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The fact that the United States is going to hold a World Detective Contest has been widely circulated among reasoning enthusiasts. Kudo Yusaku and his family, as related persons, were naturally the first to know about the competition.

Although the promotion of the novel has become such a strange thing as the World Detective Contest, Yusaku Kudo, as the person who was supposed to be promoted, has not been left behind. The complete works of novels are one of the prizes of the competition, and he himself is also the judge of the competition One garnered a ton of hype.

Habitually coming to the United States in the summer, Shinichi Kudo, who originally thought he would go to Hawaii this year to learn all kinds of weird skills, naturally also learned about it immediately.Kudo Shinichi searched for the list of participants for this competition for the first time, and then successfully found the name of Edogawa Ranpo in it, and immediately ran to find his father with cheers.

"Father, father, look! Mr. Edogawa will also participate in this competition!" Unlike Yusaku Kudo who has lived abroad all the year round, Shinichi Kudo was often featured in various newspapers, magazines and even TV when he was living in China. I saw the news about Edogawa Ranpo on the news, and he even made a lot of newspaper clippings of famous detectives. The clippings alone almost filled half of the bookshelf!

"Yeah, when the organizer asked me if there were any recommended candidates, I subconsciously said Edogawa-kun's name." Kudo Yusaku touched his son's head and said with a smile.

When he was still in Japan in the past, he often went to the police station to collect information. By the way, he served as a temporary case consultant for Megure and the others. It was during that time that he got to know Edogawa's father who was nicknamed "Clairvoyance". A very strong and respectable police officer.

However, there were unforeseen circumstances, and the Edogawa couple died in an accident. When he heard the uncommon surname of Edogawa again, it was already a few years later. The young detective named Edogawa Ranpo... The news of repeated praise made him immediately realize that this young man was probably the son of police officer Edogawa.

But even his own son praised Edogawa Ranpo so much, it seems that he has really done better and better in China these years.

Yusaku Kudo smiled and looked at his son, "In this competition, you can see him directly, how about it, are you happy?"

"Well, I'm going to ask Mr. Ranpo for an autograph!" Kudo Shinichi, who was only ten years old, excitedly ran to find his autograph board and fountain pen, and it seemed that he planned to take it with him.

Although the World Detective Contest is promoted by a large consortium, but considering that the participants include their own second young master, Edgar Allan Poe, who suffers from social phobia, this time the competition has been advertised vigorously, but it has not done anything at all. The meaning of live broadcast.Of course, what was said to the outside world was that this competition was attended by various levels of federal police departments, the FBI and other departments, and the detectives would be responsible for solving real cases on the spot, so it was inconvenient to broadcast it to the outside world.

But they also promised to edit and broadcast the situation after obtaining the permission of the police and detectives.

The gimmicks have reached this level, and the expectations of both ordinary people and dedicated reasoning enthusiasts have been pulled to full value. Finally, in early August, the detective contest kicked off.

48 teams from different regions of the world will compete in the next month to find out who is the world's number one detective.By the way, the only team from East Asia is the Armed Detective Agency.

On the other side of the earth, another terrible incident is happening in Yokohama, Japan. A rich man with supernatural powers died and left 5000 billion unregistered property before his death. It is said that whoever finds it is the real meaning of it. The large amount of money dropped out of nowhere on the Internet successfully made the entire Yokohama Yakuza organization boil.

They attacked each other frantically, searching the city for any possible hiding place of this huge inheritance.Soon the battle between each other has changed from underground to bright, from night to day, and ordinary people are quickly implicated.

For a time, the whole of Yokohama was full of chaos.

Mori Ogai stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass and looked outside, couldn't help sighing, "This is really embarrassing, don't you think so, Rantang-kun?"

Rimbaud standing behind him was very quiet, "Boss, I just feel a little cold. Can the air conditioner in the room not be turned down so low, can it be raised?"

Mori Ogai was dumbfounded, he smiled and said, "Okay, Lantang-kun is still the same, then convey the instructions to the black lizard for me, the current PortMafia will be fully contracted, let's not confront those guys who have gone crazy match."

"Although it is better to strike first, but in the current situation, even the opportunity to strike first has been taken away by someone." Mori Ogai watched his subordinates leave, and casually picked up an international coin from the table. Chess took a step up and down on the chessboard, "Really, I really envy His Highness Fukuzawa at this time, where did he find so many talented people?"

Fukuzawa Yukichi, whom he envied, was currently on the east coast of the United States. Because of the hot weather, all of them were wearing cool short-sleeved shorts, but Edogawa Ranpo, who was a detective, still had to wear them in such weather. His own detective suit and detective vest, as well as Osamu Dazai, who is in the late stage of the second illness, are still covered with bandages.

