Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 1364: Isn’t this morgue in use?

"Is there a morgue on this ship to store the dead?" Qin Zhibo turned and asked the chef who led the way to the freezer.

The chef was puzzled for a moment, then nodded slightly, "It seems that there is... but it is in the cargo hold area further down..."

Everyone then followed the chef and continued running to the lower cargo hold.

There is a separate storage room at the edge of the cargo hold with the word "Mortuary" written on the door frame.

Everyone was a little surprised that there was such a place on the ship.

  How could a morgue be used on board a ship?

Qin Zhibo called a staff member who was in charge of the cargo hold and asked him to open the coffin containing the dead person on the grounds that he suspected that there was someone hiding inside.

Although the staff was a little surprised, they still took out the key, opened the low-temperature freezer, and pulled out the coffin inside.

"It's so heavy..."

When the lid of the coffin was opened, Cheng Shi was found curled up on his side inside. The continued low temperature had caused him to pass out, but his body was still shivering.

"found it!"

Qin Zhibo carried the person out of the coffin and quickly sent him to the infirmary.

After 10 minutes, Cheng Shi slowly opened his eyes and woke up in the warm bedding of the infirmary.

"Mr. Qin..."

"Everyone……"

Qin Zhibo sat on the side of the bed and asked, "How are you now?"

"I feel much better..." Cheng Shi's voice was still weak.

The ship's doctor was sitting next to him and said, "This is hypothermia caused by low body temperature. As long as you keep your body warm and rest for a while, you will be full of energy."

Mao Lilan turned around and thanked the doctor.

"Mr. Qin, I'm thirsty..."

Cheng Shi's lips were frozen pale and slightly cracked.

Qin Zhibo helped Cheng Shi sit up, took a cup of warm water from Yuanzi and handed it to Cheng Shi.

"Who on earth is responsible for such a prank?"

Hearing the crew member in charge of managing the cargo hold characterize the incident in this way, Kogoro Mori next to him turned his head and spoke with a serious face.

"mischief?"

"This is not a prank. In my opinion, it is simply attempted murder..."

After saying that, Maori Kogoro turned and looked at Qin Zhibo.

However, Qin Zhibo did not immediately characterize the incident, but asked Cheng Shi what happened after he finished drinking the water.

Cheng Shi held the water cup in both hands and recalled what had just happened in his mind.

"I was originally going to the dock to look for Xiaolan, but suddenly someone attacked me from behind, and then I fainted..."

"In other words, you didn't see the attacker's face?" Qin Zhibo asked.

"Hmm..." Cheng Shi nodded, but then added: "But I found a strange big iron box in the dock. There seems to be something terrible in that iron box..."

Something scary?

Conan put his hands in his pockets, with a look of doubt in his eyes.

Qin Zhibo continued to ask: "Do you remember that time?"

"Well, there are about 10 minutes left until the end of hide and seek, which is... 10:20."

……

In order to verify the big iron box mentioned by Cheng Shi and to find clues to the attack, Qin Zhibo, Conan, and Maori Kogoro left the infirmary and went to the dock.

The three of them walked down the stairs while analyzing the current situation.

Maori Kogoro muttered in a hoarse voice, "I see, this place is very close to the morgue, so they hid the person there..."

Conan also analyzed: "However, the crew member who manages the cargo hold said that the key to the morgue is rarely used, so it is usually kept in the management office and anyone can get it..."

“This way, the scope will be much larger.”

"And why was Dr. Cheng Shi attacked?"

Qin Zhibo had a calm expression and was also thinking about the reasons.

The three of them came to the place Cheng Shi mentioned, a corner of the dock, but they did not see the "big iron box" he mentioned.

"There is no box here..." Kogoro Mouri put his hands in his pockets and came to the conclusion at a glance.

Qin Zhibo squatted down and looked at the ground carefully, and saw slight drag marks on the dark green rubber floor.

The distance between these drag marks seemed to form a square, but the marks were only a small part of the initial part and could not reveal where the iron box went.

Just as Qin Zhibo was thinking about who might have moved the iron box, the system suddenly sent a prompt.

[Obtain the main quest - Things in the Box]

[Task content: Find out the contents of the iron box]

[Task requirements: 24 hours, and the number of survivors on board must reach 400]

[Task reward: 10000 general skill proficiency]

Looking at the sudden main task, Qin Zhibo fell into a trance.

