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Reading at the crime scene again?

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.

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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 be continued...