Conan's Corpse Picker

after an hour.

When the car was winding on the mountain road, the tires suddenly exploded.

Then it collapsed.

Jiang Xia was awakened by this familiar movement, she was still a little dazed, but her body instinctively began to gather puppets in the trunk, ready to pierce the spare tire.

However, before the puppets were formed, Xiaobai and Miss Spider, who also consciously floated into the trunk, floated back one after another, looking a little lonely.

——This time, because Kazami Yuya suddenly disappeared, and the police were busy searching for the strange passenger who hitchhiked in the middle of the night, the group of people was inevitably in a hurry, and Amuro Toru was also inexplicably out of state.

In short, there was no new spare tire in the trunk.

Jiang Xia was awakened by the sound of a tire blowout.

Toru Amuro had also skillfully stabilized the car, stopped on the side of the road, and sighed.

Then he adjusted the position of the gun bag, pushed the door and got out of the car.

Jiang Xia followed him out of the car and walked to the back of the car.

Toru Amuro stretched out his hand to push open the trunk, glanced down and was taken aback.

After a while, the undercover police officer, who had been sleep-deprived recently, frowned and muttered in a low voice, "This time, he actually stole it directly..."

Jiang Xia: "...?"

... Slander, this is slander.

He didn't steal the tires, and neither did the puppets.

Xiaobai and Ms. Spider seemed to feel the same way, looking at Toru Amuro, a faint light flashed in their eyes simultaneously.

Although he was suddenly blamed, Jiang Xia was silent for a moment, remembering the surprise trip carefully arranged by the boss, and decided to pretend nothing happened.

He habitually looked around, planning to find a place to stay overnight.

However, there is still some distance from the Twilight Pavilion.He didn't see the annex building whose quality was greatly reduced, but saw another building.

Jiang Xia pointed far ahead obliquely: "There is a gas station there, there should be a spare tire."

Amuro glanced in the direction of the gas station and nodded.

Although there are spare tires left by their subordinates who followed them far away, they can pretend to be passers-by at any time and come to deliver the tires.

But now, it would be too suspicious to wait for someone on the road instead of going to the nearby gas station.

Thinking of this, Toru Amuro yawned, rubbed his forehead, and walked towards the gas station: "Go and have a look."

After walking two steps, I suddenly remembered something and stopped again.

He turned around, looked at Jiang Xia who was following him, and stopped him: "There are some important documents in the car, you should stay here."

...this is a lie.

... Mainly because all the way here, even Toru Amuro, who firmly does not believe in coincidences and only cares about physical evidence, will inevitably become alert to such things as "incident constitution" at this time.

Although Dice decided to continue to observe Jiang Xia, he persisted until the end of the plan.But Toru Amuro really wanted to take a break.He didn't really want to stay in this kind of mountain, but planned to at least stick to the urban area with comfortable hotels.

In short, considering places like gas stations, even if there are not many customers, there will definitely be some staff haunting them, Toru Amuro decisively decided to let Jiang Xia stay away from there and stay in an unmanned car.I went to get a spare tire myself, and went back quickly.

We all know that as long as there are no people, homicides don't happen.

Jiang Xia nodded, had no objection to this, and returned to the car.

There are actually not many cases in gas stations.

Compared to this, what he cares about is: after crossing two mountains and crossing a bridge, behind him is the Twilight Pavilion where the case may occur...

……

In the gas station.

Kidd, with an ordinary disguised face and a dark blue staff uniform, mixed among the staff, secretly sizing up the passers-by.

Recently, he failed to find a suitable gemstone, but accidentally discovered that someone was bluffing and defrauding him in his name.

—Some detectives received a dark invitation to dinner at the Twilight Lodge.And the signature of that invitation letter was "Phantom of the Son Abandoned by God".

Kidd stared at the long string of signatures for a while, then frowned.

"Phantom" has the meaning of haunting and haunting, so it doesn't need to be too much.And the remaining "Son Abandoned by God", combined with allusions from the Bible, can remind people of "Little Goat".If the word is changed into English, it becomes Kid - Kidd.

...It's like a letter of entrustment with cash in it, always able to accurately summon Hattori Heiji.

Using Kidd's name to commit crimes can always accurately fall to Kidd.

After Kidd found out that his name had been fraudulently used, he decisively decided to sneak into this mysterious dinner to see the situation.

……

Today, he came to work at this gas station not far from the Twilight Villa, precisely to guard his target—the invited Ikumi Gundam.

Kidd intends to hide the gun Tian Yumi who is passing by in a daze, while he disguises himself as her and goes to the banquet.

Before that, he had also seriously considered the matter of "changing his face into Jiang Xia", and conducted corresponding investigations on Jiang Xia.

So now, as soon as Amuro entered the gas station, Kidd recognized him immediately—this seemed to be the boss of the detective agency where Jiang Xia worked.

Suddenly seeing Toru Amuro, and thinking about Jiang Xia who was not in Tokyo recently, Kidd's mind suddenly became active.

Wake up, when he browsed Baobao news yesterday, he seemed to have seen the report of Jiang Xia's case.In the corners of those pictures, a little figure of Toru Amuro also appeared.Although no person was directly photographed, it is still easier to recognize a phantom thief like Kidd who needs to memorize the characteristics of the human body.

In other words, since Toru Amuro appeared in this gas station, Jiang Xia is probably also nearby...

……

To Kidd, Jiang Xia was just a detective who met several times at the crime scene.

