Chapter 73 Three Men and a Drama
With something like this happening, of course the class reunion couldn't go on.
Xia Youjie rushed back to his rental house under the sympathetic gazes of his two classmates. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Cheng Xiaoyu sitting on his sofa drinking milk tea. The first thing she said to him was: "Have you finished reading the plan I sent you?"
At this moment, Geto Suguru suddenly began to doubt his memory, but the time in his mobile chat window told him that the terrifying 56-page plan was indeed received 24 minutes ago, not 24 hours ago.
Geto: "I don't know what's going on with you demons, but there's no way an ordinary human could both travel and read your 100,000-word proposal in 24 minutes."
"It's only 84,000 words, actually. I figured you'd finish it on the way." Cheng Xiaoyu sipped the pearls from her milk tea. "Don't worry, I'm here to avoid that. You can read it now, as long as you finish it before you go to work tomorrow. If you don't understand anything, feel free to ask me. We can also discuss any suggestions for improvement, so you can remember it better."
Xia Youjie looked at the 56 pages of densely packed text on his phone screen and for the first time thought that he might be suffering from "intensive text phobia". Before he could say "I think the time may be too tight", Cheng Xiaoyu misunderstood the reason for his silence.
She gave him a look that said, "I get it," and fished out a tablet from the shadows. With a few taps, she pulled out the daunting 56-page text-only plan and handed it to Suguru. "It's really hard on your eyes to read all that text on your phone. Try this. It has a bigger screen."
Geto Xiayou took the tablet and said, "...Actually, what I want to say is that I'm afraid I can't finish reading it."
"You can definitely finish it. It's just the word count that sounds long," Cheng Xiaoyu said. "If you convert that to a novel with a starting chapter of 3,000 words, that's only 28 chapters. Doesn't that give you confidence?"
Geto Suguru: “…” Who taught you to convert like this?
Can the reading difficulty of 28 chapters in a novel be the same as that of 28 chapters in a task plan or textbook?
......
The next day, when Polo Café opened, waiter Azusa Enomoto noticed that his two male colleagues had dark circles under their eyes and looked listless. He asked worriedly, "Mr. Amuro, Mr. Geta, you don't look well. Are you all right?"
In order to figure out the next move, he held an analysis meeting with Edogawa Conan and Akai Shuichi all night last night, and got up this morning for morning exercises. Amuro Toru, who only slept for three hours in total, said: "It's okay. It's just that I suddenly had the urge to practice coffee art after get off work yesterday, but I didn't pay attention and drank too much coffee. I couldn't sleep last night."
Reading the plan report, discussing the next step with the ghost, practicing acting skills... In short, Geto Suguru stayed up all night: "I was so engrossed in reading a novel last night that I didn't realize it was already this late."
Enomoto Azusa looked at Geto's pale face and his state of being so carefree that he felt like he was about to collapse at any second, and said, "Mr. Geto...why don't you take a day off today? You look really bad..."
"Really, no need. I'll just wash my face later."
Geto Suguru thought to himself, I'm trying to get into this state so that the plan can be implemented, but I'm staying up late to exercise at the risk of becoming a healthy corpse. How can I take a leave?
"It just so happens that I don't have any shifts scheduled tomorrow, so I can get enough sleep after get off work."
Seeing that Geto Suguru insisted, Enomoto Azusa didn't know what to say. Since she didn't want another familiar person to be among the dead in Beika Town, she said, "If you can't hold on, be sure to tell me and the store manager. Your health is the most important thing."
"I will, thank you Ms. Enomoto for your concern." With these words, the three of them began their work at Polo Coffee Shop today.
The scene looks very harmonious, but it is a different story from the perspective of Geto Suguru and Toru Amuro.
Toru Amuro: I have to find an opportunity to get more information about Rimei from Geto Suguru, but I can't let him notice. Now that he's not in a good mental state, maybe this is an opportunity.
Geto Suguru: I have to find an opportunity to let Toru Amuro take the prepared information about Rimei from me, but he can't notice it. I deliberately made myself depressed, so you should act quickly.
Since Toru Amuro knew that Geto Suguru was not an easy person to deal with, and he didn't know whether Geto Suguru knew his identity, for various reasons, he couldn't take direct action for the time being.
