Conan Rick's Investigator

Task time: 3 hours

Mission rewards: 1000 general skill proficiency, 300 social credit.

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Ten minutes later, the crew on board put out the fire with a fire extinguisher, but the bodies in the box had already been burned to charcoal.

Qin Zhibo tried to investigate the body under these circumstances, but the system prompted that the body was not complete enough and an investigation could not be conducted.

It seems that conducting a post-mortem investigation immediately after the fire started was the right choice.

Faced with all the charred corpses, Maori Kogoro guessed that it was the missing Ye Sancai, while Kazuaki Shima Osamu felt that it was difficult to say anything before a detailed investigation.

"Maybe it's Mr. Kanie?" Minoru Ebina, who was standing behind, pointed at the corpse's wrist and said, "Look, the watch on his wrist is the same gold watch he was wearing when I asked him the time last night..."

When everyone looked at the arm that was burnt into charcoal, they found that there was a burnt black watch on it.

"So, even though the body was burned beyond recognition, the sweater on top was definitely the one he was wearing..."

Maori Kogoro echoed what Shimoji said, "Yeah, I remember the pants were also this one."

Just when everyone was tacitly agreeing with this inference, Qin Zhibo began to speak.

"No, he's not Kanie Shiku."

Maori Kogoro curled his lips and asked, "This is Mr. Kanie's watch, and the clothes he's wearing are all his. Could it be anyone else but him?"

Qin Zhibo asked in return: "Didn't you notice the other person who disappeared from this ship?"

After Qin Zhibo's reminder, Maori Kogoro and Kazuo Kazuo, who had been focusing their reasoning on Ye Sancai, realized that the fat Mediterranean man who had been waving a seal in front of them when he boarded the ship was missing from the people currently standing on the deck watching.

"The fat guy is gone!"

Kogoro Mouri's reaction was huge, but Conan and Heiji Hattori standing beside him were not surprised.

The two of them had noticed the big commotion on the ship at the first moment, but Terukichi Kameda had not appeared yet. This must be a problem.

However, the two did not explain this situation to Kogoro Mori and Shimao Kagawa of the uncle team. Instead, they chose to lean against the railing nearby and exchange their experiences with the case so far within the team.

Because in the minds of these two people, even if they told these uncles their judgment, these uncles' brains would not be able to keep up with their own thinking, and it would not be of any help to the case.

It would be better to wait until all the truth is deduced, and then those who should sing double yellows should sing double yellows, and those who should cooperate with the performance should cooperate with the performance.

But as Qin Zhibo, who was also in the uncle group, started speaking, Hattori Heiji and Conan could no longer hold back.

Hattori Heiji walked up to the charred corpse with his hands in his trouser pockets and asked, "You said he was Kameda Terukichi. Do you have any basis for that?"

"It's very simple."

Qin Zhibo walked forward, pointed at the burnt watch and said, "This watch is on the wrong hand."

"what!"

Hattori Heiji hurried forward. Since he had no gloves, he could only lie on the ground in a push-up position and look at the smoke-blackened dial from the perspective of a dead person.

After observing for five seconds, Hattori Heiji finally confirmed Qin Zhibo's statement.

"The crown of this watch is on the left, so it's easier to adjust the watch when worn on the right hand, but I'm wearing it on my left hand."

"Someone must have put it on him..."

Hattori Heiji's words were considered as his agreement that the charred corpse was not Kanie Kakuhisa.

At this time, Qin Zhibo continued to reason while looking at the investigation points on the body: "The deceased should be Kameda Terukichi. The time of death should be roughly the time he disappeared."

"As for the cause of death, it should be gunshot."

Before anyone could ask, "Why do you think so?", Qin Zhibo asked those around him, "Does anyone have gloves? Can I borrow them?"

Kazuo Kagawa was stunned for a moment, then quickly took out his gloves from his arms.

