Conan's Corpse Picker

"...?" The dean's eyes slowly changed from embarrassment to doubt, apparently failing to understand Conan's previous question.

The latter one vaguely understood: "Lost two students?!"

Conan was slightly surprised to see that his reaction did not seem to be fake.

Before, Conan once guessed based on the situation when Mitsuhiko disappeared that there were more than one scary little black wandering in the teaching building.

Later, through the conversation with Jiang Xia, it was discovered that Jiang Xia had also entered the teaching building. Conan thought, if Ayumi and Mitsuhiko who were running around did not fall into the hands of the gangsters, then they might have been picked up by Jiang Xia. The child who was left alone had an accident... Tsk, although Jiang Xia had good intentions, it was too scary for those who were left behind...

...In short, after Conan saw the Dean of Teaching Affairs coming down the stairs, the "Xiao Hei" in his mind was automatically replaced with Dean of Teaching Affairs + Jiang Xia.

But now, "the mouth on the plaster statue" and "Ayumi Mitsuhiko's disappearance" are the two things that he cares most about, but neither of them are done by the dean...

The latter can barely be pushed to Jiang Xia, but the former is very confusing.

——According to Conan's speculation, the weird grinning mouth on the plaster statue should be some kind of material that expands under certain conditions.

In order to set up this mechanism, the mastermind behind the scenes needs to be able to enter the teaching building in advance and guess that someone will enter the art classroom.

But Jiang Xia entered the teaching building tonight because the children adjusted their duty hours without authorization, so Jiang Xia came in to find someone... This was a sudden accident.

In addition, Jiang Xia didn't know about the recent weird legends about the art classroom in Didan Primary School. He was too late and impossible to make these preparations, not to mention Jiang Xia had no motive at all.

In other words... there is a third person in the teaching building? !

I thought I had solved the puzzle, but at this moment, another "Xiao Hei" with a blurred face popped out.

Conan's scalp went numb for a moment.

However, after getting rid of the previous assumption of "there are two people", more details began to emerge in his mind one by one. Thinking about it carefully, those campus legends did not match the behavior of the dean who was looking for a wig.

For example, there is a legend that is "a muscular mannequin running late at night".As for the director looking for a wig, there is really no need to carry the model around.

Even if this can be regarded as a trick he adopted to scare the students away, the plaster statues in the art classroom are difficult to explain: according to the legend, they have been moved more than once, and if you want to find something, you only need to flip it once. No need to check back and forth.

... I don't know if Jiang Xia has discovered the existence of the "third person", so I have to tell him as soon as possible.

Speaking of Jiang Xia... Didn't he intend to be the oriole that was behind? Now that the director has come out, Jiang Xia still hasn't appeared. Could it be that he is going to catch another person?He had already discovered that "Xiao Hei" was two people? !

Just as he was thinking, a series of small footsteps came from the depths of the corridor.

Several people of uneven height stepped out of the shadows.

Conan glanced quickly, saw the two children at a glance, and felt relieved—Ayumi and Mitsuhiko were indeed fine.

And the two adults walking beside them...

Conan saw the person clearly, and was slightly taken aback: "Mr. Xiaolin?" And... "Mr. Amuro?!"

"Amuro Toru" looked at him upon hearing this, showed him a friendly smile, and even patted his head as he passed by.

Conan froze.

...Why does Toru Amuro seem to be more enthusiastic than usual today?

In the past, although Mr. Amuro was relatively friendly, he always looked at him with a strange look of scrutiny from time to time, especially when they were sitting together in the car...but today, Toru Amuro did not have a similar look at all, and It's an inexplicably soft feeling.

Conan took a careful look at him, secretly puzzled, and continued to look behind the four of them: "Why isn't brother Jiang Xia here?"

"I went to see the puppet in the tool room just now."

Jiang Xia's voice came from the other side.

Soon, others also came out, and at the same time looked at the director of teaching affairs with slight disappointment.

The dean touched the top of his head inexplicably, and shrank back to the darker place behind him, so that his head would not be so conspicuous and reflective.

