Conan's Corpse Picker

The first attempt at looting the case failed.

Dr. Ali's charging time is unknown, waiting until he wakes up is unrealistic and too deliberate.

So Jiang Xia didn't stay for too long, but continued to do business - after going out with a few cat bags, he went to the detective agency as usual.Get ready to receive invitations and deal with backlogs along the way.

One day passed, the cats were all delivered, and no invitation came.

Jiang Xia said she was very calm.

In the evening, Jiang Xia locked the door of the detective agency, continued to go to Dr. A Li's house for dinner, and started his second attempt to find a case by the way.

This time, the doctor woke up, but he didn't mention the mysterious trip to Izu, maybe he hasn't received the quota transferred from others.

However, what was more unexpected was that after dinner, Jiang Xia suddenly received a text message.

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The sender appears to be "Kusaburo Hijikata", a well-known middle-aged actor who has recently been involved in scandals.

Not long ago, Jiang Xia and this person participated in the same detective variety show.

At that time, Hijikata Kosaburo discovered Jiang Xia's "cheating" behavior in the reasoning game, and his attitude immediately changed 180°, from turning a blind eye to Jiang Xia, or even avoiding it, to exchanging business cards with a smile.

Jiang Xia then conveniently saved his number.

After receiving the text message, Jiang Xia unlocked the screen and clicked to view it.

Unexpectedly, it was discovered that this was indeed a message inviting him to be a guest—the reason was that Kosaburo Hijikata would be accepting a detective TV series in the near future, and he wanted to ask Jiang Xia, a famous detective, about the real life of a detective.

The time is relatively short, and it will be tomorrow.And there are some cryptic additional messages.

But he didn't mind, because the obvious murderous aura was stronger.

Jiang Xia moved her fingers in a happy mood, and said "I must make an appointment on time".

He still remembers the murderous look on Kosaburo Hijikata.

It seems that after so many days of preparation, the earth party finally couldn't hold back, and began to implement his plan of "killing his wife in front of the detective".

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Hijikata Kosaburo's recent life can be described as a state of desperation - he and his wife cuckolded each other, but he was inferior in skills and failed to leave evidence of his wife's cheating, but was photographed by the other party.

Currently, his wife is using this to extort high alimony from him.

Hijikata Kosaburo couldn't play against the opponent, so he decided to overturn the chessboard in anger.

——Using the layout of his home, he carefully thought up a murder method, and planned to find someone who could speak with enough weight to be his "witness".Try to clean up the crime on the spot, and by the way, hold the blame for the murder to the young neighbor who cheated him.

In the last variety show, Tufang found out about Jiang Xia's "cheating", which made him feel that Jiang Xia is a stupid detective with no reputation and no strength.The ability to solve the case depends entirely on the capital operation and think tank behind it.

The recent serial murder case in the undersea restaurant made Kosaburo Hijikata confirm this idea.

——What casts a shadow on the car accident... Heh, this must be just an excuse for Jiang Xia not to solve the case.And the reason why Jiang Xia didn't solve the case was because the incident happened suddenly, and his think tank couldn't provide support in that kind of closed sea, so he didn't say anything in that case.

In short, in Hijikata Kosaburo's view, Jiang Xiayi is an excellent "witness".

And in the last show, after Jiang Xia was caught cheating by him, he looked visibly flustered.Kozaburo Hijikata claims to be a veteran of the entertainment industry. Facing this kind of young man who is timid, has no idea, and has a bad mentality, he can control everything with one hand.

Jiang Xia has something in his hands, so he must not dare to refuse this invitation.

To be on the safe side, in the invitation text message sent to Jiang Xia, Hijikata Kosaburo deliberately arranged the meeting time very close, which is also to reduce the discussion time between Jiang Xia and his think tanks.

In addition, behind the "ps", Hijikata Kozaburo also specifically stated that this is a friendship guidance-it is enough for two people to meet in private, and don't bring some strange people to get involved.

This "strange person" is of course alluding to the think tank behind Jiang Xia.

……

Kosaburo Hijikata sent a well-written text message and just wanted to pour a cup of tea.

As soon as he stood up, the phone rang.

He was startled, looked at the screen, and saw that it was Jiang Xia who replied the message - the fake detective really agreed.

And it turned out to be a second.

This speed and attitude made Hijikata Kozaburo nod secretly in relief. From this point of view, Jiang Xia really realized that he had been caught.

Maybe these days, I have been anxiously waiting to be contacted by him, and even added him to the special attention... That's why I replied so quickly.

Chapter 249 The way to confuse Jiang Xia

the other side.

Jiang Xia can at least guess some of Hijikata Kosaburo's brain supplements, not to mention a complete understanding.

To be honest, he was really worried before, because he was afraid that this person was too cautious, and the cheating incident last time would not be able to scare him.

But fortunately, probably there are not many well-known but weak detectives in this world, so Kozaburo Hijikata didn't have so many options. In the end, he still got involved in this incident.

Playing text messages and putting down the phone, Jiang Xia remembered the exhortation "Don't mix with strange people".

So he silently looked at Mao Lilan who happened to be charging the skateboard at the doctor's house and who happened to come to pick Conan home.

... Such a polite and sensible elementary school student, such a delicate and cute high school girl, must not be considered a strange person, right?

Moreover, Mao Lilan seems to be an omnivorous groupie, but she wants to chase anyone who is a bit famous, asking for an autograph or something.Such an invitation should not be declined.

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The next day, Kozaburo Hijikata came to a coffee shop near his home and found Jiang Xia.

Then it was a little surprising to find that next to Jiang Xia was a beautiful girl of the same age as him, and there was also a little boy.

