Conan's Corpse Picker

Chapter 293 You Are the One Who Wants to Make It Yourself

In the restaurant, a group of people waited in line to take a bath while eating dessert.

After a while, "Uncle Yifang" came back steaming with a towel on his shoulders.

Jiang Xia stared at him for a moment - on the thick and short legs of the false scorpion, there was an equally fresh and hot shikigami.

After the bathroom was vacated, other people went to take a bath one after another.

At ten o'clock, Jiang Xia walked into the steamy bathroom.As soon as he entered the door, he stepped on a mass of murderous intent.

He subconsciously looked around and saw that there was no one else, so he picked up Murderous Qi casually and put it in his arms.

Jiang Xia was not surprised by this result, at least when he saw the ghost on Yifang's leg in the fake house, he had already thought of the current development.

In my impression, the step-wife who attended the wedding banquet before planned to kill "Uncle Yifang" while he was taking a bath.However, Yifang is not a helpless old man, but a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu master.Suddenly being stabbed in the back, he subconsciously fought back.

After one move, the stepmother was stabbed in the chest by a kitchen knife in her own hand, and unfortunately lost her blood.

Fake Nei Yifang was stunned at the corpse for a while, realizing that this situation can be regarded as self-defense, and he shouldn't have to go to jail.

But at the same time, once this matter is discovered, he will definitely go to the police station.And once he left, the son of the real Yifang—that Brazilian boy, had to stay alone at the Yifang’s house tomorrow, otherwise he would not get the inheritance.

Before that, they had actually received two threatening letters from different people.That is, besides this dead step-sister, there is another person who will be against them.He couldn't leave the Brazilian boy to go to the police.

So the righteous house in the fake house hesitated for a moment, dragged the stepmother who had come to deliver the head to the well in the courtyard, tied the man with a well rope, and threw the body into the well.And he planned to wait until the will was announced tomorrow morning before revealing his identity as the "murderer" and making a record.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xia decided to let the corpse appear in everyone's sight as soon as possible.

At present, it seems that the hidden "Murderer No. [-]" is relatively timid. With a little manipulation, it is not difficult to get the murderous aura from her.

If we settle this matter tonight, we will be able to catch the early train back to Tokyo the next day to catch up on the cases that Asami Endo may bring.

Although Jiang Xia has not thought of a case related to the "real person reasoning game", but this kind of activity is easy to cause accidents. For example, when simulating a murder scene, someone did a fake show and stabbed a dead body with a knife... um, and a only ghost.

……

Jiang Xia let go of her thoughts, put away her murderous aura, and looked at the bathtub filled with hot water next to her.

In theory, he should take a shower first, and then soak in the barrel.

But when he thought that at least three uncles had been soaked in this tank of water just now, he didn't want to go in, even though the water looked clear and clean...

Jiang Xia leaned next to the barrel to observe for a while, then slowly turned her head, and looked at Wu Tiangou floating next to her.

Then, ignoring the opponent's slightly blown feathers, he whispered, "Go take a dip and test the temperature of the water."

We are both from the island country...Ghost, you shouldn't mind this custom of soaking in the same big tank. The aunties just now also soaked in the same tank of water.

In the absence of murderous energy, the influence of ghosts and real objects on each other is very limited.

But in the end, I can still receive some feedback. For example, when ghosts pass through walls or pass through fixed objects, the resistance they receive will be slightly greater than that of floating in the air. This is also the reason why mermaids can happily bathe in various liquids.

In the same way, ghosts can also sense the airflow or temperature, and can help measure the water temperature... Just thinking about this, Jiang Xia saw the mermaid jumping into the water next to her, holding her murderous spirit that she had played with for a long time as a swimming board, happy Swimming in the water.

Jiang Xia: "..."

Beside, Wutiangu actually doesn't like water very much.

Although there were mermaids fighting for the job, but remembering what Jiang Xia said just now, it still didn't dare to make excuses to slow down, but slowly landed, flapping its wings and hovering on the water surface, then slowly stretched out one leg, and touched it with its translucent toe. Get wet.

As an increasingly witty ghost, Wu Tiangou keenly discovered that the key point of the master's command just now was to "test the water temperature" rather than "take a dip".

So this should work...

