Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 1395: Dark Mysterious Train (Tunnel)

Conan led the Junior Detective Team out of the car with Xiaolan and others and walked back, intending to sort out the entire route to see if they had missed anything.

But when he walked to the corridor outside Room D, Dr. Agasa pushed the door open and poked his head out of the room.

"How's it going? Have you solved the mystery?"

Dr. Agasa still has confidence in Conan's ability to lead a team, so he did not follow the Junior Detective League.

But when the Junior Detective Team saw Professor Agasa, everyone looked shocked.

"Doctor, is this our room in Carriage 6?"

Even Conan began to doubt his elementary school math ability.

But Dr. Agasa nodded and replied: "Yes... Look, the half-eaten snacks in the room are still there, right?"

Conan came to the door and looked at the snacks. He couldn't help but widen his eyes, and his shrunken pupils showed surprise.

I was just in carriage No. 8 where Xiaolan and the others were. If I go back one carriage, it should be carriage No. 7.

But why did we return to Car No. 6?

Carriage No. 7 disappeared while driving?
After a moment, Conan came to his senses and looked around.

None of the cars on the Mystery Train are numbered.

If you want to ask for the carriage number, you can only ask the conductor sitting at the end of the carriage.

"follow me!"

Conan and the Junior Detective Team immediately ran to the conductor at the end of the carriage and told him what had just happened.

"Car No. 7 disappeared?"

"Haha, how is this possible..."

The conductor had a relaxed smile on his face, obviously treating their words as a child's prank.

Yuan Tai shouted again: "We just saw an uncle being shot in carriage No. 7!"

"The criminal ran away right after committing the crime! We chased him but accidentally lost him!"

Mitsuhiko continued: "When we returned, we found that carriage No. 7 was gone!"

Hearing this, the conductor pretended to be surprised, but then smiled and said, "There is a pistol... Then why don't you find the conductors of other cars immediately?"

At this time, the indicator light of a compartment in the carriage lit up.

When the conductor saw this, he stood up and said to the Junior Detectives, "I think you should go ask another conductor like me."

"It's all because of the boss's arrangement. There are no numbers on these carriages, which makes it harder for us conductors to guide them..."

The conductor came to the room where the indicator light was on, knocked on the door, provided service to the passengers inside, and no longer paid attention to Conan and the others.

Conan also felt that what the conductor said made sense. Why didn't he think of asking the conductor just now?
So Conan went to the next carriage and came to the end of the carriage, where he found the conductor who was sitting on a chair and yawning.

"Hello, I would like to ask which car number this is?"

"This is car number 7."

"really?"

"Ah, um..."

Mitsuhiko was surprised and said, "What's going on! Carriage No. 7 revived on its own again!"

Ayumi: "What's going on?"

The three kids looked at Conan, the backbone, and waited for Conan to come up with an idea.

Conan raised his chin, thought for a moment, and decided to go back to Room B where the accident happened to take a look at the situation first.

But when they arrived at the door of Room B and opened it, they saw Ran Mouri, Sonoko Suzuki, and Masumi Sera still inside.

"Um, is this really Carriage No. 8?"

As soon as Conan asked, Sonoko shouted impatiently: "Didn't I tell you that this is car No. 8?"

"I told you little brat to go back to your room!"

Conan was scolded by Sonoko and kicked out of the room, and the door slammed shut with a bang.

The Young Detectives stood stupidly at the door, not knowing what to do next.

"Could it be that the conductor made a mistake?"

"Maybe, he looks sleepy..."

The three kids suspected the conductor at the end of the carriage and had no doubt that someone close to them might have deceived them.

However, Conan held his chin up, wondering why Sonoko reacted so strongly every time he knocked on the door.

It feels like I'm deliberately taking myself in another direction.

There is also Xiaolan's silent smile and Sera Masumi's meaningful smile...

correct!

Suddenly, Conan recalled the first time he knocked on the door, Xiaolan and Sonoko were both drinking tea with teacups, but Sera was the only one holding a card in his hand.

The style of that card seemed similar to the mystery puzzle letter he had received.

