Conan Rick's Investigator

Upon hearing this, Conan quickly took three steps and two steps to keep up with Kuroba Kaito's progress.

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The two of them walked for about a kilometer, and without much searching, they saw the Astronomy Research Institute standing on a low slope.

Next to the institute is the Severn River that flows through the town of Brichester, and the sunken valley is filled with clear lake water.

The two walked along the stone steps on the short slope to the entrance of the research institute. Kuroba Kaito took a deep breath and pressed the bell next to the door.

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A long and narrow electric bell sounded from above my head.

However, after ten seconds, there was no response from inside.

So Kuroba Kaito pressed it again.

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Still no one responded.

Faced with this situation, Kuroba Kaito couldn't help but wonder, has the man named Ingalls left here?

Conan, who felt that the plot seemed familiar, took two steps back and looked up at the top of the building.

I saw that the window of a room on the second floor was open.

He raised his finger and pointed over there, "Look, the window over there is open..."

Kuroba Kaito also took two steps back and looked up, and saw the open window.

Since the doorbell won't open when you ring it, as Kaitou Kidd, he naturally has to take a different approach.

He rolled up his sleeves and came directly under the window on the second floor. With a jump of his legs, his body took off on the spot with his amazing jumping ability.

He grabbed the bulge on the upper edge of the window on the first floor with both hands, and then climbed to the second floor with the help of the pipe next to it.

Conan couldn't help but feel a little surprised when he saw Kuroba Kaito's agile skills.

Even if this person is not Michael's companion, he is definitely not an ordinary person...

Kuroba Kaito squatted on a high place, glanced down and was shocked.

In a messy office, I saw a man wearing glasses lying on an armchair with his head tilted, his eyes widened as if he was about to die.

"ah……?"

When Kuroba Kaito saw this scene, although he was not frightened into screaming like Maori Lan, he still made some noises.

When Conan saw Kuroba Kaito squatting on the window sill and not getting in, and making strange noises, he immediately concluded that something was wrong.

"What happened?!"

"There's a dead person here..." Kuroba Kaito replied.

"what?!"

Conan immediately became alarmed and subconsciously wanted to ask Mao Lilan to call the police. But when he looked back, he remembered that the person with the alarm tool had not come today.

He had no choice but to take out his phone and call the police himself.

The UK emergency number is 999...

"I'm calling the police now, don't go in yet..."

"Hello!"

Just as Conan raised his head to give the young man above him a few words, Kuroba Kaito had already slipped and entered the room.

Chapter 1278 Encounter with a famous detective

Kuroba Kaito ignored Conan downstairs and slipped directly into the office.

He walked to the armchair, frowned slightly, and looked the man up and down.

Judging from the man's temporary expression, he must have been in pain before he died, with his mouth open so much that his throat could be seen.

As for the rest...

Kuroba Kaito looked around, and what was more noteworthy was the pile of checking paper on the desk and the dozen disposable paper cups piled randomly.

Next to the paper cup, there is a work ID card.

He walked over and picked up the ID and took a look. The name on it was none other than Ingalls, his position was Researcher at the Brightchester Institute of Astronomy, and the ID photo showed a man lying on an armchair.

Is he Ingalls?

Kuroba Kaito looked back at the corpse in surprise, feeling both surprised and confused.

Although he was not a professional in autopsy and case investigation, and this kind of thing was not his strong point, he could also tell that Ingalls suffered some torture before his death.

The prisoner probably wanted to get some information from him, so he tortured him in some way.

But who is it?

At this time, Kuroba Kaito, who was thinking, heard Conan yelling outside the window.

"Hello!"

"What's going on in there?"

"Open the door!"

Only then did Kuroba Kaito remember that there was a professional case solver downstairs, so he hurried to the first floor and unlocked the door from inside.

Conan followed Kuroba Kaito upstairs. The first time he entered the office, he guessed that this person was probably the person Kuroba Kaito was looking for on this trip.

Otherwise, Kuroba Kaito would not have stayed so long to come down.

In addition, there are a lot of things related to calculations in this person's office, and he is not an ordinary person at first glance.

"Do you know who this person is?"

Conan asked Kuroba Kaito behind him as he walked to the man's corpse to examine it.

Kuroba Kaito nodded. "I know. His name is Ingalls. He studies the stars."

Study the stars?

Conan tilted his head and glanced at the content on the whiteboard. In addition to some incomprehensible mathematical formulas, there was also a huge schematic diagram of the solar system.

What is this guy doing specifically looking for someone to do this kind of research?

Conan didn't ask, because even if he asked, he would definitely not get any serious answer.

It's better to reason on your own from the beginning without being interfered by him.

