Sera Masumi, who was lying on the bed, seemed to ask a question casually, but in fact his eyes were secretly glancing at Mary by the window.
I saw Mary's body with her back to Sera trembling slightly, her pupils shrinking suddenly, and she looked nervous.
But two seconds later, she asked in her usual calm tone.
"Why did you mention this name suddenly?"
Sure enough, we still know each other, right?
After hearing Mary's answer, Sera Masumi also confirmed the answer in his heart.
And if my mother knew her, it could only be the "sister outside the field".
Sera lay on the bed and continued: "When we were cracking the code today, the man named Kudo Shinichi called from Blychester and said that there was a case over there involving her..."
As soon as she finished speaking, Mary suddenly turned around and said in a very stern tone: "This is impossible!"
"Because that person is dead!"
Mary's reaction was so strong that Serian was startled. He quickly sat up from the bed and looked at Mary in surprise.
Looking at her daughter's shocked eyes, Mary knew that she had overreacted. She took a deep breath and softened her tone a little.
"Zhenchun, what is going on? Please tell me in detail..."
Sera also shook his head in confusion, "I don't know either. Kudo Shinichi just said on the phone that there is a case over there involving a person named 'Sera Elena'..."
After listening to Seriang's explanation, Mary frowned slightly, and suddenly thought that "Kudo Shinichi" just happened to meet Qin Zhibo on Vauxhall Bridge.
Mary was a little surprised that these two people knew each other.
But since Kudo Shinichi is now at his place, he can directly ask what is going on.
She quickly picked up the phone on the table and dialed Qin Zhibo's phone number.
On the other side, Qin Zhibo and Kuroba Kaito were on their way back to their residence.
Suddenly, the phone rang.
"Hey, Mary..."
Qin Zhibo was about to tell Mary about Sera Elena, but Mary took the initiative to ask.
"That boy named Kudo Shinichi is next to you right now, right?"
"Oh, yes."
"Get him on the phone immediately."
Mary's tone was unyielding, which was rare for a woman.
Qin Zhibo is also full of questions.
It's not surprising that Mary knew that she had Kuroba Kaito by her side and misunderstood that he was Kudo Shinichi.
After all, he had just met Kuroba Kaito under Mary's nose.
But this tone of asking questions was as if Kuroba Kaito had offended her somewhere.
Could it be that Kuroba Kaito is taking advantage of her daughter?
Qin Zhibo gave Kuroba Kaito a questioning look, and Kuroba Kaito responded with an innocent expression of spreading his hands.
When Kuroba Kaito answered the phone, Mary asked about the case during the day.
Kuroba Kaito was an eyewitness to the case, so he narrated the case that occurred at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Bristol in the tone of Kudo Shinichi.
Now, Mary was even more sure that "Sera Elena" was her sister.
Because her sister did attend the University of Brightchester.
At that time, Elena ignored the opposition of her family, abandoned the two top universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and resolutely chose this university.
Later, due to an opportunity to be an exchange student in the United States, I ran away with a Japanese man studying in the United States, and I lost contact with my family from then on.
When her condition was learned many years later, Elena had become an "angel fallen into hell" and was expelled from the scientific community along with her husband, ruining her promising future.
After this incident, the Sera family completely removed Elena from the family and left her to fend for herself outside, becoming a "sister outside the realm."
Only Mary was a talkative person, and she occasionally contacted the Miyano couple.
However, ever since Miyano Atsushi asked her to help investigate the Karasuma Group, the Miyano couple completely disappeared from the world.
Later, due to receiving a warning from Akai Mutake, Mary moved her family to Japan.
While in Japan, Mary was also secretly investigating the whereabouts of the Miyano couple. However, Japan is not as powerful as the UK and does not have the powerful intelligence network of MI6, so it is difficult for her to obtain useful clues.
It wasn't until her meeting with Qin Zhibo yesterday that she finally learned the news that Miyano and his wife had died 17 years ago.
