Conan’s Corpse Picker

  Chapter 198 The Huoben Family and Their Ships

   Sato Miwako has already touched the door of the security room.

   She was about to take advantage of the "robber chief" with his back to the door, kick the door in and get a hug. However, when she got close, she recognized that it was Jiang Xia standing in the room.

   Officer Sato was startled: "...Aren't you a hostage?"

   Jiang Xia glanced at her through the window, opened all the half-open doors of the security room, and let the police in: "It was just now, and now I'm changing careers."

  Sato: "..."

   She looked at several people on the ground. Alas, forget it, the details are not important, as long as the kidnappers are fine.

but……

  Sato wondered: "Why so many? Conan just said that there are only five robbers."

Jiang Xia raised his finger and pointed: "The last three are the security guards who were caught together before, but I'm not sure if there is any internal response among them, so they are strung together - the rest are the robbers who have been identified. "

   The next screening of hostages and robbers is the job of the police.

   Jiang Xia finished his work, returned home, and began to pack up the things he needed to go to Mermaid Island.

  …

   A few days later, when the date on the travel ticket arrived, Jiang Xia came to the seaside and prepared to take a boat.

  Suzuki Sonoko and Maurilan also came early.

  The boat from the travel agency is scheduled to leave in the evening and arrive tomorrow.

   After lunch, Jiang Xia took a few classmates for a walk by the sea, planning to see if there were any cases.

   Just as he glanced at the passersby in the sea, trying to find the murderous aura from them, the travel agency's boat blew up behind him.

   Jiang Xia: "...?"

   The four people ran close to see the situation. It wasn't the entire ship that exploded, but one of the cabins. The accident only killed one person and didn't cause a fire.

   Judging from the accessories on the charred body and the testimony of the onlookers, the deceased should be the captain.

  Jiang Xia had no memory of this incident, but he raised his head and saw three people suddenly appeared beside him: the first officer who appeared out of nowhere, the handsome chief engineer, and a sailor who looked like a villain.

   Jiang Xia understood immediately - this was not an accident, but a murder.

   As expected, it didn't take long for a shikigami to emerge from the charred corpse.

  Maurilan and Suzuki Sonoko stared blankly at the charred corpse for a moment, shivering and taking out their mobile phones.

  Maurilan started calling the police. Sonoko Suzuki wanted to call an ambulance, but after dialing the number, she glanced at the body through her fingers and fell into deep thought.

   After thinking about it, Suzuki Sonoko silently gave up the idea and called the fire brigade instead.

  Conan took out the earmuffs as usual and put them on skillfully.

  Jiang Xia followed a few key words and searched for a moment in his memory, realizing that this was an incident outside the spoiler.

   He let a few ghosts wander around, looking for clues. At the same time, use these few minutes to think about whether Conan's event physique has been upgraded...

   Before coming to a conclusion, the ghosts slipped back to report - they found evidence of being tied to heavy objects and sinking into the sea on the seabed nearby.

   After locking the murderer and physical evidence, and then finding the murderer's gloves with poor psychological quality, you can almost make up the middle reasoning.

   On the other side, Conan wore earmuffs and was immersed in his own thoughts of solving crimes.

   After he finally came to a conclusion, he returned to the scene of the murder, just in time to see the murderer, who was crying bitterly and stating the motive for the murder, pulled from the ground and escorted into a police car.

  Conan was stunned for a moment, a little surprised - he came back after reasoning, and he could still see the end.

   But thinking about the fire from the explosion just now, and the charred corpse that was blown up, plus the boat that was blown up, rounding up can be considered a means of transportation...

  Conan quickly made the patch: Well, don't think about it, Jiang Xia must have been disturbed by these thoughts - look, until now, he looked at the back of the sea and looked a little sad.

   Jiang Xia is really worried.

   I was about to go to Mermaid Island to contact the serial murder case, and I found a shikigami on the way, which should have been double the joy.

   But just now, the travel agency informed them that the boat is temporarily unavailable and the departure time has not yet been determined.

The time line for this trip is relatively long - Mermaid Island and several surrounding islands with their own characteristics have formed a tourist belt. Although Mermaid Island is the main project, the travel plan also arranges for other islands. If the itinerary is only delayed for a day or two, it can still catch up with the festival to pick up ghosts.

   But I was afraid that the delay would be too long, and other detectives went to the island ahead of schedule and successfully solved the case. In that case, no one knows where the shikigami who leaves the murderer will slip away after the obsession is eliminated.

  If they floated into the sea, Jiang Xia would have to search for ghosts in a large area, which would consume a lot of murderous aura, and he might not be able to find them…

   Fortunately, Jiang Xia's new troubles were quickly resolved.

  ——Suzuki Sonoko was standing next to Jiang Xia and sighed with him when he suddenly saw a group of people boarding the boat.

   As soon as she looked over, she saw that someone was looking over there, looking at each other, the eyes of Miss Hei Changzhi on the opposite side lit up: "Yuanzi!"

   This is someone Suzuki Sonoko knew. After she was startled, she happily trotted over: "Sister Xia Jiang I!"

   Jiang Xia heard the name and looked at the team configuration of those who were boarding the yacht, and his eyes also lit up.

  …is the breath of the case.

   And it looks like a serial murder case.

  …

   This time they met three generations of the grandparents of the Huoben family, plus a housekeeper, a total of ten people.

The   Hanmoto family is slightly inferior to the Suzuki Group in terms of assets, but it is a wealthy family with a long history. There are not many opportunities for Suzuki Sonoko and Hunmoto Xiajiang to contact each other.

   The two girls stopped and chatted for a while.

  Five minutes later, Sonoko Suzuki successfully brought her teammates to the boat.

  ——Hanben Xiajiang is about to get married. According to the tradition of the Huanben family, their weddings for generations will be held on Huanben Island.

   And the island is just not far from Mermaid Island. Hunben Xiajiang plans to wait until he gets married, and then go to the Mermaid Festival on the way to see if he can get the "Dugong Arrow" by chance.

  The head of the main family is an old man in a kimono.

   He swayed aboard the boat with his hands behind his back, and when he turned around, he found that there were several strangers on the boat, and he was immediately displeased and wanted to reprimand.

  Hanben Xiajiang's older sister-Hanben Qiujiang saw that something was wrong, leaned over and whispered, "Grandpa, that is the youngest daughter of the chairman of the Suzuki Foundation."

  Han Ben's patriarch's expression changed several times, and he suppressed the anger that was about to be exported.

   However, he just reluctantly accepted the result of letting strangers on board, when suddenly someone from under the boat made a surprised voice: "Jiang Xia! Why are you here?"

   (end of this chapter)