Conan Rick's Investigator

Lupin III was the first to hear the noise at the door and turned around to look.

When Kudo Yusaku saw Qin Zhibo coming over, he felt much more at ease.

But the next second, he saw his son "Conan" walking at the back, and his heart trembled suddenly.

He didn't want his son to come, so he didn't let Qin Zhibo bring "Conan" with him.

After all, this is a battle between regular troops, and "Conan" is of no use. It is better to stay in the apartment and be absolutely safe.

However, he also knew that with Conan's personality, he would definitely not miss this opportunity and would definitely use some method to track Qin Zhibo.

Kudo Yusaku: "You're here."

Conan: "I'm here."

Kudo Yusaku: "You shouldn't have come."

Conan: "But I still came..."

Kudo Yusaku smiled with relief: "I knew you would come."

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The strange conversation between the two people stunned everyone around them.

What's wrong with these two?

At this moment, Qin Zhibo stood up and interrupted the father and son's riddle-man behavior, "Who can introduce the situation first?"

"Let me do it."

Kudo Yusaku walked to the computer screen and pointed at one of the computer screens.

"This is the camera we installed during the day, and it's monitoring the mining area..."

"Since we began surveillance, no activity has been observed within the entire surveillance area. Furthermore, according to reports from nearby sentries, nothing has been seen leaving the mine in the past few days."

"Now we can only assume that those creatures are still underground..."

Qin Zhibo leaned forward and was about to take a closer look at the surveillance screen above when Conan tugged Qin Zhibo's sleeve from the side.

This means that he is too short, but he also wants to see it.

How to do it?

Qin Zhibo could only hold Conan in his arms like a large toy, and the two of them observed the pictures on the computer together.

Conan looked around and found that he was not tall enough, so he wanted to ask his father for help, but if he did so, it would look suspicious in front of Kogoro Mouri.

"Uncle Maori, can you hold me for a moment and let me see?"

Kogoro Mouri put his hands in his pockets, looked down at "Conan" on the ground, and waved his hands with disdain.

"What are you looking at this for, kid? Be careful not to have nightmares or you might not be able to sleep. Go away~"

"Conan": ...This is not fair!

It was Kudo Yusaku who felt sorry for his son, so he calmly pulled a stool over from the side, and "Conan" knelt on the stool so that he could see the computer screen clearly.

On several computer screens, high-definition surveillance footage of the mining area from all angles was played.

As Kogoro Mori said, the entire mining area appears gray-white under the moonlight and the shooting equipment.

There is no living thing visible in the picture, and the silence is a bit scary.

There is also a camera that looks straight at the entrance into the underground mine, but there is no movement in the dark entrance at this time, as silent as death.

Qin Zhibo looked at such a silent scene and had a bad feeling in his heart.

"Have they left?" he asked.

"Probably not." Kudo Yusaku shook his head. "During the day, we sent people to the surface of the mine to conduct acoustic testing, and found a lot of mixed sounds coming from underground."

"Those creatures should be concentrated in the underground mines now..."

Hearing this, Qin Zhibo took a deep breath.

This was the last thing he wanted to hear.

Because once Mi.G firmly occupies the mine, it means that if you want to eliminate them, you must rush inside and fight them to the death.

The environment of the mine is dark and narrow, and the army cannot take advantage of its numbers and heavy weapons. If they attack by force, they will probably pay a high price.

But there is another way...

"The best solution right now is to bomb the entire mining area and cause the mines to collapse. This would eliminate the problem once and for all and bury those creatures underground."

"But if we do that, I'm afraid the mine will no longer exist..."

Generally, if a mine collapses, it can still be dug up again as long as more manpower and material resources are spent.

However, the Visbania Ore Mine is different from ordinary mines. The content of the ore itself is small. Once it collapses, the small amount of ore contained in the stratum may no longer be found.

Although it is still possible to find them, the new Queen Mira may give up on the search for these ores.

Because it is the existence of these ores that has brought huge disasters to this country.

However, without these ores, Qin Zhibo and Conan would lose their way to return to the original world by relying on these ores.

Although Qin Zhibo also knows that there are some Mi Ge mining sites in this world, the ore content in those places is less.

Hollow one

In a ten-meter-thick stratum, one might only get a fist-sized amount of ore, which is almost impossible to discover with the level of human technology.

And based on the current time point, the ore in those places may have been mined by Mi Ge.

"Um……"

Qin Zhibo fell into thinking, and he knew the pros and cons of this.

Maori Kogoro, who was standing nearby, understood the pros and cons even more clearly when he heard this and immediately shouted, "No! What will happen to my daughter's brain if we bury all those monsters down there?"

"I must get Xiaolan's body back!"

Maori Kogoro was determined to save Mao Lilan's body, and insisted on not agreeing to the plan to bury all Mi Ge alive in the ground.

Regarding the feasibility of brain transplant surgery for humans, Kudo Yusaku has consulted internationally renowned brain surgeons in recent days, but all the answers he received were negative.

Even in the next 10 or 20 years, this operation will be impossible to complete.

Therefore, the only way to get Mao Lilan's body back is to have Mi Go perform surgery to replace his brain.

