"By the way, what does a stag beetle look like?" Qianyu asked Conan when they got off the school bus.

"Huh?" Conan was a little surprised. "Have you never caught a stag beetle?"

"I haven't caught him, what's wrong?" Qianyu frowned.

"You haven't caught stag beetles yet?" Yuantai's voice was also extremely surprised. "You're lying, right?"

"Really?" Ayumi also joined the surprised ranks.

"I'm not interested in bugs..." Qianyu was a little surprised by Genta and Ayumi's reaction. "Is there any problem?"

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

"Everyone~" Xiaolin Chengzi smiled and greeted everyone to start today's main content. "The stag beetle hunt begins!"

"Yo!!!" Everyone except Conan, Haihara Ai and Qian Yu responded in unison.

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In the woods.

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

"Here you go..." Qianyu quickly took the wine out of the bag and handed it to Conan. "This is bottle-cap type simple wine. Just unscrew the cap."

"Well, okay." Conan unscrewed the cap of the wine and poured some into the stocking.

"Hey..." Qianyu was very surprised when he saw Conan's actions. "Will it leak out - eh?"

"No," Conan replied with a smile. "These stockings are breathable and impermeable, and wine cannot leak out."

"Your knowledge seems to have a really strange depth in strange aspects..." Qianyu raised his eyebrows.

"..." Conan squinted, and then pulled open the opening of the stocking. "Ahem... let's continue to catch stag beetles... Qianyu, push the banana away and throw it into the sock. If possible, put the banana

Break it up a little."

"Uh..." Qianyu hesitated for a moment, then took out a paper towel from his backpack and placed it on a patch of grass. Then he took out the banana, pushed it aside, broke it into pieces with his hands, and put it into his stockings. "Feeling it."

So disgusting..." After doing all this, Qianyu immediately wiped his hands clean with a tissue on the grass.

"Stag bugs are insects, and they naturally like sweets." Conan closed the stockings, and then fixed the stockings to a lower branch with a knot. "Compared to ordinary bananas, rotten bananas have more

of sugar, and the wine itself is also rich in sugar. Therefore, this combination can be extremely effective in attracting insects. The reason why stockings are used is because this material does not allow the wine to flow out, but also allows the flavor to escape."

"Can we trap stag beetles in this way?" Qianyu asked curiously after smelling it and indeed smelling the tangy sweetness.

"We'll find out after an hour." Conan looked at his masterpiece and said confidently. "Now, we can wait here. I brought playing cards, do you want to come and play with me?"

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"Let's have another one..." Qianyu looked at the cards in his hand and said after thinking for a while.

They are now playing blackjack (a point game) with two decks of cards. At the beginning, each person will be given an up card and a dark card, and then everyone can decide whether to draw a card. 1o-k is recorded as 1o points.

, a is recorded as 1 point or 11 points. The person with the highest points and no more than 21 points wins.), and now, the two cards in Qianyu's hand are 7 points and 9 points respectively.

Qianyu glanced at the third card he touched and said nothing, but just looked at Haihara Ai's next move.

"No more." Hui Yuan Ai took a look at his cards and shook his head.

Next, Genta, Mitsuhiko, Ayumi and Conan all made the choice of whether to draw cards. In the end, everyone gave up the idea of ​​drawing cards.

"I exploded," Yuantai showed all three of his cards, which were 1o, 8 and k - his points were too high and he exploded. "It's really unlucky!"

"My points seem a bit low..." Mitsuhiko showed some shame as he showed four cards - 2, 4, 3, 5. There were only 14 points in total. Such cards were obviously not enough to win.

"My luck seems to be good," Ayumi showed her hand - 7, 3, k, a total of 20 points. "It's only one point away from 21 points!"

"I'm not very good at playing this game, because my luck has never been very good." Conan smiled bitterly and showed his 18-point hand.

"It seems that compared with the calculation skills," Haiyuan Ai's voice was not disappointed, but it contained a bit of self-deprecation. He showed all the cards in his hand - 16 points composed of two 8s. "The most important thing about blackjack is

It's still luck, the whole deck is now a small game, but it's still not small enough, so I don't dare to ask for any more cards."

"But calculation is also very important." Qianyu smiled and showed the two hidden cards in his hand - Qianyu had 7 and 9 at the beginning, and the third card he drew was a 5, so his

The number of points is exactly 21. "Haiyuan, I'm not sure which card counting method you are using, but if you really remember all the points accurately, then you will find that there is still a difference between counting and memorizing the cards.

There are little subtle differences.”

"Have you memorized all the cards that were played?" Haihara Ai was a little surprised.

"Well," Qianyu nodded. "Although if you use card counting, you will often come to the conclusion that this is a slightly smaller deck of cards. But if I guessed correctly, the cards you started with were the same as mine.

They are all 16 points, and the most you can touch is a 5, right?"

"Yeah." Hui Yuan Ai nodded.

"General card counting methods define 2-6 as small cards, and 1o to k as high cards. In the case of 16 points, a can also be defined as a small card. The card just played is very special, because all 8 6s

They have all been played out, but a, 2, 3, 4 and 5 still have a certain amount of stock. In other words, the big and small cards in the entire deck cannot very accurately reflect the probability of busting cards at this time. That’s why I dare to play cards.”

"Counting cards will make the whole game boring..." Conan curled his lips.

"Well..." Qianyu felt a little embarrassed, then shrugged. "I can only say that card counting has become a habit of mine... subconsciously."

"Hey..." Mitsuhiko's attention was not focused on the game, but on the purpose of their coming here. "Stagworm!"

Everyone turned their heads, and sure enough they saw several beetles with dark bodies and two long, pincer-shaped tentacles sticking out of their heads already crawling on the stockings.

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

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

"Ugh!" Qianyu's exclamation came from the dense forest.

"Are you so timid?" Conan's sarcastic voice.

"I think," Haibara Ai said in a playful voice, "Actually, our Mr. Tachibana Chiba is not good at dealing with emergencies, right?"

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Chapter completed!