Conan's Corpse Picker

Chapter 754

Following Jiang Xia's click, the door closed.

In the corridor outside the door, the three of them fell silent for a while.

"...I don't think it's him."

Huiyuan Ai lowered his voice, half complaining and half speculating, and said quietly: "Officer Sato said that the deceased was stabbed to death by a sharp object. And that person just now... I don't think he has any need to carry a knife."

Conan thought of Mao Lilan an hour ago, and the innocent iron rod that she hit straight and bent.

He raised his hand pretending to be calm, and pushed his glasses in shock.After two seconds, I really came back to my senses.

Thinking of Hui Yuanai's words just now, he belatedly added: "Not necessarily, if he is really the murderer, it cannot be ruled out that he carried the knife on purpose to cover up his crime characteristics."

Jiang Xia silently listened to their discussion without interrupting.

When the "dogleg" punched the ground just now, there was a bit of murderous aura.

But soon, maybe Yoshikawa Gozo immediately became a Buddha and figured it out as soon as he picked up the butcher knife, or maybe he remembered that the old man was dead... In short, the murderous aura that appeared suddenly fell off again. Then he was happily grabbed by the cat and dragged away with a snort - this new cat, although he hadn't formally signed a contract, already looked like a very good working ghost.

"Write down the doubts first, and tell Officer Sato later."

After the two children finished their discussion, Jiang Xia made a dispensable summary for them, and at the same time moved his fingers slightly to capture the murderous aura that "dog leg" just dropped.

Then he walked towards the next door in a good mood: "Let's see the next one."

……

It's a pity that the remaining two people don't seem so irritable.

Behind the second door is Rokusuke Shima who plays the role of "Master".

The "young master" in the book has a strong sense of justice and is impulsive and stubborn.

But after the show, Rokusuke Shima looked like an ordinary young man.

"My mother passed away last year." "Master" sighed, "Before she left, she kept complaining that I was impatient and I couldn't do anything for long. So I just wanted to do this job well and let her see my ability ...However, Lao Yang is very dissatisfied with me, saying things like 'If you can't do it well, leave', and even started looking for a new 'Master' candidate."

"When I think about how rare it is for me to persist in a job, but to be dismissed by others, I am very angry.

"But I am..."

Shima Rokusuke was originally sitting, but at this moment he suddenly lay flat - in order to fit the theme, this private room is of course a traditional private room with tatami mats.

The young master spread out the word "big" on the tatami, looked at the ceiling and continued to sigh: "Anger is just anger, I never thought of killing him, although I don't have an alibi, but I am not a murderer, you must solve the case seriously , don’t wrong good people.”

……

After jotting down some seemingly useless points, the three of them returned to the corridor and came to the sliding door of the last box.

Inside was a "porcupine" with a rough beard and dressed like a samurai.

——In the book "Young Master", the porcupine with a straightforward personality finally became the protagonist's partner and helped the protagonist punish the two villains together.

Before Conan entered the door, he thought of the "dog leg" that looked weak but was actually able to punch through the solid ground just now.And think about the burly body of the "porcupine"...

He couldn't help but adjust the anesthesia watch on his hand to make it more convenient for launching.

Hui Yuanai glanced at him, obviously enlightened, so she also took a look at herself.

Then she discovered that the only weapons she could use as weapons were the two tubes of anesthetic in her pocket.

"..." It's a pity that these are not launch type, if you want to use them, you can only stick them close.For a person of her strength and size, it may not be possible to penetrate at all...

Hui Yuanai thought rationally for a moment, but finally did not take out the anesthetic, but silently shrank behind Jiang Xia.

In the eyes of two people who are facing enemies.

Jiang Xia stretched out her hand and pushed the door open.

Behind the slowly opened door, the burly elder brother was sitting in the room with his knees together, holding a round embroidery frame the size of a mirror in one hand, and holding a needle in the other hand, and was earnestly embroidering.

"..." Hui Yuanai poked out half of his head and watched vigilantly.

After discovering that those beautiful patterns were actually embroidered by "Porcupine" herself, instead of just holding a stretcher to pretend, she carefully walked out from behind Jiang Xia.

A man who loves embroidery shouldn't have such a bad temper... right?

……

"My holiday with the old man..." "Porcupine" became a little sad when he heard their question.

He stopped the needle in his hand: "Actually, there is nothing wrong with it. It's just that my mother always told me that as long as one's wish is strong enough, it will come true sooner or later.

"So after I came here, I prayed devoutly in my heart every day—I hope my old man won't ask me to play 'Porcupine' again."

Speaking of this, under the watchful eyes of the three people on the opposite side, a tear of a strong man fell silently and sank into the wild beard of "Porcupine".

Maybe it was because of the sad thing, "Porcupine" tears gushed out quickly, and soon gathered into a river on the muscular face.He wiped his tears aggrievedly: "...I, I just want to play Madonna! I have thought about the role carefully, and I will definitely be able to play it well, but no matter what I say, the old man ignores me, and Madonna has always been played by Yuan Shan. ...how am I inferior to her!"

"..."

The room fell silent.

After a while, Jiang Xia slowly bent down and picked up the two petrified children.

Then the speed of light retreated outside the door:

"Excuse me, farewell."

He slammed the sliding door shut.

……

It seems to be because there are no onlookers.A second later, the crying in the box suddenly became heroic, from sobbing of grievances to wailing of sadness.

The crying that pierced through the door made the walls tremble, and also made the three people outside the door tremble.

