"Before this, the last deceased person was Ms. Meiwozi who passed away by the swamp. The cause of her death seemed to be that the non-flammable swamp grass started to burn, and she was so frightened that she jumped into the swamp and drowned."

"The first deceased earlier was Uncle Yingci who fell from the cliff. He claimed that he was chased there by the 'Fire Demon Dog'..."

When Yuan Shanheye and Mao Lilan in the back seat heard this, they immediately started chirping with fear on their faces.

"That means that the so-called 'curse of the devil dog' is real?"

"It's so scary~" Mao Lilan shivered and shrank her shoulders.

Before Conan could offer any words of comfort, Mouri Kogoro, who was sitting in the front driver's seat, calmly said: "What kind of demon dog? In fact, it's someone with hatred who wants to get rid of Inubushi in the name of a curse.

The children of the family.”

"Didn't that person named 'Kudo' say it before he died? He believed that one of the eight adopted children was a fake. He must have got some clues before he said this..."

oh?

Hattori Heiji, who was sitting in the middle, held his chin and thought to himself, somewhat agreeing with Mouri Kogoro's statement.

In fact, Kudo Shinichi went to Kazuha's mother to ask for help, and he also categorically said that one of his adopted children harbored hatred towards the Inubushi family, which made Hattori Heiji more concerned.

He should have gotten some clues...

It's a pity that he was killed by the murderer before he could find him.

Suddenly, an idea flashed in Hattori Heiji's mind.

Could it be that the beads Kudo Shinichi held in his hand before he died yesterday were hinting at this clue?

"That uncle..."

"Uncle Qin, can you lend me the bead from yesterday?"

Hattori Heiji was about to suggest taking a closer look at the beads, but Conan suggested it first.

Obviously, what Hattori thought of, Conan also thought of.

Qin Zhibo, who was sitting in the passenger seat, glanced at the two people in the back row and handed the beads to Conan without saying anything else.

When Conan got the beads, the first step was to smell them.

It still smells good and hasn’t changed...

Yesterday afternoon, Conan stayed at Dr. Ali's house, allowing Ai Haihara to check up on her health.

Heartbeats, pulses, and blood tests, as long as conditions permit, are all covered.

But unfortunately, these physical data have not changed much from the physical data of Conan recorded by Haihara Ai before.

And except for this weird bead, Conan tested the smell and even taste of other things, which were completely normal.

Shit stinks and rice smells delicious.

In other words, maybe those who take drug A and become smaller just cannot distinguish the smell of a specific object?

Conan wasn't sure because he didn't successfully borrow the beads from Qin Zhibo, otherwise he would have let Haiyuan Ai smell them.

While Heiji Hattori and Conan were carefully observing the beads, the co-pilot Qin Zhibo was also secretly recalling his experimental process.

First of all, this bead is not a plastic product.

Although it looks like plastic, feels like plastic, and has a hardness like plastic, it is indeed not plastic.

Because Qin Zhibo used a nuclear lighter to burn the surface, there was no smell of burning plastic. Instead, a wisp of medicinal-scented smoke emerged from the surface of the beads.

From this, Qin Zhibo judged that this thing might be an "incense" made from some kind of medicinal materials, spices and incense ash, but it was made into the shape of beads, with higher density and hardness.

If we can further cut the beads, we should be able to study them more thoroughly.

But considering that the beads could still be used later, he did not do so.

At this time, Mouri Kogoro, who was driving in the driver's seat, looked up at the rearview mirror and saw the beads in Conan's hand.

"Is that the relic left by the deceased?"

"Looks like a regular plastic bead..."

Mouri Kogoro was analyzing to himself, and Qin Zhibo was also listening quietly beside him.

"Look ahead..."

Suddenly, a hazy voice sounded next to Qin Zhibo's ear.

Eh?

Qin Zhibo was surprised for a moment, then subconsciously turned his head and looked out the car window directly in front of him.

I saw a sign and a rope standing at the end of the road more than ten meters away. There was no road behind the wooden sign.

It's a cliff!

Qin Zhibo immediately stretched his legs to the driver's side, pressed down hard with the soles of Mouri Kogoro's feet, and at the same time twisted the steering wheel outwards.

With the violent rotation of the steering wheel, the entire body of the van moved forward while decelerating. It did not slowly stop until the body, which was perpendicular to the road, slid to the cliff.

However, driven by the inertia of the van, the roof continued to rush down the cliff, and the entire vehicle was about to roll over into the cliff.

The sideways body pushed most of the wooden signs out of the cliff.

Mao Lilan has even seen a cliff tens of meters high outside the car window!

At this critical moment, Qin Zhibo immediately tried his best to push out the car window and used his own weight to balance the car body, which stopped the impending rollover.

Bang!

After a huge bump, most people in the car fell silent.

Is it so exciting?

"Are you okay?"

Qin Zhibo unbuckled his seat belt and looked back at the person behind him. He was in a dazed state, but fortunately he was still alive.

He opened the car door, got out of the car, and went to the cliff to take a look.

At a height of tens of meters, if it fell, it would definitely be shattered to pieces.

I originally thought that the end of this road was the Inubushi family, but I didn't expect that it actually led to the cliff. This caused everyone to be careless and forget to look at the road.

But that voice that reminded me was...
Chapter completed!