The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

Chapter 208 Arrow Finding Contest

Qin Zhibo was pleasantly surprised when he saw that the mission reward had a full 1,000 general skill proficiency points.

But then, Qin Zhibo saw the task time again, which was only 10 minutes.

Don’t you usually give me an hour?

With the 10 minutes to solve the case, every second counts. Qin Zhibo immediately began to scan the surrounding area, searching for investigation points.

In the crowd, Tanaka Kikue looked gloomily at Takesuki Doi, who was doing the autopsy for Hamano Toshiya alone in the snow.

Then, her eyes turned to the woods deep in the snow.

As soon as she learned the location of the Magic Lovers Alliance gathering, she came here a week in advance to survey the terrain and formulated a "gorgeous" killing technique that was as magical as magic.

As long as you use a hand crossbow and a rope to create a sling like a triangular sail in the air, you can create an impossible crime on the snow-covered ground.

There were no footprints in the snow, but the body appeared in the middle of the snow, as if the murderer was a demon with wings.

However, this magical killing method also has a flaw, that is, he can only use the third arrow to carry the rope hanging the body to a distance.

The arrows, which are the two fulcrums of the jib sling, must be collected manually.

Tanaka Kikue's original plan was to set up a mechanism in the villa to create the illusion that outsiders were firing arrows into the villa, and then use herself as bait to lure everyone into the woods.

In this case, she could take advantage of the chaos and pull out the arrows from the tree and hide them in her boots.

This murder method that took a week to figure out should have been seamless, but with the appearance of Qin Zhibo, Tanaka Kikue's plans were completely disrupted.

Not long after Qin Zhibo appeared, he reminded everyone of the damage to the suspension bridge and telephone lines, which resulted in the cancellation of the planned program.

Without free time during the program, she would not have the opportunity to arrange the structures as she pleased in the villa.

In addition, Qin Zhibo suddenly recognized her as Harujing Fengden's granddaughter. Once this matter was known to other magic enthusiasts, they would definitely think of the "Shadow Mage" who quarreled with the "Escape King" because of Harujing Fengden's death.

And when he killed the "Escape King", he had already left a message on his computer, saying that the person was killed by the "Shadow Mage".

Therefore, if he does not decisively implement the murder plan, he may never have another chance in the future, and he will be suspected by others.

For this reason, Tanaka Kikue could only overturn most of the original plans and create a version 2.0 of the magic killing technique.

The content of this version is very simple, which is to use the spinnaker magic technique originally developed to kill Hamano Toshiya first.

Then he used his acting skills to confuse the crowd, rushed into the woods, looked for an opportunity to recover the arrows stuck in the trees, and then put the arrows and the hand crossbow into the stove that heated hot water to destroy all the evidence.

Otherwise, when the police come to the mountain, there will be no chance to recover it.

It's time to start the show

Next, it’s time to test your acting skills!

In the crowd, because Conan had already said that the "Shadow Mage" killed the chat room director, magic enthusiasts immediately regarded the "Shadow Mage" wandering near the villa as a prisoner.

Naoko Kuroda, the bespectacled girl, felt shivering and asked, "Is it possible that the 'Shadow Mage' is waiting somewhere nearby to take our lives?"

Tanaka Kikue took the opportunity to interject: "Are you kidding me?"

"He is just one person. There are so many of us, how could we be frightened by him!"

After saying that, Tanaka Kikue strode into the dark woods and shouted angrily.

"Come out! Shadow Mage!"

"I know you're here!"

"Don't be afraid!"

"You can come out if you have the guts!"

Seeing Tanaka Kikue's reckless behavior, other magic enthusiasts were worried and rushed into the woods after him.

"Miss Tanaka, it's dangerous outside!"

"Come back quickly!"

In the woods, various sounds were chaotic, and Tanaka Kikue's goal was achieved.

Before rushing into the woods, Tanaka Kikue had targeted one of the tree trunks with an arrow stuck in it. Now all he had to do was run to that tree and pull out the arrow.

Five meters, four meters, three meters.

arrive!

Just when Tanaka Kikue was about to reach out his hand to the arrow stuck in the tree trunk, his other hand was the first to grab the shaft of the arrow.

Wearing a white glove on his solid and strong palm, he pulled out the arrow that was deeply embedded in the tree trunk with a little force.

"Found it, the first one."

Qin Zhibo looked at the arrow in his hand with a happy expression.

Immediately, Qin Zhibo raised his hand and handed the arrow to Tanaka Kikue, put on an expression of "return to the original owner", and asked: "Miss Tanaka, is this arrow yours?"

Naturally, Tanaka Kikue quickly shook her head in denial.

"How is it possible? I was just passing by. I have never seen this arrow."

After saying that, Tanaka Kikue hurriedly ran in the other direction, shouting as he ran: "Shadow Mage! If you are a man, come out!"

Although an arrow fell into the detective's hand, the situation was not yet serious.

Because I had long thought that the arrow might not be recovered in time, when I fired the arrow, I deliberately wiped off the fingerprints on it.

In fact, the reason for recovering the arrows was not to allow the police to use the arrows left on the tree to deduce the impossible criminal methods of the spinnaker.

There are still two arrows. As long as they can be recovered smoothly, no one can think of the "triangle sail" method!

Kikue Tanaka continued to create chaos with her voice in the dark woods, while standing in the clearing of the woods to determine the direction.

Although it was dark in the woods and the location of the other tree with arrows could not be seen at all, one could predict the approximate location of the other tree by following the pattern of the triangular sail and using the villa as the origin.

After adjusting his direction, Tanaka ran towards another forest as a fulcrum.

After running for a while, Tanaka's pupils flickered.

There!

That's the tree!

Coming soon!

But when Tanaka Kikue was about to run to a tree less than ten meters away to pull out an arrow, another person jumped in first.

It was still the familiar white gloves that easily pulled out the arrow stuck in the tree.

"again."

Not far away, Qin Zhibo was holding two arrows in his hands and muttering to himself, which caused some changes in Tanaka Kikue's mentality.

How come this man can find arrows faster than me?

wrong!

How did he know there were arrows in the woods?