Conan Rick's Investigator

Judging from the forged suicide note, Yoko Asanuma's complete plan was to create the illusion that Akiko Kinoshita committed suicide.

Conan also "reviewed" the situation in his mind and wondered if he would be able to solve the case if Qin Zhibo was not there.

The answer is yes.

Because when I saw Akiko Kinoshita go out in the morning, she had made an appointment for a beauty treatment the next day.

How could such a person commit suicide?

Now that I've discovered the suspicious points, then all I have to do next is this... that...

The case can be solved!

Thinking of this, Conan felt a little relieved and straightened his back.

But when Conan saw Akiko Kinoshita lying alive on a stretcher and being taken to the hospital by ambulance for further treatment of frostbite, he was confused again.

Although he could have solved the case with his own abilities, the person was already dead.

His reasoning only put a pair of cold silver bracelets on the murderer, which was of no use in saving lives.

Justice delayed...

Is it still justice?

Just as Conan was thinking about the philosophy of justice, Kinoshita Akiko on the stretcher suddenly asked, "Where is the detective who saved me?"

"I want to thank him in person..."

Mao Lilan looked up and looked around, but there was no sign of Qin Zhibo.

"That's strange...Mr. Qin was here just now, how come he disappeared all of a sudden?"

Maori Kogoro, standing next to him, put his hands in his pockets, looking nonchalant. "Could it be that he saw you woke up and was embarrassed to face you, so he ran away first..."

"That guy seems to be still single. Maybe he's a little shy?"

Kogoro Mouri made bold guesses about Qin Zhibo's personality, which made Akiko Kinoshita blush slightly on the stretcher and a faint smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

"I'm single..."

However, Conan scoffed at Kogoro Mouri's guess.

Although Qin Zhibo is not like you, an uncle, who shamelessly greets all the beauties he meets, he is not shy either.

Don't forget, he is a big scumbag!

And there is...

Where did Qin Zhibo go?

……

On the snow-covered foothills, Qin Zhibo was striding forward.

At the same time, Qin Zhibo kept an eye on the countdown of the main task next to his vision.

【00:54:17】

【00:54:16】……

Before I knew it, the three-day main quest was about to end in less than an hour.

Qin Zhibo must reach the destination before the time officially ends.

Although the target location of the main mission is also within the police's search and rescue range, according to the analysis of the search and rescue team leader, there is an upward mountain.

If Yoko Asanuma encountered a snowstorm, she would definitely not choose to climb up first, so the search and rescue priority there would be very low.

……

After going through untold hardships, Qin Zhibo finally climbed up the high white ridge step by step.

When they arrived within a certain range of the mission location, Qin Zhibo leaned tiredly on the spruce wood beside him with one hand, breathing heavily.

Walking in the snow is very strenuous, and reaching here is extremely difficult even without a blizzard.

Fortunately, I was not impatient yesterday and did not rush to go up the mountain to complete the main task, otherwise I would have been trapped here by the blizzard and would have died.

As for the vision of the guard totem here, Qin Zhibo had arranged it on the first day. This is just an ordinary snowfield near the top of the mountain.

There were no buried caves or cemeteries on the snow.

As for signs of animal activity...

Qin Zhibo straightened his body slightly and scanned the snow in front of him.

Six slightly short spruce trees grew on the slightly sloping snow ground, and for the moment, there was really no sign of any animal activity on them.

But behind one of the spruce trees, some strange colors were dotted on the white snow.

Qin Zhibo ran over to check and found that there were actually two sky blue skis stuck in the snow at an irregular angle.

Qin Zhibo was also familiar with these two skis. They were the same ones that Yoko Asanuma used yesterday!

Could it be that after saving Kinoshita Akiko and leaving, Yoko Asanuma went back and came here on her skis?

But the terrain here is higher than the woods in front of the ski resort, and it is absolutely impossible to come up on skis in a blizzard.

If he was carrying skis, it is possible. The purpose might be to make it easier to go down the mountain and escape from the police.

but……

Qin Zhibo looked around and did not find any trace of Yoko Asanuma nearby.

However, at this moment, a bruised figure slowly walked out from behind a huge rock covered with snow.

It dragged its bare feet burned by the extreme cold and snow, moving slowly like a zombie with low mobility in a movie.

On the skin that was dark blue due to frostbite, the torn pink ski suit hung casually on the neck and elbows.

This is what it was called not long ago: "she".

……

In the woods near the ski resort, a group of search and rescue teams and police are gradually expanding the search range.

Suddenly, a search and rescue team member blew his whistle and called people nearby.

"Did you find anything?"

“Look, look, look…”

The sudden inarticulateness of this young rescue team member caused disgust among a senior member of the rescue team standing nearby.

"What's going on? Tell me clearly!"

Following the command of his senior, the young team member, with a look of fear on his face, pointed his trembling hands at the snow ahead.

