The Grammatical Investigator in Conan

According to Mary's instructions, Qin Zhibo came to a French restaurant 400 meters away from Big Ben.

Under the dark green restaurant sign, Mary was already waiting.

Today, Mary wore a loose denim overalls, a khaki short-sleeved top, and still wore light-colored sunglasses and a hat.

Seeing Qin Zhibo coming from a distance, Mary stepped forward and said hello.

"You came very quickly..."

"Well, it's not too far from here..." Qin Zhibo replied.

Mary looked Qin Zhibo up and down, then turned and walked towards the restaurant door.

"Let's go, let's eat and chat..."

...

Dang.

Dang.

The bell at the door made two melodious and crisp sounds, and Mary and Qin Zhibo walked into the restaurant one after another.

It was just dinner time, and at a glance, there were quite a few people inside.

At this time, a sunny-looking waiter came over and asked if the two had made an appointment in advance.

Mary shook her head.

Since there was no reservation, the good seats by the window were reserved by other guests, so Qin Zhibo and Mary were arranged in a slightly remote corner of the restaurant.

After a while, the waiter brought two menus and handed them to Qin Zhibo and Mary respectively.

The two people sitting opposite each other looked at the menus in their hands, and Qin Zhibo said "lady first", and Mary started to order first.

"A glass of pumpkin juice, the main course of skate with mashed potatoes, and dessert... rice pudding."

Qin Zhibo originally wanted to double whatever Mary ordered.

But when he heard that Mary's order was so plain, he immediately lost his appetite.

"One French baked pie, one roast pork chop, one chestnut chicken, and almond chocolate for dessert."

"If you want to drink... just a glass of water."

"Fishing" is a physical job, and Qin Zhibo ordered more.

Mary didn't say anything about it.

After the waiter took the menu away, Mary officially started to ask.

"Have you prepared for the afternoon plan?"

"Hmm..."

As he spoke, Qin Zhibo took out a human skin mask from his clothes and placed it on the dining table.

The human skin mask was a little wrinkled at first, but it looked much better as long as it was laid flat.

"This is..."

Mary subconsciously reached out to touch the mask, but as soon as she touched the texture on it, she was immediately shocked.

In fact, MI6 also has such things as human skin masks.

After all, even the common spy props that are filmed in movies must have been made by MI6.

However, the human skin masks developed by the MI6 equipment department are relatively thick. In addition to being airtight, the most important thing is that the degree of anthropomorphism is low.

As long as you look carefully, it is easy to find flaws and it is almost unusable.

Even in this case, it is very difficult to think of customizing a human skin mask with a specific face.

However, the mask Qin Zhibo took out is not only less than 1/2 the thickness of the human skin mask made by MI6, but also has a lifelike face.

It feels like holding a real human face in your hand...

Mary rubbed the surface of the human skin mask with her fingers, and it also had a texture similar to that of human skin.

But as long as you squeeze it a little harder, you can still feel the slight elasticity and toughness that does not belong to human skin.

"Don't use too much force..."

"It's afraid of pain."

Qin Zhibo quickly reminded him to avoid damaging this "treasure".

Although this human skin mask is perfect in all aspects, it still has a disadvantage.

That is, it is particularly easy to "break the face skin".

As long as you tear it a little harder, the mask will break easily.

This is also the inevitable consequence of making the mask too thin.

"Oh... sorry."

Mary returned the human skin mask to Qin Zhibo and asked, "Where did you get this mask?"

Qin Zhibo smiled and replied, "I asked a craftsman to help make it."

"Craftsman?"

"Yes, craftsman."

Qin Zhibo put the human skin mask away to avoid misunderstandings from nearby guests.

"What I want to say is that there are such 'craftsmen' in the organization who can make such lifelike human skin masks."

"Her name is Belmode, an important member of the organization, nicknamed 'The Thousand-Faced Witch'."

"Her ability is not only to make this kind of mask, but also to pretend to be anyone with her powerful acting skills, and even the voice of speaking can be completely imitated."

"That's why I'm worried that Akai Wuwu, who is currently wandering in London, may be pretended by her."

