Conan's Corpse Picker

Although this maple leaf forest is located in a mountainous area, it is not far from the city.

It didn't take long for the police to arrive.

Toru Amuro was observing secretly, when suddenly he saw a few people he knew approaching from the hall.

——Although it was late at night, Mori Kogoro was trapped in the car in the storm last night, his work and rest were upside down, and he still hasn't adjusted.He was preparing to rest with his daughter and Conan just now, but for various reasons, none of them could fall asleep.

Now there was the sound of a police car creaking from the window, and the three of them moved their ears, hula la put on their clothes and ran down.Next door, "Suzuki Sonoko" disguised as Belmode also opened his eyes vigilantly and went down to the hall.

In an instant, this place was occupied by Jiang Xia's acquaintances.

Toru Amuro: "..."

However, after thinking about it, what does Jiang Xia's acquaintances have to do with him?

The isolation observation is over, just some people I know...

Amuro took a leisurely sip of his coffee.The task of observing Jiang Xia is coming to an end, the free air is so beautiful.

……

Mori Kogoro, as a detective and former criminal policeman, wants to get involved when encountering a case.And now, beside him, there happened to be a junior who was good at solving crimes.

In Mori Kogoro's opinion, Jiang Xia must be more reliable than this group of sleepy-eyed local policemen, and Jiang Xia should also be planning to go up the mountain to have a look. This is the curiosity of all detectives.

But when he turned his head, he found that Jiang Xia was sitting on the rattan chair in the corner of the hall with his back facing him, not intending to get up at all.

The gaze of "Suzuki Sonoko" has already fallen there.

Curiously, she went around to look at Jiang Xia's front, and found that the young detective had his eyes closed, as if he was asleep, so she made a silent gesture to Mo Li Kogoro, who was about to yell "Jiang Xia, let's go!"At the same time, he sighed inwardly.Jiang Xia is probably really tired. These days, in order to plot against Bourbon...cough, in order to deal with Bourbon's provocation, too much unnecessary energy was consumed.

While thinking, she glanced to the side, then frowned.

Bourbon himself was radiant and seemed to have slept soundly.Heh, this intelligence officer seems to have been working in various places, including bars and clubs that are open at night.Seeing how Bourbon dragged Jiang Xia to wait in the lobby just now, he probably wanted to use up Jiang Xia's energy in the field of staying up late, which he is good at?

...a rough, insidious, and unexpectedly useful ruse.

Toru Amuro did not notice the murderous intent and condemnation in Belmode's eyes.

At this time, he was also looking at Jiang Xia, wondering in his heart - Jiang Xia had a good rest along the way, when he was driving, Jiang Xia was in the co-pilot to catch up on sleep, why would he fall asleep after staying up so late now? ...Could it be that I slept too much these days, so I got used to sleeping for a long time instead?

Amuro looked at Jiang Xia, who was sleeping peacefully on the chair, and then thought about the days when he couldn't close his eyes a few days ago, he was in a complicated mood, and walked over coldly to wake him up.

... It's not about being fussy with the child, but in front of Belmode, Boben would not considerately ask Jiang Xia to drop the task and continue to sleep just because "the subordinate is sleeping".

It's not okay to indulge peripheral members like this, Bourbon is not that kind of person...

……

at the same time.

Thousands of meters away, in a dark maple forest.

Jiang Xia, who was driving the Matsuda puppet, stepped up the whipping and used three times the speed to squeeze out the last murderous aura source.

Then he threw away the belt he had seized casually, walked to a corner where no one was watching, scattered the puppets, and returned to the main body with consciousness.

As early as when the alarm sounded from the hotel, the ghost who stayed next to the main body told him the relevant news.

It's just that there is a little distance between the two sides, and the transmission of this kind of news will be slightly delayed.In addition, the smoke had already started, and it would be as uncomfortable as peeling only half of an orange, so he delayed for a little longer.

Fortunately, he was indeed staying up late today, so it was normal to react a little slower...

After ten seconds.

In the Red Tree Hotel, Jiang Xia opened his eyes and looked around.

A group of people saw him "waking up" and briefly told him the current situation in the hotel and the fact that a camper found the body, but no one was suspicious of the situation just now.After all, no one would believe such a thing as "a person sleeping in front of them is actually beating people in the mountains".

Jiang Xia showed the surprised expression he should have, and was curious about the scene, and nodded to indicate that he knew.

Then he mixed among them and went up the mountain with a few gossip crowds.

There was a sudden homicide around, how could the detective not go and have a look.Even though he is already familiar with that mountain, he is very familiar with it...

……

Once again, I came to the shooting location, and the red handkerchiefs and maple leaves fluttered together.

And the previous assistant of "Winter Maple Red", the man who asked them to help leave a message in the guest book of the hotel, has now turned into a corpse.

He fell motionless under a tree, next to police who were setting up lights.

On the way Jiang Xia approached, she found a pocket book lying quietly on the ground among the dead leaves, half buried by the leaves rolling in the wind.

The notebook is dark and inconspicuous at night.

He remembered the time when he and Toru Amuro peeped on the mountain and saw the deceased holding the notebook before he died. He bent down and picked up the notebook.

Spoilers all the way up to now, Jiang Xia has been able to find various clues at the scene of the crime and collect them smoothly.In order to avoid the embarrassing scene of "difficult to explain the source of key information" when solving the case - he can't say "Conan told me" like Kudo Shinichi. Conan is Kudo Shinichi's vest, and it belongs to the red side good friend.He is not, he can't just say "Uzo told me", then there will probably be anonymous police officers blocking the venue soon, trying to find his precious vest...

In short, at present, it seems that the last handbook of the deceased is undoubtedly a note before death, and it is also an important check-in point.

