The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

The disintegration ray gun uses electricity, and Qin Zhibo is not just guessing.

First of all, in the Kunyang people's city of Satori, the main energy used is electricity, and silver cables can be seen everywhere in the city.

It's just that the electricity they use may be a little more advanced than humans, using technologies such as room-temperature superconductivity.

Secondly, the magazine of this gun is similar to a battery, and there are two pin-type sockets at the bottom, which coincides with the electrical sockets in Sato's apartment.

There is no power socket with corresponding specifications for this kind of socket, but it can be connected directly with a wire.

In the early morning, Qin Zhibo went out to the hardware store to buy wires and rectifiers.

A rectifier is a gadget that converts alternating current into direct current. It actually contains a diode, and the output of the diode can convert alternating current into direct current.

As for why direct current is used, it is because it charges faster than alternating current. Qin Zhibo guessed that Kunyang people most likely used direct current.

Qin Zhibo used two wires to connect the battery of the disintegration ray gun to the rectifier in series, and then inserted the rectifier into the socket.

For the sake of safety, Qin Zhibo asked Minase Yomu to control the decoy puppet to complete this step, while his own body stood far away.

"Wait a minute! I'll stand farther away..."

Qin Zhibo came to the toilet farthest from the bedroom socket, exposed half of his head and directed Minase Youmeng.

"Okay, we can start."

Minase Youmeng plugged the rectifier into the socket, and for a moment, the lights in the room suddenly trembled.

Immediately afterwards, the lights in the entire hotel flickered on and off.

In the hotel lobby, the hotel receptionist and tourists all looked up at the crystal chandelier on the ceiling, which flickered on and off, wondering what was happening.

Upon seeing this, the hotel lobby manager immediately used the intercom to contact the backstage to inquire about the situation.

In the casino, the music stopped suddenly, the lights suddenly went out, and the gamblers who were spending a lot of money stopped placing bets and turned to look around.

Among them, Kuroba Chikage looked at the flickering lights above his head, and secretly thought that Kuroba Kaito and Terai Kinosuke were testing the power source here to prepare for the night operation.

However, Kuroba Chikage has thoroughly studied the power system here. The security system and the vault are all independently powered, so it is useless to destroy the hotel's power supply.

The master and servant, Kuroba Kaito and Terai Kinosuke, were still in the room discussing the escape route at night. At this moment, the light above their heads suddenly started to jump around.

The master and servant looked at each other, and Kuroba Kaito immediately realized what was going on.

"It's the Phantom Thief Crow! He's testing the hotel's electrical system!"

Terai Huangnosuke murmured: "It seems that there will be a power outage at night? But wouldn't he have alerted others by doing this? The casino will definitely be on guard..."

"So this person is just a newbie~"

Kuroba Kaito showed a confident smile, "It doesn't matter. Anyway, he also reminded us that we can bring more night vision goggles..."

…

Qin Zhibo in the room didn't know that his plug affected not only his room, but also the power supply of the entire hotel.

But this effect didn't last long. Half a minute later, everything was normal and the lights stabilized.

Qin Zhibo walked to the disintegration ray gun and found that the green energy bar on it was flashing, and it should be charging.

"Done!"

Qin Zhibo clapped his hands excitedly. This thing was much more powerful than a pistol and could be called a killer weapon.

Now he was more sure of his actions at night.

…

At 11 o'clock at midnight, a large number of people gathered in front of the Star Hotel.

"Kid! Kid!"

"Kid——"

The crowd held makeshift light signs of various colors and shouted into the sky, and the Las Vegas police had to maintain order at the scene again and again.

Kuroba Kaito stood on the balcony, looking down with satisfaction.

Since his debut as the second-generation Phantom Thief Kid, he has never performed a "magic show" outside of Japan.

In other words, these are the original fans accumulated by the first-generation Kaitou Kidd and Kuroba Thiouichi.

In comparison, Kaitou Crow's support group was much smaller. They huddled at the edge of the square downstairs, holding light signs scattered here and there.

After so many years, Kaito Kidd is still extremely popular in the world of thieves.

This shows how outstanding the former Kuroba Toichi was, and he was worthy of being the person he admired most in his life.

"It's almost time, Master."

Terai Khonosuke behind him reminded him, Kuroba Kaito retracted his body, took the bag handed by Terai Khonosuke, and embarked on the journey.

