Conan Rick's Investigator

It seems that this place really has a story...

Qin Zhibo sighed inwardly, in this world, local legends and stories are often adapted from some real things.

It seems the legend here is about the "demon dog"...

Seeing that they were about to reach their destination, the other people in the car couldn't help but sort out the clues they had so far.

"The deceased Inufushi Group Chairman, Inufushi Tsune-kun, had a total of 8 illegitimate children. These eight people were taken away by the living Suochen.

The lady was adopted and became their adopted child."

"However, since Ms. Soshen has been ill, the children have had to consider the division of the Inufushi family inheritance."

"From this point of view, Kudo Shinichi, who was murdered yesterday, had already renounced his inheritance rights. Logically, there should be no reason for him to be murdered."

"Before this, the last person to die was a woman named 'Meiwozi' who passed away near the swamp. It seems she died because the hard-to-burn swamp grass caught fire, and she jumped into the swamp and drowned."

"The first person to die earlier was Mr. Yingci, who fell from a cliff. He claimed to have been chased there by the Flame Demon Dog..."

When Yuan Shanheye and Mao Lilan in the back seat heard this, they immediately started chirping with fear on their faces.

"So, the so-called 'Demon Dog's Curse' is real?"

"How scary~~" Ran Mouri shuddered and shrank her shoulders.

Before Conan could offer any words of comfort, Maori Kogoro, who was sitting in the front driver's seat, said calmly, "What demon dog? It's actually a hateful person who wants to use the name of a curse to get rid of the children of the Inufushi family."

"Didn't that Kudo say before he died? He believed one of his eight adopted children was an imposter. He must have had some clue to say that..."

Oh?

Hattori Heiji, who was sitting in the middle, held his chin and thought to himself, somewhat agreeing with Mouri Kogoro's statement.

In fact, Kudo Shinichi went to Kazuha's mother to ask for help, and he also categorically said that one of his adopted children harbored hatred towards the Inubushi family, which made Hattori Heiji more concerned.

He should have gotten some clues...

It's a pity that he was killed by the murderer before he could find him.

Suddenly, an idea came to Hattori Heiji's mind.

Could it be that the beads Kudo Shinichi held in his hand before he died yesterday were hinting at this clue?

"That uncle..."

"Uncle Qin, can you lend me the bead you saw yesterday?"

Hattori Heiji was about to suggest taking a closer look at the beads, but Conan suggested it first.

Obviously, what Hattori thought of, Conan also thought of.

Qin Zhibo, who was sitting in the passenger seat, glanced at the two people in the back row and handed the beads to Conan without saying anything else.

When Conan got the beads, his first step was to smell them.

It still smells good and hasn’t changed...

Yesterday afternoon, Conan stayed at Dr. Ali's house and asked Haibara Ai to check her body.

No matter what heartbeat, pulse, or blood test, as long as the conditions permit, there is no failure in any of them.

But unfortunately, these physical data have not changed much from Conan's physical data recorded by Haihara Ai before.

And apart from this weird bead, it was completely normal for Conan to test the smell and even taste of other things.

Shit stinks and rice smells delicious.

In other words, maybe those who take drug A and become smaller just cannot distinguish the smell of a specific object?

Conan wasn't sure because he didn't successfully borrow the beads from Qin Zhibo, otherwise he would have let Haiyuan Ai smell them.

While Hattori Heiji and Conan were carefully observing the beads, the co-pilot Qin Zhibo was also secretly recalling his experimental process.

First of all, this bead is not plastic.

Although it looks like plastic, feels like plastic, and has a hardness like plastic, it is indeed not plastic.

Because Qin Zhibo used a nuclear lighter to burn the surface, there was no smell of burning plastic. Instead, a wisp of medicinal-scented smoke emerged from the surface of the beads.

From this, Qin Zhibo judged that this thing might be "incense" made from some kind of medicinal herbs, spices and incense ash, but it was made into the shape of beads, and its density and hardness were also relatively high.

If we could cut the beads further, we should be able to study them more thoroughly.

But considering that the beads could still be used later, he did not do so.

At this time, Mouri Kogoro, who was driving in the driver's seat, looked up at the rearview mirror and saw the beads in Conan's hand.

"Is that the relic left behind by the deceased?"

"It looks like an ordinary plastic bead..."

Mouri Kogoro was analyzing to himself, and Qin Zhibo was also listening quietly.

"Look ahead..."

Suddenly, a hazy voice sounded in Qin Zhibo's ear.

Eh?

Qin Zhibo was surprised for a moment, then subconsciously turned his head and looked out the car window directly in front of him.

I saw a sign and a rope standing at the end of the road more than ten meters away. There was no road behind the wooden sign.

It's a cliff!

Qin Zhibo immediately stretched his legs to the driver's side, pressed down hard with the soles of Mouri Kogoro's feet, and at the same time twisted the steering wheel outwards.

With the violent rotation of the steering wheel, the entire body of the van moved forward while decelerating, until the body that was perpendicular to the road slid to a cliff and stopped slowly.

