Conan Rick's Investigator

Under the weight of Kogoro Mouri's arm, the file bag fell to the ground and the documents inside slid out. Qin Zhibo discovered another investigation point covered by the file bag.

Before Maori Kogoro could bend down to pick up the documents inside, Qin Zhibo rushed forward and picked up the file bag in his hands.

leave me alone!

【Survey√】

【The submission is not signed by Daisuke Torakura. Could it be a novel submitted to the magazine by a reader?】

The questioning tone in the survey instructions can basically be determined to be affirmative.

Why do reader-submitted novels appear here?

Could it be that the editor Doi Fumio brought the novel over so that Daisuke Torakura could "find inspiration" from it?

If that's the case, Doi Fumio also...

When the search for the last survey point was completed, the system finally prompted to proceed to the next step.

[Has the survey of all survey points been completed? Should we conduct a scenario reconstruction?]

【Re-enactment√】

When the scene began to reappear, at the door of the study, a "Xiao Hei" holding something was standing in front of the door of the void room and knocking.

After a while, it seemed that the door was opened by Daisuke Torakura, and "Xiao Hei" walked into the room.

"Xiao Hei" first put the thing in his hand on the desk, then walked casually to the back of the chair, and suddenly raised something with both hands and hit Torakura Daisuke's head hard.

Qin Zhibo could actually guess what this thing was. It was not the wooden hammer stained with blood in the collection room, but a piece of art ornament that fell next to the corpse.

This thing is used to attack Daisuke Torakura on the back of the head and knock him unconscious.

Because it was not fatal damage, no investigation point was generated.

"Xiao Hei" looked at Daisuke Torakura who had fainted on the table, his chest heaving rapidly, and his big, Caroline-like eyes wide open, indicating that the murderer also fell into a brief panic after taking action.

But then, the part that shocked Qin Zhibo came.

I saw three more "little blacks" walking in from the door of the study.

For a moment, Qin Zhibo's vision was filled with many black people...

The four "little blacks" surrounded Daisuke Torakura, who was knocked unconscious and lying on the desk, and stared at him for a while.

Then, the four "little blacks" worked together to move Daisuke Torakura's body from the chair to the cross and tied it to the cross with belts.

Then, one of the "Little Blacks" took out a wooden hammer with one hand, and with the other hand, he aimed the wooden stake at Tokura Okura's heart and smashed it hard.

After one "Xiao Hei" finished smashing the stake, he handed the hammer to the next "Xiao Hei" to continue smashing it until the wooden stake was firmly nailed into Daisuke Torakura's chest.

Chapter 171 The Third Method...

Four little black...

It was the first time that Qin Zhibo saw such a shocking scene through scene reconstruction.

In front of the cross, the four "Little Blacks" took turns nailing a wooden stake into Daisuke Torakura's chest, just like the scene of some mysterious and evil pagan ritual.

After killing the man, three of the four "little blacks" left the study openly through the door.

After the other "Xiao Hei" left, the remaining "Xiao Hei" locked the door from the inside, climbed up the rope hanging from the balcony roof, and left the study through the roof of the corridor at the study door.

[End of reenactment]

Combining the investigation points found previously, Qin Zhibo actually already knew the identities of these four "little blacks".

The circumstances of this case reminded Qin Zhibo of a case in a detective novel - the Orient Express Murder Case.

However, in the case of the Orient Express, Detective Poirot only needed to prove that there was some kind of relationship between all the murderers and the deceased whom they had never met.

But in this case, even if the methods and motives were found out, they would only be suspected by the police and could not be directly convicted.

The murderers were able to cover up for each other, and these people often came to Villa Deshura, so their fingerprints left anywhere here can be explained.

As for the blood-stained wooden hammer in the collection room, it was actually because they didn't want people to find out that they used the hammer to hit the wooden stake when they killed people, which led to the suggestion that the murderer might not be just one person.

This is a kind of psychological insurance.

In fact, it would be normal for the police to find fingerprints of any of them on the gavel.

There are currently only three ways to prove that they are the murderers.

The first method is to let the police forensic examine their clothes. Maybe blood will splash on them when the stake pierces their hearts.

Of course, this possibility is not great, and the time it takes to solve the case after the inspection will definitely exceed the time required for the side quest.

The second method is to separate the four people and use interrogation techniques to force flaws in their confessions.

However, this also takes time and may not be 100% successful.

The third method is...

……

In the living room, with the end of Kogoro Mouri's reasoning, everything seemed to have been settled.

Everyone sat on the chairs and sofas in the living room, waiting for the police to arrive with complicated expressions.

In the silent atmosphere, Conan still did not give up thinking.

Just now, Kogoro Maori asked the people in the villa what enemies Daisuke Torakura had made.

Toshiya Tadokoro's answer was that because Mr. Torakura had recently changed his writing style from vampire novels to heroic fantasy novels, some dissatisfied old readers had sent letters to Villa Descula.

There are some who speak very unpleasantly.

This was also confirmed by editor Fumio Doi.

"The magazine has also received letters from readers who are dissatisfied with Mr. Torakura."

In this way, Kogoro Mori also confirmed it.

"Mr. Torakura must have been killed by some crazy reader who was particularly fond of vampire novels!"

