Conan's Corpse Picker

The heavy metal courtyard door closed behind them with a click, and after a few seconds, it was automatically locked, exuding a stern and cold technological atmosphere.

Jiang Xia who was left outside the hospital: "..."

He was silent for a moment, and looked up at the tall courtyard wall.

... Although it is not difficult to turn over, but considering that there is a tall building nearby, there is no guarantee that no one is peeping here from the upper floors.

Jiang Xia finally gave up on this simple operation, and instead embarked on the path that a psychic medium should take.

He released a few shikigami, letting these invisible things float over the wall, fall into the courtyard, and pile up into puppet clay in a hidden place.

Then let the dry rice cat slip over and plunge into the clay.

……

Soon, a cat puppet silently took shape in the courtyard.

Jiang Xia stood outside the courtyard, looked left and right, and found a bench on the street opposite the courtyard.

So he walked over, threw the main body on the chair and hung up the phone, and then he got possessed into the cat.

……

After a while.

The Black Cloud Treading Snow Cat got out from behind the tree, and ran towards the direction of the two security personnel following the sound.

After running a few steps, the place where the claw fell suddenly softened, and he accidentally stepped on something.

Almost at the same time, there was a "meow" sound from below, and the "ground" under the claws trembled.

Jiang Xia froze, drove the cat and jumped to the side nimbly, looking at the same place suspiciously.

Just now, I accidentally stepped on another cat.

——A black kitten was lying in the grass, stepped on by him, and stood up suddenly.At this moment, a pair of round cat eyes stared at him with a vigilant expression.

But soon, perhaps because of a sudden premonition, the black cat stepped back carefully, turned its head, and ran away silently.

Chapter 883 You plot against me

"..." Jiang Xia drove the cat, looking at the black cat's black back blending into the night, her paws curled up unconsciously: This cat feels good when stepped on... It's a pity that it runs too fast, and looks It is a good peace-loving cat, there is no reason to catch the cat back and step on it for no reason.What's more, there is still business right now. . .

Thinking of this, Jiang Xia sighed regretfully, and continued to follow the original route, carefully avoiding some scattered thin wire alarms in the yard, and came to the place where the door could be seen.

Two security guards were at the door, and one of them rang the doorbell anxiously.The other pressed the phone, intending to break in and check the situation after turning on the recording.

However, before they enter the door.

The door handle moved, and someone opened the door from the inside.

The two security personnel raised their heads and met a blank and pale face.The two were startled, their hairs stood on end, and they instinctively raised the various explosion-proof devices in their hands.

"What are you doing?" The person who opened the door noticed their movements, and said dissatisfiedly, "Are you trying to attack the owner?!"

"..."

The security guards paused and woke up after being awakened by these words.

After squeezing the terrifying thought of "knocking out a ghost" out of their minds, the two slowly understood what happened.

——The one who came to open the door was of course not a ghost, but a slender woman.

The woman was wrapped in a white bathrobe and a white shower cap, her hair was all coiled into the cap, and a white mask was applied to her face.The whole body is white, coupled with a plain white complexion... This makes her look extraordinarily scary at night.

"Ah, sorry, we didn't intend to attack you." The security guard came back to his senses, looked at his watch, and explained, "3 minutes ago, at 8:57, we detected that the security device here was triggered, so Come over to check the situation—well, nothing happened, what happened just now?"

Pens in hand, they wanted to record why the alarm was triggered.

The woman snorted coldly, and said impatiently: "I still want to ask you! Nothing happened to me. It's all right, why is the alarm going off?"

Jiang Xia was driving the cat, hiding in the grass, listening to the conversation attentively.

At this time, not far behind, there was a sudden "meow".The sound dragged on for a long time, and it was extremely obvious in the night.

Jiang Xia was startled, and turned around quickly.

Just in time, he saw a black cat shouting behind him, turned around and ran, and slipped away along the grass.

Almost at the same time, a beam of light hit and landed on Jiang Xia with precision.

Followed by the voice of the security guard, he elbowed his companion next to him: "Look, there is a cat in the yard! Probably the cat tripped the alarm by mistake."

As they said that, the two of them took out some long poles from the large tool bag, put them together a few times, and combined them into a fishing net. There were similar nets in other residents before. Happening.Although the walls of these single houses are high and polished, it is inevitable that some gifted cats will slip in and set off the alarm by mistake.

Jiang Xia looked at the approaching security guards, and then at the catch nets in their hands: "...?"

He actually...

Planted by a cat?

……

Jiang Xia was silent for a moment, and drove the cat to avoid the catch net that the security guard swung down.

Then, before the two of them could react, they ran to the gate of the yard, raised their paws and knocked on the closed iron gate, and then turned to look at the security guard.

"..." The two security guards looked at each other and walked to the door in a little surprise.

