Bandage fine tricks

[Next, no matter what you see, control your expression, and don't show surprise or the first time you see it—well, it will be fine within ten seconds. 】

Xiao Ba's voice suddenly sounded in his mind, and Conan looked up with a little doubt, but since Xiao Ba was still lying on his head, he couldn't see any expression of that fluffy kitten.

Passing that sentence into Conan's mind, the little white cat stood up from Edogawa Conan's head, shook his fur a little, and smoothed the slightly reversed hair on his body because he was lying down, and then briskly He jumped off Conan's shoulders and landed on the ground.

The moment she landed, the white kitten stood up like a plant under the lens of a fast-growing animal in the animal world, and turned into a slender girl.

Thanks to the acting talent inherited from her mother, Conan Edogawa controlled her expression very well, and did not show the slightest surprise about it, as if he knew that this kitten could become Xiaoba.

It was as if he was not affected by the medicine he took at all.

"It seems that you are ready to explain to me." Osamu Dazai took the chair beside him, sat down, leaned forward, put his arms on his knees, and made a posture of listening.

"Well, if you want to explain it, you need to start with a message I received about two weeks ago."

Edogawa Conan next to him looked suspiciously, two weeks ago?

He was attacked about five days ago.

Does what Xiaoba wants to say have nothing to do with what happened to them before?

As if seeing through his thoughts, the girl with different-colored eyes glanced at him and said: "It's related, but if it's about the relationship, let me sell it. Anyway, about two weeks ago, I received an entrustment." —from the spirit world.”

what?

Spirit world?

One big and one small at the same time showed the expressions of are you kidding me.

Xiao Ba sighed: "It's because I know that you two don't know about this matter, so I waited until you both arrived before I started to explain, otherwise I would have to explain the same thing twice, and I would be very annoying ——I will talk about the details later when I have a chance. To put it simply, I have been entrusted to do some things for the spirit world before. This time, the spirit world asked me to help investigate some things related to the attacks of monsters. Regarding the spirit world, You can simply understand it as an institution that governs the affairs of the non-human side.”

Strictly speaking, the main force of the investigation is Yusuke Urahan, but since most of the monsters attacked this time belong to Ukiyocho under the rule of the Nuragumi, these monsters have nothing to do with Yusuke Urahan, who was born in the demon world. Yusuke Urahan had no choice but to entrust this part of the investigation to Hachi.

"The leader of the Nuliang group in Ukiyocho is a relatively enlightened character. Unlike other leaders who only accept pure-bred monsters, the slippery ghost does not discriminate against half-demons or mixed-race monsters with part of human blood, and is willing to accept them into the group. " Xiao Ba said.

This is probably due to the cursed blood of the slick ghost, but this is not the key now, so they don't need to delve into why there are so many mixed-blood monsters in the Nuliang group.

The problem now is that in the past month, several mixed-race monsters in the Nuliang Group have been attacked.

"Monster? Being attacked?" Edogawa Conan repeated in doubt, "Isn't it a problem between monsters? Can humans still cause harm to monsters?"

Although I suddenly learned that there are such unscientific things as monsters in this world, but thinking about it, Xiao Ba can turn into a kitten, it seems...the existence of monsters is not incomprehensible.

So Edogawa Conan quickly cleaned up his broken views, and began to think quickly with the mind of a high school detective.

Growing up listening to the stories of the seemingly omnipotent monsters in legends and myths, Edogawa Conan's first reaction to the attack on monsters was the internal strife between monsters.

"No, that's the problem," Xiao Ba raised a finger, "This time, it was humans who attacked those monsters."

"Hey?"

"There is nothing surprising. Since there are powerful monsters, there are also weak monsters. Monsters mixed with human blood, unless there are a few with amazing talents, most of them can only be regarded as cannon fodder—if they come from the blood of monsters If it is not very strong, it will be even worse."

