Conan's Corpse Picker

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According to regulations, when recording this program, mobile phones are not allowed.

After Jiang Xia finished recording the show and received the invitation letter from Hijikata Kosaburo to pick up ghosts, he left the studio and took his mobile phone from the staff.

When he walked out of the building, he put away his business card and turned on the screen of his phone.

I saw a lot of missed calls on my phone.

Mainly from Mao Lilan, Mao Li Kogoro and Conan.

...Why are you so anxious to find him all of a sudden, that digital killer finally started to make trouble?

Jiang Xia was about to call back and ask about the situation.

However, as soon as he reached the intersection, a police car came running towards him.

The car screeched to the side of the road, and two familiar policemen who had seen it at some murder scenes before ran out of the car, shouting "Found it!" into the phone, and strode closer.

Jiang Xia: "...?"

...what are you doing?

Why do you look like you are searching and arresting people?

...was he found out about speeding his motorcycle in the middle of the night?

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A little forward in time.

In the short interval of half a day, Megure Police Department, Fei Yingli, and Dr. Ali were attacked one by one.

The three people were not seriously injured, but their social circles overlapped obviously.Plus, each time, the attackers dropped a paper prop on the scene.

So this is considered to be a series of linked attacks.

Conan quickly found out the commonality of the three incidents——

The first to be attacked was the Megure Police Department.His full name is Memu Thirteen.After the murderer attacked him, he dropped a short dagger made of cardboard, and in the picture of the king of spades, which is the playing card of the 13 of spades, the king also holds such a dagger.

The second person to be sent to the hospital was Fei Yingli. Her name "Fei" can be associated with the Queen in the playing cards.A paper flower was pasted on the poisoned food that the murderer sent her.On the picture of the playing card Q, the queen also holds a similar flower in her hand.

The third person attacked was Dr. Ali, who could be dismantled into "Eleven". After the murderer attacked him, what he threw into the yard was a sword in the shape of a fried dough stick held by the Knight of Spades Jack.

This kind of reasoning is well-founded, so Mori Kogoro and the police feel that the person who will be attacked next is the person with "ten" in his name, and that person must have an intersection with Mori Kogoro like the previous three.

Based on this information, the Meguro Police Department, who was wounded, speculated that the murderer may be Murakami Takeshi who was recently released from prison. Ten years ago, Murakami Takeshi had a grudge with Mori Kogoro, who was still a policeman at the time.

Mori Kogoro immediately became the center of the case.

On the one hand, the Megure Police Department immediately arranged a search for Murakami, and on the other hand urged Mori Kogoro to think about who around him could be related to "Ten".

Mori Kogoro racked his brains for a long time, and found a possible candidate——in a club he frequented, the proprietress was called "Ten Wako".

Mao Lilan thought of another person.

She stood up nervously: "Jiang Xia's name also has 'ten' in it! 'Tongzhi' can be removed from the 'zhi', not to mention 'Tong', there is 'ten' next to the wooden character. In addition, The content in the 'same' box is turned sideways - it is '10' in Arabic numerals!"

Maori Kogoro:"!"

Meguro Police Department: "!"

The police then quickly contacted two people who might be related to "Ten".

Towako quickly answered the phone. She is still in her own high-end club. There are many security guards here, and she has not seen any suspicious persons.

No one answered Jiang Xia's calls.

The more Conan looked at the police dialing, the more dignified his expression became—according to Mao Lilan, Jiang Xia’s name can contain three “ten”s, and it has both Chinese characters and Arabic numerals, which is really in line with the law of digital killing Yes, there is simply a feeling of abandoning others.

And Jiang Xia is a detective, in the same profession as Kogoro Mori.Whether it is due to the natural confrontation between criminals and detectives, or the hatred of Kogoro Mori, Jiang Xia's situation is very dangerous.

What's more, he still didn't answer the phone.

Could it be that he was already killed...

Conan shook his head, trying not to make such guesses—on the bright side, Jiang Xia's skills are much more flexible than that of Mumu Police Department and Dr. Ali... Maybe Jiang Xia didn't answer the phone because when he was attacked by Murakami just now, Dodging the attack and holding down the criminal with his backhand, he was busy stepping on Murakami at this time.

Conan remembered that the last time Jiang Xia was obsessed with beating bombers, he didn't answer the phone.

The latter kind of rosy speculation, however, became less hopeful as the calls continued to go unreachable.

- The time without answering the phone is too long.

Iron Man may not be able to hold Jiang Xia for such a long time.

Since Jiang Xia didn't answer the phone, it wasn't because he was hitting the attacker.So... did the attacker really succeed in the sneak attack?

Mu Mu's police department's complexion gradually became ugly, and he sent a lot of people to find Jiang Xia, hoping to make it in time.

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Just like that, Jiang Xia was taken directly from the entrance of the TV station building to the police station.

A few paparazzi standing in front of the TV station heard the police car honking, looked over excitedly, and clicked the shutter at the same time—celebrities who are pulled away by the police as soon as they leave the house will surely fetch a good price.

However, after taking the photos and seeing who was pulled into the car, the paparazzi's mood changed from excitement to calm, and finally put down the cameras in a dull manner.

If you have time to take pictures of famous detectives and are pulled by the police to help solve the case, it is better to take pictures of the little sparrows on the side of the road.wasting film...

