Conan Rick's Investigator

"Should I kick this?"

Qin Zhibo handed the "round ball" in his hand to Conan.

Conan was stunned for a moment, then quickly reacted.

This guy actually tried to trick me into kicking someone in the head!

"I won't kick!"

After saying that, Conan walked away dejectedly despite the sprained leg.

After the strangers left, Qin Zhibo opened the bag and found a hard human head inside.

【Survey√】

[The body integrity is less than 70%, and the body cannot be examined]

One head is not enough for a corpse investigation, but Qin Zhibo doesn't feel sorry about it.

Anyway, this woman is a screenwriter by profession. Although her famous work was plagiarized, the skills that can be learned from her are probably just writing.

Qin Zhibo already has this skill.

In addition, Qin Zhibo also received a completion prompt for the side quest.

[Congratulations on completing the side mission]

[Task Completion Rating: B++]

[Acquire 400 general skill proficiency]

[Get 150 social credits]

[Rating Reward: 150 General Skill Proficiency]

The victim, Chikako Ikeda, was not just a person, she was also a celebrity.

Therefore, the social credit increased this time will be more than the previous side quest cases.

Qin Zhibo's character card now looks like this:

Name: Qin Zhibo

Sex: Male

Age: 37

Occupation: Investigator

Social Credit: 2010

General Skill Proficiency: 1000

……

Back in the living room, Qin Zhibo explained in detail to everyone the conclusion that "Takahashi Ryoichi = Bandage Monster".

After hearing this, the people in the villa were either silent or crying.

While wiping her tears with a tissue, Suzuki Ayako told the story of Takahashi Ryoichi's secret love for Atsuko.

Atsuko was an introvert, and it is very likely that before committing suicide, she told Takahashi Ryoichi some secrets that her old classmates were unaware of.

This led to Takahashi wanting to take revenge on Chikako Ikeda.

After hearing this, everyone fell silent.

The silence lasted until the rising sun shone on the earth and everyone prepared to leave.

Suzuki Ayako made up her mind that this villa would be permanently blocked and would no longer be used as a villa for family vacations and gatherings.

However, before leaving, Hiroki Kakutani suggested finding the remaining body of Chikako Ikeda.

"Although Chikako did something wrong to Atsuko, we were classmates after all. I think it's better not to leave her body exposed in the wild for too long."

Conan originally thought that Qin Zhibo would reject this proposal. After all, this was not a good idea either from the perspective of safety or from the perspective of destroying the scene.

But what was unexpected was that Qin Zhibo strongly agreed with this proposal and offered to help find it.

So Ota, Kadoya, and Qin Zhibo spent some time looking for Ikeda Chikako's body.

The woods were still bright during the day, and most of the body parts were found quickly, except for Ikeda Chikako's right leg, which could not be found no matter how hard they looked.

Qin Zhibo placed the body parts he found on the ground and pieced them together into a human shape, then started investigating the body again.

【Corpse Investigation√】

[Name: Chikako Ikeda]

[Time of death: six hours ago]

[Cause of death: Cutting with a sharp weapon]

[Corpse investigation completed, congratulations on obtaining the skill: Art and Craft (Writing)]

[It is detected that you already have this skill. Art and Craft (Writing) skill proficiency +1000]

Just as Qin Zhibo guessed, the skill dropped from this woman was indeed writing.

And because it was a duplicate skill that he already had, the reward became the proficiency of the skill +1000.

Qin Zhibo imagined that if he could come across the bodies of dozens of professional writers in one go and then investigate all of them, wouldn't he be able to ascend to become a great contemporary writer on the spot?

Imagine a crazy killer suddenly appears at a literary symposium, having achieved dozens of consecutive kills...

After dealing with the corpse, the group set out on their return journey.

Under the leadership of Qin Zhibo, everyone went up along the valley and came to the upper reaches of the valley.

There were only a few shallow streams upstream of the valley, and everyone jumped over them one after another.

But when everyone in front jumped to the other side, they looked back and found that Qin Zhibo, the last one to jump in the team, was gone.

"Hmm? Where's Mr. Qin?"

"Ota, didn't you jump over here first? Didn't you see Mr. Qin?"

"I didn't notice..."

"Where could Mr. Qin have gone?"

Several adults were puzzled by Qin Zhibo's sudden disappearance. Only Conan, who looked like a child but was smarter than ordinary people, remembered the purpose of Qin Zhibo's original visit here.

He's here for an outing...

……

In the forest, Qin Zhibo was running quickly with a crowbar in his hand.

We have done our best to send the people in the villa to the upper reaches of the valley. I believe they can overcome the difficulties on the rest of the road on their own.

After a chaotic night, Qin Zhibo is about to start his main mission.