He first went to the toilet in the lobby on the first floor to change into the clothes of a hotel waiter, then went to the kitchen to get a dining car and headed towards the top floor of the hotel.

And all this was recorded by the surveillance cameras in the hotel corridor.

In order for Kuroba Chikage not to be suspected, Kuroba Kaito must act out the whole scene and make it look like he kidnapped Chikage and then replaced him with Chikage.

When he arrived at Qianying's room, he knocked on the door normally.

"Ma'am, room service."

"Come in..."

Kuroba Kaito pushed the cart into the room, and Kuroba Chikage immediately looked at the son cosplayed as a waiter with a smile.

"Kaito, you look so handsome in this costume~"

"Stop joking, Mom."

Kuroba Kaito took out the bag from under the dining car with his white-gloved hands. Inside the bag was a rope. He took out the rope and was about to tie Kuroba Qiankage, but Qiankage smiled and shook his head.

"No need~ When the time is almost up, I will pretend to break free and go to the corridor to ask for help."

"...Okay, then you can take control of it yourself."

Kuroba Kaito didn't care about his mother anymore and went to the bathroom to change clothes.

After a while, another "Black Feather Chikage" came out of the toilet.

Kuroba Qiankage looked at his other self with an expression of surprise on his face.

"Kaito, your disguise skills are getting better and better! Even your mother can't see the flaws anymore~"

"Of course~ It doesn't matter whose son I am."

Kuroba Kaito flicked his hair with the confident expression often used by Kuroba Chikage, which was sassy and charming.

"Okay, I'll leave first."

"Wait a moment."

When Kuroba Kaito was about to go out, Kuroba Chikage, who was sitting on the sofa with his arms folded, stopped him.

"Any thing else?"

"Well... remember, Kaito, don't leave that stone out of contact with the light no matter what."

Seeing Kuroba Chikage's serious expression, Kuroba Kaito frowned slightly and hesitated for a moment.

After a few seconds, he nodded.

"I remember."

After speaking, Kuroba Kaito left the room.

Kuroba Qiankage looked at her son's leaving figure with worry in her eyes.

…

Soon, Kaitou Kidd used Kuroba Chikage's identity and identity authentication card to go to the backstage of the casino.

Under the leadership of two staff members, Kaito Kidd walked through the maze-like corridor and was sent to the elevator.

He inserted the identity authentication card into the machine to confirm and passed the test easily.

The iron door in front of the elevator opened, and an elevator appeared in front of you.

The two staff members stayed in place, and Kaitou Kidd entered the elevator alone. The elevator went straight to the vault deepest underground.

After a non-stop descent of the elevator, Kaito Kidd arrived at the vault.

Star Casino has many vaults, which correspond to the storage business of different guests.

Kaitou Kidd looked around at several closed vault doors. The back door of each door here was enough for a person to spend several lifetimes.

But his goal was not these, but the open vault at the innermost door.

Passing through the circular vault door, there is an extremely bright room.

The lighting in the vault room itself is pure white with no blind spots in all directions, and this room is equipped with more than a dozen spotlights.

And these spotlights all shined on the gem on the table in the center of the vault.

Kaitou Kid's eyes were immediately attracted to the gem, and he couldn't help but walk forward to admire it.

So far, this is the most special gem he has ever seen.

All previous gems, even Pandora, the Stone of Life, would reflect brilliant brilliance when illuminated by light.

This is the characteristic of gemstones, and it is also the reason why people pursue them crazily.

But this gemstone is completely different. It is extremely pure black. Even if the brightest light hits it, it will not reflect any light.

The approximately 4-inch oval diamond has 38 irregular facets, each of which is pure and smooth black with no visible impurities.

Kaitou Kid stared at the "black crow in the night" up close, and was unconsciously attracted by its beauty.

He gradually raised his hand, and his gloved palm gradually approached the black diamond that seemed to possess magic.

It's so beautiful...

You need to keep it as your own, hide it somewhere, and then enjoy it alone...

Kaitou Kid's eyes widened, and such thoughts appeared in his mind like a demon.

When that hand was about to touch the metal box holding the gem, Kaitou Kid's eyes froze, and he seemed to have thought of something, and quickly stopped his hand.

call……

It was so dangerous, I almost did it.

