Conan Rick's Investigator

"This means that Mr. Anxi was killed around 10:30 p.m."

Kogoro Mouri confidently and calmly explained the case to everyone who came to the hotel, but Conan next to him was concerned about Qin Zhibo.

At this time, Qin Zhibo was standing one meter away from the corpse, watching silently, with no intention of taking the initiative to step forward to examine the body.

Conan: Are you trying to get some of Uncle Maori's autopsy results again?

However, what Conan didn't know was that Qin Zhibo completed the examination of the body while standing.

【Survey√】

[Name of the deceased: Anzai Morio]

[Time of death: 1 hour ago]

[Cause of death: Sharp object piercing the heart]

[Corpse investigation completed. Congratulations on obtaining the skill: Art and Craft (Photography)]

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Art and Craft (Photography): This refers to your ability to capture photographs. Improving this skill will enhance your ability to capture moving subjects and your photography knowledge. This will help you better choose shooting angles and positions, authenticate photos, and perform photo retouching tasks such as enhancing details.

Rating: 1

Proficiency: 100/1000

(Great photography doesn’t just depend on what you shoot, it’s also about how you shoot!)

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When he acquired this skill, Qin Zhibo's brain immediately gained a lot of photography-related knowledge.

Not only that, relevant information about side quests also appears simultaneously.

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Side quest: Find out the murderer of this case

Task requirements: time limit 1 hour

Mission rewards: 300 general skill proficiency, 120 social credit.

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By comparing it with the autopsy results just read out by Maori Kogoro, Qin Zhibo immediately discovered a highlight.

Ran Mouri and Conan discovered that a suspicious person appeared in front of the Beika Shrine at 10:30. The person quickly ran away when he saw the two of them, so it is very likely that he is the murderer.

But in fact, Qin Zhibo's own autopsy results showed that the time of death was an hour ago, around 9:30.

Around 9:30 is about the time when Anzai Morio goes out.

At that time, Morio Anzai's American watch alarm rang first, and then he left without caring about the argument with Yuji Shimazaki.

Obviously he had an appointment to meet someone, and then this person killed him when they met.

Who is it?

After sorting out the ideas of the case in his mind, Qin Zhibo turned his gaze to the front of the corpse.

On the ground in front of Anzai Morio's right fingertips was a message written in the victim's blood, and the investigation point on it shone brightly in the night.

【Survey√】

[It means "stone lion", but the strokes of the blood-red word are not connected, so it may have been added by someone later.]

After the normal investigation is completed, another new investigation point will follow.

【Secret Word Survey√】

[Komai Nu removes two strokes and becomes Nimai Nu, which means "handsome guy, beautiful man"]

[二マイメ removes two katakana characters and becomes マメ, which means "Bean Wall"]

Chapter 141 Conan: What a terrifying observation ability

It was the first time that Qin Zhibo saw such an operation: an ordinary investigation point superimposed with a coded investigation.

This is also because the blood words on the ground are somewhat like riddles.

Judging from the order in which the strokes of the blood characters are superimposed, the first word written was Douyuan, so the crew's bespectacled female stagehand, Douyuan Taeko, is very likely the murderer.

At this moment, Kogoro Mouri on the side laughed confidently and expressed his opinion with confidence.

"Huh, this case is unexpectedly simple..."

"First, the knife used by the murderer was a prop used by the crew during the day. Second, the death message left by the deceased was 'stone lion'."

"The stone lions refer to the two stone lions in front of the shrine, representing the shrine."

"In other words, the murderer is Mamegaki Taeko, the granddaughter of the shrine's chief priest and also a member of the crew!"

"You are the murderer!"

Kogoro Mouri's reasoning is smooth and coherent, with a confident smile and classic gesture of identifying the murderer.

However, as soon as this theory was proposed, it was overturned by his own daughter.

"But, Dad, when Mr. Anzai was leaving, he happened to run into Ms. Taeko who was returning, and they brushed past each other..."

"What did you say?" Maori Kogoro muttered to himself, "But after that, Miss Taeko stayed in the living room and never went out again. Doesn't this make it impossible for her to commit a crime..."

Kogoro Mouri's performance was poor (normal), causing everyone to laugh at him.

Mao Lilan: "Dad, I told you not to drink so much..."

Conan: Please cheer up, okay?

Among the crowd, only Qin Zhibo looked at Maori Kogoro with some surprise.

It is not ruled out this time?

Not only that, Qin Zhibo actually received a rare hint from Maori Kogoro.

Just now, Qin Zhibo was not completely sure that Douyuan Taeko was the murderer.

Because the murderer might use the message before death to frame others as scapegoats, the order in which the blood words were written on the ground cannot completely prove that the murderer is Mamegaki Taeko.

For example, the handsome guy refers to Nachi Shingo who calls himself a handsome guy, and the murderer is also Nachi Shingo.

After Nachi Shingo killed Anzai Morio, he used Anzai Morio's bloody finger to write "Douyuan" to frame him.

