Conan Rick's Investigator

Qin Zhibo sat down on the chair and turned on the computer skillfully.

Conan also moved a chair over and sat next to Qin Zhibo, intending to see what "evidence" Qin Zhibo could find.

The computer entered the desktop, and after successfully connecting to the Internet, Qin Zhibo first looked at the time in the lower right corner.

23:28:10.

1996/4/11

"Take a look at the time first, is there anything wrong?"

Qin Zhibo, who is not sensitive to time, can only ask Conan, a "normal person", to check the time.

Conan glanced at the time in the lower right corner and immediately noticed something was wrong.

Today is the day that Dr. Agasa is looking for his first love. That first love and Dr. Agasa's childhood agreed to meet at the agreed place every 10 years on this day, so Conan remembers this day very clearly.

"No, today is November 11th!"

The time difference was several months, but the climate in spring and autumn was similar, so I didn't feel anything.

But Qin Zhibo noticed it at the entrance of the cherry blossom hotel. Cherry blossoms usually only bloom in March and April.

"What exactly is going on?"

Conan picked up the mouse and operated it for a while, but finally determined that this time was the result of the computer being updated after the network connection, and not because the computer had not been turned on for a long time.

Qin Zhibo silently opened the webpage and entered two keywords in the search bar.

Moon Shadow Island, murder, case.

Soon, the web page responded again and several related pages popped up.

[The Yueying Island serial murder case has been solved! The perpetrator committed suicide by burning himself to death!]

[Sleeping Maori Kogoro breaks the record! Presenting the exciting mystery of Tsukikage Island! ]

[The Moon Shadow Island case has been solved! The murderer is the son of a famous musician!]

Qin Zhibo just took a glance and his mood suddenly sank.

Although it was just a news headline, it had already announced the most explosive news, and there was no need to read the specific content.

But Conan next to him glared and immediately shouted, "Wait a minute!"

“I remember this case as…”

Conan's face was full of confusion. He clearly remembered that the final result of the Moon Shadow Island case was the uneven distribution of spoils within the villain group, and internal strife led to two deaths and one madness.

Why did the news report about a prisoner setting himself on fire? And also about Kogoro Mori solving the case?

If he himself couldn't solve the case, what kind of case could Kogoro Mouri solve?

Conan grabbed the mouse and clicked on the news page.

Chapter 1063 Qin Zhibo, Conan: This file makes "Conan" play useless...

When Conan clicked it, the webpage opened.

The most eye-catching position in the middle of the webpage is a photo of a building burning in flames.

Near the photographer's position in the photo, there is a small blue figure sitting on the ground.

On the white vertical plaque that had not yet been engulfed by the flames, Qin Zhibo could recognize that the burning building was the village office of Yueying Island.

And the blue figure sitting on the ground was none other than Conan.

Or the "Conan" of this world.

"This, this is..."

Conan looked at the photo on the web page in horror, and recognized that the child in the photo was "himself".

But in his memory, there was no building on fire in the Moon Shadow Island case, and he did not appear in such a miserable state.

He frowned and quickly slid the mouse wheel downwards.

The blue-black pupils reflected the lines of text on the screen, which were the truth behind the Moon Shadow Island case.

In the Tsukikage Island case, there was the village chief Kameyama Isamu who died two years ago, Kawashima Hideo who died at the memorial service on the second anniversary of the village chief's death, the current village chief Kuroiwa Tatsuji, and Nishimoto Ken who died the next day...

The murderer is the son of musician Keiji Aso, Aso Minoru.

The motive for the murder was that the four deceased, together with musician Keiji Aso, took advantage of the opportunity of a world tour to collaborate in smuggling drugs.

Later, Keiji Aso wanted to quit, but was killed by other members of the gang.

But in fact, Keiji Aso has another son who has been weak and sickly since childhood. He is being treated in a hospital in Tokyo and is the only survivor in the Aso family.

Many years later, Masashi changed his name to "Asai Narimi" and became a village doctor on Tsukikage Island. This also became an opportunity for Masashi to take revenge on other members of the gang...

Conan read the news, his eyes getting wider and wider.

Although the Moon Shadow Island case described in this news is just an "if line" that Conan has no impression of happening.

But this if deeply shocked Conan's heart.

Dr. Chengshi is a man. Previously, during the full moon incident, Conan discovered this by accidentally seeing Chengshi's Adam's apple.

However, Conan didn't tell this matter to anyone except Teacher Judy so that she could confront Vermouth.

So Conan was not surprised to see that Chengshi was a man.

However, Chengshi's real name is Aso Shimizu, and he is the son of "Aso Keiji", who is very taboo to talk about on the island. This is something Conan had never thought of before.

He could never have imagined that such a gentle and considerate doctor, a good man who even the cold-hearted Ai Haibara was willing to get along with, would actually be a murderer who killed four people in succession!

"This is impossible!"

Conan suddenly shouted, seeming to have lost his composure.

However, the more he lost his composure, the more the rationality in his mind told him the truth of the report.

Asanami killed four people, and he solved the case through the mouth of "Sleeping Mouri Kogoro".

The final result of this action was that Ma Chengshi burned himself in the fire.