Jiang Xia looked at Wutiangou's cautious appearance and didn't want to get wet, and then saw the appearance of the mermaid plunged into the bucket and didn't want to come out. He sighed, and then handed over the task of measuring the water temperature to the mermaid, so that Wutiangou could act casually .

Wu Tiangou swished away from the water, returned to the air, and flicked his feet secretly.

Jiang Xia pulled a small stool from the side and sat down.After a while, the mermaid told him that when the water temperature was getting colder, Jiang Xia took a shower with the shower device that still had some hot water next to it, letting some steam rise from the top of his head, pretending that he had taken a serious bath just now.

Soon, he returned to the dining room steaming like everyone else who had showered before.

And when the host politely asked about his feelings, he responded truthfully: "The water is a bit cold."

On the way back just now, Jiang Xia piled up a puppet outside the side door in the nearby courtyard, and made the puppet appear to be half-covered by the door frame, sneaking a peek into the courtyard—yes, that is Kudo Yusaku has been maintaining the look before.

Hearing Jiang Xia's words that the water was cold, Hiromi Suuchi got up with the spirit of a host, and was about to run to the bathroom to burn it again.

While wiping the water from her hair, Jiang Xia passed her by and entered the room.

Just as she was about to sit down, Hiromi Hiromi's frightened screams came from the courtyard—she found a "suspicious person" peeking at the small door on the side.

Due to the energy core accumulated before and the energy collected from the mermaid, the ghosts can already manipulate the puppets to do some very simple actions alone.

The moment he heard Hiromi Hiromi's scream, the puppet dodged to the side, was blocked by the door, and completely disappeared from Hiromi's sight.

With a slight movement of Jiang Xia's mind, he dismissed the puppet.

Then he turned around and ran to follow the sound with the others, and found Hiromi Hiuchi, who was slumped in the corridor, staring at the side door with a terrified expression.

Similar things happened in the original world line. At that time, the "suspicious person" who frightened Hiromi Hiromi and attracted everyone was the sneaky Yusaku Kudo.

But now, for some reason, Yusaku Kudo is still sleeping in the warehouse.

So Jiang Xia can only work part-time again, so that it will be logical...

He followed Hiromi's direction and looked at the empty side.

Then he quickly retracted his gaze, turned to look at the well not far away where people had died, and asked in confusion, "Why is the bucket strangled on it?"

Chapter 294 Clay is different from clay

The buckets are usually sunk in the well, or placed beside the well.But now, the old wooden barrel was hung on the well rope, tightly clinging to the well wheel on the top, as if something heavy was falling from the other end of the rope.

These people from the Siuchi family usually live in Qunma, and they don’t encounter so many cases. They naively thought that something fell into the well, so they walked over without thinking too much, pulled the well rope, and planned to put the " Heavy objects" pulled out.

I thought it was most likely to fall into wild cats and dogs.

Unexpectedly, the younger brother, a man in his prime, was extremely laborious to pull.

Jiang Xia walked over to help.

With the unbearable creaking sound of the well wheel, the number of ropes thrown behind them gradually increased, and the rope at the end with the heavy object kept getting shorter.

Finally, at the end of the rope, a person who was almost folded in half was hoisted out of the well.

It's Machiko, the step-sister who went to the wedding banquet just now.

Her head and face were swollen, her mouth was wide open, and her eyes were round.The younger brother, who was one meter away, stared blankly at the corpse for two seconds, then suddenly let out a terrified scream, dropped the well rope and crawled away.

Jiang Xia didn't expect his teammates to be so unreliable, he was dragged a step forward by the suddenly heavy well rope.However, he stabilized quickly and pulled back the rope that had dropped a little.

From the eyes of others, it seemed that Jiang Xia didn't expect that there was a dead body hidden in the well.

Hiromi Uchi didn't run as far as her younger brother. She was already paralyzed by the horrible appearance of the corpse, lacking the physical conditions to escape.

Fortunately, her legs were weak, but her eyes were not yet. She quickly recognized the deceased and said in a trembling voice, "Auntie?!"

……

Soon, the police arrived and the body hanging from the well was put down.

Many clues are needed to restore the truth of the case, and the police are busy looking for it.

Jiang Xia observed from the side, and found that the physical evidence was scattered, even in the bottom of the well, so she decided to wait for the police to find it first, and then go directly to see them.

