The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

There are a large number of photos and some displays of ancient weapons hanging on the walls of the Torakura family's photo studio.

Most of the photos are landscape photos in a modern style.

There is only one black and white photo in the upper right corner, framed in an inconspicuous corner.

The shooting angle of the photo is very similar to Beethoven's most classic portrait, except that the protagonist in this photo is not holding a pen.

The man in the photo has slightly curly hair and a slightly square face and chin.

"Who is that person?"

Qin Zhibo looked at the photo in the corner and asked.

The old woman looked up at Qin Zhibo's line of sight, and then replied: "It's the ancestor of the Yincang family. It is said that he was the one three generations ago. This is the only photo left by his old man."

"oh……"

Qin Zhibo nodded in understanding, and then asked: "Since your family takes group photos every year, where are the photos taken?"

"I see that the walls here are all modern landscape photos. Except for that photo of your ancestors, they have nothing to do with your family."

"That's because half a year ago, my eldest brother had all the old photos taken down."

Torakura Sano answered while lowering his head to check the camera.

Suddenly, his expression was startled, and he murmured: "It was actually photographed..."

Hattori Heiji and Conan heard it and hurried over to check.

It turns out that when Mao Lilan and Toyama Heye noticed the strange shadow in the mirror just now, they happened to press the shutter and took a photo.

However, since this family respects tradition and still uses an old-fashioned film camera, it is unclear whether they captured anything specifically.

Hattori Heiji raised his chin, "It would be great if I could develop the photos now and look at them..."

Torakura Sano immediately replied: "There is a darkroom in this house specifically for developing photos. I can go and do it now."

"What?!"

As soon as he heard that photos could be developed here, Hattori Heiji's expression immediately cheered up.

Although the method of the mysterious shadow in the mirror has been solved, if there are photos, more clues may be analyzed.

And when the police come, it can also be used as evidence.

Hattori Heiji immediately sent Torakura Sano to develop the photos.

When he turned his head, he found that Yuan Shanheye and Mao Lilan had disappeared.

"Huh? Where did the person go?"

Conan raised his little hand and pointed in the direction.

When the two chased him, they discovered that the two women had escaped to the kitchen and were asking the chef if there was any garlic.

"garlic?"

"But because the master has become very disgusted with garlic recently, there seems to be no garlic in the kitchen anymore, right?"

The chef's tone was uncertain, indicating that there might still be something.

So Mao Lilan and Yuan Shanheye volunteered to look for them in the kitchen inventory.

Conan and Hattori Heiji put their hands in their pockets and complained helplessly as they watched their girlfriends busying around in the kitchen.

"Because there are vampires, I have to eat garlic..."

"After all, it is something that can be fought against..."

The two straight men just stood at the door and watched, not even thinking of going over to explain the trick of the mysterious shadow in the mirror. In fact, even non-vampires can do it.

The two women rummaged through the cartons, but found no garlic, and were about to open the large refrigerator in the kitchen.

"This refrigerator door... why can't it be opened..."

Yuan Shan and Ye went to pull the handle, but the refrigerator door didn't move at all.

Mao Lilan saw it and was about to step forward to help.

Fortunately, the chubby chef saw it and hurriedly stopped him, "That is the refrigerator that the master bought himself to put things in. I remember that the refrigerator door is locked and outsiders cannot open it..."

"The refrigerator door is locked? Why?"

"I don't know." The chef held his chin and recalled, "I heard from the master before that it contained very high-grade meat and was prepared to entertain the guests who came to visit today."

"As a result, until now, I haven't said anything about using it to entertain guests."

Conan and Hattori Heiji, who were standing at the door, listened indifferently. They suddenly remembered that at dusk, the Koga housekeeper said that a chef gave Tokura Sakiya an alibi, so they asked the fat chef about it.

The fat chef nodded and admitted honestly.

"Yes, it was indeed the evidence I provided to the police at that time."

"The night before he went to bed, the master said that as soon as he got up, he would taste the freshly made soup, so he asked me to bring the soup to wake him up."

