Conan's Corpse Picker

He realized that he had probably waited for the news.

After seeing the message with his own eyes and confirming the situation, Watanuki Tatsuzo closed the guest book with satisfaction, showing a little relieved smile.

Then go back to the room to change clothes and prepare to go up the mountain.

Although five years ago, after getting rid of his competitors and successfully ascending to the director-general of the mud participants, he already had a group of juniors under his command.

But those subordinates, after all, were all participants in the meeting.Mianguan Chenzo didn't dare to let them touch the skeleton of another skeleton first - he had to see it with his own eyes first, and deal with any possible mistakes, and then pretend that what was buried in the ground was just a blind man. Ordinary people, let the younger brothers help with the aftermath.

……

In the hall, Jiang Xia saw Mianguan Chensan flipping through the guestbook, and remembered what happened on the mountain just now.

Since Toru Amuro told him all about the old red handkerchief just now, Jiang Xia couldn't pretend that he didn't find anything, so like a competent tool worker, he picked up his mobile phone again and knocked on the phone to give Amuro Tou a complete answer. News, and told him about meeting the staff member on the mountain.

This news further confirmed Amuro Toru's conjecture just now.

He nodded, and before he could say anything, a person came down the stairs next to him.

——The impatient Mianguan Chenzo has already quickly changed into a suit of convenient clothes.

He passed the hall, walked out of the gate as if nothing had happened, and walked quickly to the deep forest after leaving everyone's sight.

One minute later, two figures also left the hotel, falling far behind Mianguan Chenzo.This is Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru.

As long as you get the evidence that Mianguan Chensan killed his competitor and find out the connection between this matter and another organization, you can turn in the water paddling task.

……

There are thick branches and leaves piled up in the forest, and the crisp sound of dead leaves makes people's heart tighten a little every time they land.

But fortunately at this time, the mountain wind was getting stronger, the faint sound of the wind and the shaking of the branches and leaves covered the sound of the pursuit, coupled with the striding strides of the pursued, Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru did not cause Miankanchen Three notes.

but……

Jiang Xia glanced behind the tree in the distance.

On the way, he would occasionally meet some people hiding in the mountains, and corresponding peeping eyes.I don't know whether it is the younger brother Watanuki Chenzo brought to help, or the member of the peripheral organization that Amuro Toru found.The sky was already very dark, and when those people saw him passing by with Anshi, they occasionally had a faint murderous look on their bodies.

"..." Jiang Xia felt the murderous aura that was not high-end but could be used as standard rations from a distance, and counting the number of people he met along the way, his heart moved slightly.

……

Amuro Toru is not as half-hearted as Jiang Xia.The paddling is the water paddling, and he still instinctively concentrated when he was tracking.

Then it was discovered that the direction Mianguan Chensan was going was not the maple tree where the bones were buried.

The veteran cadre who participated in the mud meeting took a detour and picked a road with few people, all the way to the top of the mountain.

"..." Toru Amuro remembered the guest book in the hall.The situation was further confirmed - the message did not have any codes that implied the location, but just a literal meaning: the assistant found the tree with the original red handkerchief tied, and then designated a conspicuous place that everyone knew The place where they meet, so that they can take Miankanchen to the past.

Following all the way, the three of them arrived at the shooting location.

An artistic maple tree stands on the top of the mountain, with slightly drooping leaves, and red handkerchiefs floating all over the tree, like a group of miniature ghosts in red.

Toru Amuro stopped at a distance, waiting for the two people in front of him to finish talking and go to the place where the corpse was hidden.

……

Ahead, the assistant that Jiang Xia and the others met—the man surnamed ホヅミ saw a figure approaching, and immediately realized that it was his generous client.

He raised his hand, waved it to Mianguan Chensan, and said hello.

At the same time, ホヅミ looked at the approaching Watanuki Tatsuzo, making small calculations in his heart.

Chapter 684 Standard Process

——Just now, after ホヅミ asked Jiang Xia and the others to leave a message for the guests in the Chishu Hotel, they stayed where they were, waiting for the customers to meet up on the mountain.

On the way, he rested for a while, and when he regained his strength, he was bored, and then wandered back to the tree with the old handkerchief tied to it from the shooting location, wondering why the guest was looking for this tree.