This is a special schedule book with the date printed in advance.

Cut in from the loosest part, flip it open, and you can see the place "April 4", with a bloody fingerprint on it. It should be the deceased who grabbed it last.

Chapter 688 Gordon's heart skipped a beat

Sensing Jiang Xia's movements, Amuro Toru also looked at the pocket book.

Jiang Xia opened the page in question and handed it to him.

Conan is different from the two gangsters, he is a serious detective.

As soon as he arrived at the scene, he first looked at the corpse with all his attention.

After taking in all the information that can be observed with the naked eye, Conan straightened up and glanced sideways inadvertently.Since they were about the same height, they happened to see Jiang Xia's hand hanging by his side.The palm is darker in color, as if stained with...

A piece of blood? !

Conan was startled, subconsciously grabbed Jiang Xia's hand, and turned it over to have a look.

I saw that the casual glance just now was not an illusion, the stain on Jiang Xia's palm was really blood.

…just finished watching a bloodied corpse that had been stabbed to death.Turning around, he saw blood on the hands of his companions.

"..." Conan has read a lot of mystery novels, and he has also watched horror movies. The plots of such third-rate horror movies have never scared him once, but this time, he felt a solid thump in his heart.

In fact, it is hard not to spread the doubts about Toru Amuro to Jiang Xia.Even if Conan believes that Jiang Xia will not kill people, it is difficult for Jiang Xia not to be influenced by Toru Amuro.Moreover, Conan remembered that according to the approximate death time of the deceased, Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru had left the hotel during that time.

He looked up at Jiang Xia, and blurted out in shock: "You..."

"You got dirt on your hands!"

Beside, "Suzuki Sonoko" cried out in surprise.And before Conan could react, he took out a wet wipe from somewhere, and pulled Jiang Xia's hand twice.

The blood was gone.

Then she took out another bottle of disinfectant from nowhere, and sprayed it on.

Conan: "..."

He was speechless for a moment because of the speed of destroying the evidence.

But soon, with the interruption of "Suzuki Sonoko", the surprise at seeing blood stains subsided. After Conan instinctively made a series of assumptions, he had time to follow the process and make assumptions about himself one by one. Find the loopholes.

Then I realized that I was probably a little nervous just now, and was too influenced by the premise of "Amuro Toru has a problem", so I misunderstood things.

Toru Amuro was indeed suspicious, and the so-called entrustment did not sound right.

But as far as today's matter is concerned, if you think about it carefully, after Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru left the hotel just now, they actually went back again, and even ordered a table of local snacks for supper.

Even if Jiang Xia really killed someone, he must have washed his hands before eating. There is no way his hands are still stained with blood—the location of the blood stain is hard to ignore in the palm of his hand when there is light.

Beside, Toru Amuro glanced at Conan, and found that it was not his illusion.

——This kid is always surprised every time he meets him.How the hell is he a bad guy?

But on the other hand, maybe this shows that he played "Bourbon" well?

"It's the blood on it." Amuro shook the notebook Jiang Xia gave him just now, "Jiang Xia picked it up just now. There is blood on the back, as well as on the inside page. I also got a little on my hand."

As he said, he opened his hand and showed it to others, and it was indeed in the same place as the blood on Jiang Xia's palm just now.

Next to him, a policeman at the scene twitched his ears, ran over vigilantly, and grabbed the account with his hands: "How can you directly touch the evidence!"

Yes yes.Conan nodded secretly, Jiang Xia used to be regarded as a model detective in the eyes of the police, but today he directly touched the pocketbook.My intuition is indeed right, something is not quite right... I hope it's not the fingerprints that shouldn't be on the pocket book, so I have to take it again to cover it up.

His eyes looked back and forth between Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru, and finally fell on Amuro Toru's hand.

……

Suspicion is suspicion, but there is still an unsolved case in front of him after all.

According to Conan's usual behavior, even if Gin put a gun on his head now, after he panicked, he would instinctively spare part of his brain to think about the murderer.

In short, since Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru have no clues for the time being, it is better to think about the case in front of them.

Just now, when Jiang Xia picked up the pocketbook to check, Conan had already slipped to the side of the corpse and checked the situation briefly.

At this time, for Conan, the bloody handbook undoubtedly became a new clue.

It's a pity that it is now in the hands of the police. Even if it is put on the ground, only the back can be seen...

While trying to look up, Conan suddenly remembered—he had seen this pocketbook before. Before, when the dead assistant asked them to leave a message, he shook the pocketbook to them and asked them to read the writing on the back. "ホヅミ", which should be the pronunciation of his surname.

The police officer with the notebook looked at the physical evidence that had been handled by the two with mixed emotions.

But think about it, the person who tampered with the physical evidence is a detective, and he thinks this is not a big problem...

The police officer sighed and looked at Jiang Xia: "Where was the pocketbook when you found it? We didn't even see it..."

"It's there." Jiang Xia turned her head and pointed to the place two steps away behind her, "Half of it is buried in the leaves. When I passed by, I felt that the sound of dead leaves rubbing against the ground was wrong. I only found out after looking carefully."

By the way, provide information: "The position of 'April [-]st' on the inner page is stained with blood, which should be printed by the deceased. You can see the clear lines, you can compare the fingerprints. If this is the case, it may be his. Some kind of dying message."

"Oh." The police officer nodded and turned back to check.

While talking, the police leading the team came over, and asked after a few meters away: "How is it? Did you find any clues..."

Halfway through the conversation, the voice stopped abruptly.

Immediately afterwards, there was a change of tone: "Why are you again?!"

Jiang Xia was startled, turned around, and saw Shancun Cao - a confused police officer who didn't know if he was qualified as a policeman, but was quite qualified as a case attractor.