"Once she pretends to be Akai Wuwu, she can infiltrate Mi6's intelligence without arousing anyone's suspicion."

After listening to Qin Zhibo's analysis, Mary was in deep thought.

After thinking for a moment, she said seriously: "In this case, can we use her trick against her?"

"Pretend to be deceived by her, then take her to the headquarters of MI6, and then capture her in one fell swoop..."

Mary's words provided a new idea.

If it is really implemented smoothly, capturing Belmode is also a major gain.

But Qin Zhibo shook his head and denied her idea.

"No, doing this will only make MI6's position critical."

"I may not have made it clear to you yesterday. We are now fighting against one of the most powerful people in the UK, and even one of the most sought-after people in the world."

"The organization was founded in the UK. It may be a coincidence that there were no spies infiltrated in MI6 before..."

"Once MI6 arrests Vermouth openly, the organization will focus on dealing with MI6."

"You don't want MI6's headquarters to turn into a sea of ​​fire, do you? Mary..."

A hint of surprise flashed across Mary's cold face, and her sharp eyebrows slightly frowned.

Qin Zhibo sighed and continued to explain, "You may not understand the organization's style of work well enough..."

"This organization is different from all the criminal organizations you have encountered before."

"I once designed the Japanese public security to capture another cadre of the organization, but the boss of the organization also arranged another person to execute the cadre who failed the mission."

"This is enough to show that once the mission fails, the boss of the organization will not leave anyone alive."

"Even if you are lucky enough to capture someone alive and bring them back to M6, you will be exhausted from dealing with various attacks from the organization."

"With the organization's manpower and material resources, you can create all kinds of chaos in London and disperse the police force; when MI6 is exhausted from dealing with it, you can achieve your goal in one fell swoop."

"And the FBI has also captured this Belmode before. , but in fact, no useful information was obtained from her. "

"Every cadre of the organization is absolutely loyal to the boss. They would rather die than betray the organization."

Mary's expression was slightly condensed, "According to you, the organization is impeccable?"

"No..." Qin Zhibo shook his head, "No matter how strong the fortress is, it is impossible to be impeccable."

"Isn't there a saying? The fortress is often broken from the inside..."

"Although every cadre of the organization is absolutely loyal to the boss of the organization, they still have some selfish intentions in private."

"For example, this Vermouth..."

Qin Zhibo recalled that he had captured Vermouth before, and he took advantage of her concern for Conan and Xiaolan, forcing her to cooperate with him, find the Parnest fragments, and hand them over to him.

Vermouth has a special feeling for Mao Lilan and Conan. Because of the New York incident a year ago...

So, Qin Zhibo plans to use this again.

Because this is probably the only way to make Vermouth disobey the boss of the organization.

"So, in the afternoon, I will pretend to be someone and hang out on Vauxhall Bridge..."

"If 'Akai Wuwu' appears, and he is disguised as Vermouth, he will definitely find a way to get close to me."

"But you have to be careful that there are other companions around her, so the support work at that time will depend on you."

"I wonder how good your shooting skills are, Mary?"

Faced with Qin Zhibo's question, Mary's eyes showed a hint of doubt.

"Oh? Have you forgotten my shooting skills?"

"Don't forget, that year in Hawaii, even Wuwu was just tied with me..."

Qin Zhibo's face was stunned, but then he laughed awkwardly, "Ha... Such a long time ago, I have forgotten a little..."

Just then, the bell at the door of the restaurant rang again.

Dang, dang, dang...

This time the sound of the bell shaking was longer, because four people came in at once.

The waiter took the initiative to greet the four people, still with the same basic words.

The girl in the lead smiled and showed two tiger teeth. Although she had short hair, she looked a little cute.

"Four people~"

"No reservation, any seat is fine~"

"Of course, it would be better if we can get as close to the window as possible!"

Behind her were all Asian faces, one of whom was a beautiful girl with a signature horn on her head.

Behind them was a middle-aged man in a suit with a mustache and a bald old man with a big belly.

Seeing this group of people, Qin Zhibo's pupils quickly dilated.

Why are they!

Mary, who was sitting opposite, was also attracted by the lively and familiar voice. She turned her head and looked a little surprised.

Machun...

