9 Case 2: The Shadow Approaching the Gray Plains (1)
In fact, since opening his eyes, Tang Zeyu has not had much real sense of his identity, situation, and even existence itself.
Memory connects the past and the present, and is the anchor itself on which a person lives. High-rise buildings will decay, scenery will change, only the vivid memory in the mind is the existence that will never fade.
When even his memory is lost, he is not so much a human being as a soulless puppet on the stage, mechanically playing his own role.
Therefore, no matter how gentle the smile is and how perfect the disguise is, as long as the memory is blank for a day, it will not be able to get rid of the confusion of not knowing where to go.
The appearance of System 73 and comic serialization has exacerbated this sense of nothingness.
His soul was torn in half, floating empty. Half of them are the actors of this big play, and the other half are the cold spectators from the audience, the two have nothing to do with each other, but they have the same indifference to everything around them.
- In the final analysis, what is the plot, what is the main line, and what does it have to do with Tang Zeyu?
How many people died. People are going to die after all.
As a spectator, he doesn't have any motivation to appear, and as an actor, he just completes the task in front of him out of the stubborn side of his personality.
But when that picture appeared, everything suddenly changed, and there seemed to be a hand in the dark, gently plucking on his heart.
So the dusty heartstrings trembled slightly, emitting a long and lasting aftersound.
At this time, Tang Zeyu saw a door on the blank memory, although the key was still missing, but the door was in front of him, and one day it could be pushed open.
The dazed traveler has a place to land.
That is what Tang Zeyu can grasp now, and the only way to his lost past is suddenly broken by one-sixth with a line of red letters in the system.
It's hard to tell what his mood was at that moment, the topless sadness mixed with the huge blankness, the hundred flavors and miscellaneous slid between his teeth, and what was left behind in the end, and the most vivid thing, was actually annoyance.
- The failure of Relieving Zhu Fu Jingguang made him very annoyed.
Like the gem that was eventually taken away, Karasawa had no attachment to it at first, and the defuse of the bomb attached to the gem was only out of respect for the artwork.
But once the things he saved were taken away, Tang Zeyu was very angry.
Zhu Fu Jingguang is the same, the moment he saw the photo, he had already subconsciously classified the five people above into the category of his own people; And the bright red words were like a dazzling mockery, and fate threw down a contemptuous glance in the dark: You lost.
Oh, Tang Zeyu thought to himself, let's see.
*
It seemed that a long time had passed, and suddenly there was a knock on the door of the ward.
Tang Zeyu has been maintaining a posture, his dark pupils unblinking, like some kind of cold inorganic matter. In an instant, the aura that erupted around him was extremely terrifying, and it was a Conan alarm that could immediately sound in the sky, but fortunately, there was no one in the ward, so it didn't add to his suspicion.
When there was a knock on the door, the frozen eyes moved slightly, and the statue-like person came to life at that moment.
Tang Zeyu seemed to have just been put into this ward, so he naturally stretched his waist, got up from the bed, and said loudly, "Come in." β
A round face peeked out of the doorway, with gray hair half-bald and tufted in a bunch at the back of the head. Dr. Asasa knocked on the door and was stunned: "I'm sorry, who are you?" β
"Hiroshi Karasawa." Karasawa said gently, "Are you looking for Conan?" He wasn't there when I woke up. β
"Hey, where did he go again......"
A question mark popped up on the doctor's head, and Mao Lilan leaned out from behind him and said in surprise, "Karasawa Police Department, you are finally awake!" β
Tang Zeyu still remembered this girl who had a relationship with him at the art museum, and nodded with a smile.
Because of Xiaolan's words, all the doctors and nurses gathered around.
Tang Zeyu fell asleep for two days for unknown reasons, and after waking up, he received a full set of physical examinations from the hospital. Like a marionette, he smiled and was led down hallway after corridor, almost every floor of the hospital before he finally returned to his room.
After a set of physical examinations, another two hours passed, and in the process, Tang Zeyu noticed that the nurse on the road had a kind attitude, and the relationship with him seemed to be no stranger.
This unprovoked familiarity made him sit on pins and needles for a moment, and then slowly relaxedβfor he felt that the other party was looking at him not like a heroic police officer, but at an unlucky man.
Unlucky Guy Hiroshi Karasawa: ?
