Conan Rick's Investigator

Hattori Heiji, who was standing by, also noticed that something was wrong with the expressions on their faces. A sinister smile appeared on his face. "What's wrong? The atmosphere seems to have changed a bit?"

Kaozi put away his surprised expression and said calmly, "It was just a little unexpected..."

Yuki also explained, "Before, Shinichi

Before leaving this house, I asked my police friends to investigate the Inufushi family case."

Zhi Huang also said: "But then he suddenly moved away from this house. We tried to persuade him to come back, but he directly refused to meet us..."

When Qin Zhibo heard this, he immediately captured the key information.

These people actually went to Kudo Shinichi's house?

"What did you say and do when you went to his house?" Qin Zhibo asked again.

The four men looked at each other, and Zen, one of them, replied, "Nothing much to say, except that he should move back to Inufu Castle."

"But that old man insisted that Inufushijo was cursed by a demon dog. If you don't want to die, just get away from him as quickly as possible..."

“This is so inexplicable…”

Zen also put his hands in his pockets, as if his brain was recalling the situation at that time, with a very unhappy expression on his face.

What Qin Zhibo, Hattori Heiji and Conan care about is that they have all been to Kudo Shinichi's house, that is, they all know the family's

In this case, he can sneak into Kudo's house without anyone noticing and stun Kudo Shinichi.

Qin Zhibo continued to ask, "So who of you went to Tokyo yesterday morning?"

The four people answered immediately and all went.

In fact, these people went to Kudo's house yesterday morning to persuade Shinichi Kudo to move back.

But after receiving a clear rejection, they went around Tokyo and went their own way, and came back alone on the way back.

In other words, the four of them once again had no alibi.

……

After the inquiry was over, since the Inubushi family were still busy with funeral and other matters, they left first.

Qin Zhibo and others were sitting in the living room, their minds deep in thought.

Sure enough, it is difficult to get clues through routine questioning...

Judging from the information currently available, the murderer is undoubtedly a human who used some method to create the illusion of a "demon dog".

But judging from the rewards of the main mission, the mission will not be that simple.

And that mysterious bead, what is the origin of the bead that no one has mentioned exists?

At this moment, a woman's scream suddenly came from deep in the corridor outside the living room.

“Ah—!” x2

Hattori Heiji immediately recognized the owner of the voice.

"It's Kazuha!"

And Xiaolan!

Conan's ears twitched and he heard another voice.

The two of them took the lead and ran towards the direction of the sound, followed by the others.

Everyone ran to the side door leading to the side yard, and saw Mao Lilan and Yuan Shanheye pressing their backs tightly against the wooden door, as if guarding what was outside to prevent them from entering.

"What's going on? Kazuha!"

When Yuanshan Heye saw the people rushing over, he immediately screamed, "It's a demon dog!"

"The demon dog appears!"

Chapter 1233 Xuanjun Chapter Seven Secret Sutra

"Demon dog?!"

"A demon dog appeared in the mansion?"

Everyone looked shocked, and Yamamura Cao, who had not yet left, was so frightened that the corners of his mouth trembled.

"No, no way? Is there really a demon dog?"

Demon dog?

Qin Zhibo frowned slightly.

Conan looked at Mao Lilan with a cautious expression, "Sister Ran, what does that demon dog look like?"

Mao Lilan frowned anxiously and said, "It's a dog with flames all over its body. It runs very fast..."

"Oh right!" Her eyes lit up as she suddenly thought, "Xiao Ba is still outside. Is he okay?"

Hachi is an Akita dog raised by the Inubushi family.

Since Saki, who was usually responsible for housework, had just passed away, Kaoko had to prepare for the funeral, Zen was allergic to dogs, and Chiko and Hachi had a bad relationship, so the task of feeding the dogs was placed on Yukihime today.

However, Yukihime still had to take care of Saki's remaining housework, so Mao Lilan, Toyama Kazuha, who happened to be free, went to help feed the dogs.

As a result, while feeding the dog, the devil dog suddenly rushed out from the other side of the yard...

"Is there anything wrong? Why don't you just go out and take a look?"

With that said, Hattori Heiji, who was always passionate, was about to step forward and push away Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuha who were blocking the door, and went out to investigate in person.

At this time, people from the Inubushi family also hurried over from the corridor, asking inexplicably what happened.

Mouri Kogoro explained that the demon dog appeared, and these people were also surprised.

Zenya: "A demon dog would appear here? Don't be so foolish..."

Yuki: "Could it be that it climbed over the fence and got in here?"

Kaozi: "How is this possible? It's unbelievable..."

Zhi Huang: "Anyway, it's very dangerous outside now, everyone should not go out for the time being."

However, Hattori Heiji raised the corner of his mouth slightly and said confidently: "How can I not go out?"

