Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 932
North Pavilion, restaurant.

Since breakfast, the Detective Boys and Matsunaka Yuriko have been thinking about puzzles here.

Fortunately, many of the leftovers from yesterday's dinner disappeared inexplicably, and Mr. Zhong didn't ask, and he still sent them enough breakfast.

Except for Yuantai, there is still not enough to eat.

But even if the nutrition is supplemented in time, Conan's brain is not AI, and he cannot immediately calculate the answer to the puzzle.

And what he didn't understand was why he called the police last night, but the police didn't come by noon the next day.

What kind of police efficiency is this?

If it really doesn't work, he wants to go to the underground tunnel where Guangyan found the body to take a look, and check the body first.

correct!You can check the body first!
If you're lucky, that corpse is related to the treasure left by Gozo Isekawa?

Conan raised his hand to check the time. It was 11:30, and there were still 24 hours before the 7-hour limit.

In case useful clues can be found on the corpse, it is enough to solve the puzzle within 7 hours!
Instead, if you stay here and think hard about the answer, you may just sit and wait to die.

"Okay, let's go to the place where Mitsuhiko found the body first."

Conan's sudden voice broke the long silence in the room.

As a giant in action and a dwarf in logic, the three little ones immediately became happy when they heard that they were going out to investigate.

Mitsuhiko stood up from the chair, "I just said, the treasure must be in that tunnel!"

"Okay! Detective Boys, let's go!"

Yuan Tai also jumped down from the window sill, raising his arms and shouting.

Immediately, a group of six primary school students ran out of the restaurant in a hurry and set off towards their destination.

At the moment, Mr. Clock is in the kitchen, cooking a lunch for several people that strictly follows the recipe and portion, and he didn't notice that the Boy Detective Team had already set off.

……

Outside the North Pavilion, Qin Zhibo hid in the grass, quietly watching the young detective team run out from the main entrance of the pavilion.

But after running for a while, he realized something was wrong.

These elementary school students didn't want to go to the south at all!
There is the east side!
Qin Zhibo quickly identified the direction of travel of these people, and it was not the southern angel he had expected.

This shows that Conan has not solved the first sentence of the puzzle at this time, and is still in a state of confusion and blindness.

I haven't seen you for a few days, Conan, you really pulled it off!

But the current time is close to 12:00 noon. If you miss the opportunity today, you can only have the opportunity to enter the Southern Angel tomorrow.

But if today passes by, there will be many variables for no reason.

For example, looking at the amount of ingredients Mr. Clock prepared in the kitchen, it seems that he has no intention of letting Conan and others live here for a long time.

There is also the matter of the corpse, Conan may call the Gunma County Police Station again at any time.

Once the police come, Mr. Clock may be investigated, or the frightened Mr. Clock will fly away forcibly, or the police will block the Angel Pavilion for half a month or a month.

These situations are all possible.

At that time, if I want to implement the plan of "stealing the beam and changing the post", it will be very troublesome.

So for me, now is the best time.

Just when Qin Zhibo was about to take out his gun in a flash of inspiration and shoot Conan, the leader of the team, who was running, his thinking changed again.

The place Conan wants to go is the East Pavilion, which means that he wants to investigate the tunnels and corpses there.

As the old saying goes, all roads lead to Rome, and I don’t have to stick to letting Conan reach the base of the Southern Angel by solving puzzles.

Isn't the reverse also possible?

In addition, Mr. Clock is not following them now, which is also suitable for him to do so.

Thinking in his heart, Qin Zhibo put away the gun, put on the [Magic Ring], and entered a state of invisibility.

……

On Conan's side, under Mitsuhiko's instructions, he turned into the room from the magic wall last night.

Entering the room, Mitsuhiko pointed to the golden bull on the fireplace and said, "That's a cow without horns! Just swap the head and tail of the cow, and the passage under the fireplace will be opened!"

Mitsuhiko was very proud of cracking this "mechanism". This was one of the few wonderful moments when he could beat Conan.

"Mitsuhiko, you are amazing!" The naive Ayumi praised without hesitation.

"Hey~ It's okay, hey~"

Mitsuhiko scratched his head, his face becoming smug.

But immediately, Conan's words poured over his head like cold water.

