Conan Rick's Investigator

But when the fisherman came ashore, everyone on the shore who saw him ran away in fear.

The fisherman was puzzled, but when he walked to a calm puddle on the reef, he saw his own face reflected in the water.

After these incredible adventures, the fisherman has turned into an ugly mermaid monster.

At the same time, more mermaids came from the shore, one of them was wearing the clothes that the wandering monk had worn before.

These mermaids took the fisherman back to the sea.

(Finish)

Qin Zhibo didn't have any special feelings about this story. He just felt that it was a story that was completely unsuitable for children to read.

Maybe there's some educational value in this, like not drinking strange drinks offered by strangers?

However, even though Qin Zhibo read the story carefully, there was still no progress in the main task of investigating "Gods of the Sea".

If Qin Zhibo wanted to investigate further, his only idea was to contact the author of the book himself.

Sitting at the long table, Qin Zhibo pushed "Gods of the Sea" in front of Matsumoto Ryohei and asked, "Is there any way to contact the author of this book?"

"Contact Tanaka Kazuyu? Can I ask why this is happening?"

This is the art of speaking. Although Matsumoto Ryohei meant to ask why, he used a more euphemistic way of saying it.

This is like the difference between asking a girl "Can you be my girlfriend?" and "Can I pursue you?". It allows you to express your meaning clearly without being easily rejected.

"I want to ask him in person about some of the contents of the book."

Matsumoto Ryohei thought for a moment, then left with the book.

Ten minutes later, Matsumoto Ryohei came back and gave Qin Zhibo an address.

"This is the writer's present address."

"Um...how did you do that?"

"It's very simple. Just call the publishing house and tell them that a newspaper wants to interview him and needs his current address."

Matsumoto Ryohei put a piece of unidentified meat into his mouth. "For a writer like him whose reputation is fading, the publishing house really hopes someone will take the initiative to interview him."

Qin Zhibo was very relieved after listening to Matsumoto Ryohei's explanation.

Ryohei Matsumoto is surprisingly useful.

……

Qin Zhibo returned to Beihua Town in Matsumoto Ryohei's car and got off near the writer's current residence.

Ryohei Matsumoto went directly to work at the art museum.

Using the navigator in his brain, Qin Zhibo quickly found Tanaka Kazuyu's current address.

But outside Tanaka Kazuyuki's house, Qin Zhibo saw an acquaintance.

I saw Conan sitting cross-legged on a telephone booth with his arms folded, staring at the house in the yard with a serious expression. There were three children standing under the telephone booth.

For some reason, Qin Zhibo had a bad feeling in his heart.

Chapter 26 The Magical Uses of Luminol Reagent

On a telephone booth that was much taller than an adult, Conan watched every move of the house in the courtyard motionlessly.

It's certainly no coincidence that he can attract the gaze of death.

More than an hour ago, the Junior Detective Team received its first official commission since its establishment.

Searching for the missing Akira!

The commission was initiated by Hiroshi, a fat boy with an O-shaped mouth from the class next door.

Originally, the three little ones thought it was a case of missing children, or maybe they were inspired by the kidnapping of a young girl that was broadcast on TV yesterday and thought they had encountered a kidnapping case this time.

It turns out Akira is just an ordinary kitten, not even a valuable one, not even worth stealing.

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya: "No, no, we only handle more difficult cases."

The three little ones felt that there was no challenge and planned to refuse the commission at that time.

Until Hiroshi took out his trump card, the SSR Kamen Rider Super Gold Card!

Kamen Rider Card×

Junior Detective Team Trap√

Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta immediately expressed their willingness to accept the commission and forced Conan to participate in the cat-finding activity.

Originally, Conan didn't want to participate in such childish activities, but Conan had experienced setbacks before.

Whenever the three little ones come home late from school, Ayumi's mother, Mitsuhiko's sister, and Genta's mother will all call Xiaolan and ask Conan where their children are.

It seems that Conan has been regarded as the guardian of these three children.

Conan: Hey! I'm just a seven-year-old kid!

So in order to prevent the three little ones from running around after school, Conan decided to develop Dr. Agasa's house into an activity room for the Junior Detective League.

In this way, he can get rid of the responsibility of guardianship of the three little ones, and at the same time, it can also allow the lonely old man Dr. Agasa to experience the "family happiness".