The group of people, led by the waiter, sat in the last row, only one table away from the window seat that was reserved by others, which was a good seat.

Sera hurriedly thanked the waiter, "Thank you!"

After the waiter put a menu on the table, Sera handed the menu to Mao Lilan next to him.

"Haha~Order whatever you want, I'll treat you today!"

When Mao Li Kogoro heard "someone's treating", his eyes immediately lit up and his saliva quickly secreted in his mouth.

"Ah?" Mao Lilan asked a little embarrassedly, "But if that's the case, wouldn't you be spending money, Majun?"

"It's okay! It's okay!"

Shiliang waved his hand, took out a black card from his pocket, and said with a smile: "My mother and I often come to this restaurant to eat, so I applied for a stored-value card here."

"There's still a lot of money in it, so you can eat as much as you want!"

Mary looked at her daughter's warm and hospitable appearance, and then she understood why she suddenly couldn't find the stored-value card before going out today.

It turned out to be in the hands of this prodigal daughter.

Qin Zhibo looked at Mary's cold and scary eyes, and the hidden black lines on her forehead, and also foresaw something.

It seems that someone will be scolded when he goes back tonight...

Fortunately, these people are still some distance away from their table, and the bright view outside the window on the other side is more likely to attract attention, so they didn't find themselves at the first time.

However, in order to avoid being discovered, it is better to disguise first...

Qin Zhibo put the human skin mask on his head in a lightning speed.

When Mary came to her senses, she found that the man opposite her had been replaced by a man with golden curly hair.

She was shocked for a moment. If she hadn't seen that the clothes were not changed, it would have been easy to misunderstand.

"You..." Mary showed a trace of doubt on her face.

Qin Zhibo stroked his fake face, "Let me show you the effect of the disguise, how is it? Realistic?"

"Uh... Yes, it is indeed real enough."

Mary stared at Qin Zhibo's fake face in a daze and nodded.

Qin Zhibo stretched out his hand and said, "By the way, lend me your sunglasses..."

...

On the other side, the waiter brought three more menus and distributed them to the rest of the people.

The four people took their own menus and started ordering.

Since it was Sera who was treating, Mao Lilan didn't want to give the host the face of being a good host, so she didn't refuse and ordered a few symbolically.

Dr. Agasa also ordered less, saying that before he left, Ai told him not to eat and drink too much.

Mao Li Kogoro wanted to ask for a lot of food, but under the warning of his daughter's eyes, he had to restrain himself.

"What? You only ordered these few dishes? You didn't even order the signature dishes of this restaurant..."

"You should watch me!"

Sera ordered six dishes by herself, all of which were the signature dishes of this restaurant.

After the four people at the table ordered their dishes and the waiter left with the menu, Shiliang quickly restrained his relaxed expression and said seriously: "At present, the code of Big Ben is the drain cover with the letter 'A' engraved on it that we found on Westminster Bridge..."

"And there are two lines of content symbolizing Big Ben in the code, which means that the letter A will appear twice."

"In addition to the N and T that we cracked before, if this is a seven-letter word, we have already solved four of the letters."

"So now think about it, where are the places containing the letters N and T, and two A?"

After searching the Big Ben just now, everyone successfully found the meaning of Big Ben.

This is relatively easy to find.

There is an arrow on the Westminster Bridge under the Big Ben. According to the guidance of the arrow, you can find that a drain on the bridge has no cover.

The edge of the drain is engraved with "The Valley of Fear", which is also one of Sherlock Holmes's famous works, the Valley of Terror.

This time, Mao Lilan did not need to ask Kudo Shinichi, because Shira just looked around and found the missing drain cover tied with a rope and hanging into the Thames.

A was engraved on the cover.

"A, A, N, T..."

Mao Li Kogoro held his chin up, "How can we guess this? We are not familiar with London..."

Dr. Agasa also nodded in agreement, "Yes, it may be difficult to find a word for such a place?"

Shira thought seriously, and after a few seconds, he said: "I know there is a place in London called Tile Road, the word is pantile, but this place has only one a..."

Just when everyone was frowning, a figure walked to the table.

"Everyone, you seem to be stumped by a difficult problem..."