Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 1394: The Dark Mysterious Train (Puzzle)

In a compartment of carriage No. 5, Masumi Sera stared blankly at the stranger who was riding with her.

The other person was wearing a pair of round-frame glasses, had a gentle temperament, and had long black hair draped behind him.

This woman...

  Apart from the hair color, she actually looks very similar to Elena?

Masumi Sera had once seen the "Elena" that Mary mentioned in the abandoned manor in England, so she still remembered what Elena looked like at that time.

"Um...Excuse me, is there something on my face?"

the woman asked timidly.

Shiliang shook his head quickly and scratched his head with a smile, "Sorry, you look a bit like someone I know, so I was a little dazed..."

"Oh, is it so?"

The girl opposite, Wakasa Rumi, tilted her head slightly toward the window, and only one lens of her round-frame glasses reflected the light.

And Sera also collected his thoughts and sat in the long row of seats opposite the woman, waiting for the train to depart.

While waiting, Sera couldn't help but think.

Why didn’t Qin Zhibo go with everyone?

She originally thought that since Kaito Horida was killed two days ago, Qin Zhibo would definitely come to ask Haibara Ai, who had been in the organization, for information about the murderer.

And this trip is a perfect opportunity to ask questions.

However, Qin Zhibo did not come with these people.

  Could it be that he had already asked about it within the past two days?

……

beep--

As the staff on the platform outside the window blew whistles and waved flags, the Suzuki Express train made a dull sound of mechanical transmission.

After a few seconds, the train started slowly.

The three little ones lay by the window, looking at the scenery gradually moving backwards outside the window, and they became inexplicably excited.

"The train is moving!"

"Out of the station!"

"Great! The station and the scenery are flying backwards!"

"I heard this train won't stop until it reaches its final destination!"

The three little ones were chattering and discussing, and Professor Agasa who was sitting next to them also joined the discussion.

“But so far, where the terminus is remains a mystery.”

“It’s Nagoya.”

Conan put his hands in his pockets and reasoned calmly: "As long as we check today's train schedule on the Internet, we can deduce the final destination of this train..."

Dr. Agasa looked at Conan, who was standing lower than him, and complained speechlessly in his heart.

  What about Ai? Don’t you always say things that destroy other people’s dreams?

However, Conan did not notice Dr. Agasa's little thoughts, and continued: "What I am more concerned about is what kind of reasoning puzzles this train will bring out during its journey."

"Oh, I thought you would say that the person you care about most is Kaito Kid..." Haibara Ai next to her crossed her arms and said indifferently.

"Ah……"

  Conan grinned slightly, thinking to himself: Why should I care about him when I can meet him anytime I want?

Conan has not yet told anyone about his life story with the Kuroba family and his blood relationship with Kaito Kid.

After all, this kind of thing is too shocking. If Kudo Yusaku hadn't admitted it himself, I would never believe it even if Kuroba Kaito came with proof of blood relationship and said that he was his cousin.

But during this period of time he also asked Dr. Agasa in a roundabout way.

Although Dr. Agasa is an old acquaintance of Kudo Yusaku, he does not know much about Kudo Yusaku's family situation.

When he was young, Dr. Agasa knew Kudo Yusaku's mother, who is also Conan's grandmother.

Professor Agasa bought a house next to Kudo's house, also at the invitation of Conan's grandmother.

This situation shocked Conan.

Because ever since he could remember, he had never seen his grandparents, and his parents and himself were the only family members left.

Yes.

There are no aunts or uncles in Conan's family, not even a photo.

Young Conan once asked Kudo Yusaku why there were no other relatives in his family.

Kudo Yusaku just said that they separated a long time ago and were quite far away from each other, so they didn't keep in touch for a long time.

This is indeed the case. Conan has never had any contact with Kuroba Kaito's lineage before.

If it weren't for this London incident, it wouldn't be impossible for the two of them to go out on the street and fight each other because they held the wrong girlfriend.

According to Dr. Agasa, Grandma Kudo was a very gentle woman, a typical good wife and mother.

What’s even more rare is that Grandma Kudo is a scientist, specializing in the field of biology.