That was probably what happened shortly before Mary fled to Japan with her family...
But now, a case that occurred at the University of Brightchester actually involves news that Elena may still be alive.
For Mary, this was a bit too much of a bolt from the blue.
"Are you telling the truth? Kudo Shinichi?"
"Ah I……"
Kuroba Kaito's face was stunned. He didn't know if it was true. Anyway, that's what Detective Hakuba and Conan who were responsible for solving the case said.
Upon seeing this, Qin Zhibo quickly took the phone from Kuroba Kaito's hand.
"Mary, I think this matter is not as simple as it seems..."
"If Elena Miyano is really alive, she won't kill anyone, right?"
"And have you forgotten the organization member I told you about who can disguise himself?"
After being reminded by Qin Zhibo, Mary suddenly remembered the existence of "Belmod".
It was because of the presence of such a Thousand-Faced Witch within the organization that it became difficult for her to recognize her husband.
Because once this person is Belmod, it will be very dangerous for him to show up on his own initiative.
Mary frowned, "You mean, that Elena might be..."
"I think the possibility is about 99%."
Qin Zhibo said in a very sure tone: "Think about it, if you use Elena's identity, the police will not be able to trace any clues about her..."
"Furthermore, Elena has joined the organization before, so it is normal for Belmode to obtain her identity information."
After Qin Zhibo's analysis, Mary felt relieved.
After all, she didn't want to accept that her sister suddenly "resurrected from the dead" and turned out to be a killer.
"What you said makes sense..."
"I'm a little uneasy."
Mary's voice also regained its calmness, and she took the initiative to admit her gaffe.
"It's understandable..."
"But since Belmode can appear in Brightchester, it means that she is indeed in the UK now, and our plan has a high probability of success."
"We'll continue tomorrow."
"good."
After putting down the phone, Mary stood in front of the window and breathed a heavy sigh of relief.
But facing the shimmering glass, her brows still didn't relax completely.
Although this Elena should be Belmod in disguise, using the identity of a dead person to kill someone is an act that stigmatizes them.
Belmode...
You are unforgivable!
Mary's fists were clenched tightly, and the anger in her eyes was not concealed at all.
Shiliang also saw that her mother was not in a good mood, so she could only put her doubts back in her heart for the time being.
It looks like mom is calling that old friend of dad...
But there was Kudo Shinichi beside that person, and Conan obviously said that Kudo Shinichi did not return to London.
Could it be that these two people have known each other for a long time?
…
Back at the hotel where he was staying, Qin Zhibo took off the heavy disguise he had worn all day and went to take a shower first.
In the morning, most of the time was spent going to the London City Hall to explain the current situation to Judy Hooper and asking her to be on high alert.
In the afternoon, cosplayer Michael, a former member of the group, walked around on Vauxhall Bridge.
Although the bridge is very long and the scenery on both sides of the bridge is remarkable, it is quite boring to spend half a day on the bridge.
And it's just a stroll, but you have to stay highly focused throughout the whole process, otherwise once you are discovered by the organization, the other party will kill you, the traitor who once killed the organization's model worker, without saying a word, and there will be no way to deal with it.
Thinking of continuing to "fish" tomorrow, Qin Zhibo's body and mind couldn't help but feel a little more tired.
After taking a shower, Qin Zhibo, wearing a bathrobe, walked out of the bathroom and asked Kuroba Kaito.
"How's the code incident in London going today?"
Kuroba Kaito looked a little surprised, "Uncle, do you also know about the Hades incident?"
"Hades?"
Qin Zhibo was stunned for a moment, but then nodded, "That's right. I met Xiaolan and the others in the restaurant before, and I helped them a little."
"Oh!" Kuroba Kaito suddenly said in surprise: "It turns out that the blond man I met on the phone in the restaurant is you, uncle!"
Qin Zhibo nodded while blowing his hair with a hair dryer.
After his hair was dry, Kuroba Kaito also introduced the code incident.
At present, all the codes have been solved. The information hidden in the codes is the time of crime, which is tomorrow.
