Conan’s Corpse Picker

  Chapter 393 Experienced Huihara Ai (joint chapter)

  "!" The three children didn't dare to make a sound, and they quickly retracted their hands.

   Jiang Xia watched them silently for a while, then looked away faintly.

   Of course he didn't beat up the children, after all, the children didn't have murderous intentions... Let's keep an account first, and I'll have to slap them a few more cases in the future.

  …

Beside   , Yuan Shan and Ye, who stepped on the human skull, gradually recovered from their shock. She also followed Hattori Heiji to see corpses before, and her resistance was stronger than ordinary people. Now that she suddenly encountered a skeleton, she subconsciously looked at Hattori Heiji...but she didn't find it.

  ...Oh, he is still concentrating on investigating the case in the Spider Mansion.

   Yuan Shan and Ye's frightened eyes instantly turned into half-moon eyes. For some reason, they felt a lot of grooves in their hearts and wanted to vomit, but they felt that the scene was not suitable, so they silently swallowed them back.

   In the end, her attention fell back to the present moment.

   Fortunately, there is a reliable detective next to him.

   Yuanshan and Ye turned to Jiang Xia and asked in a low voice, "What's up with these bones?"

   Jiang Xia borrowed the ghost's vision, and even in the middle of the night, the vision is very clear.

   He shook the flashlight meanly, and finally stopped the aperture somewhere, and said while observing:

   "It should be a human bone, with lime sprinkled next to it - lime absorbs water and releases heat, which can accelerate the decay of the corpse and shorten the time for ossification."

   That is, the human traces are heavy.

  Rob asked subconsciously: "Murder?"

   "Probably so." Jiang Xia wasn't interested in analyzing these things while standing in the wilderness, he wanted to see the ghosts first.

   So after observing for a while, he walked to a flat stone with a diameter of more than 30 centimeters next to him: "There seems to be traces of movement here..."

   said, squatted down and lifted the stone with force.

   I thought that there would be things like scorpions, ants, and scorpions under it.

   But not... It may be that the seasons change irregularly, and the fragile bugs are difficult to adapt.

   This made Jiang Xia feel a lot more at ease.

  He first asked Rob to take a few pictures, then he found the gloves he was carrying, and picked up what was crushed under the flat stone.

   - a mottled ring and a squashed cigarette case. In addition, there were some cigarettes scattered around.

   Jiang Xia opened the cigarette case and poured it into his hand.

   Six cigarettes fell into his palm through the glove, two of which were torn from the middle, four long and two short.

  ...a very typical death message.

  I don't know how the victims had an epiphany before they died, thinking of this...

  Haihara Ai squatted next to Jiang Xia with a flashlight to help him illuminate.

   Seeing the ring that Jiang Xia was holding in her hand, she was slightly startled - there were several letters engraved on the inside of the ring, ETSUKOtoASAO.

  Etsuko to Asao

   "This may be the pair of rings that Miss Nonomiya Etsuko gave to her fiancé, Mr. Asao Kono." Ai Haibara said in a low voice:

   "Miss Nonomiya is a resident of the hotel we were in. I heard that she came here with Mr. Kono a year ago. After the two had a big fight, Kono left the hotel alone and disappeared.

   "This year, Mr. Kono has not heard from him, until last week, he suddenly sent out several invitations, inviting those who received them to come to the hotel here.

   "Miss Nonomiya came here immediately after receiving the letter, but she couldn't wait for someone..."

  ...And now, there is a white bone under the mountain, and there is a ring of Kono Asao next to the bone.

  In this way, about a year ago, Nonomiya Etsuko and the others were gone.

  Haihara sighed in his heart, and looked up at the starry sky for a while, feeling that he had encountered a sad story.

   Then she turned to Jiang Xia and asked in a low voice, "Do you want to call the police?"

   If it was normal, she must have made a call to the police skillfully.

   But now, Jiang Xia is also there. And Hui Yuanai always felt that Jiang Xia sometimes was not so innocent and not afraid of investigation... So she thought that things like calling the police should be restrained as much as possible, and first ask Jiang Xia's opinion.

   Jiang Xia nodded.

   and then hesitantly said: "But this place..."

   Before he could finish speaking, the disappointed voices of Yuan Shan and Ye came: "No signal."

   Jiang Xia looked up at her. I almost forgot, this is also a professional alarm user, and the hand speed of 110 is not weaker than that of Mao Lilan.

  The mobile phone could not be used, and Haibara Ai quickly thought of another way: "I remember that the hotel we stayed in had a landline."

