Qin Zhibo looked at the young man blocking the door of his house in surprise, looking carefree, like the high school detective who had disappeared from the world for a long time.
If the investigator hadn't seen the name in his field of vision, he would have really thought that Conan had suddenly grown bigger and had no place to go, so he had no choice but to raid his own home at night.
"you……"
Before he could ask, Terai Kinosuke bowed behind Kuroba Kaito.
"Mr. Qin, the young master also wanted to find the master as soon as possible, so he had to do this..."
"I apologize for the trouble this has caused you."
Terai Kinosuke said it quite politely, but he was already wearing pajamas and had no intention of leaving at all.
"You are trespassing!"
Qin Zhibo roared.
But Kuroba Kaito didn't care and went back to the toilet to rinse his mouth, wiped the foam around his mouth with the towel around his neck, and waved his hand towards Qin Zhibo.
"Oh~ don't be so stingy~"
"You are the only person who lives in this office anyway, it doesn't matter if there are more people like me and Father Terai~"
"We also bring our own daily necessities and daily food, so don't worry~"
Terai Hinosuke continued to perform a Japanese apology, a standard 90° bow + "We deeply apologize".
Qin Zhibo saw that the two of them had no intention of leaving, and it was already late at night. It was impossible to really drive the two of them back due to emotion and reason, so he had no choice but to accept the status quo.
Qin Zhibo took off his coat and first checked each room, especially the locked room.
This locked room contains a magic circle left on the floor by the original owner.
Because Qin Zhibo felt that there was a need to study it, and he didn't want to spend time and money on renovating it, he kept it there.
"Don't worry, we still have the most basic ethics."
"Dad Terai and I have never entered any room with a closed door."
Listening to an internationally wanted monster thief talk about ethics is like listening to the thief Wang Tianba in "Magic Phone" talk about personality.
I passed by, where did I fall?
Qin Zhibo glanced sideways at Kuroba Kaito, who was lying on the sofa teasing Jerry. He had a good relationship with the mouse Jerry, and he could let Jerry stand on his hand to eat. It didn't look like he had just
Come.
"When did you come?"
"last night."
"What time is it tonight?"
"It was past 8 o'clock, but you didn't come back until late at night, so Father Terai and I spent the whole night fighting in the living room."
Qin Zhibo thought that he stayed at Cheng Shi's house last night and didn't go home, so he naturally missed it.
"What are you here for?"
"Of course I want to go to bed with you quickly so that we can enter the dreamland together!"
Kuroba Kaito put Jerry back on the coffee table, "I sleep by myself, and I can't enter the dreamland no matter what, so I think maybe I need a 'dream leader'."
"As long as you can lead me to dream together, maybe I can enter the dreamland!"
In fact, Kuroba Kaito himself was not sure whether the trick of "sleeping with Qin Zhibo" was really effective. He was just sick and sought medical treatment.
During this period, in order to quickly enter the dreamland, he went to the mysterious "Secret Realm Kadasi" to find his father Kuroba Toichi, and he tried various dreaming methods.
Take sleeping pills to increase sleep frequency, and watch various fantasy movies to accumulate realistic materials needed for dreaming.
He even found Koizumi Hongzi and asked about the method of dreaming.
Unless it was absolutely necessary, he really didn't want to consult Koizumi Anko, which showed that he was really desperate this time.
After Koizumi Hongzi satisfied her vanity, she also told him a method.
It's the witch's meditation method.
For witches, dreams are not meaningless, but magical fragments with prophetic properties.
Many witches use "meditation" in order to be able to see their future in a awake state.
The reason is somewhat profound. To sum up, it is to actively control the occurrence of dreams in a half-dream and half-awake manner.
Of course, meditation also requires magic power, and it cannot be done by non-magic possessors.
So Kuroba Kaito and Koizumi Anko set up a magic circle in the school laboratory late at night, and Koizumi Anko led Kuroba Kaito into a meditative state.
As a result, it failed.
The reason is that Koizumi Anko once used red magic on Kuroba Kaito, but it was strongly resisted by Kuroba Kaito and eventually backfired.
It was this moment that caused Kuroba Kaito's body to develop "magic resistance" to the magic power from Koizumi Anko, and the two were unable to "synchronize".
Although the meditation failed, Kuroba Kaito thought that since he could lead himself into a meditative state, maybe the dream state could also be used.
