The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

"24... hours?"

When he heard the time on the phone, Kuroba Kaito repeated it in disbelief.

Because when they exchanged intelligence last night, Qin Zhibo clearly said that there was less than a month left.

But 24 hours is indeed less than a month...

Kuroba Kaito quickly turned his head to look at the clock on the wall. It was now 1 pm.

That is to say, at this time tomorrow, Gehros will return...

Whether it is the organization behind my father or the zoo organization, the final success or failure will be decided at this time.

"I know, I will do my best to protect the gem during this time!"

Just as Qin Zhibo was about to hang up the phone in the car, Kuroba Kaito hurriedly said.

"Wait a minute!"

"The kid with glasses just called me and said that the code could not decipher the final information anyway, so he wanted to borrow your wisdom."

"Code?"

Qin Zhibo's eyes were startled, looking at the Thames outside the car window, and his mind recalled the Hades code that had been bothering the London police for the past two days.

In this matter, he did not distract too much attention, except for reminding Xiaolan and others in the restaurant.

After all, compared with the safety of the whole world, the safety of London seems too insignificant.

And with Conan watching, the incident will surely be resolved.

"I know..."

"I'll think about it when I have time. If there is final information, I will contact you again."

Qin Zhibo just hung up the phone, and the bus happened to stop at the bus stop next to Vauxhall Bridge.

Just after returning from Blychester, he had to continue to implement the "fishing" plan without stopping.

Vermouth had just killed someone in Blychester yesterday. If she still had ideas about infiltrating MI6, she should have appeared today.

But what made Qin Zhibo feel a little puzzled was that if Gehros returned in 24 hours, then Vermouth, who had received this information, should know that there was not much meaning in infiltrating MI6 now.

The official return of Gehros indicates that the return of the stars will also be completed in a short time.

At that time, Cthulhu will wake up, and the era of human domination will end.

Perhaps humans will try every means to resist, but this is far from being controlled by an intelligence agency.

On the other hand, if today's "fishing" plan can catch Belmode, then it is very likely that the specific plan of the Black Organization will be learned.

Although it is not so easy to pry open Belmode's mouth, in the face of the crisis, all means are allowed...

Qin Zhibo came to a roadside snack bar, ordered a hot dog, and ran to the Vauxhall Bridge while filling his stomach.

Today's time is too tight, and there is no time to eat lunch, and he has to go to work quickly.

Mary, who was in the hotel room, was also looking at the Vauxhall bridge with a telescope at this time, with a trace of anxiety between her slightly wrinkled eyebrows.

Just as she was about to call to ask why the "bait" was not in place, a familiar figure suddenly appeared on the bridge.

"Huh, I'm here..."

Mary's headset received Qin Zhibo's voice.

"Why are you so late today?" Mary asked in a flat tone.

"There are some things to do in the morning..."

In Mary's telescope, Qin Zhibo walked to the trash can and threw the bag of hot dogs he had eaten into it.

Mary's eyebrows slightly raised. It can be seen that Qin Zhibo didn't even have time to eat lunch and just arrived.

"What's the matter?"

"Some things..."

Faced with Mary's inquiry, Qin Zhibo didn't tell her what he did in the morning.

After all, he successfully communicated with a ghost at Blythe University. How could he say such a thing?

But...

"Mary, I think Akai Wuwu should still be alive..."

Qin Zhibo suddenly whispered to himself, "But the 'Akai Wuwu' who appeared in London recently should not be your husband..."

Mary, who was watching with a telescope, suddenly looked shocked, and the telescope in her hand slowly dropped a little until it left her eye socket.

"What did you say?"

"I think Akai Wuwu is likely to be alive somewhere now..."

Qin Zhibo repeated it again.

His voice was a little heavy, because he didn't know whether it was a good thing for Akai Mary at this moment to tell this news.

But he did come to this conclusion after repeatedly confirming it with the spiritual technique several times.

