Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 397 Don't run away with gin (joint chapter)

   The calm middle-aged editor-in-chief looked at Hattori Heiji and the policemen who got out of the car one after another, and was moved to tears: "I surrender!"

Hattori Heiji:"……?"

   He glanced at Yuan Shan and Ye and the three children whose eyes were a little dull, and then looked at Jiang Xia who was sitting on the sofa next to him, who seemed a little tired for some reason.

   Finally, he looked down at the bald man who was hugging his leg and crying bitterly.

  ... This middle-aged man who was shouting to surrender himself did not have any scars on his face. However, as he scrambled desperately in the direction of the police at the door, his clothes were scratched by the floor, and a large area was exposed on his shoulders, and a lot of bruises could be vaguely seen inside.

  "..." Hattori Heiji silently wiped his face. Although he wasn't there just now, he probably already knew what happened here...

   The policeman who walked here obviously felt that the atmosphere in the room was a little strange. He asked, "What's going on?"

   Hattori Heiji was slightly surprised when he heard someone approaching. He leaned down in a conditioned reflex, and brushed the neckline that was showing too much of Ogami Heihachi back to its original shape.

   He then dragged the person up and handed it over to the policeman walking behind him. He cleared his throat with a guilty conscience: "Well, he seems to have found out his conscience and said he is going to surrender..."

   "Huh?" The tall policeman was a little puzzled.

But seeing Ogami Heihachi crying with snot and tears, and the whole person exuding a "take me away" atmosphere, the police felt that they understood again - the murderer should have just been exposed by the detective. , found that there was a misunderstanding in his murder, and he was regretting it... They have seen this kind of thing a lot.

  The police pulled the man into the police car and sat down.

  ——Actually, he wanted to let people sit in the hotel lobby and ask about the situation first, but Heihachi refused to go back.

   So I had to get into the police car...

  …

   Hattori Heiji looked at the closed police car door and breathed a sigh of relief.

  ...Although I don't agree with Jiang Xia's somewhat illegal behavior, Jiang Xia did this to protect the innocent people in the hotel.

And although Jiang Xia's beating looks scary, but thinking about it carefully, he rarely hits people actively - every time a criminal tries to attack someone, Jiang Xia stops it, and then he can't stop the car a little, which makes it seem cruel ...

   Having said that, Hattori Heiji always felt that he had been an accomplice, and his conscience was a little embarrassed, and I was sorry for the law he respected.

   However, as a mixed-race little sister reached out and dragged the policeman, she pointed at the sofa. Then the police fished out a slightly bent rifle from under the sofa... Hattori Heiji straightened his back again.

  Jiang Xia and the others actually encountered a gunman. For this kind of person, they should really strike first and deprive the other party of their ability to resist - in case they have other mini guns hidden on them.

  …

The case of the    hotel has been deduced, and the murderer is also very cooperative.

  Some reporters arrived a little late. Haibara Ai noticed them keenly, and immediately pulled up her hood to cover her conspicuous hair, put on a cartoon mask that fit the image of a child to cover her face, and then hid behind the large Dr. skilled.

   The police did not notice this small episode. They left part of their hands to collect evidence. After the other police officers registered the contact information of everyone in the hotel, they were going to the Spider Mansion to continue working overtime to deal with the unfinished cases there.

   Jiang Xia also went back.

   Next, he plans to transfer to Moon Shadow Island, and the Spider Mansion is closer to the pier than the hotel.

In addition, an enthusiastic cop seemed to recognize him and told him that there was a new murder at the Spider Mansion - this little policeman told him what he knew about the Spider Mansion while his colleagues were busy with the Star Hotel. Jiang Xia told Jiang Xia all the details. Then he stared at Jiang Xia eagerly, as if he was staring at a magical machine that could immediately spit out the list of murderers by inputting on-the-spot information.

Jiang Xia was silent for a moment, and left a sentence, "Rob is a little suspicious", and then didn't say any more, and planned to go to the police car-knowing that there was a case in the Spider Mansion, as a high school detective with a strong desire to know, if he didn't go, he would It seemed so strange.

  …

Jiang Xia shared a police car with Hattori Heiji, Yuan Shan, and Ye, while Rob got into the other car, and both sides avoided each other in a tacit understanding-Rob didn't try to drive the truck again. The puppet clay was blocked so tightly that he had the illusion that the car couldn't drive.

