Chapter 850: Classmate, where is your school uniform?
"The story goes like this. During the Warring States Period in Japan, there was a child named Momonosuke. He was eight years old and a noble young master."
"This kid often takes advantage of his age to act coquettishly towards women and takes advantage of him in various ways, including asking girls to take him to take a shower, sleeping in the girls' dormitory, and lying on girls' chests to rub oil on them."
"It would be fine if this Momonosuke was simply an innocent child, but at his core he is a little pervert. He looks like a child but has the mind of an adult."
"Later, the soldiers of the nobles and the common people couldn't stand Momonosuke's actions, so they rose up one after another, and under the banner of 'Momonosuke must die', they destroyed Momonosuke's family...
"
Qin Zhibo said the "story" he had made up in his mouth. Conan was stunned for a moment and didn't understand what Qin Zhibo meant by telling this story.
Momo...nosuke?
Who is this person? Why didn’t I know that there was such a nasty kid in the history of the Warring States Period?
He looks like a child, but he has the thoughts of an adult... Why is the sentence structure of this sentence so familiar?
Just when Conan "didn't know the true face of Mount Lu, just because he was in this mountain", Mao Lilan and Yuanzi walked down the steps.
"Xiaolan, how many steps have you counted?"
"Level 12, what about you?"
"Ah?" Yuanzi took a breath and shouted, "Why did I count 13 floors? No way!"
Mao Lilan was startled and opened her mouth wide, "No way! Why?"
Hearing this, Qin Zhibo and Conan were also a little surprised.
Qin Zhibo knew that with the ghost's ability, it was impossible to do something of this level.
Conan believed that the number of steps could not be different at all.
The two men walked together again, but both concluded that the stairs were 12.
"Sister Yuanzi, didn't you count wrongly?"
Faced with Conan's question, Sonoko immediately straightened her back and retorted, "Hey! I'm already a high school student. How can I not even do such a simple calculation?"
"Maybe it's because Sister Yuanzi put her feet together when she was going up the last step, so she counted one more time?"
"Eh?" Yuanzi was stunned for a moment, "It seems like this..."
At this moment, the classroom door next to where a few people were standing was suddenly opened with great force, and half of the body leaned out.
"Hey! Can you guys please be quiet? You are affecting my painting!"
Qin Zhibo followed the gap in the open door and saw various drawing boards and plaster statues of human bodies behind the door. It seemed that this was an art classroom.
The student's name is Masao Monobe, and he is 18 years old.
"I'm really sorry~" Mao Lilan quickly bowed and apologized. The student's face softened and he closed the classroom door.
After exploring this series of supernatural events, the group finally mastered the truth about all supernatural phenomena.
"Sighing Sports Warehouse" is a sigh-like sound produced by the wind blowing through the damaged skylight.
The "library of hate" should be a prank played by someone with ulterior motives.
The "cursed staircase" does not have different steps, but everyone's way of checking the steps is different. The water under the steps may be caused by the windows not being closed properly, and the wind blowing the windows open, allowing the rain to blow in.
The three supernatural events were all reasonably explained, and Mao Lilan was relieved. She smiled and thanked Qin Zhibo: "That's great. It seems that none of this is because of hauntings. I can rest assured that I will be on duty next week."
Already."
Looking at the rejuvenated Mao Lilan, Conan smiled happily, and the corners of Qin Zhibo's mouth also raised slightly.
That would be great...
Although the behavior of this ghost is a bit strange, after walking around, it is basically certain that it is the ghost of Hideaki Hoitai that is wandering around.
Otherwise, what I saw that night would be completely inexplicable.
You can come again at night, use necromancy to summon the ghost, and then fulfill his wish casually.
Generally speaking, if you want to get rid of a ghost, the usual way is to fulfill his wishes in the earthly world.
If you are too soft, "The Secret of the Worm" also contains the "Ghost Spell" recorded by Ludwig Purin, which is a kind of magic that forcibly expels ghosts from this place.
"It's already so dark now, let's all wait for the rain outside..."
As Mao Lilan spoke, she tilted her head and looked out the window, but a look of horror suddenly appeared on her face.
"Then, what is that?"
Qin Zhibo and Conan realized something was wrong and hurried to the window to check. They saw a set of desks neatly placed in the middle of the playground, with a piece of paper pressed with a stone on the table top.
