Conan's Corpse Picker

...It seems that we should pay more attention to this aspect in the future.

……

Although looking at the bright side, the silver fox and the robber may not be disguised as tourists, they may also be hiding in the mountains.

But in such a dangerous place, what should be guarded against is still necessary - before going to sleep, Toru Amuro consulted with Jiang Xia in a low voice, and the two took turns to watch the night.

Toru Amuro is responsible for keeping watch in the first half of the night.

It may be that when he became serious, some indescribable temperament on his body had a strong suppressive force on criminals, and nothing happened in the first half of the night.

In the early morning, Jiang Xia got up and exchanged positions with his nominal boss.

He sat down against the wall, and his eyes swept over several beddings that were constantly showing murderous looks.

"..."

So tempting.

……

After Amuro fell asleep, Jiang Xia yawned, his eyelids gradually became heavy, and the time to open his eyes became shorter and shorter.

Finally he leaned against the wall and closed his eyes.

Just now when Jiang Xia was awake, she would occasionally turn her head to check, or press the phone, and the clothes would often rustle.

Now those fragmentary voices gradually died down.Soon, caring people realized something was wrong.

In the darkness, a pair of eyes opened faintly, looking towards where Jiang Xia was.

After waiting patiently for more than ten minutes, he found that there was still no movement on Jiang Xia's side, and after he seemed to be really asleep, his eyes contemplated for a moment, and suddenly revealed a little fierce light.

The speed at which Jiang Xia solved the case really frightened those who knew him.What's more, on the road just now, the detective kept observing the people around him.If this continues, his crime will be exposed sooner or later.

Why not now, while Jiang Xia is asleep...

The black figure crawled out of the quilt holding his breath.

He pulled out the knife in his boot, turned on the phone screen, and illuminated it with a faint light.Then, with the sound of the mountain wind whistling, he approached Jiang Xia silently.

Four steps, three steps, two steps...

As the distance narrowed, the black figure looked at the sleeping young man in front of him, and his breathing gradually became heavy.

He raised the knife in his hand, took a deep breath, and smiled cruelly.

Everything is going smooth.

But for some reason, when he took the last step and victory came, he always had a faint feeling that something was wrong.

Suddenly a bolt of lightning passed through the window.

The light that is far more dazzling than the mobile phone screen penetrates into the room, making the surrounding scene clear for a while.

The light flashed away, but the image left on the retina made the black figure instantly understand what was wrong, and cold sweat silently drenched his back.

——The detective who was "sleeping" with his eyes closed just now, now his eyes are open and he is looking straight at him.

Jiang Xia raised her head, her eyes precisely locked on the panicked back figure.There is no trace of confusion in his eyes just after waking up, but they are extremely clear, and there is even a little hidden...

Happy?

"??!"

Chapter 499 Jiang Xia is Really Dedicated

On a stormy morning, in a dark wooden house.

Conan woke up with an intuition like opening and hanging, always feeling that something bad was about to happen.

He rubbed his eyes and turned his head to look around.

Just a few flashes of lightning flashed across, briefly illuminating the room.Jiang Xia sitting in the corner, and the figure holding a knife in front of him suddenly fell into Conan's eyes.

Conan was stunned, and was suddenly startled—someone sneaked up on him!

He reacted quickly and picked up the pillow, threw it over forcefully, and at the same time warned loudly: "Be careful!"

Following his words, the rows of bedding began to squirm, and people woke up one after another from their sleep.

Jiang Xia who just held the stick: "..."

The pillow Conan threw didn't hit anyone—he just saw the light of the knife reflecting the lightning, and based on this, he deduced the location of the attacker, and threw the pillow in the predicted direction.

However, the actual situation is somewhat different from what Conan expected.

——The black figure of Qu did not go as he expected, took the last step with a knife, and stabbed Jiang Xia.Instead, he suddenly hid back.

So the only function of the flying pillow was to stop Jiang Xia who was about to fall.

Jiang Xia easily caught the pillow.

The lucky little black on the opposite side of him escaped unharmed, turned off the light on the phone screen, turned around and fled into the darkness.

The confusion lasted for a short period of time. In the darkness, people kept asking loudly, "What's wrong?!", "Is there a murderer?"

At the same time, the door clanged open, and a black shadow staggered out.

With the help of the ghost's night vision ability, Jiang Xia looked around and sighed faintly.

Then, before the light was turned on, he squatted down, collected the murderous spirit that fell in front of him, and put it in his pocket.

This was the moment he looked at the black figure just now, and the murderous aura that fell from the figure was aimed at him.

This time Xiao Hei's psychological quality is very average... However, although he didn't hit anyone, at least he had some substantial gains in advance.

Just after clearing up the killing intent, Toru Amuro pressed the light switch with a click.

The dark rest room is illuminated by lights.

