Conan Rick's Investigator

Qin Zhibo didn't say much and took Conan towards the Mouri Detective Agency.

……

Ten minutes later, the adult and the child were standing across the street from the Maori Detective Agency.

The lights on the second and third floors of the office are off, and it seems that there is no one in the office?

Conan frowned slightly. Could it be that he was missing? Professor Agasa had already called the police, and Uncle Mouri and Xiaolan also rushed over?

Conan didn't want to worry Xiaolan, so he quickly prepared to go to the office to make a phone call. However, just as he reached the sidewalk, a tall figure walked out of the stairs on the side of the office.

Kogoro Mouri, dressed in a white suit, walked out first and gave instructions to the figure behind him as he walked down the stairs.

"Kid, don't yell when we get to the hotel. This is an international banquet with the Kingdom of Vesbania. Don't let it affect the international image of the Japanese!"

"Yes, yes, I understand..."

A voice with an obviously perfunctory tone came out, and it turned out to be Conan wearing a blue children's suit with his hands in his pockets walking down the stairs!

Conan, who was covered in stains on the sidewalk, looked at the other Conan downstairs in the office and his mouth opened wide.

How can this be? !

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Chapter 1057 Conan: Damn! There’s a cheat!

Downstairs of the Mouri Detective Agency, Kogoro Mouri adjusted the tie of his white suit very conceitedly and raised his hand to hail a taxi on the side of the road.

As he got into the car, Kogoro Mouri gave him a lustful look.

"Ms. Yoko~"

"I'm coming~"

After saying that, Kogoro Mouri dived in.

"Conan" next to him gave a signature look of contempt and got on the car as well.

The taxi drove past the road, and the two people in the car did not see Conan standing on the sidewalk with a confused look on his face.

Conan stared at the taxi driving away with his eyes wide open in disbelief.

What's happening here?

What happened to that "I"?

Why is that "Conan" living in the office, and with Uncle Maori...

Beep, beep——

Conan stood there in a daze. The vehicles waiting at the zebra crossing were already getting impatient and started honking their horns to urge him on.

Seeing this, Qin Zhibo picked up Conan by the waist and took him to the other side of the road first.

When they reached the other side of the street, Qin Zhibo put Conan on the ground, and Conan finally came to a conclusion in his mind.

"It's a fake!"

"Then someone must be impersonating me!"

Ever since his body became smaller, fake Kudo Shinichi often appears on the market, such as the Hattori Heiji version and the Kaito Kid version.

But this is the first time someone has impersonated Conan.

Conan clenched his fists and gritted his teeth. It would have been bad enough if he had pretended to be Kudo Shinichi, but he even pretended to be an elementary school student himself.

Can't you leave people a way to survive?

Qin Zhibo looked at Conan's reaction and thought about what Conan meant by "fake", and couldn't help but frowned.

Although the disguise skills in this world can make a person look exactly like the real person, height is always an insurmountable obstacle.

Whether it is Kuroba Toichi or Vermouth, it is impossible for them to disguise themselves as Conan because of the height difference.

Unless the legs are sawed off.

or……

Qin Zhibo thought of another possibility, that is, the person disguised as Conan was not a human, but a Mi-GO.

Mi-Go does not use disguise, but camouflage.

This technique is more advanced than disguise, and can imitate the target person's entire body, including height.

But when it comes to MI-Go, human language and facial expressions are a big challenge.

Even Mr. Clock, a Mi-Go who often mingles with human society, is not very skilled in making facial expressions and can be felt to be a little stiff.

This is because when MI-Go disguises itself as a human and makes facial expressions, it needs to use the short tentacles on its ellipsoidal head to control the internal contacts of the biochemical doll.

There are not many human facial expressions that can be disguised using this method, including joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, and no expression, that's all.

But Conan's perfunctory and contemptuous expression just now made Mi-Go feel quite complicated.

Even after spending such a long time with Mr. Clock, Qin Zhibo had never seen him use a similar expression.

Could it be that there are other experts among the Mi-Go clan?

This reminded Qin Zhibo of the Mi-Go that stole from Dr. Agasa's house. It should be like Mr. Clock, often mingle in human society.

Could it be it?

But why is he pretending to be "Conan"? What's his purpose?

Just as Qin Zhibo was thinking, Conan next to him spoke in a serious tone.

"How about we call a truce and work together to figure out the identity of that 'impostor'?"

At this time, Conan submitted a ceasefire agreement to Qin Zhibo.

Qin Zhibo was stunned for a moment. It was really not easy for Conan to show weakness for once.

"Okay~"

Qin Zhibo seemed very easy to talk to and didn't bother with Conan.

After all, who would bother with a child?

……

The two hit it off and decided to work together to figure out the mystery of "Detective Conan".

According to what Kogoro Mori said just now, they were going to attend the international banquet hosted by the Vespania Kingdom delegation in Japan.

Due to the recent discovery of unknown minerals, the Kingdom of Vesbania has attracted a lot of attention internationally and has become the target of many non-neutral countries.