"But this is not a mechanism at all, it's just an ordinary decoration..."

Everyone turned their heads and saw that Conan stepped on the chair at some point, holding the whole golden bull in his arms.

"What? It's impossible!"

Mitsuhiko hurried over, raised his feet and checked the top of the fireplace. It was indeed a complete marble plane without any mechanisms on it.

He groped several times without giving up, but he still couldn't change this fact.

"Really, there is no mechanism..."

Conan put the golden bull ornament back to its original place, jumped off the chair, and was immediately praised by Ayumi.

"Conan, you are amazing!"

"Well, oh..." Conan nodded in response, then turned around and ducked into the fireplace first.

Although the mechanism of Taurus is wrong reasoning, it means that it must not be related to the puzzle.

But since they are all here, why not take a look at the corpse first.

In this way, Conan and his party got into the fireplace in a row.

……

At the same time, taking advantage of his long legs, Qin Zhibo had already arrived at the East Pavilion, and entered the room with the fake fireplace through the window.

Then go through the passage under the fireplace and come to the side of the corpse.

In the underground passage, Qin Zhibo turned on the navigator, and he was able to view the map of the entire maze.

He tore off a piece of paper from the small notebook in his arms, and used a pen to outline the map of the maze with minimalist lines.

The other parts are not important, it is enough to draw the path that leads to the lower part of the southern angel's pedestal.

Considering the "treasure map club" of the Detective Boys, Qin Zhibo thoughtfully drew a big "X" at the position of the southern angel base.

After doing this, he buckled the note on the ground and rubbed it casually a few times to create some signs of aging.

Boy detective team trap, get!

Qin Zhibo put this old "treasure map" in the pocket of the clothes that the skeleton was wearing, and the sound of footsteps came from the passage.

He quickly put on the ring, and his figure was once again hidden in the darkness.

At this time, the watch flashlight of the Detective Boys happened to shine in this direction, and saw the corpse lying on the ground.

Although they had been mentally prepared for a long time, seeing the ossified corpse in this environment, the children were frightened and grinned at the first moment.

The most calm person here is not Conan, who has been killed for a long time, but Haibara Ai.

Bones, we are old friends...

Old Detective Conan squatted next to the corpse for the first time and started the autopsy.

It can be said to be an autopsy, but in fact, the places that can be inspected are limited. After all, the bones are all boneless.

At this time, the first thing to check is whether there is any trauma to the head.

The top of the back of the head, no trauma.

Conan just stretched out his hand to scratch his head, wanting to check the condition of the skull on the side of the ground, but as soon as he pressed his fingers hard, his skull split open.

Wow, half of the head rolled halfway on the ground, making a weak sound.

"what?"

"what--!"

Conan was surprised, and Ayumi and Matsunaka Yuriko who were standing two meters away screamed out of fright.

"Big, big, brain, cracked!"

"It's cracked!"

Mitsuhiko and Genta screamed out in fright, but Huihara Ai, who had seen the world beside him, came over calmly.

She squatted beside Conan who was frowning, and reached out to pick up half of the head on the ground without hesitation, holding it like a small ladle in her hand.

After only observing for a few seconds, Hui Yuanai's eyes changed.

"What's wrong?" Conan asked.

Hui Yuanai held the half of the skull in his hand and explained: "This is a brain circumcision operation. It is a surgery that cuts the human brain from the top position in a circular shape."

"But the diameter of this circumcision is too large, and it has exceeded the purpose of general surgery..."

Huiyuan Ai didn't finish her sentence, considering that there was a child by her side, she didn't say "it's like taking out the whole brain".

However, Haibaraai has seen such similar surgical cases.

When studying at Harvard in the United States and going to the University of Michigan as an exchange student, Hui Yuanai once read about it in the medical books in the library of the University of Michigan.

More than 100 years ago, a strange disease of brain parasites was prevalent in the UK. The longer the parasites live in the human brain, the more irrational behaviors such as aggressiveness and self-mutilation become.

British doctor Moonlight Smith has developed a brain drilling procedure that removes parasites from between the brainstem and skull.

However, if the parasite has been parasitic for too long, a brain circumcision operation must be used to cut off the entire skull cover and then remove the parasite from inside.

