The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

"That is to say, at this time, he should be already picking at the food..." The youngest bespectacled girl in the family sitting next to him also agreed.

"Then let's do this..." The pretty girl turned to look at Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuye, who were concentrating on cooking. "Although I'm a little embarrassed, can I trouble you two to wake him up?"

Mao Lilan and Yuan Shanheye were also stunned, "Huh? Are you asking us to go?"

The pretty boy did not continue, but directly told the two of them the location of the room.

The old woman next to the pretty boy also had a smirk on her lips, playfully saying, "That's right. If a young girl wakes him up, Miya will be very happy..."

After saying that, the old woman and the pretty boy exchanged meaningful glances, and everyone else in the family also snickered.

Mao Lilan, Yuan Shan and Ye looked at each other with confusion on their faces, not knowing what the look meant.

And would anyone normally ask customers to help with such a thing?

But after all, they were here for a visit, so the two women could only put down their knives and forks and leave the table.

…

In the forest, a red Mustang sports car was speeding on the forest road.

In the darkness, only the cone-shaped area in front was illuminated by lights, reflecting a yellowish light, and on both sides were forests with lush vegetation.

In the dark and deep forest, the rustling of leaves and the cries of wild animals can be heard from time to time.

According to the development of ordinary horror movies, the next step should be a deer suddenly jumping out of the woods and just being hit by my car, right?

Thinking of this, Qin Zhibo clenched the steering wheel with both hands, stared at the edge of the forest, and was always ready to apply the brakes.

But this worry is unnecessary.

Until the bungalow stood in front of us, no animal took the initiative to touch it.

Under the night-covered sky, every window of the Western-style house standing on the top of the mountain was lit, like a fortress of light in the dark.

Qin Zhibo used the light from the building to sneak around the parking area in front of the bungalow and found an empty parking space.

He parked the car, opened the door and got out, and glanced at the other cars parked in the parking lot.

This is a parking space for guests from outside. The parking space for the owner of this bungalow is probably behind the bungalow.

Judging from the two other cars parked in the parking space, the family probably hired a lawyer or something.

After all, it is inheritance distribution, and a lawyer is definitely needed to act as a notary.

Or there is the illegitimate child that appears from outside that the old woman is worried about...

Qin Zhibo walked around from the parking area to the front door.

Before knocking on the door, he checked the time again. It was now exactly 7:00.

If you follow the requirements of the main quest, knocking on the door now should be considered "Interview with a Vampire."

Just as he was about to knock on the door, a scream suddenly came from the silent night.

"ah--!"

Qin Zhibo's ears immediately trembled in excitement, and then he immediately reacted and turned his head to look in the direction where the scream came from.

The direction the sound came from was to the left, but it was not the left side of the yard, but inside the building.

Am I too late?

In order to save time, Qin Zhibo ran directly towards the window where the sound came from.

…

"ah--!"

Inside the building, Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuye's screams reached full decibel level, causing everyone eating in the restaurant on the first floor to be startled and look up suddenly.

Conan and Hattori Heiji immediately recognized who the scream came from, and took the lead in throwing away the knives and forks in their hands and running towards the door.

Moori Kogoro and Officer Otaki followed closely behind.

The three of them quickly climbed up the stairs and arrived at the corridor on the second floor. They glanced around and continued running towards the location of the room that the pretty boy had just told them.

When they ran to the door of the room, they found Mao Lilan and Yuan Shanhe Ye collapsed to the ground in fear.

"What's wrong! What happened?" Hattori Heiji shouted.

The two women looked back at Hattori Heiji with frightened expressions on their faces, and pointed tremblingly at a coffin in front of them.

"Uncle, uncle, he is in here..."

Mao Lilan, who had more experience, organized the language and explained half of the matter.

As for the other half, it's not difficult to tell from her expression.

Hattori Heiji's expression became tense, and he quickly stepped forward to lift the lid of the coffin.

But no matter how hard he tried to lift the coffin lid, the seemingly not thick lid would not move at all.

Seeing that his good friend was not doing anything, Conan thought it was because he was not strong enough, so he quickly stepped forward to help.

However, even if the two of them tried their best, the coffin lid remained motionless.

At this moment, Kogoro Mouri and Officer Otaki also rolled up their sleeves, ready to step forward to help.