When in Blychester, Qin Zhibo finished communicating with Ingles, and suddenly remembered that he could use spiritualism to communicate with Akai Wuwu's soul.

If he could communicate, there was no doubt that Akai Wuwu was dead.

If he could not communicate, and it showed "no such person", then it was very likely that Akai Wuwu was still alive.

And the result was just as Qin Zhibo said to Mary now, the spiritualism showed "no such person".

"Wuwu..." Mary's calm voice was a little choked, "How did you know?"

Qin Zhibo was not convenient to say the specific reason, so he could only answer, "It's intuition."

"I think you have always had this feeling, right? Akai Wuwu is still alive..."

"So no matter what the outcome will be this afternoon, don't give up hope."

Mary stood by the window, a line of clear tears slid down her fair cheeks.

She wiped her eyes and then raised the binoculars to eye level again.

"yes……"

"All human wisdom is waiting and hoping..."

Qin Zhibo felt relieved when he heard Mary say the famous quote from "The Count of Monte Cristo" through the earphones.

After all, judging from the current situation, the "Akai Muwu" wandering around London is most likely Belmode pretending to be one.

In this way, Mary must be mentally prepared in advance to avoid being hesitant and spoiling the big deal when she needs remote support.

After handling this matter, Qin Zhibo started "fishing".

…

On the other side, Conan, Xiaolan and others were still waiting for good news from "Kudo Shinichi" in front of a street drink shop.

Of course, only Conan knew that what he could count on was the man who had refused to show up.

Just when everyone was silent, Mouri Kogoro's phone suddenly rang.

Everyone turned to look at Mouri Kogoro, and even Moori Kogoro himself looked surprised.

At this time, was it the detective boy who called?

Mouri Kogoro answered the phone with a confused expression. He just said "Moses Moses", and the next second, he immediately put on a flattering smile and replied in broken English.

"Yes, it's me!"

"I'm Kogoro Mori!"

Mouri Kogoro got up and went to answer the phone, which made everyone realize that this was definitely not a call from Kudo Shinichi.

After a while, Mouri Kogoro returned to his seat after answering the phone and said to everyone.

"That rich lady Diana said she wanted to invite us to watch the Wimbledon Tennis Finals that was going to be held soon, and she quickly sent someone to drive us there."

As soon as these words came out, everyone's faces were subconsciously happy.

After all, it is one of the world's most famous tennis matches, and today is the most important finals, so it is definitely worth going to see it live.

But then I thought about it, I wasn't sure about the code yet, so it felt a bit irresponsible to watch the game like this.

Mouri Kogoro also understood their thoughts from the slightly twisted expressions of everyone, and analyzed: "Now that we have cracked the code, we know that Saturday may be the day of the accident, and we have told Scotland Yard everything we know... "

"Anyway, there's only so much we can do now."

"And with that detective boy's character, it's absolutely impossible to leave a code that hasn't been completely solved, right?"

"Since he didn't call again, it means that the code should be like this. Hades hinted at the six locations, which should be to disperse the police force in London."

"Anyway, it's hard to spend time in the city today, so why not go watch a tennis match and change your mood."

Mouri Kogoro's analysis is also quite reasonable. After all, from his perspective, he has indeed tried his best.

Now that central London could be attacked by bombs at any time, it would be better to stay away while watching a tennis match to avoid being affected by bombs.

This is also an instinctive choice as a father.

Conan was thinking to himself, now that Kuroba Kaito's companions haven't sent any messages either, that means that the code might be like this?

Although there are still some things that don't make sense, after all, this thing was written by a human being, so it can't be without flaws.

It's just that this feeling is a bit annoying...

If you ask Qin Zhibo, maybe you can solve it?

Qin Zhibo's reasoning ability is better than his own. With his ability, if there is really other meaning in the code, he will definitely be able to decipher it.

Conan was so convinced.

Thinking in his mind, he quickly raised his head and said to Mao Lilan next to him: "Sister Xiaolan, I need to go to the toilet!"