As we all know, things that can trigger the main quest are generally mysterious.

This shows that there is indeed something in the big iron box that Chengshi discovered that cannot be explained by human common sense.

The mission requirement is that the number of survivors on board must reach 400, which further shows that this thing is dangerous.

As far as I know, there are more than 800 people on the "Aphrodite", including tourists and crew members.

The system will not propose task objectives and requirements for no reason.

The requirement of 400 survivors means that according to the system's judgment, at least half of the people on the ship will die in the next 24 hours.

And if I do nothing, everyone on the ship will die...

  What kind of crisis is it?

The ship sank?

No, even if the ship had hit an iceberg like the Titanic, it would not have caused such a massive death toll.

At the same time, Conan, who had the advantage of height, also discovered the dragging marks on the rubber floor.

He had originally planned to remind Maori Kogoro as usual, but when he saw that Qin Zhibo had already discovered these traces, there was no need to tell Maori Kogoro.

Anyway, with Qin Zhibo around, this uncle can't play any role.

At this moment, Kogoro Mori saw something near the exit of the dock.

He walked over, picked it up, and found it was an iron fan.

"Eh?"

"I seem to have seen this iron fan somewhere before?"

Qin Zhibo also came over at this time, took the iron fan and looked at it carefully.

Although it is made of iron, the shape is very delicate, and the tassel at the fan tail is also quite exquisite, and it looks very valuable.

When you open the fan, you will see an exquisite ancient painting and inscription.

"This seems to be the most precious iron fan of the eighth president."

When he saw the fan, Kogoro Mori, who was familiar with the preferences of most wealthy people in Tokyo, recognized it immediately.

Qin Zhibo closed the fan, waved it, and tried the feel of it.

The iron fan was very powerful, enough to knock a person unconscious from behind.

However, if it was the Eighth Generation Chairman who attacked Cheng Shi, he would not be stupid enough to leave his beloved item here.

But now that I have found this fan, I must find its owner no matter what.

He is also the owner of this ship, the eighth-generation president.

……

During their previous conversation, Qin Zhibo and Maori Kogoro accidentally learned the room number of the Yashiro father and daughter from the Rei sisters.

So the three of them headed straight for Room 604 in the cabin area. When they arrived at the door of the room, Qin Zhibo pressed the doorbell a few times and waited for a response from inside.

Just then, a crew member came running over and said that the captain had called the police on land in accordance with the detective's instructions.

Qin Zhibo thought about it. Although he was not sure who was coming, once he boarded the ship, it would be like boarding a pirate ship and becoming a member of the predetermined sacrifice list.

The crew member turned around and saw the room number, wondering, "Huh? This seems to be the room of the eighth president..."

At the same time, the secretary of the eight generations of father and daughter came running from the other side of the corridor, asking in confusion what was going on.

Qin Zhibo showed her the iron fan and said that he had picked up the fan at the dock and was going to return it to the eighth president.

The secretary replied, "It seems that President Yashiro is not in the room. The only person in the room now should be President Guijiang who just came back from playing tennis."

"Really? But I rang the doorbell and no one answered..."

"That's impossible? President Guijiang should be in there."

The secretary walked up and pressed the doorbell a few more times, but still no response.

Qin Zhibo, Conan, and Maori Kogoro all stared at the same time, having a bad feeling in their hearts.

"Something is wrong..."

"Do you have a master key? Open this door quickly!"

The secretary was also frightened by Kogoro Mouri's yelling, so he took out the master key and opened the door.

The curtains in the room were drawn during the day, making it dark inside.

But everyone still saw the person lying in the middle of the living room carpet.

I saw a woman in a bathrobe lying on the ground with her legs spread out, and a dagger stuck in her abdomen.

The bright red blood dyed the bathrobe on the abdomen red, and formed a pool of blood under the body.

Although the head of the corpse was half covered with a towel, judging from her clothing, exposed chin and long legs, she was none other than the "beautiful-legged president" Yashiro Takie that Kogoro Mori praised on the top deck.

"President!"

The secretary screamed and was about to rush forward, but was stopped by Qin Zhibo and Maori Kogoro at the same time.

"do not move!"