"Now is the perfect time to capture the demon dog!"

Hattori Heiji pushed the sliding door open with a bang and rushed out first.

Conan, Qin Zhibo, Maori Kogoro, Mao Lilan, Toyama Kazuha, and Yamamura Cao followed in turn.

A few people came to the side yard and saw the Akita dog named "Xiao Ba" roaring and jumping at the air in front of the dog house in the middle of the yard.

However, due to the restraints of the chain, it could not leave the two meters near the dog house.

The line in front of Xiaoba is a small burning flame, like the fire footprints left by the Ghost Rider on the road.

"This is……"

Hattori Heiji showed a surprised expression, because this was exactly the same situation that was left on the cliff after Saki fell off the cliff.

Even because we arrived faster this time, the fire remaining on the scene was slightly larger than last time.

Qin Zhibo took the lead in walking along the route of the fire footprints, checking the so-called flame footprints as he walked.

Like the footprints on the cliff, these "footprints" are not staggered one after the other, but are still parallel side by side.

As I walked forward, there was even an area where no flame footprints were left, but the turf was messy in a large area.

Qin Zhibo immediately squatted down and felt the grass carefully with his palm, and indeed felt some differences.

There was a small dimple in the turf at two locations equally spaced from the other flame footprints.

The pit is not obvious under the cover of grass and can only be felt out by hand.

Looking at the entire series of gradually weakening flame footprints, Qin Zhibo suddenly thought of something.

He turned to look at Ran Maoli and Kazuha Toyama who were caring about Xiao Ba behind him, and asked, "Ran, did you pass by here when you encountered the demon dog and ran away?"

Mao Lilan, Yuan Shan and Ye turned their heads and looked at the position pointed by Qin Zhibo's finger, and remembered it after a little while.

Toyama Kazuha stood up and said, "It seems I tripped over a paving stone and fell there..."

"Oh, I still

I remember that after I fell, I seemed to smell a strange smell..."

taste?

When Conan, who was not far away, heard this recently sensitive keyword, he immediately turned his head to listen.

"Like the smell of rotten onions?"

After talking to Ye, Mao Lilan next to him also recalled it.

"Also, when I turned back to help Kazuha, I saw those burning footprints that seemed to be alive..."

"They make a 'crackling' sound, as if they're jumping around."

Rotten onion smell?

Leaping, crackling flaming footprints?

"A little mental fire"?

Qin Zhibo continued to walk deeper, following the gradually extinguishing flame footprints, until he reached the back door of Inufushi City.

At this time, the back door was wide open, and the wooden stick used as the door latch was put aside.

On the loess ground in front of the back door, there are several canine footprints scattered in an orderly manner.

Qin Zhibo's eyes glanced at this series of footprints, and he immediately figured out what was going on.

I see……

Qin Zhibo smiled knowingly, and roughly understood what the "demon dog" and "flaming footprints" were.

This is not the power of some mythical creature, but a human trick.

It was someone from the Inubushi family who devised this trick, and the purpose should be to use the curse to get rid of the adopted children of the Inubushi family.

Ran Mouri and Kazuha Toyama just happened to come over to feed the dog, and that's when they encountered the "demon dog".

But in this case, the four remaining adopted children of the Inubushi family may implement this plan.

Just as Qin Zhibo was thinking, Maori Kogoro put forward a hypothesis about the "demon dog".

"Could the demon dog you saw be a dog with fluorescent paint on its body?"

"As long as the surrounding environment is dark enough, even fluorescence can be mistaken for flames..."

Mao Lilan immediately denied it seriously, "That's not fluorescent paint!"

"Is that red, or is it a dancing flame? I can see it clearly!"

"And if it was fluorescent paint, how could it have left these flaming footprints?"

"This..." Kogoro Mouri was speechless when his own daughter said this to him.

At this time, Qin Zhibo came over from the back door and took the initiative to share the intelligence he had collected.

"The 'demon dog' entered through the back door, the latch of which had been removed by someone unknown, and there were dog footprints on the ground nearby."

"In other words, the murderer who brought this demon dog into the mansion should be inside right now..."

Qin Zhibo walked up to the four adopted children and glanced at each person's face as he spoke.

All four of them had slightly moved expressions, either shocked, unhappy, or uneasy with a hint of hostility.

Qin Zhibo still doesn't know who the murderer is among these people.

However, according to his guess, even if the real culprit is found, it should not be the real culprit mentioned in the main mission.

Because no investigation point was seen just now, whether it was the dog footprints found at the back door or the small depression in the grass.

This shows that these clues have nothing to do with the main mission.

But these clues are undoubtedly related to the owner of the "demon dog", the murderer.

Could it be... that there was someone else who killed Kudo Shinichi?