Conan Rick's Investigator

This is the choice of human nature, not a ruthless reasoning machine.

I am still too immature...

Conan, who debuted for a year, couldn't help but smile bitterly when he thought about the media's high praise for him and how he posed in front of the camera and flash lights.

If Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot had posed in such a cocky way in front of the camera, would they still have become household detective characters?

Qin Zhibo, who was standing next to him, looked at Conan and also felt that this boy might have realized something.

Although Conan is young, he has a high level of understanding. He comes from an excellent family and has achieved success at a young age. He has a halo around him, so it is inevitable that he takes some detours.

As long as he can understand what to do next and slowly calm down, it will be fine.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with liking to seek the truth. However, in this complex world, not all truths need to be revealed, nor are all truths worth praising.

Just like in Nolan's version of Batman, Commissioner Gordon refrained from revealing Harvey Dent's sinister side several times in order to maintain peace in Gotham City.

Sometimes, the person who knows the truth but can hold back from telling it is the real hero.

There is a saying that goes, "Everything is said without words..."

But for now, Qin Zhibo had to explain the current situation to Conan.

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"Now you understand, don't you? The world we live in is a parallel world to the original world, an if line of the original world."

"The 'Conan' you saw is real, but I don't exist in this world..."

"I think the 'me' in this world is still in the United States and has never been to Japan."

This passage is a bit awkward whether you say it or hear it.

But Conan still nodded in understanding.

No matter how firm his materialism is, everything he has experienced during this period illustrates this fact.

"Maybe this is a parallel universe..." Conan pondered for a few seconds, then asked again: "But why are we here?"

The concept of parallel universes was proposed by scientists as early as the 1950s, but it has always remained at the hypothesis level and no one can prove its existence.

If someone could really discover the existence of parallel universes, it would definitely be the greatest discovery in human history.

And such a great thing was discovered by two detectives without any warning?

Qin Zhibo couldn't explain Conan's question clearly.

But one thing is absolutely beyond doubt, the reason why he and Conan traveled through time was definitely because of the white light emitted by Mi-Go using that piece of ore.

That white light is not used to make people unconscious, but is a kind of light that can penetrate.

Qin Zhibo remembered that Mr. Clock once said that he had traveled through civilizations of several dimensions and witnessed the rise and fall of civilizations on several planets.

If the "planes" he refers to are different parallel universes, then MI-Go should be a pan-dimensional creature.

Their life forms have transcended the boundaries of the universe.

The props they use to travel through time should be something called "Vesbania Ore".

This is probably the reason why Mi-Go is so keen on mining this mineral on Earth.

If he wanted to return to his original world, the first thing he had to do was find the place where the "Vesbania Ore" existed.

Not only is there ore there, but there is also a high probability of Mi-Go.

If you ask yourself honestly, Qin Zhibo certainly wanted to go back.

Although the second time travel is legendary, I don’t want to start from scratch in this world and face someone with the same identity as me at any time.

Besides, this file has been ruined by "Detective Conan".

This world is unrealistic, and I don’t have any reliable friends around me. What’s the point of staying here?

After thinking this through, Qin Zhibo turned around and asked Conan.

"Conan, do you want to stay here?"

When Conan heard this, he immediately shook his head like a rattle.

Although there is also Xiaolan in this world, this Xiaolan is not the same Xiaolan.

Everything in the parallel universe is very similar, but it is not the same person after all.

Moreover, he also felt that he had ruined this case. The case was solved in a mess and it was simply a nightmare.

In comparison, the original one is better, at least I don’t have any big regrets.

"Very good." Qin Zhibo confirmed Conan's thoughts and explained, "The fact that we were able to travel to this world must be related to the ore that the invader stole."

"Our first task is to understand the situation of this world and find the location of the ore in this world."

"When the time comes... we'll talk about it after we find it..."

Qin Zhibo's words came to an abrupt end.

For a moment, he didn't know how to explain the "MI-Go" matter to Conan.