He himself walked around in the yard at random, and then leaned against the well to pretend to think, while his consciousness possessed himself among the puppets gathered in the Buddhist hall.

There was no one in the Buddhist hall at the moment, it was very quiet, only the faint ticking sound came from the cabinet.

Jiang Xia drove the puppet made by Xiaobai and took a closer look, and found that the cabinet was opened a crack, and there was a taut crossbow bolt hidden inside, as well as a simple timing device.

With the cooperation of the two, the crossbow will shoot in a certain direction at regular intervals.

This is a prop used to attack Siuchi Yifang, and the person who installs it is Kiuchi Keiko, the daughter-in-law of the head of the Siuchi clan.

Jiang Xia observed for a while, slightly adjusted the shooting angle of the crossbow, and then stuck a small piece of puppet clay on the timing device.

After doing this, they should have disbanded on the spot, but Jiang Xia stepped back and looked at the white puppet clay that was quietly attached, and suddenly had a strong sense of déjà vu, so he held his hands in a strange posture Yihe, muttering in a low voice, "Explosion."

The clay stuck to it quietly, without any response.

The timing device also continued to tick, tick, and tick, peacefully.

The eyes of the ghosts gradually turned from puzzled and nervous to puzzled.

Jiang Xia put down her hands as if nothing had happened, and closed the cabinet door in vain, not surprised by this result in her heart.

Sure enough, this is just an ordinary piece of clay, without some of the characteristics of the second class...

Fortunately, although it can't explode, at least within a certain range, it can change its shape and hardness under Jiang Xia's idea, and then trigger the timing device in advance.

After adjusting the device, Jiang Xia scattered the puppets built with Xiaobai as the prototype, and his consciousness returned to the body.

The main body opened his eyes, and brushed off the ashes on his body when leaning against the well, with a calm expression and orderly movements, he was still the calm and rational high school student.

……

At this time, the situation in the courtyard was a bit chaotic.

The number of police officers working overtime late at night is limited. Recently, there happened to be a flu, and many senior police officers fell ill. Therefore, the police officers who came here today were almost all rookies, and they were in a hurry when facing the murder case—especially the leading mountain village fucker. .

It was the first time that Yifang killed people in the false house, and he was a little flustered.Originally, he thought that if the police who came were more reliable and could solve the murder case smoothly, and find out the other person who sent the threatening letter by the way, then he would explain everything and go to the police station to solve the problem according to the procedure.

However, what I didn't expect was that the leading mountain village police officer, even if his reasoning ability was outrageous, would actually tremble at the corpse...

The righteous house in the fake house became more and more angry, so he took the Brazilian boy with him and planned to go back to the room to rest-although these policemen are unreliable, but with them, the other attacker should not dare to do anything for the time being, and he can sleep for a few hours for comfort , recharge your batteries and listen to the will tomorrow.

The two walked through the courtyard in chaos and entered the corridor, and their figures disappeared quickly.

A few minutes later, a long-haired figure looked at the direction they were leaving, struggled for a moment, and finally gritted his teeth and couldn't help following.

This person is Keiko Kiuchi—she is the one who sent the second threatening letter, and she also set up the crossbow that Jiang Xia played with with the puppet just now.

As a person who is also short of money, Keiko Kiuchi actually understands the thoughts of his step-wife who died tragically.When she heard that "Uncle Yifang" had received more than one threatening letter, she suspected that her stepmother had also sent similar letters, so she faintly regarded him as a comrade in arms.

But now, the "comrade-in-arms" is gone, and the way of death is so absurd and horrible... Although according to the speculation of other family members, the murderer should be the suspicious person hiding in the side door, but Keiko Shiuchi is still a little skeptical about "righteousness" Uncle Fang".

Maliciousness is always easy to turn into interaction. In her opinion, the possibility of the "uncle righteous house" being targeted to act first is very low, but it is not zero.

However, to be honest, she is now secretly following Yifang to observe Zinei, rather than "to prove that the other party is the murderer", it is actually more like "to prove that the other party is not the murderer", so as to make herself feel at ease.

Only in this way can she believe that her stepmother's death was due to a feud elsewhere, and she dares to continue to attack the Yifang in the next step.

However, before Keiko Sakichi slipped to the door of the other party's room, when she was passing by the Buddhist hall, someone suddenly patted her from behind.