Conan Rick's Investigator

"I was just worried that there weren't any reliable knights along the way who could escort this 'Egg of Memory'!"

"Since Mr. Qin is going there too, I'll leave it to you!"

"After all, it was Mr. Qin who protected this egg from Kaito Kidd tonight..."

Kogoro Mouri, who was smiling and about to accept Suzuki Shiro's commission to "protect the egg", froze his smile.

Suzuki Shiro noticed the stiffness in Maori Kogoro's expression and quickly changed the subject: "Of course, Maori-san is also a very important knight..."

In this way, Qin Zhibo and the Maori family are about to embark on the journey to Yokosuka.

……

The next day.

A nervous figure stood in the hotel room, staring anxiously at the morning news broadcast by Rena Mizunashi on the hotel TV.

"Around 7:20 last night, a power substation in the Osaka area was attacked..."

"Through Tokyo Electric Power Company's full rescue efforts, power supply to Osaka was restored at 9:20."

"Fortunately, no casualties were caused during the power outage..."

Hearing this voice, the stone in Kuroba Kaito's heart finally fell, and he jumped up excitedly.

"No need to turn yourself in!"

"Long live! Long live!"

Just then, the hotel phone on the table rang. Kuroba Kaito picked up the call, and the voice of Terai Konosuke came from the other end.

"Master, I found out."

"The Romanov Dynasty exhibition, originally scheduled to open today, has been canceled. The 'Egg of Memory' will be taken aboard a Suzuki Group cruise ship and returned to Tokyo by sea."

Kuroba Kaito put down the phone with a heavy face.

Although he had decided to completely give up stealing the "Egg of Memory", he still had to avenge the "sniper attack".

Thinking this way, Kuroba Kaito gently stroked the Band-Aid on his right temple.

Chapter 221 Seven-Person Tea Party

"Don't move, dear..."

"Be gentle~ Don't stimulate it..."

In the room, Mao Lilan was carefully bandaging the wound of the pigeon that Conan picked up, but for some reason, Conan's little face next to her was red.

Xiaolan... so gentle...

Putting the wrapped pigeons into the bamboo basket, Mao Lilan said worriedly, "I wonder if Hattori will be detained..."

Conan smiled and comforted him: "That guy is fine, he's just been locked up at home."

As soon as he got on the ship, Conan called Hattori Heiji.

It turned out that Officer Otaki did not actually send Hattori Heiji to the police station, but sent him directly home.

Of course, there is still a punishment, which is that he is confined to his home and cannot participate in the next case.

"Kudo, if there's any progress on the case, please call me immediately!"

"Okay, I understand. Just stay home and reflect on your actions."

"Hey! You were on the motorcycle at that time!"

"But I'm just a kid, I won't be scolded~"

"Really?" Hattori Heiji on the other end of the phone grinned, "Then next time we meet, I'll tell Xiaolan that you are..."

"If you dare to say that to Xiaolan, I will..."

Conan suddenly thought that he had no leverage to threaten Hattori Heiji.

"What's wrong with you?" Hattori Heiji continued with a wicked smile, "Is it really okay for you to be so fierce? If you don't change your attitude..."

"I was wrong, please don't tell Xiaolan..."

Conan had no choice but to lower his head.

At this moment, Conan felt that as someone who knew his true identity, Qin Zhibo was much better than Hattori Heiji.

As for Qin Zhibo, he would not "threaten" himself so openly.

……

Back to the present, Ran Mao Li looked at the sea outside the window with a worried look on her face.

"The police searched all night yesterday but couldn't find Kidd. I wonder if Kidd is still alive..."

Conan saw that although Ran Mouri was talking about Kidd, the worry in her eyes was not simple.

She still suspected that Kidd was Kudo Shinichi...

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

It turned out that Suzuki Sonoko brought Kosaka Natsumi to the tea party, followed by Qin Zhibo and Nishino Masato.