Chapter 1064 Socially Anxious College Student

The only thing that could cause this situation is... But Qin Zhibo couldn't just tell Conan about the existence of the alien creature Mi-Go through language description. Mi-Go looks like a lobster, but is actually a mushroom, and can disguise itself as an alien creature?

This is too abstract.

Let's take it one step at a time. Conan standing by doesn't know that Qin Zhibo still has a secret in his heart.

He had gradually come to accept the concept of a parallel universe. The key was that he had no choice but to accept it. The facts were before him. Apart from the possibility of a parallel universe, nothing else could explain the various strange things that had happened so far.

At this time, Japanese reality TV shows were not too crazy. "Let's collect information about this world first." Qin Zhibo and Conan looked at each other and said, "Hmm."

The next day, Qin Zhibo opened his sleepy eyes in the morning and slowly got up from the desk. Next to the desk, there was the information he had found while surfing the Internet all night, which had been printed out with a printer. Next to the information, Conan was still sleeping soundly, wearing a warm black suit. Although he had a mature mind, Conan's body was that of a child after all, and his ability to stay up late was not strong. At around 1:00 a.m. last night, Conan gradually couldn't hold on any longer and fell asleep on the table.

Qin Zhibo didn't want to make too big a change to the Kudo family, which would be difficult to restore, so he simply took off his black suit and covered Conan with it.

Not only that, after Qin Zhibo and Conan discussed last night, in order to avoid "time and space paradox" and "butterfly effect", the two outsiders tried not to change things in this world. Conan still couldn't understand this statement, but Qin Zhibo had seen many movies that changed the time and space line.

In stories involving time travel, such as "Back to the Future", "The Butterfly Effect", and "Chernobyl Exclusion Zone", there have been cases where the time travel only changed a small thing, but someone's fate was changed because of it.

Even if this world is destroyed, strictly speaking, it has nothing to do with "outsiders", but after all, it is also the world where "oneself" exists, so it is better to have some morals and ethics. As for the "time and space paradox", the "selves" of the two worlds cannot meet each other, otherwise time and space will become "disordered".

Of course, this is the theoretical setting of many time-travel stories, and there is no evidence to prove it. But if we apply the theory, once two selves in different time and space meet, it will definitely cause a butterfly effect in Conan in this time and space. Although Conan had close combat with "Conan" yesterday, he was always wearing a brown paper bag. With "Conan's" personality and logical thinking, it is impossible for him to think that it was another Conan who was attacking him.

So in general, the purpose of their actions in the parallel world this time is to respect the fate of others and find a way back.

After a night of investigation, Qin Zhibo and Conan also discovered some differences between this world and the original world.

Qin Zhibo stood up from his chair, took the documents in his hand, and slowly walked to the window.

First of all, it is obvious that the Black Organization exists in this world. After all, Conan's body did not become smaller for no reason.

But there is no Nine Angels organization in this world. Zou Zhibo searched for a long time but couldn't find the page of Nine Angels. However, this world has the Haneda Hiroshi case 17 years ago, and the deceased is still Amanda Hughes. Haneda Hiroshi doesn't have the Noah's Ark knowledge website in this world, but a "Cocoon" game launch conference was held in Japan, and an accident also happened at the game launch conference. The difference that is very important to Zhibo is that there is no Miskatonic University in this world, and even the place name Arkham does not exist!

In the original world, Qin Zhibo was a top student who graduated from the world's top universities.

When he arrived in this world, he immediately turned himself into a high school graduate who had never attended college. Without Miskatonic University, there was no Miskatonic expedition team's Antarctic expedition in 1931, and there was no funding from Amanda Hughes. Finally, Qin Zhibo came up with a bold hypothesis: Could it be that this world does not have the existence of the mysterious side at all?

If it were just an ordinary mysterious creature, it would be understandable for it to appear in multiple cosmic dimensions.

