Conan Rick's Investigator

The only protruding object in the entire room was the round light bulb on the ceiling.

"This is……"

Conan has seen other houses and house modifications before, but this is the first time he has seen something so special.

The key point was that he couldn't figure out the meaning of this at all.

Just as a few people were standing at the door, stunned, the housekeeper suddenly spoke.

"Mr. Kudo is still sleeping, let's wait for him to wake up..."

With that said, the housekeeper was about to close the door, looking very anxious.

The door shaft shook, and the plaster in the gaps rubbed against each other, making an unpleasant noise.

But at this moment, Qin Zhibo suddenly stretched out his hand to hold the door, preventing him from closing it.

"Eh?"

The housekeeper, Conan, and Hattori Heiji were all stunned.

Especially the latter two, they were all prepared to wait for Kudo Shinichi to wake up and then let him come out to talk to them in person.

The room was smelly and weird, and they definitely didn't want to go in.

"Detective, this is..."

The housekeeper was so frightened that she stammered in her words.

Qin Zhibo stared at Kudo in the room with a serious face.

Shinichi said calmly, "No need to close the door."

"Because Mr. Kudo is dead..."

"what?!"

Conan and Hattori Heiji's faces were shocked, and they ran directly into the room and stretched out their hands to test Kudo Shinichi's pulse.

There was no warmth in the pale skin, and there was no pulse at all.

"He's definitely dead..." Hattori Heiji murmured.

Qin Zhibo also walked into the room at this time and came within a two-meter investigation distance of the body.

【Corpse Investigation√】

[Name of deceased: Shinichi Kudo]

[Time of death: 1 hour ago]

[Cause of death: cardiac arrest]

[The corpse investigation is completed and character skills obtained: Accountant]

[Acquire repeated skills, converted into 1000 skill proficiency of that skill]

Qin Zhibo was a little surprised when he saw the results of the corpse investigation.

What does cardiac arrest mean?

There was no poison or external harm, does that mean he died naturally?

Just when Qin Zhibo thought so, the system popped up a notification about a long-lost case.

[Main mission: Find out the murderer of this case]

[Task requirements: 72 hours time limit, and survive successfully]

[Task Reward: General Skill Proficiency]

Ok?

When looking at the first line of system prompts, Qin Zhibo didn't pay much attention.

It wasn't until I saw the mission requirements on the second line that I realized that the mission released this time was not a side mission?

A main quest?

And judging from the mission rewards, this main mission should be more difficult.

In particular, the mission requirements also involve the requirement of "survival".

survive.

It means that this investigation will encounter something that can threaten his life...

While Qin Zhibo was still thinking, Hattori Heiji also determined the approximate time of death of the body through his own "observation, listening, questioning and palpation".

"Judging from the stiffness of the jaw, the time of death must have been at least an hour."

Hearing this, the housekeeper standing at the doorway widened her eyes and kept muttering in astonishment, "H-how...how could this happen?"

Hattori Heiji slowly stood up, turned around to look at the housekeeper, and asked in a deep voice: "Since you knew that Mr. Kudo was still sleeping, you should have checked this room before we came here, right?"

"Didn't you notice anything unusual at that time?"

The housekeeper stood there in a daze, her hands clutched at her chest. After a moment's hesitation, she said, "I, I didn't notice..."

"I just came in to take the bedpan away, and saw Mr. Kudo was sleeping..."

But as soon as the housekeeper finished speaking, Qin Zhibo walked up to the housekeeper with his hands in his pockets.

Suddenly, Qin Zhibo's upper body suddenly thrust forward, and a manly mixed-race face directly faced the housekeeper.

Hey!

This shocked Hattori Heiji and Conan, who subconsciously thought Qin Zhibo was going to kiss the aunt.

"Ma'am, do you know what I smell?"

The housekeeper pulled her head back, her eyes full of nervousness and uneasiness.

“Y-what is it…”

"It smells like lies."

"Uh, ah?" The housekeeper's pupils trembled and she became even more nervous.

Qin Zhibo kept a serious face and continued to use words to break through the housekeeper's psychological defense.

"I assume you knew from the beginning that Mr. Kudo was dead, right?"

