Conan Rick's Investigator

Chapter 85 Daily Inspiration...

Two tiny bodies stacked on top of each other on the grass, with a metal baseball bat nearby?

Judging from the steady rise and fall of their chests and the absence of an option to investigate the corpse, they should still be alive.

In fact, Qin Zhibo was a little curious about what kind of skills he would gain if he conducted a corpse investigation for two first-grade students like these.

With such curiosity, Qin Zhibo investigated the two little ones.

Among them, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya has no skills, but his intelligence is as high as 40, which is the same as the lowest intelligence of Kogoro Mori.

Kojima Genta's wisdom is half of Mitsuhiko's, only 20, and his strength is 30, exactly twice that of Mitsuhiko.

Is it strong? I traded my brain for it.

However, an elementary school student like Genta Kojima actually has a skill.

Social Skills (Threat)…

It seems that Genta Kojima is very good at Fat Tiger behavior.

This reminded Qin Zhibo of the gangster who said, "It's just like who has a better brain."

At first glance, Kojima Genta and that big brother look quite similar.

It seems that this child needs to be well educated in the future, otherwise he will follow in the footsteps of his brain-dead older brother...

Qin Zhibo searched the surrounding weeds again, but apart from these two little ones, he did not find the other two members of the Junior Detective Team.

Looking around, the only possible place where someone could be hiding is in the villa.

According to Ryohei Matsumoto, this villa has been vacant for five years, and it is not impossible that homeless people are living in it.

It is possible that these curious children wanted to explore a haunted house, broke into the homeless man's territory, and were knocked unconscious and driven out by the homeless man.

This is a relatively common guess.

However, considering that there is Conan in the Junior Detective League, Qin Zhibo thinks it would be more appropriate to call the police to handle the matter.

Moreover, the homeless man occupied someone else's house and knocked out an elementary school student, which is enough to win the Rice Flower Good Citizen Award.

"Hello, is this Megure-san?"

……

After calling the police, Qin Zhibo prepared to sneak into the villa.

The side door, main door and back door of the villa were all locked. Qin Zhibo took the only key given by Matsumoto Ryohei and tried each door one by one, and finally opened the back door of the villa.

Entering the villa, the interior space was much larger than Qin Zhibo had imagined, and the dim, circular corridors could easily make people feel lost.

Coupled with the eerie atmosphere, the effect here is definitely not inferior to some carefully decorated haunted houses.

Qin Zhibo walked straight along the corridor and came to the front hall of the villa.

In the front hall, there are various demon statues.

Each statue here is as tall as two adults. Demons in different forms stand on the red floor with their fangs and claws bared, as oppressive as a group of real demons standing on a pool of blood.

Of course, this is for ordinary people.

For Qin Zhibo, the atmosphere here is just so-so.

Qin Zhibo raised the nuclear lighter in his hand as high as possible to see the facial details of these tall winged demon statues.

These demons were either twisted and hideous, holding steel forks in their claws, holding human limbs in their mouths, or towering tall and strong...

Qin Zhibo felt that if these statues were moved to the Hell Pavilion of the Medieval Art Museum, they would attract a lot of visitors.

Simply placing these in your home, apart from adding some underworld effects, can at most ward off evil spirits and prevent thieves.

But in fact, this anti-theft effect is not that good.

Otherwise, the owner here would not have been killed by robbers five years ago.

Among these demon statues, Qin Zhibo discovered a demon statue with a very unique shape.

Its limbs are slender and humanoid, with narrow wings on its back and a tail ending in a barbed wire.

There are also horns on its head that bend inward and claws that look a bit ugly.

The most unique thing about this demon statue compared to other ones is that it has no facial features at all, like a half-finished product.

On that ferocious face that should have been grinning, there was only a symbolic blank space.

Its lacquered exterior looked as smooth and glossy as whale skin in the firelight.

For some reason, Qin Zhibo's attention was attracted by this unique demon statue, and he couldn't look away for a while.

It seems to be more than just a statue...

It is the most disturbing nightmare in the silent midnight...

It is silent, yet restless...

Suddenly, Qin Zhibo saw the barbed tail behind the demon statue flapping rhythmically.

Then it flapped its wings, leaped up and flew towards him.

Qin Zhibo subconsciously raised his arms in front of him to block.

However, after taking a two-second break, Qin Zhibo moved his arms away, and everything he had just witnessed seemed to have never happened.

The faceless demon statue still maintains its original posture standing on the columnar base.

However, the declining willpower value reminded Qin Zhibo that something must have happened just now, and he must have seen or felt some special existence.

At the same time, a prompt appeared on the left side of Qin Zhibo's vision.

