Kuroba Kaito ignored Conan downstairs and slipped directly into the office.
He walked to the armchair, frowned slightly, and looked the man up and down.
Judging from the man's expression before death, he must have been in pain before he died, with his mouth open so much that his throat could be seen.
As for the rest...
Kuroba Kaito looked around, and what was more noteworthy was the pile of check paper on the desk and the dozen disposable paper cups piled randomly.
Next to the paper cup, there is a work ID card.
He walked over and picked up the ID and took a look. The name on it was none other than Ingalls, his position was Researcher at the Brightchester Institute of Astronomy, and the ID photo showed a man lying on an armchair.
Is he Ingalls?
Kuroba Kaito looked back at the corpse in surprise, feeling both surprised and confused.
Although he is not a professional in autopsy and case investigation, and this kind of thing is not his strong point, he can also see that Ingalls suffered some torture before his death.
The prisoner may have wanted to get some information from him, so he tortured him in some way.
But who is it?
At this time, Kuroba Kaito, who was thinking, heard Conan yelling outside the window.
"Hello!"
"How's it going inside?"
"Open the door for me!"
Only then did Kuroba Kaito remember that there was a professional case solver downstairs, so he hurried to the first floor and unlocked the door from inside.
Conan followed Kuroba Kaito upstairs. The first time he entered the office, he guessed that this person was probably the person Kuroba Kaito was looking for on this trip.
Otherwise, Kuroba Kaito would not have stayed for such a long time before coming down.
In addition, there are a lot of things related to calculations in this person's office, so at first glance, he is not an ordinary person.
"Do you know who this person is?"
Conan walked to the man's body to examine the body and asked Kuroba Kaito behind him.
Kuroba Kaito nodded, "I know, his name is Ingalls, and he studies stars."
Study the stars?
Conan tilted his head and glanced at the content on the whiteboard. In addition to some incomprehensible mathematical formulas, there was also a huge schematic diagram of the solar system.
What is this guy doing specifically looking for someone to do this kind of research?
Conan didn't ask, because even if he asked, he would definitely not get any serious answer.
It's better to reason on your own from the beginning and avoid his interference.
Conan first checked the degree of rigor mortis of the body and judged that the time of death was less than an hour.
However, there were traces of binding on the wrists of the deceased. It seemed that his hands had been tied to an armchair and tortured for a period of time.
However, no other external injuries could be found on the body of the deceased, so the real cause of death should be poison.
Thinking in his mind, Conan is going to smell the mouth of the deceased.
But facing the deceased sitting on the armchair, he was too tall to reach him, so he could only turn around and look at Kuroba Kaito.
"Come here and pick me up."
When Kuroba Kaito heard this, goosebumps instantly appeared on his back, "Eh~~"
Seeing this, Conan quickly explained angrily: "Don't think too much! I asked you to pick me up so that I can judge what the mouth of the deceased smells like!"
Upon hearing this, Kuroba Kaito came over, held Conan in his arms like a large doll, and brought him close to the deceased's face.
Conan stretched his neck and smelled a slight scent of coffee.
Other than that, there is no familiar bitter almond flavor.
It’s not cyanide?
Conan frowned slightly, and the next moment his brain realized that this was Britain, and it was normal for the local customs to be different from rice crackers.
"Are you okay?" Kuroba Kaito asked at this time.
"Well, that's it."
Kuroba Kaito put Conan back on the ground. As soon as the latter's feet landed, he asked: "How is it? Do you know who the murderer is?"
As soon as Conan heard this, he turned around and complained, "You think I am Sherlock Holmes, how could you know who the murderer is so quickly?"
The next moment, Conan turned his face and said seriously: "But judging from the situation at the scene, the murderer is probably someone who is relatively close to the deceased..."
Kuroba Kaito: "Why?"
Conan raised his hand and pointed to a pile of paper coffee cups on his desk, "Look at those paper cups, is there any coffee liquid left in them?"
Kuroba Kaito came over, picked up a paper cup and took a look. Sure enough, there were brown liquid droplets remaining inside, and there was a faint scent of coffee when he smelled it.
"Yeah...what's wrong?"
Conan held his chin up in thought, "That's right..."
