Conan Rick's Investigator

Did you come to such a far place?

"Ha ha"

"You don't even know you

What are you talking about? I'm high school detective Kudo Shinichi!"

Kuroba Kaito scratched his head, not wanting Conan next to him to know too much of his true situation, so he could only pretend to be ignorant.

But when Conan next to him heard this, his head immediately reacted, and a smirk appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"That's not right! Kuroba-nii..."

Conan was just about to tell Kuroba Kaito's true identity and ask Hakuba what information Detective Hakuba knew about him, but Kuroba Kaito grabbed him first and turned his back to discuss quietly.

"Boy, if you dare to tell Hakuba my identity, I will tell that Xiaolan your identity..."

"Let's see who gets unlucky in the end!"

Conan glanced at him and cursed in his heart.

Compared to Kuroba Kaito's identity, if the fact that he is Kudo Shinichi is exposed, the consequences will definitely be more serious.

"All right……"

Bai Ma Tan looked at the two people who were twisting and squatting together to discuss, and his eyes were a little confused for the first time.

By the time the two stood up again, they had completely unified their voices.

"Yeah! This is Shinichi-nii! He's definitely not some Kuroba..."

"Haha, I'm Kudo Shinichi."

Kuroba Kaito suppressed his expression and looked at Hakuba Tan in front of him, "It's our first time meeting you, Hakuba Tan..."

Facing this situation, Bai Ba Tan said calmly, "I see. This is really interesting..."

The police officer standing nearby asked Bai Matan, "Do you know each other?"

"Friends in Japan..." Hakuba Tan replied casually, then turned around and asked, "By the way, why are you here?"

"Uh..." Kuroba Kaito and Conan looked at each other and said at the same time: "Let's travel!"

"Tourism?" Bai Ma frowned. "But as far as I know, Blychester is just an ordinary town, without many attractions. Why did you come here for tourism?"

Conan used his ability to make up lies at this time and said, "Shinichi-nii wants to come to this university when he goes to college in the future, so he came to take a look in advance..."

"Oh?" Hakuba frowned again, "Instead of going to Oxford and Cambridge, you're coming here?"

At this point, Kuroba Kaito knew that if Hakuba continued to question him, his identity would be exposed sooner or later, so he quickly switched to the offensive. "Then why are you here?"

"From what I understand, you're quite famous in London, right? There's no need for you to go to a remote town like this to solve a case, right?"

Detective Bai Ma smiled and said casually.

"I'm here to investigate something else..."

"I just happened to hear a murder report was made at the police station, so I came over to take a look."

In fact, the matter that White Horse came to investigate seems to have something to do with Conan.

Because of the Twilight Annex incident, Conan was also one of the witnesses.

Ever since the Twilight Annex disappeared from Gunma Prefecture, Hakuba Detective has been dedicated to solving the mystery of the annex's disappearance.

In fact, when he first arrived at the Dusk Annex, he discovered that the building had a strong Gothic style, almost like a miniature version of the Palace of Westminster.

In addition, Karasuma Renya is a super rich man. When building the annex at that time, he would definitely invite British craftsmen to build it.

So he recently got a clue by investigating British architectural historical data and using big data analysis from the White Horse Research Institute.

That is a building suspected to be the Twilight Annex, which has appeared in the UK.

It was a book on the history of British architectural design that showed an old black and white photo from the late 19th century.

The annex in the photo is almost identical to the Dusk Annex in Gunma Prefecture.

Intuition told Hakuba Tan that the two annexes were the same building, but for some reason, the location of the annex was moved from the UK to Gunma Prefecture in Japan.

However, due to the long time since the photo was taken, the architectural information in the photo is no longer clear.

All I know is that the photo was taken on the banks of the River Severn in England.

Therefore, in order to thoroughly investigate the Dusk Villa, Detective White Horse personally came to England to investigate along the Severn River.

However, the Severn River is the longest river in the UK, and it is not easy to investigate clearly.

Coupled with historical changes, the Severn River today is completely different from what it was back then.

So the White Horse Detective's idea was to start the investigation from the towns along the Severn River.

The town of Blichester, adjacent to the Severn River, was one of the investigation points of the White Horse Detective's trip.

"Alright, let's stop standing here chatting and go take a look at the scene first..."

……

Led by Kuroba Kaito and Conan, Detective Hakuba and the police arrived at the office on the second floor of the Astronomy Research Institute.

The process of the British police is similar to that of the Japanese police. They should take photos and perform autopsies.

Hakuba Tan walked around the office, then looked at Kuroba Kaito with interest and said, "When I was in London, I heard that you were a great high school detective representing Kanto, the savior of the Japanese police..."

"Since you've been here for a while, could you please let me hear your opinion?"

"Kudo..."

Listening to this slightly gunpowder tone, the short Conan also had a serious expression.

Unfortunately, the person the other person asked was not him, but Kuroba Kaito.

Kuroba Kaito's face was stunned, then he put his hands in his pockets and showed a confident smile on his lips.

"It's not a brilliant idea, just some ordinary reasoning..."