After feeling the safety brought by the darkness, he originally wanted to show the dignity of the director, and question these brats who stayed in the school late at night and the two adults who came out of nowhere.

But when he thought of what he had done today, the dean's confidence suddenly deflated like a discouraged ball.In the end, he just huddled in the shadows and pretended he didn't exist.

Conan looked at the director, then at Jiang Xia and "Toru Amuro", and finally at Mr. Kobayashi, and habitually entered the mode of choosing one of four.

Teacher Kobayashi's current attitude is very different from her usual stern and serious appearance. Combined with the plaster statue in the art classroom, Conan vaguely understands it again.

He looked at Jiang Xia first, and confirmed first: "Ayumi and Mitsuhiko were with you just now?"

Jiang Xia looked at the two children who were terrified when they were cueed, and stood at attention and dared not speak.Thinking that Conan would be able to find out the truth if he asked them anyway, it is better to admit it directly.

So he opened his mouth calmly, and casually found a reason for his behavior: "It's dangerous for a child to run around alone."

Conan nodded knowingly.This is the same as his previous speculation.

So now, there is only one unresolved problem left...

Conan turned to Mr. Kobayashi who was trying to hide himself in the corner: "The plaster statue and the muscular mannequin in the health care room are all brought into the classroom by you to practice for the upcoming parent-teacher meeting."

Xiao Lin Chengzi covered her red and slightly hot face, and nodded in shame.

Conan paused, then continued to guess in an uncertain tone:

"Because two weird legends in the school - 'moving plaster statue' and 'running mannequin' began to spread, Mr. Xiao Lin was worried that it would be thought that someone was actually preparing for the upcoming parent meeting, and then Guessing that it was her who had just worked in Didan Primary School for a short time, she decided to completely stereotype the rumors into two weird legends, so as to distinguish them from what she was really doing.

"And the most popular legend is 'the moving plaster statue in the art student's classroom', so Mr. Kobayashi pasted a material that changes shape according to temperature or light..."

As he spoke, Conan's voice gradually dropped.

——From the moment he switched to the topic of "Mr. Kobayashi who pasted materials on the plaster statue", Chengzi Kobayashi's eyes became confused.Although she didn't make a sound, "I'm not what you're talking about" was clearly written all over her face.

"..." Isn't she?

Who did that?

Conan also became suspicious.

Then, after a series of intuitive reasoning that he didn't even react to, Conan turned his head instinctively and looked at Jiang Xia.

... When it comes to the magical material of plaster on the forehead, it is hard not to think of Dr. A Li.

And Dr. Ali likes to share some interesting props with others.If you want to say who is the most likely to show the doctor the first when he has a strange new product, then besides Hui Yuanai who is the closest to the doctor, it must be Jiang Xia.

Conan's suspicious eyes fell on Jiang Xia.

Bold assumptions, careful verification: maybe the doctor suddenly remembered the fact that "Xinyi doesn't like to listen to him explain strange new inventions", and he was worried about it, so he handed over the strange expansion material to Jiang Xia, and please Jiang Xia "looking for a chance to scare Conan"?

...The doctor does like to play tricks sometimes.And if he really opened his mouth, Jiang Xia probably wouldn't refuse - this reasoning has a certain theoretical basis.

However, when Conan looked at Jiang Xia, he saw that Jiang Xia's eyes were even more confused than Teacher Xiao Lin.

Soon, Jiang Xia seemed to think of something, and asked Conan with a hint of curiosity: "So you screamed in the art classroom just now because you were frightened by that 'deformation material'? What did it become?"

"...not screaming, just shouting." Conan corrected this shamelessly.

He simply described the "mouth".

Then Jiang Xia was also excluded.

Since Jiang Xia didn't admit it, it shouldn't be him who did it.

Because there is no need to hide it: according to Dr. A Li's character, if he really gave Jiang Xia that kind of expansion material, the doctor would definitely come to ask Conan how he felt when he was scared later with a smile.Jiang Xia must also know this, so he doesn't have to lie about it at all.