However, Conan had never heard of the Kingdom of Vespania's envoy to Japan, or that Kogoro Mori was invited to attend the banquet tonight.

Could it be that he was invited at short notice while at school during the day?

Conan thought this was very likely because he didn't see Ran Mouri following them.

Wednesday is the weekly training day for the Teitan High School Karate Club. Except when she is sick or reviewing for final exams, Mao Li Ran almost never misses it.

Therefore, if you want to expose the conspiracy of the fake "Conan", you must go to the international banquet to take a look.

But now Qin Zhibo was wearing a brown windbreaker covered with dust that couldn't be shaken off, and Conan had a sour and smelly smell of garbage on his body.

The two wanted to attend a formal banquet in this appearance, but they couldn't get past the guards at the door.

"Let's go to uncle's office and change into clean clothes first..."

……

At Conan's suggestion, the two came to the third floor of the Mouri Detective Agency.

Conan took out the door key with a rope that the elementary school student carried with him and opened the door. There was no one inside. The lights in the living room were off and there was only a faint light coming from the street.

Qin Zhibo stood in the living room and glanced at Maori Kogoro's house. The layout was similar to the third floor of his own office, except that the north-south layout was reversed.

"come here."

At Conan's call, Qin Zhibo came to Mouri Kogoro's room, which was also the room where Conan slept on the floor.

There is only one large wardrobe in the room, which is shared by two people.

Conan opened the horizontal cabinet above the wardrobe and said, "These are Uncle Maori's clothes. You can pick whatever you want."

After saying that, he opened the drawer under the wardrobe, which contained several blue classic suits and a few casual clothes neatly stacked inside.

Next to these clothes were Kogoro Mouri's swimming trunks, underwear, and socks.

So it’s not that the Mori family received 10 million in child support and was reluctant to buy clothes for Conan, but that Conan’s wardrobe was too small and there was really no space for it.

Qin Zhibo glanced at Mouri Kogoro's wardrobe, which was almost entirely filled with dark blue suits, which were the work clothes that Mouri Kogoro often wore.

However, Qin Zhibo finally chose a black suit. He vaguely remembered that Kogoro Mouri had worn this suit before.

Since Qin Zhibo and Maori Kogoro have similar body shapes, Maori Kogoro's black suit fits him very well.

Conan quickly changed into his classic blue suit.

Conan threw all the changed clothes into the washing machine in the bathroom.

However, Conan sniffed his wrist and body again, and could still vaguely smell a sour odor on his body.

It is definitely too late to boil water for a bath at this time.

So Conan pushed open the door of Ran Mouri's room, jumped onto the bookshelf, and took down a bottle of perfume on it.

Conan took the perfume and sprayed it on several key parts of his body, then carefully put it back far away.

Ran Mouri rarely uses perfume. This bottle of perfume was a birthday gift from Eri Kisaki, so Ran Mouri takes good care of it and only uses it on important occasions and when she meets Eri Kisaki.

Qin Zhibo peeked into Mao Lilan's boudoir. It was clean and tidy, with simple colors, and not many elements of a girl's life.

On the desk, he saw something familiar.

It was a metal disc, supported on a stand and placed on the table, with a twisted pentagram engraved on its surface.

This is an old seal that Qin Zhibo found in the Arkham boutique. He gave it to Mao Li Ran to help her avoid the harassment of the Yellow King.

Qin Zhibo murmured in his heart, I haven't thrown it away yet...

It has been a while since the incident of the Yellow King. Apart from the function of the old seal itself, this metal disc is actually quite ugly as a decoration, but Mao Lilan still carefully preserves it.

This touched Qin Zhibo a little. How did the Maori couple raise such a good child?

……

After changing clothes, the next step is to find out where the party will be held.

While changing clothes, Conan decided to call each hotel one by one to inquire.

Since it is an international banquet and even social figures like Maori Kogoro can participate, a large hotel must be chosen as the venue, and the level of the hotel will not be too shabby.

Although there are many large hotels in Tokyo, it is still possible to find them all.

Conan went to the landline, took out a phone book, used the bow voice changer to change his voice to that of an adult, and began to call each hotel to inquire.

"Excuse me, is this the Rice Flower Hotel?"

"I am a foreign guest invited to the banquet of the Kingdom of Vesbania..."

Conan was just about to ask a question when Qin Zhibo suddenly hung up the phone.

Conan raised his head and looked at Qin Zhibo in confusion. Just as he was about to ask a question, Qin Zhibo smiled slightly.

"I can find the location. Come with me."

"Do you have any idea?"

A hint of doubt flashed in Conan's eyes. Maori Kogoro did not reveal the location of the hotel just now. How did Qin Zhibo know it?

Could it be that that terrifying observation ability is coming into play again?

……

After changing their clothes, the two went downstairs and hailed a taxi on the side of the road.

Qin Zhibo deliberately sat in the co-pilot seat and secretly put on a magic extractor.

Although the location of the hotel is unknown, for Qin Zhibo, all he needs to do is track down the location of Maori Kogoro.