The former is a typical example of Inuyasha, but the latter... The half-demon Linger in Inuyasha's story, who was basically forgotten by people, can be regarded as one of the examples, because it comes from the blood of his father, and he doesn't even have a basic human form, a complete monster Because of this, he was excluded, neither belonging to humans nor monsters.

The two sides are not human - although they are not human in the first place.

"I accepted the entrustment of the spirit world to investigate, and then found that the Nuliang group was also looking for those humans."

"If it's for revenge, it's normal." Osamu Dazai finally said, but his own expression seemed to disbelieve what he said.

"It's normal to look for them for revenge, but I soon discovered that their purpose of looking for those humans was not for revenge, but to find them and ask what they did to those monsters." Xiaoba clenched his hands slightly , After being silent for a while, he continued, "The monsters that attacked first were knocked out at first, most of them didn't remember what happened to them, only a small part remembered that they seemed to be fed something, or It was injected with something."

Edogawa Conan looked at the girl's babbling, and thought of the drug that acted on him to make him smaller, and the drug that acted on Xiaoba, according to her, turned her from a half-demon to a full-demon As a result... an unbelievable but unbelievable conjecture vaguely emerged from his mind.

"These monsters were discovered by the people of the Nuliang Group, and after they were taken back for inspection, they found that the influence of the human blood in them was more or less reduced—they were purified from the blood of monsters." Xiao Ba raised a stick finger, and said, "Put it another way..."

"The human cells in them were killed—just like you." Conan Edogawa murmured on Hachi's words.

"That's right. What makes me even more strange is that the effects of the medicines these people receive are not exactly the same. Some only slightly reduce the influence of some human blood, while others have removed most of the human blood. The same The two victims who were both dog monsters belonged to a small group of victims who still rarely retain consciousness and have some impressions after being knocked down. One of them was directly injected with drugs, and the other was fed Dropped half a capsule—the monster saw the other party take out a capsule with his own eyes, poured out half of the medicine inside, and then stuffed it into his mouth. Any ideas?"

Osamu Dazai was silent for a moment, and then said softly: "He is doing an experiment, testing the effect of this drug on hybrid monsters—are there any victims who are completely monsters without any human blood?"

"Yes." Xiao Ba gave an affirmative answer, "A cat demon in Huamao House was attacked. He is a pure blood monster, so he should not be within the range of this kind of attack, but he was also attacked, and he was directly receiving drug injections."

"What's the effect?"

"It has no effect. Although we haven't found this medicine, according to all the existing attack cases, that medicine is no different to monsters and anything they eat every day. It is only harmful to human cells. "Xiao Ba gave his own investigation results.

It is precisely because he has been busy investigating this matter recently that Xiao Ba is so tired that he can directly catch up on sleep in the dormitory on weekends, instead of continuing his study plan vigorously as usual.

Otherwise, the courses that Academy City arranged for her alone (even with extra-curricular parts) might not be enough to tire Mao Mao, who has always had excess energy.

"Then, I received a call from Senior Xinyi at the weekend." Xiaoba changed the subject, and immediately changed the timeline from the monster attack case to the amusement park murder on the weekend, "I rushed to save Senior Xinyi At that time, because there was too little time, I arrived at the scene in the form of a cat, and at that time, the man in black said something that caught my attention."

Sure enough, you are not dead, Nana.

"...It sounds as if he attacked Kudo Shinichi just to lure you out and let him prove that the news of your death is false." Osamu Dazai said speculatively, as if he didn't know anything, but the hand behind his back twitched slightly for a moment.

"I didn't think so at first, but when I combined the attack of the monster with the attack of the new senior, I had an astonishing guess." Xiao Ba squeezed his hands, although he felt This conclusion is a bit scary, but she still said it out, "Whether it was the initial attack on the Nuliang group, the hybrid monster incident, or the attack on the new senior later, the real purpose is actually me."

what! ?