On the empty playground where the rain had just stopped, this scene looked very strange.
Yuanzi's brain immediately began to think, "Is this desk the one I just saw in the warehouse?"
How can it be!
Conan immediately gave a sharp look, turned around and ran downstairs, Qin Zhibo also ran downstairs.
Running to the desk, the two of them were sure at a glance that it was Hosaka's desk in the warehouse, because there was a Roman signature written by Hosaka on the desk.
On the desk, a piece of white paper with a torn edge was pressed down by a pebble. On the paper was written the words "I haven't taken revenge yet."
"This piece of paper wasn't even wet, which means it was brought in after the rain stopped."
"But this is strange. The soil on the ground has been soaked by the rain, but there is one very important thing that has not been left behind..."
Conan turned around and looked behind him. Qin Zhibo knew what he meant. There were no footprints here.
This is the back playground of Didan High School. The ground is soft sand. Once it gets soaked by rain, people running over will definitely leave footprints.
But at this moment, except for the fresh footprints left by Conan and himself, there were no other footprints on the playground.
Put something in the middle of the ground that can leave footprints, but leave no footprints around it. Why does this technique feel familiar?
Qin Zhibo thought about it carefully and then recalled that in the incident at a gathering of magic enthusiasts, the magician's granddaughter used an aerial sling to transport a body to the middle of the snow, achieving this magic-like technique.
However, this method obviously does not work here, because the difficulty of transporting a desk with a thin rope is obviously much more difficult than transporting a body.
What's more, this is a set of desks, including desks, chairs, and desks. Papers and stones are also placed on the desks, so there is almost no possibility of operating them through ropes.
So someone must have moved it here secretly and then used some method to remove the footprints.
...
Back upstairs, Qin Zhibo and Conan explained the situation to Mao Lilan and Yuanzi.
When the two girls heard this, their faces immediately turned pale, thinking that it must be Hideaki Hoba's soul that moved the desk, because the souls in movies and TV shows are all floating in the air, so they didn't leave any footprints.
"This statement is not correct."
Qin Zhibo shook his head calmly and said seriously: "Ghosts are not from this world after all. They are not strong enough to carry something as heavy as a desk."
"Ah——?" Yuanzi and Mao Lilan couldn't believe their ears and were stunned at the same time.
They originally thought that Qin Zhibo would explain this from the scientific perspective that it must be a prank, but they did not expect that Qin Zhibo would actually say that ghosts could not do such a thing.
It's as if ghosts really exist...that would make it scarier, right?
Conan, who was standing next to him, quickly explained categorically in order to prevent the two girls from continuing their evil ways, "This must be someone's prank~ There is no one in the school right now, so it's just convenient to do it..."
Conan's opinion was the same as Qin Zhibo's inner thoughts. It should be some kind of method to hide the footprints. It was specially chosen to be carried out after school because the probability of being seen by others was low at this time.
"But my uncle and I have returned the desks to the gymnasium warehouse to avoid causing panic to everyone."
"But the incredible sentence left by the suspect was, 'I haven't taken revenge yet'..."
ah--
As Conan was talking, screams suddenly came from the art classroom next to him.
Qin Zhibo's heart suddenly agitated, his eyes widened, and his eyes flashed with a faint light.
Side mission, here I come!
He was the first to open the door of the art classroom, but he didn't see the scene he expected.
In the art classroom, the senior boy who had just opened the door to scold a few people for talking too loudly held his head and curled up on the seat in front of the drawing board, as if he had encountered something terrible.
"Yes, it's true...those are all true..."
"Hoita Hideaki, he...is alive..."
Alive?
Upon hearing this keyword, Qin Zhibo and Conan frowned at the same time.
The boy named "Masao Monobe" was muttering to himself while trembling, as if his spirit had been severely hit.
Conan, as a newborn calf, took the initiative to step forward and asked, "Do you also recognize Hideaki Hosaka?"
His thoughts were interrupted by the childish voice, and Mononobe Masao calmed down a little. The childish eyes trembling slightly under the lens glanced in the direction of Conan.
"Yeah, but he is in the art group like me. Before he fell down the stairs two years ago, we were both in the same group..."
He was probably frightened and repeated meaningless words.
Suzuki Sonoko took a step forward and continued to ask: "Were you also there at that time?"
