The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

"Demon dog?!"

"The devil dog appeared in the mansion?"

Everyone looked shocked, and Yamamura Cao, who had not yet left, was so frightened that the corners of his mouth trembled.

"No, it can't be right? Is there really a devil dog?"

Demon dog?

Qin Zhibo frowned slightly.

Conan looked at Mao Lilan with a cautious expression, "Sister Xiaolan, what does that devil dog look like?"

Mao Lilan frowned uneasily and said: "It's a dog with fire all over its body, running very fast..."

"That's right!" Her eyes lit up and she suddenly thought, "Xiaoba is still outside, nothing will happen to him, right?"

Hachi is an Akita dog raised by the Inubushi family.

Since Saki, who was usually responsible for housework, had just passed away, Kaoko had to prepare for the funeral, Zen was allergic to dogs, and Chiko and Hachi had a bad relationship, so the task of feeding the dogs was placed on Yukihime today.

However, Yukihime still had to take care of Saki's remaining housework, so Mao Lilan, Toyama Kazuha, who happened to be free, went to help feed the dogs.

As a result, while feeding the dog, the devil dog suddenly rushed out from the other side of the yard...

"Is there something wrong? Can't we just go out and take a look?"

With that said, Hattori Heiji, who was always passionate, was about to step forward and push away Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuha who were blocking the door, and went out to investigate in person.

At this time, people from the Inubushi family also hurried from the corridor, asking what happened without knowing why.

Mouri Kogoro explained that the demon dog appeared, and these people were also surprised.

Zenya: "Will the devil dog appear here? Stop talking nonsense..."

Yukihime: "C-could it be that it climbed over the fence and got here?"

Kaozi: "How is that possible? It's incredible..."

Zhihuang: "No matter what, it's very dangerous outside now, so don't go out for the time being."

However, Hattori Heiji raised the corners of his mouth slightly and said confidently: "How could you not go out?"

"Now is a good time to catch the devil dog!"

Hattori Heiji pushed open the sliding door with a loud "bang" and rushed out first.

Conan, Qin Zhibo, Maori Kogoro, Mao Lilan, Toyama Kazuha, and Yamamura Cao followed in turn.

Several people came to the side yard and saw the Akita dog named "Hachi" roaring and jumping in the air in front of the dog house in the middle of the yard.

However, due to the restraints of the chain, it could not leave the two meters near the dog house.

The line in front of Xiaoba is a small burning flame, like the fire footprints left by the Ghost Rider on the road.

"This is……"

Hattori Heiji showed a surprised expression, because this was exactly the same situation that was left on the cliff after Saki fell off the cliff.

Even because we arrived faster this time, the fire remaining on the scene was slightly larger than last time.

Qin Zhibo took the lead in walking along the route of the fire footprints, checking the so-called flame footprints as he walked.

Like the footprints on the cliff, these "footprints" are not staggered one after another, but are still side by side and parallel.

As I walked forward, there was even an area where no flame footprints were left, but the turf was messy in a large area.

Qin Zhibo immediately squatted down and groped carefully on the turf with his palms. Sure enough, he felt some differences.

There was a small dimple in the turf at two locations equally spaced from the other flame footprints.

The pit is not obvious under the cover of grass and can only be felt out by hand.

Looking at the entire series of gradually weakening flame footprints, Qin Zhibo suddenly thought of something.

He turned to look at Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuye behind him who were caring about Xiaoba, and asked: "Xiaolan, when you encountered the devil dog and escaped, did you pass by here?"

Mao Lilan, Yuan Shan and Ye turned their heads and looked at the position pointed by Qin Zhibo's finger, and remembered it after a little while.

Yuan Shan and Ye stood up and said: "It seems that I tripped over a paving stone and fell there..."

"By the way, I still remember that I smelled a strange smell after I fell..."

smell?

When Conan, who was not far away, heard this recently sensitive keyword, he immediately turned his head to listen.

"It smells like rotten onions?"

After talking to Ye, Mao Lilan next to him also recalled it.

"Also, when I turned back to help Heye, I saw that those burning footprints seemed to be alive..."

"They made a 'clacking' sound and seemed to be jumping around."

Rotten onion smell?

Flame footprints that jump and make a "clicking" sound?

"Small fire of spirit"?

Qin Zhibo continued to walk deeper, following the gradually extinguishing flame footprints, until he reached the back door of Inufushi City.

At this time, the back door was wide open, and the wooden stick used as the door latch was put aside.

