Conan Rick's Investigator

Wouldn't it be safer if both the first and last name were changed?

Is it because changing the name is too wasteful of brain cells, so you are too lazy to do it?

Qin Zhibo was too lazy to complain. At least Xiunian's laziness provided a general direction for the murderer of this case.

Takahashi Reiyoshi, Takahashi Nobutomo...

Qin Zhibo didn't believe that these two people were not related.

But evidence is still needed to make a final determination, and the presentation of evidence can also increase the probability of bringing the murderer to justice directly.

If Xiu Nian refuses to plead guilty, the mission will most likely be delayed.

So Qin Zhibo planned to get the evidence first and then reveal the truth of the whole case.

Here comes the problem.

The evidence is located below the Shannissi Waterfall. As Qin Zhibo is a potential suspect with no alibi, he cannot leave the police's sight and go looking for evidence alone.

It would be fine to let the police follow him to find evidence, but Qin Zhibo just wants to take revenge on Conan and let Conan run this errand for him.

After all, Shanni Temple is quite a long way from the foot of the mountain, and you have to lie on the ground to find those scattered tiny evidences.

I was feeling a bit lazy because I didn't get much sleep last night.

and so……

Qin Zhibo put one hand in his pocket, and a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared, and the gun materialized in his hand.

He took out the bullets that had been loaded in advance, and then used his mind to create several new bullets.

Since it is a pocket pistol, it is relatively easy to operate with one hand.

Pushing the new bullet into the gun chamber, Qin Zhibo slowly approached Conan from behind.

……

At this time, Conan was standing in the corridor with his chin held high, thinking seriously.

There are still several major doubts in Conan's mind that have not been resolved.

First of all, why would someone who wants to commit suicide go to the trouble of climbing so high to commit suicide?

Secondly, how did the big hole in the wall form?

Again, if it was a homicide, how could the murderer hang the person from the beam without leaving any trace?

Finally, who is the murderer?

At this moment, Conan felt someone approaching quietly from the side, holding the railing as if nothing had happened, whistling and looking at the scenery.

Qin Zhibo...

Seeing Qin Zhibo, Conan instinctively turned away.

But just as his body turned around, four thoughts flooded into Conan's brain from behind.

Katcha!

Katcha!

Katcha!

Katcha!

Four thunderclaps sounded in Conan's brain, and the intracranial orgasm made Conan's body stand still for a long time and unable to move.

First of all, it was homicide.

Secondly, the big hole in the wall was not caused by human power, but by the impact of water.

Again, the murderer's method was to use the floor near the skylight in the ashram to divert the waterfall water into the ashram.

Finally, the evidence confirming the murderer was found at the foot of the mountain, where a piece of wooden board with tape on it was found.

It was even more magical than opening the Ren and Du meridians. With these ideas that came to him in a flash of inspiration, Conan understood everything in an instant.

I see……

I see!

Next, we just need to find evidence at the foot of the mountain and extract the fingerprints on the tape to find out who the murderer is!

As a man of action, Conan turned around and asked the police officer next to him about the way from Shanni Temple to the foot of the mountain.

As for the flash of inspiration, although the amount of information contained in this flash of inspiration was a bit large and the investigation process was directly skipped, Conan did not care too much about it.

It's not like this hasn't happened before.

Moreover, Conan, who advocates science, absolutely does not believe in forcibly injecting thoughts into other people's brains.

Compared to before, Conan is more willing to believe that it is the improvement of his reasoning ability.

I am finally going to surpass Qin Zhibo and discover the truth first!

Qin Zhibo, who had been standing silently in front of the railing, watched Conan running down the mountain like a hardworking little bee and smiled.

Run errands, Conan-kun.

……

After running all the way from Shanni Temple to the waterfall at the foot of the mountain, Conan's physical strength finally couldn't bear it anymore, and he leaned on his knees and gasped for breath.

"Whoosh-"

Although it is very hard at the moment, Conan reveals a sweet and confident smile when he thinks that he is about to find the key clue and completely surpass Qin Zhibo's speed in solving the case.

Without waiting for the atmosphere to completely calm down, Conan, eager to solve the case, dived into the grass by the stream to look for key evidence.

To some extent, Conan's height is actually an advantage when it comes to searching for such tiny and subtle evidence.

Conan was seen lying on the ground with his hands and feet, changing from walking upright to walking on four legs, searching every piece of land carefully like a corgi.

Before the formal search, Conan divided the grass by the river into several areas.

Then, I would advance from the woods to the stream area by area, and I would definitely find the evidence.

