This was the first thought that came to Conan's mind.
When the two met for the first time during a case at Suyu's house (excluding their trip to Hawaii when they were children), Qin Zhibo was openly reading miscellaneous books at the scene of the murder.
While reading miscellaneous books, I also solved the case...
Although this cabin is not the scene of the crime, judging from the traces of dog feeding, this should be the birthplace of the "Devil Dog", and it is also an important scene related to the case.
So, what are you looking at?
I'll go take a look too...
With extremely strong curiosity, Conan quietly approached Qin Zhibo from behind who was standing there reading a book.
But at this moment, Yamamura Cao suddenly took a flashlight and shined it on his face from below.
The light towering like a cone of light formed a shadow on his face, giving him a look of terror and a scream.
"Someone must be taking advantage of the curse of the devil dog here!"
Yamamura Cao's words immediately attracted Hattori Heiji's objection, "Idiot! If you can kill someone by placing a curse, then the detectives should stop doing it at all!"
"But Xiaolan and the others didn't see it..." Yamamura Cao still insisted.
"So that must be some kind of trick!"
Qin Zhibo's ears trembled slightly as he was reading the Seven Chapters of Xuanjun's Secret Scripture at his work desk.
Sorry, curses can really kill people...
In this way, although you can't be a detective, you can change your job to an investigator.
While everyone's attention was attracted by the materialistic debate between Hattori Heiji and Yamamura Cao, Qin Zhibo quietly put Xuan Jun's Seven Chapters Secret Scripture into his arms, thinking that his little hands were not clean.
"Oh!"
At this moment, a man's scream suddenly came from outside the wooden house.
Everyone reacted for 5 seconds and quickly looked out the window.
On the road dozens of meters away from the window, Chiaki Inufushi was being chased by a demon dog that was emitting "flame" from behind.
"What!"
Conan and Hattori Heiji's pupils widened and they gritted their teeth in disbelief.
Qin Zhibo frowned slightly, but he also didn't expect that the "devil dog" could appear three times a day.
After confirming the situation, everyone immediately ran in the direction of Zhihuang.
Zhihuang was still wearing a white coat, and his escape speed was not very fast. He was about to be caught up by the flame demon dog.
At the critical moment, the demon dog suddenly pounced forward, just in time to pounce on Chihuang's back.
"ah!"
He let out a miserable scream, and was thrown to the ground by the strong body of the demon dog. He then rolled towards the hillside on the other side and disappeared from everyone's sight.
Conan and others quickly ran to the road, looked down the slope, and immediately saw Chihuang rolling on the grass, trying to put out the fire on his body.
"Don't move!"
Hattori Heiji shouted as he took off his coat, ran forward, and covered Chiko's burning arm with his coat.
The flame is cut off from oxygen and naturally extinguishes quickly.
Other people also arrived one after another, asking if they were injured.
"It's probably just a little burn..."
Hattori Heiji quickly checked Chiko's injury and found that it was not serious.
Qin Zhibo glanced at Zhihuang lying on the ground, and then looked at the flaming footprints stretching into the forest not far away.
It seemed that the "devil dog" attacked Chihuang first and then fled straight into the forest.
But the problem is, the devil dog is fake.
First of all, the investigation points related to the devil dog this time have nothing to do with the main mission.
The main tasks are generally related to mysterious mythological knowledge, which most likely shows that the devil dog is not a magical creature.
Secondly, there are traces of breeding in the cabin, which almost declares that the devil dog is an ordinary dog and is being raised by someone.
But since the demon dog is fake, why can it still burn Zhihuang's arm?
The answer is obvious, Chihuang is the murderer.
Zhihuang did this so that everyone could see the appearance of the demon dog with their own eyes and believe in the curse of the demon dog and believe that the flaming demon dog kills people.
However, such a trick is self-defeating in the face of true materialist warriors.
Qin Zhibo looked at Hattori Heiji, and sure enough he saw the corners of his mouth mysteriously raised under the calm and enlightened eyes.
However, Hattori Heiji did not choose to expose it, but quickly restrained his lips and lifted up Inubushi who fell to the ground.
"Let's go back to the mansion first so we can take care of our wounds..."
"okay."
Zhihuang didn't realize that the "child" in front of him had recognized his trick, and made a painful expression as he was slowly helped up.
…
Everyone drove back to the mansion and brought the news of the demon dog's reappearance to other people staying in the mansion.
