Conan Rick's Investigator

After doing all this, Hattori Heiji showed a sinister smile.

The reason why he did this was to deliberately confuse the other party's mentality.

Now he has confirmed that the murderer is Torakura Sakuya, and the accomplice is the eldest daughter who has been disappearing.

As long as this text message is sent, if the other party sees it, he will definitely be curious about the progress of the case and will take the initiative to show up.

Even though Torakura Sakuya was a terminal cancer patient and was about to die, he was not afraid of being charged.

But the eldest daughter must have agreed to help in order to inherit the estate, and she will definitely take the initiative to clear herself of the charges.

By then, I will be able to take the initiative.

……

In the forest outside the villa, two beams of light swept back and forth in the gloomy bushes.

Qin Zhibo and Conan, one tall and one short, each holding a flashlight and wearing a raincoat borrowed from the housekeeper,

The dripping rain hit the grass, making crackling sounds.

Suddenly, Qin Zhibo stopped in front of a patch of grass.

"Found it."

Conan, who was not far away, hurried over and shone the flashlight on the "object" in front of Qin Zhibo's feet.

"This is..." Conan's pupils contracted and he stared at the person lying in the grass.

This person was none other than the eldest daughter of the Inakura family, the old woman who had disappeared for some time.

The old woman's torso and lower limbs were tied to a thick wooden stick on her back. Her eyes were wide open, and it seemed that she had been dead for a long time.

She was still wearing the same purple dress that she had worn in the villa, but this time it was covered in mud.

Conan carefully bent down and used the flashlight to check the pupils. After confirming that there was no reaction, he concluded: "He's dead..."

Qin Zhibo stood nearby and started investigating the body.

【Corpse Investigation√】

[Name of the deceased: Tora-no-Moriyoshi]

[Time of death: 1 hour ago]

[Cause of death: strangulation]

[Corpse investigation completed, character skill obtained: cooking]

[Acquire repeated skills, converted into 1000 proficiency of that skill]

"He must have been strangled..." Conan murmured his judgment.

Qin Zhibo examined the body and found that in addition to the marks of strangulation on the old woman's neck, there were also scratches on her arms.

Someone had grabbed her once, with enough force to leave marks on her arms.

At this moment, the sound of a telephone suddenly rang in the forest, where the only sound was the sound of raindrops.

bell……

Although the sound was very faint, it still could not escape the ears of Qin Zhibo and Conan.

They both looked in the direction of the sound, which was a dark and lush bush.

"Who?"

As soon as Conan finished speaking, there was a sudden commotion in the bushes. The leaves were startled and rain splashed to the side, making a rustling sound.

It was obvious that something in the bushes was startled by the sound.

Conan chased in that direction without saying a word.

Qin Zhibo also stood up and chased after him, but just after he ran a few meters, two security guards of the villa with flashlights came running up behind him.

When the security guard saw the body on the ground, he was shocked.

Qin Zhibo quickly ran back and shouted to the two of them, "Go back and tell everyone in the villa to stay together! Don't leave!"

After he finished speaking, Qin Zhibo didn't dare to delay any longer and continued to chase in the direction of Conan.

……

In the villa.

Hattori Heiji returned to the restaurant confidently, preparing to explain what had happened tonight.

Seeing that Conan and Qin Zhibo had not returned yet, he couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.

Those two people haven’t come back yet?

Where did you go?

Hattori Heiji thought about it and decided to start reasoning and solve the case.

Who told Kudo to team up with the uncle?

Deep down, Hattori Heiji was still a little jealous that his good friend was teaming up with someone else.

Originally both were members of the Anti-Qin Alliance, hoping to combine their reasoning powers to defeat Qin Zhibo.

We agreed to grow old together, but you secretly got a hair treatment?

At this time, the pretty boy saw Hattori Heiji coming back and asked with a worried look, "Did you find my treasure?"

Hattori Heiji smiled slightly and answered frankly, "That's not the case..."

"But don't worry, I've already solved most of the mysteries that have happened tonight."

"And once you finish listening, you'll know who the murderer is this time..."

Hattori Heiji led everyone to the bedroom at the end of the corridor on the second floor, which was also the coffin room where the first incident occurred.

Along the way, everyone was trying to figure out who the murderer was.

Torakura San'ao: "Isn't it obvious that the murderer is that person?"

Torakura Ji's widow also chimed in, "Wasn't it Hakoya-sama who killed my husband?"

The girl with glasses asked doubtfully, "Do you know why my brother became a vampire?"

Hattori Heiji walked in front, a slight smile on his face as he said calmly, "Of course vampires don't exist."

"But……"

The girl with glasses wanted to argue, but Hattori Heiji interrupted her as he pushed open the door.

"Okay, you'll understand everything once you read this."

