Conan's Corpse Picker

Almost at the same time, a taut bowstring sounded, especially piercing in the closed wine cellar.

The voice came from behind him.

Conan thought of Jiang Xia who was following them, was startled, and turned anxiously: "Be careful!"

The sharp crossbow bolt struck instantly, and Conan couldn't see its shadow at all, only heard a burst of piercing sound in despair.

At this moment, Jiang Xia raised his hand at a speed that he couldn't see clearly.The ferocious crossbow arrow was like a piece of flying cotton wool, and he just casually grabbed it in his hand.

Under the shocked gaze of the two people behind him, Jiang Xia looked down at the murder weapon.

Then he looked in the direction it was coming from, and said calmly: "No one... This should be a trigger mechanism arranged by the attacker in advance. From this point of view, the person who left the letter has a big problem."

Conan, who is already reviewing the method of hemostasis: "..."

Although he doesn't know why, he always forgets the setting "Jiang Xia is actually very good at fighting".But this time... if you read correctly, the arrow was shot from behind Jiang Xia.

... Can this also be caught?

Conan looked at the unscathed Jiang Xia, and then at the arrow in his hand, admiring him, but also a little envious.

If he had such a skill back then, he might not have had to suffer from the sap of gin when he was near the amusement park, and he would not have to be reduced as he is now.

...Why didn't he follow this group of hair boys before and learn fighting skills?

I regret it now, very much.

……

Just now, the movement of the crossbow firing, as well as the exclamation of Conan and Sawaki, quickly attracted the others.

Jiang Xia handed over the metal arrow to the Mumu Police Department, and he came to the cabinet at the end of the corridor.

He looked at the crossbow hidden inside, and the "eight of spades" next to the crossbow: "It should be the same attacker."

As a group of police officers and detectives murmured about the new attack, Mr. Sawaki stood by, grimacing.

Seeing him like this, the other people didn't become suspicious, but thought it was normal—judging from the poker cards next to the murder weapon, the attacker's target was Sawaki Fair, and there was nothing wrong with him being frightened.

However, one person thought otherwise.

——As a "prophet" with God's perspective, Jiang Xia knew in his heart that the real reason for Sawaki's ugly face was that he didn't expect a detective who seemed to prefer to solve problems with his mind, and his force value was not too weak.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xia couldn't help but thank the police and the media.

The cases that Jiang Xia came across were often sudden, and there were very few media present in advance.

And ever since the police discovered that the prisoners taken over from Jiang Xia seemed more or less inhumane, some policemen seldom took the reporter out of the consideration of protecting minors and the reputation of detectives in the first place. into the field.

And the result of this is that not many people know about Jiang Xia's methods of treating prisoners.

I heard that there was once a tabloid, which got the inside story from somewhere, and tried to criticize this kind of abuse of prisoners and lack of humane care.

However, after the report was released, it failed to arouse the society's thinking about the ethics of detectives. Instead, only protest letters and unsubscribe notices poured in like snowflakes.

The innocent tabloid was scolded for fabricating things out of nothing, sloppy wording, and deliberately distorting and misleading the truth-how could a high school student detective who hates evil beat someone for no reason?

Even if they fought, it must be because the prisoner was too cruel, and Jiang Xia had no choice but to defend himself legitimately.

Otherwise, what else can I do, do I want to be beaten by the prisoner obediently?

So in the future, few reporters mentioned this matter again, and only concentrated on restoring those fancy cases.

After all, the audience of this world detective newspaper cares more about the quality of the case.As long as the technique is novel enough and the narrative is compelling enough, it doesn't really matter whether the detective who solves the case is a ruthless gopher-knocking machine in private, or a nice guy who is used to having long talks with prisoners.

Now it seems that Sawaki Fairy, like some other criminals, was misled by the report that never mentioned Jiang Xia's hands-on ability.

Jiang Xia secretly rejoiced, and it was fortunate that this was the case—otherwise, if Sawaki was too afraid of him before, he would forcefully refuse to take him with excuses such as "Isn't today a working day, why don't high school students go to school", and suggested that the police take him away? Students who skipped classes were sent back to school... that would be a bad thing.

……

In the wine cellar, Mumu Police Department and the others are still discussing the next countermeasures in a low voice.

Jiang Xia secretly observed Sawaki Fairy, and found that the murderous aura on this man flickered several times like a light bulb.

Chapter 237

Jiang Xia's heart also went up and down.

Fortunately, in the end, the murderous spirits gradually became more vigorous and determined under his slightly apprehensive gaze.

Sawaki firmly believes that technology is the primary productive force—no matter how fast Jiang Xia reacts and how good his skills are, he is only one person after all, and it is impossible to resist bombs in theory.