"The results of the medical examination will come out tomorrow," the nurse who took him back to the ward advised, "The health of the police department is still within the standard range, but please pay attention to rest." β
Tang Zeyu said: "Okay. β
The tone was patient and grateful, falling on the ears of strangers, who must have thought that this guy would follow the doctor's instructions, and the nurse did not know how many times she had heard this, her ears were calloused, and she turned her head silently.
The staff who have been working at the Rice Flower Central Hospital cannot be unimpressed with Hiroshi Karasawa.
Not only because Tang Zeyu is a frequent visitor to the hospital, but also because there is no one in this famous police department to accompany him to take care of him, every time he comes alone and walks alone, a single room is almost ready for him.
This time, I was admitted to the hospital with another boy, and I was rarely assigned to a double room.
Until the door of the ward, the nurse still wanted to say something more, and when she saw the smile on Tang Zeyu's face, she sighed, and finally there was no exit.
*
When Tang Zeyu pushed the door in, he saw Xiaolan with his back to him, and Conan, who was missing the dragon, was sitting obediently on the hospital bed at this moment, bowing his head and listening to the training.
"Conan, why did you do such a dangerous thing again!"
"Lanne-chan, I'm sorry......" the boy's voice hung down.
It's the second time, and Tang Zeyu finally confirmed that Conan is completely two children in front of Xiaolan and others, no wonder Xiaolan has been kept in the dark by him for so many years.
β¦β¦ Wait, it doesn't seem like many years have passed.
In his vague impression of his association with the comics, the author seems to have said that all of Conan's cases took place within a year.
Could it be that Conan's year is thirty-six thousand days?
"Next time I'm not going to run around! Sister Xiaolan, don't be angry......"
A 17-year-old high school student named Shinichi Kudo was pretending to be a child to perfunctory his young tame, and the more Yu Karasawa listened, the more interesting he became, so he simply leaned against the door and did not go in.
However, as soon as Conan looked up and saw Tang Zeyu, he said loudly as if he had seen a savior: "Brother Tang Ze, you are back!" β
ββ¦β¦β
Tang Zeyu moved his steps and walked in the door casually: "Well, I just went to have a physical examination." β
The fun was interrupted by me, and Tang Zeyu still felt a little pity in his heart. With him present, it was inconvenient for Xiaolan to educate Conan, and the time for the visit was about to pass, so she packed up her things and quickly bowed and left.
Conan, who had shrunk into a quail, finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Tang Zeyu washed his hands and sat down on his hospital bed. At dusk, there was a line of orange-red light obliquely on the snow-white wall, and Tang Zeyu stared at the beam of light, stunned.
The two-hour physical examination allowed him to gradually calm down and gradually figure out the next steps.
Based on the author's creative logic, the image of important supporting characters needs to be plump and three-dimensional, in other words, the higher the proportion of Tang Zeyu in the plot, the more likely it is that there will be memories related to him in future comic series.
He will not live a lifetime in a state of amnesia, and in order to find his past, Tang Zeyu must enter the main line.
So under this premise, the first piece of information to be obtained now becomes: Conan's current mainline progress.
During the physical examination, Yu Karasawa checked the comic catalog.
Even if it is a remastered version, Conan has been serialized for more than a hundred words, and unlike the three-dimensional week, Karasawa Yu found that the update frequency of the manga serialization, the serial content and the time of the world are confused with each other.
What has happened is sometimes immediately in the comics, and sometimes it takes a long time.
He quickly reread the previous episode, but was distracted by too many distractions from talking to the doctor. If you want to know the progress of the main story, it is better to ask Conan directly.
Only before that, he had to think about how to speak.
- In the manga, Yu Karasawa has just appeared on the stage, and the general reaction of the barrage is screaming and licking, and there is rarely the idea of "this is the main character". Should "Yu Karasawa" know about the existence of the black-clothed organization, not only Conan is hesitating, but I'm afraid the author is a little undecided.
If he hadn't accidentally bumped into Gin before, this hesitation period might have lasted longer, but Tang Zeyu didn't have the patience to wait for the author to continue his daily case slowly.
Tang Zeyu leaned down, palms of his hands against each other, elbows on his knees, and said, "Conan." β
"Huh?"
"I have a question for you."
Sensing Tang Zeyu's serious attitude, Conan also put down his mobile phone, turned to him and said, "You say." β
After the palms were put together, Tang Zeyu smiled imperceptibly.
He paused word by word and asked clearly: "What is the relationship between you and Kudo Shinichi?" β
TBC.