However, driven by inertia, the van's roof continued to rush down the cliff, and the entire vehicle was about to roll over into the cliff.

The sideways body pushed most of the wooden signs out of the cliff.

Mao Lilan had even seen a cliff tens of meters high outside the car window!

At this critical moment, Qin Zhibo immediately tried his best to push out the car window and used his own weight to balance the car body, which stopped the impending rollover.

Bang!

After a huge bump, most people in the car fell silent.

Is it so exciting?

"Are you okay?"

Qin Zhibo unbuckled his seat belt and looked back at the person behind him. He was in a dazed state, but fortunately he was still alive.

He opened the car door, got out of the car, and went to the cliff to take a look.

At a height of tens of meters, if you fall, you will definitely be shattered to pieces.

I originally thought that the end of this road was the Inubushi family, but I didn't expect that it actually led to the cliff. This caused everyone to be careless and forget to look at the road.

But that voice that reminded me was...

Qin Zhibo looked back and saw no one on the long and silent forest road.

Chapter 1231 The curse of the devil dog

"oops!"

"Why is it so high?!"

Mouri Kogoro carefully got out of the car through the passenger door. He just glanced at the bottom of the cliff from a distance of 1 meter, and his legs trembled with fear, and his upper body moved back.

Conan and the others in the back seat also got out of the car and glanced down at the cliff.

"How did we get here? Why is there a cliff at the end of the road?"

"Could it be that old man I just met..."

Mao Lilan's words stopped abruptly, without saying any very bad guess.

Just when everyone was puzzled, an electric car quietly drove over from the distance of the forest road.

Qin Zhibo used his telescope to check in advance. There was a beautiful woman sitting on the battery car.

I saw a woman riding a battery car until she came to the front of the crowd, then stopped, took off her helmet, and shook the hair on the back of her head.

She just glanced at the scene and immediately understood what was going on, and asked worriedly.

"There's a warning sign ahead, why did you drive here?"

"Please be careful. Someone fell off a cliff and died not long ago..."

Qin Zhibo, who was standing in front, could only smile and apologize, "I'm sorry, we were chatting in the car just now and didn't pay attention to the warning sign..."

"By the way, we're here from Tokyo to investigate a recent case involving the Inufushi family... Miss, since you're from the Inufushi family, please lead the way."

"Eh?" The woman was stunned. "How do you know I'm from the Inufushi family?"

Qin Zhibo's lips curled up slightly as he confidently explained, "There's only one road through the forest, and only the Inufu family lives near it."

"Miss, since you're here, and you're using an electric vehicle that can't travel long distances, you can only be from the Inufushi family..."

"Oh~ I see..."

The woman suddenly understood.

In fact, this reasoning is secondary. Qin Zhibo mainly saw the basic information on the top of the woman's head.

Inubushi Yukihime, female, 28 years old...

With this name and age, he should be one of the eight adopted children of the Inubushi family.

However, this woman only drove over after the car stopped, and she just heard it while the van was driving.

So that warning could never have come from her.

……

Qin Zhibo explained the origin of the group, and Inubushi Yukihime readily agreed to lead the way.

With Xing Ji's guidance, everyone finally understood why they drove the wrong car.

It turns out that at the fork 1 kilometer before the cliff, you should turn into the side path instead of going straight to the avenue in front of you.

But it's no wonder that Mouri Kogoro drove the wrong way, because the road leading to Inubushi's house was slightly narrower than the road to the cliff.

In addition, there are no signboards at the intersection, so it is easy for outsiders who come here for the first time to make mistakes.

Turn into another forest path and drive all the way to the end. A magnificent Japanese castle is located in front of you.

As they walked, Yukihime introduced that this place was called "Inubushi Castle" by the local residents. It was the castle where the Inubushi clan had lived for generations.

Although the scale is far smaller than Osaka Castle in Osaka, it still has a history of hundreds of years.

Qin Zhibo sighed in his heart, why are there so many old houses with a sense of history in Qunma County?

Inubushi Castle, Dusk Annex, Angel House... these are all from Gunma Prefecture.

Compared with the villas in the forests on the outskirts of Tokyo, the ancient houses here are larger, have a longer history, and the previous owners were more powerful.

In the courtyard, while everyone was feeling the majesty of this ancient Japanese castle, an Akita dog barked behind everyone.

“Woof, woof!”

The disturbing cry alarmed everyone, and Xing Ji hurriedly walked over to comfort the dog head, teaching him a lesson in a soft voice.

"No, Hachi..."

"These people are

The detective who came to investigate the accident involving Brother Yingci and his friends~"

When Mouri Kogoro heard that he had been mistaken for a policeman, he opened his mouth to explain, but his words were interrupted by the sliding door opening at the door.

Standing in the entrance hall behind the door is a middle-aged woman with a beautiful figure and red lips. It can be seen that she was a beauty when she was young.

It's just that the middle-aged woman raised her eyebrows at this time, making the wrinkles around the corners of her eyes more obvious.

"You're the one who's being careless, Yukihime."

"How many times do I have to tell you that if you call your dog's name or even pet it while it's barking, it's mistakenly considered praise for its behavior?"