Chapter 1280: Encounter with a Famous Detective

Kaito Kuroba ignored Conan downstairs and slipped into the office.

He walked to the armchair, frowned slightly, and looked the man up and down.

Judging from the man's expression before he died, he must have been in pain before he died, and his mouth was so wide open that his throat could be seen.

As for the others...

Kaito Kuroba looked around, and what was more noteworthy was the pile of calculation papers on the desk and a dozen disposable paper cups piled up randomly.

Next to the paper cups, there was a work permit.

He walked over and picked up the certificate. The name on it was Ingles, and his position was a researcher at the Blchester Astronomical Institute. The photo on the certificate was also a man lying on an armchair.

Is he Ingles?

Kaito Kuroba looked back at the body in surprise, and he couldn't help but feel surprised and confused.

Although he was not a professional autopsy and case solver, and this kind of thing was not his strong point, he could also see that Ingles had suffered some torture before his death.

The prisoner might want 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 again.

"Hey!"

"What's going on inside?"

"Open the door for me!"

Kuroba Kaito then remembered that there was a professional case solver downstairs, so he hurried to the first floor and unlocked the door from the inside.

Conan followed Kuroba Kaito upstairs, and the first glance when he entered the office, he guessed that this person was probably the person Kuroba Kaito was looking for.

Otherwise, Kuroba Kaito would not have stayed so long before coming down.

In addition, there were a lot of things related to verification in this person's office, and he was not an ordinary person at first glance.

"Do you know who this person is?"

Conan walked to the front of the man's body to examine the body, and asked Kuroba Kaito behind him.

Kuroba Kaito nodded, "I know, his name is Ingels, and he is a star researcher."

Researching stars?

Conan tilted his head and glanced at the content on the whiteboard. In addition to some incomprehensible mathematical calculation formulas, there was also a huge schematic diagram of the solar system.

What did this guy come to find someone who conducts this kind of research?

Conan didn't ask, because even if he did, he wouldn't get any proper answer.

It's better to reason by yourself from the beginning, and he won't be disturbed by him.

Conan first checked the stiffness of the body and judged that the time of death was less than an hour.

But there were signs of binding on the wrists of the deceased, and it seemed that his hands had been tied to the armchair and tortured for a period of time.

However, there were no other external injuries on the body of the deceased, so the real cause of death should be poison.

Thinking in his heart, Conan was about to smell the mouth of the deceased.

But facing the deceased sitting in the armchair, he couldn't reach him with his height, so he could only turn around and look at Kuroba Kaito.

"Come here and pick me up."

Kuroba Kaito heard that and instantly got goose bumps on his back, "Huh~~"

Seeing this, Conan quickly explained angrily: "Don't think too much! I asked you to pick me up so that I can judge what taste there is at the corner of the deceased's mouth!"

Kuroba Kaito heard that and then came over and held Conan in his arms like a big doll, and put him in front of the face of the deceased.

Conan stretched his neck and smelled a slight aroma of coffee.

Other than that, there was no familiar bitter almond smell.

It's not cyanide?

Conan frowned slightly, and the next moment his brain reacted. This is Britain, and it is normal that the local customs are different from those of rice flowers.

"Are you done?" Kuroba Kaito asked at this time.

"Well, it's done."

Kuroba Kaito put Conan back on the ground. As soon as the latter's feet touched the ground, he asked: "What's going on? Do you know who the murderer is?"

When Conan heard this, he turned his head and complained angrily, "Do you think I'm Sherlock Holmes? How can I 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 likely to be someone who is close to the deceased..."

Kuroba Kaito: "Why?"

Conan raised his hand and pointed to a pile of paper coffee cups on the desk, "Look at those paper cups, are there any coffee liquids left in them?"

Kuroba Kaito walked over, picked up a paper cup and took a look. Sure enough, there were brown droplets left in it, and there was a faint coffee aroma when he smelled it.

"Yeah...what's wrong?"

Conan held his chin up in contemplation, "That's right..."

