Conan's Corpse Picker

However, the two girls only took a step, but they were blocked by Conan in front of their legs.

The two lowered their heads in doubt, and found that the child's eyes were somewhat complicated.

Conan looked at Jiang Xia with a solemn expression: "...Why is there blood on your shoes?"

The others were startled, and all looked down at Jiang Xia's shoes.

Including Jiang Xia herself.

Jiang Xia is wearing a pair of black sneakers today. The uppers are clean, with only a little dust on the edges.

Suzuki Sonoko and Mao Lilan breathed a sigh of relief, suspecting that this was a prank by the bear kid.

However, at this time, seeing the opposite, Jiang Xia lowered his head and glanced at the ground, suddenly, as if remembering something, he took a half step back.

As soon as he took his foot away, there was a blood-colored shoe print on the place he stepped on just now.

"Ah." Jiang Xia was a little embarrassed, he simply took another step back, returned to the carpet-covered exhibition hall, and said slightly apologetically, "I didn't pay attention, I stepped on it."

As he spoke, he took out a handkerchief and squatted down, as if he wanted to wipe off the bloodstains on the ground.

Conan: "..."

He swished over to stop Jiang Xia, and stopped what looked like "destruction of evidence":

"Where did this blood come from?!"

Conan is observant and short.

As soon as Jiang Xia approached just now, he found that the carpet Jiang Xia stepped on had a subtle difference in color.

After confirming that it was blood, because he had seen similar things before, at first, Conan suspected that the neighbor was hiding and cutting himself again.

However, after a closer look, he found that Jiang Xia looked good and moved normally, and there were no strange wet marks on the black wristband on his left hand.

……

However, judging from the fact that Jiang Xia walked all the way on the carpet, there was still a little blood on the shoes...

The amount of blood he stepped on just now is definitely quite a lot... It is very likely that someone has died here!

……

Unlike Conan, Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko are not so observant, and they are a blessing in disguise, but they are not nervous.

They just thought that Jiang Xia accidentally stepped on the red paint left by the staff - after all, this exhibition hall had a "No Entry" sign before, and it was suspected to be under repair.

At this time, seeing Jiang Xia rubbing the "paint", he was stopped by Xiongzi.

They also took out their handkerchiefs and approached, intending to wipe off Jiang Xia's footprints.

When I got closer, I realized that the color of the footprints really looked like blood.

The two nodded their heads inwardly: Well, as expected of the Hell Exhibition Hall, the paint used is so unique...

Sonoko Suzuki asked curiously while rubbing: "What did you step on? Paint? Pigment?"

Jiang Xia apologized, "Pool of blood."

"Oh, blood..." Suzuki Sonoko paused, and suddenly raised his voice, "A pool of blood?!!"

She looked up in shock.

I saw Jiang Xia squatting on the edge of the scarlet carpet, while watching her wipe the floor, she raised her hand and pointed into the exhibition hall: "Someone died and was nailed to the wall, you..."

Jiang Xia just wanted to say "you better not go in, it's a bit scary".

Before he finished speaking, Conan rushed into the exhibition hall from beside him.

At the same time, Conan pressed on his wrist and turned on the flashlight attached to the universal watch.

——The first batch of equipment the doctor made for him has arrived.

Chapter 22 I'm Super Innocent

Jiang Xia turned around and found, as expected, that in the exhibition hall, Conan found the corpse very accurately.

And turned on the flashlight.

The two girls next to him stood outside the exhibition hall, looking at the corpse suddenly illuminated by the flashlight, they all froze.

A second later, two intertwined screams resounded through the corridor, the high-pitched vibrato that broke the boundary, more piercing than the alarm bell.

Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko huddled together, looked at Jiang Xia, remembered the blood on his body, and said incoherently: "You, you, you..."

Jiang Xia: "I didn't kill it."

The two girls on the opposite side covered their hearts and breathed a sigh of relief at the same time: "Oh, we also feel..."

Before he was completely relieved, he suddenly saw Jiang Xia looking at them, and said thoughtfully, "Do you believe me when I tell you?"

Mao Lilan: "..."

Suzuki Sonoko: "..."

This is too much like the lines when a good guy jumps back.