Several people sat down on the sofa. Qin Zhibo chose a seat farther away from the window. There was still an empty seat, so Qin Zhibo suggested calling Pu Siqinglan.

After a while, Sonoko and Conan called Pu Siqinglan, who was wearing a red cheongsam, and the few of them started a tea party.

"So Miss Natsumi has been living in Paris since she was 20 years old..." said Suzuki Sonoko.

"Yeah." Kosaka Natsumi shrugged. "I learned to make Western pastries in Paris and now I'm a pastry chef."

Qin Zhibo looked above Natsumi Kosaka's head and saw that she was indeed a pastry chef by profession.

Not only that, Natsumi Kosaka is also 27 years old, the same age as Qinglan Urashi.

The two gray-haired women matched Tanaka Takahisa's description in terms of age and genitals.

Moreover, their looks and figures can be described as "stunning beauties", just like the Shi Kaobing described by Maya Tachibana.

Who is Shi Kaobing after all?

There is a way to directly identify Scott Skoubing. It can be found out by conducting a physical contact investigation.

After all, Scout is an expert with guns. If it is Scout, there should be gun skills in the skill column.

But this was already the several times they had met, so it was still a bit abrupt and strange for Qin Zhibo to suddenly ask to shake hands with the two girls.

So I can only find another opportunity to investigate later...

At this moment, Conan said: "Ms. Xia Mei's eyes are gray."

"Yes, it is indeed gray." Kosaka Natsumi leaned over to look at Conan, her bright gray eyes twinkling. "My mother and grandmother also have gray eyes. I guess they were inherited from my great-grandmother."

Qin Zhibo took advantage of the opportunity and quickly mentioned, "Ms. Qinglan's eyes are also gray..."

At this moment, everyone's attention shifted to the two people's almost identical childish looks, and Natsumi Kosaka and Qinglan Urashi looked at each other in disbelief.

"Really? Are all Chinese people's genitals gray?" Suzuki Sonoko asked curiously.

Mao Lilan beside her smiled and said, "Ms. Qinglan's name means blue orchid. My name also happens to have 'Lan' in it. May I ask if the Chinese 'Lan' and the Japanese 'Lan' are pronounced the same?"

"Yes, you are right. The Chinese pronunciation of 'Qinglan' is 'Qinglan'. My last name is 'Pusi', so my name is 'Pusi Qinglan'."

"What about me? What's my name?"

Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko asked Pu Siqinglan in turn how to pronounce their names in Chinese, and Pu Siqinglan answered one by one.

However, in Qin Zhibo's opinion, Pu Siqinglan's pronunciation still has an accent, and she is using non-standard Mandarin to teach two Japanese people to speak Chinese.

To further test Pu Siqinglan's pronunciation, Qin Zhibo asked, "Excuse me, how do you say '你好漂亮' in Chinese?"

Pu Siqinglan answered without hesitation: "The appearance of the farmer is very good."

It really is the magic city language...

This is authentic Shanghai dialect. Could it be that Pu Siqinglan is a real Shanghai native?

Having "learned" a new language, Qin Zhibo directly said, "It's a good show~"

"They all look so good~"

Qin Zhibo's two sentences made the girls very happy, but Conan on the side realized that the problem was not that simple.

What does "mendu" mean?

And why was Qin Zhibo able to learn Pu Siqinglan's Chinese pronunciation so well the first time he learned it? Could it be...

Is Qin Zhibo really that talented in languages?

"By the way, I think the age difference between Miss Xia Mei and Miss Qing Lan should not be that big, right?" Qin Zhibo suddenly mentioned again.

Natsumi Kosaka and Qinglan Urashi looked at each other and confirmed that they were both 27 years old. Their birthdays were even only two days apart, May 5th and May 5rd respectively.

At this time, Conan said arrogantly that he was right between the two of them, and it was May 5th.