"From the paper cups and a lot of calculation papers 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 just now, didn't we just pass by an automatic coffee vending machine?"

Kuroba Kaito recalled the scene of going upstairs just now and nodded.

Conan continued: "That kind of automatic coffee vending machine uses hot drinking water to brew coffee powder to get coffee, and the drinking water area is the bucket poured on top of the machine."

"As long as the murderer puts sleeping pills in the bucket, the deceased can fall asleep inadvertently."

"After the deceased fell asleep, he tied the deceased to a chair, probably to ask something from the deceased..."

As Conan spoke, he looked up 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 also 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.

Blichester 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 as discussed earlier, "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 and saw 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.

During the 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-kun"?

At this moment, Kuroba Kaito remembered that just a few days ago, the homeroom teacher suddenly announced that Hakuba Tangao 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 Hakuba what information Detective Hakuba 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 him and cursed in his heart.

Compared to Kuroba Kaito's identity, once his identity as Kudo Shinichi is revealed, 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 Shinichi-nii! 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!"

"Traveling?" Bai Ma Tan frowned, "But as far as I know, Brichester is just an ordinary town with few attractions. Why do you come here to travel?"

Conan used his ability to make up lies at this time and said: "Brother Shinichi wants to come to this university when he goes to college in the future, so I came here in advance to have a look..."

"Oh?" Bai Ma Tan frowned again, "Instead of going to Oxford and Cambridge, why don't you 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 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 that White Horse came to investigate 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 County at dusk, Detective Hakuba has been committed to solving 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, almost like 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 got a clue by investigating the architectural history data in the UK and analyzing the big data of the White Horse Research Institute.

That is the building suspected to be the Twilight Annex, which once appeared in the UK.

It was an old black-and-white photo from the late 19th century in a book on the history of British architectural design.

The annex in the photo is almost the same as the Twilight Annex in Gunma Prefecture.

Intuition tells White Horse Detective that the two annexes are the same, but for some reason, the location of the annex has been moved from the UK to Gunma Prefecture, Japan.

However, due to the long time of shooting, the architectural information in the photo is no longer clear. It is only known that the photo was taken on the banks of the Severn River in the UK.

So, in order to thoroughly investigate the Twilight Annex, White Horse Detective personally came to the UK to investigate along the Severn River.

However, the Severn River is the longest river in the UK, and it is not easy to investigate it clearly.

In addition, due to historical changes, the current Severn River has changed a lot compared to the past.

So White Horse Detective's idea is to start the investigation from the towns along the Severn River.

The town of Blychester, adjacent to the Severn River, is one of the investigation points of Hakuba Tan.

"Okay, let's not stand here and chat, let's go to the scene first..."

...

Led by Kuroba Kaito and Conan, Hakuba Tan and the police came to the office on the second floor of the Institute of Astronomy.

The British police also follow a similar process to the Japanese police, taking photos when necessary and performing autopsies when necessary.

After walking around the office, Hakuba Tan looked at Kuroba Kaito with interest and said, "When I was in London, I heard that you are a high school student detective who can represent Kanto and the savior of the Japanese police..."

"Since you have been here for a while, can I hear your opinion?"

"Kudo..."

Hearing this slightly explosive tone, Conan, who was shorter, also looked serious.

It's a pity that the other party was not asking him, but Kuroba Kaito.

Kuroba Kaito was stunned, then put his hands in his pockets, and a confident smile appeared at the corners of his mouth.

"It's not a brilliant idea, just some ordinary reasoning..."

"From the situation at the scene, the person who killed the deceased should be someone around the deceased who knew his living habits..."

Kuroba Kaito babble, and said what Conan had just deduced.

These contents shocked Hakuba Tan's face, and a hint of surprise appeared 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 his impression, it would be impossible to make such accurate reasoning in such a short time.

Could it be...

Hakuba Tan's eyebrows were slightly frowned.

Could it be that Kuroba is a hidden reasoning genius?

Thanks to Gong Yi Du He for the reward!