Conan Rick's Investigator

After studying the Inspiration Gun, Qin Zhibo felt a little sleepy.

Release the water!

sleep!

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Chapter 40: Falsely Labeled Library Elevator

It's another sunny morning.

Qin Zhibo returned to his usual routine and went to the library to study French.

After three days of skill acceleration cards and seven days of general study, Qin Zhibo's current French proficiency is 1582/4000.

To fully master and become proficient in a new language, you need to reach the maximum proficiency of the current language level, that is, to reach the full proficiency of 4000.

It just so happened that the reward for completing the main task yesterday included a 7-day skill training acceleration card. With the help of this prop, Qin Zhibo was confident that he could completely master French within seven days.

"The scenery on a sunny day is beautiful~ red flowers and green grass~"

"I run forward happily ~ I will never grow old even if I have walked through green mountains ~"

Qin Zhibo came to the library humming a tune.

The library is still open today and there are still many people there, so Qin Zhibo judged that today is still a holiday.

Sitting down in the adult learning area, Qin Zhibo quickly entered a state of concentration and began to enjoy the pleasure that acquiring knowledge brought to his brain.

The state of concentration lasted for about an hour, but the people outside the reading room suddenly became agitated, which broke Qin Zhibo's concentration.

Qin Zhibo looked up towards the door and saw several library employees walking along the corridor towards the hall.

Among them was the library director holding a box.

Seeing Director Jinchuan, Qin Zhibo became interested.

Qin Zhibo didn't see his old friend Kazuo Tamada today, so he wanted to ask Director Jinchuan if Kazuo Tamada had taken a leave of absence.

Qin Zhibo put down the book in his hand, stood up and walked out, but on the way out he bumped into a small blue creature in his blind spot.

"Work...Conan?"

"Uncle Qin...?"

The creature that was knocked down was a creature named Conan, and behind Conan were the three little creatures encountered in the last "Brotherly Case".

I think it was called the Junior Detective Team...

"Uncle, if you bump into someone, you should say sorry."

At this time, Ayumi took the initiative to fight for Conan's human rights, but Conan shook his head and rejected it.

"I ran too fast and accidentally bumped into my uncle."

Conan looked up at Qin Zhibo's face and saw that the right side of Qin Zhibo's cheek was slightly red.

This is the mark left by supporting the face with one hand for a long time, indicating that Qin Zhibo had been sitting here and reading attentively.

Thinking about the fact that Qin Zhibo graduated from the University of Michigan, Conan felt that this was very reasonable.

Unlike the good-for-nothing uncle in his family, when he is not working, he either drinks and sleeps, or foolishly shouts "Yoko" at the TV.

It seems that there is still a big gap between the renowned University of Mikado and the world-class University of Michigan in terms of talent development...

At this time, a "ding" sound was heard from the elevator, and the people standing in front of the elevator waiting to enter filed in. At the same time, this also reminded the Junior Detective Team and Qin Zhibo that it was time to get on the elevator.

So the group jogged all the way, and before the elevator door closed, Qin Zhibo rushed into the elevator with a group of children.

drop!

A harsh mechanical sound rang out, which was the elevator overload warning sound.

Conan glanced at the paper inside the elevator, which said that the rated capacity was 7 people. He could only say helplessly, "It seems that the number of people is overloaded..."

Genta Kojima next to him was very rude and pointed at the faces of everyone in the elevator and started counting.

“1、2、3、4、5、6、7、8……确实是超载了啊……”

"There's no other way, just take the stairs!"

Led by Conan, the Junior Detective Team rushed out of the elevator again and went downstairs using the stairs.

The elevator door slowly closed, but Qin Zhibo's brain was thinking about the incident just now.

Just now, the fat boy Yuan Tai forgot to count himself when he was checking the number of people. In fact, including him, there were nine people in the elevator.

However, among these nine people, including Qin Zhibo, there are only five adults, and the remaining four are children.

Seeing that Conan is underdeveloped and his ahoge is even shorter than Ayumi's, Qin Zhibo thinks that the two children together weigh at most 45kg. Adding Mitsuhiko who is developing normally, the three of them weigh only 75kg.

Although the little black fat boy with a zongzi head is overnourished, he is a child after all, and his weight is definitely not more than 50kg.

The elevator's rated load of 450kg is subtracted by 7, and each person can get an average of 64.28kg of weight.

These four children are equal to the weight of two adults, plus the five normal-sized adults already in the elevator, there are exactly seven people in total, so it should not be overloaded.

But why is it overloaded?

Qin Zhibo glanced at the box in Director Jinchuan's hand.

Judging from the relaxed expression on Director Jinchuan's face, the items inside should not be iron weights weighing dozens of kilograms.

that……

Qin Zhibo frowned and thought of a possibility.

