Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 322 Hattori Heiji: I'm the cheapest co-author...

foreigner?
Looking at the young blond man in the woods, Qin Zhibo was a little surprised.

It would be fine if it was an international metropolis like Tokyo, but I didn't expect that there could be foreigners in such a place that doesn't shit.

Judging from his attire, the man named Robert was wearing an orange bomber jacket, carrying a hiking backpack, and a camera around his neck. He looked like he was on a trip.

But at this moment, he was standing there blankly, staring at the somewhat lonely tombstone in the open space in the woods, with infinite sadness in his eyes.

Suddenly, a gust of wind seemed to blow a grain of sand into Robert's eyes.

Robert raised his hand and rubbed his eyes, his eyes became firm immediately, he turned and left the tombstone, and went down the mountain along the forest path in the other direction.

After Robert had gone far, Qin Zhibo came out of the woods and stepped forward to check the content on the tombstone.

【Daughter of the Takeda Clan - Tomb of Misa Takeda】

The specifications of the tombstone are not high, and there are no sacrifices on the tribute table.

However, judging from the moss around the tombstone and the traces of rain washing on the tombstone, this tombstone must have been erected for no more than five years.

There are no other graves around here, and it seems to be buried here alone.

Generally, this kind of situation means that the family of the deceased lived near here, and the tomb was buried here alone for the convenience of future sacrifices.

Could it be that there are people in this barren mountain?

Qin Zhibo withdrew his thoughts temporarily, and continued to move towards the task site.

There are quite a few spiders here, and after walking two steps, it is easy to hang those irritating spider webs on the face.

But the goal of the main mission this time is to "explore the spider's lair", so Qin Zhibo thinks that it should at least be a cave, crypt or other places that humans can enter.

However, Qin Zhibo searched the range of 50 meters near the mission site, but could not find such a place.

It was an incomparably huge banyan tree, which surprised Qin Zhibo.

After several rounds of searching, no place similar to the "spider's lair" was found, and with the sun setting, Qin Zhibo had no choice but to retreat temporarily.

Walking down the forest path, Qin Zhibo returned to the place where he parked his Mazda, but saw a pair of "little young men" and a man looking into his car window.

One of them was a dark-skinned high school student, holding a newly bought motorcycle in his hand, and next to him was a girl with a single ponytail.

And that man was the foreigner whom he met on the mountain a few hours ago—Robert Taylor.

"Hattori Heiji, Toyama Kazuha."

Hearing Qin Zhibo's murmur, Hattori Heiji quickly raised his head and saw an exciting figure.

"Yo! It's Uncle Qin!"

"What a coincidence!"

It is certainly no coincidence that Hattori Heiji is here.

Just a few days ago, Hattori Heiji received an anonymous entrustment letter, which said——

[I hope you will arrive at Takeda’s house in Puppet Ridge, Tottori Prefecture, before nightfall on Saturday next week, otherwise there will be living puppets killed by spiders]

Attached with the letter is a commission fee of 20 yuan.

Hattori Heiji's high school student detective is not for profit, so he wants to return the money himself.

However, Hattori Heiji has been driving fewer motorcycles since he was caught racing on the sidewalk by the police chief's father in the Osaka blackout incident caused by Kaitou Kidd last time, and the motorcycle was confiscated by the traffic police.

Without the motorcycle, the will-o'-the-wisp boy is like lacking a soul.

So Hattori Heiji couldn't hold back, and spent part of the commission fee to buy a new blue motorcycle.

When coming this time, Hattori Heiji intends to return the remaining entrustment fee to the client first, and the cost of buying the motorcycle is considered to be borrowed by himself, and then solve the possible cases by the way.

When they came here, Yuan Shan and Ye Fei wanted to say that she was as familiar with Tottori Prefecture as they were with their own backyard, so they insisted on coming together.

As expected, I got lost.

When they got lost, the two met Robert Taylor, an enthusiastic American with good Japanese.

Hattori Heiji, Toyama and Haba felt that Robert was a little suspicious at first, and they didn't want to talk to this stranger who jumped out suddenly, and continued to discuss the matter of the two sleeping together.

But after some exchanges, the three of them happened to have the same destination, so they walked together for a while, and met Qin Zhibo's Mazda parked by the side of the road.

Toyama and Ye, who had met at the Suzuki Museum of Modern Art before, stepped forward and asked Qin Zhibo, "Mr. Qin, do you know where the Takeda family is?"

Qin Zhibo shrugged his shoulders, "I can't make it.".

Hattori Heiji was a little surprised, and asked, "Uncle, didn't you come here because you received a letter of entrustment from the Takeda family?"

Qin Zhibon shook his head hesitantly.

This answer made Hattori Heiji a little complacent. After all, the client chose to send the commission letter to himself, which showed that he recognized his detective strength.

In other words, in this case, I am the only officially appointed detective!
At this moment, a loud car horn sounded from behind everyone.

beep-

When everyone looked back, a head stuck out from the car window, and the two carefully groomed beards twitched twice.

"How are you?"

It's Kogoro Mori!

The two groups looked at each other in blank dismay, surprised at how complete the characters were this time.

Only Qin Zhibo saw Conan in Mao Lilan's arms through the front windshield of the truck.

This wave is stable!

Everyone chatted briefly, and it turned out that Mori Kogoro was officially entrusted by the head of the Takeda family, Takeda Shinichi, to investigate the incident, and there was a deposit of 50 yen along with the letter.

"Strange, why is there only 20 in my entrustment letter?"

Hattori Heiji felt a little strange, but Mori Kogoro immediately understood, showing a tongue-out smile that can only be made by venom.

"Haha! The client must think that your reasoning ability is less than half of my Kogoro Mori's, so he only gave you 20 yuan!"

Hattori Heiji, whose skin was originally dark, now became even darker: "."

At this time, Conan looked up at Qin Zhibo, and asked in a childish voice: "Then why did Uncle Qin come here?"

Qin Zhibo touched Conan's head with a smile, and said softly, "Uncle, I'm here for a trip."

Facing the expected answer, Conan showed half-moon eyes, and said "Ahaha" twice.

After the conversation was over, everyone arranged the next itinerary.

The Osaka duo rode in the Mori family's van with their motorcycles running out of gas, and Robert sat in Qin Zhibo's Mazda and followed the van.

In the car, Qin Zhibo and Robert had a brief exchange.

It turned out that Robert had been favored by the Takeda family three years ago, so he came back to visit now.

Qin Zhibo didn't tell him what he saw on the mountain.

Soon, everyone came to Takeda's house.

The head of the Takeda family, Nobun Takeda, welcomed Qin Zhibo immediately when he saw Qin Zhibo coming.

"As long as Mr. Qin can solve the puzzles in our family, I will offer the same entrustment fee as Mr. Maori as a reward."

Hearing this, Hattori Heiji's face became even darker.

It's the cheapest for me.
(End of this chapter)