Conan's Corpse Picker

... There is indeed some connection between "can't speak" and "familiar body shape".

Could it be that after staying in the living room for a while, now that he has calmed down, he has the energy to continue to disguise his figure?

Or is there actually some allergen in the living room that interfered with Matsuda's state... Well, let's observe later to see if Matsuda will deliberately avoid the living room.

At the same time, Toru Amuro instinctively touched the phone while speculating.I really want to send an email to Kazami Yuya and the others right away, asking them to thoroughly investigate this "Kurosawa Sato" and the fellow Chigen Kodai... Unfortunately, there is no signal here.

……

In front of the table.

The host of Secondary [-] still ignored any questions or complaints.

He focused on following what he said just now, and continued: "For the person who finds the treasure, I will not only give him half of the wealth, but also tell him how to leave here-the above are the general rules. Enjoy this intense game of life and death."

"Enjoy?" The cowboy detective knocked away the dining chair and stood up with a sneer.

He thought of his wife in a luxury car whose life and death were unknown on the parking lot outside. When she looked at the organizer, her words were inevitably thorny: "This game hosted by a person like you who is timid and dare not even show his face, I will I'm not interested in participating."

As he spoke, he strode up to the host, grabbed the sharp corners of the headgear, and pulled it off forcefully.

Looking at this scene, the other detectives let out a sigh of relief—to relieve their anger.

However, everyone quickly focused their attention.

——Under the host's hood, what is exposed is not the "true face of the phantom thief".

It's a rounded plastic head.

...The gloomy, cunning, and indifferent "host" turned out to be just a humanoid plastic mannequin with a horn on its head.

……

The model is just an ordinary model with no feelings. The hood was taken off and the head was forced to be bald, and she didn't feel socially dead.

Under the complex eyes of a group of people, it continued to say in that treacherous tone:

"Well, you can't solve the riddle with an empty stomach, so please enjoy this last supper."

"..."

There was a moment of silence in the restaurant.

After a while, Tan Baima rested his hands on his chin and sighed gracefully: "It's not like what Kidd would do to ask a detective to help you solve a puzzle that you can't solve. He is the one who solves the puzzle... ..."

Plop--

Taking advantage of the moment when he was posing with both hands, the eagle eyes that were originally held by him sharpened, and suddenly flew towards Jiang Xia.

Then he was grabbed by the ankle chain attached to the back of the chair and began to flop around on the spot.

Chapter 594 Karasuma Lianye

The white horse explorer was hit by an eagle that failed to take off, and his wings were covered with hair.

After being startled for a while, he hurriedly hugged Watson who failed to take off and was thrashing around trying to find a foothold.

Then he looked at Ying in surprise, followed Ying's line of sight, looked at Jiang Xia, and frowned suspiciously: Why is Watson so excited today?Could it be that when he heard "Kidd" in his own words, Watson thought it was some kind of attack command, so he rushed towards Kidd?

... However, Baima Tanxiang, when he arrested Kidd, he rarely brought Watson with him.I have never done this type of training.It's impossible for Watson to awaken the skills against strange thieves himself.

...or is there something else that attracts eagles hidden in that young man in black, such as a unique smell like blood?

……

Jiang Xia glanced flatly at the flopping eagle, and then looked back indifferently.

Then he took a sneak peek at Wutiangou who was quietly clutching his hands, living like a fluffy glove.

And looked at the lively mermaid who was swimming left and right after finding the eagle was tied up, and started to tease the eagle.

"..." What are you doing to bully others? It's a fluffy eagle, very cute.If he is bald by the mermaid, he won't find a chance to be bald in the future...

The eagle on the opposite side suddenly shuddered.

The white horse touched it and smoothed its fur.

At the same time, I looked at Watson's head turning around, and found that it no longer just stared at Heisawa, but occasionally looked elsewhere, with its eyes wandering.

"?" After a moment of confusion, Tan Baima began to think about other reasons.

——For example, Watson's strange behavior today has nothing to do with Heisawa, it's just because he got sick and his mental state became strange, or... In this annex, there are some things that will excite the eagle thing?

When Baima Tan was busy with falconry.

Others were also thinking about the host just now.

——With Kidd's usual style of acting, it is really hard to imagine that he would do such a thing today.

Although the "Phantom Child Abandoned by God" on the invitation letter can indeed be related to "Kidd", but now it seems that someone sent the invitation letter pretending to be this sought-after phantom thief in order to gather detectives.

Therefore, compared with the treasure, everyone is now more curious about the host who hides his head and shows his tail. This person not only uses a "dummy" to attend the dinner instead of himself, but also has never had contact with the maid, and attaches great importance to hiding his identity.

...Just as I thought of the maid, the door of the restaurant was knocked twice by the client.

The maid gently opened the door, then returned to the dining car she pushed, and began to serve the guests.

……

Looking at the fragrant food in front of him, Jiang Xia sniffed it calmly, but couldn't smell it.Although puppets look and feel the same as humans, their internal structure is different.Drinking water will be kept in the body as it is.In other words, eating is not only tasteless, but when the puppet disappears, it is easy to leave traces.

"..." Facing a table of sumptuous meals, Jiang Xia sighed inwardly.