"Then before closing the lid, the master said that he suspected that someone had recently secretly lifted the lid to check while he was asleep, and asked me to put something on the lid of the coffin to confirm whether anyone had lifted the lid."

"So I casually placed three sesame seeds on the edge of the coffin lid. When I came back to wake the master up, I found that the positions of the three sesame seeds had not changed at all."

"That means the lid of the coffin was never opened during that time, right?"

When Conan and Hattori Heiji heard this description, their eyes became slightly alert.

The two of them turned around and left the kitchen with serious faces, and returned to Tokura Sakuya's bedroom on the second floor, which was the house where the coffin was kept.

As soon as he entered the room, he saw Qin Zhibo trying to move the coffin.

"You guys are here too... What are you doing standing around here? Come here and help me~"

Hattori Heiji and Conan hesitated for another second before coming over to help Qin Zhibo push the coffin.

As the coffin moved slowly, the marble bricks directly underneath it were exposed.

There is a metal handle on a marble brick in the middle.

"This is..."

Hattori Heiji subconsciously reached out to pull it, but Qin Zhibo got there first and reached his hand on it.

As the marble brick was lifted up, a deep and narrow secret passage was revealed below.

It really is...

Qin Zhibo stared at the deep tunnel in front of him, not knowing where it led to.

However, this also confirmed that the first time Torako Sako suddenly disappeared in the coffin, it should not be a skill like shapeshifting, but simply using this secret passage.

"Where does this passage lead to?"

"I don't know..."

Hattori Heiji and Conan, one asked, the other answered, which was equivalent to saying nothing.

The two brothers looked at each other seriously and planned to go in to find out.

But at this moment, there was a sudden howl of an animal outside the window.

Qin Zhibo, Conan, and Hattori Heiji quickly ran to the window and looked at the forest in the distance.

Under the bleak moonlight, the lifeless forest seemed to be startled by something, and a flock of birds flew out from the dark treetops.

Qin Zhibo stared at that direction, and his eyes gradually became solemn.

Conan and Hattori Heiji just took a look, then quickly retracted their gazes and continued to study the secret passage.

Hattori Heiji took the lead and entered the dark secret passage first.

Conan followed closely behind.

Because the space in the secret passage was very tight, Hattori Heiji had to crawl down almost lying down on the steps.

At this time, Conan's body advantage was reflected.

This secret passage was not very long, and it took less than half a minute to climb out.

Hattori Heiji and Conan moved the wooden board and jumped out of the hole in the wall one after another.

At the end of the secret passage was a dark space, the kind of black that you couldn't see your hand in front of you.

Conan was the second one to crawl out of the hole. As soon as he landed, he couldn't see Hattori Heiji.

"Hattori, where are you?"

"I'm right in front of you..."

In this dark environment, Hattori Heiji activated his passive skill - invisibility.

Conan turned on the lighting function of his watch, and a dark figure appeared in front of him.

The light shone around, and the room was full of some gloomy and terrifying torture instruments.

"Hey, Hattori, this is..."

"Well, it seems to be a place like a torture chamber."

Conan took a flashlight and walked in front of the torture instruments one by one with Hattori Heiji.

Tiger bench, iron maiden, animal trap, spike, nail chair, sword, spear, etc. are all available, and the power of each one is enough to pry open the mouth of those with weak will.

And in the center of the room, there is a 2-meter-high guillotine, also known as the "Louis XVI Happy Platform".

"Wow, there are such powerful things in this place..."

Hattori Heiji put his hands in his pockets and looked up at this backward killing machine.

However, at that time, the guillotine was a very "advanced" execution machine because it executed prisoners quickly and without any pain, and the process was very entertaining.

Just as the two were observing the various torture instruments in the room, there was a knock on the door behind them.

The two immediately turned serious and looked around.

Before they decided whether to open the door, the door handle was turned directly, and a figure was standing at the door.

Looking closely, they found that it was Qin Zhibo.

"Uncle Qin, how did you come from there?"

Qin Zhibo walked in and explained: "I don't like drilling holes, so based on the descending angle of the secret passage, I guessed that the exit should be this room."

Drilling holes...

