Conan's Corpse Picker

On the big mottled and yellowed screen, a woman had half of her neck broken, and the vampire behind her grinned silently, her fangs pulled out from the flesh, and the stained blood continued to drip.

Suzuki Sonoko was startled by this horrific scene, and instinctively shrank behind Jiang Xia's back, at the same time secretly reached out her hand, and touched Jiang Xia's swinging stick hidden on her body through the fabric.

...I felt relieved immediately.

At the same time, a picture of the vampire's attempted sneak attack, being trampled and knocked by Jiang Xia, finally turned into a group of little bats and fled in a panic quickly appeared in her mind.Then after thinking about it, the scene changed unknowingly, Jiang Xia was bitten by a group of vengeful vampires, transformed into Mo's emotional but more beautiful indifferent vampire, and was later rescued by a sentimental and kind human woman, Expand Forbidden Love...

Just when Suzuki Sonoko began to wonder whether the child of a human and a vampire was a human or a vampire, a deep laugh came from the shadows ahead.

——A man in retro European attire and a scarlet cloak walked over with his back to the light of the projector.

"Detective Gunfield?"

Daisuke Hukura looked at the detective he had found.At the same time, I found that there seemed to be a lot of people coming to the study room—except Guntian Ikumi, and people from the Suzuki family who were late. In addition, there were actually two strange men following behind.

... No, one of them is not unfamiliar, he has seen it on TV.It should be Jiang Xia, the detective who is said to solve the case quickly.

——During the process of looking for detectives, Daisuke Hukura had heard of Jiang Xia of course.

But he looked at the photo and decisively crossed Jiang Xia off the candidate list.

Daisuke Hukura found a detective, in fact, to investigate his wife's affair.

——He and Etsuko Hukura are 20 years apart, and he is very concerned about this age difference, so he doesn't want a handsome young detective to step into his house and follow his wife, even for investigation.

... Who knows, even if Jiang Xia was not invited, such a person still stepped into his house, and there were more than one of them...

Daisuke Torakura glanced over Jiang Xia, and then took a look at Toru Amuro, who was also a little younger than his wife, with the light reflected in the corridor, his face sank slightly.

Then he stepped past the group and flipped the light switch in the study.

Bright light poured down, illuminating a room full of strange decorations.

This octagonal study can be called half a vampire collection room——

Around the room, there are various wooden sculptures with distorted and exaggerated expressions.In addition, there are rivets, silver mirrors, bats who don’t know if they are specimens or models... Beside a wall, there is even a nearly two-meter-high full-length cross, with leather chains for confinement hanging on the four corners of the cross, near the heart of the cross point , also drenched with viscous "blood".

Suzuki Sonoko has encountered many murder cases, and seeing the realistic fake blood on the cross now, she is no longer so afraid.

But you can see it all...

She sneaked to Jiang Xia's side and skillfully hugged her arms: "It's kind of scary, like going back to the Middle Ages."

Daisuke Hukura was quite happy with the evaluation of "scary".

He snorted and threw off the red and black cloak behind his back with a clatter.As the cloak fell slowly, he said in a deep voice: "I like to wrap myself in vampire costumes like this, and use a projector to summon vampires to descend in the study—it is in this atmosphere that I can write those masterpieces, Let the vampire be reborn in my pen."

Suzuki Sonoko nodded in agreement, but quickly touched his chin, feeling that the logic was illogical: "But you haven't written a vampire novel for several years, I thought you would have some hero models in your study. "

Daisuke Torakura: "..."

His heart felt as if he had been stabbed by an arrow, his face sank after recovering, and he didn't want to deal with these annoying guests anymore.

——Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru, the two heavenly little fair faces... and the little black faces, of course, he doesn't really welcome the three members of the Suzuki family either.

After all, according to Daisuke Torakura's thinking, a literary figure with a high status like himself should not bow to the rich - if he wants to borrow his precious collection of vampires, those in power in the Suzuki family should come forward anyway.Unexpectedly, in the end, the Suzuki family only sent two juniors who had not yet taken power.

...just ignore him.

...Let the students take them around casually, just deal with it.

Thinking of this, Daisuke Torakura only left Gunita Ikumi to discuss the entrustment, and sent off the guests tactfully to the others: "I still have something to talk to Detective Gunda, everyone, please visit my collection, please go back first, the sky is getting dark early."

Tiansuo Junzai reminded in a low voice: "Teacher, the road is blocked by heavy snow outside, I am afraid it will be difficult to leave."

"..." Daisuke Hukura frowned, and changed his words unwillingly, "Then help the guests clean up a few guest rooms and come out. You can take them to the collection room later—well, don't get together Here I am, I still have work to do.”

A group of people vaguely sensed his impatience and didn't stay any longer.After saying thanks, he turned and left the study.

……

After talking about the commission, finish the meal.

At eight o'clock, a group of people gathered in the living room to drink tea.

Chapter 539 The Suzuki Family's Perverted Hobbies

Editor-in-Chief Doi finished drinking tea, put down his cup, and began to humbly ask for manuscripts: "Mr. Hu Cang, I'm counting on you for the new serial that will be published soon."

"Wait until I finish writing the one at hand first." Daisuke Torakura turned to his student Toshiya Tasho, "Take the red wine and videotapes to the study, this is the source of my inspiration."

After speaking, he pushed open the corridor door and went to the study.

Toshiya Tasho nodded, ready to go to the collection room to pick up the videotape.

Just now Daisuke Hukura asked him to show the guests around the collection room.

So when Toshiya Tasuo got up, he took advantage of the opportunity to invite: "Shall we go and have a look together? The video tapes collected by Mr. Hu Cang are all out-of-print treasures, and they are usually placed in the collection room. In addition to video tapes, there are many other rare collections there."