With the lighting, the surrounding chaos subsided a little. A group of people with different thoughts sat up, looked around, and found that the mystery novelist was gone.

Amuro saw someone passing by outside the window sharply: "... outside!"

He leaned on the window sill and jumped out.

Jiang Xia glanced back at the murderous room, thought for a moment, and quickly followed.

……

The scenery in the mountains and forests is extremely dim, making it difficult to track.

Fortunately, the people running away in front were screaming from time to time.

Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru followed the sound and finally came to a cave.

The entrance of the cave is very wide, but it suddenly becomes narrow five or six meters inward.

Etsuko Hukura ran in a few steps, saw the narrow rocks around by the lightning, then turned around like crazy and fled out of the cave, and bumped into Jiang Xia who followed.

"Help, help!!" She seemed to be in a daze, her hair was messy and scattered around her body, and her movements were not as elegant as in the daytime. She grabbed Jiang Xia tightly and murmured dreamily, "The ceiling fell, and the wall fell. He's squeezing me, he's going to kill me! He must have tampered with the house..."

"Did the ceiling fall?" Conan didn't know when he followed.

He raised his sleeve and wiped the rainwater off his face, recalling the stable and uncollapsed rest hut, and looked at Etsuko Hukura who seemed to be talking nonsense, and suddenly matched these situations with some kind of symptoms : "Are you claustrophobic?"

Jiang Xia's focus is slightly different from Conan's.

He supported Hukura Etsuko, and asked a bit concerned: "Someone wants to kill you?"

He has long felt that the name "Torakura Etsuko" sounds very familiar, and it seems to have the same name as a certain case character in his impression.

Now it seems that it may not only be the same name, but also the person.

In other words, although this novelist has no murderous intent or ghosts, she may be related to certain cases... Well, when she recovers later, you must remember to ask her for a business card and sell yourself by the way detective business.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xia decisively classified the other party into her client category, and raised her hand to pat her on the back to comfort her.

Etsuko Torakura's face turned pale, she buried her head and panted heavily.

Toru Amuro took a brief look, and felt that her uncomfortable appearance did not look fake:

"If it's a claustrophobia attack, then she may have suddenly noticed that she was in a dark room after being woken up just now, so she ran out in fear..."

In this case, the figure who attacked Jiang Xia in the dark could not be Etsuko Torakura.

Conan nodded and agreed with this statement: "I vaguely saw the person who attacked Brother Jiang Xia just now. That person seemed to have short hair and a body shape like a man. In short, it was not sister Etsuko who had loose hair—the attacker Probably after the assassination failed, he hid under the quilt as if nothing had happened, pretending to have just woken up."

In other words, the attackers are still mixed in with the rest stop.

...Fortunately, the attack happened just now, and the people in the house were all on alert right now.In addition, it is not too long before dawn, no one is in the mood to sleep again, the attackers should not act rashly, and it is still safe there for the time being.

In addition, in such a good opportunity to sneak attack just now, the attacker did not assassinate the client, nor did he kill the male college student who fell unconscious, but instead chose to attack Jiang Xia... It was Yinhu who planned to kill the night watchman first, and then get rid of himself leisurely The target of the robber, or the robber was worried that his identity would be seen through by a famous detective, so he acted first?

Speaking of this...

Amuro looked at Jiang Xia and asked, "Did you fall asleep during the night watch?"

In his opinion, this is a rather strange thing.

Although in the organization's files, Jiang Xia seems to love paddling.But on the other hand, Jiang Xia has always had a good reputation among clients.Even when he replaces him to work occasionally, the bosses of the part-time shop all give Jiang Xia a good reputation... This is of course not only because Jiang Xia is easy to leave a good impression on others, but also because he is really serious about his work.

But at a critical moment like tonight, Jiang Xia fell asleep not long after starting the vigil.

When Jiang Xia heard the boss's question, she lowered her head guiltily, and threw the blame at random: "I don't know why, I'm very sleepy today, and I lost consciousness after sitting for a while."

Conan also felt that this matter was very suspicious.Jiang Xia takes her part-time job as a detective very seriously, and her professional dedication is obvious to all.In the current situation, rather than "falling asleep carelessly", it is more likely that someone secretly threw sleeping pills into Jiang Xia's meals.

People who can do this...

"Is that the administrator?!"

Chapter 500 The hidden behind-the-scenes manipulator

After locking the suspect, Conan cleared his mind and remembered one thing:

"No wonder there's always something wrong with me - it's the color of the skin!

"The administrator stayed on the mountain all year round and was exposed to the sun. His skin should be as dark as that of the college student, but the administrator we met didn't have too many sun exposure marks on his skin.

"The light at the rest station was dim, and his white beard and hair set off his abnormal skin color. I thought it was because I had been watching Brother Amuro for a long time, but suddenly I looked pale when I looked at others... so It seems that the administrator is probably not a real staff member, but a fake."

Toru Amuro: "...?"