Conan Rick's Investigator

Just as this message was received, several more blue lasers shot out from the stage.

In the darkness, a shocking light flashed, hitting the dome of the underground space, the ground of the square, and even the obsidian golem of the Honorary Lord Du Luo Quan Ming Wang.

In an instant, the rubble from the dome fell down, shaking the entire space.

The weapon used by MI-GO was more powerful than expected. Qin Zhibo didn't dare to stay any longer. He put on the [Gift of the Golden Tree] and ran at full speed in the direction Mr. Clock said with an agility of 70.

Amidst the violent tremors, Qin Zhibo dodged two relatively large pieces of rubble and finally ran fifty meters away, where he indeed encountered an underground river.

Mr. Clock didn't say what to do next, but there was debris falling from the sky, so jumping into the water would have been safer.

So Qin Zhibo jumped into the cold water.

The underground river was more turbulent than imagined. In order to avoid being hit by rocks, Qin Zhibo could only dive to the bottom of the water and go with the flow.

The sound of the surging water around him stimulated Qin Zhibo's eardrums, but at this moment he could only endure it.

……

This drifting process lasted less than a minute. Until Qin Zhibo could no longer hold his breath, he waved his hands and dived to the surface to breathe before losing consciousness.

But when he dived back to the surface, Qin Zhibo found that the dark dome above his head was no longer inaccessible.

Even the terrain here has completely changed, turning into a low cave with a strong sense of oppression, and stalactites hanging on the stone walls at the top of the cave.

The water here is no longer turbulent, but there is no dry shore around the narrow cave to stand on. Qin Zhibo can only continue to go with the flow and see where he can go.

Avoiding the stalactites that had not yet grown, Qin Zhibo drifted with the current for another five minutes, and the water suddenly became turbulent.

Without time to catch his body, Qin Zhibo fell into a shallow stream along a two-meter-high waterfall.

Qin Zhibo fell into the water, and the fish next to him were frightened and quickly ran away.

Looking around, Qin Zhibo confirmed that he was in a naturally formed cave. The stalactites and stalagmites in the cave were completely natural and undecorated.

"here it is……"

Qin Zhibo turned on the navigation system, checked the location, and was surprised to find that he was in Tokyo.

Strictly speaking, it is located in the mountains surrounding Tokyo, commonly known as the suburbs of Tokyo.

A minute ago, I was drifting in the underground river of Yatogamiura City, Chiba Prefecture, and I ended up back in Tokyo?

As Mr. Clock said, it was indeed a space portal, and it was the kind of space travel that was completely imperceptible.

Qin Zhibo stood up from the stream where the water level was only up to his ankles, and glanced around from a higher perspective. Suddenly, he found a faintly glowing object behind a stalagmite.

He hurried over and found that it was nothing but a lit investigation point on a corpse.

Ok?

Looking at the relatively fresh corpse, Qin Zhibo was a little puzzled. Was this a reward for traveling through time?

【Corpse Investigation√】

[Name of the deceased: Toyonaga Toshinori]

[Time of death: 1 hour ago]

[Cause of death: Shot in the eyebrow]

[Congratulations on completing the corpse investigation and obtaining the skill: Car Driving]

[Acquire repeated skills, converted into 1000 proficiency of that skill]

After picking up the skill, Qin Zhibo immediately looked around vigilantly, with some doubts in his heart.

Is Conan around here?

Chapter 415: The Detective Boys' MI-GO Mine Exploration

Side quest: Find out the murderer of this case

Task requirements: 30 minutes

Task reward: 400 general skill proficiency, 200 social credits

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A prompt for a side quest popped up, and it seemed that the system had also judged this to be a separate case.

Looking around, there are quite a few investigation points.

【Survey√】

[The shovel on the ground is covered with fresh soil, indicating that someone used it not long ago]

Qin Zhibo took out a nuclear lighter to illuminate the surroundings and found a freshly dug pit next to the corpse, but the body had not been put in yet.

Judging from the number of shovels, two shovels indicate there are at least two people.

Qin Zhibo made such a judgment in his heart, and the next investigation point confirmed Qin Zhibo's idea.

【Survey√】

[The cigarette butts on the ground are of three brands, indicating that three people have been here]

Three people means it’s at least a criminal gang.

【Survey√】

This is a bullet casing.

If the case involves armed robbery and gang involvement, the first thing Qin Zhibo thinks of is a bank robbery. Such cases are common in Mihua Town, where people's hearts are treacherous.

Qin Zhibo wandered around the corners again and made some new discoveries.

Behind a stalagmite, Qin Zhibo found a pool of solidified blood.

In addition, there are several round stickers stuck on the ground and stalagmites nearby. After removing them, you can find electronic components such as coils sandwiched between the stickers.

Although it is not a man-made object in the cave, there are no investigation points on it, indicating that its existence has no direct connection with the murderer.

However, looking at the little thing in his hand, Qin Zhibo felt that it looked somewhat familiar.

This thing is somewhat similar to his own [Detective's eavesdropping device], except that his eavesdropping device is completely black technology, and it is just a sticker from the inside out.

