Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 1326 Sisters
This is……

Bai Ma rubbed his fingers together, put the liquid to his nose, and immediately smelled the blood.

is blood!

Bai Ma Tanxian subconsciously glanced around and did not see any sharp protrusions or traps on the ground.

Suddenly, he realized something in his mind and his eyes changed suddenly.

squeak--

At this time, a figure quietly stood out from the shadows behind the door of the room.

Although the owner of the figure moved very gently, the floor of the room was too old and still made a sound.

The white horse's ears twitched, and it slowly turned its head to the back, trying to peek at the other person's appearance.

However, the man was in a dark place and he could only see that he was holding a pistol and pointing it at him.

At this moment, Bai Ma Tan's nerves were stretched to the extreme.

However, he still forced himself to calm down and said calmly: "If my reasoning is correct, you should be sent by the descendants of the owner of this manor, right?"

"Do you feel that someone is investigating..."

The owner of the figure did not reply, but slowly moved forward and came into the range of the flashlight on the ground.

When the light dispelled the shadow, the white horse could see the man's face clearly.

To his surprise, it was a woman.

The woman wore round-frame glasses, had long golden hair and a pretty face.

What surprised him even more was that this woman looked exactly like the suspect in the murder of Ingles at the University of Brychester.

Bai Matan's pupils dilated, and he immediately realized in his mind that this person was the murderer of Ingalls, Elena Sera.

Sera...

The surname of Spencer Lane’s mother behind the photo is Sera.

This can't be just a coincidence, right?

The moment they met, Bai Ma Tan thought a lot.

But now he must find a way to overcome the current difficulties, otherwise even if he knows more secrets, he will have to take them all to the grave.

Elena looked at the white-horned detective squatting on the ground with an expressionless face, the muzzle of the gun in her hand was aimed at the young man's forehead, ready to pull the trigger and take his life at any time.

However, she did not do so immediately, but asked coldly: "Who else knows about this?"

Bai Ma Tan: "What's the matter?"

Elena: "What you came here to investigate, and what you are investigating."

"Hmm..." Bai Ma Tan groaned and replied: "Even if I tell you, will you let me go?"

Piu!

As soon as Bai Ma Tan finished speaking, a bullet from a silenced pistol hit his forearm.

"呲~"

The unprecedented pain instantly stimulated Bai Ma Tan's cerebral cortex. He clenched his teeth and his injured arm trembled slightly.

"Speaking out can at least save you some torture."

"If you had personally investigated that man's body, you would have known that I am very good at torturing people, right?"

Bai Ma Tan knew that the "man" the woman was talking about was the astronomy researcher Ingels.

According to the autopsy report, Ingles suffered some degree of torture before his death.

And this woman also implicitly admitted that she was the murderer of Ingles.

Bai Ma Tan's forehead was covered with cold sweat and he sneered twice, "Haha, then I really have to thank you for your 'kindness'..."

"But I have nothing good to say to you."

Bai Ma Tan's tone suddenly became tough, not because he had thought of any way to survive.

On the contrary, he thought he was doomed this time.

Although many people knew that I was investigating the castle and the manor, they didn't know that I came here directly tonight.

In order to obtain clues as quickly as possible, he neither notified the local police for assistance nor informed anyone of his itinerary.

This was also the first and most surprising thing when Bai Ma Tan found out that he was being targeted by a killer.

This was clearly a manor that had been abandoned for at least several decades, and most of the things inside had been emptied out. If I hadn't found the letters and photos left in the drawer, I probably wouldn't have been able to find any valuable clues.

But even so, someone was still extremely vigilant about this matter and even arranged someone to deal with the investigator.

What is the reason for this cautious attitude?

"Humph, it seems you want to resist."

"Then it will be very painful..."

Elena also snorted coldly, with a cruel smile on her lips, and the muzzle of the gun gradually moved down, aiming at Bai Matan's knee.

But just as she was about to pull the trigger, a cold voice sounded at the door.

"Elena, put the gun down."

