Conan's Corpse Picker

Chapter 782 Hui Yuan Ai: The Organization's Dirty Deeds

Thinking about the gems that were robbed of her, they are indeed a lot of wealth, and her finances are tight recently, Chihiro Kojima sighed, so she had to put her energy back on the business first.

She turned her head and smiled at Jiang Xia: "Let's take a look at the monitoring first."

Miwako Sato: "..."

Jiang Xia nodded and followed her to the back office.

After walking two steps, Hui Yuan Ai didn't follow.There are many people with mixed legs here, children running around are easy to be stepped on, Jiang Xia turned around and waved to her: "Let's go."

Haibara Ai:"……"

She looked at Jiang Xia, at the familiar cat in the store manager's photo on the wall, and at Chihiro Kojima.

Thinking of the female client's attitude towards Jiang Xia just now, her expression suddenly became a little frightened.

Called by Jiang Xia, Hui Yuanai trotted to keep up with him, hesitant to speak: "...what are you doing in your usual work that requires cats?"

Jiang Xia glanced at her suspiciously: "It's just to find a cat for the client."

Hui Yuanai: "..." No, no, no, she always felt that something was not right...Speaking of which, no matter how it is a detective agency, it is an agency opened by an organization member after all...Jiang Xia's black skin Boss, what kind of weird business has been opened in private!

……

Although Hui Yuan Ai was greatly shocked, she was a restrained person after all, and she didn't show too much abnormality.

The store manager Kojima led a group of people into the office and played back the surveillance.She dragged the mouse with her slender hand, precisely skipped some content, and the screen was frozen on the robber's face.

"That's the man," she said.

The police who arrived first had watched the surveillance several times before, and didn't pay much attention to her fast-moving behavior.

The few people who followed did pay more attention to the kidnapper's appearance.

Miwako Sato took a closer look: "That's right, it's Masao Koda...Why did he suddenly do such a thing?"

"Find someone, just ask and you'll know."

Jiang Xia looked at the face in the surveillance screen that did not shy away from the camera, and felt that there was a client fishing: "It shouldn't be hard to find. Robbers usually cover their faces or deliberately avoid the camera. But just now In the picture, when Masao Koda turned his eyes, he clearly saw where the surveillance was located, but he didn't care at all..."

Officer Sato frowned slightly: "That is to say, he is not afraid of being recognized by us?"

She thought for a moment, and first sent a message to the patrolling police officers to let them pay attention to whether anyone surrendered.

Next to him, Kojima Chihiro hugged an exquisite merchandise booklet, and circled Jiang Xia on it: "This, this, and this..." She circled a dozen or so gemstones, "All were stolen."

After a pause, he couldn't help asking curiously, "Do you know that robber?"

"I just met..."

……

When Jiang Xia recounted her commission for the second time today.

Suddenly there was news from the police.

——This jewelry store is also equipped with surveillance cameras at the entrance.

The motorcycle Masao Koda was riding on during the robbery was clearly photographed, including the license plate.

Following this very obvious clue, the police successfully found Masao Koda's motorcycle near Mihua Station.It seemed that he abandoned his motorcycle and took the tram instead—on the steps down to the platform, a dark gemstone fell, which was one of the gems stolen from the jewelry store.

Miwako Sato sighed: "Abandoning the motorcycle and taking the tram... It's impossible to give up looking for a sister, grab a sum of money and go back to the hometown in the countryside. There must be other purposes..."

A group of detectives are still waiting to follow orders.

Although Sato felt that the matter was not simple, he could only follow the procedures first: "Set up checkpoints at several transfer stations on the ring line, focus on the search, and move faster. Send people to other stations to check."

After speaking, she subconsciously looked at Jiang Xia.

According to experience, if you encounter such incomprehensible things when solving a case, just ask Jiang Xia, you will be right.

Jiang Xia noticed her gaze, but her eyes fluttered and she turned her head away.The store manager Kojima, who was stuck next to him, moved aside intentionally or unintentionally, just blocking Miwako Sato's view.

Officer Sato: "..."

Let's not talk about a store manager with too many slots... Is this little detective hiding something from her?

She wanted to ask, but she also felt that if Jiang Xia deliberately concealed it, he might not say it... What's going on?

Miwako Sato stroked her chin, and her first reaction was: Jiang Xia had already figured out the whereabouts of Masao Koda, and at this moment, she was about to go there without telling the police, and beat him up in time.

But after thinking about it, I think that although Jiang Xia likes to beat up prisoners, he usually hits them just by chance, instead of deliberately hiding it from the police.

There must be something else...

Miwako Sato sorted out the cause and effect of the incident again, thinking about something quickly.

Conan discovered the brief interaction between Jiang Xia and Officer Sato, and had a vague guess in his heart.

——Judging from Koda Masao's behavior, his move to look for Koda Sanae is definitely from the heart, and he is very motivated.

At such a time, he came suddenly to rob the jewelry store... I always felt that there might be some kind of connection between the two things.

…The fact that he didn’t cover his face or avoid the camera when he snatched the gems shows that Masao Koda didn’t intend to escape punishment, and he didn’t mind being caught because of it.The same is true for the motorcycle that did not cover the number plate. In addition, there is the gemstone that "unfortunately" fell on the steps of the platform.

These actions, rather than "running away", are more like deliberately drawing the police's attention to Mihua Station, creating the illusion that Koda Masao is "fleeing in fear of crime".

In fact, starting from Mihua Station, in addition to changing trains at other stations, you can actually go to another place-Kabado-cho, the home of Yoshiichi Watanuki.

"..."

Combining several things together, Conan felt that he might have understood Koda Masao's plan-he wanted to bury the stolen gems in the yard of Watanuki's family.After that, if the police wanted to search for the stolen goods, they had to open up the yard of Mianguanyi's family.If there are really dead bodies buried in the yard, they will definitely be exposed at that time.

