si Qinglan finally got out of the noisy high school students and staggered back to her temporary residence, the moon was already high in the sky.

For the whole afternoon, she had to deal with Tang Ze's occasional comments, and constantly answer several girls' curious questions. She would be criticized for writing a word, and if she said no more than three sentences, she would hear the classic "This sentence in Chinese..." sentence pattern...

It was like a Chinese advanced listening test in a vegetable market, which was extremely painful and made her head swell.

She threw the parts on the table and rubbed her temples hard.

If she had known this, she should not have said she was Chinese.

Really, it shouldn't be. According to her prediction, most people she met in Japan should keep their distance quickly after hearing her nationality, right?

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"Is that the man?" Kuroba Kaito asked softly, putting down the telescope in his hand.

There was no one on the roof except him, so it seemed that he was talking to himself, but soon, a clear child's voice came out from the chest pocket of his suit, accurately answering his question.

"Yes, that's 'Scobbin'."

Kuroba Kaito exhaled and adjusted the brim of his hat in distress.

Ever since Tang Ze took the initiative to tell him his true identity, although Tang Ze would perfunctorily answer questions he didn't want to answer with a rather unenthusiastic attitude, he never lied again.

Just like the attitude he showed when he took the initiative to reveal his face, Tang Ze recognized him as a cooperating companion, and Tang Ze's attitude towards his companions was always sincere.

So Kuroba Kaito didn't doubt the information given by Noah at all. Instead, due to the special situation of the Heart Thief, he immediately reacted to what Tang Ze wanted to express, and his thinking quickly moved to the next stage.

"She looks like a weak woman who can't even lift a finger. She has added many labels of being weak and vulnerable to attack. If no one says anything, no one would suspect that she is Scobin."

"Don't be fooled by her appearance. I have secretly read Scobin's files." Noah's answer followed at the right time. "She has killed thirty or forty people just to seize various collections. This is an evil ghost devoured by desire. Don't take it lightly because of her appearance."

"Don't worry, I certainly won't underestimate her." Putting the telescope back in his arms, Kuroba Kaito jumped back lightly before he was discovered, hiding his figure completely in the shadows. "But, from what you said, you guys haven't 'solved' her yet?"

When he asked the question, he used a question, but he already had an expectation for the answer.

"Not yet." Noah said truthfully, "Not being able to find her 'anchor point' is one aspect, and on the other hand, our leader judged that the part about her and the zoo is likely to be a little tricky and not so easy to solve."

Hearing the zoo again, Kuroba Kaito's expression darkened.

Since his father disappeared, the mystery surrounding his father's death has been bothering him. For many years, he has never given up investigating and inquiring about the news related to it.

"Pandora" and "zoo" are the concepts he came into contact with in this process.

"I don't know the origins of those people, but in the limited number of contacts, I did find their 'unusualness'. Could it be that this is also a little similar to you?"

When talking about the second half, Kuroba Kaito's tone unconsciously reassured, revealing a sense of temptation.

To be more precise, this suspicion is also one of the reasons why he tried to keep in touch with Joker and the Phantom Thieves after he first came into contact with them, even though he was attacked by a box of weapons.

There are not so many magic and supernatural powers in this world, and they will definitely end up in the same place at some point.

"I don't know if they are similar or not, but they may be very valuable targets for us. Take me out a little and show you some information."

Kuroba Kaito frowned, restrained the urge to emphasize that this was his phone and Noah was the one who came, and took out the phone as he was told.

The interface has automatically opened to the page of Kaito Line, and a series of links and pictures quickly swiped, and then opened one by one under Noah's control.

In the jumping page, Kuroba Kaito quickly captured several keywords.

"Rasputin? Have you confirmed that she is a descendant of Rasputin?"

"How should I put it? It's really a bit incredible, but at least she believes it so firmly." Noah said, showing a photo.

The photo shows a pendant on the chest of a woman in a cheongsam. The shooting angle is a bit special. Compared with the serious shooting, it seems to be a secret shooting from a lower angle, but it can be vaguely distinguished that the half-open pendant shows a black and white photo of a man with a thick beard.

Kuroba Kaito, who has always been very smart and has a lot of knowledge, made a strange expression.

"Could it be that this is why Scobin is so crazy about hunting for the treasures of the Romanov dynasty? She is the kind of admirer of the evil monk Rasputin, who believes that the heritage of the Romanov dynasty should belong to her ancestors? What kind of paranoid patient is that?"

He said this speechlessly and helplessly, and he looked like he wanted to roll his eyes.

The zoo would target his father, which was inseparable from the conflict of interest between his father and them over the gems and collections. As long as he began to continue activities under the name of Kaito Kid, the zoo members who firmly believed that they had eliminated the real Kaito Kid eight years ago would definitely find him again, and would definitely have a sharp conflict with him because of his continued theft of gems...

This is why Kuroba Kaito chose to become Kaito Kid II after so many years of secret investigation, and he had always been mentally prepared to confront the other party sooner or later.

...But he didn't expect that in the end they would confront each other for such a ridiculous reason.

"I was going to return the Egg of Memory, which belonged to the young lady's ancestors and carried important memories and bloodline, to its original owner, but ended up offending such a paranoid lunatic?" Kuroba Kaito held up his hat, speechless, "Are you sure she is a member of the zoo?"

Thinking of Scobin, a mentally ill criminal, he now has a bad feeling.

To put it more specifically, maybe his father's disappearance at the zoo is not as bitter and vengeful as he thought, or there is a dark plot, and the real reason may be much more ridiculous than that.

This feeling of thinking that I have offended a big villain with a deep conspiracy, and after struggling for a long time, I found that the other side is just a group of simple crazy men and women, is really hard to describe.

"Well, since you know Rasputin, you should have heard of his 'legend'. According to rumors, the process of killing him was not simple. He was first fed 8 pieces of cake mixed with potassium cyanide, and drank a whole bottle of strong liquor also mixed with potassium cyanide, but still had no reaction. Then, the assassin shot him in the chest, pierced his lung lobe, and even scratched his heart. Just when everyone thought he was dead and was about to dispose of his body, he suddenly opened his eyes and escaped control..."

Kuroba Kaito certainly knew this information, and his mouth was even more straight.

An assassination, from a momentary attack, to a long tug of war, in the end, even the body was thrown under the ice, and the forensic result was drowning...

"She worships Rasputin, thinking that he is indeed immortal, and is longing for this kind of eternal life?" Kuroba Kaito said what Noah wanted to imply in his words.

Eternal life, eternal life again...

Noah's voice was brisk and ethereal.

"Yeah, pretty uncreative, isn't it?"