Therefore, Maori Kogoro urgently needs a living Mi Go.

Lupine III on the other side also expressed his stance at this time.

"I also want Fujiko's original body. After all, I've gotten used to it over the years~"

Kudo Yusaku looked at the crowd and knew that this plan would be collectively opposed.

But the current plan is indeed the one with the least casualties, and may even achieve zero casualties.

If you attack an underground mine by force, the situation underground is completely unknown, which is equivalent to forcibly starting a group while your vision is completely dark.

By then, the casualties of soldiers may be uncontrollable, and many families will be grieved.

At this time, it is a choice between small love and great justice.

Conan and "Conan" also understood the reason behind this, and didn't know what to say for a moment.

They really wanted to return to the original world and exchange Xiaolan's body, but it seemed a bit heavy if they had to do so at the expense of who knows how many new lives.

They wanted to find a compromise, but this time there was no inspiration in their brains.

Suddenly, Qin Zhibo, who had been thinking for a long time, raised his head, and the light in his eyes seemed to have thought of a way.

Chapter 1127 Mobilization before the war

Qin Zhibo suddenly had an idea and thought of a way.

"We can try to force the Mi-Go out of the underground mine." Qin Zhibo raised his head and said to everyone.

"As long as the Mi-Go come out of the mines, fighting on the surface will be our advantage."

Qin Zhibo's suggestion did not surprise everyone.

Lupin III waved his hand dismissively, "I've already thought of this method, but is there any way to get them out?"

"Water?" Daisuke Jigen asked.

Lupin III shook his head and denied it, "There's no water source nearby. The speed at which water is transported from far away cannot match the speed at which water seeps into the soil."

At this moment, Inspector Zenigata's eyes lit up, "How about releasing tear gas into the mine? Or even smoke? Farmers in the countryside use smoke to smoke out rats when they're dealing with field mice..."

"Tsk~" Lupin III continued to scoff. "Those monsters aren't rats. They might not even need oxygen. Why would they be afraid of tear gas or smoke?"

The reason why mice are afraid of cigarettes is the same as that of humans. Smoking too much can lead to brain hypoxia and carbon monoxide poisoning.

But Mi Go is not a creature on earth, let alone oxygen. As a creature that can physically travel through the ether of the universe, it does not even need to breathe, let alone tear gas.

Unless there is the kind of poisonous gas sprayer developed by the Yellow Cloth Monastery in the original world, which was specially used to deal with Mi Ge.

It's a pity that this world most likely does not have that kind of poisonous gas.

However, Qin Zhibo gave his own praise for Qianxing Police Department's proposal.

"Inspector Zenigata, you're actually half right."

"Um?"

Inspector Zenigata was stunned for a moment and pointed at himself, "Which one did I say right? Do you want to use cigarettes?"

"No."

Qin Zhibo shook his head and said with a smile, "We need to use mice."

"Rat?" Everyone asked in confusion at the same time.

Kudo Yusaku frowned slightly and asked, "What do you mean by 'rat'?"

Qin Zhibo smiled and reached for the backpack behind him. In fact, he did not touch anything in the backpack. Instead, his right hand materialized the [Magic Flute] out of thin air.

When he took his hand out of the backpack, it was as if he had just taken it out of the backpack.

Everyone took a closer look and saw that Qin Zhibo was holding a flute with a very eerie shape. The surface of the eerie white flute body had fine holes, and the end of the flute was composed of several small spiky joints.

"This is!"

Mouri Kogoro screamed in surprise, but it was not because he recognized the origin of this thing, but because he found that the flute was made of unusual materials.

This is a bone flute!

Qin Zhibo took the bone flute in his hand and introduced it, "This is a rat-calling flute."

"Have you read Grimm's Fairy Tales? This is probably the 'rat-calling flute' mentioned in the fairy tale."

"Probably?" Daisuke Jigen asked suspiciously.

Qin Zhibo nodded as a matter of course, "Yes, because I bought this from an old man selling things at a street stall this morning."

“That’s what he said when he sold it to me…”

Hearing this, everyone at the scene suddenly looked strange, including Conan and Kudo Yusaku, who knew Qin Zhibo well.

Is this guy crazy?

They have all read the fairy tale called "The Pied Piper". It tells the story of a rat-caller who used the flute in his hand to solve the rat problem in a town. However, because he did not get the promised reward, he used the flute to kidnap him in anger. The children in the city.

But this is a fairy tale after all. Judging from common sense, such a thing cannot happen in reality, let alone the so-called rat-calling flute...

Conan, who was standing on the ground, looked up at his "father" Qin Zhibo with a puzzled look.

The story of the Pied Piper

Long-standing, also known as the "Flute Player of Hameln".

There are many theories about the origin of this story. Some think it was a story compiled by local people to educate children; others think it was to cover up the scandal of the Children's Crusade in 1284; or it is just a fashionable story combined with the plague and child trafficking. .

But no matter what, no one thinks that such a story really happened in history.

But Qin Zhibo actually believed it?

Qin Zhibo picked up the flute in his hand and shook it. "No matter whether the old man's story is true or not, I have indeed witnessed the magic of this flute with my own eyes."