I, Zhongli, wander the world

"Apple?" Edogawa Ranpo picked up the golden apple on the table and shook it, "It's so heavy, it's pure gold!"

Ayatsuji pedestrian said slowly: "It fits the character of that rich man."

The two detectives were lamenting the wealthy aura exuded from every pore of the investor, but Poe said blankly: "Oh? Is it rare? There is an exactly the same one in my family's vacation castle. It's me. Dad put it in the orchard specially..."

Ayatsuji pedestrians and Edogawa Ranpo turned their heads to look at Poe at the same time.Misaki Naruto, who was in Ayatsuji's arms, straightened the skirt, and Edogawa Ranpo put the golden apple back on the table, and took a step back with his arms around him.

The innocent Poe suddenly had the illusion that he was being excluded.

"Speaking of the golden apple, it's probably that one." Ayatsuji pedestrian changed the subject, "That troublesome apple in Greek mythology."

"Ah, isn't there the golden apple that is engraved with 'Dedicated to the Most Beautiful Goddess' in Greek mythology?" Edgar Allan Poe whispered, "As the final topic of the competition, it doesn't feel so simple."

In Greek mythology, Eris, the goddess of discord, was angry because she was not invited to the wedding, and deliberately presented a golden apple at the wedding ceremony, engraved with the words "To the most beautiful goddess", which caused a lot of trouble in the audience. The battle of the three goddesses.This scramble even became the fuse of the famous Trojan War.

"The paintings on the wall are also quite interesting." Edogawa walked to the wall in random steps to look at the framed paintings on the wall, "Hmm...so that's it, does it correspond to the goddesses present at that time?"

Four oil paintings are neatly hung on the wall of the cabin, which respectively depict "people arguing with each other with torches", "people charging towards something", "forests full of ribbons", and "gardens placed by the river". Huaizhu River Mussel".

Ayatsuji pedestrians also walked to the side, "There were three goddesses present at the time, namely Athena, the goddess of war, Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, and Hera, the queen of marriage."

And this happens to correspond to three of them.

"As for the extra picture, it should correspond to the goddess Eris who caused everything." Poe pointed to the pair of "people who quarrel with each other" and said.

The three detectives didn't hide anything because of their identities as competitors. They exchanged information like friends, and the atmosphere seemed pleasant for a while.

Of course, this is not because friendship comes first, but because they both know each other well. As long as the detectives present can see this superficial intelligence, even if it is just a small talk, it will not affect anything.

"There is a keyhole here." Edogawa Ranpo said, bending over to look at the picture frame, "It seems that at least what we need to do now is to find this key inserted into the lockhole."

There is a small keyhole welded directly under each painting, and it looks like they need the same type of key.

"Anyway." Ayatsuji pedestrian turned around, looked at the furniture in the cabin and said, "We still need to search first..."

Suddenly, the cabin shook violently.

Edogawa, who was unsteady, staggered and was almost caught by Edgar Allan Poe who was next to him.

"Ranbu-jun, are you okay!" Edgar Allan Poe said in panic.

"It's okay." Edogawa shook his head in a random manner, his narrowed eyes slightly widened, and he whispered, "Is it really here?"

At the same time, in the room on the upper deck of the cruise ship, Zhong Li also looked at the surging sea.

The sky outside the window was still blue, obviously it should be a fine weather with calm and calm waves, but the deep sea water was beating huge waves, as if some huge monster was churning in the sea water continuously, making the whole sea area unable to be calm.

"Mr. Zhongli, the team members who stayed on the shore have received information that some monster has appeared in the sea near the land." Fitzgerald said with a serious face while holding the phone, "I personally don't think you can go there. , this strategy is too obvious."

The photos from the coast have been uploaded through the Internet. The photos with excellent pixels clearly show the yellow-green monster standing like a hill in the sea, with its body covered with tentacles. One of them has a huge The tentacles were about to slap down on the boat.

Leaving the best battlefields unused, and throwing monsters on the coast instead, this is an overt conspiracy that is so straightforward that it is almost undisguised.It's almost like saying brightly: This is to tune the tiger away from the mountain.

"Can the team members on the shore resist that monster?" Zhong Li looked at Fitzgerald seriously.

There is no need to hide this kind of thing, Fitzgerald said honestly: "With their firepower, they can resist for a while, but the monster's skin is very thick, and it is also extremely renewable, so they can't last for a long time."

"The trolley problem." Zhong Li shook his head and said, "The disaster that may happen to a boat, and the disaster that will happen to more people on the coast, from this moment on, that mental trainer has forced me to choose."

The purpose of their third match at sea is to control the damage caused by Kyogoku Natsuhiko within a controllable range. The opponent obviously knows what they mean very well, and what they are doing now is the answer.

The other party responded to Yang Mou with Yang Mou and asked: Which side do you choose to save?

"But this bargaining chip is not enough." Fitzgerald shook his head and said, "There hasn't been any chaos on the cruise ship at all. If it is a choice, of course it is to go to a coast where monsters have already descended and there are enough people."

"So, the next event should happen on my way to the coast." Zhong Li said, "This is still a conspiracy."

The other party said: I planted unknown hidden dangers on the cruise ship, and I will only tell you when I go to the shore.

To go or not to go?

Zhongli commented objectively: "It is very clever to choose a plan that cannot be balanced when calculating too powerful forces."

"Tsk." Fitzgerald smacked his lips unhappily, "The movement of that monster on the shore can even be felt here, if it is allowed to wreak havoc in the sea, it doesn't matter whether the cruise ship will be affected or not. We can see."

