Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 746 A strange ghost appeared

   Conan, who was silently watching: "..." The panic was because of seeing you. Children are more likely to be afraid of violence, and Jiang Xia's aura was indeed a bit scary when he "acted bravely" in the past.

   Although Haihara Ai felt that there was no need for the children to be afraid of Jiang Xia, the same thought flashed in his heart.

   "That..." Ayumi Yoshida was looked at by Jiang Xia and hesitated.

   It may be that among the three, she has been rescued by Jiang Xia a little more times. Besides being afraid, she actually has a little more trust in this "handsome but vicious big brother" in front of her.

  Yoshida Ayumi hesitated for a while, and finally said hesitantly: "We were catching fish in the park nearby, and when we were preparing for a picnic in the middle, we suddenly smelled a strange smell..."

"weird smell?"

   "Yeah." Yoshida Ayumi nodded, thought for a moment, raised her hand and gestured, "It's just... I smelled it once before. When I was in the library, that kind of corpse that had been left for a while..."

   "Corpse?!" Conan was startled, he turned his attention away from the chocolate in his hand, and said seriously, "Are you sure?"

   Jiang Xia touched his chin and looked at the three real children in front of him. At such a young age, they even remembered the smell of corpses... They really have a lot of experience in the aspect of "encountering a murder".

  The three children nodded at the same time when they heard Conan's question. And subconsciously looked at Jiang Xia - this recently very famous detective, wanted to hear the opinions of professionals.

   As soon as he looked up, he found that for some reason, Jiang Xia looked at them with a hint of envy.

  “…”

   The three of them shuddered in unison and moved back a little unconsciously. Have a proper fear of strange emotions.

   Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko wiped away his cold sweat and tried to take his friends away: "After we smelled the smell, we searched nearby, but we couldn't find a place to hide the body at all.

   "Originally we wanted to ask Conan and Xiao Ai to come and help together. But Conan didn't reply to the message... Anyway, now, think about it, maybe we heard it wrong, that, it should be just a false alarm, we will say goodbye..."

   - He didn't want Jiang Xia to be regarded as a "bad boy lying". Decided to confuse the detective with too much justice, and then work with the juvenile detective team to find possible cases.

  However, although I wanted to say goodbye like Tosho Wakamatsu just now, the children's running speed was far less than that of the muscular man.

   Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko and Kojima Motota left the words "smell wrong" and planned to run away. However, after running a few steps with his head sullen, he realized that he had vacated and couldn't run out at all.

   Jiang Xia picked up the juvenile detective team who had brought them to the door, and said friendly: "Just to be on the safe side, let's go and take a look - children's observation skills are often very keen, and your opinions should not be ignored."

  Yoshida Ayumi heard that Jiang Xia actually believed them. In addition to being surprised, she was a little moved for a while, and nodded her head excitedly.

   The other two dangling little boys stared at her silently: "..." Be awake! In case this is for fishing law enforcement!

  …

  This area is close to the suburbs, and the stations are not dense.

   From the station where they were, to the place where the Detective Boys caught fish, there were two or three streets across.

  The latter three followed the children towards the park.

   Walking, when he was about to reach the park, Jiang Xia found that the ghosts seemed to be puzzled, and they looked like when they were at Minagawa's house just now, they gathered together to discuss whether the scent of the perfume existed or not.

  Jiang Xia observed for a while, and then, by slapping his clothes, he picked up two ghosts with more sensitive senses and put them on his shoulders, thereby transferring the place of their discussion to his ears.

   Then I heard it clearly.

  ——The ghosts seem to feel that there is a faint smell of ghosts ahead.

   But the breath was very strange, and from the distance it sensed, the new ghost that might exist was obviously not far away from them, but the ghosts' sense of it was not obvious.

   "..." Jiang Xia was also puzzled.

   According to the "distance" given by the ghosts, at this distance, he should also be able to vaguely feel the so-called "breath of ghosts".

   But actually it doesn't.

  ...Is that a very weak ghost?

   Or are there other strange disturbances that caused the ghosts to sense the wrong thing?

   "..." Anyway, it's hard to detect the breath of a new ghost. Even if it's just a suspicion, you should go over and take a look.

   Jiang Xia lowered his head as he thought, and glanced at the children who were leading the way in front of him. The more he looked, the more he felt that they looked like three lovely rich boys. His eyes became peaceful again.

  …

When    walked to the entrance of the park, Ayumi raised her hand and pointed to the center of the park from a distance.

   There was a landscape tree with branches: "That's where it smelled, under that tree -- where we had tablecloths before."

   Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko hurriedly followed her words to pave the way: "But the smell is very light, it may also be the smell of garbage left by other tourists..."

   The smell is very light... Conan pondered - according to his understanding of these three curious children, after detecting the abnormal smell, they will definitely look for it nearby. And so far, apart from the so-called "light corpse odor" under the tree, they haven't found a stronger smell elsewhere. If there is a source of smell, it must be near that tree.

but……

  Conan raised his head and looked around the tree carefully.

   It was found that the terrain was flat, there was no shelter for hiding, and the land was also a whole, and there was no trace of being overturned. Although there are more branches on the tree, in the current season, the branches and leaves are sparse, and it is impossible to hide the body at a glance.

  "..." Conan's interest in this matter dropped slightly after a brief observation.

  ——Maybe it was just some unethical person who came to the neighborhood for a BBQ, and left some raw meat used as ingredients nearby.

Recalling that he felt that there were really corpses hidden in the park just based on the words of the children, Conan sighed: The children are always surprised, and their thinking has been led astray by them. .

   Think about it carefully, there are so many murders here - they just met together.

   In Conan's impression, unless it is a serial murder case, he rarely encounters two murders a day.

……Ok? No, wait.

   "rarely" does not actually mean "none".

   Speaking of which, in his past life, Conan remembered that he had really encountered "more than one incident in a day".

   And those times, carefully calculated... Jiang Xia was present every time.

   (end of this chapter)