"Judging from the paper cups and a large number of check paper on the desk, the deceased worked here all night yesterday, and had the habit of drinking a lot of coffee while working."
"When we came up from the first floor, didn't we just pass by an automatic coffee vending machine?"
Kuroba Kaito recalled the scene of going upstairs just now and nodded slowly.
Conan continued: "The automatic coffee vending machine uses hot drinking water to brew coffee powder to obtain coffee. The drinking water area is a bucket poured above the machine."
"As long as the murderer adds sleeping pills to the bucket, the deceased can fall asleep inadvertently."
"After the deceased fell asleep, he tied the deceased to a chair, possibly to get something out of the deceased..."
As Conan spoke, he raised his head and watched Kuroba Kaito's reaction.
Although Kuroba Kaito didn't say the purpose of coming here, he was obviously instructed by the phone call in the morning.
The purpose of coming here is probably the same as the reason why the murderer killed the deceased, which is to ask about something.
However, this also just shows that Kuroba Kaito's companion cannot be the murderer, otherwise he would not have known that the person was dead and asked him to come here to inquire about the matter.
But what exactly is going on?
Just as Conan was thinking, a siren suddenly sounded outside the window.
Blychester is a small town, so the police are naturally very quick to dispatch.
Conan remembered that this was not Tokyo and that he did not have such strong connections, so he could only ask Kuroba Kaito to deal with the police's inquiries later.
The two of them went downstairs together and came to the main entrance of the Institute of Astronomy. They happened to encounter a group of policemen in black who were going up the steps.
"Which one of you two called the police?"
The leader, a goatee-wearing police sergeant, did not ignore Conan because of his short stature and asked the two of them together.
Kuroba Kaito took the initiative to raise his hand according to what was just discussed, "Officer, it's me."
As soon as he finished speaking, a young voice came out from among the police officers.
"oh?"
"I didn't expect us to meet here, Kuroba-san..."
The police officers stepped aside one after another, only to see a man in a gray suit standing there.
The man has wavy brown hair, a handsome face with a smile, and the style of a handsome nobleman.
"Ah?!" Kuroba Kaito's pupils trembled, and he was also extremely surprised.
Because the man in front of him is his classmate, or rather the transfer student from a while ago... White Horse Detective!
Conan's pupils were also full of shock, because he also recognized it.
In the previous Twilight Annex incident, Detective White Horse was also one of the seven famous detectives invited.
This guy actually knows Kuroba Kaito and calls him "Kuroba-san"?
At this moment, Kuroba Kaito remembered that just a few days ago, the homeroom teacher suddenly announced that Hakuba Tangai had temporarily suspended school and would not be returning to class in a short time.
Did you come to such a far place?
"Haha~"
"You don't even know what you're talking about? I'm the high school detective Kudo Shinichi!"
Kuroba Kaito scratched his head, not wanting Conan next to him to know too much of his true situation, so he could only pretend to be ignorant.
But when Conan next to him heard this, his head immediately reacted, and a smirk appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"That's wrong! Brother Black Feather..."
Conan was just about to tell Kuroba Kaito's true identity and ask the Hakuba detective what information he knew about him, but Kuroba Kaito grabbed him first and turned his back to discuss quietly.
"Boy, if you dare to tell Baima my identity, I will tell that Xiaolan your identity..."
"Let's see who is unlucky in the end!"
Conan glanced at it and cursed in his heart.
Compared to Kuroba Kaito's identity, once his identity as Kudo Shinichi is exposed, the consequences will definitely be more serious.
"All right……"
Bai Ma Tan looked at the two people who were twisting and squatting together to discuss, and his eyes were a little confused for the first time.
By the time the two stood up again, they had completely unified their voices.
"That's right! This is Brother Shinichi! It's definitely not Kuroba..."
"Haha~ I am Kudo Shinichi."
Kuroba Kaito calmed down the expression on his face and looked at Hakuba Tan in front of him, "This is the first time I've met you, Hakuba Tan..."
Faced with this situation, Baima Tan said calmly: "I see, this is really interesting..."
The policeman standing aside asked Detective Bai Ma, "Do you know each other?"