This caused a brief suspicion in Ran Mouri, because Conan's birthday was the same as Kudo Shinichi's.

But then, Mao Lilan immediately put this idea out of her mind.

After all, there is a Kaito Kid who looks and sounds like Shinichi. How could an elementary school student Conan arouse the suspicion of Ran Mouri?

At this moment, Nishino Masato, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said, "Actually, before I became President Suzuki's secretary, I traveled to many places, including Asia and Europe..."

"That's right! When I was traveling in Russia, some Russian historians were using the Tsarist spies' reports on Rasputin to whitewash his reputation, calling him a religious saint and even wanting to build a monument and write a biography for him."

"Because of this incident, a large protest movement broke out in Russia..."

"If you ask me, that kind of villain doesn't deserve any tombstone or words."

When Masato Nishino finished speaking, the atmosphere of the tea party, which had been harmonious just now, suddenly changed.

Chapter 222 Conan: "We must believe in science!" (The main plot is in the author's words!)

The tea party suddenly became silent, and everyone fell silent. Nishino Masato scratched his head a little embarrassedly and asked, "Excuse me, did I say something I shouldn't have said?"

"That's not the case..." Suzuki Sonoko shook her head, "But who is this Rasputin you're talking about?"

In fact, not only Suzuki Sonoko, but also Maori Ran and Qin Zhibo, who didn't know much about Russian history, didn't know who this person was.

"He was the representative of the evil Tsarist regime and the imperial tutor during the reign of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of the Romanov dynasty. He was the evil monk Rasputin."

At this point, Suzuki Sonoko, who wasn't very good at history, wondered, "Could Nicholas II be the family in the 'Egg of Memory'?"

Nishino Masato nodded and replied, "Yes, it's the family in the 'Egg of Memories'."

"Rasputin had a very close 'personal relationship' with Nicholas II's family. It is said that he not only had an affair with the empress, but also with all four of Nicholas II's daughters."

Nishino Masato made a big splash, which immediately aroused the interest of gossip queen Suzuki Sonoko, "Is this true?"

"Well, the experiences of this Russian demon monk are very legendary. Many of his experiences cannot even be explained clearly until now."

"It is said that he possesses God-like 'miraculous powers'~"

These unofficial historical secrets immediately piqued the interest of Suzuki Sonoko and Mori Ran, and they asked Nishino Masato to tell them in detail.

Finally finding a topic where he could take the initiative, Nishino Masato rolled up his sleeves and was about to give a long speech when Pu Siqinglan suddenly stood up from the sofa opposite him.

"Sorry, I'm feeling a little unwell, so I'll leave first."

After she finished speaking, Pu Siqinglan left the tea party without any attempt to keep her.

The rest of the people listened quietly to the legend of the Russian evil monk Rasputin as told by Nishino Makoto.

"Rasputin was born in 1869. In his youth, he was a village scoundrel and a horse thief. As a result, his fellow villagers nicknamed him 'Rasputin', which means 'dissolute'."

"This kind of life continued until he was in his thirties. According to him, he was enlightened by a holy person and gained the powers only possessed by 'prophets' and 'men of God'."

"From then on, Rasputin donned holy robes in the name of religion, posing as a priest, spreading prophecies and miraculous healing skills everywhere. He became famous for successfully predicting a severe drought and curing the dog of Grand Duke Nicholas, the uncle of Nicholas II."

"Later, Rasputin used the divination and spells he learned from the 'holy man' to easily win over a group of nobles. He became a popular figure in high society, and his fame gradually spread to the imperial palace."

"The Russian royal family at the time, especially Nicholas II's empress, were devoted believers in mysticism. Their only son, Alexi, suffered from hemophilia, and none of the royal doctors in the country could cure him, so they summoned Rasputin to the palace for treatment."

"A miracle happened. Rasputin simply fed the Tsarevich a small packet of powder, prayed and told stories beside his pillow, and Tsarevich Alexei recovered his health."