Conan's Corpse Picker

When he got near his home, he got out of the taxi, stepped on the snow, and turned into the street where his home was.

Push open the courtyard door and walk to the door of the house.

Just as he was about to take the key to open the door, he suddenly heard a light click from the next door.

Turning around, I saw that the door of Dr. A Li's house was pushed open, and two small heads popped out of the house—the courtyard wall between Jiang Xia and Dr. A Li's house. Unfortunately, when Dr. A Li was doing experiments last night, A gap was blasted open.

Hui Yuanai looked at Jiang Xia through the gap, and then quickly scanned the side.

Seeing that Jiang Xia looked quite healthy, there was nothing wrong with her, and there were no suspicious black Porsches around, she was secretly relieved.

——A few days ago, when I ran into Jiang Xia in Tottori Prefecture, and was reminded by Jiang Xia to wear more hats, pay attention to cover up, and not stay up late to avoid messy hair... When Haibara Ai had a bad feeling, she knew that there might be an organization nearby member.

When she got home yesterday, she was approached by Conan, who was out of touch, and the two sides had a brief exchange.Only then did Haibara know that Conan met Jiangxia and Gin at the same time on the train to Tottori Prefecture.

...In other words, she probably passed by Gin without knowing it.

Hui Yuan mourned for a while and then got scared.

At the same time, she discovered that this also meant that Jiang Xia and Qin Jiu were acting together again.

Even though he knew Jiang Xia was a member of the organization, it was normal to stay with Qin Jiu and others.

But after Hui Yuanai returned home, when he thought of the terrible gin, and then looked at the unlit single building of Jiang Xia's house next door, he felt very uneasy.

Therefore, yesterday and today, she spent less time in the laboratory. From time to time, she would come to the living room with a fashion magazine in her hand, and occasionally go to the kitchen to look at Jiang Xia's house.

Chapter 418 Huiyuan Ai: Something is wrong with the gin

Seeing that Jiang Xia returned home smoothly, Hui Yuanai finally relaxed a little.After all, as far as she knows, the loss rate of Gin Jiu's peripheral members is really high...

Looking at Jiang Xia who was opening the door, Hui Yuanai ran to the wall, climbed over the gap in the fence, and turned into Jiang Xia's yard.

Conan followed immediately.

Unlike Haibara Ai, Conan didn't know that Jiang Xia was a member of an ancestral organization.

Therefore, he was still thinking about the thing that Qin Jiu showed Jiang Xia a look of admiration on the Big Dipper a few days ago.

Although at that time, Conan remembered that gin and vodka left the station first, and there were more than a dozen exits there, it was unlikely that the people in black would be able to catch Jiang Xia and pull him into the gang.On the other hand, Conan felt that he had also cut off Jiang Xia's curiosity about gin in his own way, and tried his best to push Jiang Xia away from the organization - there should be no intersection between the two sides

But when I came back, I remembered the cunning of the organization, and Hui Yuanai, who was very familiar with Gin, was shocked after hearing his story of "meeting Gin and Jiang Xia on the Big Dipper at the same time", Conan, who was very suspicious, suddenly became vigilant again, wondering if the organization was more persistent in "wooing the talents he liked" than he predicted before?

The two fake children ran to Jiang Xia's side in such a worried manner.

Jiang Xia glanced at their expressions, and asked suspiciously: "What's wrong?"

Hui Yuanai's lips moved, but he hesitated to speak.

She is actually a little concerned about Jiang Xia's current situation.

In Huiyuan Ai's impression, Gin rarely had repeated contact with a specific peripheral member in a formal mission—one was that Gin's temporary subordinates had a high loss rate, and many of them were dismissed because of mistakes made midway. Killed with a single shot, or died of his own mistakes, the dead naturally cannot be reused.

The second is that Gin is worried that after the regular contact, people with ulterior motives will try to use that information to arrest him like Akai Shuichi did back then, so he will take the initiative to avoid this situation.

So now, after Hui Yuan Ai discovered that Jiang Xia and Qin Jiu had appeared on the same occasion several times, she felt more and more wrong.

——In the past, when Hui Yuan Ai had not defected and was still "Xue Li", because Jiang Xia's parents had pushed her away in a car accident, and she had turned into flesh... Shirley had always taken good care of Jiang Xia they left behind .