The outfits of the two of them really worried Yujimaomao. It followed the two of them with two fans and various cooling products in its hands, lest these two guys who want to be graceful but not warm will be so angry Excessive heat and heat stroke.

"It's okay, it will end soon anyway." Edogawa Ranpo pushed the hat on his head with his fingers, took out a pair of ordinary black-framed glasses from his arms, put them on, and opened the emerald green glasses slightly. eyes, and said to the big black cat beside him with a smile, "Mr. Yuji, aren't you hot?"

Also under the scorching sun, Yuji Maomao itself is a big black cat. Compared with their group of humans, no matter how you look at it, it absorbs heat better.

"It's okay, I'm taking care of Mr. Yukichi." Oda Sakunosuke walked over holding the large parasol in his hand. Naturally, he didn't notice at all. The appearance of the four of them in this corner is so hard to describe that other people They all felt a little horrible.

"Ah, it's really thanks to the fact that there won't be a live broadcast of this shitty game..." Zhong Yuan, who was in the distance, reached out his hand to cover his face in despair.

"Actually, it's good to let it go down, even the Rashomon can be used to shade!" Ryunosuke Akutagawa who was on the side hadn't finished speaking, and Yosano Akira had already shot a finger on the forehead.

"Shut up, the Detective Agency's permission to open with supernatural powers is useless here." Yosano Akiko said speechlessly, "It's also thanks to this competition that the "detective" character is allowed to use supernatural powers to search prisoner.Others have not obtained permission to use supernatural powers from the United States, and use supernatural powers in public with great fanfare. Do you want to get involved in the situation? "

"Hmm..." Akutagawa Ryunosuke, who was holding his head, was quite upset, but he had no choice but to sit aside and watch their game.

After a brief explanation of the competition system, the people on the rostrum announced the first puzzle, "Then, each detective is only allowed to bring one registered assistant, please follow the prisoner as soon as possible until the venue of the second competition." ! The game has officially begun!"

Edogawa Ranpo understood the answer with just one glance. He put his glasses away casually, reached out and clapped Yukichi Maomao, and then ran to his real assistant, Fukuzawa Yukichi, "President President, let's go, I already know the answer, let's go—"

Although Osamu Dazai was invited as "If your company has more than two detectives, you can come together" in the invitation letter, he did not sign up for the competition after he actually arrived in the United States.

In his words, "Hey, I still have to travel so many places? It's too tiring."

After the host announced the official start of the game, a group of people left the venue with a whimper.Fukuzawa Yukichi and Edogawa Ranpo are old partners for many years. The two of them quickly got into a car provided by the organizer. Fukuzawa Yukichi drove in a certain direction under the guidance of Edogawa Ranpo. past.

"Didn't you say that there will be a real case?" When the detectives in the venue started to act, all the detectives' entourage remained, and Nakahara asked Osamu Dazai who came back curiously.

"How could the first few cases be true? The first few cases were used to screen the strength of detectives, and then only those with real strength will be allowed to check the cases that have troubled the American police for many years." Osamu Dazai Shrugging, "How could the police in the United States allow these laymen to intervene in their cases so easily? The FBI will have to save face."

"I heard that the FBI seems to have some kind of BAU, which seems to be very powerful?" Akiko Yosano said while flipping through the competition brochure in her hand.

"BAU is the abbreviation of Behavioral Analysis Unit, which is the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the FBI." A young man with long black hair was wearing a black peaked cap and black clothes that also ignored the hot weather and said slowly, "You guys Are you Japanese? It’s rare to see a Japanese team in such a place, so I came here to say hello.”

"xiu——" Osamu Dazai whistled, reached out and shook hands with the other party, and then said with a smile, "Yes, we are the Armed Detective Agency in Yokohama. Hello, big brother of the FBI."

Akai Hideo was taken aback for a moment, never expecting that he would be recognized by the other party just by meeting him. He raised his eyebrows curiously, "How did you tell?"

"This is a secret——" Osamu Dazai dragged his voice, he was not interested in explaining so much to someone he met for the first time, turned around and said to the big cat behind him, "Mr. Yukichi, I want to drink orange soda! "

Big Cat Yuji took out a bottle of Fanta that was still cool from the thermos bag hanging on his shoulder and handed it over.

"Well, it's in the United States after all, there's no way." Osamu Dazai said this, but he still quickly started to ton to ton.

"Well, is the Mr. FBI looking for us for something?" Oda Sakunosuke, the oldest and most common-sense person among the remaining people, threw the large parasol in his hand towards the big cat Yukichi, Then he turned around and asked.

"No, it's nothing, I just heard a lot about Edogawa Ranpo, so I just wanted to see Mr. Ranpo." Akai Shuichi hadn't finished speaking, and the host in front of the venue was already genuinely surprised Said in a calm tone, "The first player to arrive at No. [-] court appeared, and it was Ranpo Edogawa from Japan!"