Then I happened to see a few peripheral members of the organization that Toru Amuro had found.

Earlier, Toru Amuro discovered that there were bones hidden under the tree, so he called people over and asked them to hide nearby and wait for the rabbit, and get the evidence that the corpse of Sanzang Mianguanchen and the organization cadres—this is likely to be Mianguanchen The handle caught by Epimetheus is also the reason why he leaked secrets to the other party in this transaction.With this, it is almost possible to hand over to the organization.

After those peripheral members arrived nearby, they discussed under the tree for a while, installed some equipment, and then each found a place to hide.

ホヅミ didn't know the inside story, but looked at those people from a distance with fierce looks and were not good-natured, so they didn't dare to approach.

He hid behind a thick tree and watched for a while, and finally pretended that he was just a passing tourist, and returned to the place he had made an appointment with Watanabe Tatsuzo.

At the same time, his heart moved slightly, and he noticed some inconsistencies - this client was very generous, and he seemed to be deeply obsessed with that tree.But at the same time, the guest never took the initiative to contact him, and his whereabouts were somewhat secretive.Plus what happened just now...

It seems that what the guests are interested in is not only the tree and the old red handkerchief on it.

But another secret.

... For example, what treasure is buried there, and both groups of forces are looking for it?He has heard a lot about hidden treasures in the deep mountains.The group of people just now may be installing detection equipment.

Thinking of this, ホヅミ's eyes light up slightly.

It just so happened that he was short of money recently, so he wondered if he could forcibly find a client to join him.After all, if there is really a treasure hidden under the tree, then the toll he received for leading the way is too meager.This is not the same price as "finding a tree that can inspire screenwriters".

ホヅミ has been on the set all year round, and has seen many dramas, and has some experience on how to be a qualified riddler.

After simply straightening out his thoughts, he looked at Tatsumi Mianguan who was walking towards him, and showed a mysterious smile: "I found that tree."

"Really?!" Mianguan Chensan smiled honestly, and his tone was pleasantly surprised.

He was about to say something, so he took a breath to see if ホヅミ found something wrong with that tree.

Before he could speak, he heard Hoヅミ change the subject, and there was a hint of threat in his tone: "Tsk tsk, there is something amazing hidden there, I saw..."

ホヅミ wanted to say that he saw someone wandering around there, and he must be a competitor of the customer. Without him, a local who led the way, the customer would definitely not be able to keep up with the excavation, and then came a wave of sitting on the ground to raise prices.

As a result, I just said the beginning, and my stomach suddenly felt cold.

Severe pain followed.

"You know too much."

Watanuki Tatsuzo, with gray temple hair, changed from the kindly old man just now, looked at him coldly, and then pulled out the dagger that was stuck on Hoヅミ's body.

ホヅミ: "..." Wait, this, this is completely different from the agreed direction...

The strength of the whole body seemed to flow from the wound, and ホヅミ fell down in a pile of dead leaves.His trembling lips moved, and for a moment he didn't know whether he should shout "Help!" or "I don't know anything"... The dim highlights disappeared from his eyes. At the last moment of his life, ホヅミ's mind With a sudden movement, he used all his strength to grab the booklet he had dropped on the ground.

……

Amuro Toru is hiding behind a tree with Jiang Xia.Observe secretly.

According to Toru Amuro, the normal process is that after the two people have a brief conversation, they walk together to the place where the bones are hidden-this process will be recorded by the camera hidden near the burial ground and the peripheral members of the organization, and become the target five. The ironclad evidence of the infighting in the same group years ago, and then dug out the handle that he was caught by another organization.

However, following the conversation between ホヅミ and Watanuki Tatsuzo sent by the mountain wind, Toru Amuro gradually felt that the situation was not right.

As soon as this thought flashed through his mind, he heard a scream from under the maple tree—Mianguan Chenzo suddenly drew his sword, and pierced Hoヅミ with one blow.

Toru Amuro: "..."

He actually wanted to save Hoヅミ, an innocent passer-by. After all, the past of Watanuki Tatsuzo had little to do with the organization, so there was no need to follow the principle of confidentiality so strictly and kill all those who knew.

But I didn't expect... It was too fast, the threat and silence came too fast.