Kogoro Maori walked forward, reached out to feel the pulse on Yasiro Takie's wrist, then shook his head helplessly.

Qin Zhibo stood where he was, without making any movement, and began investigating the body.

【Corpse Investigation√】

[Name of the deceased: Yashiro Takae]

[Time of death: 30 minutes ago]

[Cause of death: Excessive blood loss caused by abdominal stab wound]

[Corpse investigation completed, character skill obtained: Sports (Tennis)]

Sports (Tennis): refers to your level in tennis. Improving this skill will give you stronger tennis hitting techniques, and increase your tennis hitting power and overall confrontational strength.

  Rating: 1

Proficiency: 100/500

(If you practice it well, you can also become a tennis prince! The brown bear is caught!)

……

  This is a sports skill, and it can also come with Conan's kind of earth-shattering "special effects"?

Qin Zhibo took a quick glance at the skills and then turned his gaze back to the corpse itself.

[Side Quest: Find out the murderer of this case]

[Task requirements: 12 hours limit]

[Task Reward: 1000 General Skill Proficiency, 1000 Social Credit]

Tips for side quests also pop up at the appropriate time.

However, compared to the shocking level of the main quest, the side quests are purely side quests.

Based on past experience, although the main quest and the side quest appear together, most of the time there is no direct connection between them.

However, there is only this much space on the ship, so the possibility that the two are related cannot be ruled out.

"The person has been dead for almost 30 minutes..."

"Please inform the captain and the police who are coming here so that they can be mentally prepared."

Qin Zhibo gave instructions to the secretary and crew member who were still in a daze at the door, and the two immediately turned around and left.

Conan was no longer surprised by Qin Zhibo's ability to perform autopsies while standing.

He was about to walk in with his hands in his pockets to take a look at the body when he was caught by the sharp-eyed Kogoro Mouri.

"Go! Go!"

"Don't come in and make trouble, go somewhere cooler!"

As he said that, Kogoro Mouri picked up Conan and was about to throw him out.

But at the critical moment, Qin Zhibo stopped Maori Kogoro.

"Mr. Maori, children are as curious as cats. Even if you stop them this time, there will be another time."

"In this case, it's better to let him stay here..."

"And Conan has seen so many crime scenes before, he knows the rules here and won't destroy them recklessly."

Seeing Qin Zhibo's assurance, Maori Kogoro glanced at Conan with drooping eyelids, and slowly put Conan on the ground.

"Don't mess with anything here, little brat!"

"Ok!"

Conan nodded obediently in front of Kogoro Mouri, then turned to look at Qin Zhibo and gave him a grateful look.

With Qin Zhibo, it is equivalent to having a human rights card.

After expressing his gratitude to Qin Zhibo, Conan moved to the body of Yashiro Takie and observed it carefully.

Judging from the bathrobe on his body and the towel on his head, President Guijiang was suddenly attacked by the murderer after coming out of the bathroom.

This means that the murderer has the key to this room.

In addition, there was a pool of scattered blood next to the body's legs that had been wiped off.

This pool of blood is still some distance away from the blood flowing out of the corpse's abdomen. It seems that if the person was stabbed and fell down normally, such a mark would not be formed.

  Why is that?

At the same time, Qin Zhibo, who was standing aside, was also staring down at the bloodstain.

But unlike Conan, what he saw was a clear white spot of light.

【Survey√】

[Suspected blood]

Suspicious?

So it’s not actually the case?

Qin Zhibo also felt that the bloodstain was a bit strange, but he didn’t know the significance of the bloodstain appearing here.

But at this moment, he saw Conan lying on the ground like a dog, putting his nose above the bloodstain and sniffing it.

amount……

Conan's pointed nose twitched, he frowned, and then he got up from the ground again.

Qin Zhibo squatted next to him and asked, "How is it? Is it ketchup flavored?"

Conan was stunned, turned to look at Qin Zhibo, and shook his head seriously.

“Not ketchup…”

“But it still feels a little different.”

Conan was worried.

Just then, the secretary came back and brought bad news.

It turned out that although the eighth chairman had made an appointment to play billiards with the former prime minister, he left halfway through the game, saying that he had some things to take care of.

When Qin Zhibo heard this, he knew that it was probably a failure.

Isn’t this morgue in use?