The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

"Mother……"

"Have you ever heard of the name 'Sera Elena'?"

Sera Masumi, who was lying on the bed, seemed to ask a question casually, but in fact his eyes were secretly glancing at Mary by the window.

Mary, whose back was turned to Sera, was seen trembling slightly, her pupils suddenly shrinking, and she looked nervous.

But two seconds later, she asked in her usual calm tone.

"Why did you mention this name suddenly?"

Sure enough, we still know each other, right?

After hearing Mary's answer, Sera Masumi also confirmed the answer in his heart.

And if his mother knew him, it could only be the "sister outside the field".

Sera lay on the bed and continued: "When we were cracking the code today, the man named Kudo Shinichi called from Blychester and said that there was a case over there involving her..."

As soon as she finished speaking, Mary suddenly turned around and said in a very stern tone: "This is impossible!"

"Because that person is dead!"

Mary's reaction was so strong that Serian was startled. He quickly sat up from the bed and looked at Mary in surprise.

Looking at her daughter's shocked eyes, Mary knew that she was overreacting. She took a deep breath and softened her tone a little.

"Zhenchun, what is going on? Please tell me in detail..."

Sera also shook his head in confusion, "I don't know either. Kudo Shinichi just said on the phone that there is a case over there involving a person named 'Sera Elena'..."

After listening to Sera's explanation, Mary frowned slightly, and suddenly thought that "Kudo Shinichi" just happened to meet Qin Zhibo on Vauxhall Bridge.

Mary was a little surprised that these two people knew each other.

But now that Kudo Shinichi is at his place, he can directly ask what's going on.

She quickly picked up the phone on the table and dialed Qin Zhibo's phone number.

On the other side, Qin Zhibo and Kuroba Kaito were on their way back to their residence.

Suddenly, the phone rang.

"Hey, Mary..."

Qin Zhibo was about to tell Mary about Sera Elena, but Mary took the initiative to ask.

"That boy named Kudo Shinichi is next to you right now, right?"

"Oh, yes."

"Get him on the phone immediately."

Mary's tone was unyielding, which was rare for a woman.

Qin Zhibo was also full of questions.

It's not surprising that Mary knew that Kuroba Kaito was with her and mistook him for Kudo Shinichi.

After all, he had just met Kuroba Kaito under Mary's eyes.

But this tone of asking questions was as if Kuroba Kaito had offended her somewhere.

Could it be that Kuroba Kaito was taking advantage of her daughter?

Qin Zhibo gave Kuroba Kaito a questioning look, and Kuroba Kaito responded with an innocent face expression.

When Kuroba Kaito answered the phone, Mary asked about the case during the day.

Kuroba Kaito was an eyewitness to the case, so he narrated the case that occurred at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Bristol in the tone of Kudo Shinichi.

Now, Mary was even more sure that "Sera Elena" was her sister.

Because her sister did attend the University of Brightchester.

At that time, Elena ignored the opposition of her family, abandoned the two top universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and resolutely chose this university.

Later, because of an opportunity to be an exchange student in the United States, I ran away with a Japanese man studying in the United States, and I lost contact with my family from then on.

When the situation was learned many years later, Elena had become an "angel that fell into hell" and was expelled from the scientific community along with her husband, ruining her promising future.

After this incident, the Sera family completely removed Elena from the family and allowed her to fend for herself outside, becoming a "sister outside the realm."

Only Mary is talkative and careless, and occasionally contacts Miyano and his wife.

However, since Miyano Hiroshi asked her to help investigate the Karasuma Group, the Miyano couple completely disappeared from the world.

Later, after receiving a warning from Akai Mutake, Mary moved her family to Japan.

While in Japan, Mary was also secretly investigating the whereabouts of the Miyano couple. However, Japan is not like the UK. Without the powerful intelligence network of MI6, it is difficult for her to obtain useful clues.

It wasn't until her meeting with Qin Zhibo yesterday that she finally learned that the Miyano couple had died 17 years ago.

