Conan Rick's Investigator

I don’t exist, I don’t exist, I don’t exist ×n…

However, a voice came slowly, breaking Kento Toba's fantasy of being invisible.

"Mr. Toba, don't you want to go to the garage and take a look?"

Toba Kento's body trembled, and he forced a smile, "I won't go, I'll just stay here..."

"How can that be possible? What if the murderer comes back and kills you?"

Kento Toba, who received care from a stranger: "..."

Did I kill myself?

"It's safer if we all act together. Come and join us."

Just like that, Toba Kento, who didn't want to go to the garage, was dragged into the garage by Qin Zhibo as if he were going to the execution ground.

With the garage door open, everyone was searching around in the garage with the help of natural light from outside.

However, among the clutter in the garage, no one has yet found the precious first edition book.

Qin Zhibo pulled Toba Kento directly to the back seat of the car, opened the door, and said, "The card said the book is under the back seat."

"Now I'm going to look under the seat. You stand here and supervise me to see if I hide the book."

The corners of Toba Kento's mouth twisted a little, and he quickly waved his hands and said, "No, no, I have great faith in your character, Mr. Qin. I'll be leaving first..."

Kento Toba wanted to escape from this narrow space that was about to turn into a hell on earth, but Qin Zhibo didn't give Kento Toba the chance at all. He grabbed Kento Toba's wrist tightly with his strong and powerful hand, and took out the lighter he had just asked for with his other hand.

"It's okay, what's the problem with everyone being together?"

"I'm going to light a fire!"

slap~

With a crisp sound of metallic friction, Qin Zhibo opened the metal cover of the lighter and pressed his thumb on the flint roller.

"what!"

Kento Toba let out a scream, his body quickly sank, and he fell to the ground with his head in his hands.

A flickering flame ignited in the lighter, but the garage did not explode as expected. The air was unusually calm.

Everyone was stunned, staring at Kento Toba who was lying on the ground. For a moment, they didn't know what kind of illness this man had.

Kento Toba, who was lying on the ground, closed his eyes for ten seconds before realizing that he did not feel the flames burning on his body.

"This……"

Kento Toba lay on the ground like a turtle, looking up at the people around him at a loss.

Qin Zhibo pointed at the "turtle" lying on the ground and said solemnly, "Let me introduce to you the murderer of the innkeeper, Mr. Toba Kento!"

At this moment, everyone showed a look of surprise, including Hakuba and Conan, who were unable to react in time.

Why did they suddenly point out that Hu Ye Yanren was the murderer?

Looking at Toba Kento lying on the ground with a nervous expression, Hakuba Tan and Conan widened their eyes and seemed to understand something.

"In fact, Mr. Toba's method of killing the innkeeper was very simple. He first killed the innkeeper the night before, then arranged himself and hid him in the already started jeep."

"Depending on the duration of rigor mortis, the legs in rigor mortis could apply pressure to the brakes, keeping the car in its original position."

"Then you turn on the car's air conditioning to warm it up, accelerating the thawing of the body. As the body begins to soften, the brakes release and the car starts moving."

"As for the car's sudden acceleration, it was probably caused by the bumpy road surface, which caused the corpse's foot to suddenly slip completely off the brake pedal. It was just a coincidence."

"And the card you just gave me was actually intended to detonate gasoline vapor in this garage to get rid of me, who already knew about this method."

"It's just that this trick was designed in advance to target someone who has a lighter. You said you received this card, but you don't even have a lighter."

"So you are the real murderer!"

Qin Zhibo's reasoning also solved the doubts in Hakuba Tan's and Conan's minds, that is, why the dashboard was covered with white cloth. It was because they were afraid that someone would see that the heater light on the car was on and thus discover the trick.

It turns out to be such a simple technique!

Conan and Hakuba Tanjiro sighed in their hearts at the same time, and both believed that as long as they were given more time to think, they would definitely be able to figure out this method.

Damn it! If only I had more time!

Unknowingly, Conan and Hakuba Detective have already regarded Qin Zhibo's case-solving speed as the benchmark for reasoning competition.

Chapter 292: The cycle of justice

Kento Toba's body remained stiff, cold sweat streamed down his head, and his heart was pounding.

In order to kill the two targets in his heart, he planned for a whole year.

During this year, he painstakingly studied various cases involving alibi tricks throughout Japan and books related to forensic identification, and only then did he carefully design this "flawless" killing method.

However, Qin Zhibo stayed at the scene for less than five minutes before he announced that he had figured out the method of killing the innkeeper, and then used his second trick to frame himself.

Kento Toba refused to give up and wanted to make a final struggle, asking for a real hammer.

But then Toba Kento's girlfriend added, "When I went to look for you last night, you weren't in the room, and there wasn't a single change on your Sherlock Holmes questionnaire."

Qin Zhibo praised his girlfriend for putting justice above her own family, and continued, "You said you were in your room doing the Sherlock Holmes questionnaire from last night to today."

"If I find out now that your Sherlock Holmes Questionnaire isn't finished..."

Hakuba Tan paid the most attention to practical evidence. Just as he was about to turn around and go back to his hotel room to get the questionnaire, Toba Kento's legs could no longer support him and he collapsed to the ground.

"No need to look for it. The questionnaire about Sherlock Holmes is still blank..."

"My mind is full of thoughts about killing people. I'm not in the mood for that..."