Two pairs of frightened eyes looked at Jiang Xia again: "!"

"It's not me." Jiang Xia said again patiently.

……

However, this time, Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko still looked terrified and suspicious.

Jiang Xia looked at them and felt that the reaction of these two students was quite interesting.

Sure enough, people have been fooled a lot, and their defenses will increase accordingly...

……

Jiang Xia had had enough fun, and lowered her tone: "The sentence I just said, 'You will believe what I say?', is actually just a simple interrogative sentence..."

Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko: "..."

Seeing Jiang Xia's "innocent" expression, the two pure and kind female classmates couldn't help but reflect silently.

"……"really.Looking back and thinking about it carefully, Jiang Xia's sentence just now, "You believe what I say?" - shouldn't it be understood as "You believe what I say? Trust me so much? It's touching"... or something like that!

Thinking of this, Suzuki Sonoko cleared his throat to cover up, walked back to the original place, grabbed Jiang Xia's hand, shook it vigorously, and said firmly:

"It was a joke just now! Of course we believe you very much."

...Ah, this hand is really easy to touch.

And it's different from what she thought before.

It's not cold.

It's quite warm to hold, maybe it can be used as a hand warmer in winter.

……

At the entrance of the exhibition hall, Suzuki Sonoko was obsessed with shaking hands with Jiang Xia.

Conan walked back from the corpse.

He first reminded Mao Lilan to call the police, and then looked at Jiang Xia:

"We believe that you didn't kill the person, but after all, you are the first person to discover the body, and the police will give priority to suspecting you—you should think about today's itinerary carefully, and it is best to find an alibi, and the way to come here , Have you seen any suspicious people?"

Conan does not blindly believe in Jiang Xia's character.

It's just that the corpse in the exhibition hall died in a terrible state, with blood splattered everywhere.

In other words, if the person was killed by Jiang Xia, it is impossible for Jiang Xia to be so clean.

In addition, Conan has seen Jiang Xia beating people before - beating him with a stick, like playing whack-a-mole in an arcade.

And like in the exhibition hall, the act of imitating oil paintings and nailing people to the wall... has a strong sense of ritual and is quite complicated.

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like Jiang Xia's style.

……

Therefore, Conan felt that the truth was probably that Jiang Xia passed by here, and for some reason, walked into the exhibition hall to take a look, and then accidentally stepped on blood.

As for why Jiang Xia didn't turn on the lights, scream, or call the police...

...Maybe it has something to do with his personality.

Everyone reacts differently when they see a dead body.

Conan really couldn't imagine the scene where Jiang Xia ran away while screaming.

"..." Thinking about it this way, Jiang Xia walked out of the exhibition hall calmly just now, which seems quite reasonable.

And theoretically speaking, Jiang Xia's state is...unstable.In short, some abnormal behaviors are very reasonable on him.

Conan: "..." Speaking of this, I don't know if Jiang Xia takes more than ten days of sick leave and misses more than ten days of class every month, and whether she honestly goes to the psychotherapy department to see a doctor.

Thinking of this, Conan couldn't help reviewing Jiang Xia's daily life that he observed: it seemed to be all speed racing, beating people, and visiting exhibition halls...

Conan thought tiredly, the answer is probably no.

……

The exhibition hall is not far from the Metropolitan Police Department.

High school students stand at the door of the Hell Hall, waiting for the police.The four people were frightened and reasoning, and those who wanted to pick up ghosts wanted to pick up ghosts... It didn't take long for the police to arrive.

……

In the hall of hell.

The roof lights were turned on, and the room was instantly brightened.

Police officers from the Mumu Police Department and the Forensics Division entered the hall together to search for clues, and sent several subordinates to ask witnesses about the situation.

Police officer Sato came out at the command, glanced at the four of them, and stopped at Jiang Xia's back.

According to her experience, the probability of the murderer appearing among the first discoverers is not low.

Compared with those two high school girls who turned pale and evasively dared not look at the dead body, and the elementary school student who was not as tall as Sato's legs, Jiang Xia's suspicion immediately climbed straight up.

However, after approaching, Jiang Xia turned around, and Officer Sato saw him in front of him, and was startled.