A black cat with white paws clings to the gate.With the door in the way, the circular catch net is difficult to use.

The security guards hesitated for a moment, carefully stretched out their hands, and tried to push the courtyard door out.

Just pushed through a gap, the cat nimbly passed through the crack of the door, and soon disappeared into the night.

Security guard: "..." Is it an illusion? Why does it feel like the cat nodded politely to them before leaving...

The two of them were staring at the back of the black cloud treading snow cat in a daze, when their ankles suddenly itched.

Looking down, I saw another black cat, which also slipped out of the door by their feet, and ran quickly.

Security guard: "...?" Why is there another one?

The two hesitated for a moment, and began to think about whether to go back to the yard and continue to check for other possible cats.

But right now, there is no evidence that there are other cats in the yard.

They looked back at the door, and saw that the door was closed: the owner showed that he didn't want to be disturbed by the property anymore.

"..." Thinking about the violent temper of the owner, the two security guards still didn't go back.

……

It happened that the tool kit was in my hand.The two closed the courtyard door and prepared to leave.

When they turned around, one of them couldn't help muttering in a low voice: "I was really shocked just now—it's scary for a woman to wear a mask at night..."

"Indeed." The other nodded with lingering fear, and after a while, he said with a little doubt, "But why do I feel that the owner of this house is particularly scary? When she opened the door just now, I felt like I saw a monster." , I always feel that something is not right..."

While muttering, there was a sudden sound of approaching footsteps.

The security guards looked at each other and shut up at the same time - service is paramount, and no matter how much the employees like to complain about customers behind their backs, they can't let outsiders hear it.

...However, it's all this time, who will hang around?

The two security guards became vigilant and turned to look around.

I saw a young man approaching.

When they got closer, the two recognized each other through the stable wall lamp at the gate of the courtyard.

——It was Jiang Xia, the high school student detective who always appeared on TV and newspapers recently.

...Just don't know why, Jiang Xia is holding a black cat in her arms at this time.The cat was dazed, as if it had two coils of mosquito coils in front of its eyes, and seemed to want to run, but couldn't get up, so it could only lie on its stomach and let it be touched, occasionally making a humiliating "meow".

"Hi, everyone." Jiang Xia shook her powerless cat's paw, and said hello to the two security guards, "I'm visiting friends nearby, and I just saw the courtyard lights flashing here, so I wanted to come and have a look Situation—is something wrong?"

During the conversation, that strange sense of peeping came again.It seemed that someone was watching him quietly.

Jiang Xia raised his head, glanced at the round monitor hanging at the gate of the yard, and looked away again.

On the opposite side, the security guard found that the person who came was a righteous detective and not a suspicious person, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

The owner was taken aback by the late night attendance of the two, and they originally complained.

But at this time, seeing the young detective working so diligently and taking the initiative to work overtime, the professionalism of the security guards faintly tingled.

One of them said apologetically, "I've caused you trouble—it's really nothing serious, it's just that two cats strayed into here just now and triggered the alarm..." Speaking of which, he couldn't help but glance at the cat in Jiang Xia's arms, feeling Kind of like the one that slipped out later.

Chapter 884 Selling Yourself to Pay Off Your Debt

But when you think about it carefully, there are actually a lot of black cats, and cats are such flexible creatures that they are unlikely to be caught with bare hands. .

So the security guards pretended not to see the cat again, and continued with the words just now: "But don't worry, we have already chased the cat away..."

"That's it..." Jiang Xia nodded, and couldn't help but take a look at their tool bag with the catch net: What do you mean by driving away, the cat obviously left by itself, and even knocked on the door...

But after thinking about it, what does the misunderstanding between humans and cats have to do with him, a passing detective?

He is just an enthusiastic passer-by who doesn't know the truth.

After pretending to understand the situation, Jiang Xia said goodbye to the two of them.

……

Wait for the two security guards to pack the tools into the car and drive away.

Jiang Xia put the stunned cat on her shoulder, and temporarily had a handsome cat cape.

Afterwards, he glanced at the word "児岛" on the door plate out of the corner of his eye, and remembered something, so he didn't go back directly, but went to the nearby vending machine for a stroll.

He hesitated for a while between various drinks to pass the time.In the end, I didn’t buy anything, and took a shortcut to go back to the apartment.

When passing through the alley between the courtyard wall and the parking lot.Suddenly there was the sound of footsteps following behind.

The sound echoed in the narrow alleyway, getting closer.

Jiang Xia originally wanted to pretend not to hear.

But the person following him didn't seem to intend to hide his existence at all. He didn't run lightly at all, and his high-heeled shoes tapped on the ground, and the movement was a little more concealed than Gin shoting a gun.

Jiang Xia: "..."

He had no choice but to turn his head and take a look.