Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 363 Two in One Chapter (End)

  Conan's face was ugly, he pressed his forehead, which was still aching, and silently refreshed his understanding of this organization in his heart.

   In addition, there is one more thing that has to be taken care of.

   "...Kenzo Kenzo has shown the police the purple commemorative handkerchief?"

   When examining the handkerchief yesterday, the Meguro Police Department was looking for gin and vodka as Kudo Shinichi said, but did not stay in the interrogation room. Later, a fire broke out suddenly, and corpses appeared in the fire... A series of things were too busy, so that the Mumu police department had no time to pay attention to the details.

   So when Conan asked about the status of the handkerchief just now, he went to ask his subordinates before returning the phone.

   Then came the news that "Samyama Kenzo has a handkerchief" that made Conan's pupils tremble slightly.

   On the way to the Mumu police department for questioning, Conan saw the morning news, and there was a picture of Kenzo Sayama raising his gun at the chandelier.

  ...In other words, the commemorative handkerchief that Kenzo Sanyama received should have flown out with the shooting, and he never took it back. But he was able to take out the handkerchief when he was checked by the police.

  …Someone gave him his handkerchief? !

   Six figures appeared in Conan's mind - seven people who were present at the time of the crime and who had been given purple handkerchiefs for several years. In addition to Pisk, there are six people, among these people, there is probably another organization member hiding.

   As he was thinking, someone knocked twice on the door of the Doctor's house, and then pushed in.

   is Jiangxia.

  Conan turned his head to see him, and first nodded habitually to say hello.

   followed by a thought that flashed in his mind, and he was stunned.

  Jiang Xia walked through the door, but he didn't see the cat, he saw Conan standing in the living room first, and he didn't seem to return to the Maori Detective Agency.

  Conan holds the phone in one hand and the bow-tie voice changer in the other. After looking at each other, I don't know what the child thought, he turned around unnaturally, and walked to another room as if nothing had happened.

   There was no need for Jiang Xia to say more, Xiaobai had already drifted over consciously, grabbed the receiver, and listened.

   Not long after, the witty little devil sent back the news that Conan was looking for the Mumu police department to ask about the purple commemorative handkerchief, and he also asked a tangled question: Did Jiang Xia have a handkerchief last night.

  …Intuition is pretty accurate.

Jiang Xia, who had a spare handkerchief, was not wrong. He waved his hand to let Xiaobai continue to listen, and came back to tell him something, while intercepting a cat that somehow escaped from the cage and was trying to sneak low-key from under his feet to the door, and hugged him. Rua a few times.

   Then he played with other people's cats, sat on the sofa and waited for dinner.

  Haihara wailed at the movement, and came out of the kitchen to take a look.

   After discovering that it was Jiang Xia, and that she was a healthy and natural looking Jiang Xia without even dark circles under her eyes, she felt relieved a little and retreated back to the kitchen.

   It seems that the task of assassinating Congressman Tunkou has little to do with Jiang Xia—Pisk is dead, but Jiang Xia does not seem to be held accountable by the organization... But I still feel that there is something unusual. I don't know if it was an illusion or not, but she always felt that the tasks and people Jiang Xia was in contact with, and the information he knew were not like what a peripheral member should get.

Hai Yuanai felt the organizational atmosphere in the living room that she had become accustomed to, and when she thought of some possibilities, her back would inevitably get cold, but once again, she peeked at Jiang Xia, who was lying on the sofa and focused on licking her cat, from the crack of the door. His eyes softened a lot involuntarily.

  …I think I think too much. Organization cadres have no time to accept these cat-catching commissions every day.

   And I heard from Dr. A Li that the one who invited Jiang Xia to the reminiscence meeting of the director of Jiujuan was a client who frequented Jiang Xia's office. In other words, Jiang Xia actually had a legitimate reason for appearing on that occasion. It's not abrupt, it's just a coincidence at best.

   As for the excess information, it may be Jiang Xia's own reasoning... He is indeed very talented in this regard.

   Haibara Ai calmed herself down, then stopped her thoughts and didn’t want to speculate any more.

After all, after experiencing what happened yesterday, she realized more deeply that, with her current ability, even if she really found out some truth about Jiang Xia, she couldn't do anything. Add chaos.

