Conan's Corpse Picker

This voice made Kidd frown slightly. A while ago, he received a threatening phone call. The other party mistook him for his father Kuroba Pirates and warned that if he continued to aim at the gem, he would die.

... Now it seems that the person in black is calling.

Kidd felt that the secret of his father's "death" was beckoning to him, and Black Feather Pirate One might have provoked this group of people before he was brutally killed.

But now that the hang glider is broken, don't talk about finding out the truth, Kidd can't protect himself now.

Just when Kidd took out the imitation "sapphire" according to the other party's request, and was about to throw this over to delay the time, a very unnatural wind suddenly blew up on the edge of the roof.

Kidd vaguely felt something was wrong, and before he could turn around, the cloak on his back suddenly sank—someone pulled him from below.

Kidd was dragged by the cloak and lost his balance. He stepped on the ground and fell to the roof.

Slack, who was holding a gun on the opposite side, was stunned. From his perspective, he could only see a hand reaching out from under the roof, and Kidra went downstairs.

The gem was still on Kidd, and Slack's face changed drastically. He rushed to the side of the building with a group of men in black and looked down.

However, there was only darkness downstairs, and there was no sign of Kidd at all, nor the owner of the hand that was stretched out in the dark.

……

The Kidds were in the air, looking at the dark city below with a blank expression.

Suddenly a hand stretched out beside his face.

Immediately afterwards, a familiar and very righteous sentence came from behind: "Give it to me."

Kidd: "..."

A few times ago, Wutiangou would say what it wanted, such as "give me a dark star", "give me a bloody full moon" and so on, but now it seems...it seems to be too lazy to say it.

Kidd even suspects that Wutiangou is simply too lazy to remember the name of the gem, and only remembers "this strange thief in white can snatch it".

Kidd looked at the hands on the side of his face, glanced at the height of more than [-] meters below him, felt the parachute bag hidden behind his back, and turned his head away with backbone, pretending not to hear.

There were some scattered policemen nearby, and Kidd was very conspicuous in his white clothes.

Jiang Xia thought for a while, and didn't continue to ask for gems for the time being, but carried Kidd around the building for a few laps.

After throwing off possible stalkers, he landed in a hidden place.

Kidd glanced at Wutiangou who was observing the environment, took the opportunity to break free from the not-so-firm grip, and retreated vigilantly.

He suddenly remembered the news about the two corpses in the Shanni Temple that were hung from a high place, suspected to be "dogs storing food in the fog".

Kidd pressed the tranquilizer gun, feeling that his career as a phantom thief had cast a shadow: "You don't eat me, do you want me to steal something for you?"

Jiang Xia: "...?"

He looked at Kidd suspiciously, and after a while, he vaguely guessed where his idea of ​​"dogs eating people in the fog" came from.

Jiang Xia thought of Kidd's sense of justice, and then looked at the energy core in his pocket, feeling that this strange blame cannot be blamed.

He said flatly, "I don't like cannibalism."

Kidd's eyes froze, he didn't like to eat it, meaning he could eat it too: "The two monks in Shanni Temple..."

"The old monk sat down by himself." Wu Tiangou said, "I went to the monastery, and when he saw me, he fell down holding his heart. I just obeyed his wish before he died and hung him up on the high Department—he said that he hopes to have another similar incident to help the monastery attract guests."

Kidd: "...Zohua?"

... No matter how it sounds like a sudden death!

Chapter 219 How can robbery be considered robbery?

Kidd was speechless for a moment, and told himself silently that one should not expect too much from a monster's language proficiency.

Wutiangou probably just wandered around the monastery occasionally. It heard this word one day, so now it is used casually...

Thinking about it, Kidd felt that his focus had gone astray.

——No matter how you look at it, the youkai seem to have no reason to lie to him.

And if Wu Tiangou said the truth, then the "similar incident" that the dead old monk said should refer to the incident where his apprentice Zhongnian was hanged on the eaves three years ago.

The apprentice died, and the old monk should feel sad, but he actually "very hoped" that this kind of thing would happen again...

Kidd fell into deep thought, and suddenly felt that on a certain basis, it seemed reasonable that the old monk was scared to death by the Wutian dog.

——To be reasonable, although the Wutian dog in front of him has a pair of obviously inhuman wings behind it, it doesn't look scary.If you throw it on the bustling street, you may run into some bold and cheerful little girls and try to bury your wings... It's hard to imagine that Wutiangou can scare people to death directly.

…Unless the person being frightened has a ghost in his heart.

Although Kidd is not a serious detective, his reasoning ability is not bad at all.

With this level of hints, recalling the details of the two "Mist Tiangou Murder Incidents" that he found before, he found that the first incident seemed to be done by man-made manipulations.

This is probably the reason why there are huge differences in the details of the two incidents-the first one is that the old monk committed the crime, and the second is that Wu Tiangou hangs the dead old monk on the beam of the house without knowing it.

Thinking of this, Kidd tentatively said: "The young monk who died earlier..."

Wu Tiangou seemed not interested in this topic, and said perfunctorily, "I don't know."

Although Kidd was only perfunctory, he was quite satisfied, and he felt that he understood.

——The truth is probably that three years ago, for some reason, the old monk killed his apprentice. After that, he used the local "Legend of Wutiangou" to arrange the scene, and blamed the murderer on Wutiangou.

