Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 227 Jiang Xia, what did you steal!

   Especially this episode.

   Jiang Xia saw the name "Kozaburo Hijikata" on the list.

   Hijikata Kozaburo is a famous Taiga actor, and his status is not low in the entertainment industry. But recently, he has been riddled with scandals, and he has also been exposed to some innocuous negative news. Although it will not cause a ban, his popularity is indeed going downhill.

   In order to make a living, Hijikata Kozaburo also began to accept TV series and various variety shows like ordinary actors.

   Soon, Hijikata will participate in the filming of a reasoning drama, so he accepted the invitation of this reasoning variety show by the way.

  …

   In Jiang Xia's impression, Hijikata Kozaburo's more important identity is the potential murderer.

   The negative news of Hijikata Kozaburo's exposure is not all fabricated - he has indeed broken up with his wife.

   Hijikata Kozaburo was a provocateur on weekdays, and his wife Hijikata Yumi didn't give in too much and cheated on his neighbor Okitaichi. And she also has evidence of her husband's derailment, and plans to ask for high alimony during the divorce.

   Hijikata Kosaburo therefore had the intention of killing his wife.

In the original world line, under the pretext of "I'm about to act in a detective drama, I want to see how a real detective usually works", he invited Kogoro Mouri to his home, killed his wife in front of the detective, and used tricks to try to bring him down. The killer's pot was thrown to the neighbors.

  …

   Jiang Xia came to the studio and soon found Kozaburo Hijikata among a group of people.

   This man really has a lot of murderous aura around him. It seems that he has already made a decision and thought of a way to kill, but he is still waiting for the opportunity.

  Jiang Xia sat next to the famous actor, looked at the murderous aura on the seat next to him, and was a little moved.

   He also wants to be invited by Hijikata Kozaburo to be a witness tool...

   However, after looking at each other, Hijikata Kozaburo gave Jiang Xia a polite but cold smile, and then the middle-aged actor turned to talk to the actor sitting on the other side of him. There was no intention to invite Jiang Xia to be a guest at home.

   Jiang Xia who was hanging out: "..."

  ...I shouldn't have dragged the progress bar so fast to save trouble.

   Let’s start from now on, find a reason such as “pursuing rigor” and “adopting a more secure way of solving cases”, and slowly slow down the speed...

   However, Jiang Xia also wanted to try to blend in the case of Kozaburō Hijikata.

  ——The murderous man is sitting next to him, what is the difference between this and a wild ghost swimming by his hand.

   If you can, of course, you still need a handful.

   Of course, if you want to achieve your goals, you can’t just sit here and wait passively, you need to take the initiative to take some measures.

  …

   In the second half of the program, there is a reasoning game.

   The variety shows in this world do not have too detailed scripts, and of course they will not reveal the reasoning answers to the guests in advance. If the invited famous detectives don’t want to lose face, they can only do their best to solve the puzzles.

   Jiang Xia thought for a while and let Xiaobai float to the backstage.

  Xiaobai was not very skilled in finding the script. After the news came from it, Jiang Xia cut his eyesight, glanced at the question and answer, and wrote it down.

After   , halfway through the program, Jiang Xia temporarily left the studio during a break on the way.

   He went to a place where no one was, found a pen and paper, and quickly wrote something on the paper.

  …

   Hijikata Kozaburo also left the studio during the break and went to the bathroom far away from the studio.

   He used to come here when he was resting, admire himself in the full-length mirror, relax, and check if there was anything inappropriate in his dressing.

   But this time, there was another person in the bathroom.

  ——Jiang Xia was at first reciting something with his head down, when he suddenly saw someone entering the door, he turned his hands behind him in a panic, looked at the door, and greeted awkwardly.

   Hijikata Kozaburo keenly sensed a trace of guilt from the young man's face.

   As an old fried dough stick that has been in the entertainment industry for a long time, Hijikata Kozaburo carefully looked at Jiang Xia and felt that there was something tricky.

   He approached while speaking in the tone of a senior. The bathroom was not too big, and soon, Hijikata Kozaburo saw the piece of paper hidden behind Jiang Xia in the mirror.

   The text on the paper is too small to read clearly.

   But Hijikata Kosaburo saw a schematic diagram.

   He looked at the picture suspiciously, but before he saw too much, Jiang Xia seemed to realize something, he hid the note to his cuff and said goodbye in a hurry.

  …

   Jiang Xia walked out of the bathroom. At the same time that the door was closed behind him, he also put away the panicked look of "being smashed into the secret" just now.

   Then he went to the smoking area, set the paper on fire, flushed the ashes into the sewer, and returned to the studio as if nothing had happened.

   Before the shooting, Hijikata Kozaburo also came.

   Soon, the main event of the show began - on-site situational reasoning.

  In addition to the performances of the actors, the floor plan of the crime scene also appeared on the big screen for easy understanding. The picture shows a private villa with a special shape, in the shape of an oval.

   Hijikata Kozaburo looked at the picture on the screen, and after a moment of stunned, he suddenly realized that this kind of schematic was drawn on the piece of paper that Jiang Xia hid in a hurry just now!

   He has a question in his hand, and looking at this posture, there must be an answer!

  ...It turned out to be so.

  While others were concentrating on recording the show, Hijikata Kozaburo touched his chin and thought to himself.

   It's no wonder that Jiang Xia answers questions on the show so smoothly every time. It turns out that this person is simply holding the answer.

   As for Jiang Xia, when he actually solved the case, why was he always able to see through the criminal's thinking at a glance... Maybe it was because he had a company behind him.

  ——The reports in black and white in newspapers cannot be broadcast live like programs, and they are basically static.

   Therefore, no matter how slow the actual speed of solving the case is, as long as the key points of solving the case are sorted out after the fact and a little modification is made in the time of solving the case, anyone can "solve the case in seconds".

This kind of thing, the police should not pursue it - no matter how fast Jiang Xia or the brains behind him solve the case, he at least really helped the police solve the case. It's not really that fast."

   The more Hijikata Kozaburo thought about it, the more he felt that the truth must be like this. Jiang Xia had no real talent and real learning at all, and it all depended on the company's support.

   He couldn't help showing a look of contempt - these young people who have no strength and only rely on their faces, tui!

   However, Hijikata Kosaburo did not intend to expose Jiang Xia.

  ——a well-known, but not worthy of the name, a detective with no real talent and knowledge, just the resource he needs urgently recently.

   Sure enough, when one's bad luck comes to an end, there will be good luck.

   Hijikata Kosaburo does not want to pay high alimony, nor does he want to be exposed by his wife for his cheating, which will affect his popularity. He must kill that woman.

   In this case, a famous detective like Jiang Xia was obviously a very suitable witness.

   (end of this chapter)