Conan's Corpse Picker

Although Conan was taken aback, of course he wouldn't be intimidated by a mere clay mouth.

On the contrary, the other three children were startled by his sudden movement, and hugged each other like frightened birds.

Under their complicated gazes, Conan nervously looked at the plaster statue with a smooth forehead in front of him.

...the scary mouth was gone, as suddenly as it had appeared.

After observing for a while, Conan approached in disbelief, touched and knocked on the plaster suspiciously, trying to figure out the reason for the weird incident just now.

The other three children did not see the "mouth" just now.

Ayumi stared at Conan who was behaving abnormally, hesitated for a moment, and suggested in fear: "Let's leave here first...how about going to Brother Jiang Xia?"

Even if she gets beaten, she doesn't want to stay in this scary place where even Conan will be scared...

Conan is already completely interested.

He couldn't find the mechanism for a while, and it was difficult to take the things away, so he took out his mobile phone and took a picture of this weird plaster statue with the last bit of battery.

After observing several other plaster statues and finding that none of them had mouths, Conan felt more and more that what he encountered just now must be a man-made trick, but he has not yet figured out the reason... …perhaps some unique material that expands and evaporates under certain conditions?

After shooting the plaster cast from all angles, Conan touched it for the last time, and then said energetically, "Go to the health room to have a look."

Then he walked out the door quickly.

Conan remembered that a few days ago, someone claimed to have seen the mannequin in the health room running wildly in the corridor-now it seems that perhaps this series of "strange legends on campus" is simply a behind-the-scenes mastermind who is proficient in chemical materials. Hide in the shadows and play tricks.

The other three children looked at each other for a while, not daring to walk around by themselves, so they finally had to follow Conan.

A group of people soon came to the health room.

There are some ordinary-looking utensils piled up here, and there are no human-like cold plaster figures, which is more relaxing than the art classroom.

Ayumi looked around and felt that she had calmed down a lot.

When the other three students were looking for the mannequin, she also wanted to help a little, so she casually pulled away a piece of cloth covering something against the wall.

A mannequin of adult size, without any skin on the surface, emerged from under the cloth without warning.

Ayumi stared blankly at this "human" whose body surface only had muscles and blood vessels, as if it had been skinned and intuitively gave people a bloody feeling. When her scalp exploded, she let out a throat-ripping scream , escaped the door at unprecedented speed.

Conan was startled, and after recovering, he hurriedly chased him out.

The three little boys ran across two right angles in the direction Ayumi left, and then stopped at the stairs in the middle of the corridor—just now, they clearly saw Ayumi turning in here, but at this moment there was nothing in front of them. There was no sound of footsteps fleeing upstairs.

"... Ayumi?"

Conan tentatively called out.

No one responded, only echoes fell to the ground like ripples. The three little boys stood holding their breaths, clearly hearing the sound of their own hearts beating wildly in the quiet night.

With a hint of crying, Mitsuhiko said in an inaudible voice: "Ayumi, Ayumi must have been swallowed by the legend..."

Without a person out of thin air, Conan is no longer as relaxed as before.

But he firmly does not think there are "legends": "Those 'weird legends' are all man-made, and it is very likely that someone hiding in the school took Ayumi away!"

He looked around, flipping his flashlight for clues.

Before he could look around, Kojima Motota next to him suddenly let out a miserable howl like killing a pig.

Conan turned his head suddenly, and saw Yuanta raised his hand tremblingly, pointing at the window of the opposite building.

The building here is in the shape of "口".Looking along the past, one can see a skinless "person" clinging to the opposite glass, staring straight at them stiffly and coldly—it turned out to be the skinned mannequin just now!

...It cannot be that it is moving by itself, someone must have moved it.Conan gritted his teeth and rushed over.

Mitsuhiko and Genta also instinctively followed.

……

After the children left in a panic, the wooden door of the tool room on the ground floor of the first floor slowly slid open, revealing three figures.

Jiang Xia let go of Ayumi's hand and looked down at her.

After Ayumi rushed out of the health room just now, she ran around in a panic, trying to hide in a corner.

Then he bumped into Jiang Xia who was habitually hiding in the corner.

And then, because Ayumi bumped into someone in the darkness, she opened her mouth to scream in panic, but before she shouted, Jiang Xia covered her mouth.

...Jiang Xia didn't know why he wanted to stop her screaming, maybe it was purely a conditioned reflex after watching too many anime movies.

After doing this, he came back to his senses and looked at the other two people in the surrounding space with a little embarrassment.

Seeing that Ayumi was already petrified, she didn't make a sound after Jiang Xia let go.

As for Belmode, she didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with this reaction. Instead, when Jiang Xia was arresting someone, she instinctively looked to the sides to confirm the situation... a very skilled look.

When there is no embarrassment around, and no one realizes that something is wrong, the embarrassment will naturally disappear...

The person involved, Jiang Xia, quickly returned to normal.

He waited for a while in the dark as if nothing had happened, and after the three children ran away, he put Yoshida Ayumi on the ground next to him.

Ayumi looked up and saw that it was Jiang Xia, she was stunned for a while, and subconsciously stepped back.

At the same time, she turned her head and looked to the side, looking for a little friend who could be beaten with her, but there was no one on both sides of the corridor, and the farther it went, the darker it became, as if filled with a terrible black fog.

"..."

Ayumi thought about the plaster statue with cold eyes in the art classroom just now, and then thought about the mannequin that seemed to have been skinned raw, and shivered suddenly.