Qin Zhibo has his own magic extractor, which can be used as a glove at ordinary times, but now he is reluctant to touch this charred corpse.

After putting on someone else's gloves, Qin Zhibo reached out to turn over the charred corpse's head.

"Show me some light..."

Conan next to him quickly turned on the lighting function of his watch to illuminate Qin Zhibo.

Under the light, the detectives all surrounded Qin Zhibo, looking like a group of students gathered around the teacher in an experiment class to watch the experimental phenomena.

Qin Zhibo pointed out a hole on the skull and said, "This is a bullet hole. Fire could never have caused it to look like this."

Everyone suddenly realized what was going on, and Conan was once again surprised at Qin Zhibo's reasoning ability. He was able to determine that there was a bullet hole in the head without the aid of any light.

Qin Zhibo turned the skull over again and pointed at the soft rubber substance on the nasal bone. He said, "This is called silicone, a common material for plastic surgery. This shows that Kameda Terukichi had plastic surgery."

"In other words, there's a high possibility that Terukichi Kameda was one of the bank robbers back then."

"The other robber should be Kanie Korehisa, who chatted happily with Kameda after boarding the ship."

"As for the last person..."

Qin Zhibo glanced at Kujirai Sadao who was standing behind the crowd.

Chapter 356 Hattori Heiji: Kudo, you are a bit perverted~

Qin Zhibo glanced at Kujirai Sadao, and the four detectives from the uncle group and the youth group also followed Qin Zhibo's gaze and looked at Kujirai Sadao.

At this time, Kujirai Sadao still had a look of fear on his face, his back leaning against the cold iron plate, not daring to come forward at all.

Seeing Sadao Kujirai's fear, the four detectives remembered that this man had said suspicious words like "He must still be alive" when he just discovered the burning flag on the ship.

"Mauri, let's go talk to him."

"it is good."

The squatting Shimaji Kagawa stood up and walked towards Sadao Kujirai with Kogoro Mori.

Qin Zhibo also put down the charred head in his hand, handed the dirty gloves to a waiter watching nearby to wash, and told him to return them directly to Jiao Qidaozhi after washing.

In fact, when they were in the lounge before, Qin Zhibo told the story of Joker with a purpose.

A boarding contest using old banknotes as the answer, the last day the robbers escaped the civil statute of limitations, and the vanishing passenger, Ye Sancai...

All these circumstances indicate that the main theme surrounding this ship is the bank robbery case twenty years ago.

In order to find out who was involved in the bank robbery on the ship, Qin Zhibo chose a bank robbery story planned by Joker to test the reactions of everyone on the ship.

Most of them reacted normally, only Crab and Whale had some strange expressions.

When talking about how Joker took advantage of the robbers' greed and made them kill each other, the two looked at each other.

Then Kujirai Sadao was the first to avoid his gaze and looked in other directions.

From a psychological perspective, this is a sign of guilty conscience.

In other words, Kujirai Sadao did have the idea of killing his companions in his heart, so he was afraid of Kanie's gaze.

Now Kanie's clothes and watch have been stripped off and put on Kameda, which means that Kanie is likely in great danger.

As for who the murderer is, Qin Zhibo thinks it is most likely Kujirai Sadao.

However, Qin Zhibo has no evidence to prove this inference, and the whole incident is still unclear.

Why were gunshots heard on the deck when Sadao Kujirai was in the lounge?

Why did Kameda's body suddenly catch fire?

And where is Kanie Kokuhisa hiding now?

So next, Qin Zhibo needs to find more investigation points on the ship.

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Also taking action like Qin Zhibo are Hattori Heiji and Conan.

Just now, when the focused corpse was being analyzed, all the limelight was stolen by Qin Zhibo, so the two of them chose the tactic of "united to resist Qin" this time.

That is to act together.

Although acting together would reduce search efficiency, if two people searched the same place, the possibility of missing important clues would be much smaller.