  ... But fortunately, now, she is no longer the scientist who can only secretly study the antidote - she has now passed the assessment that Kudo failed to pass, and initially joined an anonymous organization.

   Maybe she can gradually become stronger through this mysterious organization, and then do what she wants to do...

   Thinking of this, Haibara Ai couldn't help but think of the dashing appearance of Miss Anonymous when she beat people. When there was no one in the kitchen, she clenched her fist heavily, and suddenly felt that her whole body was full of energy - Anonymous would definitely give her the strength she wanted.

   Not far away, Jiang Xia suddenly sneezed.

   After the fight, he felt it carefully and thought that he had no signs of a cold, so he glanced at the long cat in his hand: "Are you changing your hair?"

  The cat also glanced at him, yawned with fangs, and was hugged by him sadly, as if he didn't want to pay attention to him, just wanted to go home and sleep.

   Being so lazy and running away from home every day is not easy being a cat... Jiang Xia stretched out his hand and rubbed the cat's head sympathetically.

  …

  Conan's expression returned to normal when he looked at Jiang Xia after finishing the secret phone call to the Mumu police department.

  According to the information provided by the Mumu Police Department, Jiang Xia took out a purple commemorative handkerchief when he was questioned by the police.

   In other words, he was not the one who provided Pisk with the handkerchief, and Jiang Xia was not Pisk's accomplice.

  Conan breathed a sigh of relief, not surprised by this answer.

He didn't know why he suddenly doubted Jiang Xia. Now that he thinks about it, it should be just a necessary step to eliminate the truth when encountering difficulties. Detectives should be equally suspicious of everyone before finding the truth. .

  Conan nodded secretly, perfectly rounding up his sudden intuitive guess.

In addition, the Mumu police department said that there were two people who lost the handkerchief at the time... Conan started to quickly pass the information of the two celebrities who lost the handkerchief in his mind while eating without knowing the taste, and planned to find out a "covered person". Members of Pisk's organization". In addition, it seems that there are a few people who left the field first after getting the purple handkerchief, or it may be that they gave the handkerchief to Pisk before they left.

  …

   Jiang Xia briefly observed Conan's expression, and found that there was no exaggerated acting skills, and he was not observing him, so he knew that Conan had indeed lifted his suspicions.

  Haihara Ai seemed to be distracted when cooking today, and the dishes were very salty.

   She obviously ate it herself. Halfway through the meal, she put down her chopsticks silently, made some tea, and brought it out to a few people.

   Jiang Xia just picked up a cup, but before he could cool down, he suddenly heard a noise at the door.

   followed, footsteps and chattering conversations got closer and closer, and the door was pushed open from the outside—the team of young detectives came to the doctor's house.

  The restaurant is some distance from the gate. The three children of the juvenile detective group did not find Jiang Xia's figure.

  Today is a working day, they came to go to school with Conan, and more importantly, reminded Dr. A Li:

   "Remember to invite us to watch Gomera's movie, as we agreed before!"

   Dr. A Li was startled for a moment, and immediately touched the back of his head a little embarrassedly.

  ...he really forgot.

  Haihara saw Jiang Xia glanced in the direction of the gate, and seemed to be a little interested in the topic of the children, so he explained in a low voice:

   "A while ago, the children helped the doctor solve the puzzle on the postcard and met his first love. The doctor promised to invite them to a movie to thank them, but..."

   "But at the time I forgot that there was still a school. I have to go to Kyushu this week, and I will leave this afternoon..." Dr. A Li said guiltily, "How about next time?"

  The three children were extremely disappointed and pouted, ready to condemn the untrustworthy adults.

   At this moment, a voice came from the side:

   "Why don't I accompany them, I happen to be fine recently."

   This familiar voice made the young detective team freeze.

  The next second, the three heads swayed neatly, looking at the source of the sound, and seeing that it was Jiang Xia, the three bear children began to turn pale.

  ...with Jiang Xia, it's better not to watch.

Although Conan and Haibara Ai repeatedly said that Jiang Xia would not hit children, the three children are not stupid, and sometimes they are even very keen - they could see that Conan and Haibara Ai's eyes fluttered every time they said such things. The tone is not very sure, obviously he doesn't know whether Jiang Xia will beat the bear children like those bad people... The children who have witnessed Jiang Xia beat people countless times do not want to be with him.

