Conan Rick's Investigator

Chapter 643: Second Death

Looking at the coin in the coin box, Conan had an expression of complete disbelief on his face.

impossible!

Absolutely impossible!

Conan immediately leaned over to check, but no matter how carefully he searched, there was only one game coin in the 360° coin box.

While waiting for Shimizu Takashi to smoke, the yellow-haired man started a game to warm up. Conan saw with his own eyes that he put a game coin in it for himself.

If that game coin is this game coin, then there would be no game coin that Shimizu Takao threw in to start the game.

When Qin Zhibo discovered the body, Zhishui Gaobao had already sat in his game console seat and lost the opportunity to put coins into the machine.

In Conan's understanding, Shimizu Takashi's plan should be to poison the yellow-haired man first, put coins into the yellow-haired man's game console, choose a character, return to his seat, and start the game.

But if the yellow-haired man doesn't put coins into the game machine, the game cannot start, and there will be no subsequent game battles.

In other words, the reasoning I just made were all non-existent assumptions!

Conan frowned, feeling a little unbelievable.

If he didn't follow the trap of the battle game as he thought, someone around would soon notice that the yellow-haired man was dead.

This is not the first time that Takashi Shimizu has come to this game hall. He should be aware that there are security cameras installed here and the police will soon suspect him.

Because he was the last person the yellow-haired man had contact with before his death.

So what was the killer's real plan?

Conan suddenly looked up at Shimizu Takashi, who was explaining his motives to the police.

……

"I did this for my sister who is in the hospital because of blindness..."

"Your sister is blind?" Takagi Shigeru asked in confusion.

"Do you know why she's like this?" Shimizu Takashi's lips curled up slightly, a hint of bitterness mingling with his smile. "The doctor said she's suffering from a nutritional imbalance that has led to a vitamin E deficiency..."

"It's hard to believe that in this day and age there are still people suffering from malnutrition, even to the point of blindness."

"My silly sister worked her ass off for a month and barely ate to pay off this jerk's mounting gambling debts, which is why she ended up like this."

"Who knew her eyes would be damaged, but that man didn't want to take any responsibility and wanted to break up with my sister."

Inspector Megure had seen countless motives for murder, and this reason didn't move him at all. He continued to ask in a stern manner, "But it seems like you often compete with Mr. Bidou here?"

Shimizu Takao snorted coldly, "Because that scumbag told me that if I could beat him once on this machine, he would be willing to be responsible for my sister's blindness."

"In order to defeat it, I worked tirelessly to accumulate strength, and finally, with great difficulty, I earned the title of 'Invincible Cup Household'."

"Who knew I still couldn't beat him...I tried many times, but I was no match for him."

"So you decided to kill him?" Inspector Megure added.

"Kill, him?"

Shimizu Takashi paused for a moment, and then his expression suddenly changed, revealing a horrifyingly distorted expression.

"Killing him would be too easy for him! I want him to suffer a fate worse than death!"

"I want him to be like a living dead being at my mercy, working tirelessly forever. Just like he drained my sister dry, I will drain his flesh and blood in return!"

"This scumbag deserves this fate!"

Shimizu Takashi roared hysterically, and the endless hatred that came from his gnashing teeth was transmitted throughout the game hall through his voice.

All the police were on high alert, fearing that he might do something extreme.

But at this moment, Shimizu Takashi seemed to calm down again, looked at Qin Zhibo with slightly relieved eyes, and spoke in a relatively calm tone.

"But I didn't expect that a famous detective like you could tell that the scumbag was dead in such a short time..."

"Perhaps I should have listened to the advice and given up on defeating the invincible Caesar."

Hearing this, Qin Zhibo frowned slightly, feeling that the case seemed not so simple.

What does it mean to be a “living dead at the mercy of others”?

Also, whose advice should Shimizu Takashi follow?

But before Qin Zhibo could figure out a clue, Shishui Gaobao's eyes suddenly widened again and his body stiffened.

Then, his body fell heavily to the ground, his hands covering his heart, his body twitching continuously.

"What happened?"

"Check it out quickly!"

The police rushed forward to check, but before they could take any rescue measures, the person was already motionless.

Immediately, a light from the investigation point floated above Shimizu Takashi's head.

People died...

Seeing this way of death, Qin Zhibo immediately realized that this way of death was exactly the same as Ding Jin Fangxiong's!

It's voodoo!

Qin Zhibo subconsciously looked around, but the crowd of onlookers were all customers who were stranded in the game hall due to the case, and there was nothing unusual to see.

Qin Zhibo stepped forward and picked up the corpse's skills first.