Then silently moved the soup closer to him.

Although I can explain my hunger strike with "I have no appetite when I come to the haunted house".But on this occasion, if you don’t eat anything, it will look very strange, and it will be easy to be targeted by the organizer as the mastermind behind the scenes... Just pretend to drink some soup. You can put the soup bowl in your mouth and pretend to drink it. I didn't actually drink it, and the food didn't have such a good perfunctory effect.

Next to him, Toru Amuro looked at his hands fiddling with the soup bowl, and questioned him directly:

"Just now the organizer said that this is the 'Last Supper'... It always feels very unlucky to say this at the beginning of the game. Poison isn't in the food, right?"

On the opposite side, the fat food detective laughed:

"What are you afraid of? I made all these meals with my own hands, and of course the ingredients have been carefully cleaned."

Baima Tan held the eagle looking up into the air with one hand, and with the other hand plucked off the eagle's feathers that were smeared on his face and body, looking a little flustered.

However, he still has the temperament of a young master, and he is also listening to other people's words seriously: "Even if the meals are prepared by you, the tableware is placed here in advance. It's better to wipe each of them before eating, it's more secure."

Granny Qianjian didn't seem to care much about these things, and she had a Buddhist aura about how long she could live.

She turned her head sideways, glanced at Jiang Xia's movement of slowly moving the soup bowl, and pushed her own bowl over, inexplicably feeling a sense of compassion for a dying person: "If you don't have an appetite for other meals, I will I'll give you the bowl too."

Jiang Xia: "..." No.Don't increase the weight of the golem anymore.

However, he nodded first, took it politely, and put it aside... Anyway, no one saw whether he had really finished drinking.

……

Golems don't get hungry, but humans next to them don't.

They ran all the way here, and by now, they were all hungry.

Considering that they will have the strength to reason after they are full, and since the organizer wants them to hunt for treasure, they should not be poisoned as soon as they come up, a group of people wiped the tableware at hand and started eating.

……

A meal is finished quickly.

Until the end, no one was poisoned and fell to the ground.Everyone gradually relaxed.

After a while, Grandma Qianjian, who ate the slowest, also finished her meal and wiped her mouth.

At this time, the host's gloomy voice sounded again:

"Are you all satisfied with the dinner? Then, let's get down to business—you must be wondering why I use this hugely expensive annex as a game stage.

"About this...First of all, please take a good look at the tableware in your hand."

Jiang Xia put down the almost untouched soup bowl, and picked up the table knife beside her.

I saw a round family crest printed on the handle of the knife.On it is a distorted crow with a distorted head and belly. Apart from looking funny, it also looks a little gloomy.

"..."

If I remember correctly, this should be the clan emblem of the boss family.

It's tasteless, but the family emblem, which has been handed down for a long time, should be designed by the ancestors of the Karasuma family. I hope the current boss can improve his aesthetics...

Thinking about it, Jiang Xia glanced at Toru Amuro.I don't know if the police found out that the boss is from the Karasuma family...

Toru Amuro looked normal, and he didn't show any murderous intent.He was holding the teacup in his hand, looking at the bottom - the family crest engraved there was the largest and clearest.

Suddenly noticing the gaze from the side, he put down his glass and looked back suspiciously.

Jiang Xia calmly retracted her gaze: It seems that there is no...

……

The smooth-headed plastic "host" paused for a moment, allowing the guests time to examine the crest.

Then he said: "This is the family crest of the Karasuma family. You must have heard of Renye Karasuma—the rich man who died mysteriously half a century ago."

Chapter 595 Bloody Night

The host paused for a moment, then continued:

"Except for the tableware, every door, floor, handrail, even the patterns of chess and the pictures on the playing cards here are out-of-print treasures custom-made by Renye Karasuma. And 40 years ago, in this exquisite building In the customized annex, a tragic massacre took place-I believe you have already discovered that this annex is covered with blood everywhere. This is the trace left by that bloody night 40 years ago.

"At that time, celebrities from all walks of life in the political and economic circles were gathered. They gathered in this annex building and held a memorial service for Renye Karasuma who passed away at the age of 99.

"But in fact, this is a secret auction, and the items are all precious works of art collected by Renye Karasuma during his lifetime. At that time, there were more than 300 items in the auction, and the entire auction was booked for three days.

"However, on the second night, on a stormy night, two men who were drenched in the rain suddenly came to this villa. The two claimed to be lost in the mountains and asked to stay overnight. The organizer originally wanted to refuse, But after smoking what looked like cigarettes they had stuffed in, they changed their minds and allowed them in."

Toru Amuro: "..."...something like cigarettes?

Although I haven't heard the follow-up yet, the host's sudden change of attitude and the context of the words seem to imply that this thing is not simple... Could it be drugs?

Amuro Toru suddenly remembered those strange "cigarette-like things" on Jiang Xia's body, and glanced at "Jiang Xia".

However, according to his previous tests, Jiang Xia's smoke seemed to be mixed with some ordinary plant powder, and it was not addictive.The technician who helped him detect said that it might be something like essential oils used to refresh himself.

"Jiangxia" failed to notice the gaze from Toru Amuro.