The first thing is to take advantage of the relative safety during the day to investigate the mission location and see what the situation is.

A straight-line distance of 5,000 meters on the navigation system's electronic map is still quite far in the real mountains.

Qin Zhibo climbed over the hill where the Suzuki family villa was located and came to the back mountain before finally arriving at the mission location.

This is a cemetery located halfway up the mountain.

Chapter 58 The challenge mission begins!

It was the same cemetery that Qin Zhibo saw last night, except that the cemetery was less eerie during the day. It looked like an ordinary cemetery that had been abandoned for a long time.

The arrangement of the tombs in the entire cemetery is very irregular. Many tombs are just randomly piled together, and there are even many tombs that have not been buried in time.

The tombstones in the cemetery are rather simple, most of them are made of wood, and have almost decayed after years of rain.

A small number of them are stone tablets, but there are no words engraved on them, and most of the stone tablets have collapsed.

The weeds blocked all possible paths, forcing Qin Zhibo to step on the graves one by one in a somewhat offensive way to pass through the cemetery.

After a brief search in the cemetery, Qin Zhibo found the "Guardian Totem Vision Modification" that provided him with vision.

This is a dandelion stuck on a grave.

As long as the yellow and white fluff on the dandelion does not leave the plant due to being disturbed by external objects, it means that the guardian totem is still intact.

After browsing around, Qin Zhibo's evaluation of this cemetery was "a nameless and desolate tomb" and he couldn't see any danger in it for the time being.

Entering from the north side of the cemetery and exiting from the south side, Qin Zhibo discovered another forest path.

Going further down this road, you will see a deserted village.

Most of the buildings in the village have signs of burning, and it can be seen that a big fire once broke out here.

Recalling that an infectious disease had once broken out here, Qin Zhibo felt that the fire might have been set by the authorities.

After all, it is 96 now. If we go back a dozen years, medical technology would be even less developed. Instead of going through the trouble of disinfection, it would be better to just set it on fire.

Through the rotten or collapsed walls, Qin Zhibo saw that most of the houses were burned very thoroughly, with only the charred remains of the burnt furniture, baring their fangs like the claws of a monster.

Continuing along the narrow, overgrown path in the center of the village, we finally found a house that was still relatively well preserved.

Qin Zhibo kicked down the wooden board covering the door, raising a cloud of dust.

He looked around the room, and everywhere he looked was a pile of tattered bedding that had not been washed for years, dirty tableware, a stove made of broken bricks, and on the ground... a pile of bandages!

Qin Zhibo raised his eyebrows and took two quick steps forward to check the bandage.

There was neither blood nor dust on the bandage, indicating that it had been placed there recently.

This easily reminds people of the bandage weirdo - Ryoichi Takahashi.

Could it be that Takahashi escaped here?

Qin Zhibo picked up the bandage on the ground and smelled it. There was a strange smell on it, but it was hard to tell whether it was the smell from Takahashi.

In addition, the daily necessities in the house made Qin Zhibo feel that there was a sense of life.

Could there be someone living here?

……

After finishing the investigation of the deserted village, Qin Zhibo returned to the cemetery.

It is now 10 o'clock in the morning, and there are less than 40 hours left to complete the challenge mission. If you want to complete the "One Night in the Cemetery" mission, it can only be tonight.

So after careful consideration, Qin Zhibo decided to stay in the cemetery tonight.

Standing on the highest mound in the entire cemetery, Qin Zhibo studied the terrain for a long time and decided not to stay in the tent he brought with him tonight.

The shape and color of the tent stood out in the cemetery, making it an easy target for unknown creatures.

If you want to get through the night safely, it's best to disguise yourself as part of your surroundings.

COS becomes a tombstone?

No, this is not scientific at all.

The solution Qin Zhibo came up with was to COS as a dead person.

How to COS a dead person?

Of course, the person lying in the coffin is dead.

There happened to be several coffins in this cemetery that had not been buried yet, and Qin Zhibo planned to borrow one of them to lie down in.

After a careful selection, Qin Zhibo chose a paulownia wood coffin that was in decent condition.

Using a crowbar to pry open the coffin lid, the inside was relatively dry and not as severely rotten as the outside.

The most important thing is that there is no relative in the coffin. It is an empty coffin.

"good……"

Qin Zhibo nodded with satisfaction, put his backpack aside, and went in to "try lying down" first.

Hold on to the edge of the coffin with both hands and step in first with the left foot and then the right foot.

Just like that, Qin Zhibo, a living person, voluntarily lay down in the coffin in broad daylight.

When he lay down inside, Qin Zhibo realized that the coffin was too narrow for his height of 1.85 meters. He needed to bend his knees to fit in.