The remaining three adopted children of the Inubushi family showed incredulous expressions.
Because more people saw the devil dog this time, including detectives and police.
All this seems to indicate that events are heading towards an uncontrollable mythical version.
At this time of crisis, Inufuchen, who had been relatively stubborn before and didn't believe in demon dogs at all, was also a little panicked and asked Yamamura Cao if he had any clues and what to do next.
"I'm planning to……"
There was a lot of cold sweat on Shan Cuncao's forehead and side face, "After daybreak, let the people from the forensics department go to the suspicious wooden house to identify..."
"But there is a high probability that the murderer will not be caught..."
Yamamura Cao slumped his shoulders dejectedly, looking resigned to his fate.
Zen immediately became angry and asked loudly, "Why! Aren't you a policeman?"
"But the other party is a black magician who can curse dogs!"
"We police are like rabbits that stray into a misty forest. How can we possibly deal with them?"
Yamamura Soo also became excited as if he was stressed, and he elaborated intensely.
"To be honest, I really want to evacuate this place right now..."
Yamamura Cao's words were really full of desire for survival. While adjusting his tie, he acted as if the matter had nothing to do with him and he was just hanging on.
Conan and others who were watching from the side also showed speechless expressions.
Where does this police scum come from?
Is there no one in Gunma Prefecture anymore? How could someone like this be promoted to the police department?
Qin Zhibo also shook his head slightly and thought: It's not your fault that your ability is mediocre, it's just that you were born in the wrong environment...
If you were born in Tokyo, you would be able to achieve results as steadily as Megure.
Hattori Heiji squinted at Yamamura Cao with disdain. The prisoner had already exposed himself, but this idiot couldn't see it and even wanted to escape?
If a police officer like this had served in the Osaka Police Station, his father would have fired him long ago...
This guy can only be blamed for this kind of thing.
Hattori Heiji glanced sideways at the short Conan. If he hadn't gone around solving cases in other people's names, he wouldn't have let such a person become a member of the police force.
However, Hattori didn't know that the biggest reason why Yamamura Soo became a police officer was that he had made a success in the process of escorting prisoners, killed the escaping prisoners, and was the only survivor.
Forget it, there are Uncle Maoli and Uncle Qin here anyway...
Hattori Heiji patted Conan on the shoulder and motioned for him to go elsewhere to talk.
Conan looked up and walked away obediently.
Qin Zhibo glanced at the backs of the two men and knew that they were going to answer the question.
However, they probably didn't think clearly about the murderer's methods, otherwise they would definitely not give up this opportunity to "defeat" themselves.
But in fact, Qin Zhibo didn't really want to deduce the murderer of the case this time.
In other words, he didn't fully understand it.
He always felt that the murderer mentioned in the main mission was not Chiko Inufushi.
However, all the clues discovered so far point to Zhihuang.
To complete system tasks, the key is to understand the meaning of each investigation point.
There are three investigation points so far, the strange transformation of Kudo Shinichi's family, the strange beads with indistinguishable smell and fragrance, and the seven chapters of Xuanjun's secret scripture in the wooden house.
Now if we want to break through the information barrier, the breakthrough point should be found in the Seven Chapters of Xuanjun's Secret Scripture.
Therefore, the most important thing he needs to do now is to read.
Only by reading the classics can investigators become more powerful.
Thinking of this, Qin Zhibo patted Mouri Kogoro on the shoulder.
"Mr. Maori, I'll leave this to you. I'm a little tired. I'm going to take a rest first."
"oh……"
…
After breaking away from the large army, Hattori Heiji took Conan to the corridor in the backyard and sat on the steps facing the lawn.
Although others are afraid of demon dogs, Hattori Heiji is not afraid at all.
He even hoped that the devil dog would appear again so that he could personally decipher the murderer's method.
"Judging from the current situation, the trick of burning footprints, and Kazuye's testimony that he smelled the 'rotten onion smell' when he fell, we should be able to guess the reason..."
"The flames seem to be jumping, and the sound of 'cracking' is also caused by that."
"And the initiator of all this is that uncle."
Hattori Heiji smiled slightly.
As a staunch materialist, Zhihuang's "hiding the truth" turned out to be evidence of self-inflicted crime.
Of course, a living dog cannot attack humans while wearing flames, even if it is wearing a fireproof dog suit with heat insulation effect.