But with only one breath left, Anzai Morio saw the word "Douyuan" on the ground and added two more strokes to it, turning it into "handsome guy".

When Nachi Shingo came to his senses, he found the "handsome guy" on the ground, so he reluctantly added two strokes to it, and it became a "stone lion".

The idea may seem bizarre, but it is not at all bizarre in this world.

For example, the method of using pre-death messages to frame others has appeared in the case of the art museum director's murder.

Also, the person left a death message with only one breath left before dying, and the murderer would then "re-create" the message after realizing the situation. This also happened in the case of the murder of an antique collector.

But Maori Kogoro's seemingly wrong reasoning just now inadvertently gave Qin Zhibo a reminder.

The murderer is indeed Mameko Mame!

At this moment, Koizumi Hongzi came to Qin Zhibo and asked quietly: "Do you know who the murderer is?"

"Well, that's about right." Qin Zhibo said calmly.

"who is it?"

Koizumi Akako does not live in the same circle as the Mori family and rarely sees murders, so at this moment she is very curious about the murderer.

Qin Zhibo was also somewhat curious about the witch's sixth sense that Koizumi Hongzi had always claimed, so he asked in return: "Use your sixth sense to guess who it is first."

Koizumi Hongzi silently glanced at everyone present, but didn't feel anything special about anyone. She could only shake her head and say, "I don't sense any murderous aura from anyone..."

"Okay, tell me who the murderer is."

The impatient Koizumi Hongzi was a little unable to hold it in any longer, and Qin Zhibo was not going to hold it in any longer either.

After all, if you solve the case as quickly as possible, you will get more rating rewards for the side quests.

"Everyone!"

"Actually, Detective Mori's guess was correct. The murderer is Miss Mamegaki Taeko!"

Qin Zhibo's words shocked everyone. Everyone looked at Qin Zhibo in surprise, except Maori Kogoro who felt a little unhappy.

What do you mean by guessing? I made that conclusion based on serious reasoning!

and……

"Hey! Didn't you hear what Xiaolan said just now? When Miss Taeko came back, she passed by Mr. Anzai and never left the hotel again."

"That way she has a perfect alibi. She definitely can't be the murderer!"

The wavering Maori Kogoro resumed his exclusion of his essence, and Maori Ran beside him also reminded him in time: "Mr. Qin, have you forgotten? When we were chatting in the corridor, we happened to meet Mr. Anxi going out."

"Oh? Is that so?"

Qin Zhibo just remembered it, but the next second he said something that surprised everyone present even more.

"Excuse me, I think it was Mr. Shimazaki Yuji who was out at the time..."

Katcha!

Hearing this, a thunderclap sounded in Conan's mind.

Then Conan immediately looked at the important basis for his judgment that it was Anzai Morio, the American watch and clothes.

At this time, Anzai Morio's coat and hat were neatly folded next to the body and were not worn.

Although the watch was worn properly on Anzai Morio's wrist, there was no blood stain on it.

Plus, after my own observation, I discovered that the blood words on the ground were incoherent...

At this moment, some trivial clues in Conan's brain finally connected together.

However, Conan never expected that Qin Zhibo could see through Shimazaki Yuji's disguise at a glance.

And this was after drinking beer with the director and Uncle Maori for such a long time.

Conan looked up at Qin Zhibo who was still reasoning beside him, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart again.

What a terrifying observation skill...

Here, Qin Zhibo continued to analyze: "In fact, I could tell at a glance that the person was not Anzai Morio, but Shimazaki Yuji."

"It was Shimazaki Yuji who disguised himself as Anzai Morio and left, deliberately allowing himself to be seen, thus creating an alibi for his fiancée."

"And the bloody words on the ground weren't 'stone lions', but the two characters 'Douyuan'. Shimazaki Yuji added two strokes to it, turning it into 'handsome guy'. Then someone else added two more strokes, and it finally became 'stone lions'."

"As for who this someone is, it should be Na Zhi Zhen Wu, right? Otherwise, there would be no need for others to change the bloody words on this message."

Having said that, Nachi Shingo no longer concealed the fact that he was the first to discover the body. He nodded and admitted, "Anzai Morio and I did agree to meet here at 10:30, but when I got here, he was already dead. There was still a 'handsome guy' written on his body."

"I was afraid of being suspected, so I thought of using the principle of the matchstick game and changing the handsome guy above into a 'stone lion'."

However, just when the case was about to be settled, Shimazaki Yuji stepped forward regardless of his own safety.

"Not Douyuan!"

"I was the one who killed Anxi! And I was the one who disguised myself as him!"

"None of this has anything to do with Taeko!"

The infatuated man wanted to take the blame, but before Qin Zhibo could continue to state the decisive evidence, Douyuan Taeko stood up.

"I'm sorry, Yuji."

"I'm sorry to have caused you so much worry..."

"Mr. Detective, everything is just as you said. I killed Anxi."

Chapter 142: The first person to solve cases using metaphysics?

When Inspector Megure arrived at the scene, he saw Shimazaki Yuji hugging Mamegaki Taeko who was kneeling on the ground and crying.