In fact, after analyzing the charred corpse just now, the two agreed that Qin Zhibo's reasoning ability was not much stronger than that of high school detectives like them.

As long as the two of them can pay attention to the key points, they can immediately figure out what is going on like Qin Zhibo.

But the key is that Qin Zhibo's observation skills are so strong that he can always find the place where the key clues are hidden at a glance.

So this time Conan has to establish a collaboration with Hattori Heiji from the clue search stage.

This is the 2.0 version of the "United Anti-Qin" tactic.

The two first came to the engine room at the bottom of the ship, which was the least likely to encounter other people and was an ideal place for shooting and disposing of corpses.

Sure enough, the two found a bullet casing and a small amount of blood on the floor of the computer room.

"Mr. Kameda was probably murdered here with a pistol..."

Hattori Heiji stood in the middle of the computer room with his hands in his pockets, scanning the dark corners of the room.

At this time, Conan emerged from a corner, turned off the watch-shaped flashlight, and reasoned: "The question now is who killed Kameda here."

"Of course it's that Ye Sancai..." Hattori Heiji answered firmly.

But this time, Conan did not immediately agree with Hattori Heiji's judgment. Instead, he held his chin in his hands and said in a deep voice, "Do you think the story Qin Zhibo told in the lounge is true or false?"

Conan's thoughts jumped so much that Hattori Heiji, who hadn't been able to keep up, was stunned for a moment before replying, "It feels like it's real, but I don't want to believe it..."

Hattori Heiji was sincere in his words. Any detective with a strong sense of justice would not want a dangerous person like Joker to exist in the real world.

"Um……"

Conan pondered for a few seconds and continued, "Actually, if what he said is a real case, it is possible."

"He said a bank employee who was robbed used a gun to kill one of the robbers, and in Japan, banks are not equipped with live guns."

"This kind of thing could only happen in a country like the United States where gun ownership is legal."

"And as far as I know, Qin Zhibo happens to be from Hawaii..."

When Conan told this story, Hattori Heiji next to him was shocked.

Although Hattori Heiji had noticed since their first meeting in the "Egg of Memories" incident that Qin Zhibo's appearance had some blood from other countries and he was a mixed-race person.

However, Hattori Heiji had no idea which country he was from or what his identity and background were.

After all, Tokyo is Conan's main battlefield, and Hattori Heiji is destined not to have too much communication and contact with Qin Zhibo, nor will he spend time investigating.

"Hey, hey, you're not really going to investigate that uncle's background, are you?" Hattori Heiji raised a smirk at the corner of his mouth, "Kudo, you're a bit perverted~"

Conan rolled his eyes at Hattori Heiji and explained, "Actually, I didn't investigate specifically. My dad told me everything."

"he……"

Although it felt a little difficult to say, Conan still made up his mind to tell this secret to his good friend.

"In fact, he once held me in his arms when I was a child. I was exactly seven years old at that time..."

Hattori Heiji opened his mouth in shock and let out a "Huh?"

Conan continued, "That year, our family went on a trip to Hawaii. My dad went to the shooting range to practice his pistol. The shooting coach we hired was Qin Zhibo..."

"So Qin Zhibo realized I was Kudo when we first met. It must have been simply because he had seen me as a child..."

Hattori Heiji:"……"

After a long silence, Hattori Heiji expressed his opinion.

"No wonder you woke me up on the boat earlier. When I subconsciously called out 'Kudo', he didn't seem to react."

"Isn't he sure that you are Kudo Shinichi?"

Conan nodded weakly, "Maybe..."

Hattori Heiji:"……"

Hattori Heiji felt a little unhappy that the secret between him and his best friend might be known by a third party, but he still asked: "So what does what you said have to do with the story of Joker?"

"Of course there is..."

Conan raised his head, and the blue eyes under his glasses stared at Hattori Heiji, "Don't you think Qin Zhibo told that story on purpose?"