Conan Rick's Investigator

When arriving at Beika 1-chome, Toru Amuro asked to get off the bus.

"Teacher, this is enough."

Qin Zhibo slowed down the car and asked, "Do you live around here?"

"Yeah, it's nearby..."

Qin Zhibo didn't ask about the specific location. He parked the car on the side of the road and Toru Amuro got out.

"By the way, don't forget to take your women's clothes with you when you leave."

Amuro Toru was stunned for a moment, then quickly waved his hands, "I don't need those, I don't need them..."

"Hey~ How do you know you won't be able to use it? What if you want to wear it in the future?"

Afterwards, Qin Zhibo earnestly taught: "A great man once said that the greatest and most enduring art is a man pretending to be a woman."

"There are only zero times and countless times of wearing women's clothing."

When he heard the word "zero", Amuro Toru's eyes trembled slightly.

Seeing that he couldn't refuse, Toru Amuro had no choice but to open the trunk and take out the women's clothes he was wearing today.

"See you tomorrow, teacher."

The two parted ways, and Toru Amuro put on a harmless smile and watched the Mustang convertible drive away.

Then he stopped smiling, turned around and walked into the alley, while taking out the phone from his pocket.

"Kazami, a prisoner died in the interrogation room of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department today. I want you to upload the surveillance footage of the scene to my computer."

After hanging up the phone, Toru Amuro started walking home.

……

The place where Toru Amuro lives is quite remote. After turning left and right in the alley, he came to a single apartment building.

As a Japanese public security and organizational cadre with a special mission, he has to move once a month, and this place is only a temporary residence.

As soon as you open the door and get home, it's time to prepare dinner.

Take out the ingredients you prepared in the morning from the refrigerator and start cooking.

Today's dinner is braised egg tofu, wine-flamed steak, miso soup and rice.

The wine-flamed steak was something I learned from the French chef at the Lookout Restaurant when I had dinner with Vermouth last night.

It’s just that Amuro Toru’s Japanese stomach prefers sake, so he chose sake as the fuel for the wine flame.

Maybe it's a psychological effect, but after the sake is lit, the flame seems to be thinner, and the light blue flame tail is very pleasing.

Soon, dinner was prepared and two plates of exquisite side dishes were placed on the table, along with Amuro's secret special seasoning soup and a bowl of white rice.

After the meal was served, Toru Amuro opened his laptop with one hand and found a new email in his computer mailbox.

Click it and there is a video inside.

"Well--"

"Well--"

……

"Mr. Deposit! Mr. Deposit!"

There were constant sounds coming from the video, and Toru Amuro was holding his bowl, staring carefully at the picture on the video.

But until the end of the video, Toru Amuro didn't notice anything wrong.

Toru Amuro turned the progress bar back to the beginning and watched it again.

The progress bar continues to move forward, with the same repeated images and sounds.

But this time, Amuro Toru, who was concentrating his attention, noticed a strange change in the picture.

The change was so fleeting that Toru Amuro didn't even have time to react and press the pause button.

He quickly put down his bowl, paused the picture, and then adjusted it frame by frame.

In the case of frame-by-frame viewing, the characters on the screen can hardly see any changes in position.

But at a certain moment in the frame, a faint shadow passed over Ding Jin Fangxiong.

The afterimage is extremely tiny and almost transparent, with unclear outlines and varying depths.

"This is……"

Toru Amuro wanted to enlarge the image and adjust it to high definition to observe the afterimage, but due to technical problems, he was unable to do so.

If it were an ordinary person, they might think that a small flying insect just flew past the camera, leaving this tiny afterimage.

But the problem is that when this almost invisible afterimage passed through Ding Jin Fangxiong's body, Ding Jin Fangxiong's body reacted abnormally.

The total time should not exceed 2 seconds.

Toru Amuro widened his eyes and looked at the afterimage on the computer screen, feeling incredible.

What exactly is this?

Did it kill Ding Jin Fangxiong right under the police's nose?

If it were in the past, Toru Amuro would have no hesitation in thinking that it was just a mistake of the surveillance camera and that it captured the wrong picture.

But after experiencing the incident of the twin skyscrapers in Nishitama City, Toru Amuro no longer thinks so easily.

He had witnessed with his own eyes how a strange mist suddenly appeared on an empty Japanese painting, and then condensed into a giant reptile that was beyond the reach of all living things on Earth.

Some real things may not be visible to the naked eye, but we cannot say that they do not exist.

Electromagnetic waves, infrared rays, gravity...

Toru Amuro turned his gaze to Miwako Sato, who was sitting opposite Yoshio Sadoka. She was the person closest to Yoshio Sadoka at the time of the incident.

Can she see this afterimage?

……

Zhibo Detective Agency.

Qin Zhibo dragged his tired body to lie down on the boss chair and breathed a sigh of relief.

