The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

Chapter 1282 Clues point to...

"It seems that there is something written on it..."

"Is it the letter 'T'?"

Sera Masumi leaned forward and looked at the skull pulled out by Mao Lilan. After thinking for two seconds, he said seriously: "Is this the true meaning of the code left by the murderer?"

"The places implied in the code are hidden with certain letters. Only by combining these letters can the meaning of the code be cracked..."

After listening to Sera's analysis, Mao Li Kogoro replied in a hoarse voice: "But, don't you have codes that you can't analyze?"

"There are seven sentences in the code now. If each sentence has a letter, there should be two places where we don't know where they are?"

The two sentences Mao Li Kogoro said are the second sentence "I am a long-nosed magician living in a castle".

And the last sentence "Let's end everything and pierce the snow-white back with two swords".

Sera Masumi also looked serious, because even Mary didn't know where these two sentences were.

It might be a less popular place, or it might not be prompted by the shape of the building.

At this time, Dr. Agasa squinted his eyes and smiled to comfort him: "Anyway, you can go through these confirmed places first. Maybe if you find 5 letters, it will be enough to guess what it means..."

Mouri Ran echoed: "Yes! Yes!"

"Okay! The next stop is there!"

Sera Masumi was in high spirits and pointed to a cucumber-shaped building on the other side of the Thames, located in the City of London.

There corresponds to the fourth line of the code "In the end, just eat the pickled cucumber directly."

"Let's go!"

Led by Sera, the group walked away from the City Hall.

And at the edge of the wall of the side door of the City Hall, about 20 meters away from them, Qin Zhibo was quietly watching them go away.

"Huh..."

Finally gone.

Just 15 minutes ago, Qin Zhibo had just followed the guidance of the search spell to the vicinity of London City Hall, and saw Mao Li Ran and his group wandering at the door of the City Hall.

Three of them are familiar, the Maori father and daughter, and Dr. Agasa.

As for the short-haired girl, judging from the personal information floating above her head, her name is "Sera Masumi", and she should be Mary's daughter.

In other words, when I met Mary at Baker Street yesterday, the Japanese friend that Sera Masumi said she met was actually Conan and his group.

How could it be such a coincidence?

Sera Masumi and Conan and his group are friends. Did they go to the same junior high school in Japan before?

And this group of people don't look like they are here for tourism, because they all look serious, and there are no actions such as taking photos and checking in.

Most importantly, Conan and Kuroba Kaito are not there either.

Kuroba Kaito should have been sent to Blychester by his phone call. Judging from the time, he has been there for a while now.

Conan should have gone with him.

But Kuroba Kaito didn't call me back for such a long time, there is only one answer.

That is, something happened.

No prize guessing: When Conan visits a strange place, what is the most likely thing to happen?

Answer: People will die.

Thinking of this, Qin Zhibo touched his forehead regretfully.

I shouldn't have let Kuroba Kaito take Conan there!

I'm sorry!

Ingalls!

There was no time to mourn for Ingalls's departure, and he had to warn Judy Hopper next.

In fact, the time when the stars return to their positions is just an auxiliary intelligence. If you know it, at least you can be mentally prepared in advance.

But if you don't know it, it won't have much impact.

Because as long as the life stone Pandora is safe, the zoo organization will not be able to complete the reincarnation prophecy of Nefren Ka.

Qin Zhibo retracted his thoughts and watched Maori and his party disappear from sight before walking out of the corner where he was hiding.

After passing the security check at the main entrance of London City Hall, Qin Zhibo entered the first floor lobby.

In order to reflect the British government's "people's enjoyment" concept, the first floor and top floor lobby of London City Hall are open to the general public and are called "London Living Room".

Among them, some exhibitions are held on the first floor from time to time, such as painting exhibitions and photography exhibitions.

The lobby on the top floor often holds large-scale events of various forms, and can accommodate up to 200 people.

There are no exhibitions in the lobby on the first floor today, and ordinary tourists are the ones who come here to hang out.

