Conan's Corpse Picker

"The one who dropped the ring should be a woman."

Hui Yuanai didn't know that Jiang Xia had already targeted the murderer.She carefully touched the metal ring held by Jiang Xia with her fingertips, and speculated: "It doesn't feel cold to the touch, it may have just been taken off from your hand. And..."

She spread out the handkerchief that she used to pad the ring and hook just now, and showed it to Jiang Xia.

On the white handkerchief, there was something like red paint on it at this moment. It was a little sticky, but it wasn't blood.

Fearing that he might not recognize him, Hui Yuanai took the initiative to say:

"It's lipstick. Judging by the color, it's a limited edition new release a few days ago. The person who is asking for help should have a good quality of life, and she is a suitable kidnapping target. In addition, she may be on the fat side—this ring is on the 11th ring, and it is average." Women more commonly use sizes 7 to 9."

The three listening children nodded and carefully noted the victim's characteristics: "Fat, rich aunt..."

Jiang Xia took one last look at the nine closed windows, then turned around the corner and headed for the apartment gate.

"Let's take a look at the building first." Jiang Xia thought about his murderous intent, and he found a suitable excuse to enter the building:

"Not long after the hook was thrown out, when we looked up, the window was already closed... Given that the abducted person is now handicapped, judging from the time difference, the one who closed the window is likely to be the kidnapper. And, if In this way, he may have witnessed the hostage's call for help."

Yoshida Ayumi turned pale, and blurted out: "Then, is that rich aunt dead now?! The kidnappers will silence the disobedient hostages. This is always done in TV dramas!"

"..." Then when you were a hostage, you were still kicking and biting...

Jiang Xia glanced at her silently, and comforted her casually:

"Now is not a good time to silence—for the kidnappers, the hostages have just delivered information, and now is the time to arouse the suspicion of passers-by. If the kidnappers stand still, curious passers-by may think it is themselves because they can't find any clues. Overreact, give up and leave.

"However, if the victim is killed immediately, the noise that may be caused by the victim's desperate struggle, the body fluids that flow out when he dies, the smell produced after death, and the difficulty of cleaning up when transferring the body, on the contrary, it is more likely to lead to his exposure.

"In addition, even if you don't consider rationality and rely only on instinct, at this time, most people will not rashly make such an important decision as 'killing', but will try their best to maintain the status quo until they feel that the threat is lifted."

The three children secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, he had already reached the gate of the apartment building.

There is no guard in this apartment, but an automatic door with one-way sensor.

Jiang Xia was lucky, when he came to the door, someone just came out from inside, and the door opened accordingly.

The aunt who was about to go shopping glanced at him with her shopping bag, and then looked at the group of children behind Jiang Xia. She didn't mean to stop him from rubbing the door, but nodded friendly and left slowly.

The glass automatic door is just across from the mailbox.

Jiang Xia turned her head after entering the door, glanced at the mailbox through the transparent glass, and saw a row of several names.

When he was thinking about looking at the mailbox, Conan quickly ran into the first floor, ran back, and told Jiang Xia: "From the position of the window, the ring was thrown out of Room 5."

Jiang Xia nodded and looked at all the "×05" rooms in the mailbox.

In order to facilitate delivery, the name of the head of the household is usually affixed to the mailbox.

Combining the lipstick that Haibara Ai just discovered and the "M_to_A" engraved on the inside of the ring, this ring should be a wedding ring given to a "wife whose name begins with A" by a "man whose name begins with M".

In other words, if you find out all the qualified couple names in "×05", you can guess which room the owner of the ring is in... Of course, if all the residents are not eligible, it may be that someone tied a The wife with A in the name goes home.

In short, although there is a certain chance, there are no other clues at present anyway, and the Boy Detective Team thinks it is better to follow the first one first.

"105 is 'Da Zhunu', ruled out, 205...ah, it should be this!"

Conan pointed to the name of "Shimamasa and/Shima Asuka" written in small font and crowded together on the mailbox, and was a little surprised.

Did not expect to make progress so soon.

Could it be that even if Jiang Xia didn't speak, his physique of "speeding up the progress of solving the case" would be activated automatically? ... Hiss, speaking of it, sometimes, Jiang Xia's luck is really good.

Conan's thoughts wandered for a second, and he couldn't help but think of Jiang Xia and Mao Lilan's European Qi who can draw anything.

After that, he tried his best to focus on the business: "Let's go to 205 first. Sister Asuka may still be saved."

Chapter 467 "Have you killed?" "Killed"

Jiang Xia nodded, and led the children towards the stairwell.

205 Shima Masakazu's "Masakazu" is generally pronounced as "MASAKATU", while Shima Asuka's "Asuka" is commonly pronounced (ASUKA), which indeed matches the message of "M_to_A" on the wedding ring perfectly. After scanning the mailbox, except for 205, I didn't see the names of other eligible couples.

The person who threw the ring for help may be "Shima Asuka" who lives in 205.

……

The apartment has an elevator.But just to climb the second floor, the elevator may not be as fast as the stairs.

Several people quickly followed the stairs to the second floor.

After Jiang Xia walked the last step, she raised her hand to the door of the stairwell.Before he pushed it away, he suddenly heard the sound of turning the doorknob in the corridor.

—— Judging from the direction, it happens to be suspicious 205.

...Someone came out of there.

After working as a detective for a long time, Jiang Xia also got a little sneaky.He stopped instinctively and stopped behind the half-closed door in the stairwell.

Conan and Haibara also stopped immediately.

