Conan's Corpse Picker

It took a lot of manpower to transport these away, and now that Uzo left with the foreigner and the young girl, he had an alibi.

... an alibi.

Gin was quite unfamiliar with this word before.He never had to find such things for himself.

I didn't expect to be in frequent contact now.

Thinking about it this way, it's actually quite interesting: the detective who stands within the framework of the rules has already secretly extended his thread beyond the law, but the stupid police can't see those cobwebs stained with blood and despair... the art of irony.

The only thing left is Moonlight Island.

I don't know if Wu Zuo has any surprises or surprises over there... Tsk, when you drive him out of the car at noon, you should ask him first.

Gin glanced at the list on the pocketbook, feeling a little complicated.

……

Vodka usually has no murderous intent, and for Jiang Xia, he is a very difficult person to observe.

Although the murderous aura on Qin Jiu's body is obvious, once it exceeds a certain distance, neither Jiang Xia nor Gui can perceive it.

So Jiang Xia failed to find the two secretly observing lines of sight.

But when the truck left, he still looked around secretly.

He remembered getting out of the car at noon and Gin had said they'd be 'coming later'.If the vehicle the two men in black were riding in hadn't had a flat tire on the way...then they should be nearby by now.

It just didn't show up for some reason.

Jiang Xia looked around casually, but didn't find the two colleagues, so she turned her gaze away and stopped looking.Gin may have his own ideas...

……

After the truck drove for nearly an hour, a crowded but orderly cemetery appeared in front of us.The white tombstones were close together. Meisha had just died for three years, so the location was not in the depths, so it was very conspicuous.

Looking at the photo on the tombstone, Rob felt that there should be a howl here, but remembering that there was a detective standing beside him, he suppressed his tears again.He can't show too strong emotion for Meisha, otherwise it is easy for these big-minded detectives to think that he is taking revenge.Fortunately, this is not the first time he has come here. He came here a few days ago, and his suppressed feelings have just been vented, which is easy to control.

Jiang Xia stopped for a short while beside the locked car.

Then he walked to the side of the cemetery.Just listen to Rob pointing to a small mountain bag like a tour guide, and introduce to Yuanshan and Ye:

"It's the best place to observe stars in this area. I heard that some people have discovered new comets there. There are relatively few people in this season. If it is two months later, it may be so crowded that there is no room for an instrument."

"Wow~!" Yuan Shan and Ye were a little moved, and they all came, "Let's go up and have a look."

Jiang Xia is not interested in looking at the stars, but Rob's introduction just now makes him feel a little familiar.

He nodded, climbed over the fence with the two of them, stepped on the dirt and rocks, and walked towards the small hill.

When approaching the foot of the mountain, Yuan Shan and Ye stepped on something and slipped.

Jiang Xia gave her a hand.Yuan Shan and Ye Hou jumped twice in fear, took a photo with the mobile phone used for lighting, and whispered: "What is it?"

The aperture hits the feet.

Take a round and smooth skull.

Yuan Shanhe Ye: "..."

"........."

"what--!!!"

A shrill scream sounded, piercing the night sky and drifting far away.

Jiang Xia pressed his ears, and touched his eyes with this action, randomly picked one from his own ghosts, and borrowed its night vision ability.

In his eyes, the dark forest instantly became clear.

Almost at the same time, Jiang Xia saw a few low flashlights swaying and approaching—people nearby heard the screams and ran over quickly.

There were four children and one adult who came, and they were the young detectives who were attracted by the screams, and they brought Dr. A Li.

……Um?

Boy detectives?

……

The children ran very fast, and Dr. A Li also strode forward vigorously, wanting to see why there were girls screaming at the foot of the mountain in the middle of the night.

Yuan Shan and Ye Gang stepped on someone else's head, and now they saw someone approaching again, they were startled, and shook their flashlights to shine the light.

After a period of chaos, the two sides finally saw each other clearly.

Rob, Yuan Shan and Ye had never seen the Detective Boys, and they were a little dazed.

The child who recognized Jiang Xia froze in place.

Jiang Xia looked around and found that he seemed to be the intersection of the two sides.

He looked down at the children: "...Why are you here?"

Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta didn't say anything, and they didn't know what to say for a while—the flashlights on both sides flickered at the same time, illuminating a large area around them, so they also saw scattered human skulls on the ground , and other parts of the bones.

It's scary enough to have skeletons, but there is brother Jiang Xia... The three children fell into autism for a short time.

Hui Yuanai also saw human remains on the ground.She swept her eyes and recognized each part more accurately than children—mandible, upper wrist, femur, ribs...

Wild countryside.

Jiangxia.

