Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 382 Red and Black Observation (joint chapter)

   Jiang Xia had already finished eating when the meal at the table of gin was served.

   The topic of chatting with Mao Lilan gradually turned to other directions.

   "Speaking of which, it's been a long time since we traveled together." Mao Lilan scooped the last piece of pudding into his mouth, remembered one thing, and said with a smile:

"Do you remember the Suzuki Art Museum that Sonoko mentioned when you came to school last time? Its opening date is set for the 23rd, and I heard that there will be a lot of treasures from her treasure trove on display. If you have one that day So, we can visit together."

   "Suzuki Art Museum?"

   Hearing this location, a green energy nucleus immediately appeared in Jiang Xia's mind... ah no, the green art egg, and Kidd's face.

  ...In his impression, at the opening ceremony of the Suzuki Museum of Art, the 51st Emperor's Easter Egg discovered so far will be exhibited - "Egg of Memories".

   And Kidd was eyeing this egg for a series of reasons.

   As long as Kidd steals the egg, the corresponding energy core can be generated.

   When he goes to rob Kidd again, he will be able to get energy cores to build upgrade bars for the ghosts... In addition, Jiang Xia remembers that some murder cases will be involved in this incident, and he can visually pick up some ghosts and murderous aura.

  …I want to go.

   Calculate the time, there are still a few months, which is completely incompatible with the current silence work.

   He reassured himself and began to look forward to the next pleasant journey.

  …

   Adjacent table.

  Gin also heard these conversations and caught what he thought was the key word.

  Suzuki Art Museum, a treasure trove at home...

  Suzuki chaebol?

   There are people from the Suzuki family among Uzo's classmates, and it sounds like the two sides get along very well.

  ... It seems that Uzo is well aware of the organization's expectations for him, and is already preparing to enter the upper class in the future.

When Jinjiu thinks of a few years from now, when he wants to kill a big shot, he doesn't need to collect and arrange intelligence weeks or even months in advance, dispatch a large number of people to take risks to assassinate, and spend energy after the event to close and avoid the police and other organizations. trace of...

   Instead, he only needs to send Uzo to move his mouth, and he can achieve his goal silently.

  ——This bright future makes Gin's steak cutting a lot more neat than before, and the cold light of anticipation flashed in his eyes.

Beside   , Conan glanced at the corner of Jinjiu's slightly raised mouth, and his hair stood on end in shock at the inexplicable sneer of the man in black.

  ...Speaking of which, the last time Gin appeared on the train, a bomb was left behind, which almost destroyed the Shinkansen, killing dozens or even hundreds of people on the spot.

   And now...with such a malicious smile, what is he planning? !

  Conan's eyes were solemn, and he felt that there were dangers all around him for a moment.

  …

   Gin vaguely sensed a veiled stare of hostility.

   He turned his head and glanced back and forth, but found nothing threatening.

   Instead, he saw Jiang Xia glance in a certain direction unconsciously, and then quickly withdrew his gaze.

  Gin took this scene back into his eyes, turned his head silently, and took a sip of the coffee on the table.

When    put down the cup, he adjusted the position of the black coffee cup.

The angle of    changed, and the wall of the cup vaguely reflected the reflection of a person - that was a middle-aged man who was standing cautiously beside Izumo Keitaro, tall and thin, with a high hairline in the middle.

  Gin looked at the man thoughtfully.

  If I remember correctly, it wasn't the first time Uzo looked at him.

   And the look in Uzo's eyes was not deliberate observation. It was more like when he was distracted, he habitually turned his eyes to something that interested him.

  Gin is no stranger to this kind of look - Uzo has seen him this way before, presumably because he always provides Uzo with some challenging assassination missions.

   But now, the person beside Izumo Ketaro is obviously impossible to issue a task to Uzo.

   But he can make Uzo show appreciation and care...he is the key link in the murder drama?

  When Gin secretly observed the target of this assassination, and the tall and thin passerby behind the target who was suspected of being a Uzo tool man.

Beside   , a gaze fell back on him while the gin and vodka were not paying attention.

  ——Conan held the cup, covering most of his face, and his exposed eyes looked at the gin vigilantly.