They didn't dare to stay longer and left quickly.

While fleeing the scene with Jiang Xia, Conan tidied up his watch in a bit of embarrassment: he made a mistake, he only guarded against physical attacks, but he didn't expect that the people in this room were from the spiritual department... Speaking of which, this family What the hell is going on in the store, why does it feel like everyone is weird.

Hui Yuanai still barely remembered the business.

She turned her head with lingering fear, and looked at the three gates that were gradually moving away behind her, as if she saw the gate of hell, or something that needed to be firmly suppressed.

After a while, she came back to her senses, covered her face silently, and then said solemnly: "...except for that 'young master', I always feel that the mental state of the other two people is not stable."...In other words, it is possible to anger the innocent cat .

Chapter 755 Dig a Trap

As soon as the words fell, Jiang Xia and Conan did not wait for an answer.A vicissitudes of laughter suddenly came from the oblique side.

Someone naturally joined Haibara's conversation:

"Haha, they are indeed not normal, but they should not have the guts to kill people - children, you might as well look for other suspicious people nearby, maybe some murderer killed someone nearby, and then in order to divert the attention of the police, put the person Throw it into our store."

Jiang Xia was startled, stopped, and looked towards the source of the sound.

The person who spoke to him was the old lady who played the role of "Grandma Ah Qing" in the young master's hometown.Granny Ah Qing has a hunchback figure and all white hair, she looks very old... No wonder she counts him as a "children".

Although Conan is about the same age as Jiang Xia, he is used to this kind of address for children.

He looked at Granny Ah Qing: "I heard that you don't like 'Lao Yang' too much?"

"Yeah, he scolds people very badly, with words like 'stupid', 'idiot', 'cooked', and he won't show mercy to a dull old woman like me."

Granny Ah Qing took a long puff of cigarettes, and then exhaled faintly: "We migrant workers, no one likes 'Lao Yang' at all. Originally, the store manager had a good relationship with him, but after 'Madonna' became a rival in love, , They have nothing to do with each other... If I hadn't been too profligate before and didn't save savings, hmph, I wouldn't come here to work and suffer."

"However, speaking of it..."

Granny Ah Qing suddenly smiled, the wrinkles on her face piled up.

She looked at Madonna who was mopping the floor next to her: "Fortunately, you happened to spend the night at my house last night, otherwise we wouldn't have that 'alibi'."

Jiang Xia's gaze followed her to Madonna, and said casually, "You came here to work for your livelihood?"

The pretty Madonna actress shook her head: "I just love working here."

"Porcupine" didn't know when he ran out of the room—he was crying too much just now, and he forgot to bring a handkerchief, and wanted to find some tissues to wipe his face.

Hearing Madonna's words suddenly, he burst into tears and said sourly, "Yeah, who doesn't want to play Madonna."

"..."

Madonna was stared at by his resentful eyes, and the corners of her eyes twitched, feeling that the reason why she came to work was leveled to the same level as him.

She sighed and explained: "I'm different from you. Rather than liking this job, I'm actually doing it for my sister - she likes Natsume Soseki's works very much, and her favorite is "Young Master" novel.

"After hearing about this specialty restaurant, she has always wanted to come here to work, but unfortunately, before that, she died of subarachnoid hemorrhage..." Madonna shook her head helplessly thinking of the sad thing:

"After she left, I wanted to inherit her behest and work here for a period of time, as a memory of her, so that I could have something to talk to her during the memorial ceremony...I didn't expect to come here and found this job really interesting, so I stayed on forever.”

"Of course you find it interesting. Lao Yang likes you, so I won't scold you." "Porcupine" bit a tissue and snorted vaguely.But he immediately thought of something, showing a suddenly realized expression:

"However, with such a heavy reason, it's no wonder that Lao Yang assigns you the job of playing 'Madonna'. Although it is unfair competition, there is really no way..."

He shook his head and left with a sigh.

Jiang Xia silently looked at his back: "..." No, even without these heavy reasons, the role of "Madonna" cannot be played by a burly man with a height of 1.8 meters, a weight of 1.8 meters, and a whole body of flesh... Unless the sign at the door is changed from "Young Master Pavilion" to "Niulang Pavilion" or something...

But these words were a bit stinging, Jiang Xia kept his mouth shut and didn't say it.

It's not all about thoughtfulness.The main reason is that he was afraid that "Porcupine" would cry out on the spot after hearing it, and destroy the spirit of innocent passers-by again...

……

With the result of questioning the suspect, Jiang Xia left the area where the employees gathered, and found Miwako Sato who was busy next to the corpse.

The yard is open-air and relatively unobstructed. Apart from the police, there are also a few employees watching the excitement around.

"How is it?" Police officer Sato saw Jiang Xia approaching, his eyes lit up, and he smelled the breath of getting off work, "Do you have a clue?"

Then I saw Jiang Xia shaking her head.

"...That's it." Miwako Sato sighed quietly, then quickly cheered up and turned to Jiang Xia, "It's almost dinner time, you go back first. If we don't get any clues, we will temporarily close the team. Also, that..."

Officer Sato is embarrassed to always take up the detective's private time, and wants to work hard on his own.

But after thinking about it, Jiang Xia has been shopping in this restaurant for so long, but he failed to solve the case successfully.Then they...

Her originally inflated confidence subconsciously slumped a little.

Miwako Sato cleared her throat, looked towards the pine tree next to her, and said a little guiltyly: "If you are free tomorrow, you can come and take a look."

Jiang Xia responded.But did not go.