Conan’s Corpse Picker

  Chapter 320 Two-person world without Jiang Xia

   Among the piles of puppets, only pregnant women and Xiaobai are considered normal and will not be regarded as strange creatures.

   But if you use them to board the ship, the staff will definitely not rest assured.

   Even if the crew ends up letting pregnant women on board because of regulations, they may sneak over to check from time to time in order to prevent accidents. As for Xiaobai... If you drive him onto the boat and can't find a guardian, 80% of them will be regarded as a lost child and sent directly to the police station.

  ...When will I be able to pick up a normal adult male ghost? It's best to hide the tattoo and keep it on the face... Jiang Xia sighed and helped his sunglasses. A second later, he pulled down the sunglasses that he had just held up again, and let it cover the current pattern again.

   He drove Miyano Akemi's puppet to the front of the boarding passage, took out the old banknotes for the staff to check, and boarded the ship as an independent guest.

   After entering the room and locking the door, Jiang Xia dismissed the puppet and planned to recreate the pile when he needed it.

   His consciousness returned to the main body, opened his eyes in the main body, and then took out a novel and opened it, passed the time, and waited for the boat to sail.

  …

   Ten minutes later, Hattori Heiji brought Conan to the port.

   It was about time for the boat to set off, and the passers-by who came because of the advertisements have already left one after another. Hattori Heiji walked to the boarding passage without hindrance, showed the old banknotes in the letter to the staff guarding there, and boarded the ship.

   He followed the corridor to the lobby. When checking in at the front desk, Hattori shook the old banknotes in his hand and asked, "Why can you get on the boat just by showing this?"

   The front desk was startled, and the expression was strange for a moment. These words made her suspect that Hattori Heiji did not solve the puzzle by himself, but where did he hear the news that "the old banknotes can provide free travel opportunities".

   This is cheating...

   But the front desk thought about it, she was just a part-time worker, and she didn't have to pay for the guests' expenses. She quickly adjusted her expression and responded with a smile: "Because the gentleman who paid the boat fee in advance asked for it."

   Hattori Heiji was startled when he heard it, the anonymous sender hired an entire ship to invite him to solve the case? ...This is too sincere, what kind of case does the client want to investigate?

  Osaka detective began to have a series of shocking cases of giants in his mind.

   After a while, he hid the excitement of facing a huge challenge and asked calmly, "Where is that gentleman now? I want to go and say hello to him."

  Conan also looked at the front desk curiously.

   The front desk shook his head slightly embarrassed: "I haven't met him. He contacted us by phone, and the prepaid fee was also transferred directly, and he never contacted him privately."

   Hattori Heiji nodded thoughtfully and didn't ask any more questions.

   In this way, the identity of the client is also a mystery, um... maybe this is actually a test, the client may be on the boat, waiting to see when the detective can find him.

   Hattori Heiji had a fighting spirit in his heart.

   After leaving the front desk, he wanted to pat his peers on the shoulder to express competition and friendliness.

   But due to his height, he could only lower his hand and touched Conan's head: "Haha, this time there is finally no Jiang Xia to answer, let's compete, Kudo!"

   "..." Conan silently pulled his hand away.

   Maybe it was because he had been with Jiang Xia for a long time, and when he heard this declaration suddenly, he always had the feeling that Heiji Hattori was still a child. However, Conan still looked at the people around him subconsciously, and felt that the employer might be hiding on the boat.

   The two of them put their luggage away, turned around, and found that there were several other guests on board.

   This made Hattori realize that there was some error in his previous thinking - the client didn't hire him an entire ship, probably just bought him a position for money.

  ... This disappointed Hattori a little bit. It's not that he's disappointed that the other party didn't spend money for him, but because of this, those big reasoning plays he just made up for can't be realized.

  …

   It may be that the meal has not yet arrived. There are very few people on board. Apart from the service staff, there are only two guests in the restaurant.

  One is a middle-aged man with glasses and an old-fashioned face, Eina Naminoro. The other is Teruyoshi Kameda, a squinting uncle who is very silent and looks like a taro.

   The two of them didn't know if they were introverted or in a bad mood, but they just politely said a few words and left quickly.

   Hattori Heiji found nothing and could only return to his room temporarily.

   In the evening, he and Conan came to the restaurant with lunch.

   This time, there are more people than before, but compared to the entire ship, the population density is still too sparse.

  Conan also felt a little strange.

After    sat down at the table, he grabbed the passing waiter and asked in a long voice, "Uncle, why is such a big ship with only so many passengers? It's so deserted."

   The waiter originally wanted to say that there are only so many people who can answer the question correctly, but he felt that this might be misinterpreted to mean that he was mocking the passengers who didn't get on the boat. So in the end, he just repeated Conan's words in another way with the desire to survive: "In addition to the three passengers who are currently resting in the room, only 11 people participated in this trip to Ogasawara."

  Conan and Hattori Heiji were startled at the same time.

  There are only three people resting in the cabin? There are fewer passengers on this ship than they thought.

   At this time, Dadao Kujii, who was well-dressed and well-dressed next to him, twitched the mustache on his lips and joined the topic with interest:

   "By the way, I remember that there was an old pedant among the passengers. We met in the corridor in the afternoon and chatted casually - he seems to be an expert in marine biology?"

  The waiter recalled the guest's registration form: "You mean Mr. Ye Caisan? He did say that he has a lot of research on the ocean."

   Hattori Heiji just felt that the name "Ye Caisan" sounded familiar, when he saw that the expressions of all the passengers in the restaurant changed, some panicked, some complicated, and some hated.

  Detective radar alerted Hattori Heiji and Conan: "...Ye Caisan?"

The short-haired woman sitting nearby looked at them, smiled lightly, and said with recollection: "He is a criminal genius known as a 'shadow planner'. It was also 20 years ago that a 400 million bank robbery was committed. The leader of the... After that case, he disappeared."

  Not far away, the foggy dog ​​hovered over the dining table, watching this scene seriously.

   Jiang Xia didn't show up at dinner. He didn't want his appearance to interfere with what was going to happen next, but he was a little curious about how far it had progressed, so he temporarily moved the body's vision and hearing to the ghost, and let the ghost float out to check the situation.

  For Jiang Xia, except for Hattori Heiji and Conan, everyone else in the restaurant is very fresh. However, he still used the characteristics of each person to match the real person with the characters in the spoiler.

   (end of this chapter)