Conan Rick's Investigator

"Yes, yes, just like my mother. I don't understand how anyone can't appreciate that."

"Have you had enough..."

Kogoro Mouri threw a half-moon eye, and Ran Mouri also responded with a half-moon eye.

At this time, Hattori Shizuka coughed twice, indicating that her bronchi were naturally sensitive and she was not very adapted to the environment here, so she wanted to change the place to continue the conversation.

"In that case, let's go straight to Shibata Shiro's house and talk there."

Qin Zhibo suddenly stood up from the sofa, surprising everyone.

"Do you already know Shibata Shiro's home address?"

"Not yet... But since Mr. Shibata is so skilled in kendo, he should be active in the kendo world right now. Perhaps we'll find his name in information about upcoming kendo tournaments..."

Chapter 441: Uncle's reputation is damaged

Conan stood by and watched Qin Zhibo silently as he made pertinent suggestions, feeling a little emotional.

Before, when he was using the identity of Kudo Shinichi, he could still express his reasoning without hesitation, but now, even though he has thought of this method of finding people, he can only remain silent.

After all, when I changed back before, my actions were not airtight. It would be troublesome if the organization got the news.

It seems that I need to be more restrained in my reasoning recently...

Since Kogoro Mouri insisted that this was his commission, Qin Zhibo did not help to make the call, but instead cared about Conan's health.

Questions like "How is your recovery?" and "Does the wound still hurt?" were thrown out one after another, making Conan exhausted.

"Not bad, it doesn't hurt anymore..."

"Thank you for your greetings, Mr. Qin." Mao Lilan thanked him and turned to teach Conan to be polite, "Conan, thank your uncle quickly."

In this regard, Conan could only feel helpless in his heart and put on a very forced smile towards Qin Zhibo.

"Thank you uncle!"

"Well, you're welcome. Polite children are really endearing."

As he spoke, Qin Zhibo rubbed Conan's hair in a seemingly doting manner. Conan, who dared not say anything, could only silently despise this behavior in his heart.

You know I'm not a child, but you still treat me like one... Eh?

Conan suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Isn't Qin Zhibo helping him conceal his identity by treating him like this?

Could it be that he had already figured out that the woman sitting opposite him was full of lies?

Someone with naturally sensitive bronchi likes to knit sweaters, and a normal person, no matter how bad they are at cooking, would not cut several wounds on the same hand.

These two suspicious points are what Conan has discovered so far, which at least shows that the woman opposite has impure motives for coming here.

Since I can see through these things easily, Qin Zhibo can see through them too.

Considering the various incidents that had escalated recently, it was not difficult to imagine that someone had leaked some information and provoked this woman.

Although he was not sure about the origin of the woman in front of him, she should not be a member of the Black Organization.

Because if it was an organization that took action, they would definitely come and kill us without any reason. This kind of "open and aboveboard" temptation is completely unnecessary and can easily be detected in advance.

But no matter what, Conan was grateful to Qin Zhibo for helping him conceal his identity.

It seems that I have to act like a child in front of this woman...

While thinking about this, Conan picked up the latest issue of "Bungei Shidai" magazine on the coffee table to kill time, completely ignoring whether it was reasonable for him, a first-grade elementary school student, to be able to understand the magazine.

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Hattori Shizuka didn't realize that her flaws had been seen through, and she sat on the sofa gracefully, observing the opposite side.

Watching the daily interactions between Qin Zhibo and Conan, Hattori Shizuka felt for a moment that the "old uncle who takes advantage of his seniority" her son was talking about was Qin Zhibo in front of her.

As a housewife who rarely appears in public, there is a reason why Shizuka Hattori took the trouble to rush from Osaka to Tokyo.

Previously, his son Hattori Heiji said that he went to Tokyo to visit a sick friend. After he came back, he heard his son say things like "that uncle is not reasonable at all", "he takes advantage of his seniority", and "he often bullies Kudo".

This reminded Hattori Shizuka of Mori Kogoro, because when Hattori Heiji was injured in an incident, Mori Kogoro was so cold-blooded that he didn't even come to visit him at home.