Although there is a signal in this villa, the signal is very poor and it is not convenient to play with mobile phones.

Idle is also idle, whether interested or not, a group of guests got up and followed.

The collection room is on the other side of the hall, and there is a downward staircase next to the wooden door, which is connected to the underground library—Himura Shuichi, who is engaged in vampire research, is said to come here often, because there are many classics related to vampires.

The others were not very interested in the literature and went straight to the collection room.

Compared with Daisuke Torakura's study, the collection in the collection room is larger and looks more sinister.

In addition to the cross, silver sword, wooden nails, etc., there is also a vampire mask like human skin, and pale human hands placed in a glass display case.

Toru Amuro took a closer look as if nothing had happened, and found that the hand was fake, so he straightened up again and looked elsewhere with peace of mind.

In the corner of the collection room, there are two rows of bookshelves as high as the ceiling, which contain countless vampire-related movie videos.

Toshiya Tasho took out the favorite movie of Daisuke Torakura, and introduced it to the guests who are paying attention here:

"Mr. Hu Cang watches a vampire movie every night. This is "Blood Feast" in 1930, his favorite one-the teacher also bought the props used in the movie at a high price."

"The prop in "Blood Feast"...is this cypress wooden nail." Jiang Xia looked at a collection on the table.

The cypress wooden nails are placed vertically on a collection rack covered with black brocade. They are as long as a human forearm, with one end sharpened and a large piece of "blood" splashed on the tip. It looks like it has been nailed into the heart of a vampire. It was pulled out again.

——At the end of the movie "Blood Feast", the vampire is nailed to the cross by such a wooden nail and burned with fire.

Toshiya Tasuo nodded: "There is a matching cross in the teacher's study - the one you saw just now."

"..."

Seeing the realistic fake blood on the wooden nail, Suzuki Sonoko recalled the cross that was also stained with "blood" in Daisuke Torakura's study, and stepped back a little in disgust.

Speaking of which, Daisuke Hukura, a self-proclaimed "Dracula", why did he prepare some vampire hunter props?It's unlucky... If my sister hadn't been interested in vampires, she would never have come to this weird man's villa today.

...But after thinking about it, if you don't follow, you won't be able to meet Jiang Xia.

Suzuki Sonoko thought about it, and couldn't help but diverge from the vampire exhibit.

——The Hucang family’s villa is not that big, and the guest rooms should be all together, not far away... Although she will probably be arranged in the same room with her sister at night, she can use the excuse of being afraid to hug the bedding in the middle of the night Run to find Jiang Xia to make a floor shop... Or, Jiang Xia is so considerate, maybe when she heard that she was afraid, she ran to her room on her own initiative, hehehe...

Amuro Toru faintly heard laughter.

Turning his head, he saw Suzuki Sonoko—the female classmate who seemed to be familiar with Jiang Xia, showing a charming smile full of covetousness and longing for a blood-spattered cypress wooden nail.

Toru Amuro: "..."

... not just the little boy with glasses.The people around Jiang Xia seemed to be all strange.

...Speaking of which, the Suzuki family is considered a wealthy family. If you want to build some kind of secret room or even a dungeon to hide people's eyes and ears, it's as easy as pie... Laughing like this at a nail piercing through a humanoid creature, could it be that there is something weird behind Suzuki Sonoko's back? hobby?

...I have to ask my subordinates to check this family when I have time.

……

Although the exhibits in the collection room are precious, they are not many in number.

A group of people finished the tour with their own thoughts, and returned to the hall.

After delivering the wine and movies, Toshihiko Tasho took out a deck of poker for the guests to play.

When shuffling the cards, one person walked up and down the stairs slowly.

——Torakura Etsuko, who had just returned to her room to rest, reappeared in front of everyone.

She looked at Jiang Xia and said softly, "Thank you for taking care of me when I was at Danyuan Mountain last time. I prepared a gift, is it convenient to take it with me?"

At the same time, he blinked secretly, indicating that he had something serious to say.

Jiang Xia stood up and followed her upstairs.

Halfway there, I suddenly heard someone behind me.

Looking back, I saw Toru Amuro following up.

……

Toru Amuro is a master of time management who wears multiple hats. When doing things, he has a strong plan.

He still still remembers the purpose of this business trip from the beginning - to take Jiang Xia to an unfamiliar place and isolate him for observation.

Although now, the plan has been disrupted by endless cases and acquaintances, but the week has not yet passed, the final destination has not yet been reached, and the plan is not over yet.Even if it is for sunk costs, we must persevere and get the best observation results as much as possible...

Moreover, Toru Amuro always felt that what happened today was too coincidental—the road randomly thrown by the dice should have met the requirement of "unfamiliar with the place in life", but they met three people in just ten minutes. People who know Jiang Xia.

As an undercover agent who hides around a group of suspicious people every day, Toru Amuro has inevitably been contaminated by the habits of everyone in the organization, and has doubts about what happened today.

... have to follow to see.

……

Etsuko Hukura also noticed that there was an extra tail behind her.

She glanced back, struggled for a moment, and realized that Jiang Xia didn't mean to stop Toru Amuro. Thinking about it again, this mixed-race boss seemed to be a private detective, and there had never been any negative reports. According to related reports of Toru Amuro, it can be seen that his secrecy seems to be good...

So Etsuko Hukura thought: I heard that apart from talent, experience accumulation is also very important for detectives. Boss Amuro seems to have more experience than Jiang Xia. Since he wants to come, let's go together.

Three people came to her room quickly.

Etsuko Torakura pushed open the door.

When Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru went in one after another, she closed the door with her back against it, and locked it behind her back.

……

downstairs.

Suzuki Sonoko went to the bathroom, and when he came back, Jiang Xia was gone.