Conan Rick's Investigator

Ichieda Takashi shook his head regretfully: "Her name is Yaeko, but she..."

"shut up!"

At this moment, Shioi Reika sternly stopped Ichieda Takashi who wanted to continue speaking.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on Shijing Lihua, who looked as if she was greatly frightened. Her cherry lips were breathing heavily, and cold sweat was almost dripping from her slightly lowered head.

"Today is my birthday and I don't want to hear that person's name again!"

"Also, Mifune, if you want to go back, go ahead."

"But in return, my father will no longer have any business dealings with your company."

"What did you say?"

The man with the pigtail, who was playing hard to get, cried out in surprise.

"To put it bluntly, you are all birds in my cage."

"If I don't feed you, you won't be able to survive."

"So it's best to please the master, but don't try to be just a bit righteous."

A bird in a cage...

The first person to speak was old Hinata.

Chapter 73 is probably useless...

"Aunt Mi, come to the second floor and help me change clothes."

"Yes, Miss Lihua."

At the invitation of Shioi Reika, the housekeeper of the Shioi family, the old woman named Nanao Yone, followed and left.

However, in Qin Zhibo's opinion, with the old woman's height of about one meter, she can't even touch the buttons of her bra. Can she really help change clothes?

And now that Rika Shioi has left his sight, what if the Silver Fox chooses to take action at this time?

So Qin Zhibo decided to check it out himself.

……

After Yoshii Reika left, the rest of the group decided to spend the night playing poker.

If Mouri Ran and Conan were considered the same person, there would be just enough people present to set up two card tables.

However, when Mao Lilan suggested inviting Qin Zhibo to play cards together, Qin Zhibo shook his head.

"Thanks for the invitation, but I don't know how to play poker."

"Mr. Qin doesn't know how to play poker?" Xiaolan looked surprised. "The rules for drawing the ghost cards are very simple. I can teach you."

"As long as several people draw cards from each other, two identical cards can be put down. Whoever has the joker in his hand loses..."

The little angel Mao Lilan adheres to the principle of never giving up and wants to get Qin Zhibo to join the poker game.

But Qin Zhibo has more important things to do now, so he naturally cannot agree.

And isn’t drawing a joker card just drawing a turtle?

For a game that relies almost entirely on luck, Qin Zhibo felt that his luck of 35 was not very suitable.

On the contrary, Mao Lilan looked excited, which reminded Qin Zhibo that Mao Lilan had 90% luck and was rated as the "Lucky Goddess" by the system.

It seems that she is very good at this kind of game...

"Forget it, I'll just watch from the side."

Qin Zhibo shook his head.

Conan next to him suddenly said, "Uncle Qin should be playing bridge, right?"

"Bridge?" Mao Lilan asked in confusion.

In response to Xiaolan's doubts, Conan desperately started the science popularization (revealing) mode.

"Bridge is a poker game played by four players in pairs. It is a game that relies more on intelligence and less on luck."

"When playing bridge, applying knowledge of mathematics, logic, calculation and memory is very important for winning."

"While luck is an inevitable factor, the psychological game at the card table is also very important, which is why bridge is also called the 'silent war' on the card table."

"By the way, Colonel Moran, the right-hand man of the famous Professor James Moriarty, loved playing bridge and often used it to defraud money at the card club in the city center."

After Conan finished his popular science introduction, he also mentioned his favorite character, Sherlock Holmes.

As for why people think Qin Zhibo plays bridge, after all, Qin is a top student who graduated from Miskatonic University, a world-class university. If he must play a poker game, he will definitely play bridge, which is a test of wisdom.

It’s just that when he was doing the popular science lecture, Conan got too carried away, so now everyone is looking at him in disbelief.

The pigtailed man, Mifune, looked at Conan with great interest and said, "I didn't expect you to know so much, little brother. I also happen to know a little about bridge. Do you want to have a competition?"

Xiaolan also looked at Conan in confusion: "Conan, how do you know so much?"

Conan quickly grinned and scratched his head in the classic way.

"That's what Shinichi-nii told me!"

"This Shinichi, really, why does he teach everything to a child? What if Conan gets interested in gambling?"

call--

Conan, who had gotten away with it, just breathed a sigh of relief when he suddenly remembered that the person who almost saw through his disguise was sitting next to him.

Conan tilted his head and looked to the side, only to see Qin Zhibo looking at him calmly without saying a word.

Let's just slip away first...