This time, Hattori Heiji is coming to Tokyo again, and he will stay for several days, which makes her, as a mother, a little worried, afraid that the "old uncle who takes advantage of his seniority" will harm her beloved son and future daughter-in-law.

So she came up with a package plan to test the Maori uncle and see what kind of person he was.

The plan is to contact old friends from junior high school and start a search that is known to heaven and earth, you and me, but unknown to the detective.

When she got here, it turned out to be just as she expected.

Kogoro Mouri is an LSP. Although he seems to have a lovely wife at home, he is still having affairs with other women outside and trying to seduce the client, which makes his daughter dissatisfied.

However, at present, Hattori Shizuka has not yet realized that Kogoro Mori is taking advantage of his seniority.

On the contrary, Qin Zhibo, who came to visit suddenly, looked a bit like a mixed-race person, and seemed to be taking advantage of his age.

The child's expression clearly showed that he didn't want to thank him for his greeting, but he pretended not to notice and accepted the child's "polite" thanks.

But for this injured child, Shizuka Hattori remembered that her son came to Tokyo to visit his injured friend.

While eating, I casually asked which friend it was, and Heiji casually replied, "It's Kudo."

Could it be that this child is...

Hattori Shizuka maintained a dignified sitting posture, looking at Conan who was flipping through the "Literary Magazine" thoughtfully.

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Conan did not notice Hattori Shizuka's gaze, but concentrated on reading the latest publication of this week's "Detective Samonji: The Peak of 1/2".

Since Shinna Kaori took over her father Rentaro's posthumous work, she has adapted very quickly. Not only has the update not fallen behind, but the plot has also continued the previous excitement, and is even better.

A mouse's son can dig holes, a writer's daughter can write novels, this must be talent...

Conan had just closed the "Bungei Jidai" with relish, and turned around to see Kogoro Mouri still busy making phone calls to the organizers of kendo competitions in various regions.

Let’s read another one…

Magazines usually pick out excellent chapter titles separately and place them on the cover of the magazine in eye-catching fonts, which has become an important basis for Conan's selective reading.

Suddenly, an eye-catching title caught Conan's attention.

The debut work of the famous detective Qin Zhibo - Crazy Mountains!

Looking at this eye-catching title, Conan couldn't help but widen his eyes and exclaimed, "What is this!

"

Qin Zhibo and Mao Lilan next to them were attracted by the title. They looked down at the cover of the magazine in Conan's hand and saw the title.

"Wow! Mr. Qin also writes novels!"

Mao Lilan looked at Qin Zhibo in disbelief, her face full of surprise.

"I guess so..." Qin Zhibo nodded and admitted it without comment.

In fact, if Conan hadn't seen it, Qin Zhibo wouldn't have remembered that he had published a novel last week.

After all, this week was really long, and Qin Zhibo, who had experienced all kinds of ups and downs, could no longer remember trivial matters of this level.

Conan looked at Qin Zhibo and rolled his eyes helplessly.

His father, Kudo Yusaku, was a novelist as a main job and a detective as a side job, but Qin Zhibo did the opposite...

"I'm really looking forward to seeing what Mr. Qin's novel will be like!"

Mao Lilan sat down next to Conan and took the initiative to pick up the magazine so that she and Conan could

At this time, Hattori Shizuka, who was sitting opposite, was also a little curious. In order to kill time, she took the initiative to ask to sit over and take a look.

Chapter 442 Conan: "Don't spoil the plot!"

Hattori Shizuka, Mouri Ran, and Conan sat in a row, reading "At the Mountains of Madness" in the magazine. Qin Zhibo sat quietly on the sofa opposite, using his psychology skills to read the expressions on the three people's faces.

As the editor-in-chief commented at the time, the first half of the story was calm and even relatively mediocre.

From the perspective of the expedition leader, who is a university professor by profession, the book records the process of an expedition from preparation to setting sail and then to entering Antarctica. It is professional but boring.

For readers, the only thing they can feel is the overwhelming sense of reality.