"Xiaoba, don't talk nonsense, don't bring any problems to yourself!" After the initial surprise, Edogawa Conan immediately retorted loudly, "I followed those two men in black because I was riding I found them suspicious when I was on the roller coaster, and they happened to be on the same roller coaster as me..."

"If you want to carry out a secret transaction near the amusement park, if you want to find out whether the counterparty has come alone according to your request under the shortage of manpower, taking a roller coaster to observe is the best way to get an overview of the overall situation.

"Wearing dark clothes with a cool aura and riding a roller coaster that doesn't match their temperament, as long as your detective radar is not broken, you will realize that they have problems.

"If you calculate the transaction time in advance and make sure that you can meet these two suspicious people in the playground, then no matter whether the roller coaster murder happened or not, you will follow after you notice their suspicious whereabouts-after all, your Curiosity is that serious.

"You came to the amusement park with Senior Sister Lan. There is no way to leave Senior Sister Lan directly. Then, at this time, you will find someone to help you. Who can arrive at the amusement park in an instant to help you pick up Senior Sister Lan. ?Among the people you know, only I have this ability, so I will be called to the amusement park by you.

"From Senior Sister Lan and your previous calls, I know that you are doing something very dangerous. According to my personality, I can't let you follow up alone, and I will definitely chase you to find your whereabouts.

"That man in black is not careless. According to your poor tracking skills, senior Xin Yi, there is a high probability that he can find you. When the time comes...

"As long as I can arrive in time, due to the increase in the number of patrolling policemen in the playground, they can't stay for long, and they are worried that another murder will involve themselves. In terms of the cause of death, it is reasonable to use it as a drug for normal accidental death—after they leave, I, who have the ability to transfer injuries, can completely transfer part of the drug to myself. After all, any drug The effectiveness of poisons depends on the dose, and after reducing the dose of the deadly poison by half, most of them will no longer be fatal—not to mention, plus my ability."

Under the double effect, the biggest and best results can be achieved.

"And the purpose of all this is twofold. First, to divert my attention from Yokohama."

Xiao Ba raised his second finger.

"Second, turn me from a half-demon to a full-demon."

If you think about it along this line of thought, the purpose of the mastermind behind the scenes is for the final result——Kudo Shinichi became smaller, and Hachi followed him in order to take care of him, so naturally he couldn't care about Yokohama anymore.

If the miraculous probability didn't work and resulted in Kudo Shinichi's death, the result wouldn't be much deviation: in order to find the real culprit behind Kudo Shinichi's death, Xiao Hachi would also go all out to track it down.

No matter how big the deviation of the plan is, no matter how bad the result is, Xiao Ba didn't receive his call and didn't come to the amusement park. Then, he——Kudo Shinichi will die in the amusement park. He got the news the next day. Xiao Ba will also continue to investigate in order to find the real murderer.

It doesn't matter whether a decoy is dead or not, the only one in this plan who is always at the center of safety is Xiao Ba.

Thinking of this, Conan strangely didn't have the fear of brushing against death, nor did he feel jealous of the girl who seemed to be treated differently by the people behind the scenes, but an inexplicable thought arose: the one who planned all this behind the scenes People don't care how many people will die among them, the only thing he cares about... is Xiao Ba.

As long as Xiao Ba is safe and sound in the result, that's fine.

Osamu Dazai watched quietly the girl who told all of her reasoning process, and said after a long time: "Then do you know who is the one who planned all this?"

"Use the monsters of the Nuliang group as test subjects first, and confirm that the drug is only harmful to human cells, and not harmful to the blood of monsters, and then use it on me, and then use the new senior as bait to lure me out, so that I can get along with the man in black. The purpose of dealing with this organization, which obviously belongs to the dark forces, is for my own good, but the means are not flattering, and they never ask me whether this is good or not is the side I want to accept..." Xiao Ba sighed and said , "It's the same as when he didn't even ask for my opinion back then, but wanted to use various means to restore me to the wildness of hunting..."

Who else would do that but a gummy bear with a dark, chocolate-filled center?