As he spoke, Hattori Heiji came to the coffin, opened the lid, and then lifted the cushion inside the coffin.

When the cushion is lifted, there is a wooden sliding door handle underneath.

Pull the handle and another handle will appear below.

Use this handle to open the trap door, and a dark and deep secret passage will appear below.

"This is……"

When everyone saw this, they all showed shocked expressions.

Although Hattori Heiji was satisfied with everyone's reaction, it was a pity that the person who first discovered the secret passage was not here, and he was unwilling to take credit for it.

"This secret passage was discovered by Uncle Qin, but he's not here now..."

"However, the existence of this secret passage proves that Tora-Kura Sakuya is not a vampire, but just an ordinary human who needs to use many tricks to make people think he has turned into a monster..."

Hattori Heiji's confident expression left everyone stunned for a moment, and they didn't know how to refute.

At this time, Tora-san stepped forward, pointed inside the coffin, and asked, "But if the person is lying in the coffin, how do we lift the cushion under the body? And how do we open the secret passage?"

Hattori Heiji looked back and saw that the sliding door at the bottom of the coffin was hidden under the cushion, making it difficult for ordinary people to discover this mechanism.

"Your question is a good one..."

"This means there's another accomplice in this case, someone who opened the sliding door of the secret passage from below, allowing Torakura Sakuya above to enter."

"helper?"

Everyone was stunned, and there was more confusion in their eyes.

At this point, Hattori Heiji didn't beat around the bush and announced directly, "Torakura Sakuya is definitely one of the culprits, but he has a serious cancer. Without help from others, it will be difficult for him to carry out his actions smoothly, and he may be discovered by others..."

"And now it seems the most likely accomplice is the eldest daughter who disappeared for several hours..."

As soon as Hattori Heiji finished speaking, maid Xiaoguang suddenly squeezed into the crowd.

"Something terrible is happening!"

"Just now, the guard of the villa urgently contacted me and said that a person was found dead in the forest outside the villa!"

……

In the forest, Conan was chasing the figure in front of him, and the rain was blowing across the serious and handsome little face.

His short stature burst out with infinite power at this moment, his feet were like the wind, and his running speed was comparable to that of the Speedy One.

But despite this, the figure in front was like a ghost, moving left and right, sometimes far and sometimes near in the dim bushes, confusing as an optical illusion.

If Conan didn't have an absolute sense of hearing that could easily distinguish the difference between raindrops falling on leaves and feet stepping into wet mud, he might have been thrown off by the other party long ago.

Chapter 1412 Confusing

hateful!

Conan gritted his teeth and chased after the running figure in front of him without caring about the mud and water that splashed his shoes.

After passing through a patch of short bushes and arriving at an open space, the figure in front of me suddenly stopped.

Conan also subconsciously stopped and, while keeping a safe distance, quietly opened the cover of the watch-shaped anesthetic needle.

I saw the man standing on the edge of the open space, with a cliff more than ten meters high in front of him. There was no way to go forward.

Conan frowned and was about to persuade the other party to stop, but was pushed back by a big hand reaching out from behind.

Qin Zhibo blocked Conan behind him and stared at the figure.

The man was wearing a black raincoat, and the rain-soaked surface emitted a strange, uneven glow under the night light.

Qin Zhibo took a deep breath and asked, "Is it Torahara Sakoya?"

"I've been waiting for you for a long time..."

From the content of the main quest, Qin Zhibo had already known that there was a real vampire in this mansion, and that was Torakura Sakuya.

However, according to the results of the searching spell, Torahaku Hakiya basically stayed in the forest outside the mansion.

When they were looking for the secret passage in the coffin room, the commotion of animals in the forest was caused by Torakura Sakuya.

If Qin Zhibo went to search alone, he would not be able to ensure the safety of everyone in the villa.

By now, Torakura Sakuya had accomplished his goal and had no reason to pose a danger to the people in the house.

"Your purpose is to avenge your fiancée who was in a car accident two years ago, right?"

"Back then, Tonkura Moriyo, Tonkura Mashin, and the maid you killed half a year ago were all accomplices."

"They fabricated the news that Miss Xiaoguang was critically ill in the hospital, which led to the death of your fiancée, right?"

Faced with Qin Zhibo's questioning, the figure standing on the edge of the cliff shook slightly, but did not answer.

After a long silence, he slowly turned around.

Under the dark raincoat hood, a pale face was exposed to Qin Zhibo and Conan's vision.

The turbid, translucent liquid flowed down the wrinkled face, as terrifying as a white candle that was about to melt.

Seeing this face, Conan was startled and leaned back subconsciously.

This person should be Torakura Sakuya

However, compared to the photos that were just developed from the family photo, in just less than two hours, Torakura Sakuya seemed to have aged at least twenty years.

When Qin Zhibo saw this face, a look of shock flashed in his eyes.