Conan Rick's Investigator

"Earth? What is that?"

It is obvious that Megure is not completely unfamiliar with English.

He understands "ladies", but he doesn't understand "Earth".

The Japanese police's lack of common sense made Toru Amuro feel embarrassed.

Didn’t police academies in the past teach English?

Skipping the English questions he didn't understand, Inspector Megure wanted to ask Kogoro Mouri what happened, but this time Kogoro Mouri was "not very proactive."

"Um...actually, I just got here too. I'd better ask Detective Qin. He's been here since the beginning."

"What! Brother Qin is here too!"

When he heard that Qin Zhibo was there too, Megure showed a happy expression on his face.

But then, Inspector Megure's face darkened and he looked at Kogoro Mouri.

"No matter where I appear, misfortune will happen to me..."

"You finally infected Brother Qin..."

Chapter 737 Qin Zhibo has transformed?

There is an old Chinese saying, "Those who know the times will...

Those who are close to vermilion will become red, and those who are close to ink will become black.

As the number one plague god, Kogoro Mori often hangs around him and is inevitably infected with his unfortunate physique.

"That's not right..." Maori Kogoro felt a little aggrieved and wanted to defend himself, "I almost couldn't make it this time. If Qin Zhibo hadn't notified me to come..."

Officer Megure nodded, "That's right. Brother Qin also has evil spirits in him now, and you, who are destined to be evil spirits, will be attracted to each other."

Maori Kogoro:"……"

Toru Amuro on the side glanced at Kogoro Mori and had some ideas.

Are you prone to attracting eucalyptus?

It seems to be true that this family of three always appears around Qin Zhibo's cases.

The family of three that Toru Amuro thinks of is the Mori father and daughter, and Conan.

……

After a while, Qin Zhibo came out of the living room and told Megure what happened at the female star party.

After understanding this, Inspector Megure held his chin up and pretended to reason, "So, when Miss Kusano found the spider in the bathroom, she was still fine, right?"

Qin Zhibo: Uh... why do you have to repeat the obvious?

Megure looked around at everyone and suddenly his face was shocked.

"That's not right, why are you missing someone?!"

The others were puzzled by Megure's train of thought, but it was Amuro Toru who explained, "The one missing is Miss Kusano's agent. He accompanied Miss Kusano to the hospital."

When Megure heard this, his expression immediately turned serious, "That won't do. What if he's the criminal?"

"Brother Qin said that Miss Kusano doesn't seem to have a good relationship with her agent..."

"Based on my more than 20 years of experience in handling cases, this kind of situation is the most likely to breed murderous intent."

After hearing Megure's alarmist words, the timid Okino Yoko was so scared that she opened her mouth wide and almost fainted.

Seeing his idol frightened, Maori Kogoro quickly explained: "Hey, hey! Officer, in my opinion, the murderer undoubtedly invaded from outside~"

As he spoke, Kogoro Mouri pointed behind the entrance door.

"Look, this bloodstain extends from the bathroom to the door. Next to it is a blood-stained raincoat, eye drops containing anesthetic, a handkerchief, and gloves..."

"These were thrown away by the murderer when he fled after committing the crime."

Megure walked to the entrance, squatted beside a pile of abandoned items and checked them, and found that they were indeed the tools used to commit robbing.

At this time, Kenzaki Osamu also provided a clue, that is, Kusano Kaoru has been harassed by a stalker recently.

It started out as a simple doorbell prank, but later escalated into a threatening letter, the words in which became increasingly vicious, making Kaoru Kusano miserable.

With these clues, Inspector Megure immediately came up with a complete set of reasoning.

That means the murderer took advantage of the door not being locked and slipped into the room to commit the crime.

After committing the crime, he left, threw all the weapons at the door, and pretended to be a normal person when leaving the apartment building.

At this time, Gao Mu came over again to report an exciting news.

"Officer Megure, the property management of the apartment building just said that this building only has surveillance cameras installed in the lobby on the first floor, but unfortunately, the surveillance cameras broke down last night..."

"Oh, I see..." Megure was not too upset about the lack of surveillance, as he was used to it anyway.

"It seems we can only look for witnesses first. It's not raining today, and the murderer entered the building wearing a raincoat, so someone should have noticed."

Just as Megure was about to make such arrangements, a voice suddenly came from the crowd.

"That's not necessary, Officer Megure."

"Hmm?" Megure turned around and saw that it was Qin Zhibo who spoke. "Brother Qin? What do you mean?"

"Everyone, please take a look..."

Qin Zhibo pointed to the floor and saw a line of blood dripping across the floor all the way to the entrance door.

"What's wrong? It's just the bloodstains left by the murderer who escaped..."

Inspector Megure didn't see any problem, so Qin Zhibo threw the question to Amuro Toru.

"Xiao An, what do you think?"

Toru Amuro glanced at Qin Zhibo, pretended to observe for a second, and then said the answer that he had already in his mind.

"I see! It's footprints!"

"This foreign 'murderer' was dripping with blood, yet he was careful not to step on it."

Qin Zhibo nodded with satisfaction and continued, "This is the crux of the matter..."

"The murderer needs to be careful not to step on the blood, so he needs to walk like this..."

As he spoke, Qin Zhibo demonstrated the walking posture of the bow-legged Japanese soldier in "Raise Your Hands", which was very vivid and lifelike.