And then……

Conan, who had just searched the stream for the first time, was about to turn back to continue searching, but suddenly he froze and his eyes stopped on the water.

Because in that trickling stream, Conan saw a strange floating object lying quietly on the water.

The floating object appears in a gradually fading pink color in the clear stream, which is extremely eye-catching.

It looked somewhat like the shell of some crustacean, except that now the shell was in pieces, and the edges were breaking and cracking like biscuit crumbs as the water washed over them.

On the nearby water surface, there are scattered translucent films soaked in the water.

These things were scattered in the stream with an almost morbid fear, like the fragments of some creature's corpse.

Chapter 117 Conan discovered "Mist Tengu"!

Conan: "!"

Tong Kong, whose eyes were rapidly expanding, looked in disbelief at the scattered pink things in the stream, and Conan's arms were trembling slightly.

What the hell is this!

Even if Conan searched through the animal and nature encyclopedia in his mind, he could not find any description related to the scene before him.

It looked a bit like a lake of blood and flesh, a swollen and foamy human or animal corpse, but reason and common sense repeatedly told Conan that this thing had absolutely nothing to do with humans or animals on Earth.

At this moment, these strange pink creatures almost occupied Conan's entire brain, causing Conan to ignore the important task of finding evidence.

Conan quickly looked around and picked up a small wooden stick on the ground next to him.

Walking to the stream, Conan squatted down and turned on the switch of his foot-strengthening shoes, and the shoe surface emitted a faint colorful light.

This is just in case.

Then, Conan carefully poked the pink thing tentatively with a wooden stick.

Judging from its shape, it seemed to be the limb of some kind of arthropod, but when the wooden stick touched its surface, Conan found that it was extremely soft and its texture was much softer than tofu.

When it is gently stirred with a wooden stick, its surface spreads out like brain flower, and the pink color immediately fades away, turning into oily mucus that dissolves in the water.

At this moment, Conan felt that this thing was like some kind of fungus that had been soaked in water for too long and had therefore rotted.

It has an animal-like structure, but decays and dissolves like fungi.

What the hell is this?

Suddenly, Conan had an idea and thought of the "Mist Tengu", the most talked-about topic among the people in the temple yesterday.

Red face, long nose...

Although the descriptions cannot be 100% consistent, the red color alone is enough to arouse Conan's endless imagination.

Red and pink, they don't seem to be that different...

Could this thing be Mist Tengu!

Conan stared in disbelief at the pink substance in the water that was dissolving faster and faster due to his stirring. The worldview that he had painstakingly built for seventeen years in his brain was shaking slightly.

57, 53, 51, 50...

Conan's willpower is slowly decreasing, but Conan is still stubbornly maintaining his understanding of the world.

impossible!

This is absolutely impossible!

Mist Tengu cannot exist!

This thing must be some kind of strange and rare fungus...

correct!

This may be Tai Sui!

The knowledgeable Conan had heard of a fungus called "Tai Sui".

The First Emperor of ancient China sent Xu Fu eastward to an overseas fairy island to look for medicinal materials for making an elixir of life. It is said that one of the ingredients was "Taisui".

This must be Tai Sui!

Right?

Although Conan thought so, this idea was not actually firm, but more like a comfort.

It is human nature to use common sense that one can understand to understand things that one cannot understand.

Suddenly, the pungent smell of rotting mushrooms rushed into Conan's nose.

Conan was so irritated by the strange and unpleasant smell that he retched several times and quickly ran away from the stream.

Just then, I stepped on something hard.

When I moved my foot away, I saw that it was a piece of wood with a piece of residual tape wrapped around it.

There is evidence too!

Go back now!

……

When I returned to Shanni Temple from the foot of the mountain, I happened to meet Xiaolan who was coming down the mountain to look for her.

Seeing Conan running back breathlessly, Xiaolan's heart dropped, but she still put on a stern expression and scolded him: "Conan! Why didn't you tell me before leaving me?"

Conan was not afraid of Xiaolan's harshness at all. Instead, he asked seriously, "Sister Xiaolan, where is Officer Megure?"

"Still up there..."

I don’t know why, but when Xiaolan saw Conan’s serious expression, she always felt that this kid had something particularly important to say.

After getting the answer, Conan went straight to the training room and found Inspector Megure who was still working with Kogoro Mouri to analyze the case.

"It must be suicide!" Kogoro Mouri said with certainty.

"Um……"

Megure touched his chin, remembering that two years ago, he had concluded the same case as suicide, so...