Mononobe Masao buried his head deeply and said in a low voice, "Yes, there is also Doctor Shinde... He died normally and has nothing to do with me..."
Conan looked at the bespectacled senior and felt that the expression on his face was more of one of self-blame.
His second sentence didn't seem like he was speaking to others, it was more like a self-comfort.
Qin Zhibo’s focus was on the first sentence, which explains why Belmode did not follow up to investigate the supernatural incident.
Because she couldn't know all the trivial things that happened two years ago, so she took the initiative to leave in order to avoid exposing her identity.
"Please all of you go out, I'm already very busy in order to catch up with this art exhibition..."
"Let's go! I don't want to waste any more time!"
Mononobe Masao suddenly stood up, shouted loudly, and yelled at several people to leave quickly.
After all, no one was killed and it was difficult to force them to stay, so the four of them had no choice but to leave.
Before leaving, Qin Zhibo glanced at the works on his easel.
It was a somewhat abstract, even weird painting, with a cloud of gray mist on top, and a slender figure vaguely visible in the chaos.
Are the paintings of high school students nowadays so unconventional?
After coming out of the art classroom, Mao Lilan and Yuanzi discussed whether they needed to consult Miss Tsukamoto Shumei.
At this moment, Conan took advantage of his height and discovered that the brick surface on the ground was somewhat reflective.
I knelt down and scraped it with my fingernail, and found that there was actually a thin layer of wax on the floor tiles.
Although I heard that in some places the cleaning staff will wax the floor in order to show the cleanliness of the floor, but this is a school and this should not be a habit.
Could it be related to the water on the stairs?
Conan lowered his head and stared at the ground, and Qin Zhibo also stared at Conan.
In the absence of investigation points, Conan is equivalent to a "literacy dog" who can eliminate all investigation blind spots that are not easily discovered by himself.
...
After the two girls discussed it, they decided to tell Tsukamoto Sumi, who was studying in the library, about the latest supernatural incident that had just happened.
"What? Are you telling the truth?"
Tsukamoto Sumi suddenly slapped the table and stood up, and other students in the library also turned their gazes here, staring at this side, the atmosphere was a bit strange.
Tsukamoto Sumi's expression was surprised and a little complicated at first, but she soon accepted it.
"Excuse me, don't you know the names of those books that Hideaki Hoita borrowed that are still in the library?"
Conan was determined to expose "someone's" prank and restore his innocence, so he investigated seriously.
Tsukamoto Sumi nodded, went to the library bookshelf, and found four books one by one.
Conan glanced at the four books on the table. They were all relatively obscure professional reference books, covering geography, history, industry, etc. They were not likely to be of interest to high school students.
When I opened the debit cards in the four books, there was only Hideaki Hoita's name on it, indicating that he was the only one who had borrowed these books in the past two years.
Tsukamoto Sumi explained with a smile: "His ambition is to be a cartoonist. He often says that in order to draw interesting cartoons, you must enrich your mind from various aspects..."
Qin Zhibo looked at Tsukamoto Sumi with a somewhat subtle expression.
As a warrior, Tsukamoto Sumi also felt Qin Zhibo's eyes, turned her head, and collided with Qin's eyes.
After the two looked at each other for a few seconds, Tsukamoto Sumi was the first to look away.
...
Not getting any useful clues from Tsukamoto Sumi, a few people went to the first floor again, wondering if they could find witnesses, maybe they saw the prankster directly.
But school has been out for a long time now, and there are almost no students on the first floor. Only when passing by the health room, I found that the lights inside were still on.
Opening the door, the Seko Kunushige whom I met before was lying on the bed by the window of the health room, with his arms resting on his head in a leisurely manner.
When he saw several people coming over again, he didn't have much surprise on his face, he just smiled and asked "What's the matter?"
Mao Lilan stepped forward and said politely: "Senior, we would like to ask you, have you seen any suspicious people on the playground just now?"
Shigu Guishan did not get up, he still rested his arms on his head and covered himself with the quilt, "I have been resting on the bed in the health room, and you can't see the situation on the playground here, right?"
He turned his eyes to the window, and saw a lush green plant blocking most of the window's view, and he could not see the situation on the playground.
How is this designed? The principal is really...
Just when Conan was complaining about his alma mater in his heart, a voice as majestic as the Z teaching office next to him suddenly spoke.