   This time, Hattori Heiji was the only one who stayed in the Spider Mansion to solve the case. It may be that some kind of potential has been stimulated. He has already collected a lot of information, only the final finishing language is needed.

  Since the case-solving mission has basically been completed, Hattori Heiji is more concerned about another thing than this.

   "When you were away, I heard a lot of things from the servants of the Takeda family." Hattori Heiji sighed as he spoke, "I probably know why Takeda Misa suddenly hanged himself."

   When the police officer told Jiang Xia about the murder of the Spider Mansion, Yuan Shan and Ye also listened a lot.

   So after getting in the car, she kept her ears open, eavesdropping on the two people in the back seat discussing the case. Hearing this sentence suddenly, Tai clasped the back of his chair and turned his head, wondering, "Why?"

   "Three years ago, Rob's message when he left——"

   Hattori Heiji glanced at the police car diagonally in front of him, his eyes retracted complicatedly.

Then he raised his hand and gestured a few letters to Yuanshan and Ye in the air: "When asked about his evaluation of Miss Meisha, he wrote 'shine' to describe his first impression of Meisha, meaning she was like a Hikaru. But Miss Misa's English isn't very good, so I read the word in Japanese romanization and pronounced it as 'shine'..."

   Yuanshan and Ye were stunned. Suddenly I feel a little sad and a little ridiculous.

  Jiang Xia suddenly felt numbness in his shoulders... It wasn't psychological numbness, it was real numbness.

He glanced at the car window, and through the reflection of the dark sky, he vaguely saw Miss Spider, who was sitting on his shoulders, stretched out her eight pointed legs at some point, and clawed him tightly as if there was nowhere to put it. . The translucent bamboo hat on the top of Xingui's head drooped down, and large teardrops flowed out under the cover. The tears gathered on her chin, and dripped into her clothes one by one, and finally returned to the ghost body... This cycle is very economical.

   Just tossing back and forth is a bit murderous...

I just heard a lot of murderousness from the editor-in-chief of Xie Ding. Jiang Xia thought about it and became a little more generous for a short time. He took out a ghost mint and lit it, intending to relieve his exhaustion from all night + staying up late, and by the way, make up for Miss Spider to prevent She burst into tears for a while.

   The lighter clicked, the flame jumped out, and the cigarette end lit up a circular spark with breathing.

   Yuan Shan and Ye Yuan's dull gaze moved slightly and moved over.

   She looked at the cigarette that didn't quite match with Jiang Xia, and felt that she should say something like "You're not legal to smoke", "There are still policemen in front of you"...

   However, he secretly turned his head and found that the little policeman driving the car seemed to be a young man who had just joined the job. He was still shocked by this absurd love tragedy, and he didn't notice that someone was sitting behind him in violation of the underage smoking prohibition law.

Looking at Jiang Xia again, thinking of what happened just now, Yuan Shan and Ye thought, maybe this is some kind of relief channel for Jiang Xia... and this cigarette doesn't smell much like tobacco, but more like some plants... Maybe it just looks like smoke, but it's actually a special potion made by that strange doctor in Tokyo.

   So in the end, she just stared at Jiang Xia's smoke silently and said nothing.

   Hattori Heiji did not have such a complicated and tortuous mental journey - he was still concentrating on how to solve the case later.

  Although the detective should not hide the truth, the Shine incident does not seem to have much impact on the follow-up of the case.

   "Don't talk about it." Jiang Xia felt that Miss Spider was pulling him a little harder, so he had to open his mouth to adjust the balance in Hattori Heiji's heart:

   "'Suicide by hanging because of Shine', after all, is just a conjecture, maybe there are other secrets in it. If you are uncertain, hide it from the police first - this is not for favoritism, just to avoid misleading others."

  "!" Hattori Heiji felt that the second half of the sentence made sense, and immediately stopped tangled, "That's right."

   The policeman in the front row: "..."

   He was still in the car, but it was too much to say "Hiding the police" in front of him.

  ... But forget it, since everyone thinks he doesn't exist, he also pretends not to hear it. The young police officer sighed in a complicated mood and continued to be a car driver with no emotion.

   Hattori Heiji finished his tangle, and with extra energy, he suddenly realized one thing.

   He paused for a moment, and looked at Jiang Xia suspiciously: "Why do I feel that you are not surprised at all after hearing this tragic misunderstanding... You already knew that?"

  “…”

   Jiang Xia actually wanted to put on a surprised expression just now, but was interrupted by Yuan Shan and Ye.