But a being like Tsathoggua, who is comparable to a god, should be a unique existence in the entire universe. Qin Zhibo finds it hard to imagine the scenario of countless Tsathogguas distributed in countless parallel worlds. If we consider this hypothesis, this world has no Tsathoggua, no Cthulhu, and no Hastur, the King in Yellow. Naturally, there are fewer opportunities for the birth of the mysterious side.

But on the other hand, in my original world, I was truly the "Chosen One", so how come I had to deal with all these messy evil gods?

But the good news is that although this world seems to have no mysterious side, the magic of the original world still works in this world.

The power of magic is universal, so we cannot completely confirm that this world is without mystery.

In fact, there is a very simple way to confirm it, which is to directly find the hometown of the witch Koizumi Hongzi. If Hongzi says there is a demon, then there is a demon. If Hongzi says no, then there is no demon.

Of course, the premise is that Koizumi Akako exists in this world. However, it is not known whether Koizumi Akako exists, but Kaito Kidd does exist. He debuted 18 years ago, disappeared 8 years ago, and is now active in Japan after his "resurrection". This resume is exactly the same as that of Kaito Kidd in the original world. But in this world, the most famous Kaito recognized by the world is not Kaito Kidd, but another Kaito named Lupin III. Qin Zhibo is holding the information in his hand, which contains some information about Lupin III, or it can be said to be rumors in the world.

Lupin III, male, unknown age, suspected European descent, fluent in multiple languages, smokes, likes to wear green or crimson suits, has super strong disguise ability, and has a large number of female fans.

When he first saw these contents, Qin Zhibo thought he had found information about Kaito Kidd.

Isn't this very similar to Kaito Kidd?

Could this be the pseudonym of this world's Kaito Kidd? He's playing the "I'm both the world's number one and number two Kaito" role. But after looking at the photos, Qin Zhibo felt it wasn't the Lupin III picture circulating online: he had darker skin, a crew cut, long sideburns, and a monkey-like face.

This is obviously not in line with Kuroba Kaito's aesthetic, and it is not even in the same era. Moreover, the information shows that Lupin III often has two companions, one is a swordsman dressed as a ronin, and the other is a man wearing a hat who often wears a dark blue suit.

However, similar to Kaito Kidd, Lupin III is more principled in stealing treasures. Most of the time he steals other people's treasures, but sometimes he also helps others, so he is called a "Phantom Thief".

The reason why Qin Zhibo investigated Lupin III's information was because Mine Fujiko, whom he was going to investigate yesterday, had a close relationship with Lupin III.

Rumor has it that wherever Fujiko Mine is, Lupin III often appears. The outside world speculates that the two are partners, some say they are lovers, and some say Lupin III is Fujiko Mine's pursuer. Fujiko Mine herself is also very mysterious. Her reputation is well-known among wealthy people and celebrities all over the world, and she has a "socialite" vibe.

But gradually, the rich and famous people realized that Fujiko Mine approached them only for the treasures in their safes, and they gradually became wary.

However, like Kaito Kid and Lupin the Third, Fujiko Mine often changes her identity, making it difficult to guard against her.

Qin Zhibo looked at the information in his hand and couldn't help but slap his forehead. If this information is true, Mine Fujiko obviously had his eyes on some treasure and kidnapped Princess Mira. And is there Lupin III's support behind this?

Qin Zhibo has never seen Lupin the Third, so he can't jump to conclusions now, but no matter what these two thieves want to steal, they must want to steal something from the land of the Kingdom of Vespania.

Qin Zhibo also investigated the situation in the Kingdom of Vesbania. Not long ago, the queen and prince of the Kingdom of Vesbania were both killed, and the situation in the kingdom was somewhat turbulent.

It is said that the prince accidentally shot the queen as prey while hunting, and then committed suicide next to his mother's body out of guilt. This has led to two voices in the kingdom. One is to support Princess Mira, who has just come of age, to inherit the throne.

Another option is for the elder Duke of Girard, the Queen's brother and uncle to the prince and princess, to inherit the throne.