It feels like... I killed Cheng Shi myself.

Conan was sitting on the chair and was about to fall. Qin Zhibo held his shoulder with one hand to prevent him from falling to the ground.

While Conan was browsing the web, Qin Zhibo also finished reading this heavy report.

As the first person to see through Masashi's murder plan, Qin Zhibo knew that everything in the news was true.

To die by self-immolation does seem like Chengshi's style.

Fortunately, I stopped Chengshi when he planned to kill the first person, Hideo Kawashima, and prevented Chengshi from getting his hands stained with blood.

If I were not in Japan, perhaps the world line would move in this direction.

However, the Moon Shadow Island case in this parallel world has already happened, and he is powerless to change it.

……

In the Kudo family's study, even the air was heavy.

After a long silence, Conan lowered his head and asked solemnly.

"You already knew that the person who wrote that warning letter was Dr. Cheng Shi, right?"

"He took the initiative to write to Maori Kogoro, hoping that someone could stop him from committing crimes."

"Did you stay with him that night just to convince him to give up his plan?"

On the first night after arriving at Yueying Island, Qin Zhibo stayed at Chengshi's house.

The Maori family thought that Qin Zhibo was very lucky in love, but they didn't know the deeper reasons behind it.

Qin Zhibo looked at Conan, remained silent, or perhaps agreed.

Seeing that Qin Zhibo didn't say anything, Conan silently jumped off the chair and bowed deeply to Qin Zhibo.

This bow represents Conan's sincere admiration and gratitude.

He had always thought that he was simply not as good at observation as Qin Zhibo and his reasoning ability was still lacking, which was why he repeatedly fell behind in case investigations.

But it was not until he saw the truth behind this case that Conan truly understood the gap between himself and Qin Zhibo.

That murder warning letter was not only a provocation, but more of a hope for Chengshi that someone could stop him before he could take action.

But I was completely unaware of this when I was reasoning.

Even if it can be seen, it must be after the case has been fully revealed.

But the incident has been settled, what is the meaning of the truth?

Due to his lack of ability, he not only failed to save the poor man who was tormented by the idea of revenge, but instead let him die in the fire.

If all this had not happened, Cheng Shi should have enjoyed the life that Conan saw in Beika Town.

But I messed it all up myself...

In comparison, Qin Zhibo is completely different.

Although he was just traveling, he found the real murderer as quickly as possible and persuaded him to give up his murder plan.

Although two people died and one went crazy in the end of the case, Conan does not think it was done by Masamichi.

Because based on the multiple pieces of evidence found at the scene, the police proved that the person who shot and killed Kuroiwa Tatsuji and Nishimoto Ken was Kawashima Hideo himself.

The evidence of drug trafficking found by several people on the island and the communication records of the famous detective after he arrived at Yueying Island all proved that they were suspicious of each other.

Eventually they met on the top of a mountain, and due to the failure of negotiations, internal fighting broke out.

The only thing that is somewhat unclear is that Hideo Kawashima suffered a huge mental blow and developed a disease called "xanthophobia".

But this is obviously not something that can be done by human beings. It may be that he has done too many bad things and is being punished.

……

Conan bowed to Qin Zhibo for 10 seconds before slowly standing up.

"Thank you."

Conan thanked Qin Zhibo again from the bottom of his heart.

For the same case, the results of my own handling and Qin Zhibo's handling, which one is better, have been revealed through two different news reports and life experiences.

If it weren't for Qin Zhibo, Conan couldn't believe that he would destroy such a good person alive.

Even if the four people on Yueying Island were killed by Chengshi, these four people were drug traffickers and were responsible for the murder of Keiji Aso's family 12 years ago. According to Japanese law, the court would not sentence Chengshi severely.

At most, he will be imprisoned for a dozen years, and he can still be a good person after he gets out.

But he couldn't even save such a good person, and actually let him burn to death...

From the report, Conan could roughly imagine the situation at that time.

I must have been too carried away by my own reasoning that I didn't notice Cheng Shi had committed suicide by burning himself.

Ever since he experienced his first murder case on a plane to New York, USA last year, Conan would fall into a state similar to a "mystery maniac" when the case occurred.

In this state, Conan could clearly feel the adrenaline rush brought about by the case reasoning, and the sense of pleasure and excitement made him unable to stop.

But he didn't expect that this state of being too immersed in reasoning itself would cause him to ignore some things.

Ignore some of the more human things.

If we only focus on logic and evidence and fail to put ourselves in the shoes of the criminals, it will eventually lead to tragedies like the Moon Shadow Island case.

Thinking of this, Conan suddenly realized something again.

He once thought that he would never be able to understand the thoughts of a murderer, let alone accept the act of killing.

That’s why Qin Zhibo said that.

"You'll never be Sherlock Holmes..."

The reason why Sherlock Holmes has become the most popular detective in the world is not only his unparalleled reasoning and judgment skills, but also his humane decisions.

There is also the great detective Poirot in "Murder on the Orient Express". Although he had already deduced the truth, he did not choose to reveal it to the police, but instead proposed another "possibility" of the case.

Holmes: "When the law fails to bring justice to the person concerned, private revenge is justified and even noble from that moment on."