However, not everyone can appreciate this sense of reality, such as Ran Maori.

As a young girl in adolescence, some romantic love stories or plots with some cool scenes are more in line with her brain waves.

Even if you want to watch a detective drama with a relatively heavy theme, you should watch something like "Detective Samonji", where the protagonist is a handsome man who often carries a wooden sword on his shoulder and looks cool.

However, the protagonist of the expedition team is a highly respected university professor. Even without describing his age and appearance, Mao Lilan would not have any unrealistic fantasies about a person of this identity.

So the characters in this story don't target Ran Mouri in the first place.

Qin Zhibo could tell this from the occasional frown on Mao Lilan's face, and the movement of her fingers pinching the next page, ready to turn the page at any time.

Hattori Shizuka, who was sitting on the left of Ran Mouri, did not react much. She just treated it as a normal descriptive article. Although it was mediocre, she could still read it patiently.

Conan, who sits on the right side of Ran Mouri, is slightly different from the others because at the very beginning of the story, Conan discovers something.

Most of the expedition team members in the story are teachers or students of Miskatonic University, and Conan knows that Qin Zhibo is also a graduate of Miskatonic University.

Thinking about it this way, Conan could understand where the sense of reality in the article came from. After all, Qin Zhibo had indeed been to that university.

Conan made a bold guess in his heart that the subsequent plot would probably be that the expedition team encountered a storm in Antarctica, and then Professor Dale, as the captain of the expedition team, overcame various difficulties and obstacles and led the expedition team to return safely.

This kind of American-style personal heroism story is rather old-fashioned. Conan seriously suspects that Qin Zhibo has put himself into the world of the book, changing his identity from a student to a professor, taking everyone on an adventure, and then becoming a hero.

Old YY...

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In the first half of the story, the expressions of the three people were as calm as the story itself.

The second half of the story is like a storm.

When Conan saw the storm coming, he made a helpless smile and thought to himself, "I knew it..."

But just when the story turned from Professor Rick's perspective back to Professor Dale, and Conan thought that this character representing "Qin Zhibo" himself was going to lead everyone out of trouble, the discovery in the expedition team's camp made the plot take a sharp turn.

Instead of the expected sales staff being trapped, all of them died!

What kind of rescue is this?

The article describes the extremely bloody scenes in detail without any reservation. Readers with good imagination can even construct those shocking scenes in their minds.

Everyone in the camp was brutally slaughtered, even the sled dogs were not spared.

The murderer who killed the expedition members piled up the remains of people and dogs together, making it impossible to tell how many limbs were there and who they belonged to.

Just by piecing together this picture in her mind, Ran Mouri felt her stomach grumbling, and Shizuka Hattori next to her also frowned.

Only Conan remained relatively calm, looking at the words on the pages calmly and thoughtfully.

Conan guessed that someone in the expedition team might be a traitor who killed others in a brutal way and used their bodies to vent his anger.

However, judging from the extent of the work involved in using the corpses to vent their anger, there were at least two traitors who cooperated to kill the other members.

The bodies were piled together with the dog's remains in an inexplicable way so that later people would not be able to detect who else was alive in the expedition team.

Because the person who is not dead must be the murderer!

Just as Conan made this deduction, another surprising discovery pushed the plot forward.

A pentagram-shaped grave was discovered near the camp, and strange creatures never seen before were dug out from it.

They have barrel-shaped bodies, shell-like axe feet, a five-pointed star-shaped head, and leathery wings on their backs...

This strange description stimulated Conan's memory, and he remembered the remains of the pink creature he had seen at the foot of Shanni Temple.

To this day, Conan has not found any description or explanation of that creature in any scientific reference book, that indescribable strange shape...

Conan: Will-3

Unlike the experienced Conan, Ran Mouri and Shizuka Hattori did not have any unique memories stimulated after seeing this description. They just felt that the sequel of the story was even more unpredictable.

Until they found traces of sled misappropriation and a series of messy and disordered drag marks in the camp, which led everyone to a black cave at the foot of the mountains.