Conan Rick's Investigator

"Ms. Renzi is dead."

At this moment, Qin Zhibo came to the second floor and Dan Ding announced to everyone.

Everyone on the second floor trembled and looked shocked.

Qin Zhibo walked towards the door of Lunzi's room and said as he walked: "I saw it in the backyard just now. Lunzi had hanged himself in the room."

"Hang yourself!"

"How is this possible? Renzi..."

As Qin Zhibo and the man with glasses pushed the door open together, they found that Lunzi in the room had indeed been hung up.

One end of the rope was tied to the chandelier on the ceiling, and the other end was wrapped around Renzi's neck.

Qin Zhibo stepped forward immediately and symbolically felt the pulse of the corpse.

"There's no hope, Xiaolan, go call the police!"

"No one else is allowed in!"

Qin Zhibo shouted loudly, stopping the man with glasses and the man with a flat head who were about to come in to help.

The two of them were stunned for a moment. The man with the flat head was a little dissatisfied. "Hey, why are you giving orders here? You're not a detective..."

Hearing this, Qin Zhibo turned up his collar and struck a very professional pose.

"Excuse me, I'm the detective."

"I forgot to introduce myself before, now let's get to know each other formally..."

"My name is Qin Zhibo, and I'm a detective."

Conan: "..." Why does this sound familiar?

When they heard that Qin Zhibo was a detective, the three of them seemed to have heard something about it and were all surprised.

"So you are the famous detective in Tokyo!"

"No wonder you look familiar."

"How can it be……"

Seeing that they understood his authority, Qin Zhibo occasionally displayed his professionalism and said seriously, "Although the scene looks like a suicide, Lunzi had someone buy CDs for him before. Someone like that wouldn't suddenly commit suicide."

"That is to say, the murderer is in this villa."

"From now on, until the police arrive, no one except me will be allowed in this room."

Qin Zhibo looked at the people outside the door. The so-called murderers naturally mainly referred to the three people in the band.

At this time, Hondou Eiu stood aside and raised his hand weakly.

"Um...may I ask why this child was able to enter?"

Hondou Ei pointed to the right at Conan, who was standing in the room and looking around openly, which surprised Conan.

Qin Zhibo looked at Conan, stared for a second, and gave a calm answer.

"Because this kid is not... someone else, but my assistant."

When Conan heard this, he nodded with a look of relief.

Just because this time I am finally not excluded from the category of human beings.

Qin Zhibo turned his head to look at Lun Zi hanging next to him. He had actually seen the investigation point of the corpse through the window.

【Corpse Investigation√】

[Name of the deceased: Rinko Hobo]

[Time of death: 15 minutes ago]

[Cause of death: strangulation]

[Corpse investigation completed, character skill obtained: Art and Craft (Music)]

[Repeatedly acquiring a skill will convert it into 1000 proficiency in that skill]

It's not surprising to acquire skills from musicians.

As 1000 proficiency points were transferred into the corresponding skills, the progress bar, which was originally halfway to completion, immediately overflowed.

[Congratulations, your Arts and Crafts (Music) proficiency level has been raised to Level 3]

Gaining higher music skills can help Qin Zhibo better use the prop [Magic Flute] to play the evil song of the swineherd calling mice in the dream.

But now is not the time to worry about this, but the task prompt that pops up immediately afterwards.

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Side quest: Find out the murderer of this case

Task requirements: Time limit: half an hour

Task reward: 500 general skill proficiency, 150 social credit

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The mission rewards were not very generous, and even the time required for the mission was much shorter than usual, indicating that this case was not difficult to solve.

Start by finding a survey point.

Qin Zhibo looked around the room, his eyes first falling on a key on the coffee table.

【Survey√】

[This is the key to the room door, but why is it separated from the key ring and placed here alone? ]

Qin Zhibo looked back at the waist of the corpse. There was a key ring on the belt, and the other keys were tied to it.

This key ring itself is also very unique. There is a device similar to a tape measure on the key ring, which can pull the key out to a very long length.

If this key ring is used, the murderer can simply pull the key extension cord and take the key out through the gap below the door.

Lock the door from the outside, and as soon as you let go, the key will retract onto the key ring like a tape measure, and then return to the body.

This technique can create the effect of a murder in a closed room.

But the problem was that the room key was on the coffee table, not on the key ring, making this trick invalid.