The senior looked in the direction of the finger and saw a huge claw mark clearly appearing on the snow five meters away.

It was a claw mark that resembled a human hand, but was much sharper and larger than a human hand.

Because it is so huge, its smallest finger is almost as high as an adult's shoulder, making the details on its surface too exposed, making it appear inexplicably distorted and ugly.

Being in charge of search and rescue work in the snow-capped mountains all year round, this senior member of the search and rescue team has heard of various legends about snow monsters such as the Snow Woman.

And at this moment, the only legend that his brain could react to was that one.

"Snow, snow monster!"

"It's a snow monster!"

Chapter 149 The Coming of the "White Death"! (Part )

On the snowy mountain, Qin Zhibo's expression was still calm, and he looked at the creature in front of him with a little surprise.

Judging from the pink strips torn into pieces on this creature's body, its identity not long ago should have been called "Yoko Asanuma".

And now, perhaps it can be called the Snow Girl?

The frozen, dry and twitching hair covered the black and blue head like a bunch of broom ends that were about to be used up and thrown away, and on both sides of the head were twisted faces with wrinkled and twisted skin.

Under the torn clothes, the female features were exposed nakedly.

But unlike the legendary Snow Girl's beautiful and unparalleled human female body, the "Snow Girl" in front of him, who was frozen black and blue, would not bring any beautiful fantasies to any man.

Instead, it will scare all men's little brothers so much that they become weak and run away like crazy.

While running away, he kept shouting: Fairy tales are all lies...

However, in front of Qin Zhibo, the image of this "Snow Girl" is still within an acceptable range.

After witnessing the image of this "Snow Girl", Qin Zhibo's willpower only dropped from 90 to 80, and then he began to breathe again.

In Qin Zhibo's opinion, this "Snow Girl" was actually not as surprising as MI-GO.

After all, it is a real unknown creature, and this one was actually a human before.

I don't know why, but Yoko Asanuma, who is now frozen to death, can still move like a zombie.

As for why he judged that Yoko Asanuma was dead, it was because when Yoko Asanuma approached with a zombie step, Qin Zhibo saw the investigation point from her.

This is a corpse investigation type investigation point.

【Survey√】

[Name of deceased: Yoko Asanuma]

[Time of death: 12 hours ago]

Cause of death: Hypothermia

[Corpse investigation completed, congratulations on winning Arts and Crafts (Performance)]

[Skill duplication automatically converts to 1000 skill proficiency in Arts and Crafts (Performance)]

The skills obtained from Yoko Asanuma are not surprising, and even if it was Akiko Kinoshita who died this time, the skill obtained would probably be performance.

The skill proficiency of 1000 performances was received, allowing Qin Zhibo to directly increase his proficiency in performance skills to level 2 even though he had hardly ever performed before.

In this way, aside from the reward for completing the side quest, there is no loss for choosing to save Akiko Kinoshita.

But because of his efforts to save people, he gained a "Snow Girl"?

Is this the legendary good things happening to good people?

However, Qin Zhibo is still not sure whether the monster in front of him named Asanuma Yoko is the snow woman that Koizumi Hongzi mentioned.

Apart from the unnatural ability to walk after death, Qin Zhibo has not yet discovered any other special abilities.

So, Qin Zhibo boldly broke off a branch from the spruce tree next to him and brought the branch close to it.

When the branch slowly approached it, it instinctively stretched out its hands to grab the branch.

Its movements were not fast, so Qin Zhibo deliberately did not dodge, allowing it to grab the branch.

Then, it did something that left Qin Zhibo dumbfounded.

It actually stuffed freeze-dried spruce branches into its mouth like chocolate chip cookie bars.

It seems that he has completely lost his intelligence...

Seeing that the "Snow Girl" didn't seem very smart, Qin Zhibo also thought of a simpler and safer way to get the snow water from its body.

First, take out a large amount of shrouds from the system's inventory, tie one end of the shroud to the spruce wood, and then pull the other end around its front.

As Qin Zhibo wrapped the "Snow Girl" around and around, she was finally tied to the spruce wood.

However, there were not many snowflakes on the "Snow Girl". Qin Zhibo had a hard time finding a small snowflake the size of a finger on the end of her hair.

Qin Zhibo pulled the snow from the "Snow Girl"'s hair and stuffed it into the small bottle given by Koizumi Hongzi, and the job was done.

It's quite a coincidence.

A person named Asanuma Yoko turned into a "snow woman" after her death. The snow water on her body was made into a magic potion that could save a person named Okino Yoko.

But to know whether this thing works well or not, Qin Zhibo still needs to wait until he returns and hand it over to Koizumi Hongzi.

After getting the snow water from the "Snow Girl", Qin Zhibo faced difficulties again.

So what to do with this "Snow Girl"?

Through the autopsy, Qin Zhibo determined that she was dead.