On the loess ground in front of the back door, there are several canine footprints scattered in an orderly manner.

Qin Zhibo's eyes glanced at this series of footprints, and he immediately figured out what was going on.

I see……

Qin Zhibo smiled knowingly, having roughly understood what the "devil dog" and "flaming footprints" actually were.

This is not the power of some mythical creature, but a human trick.

Someone from the Inubushi family devised this trick, and the purpose should be to use the curse to get rid of the adopted children of the Inubushi family.

Mao Lilan, Yuan Shan and Ye just happened to come over to feed the dogs, and then they encountered the "devil dog".

But in this case, the four remaining adopted children of the Inubushi family may implement this plan.

While Qin Zhibo was thinking, Mouri Kogoro put forward a hypothesis about the "devil dog".

"Could the devil dog you saw be a dog with fluorescent paint on its body?"

"As long as the surrounding environment is dark enough, even fluorescence may be mistaken for flames..."

Mao Lilan immediately denied it with a serious look, "That's not some fluorescent paint!"

"Is that red, or is it still a beating flame? I can see it clearly!"

"And if it was fluorescent paint, how could it leave these flame footprints?"

"This..." Mouri Kogoro was speechless for a moment when his own daughter retorted him.

At this time, Qin Zhibo came over from the back door and took the initiative to share the intelligence he had collected.

"The 'devil dog' came in through the back door. The latch of the back door was also removed by someone unknown, and there were dog footprints on the ground nearby."

"In other words, the murderer who introduced this devil dog into the mansion should be in the mansion now..."

Qin Zhibo walked up to the four adopted children and glanced at each person's face as he spoke.

All four of them had slightly moved expressions, either shocked, unhappy, or uneasy with a hint of hostility.

Qin Zhibo still doesn't know who the murderer is among these people.

However, according to his guess, even if the real culprit is found, it should not be the real culprit mentioned in the main mission.

Because no investigation point was seen just now, whether it was the dog footprints found at the back door or the small depression in the grass.

This shows that these clues have nothing to do with the main mission.

But these clues are undoubtedly related to the owner of the "devil dog" and the murderer.

Could it be...that there was someone else who killed Kudo Shinichi?

But even so, the murderer must be found first before he can know what he did to Kudo Shinichi that day.

When he saw that it was a multiple-choice question he was familiar with, Mouri Kogoro immediately started to take advantage of it.

"Since the murderer is among you, let's first tell you where you were in the mansion and what you were doing."

"After all, it's impossible for the unconscious Ms. Suochen to commit a crime..."

The four people looked at each other and explained their situations.

But just like before, the four of them didn't act together, and the Inubushi family's servants were on leave for the past two days, so no one could prove their innocence.

Seeing this, Qin Zhibo continued: "It seems that we can only start from the direction of the devil dog..."

"Judging from the current situation, the devil dog is probably kept near the mansion. Are you all familiar with this area? Do you have any impressions of this kind of place?"

Perhaps because he felt that his job was being taken away, Yamamura Cao, who wanted to refresh his sense of presence, also stood up and echoed: "Or it could be the sound of a dog barking in the forest..."

The four adopted children were silent for a while, but Dr. Zhihuang provided a clue.

It turned out that when the second adopted child who was killed was still alive, he and the adopted child discovered a cabin in the nearby forest.

Strange barking sounds would come from the wooden house, but they were too scared at the time and finally did not dare to go in.

However, now that the demon dog appears repeatedly, such important clues cannot be ignored.

After everyone prepared for a while, they immediately set off towards the forest.

…

Under the leadership of doctor Zhihuang, Conan and his team came to the swamp of the forest with Yamamura Cao.

The cabin with the barking dogs was right next to the swamp.

Qin Zhibo took a flashlight and looked around the edge of the swamp to determine the general scope of the swamp.

This is also the place where the victim of the second phase of the Demonic Dog Case was killed, so everyone naturally had to investigate.

However, there were no on-site witnesses in this second case. The police found burnt marks on the swamp bank and the Inubushi family's adopted daughter who ran into the swamp and drowned.

It's been a while since that case, and now I can't find any useful clues when I search the scene again.

So everyone just stopped for a short while and continued towards the cabin.

However, Zhihuangnan said that he was afraid of going to dark places and asked to stay alone in the car.

On the edge of the swamp, a dilapidated wooden house stood alone on the grass.

Qin Zhibo entered first.

When the light of the flashlight penetrated the darkness of the room, he was shocked by what he saw.