However, unlike Dr. Agasa, who is an independent inventor, Grandma Kudo is a researcher in a formal organization.

The two met at a foreign scientific conference. At that time, it was Dr. Agasa's first time attending such an event and he was like a young and inexperienced person.

At that time, Grandma Kudo was already a big name in the industry who could give speeches on stage.

Since both of them are Japanese, they had a good chat when they first met.

But ever since Dr. Agasa met Grandma Kudo, Grandma Kudo has been living alone with her child.

So Dr. Agasa has never met Conan's grandfather.

This is similar to what Kudo Yusaku said.

When my grandparents divorced, my grandfather took away the Heiyu lineage, and my own lineage was taken away by my grandmother.

Now the surname I inherited is actually my grandmother's.

If I hadn’t divorced, I would have been called…

Kuroba Shinichi?

Uh, that’s a bit difficult to pronounce.

While several people in the car were killing time, there was a knock on the door.

Tuk tuk…

Everyone in the room turned their heads and looked towards the door of the car.

"Is there a problem?"

As the only adult in the car, Dr. Agasa stood up, walked to the door and pushed it open.

But several pairs of eyes looked towards the door, but there was no one there.

"Eh?"

Dr. Agasa asked in confusion, and stretched his head to look to the left and right of the corridor, but there was no one in the corridor.

“There’s no one…”

At this time, Conan walked forward with his hands in his pockets, and relying on his visual advantage, he found a letter on the ground at the door.

Conan picked up the letter and brought it back into the room, then opened it in front of everyone.

"Congratulations on being chosen to play the detective role. In 10 minutes, an incident will occur in Room B of Carriage 7. You must conduct a full search..."

The signature on the lower right corner of the letter is "Bell Tree Express", which is the English name of Suzuki Express.

Huiyuan Ai looked at the contents of the letter and analyzed: "This should be the reasoning activity on the train."

"I heard on the Internet that the method of the reasoning activity is to randomly select people from among the passengers to play the role of the criminal and the victim..."

"When the incident occurs, all other passengers will automatically play the role of detectives. As long as they find the criminal before the train reaches the destination, they will win."

"Oh?"

When Conan, who was standing next to him, heard this, he was a little surprised that Haibara Ai was so concerned about this matter that she even collected information on the Internet in advance.

Of course, he himself was not uninterested in this matter, but he felt that searching for information in advance was somewhat suspicious of cheating.

And it also loses some of the freshness of facing it for the first time.

After all, this is a large-scale scenario play + reasoning game, and I can finally reason easily and happily. "But it seems that this letter was only given to us~"

Ayumi pointed at the contents of the letter and said, "Could it be that the organizer already knows that we are the Junior Detective Team?"

When Yuan Tai heard this, he immediately nodded with satisfaction, "Yes, yes! That must be the case!"

"Then let's hurry to the location mentioned in the letter!" Mitsuhiko, who has always been more intelligent, immediately got excited.

Conan grinned slightly, laughing while secretly complaining in his heart.

I guess the organizers made this change to add some freshness?

After all, judging from the reactions of the people in Carriage No. 8 before they boarded the train, they had participated in such activities many times and were already veterans.

And even if I have to choose a real detective to play the "detective", it should be my own voice stand-in - Kogoro Mouri.

However, since he was assigned this role, Conan did not lose interest and took a few people to the carriage mentioned in the letter.

……

Carriage No. 7 is right next to Carriage No. 6, just a dozen meters away.

Conan looked at his watch and saw that it had been exactly 10 minutes since he received the letter, so he went to the door of Room 7B and knocked.

"anyone there?"

Conan reached out and touched the door handle, only to find that the door was not locked.

"Um... sorry to bother you."

Conan reached out and pulled the door handle. Just as he was about to put his head in, he saw a slightly fat man standing in the car with a very nervous expression on his face.

"Fool!"

"Don't come in!"

Conan was stunned and quickly stretched his head. Then he tilted his head and saw a heavily dressed man standing in the blind spot beside the door with a silenced pistol in his hand.

Piu, Piu.

After two gunshots, the fat man was shot on both sides of the shoulders and fell to the ground with a "thump".

This is……

After the man fired the gun, he turned and ran away.