Qin Zhibo is very familiar with this kind of drama of throne selection and heir fighting.

In addition, someone tried to assassinate Princess Mira yesterday. Once the princess died, the heir would undoubtedly be Duke Girard. Therefore, this Duke Girard would definitely not be clean.

But for Qin Zhibo, an "outsider", these are unimportant. The most important thing is to get to the Kingdom of Vesbania as soon as possible, find the Vesbania ore, and then find a way to return to the original world.

However, Qin Zhibo and Conan currently do not have passports or even money, so how to travel to King Vespania is a problem.

Fortunately, after finding out the identity of Mine Fujiko, Qin Zhibo came up with a bold idea.

Since Fujiko Mine is related to Lupin III, who is wanted by Interpol, she must be trying to avoid being caught by the police.

In addition, now she is showing up at the airport with Princess Mira to board a plane openly, which is definitely impossible. In other words, Fujiko Mine must have a way to smuggle herself across.

Moreover, if Fujiko Mine wants to steal the treasure, she must go to the mainland of the Kingdom of Vesbania.

As long as he could find Fujiko Mine and threaten her with calling the police, he would be able to find a way to the Kingdom of Vesbania.

Without further ado, Qin Zhibo put down the information in his hand and prepared to use the remaining money to buy some breakfast to fill his stomach so that he would have the strength to move. Just as Qin Zhibo was about to turn around and leave, Conan also woke up.

“What are you going to do?

Go buy breakfast, aren’t you hungry?

After being reminded by Qin Zhibo, Conan remembered that he had not eaten anything last night, and his stomach immediately made a "gurgling" sound of protest. Conan stood up and suddenly felt the weight on his shoulders. He turned around and found that Qin Zhibo had put his suit on him.

Feeling somewhat grateful, he returned the clothes to Qin Zhibo and said, "Dr. Agasa's house is right next to me, so I won't go out to avoid being recognized.

"I'm going to check if our clothes are dry."

Qin Zhibo walked out of the Kudo residence alone and gently closed the iron door, trying not to make any noise. It was now past 7 o'clock in the morning. According to usual practice, Dr. Agasa should not have gotten up yet, but Haibara Ai might have gotten up to make breakfast.

Qin Zhibo passed quickly along the wall of Dr. Agasa's house, and then he remembered that he was not Conan, so why should he hide from people he knew like a thief?

Strictly speaking, I am just an ordinary passerby in Mihua and no one will recognize me.

Thinking of this, Qin Zhibo straightened his back and walked leisurely towards the location of the convenience store in his memory. When passing by Trojan Village, he subconsciously glanced into the yard again.

Of course, this was confirmed yesterday. Without Shuichi Akai and Toru Amuro, it would be impossible.

But when I looked again this moment, I saw a young man standing in the yard early in the morning, holding a red kettle and watering a piece of land in the corner of the yard.

The young man wore glasses, squinted his eyes, and looked very gentle.

Are you a tenant here?

But I don’t think I’ve ever seen this in the original world. The young man in the yard also realized that he was being observed, and turned his head to look at Qin Zhibo at the gate of the yard. The two looked at each other, and Qin Zhibo saw the other's identity.

Name: Subaru Okiya, male, 27 years old, student Subaru Okiya squinted his eyes, his lips slightly parted, and a gleam of light seemed to flash between his eyes, but he still closed his mouth, just smiled, and nodded to Qin Zhibo in a very normal way as a greeting.

Qin Zhibo also smiled and nodded, politely returned a greeting, and continued walking towards the convenience store.

But when passing by Trojan Village, Qin Zhibo couldn't help but look back again. For some reason, the man with squinting eyes seemed to want to say something to him.

Maybe he wanted to say "Kou Ni Ji Wa", but for some reason, he didn't say it in the end. He must be a socially anxious college student. Arriving at the convenience store, Qin Zhibo used the only 2000 yen he had left to buy a bento, instant noodles, rice balls, coffee and other things to fill his stomach. "Now I'm completely broke..."