Conan's Corpse Picker

"Wait, passed by. Go back and look for it again-I came across the slumped dog on the way from the car to the hotel yesterday after our car blew out. So it should be in our car. On the way we came."

"Really?" The suspiciousness of the mountain village police officer flared up again. He looked back and forth, and felt that the mountain road was similar everywhere. Is 'Front Falling to the Earth' actually farther away?——Just now so many of us stared at the bushes, but couldn't find it, but yesterday evening, the light was so dim, you and Jiang Xia actually just passed by and saw it, It's unreasonable!"

"...Because when we passed by yesterday, it looked like it was sticking out of the weeds and lying on the road." Toru Amuro said with a smile. It picked up."

Jiang Xia nodded, indicating that this is indeed the case.

"..." Shancuncao froze for a moment.

"Help it up?!" After a while, he yelled, "—it is used to suppress the evil spirits in the Forest of the Head God! No wonder someone died last night... You, you indirect murderer! Did you mean it? Destroying Lord Jizo's posture, trying to use this to kill people? I have long felt that you are not a good person!"

Conan: "..."

He was observing Toru Amuro as usual.

At this moment, he couldn't help but look at Shancun Cao, feeling very complicated: his thinking, to a certain extent, was synchronized with the thinking of this stupid policeman.He, his reasoning is not clean...

"I usually live in Tokyo, so I don't know the legend about 'Maedou Jizo' here." Amuro Toru was not normal, he looked like a Jiang Xia who had encountered a commission, "Anyway, since I missed it , I can only look back again.”

Shancun Cao's face turned blue.There was Lord Ksitigarbha before, and when he came to this suicide holy place, he gained some confidence.

But now, Jizo was helped up by the boss of the detective agency with sinister intentions...

Shancun Cao didn't want to stay here for a second.

Unfortunately, at this time, the others had all ignored him. According to the detective, they turned back in the direction they came from, looking for the "falling forward Jizo" who had been lifted up and became less conspicuous.

"..."

A swishing mountain wind whirled past.

Seeing the backs of the group going away, Shancuncao shivered desolately and followed quickly.

……

On the way back, he was sent back to Weed Cong by the enthusiastic police last night because of "Front Ksitigarbha" lying on the side of the road.A group of people could only stare at the weeds carefully, and even had to push aside the lush grass.

Jiang Xia also picked up a wooden stick, and poked here and there with the big team.But he knew very well in his heart that he would not be able to find the upside-down ground hideout like this—yesterday, after he dug out the clay pot containing [-] million yen, he moved the upside-down ground hideout into the vacated pit and filled it up. Leveled the soil.In this way, without the markers, the local police will spend more time looking for the stolen goods, and the passing travelers like them have no one to care about, so they can leave first and continue to the next place.

……

Ten minutes later, the shadow of Aoi House Hotel appeared in front of him.This means the road is coming to an end.

However, in the grass, there is still no Jizo lying down, standing or lying down.

A group of people stopped in confusion.

Jiang Xia looked back at the mountain road when he came, and speculated: "Could it be that the murderer also deciphered the relevant information about the 'Front Ksitigarbha' from the newspaper, and thought that the Ksitigarbha was a key item, so he took it away?"

"If this is the case, the murderer must have died of a curse." Shancun Cao folded his arms, nodded earnestly, and thought, "Otherwise, let's close the team first and go back to borrow some masters who are good at exorcising evil spirits. This time The person who brought them was not professional..."

Speaking of this, a few people came from a distance from the direction of the hotel.

It's some detectives.Just now, Yamamura asked them to find Shenbao Daxiong—from the monitoring sent by "Passing Eyes", Shenbao Daxiong was the murderer who killed "Fake Jiangxia". He has disappeared since then, and no one has seen him.

At this time, seeing the sudden appearance of these criminal police officers in charge of finding people, Yamamura Cao became nervous: "Have you found his body?"

"...Ah?" The detectives didn't understand why he suddenly said this, and they were a little puzzled, "No, Shenbao is not in the hotel, and he is not in every room. I asked other people, and they all said they didn't know."...the corpse what's going on?

"Haha, that's it."

Shancuncao said "That's true" on his face, and his expression was slightly dull: "We found the wrong place. In fact, we shouldn't look for it in the hotel. We should go deeper into the woods—there must be him hanging on the tree in that holy land of suicide." The figure on it. Heh, who let the ignorant people move forward and fall to the ground?"

"..."

Last night's main diggers, Matsuda Jinpei and Ms. Spider couldn't help but drifted past and knocked him on the head.

Shancun was shocked: "Someone! Someone is moving my hair!! It must be that the head god is angry! Go back and ask a master of exorcising ghosts first... Ah no, Mr. head god, I didn't say that you are a ghost mean!"

Toru Amuro: "..."

He glanced at the detectives standing beside him with embarrassed faces: "There should be a signal around here now, let's send someone over to look for it. Don't be idle here, and go in groups to nearby places where people may be hiding." The storm was so violent yesterday, the murderer might not choose to escape in the middle of the night. If he ran after the rain, it would inevitably leave traces nearby."

Chapter 664 You Look So Scary

Although they were just some basic suggestions, the detectives still intuitively felt that the boss of the detective agency in front of them was much more reliable than the police department they led.

So a group of policemen, together with the enthusiastic staff of the hotel, divided into several teams and searched nearby.

Seeing that no one planned to go back with him, Shan Cun stopped and ran towards the parking lot—he didn’t want to drive back to the city alone, which meant that he had to go through a large deep forest cursed by the head god alone. On the way, he had a whim and stopped halfway to hang himself on a tree... That would be too bad.

So, after hesitating for a moment, Shancuncao ran back to Jiang Xia in a desperate manner.