   I don't know if it was an illusion, he always felt that Jin Jiu's eyes would occasionally turn to his table, and it looked like he was observing Jiang Xia... What is this terrifying black-clothed man trying to do? ?

  Conan remembered the sap he was hit by gin near the amusement park, and only felt a dull pain in the back of his head.

  Many bad thoughts also appeared.

  —— Qin Jiuhui is like this, perhaps because he recognized Jiang Xia as a famous high school detective, worried that Jiang Xia would delay the evil plan of the Black Organization, so he was secretly vigilant and was ready to silence him at any time.

   After all, for this kind of thing, gin should be regarded as a lesson from the past, because there was another well-known high school student detective - Kudo Shinichi, who secretly photographed the vodka trading scene. And that time, if Gin didn't find it in time, he would definitely lose vodka as a good partner.

   If this is the case, then it is normal for Gin to be vigilant and concerned when he encounters high school detectives again...

  Conan nodded secretly, feeling that his above reasoning was quite reasonable.

   At the same time, he turned to look at Jiang Xia.

I saw that the neighbors were chatting with Xiaolan attentively, and I didn't know if they noticed the suspicious gin and vodka... No, it would be better if they didn't notice it -- Conan thought, his optimistic, cheerful, and positive personality was in harmony with him. After the unpleasant dealings with the black organizations, they were almost forced out of persecution paranoia.

   And Jiang Xia's mentality is not very healthy. Recently, he finally became interested in life a little bit. If he told him about the existence of the dark organization at this time...

  Conan was lost in thought, and for a moment he forgot to hide his straight gaze.

   Maybe the presence of this look is too strong, on the next table, Gin suddenly turned his head to look here.

   The two suddenly looked at each other.

   For a moment, Conan's hands and feet stiffened, his heartbeat increased, his pupils shrunk to the size of a pinhead, he only felt like he was being stared at by a poisonous snake that had killed countless people, and the air around him seemed to be cold and smooth, and he even stopped thinking briefly.

   But this state did not last long.

  ——Gin Jiu looked at the child next to Jiang Xia who was holding a cup and stared straight at him, and quickly withdrew his gaze, not caring too much.

   He is usually very busy, so after finishing the silence, he often consciously ignores the relevant information of the dead person and shifts his attention to the things that need to be remembered more.

   So Gin is not impressed by the "dead" Kudo Shinichi.

   In addition, it is generally difficult to think that an adult will suddenly become a child, and Conan added a pair of glasses to his face to confuse his vision...

   In short, Gin did not recognize that this was Kudo Shinichi, who had been beaten hard by him and drank APTX4869, and only regarded Conan as an ordinary child.

   And speaking of children...

   In fact, because Gin looks very different from Asians, in public places, there will be some impolite children staring at him, and then crying when he is looked back.

   In addition, on the contrary, there have been a few daring bear children who tried to pull his hair when passing by...

   Compared with these two extremes, Conan's presence is much lower.

   But this gave Gin a little reminder.

  ——He knew that his usual aura was quite oppressive. It can frighten some children to cry, and may also affect adults.

   When he entered the dining car before, the tall and thin middle-aged man who was being watched by Uzzo stared at him for a while, his expression vaguely revealing his fear of high-ranking peers.

   Continuing to stay in the dining car now, I don’t know if it will affect Uzo’s ingenious guidance…

  I have finished eating anyway. Gin put down his knife and fork and wiped his mouth. He didn't stay any longer, and got up and left.

  Vodka regained his senses and quickly got up, while secretly letting out a sigh of relief.

   Sitting at the table next to Wuzuo just now, he was able to cross the top of the high school girl's head and meet Jiang Xia's eyes.

  So Vodka had to keep staring down at the plate, pretending to meditate deeply, so as not to stare at each other too much, and he would be affected by Uzo's slamming the pot and affect his delicate layout.

   Fortunately, I can leave soon... Vodka stepped up to keep up with the gin, and for a moment felt that the narrow box without Uzo was so beautiful.

   As he was thinking about it, just as he walked to the door of the dining car, a scolding with implied anger suddenly came from behind:

   "I told you to book a royal suite, let's see what you ordered! - That kind of small and swaying box is for people to live in?! Pigs are too small to live in!"