Detective...

Qin Zhibo suddenly had an idea and thought of a possibility.

Could it really be Conan?

The current era is 96. It seems that few people except Dr. Agasa can make such fashionable and sophisticated electronic devices.

However, Qin Zhibo knew very little about the scientific props on Conan and had no idea what they were used for.

But this did not affect Qin Zhibo's determination of his thoughts. After all... he knew magic.

Qin Zhibo put on the magic extractor, cast a locating spell, and silently memorized Conan's appearance in his mind.

With a sudden flash of inspiration, Qin Zhibo confirmed that Conan was in this cave!

Turning on the navigator, Qin Zhibo compared the direction he sensed in his heart with the map and guessed that Conan should have run deeper into the cave.

Qin Zhibo quickly reconstructed what had happened in his mind.

It should be that Conan's active absorption ability worked again and he discovered the criminal gang that was burying corpses here.

He happened to be discovered by the criminal gang and was chased into the cave.

Judging from the blood on the stone wall, Conan’s condition may not be very good and he may be caught up and killed by the vicious criminals at any time.

If Conan really dies, where can I claim the benefits of my future side quests?

Thinking of this, Qin Zhibo quickly took a step and chased towards the depths of the cave.

……

In the deepest part of the cave, the Young Detectives are dividing the blame.

"Whoa, whoa..."

"This is all my fault. If I hadn't told you to come in and see what's going on, this wouldn't have happened to Conan..."

Seeing Ayumi sobbing and crying, Genta and Mitsuhiko immediately stepped forward and took the blame.

"It's all my fault. If I hadn't jumped out in my pride and been discovered by those criminals..."

"No, if I hadn't discovered this cave, no one would have come in..."

According to this way of assigning blame, Dr. Agasa, who has repeatedly organized team-building events and encountered danger, should be the culprit.

At this time, the battle-damaged Conan, who was carried by Genta, endured the severe pain in his abdomen, showed a forced smile, and comforted him: "Silly... Thanks to you guys entering this stalactite cave, a murder case that was originally unsolvable can now be solved."

“No matter what difficulties we face, we must face them with a positive attitude…”

"As long as we can get rid of those bad guys, we can go out for a barbecue..."

Encouraged by Conan, the three little ones cheered and continued to walk into the cave with Conan on their backs, smiling.

Only Conan's expression remained serious, because he was the only one who knew that the situation was extremely critical.

Although they used the "I predicted your prediction" trick to leave a glowing watch on the path where the Junior Detective Team was traveling, this would not delay them for long.

Now we must find an exit immediately.

Fortunately, the Young Detectives were lucky enough that the fork in the road they randomly guessed was not a dead end. They also encountered flowing water, and there were fish in the water, and the fish had eyes.

Following the current upstream, the Young Detectives found a waterfall more than two meters high, where water and fish were flowing down.

“We can’t swim up either…”

Fortunately, there is always a way out. The Young Detective Team found a stone egg placed on a conical stone pillar nearby, and behind the stone egg were five forks in the road.

"It's an egg! There's a really big egg here!"

"Yuanta, it's just a stone shaped like an egg placed on a rock..."

The three little ones were chattering and discussing, and only the injured Conan scanned the surroundings with the light of the watch-shaped flashlight and noticed something unusual here.

wrong……

This stalactite cave, except for the first part which was naturally formed, the stone walls and floor inside the cave are too flat, as if they were deliberately carved out...

Who could spend such a huge amount of time and effort to dig a cave of unknown meaning here?

And this stone egg couldn't have been formed naturally, someone must have placed it there on purpose...

But what is this all for?

……

It must be a mine...

As Qin Zhibo chased deeper into the cave, he was wondering in his heart what the cave meant to the MI-GO race.

The fact that MI-GO can set up the other side of the space portal here shows that this place must have some meaning to MI-GO.

The first time Qin Zhibo saw MI-GO was in a cave near Shanni Temple, where the legend of Mist Tengu was popular.

On the way to Yatogamiura City, Chiba Prefecture, Qin Zhibo also asked whether the gathering place of the MI-GO clan was in the deep mountains.

Mr. Clock's answer is sometimes, because the purpose of the MI-GO clan coming to Earth is to collect a mineral called "Tokar Metal", so the MI-GOs used to spend most of their time in the mountains.

However, with the continuous mining of the MI-GO race for tens of millions of years, the "Tokar Metal" on the earth has almost been exhausted, which has directly led to the fact that humans have not yet discovered the existence of "Tokar Metal".

As a result, the MI-GO race gave up large-scale mining activities, and now only a few "miners" are still collecting in some caves.

Chapter 416 Miwako Sato: Bats are poisonous!

Thinking in his mind, Qin Zhibo ran to a double fork in the road.

For ordinary people, such an identical double fork in the road is a test of luck.

However, for someone like Qin Zhibo with a luck value of 35, there is no need for a test at all, because Qin Zhibo has a navigator.

The electronic map of the navigator can show the routes of each cave entrance, and the passage on the left is obviously a dead end.

So Qin Zhibo decisively chose the right side.