   Later, he was attracted by the spider ghost, and he was very concerned about those crystal tears, worried that they were not caught by the sleeves, fell elsewhere, and would be difficult to recover... For a moment, he forgot to fool Hattori Heiji.

   However, in the face of these high school detectives who are full of brain power, they are starting to fool now, and it should be too late...

   Jiang Xia bit the cigarette **** of Ghost Mint and said softly: "It's not just the surprise on the face that is called surprise."

  ——He needs a cigarette to suppress his shock, which is not much more serious than being surprised on his face.

Hattori Heiji:"……"

   Although it makes sense, he always felt that the Tokyo detective was perfunctory to him...

   However, remembering that this afternoon, on their way to Takeda's house together, Rob used "shining" and "shine" to describe Takeda Misa when chatting.

   Think about the police fanboy who gave Jiang Xia information about the spider mansion...

   Hattori Heiji suddenly felt that it was normal for Jiang Xia to think of Shine before he spoke - Jiang Xia, it's not strange to see anything in the shortest time, everyone who understands it.

  …

   Smoothed the case of the Spider Mansion, and resolved Miss Spider's request. Jiang Xia stuffed the burnt out ghost mint into a portable ashtray.

   Then, under the strange gaze of Heiji Hattori, which was sometimes suspicious, and sometimes suddenly realized, he strategically pretended to sleep.

   Judging from the information provided by Hattori Heiji just now, the Kansai detective had already deduced the case before following the police to the Star Hotel.

   It's just that Hattori Heiji was still struggling with Rob's Shine message, and the fact that there was a sudden murder case at the Star Inn, he didn't start solving the case.

   Now that the problem has been resolved, Jiang Xia thought that when he "wakes up", Hattori Heiji should have solved the case automatically.

  ...I hope that after reading the report of Hattori Heiji solving the case, potential clients in the future will realize that inviting this Osaka detective over may bring disaster to the client. Then, in order to avoid this disaster, he turned to sending letters of appointment to other detectives—yes, such as a friendly, efficient high school student detective in Tokyo.

  …

   Hattori Heiji finished tangled with Shine, and planned to go through his own case-solving process with Jiang Xia again - it was like doing a question in the usual way. But if there is an answer next to it, many people can't help but glance at it... Hattori Heiji is in this situation at this time.

   He just straightened his thoughts and turned his head. Before he could shake Jiang Xia with his eyes closed, Yuan Shan and Ye in the front row suddenly stretched out an arm and slapped his mouth with a precise slap.

   Yuan Shan and Ye whispered: "Don't disturb him to rest - I heard that yesterday he met the child named Conan and was forced to stay up all night."

  ...Although Yuan Shan and Ye didn't know what "meeting Conan" had to do with "staying up all night", when she was dozing off at the Star Hotel just now, she heard Jiang Xia explain this to his acquaintances.

   And the grandfather and the children did not refute Jiang Xia after listening. Apparently this may be the truth.

   Hattori Heiji understood.

   Jiang Xia also encountered a case on the way?

  Since this is the case, it will be published in the newspaper almost tomorrow, and then I will buy a copy and come back to watch...

Thinking of this, Hattori Heiji couldn't help but glanced at Jiang Xia again: This guy actually gave Kudo the pot, obviously he could hit the case if he came out to see a star, but it was still two lives, and the one who broke through the night when he met Kudo was included. Together, we met three times in one day... Hey, what the **** is going on with this person.

   Hattori Heiji feels that this probability is beyond the scope of "coincidence".

   But on second thought, the frequency of his own encounters with cases is also ridiculously high in the eyes of ordinary citizens.

   Maybe ordinary citizens look at him with exactly the same feeling as he looks at Jiang Xia now... Anyway, this should just be some kind of coincidence. It may even be God's will, something like "the stronger the case-solving ability, the more cases will be piled up".

  No, no, the world is materialistic, you have to believe in science, there is no providence...

   Hattori Heiji briefly fell into chaos.

  …

   When he arrived at Takeda's house, Jiang Xia took advantage of Hattori Heiji's reasoning and went around to a small dark corner nearby.

   However, no suspicious man in black ran out to join him.

  The mobile phone still has no signal, and cannot receive emails and text messages.

   Jiang Xia looked at the empty inbox, and couldn't help but start to worry that Gin and Vodka thought it was too troublesome to encounter a murder along the way, so they left him and ran away alone.

   (end of this chapter)