Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 98 Never Overestimate Human Rationality

Xiaolan talked about some of the general conditions of the venue that she had observed, the main purpose of which was to determine the route of advance if an action was taken later. Yingsheng listened quietly and gave some pointers from time to time.

In fact, the venue was open and the defense was quite amateurish, so there was not much to consider.

But for a novice like Xiaolan, it is just right for accumulating experience.

“There’s just one thing that’s weird.”

Xiaolan looked in the direction they came from, and unexpectedly a bald man wearing a pig head mask walked in, and looked around everywhere as soon as he came in.

"Didn't we knock out two people there, and let one go? Why are you acting like nothing happened?" Xiaolan asked puzzledly.

"Maybe it's because of face. Anyway, no one died. The Nican Society probably just thought it was some bad-tempered guest and didn't want to expose this matter." Yingsheng smiled:

"And with things having developed to this point, the Nican Society has long been in a difficult position. If they cancel the auction now, they will just have to wait for the whole place to be turned upside down."

Speaking of this, Xiaolan frowned slightly: "I heard that the finale item here is a person."

"Yes, a very beautiful woman."

Yingsheng sighed, "Didn't I tell you at noon that someone here was cheated and lost everything? I guess it has something to do with that person.

I originally wanted to collect evidence of those people's setup and then let the police clean up the mess, but now that a human auction has occurred openly in public, there is no need to go through all that trouble.

Someone else must have called the police, and our old acquaintance, Inspector Megure, should be here soon.

We must take the opportunity to leave then, as most of the masked guests here will be questioned."

Xiaolan nodded. She didn't necessarily want to be a Tokyo Robin Hood, and the original plan was for the police to deal with it. Now that they had entered the scene early, that was perfect.

In fact, she was a little nervous because she would need to hide from the police afterwards.

It's not that I'm worried about not being able to escape, it's just...

It feels like some of my stance is confused.

Although she is very familiar with Inspector Megure, she now needs to avoid his pursuit... Well, Xiaolan suddenly felt that some bad personality trait had been awakened. Why was she inexplicably excited while being nervous?

No, no, no, it must be an illusion.

definitely is!

"How come you are in such a dilemma?" Xiaolan asked, "Didn't they anticipate this situation and spread the news in such a hurry?"

"Who knows what they are thinking? Maybe they are just simple-minded." Yingsheng said casually.

In reality, of course, this is not the case.

The Nimongol Association is indeed very amateurish, but it is not so hasty as to hold an auction that is extremely arrogant and a blatant provocation to the police without any prior preparation.

In other words, apart from the finale that everyone is looking forward to, have they really prepared enough auction items?
The platform has been built, there can't be only a pearl behind it and rubble in front of it.

That would be such a bummer.

Even now, the true appearance of the pearl has not been revealed, and not all the people gathered here believe the rumors that it is a rare and exquisite delicacy in the world.

More often than not, it is just out of the thrill of flagrantly trampling on the law and a sense of superiority.

The human auction that I had only seen in movies and TV shows was now happening right before my eyes. Regardless of whether I dared to raise my hand to bid or not, just running over to watch the excitement was enough to make me excited. Look, I had also participated in this kind of thing.

We are no longer in the same class as you ignorant low-class people.

In short, no matter whether the Nican Society could have anticipated these aspects beforehand, as long as they still had the most basic thinking ability, it would be impossible for them to be so hasty as to kidnap the person at seven o'clock in the evening, start the auction at ten o'clock in the evening, and the news would have been leaked at noon.

Isn't this just setting a trap for yourself?
So the answer is obvious, someone is helping them to expand the impact of this incident.

Who is this kind-hearted person?

Of course it is Ms. Chiyoko Kanhara of the Sumiyoshi-kai.

She followed Yingsheng's advice, and took advantage of the opportunity when the Nican Society made a stupid move to escalate the situation, attempting to use the power of the police to destroy the Nican Society in one fell swoop!
As for who the person being auctioned is, or whether there is such a person, she doesn't care at all.

Moreover, she thought that Yingsheng didn't care and was just simply helping her.

But in fact, Yingsheng was unwilling to wait a few more days for things to continue to ferment. In addition to using a tight pace to force Nican to become chaotic and make them make mistakes in a hurry; another part of the reason was to allow Xuesong Qingzi to solve the trouble as soon as possible.

Her kidnapping was indeed staged by herself.

The leading role is herself, and the supporting roles are those two ghosts who are deeply fascinated by her and can't be shaken off.

Ok……

Although there were only two of them, she could already use checks and balances and didn't have to worry about losing control in the short term. But if the two ghosts stayed together for a long time, who knew if they would reach some strange balance, which would be very bad.

Add to that the factors on Kogoro Mori's side, and everything happened so hastily.

No matter how stupid the Nican Club was, they had already realized that something was wrong, but they had no way of refuting the rumor. After much deliberation, they could only cut ties with the auction.

The venue looked quite lively, with members of the Nimonghui on duty everywhere, but in fact most of them were just small fry, and the cadres who knew the inside story had already disappeared without a trace, which was also the reason for the slow response of the defense here.

No one is in charge.

Of course, Yingsheng couldn't have 100% control over the internal situation of the Nizhan Society, but since things had been developing according to the trajectory he had arranged, he could at least guess it.

The time is now 9:55 p.m. and the show is about to begin.

But until then...

"Come on, Alice, the police are coming."

Everything was just a simple repetition of a rehearsal. The filth and ugliness that would erupt here next, Yingsheng didn't want Xiaolan to see it so early.

The rock music became louder and louder. The atmosphere in the venue was already heated. Masked figures were rubbing shoulders with each other. They didn't know each other, but they were talking louder than the rock music.

There was a kind of fanaticism in the air. The desires that drove them here had now turned into a kind of illusion, enveloping everyone present.

Xiaolan followed Yingsheng and walked outside along the edge of the venue. She looked back at the lively atmosphere, her eardrums vibrating and her eyes were quite blank:

"Why are they like this?"

"It's simple, because they are all idiots." Yingsheng said without turning his head.

"idiot?"

(End of this chapter)