"Ah? Then let me go with you..."

This is London, and Mao Lilan is worried that Conan, who is unfamiliar with the place, will get lost here.

"No need! I saw a public toilet on the way here!"

Conan quickly rejected Mao Lilan's kindness and ran into the alley next to him.

He quickly took out his only remaining phone and dialed Qin Zhibo's number.

beep--

beep--

Ten seconds later, the other side picked up the phone.

"Conan, I heard that you went to England. What's the matter?"

Listening to this friendly voice, the corners of Conan's mouth unconsciously raised.

"Yeah, I'm in London now."

"By the way, I have a problem here and I need your help..."

Conan recounted the code incident here in the most concise language, and he felt that there were some inaccuracies in the reasoning.

"Oh I see……"

Qin Zhibo murmured and nodded, "Are you worried that the real location suggested by this code is somewhere else?"

"But I'm in Japan now, and I'm not very familiar with London. Let me think carefully based on the map I searched online, and then I'll get back to you."

Conan said "hmm" to express his understanding. After all, it took him and Xiaolan more than a day to figure out the code.

If Qin Zhibo could tell it at a glance, he would be too shocked.

"Okay, I'll wait for your reply."

By handing over the secret code incident to a reliable person, a stone in Conan's heart was halfway lifted.

And this is not considered cheating. After all, he has discovered the problem and will definitely be able to solve it as long as time allows.

Now, I just have to wait for the answer.

During this period, I can also go to watch the tennis match without worry~

…

On Vauxhall Bridge, Qin Zhibo hung up the phone.

In the rare moment when his mind was quiet, he had to think about what Conan had just entrusted him to do.

He took out his mobile phone and quickly entered the complete code that he had remembered after seeing it yesterday in the memo.

There were seven sentences in total, except for one sentence with a repeated location, the contents corresponded to different locations.

Yesterday, Xiaolan and the others had visited six locations and got the word "SATURN", suggesting that Hades would commit the crime on Saturday.

As for which Saturday of the week, Qin Zhibo felt that it could only be this Saturday, that is, today.

Because the arrangement of this set of codes is very cumbersome, props need to be distributed at various locations in London, etc., and if it takes a little longer, even if the police cannot solve the location indicated in the code, citizens will report abnormalities.

For example, strange markers, envelopes, etc.

And this is what made Qin Zhibo confused. It is really difficult for Hades to arrange such a complicated code clue by himself.

And his act of distributing a large number of props in London also has some specific purposes.

For example, he made the police subconsciously think that he had already scouted these six locations and might take action against one of them at any time.

Often, the places where criminals have been are the most worrying for the police, fearing that they will become the targets of the next bomb attack.

In this way, the police will inevitably deploy a large number of police officers in these six locations, while also taking into account the crowded areas in the central city of London.

In this way, the police force in London has been consumed to a minimum.

Does this mean that the real place where Hades wants to carry out the attack should actually be other areas far away from the central city of London?

Qin Zhibo opened the electronic map of the navigation device in his mind, and the entire territory of London was in full view.

Among them, the six locations that Hades announced in the code are all in the central area of ​​London, which is relatively concentrated.

This is also the reason why Xiaolan and his group can run through these six locations within a day.

And the places outside the city of London, which belong to London in a broad sense, are actually small towns, such as Greenwich and Wimbledon.

If there is no special arrangement, it is actually difficult for these places to be covered by the main police force in London.

But which of these places would it be?

Or which place is most worthy of Hades' attack?

Qin Zhibo seemed to be looking at the water of the Thames, like a tourist enjoying the tranquility, but he was actually looking at the map in his mind repeatedly.

Suddenly, he found a strange place.

The six places hinted by Hades seemed to present an almost symmetrical pattern on the electronic map.

This is...

Just as he was about to enlarge the electronic map to identify it carefully, Mary's voice suddenly came from the headset.

"Qin!"

"Here..."

"That man, he's here."