After thinking of this, both of them secretly breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

……

Unlike them, the police always feel that the situation is not good: from the letter Sawaki received to pick up the wine, to the crossbow bolts installed in the wine storage... It is difficult to bypass Asahi Katsuyoshi if you want to arrange all these.

Regardless of whether the murderer teamed up with Xu Shengyi, or he has completely controlled Xu Shengyi, this is not a good thing.

For the sake of caution, the Mumu police department suggested: "Let's leave here first, wait until the shore, and then bring a few more people back to search."

Now, only he and two police officers from the White Bird Police Department were present, and he was still wounded.Compared with the police, there are more innocent people here, if you continue to stay, if something bad happens, they can't protect the citizens well.

Others did not dispute the "leave" decision.

Several people walked back to the gate along the way they came.

When passing by the restaurant, Jiang Xia suddenly stopped.

He looked sideways into the restaurant, slowly revealing a surprised and distressed expression.

"What's wrong!?"

The others looked in his direction, and a few exclamations suddenly sounded from the crowd.

——In the fish tank surrounding the hall, at some point there was a corpse floating with the water.Under the bright light in the water tank, the face of the corpse is clearly discernible.

...It was Xu Shengyi they were looking for.

In addition, there is a poker card pinned to Xu Shengyi's neckline.

The distance was a bit far, and the card had been soaked in water for a while. The people at the door couldn't read the words clearly, but they could guess that it must be the nine of spades.

... In the case of serial attacks, a dead person suddenly appeared, and it was still such a terrible death.

The nature of the whole case suddenly changed completely.

Only then did a group of people really pay attention to what happened today.

However, it was too late to start serious at this time.

——After some inspections, they found that the exit door was tightly locked, there was no signal for the mobile phone under the sea, the telephone line was routinely cut, and the escape route was blocked by cement...

Several people couldn't leave, and they couldn't call for support.

They walked around the process, but as expected, they couldn't find a way out.

In the end, we can only go back to the restaurant temporarily to discuss what to do next.

……

The underwater restaurant is very vast, even with only this floor, there are many rooms and passages.

This is a newly built restaurant, and several people are not familiar with this place, so they thought hopefully—maybe there are other exits hidden around.

So the women and children were left in the dining room to rest, while others scattered around, looking for clues to get out of here.

Jiang Xia casually found a direction and left.

Sawaki Fairy looked at his back, while being surprised, he also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Just now he was still worried, if Jiang Xia insisted on following him like before, how would he carry out his plan.

Unexpectedly, now, the biggest problem has been solved by itself...

It wasn't until Jiang Xia's figure completely disappeared in the corridor that Sawaki just woke up like a dream.

He got up cautiously and moved to the entrance of the corridor, looked to both sides, and found that Jiang Xia was not guarding him outside the door, but really left, so he was finally relieved.

However, it is also possible that Jiang Xia has determined that he is the murderer, and feels that following him will not find a way out.This is the only way to go on my own...

In any case, Sawaki fair successfully obtained the opportunity to act alone.

He thought happily that luck was indeed on his side.

Sawaki avoided the eyes of the others, walked towards the power room with a clear goal, and pulled the switch to cut off the power in the whole hall.

Immediately afterwards, he skillfully ran to the restaurant along the route he had memorized in advance.

……

There was a sudden power outage, and the restaurant was pitch black, and Nanai Koyama quickly fell into panic.

Based on her fluorescent nails, Sawaki easily located this former enemy, stabbed her in the heart, and then ran away quickly.

When he ran near the gate, Sawaki kicked something under his feet, which sounded like a soda can.

He didn't care, ran out the door quickly, and then ran to the restaurant with other people who heard Nana Koyama's scream.

Mori Kogoro quickly found the switch and turned it back on.

The restaurant lit up again, and this time, there was a fresh corpse on the ground.

Jiang Xia also hurried back to the restaurant, looking expectantly at the ground.

Under his gaze, behind Nana Koyama gradually emerged...

An ordinary shikigami.

Jiang Xia: "..."

There is no doubt that Miss Supermodel has lived up to his expectations.

...Bai was touched for a long time just now, but Koyama Nanai didn't touch his aura and European energy at all.

Jiang Xia walked to the corpse sadly, squatted down, and checked the situation with other policemen.

He looked at the shikigami that had just emerged and was resting behind Nana Koyama, and poked it.

The familiar feel of the Q bomb made Jiang Xia feel a little better.

Shikigami misunderstood what he meant, and shivered instinctively, not daring to be lazy anymore.It carefully avoided Jiang Xia, slowly floated towards Sawaki Fairy who had just run back to the restaurant, and grabbed onto his calf firmly.

Now, Sawaki has picked up three ghosts on his lap——Murakami Takeshi, Asahi Katsuyoshi, and Koyamauchi Nana.