That was probably what happened shortly before Mary fled to Japan with her family...

But now, a case that happened at the University of Brightchester actually involves news that Elena may still be alive.

For Mary, this was a bit too much of a bolt from the blue.

"Are you telling the truth? Kudo Shinichi?"

"Ah I……"

Kuroba Kaito's face was stunned. He didn't know if it was true. Anyway, that's what Detective Hakuba and Conan who were responsible for solving the case said.

Upon seeing this, Qin Zhibo quickly took the phone from Kuroba Kaito's hand.

"Mary, I don't think this is as simple as it seems..."

"If Elena Miyano is really alive, she won't kill anyone, right?"

"And have you forgotten the organization member I told you about who can disguise himself?"

After being reminded by Qin Zhibo, Mary suddenly remembered the existence of "Belmod".

It was because of the existence of such a Thousand-Faced Witch in the organization that it became difficult for her to recognize her husband.

Because once this person is Belmode, it would be very dangerous for her to show up.

Mary frowned, "You mean, that Elena might be..."

"I think the possibility is about 99%."

Qin Zhibo said in a very affirmative tone: "Think about it, if you use Elena's identity, the police can't track down any clues about her..."

"And Elena has joined the organization, it's normal for Belmode to obtain her identity information."

After Qin Zhibo's analysis, Mary's mood suddenly became much relieved.

After all, she didn't want to accept that her sister who suddenly "resurrected from the dead" was actually a killer.

"You make sense..."

"I was a little uncalm."

Mary's voice also returned to calm, and she took the initiative to admit her gaffe.

"Understandable..."

"But since Vermouth can appear in Blychester, it means that she is indeed in the UK now, and our plan has a high probability of success."

"We will continue tomorrow."

"Okay."

After hanging up the phone, Mary stood in front of the window and breathed a sigh of relief.

But facing the gleaming glass, her brows still did not completely relax.

Although this Elena should be Vermouth in disguise, using the identity of a dead person to kill is itself an act of stigmatizing him.

Vermouth...

You, unforgivable!

Mary clenched her fists, and the fire of anger in her eyes was not concealed at all.

Sera also saw that her mother was in a bad mood, and could only temporarily put her doubts back in her heart.

It seems that her mother called that old friend of her father...

But that person was accompanied by Kudo Shinichi, and Conan clearly said that Kudo Shinichi had not returned to London.

Could it be that these two people knew each other for a long time?

...

Back at the hotel where he stayed, Qin Zhibo took off the heavy disguise he had worn for a day and went to take a shower first.

In the morning, most of the time was spent going to London City Hall to find Judy Hopper to explain the current situation and keep her on high alert.

In the afternoon, I cosplayed as Michael, a former member of the organization, and strolled around on the Vauxhall Bridge.

Although the bridge is very long and the scenery on both sides of the bridge is also remarkable, it is still quite boring to spend half a day on the bridge.

And although it is called strolling, you must stay highly focused throughout the whole process, otherwise once you are discovered by the organization, the other party will kill you, the traitor who once killed the organization's model worker, without saying a word, and there will be no place to argue.

When Qin Zhibo thought about continuing to "fish" tomorrow, he couldn't help feeling a little more tired physically and mentally.

After taking a shower, Qin Zhibo, wearing a bathrobe, walked out of the bathroom and asked Kuroba Kaito.

"How is the London code incident going today?"

Kuroba Kaito looked a little surprised, "Uncle, you also know about the Hades incident?"

"Hades?"

Qin Zhibo was stunned, but then nodded, "I guess so. I met Xiaolan and the others in the restaurant before and helped them."

"Oh!" Kuroba Kaito suddenly said in surprise: "So the blond man who met in the restaurant on the phone was you, uncle!"

Qin Zhibo nodded while blowing his hair with a hair dryer.

After the hair was dried, Kuroba Kaito also introduced the code incident.

At present, the code has been completely solved. The information hidden in the code is the time of the crime, which is tomorrow.

