Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 306 A thousand listeners, a thousand fog tengu

  Takahisa Tanaka sneaked into Hamano Toshino's room and killed everyone, and quickly found the bow and arrow and strong string.

   She shot several arrows at the trees in the distance, and then used the staggered lines to build a corpse transport route from the room on the third floor to the woods.

  ——She will use this method to move Hamano Toshino's body to the snow. In this way, no footprints will be left around the corpse, and it will appear as if it appeared out of thin air, which will be a beautiful killing magic.

  The sail-like line was quickly set up, and Tanaka Takahisa hung Toshino Hamano's body on it, wiping the sweat off his forehead with satisfaction.

   She was trying to push the corpse away, but at this moment, a nearly pure white bird suddenly landed on the line, tilted her head to look at Takahisa Tanaka, and then looked at the corpse in front of her.

  Takahisa Tanaka didn't recognize what kind of bird it was. But with such a pair of eyes, for some reason, a sense of crisis flashed in her mind.

   was thinking about it, when he saw the bird lowered its head and started pecking at her line with a muffled sound.

  Takahisa Tanaka was startled, and after a while, he suddenly raised his bow and crossbow. However, before she could shoot the arrow out, the sturdy thread suddenly cracked—it was pecked off by a slap-sized bird in such a short period of time.

  The strange bird flapped its wings and flew away quickly. A corpse hanging on a rope has no such ability.

   In Takahisa Tanaka's slow gaze, it got out of control and fell straight down.

  In the living room, several people who happened to meet in the busy are chatting.

   As a figure slammed against the wall and smashed into the snow, the people in the living room were stunned. After looking at each other for a while, they quickly ran towards the window that made the sound.

  …

  Conan was startled by the loud noise and struggled to wake up.

   He was stunned for a while in front of the empty room, he quickly remembered something, and hurried downstairs.

   In the hall downstairs, a group of people gathered together, talking quickly and discussing what happened just now.

  Conan heard the id "Escape King" with sharp ears, and he interjected as if confirming, "Is the real name of the 'Escape King' you said is Xishanwu?"

   Jiang Xia looked at him from the table and nodded in agreement.

When Conan got the confirmed news, his expression suddenly became solemn: "Just now, Xi Shanwu was killed in his apartment! The murderer called himself 'Shadow Mage', and left a 'this is the first' announcement on the computer next to the corpse. Words. When I wanted to come back to inform you, I found that the suspension bridge outside was destroyed..."

   As he spoke, he felt that the audience's reaction was a little strange.

   The things he just described are obviously the prelude to a serial murder case, and the murderer is likely to be hiding near this villa.

   But the audience in front of them didn't blurt out "What?!", and there was no seriousness and disbelief on their faces, but a weird kind of hesitation.

   "..." Conan stopped talking and looked at Jiang Xia subconsciously, "What's wrong?"

"We have found the murderer." Arayoshi, the eldest next to him, took over the conversation. He glanced at Takahisa Tanaka, who was sitting in the corner with autism, and said in a complicated mood, "That...her murder method is out. There was a little mistake, and the body fell, just in time for us to see."

  Conan: "..."

  Conan: "..."

  Conan: "???"

   Is there such a thing? ?

  ... Now the quality of the murderer is getting more and more worrying.

  Speaking of which, he risked his life to jump over the cliff, what was he doing?

  Conan also shut himself down for a while.

   But soon, he realized another thing that violated the peace. Judging from Arashi's answer just now and his gaze, the murderer was "she".

  ...The murderer who called himself the 'Shadow Mage' turned out to be a woman? !

  Conan was extremely puzzled. He thought that the Shadow Mage was probably the man who saved him and knocked him unconscious. Otherwise, he would not be able to explain why that person suddenly attacked an innocent child. And that person happened to be all black, which fits the word "shadow" very well.

   But now, the murderer is Takahisa Tanaka who was almost caught on the spot... Wait, so, is the murderer really her? Aragoshi only said that there were corpses falling on it, and no one saw Tanaka Takahisa kill on the spot... But Jiang Xia is here, if Tanaka Takahisa is really innocent, he should be able to see it...

  Conan was in a tangle for a while.

   But anyway, people hiding in the woods are a hidden danger after all. What if things turn around? After all, it would be too hasty to kill half of the corpses and fall. He could not imagine that someone would make such a rough plan...

  Conan hesitated for a moment, then decided to speak up and give Jiang Xia more clues: "I saw a man with golden eyes in the woods just now."

   Jiang Xia appropriately expressed surprise to this "extra person", and then asked for details.

   The "Doi Tuck Tree" next to him sat up a little unnaturally when he heard the topic.

   He had met Conan before on the Suzuki family boat. At that time, Conan once showed a very similar smile to Jiang Xia, which startled him. So Kidd went to check on this strange kid afterwards. Then he was surprised to find that this might have been made by another famous detective, Shinichi Kudo.

   Now it seems that Jiang Xia should also know this.

  If Jiang Xia believed Conan's words and realized that something was wrong, he would lead a bunch of police to search the mountain...

   Kidd, who was caught between the man and the monster, pressed his temple and felt embarrassed.

  Conan did not find the subtle tangle of "Doi Tucker Tree". Because when several other people heard that there was a stranger in the woods, their reaction was bigger than Doi Tak.

  Conan thought about it seriously, and then started from the time he left the villa and heard the news on the radio in the car, and retold it in detail. Of course, that also included the fact that he flew over from across the bridge and was caught by the fog tengu and knocked unconscious for no reason.

  Other people heard this, although they were quite puzzled, but they were a lot more relieved than when they first heard the news of "there is someone in the woods". Will take the initiative to catch Conan before he hits the tree, indicating that he is at least a good person willing to lend a hand, perhaps a villager in the nearby mountains happened to pass by.

   There was only Kidd, and for some reason, the image of a fragrant meatball slamming into the hungry traveler appeared in his mind.

  ...No wonder the mist tengu would catch this kid. For the foggy dog, Conan's operation undoubtedly reduced the difficulty of "catching a human to satisfy his hunger" to the level of "picking up a human who took the initiative to bump into him".

   In a way that is easier for humans to understand, the former is like chasing the elders to ask for red envelopes, while the latter is that the elders took the initiative to smash the red envelopes into your pocket... Who can stand it?

   (end of this chapter)