The other three children reacted a little slower, but seeing Jiang Xia listening intently, they didn't dare to ask "what's the matter?" and so on, so they poked in place as quietly as a chicken, pretending that they were a piece of wood.

Soon, the sound of keys came.

Conan heard the sound of locking the door, took a sneak peek and saw two people in black and sunglasses walking out of 205.A man and a woman.

The woman put away the key and complained to the man with a hint of anger: "You didn't take care of the aftermath, how many times have you said, don't kill me directly..."

"Whispering! Time is short, I don't have time to deal with that, hurry up." The man interrupted impatiently.

This bloody conversation drifted across the corridor and reached the ears of everyone hiding in the stairwell and eavesdropping.

The faces of the children turned pale.

Hui Yuanai also frowned, slightly moved the small hand hanging by his side, and instinctively pressed down on the pocket containing the anesthetic needle.

Next to her, Conan looked down at the sneakers subconsciously, then remembered something, and glanced at Jiang Xia, especially the place where Jiang Xia hid the stick.

Conan's eyes moved back and forth between "sneakers" and "sticks" several times.In the end, he stopped turning on the switch of the sneakers, and gave Jiang Xia a thumbs up, which means "please first" - he felt that Jiang Xia would like this kind of link...

Hui Yuanai raised his hand at the same time, grabbing Jiang Xia's clothes.

She glanced at Conan, then picked up the phone and pointed: call the police, in case those two people have guns.

"It's okay." Jiang Xia pressed Hui Yuanai's cell phone, "I'll go and have a look first."

Before Hui Yuanai could react, she saw Jiang Xia had left the stairwell and walked towards the two men in black who looked suspicious no matter what.

...And he didn't even take out the stick, and went there empty-handed.

The two fake children looked at Jiang Xia's hand that was holding nothing, and looked at each other suspiciously.

After a while, Conan suddenly remembered Jiang Xia's swinging stick that was specially treated by Dr. A Li so that it was difficult to injure people when hitting people, and the boxing force measuring machine that Jiang Xia punched until it was scrapped in the game hall before. instrument……

Jiang Xia without a stick seems to be more dangerous...

Conan's face changed slightly, and he quickly ran out of the stairwell, trying to stop the bloody scene that might appear next.

Before he could reach it, Jiang Xia's calm voice suddenly sounded in the quiet corridor.

——Jiang Xia met the two people who came out of 205.

He nodded and said hello, and then said in the same tone as chatting: "I heard you talking about the aftermath just now. Did you kill someone?"

Hui Yuanai, who was nervously eavesdropping: "...??"

...This is too straightforward!

What if the murderer on the opposite side suddenly draws a gun! ... On the worst side, there were two of them, and that probably meant two guns!

Hui Yuanai nervously slipped out of the doorway of the stairwell, and sneaked towards the fire extinguisher in the corridor, intending to use it as a weapon and give Jiang Xia a little help in the chaos.

However, things were different from what Haibara thought.

——The corridor did not immediately enter a state of melee.

The two suspicious men in black were taken aback when they heard Jiang Xia's words.

Afterwards, the woman in black couldn't help laughing. She waved her hands and said, "It's true that it killed, but it wasn't murder—we're talking about bugs."

She pointed to the man in black next to him: "He always tramples the bugs to death, and the mucus and shells left behind are very difficult to clean."

Speaking of this, the woman suddenly took off her sunglasses, and took a closer look at Jiang Xia.

Afterwards, the tone became full of surprises: "However, it's no wonder that you think of homicides. After all, you often come into contact with homicides——Little detective, can you sign for me? I'm also your fan. Not only do you collect In addition to the newspaper clippings and variety show videos, there is also your limited edition photo album at home."

As she said that, the woman in black flipped through her satchel vigorously, found a note with a slightly exaggerated cover, and handed it to Jiang Xia with a smile along with the pen pinned to it.

Jiang Xia looked at her and raised her hand to pick up the note.

Ayumi Yoshida was shocked to see this scene, and couldn't help screaming from a few meters away: "She must be trying to make you relax your vigilance!"

"Haha, are these kids playing a detective game?" The woman glanced in the direction of the kids, not paying much attention, and quickly returned her attention to the note.

Jiang Xia has already signed.

But the other side happily asked for more: "Please add 'to Asuka', so that it becomes a commemorative and exclusive autograph~"

Conan was secretly aiming at her with an anesthesia watch.

At this time, when he heard this sentence, he was startled: "...Your name is Asuka?!"

...Isn't this the name of the 205 household?

Asuka Shima received the "exclusive autograph" and was opening her wallet to carefully put away the autograph.

Hearing Conan's words suddenly, she took out the driver's license with a photo next to her, and glanced at these children who were addicted to detective games: "That's right. It's a nice name. I can bring your brother more in the future." Come to my house as a guest."

Dao Zhenghe, whose face was as black as the bottom of a pot, angrily dragged her away.

The five children raised their heads dumbly, following the figure of the couple as they walked away.

It wasn't until the two disappeared at the top of the stairs that the children turned their heads and looked at each other.

——"Shima Asuka", who thought she was kidnapped or even killed, is still alive.

Hui Yuanai was silent for a while, turned his gaze to the gate of 205, and whispered to Jiang Xia: "...Maybe in turn, this pair of residents are the robbers, and they kidnapped other people. And the hostages got the kidnappers in some way. Ring for help?"

Chapter 468 The taste of being closed is so strange

Jiang Xia feels that the truth is not what Hui Yuanai said.