Then she moved forward on her toes, and came to the place where she was only one step away from bumping into Jiang Xia, raised her immature arms, and hugged Jiang Xia's legs silently.

...She would rather be beaten by Jiang Xia's brother than to be eaten by that terrible model, or torn off by it to become the same kind...Compared with the weird legend, at least Jiang Xia's brother is more beautiful, and He doesn't kill people.

Jiang Xia inexplicably picked up a temporary follower.

He looked at Ayumi, who was so calm and frightened that her legs were weak, and felt that this level of brat was acceptable, so he bent down and picked up the child.

Afterwards, Jiang Xia looked down at his elongated shadow in the dim light, and found that after adding Ayumi, the outline of his shadow instantly expanded deformedly, and he nodded secretly in satisfaction.

In fact, if Ayumi rides on the neck, the scaring effect should be better.

But the kid seems to be wearing a skirt today...forget it.

Facing the shadow on the ground, after adjusting his hugging posture, Jiang Xia planned to continue following to see the current situation of the three children.

However, when he raised his head, he saw "Toru Amuro" next to him frowning slightly, thinking of something.

Seeing Jiang Xia looking at her, Belmode, who was wrapped in a murderous look, said in a low voice: "I also saw the opposite window through the crack of the door just now. There is indeed a mannequin facing this side and pasted on the window, but..."

Speaking of this, she pointed to the corridor at right angles to here through two windows.

According to her observation just now, the figure following the children was hiding behind the side window at this moment.

In other words, there are other people who move the mannequin.

——In this not too big teaching building, apart from them, there are actually two people hiding.

After Jiang Xia listened, she also frowned slightly on the surface, maintaining a high degree of synchronization with Belmode.

But then, taking advantage of Belmode's inattention, he glanced at her suspiciously.

...He thought that according to Belmod's concern for her cool_guy, when she found a sign of danger, she would run over immediately to prevent Conan from being miserable, but he didn't expect Belmod to be calm.

Is it because the mother-child tutor of the Black Organization is different, or is it the result of her rational thinking?

The latter actually makes some sense—I and Belmode have been hiding very well, so in Belmode's view, in the eyes of the person who followed behind Conan, he and a few children should be the only ones in the school.

So if the follower has the idea of ​​killing someone, he can pick up the mop and rush over to kill people randomly, there is no need to beat around the bush and scare people.

Perhaps because of this, Belmode felt that if she rushed over in such a non-fatal situation and exposed her affection for Conan to Uzo, who was also in the organization, she would lose a lot of advantages—even if she was against Amuro now. This kind of behavior will also make the Uzo next to him suspicious, and while doubting her attitude towards children, he will take off her vest by the way.

Belmode endured very hard.

Because of this, the murderous aura on her gradually increased unconsciously.

Jiang Xia watched silently, her mood kept +1, and she continued to take Ayumi to the health room.

Although there was a little anxiety on his face that he was trying to pretend not to be anxious, but in fact there was no disturbance in his heart.

After all, based on what happened tonight, Jiang Xia already guessed which incident it was.

——Two sneaky "bad guys" in the shadows, one is the teaching director who only has a wig in his eyes.

The other is Conan's new homeroom teacher, Kobayashi Chengko.

Mr. Kobayashi's appearance is very similar to Police Officer Sato, but his personality is completely different inside.

In comparison, Xiaolin Chengzi is more introverted and weak, and she is very nervous about the upcoming parent meeting.

So every night, she would sneak to the school, use mannequins and plaster figures in the dark, and put some dolls in the classroom, let them act as students and parents, and conduct parent-teacher meeting drills... Well, in another sense Said, this is actually a very courageous person, worthy of a woman who is the same model as Police Officer Sato.

Chapter 367

In short, Mr. Kobayashi, who practiced the parent-teacher meeting in the school late at night, and the academic director, who came to the school in the dark to find wigs, together constitute the "N big strange talk" of this school.

And the degree of social death of these two people after being smashed is not enough to be their motive for killing the four children... Jiang Xia's thoughts froze slightly when he thought of this.No, wait, in this world, it is not impossible to kill someone because "I don't want my students to see my baldness".

It's a pity that at present, neither the dean of teaching affairs nor Mr. Xiao Lin has a murderous look... Jiang Xia secretly sighed, wondering if he could try to brew a little more after the dean's baldness was exposed later.

……

Conan rushed back to the health room, and saw the mannequin standing quietly in the corner. There was no abnormality in the room, but there was no missing Ayumi either.

While observing, Conan vaguely felt that someone was peeping here.

He turned his head intuitively, and suddenly met eyes with Xiao Hei in the corridor.

After Conan was startled, he rushed to catch up.

However, because his legs were not long enough, he couldn't catch up with the suspicious elements who were also running wildly, and gradually lost track of them.

When he stopped panting, Conan turned his head and found that there was only Kojima Genta behind him.

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya was gone.

"... Mitsuhiko?!"

The voice was silent in the gloomy corridor, and no one answered.

...lost another one.

Conan looked towards the end of the corridor, which became darker and invisible as it got deeper, with an extremely solemn expression—he had been chasing the suspicious figure just now, and Mitsuhiko ran behind him again. Given the size of the teaching building, no matter how fast the suspicious person walked, It is also impossible to go around during this period of time and catch Mitsuhiko behind him... In other words, if Mitsuhiko's disappearance was disturbed by humans, it means that there are at least two suspicious persons lurking in the school!