Scattered bones.

"..."

Combining several key words, Hui Yuanai stopped breathing, and suddenly thought, could this be related to some of Jiang Xia's tasks?

but……

She looked at the two people who obviously came with Jiang Xia.It's hard to say about the foreign man, but the high school girl next to her doesn't look like a member of the organization at all. The scream just now should also be from her.

...With Jiang Xia's prudence, if this messy person on the ground is really related to him, he will not let the scene become the current situation where everyone is watching.

So this should be just a coincidence—it is probably just that Jiang Xia went out to relax like before, but accidentally encountered a murder case.

Thinking of this, Hui Yuanai secretly heaved a sigh of relief, feeling a little more at ease.

Seeing that the other children did not speak, she answered Jiang Xia's question just now:

"The doctor's friend gave him a set of magazines, which contain astronomy content. The children...cough, we are very interested in this. It happened that the doctor was free today, so we came to play together." Remembering that there was a stranger next to him, Haibara Ai reluctantly puts herself in the category of "children".

"..." After Jiang Xia listened silently, she turned to Dr. A Li, and said nonchalantly, "When I asked a few days ago, didn't you say that you have no travel plans recently?"

Dr. A Li vaguely felt a bit of condemnation in the neighbor's words.

Hearing this, Jiang Xia looked thoughtfully at the three "considerate" children: "So that's how it is."

Chapter 393 The Experienced Haibara Ai

"!" The three children didn't dare to make a sound, and quickly withdrew their hands, getting closer and closer, and huddled together skillfully, probably because they instinctively felt that the area to be beaten would be smaller.

Jiang Xia watched them silently for a while, then quietly looked away.

Of course he didn't beat the child. After all, the child is not murderous... Make an account first, and he will have to deal with them a few more cases in the future.

……

Next to him, Yuan Shanheye, who stepped on a human skull, gradually recovered from the shock.She had often seen corpses with Hattori Heiji before, and she was more resistant than ordinary people.Now that she suddenly encountered a skeleton, she subconsciously looked at Hattori Heiji...but she couldn't find it.

...Oh, he's still working on the case in the Spider Mansion.

The terrified eyes of Yuan Shan and Ye turned into half-moon eyes in an instant, and for some reason there was a lot of nausea in their hearts, but they felt that the scene was not suitable, so they silently swallowed it back.

Eventually, her attention fell back to the present.

Fortunately, there is a reliable detective next to him.

Yuan Shan and Ye moved closer to Jiang Xia and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter with these bones?"

Jiang Xia borrowed the ghost's eyesight, and even in the middle of the night, her vision is very clear.

He shook the flashlight meaningly, and finally let the aperture stop somewhere, and said while observing:

"It should be a human bone, with lime sprinkled next to it—lime absorbs water and releases heat, which can speed up the decay of the corpse and shorten the time for bone ossification."

In other words, the traces of man-made are heavy.

Rob asked subconsciously, "Murder?"

"Probably." Jiang Xia is not interested in analyzing these things standing in the wilderness, he wants to go and see ghosts first.

So after observing for a while, he walked to a flat stone with a diameter of more than 30 centimeters beside him: "There seems to be traces of moving here..."

As he said that, he squatted down and lifted the stone hard.

I thought there would be things like scorpions, ants, and gnats under the pressure.

But it didn't... Maybe it's because the seasons don't change regularly, and it's hard for the fragile bugs to adapt.

This made Jiang Xia feel more at ease.

He asked Rob to take a few pictures, then found the glove he was carrying, and picked up the thing that had been crushed under the flat stone.

—a mottled ring, and a crushed cigarette case.In addition, there were some cigarettes scattered around.

Jiang Xia opened the cigarette case and poured it into his hand.

Six cigarettes fell on his palm through the glove, two of them were torn from the middle, four long and two short.

...very typical death message.

I don't know how the victims had a flash of inspiration before they died, thinking of these...

Hui Yuanai squatted next to Jiang Xia with a flashlight, helping him to illuminate.

Seeing the ring Jiang Xia was holding in her hand, she was a little startled—a few letters were engraved on the inside of the ring, ETSUKO_to_ASAO.

Etsuko to Mao

"This may be the pair of rings that Ms. Etsuko Nonomiya gave to her fiancé Mr. Mayo Kono." Huihara Ai said in a low voice:

"Ms. Nonomiya is a resident of the hotel we were in. I heard that she came here with Mr. Kono a year ago. After the two had a big fight, Kono left the hotel alone and disappeared.

"For the past year, Mr. Kono hadn't heard from him until last week when he suddenly sent out several invitation letters, inviting those who received them to come to the hotel here.