How exactly are the settlement progress values calculated in Chapter 16 and Chapter 15...?
Yellow River, Yellow River, I am the Yangtze River
Yangtze River, Yangtze River… I am, hey! Don't go, Yangtze River!
Yangtze River! Yangtze River! Don't go, Yangtze River!
What will I do if you leave!
No matter how desperately Zhuge Tongzhi cried out in his heart, the gentle older sister disappeared into the crowd in a few flashes, while the adults around her could easily block the sight of an elementary school student with just their two legs.
Moreover, today is the first day of the event, and perhaps the tragic incident that happened last night also served as a marketing tool. In any case, there are an unusually large number of people visiting the jewelry exhibition today.
Zhuge Tongzhi barely managed to make it a dozen meters in the direction the woman had left before he was jostled around by the crowd, spinning like a little top through the gaps.
Finally, a strong arm lifted her out of the crowd, and the murky air filled with various perfumes suddenly became fresh. Zhuge Tongzhi breathed a sigh of relief and looked up to see the ring displayed at booth number 58.
It was a simple ring, but the inner band was engraved with a line of italic English text. The delicate lettering wasn't simply arranged in a horizontal line, but deliberately engraved along the figure-eight curve of the infinity symbol, and it read:
An-Ryou-Amor-et-Fidelitas
Apricot and Cool
Love and Loyalty
Ah, this must be one of Takayama Ryo's exhibited works. It's actually the wedding ring he designed for himself and Amamiya An. Judging from the style... Zhuge Tongzhi craned his neck and saw another ring next to him with the exact same design, but wider.
These are engagement rings; no wonder Mr. Oshima thought this should have been a day for confession. Zhuge Tongzhi's feelings became slightly complicated.
He inscribed vows of love and loyalty on his artwork, but he didn't reciprocate with the same loyalty, and at the same time, he easily began to doubt the other person's love.
The girl, who was being lifted up by the collar by Morofushi Kagemitsu, sighed rather maturely, waved to her cheap guardian to indicate that she did not want to squeeze back, and then, with her feet off the ground, was steadily brought to Takagi Wataru.
The good-natured police officer, who was almost too easy to bully, squatted down and handed her a notebook with a smile. She had already finished her statement before she slipped away, but she still needed to sign it.
Since minors need to be accompanied by a guardian, the name Midorikawa Hikaru has already been signed below. Zhuge Tongzhi took the notebook and pen handed to him by Takagi Wataru, held the notebook in one hand, and carefully signed his name in crooked Japanese with the other.
After a moment of silence looking at the scribbles, Zhuge Tongzhi casually returned the notebook and looked up to wait for Takagi Wataru to exchange the usual social farewells with Morofushi Kagemitsu.
It seems that even if you download the language pack, you can only understand what you read, hear, and see, but not calligraphy.
Zhuge Tongzhi suddenly felt that she no longer needed to worry about her handwriting being too mature and giving her away; her handwriting was now so ugly that it could rival that of Kojima Genta.
The girl slightly shifted her gaze to the O-D navigation page in the void beside her. When she saw the ring, the progress of the previously shelved 'elevator murder case' had been updated.
"Your location is nearby. O-D navigation has ended."
"Given a travel history log for the elevator murder incident (100%)?"
Selecting the 'No' option automatically removed two prompts from the navigation page and updated the progress of the final destination route planning:
Final destination: 'Returning alive to my parents' side.'
"Route planning has been generated: 6.52%"
The additional 0.01% is the progress value obtained from completing the daily route today, and the remaining 5% is the reward for completing 100% of the case progress.
Huh? So generous? Zhuge Tongzhi blinked in surprise. She had a feeling that the increase in this case would not be small, but she did not know that it would be five times higher than the 1% progress value given in the last mall robbery case.
Ah... what exactly are the influencing factors? The black-haired, black-eyed elementary school student, led by his guardian, was lost in thought, his mind wandering and automatically following along.
The first case was given a progress value of 1%. The people directly involved were probably herself, Conan, the Detective Boys, and Kenji Hagiwara. It was a kidnapping case with the subplot of eradicating a cult.
The two daily routes are only for her, and completing one will earn her 0.01% progress points, which is basically better than nothing.
The second fake bomb case at the restaurant was given a progress value of 0.5%, and the people directly involved in the case were her, Conan, the Junior Detective League, and Kogoro Mouri.
She had assumed that the points awarded for case settlements were related to the participants and the difficulty of the case. For example, the mall case involving Conan and the Detective Boys, which included a gun, eight eggs, and a street chase, would receive more points than the fake bomb case.
According to her line of reasoning, this case, in which she, Conan, and officers from the First Investigative Division were involved, and which did indeed result in a death, should be in the progress range between 0.5% and 1%.
But how could there be so many more than she imagined?
Because of that older sister... Zhuge Tongzhi fumbled for the plastic piece in her pocket, but since Zhufu Jingguang was still beside her, she didn't take it out to look at it.
But that's not right. She quickly dismissed the idea. The case settlement was updated when she was lifted up and saw the inscription on the inner ring. 'Seeing the ring information' was the last missing step.
An-Ryou-Amor-et-Fidelitas… She slowly chewed on the line of characters, recalling how it was wrapped in a figure-eight shape like the infinity symbol.