Bai Ma Tan and Elena looked in the direction of the sound at the same time, and saw a tall and thin figure standing at the same door.

However, this person had no intention of hiding his identity and walked directly into the range of the flashlight.

In the dark room, the three of them were in a situation of a mantis stalking a cicada, while the oriole was waiting behind.

And this "yellow bird" is still a woman, with short golden hair with a small section of curls hanging in the middle of her forehead, and a relatively large frame.

Those cold dark green eyes stared at Elena.

Bai Ma Tan had no idea who this new woman was.

Elena showed a slightly shocked look and murmured, "Mary..."

"Put down the gun, Elena." Akai Mary warned again, "I don't want to hurt you, but if you don't cooperate, I will..."

In the face of Mary's warning without a trace of personal emotion, Elena had to raise her hands and throw the pistol to the floor beside her.

The pistol fell to the floor twice, making a hollow "clang" sound.

Mary still pointed the gun at Elena who raised her hands, and said, "Machun, come in and check on the injured."

At this time, another person came in from the door, walked around Mary and Elena, and came to the side of the White Horse Detective in two steps.

"Hey, where are you hurt?"

“Here…”

Bai Matan looked at the short-haired girl in front of him and slightly raised the arm that was shot.

Masumi Sera gently lifted up Hakuba's shot arm and placed it on his thigh, then rolled up his sleeve to reveal the bloody wound underneath.

Then she took out a bandage from her arms and quickly bandaged it.

Since Masumi Sera had learned bandaging techniques specifically from Mary, she was very skilled at it.

Looking at the slightly familiar-looking girl in front of him, Bai Ma Tan just couldn't remember where he had seen her.

However, seeing the other party bandaging him seriously, Bai Ba Tan's face turned slightly red. While the bandage was still being done, Mary also started to communicate with Elena.

"Elena, I heard that you died 17 years ago..."

"Really?" Elena responded frivolously, "Maybe it's just a rumor."

Seeing this, Mary didn't beat around the bush and asked directly: "Who are you working for now?"

"Where's Miyano Atsushi? Is he still alive?"

Facing Mary's question, Elina smiled lightly and answered nonchalantly, "It's not that I'm risking my life, it's just cooperation..."

"As for Miyano Atsushi... who is this person you are talking about?"

Hearing this, Mary's eyes changed slightly and her hands gripping the pistol tightened.

Looking at Elena in front of her, although her appearance has hardly changed from the Elena in her memory, but as an elder sister, she finds it increasingly difficult to understand her younger sister.

Elena had a strange personality since she was a child. She was taciturn and always looked gloomy.

For this reason, her parents once took her to see a psychiatrist, but no mental illness was diagnosed in the end.

Later, as she grew older, Elena began to gradually become normal. Although she still spoke very little, at least she could communicate normally and listened to her family.

But when she was about to enter college, Elena had serious disagreements with her family.

Elena's academic performance has always been good, and with her excellent grades at the time, she could choose either Oxford or Cambridge.

But she hid it from everyone and chose to study biomedical science at the University of Bristol.

This made her parents very angry and they seldom talked directly to Elena during college. It was Mary, the older sister, who acted as a liaison between the two parties.

Later, Elena fell in love with Atsushi Miyano, who was an exchange student in the UK, and went to the United States with him despite her family's opposition.

This time, Elena completely cut off contact with her parents at home, but Mary never gave up.

No matter what Elena did, she treated her as her irreplaceable sister.

Mary even attended the wedding of Atsushi Miyano and Elena without telling her parents.

Later, the Miyano couple went to Japan and joined a pharmaceutical company controlled by American capital.

25 years ago, the pharmaceutical company went bankrupt, and the Miyano couple opened a small clinic and lived a simple and peaceful life.

However, such peaceful days did not last long. As the Miyano couple decided to join the research institute under the Karasuma Group, the Miyano family seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth.

17 years ago, Mary came to Japan for refuge due to the warning of Akai Tsutomu, and also investigated the whereabouts of the Miyano family, but to no avail.