Secondly, the investigation point does not appear on the keychain, which means that the keychain has no direct relationship with this case.

Qin Zhibo continued to observe in the room and found the second investigation point.

This investigation point is located on the bookshelf, on the bottom row of books.

【Survey√】

[The order of these books has been disrupted, which can easily drive people with obsessive-compulsive disorder crazy]

Qin Zhibo bent down to check the spine of the book and found that it was an "Encyclopedia".

The encyclopedia has numbers written at the bottom, but the order of the numbers is shuffled: 5634127.

Qin Zhibo was just about to take out the book and try to restore the order to see what would happen when the phone in his arms rang.

Jingle Bell--

He picked up the phone and heard Koizumi Hongzi's voice on the other end.

"Where did you find that magic circle?"

"That's the magic circle that summons the Horror Hunter..."

Chapter 968 The Man Covered in Black

"Horror Hunter? What is this?"

"A terrifying creature. According to the grimoire, it resembles a giant serpent flying in the sky. It is a servant of the Faceless God and usually only appears when summoned by the god."

Koizumi Hongzi placed her finger on the page of the old magic book and read word by word: "If it is a summons not from a god, you must offer blood and creatures to please it, thereby increasing the chances of a successful summon..."

"Anyway, this magic circle is extremely evil. Where did you find it?"

"Where are you now..."

Qin Zhibo hung up the phone, his mind in a daze.

The Terror Hunter's summoning magic circle appeared here, which meant that someone had used it before.

Then the monster that the villa owner's brother encountered before was most likely this kind of monster...

Qin Zhibo stood up from the ground and stared at the birdhouse on the big tree in the backyard.

With flickering eyes, some images emerged in Qin Zhibo's mind.

He seemed to see the creatures that had been killed in the birdhouse. The bird's body had been chopped into several pieces, and blood was seeping from its colorful feathers.

The first summoning should have used the bird in the birdhouse, allowing the brother to see the "monster" at the window.

The second summon...

Qin Zhibo withdrew his thoughts in time and stopped thinking about what had happened.

His gaze returned to the bottom row of the bookshelf, and he reached out to take out a set of seven thick encyclopedias.

Before he could put the shuffled book numbers back in order, Qin Zhibo saw an investigation point hidden on the wall behind the books.

【Topographic Survey√】

This is a secret passage.

Qin Zhibo: “!”

He quickly moved away all the books on the side and the previous row, and saw the complete entrance to the passage.

This is a trapdoor built into the wall.

Normally, the trapdoor is blocked by bookshelves and books, and is located close to the ground in the corner of the wall, so it cannot be seen from the outside.

The trapdoor could be pushed aside, revealing a dark passage.

……

On the other side, Conan was holding his chin, thinking about the room key on the coffee table.

After getting Qin Zhibo's tacit consent to investigate the scene, Conan checked the doors and windows of the entire room and found that they were all locked.

The deceased died in the room, and the doors and windows were locked, so the murderer was not hiding in the room.

This is a typical locked room murder case.

The key to a locked-room murder case is to figure out how the murderer got out of the room.

Anyway, Conan and Qin Zhibo would never believe the word suicide.

From actual experience, Conan has encountered cases that appear to be suicides, but in fact they are not suicides...

Conan took another look at the corpse hanging under the chandelier and the chic keychain around its waist.

If the murderer had that retractable key ring, he could easily set up a locked room, which would be even easier to crack than all the locked room cases he had encountered before.

But the problem is that the key to this room happened to appear in a place far away from the key ring.

"..."

Conan tried his best to control his gaze and not look in Qin Zhibo's direction, so as not to disrupt the rhythm of his reasoning.

Because Qin Zhibo's investigative direction often means the "correct answer", the police have not arrived yet, and if I look at the answer, it will not be considered my own reasoning.

It's like you clearly want to complete an assignment independently through your own efforts, but your friend next to you is holding a standard answer sheet and keeps waving it in front of you.

Even the devil's whispers kept coming out.

"Come on~"

"Come copy me~"

In order to avoid being tempted and influenced by the answers, you can only try to narrow your vision and not pay attention to your bad friend and the answers in his hands.

But within the limited range of his vision, Conan really couldn't see any more clues.

There was no choice but Conan turned his gaze to the bookshelf behind the sofa.