……

Back in the present, Conan fixates on the final destination of his journey to find Akira.

The cat named Akira had just walked out of the family's open bathroom window, covered in blood.

Conan first confirmed that there were no wounds on the cat's body, then climbed into the yard and found a bloody corpse in the bathroom.

Conan, who had a strong sense of justice, quickly called the police from a public telephone booth, and then sat in the telephone booth to see if anyone came out of the mansion during this time.

While waiting for the police to arrive, a voice sounded from the side.

"Work...Conan?"

The voice seemed familiar. Conan turned around and saw someone he knew.

"Uncle Qin...?"

Both of them were stunned for a moment, looking at each other.

Until the three little ones broke the silence first.

"Uncle, don't get close to this family."

"Uh...why?" Qin Zhibo asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"Because there's a dead body in there!"

The thin boy with freckles on his face next to him made a scary expression.

Finally, the burly fat man standing at the back warned Qin Zhibo very arrogantly.

"Uncle, don't try to steal our credit. We were the first to find the body."

In Qin Zhibo's vision, the names of these three children are Ayumi Yoshida, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya, and Genta Kojima.

Qin Zhibo ignored these three elementary school students who were obviously pure naughty kids and asked directly, "Conan, is there really a body in there?"

"Well, I confirmed with my own eyes that there is a man's body in the bathroom of this residence."

"A man's body?"

Qin Zhibo was shocked.

I just got the current address of the author of "Gods of the Sea" this morning, and he disappeared at noon?

It can't be such a coincidence, right?

No way? No way?

Just when Qin Zhibo was a little dazed, sirens sounded at the corner of the street, and several police cars quickly surrounded the place at lightning speed.

The person who got out of the police car was naturally the detectives' big brother, Inspector Megure.

Inspector Megure was also a little puzzled when he saw Qin Zhibo hanging out with a few children.

"Brother Qin, was it you who discovered the body?"

Qin Zhibo shook his head and turned to look at Conan who was sitting in the phone booth next to him.

"Conan!"

"Were you the one who called the police?"

Conan nodded, and Inspector Megure was completely puzzled.

Megure heard from the police dispatcher that the person who called the police was clearly an adult male, so he naturally thought it was Qin Zhibo who called the police.

But in fact, the voice calling the police was Conan using the bow tie voice changer to change into the voice of an adult male and call the police.

After all, it would be difficult for the police to pay attention when Conan and the other children called the police in their childish voices. At least it would take some time to explain that this was not a prank.

Never mind, maybe speaking into a public phone booth would make the voice rougher...

"Conan, did you really find the body?"

"Yes, absolutely."

"And no one has come out of that house since we found the body."

"That means the body is still there."

……

Adhering to the unspoken rule that whoever sees the case has a share of the information, Qin Zhibo followed Inspector Megure and watched him press the doorbell of Tanaka's house.

The doorbell was pressed several times in succession, and the door was finally opened. Standing at the entrance was a man in a bathrobe.

"What's going on? It's so noisy!"

The man wore round-framed glasses and had a mustache, and his personal information was floating next to his head.

Name: Chishi Tanaka

Age: 34

Occupation: Securities company employee

Social Credit: 1200

……

Megure walked straight into the entrance, took out the police handbook and said, "I'm Officer Megure. Someone said a body was found in this house."

"Corpse?"

Tomofumi Tanaka was surprised, but the Junior Detective Team, led by Conan, spoke out for justice.

"That's right! We saw it clearly!"

"That man is in the bathroom!"

"Lying on the ground covered in blood!"

In response to the Junior Detectives' accusation, Tomofumi Tanaka said with a somewhat disdainful smile, "How is that possible? I was the one using the bathroom until just now."

"Look, the one at the end of the corridor is the bathroom."

"Then please let us go over and take a look."

With Inspector Megure's domineering push, the Junior Detective Team and Qin Zhibo broke into the house without changing their shoes.

But when they opened the bathroom door, everyone was shocked.

The bathroom floor was shiny and smooth, and the tub was spotless. There was no body at all.

"Corpse, corpse! Missing?"

"How can this be?"

"The body disappeared..."

Conan, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko exclaimed, and at the same time, a prompt for a new task appeared in Qin Zhibo's field of vision.

……