Kento Toba's words were considered an admission of his guilt.

Qin Zhibo continued, "Your card was prepared in advance, indicating that your murder plan was for two people: one is the innkeeper, and the other is someone holding a lighter..."

Before Qin Zhibo could finish his words, Toba Kento's girlfriend angrily interrupted him, "Do you want to kill me?"

"No, no."

Qin Zhibo shook his head and said seriously, "Actually, the person he wanted to kill was Mr. Fujisawa Toshiaki. His motive was probably the book 'The Study of Green Letters'."

Toba Kento stared in surprise and sighed, "I didn't expect you to know this..."

"That's right, that book 'A Study in Green' is an insult to Sherlock Holmes!"

"Holmes can't possibly kill anyone! Professor Moriarty can't possibly represent justice!"

"I can't even imagine..."

Everyone looked shocked, but as someone who had just read the book "The Study of Green Letters", Qin Zhibo knew what he was talking about.

However, as someone who has watched "Sherlock Holmes", Qin Zhibo said that Holmes really killed people.

If Toba Kento saw that amazing drama, wouldn't even the creators of that drama be...

At this time, Fujisawa Toshiaki, who published "A Study of Green Letters," lowered his head and explained, "Actually, you didn't understand the novel at all..."

"And the author of that book wasn't the innkeeper, but a 19th-century man named Neil Moonlight..."

"The innkeeper plagiarized that person's novel and published it at his own expense..."

After hearing what Fujisawa Toshiaki said, Toba Kento widened his eyes in surprise.

But there was no point in saying anything now, his hands were already stained with blood and there was no turning back.

Qin Zhibo was worried about the authors who wrote fan works in this world.

Fan works OCC are at risk of being killed, the people here are really "simple and honest"!

As Kento Toba confessed his guilt and was sentenced to death, Qin Zhibo also received a task completion reminder from the system.

[Congratulations on completing the side mission]

[Task Completion Grade: B+]

[Acquire 500 general skill proficiency]

[Get 140 social credits]

[Acquire 250 general skill proficiency]

One case can earn you 750 points of general skill proficiency. Qin Zhibo found that the rewards for the side quests he had recently solved had increased.

The reason for this is not only the increase in the unit price of cases, but also my own familiarity with the case-solving process.

When I first came to this world, even using systematic investigations, I couldn't completely solve the case, and I needed the help of other detectives' reasoning.

Now, he can deduce the truth with just a few investigation points.

For example, in this case, as long as we find the Sherlock Holmes questionnaire in Kento Toba's room, the investigation point will explain everything.

But searching the room and personal belongings is the police's job. According to the procedure, Qin Zhibo can only discover the investigation point after the police arrive.

But by that time the mission was already over.

And if we can break through Kento Toba's psychological defenses, even if we find a blank questionnaire, he can just say that his brain is malfunctioning, or he's not in the mood to write, or he doesn't want to participate in the event...

In short, this level of evidence is not sustainable from the prosecutor's perspective, but it is a different matter if the murderer's psychological defenses are broken down and he confesses his crime and is brought to justice.

……

At the same time, Conan and Hakuba Detective were also thinking about this case.

What surprised Bai Ma Tan was that as a "phantom thief", Qin Zhibo was so proficient in solving cases and reasoning.

I had only seen it in newspapers and news during my previous investigation, but when I visited the scene this time, the performance was somewhat unexpected.

Both his reasoning and his methods of breaking through the criminal's psychological defenses are at the level of a first-class detective.

As expected of Kaito Kidd!

The white horse detective smiled slightly, not caring too much about winning or losing in the reasoning of this case.

This is the character of the White Horse Detective. He will not dwell on trivial matters other than the truth of the case.

If someone says that he is not the best detective in Kanto, then Hakuba will admit with a smile that he is not the best detective.

If someone wanted to compete with him in reasoning ability, Bai Ba Tan would smile and say, "No need to compete, I'll give you my first place..."

But next time, I will definitely expose your mask!

Bai Ma Tan secretly expressed his determination in his heart.

Conan, on the other hand, was worried about something else, which was...

“Uncle Qin, how do you know that the gasoline vapor in the car is gone?”

"If the lighter ignites the gasoline vapor..."

Conan approached Qin Zhibo and asked this concerned question.

"I actually opened the car door in advance to release the gasoline vapor, and I also tested it with my own lighter."

But in fact, Qin Zhibo used magic to remove the gasoline vapor in the car.

At present, Qin Zhibo is learning some relatively low-level magic from Koizumi Hongzi, such as the locating spell and the wind spell.

Just use the wind spell to quickly clear the gasoline vapor in the car.

Kento Toba used warm air to speed up the softening of the corpse after rigor mortis to create an alibi for himself.

Qin Zhibo used the wind spell to speed up the dissipation of gasoline vapor, setting a trap to lure Hu Ye Yanren into falling into it.

To some extent, this can be considered as retribution for the cycle of justice...

However, Qin Zhibo paid 10 points of magic power for this.

Fortunately, now that we have the magic ring, it is relatively convenient to replenish magic power. It is nothing more than exchanging willpower for magic power.

Chapter 293 From Science to Anti-Science

At dawn, the phone could be dialed again.

The police arrived and took Kento Toba away, and also sent the rest of the tour group back to Tokyo.