Conan was very sensible and stepped aside, allowing it to escape.

The three little ones watched the "prisoner" running away and shouted excitedly.

"Great! It looks just like the real thing!"

"Hurry up and catch up!"

Mitsuhiko led the team and immediately rushed forward with Yuanta.

Ayumi quickly called Conan and Haibara Ai to chase the "criminal" together.

However, unlike the three little ones who were excitedly chasing the "criminal" before, Conan and Haibara Ai had no interest at all and just followed the three little ones slowly from behind.

I originally thought that the reasoning puzzle was some complicated puzzle to solve, but it turns out to be just about chasing the criminal.

Isn't this just ordinary hide-and-seek?

No wonder the detective letters were sent to children...

At this time, Conan was not worried at all that the fat man was really shot to death.

Although there was such a situation in the previous case...

Just now, when Conan looked at the "criminal", he caught sight of the silenced pistol in his hand and recognized at a glance that the safety catch of the pistol was not even on.

Also, perhaps the organizers were worried that the passenger playing the detective would not be able to react quickly enough, so even the color of the bullet was black instead of the red color of blood.

……

The three little ones in front ran faster and soon left Conan and Haibara Ai behind for a distance.

However, the connecting passage between the carriages is blocked from view by the independent compartments inside the carriages.

In other words, it is impossible to directly see the situation in one compartment from another compartment.

As a result, when the three little ones chased forward to carriage No. 5, they realized that they had lost it.

"We lost the criminal..."

"There are independent compartments here. If he gets into one of them, we won't be able to find him..."

As Genta and Mitsuhiko were talking, Conan and Haibara Ai followed over.

When Conan saw this situation, he guessed that the puzzle was not that simple.

Just when he was about to do the analysis, the conductor at the rear of the train came over.

There is always a conductor in each passenger carriage of this train to provide service.

Just press the bell inside the car and the conductor outside will come over.

"I mean, is this your first time on this train?"

"If that's the case, it would be best to return to your room as soon as possible. We will use the indoor intercom to announce the content of this mystery puzzle to everyone later."

Although the conductor said this, he actually just wanted to send these naughty children back to their rooms and stop them from running around in the corridor.

But when Conan heard this, he was stunned and asked quickly: "Has nothing happened so far?"

The conductor smiled, rolled up his sleeves and looked at his watch, "Yes, this mystery puzzle will not start until one hour later."

Upon hearing this, Conan's face was instantly confused.

  What's the situation?

Could it be that the murder scene I just saw was real?

Thinking of this, Conan quickly ran back along the corridor.

Although the three little ones at the back didn't understand what was going on, they followed immediately.

And Haibara Ai sighed softly, lamenting that she would be involved in the incident again this time.

But just as she turned around and was about to catch up with the end of the team, she suddenly felt a palpitation.

It was as if a gaze from somewhere was staring at her like prey.

Haibara Ai felt a chill down her spine and quickly looked back warily.

However, there was not a single person in the front half of the corridor, and the doors of all the carriages were tightly closed.

"Let's go quickly, Ai."

Ayumi stopped, turned around and called Haibara Ai, which brought her back to her senses.

"Um……"

……

The Young Detectives walked through a carriage and returned to the door of Room B where the incident occurred.

Conan was serious this time. Without asking any questions, he opened the door.

But when the door opened, the fat man in the room disappeared.

Instead, there were Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko who were drinking tea, and Sera Masumi who was standing opposite them.

"Conan, what's wrong with you?" Xiaolan asked.

Suzuki Sonoko raised her eyebrows and lectured: "Hey, even if you are a kid, you should at least knock on the door before entering a lady's room, right?"

However, Conan ignored her and looked inside the room, muttering, "Um, this should be carriage No. 7..."

"Ah?" Mao Lilan was stunned.

Masumi Sera crossed her arms and quickly took over the conversation, smiling at Conan who was standing lower, "What are you talking about? This is clearly car number 8..."

"I just came into this room to play~"

Sera Masumi's eyes were slightly playful and amusing. Looking at Conan whose CPU was heating up, she was actually very excited inside.

Haha!

This Conan is so cute and adorable!