Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 291 A nuclear lighter is not a lighter...

Kento Toba offered to deliver the coffee upstairs, Tan Hakuba and Conan immediately alerted.

The two immediately followed Kento Toha out of the living room, quietly climbed up the stairs on the second floor, and looked up at the corner of the stairs.

bang, bang, bang
Kento Toba knocked on the door with a cup of coffee in his hand, he seemed to be fine.

A few seconds later, the study door opened, and Kento Toba walked in with a cup of coffee.

With a bang, the door closed.

Detective Baima and Conan quickly tiptoed to the door, and put their ears on the door to whisper.

The two people, one tall and one short, just happened to be misaligned with each other, and they were very harmonious.

In the room, Qin Zhibo had just closed the "Study of Green Characters".

In terms of plot, this is the most distinctive and creative Sherlock Holmes fan work he has seen.

Especially the plot reversal at the end made Qin Zhibo unexpected.

The exchange of identities and positions, an upside-down world full of chaotic logic.

For example, when Lestrade sighed, he did not mean "my God" as Westerners often say, but "my star" which has no clear meaning.

Also, when meeting the queen, what he saw was a group of tentacle-type queens entrenched in the dark shadows.

Where human beings are touched by the queen's tentacles, the muscles will heal. It seems that the queen has the ability to heal.

In these seemingly chaotic logics, it seems to be another "real" world deliberately portrayed by the innkeeper.

It's just that it's not human beings who rule this world, but some indescribable things
"The Black Lord of Egypt", "Ancient Goat", "Father of All", "Holy Czar", "Emperor of All China", "White Lady in the Permafrost of Antarctica".
These so-called "old gods" seem to rule the world in the novel, and when these beings come, the pale yellow moon of the original world becomes a "comfortable and pleasant" ruby.

The scarlet moon, slowly rising.
Qin Zhibo put down "The Study of Green Characters" slowly, and looked back at Kento Toba who came in with coffee.

"What? Are you here to confess your crime?"

As soon as Qin Zhibo opened his mouth, Kenren Huye was startled.

But immediately, Kento Toba regained his expression, pretending to be relaxed and said: "Mr. Qin was joking, I'm just here to deliver coffee"

As he spoke, Kento Toba put the coffee on the table, and saw the "Study of Green Letters" on the table.

Kento Toba's eyes moved slightly, but he didn't say anything. Instead, he took out a white card from his pocket and whispered, "Actually, I want to tell you that I received this card when I was answering questions in my room this morning. "

"I don't know if this thing will help solve the case."

Qin Zhibo took the card, on which was written:

[If you want that book, go to the garage at five o'clock tomorrow morning, the book is under the chair in the back of the car]

The content on the card was obviously guiding someone to the garage. Judging from the tone of voice, it really looked like a murderer. He should be using the first edition of "A Study in Scarlet Letters" to lure Kento Toba.

"I know about the note, don't tell anyone else just yet."

Kento Toba opened his mouth slightly, and nodded with a slightly dazed expression, but he was secretly happy in his heart.

be cheated!
"Then there is nothing for me here, right? I'll go first."

Kento Toba left the room, while Qin Zhibo left the room holding the card in his hand.

At this time, Tan Baima and Conan in the next room poked their heads out and watched quietly.

"Did you hear what they said in the room just now?" Baima asked inquiringly.

"No."

Conan shook his immature head.

Qin Zhibo took the card and walked through the back door of the hotel to the garage.

In the garage, the innkeeper's jeep has fallen off the cliff with the innkeeper, and another car in the garage is also in a scrapped state with its fuel tank leaked.

car back seat
Qin Zhibo opened the car door, and a faint smell of gasoline filled his nostrils.

Qin Zhibo frowned, looked into the dark space inside the car,
It is not easy to find the first edition of "A Study in Scarlet" under the car seat in such a dark environment. It needs light.

So Qin Zhibo took out a nuclear lighter
Of course it is impossible!
Qin Zhibo turned on his night vision goggles and searched in the slightly dim yellow-green field of vision.

However, there was nothing under the back seat of the car, and there was no first edition of the promised "A Study in Scarlet".

This further proves that the whole card is the killer's murderous plot.

The print on the card shows that the card was prepared by the murderer and brought over.

As for the method used, it should be while the target is looking for the book in the back seat of the car with a lighter, and ignites the volatilized gasoline here to kill.

However, according to the IQ of ordinary people, although the gasoline smell here is not very strong, it can't reach the level where you can't smell it.

I'm afraid it's not a "big clever" to use a lighter here?

But at least the murderer designed it that way.

In other words, the murderer's target must be at least someone with a lighter.

Does Kento Toba have a lighter?
In the living room, Kento Toba was drinking coffee leisurely, ready to listen to "Xiang Er" in his heart.

When I handed the card to Qin Zhibo just now, Kento Toba noticed that Qin Zhibo had slipped out of the back door quietly. He must have gone to the garage to find the first edition of "A Study in Scarlet Letters" according to the instructions on the card.

No Sherlock Holmes fan can resist the temptation of that book!
But of course that precious first edition book cannot be in the garage, waiting there is only a death trap carefully arranged by myself.

This trap was originally intended for another person, but now that someone has solved the method of killing the innkeeper, he has to focus on silence first.

But just when Kento Toba was full of confidence, the door of the hotel's main entrance suddenly opened, and Qin Zhibo came back.

Kento Toba's eyes widened, looking at Qin Zhibo who came back safe and sound in disbelief.

"Mr. Qin, when did you go out?"

Both Mao Lilan and Aso were a little surprised by Qin Zhibo who suddenly came back from the outside, and Qin Zhibo walked up to Kento Toba and asked, "The garage is too dark, I can't see clearly."

"Do you have a lighter?"

Hearing what Qin Zhibo said, Kento Toba was so shocked that his glasses almost fell off.

As an uncle detective, don't you even have a lighter?
You fake uncle!
In Toba Kento's impression, all uncle-level famous detectives have the habit of smoking and carrying lighters with them.

In fact, Kento Toba's idea was not wrong.

It's just that Qin Zhibo is not a qualified uncle. He has the appearance of an uncle, but his inner soul has not yet learned to smoke.

Conan who was not far away looked at Qin Zhibo with a very puzzled face.

Does Qin Zhibo not have a lighter?
Conan clearly remembered that when Qin Zhibo rescued himself in the secret passage of the blue castle last time, he was holding a glowing and heating object that looked like a lighter in his hand.

Isn't that the lighter?
To be precise, that is indeed not a lighter, but a nuclear lighter.
(End of this chapter)