Because animals are not like humans, even if they are insulated, they cannot overcome their instinctive fear of fire.
But even so, Inufuzhiko was still burned.
Who is the murderer other than you?
But the only problem now is that if they can't catch the "magic dog", they won't be able to confirm Chihuang's guilt.
Moreover, Hattori was puzzled by how the seemingly "flame" effect on the demon dog was created.
Seeing the time passing by, Hattori Heiji didn't want to waste any more time, so he decided to discuss with Conan to come up with a solution to the problem.
After all, he and Conan still have to hold high the chessboard of "united to resist Qin"!
"Kudo, what do you think?"
Conan's eyebrows moved slightly, and then he murmured: "If it's what you think, the murderer should be him."
"But……"
"But?"
Hattori Heiji's eyes were a little surprised. He didn't expect that his good friend would actually say "but" to such an obvious case?
You should know that the two of them rarely disagree on cases.
"What's the 'but' about this? Isn't that the murderer?"
Hattori Heiji turned sideways to face Conan, with a slightly excited expression on his face, trying to convince his friend.
But Conan's face dropped slightly, still thinking.
Of course, he also thought of the reasoning Hattori said.
But this thing always made him feel something was wrong, especially the large number of magic books and magic circles in the cabin.
If it had been in the past, he would have targeted the murderer without hesitation.
But after experiencing some things, he actually hesitated.
Hattori Heiji also saw Conan's hesitation, frowned, and felt even more surprised.
"Hey, Kudo."
"Did you..."
Just when Hattori Hei was about to say, "I don't really believe in demon dogs," Mao Lilan and Toyama Kazuha walked over from the corridor.
"Eh? Turns out I'm really in a daze..."
"Always forget the unpleasant things for a while~" Mao Lilan comforted.
"Yes~ Yes~ There will always be incredible things in this world that cannot be fully understood no matter how much you think about it?"
Toyama and Ye smiled and made some incomprehensible gestures, which Hattori Heiji didn't understand.
"An incredible thing that is completely incomprehensible?"
"If you are talking about a case, I have already concluded my reasoning..."
Mao Lilan, Yuan Shan and Ye's expressions trembled, "What! Do you already know the truth about the devil dog?"
The reason why the two of them came here was because when they asked Mouri Kogoro just now, Mouri Kogoro said that the two of them were probably frightened by the incomprehensible demon dog and were in a daze somewhere.
Unexpectedly, you already know the truth?
"Really? Heiji!"
Toyama Kazuha became a little excited because he was happy for Hattori.
"Almost." Hattori Heiji didn't say too fully, "But this kid seems to have some different opinions..."
Hattori Heiji glanced at Conan, who was still thinking deeply.
Something that cannot be understood?
Indeed, there are things in this world that are difficult to understand even if we spend our entire lives pursuing them.
Aliens, soul travel, parallel worlds...
These are things beyond human understanding.
If these are included in the discussion, maybe there is no truth in the world.
The meaning of detective ceases to exist.
The age of detectives.
Maybe it's time to end...
…
On the other side, Qin Zhibo, led by Inufushi Yukihime, found a guest room where he could rest.
But he said he wanted to rest, but actually he wanted to find a quiet place to further perform [Book Investigation].
Although this survey function can greatly speed up the time of absorbing knowledge from books, it does take some time to get serious.
Qin Zhibo closed the sliding door, sat cross-legged on the ground, and carefully took out the Xuanjun Seven Chapters Secret Scripture from his arms.
It’s time to watch a short movie again…
"call--"
He took a deep breath, then closed his eyes and entered the state.
【Would you like to read?】
【Yes√】
As the investigation function was activated, Qin Zhibo felt that the things around him were disappearing rapidly, and he soon found himself in a blank white space.
The first is a scene, in which a man dressed in ancient plain clothes raises his head and looks up at the sky.
On the right side of the sky, a section of large splash-ink characters is displayed one by one.
Fresh in the sky, as bright as the sky;
On the night of Zhao, I went to Shen'angweiding;
The past is gone, suddenly;
The four directions are lacking, and the gods are Mingzi;
…
This is a rather long poem, and its meaning is very obscure. As a native of the Celestial Dynasty, Qin Zhibo can only understand it partially.
The general meaning is that "Xuanjun" laments the vastness of the sky and the insignificance of human power.
And the existence in the sky will one day come to the ground, so I feel fear.