As for the location, it may be one of the six locations in the code.
Qin Zhibo did not immediately agree with Kuroba Kaito's conjecture.
Because the multiple-choice questions at the six locations are too vague, if you don't want to provide a single correct answer at all, you might as well not send a code message from the beginning and do it secretly.
Moreover, the prisoner was so generous this time and went to great lengths to lay out many clues and distribute coded messages in London. It felt like he had other ulterior motives.
While Qin Zhibo was thinking, Kuroba Kaito suddenly remembered something and took out a diary from his arms.
"Uncle, this is the diary I got from Ingalls' office. Do you think the contents in it are of any use?"
Qin Zhibo put down the hair dryer and took the old-looking diary.
Opening it, there are all self-narrations about dreams, including text and hand-drawn drawings.
Qin Zhibo sat on the bed and looked through it carefully.
However, as he read more deeply, he felt something was wrong.
This notebook records some strange dreams, but most of them are related to the "return of the stars".
For example, it mentioned that "the full moon rises over the sea", "the arrival of Gheros will cause the stars to return to their correct positions", and "some kind of existence deep in the ocean is looking forward to rebirth".
There is also a city in the depths of the ocean, and "the womb of the sea gently lapping at the ancient prison cell."
Qin Zhibo knew that a city deep in the ocean should be the legendary Raleye.
In the eternal mansion of R'lyeh, the sleeping Cthulhu awaits you in your dreams.
This is a saying circulated among Cthulhu believers, and it also proves that the relationship between R'lyeh and Cthulhu is bound to each other.
But what is the "womb of the sea"?
If R'lyeh is the cell where Cthulhu is imprisoned, the womb of the sea should be some other existence.
The... womb of the sea?
When it comes to the uterus, one has to think of women.
But the being who gave birth to Cthulhu cannot be a woman.
So this is still an anthropomorphic technique...
Qin Zhibo shook his head slightly. How long has it been? He still used rhetoric.
However, judging from the contents of this diary, the person who wrote this is on the verge of mental collapse, and should not be Ingels who is still able to perform complex scientific calculations.
In addition to the age of the diary, it should be Ingalls's father.
"I see...Besides this, is there anything else?"
Qin Zhibo put the diary away and asked again.
Kuroba Kaito shook his head, this was all he had gained for the day.
Summarize the current situation.
Ingalls is dead, and the murderer is probably Belmode.
Since Bellmode did this, it shows that Ingalls's research is very important and related to the organization's plan.
Now that Ingalls is dead and the hard drive in his computer has been taken away, it is obviously too late for other astronomical institutes to continue his research.
It would be difficult for Qin Zhibo to do research on his own. Even if he went to Brichester to obtain the "Astronomy" skill from Ingalls' corpse, it would only be a level 1 skill.
By the time I train my skills to a usable state, I'm afraid it will be too late.
Is there any other way to know the answer?
At least we need to know where Gehroth has reached now and how much time we have left...
Qin Zhibo's brain was running at high speed, trying to think of a feasible plan.
Suddenly, his expression trembled, and he recalled that this was not the first time he had heard about using distorted planetary orbits to measure unknown planets outside the solar system.
The last time I heard about this was in a game.
It’s a “cocoon”!
A sudden realization dawned on Qin Zhibo's mind, and long-standing memories poured out like clear springs.
In the London chapter of the Cocoon game, the University of Brightchester once appeared.
The character in the game - James Moriarty, as a professor at the University of Brightchester, created a book called "Asteroid Mechanics".
The content inside is exactly to use the distorted planetary orbit to predict the existence of a Planet X outside the solar system that is gradually approaching.
It’s exactly the same as Ingalls’ research!
Moriarty in Cocoon is of course a virtual game character and does not exist in reality.
But what created this character was the artificial intelligence that controlled the game system and thus changed the entire game content.
At this moment, Qin Zhibo thought of a way.
Since human power is not enough, let’s use the power of AI.