After crossing out "Jiang Xia" from the suspect list, Conan looked at a few children who were sneaking glances at Jiang Xia, who had dared not make a sound until now, and decisively crossed out these three classmates—they don't have such acting skills and courage .

The only thing left is...

Conan raised his head little by little, his gaze moved upwards.

His eyes fell on "Amuro Toru" who was watching him with great interest.

"Toru Amuro" met Conan's suspicious gaze, and raised his eyebrows in surprise.

After he understood, he didn't explain, just smiled meaningfully at Conan.

Jiang Xia who was watching: "..."

...You can do whatever you want by wearing someone else's skin.

Conan was also stunned by "Amuro Toru"'s reaction: Could this be... a provocative smile after a successful prank?

...However, in theory, Mr. Amuro, like Jiang Xia, is an outsider. He is unlikely to do such a thing, and he has no motive.

Conan thought about it rationally for a while, and felt that evidence must be used to do things, and he couldn't just rely on a smile to lock down the mastermind behind the scenes—maybe Mr. Amuro just smiled politely when they looked at each other, and there was no other meaning.

Conan then secretly planned: when Dr. Ali came back from a business trip, first move the plaster statue over there, let the doctor check the traces on it, maybe he can figure out what is going on with that terrible "mouth" based on the remaining materials .

During the period of finding out the principle of the trick, the focus of suspicion should still be on the dean of teaching and Chengzi Xiaolin.

Although the confusion of the two faculty members seemed real.

But Conan thought, there are all kinds of people in the world—maybe there is a showman hidden among these two honest people.

must be carefully screened.

Chapter 369 Got it, Amuro Toru is also anonymous

In addition, Conan felt that Toru Amuro's motivation for appearing at school tonight is actually a big problem.

Before, Jiang Xia was alone at the school gate waiting for the primary school students to leave school.

According to his habit, even if he realizes that the situation in the teaching building is wrong, he will not take the initiative to ask his boss for help, because it will prevent Jiang Xia from beating the prisoner... Cough, it will prevent him from saving people quickly when necessary.

So Toru Amuro probably joined in on his own initiative when passing by.

If it's to help, that's fine in itself.But Toru Amuro's detective agency is not in the vicinity. It's hard to imagine why he suddenly passed by the gate of the elementary school... But Jiang Xia seems to have said that this boss likes to work, and he wanders around Tokyo every day, refreshing randomly, and Maybe it was really a coincidence that I met him, and then I had nothing to do. I wanted to see what the employees were doing, so I followed the school all the way...

Well, in short, put a "doubtful" label first, and investigate slowly in the future.

Conan gave Amuro a stamp in his heart.

……

Now, most of the puzzles in the teaching have been solved, and the people who died in the society have also died. Several groups of people can't stay in the teaching building anymore, and they are preparing to leave.

On the way to the school gate, Conan looked at the back of "Toru Amuro", and then thought about his unreasonable behavior and attitude today, his thoughts diverged, and some memories emerged.

Speaking of which, the last time I saw Toru Amuro was when Jiang Xia was drunk and abducted by that new member of the Anonymous organization who can change his appearance and has a bad personality.

Conan remembered that when he was looking for Jiang Xia's whereabouts, he met Amuro Toru suddenly in the monitoring room of the hotel, and then Amuro Toru resolutely left him after finding out the clues, and used the "private detective method" to find someone... It made Conan depressed for a while, but fortunately, Jiang Xia got home smoothly that night.

According to Jiang Xia, he returned to the city in Toru Amuro's car.From this point of view, Toru Amuro was probably responsible for finding someone, and this boss doesn't seem to be a bad person.

But combined with today's events, Conan has a new question in his heart:

How did Mr. Amuro find that anonymous member who is good at disguise?

Anonymous people always come and go without a trace, and the police don’t mind if they can’t find them. The scud reporters and some senior detectives have never succeeded in catching Anonymous’s skirt.