Conan Rick's Investigator

But with Qin Zhibo's testimony, combined with the video he just saw, and the price of a punch to the head in exchange for a glimpse of the note with the death message on it, the suspicious dots in Conan's mind finally connected.

However, although Conan understood it, Inspector Megure and Kogoro Mouri next to him did not understand it yet.

So Conan reminded in a childish voice: "The director must have replaced this pen because there is some difference between the two pens."

"For example, the difference between writing and not being able to write..."

At Conan's reminder, Megure quickly wrote and drew on the paper with two pens, and indeed discovered the difference.

At this moment, Maori Kogoro finally slapped his forehead and said with sudden enlightenment: "I understand!"

"The note with the death message was actually prepared long ago. When Boss Manaka was attacked, they used words to draw his attention to the note, and then left him a pen that couldn't write."

"From the silent video, it looks like Boss Manaka wrote the death message after being attacked by the criminals. You can then put the blame on someone else!"

After Kogoro Mouri's explanation, Inspector Megure now understood the technique.

"So that's it!"

"As expected of you, Brother Maori!"

Inspector Megure enthusiastically patted Kogoro Mouri's back, but in Conan's eyes, he firmly denied Kogoro Mouri's contribution.

Not to mention that Kogoro Mouri made these inferences after being prompted by himself, even he himself only understood this method after Qin Zhibo's testimony.

In other words, the entire process of solving the case is like this.

In the short period of time between the discovery of the body and the arrival of the police, Qin Zhibo had actually already understood the modus operandi of this case.

However, at that time, Qin Zhibo didn't know who arranged this method and couldn't identify the culprit.

However, the criminal had to replace the ballpoint pen that was thrown away by Boss Manaka, otherwise his trick would be exposed immediately.

So Qin Zhibo has been waiting, waiting for whoever will replace the pen, whoever will be the criminal.

Otherwise, Qin Zhibo would not have been able to capture Director Ochiai's little movements completely when everyone, including himself, had let down their guard and was rushing to the monitoring room to check the video.

So, if we rank the deduction abilities based on the speed at which they cracked this case, Conan thinks it would be like this...

Qin Zhibo > Conan > Maori Kogoro > Inspector Megure

Conan even had a vague feeling that when he felt like Watson and Qin Zhibo was a Sherlock Holmes, Qin Zhibo had already seen through the method of the case and was testing himself.

Conan doesn't feel this huge sense of oppression caused by the gap in reasoning ability from many people.

In other words, when it comes to reasoning, Conan is the only one who is convinced.

Kudo Yusaku...

But why could this person also make me realize this gap in reasoning ability?

Who is he?

……

Under the hammering from all sides, Director Ochiai finally pleaded guilty, raised his head proudly, and explained his motives for the crime.

It turned out that it was the plan of Mr. Manaka to transform the art museum into a hotel that inspired Director Ochiai, who had run the art museum for decades, to kill him.

In his eyes, the art museum is sacred and his own child, and he will not allow a "devil" like Boss Manaka to get involved.

As for why Kubota was framed, it was because the curator had previously caught Kubota stealing artworks from the museum, and it was because Kubota knelt down and begged for mercy that the curator softened his heart and did not call the police.

But after this, Director Ochiai found that he still had not repented and treated the artworks in the museum roughly, and recently more artworks in the museum were lost.

So this time, Director Ochiai decided to punish him in his own way.

In the mind of Director Ochiai, Kubota, who stole and sold artworks, is also a "devil."

Upon hearing this, Inspector Megure ordered his two men nearby to restrain Kubota.

"Mr. Kubota, you are under arrest for theft."

"But the recent theft of art from the museum really wasn't my fault!"

Kubota denied it with all his might and acted innocent, but Inspector Megure was ruthless and had his men take Kubota away first.

While watching Kubota being taken away, Director Ochiai sighed while looking at the painting "Divine Punishment".

"It seems that although the devil was killed by the righteous knight, the knight was also baptized by the evil blood and contaminated by the devil."

Just as the handcuffed Director Ochiai was about to turn around and leave with the police, a voice came from a distance.

"But only humans can be killed, and true demons..."

"It's impossible to kill it."

Chapter 22 The Real Art Museum Supernatural Event

Hearing this, Director Ochiai stopped and looked back, watching Qin Zhibo's eyes slightly open.

This young man...

You understand what I'm saying.

Director Ochiai just used the painting titled "Divine Punishment" as a metaphor to imply his own experience and fate.

However, Qin Zhibo proposed a different understanding of this painting.

Director Ochiai stood there for a long time in response to this understanding, and then slowly gave an answer.

"Mr. Qin, maybe you are right."

"Actually, the painting wasn't originally called 'Heavenly Punishment'. It was an unnamed painting. I arbitrarily named it 'Heavenly Punishment' for the convenience of the exhibition."

"So, just treat what I said just now as my wishful thinking and just laugh it off..."

Under the guidance of the police, Director Ochiai slowly left the scene, leaving Kogoro Mori and others confused.

"What were they talking about just now, whether to paint or not?"

"Maybe he's talking about that painting."

Conan pointed to "Heavenly Punishment" in the center of the Hell Exhibition Hall, and at the same time saw Ran Mouri cowering behind Kogoro Mouri.

