Conan’s Corpse Picker

  Chapter 389 The Proud Detective (Joint Chapter)

  Jiang Xia lost his mind and went back to his mind, and heard everything that should be heard.

   At present, the situation of the Takeda family is the same as his impression.

  ——Three people died. The mother and daughter of Misa are said to have committed suicide, and the partner named Negishi said it was suicide, but judging from the shikigami on Rob's leg, he was strangled to death by Rob.

   Moreover, the shikigami is still clinging to Rob's legs, so the ghost won't be dropped by Negishi. It should be one of the mother and daughter.

   But theoretically speaking, people who commit suicide can't even lose the shikigami, let alone ghosts, and at most leave a mass of murderous aura. Unless... Misa or her mother had one that wasn't suicidal?

  …is the breath of secrets.

   Jiang Xia was not surprised when he came to this conclusion. He remembered that the family relationship was quite chaotic - Takeda Misa was ostensibly the daughter of Takeda Shinichi, but in fact Takeda Shinichi couldn't have children. So more than 20 years ago, Takeda Shinichi's wife went to beg the second child of Takeda's family to give birth to Misa with her, and acted as Takeda Shinichi's own daughter.

  It was later known by Takeda Shinichi.

Takeda Shinichi, a drug dealer, has already broken the bottom line of the law. Even if he saw the truth and endured it, if one day he suddenly broke out, or got drunk and couldn't think about it for a while... In this kind of wilderness , it is not surprising to manually let the people around you "suicide".

  A lot of speculations flashed through Jiang Xia's mind for a moment, and he quickly gathered his thoughts.

Now, he can't even be sure if the wild ghost child is Takeda's mother and daughter, maybe it's someone else who died nearby... There are too many possibilities, it's useless to think about it, it's better to catch the ghost directly. ask.

   Of course, this is mainly to save time, it has nothing to do with him wanting to see the new ghost as soon as possible...

   Speaking of this, the ghosts have been floating out for several minutes, why are they still running around.

   This time the ghost is so hard to catch?

   Thinking about it, Jiang Xia glanced in the direction he sensed.

  The ghosts are obscured by the house, he has no see-through function and unfortunately cannot see.

   looked up and saw a middle-aged man walking over with a smile on his face.

  The man has a round beard and a bald U-shaped hairline on the top of his head.

   He stepped forward and shook hands with Jiang Xia, indicating his identity as a client: "Hello, I'm Takeda Shinichi who sent you a letter."

   Said, Takeda Shin took a look at the crowd gathered in the yard, pulled Jiang Xia aside, and said in a low voice:

   "You should have heard what Yoko said just now--actually, I hope you investigate the matter of Mr. Negishi who 'hanged himself' a few days ago."

   Jiang Xia nodded, and at the same time, his eyes couldn't help but stop at Takeda Shinichi's dangerous hairline and layered forehead tattoos, feeling a little relieved - fortunately, ghost child is not the target of silence.

   No, it cannot be said that either. If the second ghost can really drop here, he doesn't mind. After all, it's not good-looking and there are bad uses...

  Takeda Shinichi was talking, suddenly his back became cold, and there was a vague illusion that he was being stared at by some eyes hidden in the darkness.

   He looked back at the tree that was blown by the mountain wind, and thought that the wind should be the cause. So he wrapped his coat, turned around and continued to whisper to Jiang Xia about the entrustment:

   "That's it. I suspect that Negishi did not commit suicide, but was murdered. And this is probably done by someone in our family.

   "So I have an unkind request - if you find the murderer, please don't speak up, just tell me alone, and I will naturally handle the rest of the matter properly."

   Speaking of this, thinking of the man who killed Negishi and stole a batch of drugs from Negishi, Takeda Shinichi couldn't help but feel a little murderous in his heart.

  ——He usually has no outsiders here, but now Negishi was suddenly killed and his puppet was stolen. There are various signs that the murderer knows the structure of his house quite well, and it must be an internal ghost.

  Takeda Shinichi himself is doing some illegal activities and cannot stand investigation. And this "inner ghost" who knew some of his secrets gave him a strong sense of crisis.

   Desperate to find out this man, he took the risk and hired a detective who was said to be very keen.

   Jiang Xia's speed of solving the case is very fast. And Takeda happens to feel that what he lacks the most right now is time. If he catches the inner ghost earlier, he will be able to deal drugs with peace of mind earlier. Otherwise, he will lose a lot of money like a stream of money every day that it is stagnant.