Qin Zhibo strolled in the lobby on the first floor, looked around, and soon found the event posters for the lobby on the first floor and the top floor in front of the tourist elevator.

Two of the posters are eye-catching.

One is the poster for the comeback performance of the world's first illusionist, Günter von Gothenburg II.

Günter himself showed half of his face, and a dark golden spider was lying in the darkness of half of his face and the half of the poster next to him.

The other one is a performance by the famous British magic performance group, the Hobbs Magic Group. Judy Hobbs shows her grandfather's fire magic in the poster.

These two...

Qin Zhibo frowned slightly, muttering in his heart.

Although Günter von Goldberg II is known as the world's number one illusionist, he is actually a killer organized by the zoo, codenamed "Spider".

However, Qin Zhibo knows that this person's real name is Edward Chandler, who controls an American technology company called "New World".

Spider went to Japan on the orders of the organization to kill Kaito Kid, but was framed by himself and Kuroba Kaito and arrested by Hakuba Detective.

Because Hakuba Detective was also tracking "Spider" in Europe before, and suspected the world's number one illusionist.

Unfortunately, on the way to the Metropolitan Police Department, Spider was rescued by a group of armed gangsters, and Günter von Goldberg II also issued a notice to suspend performances at the same time and disappeared for a while.

Now it seems that he has gotten rid of all suspicion and made a comeback...

But the venue for the comeback performance was actually chosen to be London City Hall. Could it be that he has guessed that "Scarlet Tears" is the Stone of Life Pandora?

Qin Zhibo glanced at the bottom of the poster and saw that the two performances were at the same venue, but at different times.

Günter von Gothenburg II's illusion performance will be tonight.

And the performance of the Hober Magic Group will be tomorrow afternoon.

Although the performance times of the two are different and they should not meet each other, we still need to be on guard.

It's just that tomorrow afternoon is not a good time.

Qin Zhibo himself is going to "fish" with Mary, and the time is also in the afternoon.

It seems that only Kuroba Kaito can come over at that time...

Qin Zhibo retracted his gaze, and at this time the tourist sightseeing elevator next to him opened, and a group of people came out.

He followed other tourists to get on the elevator and arrived at the top floor.

Currently, only a part of the top floor near the elevator is open, and tourists can overlook the scenery of London outside through the glass curtain wall.

The lobby area inside was wrapped by wall panels, forming a separate area.

There was a sign on the main door that said [No entry for idle people].

Qin Zhibo put on the magic extractor, closed his eyes, and confirmed again that Judy Hopper was inside.

It was probably the rehearsal time of the Hopper Magic Group, and they were rehearsing a program inside.

No entry for idle people?

Can the investigator's work be called idle?

No.

So, Qin Zhibo pushed open the door in front of him.

...

University of Blythechester, Institute of Astronomy.

On the case side, after a period of questioning and investigation, all 17 members of the Institute of Astronomy were ruled out of suspicion.

Since the working hours of the Institute of Astronomy are 9 o'clock in the morning, most researchers stay at home during this time in the morning, and their families can testify.

There are also very few people who went out to the street, but they did not come to the scope of the University of Blythechester, and there are other witnesses who can testify.

As a result, the investigation of the case instantly came to a deadlock.

Conan held his chin with one hand, and was surprised. It was the first time he encountered such a situation. So many people actually had alibis.

If this happened in Japan, there would be at least three people without alibis...

And all three of them had a grudge against the deceased...

And one of them was the murderer...

In addition, Hakuba also asked about interpersonal relationships.

The deceased Ingels was a loner, and basically did not have too deep contact with others, so there was no question of having a grudge with anyone.

Except for Bert, who was in the same office with him, even if they did not talk to each other, they would see each other every day.

But Bert also had an alibi.

Hakuba looked at Bert and asked seriously: "Did you find anything unusual about the deceased before he was killed?"

"Any small thing can be..."

Bert's expression was slightly condensed, thinking.

Suddenly, he seemed to think of something, and his eyes lit up.