Conan walked away dejectedly, but Qin Zhibo had learned some "scientific knowledge" from Conan's performance just now.

When Conan is suspected for explaining knowledge that is far beyond the common sense of elementary school students, he will blame it on Shinichi (actually it was himself, so there is nothing wrong with what he said) who taught him.

Remember...

In the end, Qin Zhibo got his wish and did not join the game.

The only table of ghost card games adopts a rotation system, and whoever loses will be eliminated.

Qin Zhibo, lying on the sofa, leisurely opened the electronic map of the navigation system and set the guard totem foresight transformation in the villa.

Guardian Totems will spawn with a different appearance based on their surroundings.

For example, right now in the villa, the guard totem looks like a spider...

The kind that can climb.

In short, Qin Zhibo placed the spider in Sijing Lihua's room on the second floor of the villa and switched his vision to the spider's vision.

In the eyes of the short spider, Rika Shioi's body was as tall as a giant.

At this time, Shijing Lihua was sitting in front of the dressing table, taking off her earrings and necklace, and carefully putting these expensive jewelry into the jewelry box.

Next is to change clothes.

"Aunt Mi!"

Sijing Lihua called Aunt Mi to help her unzip the zipper and corset on the back of her long skirt one by one.

Quite white...

After Sijing Lihua changed into a loose red nightgown, she said, "Aunt Mi, this corset is too tight. I couldn't eat at the banquet just now, and now I'm a little hungry."

"Got it. I'll go to the kitchen and prepare some food."

Aunt Mi left the room. Just as Si Jing Lihua was about to turn around, she suddenly stopped and stared down at "Qin Zhibo".

"What's going on Aunt Mi? There's a spider here!"

Ouch!

With a loud bang, the spider's vision disappeared and a system prompt appeared.

[Guardian Totem Vision transformation disappears and enters cooldown]

Without spider vision, Qin Zhibo also lost the ability to monitor Shijing Lihua.

……

Next, the long yet short wait began.

In the banquet hall, those who play cards play cards, those who play sage mode play sage mode...

Finally, when Xiaolan announced her sixteenth consecutive victory and the time on the clock reached eleven o'clock, everyone felt something was wrong.

"It's just a change of clothes, isn't it too slow?"

"Yeah, it seems like an hour has passed already?"

Hearing this, Qin Zhibo, who was lying on the sofa with his eyes closed, suddenly sat up with a start.

How can it be so fast?

An hour has already passed?

But it feels like less than five minutes have passed!

Although Qin Zhibo knew that his sense of time was often inaccurate, this time it was simply outrageous.

And I haven't seen Reika Shioi for an hour.

Mostly it's useless...

Chapter 74 Where can I get the bandage monster?

Strictly speaking, Qin Zhibo was not afraid that Shijing Lihua would die in a place where he didn't notice.

It would be great if we could grab Silver Fox's wrist at the moment when Silver Fox assassinates Shii Rika.

However, even if Shijing Lihua is dead, Qin Zhibo can still find the location of Silver Fox through investigation points.

However, the system has not triggered the side quest at the moment.

According to past experience, you may need to find the corpse first before triggering the side quest.

and so……

"Something might have happened to Shijing Lihua. Let's go look for her quickly." Qin Zhibo stood up from the sofa and said seriously.

When they heard the word "unexpected", several of Shijing Lihua's protectors all looked panicked and immediately joined the team looking for Shijing Lihua.

For a moment, the title "Miss Lihua" echoed throughout the villa.

When the flower protectors and Aunt Mi returned to the hall again, they all shook their heads regretfully.

Rokuta Masashi: "That's strange, why can't I find it anywhere?"

Yizhi Long: "Could it be that she would walk into the woods by herself?"

At this time, the man with pigtails who had been sitting quietly on the sofa in the hall and posing also moved into Bengbu.

If the person is no longer around, who are you posing for?

"Really? This young lady is really going to cause trouble."

"Let's go look in the woods together."

……

In the woods, Qin Zhibo was searching for Shijing Lihua while thinking.

During his last in-depth conversation with Tachibana Maya, Qin Zhibo learned some general information about the killer Silver Fox.

Silver Fox is good at using long-range means such as throwing knives and pistols to assassinate targets.

However, Silver Fox's close combat ability is relatively average, so he usually does not resort to close combat assassinations.

But Silver Fox also has a unique skill, which is disguise.

Unlike cross-dressing, disguise is the art of completely changing one's face to that of another.