Of all the slanted characters, only the characters at the far left, far right, and the middle intersection are upright; these are the three letters:
A…l……e
Ale, malt beer, is also called ale beer.
It is a type of beer with a rich and mellow taste, a strong aroma and bitterness, and often has complex aromas such as fruit and spices. The color of the beer depends on the roasting time, and is usually golden or dark brown. It is popular in the UK and Belgium.
Wow... a convoluted mystery in a physical sense, but it won't stump her.
Ale, um... wait a minute!
Holy crap, it's the name of a liquor!
Is the billing process related to the name of the wine?
Zhuge Tongzhi was startled and stopped abruptly. Looking up, she saw the entrance of the Mihua Supermarket in front of her—Zhu Fujingguang had brought her shopping as planned.
Noticing the force of her tugging, Morofushi Kagemitsu looked away from his phone. He calmly and quickly cleared the text message screen and said to her, "Kiri-chan, watch your step when you enter the supermarket. There are just as many people inside as at the Oshima Jewelry Fair."
"Uh... Ah, okay, Mr. Midorikawa." Zhuge Tongzhi's brain froze for a moment, and she was stunned for a moment before she reacted. She felt that her heart was too turbulent, so much so that her expression was a little stiff, and even her address became subconsciously more polite.
"What's wrong, Kiri-chan?" Morofushi Kagemitsu was pulling out a shopping cart when he noticed the girl's slightly strange expression. He glanced at the unusually large crowd due to the discounts, leaned down, and asked gently, "Is it too crowded? Would you like to sit in the shopping cart?"
"Wouldn't that be too embarrassing?" Zhuge Tongzhi blurted out instinctively.
Only after saying it out loud did she realize that she was no longer a relatively large adult woman; there were many children her age in the shopping carts around her.
She's a six-year-old now, and she can sit in the shopping cart openly and without any problem.
The girl, who had just refused, was suddenly interrupted by her inner astonishment and speculation. Now, blushing slightly, she reached out her hands to Morofushi Kagemitsu.
"...But after thinking about it, I think it's safer to stay in the car... um...!"
Yes, that's exactly it!
Zhuge Tongzhi forcibly ignored the laughter from Midorikawa Hikaru and was put into the shopping cart while being pinched on both sides of his arms.
The iron railing, which in her memory had become increasingly cramped and difficult to turn around in as she grew older, suddenly became spacious again, enough for her to lean against a corner and watch as a delicious little mountain of food was gradually built up in her empty field of vision.
The turbulent emotions in my heart seemed to gradually calm down with each small hill that piled up.
Zhuge Tongzhi grabbed a packet of instant noodles and, while Zhufu Jingguang went to the shelf to get something, expressionlessly dug his fingertips deep into the packaging bag, crushing the instant noodles into instant flour with a crisp snapping sound, and then stuffed the filth into the small mountain.
Whew—I feel so much more relaxed.
Smith Marseille! Instant Noodles!
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small apartment
Morofushi Kagemitsu put the last of the frozen food into the correct compartment of the refrigerator, closed the door, and looked at the refrigerator, now fully refilled, with satisfaction.
Zhuge Tongzhi nodded in satisfaction from the side.
Great, she won't be so hungry that she has to wake up in the middle of the night to find she can only eat cookies!
Midorikawa Hikaru said he had evening classes and it was getting late, so he had to hurry back. However, Zhuge Tongzhi knew that he probably had some urgent business to attend to, so he took the opportunity to see him out of the apartment.
"Well, I'm really sorry, I have to go to class. Our little Zhuge, please take good care of yourself. Call me if you have any problems, okay?" Zhu Fujingguang ruffled the girl's messy hair and gently reminded her of some trivial daily matters.
"Yeah, don't worry, Hikaru-chan." Zhuge Tongzhi shrank back as his neck was rubbed, his hands in his pockets, and touched the plastic sheet that he hadn't taken out.
She hesitated for a moment, then called out to Midorikawa Hikaru, who was getting up to leave: "Um... Hikaru-chan?"
"Hmm?" Morabushi Kagemitsu turned his head, his blue-gray eyes warmed by the twilight outside the window. The energetic college student looked at her with a question in his eyes.
Zhuge Tongzhi tightened his grip on the plastic sheet, then gave a bright smile: "Good luck in class, Xiao Guang!"
"Okay, I'll try my best." Morofushi Kagemitsu patted the girl's head one last time before turning and going downstairs.
Zhuge Tongzhi watched his figure disappear at the door at the bottom of the building, and then waved goodbye to the young man who turned around and looked up.
Only after Morifushi Kagemitsu was out of sight did she return to the apartment, close the door, lock it, put on the safety lock, and finally put a ceramic cup upside down on the doorknob before letting out a sigh of relief and sitting down on the sofa.
The unlit room was filled with the gradually dimming sunset glow that had burned to its peak. Zhuge Tongzhi remained silent for a while, then took out something he had been carrying in his pocket all afternoon.
Those were seven semi-transparent plastic sheets.
Arranged in the order of a rainbow, when viewed against the twilight, they cast seven different colored beams of light on your face.
Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple
The girl's obsidian-like eyes were divided into seven sections by different colors.
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