According to Kidd's observation, although Jiang Xia is very keen and often gives him the illusion that "this detective has seen through my disguise", but in general, Jiang Xia seems not to be keen on "catching the strange thief". On the contrary, He often sits in the crowd of policemen paddling and distracted, and was even suspected by the Nakamori police department, arrested and pulled his face several times.

... If it wasn't for worrying about being caught in the face and destroying the disguise, Kidd would have tried to change the disguise into Jiang Xia a long time ago——Jiang Xia seems to have a good relationship with the second lady of Suzuki's family, so it is very convenient to get close to the treasure location.

But this time, among the detectives invited to the Twilight Villa, Jiang Xia was actually included.

When Kidd first found out about this, he was very moved: the dinner was not directly signed by "Kidd", but needed to solve the puzzle; in addition, there was no reservation for the stolen treasure.

In other words, the Nakamori Police Department, who loves to grab Jiang Xia's face, will not appear...

Thinking of this, Kidd immediately moved his mind, planning to disguise himself as Jiang Xia, fulfilling his long-cherished wish, and challenge himself to play this somewhat mysterious detective in his opinion.

However, the day before, after inquiring around Jiang Xia's office, Kidd found with regret that there was indeed an invitation letter for the Twilight Villa in the mailbox at the entrance of the office, but Jiang Xia who was invited was not there. Tokyo, whereabouts are currently unknown.

Chapter 578: The Steps of Sneaking the Detective

If you can't grasp Jiang Xia's whereabouts, rashly replace Jiang Xia and go to the Twilight Villa...

Kidd recalled according to his investigation, Jiang Xia's frequency of solving crimes when he was away from home.There is always the feeling that something bad is going to happen.

——This time at the dinner party at the "Twilight Annex", all the invited guests were well-known detectives from all over the world.

If one of them was reading the news on the way to the Twilight Villa, he suddenly posted a report that "Jiang Xia saw through the murderer's conspiracy in such and such a place".After analyzing the case, the detective went to the Twilight Pavilion and found that "Jiang Xia", who was supposed to be taking notes, was leisurely attending a dinner party...

The news that "Kidd will change his face" is well known in the detective world.

If that was the case, Kidd felt that he would be forced to take off his vest as soon as he arrived.

... That's why Kidd gave up on Jiang Xia and reluctantly replaced him with another disguised target.

However, he didn't expect that when he was squatting to guard the target today, he ran into Jiang Xia by chance.

"..." Kidd was moved again.

Thinking about it carefully, it would actually be more appropriate to pretend to be Jiang Xia than Gun Tian Yumei.

...It's not because he wanted to pretend to be Jiang Xia for a long time, but never had the chance.

But this way you don't have to pretend to be short.One of the most difficult parts of disguise is the height of the person to be disguised, which is usually nothing, but today with a group of detectives, it is possible to be seen.And other detectives also have their own inconveniences: some are too short, some carry pets that they recognize as owners, some have just returned to China, and their whereabouts are difficult to catch, and some need to have skills...

But now, it is rare to meet Jiang Xia outside, this may be fate.

...In short, it was him!

The phantom thief who values ​​fun quickly changed his target.

……

After deciding to disguise himself as Jiang Xia, Kidd recalled the investigation about this detective.

——Although he has never heard that Jiang Xia has practiced any martial arts, he seems to have never seen such news as "Jiang Xia was injured while chasing the prisoner".

In other words, the detective's force value seems to be unknown.

...To be on the safe side, it's better not to make a frontal attack.Approach him cautiously, and then sneak attack, which is safer.

Thinking of this, Kidd took one last look at Toru Amuro, and walked towards the warehouse secretly.

When he was struggling to pretend to be the target just now, he didn't forget to eavesdrop on the conversation between Toru Amuro and the shop assistant, and he knew the news that Toru Amuro's car had a flat tire.

So before going out, Kidd made some manipulations on the warehouse door to make it difficult to open, delaying the time for Amuro Toru to leave the gas station.

After that, he made a similar fake spare tire with lightweight black technology materials.Then he took the spare tire and left secretly.

When he set foot on the mountain road, Kidd had completely changed into Amuro Toru's face.I couldn't find the exact same clothes, so I "borrowed" a dress with a similar color from the staff room, and then quickly modified it manually.

……

Sitting in the car, Jiang Xia was bored waiting, but suddenly felt that the ghosts around him raised their heads one by one, as if they had noticed something that could be squeezed, and began to look out the window.

Jiang Xia was startled, and then he vaguely felt the breath of magic power.

He looked through the car window in the sensed direction, and saw "Toru Amuro" walking back with a spare tire.

Weisai looked around suspiciously, there was no one else, only Toru Amuro on the road ahead.However, there was a faint aura of magic in that direction.Magic power can be used as an energy core to make the ghosts stronger and strengthen the puppets...

Jiang Xia's gaze finally settled on "Toru Amuro".

"..." Although the boss seems to have a magical bonus when driving and beating people, in theory, he should be just an ordinary human being without magic power.Otherwise, after such a long time, I must have gathered the energy core long ago.

Moreover, it doesn't make sense for Toru Amuro to buy a spare tire and suddenly awaken his magic power across the crowd.

Jiang Xia looked at "Toru Amuro" who was approaching, and vaguely speculated.

After waiting a little closer and being able to smell the specific smell of magic power, he was even more sure: the "Toru Amuro" in front of him should be disguised by Kidd.

...I haven't seen him for several days, and Kidd's hidden magical power seems to grow a lot.