The Tokura family, who were standing at the door watching the show, laughed and joked: "I guess they fell asleep in there, right?"

"He said that he would have to go into the coffin after death anyway, so why not get used to it now, so he has been treating it as a bed recently..."

Yuanshan and Ye Yi heard that these people didn't take them seriously, so they quickly explained: "I saw that his whole body was covered with blood, and there was a wooden stake stabbed in his chest!"

Yancang Ernan: "The whole body is covered with blood?"

Torakura Sano: "Brother, is your joke a little too much?"

"This is not a joke! Uncle is really dead!"

Everyone's nonchalant attitude made Mao Lilan, who had always been gentle, couldn't help shouting.

Next to the coffin, even though Kogoro Mouri, Officer Otaki, Heiji Hattori, and Conan all started working together, exposing the veins, they were unable to lift the lid of the coffin.

What's going on?

Just when Conan was wondering if he was applying force in the wrong direction, the coffin lid suddenly trembled and opened.

Um?

Mouri Kogoro thought he had pushed the lid and quickly opened it.

But there were wine-red cushions in the coffin, and apart from that, there wasn't even a human figure.

"How is that possible!" Yuan Shan and Ye screamed when they saw what was inside.

Conan turned back gently and asked Mao Lilan, "Sister Xiaolan, did you really see that uncle lying here?"

"Yeah." Mao Lilan nodded, "He was really in there just now..."

Hearing this, Hattori Heiji and Conan turned their heads and continued to stare at the empty coffin, their eyes full of doubts and confusion.

Could it be that he suddenly disappeared like a vampire?

Benedict.

Dude, Dude...

Just when everyone was silent, the sound of knocking on the glass suddenly sounded in the corridor.

Everyone in the Tokura family in the corridor at the door of the room turned around and looked at the window behind them, only to see a figure lying strangely outside the window, tapping on the glass.

"ah!"

"There's someone outside!"

The bespectacled woman standing at the back was startled and hurriedly hid behind.

Everyone saw the figure outside the window, especially the "disappearing corpse incident" that had just occurred. Affected by the terrifying atmosphere, they were so frightened that they all stayed away from the window.

"What's going on!?"

Hattori Heiji and Conan who were in the room also rushed out of the room at this time and looked at the glass window facing the door.

The reflection on the window blended with the figures outside the window, creating an indescribable feeling of terror.

But there is no doubt that it should be a person lying outside the window.

Hattori Heiji walked to the window, put his face against the glass and took a closer look, only to find that the people outside the window were also looking inside.

The two looked at each other in silence for two seconds.

"Uncle Qin!"

Hattori Heiji opened the window and removed the filter on the window, allowing everyone to see clearly who was coming.

It turned out to be Qin Zhibo.

Qin Zhibo also looked at a few familiar faces in the corridor, with a wry smile on his lips.

This is really fate...

…

"Uncle, why are you here?"

Hattori Heiji stretched his head and glanced out the window, and found that there was a small protruding room in the open space on the first floor outside the window. Qin Zhibo had to step on the roof of that room to gain a foothold in front of the second-floor window.

Qin Zhibo patted the dust on his clothes and explained: "I was also entrusted by someone to come here to witness the inheritance distribution ceremony."

When Conan heard this, he remembered that the important guest mentioned by the eldest daughter of the Yakura family turned out to be Qin Zhibo.

"But you're too late, aren't you? It's already night..." Conan complained lightly with his half-moon eyes drooping.

Qin Zhibo rubbed Conan's head and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, you don't have to be late for a good meal, right?"

"And it looks like I came just in time..."

Qin Zhibo understood what happened just now, and then walked to the coffin to check.

At this time, the coffin lid remained open on the windowsill. There was no one on the red cushion inside, and there was no body as Mao Lilan said.

However, Qin Zhibo glanced at it and discovered that the hardware connecting the coffin lid to the coffin was stained with a small amount of red liquid.

"I'm not lying! That uncle's body was lying in the coffin just now, with a stake stabbed in his chest!"

"He was covered in blood, wearing a black cloak, and he had pointy ears and teeth!"

"Just like the legendary vampire Count Dracula!"

Recalling the scene in their minds, Mao Lilan, Toyama Kazuye still looked nervous and uneasy.

At this time, Ernan Tokura, who was standing at the door with a square chin, recalled: "So, my brother seemed to have been given such a nickname when he was a child..."

