Conan Rick's Investigator

Bert was about to answer when he realized he had been made a suspect. He quickly said, "Hey! I didn't kill Ingalls!"

"And I stayed home until work time today, and my wife can attest to that!"

According to the law, if it is a major case, it is difficult for family members to testify.

But seeing Bert's shocked eyes, Detective White Horse already believed his statement.

Bai Ma smiled, patted Bert's shoulder, and comforted him, "Please don't think too much, I'm just asking a routine question..."

"Actually, after investigating the victim's death scene, we believe the perpetrator could only be someone familiar with the deceased, particularly someone from the research institute..."

"So now, the police are asking you to provide proof of your alibi for this morning. Please cooperate with the investigation."

At Detective Baima's greeting, the police began to interrogate people from the institute one-on-one.

Conan, on the other hand, held his chin up, reasoning through the clues he had so far in his mind.

At present, the murderer's method is very clear, which is to take advantage of the deceased's love for drinking coffee and put sleeping pills in the pure water area of ​​the coffee machine.

After the deceased was stunned, he went to the second floor to tie him up, tortured him and then killed him with poison.

The only people who can realize this technique are those who know that the deceased loved to drink coffee, and those who have the key to the astronomy.

Judging from these two points, the murderer should be someone within the institute.

As for the motive for the murder, the deceased seemed to be conducting major research on some earth-shattering motive.

If it can be proven that the solar system is indeed pulled by some kind of gravity, it should shock the world and even leave its name in history.

Maybe someone coveted the deceased's research results, so he tortured him and took the results away.

This motive makes sense...

But the problem is that since it is a research result that shocks the world, it will be published in public sooner or later.

If he published it, wouldn't that expose him as the murderer?

But if this is not the motive, is there any other reason for someone to kill an astronomy researcher who lives a monotonous life?

While Detective Hakuba and the police were interrogating people in the institute and Conan was reasoning alone, Kuroba Kaito on the other side was not idle either.

Reasoning is not his strong point, but pulling people off the page is his area of ​​expertise.

Since this person also has the habit of checking calculations with papyrus, he might record important research results somewhere...

Kuroba Kaito thought so.

So he quietly walked to Ingles' desk and slowly opened the drawer.

, check what's inside.

There weren't many things in the drawers on the first floor, just a few chocolate candies, a few bags of instant coffee, and small tools like scissors and tape.

He gently closed the first drawer and opened the second drawer.

There were not many things in the second drawer. There was a diary that looked a bit old, with a newspaper underneath.

Kuroba Kaito's right hand turned into a black shadow, and he put the diary into his arms at lightning speed. Then, pretending that nothing happened, he took out the newspaper lying underneath and read it.

This is a yellowed old newspaper. The news summary of the front page news reads like this -

"Is the Solar System Being Towed?" 》

Six months ago, an amateur astronomer wrote us a warning letter about a planet that might be dangerously close to Earth.

The Astronomer Royal’s evaluation of this is this-

"Nonsense."

Now, the world's top astronomers are ready to agree to a public debate with the amateur astronomer.

Today we will tell you what the debate is about.

……

The newspaper excerpt appears to be related to a debate, and judging from the publication date in the upper right corner of the paper, it was about 30 years ago.

The words below were hard to make out, so Kuroba Kaito could only put the newspaper back into the drawer.

At this moment, Conan walked up behind Kuroba Kaito and asked quietly.

"What did you find?"

Kuroba Kaito's shoulders trembled as if he had been caught as a thief, and he quickly scratched his head with a smile, "Haha, how is that possible?"

Conan narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at the grinning "self" in front of him, with some confusion in his mind.

Not only does this guy's face look like mine, his voice sounds like mine, his reaction to being caught is also similar to mine.

Is this guy deliberately imitating himself, or is he just like this?

Kuroba Kaito, who are you?

At this time, Conan's phone suddenly vibrated.

hum-

Conan subconsciously took out his phone, looked at the number, and found that it was Xiaolan calling.

Why are you calling yourself at this time? Have you found any clues to cracking the code in London?

"Moshimoshi."

"Shinichi? It's me, Ran..."

Conan's face was shocked, and then he realized that Xiaolan was calling his other mobile phone.

Conan has two phones, one is dedicated to Conan and the other is dedicated to Kudo Shinichi.

However, since both mobile phones are of the same model and the ringtones vibrate, it is still possible to get them confused if you are not careful.

not good!

Conan reacted and was about to use the bow-tie voice changer to find a secluded place to talk when a big hand stretched out from beside him.

Turning around, he saw that the owner of the big hand was none other than Kuroba Kaito.

Kuroba Kaito smiled kindly and asked in a low voice, "Is it that young lady who called?"