【Corpse Investigation√】

[Name of deceased: Shimizu Takaho]

[Death time: 10 seconds ago]

Cause of death: Cardiac paralysis

[Corpse investigation completed, character skill obtained: Special Skill (Game)]

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

[Congratulations on completing the side mission]

[Task settlement rating: B]

[Acquire 300 general skill proficiency]

[Get 100 social credits]

[Rating Reward: 150 General Skill Proficiency]

The results of the corpse investigation and the task completion appeared at the same time, which made people feel uncomfortable.

However, although Shimizu Takashi died, no new task prompts appeared.

This means that this is the same mission as the previous death of Ding Jin Fangxiong, and the murderer should be the same.

If this is the case, then Shimizu Takashi is also someone related to the "Curse of the Dead".

The similarity between Yoshio Tadamoto and Takashi Shimizu is that they both have strong hatred and want to take revenge on someone.

It is very likely that the two of them came into contact with the "Curse of the Dead" website and obtained some special killing methods from it.

Of course, simply killing people is meaningless, and these two people also have some kind of demands.

Yoshio Takashige wants to resurrect his son, and Takashi Shimizu wants to "drain the flesh of his enemies like a living dead."

Voodoo...

The Living Dead...

Qin Zhibo thought about it and seemed to have heard something similar from Koizumi Hongzi yesterday.

Voodoo's characteristic "resurrection corpse" can cause people to fall into a state of suspended animation by taking pufferfish toxin...

In this state, people become unconscious and insensible, and can only work tirelessly, allowing their masters to dominate them until their skin and flesh decay.

Just as Qin Zhibo was recalling the few words that Koizumi Akako had revealed, the voice of Inspector Megure answering the phone next to him suddenly interrupted Qin Zhibo's thoughts.

"What did you say!"

"The body disappeared?"

Chapter 644 The Real "Lucas"

"Why is the body gone?"

"Go find him right away. He won't run away or disappear too far..."

Inspector Megure subconsciously said the word "run", but considering that the corpse would not run, he changed it to "disappear".

Qin Zhibo came over and asked, "Officer Megure, what happened?"

Megure reorganized his words and whispered back, "It's the body of the deceased. It disappeared on the way to the Metropolitan Police Department..."

This is not something that can be said out loud. If the public knows about it, the reputation of the police will be even worse.

It takes detectives to solve a case, and they can't even keep an eye on a dead body.

Qin Zhibo connected the information about the "resurrected corpse" and thought of a possibility.

"Officer Megure, the toxin on that poison needle might be tetrodotoxin. We can ask the forensic technicians to identify it in that direction."

"I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."

"Hey, Brother Qin..."

Qin Zhibo hurriedly said goodbye to Inspector Megure and turned to walk out of the game center.

The moment Qin Zhibo learned that the body had disappeared, he immediately thought of the possibility of a "resurrected corpse".

The resurrected corpse is a characteristic of voodoo, which can control the corpse and turn it into a living corpse that has lost its self-awareness and can only act according to consciousness.

If the yellow-haired man's body was transformed into a resurrected corpse, then there must be someone controlling the resurrected corpse.

Shimizu Takashi's original plan was to kill the yellow-haired man, make the yellow-haired man's zombie lose to him in the fighting game, and then enslave the yellow-haired man's zombie, just like what the yellow-haired man did to his sister.

If I hadn't used the investigation system to find out that the yellow-haired man was dead, no one would have discovered that he was dead.

He would insert coins to play the game like a normal person and lose to Shimizu Takashi in the game.

So it is normal that Conan only sees one game coin in the coin box, because from the very beginning, the zombie can do all this on its own and does not need the help of living people.

It's just that this perfect criminal plan was disrupted by myself...

But now that Shimizu Takashi is dead and the yellow-haired man's resurrected corpse is still moving, it means that things are not completely over yet.

Someone is controlling the zombies now.

Before his death, Shimizu Takashi said that someone told him that the famous detective was looking for him and asked him to be careful.

This means that someone revealed that he came to the game center to find him.

Considering today's schedule, the only person who has the chance to reveal this is...

……

Qin Zhibo drove back to the computer room he had been to in the morning and went straight to the bar in front.

Behind the bar, the fat clerk was fiddling with the computer in the morning. When he saw Qin Zhibo coming, he immediately greeted him.

"I remember now! You are the famous detective—Qin Zhibo, right?"

"Oh, I felt it looked familiar this morning, but I couldn't remember where..."

Qin Zhibo said a few simple polite words and went straight to the point.

"Excuse me, where is the thin clerk this morning?"

"You mean Zhemu..." The fat clerk put down the screwdriver in his hand. "He said something unexpected happened at home at noon today, and he had to rush home. It will take about three days for him to return."

Qin Zhibo frowned slightly and looked at the various wires that were scattered all over the bar.

"What are you doing?"

"Oh, the computer at the front desk suddenly stopped working. I'm going to take it apart to see what's wrong."