Thinking of this, Conan looked at Officer Sato who was thinking, hesitated for a while, but also said nothing.

... The most troublesome "armed robbery" has happened now.

In this case, adding the charge of "sneaking into other people's yards to bury gems" is actually irrelevant.

Although this is not fair to Yoshiichi Watanuki, from another perspective, if Koda Masao really has a mental disorder because of the disappearance of his sister, and then becomes a stalker who has been stalking and harassing Yoshiichi Watanuki for a long time, then Digging up the yard to let him see what's going on inside, although a little aggrieved, is also one of the possible ways to get out of this situation.

Jiang Xia probably realized this too, so she didn't say anything.

……

at the same time.

Okiya Subaru and the three boys from the Detective Boys waved their hands and watched them leave.

Then he stood up straight and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Chapter 783 Finished Stripping the Vest

After many investigations by Okiya Subaru, at present, he is more inclined: there is no direct relationship between Jiang Xia and Uzuo.

——Just now, Okiya Subaru asked Masao Koda, and learned that the reason why he asked Jiang Xia to place a commission was that when he went to Mihua Commercial Building, he saw a detective variety show in a passing store, and it happened to be Jiang Xia.

So Okiya Subaru went to that mall.

Then it turned out that it was just a coincidence.

Koda Masao didn't say what he was doing at the mall that day, but Okiya Subaru combined his purpose, looked at the map of the mall for a while, and tried to go to the outdoor goods store on the 5th floor to ask about the situation.Unexpectedly, there was a result—Masao Koda went there to buy a shovel.

Koda Masao looks a lot like the villain in Masked Rider, "Mole Star Man", and he bought something that happens to be used for digging the ground, so the clerk was very impressed with him.

Knowing the destination of Koda Masao at that time, and then re-observing the layout of the supermarket, you can find that it was probably just a coincidence that Koda Masao saw Jiang Xia's variety show at that time - the location of the outdoor goods store happened to be a few days away. Between the elevator entrances, there are many passages to choose from to get there from the parking lot.In addition, in that show, Jiang Xia was only a guest guest, and there were not many scenes.People's pace, being attracted by surrounding products on the way, various accidents... may lead to missing that scene.

In short, Okiya Subaru can't imagine how to make Masao Koda pass by that store at that time and see Jiang Xia's variety show at such a precise time, and then the idea of ​​"find a detective" was born.

... In other words, if this is really a set of plans, then its randomness is undoubtedly very strong.

And Uzo...

Okiya Subaru thought about it seriously for a long time, and always felt that Uzo would not like this kind of chance - the new boss's desire to control is very strong at first glance, and even the newly recruited peripheral juniors have to personally review and teach.In comparison, this low probability is too random.

Of course, considering the possibility that "it was a coincidence that Koda Masao saw Jiang Xia's program in the mall, but Uzuo still has a plan ABCD for Koda Masao to contact Jiang Xia", the cautious Okiya Subaru did a little more research.

Then it was discovered that among the murder cases and commissions that Jiang Xia had handled in the past, quite a few of the victims were ordinary people of no status.

After all, Wu Zuo is a young and promising cadre, and he is usually very busy, so he probably doesn't have time to come and persecute ordinary citizens. After all, no matter how you think about it, this kind of killing plan requires a lot of time for advance observation and precise control.Otherwise, it would be impossible for Wu Zuo to be so talented that he would let people kill people according to his script after just a short meeting and a few words. He is not the legendary villain in the story, haha...ha...

Okiya Subaru: "..."

He was about to flash a relieved smile.

However it failed.

"..." At the end of the day, Okiya Subaru thought, even Uzo's method of instigating the target to kill, he still didn't understand at all.In this case, why do you think Wu Zuo can't create a troublesome case in a short time?

... The so-called endless learning, Okiya Subaru has seen many incredible geniuses in his own research field.

At this time, looking at the geniuses elsewhere, his self-confidence, which was not considered inflated, suddenly shrank into a ball.

……

Walking out of the library where a large number of case newspapers were stored, Okiya Subaru walked down the street with a complicated expression.

Coincidentally, three familiar children ran past him chatteringly - Ayumi Yoshida, Genta Kojima, and Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya.

Okiya Subaru stared at them in a daze, and suddenly thought, if Jiang Xia and Wu Zuo were really in the same group, then the matter of finding the child to touch porcelain by himself, and then leading the bear child to the place where the corpse was buried, is not the same? Uzo's plan?

After all, the child he met happened to be Jiang Xia's acquaintance, which made it hard for him not to think...

"..." Okiya Subaru approached Yoshida Ayumi and the others, carefully formulating a routine.

Then it was discovered that the children were not called out to play by Jiang Xia or any other suspicious person, but they wanted to come out to play by themselves.

In addition, the matter of "playing baseball" itself was a temporary idea-they originally planned to go to Mihua Park to play football, but in the morning, Kojima Motota fell while passing the overpass while holding the ball, and unfortunately the football rolled into the side of a passing truck. In the ceiling.

When the ball was gone, they temporarily thought, why not go to a remote park to play baseball.

...After asking this all the time, Okiya Subaru finally had a preference for the answer to his question.

——There are too many coincidences in this series of events.

and so……

Maybe it's really just a mere coincidence?

Following this line of thought, reverse verification.

Okiya Subaru gradually found other evidence to support this idea.

——If Jiang Xia was really Uzuo's subordinate, then when a group of people gathered at the gate of Mian Guanyi's family just now, Jiang Xia would not have left at all.Surely he would ask a few more casual questions, bring the conversation back to the baseball-playing group, and then try to bring up the actual burial site.