As for the location, it may be one of the six locations in the code.

Qin Zhibo did not immediately agree with Kuroba Kaito's guess.

Because the multiple-choice question of the six locations is too vague, if you don't want to provide a single correct answer at all, it is better not to send a code letter from the beginning and do it secretly.

Moreover, the criminal's hand was so big this time, and he spent a lot of effort to lay out many clues and distribute secret letters in London. It seems that there are other ulterior motives.

Just when Qin Zhibo was thinking, Kuroba Kaito suddenly remembered something and took out a diary from his arms.

"Uncle, this is the diary I got from Ingels' office. Can you see if the content inside is useful?"

Qin Zhibo put down the hair dryer and took the diary that looked a little old.

When he opened it, it was all about the self-narration of dreams, with text and hand-drawn pictures.

Qin Zhibo sat on the bed and read it carefully.

However, as he read deeper, he felt more and more that something was wrong.

This notebook records some strange dreams, but most of them are related to "the return of the stars".

For example, it mentions "the full moon rises over the sea", "the advent of Gehros will cause the stars to return to their correct positions", and "some existence in the depths of the ocean is looking forward to rebirth".

There is also a city in the depths of the ocean, and "the womb of the sea gently beats the ancient prison cell".

Qin Zhibo knows that a city deep in the ocean should be the legendary R'lyeh.

In the eternal mansion R'lyeh, the long-sleeping Cthulhu awaits your dream.

This is a saying circulated among Cthulhu's followers, which also proves that the relationship between R'lyeh and Cthulhu is mutually bound.

But what is the "womb of the sea"?

If R'lyeh is the prison cell where Cthulhu is imprisoned, the womb of the sea should be some other existence.

The sea's... uterus?

When it comes to uterus, one has to think of women.

But the existence that gave birth to Cthulhu cannot be a woman.

So this is still an anthropomorphic technique...

Qin Zhibo shook his head slightly. It's time to use rhetoric.

However, judging from the content of this diary, the person who wrote this thing is on the verge of mental collapse. It shouldn't be Ingels who can still perform complex scientific calculations.

In addition to the age of the diary, it should be Ingels' father.

"I know... Is there anything else besides this?"

Qin Zhibo put the diary away and asked again.

Kuroba Kaito shook his head. This is all he gained that day.

Summarize the current situation.

Ingels is dead, and the murderer is likely to be Vermouth.

Since Vermouth did this, it shows that Ingels' research is very important and related to the organization's plan.

Now that Ingels is dead and the hard drive in his computer has been taken away, it is obviously too late for other people from the Astronomical Research Institute to continue his research.

It was difficult for Qin Zhibo to study by himself. Even if he went to Blichester to obtain the "Astronomy" skill from Ingels' corpse, it was only a level 1 skill.

By the time he trained the skill to a usable state, it might be too late.

Is there any other way to know the answer?

At least we need to know how far Gehros has come and how much time is left...

Qin Zhibo's brain was working at high speed, trying to think of a feasible plan.

Suddenly, his face trembled, and he recalled that it was not the first time he heard about the use of distorted planetary orbits to measure unknown planets outside the solar system.

The last time he heard about this was in a game.

It was "Cocoon"!

Qin Zhibo's mind suddenly realized, and long-lost memories came out like a spring.

In the London chapter of the Cocoon game, Blichester University once appeared.

And the character in the game, James Moriarty, as a professor at Blichester University, wrote a book called "Asteroid Mechanics".

The content inside was exactly to use the distorted planetary orbit to predict the existence of a gradually approaching planet X outside the solar system.

It is exactly the same as Ingels' research!

Moriarty in the cocoon is of course a virtual game character and does not exist in reality.

But the one who created this character is the artificial intelligence that manipulates the game system and changes the entire game content.

At this moment, Qin Zhibo thought of a way.

Since human power is not enough, let's use the power of AI.

It's decided to be you!

Hiroki Sawada!