"This reader believed that Mr. Torakura's change of novel genre was a betrayal of vampires, so he chose to kill Mr. Torakura by executing him like a vampire!"

"From now on, as long as the police search through the readers' letters one by one, they will definitely find the murderer!"

Kogoro Mouri's reasoning today was logically consistent, and he even explained what Conan didn't understand, which was why the murderer chose to kill Mr. Torakura by executing a vampire.

And this reasoning may seem a bit "crazy", but it is not impossible.

When Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes, killed Holmes in "The Final Case", he was opposed and protested by a large number of readers.

Some readers smashed the windows of Conan Doyle's house, some held protest marches, and some smashed newspaper offices (the Sherlock Holmes stories were originally serialized in newspapers).

Some people even threatened: If you kill Sherlock Holmes, I will kill you!

In the end, Conan Doyle had to compromise and "resurrected" Holmes.

And Daisuke Torakura did not choose to listen to the readers' opinions, so...

wrong!

Conan shook his head suddenly, temporarily discarding these preconceived ideas.

Although Maori did not find any suspicious points in his reasoning this time, the process of solving the case was too smooth, which is very suspicious.

All the clues can be obtained by asking questions. This process of solving the case gives people a feeling of being led by the nose, which makes people very uncomfortable.

Conan drew the floor plan of the buildings near the octagonal study in the small notebook in his hand.

At the time of the incident, Shuichi Hamura and Fumio Doi were both in the living room and testified that no one entered the study through the door.

In addition to Kogoro Mouri's belief that the murderer invaded from the balcony, in fact, it was also possible to reach the study from the window of Etsuko Torakura's room on the second floor through the roof of the corridor.

And the clue of the blue boat on the lake was also provided by Etsuko Torakura...

Could it be that Etsuko Torakura is the murderer? !

As a man of action, Conan, who had just listed Etsuko Torakura as a suspect, planned to use his own identity as a child to let the other party relax their vigilance and see if he could find some flaws indirectly.

For example: "Ah, how come you can see the colors of the boats on the lake so clearly at night?" — something like that.

However, when Conan looked at Etsuko Torakura with the eyes of a prey and tried to get closer, another person got there first.

Qin Zhibo leaned close to Etsuko Torakura's ear and whispered something, and Etsuko Torakura's face suddenly changed.

And that’s not the end. Qin Zhibo whispered something in the ears of Tadokoro Toshiya, Hamura Shuichi, and Doi Fumio, and the faces of the three of them all changed.

Afterwards, the four of them followed Qin Zhibo with trepidation, just like children who had made mistakes and were taken to the teacher's office.

Seeing the five people suddenly leaving the living room, Maori Kogoro asked, "Hey! The police should be here soon. Where are you going?"

"Going to the bathroom." Qin Zhibo answered casually.

To the restroom……

Kogoro Mouri said with a puzzled look on his face: He is not a child, do he need so many people to go to the toilet together?

……

At the corner of the corridor in the room, Conan followed Qin Zhibo and others cautiously.

Of course Conan wouldn't believe such nonsense as "going to the bathroom together".

I'm not a child...

And if they go to the bathroom together, wouldn't Etsuko Torakura be embarrassed?

Sure enough, Qin Zhibo, who was leading the way, did not lead people to the toilet, but to the library in the basement.

Conan quickened his pace and was about to catch up when he was suddenly picked up by a pair of hands from behind.

When I looked back, it was not the familiar Sister Xiaolan.

But it was Ryohei Matsumoto with his kind smile.

"Little boy, it's not good to eavesdrop on adults' conversations..."

There is an Easter egg at the end of Chapter 172!!!

In the underground library, Toshiya Tadokoro, Shuichi Hamura, Etsuko Torakura, and Fumio Doi were nervous, but they still looked calm as they looked at Qin Zhibo.

The reason was that Qin Zhibo had just whispered this into the ears of these people.

I know the truth of the matter...

Of course, if you just throw this sentence at one person alone, it will definitely not attract attention.

But just now, Qin Zhibo was moving around the four of them at an extremely fast speed, and said this sentence at a speed as fast as an Alpha raid.

That way they can't completely ignore it.

Because I cared a lot, I followed.

Arriving at the underground library, Qin Zhibo stood in front of the four people and said slowly, "Actually, this case cannot be handled by one person, nor can it be done by two people."

"The answer is that the four of you killed Torakura Daisuke together."

Katcha!

A bolt of thunder struck the four people's brains.

But then, Hamura Shuichi, the calmest of the four, raised his lips slightly and asked calmly, "You said we killed him. You must have evidence, right?"

"Don't be so anxious..." Qin Zhibo replied with a smile, "Let me first reconstruct your method of committing the crime..."

Next, Qin Zhibo truthfully recounted the activity trajectories of the four "little blacks" in the re-enactment.

In fact, it is not easy to clearly grasp the trajectory of these four "little blacks" when they commit crimes.

Their murder plan was obviously planned in advance, with a clear division of labor and everyone doing their own job.

For example, after confirming the scene reconstruction for the second time, Qin Zhibo discovered that there were indeed two "little blacks" sitting in the living room when the incident occurred.

These two "little blacks" are naturally Shuichi Hamura and Fumio Doi.

They told Kogoro Mouri that the two of them were chatting in the living room at the time of the incident, and in fact it was true.