"Can you just follow the other party's pace first?" He said with a sigh.

After negotiating with Fitzgerald, Zhongli left the cruise ship and galloped into the sea in one direction.

At this time, nearly two hours have passed since the cruise ship left the port. Even if the speed of the passenger cruise ship is slow, it is already a long distance.Zhong Li, who stopped for a while, took a closer look at the sky, and was about to run forward again.

At this moment, his communication device rang.

This is a communication device specially purchased by Fitzgerald. In order to ensure that the vast sea can be unimpeded, it has an exclusive satellite channel. In contrast, Fitzgerald is the only person who can contact this communication device.

"Mr. Fitzgerald?"

"Kyogoku Natsuhiko's next step notification was sent just now." Fitzgerald's deep voice sounded through the current of the communication equipment, "The other party's target is not the passengers on the ship..."

"It's random steps, isn't it?" Zhong Li said softly.

"...You guessed it." Fitzgerald was silent for a moment, "The material of the cabin used as the venue for the competition has been replaced, and it should be replaced instantly by some unknown supernatural power. Now the supernatural power user has been replaced. Find out and control it, but like those bomb demons, you can't get any valuable information for the time being."

"The interlayer of the replaced cabin was stuffed with special poison capsules, which made it impossible for us to violently break it from the outside. The irreparable gap at the bottom continued to leak water into the cabin. The customs clearance medal that should have been a proof of victory is still there, but the golden apple The mechanism of the puzzle has been tampered with, and the punishment mechanism that was originally used to add fun has been replaced with a deadly mechanism, which will be activated instantly once the solution is wrong."

"Even the built-in puzzles are no longer the same as the default. I can't solve the puzzles to get the detectives out of the cabin."

"It has become a water prison full of poison and traps."

Zhong Li on the communicator was not as angry as Fitzgerald imagined, but said in a calm tone: "Can this communication device be transferred to Ranbu?"

Fitzgerald didn't ask much, and simply said, "No problem."

The detectives participating in the competition were wearing communicators for single contact with the outside world. After a noise of adjustment, the voice of the young detective came from the communicator.

"Mr. Zhongli!"

"Random steps." Zhong Li said without beginning or end, "What's the result?"

"No problem at all!" said the boy over the communicator, "Mr. Zhongli, when this incident is over, I want to eat your Crimson Shrimp Xianbei."

Zhongli chuckled almost imperceptibly through the receiver, "So you are so confident that you can win the championship?"

"After all, I am Ranpo Edogawa." The young detective said confidently, "Solving puzzles is my battle, no matter whether the obstacle is a detective or an agency."

"Then I wish you the best of luck."

Communication was interrupted.

In a hut far away from the coast where the incident occurred, an old hand stretched out from the darkness and opened the closed curtains.

The sky outside the window was just right, and the warm sunlight poured into the room from the window. A few plump birds flew down the window sill, and left quickly after sensing someone in the house.

"Helios' carriage has reached the track at noon." The people in the house looked at the bright sunshine and said with a low smile, "It's time for God to make a real choice."

The lethality of those organs arranged in the cabin is only for humans, but for gods, they are just gadgets that can be easily solved.But if Zhongli chooses to turn back to the cruise ship at this time, the monsters on the shore will definitely cause irreparable damage to the coastal cities.

"Of course, the detectives can choose to solve the puzzle before the water overflows the cabin, but at that time, what greets them at the door will not be the real exit, but more traps." The man shook his seat, Make it make a "creaking" wooden rubbing sound, "After all, the end of the golden apple is the tragic Trojan War."

So, for God, are more innocent lives more important, or his "families"?

A comfortable smile appeared on the old man's face, "It's really a good research topic."

The current affairs player on the small table broadcast the news by the seaside, and the monster accidentally found in the indigenous tribe had begun to attack the harbor in accordance with the contract with him.

Suddenly, a huge explosion erupted from the monster, and the huge body was blown slightly skewed, and then quickly adjusted its position, with several eyes on the top of its head looking in a certain direction.

"Oh, did you choose to go to the coast in the end? What a selfless god, then..."

His voice of talking to himself suddenly stopped.

The smoke and dust dissipated, but what appeared on the screen was not the man he had imagined.

The ochre-haired boy still wearing casual clothes was floating in the air with red light all over his body, while waving his hands to drive away the smoke and dust from his mouth and nose, he coughed violently. Afterwards, even the photographers who were far away could hear his distraught voice. Clearly.

"Osamu Dazai! I fuck!"

"Oh." Dazai Osamu, who was holding the bazooka on his shoulders on the sea, smiled happily, "It won't hurt anyway, and it's nothing to use □□ to help increase the initial speed."

As he spoke, he put his hands around his mouth in a trumpet shape, and said loudly, "Chung Ye, quickly let that black hand behind the scenes who doesn't pay attention to you when making plans see your true strength!"

"Ah, you don't need to tell me."

Zhongyuan Zhong also looked down at the monster below, "Although it is the first time to use it after being taught by Mr. Rimbaud, but..."

The red and black patterns snaked and climbed on the boy's body with the words, twisting like lifeless snakes, but the pair of eyes that should have lost their reason with the release of power were always clear.

"This is entrusted to me by my master, it belongs to my war—"

A huge roar occupies the entire shot.

Ability that has never been shown in front of people naturally cannot exist in the plan.For the first time, Kyogoku Natsuhiko showed a look of astonishment on his face, and then he suddenly looked out the window as if thinking of something.

In the courtyard downstairs, a slender figure stood there, looking straight into the window.

Those golden eyes were like blades covered with ice and snow.