"This shows that the murderer is a very careful and calm person."

"But since he's such a careful person, how could he rashly enter the apartment and kill someone when he saw so many pairs of shoes placed at the door?"

"And even if the murderer took a desperate risk, why could he accurately guess that Miss Kusano was in the bathroom and not in the living room or kitchen?"

"The only explanation for this is that the murderer may have installed a bug."

"But before the police arrived, I had already checked that there were no eavesdropping devices installed in the apartment. My assistant Xiao An also checked the door lock and there was no sign of it being pried open."

Megure's brain still needed to digest the knowledge points in Qin Zhibo's series of explanations, but Conan in the lower position understood it all.

It turned out that Qin Zhibo was wandering around the rooms just now in order to look for a bug.

With Conan's intelligence, although he had guessed long ago that the murderer was not an outsider, his reasoning only went as far as "the murderer would be discouraged by the number of shoes."

Conan really didn't expect the existence of the bug.

But what made Conan a little confused this time was that Qin Zhibo actually expressed his thoughts before formally deducing the murderer.

In the past, when Qin Zhibo was solving cases, he would just wander around the murder scene without saying a word, and at most he would cooperate with the police to do some basic case investigations.

By the time he spoke again, it was already time to announce the "correct answer".

This time, Qin Zhibo actually made his ideas public in advance for the first time.

It's like watching a Sherlock Holmes story.

The most amazing thing about Sherlock Holmes is that after the case is solved, Holmes himself will jump out and announce the correct answer and his own ideas for solving the case.

If Conan Doyle had used Holmes as the first-person perspective, and his inner monologue explained the meaning of every move Holmes made, there would be nothing magical about Holmes.

This time, Qin Zhibo personally corrected the police's wrong judgment and explained his previous behavior in detail.

Has he transformed?

……

Qin Zhibo on this side explained the doubts clearly, and Inspector Megure also realized belatedly that the murderer was the person in the apartment.

Not only that, after Kaoru Kusano was scared by the spider in the bathroom, the only people who acted alone in the apartment were Yoko Okino, Yuki Takeno, and Terumi Hoshino.

"I see. It's true that we were the only three of us who left the sight of others because we were changing clothes, so it's possible that we acted alone."

"The murderer might be among us..."

The suspected Hoshino Terumi was calm, unlike a local, but then she changed the subject.

"But it's also possible that someone installed a timer in the bathroom and recorded the sound of being frightened in advance to eliminate themselves as a suspect..."

There was something behind Hoshino Terumi's words, because the only person who could have installed the recorder before was Kenzaki Osamu, who personally sent Kusano into the bathroom.

As long as Kenzaki Osamu kills the person directly when he sends him into the bathroom, and then uses a tape recorder to send out a false certificate that the person is still alive, he can eliminate his suspicion.

The recorder can be retrieved when the body is just discovered and the scene is in chaos.

However, as soon as Hoshino Terumi finished speaking, Qin Zhibo spoke slowly.

"Ms. Hoshino, your reasoning is very imaginative."

"I guess you were inspired by a high school detective to come up with this reasoning, right?"

Hoshino Terumi: “…”

She had indeed seen many cases handled by Kudo Shinichi, so she knew how to use recordings to eliminate suspicion.

Just when Hoshino Terumi was feeling complacent, Qin Zhibo's words were like a bucket of cold water poured over her head.

"However, case reasoning requires not only common sense from existing cases but also logical analysis skills."

"I'm sorry, Miss Hoshino, your reasoning doesn't hold."

"Because if it was Mr. Kenzaki who made the recording, he would have needed to rush forward and talk to Miss Kusano the moment she was frightened in order to avoid the recording being exposed."

"But the reality is that the person who was talking to Miss Kusano was her agent, Mr. Makuma. It's impossible for Mr. Kenzaki to predict the conversation between the two."

But the actual situation was that Qin Zhibo saw the living white-legged creature through the guard totem.

"Another point, unless Mr. Kenzaki is Kaito Kid and can change his voice, Mr. Kenzaki cannot make a recording of Ms. Kusano."

When Kaito Kid was mentioned, the police and detectives present were shocked.

However, after hearing clearly that Qin Zhibo was just using Kaito Kid as an example, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Hoshino Terumi was a little dissatisfied when she saw her idol's theory was refuted. She continued, "But Kenzaki and Kusano are about to get engaged. As long as they discuss making a surprise party in advance, they can still record the sound..."

“No, No, No…”

Qin Zhibo shook his finger and said, "That's impossible, because Mr. Kenzaki and Ms. Kusano are only fake engaged. There's no real love between them. It's all just acting."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present widened their eyes in shock.

"what!"

"How can this be!"

"Akira and Kenzaki-san...are they fake?"

Kenzaki Osamu looked around and saw that he could no longer hide the truth, so he could only nod and admit it.

"Actually, Miss Kusano and her agent, Mr. Kuma, are the couple who truly love each other."

"But Mr. Makuma has been refusing to confess, which has troubled Kusano. So, he asked me to act out a play, pretending to be engaged, to stimulate Mr. Makuma to confess..."

Hearing this, everyone looked surprised.

No one expected that the engagement party that looked so "harmonious" was actually fake from beginning to end.

Conan on the side was also a little surprised.

When he rushed to the bathroom, he saw the agent pick up Kusano's body without hesitation, and thought that the agent and Kusano were the engaged couple.