Get inspired

[Mysterious Mythology Knowledge and Skill Proficiency +100]

86, 87, 88...

His willpower was recovering rapidly, so Qin Zhibo didn't stay here any longer.

……

Continuing to walk on the other half of the corridor on the first floor, Qin Zhibo was suddenly tripped by something under his feet.

Looking down, I saw that it was a groove on the floor.

After carefully examining it with a nuclear lighter, Qin Zhibo discovered that it was a cellar door, and the groove was the door handle.

Open the cellar door and you will see stairs leading underground.

This is……

Qin Zhibo didn't think much about it and walked down directly, followed the stairs to the end and came to a corridor.

In this corridor that should have been dark and deep, there was a ray of light.

The light came from a half-open iron door.

Humans are phototropic, and Qin Zhibo is no exception.

Qin Zhibo walked to the door and looked inside.

All that comes into view is the ordinary stone brick floor.

The direction of the door prevented Qin Zhibo from seeing the other half of the room, but it was very quiet inside, as if there was no one there.

But when Qin Zhibo pushed the door and walked in, he was shocked by the situation inside.

Strictly speaking, this is not an ordinary basement, but a dungeon.

Half of the room was separated into a cell by iron bars. On the bed in the cell, a thin, disheveled figure was lying on the bed with his back to Qin Zhibo.

The figure didn't react at all to Qin Zhibo's intrusion, as if he was asleep.

Qin Zhibo tiptoed to the iron bars of the cell, wanting to see some identity information about the man.

But this person had his back to him and he couldn't see his face, so Qin Zhibo had no choice.

Just then, two footsteps were heard in the corridor outside the door.

Although the two footsteps were very light, Qin Zhibo's ears were very sensitive to footsteps, so he caught them at once.

In a hurry, Qin Zhibo didn't think twice and dodged and hid in a metal cabinet in the corner of the dungeon.

Hide in the closet when you see someone.

I’m an old “Escape” player…

Chapter 86 The End of the World Line

The heavy iron door was slowly opened, and two short figures walked in cautiously.

"It's a prison cell...but why is it in a place like this?"

Conan looked at the dungeon in front of him with surprise.

Ayumi, who was standing next to Conan, saw the long-haired figure lying in the cell and hugged Conan's arm without saying a word.

"Ok, there seems to be someone here!"

Conan, who was unaware that he was being molested by a child, considered all the possibilities based on all the clues he had so far.

Is it the homeless people living here?

But why don’t homeless people live in the guest rooms upstairs, but in the cells in the basement?

What is the relationship between the person in this cell and the person in the black dress outside?

And the rumors nearby about this house being haunted were also caused by the people who lived here?

……

Conan had many doubts in his mind, but before he could think of the answer, heavy and slow footsteps were heard outside the door.

In a hurry, Conan immediately fell in love with the metal cabinet in the corner.

But when Conan dragged Ayumi to the metal cabinet and wanted to open the door to hide inside, he couldn't open it at all.

Conan: "?"

The metal cabinet is the most common storage cabinet without a keyhole. It should be opened with a single pull.

Could it be that the door is stuck by the debris inside?

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and Conan had no time to think. He dragged Ayumi and hid in the gap between the metal cabinet and the wall next to it.

……

Inside the iron cabinet, Qin Zhibo was hooking the metal protrusion on the edge of the iron door with two fingers.

Just now, through the ventilation gap on the cabinet door, Qin Zhibo saw Conan pulling Ayumi straight towards where he was hiding.

So, Qin Zhibo carefully hooked the door with his fingers, preventing Conan from opening it.

It’s not that Qin Zhibo doesn’t want Conan and Ayumi to hide in.

But the space in this metal cabinet is limited. Qin Zhibo, who is 70 cm tall, is already very crowded when curled up in it, and it is even more impossible to squeeze two more children in.

Moreover, once Conan and Ayumi open the cabinet and see themselves hiding in it without any warning, they will definitely show extremely shocked expressions and stay there for a few seconds.

By that time, everyone will be exposed.

So Qin Zhibo thought it would be better for everyone to hide separately. After all, there was a gap next to the cabinet where people could hide.

At this moment, the heavy iron door made a creaking sound, and another person walked into the secret room.

Qin Zhibo in the closet and Conan next to the closet both started to listen attentively.

……

A person in a black long dress walked in with a dinner tray. As the candlelight on the candlestick on the tray flickered, the tray was placed on the ground.

"It's time to eat."

"Come over and eat."

There were two soft calls, but the person lying on the bed in the cell just moved his arms slightly, with no intention of coming down to eat.