"When I first came here and rang the doorbell, your tone on the doorbell pager was very abnormal."

"We clearly made an appointment to come here in advance, but when you heard us ring the doorbell, you said the word 'please' twice..."

“This means that your brain was in

A state of extreme anxiety."

"And just as I expected, as soon as you opened the door, I discovered that Mr. Kudo was already dead on the tatami."

This is a lie.

Qin Zhibo discovered that Kudo Shinichi was dead through the light at the investigation point.

The other two detectives present were shocked after hearing these words.

Qin Zhibo actually noticed such a trivial detail?

Moreover, the deceased was about 4 meters away from the door, and the room was dimly lit. How could he be sure that the person was dead just by standing at the door?

What kind of terrifying observation is this?

Conan, who looked relatively calm, was used to it.

But Hattori Heiji had spent a long time calmly pretending to be cool in front of the police, and he seemed to have forgotten the man's own settings.

On this day, Hattori Hei once again recalled the fear of being dominated by Qin Zhibo's terrifying observation power.

"If this matter has nothing to do with you, I suggest you tell us what you know..."

"Otherwise, when the police arrive, your situation will be very disadvantageous."

Qin Zhibo's words are by no means alarmist.

Because once Officer Memu arrives, the housekeeper will definitely be identified as the first suspect in such a simple and clear scene without any unnecessary items or people.

But because he had received the system task just now, Qin Zhibo knew that this housekeeper was most likely not the murderer.

Otherwise, a murderer of her rank is far from being worth the system's proficiency.

Faced with Qin Zhibo's psychological offensive and the completely unexpected plot development, the frightened housekeeper's face was already covered with sweat.

"Who are you?"

"Oh?"

Qin Zhibo smiled slightly. "Didn't I introduce myself when I rang the doorbell just now? I'm a detective..."

"But I am a bit famous. I am the famous detective Qin Zhibo."

"What?" The housekeeper became even more frightened.

"How could this be... That's not what he said!"

Hearing the keywords, Qin Zhibo, Hattori Heiji,

Conan and the other two were suddenly shocked.

"who is he?"

"Yes..." The housekeeper hesitated, but decided to say it.

"It's the murderer!"

"The murderer said that the people who came today were just children, and that as long as we did what he said, we could get away with it!"

After hearing the housekeeper's explanation, Qin Zhibo turned directly to look at Hattori Heiji next to the corpse.

I came here only because I heard Mizunashi Rena say that she was having a "home visit", so I came here temporarily.

Conan should also be an unexpected existence, and the "child" mentioned by the murderer should be Hattori Heiji.

At this time, Hattori Heiji realized that the "child" the murderer was talking about was himself, and he couldn't help but clench his fists in anger.

hateful!

Who are you talking about, the child?

Chapter 1229 Strange Beads

When Hattori Heiji heard himself being described as a "child", he became furious and walked up to him and yelled.

"Hey! Auntie!"

"If you keep talking nonsense, I won't let you go!"

This sound frightened the housekeeper so much that she shuddered and quickly defended herself, "I didn't lie to you!"

"When I came here this morning, Mr. Kudo had already passed away!"

At this moment, the housekeeper finally couldn't stand the pressure and admitted everything.

It turned out that she came over to clean up at her usual time today, and as soon as she entered the door, she heard the phone at home ringing.

Since Kudo Shinichi hasn't left his room recently, she usually answers the phone at home.

But when he picked up the phone, a voice like that coming from a voice changer said that Kudo had died in his room.

The housekeeper came to the bedroom and found that the bedroom door had been sealed with tape.

When she tore off the outer tape and opened the bedroom door, Kudo Shinichi was dead inside, with a photo of her son next to his body.

The voice on the phone threatened to do the same to his son if he didn't do what he said.

At this point, tears welled up in the corners of the housekeeper's eyes, and big tears flowed down.

Qin Zhibo saw that her expression didn't seem like an act, so he continued to ask, "What did that person ask you to do for him?"

The housekeeper sobbed, "He told me to pretend Kudo-san was still alive and wait for a 'kid' who called himself a detective to come."

"Then I'll tell the 'child' that Mr. Kudo has fallen asleep and ask him to wait in the living room for a while."