The space inside the wooden house is wider than expected, with several work tables, chairs, bookcases, etc. placed inside.

On the work table and bookcases, there are stacks and rows of books.

Qin Zhibo took a closer look and saw that the spines of these books all had titles about magic!

"Introduction to Black Magic", "Encyclopedia of Demonic Logic", "Encyclopedia of Magic", "Wizard's Manual"...

Most of these books are in English, with a small amount in Japanese and Latin. In short, they have everything you need.

Qin Zhibo subconsciously picked up a book and looked through it. It was full of magic spells, magic circles and the like, which were comparable to the magic books of Koizumi Hongzi's family.

However, these books generally have little history, and some even indicate the publisher.

How can a serious magic book be labeled with a publisher?

Real magic books are forbidden books, or collections of wisdom that have been kept secret for generations.

Just when Qin Zhibo was assuming that these books were just fake and nothing real, a pile of books on the work table suddenly caught his eye.

The light of the investigation point actually appeared on this stack of books!

He quickly walked to the table, bent down to identify it carefully, and confirmed that the investigation point came from one of the books.

He took out the book and found that it was an old book.

The cover of the book is made of rough paper, with several large calligraphy written on it.

The Seven Chapters of Xuanjun's Secret Sutra...

There is no author's name, no publisher, and the contents are all handwritten in Chinese characters, stroke by stroke.

It turned out to be a book from the Great Celestial Dynasty?

Qin Zhibo was a little surprised. He didn't expect to find such high-quality goods in such a place?

Since there are survey points above, it means that this book is definitely not simple.

[Do you want to conduct a book survey? 】

【Yes√】

Within a few seconds, information about this book appeared in Qin Zhibo's brain.

[Xuanjun Seven Chapters Secret Sutra: Created by the ancient Chinese philosopher Xuanjun around the second century AD.

The book is divided into seven volumes, each volume is equivalent to a chapter. Each volume has a different theme and contains a spell.

Volume One: About the Great Deeds of the Yellow Emperor; Spell: The Immortal Killer and the Returning Soul

Volume 2: Necrophotic Ritual and Ghouls; Spells: Contact with Ghouls

Volume 3: Ghosts from Heaven; Spell: Capture Demons and Bind Ghosts

Volume 4: The relationship between earth ghosts and earthquakes; Mantra: Di Gang Kao Zhao Lu

Volume 5: Deep Ones, Human Cultists, and Time and Space; Spell: Contact with the Hounds of Tindalos

Volume Six: Central Asia Leng Yuan and Unknown Kadath; Spell: Illusionary World Stepping Spirit Ascension System

Volume 7: R'lyeh and Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep and his countless forms, the original Chaos Azathoth, the godhead and heavenly official sequence of the gods in the sky, the spell: Contact Nyarlathotep

This book is the Chinese version, which is closest to perfection and has great power]

[Lost 15~30 will points after reading this book, mysterious mythology knowledge and skill proficiency + loss of will points x 100 after reading this book]

[Languages ​​are compatible and can be read]

【Do you want to read? 】

Qin Zhibo examined the information that emerged in his mind one by one, and his pupils gradually enlarged in the process.

The knowledge in this book is so rich that it even exceeds all the mythological knowledge books I have read before.

There are seven chapters in total, and the contents of each chapter are heavyweight!

And even though he hasn't started reading yet, Qin Zhibo is very interested in some of the contents just by reading the introduction!

At the same time, other people gradually entered the cabin to investigate.

"Hey... why are they all books about black magic?"

Mouri Kogoro also picked up a "Magic Encyclopedia" and flipped through it by the light of Yamamura Cao's flashlight.

It's just that he read it critically. As a materialist warrior, he naturally disdained such things.

Hattori Heiji didn't even look at it.

He swept the flashlight beam towards the ground and saw the six-pointed star carpet on the ground and a dog food bowl in the corner.

Just when Hei Hattori was about to bend forward to investigate, Conan, who had a physical advantage, had already dived under the table and found some leftover cans of dog food.

"It seems like someone is raising a dog here..."

After confirming that the demon dog's true identity was a dog, Conan breathed a sigh of relief.

After experiencing some previous things, he really couldn't come up and directly confirm that it was a human being like Hattori Heiji did for a case involving "monsters" like this.

But this case is probably a human trick...

But just as he stood up and turned to see Qin Zhibo's reaction, he saw the man standing in front of the work table, reading attentively.

Um?