At that time, because of Jiang Xia's indifferent attitude, Xueli thought that this colleague's child hated her very much, and worried that Jiang Xia would refuse her help, so occasionally, she would avoid going out in person, and let Qin Jiu give Jiang Xia a few safer tasks. This can not only achieve the task rate required by the organization, avoid Jiang Xia being sent as cannon fodder because he failed the assessment, but also ensure his safety as much as possible.

However, after she defected, Jiang Xia would still appear near Qinjiu from time to time...

This can't be an ordinary "encounter" - if it was really "encounter" to this extent, Qin Jiu's bullet might have been embedded in Jiang Xia's head long ago, even if he has no proof.

There is only one truth, rule out other possibilities... Hui Yuanai thought to himself, could it be that Qin Jiu discovered Jiang Xia's talent and wanted to promote him?

Thinking of this possibility, Hui Yuan Ai's mood dropped a lot.

——In her opinion, for Jiang Xia, who once said frankly that "only treats the organization as a job" and sounds like she just wants to paddle happily, this is obviously a risky thing.

Hui Yuanai was very concerned about the situation.

however……

She glanced at Conan next to her calmly, and in order to help Jiang Xia cover her vest, she could only silently swallow back what she wanted to say.

...Forget it, since Jiang Xia seems to be fine, let's change to a more everyday topic for now.

Hui Yuanai reached into his pocket, touched it, and took out an exquisite gift box.Palm-sized, tied with beautiful ribbons.

She took Jiang Xia's hand, and put the handmade chocolate into his palm: "Giri chocolate—today happens to be Valentine's Day, and this is for you."

...I heard that high school students in normal schools like to give each other chocolates during this festival.

Other high school students have it, Jiang Xia had better have it too, so that he can realize that he is actually a student who should put his studies first.A good mentality can also relieve the pressure of being forced to work in the organization.

——When making chocolate yesterday, Haibara Ai thought so.

But now...

She glanced at the little box of chocolates she had made.

Then he raised his head again, and silently glanced at Jiang Xia's full mailbox and the gift boxes piled up to the top of the mailbox.

Suddenly, she understood why she didn't see Jiang Xia when she occasionally came to the living room to guard Jiang Xia this morning, instead, she would see several different female high school students every time.

...Jiang Xia's high school experience seems to be very perfect in some strange aspects, even a bit too perfect... Speaking of which, with his frequency of skipping classes, how did he meet so many female classmates who knew his address?

Maybe someone is secretly selling Jiang Xia's address...

Hui Yuanai looked back at the pile of chocolates with complicated emotions, and wanted to raise his hand to pat Jiang Xia on the shoulder, but he couldn't reach it.

In the end, he had no choice but to pat Jiang Xia's hand, and sighed softly: "Pay attention to personal privacy."

Jiang Xia was a little puzzled where she came from with this emotion, but he had long discovered that people in this world seem to be very good at making up brains. Everyone has a variety of worlds in their brains, and it is normal for him to be unable to keep up with his thoughts.

So he nodded skillfully, pretending to understand.

He glanced at the chocolate Hui Yuan mourned for, thought for a while, and took out a small paper box from his pocket:

"When I left, I didn't expect that there would be a festival so soon, and I didn't have time to prepare a holiday gift...I'll give you this as a return gift. I brought it back from this business trip."

...Although it is a little different from chocolate, at least the color is similar.

"Thank you." Hui Yuanai raised his hand and took it, curiously looking at the hand-folded paper box.

The carton is only as big as the circle between the thumb and index finger. Judging from the size, it may be a small jewelry inside.

Judging from what he just said, this should be something Jiang Xia bought for himself...

Just as he was thinking, Hui Yuanai suddenly heard a soft "rustling" sound coming from the carton, and felt a slight tremor at the place where the palm of his hand touched the bottom of the carton, as if something was scratching.

Haibara Ai:"……?"

She was dazed for a moment, vaguely having a bad premonition, raised her head and glanced at Jiang Xia inquiringly.

Seeing that Jiang Xia had finished delivering the gift in return, she had straightened up and was concentrating on looking at the chocolates on the mailbox next to her, as if she was thinking about what to do with the pile of sweets.

...Jiang Xia's attention did not continue to focus on the small paper box, which shows that this is not something shady, it should be a normal gift.

Hui Yuanai hesitated for a moment, but she still couldn't resist her curiosity. She opened the small paper box a little and looked inside.

Chapter 419 Jiang Xia is a Good Employee

Conan also heard the strange movement in the carton.

He leaned over curiously, and looked into the small paper box with Hui Yuanai.