This detective looks righteous and has a good temper. He stands under the sun, as if ghosts and ghosts can't get close to him, and feels safer next to him...

Sure enough, although he soon felt the chill around him, he just felt cold, and he didn't have the idea of ​​running into the deep forest to hang himself... Shancuncao secretly heaved a sigh of relief, feeling that his decision was very wise, and he got closer to Jiang Xia.

Jiang Xia turned her head and saw the ghosts who had found interesting toys and hung them on Shancun Cao, who were poking him curiously at this time, and Shancun Cao who was shivering one by one, but for some reason had a happy smile on their faces .

Jiang Xia: "...?"

After a moment of bewilderment, he silently moved a little further away, maintaining due awe and vigilance for things beyond the scope of his cognition.

Shancun Cao was keenly aware of the "life-saving straw" being far away, and posted it again calmly.

However, on the way, he was suddenly stopped by a black hand stretched out from the side.

Toru Amuro has been watching with distaste for a long time.

He looked at the leading policeman: "Aren't you going to work?"

Shancun became worried, cleared his throat, and said solemnly: "I have to be in charge of the summary work."

At this time, the innkeeper who had already gone back thought of something and came back again:

"By the way, I remembered. A few tens of meters to the south of the hotel, there is an old mansion built along the mountain. Now it has been basically abandoned because it is too damp inside, but it can be used to shelter from the rain... It is an old mansion there. A good place for Tibetans to hide things. Although the disappeared Ksitigarbha statue is not too big, it is also very heavy. If Shenbao took it, it should not be placed too far away."

"..."

Although Yamamura Cao's brain circuits are a little clearer, he is an elite policeman in terms of resume after all.He immediately understood the reading comprehension that popped up suddenly - he had to go to that mansion as soon as possible, otherwise if there was a slight delay and the suspect who was originally in it ran away, he would be in big trouble.

After thinking clearly, Yamamura Cao looked around and wanted to summon a subordinate tool man.

However, all the detectives he brought had been dispatched by Toru Amuro just now.

"..." The hateful boss of the detective agency.

Yamamura made a desperate slander.

But soon, he looked at Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru next to him, and suddenly had an idea:

"By the way, you guys go over there with me to take a look - in order to delay the time, the murderer might put a fake place in there to fool us, and leave with the real one. And you have been in contact with the place yesterday, so you can just help to distinguish it. "

This excuse is obviously very far-fetched, even if it is Yamamura Cao, his eyes can't help but wander when he says it.

But for some reason, neither of the detectives turned him down.

……

The innkeeper was not with them.The store is also in a mess now, and he has to go back and look at it.

Jiang Xia, Amuro Toru, and Yamamura Cao followed the innkeeper's direction and walked towards the hidden building that had grown grass on the roof.

On the way, Amuro glanced at the gloomy mansion, then turned to Shancun Cao, and asked in a chatty manner:

"Have you had a medical checkup recently?"

This question is actually a bit strange.

But Yamamura Cao was nervous at this moment, and was eager for someone to talk to him, so he thought that Toru Amuro was also using small talk to relieve the pressure, and replied casually: "Of course! The body is the first, especially in a dangerous profession like ours."

"I see." Toru Amuro gradually calmed down, "There is no underlying disease such as hypertension and heart disease."

Yamamura raised his chin proudly, and snorted coldly: "How could it be? I'm still so young."

"Oh." Toru Amuro withdrew his gaze from scrutinizing him, and stopped chatting.

The distance between the hotel and the mansion is not too far.

It didn't take long for them to arrive at the main entrance of the mansion.

This foreign-style building is built by the side of the mountain, and the lower floor is just embedded in the valley, surrounded by mountains on all sides, with airtight flower boards on the top.

On the only exposed side, the glass on the window was broken and covered with a thick layer of dust.The door was also covered by weeds and overgrown branches, making it look like a haunted house in the woods.

Yamamura Cao stared at the rusted gate with a troubled expression on his face, as if to say "Why don't you go in and I'll watch the wind here", but he felt that it was more dangerous to be alone at this time.

So in the end, he followed Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru closely, and walked in the door.

The room was very dark. After entering the room, the door with old springs creaked shut, and the surroundings were suddenly dark.

Before Jiang Xia entered the door, he caught a lucky ghost and borrowed its night vision ability.

But at this time, in order to cooperate with the two normal people next to him, he still turned on the flashlight.

There was a soft click, and the snowy beam of light shot straight ahead, and the dust in the air floated, and further forward, there was a screen blocking the door.

Jiang Xia glanced at it casually, moved the flashlight, and let it shine on the dilapidated road beside him: "Let's look for it along this side."

……

The road in the mansion is complicated. After bypassing the screen, walk along the long corridor for a while, and turn the corner to see the wide hall.

It seems to be used as a warehouse, with some discarded and moldy items piled up.

The three of them searched around, looking at all the rooms and hiding places on this floor.

However, the murderer was not found.

The missing Ksitigarbha statue was not found either.

Shancun Cao followed closely beside Jiang Xia, keeping his eyes on the whole process.

But when he was about to end his search on this floor, he suddenly heard Toru Amuro say "huh?" beside him, and the flashlight was shining upwards.

This movement made Shancun Cao subconsciously look along the aperture.You can see a group of bats hanging upside down on the beams of the house.The bats huddled together were startled, slightly agitated, and their black eyes gleamed coldly.

Shancuncao stared at the large mould-spotted group of black animals, and immediately got goosebumps all over his body, "Aw!" and let out a scream.

The swarm of bats was startled by him, and flew down with crackling waves.

Shancun Cao tightly closed his eyes, skillfully covered his head and dodged, rolled twice and moved behind the pillar, trembling for a while.

After a while, the commotion gradually subsided.

He poked his head out cautiously, and found that there were no bats flying around.Immediately he was relieved.