Conan Rick's Investigator

After a while, I realized that it was not the moon at all, but a big pale face looking into the sea.

So I panicked and found that I couldn't move at all.

The full moon seems to be pulling on something deep in the ocean, trying to wake it up.

The panic swelled in my body, but it could not block my sight. It forced my sight to focus on the ocean.

Deep in the ocean, a city is sleeping.

When the stars are in their right place, the womb of the sea will tap gently on the ancient prison cell.

At that time, its huge muscles will tremble...in anticipation of rebirth.

……

Kuroba Kaito looked at these empty words, and an inexplicable feeling of horror emerged in his mind.

These words may seem meaningless, but combined with the current time point, they have a different kind of fear.

It mentions the "full moon night", which seems to lead to the rebirth of something.

When he first understood the zoo organization's purpose of stealing gems, the bald organization cadre also mentioned the "full moon night".

Full moon night...

While Kuroba Kaito was distracted in his thoughts, Conan, who was reading the information with the policeman, suddenly shouted.

"Wait a moment!"

"this……"

Conan pointed to a student profile on the table and said in surprise, "I saw this person on campus this morning!"

Baima's ears twitched and he immediately turned his head when he heard the sound.

"who is it?"

Conan pointed to the girl with glasses on the student profile.

Next to the girl's photo is her name.

Sera Elena.

Chapter 1281 Sera Elena?

"Sera...Elena?"

"The name is a bit strange..."

Detective Baima picked up the information, confirmed the information on it, and found that it was British.

It's just that the name does sound like a Japanese surname.

He handed the information to Bert, and after staring at the photo for a while, Bert's eyes lit up.

"It feels like she..."

"very good!"

Detective Baima waved his hand, and his police officers immediately went to investigate this person's information and invited him here as quickly as possible.

Conan, on the other hand, raised his chin with a serious face, thinking about the name he seemed to have heard somewhere.

Elena...

Sera Elena?

If I remember correctly, the girl who suddenly came over to strike up a conversation yesterday was named Seriang.

Are these two people related?

And the strangest thing is that if the woman I saw this morning is the same person as the one in the information, that would be incredible.

Because there is almost no obvious aging in this woman's appearance.

You must know that this is a photo from the university archives, more than 20 years ago.

But the woman's appearance was probably that of someone in her 25s, and she didn't look like someone in her 40s at all.

And she also said that she once had children in Japan.

What is going on?

……

City of London.

After more than half an hour of walking, Sera and Maori arrived at the next coded location.

The building they came to was called "gherk" because its appearance looked like a pickled cucumber.

This corresponds to the fourth line of the code - in the end it is enough to just eat the pickled cucumber.

The group began to search the surroundings and easily found markers scattered around the building.

These markers were deliberately scratched with a knife, and the title "dan" was written on the pen barrel.

And dan is the title of an article in Sherlock Holmes, called "The Dancing Man".

Mao Lilan held a pen she had picked up in her hand. No matter how hard she thought about it, she couldn't think of any clues.

After all, she herself has never read Sherlock Holmes, and her knowledge of Sherlock Holmes only comes from Kudo Shinichi.

Kogoro Mori is a fan of Agatha Christie and is not very fond of Sherlock Holmes.

Not to mention Dr. A Li, the part of his life that is closest to reasoning is telling funny riddles.

"Majun, did you see anything?"

Mao Lilan turned to look at Sera Masumi who was standing beside the trash can.

At this time, Serang held two markers in his hands and looked at them quietly.

One of the pens she picked out from the trash can.

Since the markers were covered with scratches, they were often thrown away as garbage by passers-by.

Hearing Mao Lilan's call, Sera Masaki turned away with a smile and shook his head.

"I have absolutely no clue."

"Ha ha"

When Mao Lilan heard this, she could only take out her phone and prepare to seek help from Kudo Shinichi, who is a Fu fan, again.

And Seriang continued to turn around and look at the pair of markers in her hand.

Although she is also a reader of Sherlock Holmes, she is not as obsessed as Kudo Shinichi, who regards every word of Sherlock Holmes as a wise saying.

But as a quasi-detective, I still learned a lot from Mary about the basic rules of reasoning.

One method of reasoning is to put yourself in the position of the murderer.

For example, if the current pen did not cause scratches on it, it might not be regarded as useless garbage and thrown into the trash can.

In this way, it can stay on people's hands for a longer time, allowing more people to detect abnormalities.

But the murderer deliberately created scratches on it, doing something that seemed to be a "waste of time" and was not appreciated, which only showed that he had ulterior motives...

Sera held the marker and examined the scratches on it.

The scratches on the two markers are different and seem to have been made randomly.

But if you look carefully, you will find that the scratches on the caps at both ends of the two pens are exactly the same.

Could it be...

Seriang removed the two pen caps according to what he had in mind, and then aligned them with each other.

When the cap is aligned in the correct position, the fixed scratches form the letter "n".

this is……

“Got it!”

"It's the English letter n!"

On the other side, under the suggestion of Kudo Shinichi, Mao Lilan took off the pen cap and found the letter n.

"How did you find out?!"

Mao Lilan instantly turned into a little fan girl, causing a satisfied smile to appear on Conan's face on the other side of the phone.

"cough……"

"That's because Sherlock Holmes once said in this story that you can skip the entire process of reasoning and simply explain the starting point and the conclusion. Although this method may seem simple and crude, it is enough to achieve amazing results."

Standing next to Conan, Kuroba Kaito glanced down with disdain and thought to himself: Even memorizing such obvious words word for word is so boring...

And isn’t that how magic shows work?

No matter how wonderful a magic trick is, it will be overshadowed if the secrets of magic are revealed to the audience.

Saston’s Three Principles…

Kuroba Kaito was stunned, and suddenly realized that he seemed to have memorized some content that might seem "boring" to an outsider.

The passage that Conan memorized was, to put it bluntly, to teach the detective how to create the effect of the show.

But children should not imitate easily.

Because there is no point in just writing about the results and not about the process!

……

On the other side, Mao Lilan suddenly realized after listening to Conan's explanation.

"I see."

"Then Shinichi, you should focus on your work first. We'll call you if we need your help at the next location..."

But just when Mao Lilan didn't want to delay Zhuma's work and wanted to hang up the phone, Conan immediately called her.

"Wait a minute, Ran."

"Eh?" Mao Lilan was stunned. "What's the matter?"

Conan held the bow-tie voice changer in one hand and the phone in the other, and asked seriously, "Is the person named "Sera Masumi" with you now?"

Mao Lilan looked up at Shi Liang who was not far away and nodded, "Yeah, what's wrong?"

"Give her the phone. I need to ask her something..."

Mao Lilan's expression was a little confused, but she still came to Seriang and handed her the phone.

"Masumi, Shinichi is looking for you..."

"Looking for me?"

Sera Masumi looked stunned and pointed at her face in disbelief.

The next second, her brain suddenly reacted.

Could it be that Shinichi is enlightened? I remembered that I was the little girl who was with him at the beach 10 years ago.

Will the next drama be...

I'm sorry that I only think of you at this time.

I have a lot to say to you at once.

When we have time in the evening, let’s have a good chat alone.

Thinking of this, Seriang's face turned slightly red.

Mao Lilan, who was standing opposite her, could see Shiliang's nervous expression, and her right eyebrow frowned slightly.

Suspicious expression...

"Um, um, what do you want to talk to me about? Shin-Shinichi..."

Shiliang answered the phone and the words

I got a little stuck because I was nervous.