Conan first checked the rigor mortis of the body and judged that the time of death was less than an hour.

However, there were traces of binding on the wrists of the deceased. It seemed that his hands had been tied to an armchair and tortured for a period of time.

However, no other external injuries could be found on the body of the deceased, so the real cause of death should be poison.

Thinking in his mind, Conan was about to smell the mouth of the deceased.

But facing the deceased sitting on the armchair, he was too tall to reach him, so he could only turn around and look at Kuroba Kaito.

"Come here and pick me up."

When Kuroba Kaito heard this, goose bumps instantly appeared on his back.

Seeing this, Conan quickly explained angrily: "Don't think too much! I asked you to hold me up so that I can judge what the dead person's mouth smells like!"

Upon hearing this, Kuroba Kaito came over and held Conan in his arms like a large doll, and brought him close to the deceased's face.

Conan stretched his neck and smelled a slight scent of coffee.

Other than that, there's no familiar bitter almond flavor.

It’s not cyanide?

Conan frowned slightly, and the next moment his brain realized that this was Britain, and it was normal for the local customs to be different from those of rice crackers.

"Are you ready?" asked Kuroba Kaito at this time.

"Yeah, alright."

Kuroba Kaito put Conan back on the ground, and as soon as his feet touched the ground, he asked

"What's going on? Do you know who the murderer is?"

When Conan heard this, he turned around and complained, "Do you think I'm Sherlock Holmes? How can I know who the murderer is so quickly?"

The next moment, Conan turned his face and said seriously: "However, judging from the situation at the scene, the murderer is likely someone who is close to the deceased..."

Kuroba Kaito: "Why?"

Conan raised his hand and pointed at a pile of paper coffee cups on the desk. "Look at those paper cups. Is there any coffee liquid left in them?"

Kuroba Kaito came over, picked up a paper cup and took a look. Sure enough, there were brown liquid droplets inside, and there was a faint scent of coffee when he smelled it.

"Yeah...what's wrong?"

Conan held his chin in thought, "That's right..."

"Judging from the paper cups and the large amount of proof papers on the desk, the deceased worked all night and had a habit of consuming large amounts of coffee while working."

"Didn't we just pass by an automatic coffee vending machine when we came up from the first floor?"

Kuroba Kaito recalled the scene of going upstairs just now, and nodded slowly.

Conan continued, "That kind of automatic coffee vending machine uses hot drinking water to brew coffee powder to make coffee. The drinking water area is the bucket that is poured into the top of the machine."

"As long as the murderer puts sleeping pills in the bucket, the victim will fall asleep inadvertently."

"After the deceased fell asleep, he tied him to a chair, possibly to extract information from him..."

Conan said while looking up at Kuroba Kaito's reaction.

Although Kuroba Kaito didn't say the purpose of coming here, he was obviously instructed by the phone call in the morning.

The purpose of coming here is probably the same as the reason why the murderer killed the deceased, which is also to ask about something.

However, this also just shows that Kuroba Kaito's companion cannot be the murderer, otherwise he would not know that the person is dead and would ask him to come here to inquire about the matter.

But what exactly is going on?

Just as Conan was thinking, a siren suddenly sounded outside the window.

Blichester is a small town, so the police are naturally very quick to dispatch.

Conan remembered that this was not Tokyo and that he did not have such strong connections, so he could only ask Kuroba Kaito to deal with the police's inquiries later.

The two of them went downstairs together and came to the main entrance of the Institute of Astronomy. They happened to encounter a group of policemen in black who were going up the steps.

"Which of you two called the police?"

The leader, a goatee-wearing police sergeant, did not ignore Conan because of his short stature, and asked the two of them together.

Kuroba Kaito raised his hand as they had just discussed. "Officer, it's me."

As soon as he finished speaking, a young voice came out from among the police officers.

"Oh?"

"I didn't expect we'd meet here, Kuroba-san..."

The police officers stepped aside and saw a man in a gray suit standing there.

The man had brown wavy hair, a handsome face with a hint of smile, and the demeanor of a gentleman.

"Ah?!" Kuroba Kaito's pupils trembled, and he was extremely surprised.

Because the man in front of him is his classmate, or rather the transfer student from a while ago...White Horse Detective!

Conan's pupils were also full of shock, because he also recognized it.

During the Twilight Annex incident, Detective White Horse was also one of the seven famous detectives invited.

This guy actually knows Kuroba Kaito and calls him "Kuroba-san"?

At this moment, Kuroba Kaito remembered that just a few days ago, the homeroom teacher suddenly announced that Hakuba Tangao had temporarily suspended school and would not be returning to class in a short time.