   But Dr. A Li obviously forgot about this. Hearing Jiang Xia's suggestion, his eyes lit up: "Okay, it just so happens that the age difference between you two is smaller. Compared with me, there should be more common topics, hahaha."

   The teenage detectives raised their little hands tremblingly, trying to make a weak protest, interrupting the topic: "No..."

   "Isn't it bad? Why?" Jiang Xia got up and approached, and said in a joking tone, "If you avoid me, I will be very sad."

  “…”

  The three children looked at his approaching figure, subconsciously squeezed each other, and quickly arranged a series of equations in their minds.

   sad = bad mood =…

The waving sticks appeared in their minds, the tragic howls of the librarian resounded through several floors in the middle of the night, and the embarrassing appearance of the gun-wielding psychiatrist who was kicked and rolled around the street, and the pain in the old villa. The robber who called the broken sound was worse than death...

  Hey wait, the last one doesn't seem to be done by Brother Jiang Xia.

  …but that’s not the point. The point is that they are very afraid of him anyway. I always feel that if they reject Jiang Xia, maybe one day they will be beaten by Jiang Xia with sacks on their way from school. After all, although they have a clear conscience, from the evaluation of adults, they seem to be nothing. Peace of mind baby...

   Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko, who was most polluted by adult society, was the first to wave the white flag.

   He squeezed out a smile and said indifferently: "How come, I like to watch movies with brother Jiang Xia the most. Haha, ha..."

  Yoshida Ayumi and Kojima Motota nodded in agreement as if chickens were pecking rice.

   Jiang Xia smiled lightly, reached out and touched the heads of the three children, and said gently, "Then it's settled, I'll pick you up after school."

  Conan: "…"

   For a while, he didn't know whether to sympathize with Jiang Xia, who was rejected by the bear children, or the bear children who could only nod in agreement if they didn't want to play with Jiang Xia.

Having said that, Jiang Xia seems to like children quite a bit, although the children don't like him very much... But after getting along for a long time, the juvenile detective team will one day believe that Jiang Xia is a good person who doesn't beat children... Well, probably not, as long as they Not breaking the law... Conan thought uncertainly.

  …

  After saying goodbye to the happy Dr. A Li and the cute little friends, Jiang Xia routinely skipped class and went to the detective office.

The    mailbox still didn't have the ghost hunting invitation he wanted.

After   , Jiang Xia spent another day sending out cats, but failed to receive a request for a ghost to pick up.

  A fruitless day... But Jiang Xia's heart is very calm, because the day is not over yet.

  —Fortunately, he picked up the juvenile detective team at Dr. A Li’s house early in the morning. These children who can often attract murder cases will not disappoint him.

   Soon it was time for elementary school to dismiss.

   Jiang Xia closed the door of the office, got on the motorcycle, and drove to Didan Elementary School with anticipation.

   He also carried a map with the locations of all nearby movie theaters. At that time, let the children who are very sensitive to the case choose casually.

   By the way, before watching the movie, you can also invite them to a meal by the way. In my impression, there are many murders that happened in the hotel...

   Not long after, Jiang Xia came to the gate of Didan Elementary School.

   He parked the car opposite the school gate, leaned on the car, and looked at the beautiful and stylish teaching building in the school.

  …

   First grade class B.

  Conan, who was going to leave school as usual, just put on his schoolbag, and was pressed back on the chair by three hands:

   "Don't go! It's rare that we moved our duty to today, and we agreed to release Brother Jiangxia's pigeons together!"

  "..." Conan sometimes felt that he couldn't understand the child's thinking, "You are afraid that he will be angry and beat people. But won't pigeoning him only make him more angry?"

"On duty is force majeure. As long as we don't say that we have been on duty, brother Jiang Xia will not know." Mitsuhiko felt very ok, "And as long as we find an excuse to escape today, we can push the time to watch movies to Dr. A Li. When you are free, then you don't have to take Brother Jiang Xia to take us there!"

   Huiyuan Ai looked at his watch and yawned: "Then you guys clean up, I have to go back first."

   There is still an unfinished experiment, and I have no time to hide from Jiangxia with the children... Why hide from Jiangxia? He's not a bad guy... Well, even if he does something bad, it must be because of the organization's mission.

   (end of this chapter)