That is because the elevator technology of this era is not advanced enough. In order to ensure safety, the load safety threshold set by the manufacturer is lower than the marked load.

This is called false labeling.

After all, it is an elevator from 96, so this is completely understandable.

You should know that the minimum load capacity of elevators in public places in the future will be 630kg. Given the situation in the elevator just now, there would be no problem even if one more person lay on the ceiling.

After thinking about the elevator problem, Qin Zhibo spoke to Director Jinchuan next to him.

"Director Jinchuan, did Mr. Tamada take a day off today? I haven't seen him since this morning."

"Huh? Ah..." Director Jinchuan, who was preoccupied, took a moment to react before replying, "I didn't see him come to work either. Maybe something happened at home..."

"Oh……"

Qin Zhibo nodded thoughtfully.

At this moment, Director Jinchuan's eyes rolled and he asked, "You are one of those people who often come to read books recently, right? What do you want to talk to Yutian about?"

"If it's something important, I can tell him after he gets to work."

Qin Zhibo complained in his heart about what Director Jinchuan said.

This is really strange. If there is something important, he would definitely give me his phone number directly. Why would he have to pass it on to me?

It's like you know you can't get through to him on the phone.

Although he thought so in his heart, Qin Zhibo still told Jinchuan about his agreement with Yutian Kazuo.

"It's nothing important, actually. Mr. Yutian and I just agreed to sort the foreign language books in the library warehouse."

"Oh, so that's it..."

Qin Zhibo did not notice that a hint of gloom flashed across Director Jinchuan's eyes.

……

The elevator went down to the first floor and the door opened. Qin Zhibo wanted to take the elevator back directly.

After all, there is nothing more shameful than wasting time on skill training acceleration cards.

However, in the hall, Qin Zhibo saw an old friend.

At this time, Megure and two of his men stopped Director Tsukawa and asked him about the disappearance of Kazuo Tamada.

At the same time, a new task appeared next to Qin Zhibo's vision.

……

Side quest: Find Yutian Kazuo

Task requirements: time limit 24 hour

Task reward: 400 general skill proficiency, 100 social credits

……

When the task appeared, Qin Zhibo's eyes lit up.

Qin Zhibo: If you say there's a mission, then I won't go back to study...

Chapter 41: The Kind Director

On the stairs, Conan and his friends hurried down and just saw Inspector Megure take out a photo of Kazuo Tamada from his arms and show it to Director Tsukawa.

But just when Conan was about to step forward and ask "what happened", Qin Zhibo had already stepped forward and asked what Conan wanted to ask.

"Inspector Megure, what happened?"

"Oh? So Brother Qin is here too."

A hint of joy flashed across Megure's face for a moment, but he felt in his heart that it was inappropriate to show such an expression in this situation, so he quickly straightened his face the next moment.

"Well, library employee Kazuo Tamada has been missing since the night before yesterday."

"I heard that Mr. Yutian was working the night shift here the night before yesterday, right?"

Megure turned to Director Tsukawa, and this sentence was obviously a question to Director Tsukawa.

"Yeah, but I went home earlier than Yutian that day, so I don't know what happened after that."

Director Jinchuan looked a little bewildered, but this was probably understandable as he was worried about the sudden disappearance of his employee.

At this time, Conan looked around and found that the police were searching the library warehouse on the first floor.

Why is this?

Adhering to the principle of asking questions when you have them, Conan wanted to ask directly.

But in order to prevent his vest from slipping down in front of Qin Zhibo, Conan prepared to use the skill that he became more and more proficient in with use.

"what……"

But before Conan could even utter a word, Qin Zhibo interrupted his spell.

"If he disappeared suddenly at night, could he have been kidnapped on his way home?"

"Or maybe there's an enemy, a sworn enemy, or something like that. After all, there have been a lot of cases like that lately..."

Qin Zhibo was more thoughtful, but Inspector Megure shook his head.

"Mr. Yutian is usually kind and cautious, so he probably doesn't have any enemies or rivals."

"And Mr. Yutian always calls his wife before he goes home from the library every day."

"But he didn't do that the night before last. This means he was most likely taken away by someone while working overtime, or he's still in the library."

"If he's still here, it means he's very likely been murdered by someone."

It was rare to hear serious reasoning from Inspector Megure, but the last sentence scared the three little ones behind Conan so much that they shrank their necks.

Seeing this scene, Qin Zhibo rolled his eyes at the three little ones.

He could even calmly talk about dismembering and hiding the body last time, but now he can't even stand the thought of killing someone?

Kids nowadays are so fickle...

On this side, Megure's men quickly searched the library, but naturally found nothing.

So Megure respectfully saluted Director Tsukawa, saying sorry for disturbing him, and then he packed up and left.

After seeing Inspector Megure off, Conan saw Qin Zhibo turn around and walk back.