Not only Jiang Xia was around, but also some other peripheral members of the organization.Toru Amuro sighed inwardly, maintaining the emotions that Bo should have, turning a blind eye to the loss of a life, and continued to watch indifferently, pretending that he hadn't thought of emergency treatment at all and helping to call an ambulance.

After killing three people, Mian Guanchen snorted coldly, but secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

He also knew that his behavior of "spending a lot of money to find an old tree with a red handkerchief" was a bit strange.But if the money is low, the TV station probably won't send someone to help him find the tree.And if you spend too much, it will arouse the vigilance of some multi-minded people like now.

The worst plan that Watanuki Chenzo had prepared before was that ホヅミ immediately called the police after finding the maple tree and curiously digging out the accident.In that case, it will be a big trouble.

Fortunately, this stupid person did not do that, but chose the method of "threat"... The three of Mian Guanchen straightened their collars in a decent manner, and left the body for the younger brother to deal with at night, while he himself started Spin around.

——Since ホヅミ discovered the secret of the bones, it means that he must have opened the soil.

In other words, I don't need this fool to lead the way at all, I just need to turn around to see which tree has been flipped under, and I can easily find the target.

1 minutes passed.

5 minutes passed.

Half an hour passed.

Mianguan Chenzo looked at the dozens of hundreds of trees around him, but found nothing.

When it was getting dark, he kicked the trunk of a nearby tree in frustration.The branches and leaves rustled, and the voices of people came from the camping place in the distance.Mianguan Chensan glanced over there, didn't stay any longer, left the body angrily, and hurried back towards the hotel.

……

"..."

After waiting for a while, seeing that he had indeed left, Toru Amuro and Jiang Xia walked out from behind the rock where they were hiding.

When Toru Amuro walked to ホヅミ and squatted down to check his vital signs, Jiang Xia glanced at the fresh shikigami who passed by him quietly and chased after Tatsumi Watanuki, ready to grab the murderer's leg.

Then he withdrew his attention, turned around and looked at the corpse on the ground, thought for a while and said, "I thought Mianguan Chenzo had already got the detailed address from Mr. Hoヅミ, but now it seems that he didn't. So he dared to kill people... ..."

Chapter 685 Go, Matsuda Ball

Toru Amuro withdrew his hand from the artery that was no longer beating in ホヅミ, stood up, glanced at Jiang Xia, and felt that the sentence he suddenly said was a bit out of words.

...It sounds like he is complaining about Mianguan Chensan's confusing behavior, but in fact, maybe Jiang Xia, like himself, is also very repulsed by this kind of random killing, just because the organized "Bourbon" is next to him, Jiang Xia I just couldn't bear to say it, so I had to lightly condemn Mianguanchen from other angles, in order to resolve my dissatisfaction with this guy's reckless disregard of human life?

... Toru Amuro suddenly felt a little "I am not alone", as if seeing another young self.

He set foot on the way back to the hotel at the foot of the mountain, and said casually: "Mianguan Chenzo probably thought that ホヅミ had dug up the bones, so he wanted to use these traces to find the nearby burial place. Unfortunately, this calculation was wrong-the distance between the tree It is hundreds of meters here, and it takes more than ten minutes to walk here. The handkerchief mark on it is also very inconspicuous. He wants to find the target by looking at the soil of the roots when the light is dimming. Heh, he has to look at thousands of trees. Tree."

Jiang Xia followed behind and nodded.

While pointing, he conveniently grabbed the wisp of murderous aura floating on the boss's body and put it away.

Although Toru Amuro seemed to be in a very stable mood, as if someone was killed suddenly in front of him is an extremely ordinary thing, but now it seems that no matter how calm his face is, there seems to be unavoidable ups and downs in his heart.Speaking of which, if you can team up with the boss when you have some murderous missions... It's a pity that Bourbon likes to go alone and rarely brings his teammates to play.

Jiang Xia thought about it and sighed.

As soon as he finished sighing, Toru Amuro looked back at him. For some reason, there seemed to be a trace in his eyes...

appreciate?

"?" Jiang Xia was a little confused.

Fortunately, it was getting dark at this time, and the light was dim. It stands to reason that ordinary people cannot see the specific eyes of another person clearly.Except for him who cheated by borrowing the ghost's vision.

Jiang Xia then pretended he didn't see anything, and walked with his head buried.