"Judging from the situation at the scene, the murderer must have been someone close to the deceased who knew his lifestyle..."

Kuroba Kaito spoke up and explained what Conan had deduced just now.

These contents made Baima Tan's face tremble, and there was a hint of surprise in his pupils.

Because after the meeting just now, he still felt that the person in front of him was his classmate, Kuroba Kaito.

But if it was the Kuroba Kaito in my impression, it would be impossible for him to make such an accurate deduction in such a short period of time.

Is it...

Bai Ma Tan's eyebrows furrowed slightly.

Could it be that Kuroba is a hidden reasoning genius?

Chapter 1279 Cracking the code

Detective White Horse: Is Kuroba a hidden reasoning genius?

Although Kuroba Kaito does not show any reasoning ability in his daily life, Detective Hakuba always feels that there seems to be some secret hidden in him.

Moreover, Kuroba Kaito is also the person he currently thinks is closest to Kaitou Kidd.

But then again, this was the first time I noticed this——

That is Kuroba Kaito's face, so similar to Kudo Shinichi's face...

Detective Hakuba relayed Kuroba Kaito's reasoning to the police in Brightchester, who then notified the deceased's close relatives and friends to come over.

While waiting for the suspect to arrive, Conan conducted a second round of careful evidence collection at the scene.

Because he always felt that if the murderer had tortured the deceased, it might have been to get something from the deceased.

Taking advantage of his height advantage, Conan wandered back and forth in the office, and sure enough, he discovered something unusual.

The computer host is placed in the grid under the desk, and the dust on the base of the chassis looks like there are some scratches.

This indicates that someone has moved the chassis.

Conan ducked under the desk and looked at the side cover of the case with the light of a watch-type flashlight. He found that one of the four screws was not tightened very firmly.

Could it be...

If this were in Japan, Conan would be like, "Ah, this is really weird..."

But now in the UK, there is a mouth substitute beside me, so there is no need to pretend to be a child.

Conan climbed out of the desk, grabbed Kuroba Kaito's hand, and told him his discovery.

When Kuroba Kaito heard this, he pretended to cough slightly to attract the attention of Detective Hakuba and the police.

"Ahem..."

"Take a look at the mainframe of this computer. Maybe something is missing."

Detective Bai Ma frowned. After hesitating for a few seconds, he motioned to the policeman next to him to do as he said.

The police took out the chassis and used a screwdriver to remove the chassis cover. They found that a key piece of hardware was indeed missing from the host.

"The hard drive is missing..."

"Could it be that the murderer took it?"

The policemen murmured in confusion, and Conan raised his chin.

Is there any hidden secret in the hard drive?

Does this secret also have something to do with Kuroba Kaito's purpose of coming here?

……

After a while, a policeman came in at the door and reported that the head of the Institute of Astronomy and other researchers were here.

Conan, Kuroba Kaito, and Hakuba poked out the door and saw that there were quite a few people in the institute. There were more than a dozen people, which was far beyond the common configuration of choosing one of three.

However, according to usual practice, it should be possible to find the three most suspect people by investigating everyone's alibi...

The UK is the home ground of White Horse Detective, so he asked everyone some basic questions.

According to the answers from these people, the deceased Ingalls was 47 years old. His position was a secondary researcher at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Brightchester, and he also graduated from the school's astronomy major.

He is somewhat withdrawn, has almost no social interaction, and has no family.

In daily life, I spend most of my time commuting between the Institute of Astronomy and the campus dormitory of the University of Brightchester, living a monotonous life between two points and one line.

Therefore, these colleagues currently in the Institute of Astronomy are almost all of Ingalls's connections.

"Then does anyone know what he was doing in the research institute yesterday?" Bai Ma asked.

A balding head of the research institute said, "Ingels often works overtime at the institute doing research. As for what he's researching..."

At this time, another brown-haired researcher raised his hand and said, "I know something about this. He is continuing his father's unfinished research..."

"Ingalls's father was also an astronomer, but he was an amateur."

His father

I have always believed that the solar system is being pulled along by some powerful gravitational force, and I once published my opinion in a newspaper, but it attracted a lot of ridicule.

"So Ingles has always wanted to prove his father right."

Bai Ma turned his head to look at the researcher and asked cautiously, "Excuse me, who are you?"

The researcher replied, "My name is Bert Rowan, and I share an office with Ingalls..."

Then, Burt pointed to another desk about two meters away from Ingels's desk and said, "That's my desk."

Everyone looked back and noticed another desk in the room.

However, this desk was kept very clean, with all files put into drawers. There was only a computer covered with cloth on the table, making it look like no one was using it.

Hakuba Tan smiled slightly, "So you know the deceased had a habit of drinking coffee?"

"Yeah." Burt nodded. "Drinking coffee is probably Ingalls' only hobby besides research, but he doesn't pursue the ultimate taste of coffee. Instant coffee is enough..."

Bai Ba Tan continued, "May I ask, where were you between 6 and 9 this morning? What were you doing?"

"I……"