   Of course, for Takeda, "inviting Jiang Xia to come over" itself also contains certain risks, such as being discovered by Jiang Xia that he was secretly selling drugs.

   Therefore, before sending a letter of entrustment to Jiang Xia, Takeda Shinichi had seriously struggled with this issue.

   And in the end he came to the conclusion that the problem is not big.

  ——Takeda Shinichi has read a lot of reports on solving cases.

   He found that when detectives encountered a murder case and a drug dealer at the same time, they would give priority to solving the murder case.

   Waiting for the murder case to be solved, will then proceed to solve other incidents, especially high school detectives.

   So just keep an eye on Jiang Xia - if Jiang Xia finds out the murderer and doesn't find out the secret of his drug trafficking, then pay the balance of the entrustment, send Jiang Xia away, and everyone separates peacefully.

   And if Jiang Xia finds out, or behaves abnormally, Takeda Shinichi will secretly solve Jiang Xia, a detective who knows too much, after finding out who the "inner ghost" is.

  The most important thing in the wilderness is the place to hide the corpse. It's very convenient to kill your mouth here.

Even if someone else knew that Jiang Xia had come to Puppet Peak, and found that Jiang Xia was missing, they called the police and brought the police to find him. As long as Takeda Shinichi killed the detective and left, and the police had no evidence, they had no choice but to give up—they couldn’t do it for the sake of it. Find a missing person and turn the whole mountain over.

   The only troublesome thing is that Jiang Xia came as soon as he came, and even brought two classmates...

   Thinking of this, Takeda Shin glanced at the gift pair of Hattori Heiji and Toyama and Ye, feeling a little troubled.

   But soon thought about it again.

  ——The big deal is that when the time comes, let the "inner ghost" send Jiang Xia and his two classmates down the mountain, and then do some tricks in the car to cause a car accident, and the four of them pack up and go on the road.

   Jiang Xia's attention was originally still focused on the ghost that was hard to catch.

   But as Takeda Shinichi fell into contemplation, his eyes gradually returned to the Takeda Patriarch in front of him.

  Why is there so much murderous aura all of a sudden? They are almost catching up with the foreign friend next to them...

   He wondered for a while, then stood in Takeda Shinichi's point of view to think about it, and vaguely understood.

  …

  Takeda Shinichi finished thinking, looked at Jiang Xia again, and waited for Jiang Xia's reply to "If you find an inner ghost, don't say anything, just tell him alone".

  Jiang Xia looked at the murderous aura of the Takeda Patriarch, and his mind moved slightly.

   He didn't nod.

   Instead, he looked at the sky from a 45° angle and said indifferently:

"I reject.

"If Mr. Negishi was killed, then of course I would give priority to calling the police. The law is the only justice - if I tell you the situation first, and you erase the evidence for that 'family', wouldn't I I became your accomplice to bend the law for personal gain."

   After saying that, Jiang Xia couldn't help lowering his gaze slightly towards the sky, and glanced at Takeda Shinichi from the corner of his eye.

   I saw that the murderous aura that was not weak was further expanded, completely surpassing Rob next to him.

  ... After all, Rob only wanted to kill one. And Takeda now wants to kill four.

  Takeda's forehead twitched with a blue vein, but he still managed to keep his smile, and his tone was even more polite than before: "...You think too much, I just want to do some ideological work and persuade him to surrender."

   Hearing the words, the young detective gave him a scrutiny and nodded meaningfully: "You'd better be."

   Then he stopped talking, seemingly disdainful of talking to people like Takeda Shinichi, and walked back to the person who came with him.

  Takeda Shinichi stared at this arrogant back, his temples throbbing.

   stared for a while, he remembered something, and showed a gloomy sneer.

  Oh, this little detective who is used to living in the city probably hasn't found out yet - their mobile phone signal is very unstable here. If you want to call the police, you have to use the landline at home.

  When the time comes, as long as you keep the phone well, you don't have to worry about Jiang Xia bypassing him and calling the police.

After   , when this kid finds out the "inner ghost", he will be silenced immediately.

   Takeda Xinyi remembered Jiang Xia's ill-fated appearance just now, secretly tui, and went to the studio out of sight.

   Before that, he didn't forget to hide the telephone line at home.

  …

   When Jiang Xia and Takeda Shinichi were talking, although they were separated by a distance from the others, the careful Takeda Yoko still found the conversation between the owner and Jiang Xia, which seemed unpleasant.

