Conan Rick's Investigator

Side quest: Find the missing body

Task requirements: time limit 1 hour

Task reward: 300 general skill proficiency, 120 social credit

……

The appearance of the side quest was like hammering a hammer into Qin Zhibo's heart.

There had indeed been corpses here, but for some unknown reason, they had disappeared.

So, Qin Zhibo stood next to Inspector Megure, who was looking a little embarrassed as he watched the Junior Detective Team and Tanaka Tomofumi arguing about whether there was a body or not, and offered advice.

"Officer Megure, if we just spray this place with luminol, wouldn't we know if there's a body?"

Chapter 27 Is This Seven Years Old?

Luminol, also known as luminol.

Even if the bloodstains have been carefully scrubbed, the luminol reagent can still detect the bloodstains for a long time.

Although this is a professional forensic identification method, it is not a secret. It has been mentioned in many criminal investigation dramas, and Qin Zhibo naturally knows it.

But after hearing Qin Zhibo's suggestion, Inspector Megure looked a little troubled.

"If we want to call in a professional forensic doctor to examine the bloodstains, we need to conduct a formal search of the documents."

There are not many forensic doctors in Japan, and each one is extremely valuable. Even a police captain like Megure cannot call a forensic doctor to identify the scene before a case is filed.

"It doesn't require any specialized testing. Just spray it with luminol reagent. There's no need for a forensic doctor to come in person."

Qin Zhibo continued to persuade, and Inspector Megure was somewhat persuaded.

Although he couldn't call a professional forensic doctor, he still had the face to borrow a bottle of luminol reagent from the Forensic Identification Department.

Even if you don't give Megure this face, you should give Officer Sato this face, right?

As long as Sato takes action, there is nothing that the entire Metropolitan Police Department cannot borrow.

"Well, you have a point."

"Hey, please call Officer Sato and have her borrow a bottle of luminol from the Forensic Science Department and bring it here."

"Yes!"

The young police officer behind moved upon hearing the sound, but Tomofumi Tanaka on the side became anxious.

Having watched the popular detective drama series "Detective Samonji" on TV, Tomofumi Tanaka knows the function of luminol reagent.

As long as the police spray that thing in the bathroom, their plan will be exposed instantly.

"No! This is absolutely not possible!"

"This is my house, I won't allow you to do any testing here!"

"You police officers didn't even have a search warrant. You came to search my house just because you believed a few kids' pranks. Now you want to do testing in my house?"

Tomofumi Tanaka's voice was so loud, and he was puffing his beard and glaring, that he frightened the young police officer who was about to run out of the door. He turned around and looked at Inspector Megure, asking for instructions on what to do next.

Inspector Megure gave a look and swayed left and right, apparently retracting his previous order.

After all, without a formal search warrant, these police officers would not dare to act too rashly in other people's homes.

Just when the atmosphere in the house became a little tense, a faint voice floated out from Qin Zhibo's mouth.

"Are you in a hurry?"

Realizing that his emotions had just gotten out of control, Tomofumi Tanaka pushed up his glasses, which were a little blurry.

"I'm not in a hurry."

"But you looked anxious just now."

"I told you, I'm not in a hurry!"

"Look, you're anxious again. Look, I've said so much, am I even a little anxious?"

Conan rolled his eyes at Qin Zhibo's sophistry.

Conan: Nonsense, I'm not talking about you in terms of feelings.

Qin Zhibo walked over to the Junior Detective Team and continued, "And you just said these kids were playing a prank, but how can you be sure that these kids were the only ones who saw the body here?"

"I'm just one of the random people who came in with you. You shouldn't take it for granted that I'm the guardian of these children. Have I also seen the bodies here?"

Qin Zhibo's two sentences once again triggered everyone's thinking.

Inspector Megure: Yes, when I came in, I only said that someone saw a dead body in this house, but I didn’t say whether it was the child or Brother Qin who saw it. How did he determine that it was the children who saw it?

Conan: How come I didn't notice this linguistic loophole?

Three Little Ones: This uncle is so handsome...

Under Qin Zhibo's verbal offensive, Tanaka Tomofumi held it in for a while and finally made up a decent excuse.

"You were wearing the same style of clothes as this officer, so I thought you were a police officer."

"Aren't you a policeman?"

After Tomofumi Tanaka pointed it out, Qin Zhibo and Megure realized that today was another day when they were wearing the same clothes.

Megure lowered his hat a little embarrassedly, "He's a detective..."

"detective?"

"Anyway, I don't care why you suspect there's a dead body here."