Mao Lilan has been very afraid of these ghosts and spirits since she was a child, so Conan used his boyfriend power to comfort her: "Sister Xiaolan, it's just a painting."

"Also, the presence of 'walking armor' in the museum is probably just the result of the curator secretly practicing his murderous tactics at night."

After hearing Conan's comfort, Mao Lilan gave a somewhat forced smile and said, "I just feel that this exhibition hall is a bit gloomy, as if some unclean creature has appeared here..."

Conan looked around and saw that all the lights in the exhibition hall were on. Although it was not very bright because the exhibition hall was decorated in a gloomy tone, it was not eerie either.

At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded behind Mao Lilan.

"Xiaolan..."

"what!"

The shrill scream echoed in the exhibition hall, startling Inspector Megure who was standing behind Ran Mouri.

Inspector Megure was dumbfounded, and Ran Mouri quickly bowed to Inspector Megure and apologized.

Officer Megure also coughed lightly and said, "Xiaolan, I just want to ask you, when will Brother Kudo come back?"

"We're still waiting for him to give his testimony in the Shuyu Residence and Roller Coaster cases."

Last time, in order not to delay Kudo Shinichi's date, Megure did not let Kudo Shinichi record his confession directly after the roller coaster murder case was solved.

But what Megure didn't expect was that Kudo Shinichi disappeared from the world from then on, and no one saw him alive or dead.

"Actually, I don't know where Shinichi has gone. He hasn't contacted me in the past few days."

"Oh, I see……"

Inspector Megure looked puzzled and wondered if he could consider issuing a missing person notice when he returned.

After all, Kudo Shinichi is a famous detective and crime nemesis, and he must have accumulated a lot of enemies.

Conan, who was standing next to the two of them, looked in Qin Zhibo's direction with a guilty conscience.

In Conan's opinion, the reason why Qin Zhibo is unable to reveal that he is Kudo Shinichi is simply because "rejuvenation" sounds too unscientific.

But if Qin Zhibo could find out more information, with his strong reasoning ability, he would definitely be able to come up with decisive evidence that "Conan = Kudo Shinichi".

After all, a great detective once said that if you eliminate all impossible conclusions, then whatever remains, no matter how bizarre or unbelievable, must be an irrefutable fact.

So now we must not let Qin Zhibo hear the details about Kudo Shinichi's disappearance.

Fortunately, Qin Zhibo was not standing nearby when these conversations took place.

In Conan's sight, Qin Zhibo was staring at the painting called "Heavenly Punishment" alone.

……

In Qin Zhibo's vision, there was a clear investigation point on the painting "Heavenly Punishment".

Qin Zhibo could be 100% sure that this was not an investigation point he had missed, but one that suddenly appeared just now.

It was when Director Ochiai personally admitted that the name of the painting "Heavenly Punishment" was made up by himself.

How is this going?

At this time, not only was the suddenly appearing investigation point very strange, but even the task interface in the system suddenly changed to a different style.

The relatively modern translucent font on the task interface has been changed to an old font similar to black lead printing.

What Qin Zhibo cared about the most was that the original side quest "Investigate the supernatural events in the art museum" had become the main quest at some point.

……

Main Quest: Investigate the supernatural events at the Medieval Art Museum

Task requirements: No requirements

Mission rewards: 1600 general skill proficiency, 120 social credit, 400 mysterious myth knowledge skill proficiency.

……

The content of the task is the same as the previous side task, except that the previous side task is not shown as completed, but is directly replaced by the main task.

Could it be that the supernatural events at the Nakadashi Art Museum were Director Ochiai rehearsing his murder methods late at night?

Now the only thing Qin Zhibo can investigate is the painting "Heavenly Punishment", and Qin Zhibo can only confirm this option in his mind.

【Survey√】

[This is an unknown painting by an unknown artist. The protagonist of the painting is a "demon" that transcends dimensions...]

[It comes from a dimension different from the human world, traveling back and forth between various universes, and will not stay on a single planet for long...]

[Although it has an observable appearance, due to its physical characteristics, it is not affected by the human world in any way...]

[When it leaves for other dimensions, it will take some items and creatures with it...]

[It will use its claws to firmly grasp the items it wants to take away, and the items it takes away will never appear again...]

[The signature in the lower right corner vaguely reveals part of the name of this "demon"...]

【Dimensional……】

……

After the investigation, Qin Zhibo felt a slight tingling sensation on his scalp.

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Qin Zhibo stared at the "demon" in the painting that looked like a monkey or a mummy, but all kinds of seemingly unrelated thoughts appeared in his mind.

Artworks that have recently disappeared from art museums...

Kubota, who has a history of art theft, has refused to admit the theft...

A "demon" that takes away some items when it leaves a world...

At the edge of Qin Zhibo's vision, dark green branches appeared out of nowhere.

These branches, which appear to be wrinkled and twisted due to lack of water, vaguely look like the tentacles of some creature.

However, this tentacle did not twitch randomly. Instead, its dark green skin moved up and down, as if there was a small heart hidden underneath.

At the same time, the number in the will column of Qin Zhibo's character card is continuing to decrease.

90...