"By the way, what does a stag beetle look like?" As she stepped off the school bus, Chiba asked Conan.

"Huh?" Conan was a little surprised. "Haven't you caught stag beetles?"

"I haven't caught it, what's wrong?" Qian Yu frowned.

"You haven't caught a stag beetle?" Yuantai's voice was also extremely surprised. "Liar, huh?"

"Really?" Ayumi joined in the surprise.

"I'm not interested in bugs... Chiba was a little stunned by Motota and Ayumi's reaction. "Any questions?"

"Forget it," Conan smiled and shook his head. "Then let's take you to the wonderful world of insects!"

"Everyone~" Sumiko Kobayashi greeted everyone with a smile to start today's main content. "The stag beetle hunt, begin!"

"Yo !!" Except for Conan, Gray Plains, and Thousand Feathers, everyone responded in unison.

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In the woods.

"Chiha, give me the wine," Conan took the stockings that Ayumi gave him and motioned for Chiba to take out the cheap wine. "I'll tell you how to catch stag beetles."

"Here you go..." Chiba hurriedly took the wine out of her bag and handed it to Conan. "This is a cap-type simple wine, just unscrew the cap."

"yes, okay." Conan unscrewed the lid of the wine and poured some into the stockings.

"Hey, hey..." Qian Yu was very surprised when he saw Conan's actions. "It's going to leak out—huh?"

"No," Conan replied with a smile. "These stockings are breathable and impermeable, and the wine can't leak out."

"Your knowledge does seem to have a strange depth in strange ways... Chiba raised an eyebrow.

“。。。” Conan squinted, then pulled the cuff of his stockings apart. "Ahem... We continue to catch stag beetles... Chiha, push the banana aside and throw it into the sock. If possible, break the banana a little. ”

"Uh... Qian Yu hesitated for a moment, then took out a tissue from his backpack and placed it on top of a patch of grass. Then he took out the banana, opened it, broke it by hand, and put it in the stockings. "It feels so disgusting... After doing all this, Chiba immediately wiped his hands clean with a paper towel on the grass.

"Stag beetles are insects, so they naturally have a sweet tooth," Conan said, cuffing his stockings and using a dead knot to fasten them to a relatively low branch. "Rotten bananas have more sugar than regular bananas, and the wine itself is rich in sugar. So this combination can be extremely effective in attracting insects. Stockings are also used because they are a material that does not allow the wine to flow out, but also allows the flavor to come out. ”

"So you can trap stag beetles?" Qian Yu sniffed it, and indeed smelled a pungent sweetness, and asked curiously.

"We'll see after an hour." Conan looked at his masterpiece and said with confidence. "Now, we can wait here for now. I've brought playing cards, would you like to play with you? ”

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"Let's have another one... Qian Yu looked at the cards in his hand, thought about it and said.

They are now playing a game of 21 (a point game) with two decks of cards. In the beginning, everyone is dealt an open card and a face down, and then everyone can decide whether to draw a card or not. 10-K is counted as 10 o'clock and A is counted as 1 or 11 o'clock. The person with the most points and no more than 21 wins. And now, the two cards in Qianyu's hand are 7 and 9.

Qian Yu glanced at the third card he touched, and didn't say anything, just looked at the gray plain mourning who acted next.

"Don't." Gray Yuan glanced at his cards and shook his head.

Next, Motota, Mitsuhiko, Ayumi and Conan all made the choice of whether or not to draw cards. Eventually, no one had the idea of drawing cards.

"I exploded," Motota said as he showed all three of his cards, 10, 8 and K - his points were too big and he exploded. "What bad luck!"

"My points seem to be a little small... Mitsuhiko was a little ashamed to reveal the four cards - 2, 4, 3, 5, for a total of only 14 points, which was obviously not enough to win.

"My luck seems to be good," Ayumi said of his hand - 7, 3, K, a total of 20 points. "It's just 21 o'clock!"

"I don't know how to play this because my luck hasn't been very good." Conan smiled wryly and revealed his 18-point hand.

"It seems, compared to the power of arithmetic," Gray Hara's voice was not disappointed, but contained a little self-deprecation, showing all the cards in his hand - 16 points made up of two eights. "The most important thing in 21 is luck, the whole deck is now a small hand, but it's still not small enough, so I don't dare to ask for any more cards."

"But the calculations are also important." Qian Yu smiled and showed the two cards in his hand - Qian Yu had a 7 and a 9 at the beginning, and the third card he drew was a 5, so his point was a full 21 points. "Gray Plains, I'm not sure which card counting method you use, but if you really remember all the points accurately, then you will find that there is still a slight difference between card counting and backing."

"Did you memorize all the cards you've played?" Gray Plains was a little surprised.

"Hmm," Chiba nodded. "Although if you count the cards, you will often conclude that this is a slightly smaller deck. But if I'm not mistaken, you started with the same 16 as I did, and you drew a 5 at most, right? ”

"Hmm." Gray Plains nodded.

"The general card counting method defines 2-6 as a small card, and 10 to K as a high card. In the case of 16 points, the Ace can also be defined as a small card. The cards that have just been played are very special because all 8 sixes have been played, and the aces, 2, 3, 4 and 5s are still in stock. In other words, the big and small cards of the entire deck do not reflect the bust chance very correctly at this point. That's why I dared to play my cards. ”

"Card counting will make the whole game boring... Conan pouted.

"Uhhh Qian Yu was slightly embarrassed, then shrugged his shoulders. "All I can say is that card counting has become a habit for me... The subconscious kind. ”

"Hey..." Mitsuhiko's attention was not focused on the game, but on the purpose of their visit. "Stag beetle!"

Everyone turned their heads, and sure enough, several beetles with dark bodies and two long, pincer-shaped antennae protruding from their heads had climbed on the stockings.

"Is this a stag beetle?" Chiba walked up to the stockings and looked curiously at the bugs he had never seen before.

"Yes," said Conan, taking a stag beetle from his stockings and placing it in front of Chiba's eyes, only ten centimeters away. "Let's take a good look~~~"

"Woo!" A thousand feathers' exclamations came from the dense forest.

"Are you so cowardly?" Conan's mocking voice.

"I think," Gray Plains mourned in a playful voice. "Actually, our Mr. Tachibana Chiba is not good at facing emergencies, right?"

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Author: Well, in fact, Qianyu is used to thinking about everything, and once something unexpected happens, his psychological quality will be very poor. So he's more frightened than Conan, and even more frightening than ordinary kids.