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Jiang Xia never expected that he had worked so hard to pick up cats for a long time, but in the end it was useless at all.

——No need to wait for Xu Shengyi's "Nine", "Ten" has already involved him.

Although Jiang Xia's current full name is "Jiang Xia Tongzhi", the name "Tongzhi" is rarely used.

The pronunciation of island people's names usually has phonetic pronunciation, training pronunciation, and messy pronunciation...

Unfortunately, the name "Tong Zhi" is pronounced phonetically, and it sounds similar to Jiang Xia's accustomed language, which makes him feel very playful.

So Jiang Xia used chicken soup excuses such as "Just call me by my last name, it feels like carrying your parents' name on your back" as an excuse, so that everyone around who is acquainted only calls him by his last name.

As for people who don't know each other well...if they don't know their first name, of course they only call their last name.

For Jiang Xia, the surname is the full name, which is very comfortable to use.

So picking up shells that others don't want is also a technical job...

Chapter 229 Jiang Xia, Your Incident Has Happened

Since no one has ever called him by the name "Tong Zhi", Jiang Xia didn't deliberately think about it when he dismantled his own words.

Unexpectedly, Mao Lilan remembered it very clearly. Not only did he extract the number for him, but he also extracted three "ten".

... In terms of helping with the case, this classmate is really a god-like teammate.

The police and Mori Kogoro found two people suspected of being "ten", but the assailant never came to attack Jiang Xia or the boss of Shiwazi. The police didn't know whether they guessed "ten" wrongly, or the attackers saw too many people. Don't dare to do it.

That night, several policemen went to the club to guard Towako.

At the physical invitation of Mao Lilan, Jiang Xia made a floor shop in the Mao Li Detective Agency.

Hui Yuan Ai also turned a pair of half-moon eyes, and was forcibly carried home by Mao Lilan——Dr. A Li was attacked by surprise, and now he is still in the hospital. Mao Lilan thought that Hui Yuan Ai, a "first grade elementary school student", would live alone. Don't worry about anything.

The two people who came from the Black Organization and were not very afraid of the attackers met suddenly at the Mori Detective Agency.

Jiang Xia and Hui Yuanai looked at each other, each sighed, and could only stay there as if nothing had happened.

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In an exhibition cabinet at Maori's house, there are autographs of various celebrities.

Early the next morning, when Jiang Xia passed by the cabinet, his eyes stopped on a certain photo frame.

This is a signed photo, the person in the photo is a famous golf player.

This person's name is "Tsuji Hiroki", and he is an old friend of Mori Kogoro.

Strictly speaking, Tsuji Hiroki is the real "ten", and at the same time, he is also one of the main murder targets of Sawaki Fair.

——Tsuji Hiroki once made an excessive joke on Sawaki Fair, a sommelier, at a certain banquet. Possible reasons for his loss of taste...

In short, Sawaki felt that Hiroki Tsuji had to die.

Tsuji Hiroki's "Tsuji" is not a very common surname, and the pronunciation つじ is not close to the common pronunciation of "ten".

So Mori Kogoro, who is not very sensitive to Chinese characters, thought about it for a while, but he didn't expect this person who is far away in the sky and (photo) is close in front of him.

In addition, this is also related to Tsuji Hiroki's wild grass signature method.

Jiang Xia looked at the photo in front of him, the "Tsuji" on the signature photo was crooked, and there were continuous strokes, making it difficult to identify.

In my impression, in the original world line, Conan accidentally saw this photo, and then thought that "ten" refers to Hiroki Tsuji.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xia looked away and stopped looking at Tsuji Hiroki's autographed photo.

——He always felt that if he continued to look at it, he would not be able to resist stealing the photos and hiding them.

The ghosts that would appear in the first place will be picked up as soon as they are picked up, it's nothing.

But if ghosts are created when there are no ghosts, the number of times is too high, and it is easy to walk on the road of blackening. The life of blackening psychics is too tiring, so it is better to be free now.

Of course, Jiang Xia thought with hope: If Conan fails to see that Tsuji Hiroki is the next victim, then he can only reluctantly pick up one more ghost...

However, it is a pity that Conan has maintained his fine tradition of "showing power at the dead line".

When Jiang Xia was sitting at the dining table with his back to the photo, drinking the creamy corn soup cooked by Mao Lilan as if nothing had happened, a shocked voice suddenly came from behind him, "Tsuji Hiroki...Tsuji?!"

It was Conan's voice.

Jiang Xia paused while holding the spoon, staring quietly at the soup in front of her, happy -1.

Hui Yuanai looked at Jiang Xia's paused hand, and pulled Conan aside a little, creating a good dining atmosphere for Jiang Xia: "Not all the names with 'ten' in their names are targets. Didn't you say that the most important limit is The condition is does that person have any intersection with Maori?"

Megure Police Department is Kogoro Mori's boss, Hideri is Kogoro Mori's wife, and Dr. Ari is a friend who has known Kogoro Mori for more than ten years.

Haibara feels that, using these as standards, it is really difficult for Tsuji Hiroki's "friends with autographed photos" to be juxtaposed.

Conan dialed the number of the Megure police department and explained: "Uncle and Tsuji Hiroki are not fans and idols - we met Tsuji Hiroki when we went to the restaurant a while ago, they should be old friends."

Mao Lilan heard that the atmosphere seemed wrong, and poked her head out of the kitchen in doubt: "What's wrong?"

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