But it doesn’t matter, Toru Amuro is not fighting alone.
It was the weekend, and Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara followed Professor Agasa to the Polo Cafe as expected. Both of them ordered a children's set meal.
Geto Suguru had just set the table when Edogawa Conan "just in time" raised his left hand to show Geto Suguru the anime stickers in his hand, but "unfortunately" knocked over the juice next to him. Geto Suguru "happened" not to react in time, and the spilled juice soaked the pocket where his cell phone was.
"I'm sorry, Brother Geto." Edogawa Conan exclaimed, "Ah! Cell phone, your cell phone has been splashed with juice!"
Generally, the charging port of a mobile phone is at the bottom of the phone. When people put their phones in their pockets after using them, the charging port will face outwards due to inertia.
So when the juice spilled, Xia Yujie, who was worried that his phone might get wet, quickly took out his phone from his pocket, pulled out a napkin from the dining table and tried to wipe the liquid from the charging port and speaker of the phone, and subconsciously wanted to turn on the screen to see if there was anything wrong with his phone.
"Wait a minute!" Haibara Ai suddenly stopped him. After making sure that Geto Suguru had stopped and looked over, she said timidly, "Well... I read in a magazine that if your phone gets soaked in water, you can't immediately turn on the screen or force it to start up, otherwise it may further damage the electronic components..."
Geto Suguru looked at Dr. Agasa doubtfully: "Is that so? But I don't know if the phone is broken or not without turning it on."
Dr. Agasa: "Ai is partially right. The correct operation is to turn off the power immediately and let it air dry normally. During this process, be careful not to use a hair dryer, microwave or other heat source to dry the phone, because in this case, the high temperature will cause the moisture in the phone to evaporate too quickly and further damage the phone, and in serious cases, it may even cause an explosion. In short, Mr. Geta, please turn off the power to your phone immediately."
Xia Yujie turned off his phone and asked anxiously, "Will it take a long time for it to dry naturally? I need my phone urgently. Can someone repair it?"
Dr. Agasa was a little embarrassed: "But if the water inside is not dried, there is no way to repair it."
Geto: "Is there any safe way to speed up the drying process without damaging the phone?"
At this time, Edogawa Conan said: "If it's dry... can desiccant be used? Put the phone and the desiccant in a sealed bag? There are usually desiccant in packaged food. Mr. Amuro, do the coffee beans in the store have desiccant?"
Amuro Toru: "Yes, there is, but unfortunately, it cannot be used. Because there is only one bag of desiccant in the coffee beans, for the sake of food hygiene in the store, we can't take out the desiccant and use it and then put it back, but the coffee beans cannot be without desiccant."
Edogawa Conan: "How can I take it apart and pour it out bit by bit?"
Amuro Toru: "No, if the opened small bag is put back into the food, there is a risk of contaminating the food."
Geto: "Can I buy the whole bag of coffee?"
Amuro Toru: "I can't decide on that. I'll have to ask the store manager. After all, we only have that one bag of coffee in the cafe right now. But I think if you just want to dry out a water-damaged phone, it's actually not that troublesome. Plus, Mr. Getsu's phone was only splashed with a drink, so even if it got soaked, it's not serious. Maybe using raw rice instead would work... But I also read this in a magazine."
Geto Suguru: "No matter what, it won't be worse than having your phone damaged by water. Let's give it a try."
So Toru Amuro took Geto Suguru to the kitchen to scoop some raw rice, wrapped the waterproof port and headphone jack of the mobile phone with paper towels to prevent the rice from blocking these places, and then put the mobile phone and rice in a plastic bag.
In fact, that amount of water would not cause the mobile phone, which was already covered with cloth, to be soaked and scrapped, so they asked Geto Suguru to turn off the power of the mobile phone immediately, so that they could not determine the quality of the mobile phone at the first time.
Of course, the mobile phone that was packed in the plastic bag with the rice could not be carried with you, so Geto Suguru's mobile phone was reasonably left in the employee lounge.
This gave Conan Edogawa and Toru Amuro the opportunity to get close to the phone.