Afterwards, Wu Tiangou may have heard that there were similar haunts in Shanni Temple, so he rushed over to check it out curiously.Or maybe it was attracted by the incense... In short, it came to the temple, and then inadvertently scared the guilty old monk to death.

After the old monk's death, Wu Tiangou hung the old monk on the eaves of the house in order to repay his kindness because he had eaten the incense in the old monk's temple, and realized the old monk's wish to "come another wave of drainage" before his death.

reasonable, very reasonable

...So, it seems that Wutengu is not as cruel as he and Grandpa Terai have speculated before?

Just as Kidd was thinking, he saw Wu Tengu reaching out to him again.

This time it didn't even bother to say anything, and the meaning was very clear - to ask Kidd to hand over tonight's harvest to it.

Kidd was silent for a moment, but still didn't want to hand in.

Although Wutiangou has never eaten monks raw, the harm it caused to gemstones is also huge visible to the naked eye.After Kidd has stolen something, he usually returns the stolen things afterwards, but recently, his reputation has declined—the luster of the gems that have been eaten by Wu Tiangou will become dimmed visible to the naked eye, and the stolen people often Will think it's a fake.

Jiang Xia looked at Kidd's hesitation, and decided to add another fire.

Try to let Kidd develop from "dissolving the misunderstanding of Wutiangou's murder" to actively offering a confession to him in the future.

Jiang Xia stared at Kidd's pocket of hidden gems, and his tone suddenly became gloomy: "I'm very hungry. If I don't eat these, I might lose control and run to eat people."

Kidd was taken aback, and immediately followed, he felt Wu Tiangou's eyes move from the gemstone to his neck.

Kidd: "!!!"

Looking around, he was the only human being within a radius of [-] meters.

And even if he escaped by chance, there is a residential area less than one kilometer nearby, and those innocent residents...

Kidd took a deep breath, no longer hesitated, he took out the gem, and put it into the hands of Wutiangu with humiliation.

... He is too lazy to fool Wu Tengu with fake products now, he will definitely be seen through anyway.

Think about it too, Wutengu is a monster after all, maybe real and fake gems are placed in front of him, just like model rice and real rice are placed in front of human beings-no matter how similar the vision is, the two smell different.

But this point actually gave Kidd a subtle sense of relief—it meant that he was taken away from the Dark Star before, not because his magic skills had regressed, but simply because the other party was not human.

Jiang Xia secretly observed Kidd's demeanor, and felt that the consciousness of this energy nuclear production machine had improved.

He took the gem with satisfaction, and licked the fresh energy core inside.

With this friendly exchange, Kidd should be able to save him a lot of murderous energy the next time he catches Kidd—Kidd's unlearned props and magic tricks are really not easy to deal with.

Kidd handed over the gem, but didn't go away.

He remembered that Wutiangou had the habit of throwing away the leftover gems after eating.At that time, he will just be able to pick up the gems and return them to the stolen people... Although the quality of the treasures eaten by Wu Tiangou has dropped a lot, it is better than nothing.

At this time, seeing Wu Tiangou's expression eased after taking the gem, and then retracted his fangs, Kidd breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt a little uncomfortable.

——Even the old monk who blamed him, Wu Tiangou, was willing to repay his favor.

And he provided Wutiangou with so much rations back and forth, why did Wutiangou stare at him all day long?

Kidd tidied up his crumpled cloak, and asked politely: "You have eaten so much from me, when will you repay me?"

Wu Tiangou paused, and then looked at him with a majestic look of "human beings are making progress": "Didn't I just save you?"

Kidd: "..."

...He thought that just now Wu Tiangou saw him standing on the top of the building holding the gem, and dragged him away as if it were food.Unexpectedly, Wu Tiangou sensed the danger of those men in black on the opposite side, and was helping him consciously?

Kidd has mixed feelings.Although Wu Tiangou robbed, frightened people, and indirectly took a human life, it seems to be a good monster.

Speaking of good monsters...

Kidd suddenly asked: "Since you need gems and precious collections, why don't you go to a museum or a gem shop late at night? Are you targeting me?"

Wutiangou shook his head: "I never steal food."

"..." Kidd glanced at the gemstone in his hand, and didn't admit it before wiping his mouth clean, "But this..."

Wu Tiangou interrupted: "You stole this."

Kidd: "..."@*#%&

He couldn't continue the conversation.

There is indeed a generation gap between humans and monsters.

Chapter 220 Cooperate? Youkai Brother

However, there is a generation gap and there is a generation gap. After this short but informative exchange, Kidd's previous image of the terrifying misty dog ​​eating humans raw and drying meat in the air has vaguely changed.

...Leaving aside morality, at least this is a monster with ideas and principles.

Kidd always felt that Wutiangou only grabbed gems and didn't kill people every time because he was useful.

And once one day, he made it clear that he would no longer provide gems, he would be approached by Wu Tiangou and torn into air-dried strange thief strips.

Although Kidd felt that he should not be afraid of the evil forces, the threat to his life that was hanging over his head still unknowingly made him accumulate huge pressure.

But now, I suddenly discovered that Wutiangou is a kind and good monster...

Kidd turned his head and took a look at Wu Tiangou's peaceful appearance of eating gems.

In a trance, there is a sense of déjà vu of seeing the neighbors drinking juice during class.