Conan's Corpse Picker

At the woman's feet there are one...two...a puddle of oddly shaped ghost fetuses.It looked like two ghosts were tightly hugging each other. From a distance, Jiang Xia couldn't tell whether it was one or two.

After Jiang Xia approached, the chairman began to talk about his commission.

With the natural memory bonus of a psychic, Jiang Xia can still remember everything he said.

So instead of entrusting, Jiang Xia's attention was all focused on the ghost beside him.

Chairman Nagato was out of energy, lying on his back on the bed while talking, not looking at Jiang Xia.It is very convenient for Jiang Xia to desert.

Under Jiang Xia's secret signal, Wu Tiangou flew over and landed next to Xin Guitai, followed by Xiaobai and Miyano Akemi.

The three ghosts sized up the shivering new ghost fetus, then looked up at Jiang Xia, and got Jiang Xia's secret urging.

So the ghosts stretched out their hands, one by one grabbed the two tightly hugged ghost fetuses, and tentatively pulled them.

The strangely shaped new ghost tire is stretched like a Q-bomb jellybean, and when the ghosts let go, it bounces back to its original shape.

Now, Jiang Xia can be sure - it is two dead people who formed this ghost fetus. When they died, their obsessions and souls merged together to become a brand new ghost...

All in all, this is one ghost fetus, not two.

Chapter 186 The New Ghost's Request

Fortunately, this little bit of regret is not enough to offset the joy of meeting a new ghost——ghost embryos are such a rare thing, and it is actually very lucky to be able to pick up one.

Moreover, Jiang Xia looked at the shape of the new ghost and its location, and then thought about the cases that might happen today... He felt that it would not be too difficult to get rid of the new ghost's obsession and abduct the ghost. thing.

After observing the situation, Jiang Xia tapped his fingers on his knee.

Xiaobai and the others received the order to let go of the surrounded new ghost and floated back.

The new ghost secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and slowly moved a little further away.

Jiang Xia began to listen to the commission again.

Just now, although Jiang Xia's attention was focused on the ghost, he also heard the words of Chairman Nagato - the chairman mentioned the change in the house last night, and wanted to ask Jiang Xia to help investigate.

While talking, Hinata Xing left due to business.

Several other members of Nagato's family appeared one by one, they were the chairman's two daughters, a son-in-law, and a son.

The son was wearing a knitted hat and his face was covered with bandages. The whole head was tightly covered, except for a pair of eyes.

This outfit doesn't quite match his name "Nagato Hideomi" - it's not delicate at all, but looks like a perverted killer in cosplay.As soon as Nagato Hideomi entered the door, Jiang Xia felt that Mao Lilan beside him tensed up and entered the fighting mode.

Fortunately, others quickly gave an explanation: 20 years ago, Nagato Hideomi rushed into the fire and rescued a little girl. He was burned to the point of disfigurement, so he covered his face with a bandage every day.

Nagato Hideomi said nothing, bowed and left quickly.

Looking at his back, Jiang Xia knew that this "Nagato Hideomi" was actually a fake—this was made up by Secretary Hinata Yuki.

And the real Nagato Hideomi committed suicide yesterday, and he must have died out by now...

Twenty years ago, Nagato Hideomi and his friend Nakajima Guangming caused a fire.The fire killed a couple.After Nagato Hideomi realized that he was in trouble, he rushed into the fire and rescued a little girl.

And the girl who was rescued was the current secretary of Chairman Nagato, Hyuga Yuki.

Nagato Hideomi has always been guilty of arson, and often visits Hinata Yuki.Hyuga Yuki didn't know that he was the enemy who caused the fire, and fell in love with him when he grew up, and proposed to him a while ago.

Nagato Hideomi agreed, but he felt more and more guilty. Finally, he couldn't bear the pressure and committed suicide by taking poison yesterday morning.Before his death, Nagato Hideomi wrote down the truth behind the fire in his suicide note.