...inexplicably gives people a feeling of dragging their mouths.

Hijikata Kosaburo was still secretly complaining that Jiang Xia didn't listen to advice and brought people here casually.

But when he and the high school girl looked at each other and saw the sparkling eyes of adoration, he silently swallowed back his complaints.

...After all, they are still a group of children, unable to resist the temptation to meet veteran actors in person.Moreover, if Jiang Xia is really an idiot, then maybe he didn't understand the hint in his invitation text message at all, but really simply thought that today he was here as a detective guide for him, so he couldn't help showing off to his classmates. I was invited by a celebrity, and then I showed off and brought my classmates over.

As an actor who is striding on the road of passing, Hijikata Kosaburo actually does not dislike this kind of behavior, and is even slightly happy.

His face softened, and he thought to himself, when the case is over, he will send each of these students a signed group photo.

After a brief self-introduction, Hijikata Kozaburo stood up kindly, and adjusted his sunglasses: "It's not convenient to talk here, come to my house."

Jiang Xia nodded and got up.

Mao Lilan touched the autograph book in her bag excitedly, and followed happily.

After drinking the coffee in his cup, Conan put down the cup, also a little curious - it is said that Kozaburo Hijikata invited Jiang Xia to come over, and he wanted Jiang Xia to teach him some detective skills, so that he can show a more realistic reaction when filming detective dramas in the future.

Conan was thinking, in this regard, what can Jiang Xia teach? After all, in terms of time length, Jiang Xia is just a very junior detective, so he should have no experience... Could he teach that kind of high-speed crime-solving skills?

In that case, he would also like to learn... Conan touched the video camera in his bag - if he couldn't learn it on the spot, he would take a picture and figure it out slowly.

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Kosaburo Hijikata's home is in a high-end apartment.

The apartment faces the river and has a nice view.

To avoid possible reporters, Hijikata took them into the apartment through the back door and pressed the elevator.

The elevator quickly came to the first floor, and as soon as the door opened, a person came down from inside—it was a young handsome guy with a headscarf and dyed yellow hair.

Jiang Xia had never seen this person before, but she vaguely guessed his identity based on the spoiler and his clothes.

Mao Lilan knew her, she lowered her voice, and excitedly whispered to Jiang Xia: "It's Okitaichi! That very popular actor, he actually lives here!"

However, as an old actor, he quickly adjusted his mentality and greeted him friendly: "Go out."

"Well, let's go to the convenience store." Okita Kazu didn't mean to act in front of the guests, he knew exactly what Hichikata Kozaburo wanted to ask, and said straight forward, "Don't think too much, I will be back at the appointed time."

Hearing this, Jiang Xia thoughtfully stopped talking and pretended not to be interested.

Hijikata Kosaburo finally invited him here, and before he got what he wanted to pick up, he decided to avoid all topics that might arouse Hijikata's vigilance.

Mao Lilan didn't have so many worries, and asked suspiciously: "Appointment time?" But this afternoon, didn't Mr. Tukata make an appointment with Jiang Xia?

"Haha, yes." Hijikata Kozaburo was a little embarrassed. After Okita left, he explained, "I just... plan to discuss with him about his and my wife's affairs. Those reporters spread rumors all the time. It's impossible to let it go like this. But so Neighbors for many years, handed over to the company to deal with, and always feel hurt feelings, so we want to negotiate in private first - our appointment time is at night, so I can ask Jiang Xia for detective skills without delay."

At this time, Mao Lilan belatedly remembered the gossip that "Kizaburo Hijikata's wife is suspected of cheating on Okitaichi", realized that he had asked a bad question, and smiled a little awkwardly, and then fell silent.

Several people entered the elevator silently.

Silence is the apartment tonight.

Kozaburo Hijikata really wanted to keep silent like this, but he couldn't.

He could only force himself to block the elevator button with his body, press the button, then turn around and distribute business cards to several people.

Although he didn't pay much attention to Jiang Xia, after all, this was his carefully planned method, and he still had to make sufficient preparations.

Jiang Xia glanced at the electronic screen showing the floor while Hijikata Kosaburo lowered his head.

The electronic screen is as big as two palms, with a black bottom and seven horizontal bars, three horizontal and four vertical, which can be used to display numbers from 0 to 9.

At this time, the vertical bar in the lower left corner was temporarily blacked out by Kosaburo Hijikata with a black pen, blending into the background.

In this way, when the electronic screen wants to display "6", humans can only read the number "5".

Kozaburo Hijikata is a rich man, and the two houses on the six floors of this apartment are all his.

501 is also his, and it is the place where Kosaburo Hijikata usually lives.

And 502, surrounded by three houses, is the home of Okitaichi whom I met just now.

There are many houses that can do whatever they want, and Kosaburo Hijikata's murder plan is related to his three houses.

——He made the 601 and 501 he owns into exactly the same decoration in advance.

When entering the elevator just now, what Hijikata Kozaburo pressed was actually the elevator button for the sixth floor.

But he fiddled with the elevator and the house number in advance, trying to make Jiang Xia and the others think that a group of people came to 501.

After confusing the guests, Hijikata Kozaburo would strangle his wife to death and use a timing device to make her fall backwards from the balcony of 602 at a specific time.

Next, just calculate the time when his wife's body fell, and invite Jiang Xia to the balcony to watch the scenery, so that the guests can witness the scene of the body falling.

In this way, in the eyes of the confused guests, the next door is not the 602 owned by Kosaburo Hijikata, but the 502 where Okita lives.The evidence is overwhelming and rounding up equals a catch on the spot.