Conan Rick's Investigator

"I'm sorry, Kouzi-san..."

Xing Ji immediately apologized, her big eyes looking pitiful.

Qin Zhibo glanced at the top of the middle-aged woman's head. Her name was Inufukako. She was 47 years old and was obviously one of the eight adopted children.

At this point, in addition to the three adopted children who have died, plus the two who have already appeared, there are three people left.

Seeing that Yukihime had admitted her mistake, Kaozi said nothing more, but looked at Mouri Kogoro and asked.

"By the way, Detective-san, why are you here at this point?"

"The detective who came earlier has already determined that it was just an accident and has closed the case and returned."

"Eh? Me?" Kogoro Mouri was stunned and quickly wanted to wave his hands to explain that he was not a policeman.

But Qin Zhibo interrupted him directly and said seriously, "In fact, there was another case in Tokyo recently that seemed to be an accident but turned out to be a murder."

"So we wanted to come over and find out what's going on..."

Faced with Qin Zhibo's statement, the middle-aged woman named Kaozi frowned and said "Oh".

Qin Zhibo continued, "So, can we arrange it as soon as possible? We need to meet all the adopted children of the Inufu family."

"And that lady Suchen..."

……

At Qin Zhibo's request, everyone walked through the long corridor to Ms. Suochen's room.

Inufus Saomi is the current parent of all adopted children. Due to cerebral thrombosis at the beginning of the year, he is now bedridden and often in a coma.

Fortunately, one of my adopted children has a doctor, and he can do check-ups at home every day, so he doesn't have to stay in the hospital all the time.

Under the guidance of Kaozi and Xingji, everyone came to Suo Chen's bedroom.

In the spacious tatami room, a white-haired old lady is lying on the hospital bed in the center. Her dignified and beautiful face is easily reminiscent of her beauty when she was young.

However, time is not forgiving. At this time, her face was covered with wrinkles, her eyes were closed tightly, and she was still in a coma.

The adopted son, who is a doctor by profession, is conducting daily physical examinations for him, and the others can only wait behind him.

After waiting for a while, the doctor checked the body of the adopted son, and then everyone got down to business.

"My name is Inufushi Chiaki, and I work as a doctor at the nearby Inufushi Hospital."

"Then you are also one of the eight adopted children?" Kogoro Mouri asked knowing the answer.

"Yes," Inubushi Chiaki replied, then continued, "The hospital I used to work at closed down, and I didn't know what to do next. Fortunately, my adoptive mother came to my rescue in time, letting me move in with her and giving me a job..."

Qin Zhibo is not interested in the kindness of the two, he just wants to find out the origin of the beads.

"Kudo Shinichi in Tokyo once said that this family has fake adopted children. Did you know about this?"

Kaozi replied in a deep voice, "Mr. Shinichi did mention this before. He said someone is using the cursed demon dog to wipe out the Inufu family."

"It's just that curses and the like don't exist, so don't worry too much."

At this time, Hattori Heiji asked again: "Did Ms. Suochen say anything when she was awake? For example, who did she think might be a fake adopted child?"

The doctor sitting next to Suo Chen lowered his head and said, "I haven't mentioned this..."

At this moment, the sliding door behind everyone opened, and a bearded man with one hand in his pocket stood at the door, accusing in a deep voice.

"That uncle named Shinichi is a fake himself, right?"

"Because of fear of that non-existent demon dog legend, you actually became the first traitor to flee this Inufushi family!"

Qin Zhibo looked back at the man. The message above his head was Inufus Zenya, 34 years old, and obviously another adopted son.

As the elder, Kouzi turned his head and scolded the bearded man named Zenya, "What are you talking about? How dare you say such rude words in front of your adoptive mother..."

"Don't worry, she can't hear you." Zenya raised a nonchalant smile, "She's been sleeping anyway..."

Qin Zhibo glanced at everyone present.

There are currently four adopted children in the room. Although they are part of the same family, they are somewhat unfamiliar with each other.

The 47-year-old Kaozi should be the eldest sister.

Zhihuang, 42, is a doctor by profession and is responsible for taking care of his adoptive mother on a daily basis.

Zenya, 34, seems to still be working outside, but just living in this home.

Yukihime, 28, is the youngest among all the adopted children.

There is one adopted child left. Kaozi said in the corridor just now that the adopted daughter went to a dry cleaning shop a little further away and will not come back until later.

Since there are a lot of people here, Qin Zhibo doesn't plan to hide them.

He took out the beads he brought from Tokyo and showed them to everyone.

"Everyone, this was found at a murder scene in Tokyo. It's the bead that Shinichi Kudo was clutching before he died."

"Does anyone here have any impression of this bead?"

Qin Zhibo put the beads on his palm and showed them in front of everyone.

However, everyone just stared at this inconspicuous bead and shook their heads indifferently.