   But halfway through, she stopped.

  ——In the hotel where she stayed, three people were invited by the "invitation letter sent by Kono".

  But Kono is dead now, so there must be someone else who sent the invitation.

   And now, Kono's bones are scattered in front of this famous observation point... It seems that someone deliberately arranged it like this, only until the body is found.

   If the news of "there are dead people here" is brought back to the hotel step by step, no one knows whether it will follow the intention of the mastermind behind the scenes.

  Ai Haibara hesitated for a while, but didn't say these speculations - there are strangers, she has to maintain the image of "six-year-old child".

   And just now she mentioned Kono's invitation letter to Jiang Xia, Jiang Xia will definitely understand the hidden dangers without her needing to say it.

   So Hai Yuanai jumped to the conclusion. She looked at Jiang Xia and said briefly, "Where did you guys come from? If it's not far, why don't you go to your place and borrow a phone to call the police..."

   Before he finished speaking, a figure walked out of the deep forest.

   followed by an unfamiliar male voice, and the man asked hesitantly, "Call the police? Did something happen?"

   Jiang Xia looked up and saw a middle-aged man with long cheeks and short curly hair, holding a heavy discus-like object in his hand.

   Dr. A Li seems to know him: "Mr. Tiantu?"

   said, the doctor remembered the strange corpse at his feet, and couldn't help but become suspicious: "What are you doing here?"

  The owner of Tiantu is the owner of the hotel where Dr. A Li and his party stayed.

   also operates telescope rental business.

   He handed over the lead in his hand and said honestly: "I just remembered that there was a pair of lead weights missing from the set of telescopes you borrowed. I forgot to put them back after I used them up last time."

   After saying that, he seemed to still care about what Haibara Ai had just said. He swept his eyes casually and quickly saw the skeleton on the ground.

  The air froze for a moment.

   The next second, the owner of Tiantu let out a shriek, ran away, and rushed back to the hotel.

   Jiang Xia silently watched his back, feeling that his acting skills were a bit exaggerated.

but……

   "Since it has been discovered, let's use the phone in the hotel to call the police." Jiang Xia said with a helpless expression on his face, and said with anticipation in his heart.

   Yuan Shan and Ye nodded, not too daring to look at the skeletons on the ground, full of "call the police".

  Rob did not expect to encounter another murder case. In fact, he doesn't really want to deal with the police, but he is away from home now. If the police testify, the alibi at the Spider Mansion will look more solid. So he quickly nodded in agreement.

  …

   The group was on their way to the hotel.

   A dozen kilometers away, in the Spider Mansion.

   Hattori Heiji is chatting with Takeda Ryuji.

   At this time, Takeda Yuzo hurriedly opened the door: "Have you seen Big Brother? He just said he would go to the studio to be a puppet, but I searched the house and couldn't find him."

"what?!"

   Although an adult has only been missing for an hour or two, it is not a problem.

   But Hattori Heiji still had a bad premonition.

  He followed the Takeda family to find a place, and suddenly thought of a place:

   "Have you found the abandoned warehouse built on the Spider Temple?"

   Takeda Yong saw a hanged corpse there three or three years ago, and now he feels terrified when he mentions the warehouse, of course he didn't take the initiative to go: "No, no."

   "Go up and see!"

   A group of people stepped on the dusty stairs and rushed to the door of the warehouse on the second floor.

   The warehouse door was firmly locked.

   Hattori Heiji turned the doorknob, only to feel some kind of alarm bell in his head.

   He immediately asked someone to find an axe and smashed the door.

   A few axe fell, and the cracked wooden door creaked and slid open.

   A corpse hanging in the air appeared in front of him.

  Takeda Shinichi hangs in this dusty warehouse like a poor insect stuck on a spider's web.

  “…”

   Hattori Heiji stared at the corpse, his mind went blank for a moment. Takeda Shinichi just left the table for more than an hour. In such a short time... who killed him?

   "Master Spider, this, this is the same as the legend of Master Spider..." Takeda Ryuji looked at his eldest brother dead, his heart froze, and at the same time, he couldn't help thinking of his niece and daughter who was hanged here.

   When he mentioned his niece, Takeda Ryuji thought of the two people who went to the cemetery to worship Misa just now: "By the way, Rob and the others are going to the cemetery now, I heard that there are often spiders haunting!"

  "?!" Hattori Heiji's face turned brown as he thought of Toyama Kazuha.