Yuki Hinata was the first to find the body.After reading the suicide note, she learned painfully that apart from Nagato Hideomi, the person who set the fire was another person—Nakajima Guangming.

This person used to be a good friend of Nagato Hideomi, but now, he married Nagato Hideomi's younger sister, changed his surname to Nagato, and became the son-in-law of Nagato's family.

In grief and anger, Hinata decided to kill this person to avenge his parents.

……

Based on these facts, Jiang Xia originally thought that if there was a ghost fetus, it might be the disfigured Nagato Hideomi.

But now, looking at the shape of the pair of ghosts next to Hinata Yuki...it seems more like Hinata Yuki's parents.

After listening to the commission, Jiang Xia left Chairman Nagato's bedroom, and went to a place where there was no one on the pretext of checking the thief's traces.

He firmly believes that the pair of ghosts will come to him and ask him to help save his daughter.

As a result, after waiting for a long time, the new ghost did not show up at all.

Jiang Xia waited calmly for another 10 minutes.

Then losing patience, Youyou snapped his fingers and asked Wu Tiangou to fetch the new ghost and talk to him.

Jiang Xia and the three ghosts watched the new ghost walking, and understood why it was so slow: it was really not easy for two ghosts to walk together, and they could only walk sideways, which was even more difficult than two people with three legs ...

Jiang Xia was silent for a moment, and approached a few steps thoughtfully.It should be easy to come here to find him after so much effort.

It is true that the new ghosts did not refuse the contract, but they also made corresponding demands-they sensed their daughter's murderous intentions, and wanted to prevent Hinata Yuki from killing people, let her let go of the old things, and live a peaceful life of her own.

The second half of the task sounds a bit idealistic and not easy, but it is not so confusing.

Jiang Xia tentatively agreed, saying that he would try his best.

At worst, when the time comes, Hinata Yuki will be forcibly packed and sent elsewhere... She didn't choose to stab Nagato Guangming to death, but spent a lot of energy researching the killing method.From this point of view, she didn't want to spend the rest of her life as a murderer unless she had to.

……

Tonight, Jiang Xia stayed at Nagato's house, the ostensible reason was to help catch the thief.

Mao Lilan and Conan also stayed behind - Mori Kogoro's classmate reunion is a three-day and two-night itinerary, with the focus on the fireworks celebration tomorrow night.Today is a day to rest and rectify, and if you don't go back to the hotel, you won't delay your trip.

They feel that being with their classmates is more comfortable than being with their uncles and aunts, not to mention helping Jiang Xia catch the thief.

In addition, although Chairman Nagato is not fierce, he has a vicious daughter. I heard that this person has been unable to marry and has a very violent temper.

But just now, Mao Lilan discovered that the face of this "vicious eldest daughter" became softer when she was next to Jiang Xia, and she even forcibly adjusted Jiang Xia's collar... This made Mao Lilan unable to leave at ease.It is not difficult to do something in this kind of big house behind closed doors. There are so many bodyguards in Changmen’s house who will obey the orders of the eldest lady. It is too dangerous for Jiang Xia to stay alone...

……

Tonight happened to be Chairman Nagato's birthday.

The chairman was sick in bed and couldn't move around, so he only held a small birthday party in the bedroom. Jiang Xia and the others were guests, and they were also invited.

A few people went out on the way.

The banquet was coming to an end, and when Chairman Nagato fell asleep, the phone in the bedroom suddenly rang.

The butler walked over to pick up the phone. Chairman Nagato was hard of hearing, and the phone was too loud.

Soon, the son-in-law Nagato Guangming's voice came from the receiver: "Has Xiuchen gone to the bedroom? I've searched everywhere but can't find him..."

As soon as he said this, Nagato Guangming's voice changed suddenly. He seemed to have encountered a terrible thing, and let out an exaggerated scream: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Others in the room were taken aback.

Jiang Xia glanced at the phone, then at the balcony.

Hattori Heiji snatched the receiver from the stunned butler: "What happened? Where are you?!"