"As long as you don't do any weird tests in my house, I can let you stay here until you're happy."

"Anyway, my brother will be back soon. If you have any questions, just ask him."

After saying that, Tomofumi Tanaka went upstairs wearing a bathrobe.

……

"Find it quickly!"

"The body must be in this house! Don't miss any corner!"

Inspector Megure stood in the corridor on the first floor and hurriedly directed his officers to search the house.

On the one hand, Conan has recently been involved in several cases with Kogoro Mouri. Conan occasionally provides clues that give people a flash of inspiration, which makes Megure believe that Conan is not the kind of child who makes trouble for no reason and plays pranks.

This is also reflected in the increase in Conan's social credit.

On the other hand, after Qin Zhibo's verbal teasing just now, even Megure felt that there was something wrong with the owner of this house, as he was so resistant to luminol testing.

With many years of experience in handling cases, Megure felt that this person was definitely hiding something.

But the system is the system. Without a search warrant, there is no way to conduct tests in someone else's home, and there is no way to prove that a body was there.

However, only if it is confirmed that a body was present here can a search warrant be obtained and testing conducted.

This is extremely contradictory.

In one of the rooms on the first floor, Conan and the other three little ones were also trying their best to find the body.

Among them, Ayumi picked up a large vase and put her head in to look inside the vase, but the result disappointed her.

"No……"

At this time, Qin Zhibo came over and said with a smile, "Little sister, it's good that you want to help, but how can there be a corpse hidden in this vase?"

Facing Qin Zhibo's friendly suggestion, Ayumi said seriously: "But the body may also be dismembered."

"If I just chop it into pieces with a knife, I can put it in the vase, right?"

amount……

Is this something an elementary school student could say?

Qin Zhibo was speechless. After all, Qin Zhibo didn't understand the elementary school students in this world.

Just then, the little boy next to him named Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya spoke.

"Ayumi, what this uncle said makes some sense."

"It was about 15 minutes from the time we found the body to the time the police arrived."

"15 minutes is not enough to completely dismember an adult and hide the body without leaving any trace."

"Unless he has a tool like a chainsaw that can quickly cut up the body."

"But during the time we were on guard, we didn't hear any sound of a chainsaw coming from the house."

"So the possibility of dismemberment should not exist."

"So Ayumi, let's find some larger devices."

"Got it, Mitsuhiko."

Following Mitsuhiko's instructions, Ayumi put down the vase in her hand and went somewhere else.

Qin Zhibo: This is seven years old?

Chapter 28 Vest Destroyer

What exactly have these children been through?

Now, compared to the "cute" Ayumi Yoshida and the "smart" Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya, Qin Zhibo feels that he likes the little black fat boy who has hardly spoken until now.

Just then, a short figure came over.

"Um...what do you think about the missing body?"

Qin Zhibo tilted his head and saw that it was Conan.

Qin Zhibo was a little surprised that Conan came to ask him about his opinion on the case.

Isn't he afraid of being exposed?

In fact, Conan had encountered some bottlenecks and was forced to come to Qin Zhibo to communicate.

Judging from the owner's attitude of resisting the luminol test just now, there must have been a body in this bathroom.

But this person was very confident in allowing the police to search his house, saying that he would "search until the police are satisfied."

This shows that this person was very confident in his method of hiding the body.

If the police cannot find the body after an extensive search, they will definitely think that the Junior Detectives have made a false report and will eliminate their suspicion of the owner of the house.

Not only that, the Junior Detective Team will also lose trust in the police.

Although this is not the first time that the Junior Detective Team has encountered a case, it is the first case they have encountered after accepting a formal commission.

A child’s first time is very important.

Conan didn't want these elementary school students to have a bad impression of the police at this important first time, and to discourage these flowers of the motherland from fighting crime in the future.

In Conan's opinion, Japanese police are generally very reliable and trustworthy.

So after weighing the pros and cons, Conan decided to communicate with Qin Zhibo, even at the risk of exposing his identity.

This is just communication... Yes! Communication clues.

And what's wrong with asking for advice?

Anyway, I am just an elementary school student now, so isn’t it natural to ask an adult a question?

Qin Zhibo did not respond to Conan's communication immediately.

Seeing Qin Zhibo's slight hesitation, Conan asked, "Don't you believe there's a body here?"

"That's not it."

Qin Zhibo shook his head.

After all, Qin Zhibo not only received the side quest of finding the missing body, but also found an investigation point on the floor of the corridor.

The investigation description given at the investigation point in the corridor: There are water stains in the corridor, probably because something wet was spilled on the floor.