Kaitou Kidd remembered that it was not yet 12:00 midnight. To steal something before the predicted time was called a lack of martial ethics and a sneak attack.

If you say you steal at 12 o'clock at midnight, you will steal at 12 o'clock.

One minute earlier or one minute later is not called midnight.

Kaitou Kidd stopped and looked around, only to find that there was no one in the vault except himself.

Um? Not here yet?

According to Kuroba Chikage, the people responsible for protecting the gems today don’t know each other’s identities and keep them secret, but they shouldn’t come so slowly, right?

Kaitou Kidd looked down at the women's watch on his wrist, but there was the sound of metal shafts grinding behind him.

not good!

Kaitou Kidd was immediately alert, turned around and was about to run out the door, but the vault door was closed first, tightly.

Fell into a trap!

Kaitou Kidd gritted his teeth and realized that he had fallen into a trap set by the casino.

They already knew that they were disguised as Kuroba Chikage!

But why?

How can people in the casino be sure that they will be disguised as Kuroba Chikage? And not anyone else…

Kaitou Kid's thoughts were racing.

But no matter how he speculated, he never expected that his old rival was standing in the casino security control center at this time.

…

At the same time, the casino security control center.

A group of people were standing on the checkered floor tiles, watching the embarrassed appearance of "Black Feather Qianying" in the vault.

"It seems that this is the Kaitou Kidd. I guessed it right..."

A man with a thick beard, a brown top hat, and a brown windbreaker was looking at the screen in front of him proudly, his beard trembling with excitement.

Behind him, there were some boys in brown trench coats.

If Kaito Kidd were here, he would recognize these people as members of the Beast Brotherhood, led by Snake.

But how could the members of the Beast Brotherhood appear openly and openly in the casino's control center?

Snake's eyes were fixed on the screen, and the smile on his lips gradually became ferocious.

"Kaito Kid is the former genius magician Kuroba Toichi. If he wants to announce that he has stolen this gem, he will definitely use his wife's connections..."

"Hey, I've expected this."

Snake laughed evilly, took out the pistol from his waist, and called his younger brother to go forward.

"Young ones! It's time to catch Kidd!"

"That adult said, no one will be left alive!"

Just as Snake and his younger brothers were about to rush out of the control room, a voice stopped them.

"etc."

Snake stopped and turned to the other man in the control room.

This man is extremely muscular, and even an oversized suit cannot completely conceal his exaggerated muscle lines.

"Mr. Lloyd? Is there anything else?"

"If we wait any longer and the Phantom Thief escapes through the ventilation duct, I'm afraid that adult will be unhappy..."

Even Snake, who always acted like a big brother, seemed much more docile in front of this man named Lloyd, and even deliberately used "that adult" from the Beast Brotherhood to suppress him.

Just because he is the boss behind the Starry Sky Casino and the leader of the Starry Sky Wisdom Cult, Lloyd Blake.

"Although I agreed to the Baron's cooperation in capturing Kaitou Kidd, it does not mean that I need to obey your orders..."

"Besides, do you think the human wave tactic will be useful to Kidd?"

Snake was stunned for a moment, "But if we don't rush in, how can we catch him?"

"snort……"

Lloyd sneered and ordered: "Turn off the lights."

The staff in front heard the order, put their hands on the power control button, and pressed it. The vault's monitoring screen immediately went dark.

When Snake saw this, he immediately became anxious.

"Hey! If you turn off the light, we can't see what's going on inside!"

"In case he really comes from the ventilation..."

Snake was shouting, but Lloyd calmly raised a finger and made a hissing gesture.

"Shh-"

"Just watch quietly..."

"After all, this is not something you see often... a miracle!"

…

In the vault, Kaitou Kidd is looking for a way out.

Soon, the ventilation ducts on the pure white ceiling came into view.

"hey-hey……"

Kaitou Kid chuckled. This trick of escaping through the ventilation ducts has been tried and tested many times.

Even if the ventilation ducts here are welded in advance, the other party will send people in sooner or later to catch him.

As long as someone dares to come in and catch him, he will be confident to use his powerful disguise technique to fool him. He has used this trick to fool Officer Zhongmori and his colleagues countless times.

Hehe, I will accept the black crow in the middle of the night~

When passing by the counter, Kaitou Kidd grabbed the black diamond in the box.

But at this moment, the vault suddenly heard "eng" and lost all its light.