Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 398 Strange new vest (joint chapter)

   After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Xia went around the police pile again.

   Then I managed to get some information.

  ——According to the reasoning of Hattori Heiji, Takeda Shinichi was using puppets to sell drugs.

However, after the police inspected the puppets in the Takeda family's inventory, they found that although there were holes in them, they didn't contain anything. customer list.

  In the end, the police temporarily held a small meeting in the courtyard on whether Takeda Shinichi was selling drugs.

  Jiang Xia didn't listen anymore and left with peace of mind.

  The list of drugs and clients disappeared at the same time, indicating that people from the organization have come here to deal with the aftermath. Gin should have followed, after all, he did say "coming later" before.

Moreover, Jiang Xia recalled and found that when he was still staying at Takeda's house and didn't go to see the stars, there was no trace of the people in black around - otherwise, when the ghosts jumped up and down to catch Miss Spider, they should be able to see... Said that the aftermath took place after he left the Takeda home.

  It was late at that time, and now, it was just the first day of his business trip with Gin and Vodka, and the time was not tight enough that Gin needed to catch two tasks overnight.

   After all, I heard from the ghosts who visited Jinjiu box last night that Jinjiu may have been too busy, or maybe he was waiting to see Boss Yun's death. In short, he also didn't close his eyes all night.

   And gin has no ghost mint to drink, and can only replenish energy through sleep. So he should not go to the island tonight, but find a place to rest.

  Jiangxia feels ok.

   As long as you wait at the dock on time tomorrow, you should be able to reunite with the two men in black.

  …

   Hattori Heiji's reasoning was over and after picking up the ghost on Rob's leg, Jiang Xia got into the police car and went down the mountain overnight.

   Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha didn't stay much.

   Although Hattori Heiji was quite concerned about the disappearing drugs, he could only hand over the matter to the police for investigation first-because it was past midnight, it was Sunday, and he had to go to school tomorrow. Also, I haven't finished my homework this weekend...

  Thinking of this, Hattori Heiji looked at Jiang Xia, who was sitting next to him and glanced at his phone from time to time: "Why don't you have class."

  The phone still has no signal.

  Jiang Xia buttoned the screen, and sighed uninterestedly: "Wait until you fail to get full marks in the test - otherwise, it feels like a waste of time."

Hattori Heiji:"……?"

  ...he felt like he was being ripped off by someone, but he had no proof.

  …

When    arrived in the city, the three got out of the car and waved their hands away.

   Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha took a taxi to the station, ready to go back to Osaka.

   Jiang Xia thought about it and took a taxi to a pier.

   Then I found the nearest hotel to stay.

  ——On the way down the mountain just now, his mobile phone finally connected to the signal and received an email from Gin.

   Perhaps considering that Jiang Xia might be hanging out with the police, there is no text in this email, only a ","

  According to the itinerary confirmed before departure, this means that everything is going on as usual - it means that, on the day after Takeda Shinichi was obliterated, go to the scheduled pier, take the boat prepared by the organization in advance, and go to Moon Shadow Island.

   So after Jiang Xia came to the Wharf Hotel, he deliberately chose the room on the third floor, the highest floor.

  This is barely a sea view room. Looking out from the window, you can just see the port. You can let the ghosts take turns to stand guard and observe when the gin and vodka arrive, so as to prevent the travel time from being missed.

   went back to the room and locked the door, Jiang Xia first found the anti-surveillance equipment and fiddled with it.

   After confirming that it was all right, he took off Miss Spider who was still sitting on his shoulders.

   It may be difficult for a normal ghost to maintain this sitting posture on his shoulders, and it is easy to fall down when walking and stopping.

   But this ghost has her unique skills - when she is unsteady, she secretly sticks out its spider legs from behind, hooks Jiang Xia's clothes to adjust her figure, and keeps her human body still.

   The ghost cried all the way just now, but now, maybe the vast ocean has some healing effect on the ghost. Miss Spider looked at the vast ocean outside, wiped her face, and stopped crying.

   Jiang Xia nodded secretly, just as there was no one here, while she was in a calm mood, sign the ghost first...

   went to the window and closed the window tightly.

   Then Jiang Xia put the nervous lady spider on the bed, skillfully opened the collar, pierced the tattoo on his heart, and dripped the blood drop on the spider ghost's body.