Conan and Hattori Heiji drooped their eyelids, as if they liked drilling holes.

Qin Zhibo didn't care about the looks of the two and scanned everything in the room with his night vision goggles.

There were all kinds of torture instruments, shackles, etc. here, and it looked like a cruel execution room.

But there is no bloody smell here, and Torakura Sakoya has no intention of hiding this room, otherwise he would not even lock the door.

"It seems that the owner here has some special collecting hobbies..." Qin Zhibo said lightly.

"This is not collected by the master."

As soon as Qin Zhibo finished speaking, an old voice came from the door.

Everyone looked back and saw that it was Butler Koga standing in the corridor at the door.

He moved a little closer and explained lightly: "The utensils displayed here are all used by the master's ancestors. It is said that each one has been stained with human blood..."

"So this place is also called the 'Southern Barbarian Room'."

Southern Barbarian Room?

Is it the Southern Barbarian who invaded?

Qin Zhibo pondered in his heart, and then asked: "What did the ancestors of the Tonkura family do? That's why they need so many tools and weapons..."

The old face of the butler Koga was full of wrinkles, and he answered calmly, "The ancestors of the Tonkura family were once the lords who ruled this land during the Edo period."

"Legend has it that the lord had no children, and when he was about to pass the position of the head of the family to his younger brother, the lord suddenly brought a beautiful woman and wanted to take her as a concubine."

"Not long after, this concubine gave birth to a son, and finally got an heir."

"But on a stormy night, the concubine unfortunately fell off a cliff, and when she was found by the servants, her body was pierced by the tree trunk."

"Suspicious that something was fishy, ​​the lord used the props purchased from the southern barbarians to torture the subordinates who were serving the concubine at the time, and the truth finally came out."

"It turned out that the lord's younger brother coveted the position of lord and deceived the concubine that the young master went to the forest and never came back."

"So, the angry lord decided to pierce his younger brother and all the subordinates who supported this plan like the concubine, and arranged the bodies in this forest."

"After that incident, the lord was called the 'piercing daimyo'..."

After hearing this story, Hattori Heiji's expression remained unmoved.

Isn't this the story of Grand Duke Vlad III of Wallachia, who imitated the prototype of Count Dracula?

And Conan held his chin, frowned, and looked thoughtful.

Qin Zhibo thought of the conversation with Xiaoguang maid just now during dinner. Her story sounded very similar to this legend.

The mother of Maid Xiaoguang was also a woman brought by Torakura Sakuya from outside, and she also died outside one night.

However, judging from the reactions of others and Maid Xiaoguang's own cognition, she was not Torakura Sakuya's biological daughter.

"Mr. Butler, do you know anything about the car accident that happened to Tokura Sakoya's fiancee two years ago?"

Butler Koga frowned and sighed, "That car accident..."

"I only know that the master was not at home that day. He was busy in the hospital performing surgery on the child brought by the fiancee."

"In the end, the operation was successfully completed and the child was fine."

"But after the fiancee received the news, I saw her hurriedly leave the house, and ended up having a car accident on the road..."

Qin Zhibo thought for a second and then asked, "Did you pass on the news after receiving it?"

"No." Butler Koga shook his head, "It was Miss Shimizu who received the call from the master that day, and she also passed it on to the master's fiancee."

"But the expression on my fiancee's face at that time didn't look like the expression of hearing that the operation was successful..."

Hearing this, Qin Zhibo's eyes froze and he suddenly realized.

If all these situations are true, it seems that what is happening now is gradually coinciding with the legend.

History is repeating itself.

The only thing missing is the sacrifice among these brothers and sisters...

...

After coming out of Nanman's room, everyone found the brothers and sisters of the Yinkura family in the corridor again.

At this time, more than an hour had passed since the end of dinner.

Several people from the Yinkura family gathered together and complained about why Yinkura Sasuke had not come out to announce the will.

And Yinkura Sannan also handed the developed photos to Qin Zhibo.

In the mirror in the center of the photo, Yinkura Sasuke's head appeared in the mirror, and two sharp and slender teeth were revealed in his open mouth.