Thinking of this, Conan's mouth corners slowly rose, and the confused thoughts in his mind suddenly became clear.

He raised his hand and opened the door of Room B in front of him again.

"I'm talking to you!"

Sonoko saw Conan at the door appear again like an indestructible cockroach, and was about to scold a few people, but Conan interrupted her with a serious face.

"This room is undoubtedly Room B in Carriage 7, right?"

"I. Have. Said. All...."

Sonoko still wanted to struggle, but Conan just threw the evidence at her.

"Sister Sonoko, you guys got the letter too, right?"

"It's almost the same as this one..."

As he said this, Conan took out the envelope from his trouser pocket and showed it.

"The card should say that this is part of a mystery puzzle. It asks you to temporarily exchange rooms with the passenger who plays the victim in this room, so that the person who plays the detective will get confused and cause the current situation..."

Shiliang smiled and said: "Correct answer~"

"That's amazing, you're really Conan~" Ran Mouri clapped her hands with a smile.

Because she was not very good at lying and she was lying to people she knew, she did not say a word the whole time.

However, Sonoko thought it was a good opportunity and prepared to take this opportunity to strike a blow against Conan's "arrogance".

But Sonoko didn't expect that instead of deceiving Conan, Sera felt it would be more interesting to give Conan some clues and let him solve the puzzle confidently.

So she deliberately picked up the card and waited for Conan to come over and let him see it.

"What? How boring..."

Sonoko shook her head helplessly, then turned to Conan and shouted angrily: "The card said that we should exchange rooms with the passengers of the victim in car No. 7 to make the reasoning puzzle more interesting, so here we are!"

"I didn't expect you to see through me so quickly!"

Shiliang smiled and explained: "I happened to see them exchanging rooms when I was visiting them, so I joined them..."

Conan looked at Sonoko, who was furious after her trick was exposed, and his mouth twitched helplessly.

Haha, I got even angrier when I was told that...

Next, several people exchanged some details about the reasoning puzzle.

The cards that Sonoko and the others received invited them to act as accomplices and hide the fact that they had exchanged rooms.

Kogoro Mori was asked to wait in the dining car alone, and he was the one who explained the whole incident in the end.

Conan grinned and thought to himself: I will be responsible for the explanation later, what a hassle... Just then, Sera glanced at the few children in the lower area and noticed the brown-haired loli at the back of the crowd.

This is a good opportunity to say hello to my cousin~
"By the way, is this our first official meeting?"

"I've always wanted to find an opportunity to get to know you better. I heard that you formed... a young detective team?"

When they heard the keyword "Junior Detective Team", the three little ones immediately became excited and gathered together to pose.

"That's right! We are the Junior Detective Team!"

"My name is Kojima Genta!"

"My name is Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya!"

"My name is Yoshida Ayumi!"

"Edogawa Conan..."

Looking at the cute appearance of the three little ones, especially Conan's listless look, Sera sneered and turned her head to Haibara Ai at the back.

"What about this little girl?"

Ayumi immediately turned around and introduced: "This is Ai! She's also a member of our Junior Detective Team!"

"Oh? Then please give me more advice in the future~"

"Xiao Ai~"

Masumi Sera bent down, her eyes were level with Haibara Ai, and she stretched out her hand in front of Haibara Ai.

But when Haibara Ai looked at the familiar Sera Masumi in front of her, her heart suddenly skipped a beat.

She subconsciously shrank her body behind Conan, which was also a disguised rejection of Sera Masumi's handshake.

Conan glanced at Haibara Ai behind him, not understanding why she suddenly became so shy, but he still helped her out.

"Sorry, she is quite shy~"

“Ah…” Shiliang was stunned and could only withdraw his hand awkwardly, “It’s okay, it’s okay…”

Masumi Sera straightened up and looked at her palms in confusion, wondering if she was too enthusiastic and scared her cousin.

I just want to get to know you...

……

After solving the reasoning puzzle, everyone went to the rear of the carriage and planned to tell the conductor about the situation.

However, when the conductor took the two envelope cards with reasoning puzzles, he looked puzzled.

"Hmm... this is indeed the same design as the instruction card I used before..."