   A series of frying-like movements sounded, blood boiled and gathered and scattered, frantically roaming along the ghost's body.

  Other ghosts poked their heads neatly from the edge of the bed, watching curiously.

  Miss Spider secretly clenched her sleeves at first, quite tight. Later, she found that the process didn't seem as painful as she thought, so she relaxed again and stared at it curiously as the blood dripped.

   But soon, her eyes couldn't keep up with the blood drop.

   It's not that the blood is moving too fast.

   But it finally stopped on Miss Spider's forehead, gradually forming a "z" pattern.

   Jiang Xia: "..."

   Before he thought - since Miss Spider can take back her eight claws, then if she is used as a puppet, she might be able to make a normal human-shaped vest.

   Although he is a little far from the adult male ghost that Jiang Xia was looking forward to, he is at least a normal person. When it is not convenient to use Miyano Akemi, there is no need to drive around the pregnant woman or the pregnant man of the ghost parent.

   Who would have thought that now, the tattoos are condensed on the forehead.

  The location of the tattoo on the ghost body cannot be selected, it is all random.

   It's just that Jiang Xia now discovered that Xiaobai, Miyano Akemi, and Miss Spider, who have normal human shapes, or may have normal human shapes, have one tattoo on their neck, one on their eyes, and one on their forehead, all of which are quite conspicuous.

On the contrary, these monsters, which are usually inconvenient to drive out, are harder to find one tattoo than the other - the misty dog ​​is hidden in the middle of the two wings, the inseparable parent ghost is at the connection, the mermaid is on the back waist...the mermaid's The tattoos can usually be seen, but this is not because of the obvious location, but because there are few vests and clothes made by her.

  ... In short, in a sense, this pattern is quite intelligent, and it will accurately block.

   But fortunately, the position of the small white pattern can be covered with a scarf, and Miyano Akemi can use sunglasses. In the case of Miss Spider, the bamboo hat that comes with it may be useful, but you have to bow your head a little more often...

   Jiang Xia was in a complicated mood for a moment, sighed, and stopped thinking about it, and his attention quickly shifted to another place.

  ——When the ghost and the psychic sign a contract, they have a chance to awaken a certain skill due to each other's status.

  For example, Xiaobai's forced confession, Miyano Akemi's 1-second invincibility, parent ghost's fire prevention, mermaid's underwater breathing, and Wutengu's one-click suicide... Ah no, death reappears.

   From this point of view, Jiang Xia felt that he was quite talented, or that the ghosts in this world were very talented—let alone the content of the skills, at least all the ghosts he signed in had successfully awakened their skills.

  The new lady Spider is no exception.

   Although her skills are also rather strange.

   Jiang Xia remembered the legend that Yoko Takeda had introduced to them when he was at the Spider Mansion, and felt that this skill should probably be named "Question and Answer in Heaven"...

   The person who initiates it, can ask three questions to a specific target

  ——"Do you think there is a heaven in this world?"

   - "What kind of place is that?"

  ——“Would you like to come and see with me?”

If all three questions are asked and the target nods at the last question, then, whether sincere or perfunctory, that person will be lost to a place where no one can find it within the next 1 to 72 hours, The specific time is random.

   If at the end of the question, the target refuses to leave together, then from the time of his refusal, within 1-72 minutes, the person who activates the skill can grow eight spider legs that can be manipulated freely.

   In addition, there is a third case.

- If the target of the question refuses to answer, or fails to wait for the third question and leaves in a fidgety halfway, then for the next 1 to 72 minutes, the person who activates the skill will fall into some extreme lack of self-confidence , and will try to hang himself on the beam, wander to the side of the mountain and jump off the cliff... or take the initiative to perform some other dangerous restarting behavior.

   Jiang Xia: "..."

   He was silent about this skill for a full minute, and he always felt that it was similar to Wutengu's skill that "can restore the death method that he has seen before on the activator".

   - It is very convenient to commit suicide.

...after all, according to normal circumstances, most people probably don't have time to listen to a person asking these three questions, and answer them one by one... That is to say, with this skill, 80% of them will jump directly to the third a situation.

   However, this skill is at least more practical than that of Misttengu.