   She knew that Takeda Shinichi had a bad temper. At this time, when she saw Jiang Xia walking silently, she immediately guessed that Takeda Shinichi was in a hurry to investigate the case. In order to urge him, he said something unpleasant.

  ...This is not kind. The detective came so far away, and even got cold eyes. The detective looked young, and Brother Xin was too strict with him. Investigating a case is not something that can be done overnight, it will take some time.

   Thinking of this, Takeda Yoko walked towards Jiang Xia and smiled apologetically:

   "Let me show you around the house. Where do you plan to start? We will try our best to help."

   "Huh? Hmm..." Jiang Xia returned to his senses, turned his eyes slightly, and looked at the main house.

   He sensed that the ghosts were all rushing there now, so he pointed at the main house: "Then go first..."

   Before he finished speaking, two little girls who looked exactly the same suddenly ran out of the side room.

  The twins originally ran to Takeda Yoko to find their mother.

   However, halfway through the run, their eyes swept across Rob, and after recognizing him, they were stunned at the same time.

After   , their originally curious faces when they saw the guests turned into a bit of hostility in an instant.

  Rob saw the familiar child and came over to say hello with nostalgia:

   "Hey~ Shae, Emi, you guys have grown up a lot."

   The two little loli took a step back in disgust. They stared at Rob for a while, then got together, and you whispered loudly and quietly:

   "The murderer..."

   "He's killing again."

"Terrible"

   "Scary terrible."

   After muttering, he looked up and found that Rob was looking at them with a confused expression. The two trotted to the side vigilantly, tugged at Jiang Xia's coat, raised their heads and said, "Brother detective, are you here to catch him?"

Takeda Yoko next to    was stunned.

   She walked to her two daughters and reprimanded softly: "What nonsense are you talking about!"

   "Wow! Mom is so scary O(≧mouth≦)(≧mouth≦)O!" The two children squeezed together, let go of Jiang Xia, ran back to the side door and disappeared quickly.

   Takeda Yoko hesitated between "catching up and educating the bear children" and "continuing to help the guests lead the way".

   In the end, I chose the latter.

  ——Sha Hui and Emi are not so naive usually, but this time they may have seen a guest suddenly, and they are a little excited... and they also often watch TV, and they have seen Jiang Xia on TV. Maybe they suddenly said that Rob was the murderer just now, just to find an excuse to drag Jiang Xia. It's hard to guess the child's mind. Or wait until the guests are finished, and then go and reason with them.

   Thinking so, Takeda Yoko looked apologetically at Rob, who was suspected of being used as a star-chasing prop: "I'm sorry, I'll ask them to apologize to you later..."

   "It's okay." Rob waved his hand.

   He glanced at the direction where the two little girls were leaving, and became nervous, worried that he was seen when he hanged Negishi Akio a few days ago, so the children called him the "murderer".

   Fortunately, no one believed what the child said, and his alibi was pretty solid... Rob looked at the "witness" Heiji Hattori invited by him, and felt a little relieved.

  Jiang Xia skillfully restored the coat that had been pulled crooked by the children - usually he was also dragged by Haibara Ai and Conan.

   He glanced at Rob, who was very worried, and knew that the children suddenly called Rob "the murderer". In fact, it had nothing to do with Negishi Akio, but the twins, Little Loli, felt that Rob killed their sister Misa.

  ——Three years ago, when Rob left after recovering from his injury, Misa vaguely sensed his feelings, and shyly asked his two sisters to ask for help.

  Rob recalled his impression of Meisha, and euphemistically wrote a "shine" on a small note, indicating that Meisha was like a shining light in his life.

   However, because Meisha's English is not good, Rob is not good at Japanese - he can only speak, but can't write, and his mouth was hurt by earth and stone.

   So during the recovery period, the two have been writing and communicating in Japanese romanization.

   And the English word Shine, read according to the Roman pronunciation, can just be split into two pseudonyms "しね"

  ...that's what many anime characters like to shout "Xinai!" - let people die.

   A few days after passing the note, Misa really died.

   The two twins thought about what happened before and after, and thought it must be Rob's conspiracy, so they decided that he was the murderer.

  ... Jiang Xia thought with emotion, it can be seen that sometimes it is very important to learn a foreign language well.

   In addition, one should not be too shy.

  If Misa wasn’t too shy to ask for impressions in person, and only dared to ask someone to pass a note; or if Rob was more straightforward and wrote love with a big pen when asked, that would be another story…

   However, since there is a ghost child now, it means that the "suicide" three years ago is still in doubt, and it is difficult to say exactly how.

   (end of this chapter)