Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 228 Destined Ten

   In the stage of the reasoning game, Jiang Xia secretly lowered his speed of solving cases.

   And when there was a short break in the middle and no camera was facing him, Jiang Xia looked at Hijikata Kosaburo from time to time, and quickly looked away before the other party looked back. Seems to be worried about being discovered.

  After the recording, Jiang Xia looked at the earthwork who took the initiative to come over to chat with him and left his business card, showing a smile that seemed very guilty at first glance, but was actually heartfelt.

  …

  According to the regulations, you cannot bring your mobile phone when recording this program.

   After recording the program, Jiang Xia received the invitation letter from Hijikata Kozaburō to pick up ghosts, left the studio, and took his mobile phone from the staff.

When    walked out of the building, he put away his business cards and pressed the screen of his phone.

   I saw a lot of missed calls on my phone.

   Mainly from Maorilan, Maori Kogoro and Conan.

  ...Why are you looking for him in such a hurry all of a sudden, that digital murderer has finally started to do something?

   Jiang Xia was about to call back and ask about the situation.

   However, just as he reached the intersection, a police car came running towards him.

  The car crunched to the side of the road, and two police officers who were familiar and had seen some murder scenes before ran out of the car, shouting "found it!" to the phone, and strode close.

   Jiang Xia: "...?"

  …what are you doing?

  Why do you look like you are searching and arresting people?

  ... Was he found out about speeding his motorcycle in the middle of the night?

  …

  The time goes a little bit forward.

   In the short half-day interval, the police department of Mumu, Feiyingri, and Dr. A Li were attacked in turn.

   The three people were not seriously injured, but their interpersonal circles overlapped significantly. Also, each time, the attackers dropped a paper prop at the scene.

   So this is considered a linked serial attack.

  Conan quickly found out what the three events had in common—

   The first one to be attacked was the Mumu Police Department. His full name is Mumu Thirteen. After the murderer attacked him, he dropped a short dagger made of cardboard, which is also shown in the picture of the king of spades, the 13 of spades playing card.

   The second person to be sent to the hospital was Fei Yingli, her name "Fei" can be associated with the Queen in playing cards. The poisonous food that the murderer sent her had a paper flower attached to it. In the picture of playing card Q, the queen also holds a similar flower in her hand.

   The third attacked was Dr. A Li, and Shi Neng was divided into "Eleven". After the murderer attacked him, what was thrown into the yard was the sword in the shape of fritters held by the Spade J knight.

   This kind of reasoning is reasonable and well-founded, so Mouri Kogoro and the police feel that the person who will be attacked next is the person with "ten" in his name, and that person must have an intersection with Mouri Kogoro like the three previous ones.

  According to this information, the Muki police department, who went into battle with injuries, speculated that the murderer may be Murakami, who was recently released from prison. Ten years ago, Murakami and Kogoro Mouri, who was still a policeman at the time, forged a grudge.

  Mori Kogoro immediately became the center of the case.

  The Murakami Police Department immediately arranged a search for Mr. Murakami on the one hand, and on the other hand urged Mouri Kogoro to quickly think about who around him could be associated with "Ten".

  Mori Kogoro racked his brains for a long time to find a possible candidate-in a club he often goes to, the owner's wife is called "Touwako".

  Maolilan thought of another person.

She stood up nervously: "Jiang Xia's name also has 'ten' in it! The 'zhi' of 'Tongzhi' can be removed, not to mention 'tong', there is a 'ten' next to the wooden character, and besides, The contents of the 'with' box come across - it's an Arabic numeral '10'!"

Maori Kogoro:"!"

  Mumu Police Department: "!"

  The police then quickly contacted two people who may be related to "Ten".

  Touwako quickly answered the phone. She is still in her high-end club. There are many security guards here, and she has not seen any suspicious people.

   Jiang Xia's phone has never been answered.

The more Conan looked at the police dial, the more solemn his expression became-according to Mao Lilan, Jiang Xia's name was full of three "ten", or both Chinese characters and Arabic numerals, which was too consistent with the law of digital murder. Now, there is simply a feeling of giving up on someone else.

   And Jiang Xia is a detective, in the same industry as Maori Kogoro. Whether it is due to the natural opposition between criminals and detectives, or the hatred of Kogoro Maori and Wu, Jiang Xia's situation is very dangerous.

   Not to mention he didn't answer the phone.

   Wasn't he already killed...

Conan shook his head, trying his best not to make such guesses. On the bright side, Jiang Xia's skills are much better than those of the Mumu Police Department and Dr. A Li... Maybe Jiang Xia didn't answer the phone because he was attacked by Murakami just now. Dodging the attack and holding the criminal with his backhand, he was busy stepping on Murakami's beating.

  Conan remembers that the last time Jiang Xia was addicted to knocking bombers, he never answered the phone.

   However, the latter kind of rosy speculation becomes less hopeful with the continued unreachable calls.

   - The time without answering the phone is also too long.

  Iron Man may not be enough for Jiang Xia to knock for so long.

   Since Jiang Xia didn't answer the phone, it wasn't because he was hitting the attacker. So... that attacker really succeeded in sneak attack?

   The face of the Mumu police department gradually became ugly. He sent a lot of people to find Jiang Xia, hoping to make it in time.

  …

   Jiang Xia was taken directly from the entrance of the TV station building to the police station.

   Several paparazzi guarding in front of the TV station heard the police car whistle, looked over excitedly, and clicked the shutter at the same time - the celebrity is pulled away by the police as soon as they go out, and they will definitely be able to buy a lot of good prices.

   However, after taking the photo and seeing who was pulled into the car, the paparazzi's mood changed from excited to calm, and finally put down the camera indifferently.

  If you have time to take a picture of a famous detective being pulled by the police to help solve the case, why not take a picture of the little sparrow on the roadside. wasting film...

  …

   Jiang Xia never thought that he had worked so hard to pick up a cat, but it was useless in the end.

  ——There is no need to wait for Xu Shengyi's "nine", "ten" has already involved him.

   Although Jiangxia's current full name is "Jiangxia Tongzhi", the name "Tongzhi" is rarely used.

  The pronunciation of island people's names usually includes phonetic reading, syllabus reading, and random reading...

  Unfortunately, the name "Tongzhi" is phonetically pronounced, which sounds similar to Jiang Xia's accustomed language, which made him feel very dramatic.

   So Jiang Xia used chicken soup excuses like "Just call me by my last name, it feels like I'm carrying my parents' name" as a reason, so that people who are familiar with him only call his last name.

   As for unfamiliar people... If you don't know what to call by name, of course, you only call your surname.

   For Jiang Xia, the surname is the full name, which is very adaptable to use.

   So picking up other people's unwanted bodies is also a skill...

   (end of this chapter)