"But the content here is completely different from the tricks I heard before."

As he said this, the conductor returned the two cards to Sonoko and Conan.

Yuanzi stared at the card in his hand, puzzled: "What is going on?"

Conan thought seriously.

The conductor had said before that the puzzle would not start until an hour later, and he thought that the conductor had said that in order to trick Sonoko and the others.

It now seems very likely to be a "misunderstanding".

As for what the "misunderstanding" is, we can only go first...

"At this point, we can only go to carriage 8 and ask the passenger who played the victim."

"What do you think, Conan?"

Sera looked at Conan who was standing lower than her, with a meaningful smile on her face.

Conan looked at Sera with some confusion and could only nod and say "hmm".

In this way, everyone bypassed the connection between the carriages and headed towards carriage No. 8.

At this moment, the train just entered the tunnel, and it suddenly became dark outside the window, leaving only the dim light on the arched ceiling of the corridor.

In Room A of Carriage No. 8, Qin Zhibo was carefully taking off the human skin mask to let some fresh air into the skin on his face.

The human skin mask on the table was full of wrinkles, and the beard under the chin and nose was quite thick.

Since all the tickets for the mysterious train had been sold out long ago, Qin Zhibo had to start from those who already had tickets.

After some research, he found a user who shared his mystery train rides on his blog every year.

Let Hiroki Sawada hack into this person's blog, obtain his IP address information, and then find out his identity information, which is Taisaku Noto.

He is a former Self-Defense Force officer and his hobby is kendo.

Since his body shape and height were similar to his own, Qin Zhibo chose him as his disguise target.

This morning, he ambushed Noto Taisaku in the parking lot as he was about to drive to the train station. After knocking him unconscious, he took his place and went to the station.

But when he arrived at the station, he realized something was wrong.

It turns out that this man does not take the mystery train alone, but rides it with a fixed group of people every year.

That is, the other passengers in carriage 8.

Shortly after the train started, these people gathered in the dining car.

Fortunately, the connections between these people were not too deep. It seemed that they were survivors of a fire and gathered together to mourn the dead.

Qin Zhibo sat on a chair, took out his laptop, and searched for information related to the fire on the computer.

Since several people had just talked in the dining car about the fire happening in April five years ago at a certain wealthy family's villa, it was easy to find out.

5年前的4月17日22时40分，位于静冈县的某资产家别墅在举行生日宴的中途发生火灾。

It took five days to completely put out the fire, and the 5-square-meter villa was burned down.

The incident resulted in the death toll of 12 people, including the entire family of the wealthy man and some guests attending the banquet.

There were a total of 6 survivors.

Qin Zhibo calculated that there were a total of five compartments in this first-class carriage, one of which was shared by the old lady with limited mobility and the maid.

There is one survivor in each of the other rooms.

However, the man named Murohashi was arranged through the backdoor by the organizer this time and was unable to get a room in carriage No. 8.

And the target that he chose for disguise happened to be one of them.

This strange configuration, plus the fact that Conan is also on this train, could this be a sign of a crime?
Just as Qin Zhibo was thinking, there was a sudden hurried knock on the door.

"Mr. Noto!"

"Mr. Noto!"

Qin Zhibo quickly put away the laptop and put the human skin mask back on his head.

He pushed open the door and found that the person standing at the door was the conductor of this carriage.

"What are you doing? I didn't ask you to come over here!"

Qin Zhibo imitated Noto Taisaku's usual tone and yelled at the conductor in front of him.

The conductor was stunned, "But, the bell just rang..."

The bell means that each car is equipped with a pager, which can be used to call the conductor in the corridor at any time.

However, Qin Zhibo clearly remembered that he did not press the pager.

"What does this have to do with me? I didn't press the button. You came here to disturb my rest even though you had nothing to do..."

At the same time, the door of a room not far away was opened, half of a head was exposed, looking out, with a phone in hand.

However, Qin Zhibo did not care too much, but quickly closed the door to prevent the human skin mask he hastily put on from revealing any flaws.

Just as Qin Zhibo's door was closed, the call bell rang again in the dim corridor.

(End of this chapter)