The son-in-law wailed: "I'm in the room directly below you! Someone suddenly turned off the lights, and then sneaked up on me from behind..." He gradually fell silent.

Chapter 187 Quietly Entering the Village

The phone is very close to the balcony.

Several people pushed open the balcony door and looked down, just in time to see "Nagato Hideomi" with a bandaged face holding a bloody kitchen knife in his mouth, sticking his head out from downstairs, turning his head to look at them.

Jiang Xia's expression remained unchanged.He knew that the "Nagato Hideomi" this time was actually pretended by Guangming—Nagato Guangming planned to lure the others away, and then sneak up to kill the chairman so that he could succeed him.

But everyone else remains in the dark.

Nagato Guangming's screams on the phone, and the appearance of "Nagato Hideomi" at this time, made everyone think that something happened downstairs.

The people in the room were startled, turned their heads and rushed downstairs.

Hattori Heiji and Mori Ran are no exception.Just after turning the corner and before reaching the stairs, they suddenly felt a tightness in their arms.

The two turned their heads in surprise, and found that Jiang Xia was holding them one by one.

……

The Nagato family is not very peaceful today - Hinata Yuki wants to kill his son-in-law for revenge, and the son-in-law wants to kill the chairman and blame everything on Nagato Hideomi, so that he can ascend the throne as soon as possible.

Hinata Xing discovered his son-in-law's ambition, so he pretended to cooperate with him, but actually planned to push him downstairs when his son-in-law climbed upstairs with a rope hook in an attempt to kill the chairman, and let him fall to his death on the railing downstairs.

And this is the scene that the new ghosts don't want to see.

For Jiang Xia, if he wants to successfully pick up the ghosts, he needs to get rid of their obsessions.

So Hyuga Yuki cannot be allowed to succeed here.

Hattori Heiji and Mo Lilan were about to rush downstairs to save others, but Jiang Xia pulled them back from behind, and the two were startled at the same time.Conan also noticed their changes, and stopped in doubt.

Jiang Xia casually found an excuse, and said in a low voice: "Don't you think it's strange that the attacker knew that there was a birthday party for the chairman upstairs, and there were many people gathered in the room, yet he deliberately looked up after the murder , before turning around and leaving. And the shape of the blood on his bandage and kitchen knife is very strange, it doesn't look like it was stained when he cut someone, but it seems to be splashed from other places... In short, the series of actions just now, compared to' Killing' is more like a deliberate 'performance'."

Just halfway through Jiang Xia's speech, Hattori Heiji and Conan had already begun to meditate.

——If everything just now was staged deliberately, as Jiang Xia said, then the purpose of the people behind the scenes...

The two detectives thought of the chairman who couldn't get up in the bedroom, and smelled the breath of conspiracy: "You mean...someone is deliberately transferring us out of the chairman's room?!"

Jiang Xia nodded.

The other three looked towards the stairs and found that the butler and several security guards had rushed downstairs.If the son-in-law was really attacked downstairs, those people would go to rescue him.

So they completely put aside that side and concentrated on what Jiang Xia just said.

The four of them silently walked back to the door of the chairman's room, eavesdropping on the movement inside.

Almost at the same time, there was a "click" in the room, which was the sound of an iron hook hooking on the balcony railing.

Hattori Heiji was startled, and subconsciously glanced at Jiang Xia, and found that there was no unexpected expression on Jiang Xia's face, as if he had expected things to develop like this.

This made Hattori Heiji want to gasp again.

In his impression, the strength of detectives is to quickly deduce the murderer after the murder.

However, those who can detect the abnormality during the murder and save people directly are very rare.

But now it seems that Jiang Xia has already vaguely broken through the realm of "after-the-fact reasoning", occasionally reaching the level of "saving people in advance"...

Hattori Heiji was very envious of this life-saving skill and wanted to learn it.

However, he found that he had been in contact with Jiang Xia so many times, but until now, he didn't know which direction he should work hard—it was like running to learn how to draw from others. There are already tens of thousands of business drafts in seconds... There is no way to start.