It's just that Hui Yuanai's content tends to be a kind of folk history, after all, she has never heard of brain parasites that can directly affect human behavior.

Hui Yuanai held the severed half of the skull and continued: "The incision of this skull circumcision is very smooth. The person who cut this skull is proficient in surgical operations."

"It would be unbelievable if it was cut without injuring the brain..."

Generally, experienced doctors want to cut the human skull, even with the assistance of modern medical equipment such as electric milling cutters, they must carefully consider every component of force, and the brain inside may be touched if they are not careful.

That is to say, in the process of power frustration, it will cause the surface of the incision to be uneven, and there will be slight jagged traces on the edge, which are normal.

But this skull didn't show any signs of setback, it was as flat as a mass-produced industrial product.

That's not even a textbook surgical specimen.

Because such muscle control precision, as well as the calm state of mind during surgery, are no longer human beings.

Sure enough, it was cut open after the person died?

Hui Yuan Ai was also not sure about his own thoughts.

However, Conan's investigation line of thought is directly inclined to murder, and the murderer should have killed this person by cutting open his brain.

"But why do you want to do that?"

What do you do with the time it takes to cut open a human brain?

Shouldn't it be eaten?

Conan suddenly thought of a certain ogre detective movie, where the ogre cut open the skull of the victim in order to taste the front lobe of the victim.

Could this also be...

Thinking of this, Conan suddenly smelled the smell of a major case, and quickly groped for the clothes on the skeleton, trying to find some items that could prove his identity.

But after rummaging through all the pockets, Conan found a piece of paper.

A simple map was drawn on the piece of paper, and a striking "X" was marked on the corner of the map.

Mitsuhiko: "It's a treasure map!"

Ayumi: "Really? Is there a treasure here?"

Yuan Tai: "Great! You can go treasure hunting! Treasure~"

The sharp-eyed Mitsuhiko and Genta immediately became excited, and even Ayumi, who was scared a second ago, also became excited.

There is no doubt that the Boy Detectives trap.

Bgm, up!

Give them a treasure map, and they can search the entire earth. General MacArthur, a five-star general in the United States, once commented...

Conan took the piece of paper in his hand and looked it over and over again, thinking that this piece of paper was a road map pointing somewhere.

"It looks like it's here..."

"Then let's go to that place to have a look, maybe it has something to do with the puzzle!" Guang Yan hurriedly urged, his treasure hunter's heart was already hungry and thirsty.

"Go~ Conan, let's take a look~" Ayumi also advocated to go treasure hunting.

Conan was still a little hesitant, but with the wind blowing in the ears of the three little ones, he also decided to follow the location on the piece of paper to have a look.

Maybe we can find more clues about the murder?

"Okay, let's go then."

"Great! Let's go treasure hunting~"

The three little ones made cheerful voices, completely ignoring the feelings of the bones on the ground next to them.

Hui Yuanai also put the skull back in place with a calm face, and left with the team.

While the killer's surgical skills may be good, it has little to do with her.

Only Yuriko Matsunaka, who was following at the end of the team, still had a look of fear on her face.

She was still a little puzzled, why are everyone the same age, why are other people not afraid at all all of a sudden?
She didn't even dare to look at the skeleton, but the two primary school students even reached out to touch it.

Staying in this small group, she felt a little out of place.

……

Following the route drawn on the note, Conan and the others arrived at the place marked with an "×" after a stroll.

"No way..."

Genta and Mitsuhiko ran to the front and looked around, but there was really no way forward.

Conan's attention was on a slide embedded in the wall that slanted upwards.

Stretching out his head to take a look inside, the top was completely dark, and he couldn't see anything, but it was definitely not the exit.

"Everyone! Come and see, there is something here!"

Under Ayumi's call, several people got together behind a stone ladle, where there was a wooden joystick.

"This must be the mechanism to open the treasure!"

Before Conan could speak, Genta stepped forward to fiddle with the joystick.

wow.

Long——

With the sound of the machine running, it seems that some machine above the head is running.

Conan hurriedly climbed into the slanting slide again, and the darkness above seemed to become a little deeper.

Opened a new channel again?

　Thanks for the reward that the nickname can only be changed once!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)