…
[In fact, using raw rice to treat water-damaged mobile phones is not 100% effective.]
The ghost's voice sounded in Geto Suguru's mind. Even though he had been told to be mentally prepared, Geto Suguru still shuddered. He was not used to this way of conversation.
[I know this type of call is difficult for most people to accept, but this is a special case. Thank you for your hard work.]
It’s not that hard actually.
Geto Summer thought.
After that, I stayed on duty outside to give them enough time to get the information from the phone.
Cheng Xiaoyu: [You can't be out all the time. That's not consistent with someone who's worried about their important phone. They'll get suspicious.]
Geto Suguru: I understand.
[Also, since you're currently fighting with all the buffs, two-way telepathic communication is a security risk, so this is a one-way telepathic communication. So don't try to talk to me in your head; I can't hear you.]
Geto Suguru: ...
Then how did you know what I was talking about?
Cheng Xiaoyu: [I'm quite perceptive and intuitive. Simply put, I'm just guessing. And have you forgotten? I'm not just connecting with you one-way. I'm also using the crystal ball to live stream your situation, so don't worry, I'm watching.]
Geto Suguru had to admit that although Ghost usually gave people the impression of being out of tune, her words at this time did make him calm down a lot as he was performing in front of three veteran actors in disguise for the first time.
"Yeah, it'll be fine. They'll definitely do everything they can to stop you. If you accidentally run into them taking your phone, or if they notice you've revealed some flaws, just do as the plan says. Say you thought Toru Amuro had a crush on you and that you're homophobic. That way, all your strange behavior will be explained away, because anything a homophobic straight man does is normal."
Moreover, Toru Amuro knew that Geto Suguru thought she had a crush on him, and he also knew that Geto Suguru was very resistant to this. After all, he was there when Cheng Xiaoyu ruined his reputation, so this reason was 100% valid.
This backup plan had actually been deleted and modified by Cheng Xiaoyu at the strong will of Geto Suguru. Before that, Cheng Xiaoyu thought about simply letting Geto Suguru agree to this non-existent relationship. Anyway, according to Toru Amuro's dedication as the Neon Wolf Warrior, he might agree and sacrifice himself to obtain more information.
At the time, Cheng Xiaoyu said, "Anyway, based on the way I hinted at Amuro Toru in the fake phone call, he might actually bite his teeth and agree to it just to clear [Umekawa Kuko]'s suspicion of him. Anyway, you two both have ulterior motives and are both honest people. I'm just asking you to find a reasonable excuse to pass on the information you need to pass on, not to get a hotel and sacrifice your lives. I don't see what the problem is."
It doesn't cheat people of their money or their bodies, and it doesn't hurt other people's feelings - because both parties have no feelings for each other and have ulterior motives, so what's wrong with just playing around? In Cheng Xiaoyu's eyes, it's no different from business negotiations between Party A and Party B. After all, business negotiations have a contract as a backup!
Or to use a more appropriate analogy, let's say you and a same-sex colleague you're not familiar with but don't dislike at all go on a dating variety show and pretend to be a couple. After a few months of acting, each of you will be paid 5 million after tax.
How many people would refuse?
What a simple, quick and efficient method. The only drawback is that Geto Suguru himself expressed strong opposition. He stood on the balcony at three o'clock in the morning and was blown by the cold wind for three minutes. He said that if this was the case, he would rather choose backup plans No. 3 and No. 8.
That is, he would use the cell phone to scam Amuro Toru or Akai Shuichi's car, or pretend to be silenced. In short, under Cheng Xiaoyu's secret operation, he would accurately make himself into a fake vegetable and reveal the prop of "cell phone with important information" to them.
Cheng Xiaoyu: "...not that bad, buddy."
Is it really necessary to be so cruel to yourself? Akai Shuichi didn't intend to hit himself to death when he hit someone with a car accident, and Mizunashi Rena didn't deliberately crash the car when she pretended to be in a vegetative state to pass on information to the FBI.
Xia Yujie replied word by word, "Very. To.."
"......All right."
Cheng Xiaoyu regretfully put this plan into the backup plan, puzzled.
Could it be that her brilliant idea is more creative than a car?
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