"Friends in Japan..." Bai Ma Tan responded casually, then turned around and asked, "By the way, why are you here?"
"Um..." Kuroba Kaito and Conan looked at each other and said in unison: "Come on a trip!"
"Tourism?" Bai Ma Tan frowned, "But as far as I know, Blychester is just an ordinary town with few attractions. How could you come here to travel?"
At this time, Conan used his ability to make up lies and said: "Brother Shinichi wants to come to this university when he goes to college, so he came here to take a look..."
"Oh?" Detective Bai Ma frowned again, "Instead of going to Oxford and Cambridge, why not come here?"
At this time, Kuroba Kaito knew that if Hakuba continued to ask questions, his identity would be exposed sooner or later, so he quickly turned from defense to offense, "Then why are you here?"
"As far as I know, you are very famous in London, right? There is no need to go to such a remote small town to solve the case, right?"
Detective Bai Ma smiled and said casually.
"I'm here to investigate other matters..."
"I just heard someone reporting a homicide at the police station, so I stopped by to take a look."
In fact, the matter of White Horse's investigation seems to have something to do with Conan.
Because of the original Twilight Annex incident, Conan was also one of the witnesses.
Since the original annex "disappeared" from Gunma Prefecture at dusk, Detective Hakuba has been working hard to solve the mystery of the disappearance of the annex.
In fact, when he first arrived at the Dusk Annex, he discovered that the building had a strong Gothic style and was almost a miniature version of the Palace of Westminster.
In addition, Karasuma Renya is a super rich man. When building the annex at that time, he would definitely invite British craftsmen to build it.
So he recently obtained a clue by investigating British architectural historical data and using big data analysis from the White Horse Research Institute.
That is a building suspected to be the Twilight Annex, which has appeared in the UK.
It was a book on the history of British architectural design that showed an old black and white photo from the late 19th century.
The annex in the photo is almost the same as the Dusk Annex in Gunma Prefecture.
Intuition told Hakuba Tan that the two annexes were the same building, but for some reason, the location of the annex was moved from England to Gunma Prefecture, Japan.
However, due to the age when the photo was taken, the building information in the photo is no longer clear. We only know that the location where the photo was taken was on the banks of the Severn River in the UK.
Therefore, in order to thoroughly investigate the Dusk Villa, Detective White Horse personally came to England to conduct an investigation along the Severn River.
However, the Severn is the longest river in the UK, and it is not easy to investigate clearly.
Coupled with historical changes, the Severn River today is completely different from what it was back then.
So the White Horse Detective's idea is to start investigating from the towns along the Severn River.
The town of Bleechester, adjacent to the Severn River, was one of the investigation points of the White Horse expedition.
"Okay, let's not stand here chatting. Let's go see the scene first..."
…
Led by Kuroba Kaito and Conan, Detective Hakuba and the police arrived at the office on the second floor of the Astronomy Research Institute.
The process of the British police is similar to that of the Japanese police. They should take photos and perform autopsies.
After walking around the office, Detective Hakuba looked at Kuroba Kaito with interest and said: "When I was in London, I heard that you are a famous high school detective who can represent Kanto and the savior of the Japanese police.
…”
"Since you've been here for a while, could you let me hear your opinion?"
"Kudo..."
Hearing this tone with a hint of gunpowder, the short Conan also had a serious expression.
Unfortunately, the person the other person asked was not him, but Kuroba Kaito.
Kuroba Kaito's face was stunned, then he put his hands in his pockets and showed a confident smile on his lips.
"It's not a high opinion, it's just some common reasoning..."
"Judging from the situation at the scene, the person who killed the deceased should be someone close to the deceased who knew his living habits..."
Kuroba Kaito spoke up and explained what Conan had deduced just now.
These contents made Baima Tan's face tremble, and there was a hint of surprise in his pupils.
Because after the meeting just now, he still felt that the person in front of him was his classmate, Kuroba Kaito.
But if it was the Kuroba Kaito in my impression, it would be impossible for him to make such an accurate deduction in such a short period of time.
Could it be...
Bai Ma Tan's eyebrows furrowed slightly.
Could it be that Kuroba is a hidden reasoning genius?