   Because in detail, this world is actually a little different from the world Jiang Xia is used to.

   - The concentration of middle 2 is higher here. The more powerful people are, the more they seem to like to be talkative in certain situations.

  As for people who are not powerful... If you put a knife on their necks, you should be able to exchange for a chance for a peaceful conversation. At that time, you will not only be able to ask three questions, but even have the opportunity to guide the answer.

   Therefore, to achieve the first lost ending, the difficulty may not be as high as imagined.

   In addition, Jiang Xia is not alone - he has many puppets.

   Using a puppet to ask questions, it would be nice if the first situation or the second situation can be achieved. In case of unfortunate encounter with the third type, the one who suffers from the negative state is also a puppet.

  If the vest wants to commit suicide, let it go, anyway, it is not the first time that the vests have died...

   The only thing to worry about is whether the dangerous state will continue after the vest disappears by suicide and the consciousness returns to the body, until the time for the negative effects ends.

   However, judging from the feedback when signing the contract, this negative state is not an instant-death skill like Wutengu, but a process of continuous change of mentality.

   In other words, if the will is strong enough to resist the mentality of wanting to commit suicide, then let alone the body, even the vest will not die.

  ...the more I think about it, the more my heart moves.

   After all, after getting a strange new skill, how many people can't resist trying...

   Even Wutiangu's suicide skill, Jiang Xia had tried with a vest before, and he even managed to scare someone with a lot of shikigami on them and jump off a cliff.

  Miss Spider's skills, if used well, will only be more effective.

   After all, aside from the third case, at least the first result is very useful. It can make someone disappear for a certain period of time. It is really a good supplement for psychics who are inconvenient to kill.

   And the psychic has a very strong ability to control thoughts and emotions. On the bright side, the negative effects may not affect him too much at all.

   But you can't rashly die...

Jiang Xia struggled for a long time, and finally decided to find a place that lacks an environment for suicide when he has free time. First, put the body there and fix it, or even find a reliable person to help watch it; then drive the puppet to provoke a The irritable brother who will answer the question seriously, try the specific negative effect of the third situation.

   Although it is difficult to trap a psychic who can manipulate puppet clay, regardless of people or equipment, Jiang Xia felt that the negative state brought about by this skill should not make him work hard enough to use those things to kill himself. And if it is really affected to that extent... then he will not commit suicide.

   Jiang Xia silently pressed his temple and moved his hand away.

   After having a simple plan, bold ideas, and a series of operation plans for the newly added skills, Jiang Xia temporarily put aside this painful and happy problem, and began to gather puppet clay in the room.

   He wanted to try a new vest.

   In an instant, many more shikigami than when he first came to this world flew out from under his feet, gradually accumulating into a white clay-like colloid in the center of the room.

   Then, Jiang Xia poked Miss Spider again and let her melt in too.

   Soon, a figure in a white kimono and a white gauze hat gradually formed in the room.

   Jiang Xia moved his consciousness to the puppet, and thoughtfully pressed the hat above his head.

  In the past, when pinching puppets, the clothes would be generated according to the habits and aesthetics of the ghosts. After that, Jiang Xia could make some simple adjustments according to the quantity and quality of the puppet clay.

   However, Miss Spider seems to be deeply influenced by the legend, and she is also very persistent in this style, and Jiang Xia can't change it.

  ...Fortunately these days, there are actually many people wearing kimonos on the streets. Although I haven't seen the person wearing a hat, he can barely look like a normal person - this is just enough to cover the tattoos on his head, as long as he pays more attention to bow his head.

   After briefly observing the shape of the puppet, Jiang Xia moved the body onto the bed and turned off the light.

   Then he drove the puppet, walked to the window, and silently pushed the window open a crack.

   There are not many people staying here, and it is past midnight now, and the lights of the entire building have been turned off except for the lobby.

  When people are in the puppets, the ghosts are also in the puppets, they can enjoy the benefits of night vision, and there is no need to borrow the ghost's eyesight.

   Jiang Xia's eyes swept around, but he didn't see anyone or equipment.

   He stood by the window, closed his eyes slightly, and carefully felt the current state of his body.

   After a while, there was a slight tearing sound from his back.

   (end of this chapter)