Conan’s Corpse Picker

  Chapter 684 Standard Procedures

  ——Just now, ホヅミ, after asking Jiang Xia and the others to leave a message to the guests in the Chishu Hotel, they stayed where they were, waiting for the customers to go up the mountain to meet.

   On the way, he rested for a while. When he regained his strength and was bored, he strolled back to the tree with the old handkerchief from the filming location, wondering why the guests were looking for this tree.

   Then happened to see a few members of the organization that Amuro Toru had found.

Before, Anshitou discovered that there were bones hidden under the tree, so he sent people over and asked them to hide and squat nearby, ready to wait for the rabbits, and obtained evidence that Mian Guanchen Sanzang corpse was with the cadres of the organization - this is likely to be Mian Guanchen The handle caught by Epimetheus is also the reason why he leaked the secret to the other party in this transaction. With this, it is almost possible to communicate with the organization.

   After those peripheral members arrived nearby, they discussed under the tree for a while, installed some equipment, and then found a place to hide.

  ホヅミ didn't know the inside story, just looked at those people from a distance who looked fierce and not good, so he didn't dare to approach.

   He hid behind a sturdy tree and watched for a while, and finally pretended that he was just a passing tourist, and returned to the place he made an appointment with Mian Guan Chen San.

   At the same time, his heart moved slightly, and he noticed some inconsistencies - this client was generous and seemed to have a deep obsession with that tree. But at the same time, the guests have not actively contacted themselves, and their whereabouts are somewhat secretive. Plus what happened just now...

   It seems that the guests are interested in more than the tree and the old red handkerchief on it.

   But there is another secret.

  ... For example, what treasure is buried there, and both forces are looking for it? He had heard a lot about this kind of treasure hidden in the mountains. The wave of people just now may have been installing detection equipment.

  Thinking of this, ホヅミ's eyes light up.

   It just so happened that he was very tight recently, and I wondered if he could force a guest to join him. After all, if there is really a treasure hidden under the tree, then the toll he received for leading the way is really meager. This is not the same price as "find a tree that can inspire screenwriters".

  ホヅミ I have been in the crew all the year round, I have seen a lot of dramas, and I also have some experience on how to be a qualified riddleman.

   After straightening his thoughts, he looked at Mian Guan Chensan, who was walking towards him, with a mysterious smile: "I found that tree."

   "Really?!" Mian Guanchensan smiled honestly and his tone was pleasantly surprised.

   Just as he was about to say something, he probed his mouth to see if ホヅミ noticed something was wrong with the tree.

   Before he could speak, he listened to ホヅミ's conversation, and there was a hint of threat in his tone of grasping some handle: "Tsk tsk, there is something incredible hidden there, I see..."

  ホヅミ wanted to say that he saw someone lingering nearby, and he must be a competitor of the guest.

   As a result, just after I said the beginning, my abdomen suddenly became cold.

   followed by severe pain.

"You know too much."

  Mian Guan Chensan, who had gray hair on the temples, changed his look of the kind old man just now, looked at him coldly, and then pulled out the short knife that was stabbing at Hajime's body.

  ホヅミ: "..." Wait, this, this is not the same as the promised direction...

   All the strength of the whole body seemed to drain from the wound, and ホヅミ slammed into a pile of dead leaves. His trembling lips moved, and he didn't know whether to call "Help!" or "I don't know anything"... The dim light disappeared from his eyes, and at the last moment of his life, in ホヅミ's mind With a sudden movement, with all his strength, he grabbed the booklet that he had fallen to the ground.

  …

   Amuro Toru was hiding behind a tree with Jiang Xia. Observe in the dark.

According to Amuro Toru's idea, the normal process is that after the two people have a brief conversation, they go to the place where the bones are hidden together. This process will be recorded by cameras hidden near the burial ground and members of the organization's periphery, becoming the target five. The iron evidence of the same group's infighting years ago, and then dug up the handle that he was caught by another organization.

   However, with the sound of the conversation between Hakaze and Tatsuzo Mianguan, Amuro gradually felt that the situation was not right.

   As soon as this thought flashed through his mind, he heard a scream from under the maple tree—Mian Guanchensan suddenly drew his sword and stabbed ホヅミ through it.

   Amuro Toru: "..."

   He actually wanted to save this innocent passerby, ホヅミ. After all, Mian Guan Chensan's past had little to do with the organization, so he didn't need to strictly follow the principle of confidentiality and kill all those in the know.

   But I didn't expect...too fast, threats and silence came too fast.

  This is not only Jiangxia, but also some other peripheral members of the organization. Amuro sighed in his heart, maintaining the emotions that Bourda should have, turning a blind eye to the death of a human life, and continued to watch indifferently, pretending that he had no intention of first aid and helped call an ambulance.

  Mian Guanchen finished killing three people, snorted coldly, but secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

   He also knew that his behavior of "paying a lot of money to ask someone to find an old tree with a red handkerchief" was a bit strange. But if the money is low, the TV station probably won't send someone to help him find the tree. And if you spend too much, it will cause some careless people to be alert as it is now.

  The worst plan that Mian Guan Chensan had made before was to call the police immediately after ホヅミ found the maple tree and discovered the accident out of curiosity. Then, the trouble will be big.

Fortunately, this stupid person did not do that, but chose the method of "threat"... Mian Guanchen and the three of them neatly straightened their collars, and left the corpse for the younger brother to deal with at night. Spin around nearby.

  —— Since ホヅミ discovered the secret of the corpse, it means that he must have cut through the soil.

   In other words, I don't need this stupid person to lead the way at all, I just need to turn around and see which tree has been flipped under, and I can easily find the target.

   A minute has passed.

   Five minutes passed.

   Half an hour passed.

  Mian Guanchen San looked around dozens of hundreds of trees, but found nothing.

  When it got dark, he kicked the tree trunk next to him angrily. The branches and leaves rustled, and there was a faint voice from the camping place in the distance. Mian Guanchen glanced over there, didn't stay any longer, left the body angrily, and hurried back in the direction of the hotel.

  …

  “…”

   After waiting for a moment, seeing that he was indeed gone, Toru Amuro and Jiang Xia walked out from behind the hidden rock.

   When Amuro walked over to ホヅミ and squatted down to check his vital signs, Jiang Xia glanced at the fresh shikigami that passed by him faintly, chasing after Mian Guanchensan, and was about to pick it up on the murderer's leg.

Then he retracted his attention, turned to look at the corpse on the ground, thought for a while and said, "I thought Mian Guan Chensan had already obtained the detailed address from Mr. Hami, but it seems that he didn't. So he dared to kill... …”

   (end of this chapter)