  Although he doesn't believe that there is such a thing as "Master Spider" in the world, the death of Takeda Shinichi means that there is indeed a murderer who is using the name of Master Spider to kill.

   And "Master Spider" is often in the cemetery, which may be equivalent to that the murderer also often haunts the cemetery!

   This is too dangerous!

   Hattori Heiji felt that he should be frightened at this time, after all, his companions are now in the cemetery.

   But in fact, when it comes to "dangerous", I think of Jiang Xia who went with me...

The two words    were linked together, making Hattori Heiji's mind unable to help subtly swerve-he thought of the murderers who had been moaning in front of his eyes, but he couldn't help them.

  ...and a certain high school detective who stepped on the murderer and kept beating.

  “…”

Hattori Heiji silently glanced at Takeda Shinichi, who was hanging in the warehouse, and suddenly realized that he should be more worried than worrying about Ye and Jiangxia being assassinated by the murderer-he is busy solving the case, and he is only a few clues away. When he was able to understand everything, Jiang Xia suddenly came back with a half-dead murderer who had been beaten, and threw it on the ground with ease, saying, "I met the murderer by accident and felt suspicious, so I held down and beat him. Now he It's all taken care of" or something like that...

  "..." Blood pressure came up.

   Hattori Heiji knocked on his head for the Nth time, making his thinking become like a normal high school detective instead of always thinking about some messy things.

   He cleared his throat and took a deep breath: "Call the police first."

  …

   Deep in the mountains.

   Boss Tiantu's hotel is indeed not far from the star observation point.

   In this season, tourists are quite rare. After Jiang Xia entered the room, he glanced around and found that the few guests were all gathered in the hall - a woman with a jug and a drunk, a middle-aged man with a high hairline, and a man with a spiky head .

  Except for the surprised boss Tiantu, the other three guests were all found by the invitation letter from the late "Mr. Kono".

  One of them is Kono Asao's fiancée, Nonomiya Etsuko.

   The other two have little to do with Kono - they are the editor and editor-in-chief of an astronomical magazine called "SpaceSunday". The only intersection between the two of them and Kono was a year ago, on the day Kono disappeared, they both stayed at this hotel.

   Haibara Ai's eyes first fell on Nonomiya Etsuko.

   Some time ago, after Haibara Ai defected from the organization, she had a lot more free time than before. She subscribed to many newspapers that often reported Jiangxia's crime-solving deeds.

   In a newspaper, there is not only one case, Haibara Ai often flips through it and reads it all, so it also fills a lot of experience in solving cases.

   So in her opinion, the current lineup and configuration in the hotel, combined with the cause and effect, looks like someone is trying to find the enemy who killed Kono.

  Haihara Ai remembered the news she heard during the time when Jiang Xia was away, and thought it might be useful.

   So he came over again and quietly added information to Jiang Xia: "Boss Tiantu also seems to have a good relationship with the deceased - Mr. Kono and Miss Nonomiya are his juniors in college, and the two often come here for vacations together."

  The moment Jiang Xia entered the door, he had already read all the places to look. And successfully saw a somewhat outdated shikigami on the leg of one of them, confirming the murderer who killed Asao Kono.

   However, he remembered that there was still a ghost to pick up.

   So Jiang Xia withdrew his hidden gaze, and like a detective who was really solving a case, he murmured to Haiyuan in a low voice:

   "It seems that the person who sent the invitation and planned all this is more likely to be between Miss Nonomiya and Mr. Tiantu."

   Of course, these all have a premise - the deceased is really Kono Asao.

   Fortunately, this is not difficult to confirm.

  ——The corpse scattered under the hill, the front teeth had cavities, after asking Nonomiya, this can match the characteristics of Kono.

   In the gap between their simple conversations, Boss Tiantu kept dialing the phone, trying to call the police, but he didn't dial out for a long time.

   Jiang Xia looked at the boss who was doing his best to perform, and approached and knocked on the phone: "Don't press it, it's not plugged into the phone line."

   "What?!" The owner of Tiantu was shocked again. He looked at the landline, "No wonder I always feel that something is not right..."

   Jiang Xia: "..."

   In his impression, the one who sent invitations, hid telephone lines, and even discovered the bones on the mountain first was this boss.

  The owner of Tiantu only knew that his younger brother died tragically, but he didn't know who killed him.

   So he found all the people who lived here when Kono disappeared, hoping that after seeing the body, he would surrender himself, or reveal his flaws, and be packaged and brought back by the police as a performance.

   (end of this chapter)