Qin Zhibo once said personally that he could enter the dreamland as a "dreamer".
For this reason, Kuroba Kaito found Qin Zhibo's office.
…
At this time, Qin Zhibo's nerves froze and his brows furrowed slightly.
"Come on! You think it's Inception!"
"Inception?"
Kuroba Kaito looked puzzled, as if he knew some incredible vocabulary.
Qin Zhibo waved his hand, forget it, he couldn't explain it to this guy anyway.
"Just one night, if it doesn't work, I'll go back and forth immediately tomorrow!"
"If someone finds out that you are staying at my place, it will be in the newspapers the next day..."
Shocking! - The famous detective Qin Zhibo found a beauty hidden in the golden house, and the "love" is the long-missing Kudo Shinichi!
"receive!"
Kuroba Kaito smiled and saluted Qin Zhibo.
Unexpectedly, Jerry on the coffee table followed suit and raised his hand in a salute.
"Aha?"
"Uncle, this mouse you raised is quite smart~ Where did you buy it?"
"Picked it up."
"Where did you pick it up?"
"Gone."
"That's not necessarily..."
Kuroba Kaito stared at this clever blue-skinned mouse, and his brain instinctively came up with a way to use the mouse to steal gems.
Officer Nakamori must not have thought that I would use rats to steal gems, right?
Kuroba Kaito felt happy at the thought of new ways to tease his future father-in-law.
Of course, Qin Zhibo also saw what Kuroba Kaito was planning and called Jerry.
"Jerry, come here."
Jerry immediately turned his head and followed Qin Zhibo's hand and climbed onto his shoulder.
His flexible figure and clever moves made Kuroba Kaito even more excited.
You can definitely use this mouse to steal gems!
"This mouse's name turns out to be Jerry... Hehe, I thought he was called Mouse Brother~" Kuroba Kaito said with a smile.
Qin Zhibo picked up a melon seed from the table, handed it to Jerry on his shoulder, and told Kuroba Kaito.
"Don't look at Jerry's small body. In fact, he has another name...man-eating rat."
"Man-eating... rat?"
Cannibalism, coupled with the species "rat", seems extremely incongruous.
After being stunned for a second, Kuroba Kaito immediately burst into laughter.
"Haha! I'm laughing so hard. Rats can eat people?"
"Hmph..." Qin Zhibo snorted, "Don't believe it? Then take out the hardest part of your body and let it bite you."
"The hardest part?"
Kuroba Kaito looked at his whole body. Even if it was a mouse, its bite on the skin would definitely be painful, and it might carry a virus or something.
He had an idea and took out a brass coin from his pajamas pocket.
This coin is an old 50-cent coin, which is no longer in circulation and is relatively rare.
As a magician, Kuroba Kaito always needs to maintain the flexibility of his fingers, so he can turn the coin with the back of his hand when nothing happens.
"Is this okay?"
A wicked smile appeared on Kuroba Kaito's lips. No matter how powerful the mouse was, it would be impossible for him to bite the coin.
But Qin Zhibo took the coin from his hand and said, "Okay."
I saw him handing the coin to Jerry on his shoulder.
"bite."
Jerry raised his body, grabbed the 50-dollar coin with his two front paws like a big cake, and actually put the coin into his mouth and chewed it very obediently.
Kuroba Kaito and Terai Kinosuke behind him were stunned at the same time.
But a few seconds later, when Qin Zhibo reached out to Jerry to ask for the coin, there were indeed a few tiny bite marks on the edge of the coin.
Although the overall area gnawed was not large, it caused a great shock to the master and servant who were watching.
"My coins!"
Kuroba Kaito snatched the coin from Qin Zhibo's hand. This coin was not only rare in itself, but also had extraordinary significance to Kuroba Kaito.
This was the coin that Kuroba Banditichi gave to him when he was young to practice his fingers.
For ten years, Kuroba Kaito has been following his father's teachings, not only turning the coin frequently, but not even letting it fall to the ground once.
Kuroba Kaito painfully blew off the metal shards on the surface of the coin. Fortunately, the damage was not much, but the originally nearly perfect appearance of the coin was no longer perfect.
The tiny teeth marks on the edge of the coin reminded everyone that this mouse was extremely formidable in terms of both the hardness of its teeth and its bite force.
The key is that this mouse is quite spiritual, can understand many human instructions, and has stronger thinking ability than ordinary animals.