Today's side quests don't have much reward, but they are quite troublesome, plus you have to clean, move things, and go shopping during the day.

At the end of the day, I feel drained.

In the previous case, Qin Zhibo acquired the skill of Arts and Crafts (Cooking).

So I will add a kitchen upstairs later and eat less junk food in the future.

But before that, Qin Zhibo could only continue to make do with eating takeout.

Qin Zhibo took out some business cards collected from nearby restaurants from the drawer and chose a business card from a Chinese restaurant.

"A large plate of dumplings, a medium spring roll, and a large glass of mango juice. Deliver them to the second floor of Zhibo Detective Agency as soon as possible."

"I'm hungry, thank you."

After hanging up the phone, Qin Zhibo, who was so hungry that his heart was sticking to his back, turned on the computer and, following the clues left by Ding Jin Fangxiong before his death, entered "curse of the dead" in the search bar.

Enter.

The search ranking mechanism of IE browser is to give priority to the website with the most clicks.

The first website Qin Zhibo clicked on was a community discussion website.

The website page is no different from ordinary community discussions, but the content of the discussions is basically about the "Curse of the Dead" website.

[Hashimoto Mamiko: Is the "Curse of the Dead" real?]

【Lucas: Is he a newcomer?】

myu6U: Welcome newcomers!

[O Nana O Mo: Who knows, but it sounds great! ]

Lucas: The "Curse of the Dead" is the most popular urban legend in Tokyo right now. As long as you open a website called "Curse of the Dead" at midnight and fill in your name and request on the website, your long-cherished wish will be fulfilled.

Lucas: Of course your appeal must be related to death, otherwise it cannot be achieved.

Lucas: It’s the “Curse of the Dead” after all…laughing emoji~

[Millennial Rich: What a pity, my only wish is to become rich]

[Hashimoto Mamiko: Um...are there any successful cases?]

Millennial Rich: It's impossible, because if everyone left messages on the website, wouldn't the police be completely busy?

Lucas: Believe it or not, so why not give it a try?

[Hashimoto Mamiko: But I have to leave my name...Will my real name be discovered?]

[O Nana O Mo: If you don't want to reveal your identity, just leave a fake name. That's what I did anyway...]

【Hashimoto Mamiko: Did you succeed? 】

[O Nana O Mo: Emmm... I'm still waiting for the Lord to reply to me]

【Hashimoto Mamiko: God...sama?】

【０楠奈０も：mm, whoever you want to die will die, isn't it the Lord God? 】

【Hashimoto Mamiko: mm? 】

[O Nana O Mo: Stop pretending. I know you're a girl. I can tell from your nickname.]

【０楠奈０も：Were you bullied and want revenge? 】

[Hashimoto Mamiko: …]

Lucas: Want to try it? Then go to that website at midnight...

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The discussion came to a temporary halt, and Qin Zhibo used the pseudonym "Hashimoto Mamiko" to obtain some information.

Unlike Ryohei Matsumoto's corpse-eating cult website "Food Club", this website is very active. Even at night, there are people waiting in front of the computers to answer questions.

Most people seem to be pure passers-by who joined the game for fun, such as "Nana".

The only one who was called "Lucas" was constantly urging newcomers to try the "Curse of the Dead", like a moderator.

Generally speaking, in such cases, "Lucas" is either one of the operators behind the "Curse of the Dead" or someone who has benefited from the "Curse of the Dead".

As for the specific benefits, Qin Zhibo didn't know either.

But judging from Ding Jin Fangxiong during the day, this "curse of the dead" seems to have something to it.

The person who operated the "Curse of the Dead" knew who Ding Jinfangxiong's enemy was and instructed him to make a voodoo doll.

Voodoo dolls...

When it comes to such metaphysical things, the first person Qin Zhibo thinks of is the old metaphysician - Koizumi Hongzi.

Chapter 631 Stand User + Puppet (4k)

Since Qin Zhibo is an old customer and eats takeout from this restaurant more than ten days a week, the meals are delivered to Zhibo Detective Agency very quickly.

The dumplings in Japanese Chinese restaurants are not boiled but fried, the spring rolls are also fried, and the mango juice is mixed.

Qin Zhibo finished eating the junk food first to solve the problem of food and clothing, then called Koizumi Hongzi and explained the reason for her late-night disturbance.

"Voodoo doll?"

Koizumi Hongzi thought for a moment and said, "I have some impression. Wait for me to look for it first."

When you are undecided, look up the book first.

Qin Zhibo didn't know how Koizumi Hongzi's academic performance was in class, but judging from the looks of it, she shouldn't do badly in the open-book exams.

Because in less than five minutes, Koizumi Hongzi returned to the phone.

"I found it!"

"How?" Qin Zhibo asked.