The second man's wife raised her lips and said, "That's because his name is Torakura Sakuya, so he is called 'Count Dracula'. It is indeed a nickname that only children would use randomly."

Torakura Oya, the Japanese pronunciation is very close to Count Dracula.

This reminded Qin Zhibo of a case related to Dracula's vampire that he had come across before, and that person's surname was Hucang.

In fact, both Hucang and Yincang are similar to the word "Dracula".

At this time, the bespectacled woman standing behind added: "But that nickname does not come entirely from the name. If you trace the history of the Tokura family's ancestors..."

The old woman also echoed, "In addition, Koya has been showing several weird behaviors that are not like humans recently. Maybe he has really been possessed by something weird, such as a vampire..."

At this moment, Qin Zhibo stood up from the coffin and interrupted.

"No matter whether Mr. Tokura is a human or a ghost, he is still lying in this coffin until just now."

"Look, there's still blood stains on this hardware."

Qin Zhibo raised his finger and Conan and others looked over, only to discover the blood stain that was not easy to detect.

"That's true!"

Officer Otaki took a closer look and found that it was indeed similar to the blood stains often seen at murder scenes.

Qin Zhibo reached out and touched the edge of the gap between the coffin board and the lining, and said: "There are also some mechanisms in this place..."

In Qin Zhibo's field of vision, he could see the survey point inside the gap.

[Topographic Survey√]

[Electromagnets are installed in the gap]

"There is an electromagnet installed in the place I touched, and it should be able to attract each other with the area on the edge of the coffin lid."

"As long as you control it with the remote control, you can make the coffin unable to be opened at any time."

"This should be the reason why you couldn't open the coffin at the beginning..."

What?

Conan and Hattori Heiji were shocked, and they quickly squatted down to check. Sure enough, they found a thin interlayer between the gaps of the coffin boards.

This interlayer surrounds the coffin. If it is all electromagnets, the suction generated can indeed resist the pulling force of three and a half people.

"But if it is a remote control, it means that at least someone must hold it to control it..."

Mouri Kogoro held his chin and asked in confusion: "If the person in the coffin was already dead at that time, who would be controlling the remote control?"

As soon as this was said, Conan and Hattori Heiji had already turned their suspicious eyes to the people of the Torakan family behind them.

Obviously, when encountering such a thing, these people in the family must be suspected first.

Qin Zhibo looked at the bottom of the coffin with a suspicious look.

If it is regarded as a traditional case, the murderer should indeed be these people.

But if it is according to the description of the main task, the owner of this mansion is most likely a real vampire.

A vampire is absolutely impossible to be killed easily.

Although Mao Lilan said that the heart was nailed with a stake, and the stake is the nemesis of vampires, this shows that the murderer may know the vampire identity of the owner of the villa and took action accordingly.

Then this person may also know the secret of vampires...

It's just that the "corpse" disappeared from the coffin, which makes people think of one of the abilities of vampires-disappearance.

At this time, the little white face at the door and Yin Cang Sannan quarreled again.

Yin Cang Sannan was dissatisfied with the little white face for treating his eldest brother as a monster, and angrily grabbed the little white face's tie and questioned.

The pretty boy was still talking nonsense, and he smiled with a look that deserved a beating: "I'm not the only one who thinks this way, right?"

"Right? Mr. Butler, didn't you invite these people because you have the same idea as me?"

At this time, Butler Koga also came and stood in the corridor.

"Yes, because the various abnormal behaviors of the master recently were too weird, so I rashly invited Mr. Detective to participate in this inheritance distribution meeting."

Everyone in the Torakura family was stunned, "Detective?"

Officer Otaki stood up and introduced himself, and also revealed the identity of Maori Kogoro as a famous detective.

"Hello everyone, I am the sleeping Maori Kogoro~"

Everyone looked at Maori Kogoro in surprise, and obviously they had heard of this name more or less.

At this time, the girl with glasses turned her head to look at Qin Zhibo who was standing in front of the coffin and asked: "Who is this man? It seems that his reasoning ability is even better..."

Mouri Kogoro pouted unhappily.

Hearing this, Qin Zhibo turned around and introduced himself with a smile.

"Hello everyone, my name is Qin Zhibo, and I'm a detective."

Conan's face turned black...

This guy plagiarized my lines.