If Jerry wants to, he can climb into bed while a person is sleeping and bite off the main artery in the person's neck.
Yesterday, Kuroba Kaito just thought that the mouse raised by Qin Zhibo was very clever and played happily, so he almost fell asleep with him in his arms.
Thinking of this, Kuroba Kaito couldn't help but shuddered.
"This rat... no, man-eating rat, does it bite?"
"Normally not, but who knows?"
Qin Zhibo put Jerry back into the cage. Of course, the cage was only closed symbolically and had almost no restrictive effect.
Jerry could even bite through the concrete walls of the office, just coins and rat cages.
"Okay, since you have to go to bed, don't delay."
"Let's get started quickly."
…
Qin Zhibo finished washing and came to his bedroom.
With his permission, Kuroba Kaito and Terai Kinosuke had already laid the floor in the bedroom.
The master and servant slept on the floor, and Qin Zhibo slept on the bed.
Before going to bed, Kuroba Kaito took out a pink ribbon and said.
"This is a magic item made by Koizumi Anko. It is said to allow people at both ends of the ribbon to share dreams."
It turns out that Koizumi Anko made this magic item to compensate Kuroba Kaito.
This is also the real reason why Kuroba Kaito came to Qin Zhibo's house so urgently.
Theoretically speaking, as long as Qin Zhibo enters the dreamland, this prop can also transmit the dream to Kuroba Kaito.
It is a pity that this prop can only meet 1-to-1 dream sharing, and Terai Huangnosuke cannot participate.
The two tied each other's wrists with ribbons.
Kuroba Kaito was worried that it would fall off, and wanted to wrap it around Qin Zhibo's hand a few more times.
"Don't wrap yourself up so tightly."
"Why?"
"I'm afraid that when you sleepwalk, you will take me away with you."
"How can I have so much strength? It's okay for you to take me away, uncle, right?"
Kuroba Kaito still doesn't have much confidence in his own strength. After all, strength is generally not a magician's strength.
After the ribbon connected the two, Qin Zhibo and Kuroba Kaito lay down on their respective beds and closed their eyes at the same time.
…
Mori Detective Agency, third floor.
"Good night, Conan."
"Good night, sister Xiaolan."
Wearing the same light blue cartoon pajamas of different sizes, Conan and Mao Lilan said good night to each other.
Seeing Mao Lilan turning back to the room, Conan showed a knowing smile.
After experiencing the parallel world, he realized how happy he was now.
At least I can still look at the person I care about the most up close like this. The "Conan" in the next world can't even see the normal Xiaolan.
Alas~
Conan sighed inwardly and returned to his room.
"Snoring——"
"Snoring——"
The long and even snoring sound was the greeting given to Conan by Kogoro Mouri, who was already lying on the bed.
Conan looked at Kogoro Mouri's sleeping face and his loud snoring, and couldn't imagine how Xiaolan's mother endured it before the separation.
However, Conan still secretly said good night to this "clumsy and even cute" uncle in his heart.
He lay down on his bed on the floor and took off his black technology glasses first, placing them within easy reach.
Then he took out Dr. Ari's special powerful sound-isolating earplugs from under the pillow and put them into his ears.
The snoring suddenly became much weaker.
Pulling the quilt under his neck, Conan also closed his eyes and fell asleep.
…
Again.
Once again, here we are.
When Conan opened his eyes again, his surrounding vision returned to brightness, and he suddenly found himself in a mysterious forest.
Surrounded by pyramid-shaped straw sheds that were about the same height as him, curious little heads poked out of the dark entrances of the straw sheds.
They are native to this forest and are rodents slightly larger than prairie dogs.
It's just that they are different from rodents in the real world. Their eyes emit light green light, and a bunch of tentacles hang below the mule's nose, some of which look like wriggling beards.
Seeing this, Conan knew that he was having that dream again.
This dream has appeared frequently recently. Although its meaning is unclear, Conan enjoys it and does not feel troubled.
This place is a bit like "Alice in Wonderland", quite dreamy.
But always staying in the same place, no matter how dreamy it is, will inevitably feel a bit boring.
Moreover, last time these forest rats treated him warmly and allowed him, an underage child, to drink, which made the scene quite embarrassing.
In order to further explore this dream, add some fun, and avoid the trouble of being persuaded to drink again, Conan decided to follow the opinions shared with Qin Zhibo in the real world last time.
Leave the forest.
This chapter has been completed!