   Hearing this, Gin's hand that opened the sliding door paused a little, and glanced back coldly.

  Vodka subconsciously followed and looked back. After watching for a second, he realized that he had been scolded.

   He glared angrily, and saw that he shouted angrily and cursed that everyone present was a pig. It was their target this time - Izumo Keitaro.

   And the object of Boss Izumo's wrath was the jewelry store manager he hired, Kagoshi Rizuki.

   The tall and thin Kayori pushed up his glasses and explained carefully:

   "The number of royal suites is limited. When you decided to take this train a few days ago, you couldn't book it. There are only some ordinary boxes left. In fact, if you take a plane, you should be able to book first class..."

   "Shut up!" Izumo Ketaro slapped the table angrily. The topic of "flying or taking the Big Dipper" seemed to remind him of something bad, and he was even more angry, "I just want to take this train!"

   Jiang Xia took a sip of the juice on the table and ate melons and watched a play with other guests, feeling quite relieved.

  In this world, people who show this attitude are generally shrouded in the halo of death.

   It seems that this time I can successfully get the task. You don't have to worry about Jin Jiu's pre-killing and the ghost who robbed him... Thinking of this, Jiang Xia picked up the juice jug with relief and refilled the glass for Conan, who was flattered next to him.

   Jiang Xia can understand Izumo Keitaro's mood that he doesn't want to mention the means of transportation.

  Because as far as he knows, Izumo Ketaro did not voluntarily ride this car, but was caught by someone who was dealing with drugs-someone anonymously asked him to ride this train today to conduct transactions. And threatened him that if he did not come, the evidence of his drug trafficking would be made public.

   And this anonymous threat is actually the store manager hired by the boss of Izumo - the obliging Kayori rule.

   Kayuri is not an ordinary migrant worker.

   He was once part of a small band of robbers.

   That gang is a very common two-man-one-woman model, and the female robber in it happens to be Kay Rizle's girlfriend. The other is the leader of the small gang - Yasuji Asama, the only one of the three who is on the wanted list.

   A few years ago, this three-person gang set their sights on the jewelry store of Boss Izumo.

   Kagoshi then sneaked into the store to go undercover, planning to wait for the situation to be clarified, cooperate with the two accomplices inside and outside, and loot the store.

   However, after going undercover for a period of time, before the robbery could begin, Kavishr's girlfriend suddenly died of a drug overdose.

   Kayori suspects that his girlfriend is addicted to drugs because he was tempted by Anji Asama, and parted ways with the robber leader in anger.

  Because there was nowhere to go for the time being, and he was not in the mood to continue his robbery business, Kayuri stayed in a jewelry store with high wages and continued to be a diligent worker.

   Year after year... I accidentally became a store manager.

After    climbed to the position of the store manager, Kagoshi gradually discovered that Boss Izumo was dealing with drugs.

  At the same time, he realized that his current situation was very similar to an out-of-print novel manuscript that he accidentally snatched.

  ——It was an unpublished novel. It was stolen from the editor of the famous mystery novelist Yusaku Kudo when he robbed a bank ten years ago. Only the top half.

After the    novel was taken away, Yusaku Kudo did not continue to write it, and very few people read it.

   Kagoshi is a fan of Kudo Yusaku. After he became a jewelry store manager and found that he was in a very similar situation to the murderer in the novel, he decided to follow the plot of the novel and kill the robber leader Anji Asama who made his girlfriend addicted to drugs.

And the drug dealer Izumo is a prop in the whole murder plan - Kagori intends to invite Anji Asama and Boss Izumo to the car at the same time, disguised as Anji Asama, and kill him in public. Boss Yun, he created the illusion of Anji Asama's "suicide in fear of crime", killing two birds with one stone.

  ——In other words, after breaking Kagoshi Rizaku's plan, he can pick up two shikigami at a time...

   Thinking of this, Jiang Xia's gaze towards Kayue Rise brought a little appreciation.

   At this time, the guests were attracted by the swearing boss Izumo.

  No one noticed Jiang Xia's strange gaze, except for the gin, who stood in the distance and had a wide field of vision, and the vodka, who paid close attention to Jiang Xia.

   (end of this chapter)