I saw a small pile of soil sprinkled on the corner of the box, and a leaf was thoughtfully placed on the soil... Of course, this is not the gift itself, but an accessory.

——The real "gift" should be the oval-shaped arthropod with a round and smooth back and several circular armor plates next to the soil.

It seems to have noticed the change in the light. Under the gaze of four bright and big eyes, the stupid bug in the box stopped scratching the carton, and slowly shook the short tentacles on the top of its head, as if exploring its surroundings.

After a while, it didn't know what it found, and it curled itself up silently, turning into a black ball with a cold luster.

"..."

Conan reached in and poked it speechlessly, and gently moved the mini "chocolate ball" from one end of the carton to the other: "Watermelon bug? Why are you grabbing it for nothing..."

"Before it got on the edge of my shoe, it looked like it wanted to follow me. I took a closer look and found that compared with its kind, it had a neat carapace and a very standard curvature. It felt like it was walking with me. Destiny."

With that said, Jiang Xia opened the handmade gift box that Hui Yuan mourned for, and took a look at the dark chocolate that was also glowing with black luster inside, and it looked more and more like it.

So he raised his hand and touched Hui Yuanai's head: "Now I feel that you are also very destined for it, and it just so happens that I'm not very good at keeping pets..."

Haibara Ai:"……"

Her slender fingers trembled slightly, she hesitated to speak, stopped to speak, and finally managed to organize her words, and reluctantly said: "Look carefully, it's really cute..."

... Go back and find a flower pot and throw it in to raise it.

Fortunately, Jiang Xia only caught one, so there is no need to worry about it over-breeding... Speaking of which, although the vitality of insects is generally relatively tenacious, they are small in size. Item... I hope to find relevant information.

Conan stood by, silently staring at the cowardly watermelon worm that dared not move, feeling that he had thought too much before—the organization probably didn't take the opportunity to attack Jiang Xia, otherwise, how could Jiang Xia have the time to arrest the innocent boy? animal……

But Conan remembered that Jiang Xia went out this time because he received a commission letter from Moon Shadow Island.

And judging from yesterday's news, an explosion just happened on Moon Shadow Island.

…When it comes to explosions, it is inevitable to think of the gin that almost blew up the Shinkansen—Conan always felt that "explosion", a simple and crude method of killing, had a very strong smell of gin.Especially in his impression, Gin did take the train to Tottori Prefecture a few days ago.

Thinking of this, Conan withdrew his gaze from staring at the watermelon worm, made some words, and looked at Jiang Xia, trying to pretend to be interested in the cases Jiang Xia encountered along the way, but in fact asked around, did Jiang Xia talk to Jiang Xia after leaving the Big Dipper train? Suspicious men in black like Gin have been in contact.

But before he could speak, a beeping horn suddenly came from outside the courtyard door.

——Dr. A Li also found out that Jiang Xia was back.

At this time, he was driving his little Beetle and parked at the door, waving to Jiang Xia from the car window: "Let's go, go get the cat!"

Ever since Jiang Xia got a part-time job at Amuro Detective Agency, the younger brothers he recruited started a new business - helping clients find pets.

In the early days of starting this business, when Jiang Xia came to apply for a job, she used the excuse of "being forced by bad boys so that the boss didn't dare to take it, so I had to try my luck at this office near the Metropolitan Police Department".So in order to prevent the innocent younger brothers who came to the office to deliver cats, Amuro Toru mistook them for smashing the store, and then they were sent to the police station or juvenile detention center...Jiang Xia turned Dr. Ali's house into a cat Temporary storage for dogs.

Later, although Toru Amuro found out the truth, he felt that Jiang Xia would try his best to apply for him because this talented young man wanted to get a part-time job as a detective that he liked within the scope of the organization's permission.

In addition, when Amuro was overwhelmed, Jiang Xia worked many jobs for him——Jiang Xia could get started quickly in any type of work, and was very popular with the bosses. He had retained many important part-time jobs for Amuro, He is really a hard-working and good-for-nothing employee... So Toru Amuro finally opened up and did not overturn the old score.

It is precisely because he did not talk to Jiang Xia about this matter, Jiang Xia's cat storage location has not changed, and it is still with Dr. A Li.

Although Dr. A Li stays at home, he also goes out occasionally.

Usually, if the doctor goes out, the cats will be sent to the Mori Detective Agency under the disgusted gaze of Mori Kogoro and the surprised gaze of Mori Ran.