Conan nodded twice.

Kuroba Kaito: "So, do you need me to answer the phone?"

Conan thought for a moment and decided that it would be okay to let this person answer the phone. Anyway, he was currently playing himself.

"Don't talk nonsense..."

"Don't worry."

Kuroba Kaito picked up the phone and coughed lightly, "Ahem... Hello, Xiaolan."

"It's me, Kudo Shinichi..."

On the other side of the phone, Mao Lilan was wondering because he heard Conan's voice on Shinichi's phone.

But then I thought about it, now that these two people were acting together, it wouldn't be strange to hear them.

"Shinichi, is Conan with you? How's it going over there?"

"Well, the kid is right next to me, so things are going pretty smoothly for us."

Kuroba Kaito low

He glanced at Conan and a happy smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Conan could only roll his eyes at him, feeling unhappy about why he was called a kid even though he was obviously a little older than him.

"Ran, is there something you want to tell me?" asked Kuroba Kaito.

"Well, Dad, the Doctor, Masumi, and I are currently at London City Hall..."

On the other side, in front of the London City Hall, Mao Lilan was holding a phone in one hand and a scary skull toy in the other.

"City Hall? What are you doing there?" a voice came from the phone.

She said to "Kudo Shinichi" on the other end of the phone, "It was Masumi's mother who figured out the meaning of the codes. The codes don't refer to a specific location, but rather each line represents a place."

"The 'boiled egg' mentioned in the third line refers to London's City Hall, one of London's landmark buildings, which looks like an egg."

"When we got here, we found some skull toys on the benches and in the grass nearby."

"It even says Mazarin Stone on the toy..."

Kuroba Kaito on the other end of the line repeated doubtfully, "Mazarin Stone?"

Since Mazarin is a personal name, Kuroba Kaito doesn't know Sherlock Holmes well, so he doesn't understand the meaning.

When Conan next to him heard this, his eyes lit up and he immediately became alert.

"It's the Crown Jewels case..."

Kuroba Kaito glanced sideways at Conan, and at the same time, Maori Lan also said on the phone.

"Shinichi, I remember you told me about this case before. It's called the 'Crown Jewels Case'."

"The criminal wrote this case on the toy. Is he trying to express something?"

When Kuroba Kaito heard this, his mind was filled with questions.

What Crown Jewel case?

I'm pretty good at stealing a crown jewel...

As soon as the short Conan heard about Sherlock Holmes, he couldn't restrain his mood. He asked Kuroba Kaito for the phone back and used a bow-tie voice changer to change his voice.

"Ran, can the head of that toy be removed?"

"Hmm? I don't know..."

"You might try it, because Sherlock Holmes made a very famous statement during this case: 'My brain is everything, and all else is merely an appendage.'"

Mao Lilan listened to this suggestion, twisted it a little with his hand, and sure enough, he pulled off the head of the toy skeleton.

Below the skull, on the neck of the naked body, there suddenly appeared the letter "T".

"what!"

Mao Lilan shouted happily, "It's really opened!"

Kogoro Mouri and others nearby also looked at the toy in Ran Mouri's hand with disbelief.

Not far away, a figure hidden behind the wall was quietly watching them.

Chapter 1280 Clues point to...

“There seems to be something written on it…”

"Is it the letter 'T'?"

Sera Masumi leaned forward and looked at the skull pulled out of Maoli Ran's hand. After thinking for two seconds, he said seriously, "Could this be the true meaning of the code left by the murderer?"

"The locations hinted at in the code are all hidden with certain letters. Only by combining these letters can we decipher the meaning of the code..."

After listening to Sera's analysis, Maori Kogoro replied in a gruff voice, "But, don't you also have a code that you can't analyze?"

"There are seven sentences in the code now. If each sentence has a letter, there should be two more locations I don't know where they are, right?"

The two sentences said by Kogoro Mouri are the second sentence "I am a long-nosed wizard who lives in a castle."

And the last sentence "Let's put an end to everything, pierce the snow-white back with two swords."

Sera Masumi also looked serious, because even Mary didn't know where these two sentences came from.

It may be a relatively unpopular location, or the prompt may not be based on the shape of the building.

At this time, Dr. Agasa squinted his eyes and smiled comfortingly, "Anyway, you can go through these confirmed locations first. Maybe if you find five letters, it will be enough to guess what it means..."

Mao Lilan echoed: "Yes! Yes!"

"Okay! Then that's the next stop!"

Sera Masumi was in high spirits and pointed to a cucumber-shaped building on the other side of the Thames River in the City of London.

That corresponds to the fourth line of the code: "In the end, just chew the pickled cucumber directly."