"I remember!"

"Just two days ago, someone came to see him!"

Hearing that the case seemed to have a turnaround, Conan and Kuroba Kaito also turned their heads and focused their attention here.

"What kind of person?" Hakuba asked.

A trace of memory flashed in Bert's eyes, "It was a woman..."

"At that time, Ingels and the woman were talking downstairs. I just looked out the window on the second floor and didn't know what the woman looked like."

"But when Ingels came back, I asked him out of curiosity..."

"He said it was an old classmate of his."

Old classmate?

The expressions of Hakuba and Conan were shocked at the same time, and they immediately identified him as a suspect in their minds.

Because if it was an old classmate with a close relationship, it just fits the feature of knowing that the deceased had the habit of drinking coffee.

Hakuba Detective seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, with some excitement in his eyes, "Then what? Did he say what period of classmate it was?"

Bert shook his head, "No... But when I looked out the window, I heard the woman say that she hadn't been back here for a long time."

Haven't been back here for a long time...It's obvious that she had been here before.

It's a college classmate!

Hakuba Detective and Conan's minds immediately reacted, and Hakuba Detective waved his hand and asked his police to go to the school to investigate the list of Ingels' classmates during college.

Looking at the back of the police leaving, Conan was still a little confused.

Old classmates who haven't seen each other for a long time should have no motive for murder.

It can't be the kind of motive that has been holding a grudge for decades, right?

And the murderer obviously came for the dead man's hard drive, which should have nothing to do with the old classmates who haven't seen each other for a long time...

Unless the dead lied?

That person is not his classmate, but someone else?

...

About half an hour later, the police got all the information about Ingalls' college days from the archives of Blythe University.

Including his professional classmates, class classmates, club classmates, etc.

There are more than a hundred women in it.

Such a huge amount of work also made Conan stunned.

When will this investigation end?

Not to mention the huge number of people, if these people are still alive, they are all over 40 years old, which is definitely different from the information on the file.

The White Horse Detective who often lives in the UK is very accustomed to this way of investigating cases, asking the police to contact each person according to their phone number and address, and then confirm the alibi one by one.

This is not the work area of ​​Conan and Kuroba Kaito, so the two can only sit on a chair beside them, staring at the numerous student information in a daze.

During this period, Kuroba Kaito quietly took out the diary he had just taken from the drawer and flipped through it.

It is called a diary, but there is actually no specific record in it.

This is more like a notebook recording an illusory dream, telling the illusory dream in the first person -

I often have a recurring dream on a full moon night.

I dreamed of a full moon rising from the sea, in the middle of the distant sea, and the reflection of the moon on the sea surface...

After a while, I realized that it was not the moon at all, but a pale face looking into the sea.

So I panicked, and I found that I couldn't move at all.

The full moon seemed to be pulling something in the depths of the ocean, trying to wake it up.

The panic swelled in my body, but it couldn't block my sight, it forced my sight to lock on the ocean.

In the depths of the ocean, there is a city sleeping.

When the stars reach the right position, the womb of the sea will gently tap the ancient prison.

At that time, its huge muscles will tremble...looking forward to rebirth.

...

Kaito Kuroba looked at these illusory words, and a sense of horror inexplicably emerged in his mind.

These words seem to have no meaning, but combined with the current time point, there is a different kind of fear.

It mentions "full moon night", which seems to lead to the rebirth of something.

And when he first understood the purpose of the zoo organization to steal the gems, the bald organization cadre also mentioned "full moon night".

Full moon night...

While Kuroba Kaito was distracted thinking, Conan, who was looking at the information next to the police, suddenly shouted.

"Wait a minute!"

"This..."

Conan raised his hand and pointed to a student information on the table, and said in surprise: "I saw this person on campus this morning!"

Hakuba's ears trembled, and he turned his head immediately when he heard the voice.

"Who is it?"

Conan pointed at the girl with glasses in the student information.

Next to the girl's photo was her name.

Sera Elena.