"This thing looks very ordinary. Is it a bead that fell off some kind of decoration?" Kaozi asked.

Qin Zhibo didn't answer this, and was about to put the beads away when Conan suddenly said.

"Can you smell this bead? Maybe you can smell something?"

Apparently, Conan has not forgotten his loss of sense of smell.

Qin Zhibo just wanted to take the opportunity to see other people's reactions, so he handed over the beads.

But the adopted son named Zen was the first to take the bead, smell it, and immediately sniffed and took the bead away.

"What is this? It stinks!"

"What? Are these beads smelly?"

Kaozi had some disbelief on his face, and when he took the beads and smelled them, he also made an ugly expression.

"It does stink...like burning plastic."

Several other people from the Inubushi family also smelled it one by one and gave the same answer.

Conan felt a little depressed when he saw several people answering like this.

It seems that there is really something wrong with my sense of smell.

But the good news is that it seems that the problem only occurs when smelling the beads and does not affect normal life.

But I am afraid that this symptom will get worse in the future...

Qin Zhibo on the other side was equally surprised.

It seems that only I and Conan smell the fragrance of this bead.

But why?

What is the most special thing about Conan and yourself compared to others?

Although he had doubts in his heart, Qin Zhibo calmly took back the beads from the last person's hand.

Then, he asked again.

"So what's the legend about the demon dog?"

Several people looked at each other and immediately said that this was no secret.

However, Kaoko felt that it was not good to tell these terrible legends about the Inubushi family in front of her adoptive mother.

So everyone moved from the bedroom to the living room.

By Yukihime

As the storyteller, he tells the legend.

It turns out that during the Meiji Era, the Inubushi family was very famous as a large local family.

One day, the only daughter of the head of the Inubushi family suddenly disappeared, and the Inubushi family mobilized nearby villagers to search for her.

After searching for a whole day, no trace of the only daughter was found.

It wasn't until midnight that day that Inubushi's dog suddenly appeared with his only daughter in his mouth.

The only daughter was covered in bruises and dying, so her owner vented his anger on the dog and beat it repeatedly with a whip.

Later, the dog was even set on fire and burned alive.

However, when the only daughter woke up later, she learned from the child that she was lost in the mountains and fell into a coma from exhaustion, and it was the dog that brought her back.

The owner of the dog, the head of the Inufu family, regretted this very much and built a majestic tomb for the dog.

However, a few days later, a fire suddenly broke out in Inubushi's house. Only the owner of the house failed to escape and was burned alive.

"Ever since then, rumors have spread that the Inufushi family is cursed by the Flame Demon Dog..."

Yukihime spoke with a serious look on her face.

Others were also involved in the plot, unable to bear the tragic death of Gouzi, or focused on analyzing the similarities between the rumors and reality.

Only Hattori Heiji held his head with his hands and looked a little disdainfully.

"It sounds like a legend... but there's no curse at all. It's just a coincidence."

Qin Zhibo thought about the legend and found that there was no part about beads in it.

And the so-called flame demon dog sounds like it just combines the fire that appears frequently in the story with the demon dog.

Just when Qin Zhibo wanted to further inquire whether the dog's grave really existed, Conan asked first.

"Does that tomb really exist?"

"Yes, right below the cliff you almost fell off during the day."

Yukihime's eyes seemed to be interested, and she came close to Conan's face, "How about it? Do you want to go and see it now?"

……

Since the last adopted son had not returned yet and dinner could not be served, everyone drove to the bottom of the cliff in the daytime.

Just as Yukihime said, there is indeed a short tombstone in the open space next to the cliff.

"The grave of the brave Inufushi family's beloved dog, Fusatarou..."

In order not to encounter the devil dog, the somewhat superstitious Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuye immediately closed their eyes and worshiped.

Hattori Heiji was still very disdainful.

Conan asked Yukihime if the adopted son who died first fell off the cliff here.

"Yes, right above this tomb..."

Yukiji raised her hand and pointed upward.

But at this moment, an orange fire suddenly appeared out of thin air on the edge of the dim cliff.

Just when everyone was surprised, a man riding a bicycle suddenly flew off the cliff!

Chapter 1232 The devil dog appears?

A bicycle accelerated off the cliff and fell down the cliff in a parabola.

Boom!

There was a loud noise, and the bicycle and the person fell down 5 meters away from everyone.

Qin Zhibo was the first to react and ran to the side of the person who fell off the cliff.

The person who fell off the cliff was a somewhat chubby woman with basic identity information floating on her head, named Inufusaki, 35 years old.

Obviously, this person is the adopted child of the Inubushi family who has not been shown.

"Wake up, Miss Zuo Ji!"

Xing Ji also recognized it at this time, ran to the woman's side and shouted anxiously.

Zuo Ji also opened his eyes in severe pain, his eyes wide open, "The dog... is... burning..."