It was not until recently that Mary got a definite clue from Qin Zhibo that the Miyano couple had been confirmed dead.

This made Mary think that everything was settled, but the poor sister finally paid a heavy price for her willfulness.

But what Mary never expected was that as the suspect in the Ingalls case was exposed a few days ago, Mary saw "Elena" again.

Not only that, during the operation to capture Vermouth, Mary also saw Elena with her own eyes.

This made Mary determined to find out the truth again.

Following the clues of the license plate and car body in her memory, she used the surveillance network built by MI6 and the super computing power of artificial intelligence Hiroki Sawada to find the trace of the Hummer that rescued Vermouth.

She went all the way north to Shrewsbury just to confirm whether the current "Elena" was still the same Elena as before.

Or……

"Tell me, Elena."

"Has the Elena I knew ceased to exist since a long time ago?"

Although the expression on Mary's face was firm, she couldn't help but reveal a hint of tenderness in her eyes when facing her own sister.

Elena still raised her hands, with a half-smile on her face, and did not answer the question.

Masumi Sera, who had just finished bandaging Hakuba's arm, glanced at his mother Mary, and then glanced at Elena.

Mom, aunt...

When Sera Masumi was in a daze, Mary saw that Sera Masumi had already been bandaged, so she sternly urged him, "Get out of here quickly!"

"There is a high possibility that there are her accomplices around here."

When Mary entered the manor just now, she did not see the Hummer. She just followed the surveillance camera to this road and found that this place looked very suspicious, so she decided to come in and take a look.

After hearing Mary's order, Sera Masumi stopped watching the fun and prepared to work together with Hakuba Tan to carry the injured Afu out first.

But at this moment, there was a rustling sound at the window.

Immediately afterwards, the glass in the room shattered, flames flashed in the lush bushes outside the window, and several bullets attacked at the same time.

"careful!"

Mary shouted and quickly turned the gun to aim at the window.

Elena took advantage of the moment when Mary turned the gun around to run towards the door of the room and quickly disappeared into the dark corridor.

Bai Matan, who had just lifted half of Afu's body, subconsciously pounced on Sera Masumi.

Mary, relying on her years of experience as a secret agent, used tactical moves to evade the attack and calmly fired back the moment she hit the ground.

Although the bushes outside the window were so dense that it was dark there, she had memorized the location where the shot was fired the moment the muzzle flashed.

Pia, Pia, Pia!

After a few shots, there was no movement outside the window.

Mary pulled out a new magazine from her waist and replaced it. As she approached the window, she picked up the silenced pistol that Elena had discarded and held it in her hand.

She crouched down, carefully touched the wall near the window, and then counted to three silently in her heart.

3, 2, 1...

Suddenly, Mary appeared from the window and fired both pistols at the bushes outside the window.

But after firing a few shots, she immediately stopped firing.

The enemy outside the window had already run away, and she heard the sound of a car engine starting in the manor.

"Humph……"

Mary snorted and put away the pistol.

If she were younger, she would definitely choose to chase.

However, even though she is more experienced now, she has not carried out any missions for many years, and her overall quality is definitely not as good as it was in the past.

In addition, my daughter is with me, so safety is the top priority.

Otherwise, how could she explain to her father whose life or death was uncertain?
Mary turned her head and looked at the floor. At this time, Hakuba Tan was still pressing Sera Masumi in a slightly indecent posture.

"Hey, the enemies are gone, isn't it time for you to get up?" Sera Masumi said unhappily.

It’s not that she didn’t have the strength to push Bai Ma Tan away, but she also knew that Bai Ma Tan did it to save her, so she didn’t want to treat him too roughly.

But after he said that, Bai Ma Tan didn't respond at all.

She was originally embarrassed and quickly tilted her head to look at Bai Matan, only to see that the latter had closed his eyes.

Mary also noticed something was wrong at this time, and quickly squatted down to take a closer look.

Only then did she realize that the bullet that was fired from the window had hit the white horse's back near his heart.

(End of this chapter)