Conan's Corpse Picker

On the way, Jiang Xia thought of something, found out the paper cutter just now, and handed it to Suzuki Sonoko:

"You can use this for self-defense... If you don't know how to use it, you can use it to dismantle things."

"Okay." Suzuki Sonoko nodded, holding the knife nervously, walking close to Jiang Xia all the way, watching the narrow and dark corridors on both sides vigilantly with a pair of almond eyes, as if ghosts would jump out of it at any moment.

Jiang Xia glanced at her hand holding the knife, and looked away as if nothing had happened.

Today he just brought a few controllable classmates in for testing, preparing for the introduction of men in black and mass production of murderous spirits in the future.It is impossible to really let a few precious classmates die in this kind of place because of the failure of the game.

And since you don't want to kill people, then for the credibility of the anonymous game, of course, you must ensure that someone clears the level in the end and removes the "death penalty" for everyone.

This knife is regarded as a sharp weapon to strengthen the team.

I will tell the ghosts who play guest NPCs later—once you get scratched, just fall to the ground and pretend to be dead. Don't embarrass the patron of the haunted house who doesn't know how to fight.

……

The old school building is not too big.

They walked around the corridor a few times, and soon came to the door of the "Unopenable Biology Classroom".

Jiang Xia reached out to hold the doorknob, twisted it a few times, and then withdrew her hand: "It's worthy of the name." It really can't be opened.

Hattori Heiji looked at the door and wanted to kick it open.

But remembering the lightning strike just now... He stroked his hair that was still a little fuzzy, and silently put his feet down.

……

"This happens to be the first floor, let's go around outside and take a look in through the window."

Jiang Xia recalled the information he saw just now: "It is rumored that those students who saw the 'hanging corpse' came to this classroom after dark. reward."

Sonoko Suzuki nodded like a pecking rice: "I agree!"

——It’s sunny outside, and it’s better to stand under the bright sunshine and observe a scary “haunted” classroom than to stand in this dark and damp corridor.

……

A few people quickly walked around outside, looking into the house through the dust-covered windows.

The biology classroom was quiet, without any abnormality.From the looks of it, it was just an ordinary idle classroom.

After careful observation, there is nothing to gain.They backed out of the lawn again and went elsewhere.

……

The six places went around one by one.

In the end, several people stopped at the gate of the school where the "Sixth Mystery" was located, and fell silent for a while.

Kudo Shinichi looked at Jiang Xia, then at Suzuki Sonoko: "...how do I feel that the difficulty this time will not be much lower than the last time."

Suzuki Sonoko showed doubts: "What do you mean?"

Jiang Xia recalled the information he saw from the disk just now, and sorted out the situation:

"The first unbelievable incident took place in the biology classroom. It is said that after night, the figure of a hanged person will be seen.

"The second one is in the printing room. It is said that when a student was cutting paper with a guillotine, he lost his mind and cut off his hand. Since then, every night, someone's hand will crawl out from the gap between the printing press and the wall. , crawling around along the printing room, leaving horrific bloody handprints wherever they passed.

"The third one is the 'blood-sucking well'. Legend has it that someone stumbled and fell to his death in it. Afterwards, every night, blood gushes out from the dry well, staining the surrounding ground blood red.

"The fourth is the stairs next to the gate of the school building. It has only 12 steps during the day, but in the middle of the night, when you walk downstairs while counting, there will be a 13th step. There are people who fell to their deaths on the stairs." student's body.

"The fifth piece is the 'Goddess of Knowledge' in the office area. If you shine light on her late at night, you will find that the face of the stone statue suddenly becomes your own face. After that, she will slowly take away the knowledge and memory of the client, and be deprived people will gradually die.

"The sixth piece is 'the ginkgo tree with the dead body'. It is said that a student who returned late couldn't help but hanged himself on this ancient ginkgo tree next to the school gate. Since then, students who also returned late sometimes suddenly I saw a tree branch and saw a shaking corpse—but if I came here specifically for the corpse, I wouldn’t be able to see anything, so that corpse is still hanging on the tree.”

After Jiang Xia finished speaking, she looked at several other people: "These six things actually have something in common."

Chapter 1015 Parents: Good boy, don't go out at night

Suzuki Sonoko was seen by Jiang Xia, blinked, and tried to mobilize a blank brain to answer:

"It's all scary, it's all fatal, it's all... all happening in school!"

"..." Jiang Xia nodded, "Well, indeed..."

Kudo Shinichi looked at the ginkgo tree swaying in the wind in front of him, and sighed: "The incident happened at night, that is, 'after school', and the same is true for the Seventh Mystery. And these places are all blocked Get up, even the ginkgo tree is surrounded by such a high fence, if you force your way..."

He glanced to the side from the corner of his eye and saw a security guard.The man paced back and forth more than ten meters away, staring at these "naughty students" like tigers.

——Just now, the high school students went to two or three "unbelievable" places, and after finding that all the doors were closed, they finally couldn't help but want to pry open the door.

But just a few seconds after the keyhole was touched, the security guard suddenly appeared from behind and stopped their actions.

…Since then, the security guard has been hovering around them like a ghost, cutting off any hope of them sneaking in to check.

……

Jiang Xia followed Kudo Shinichi's gaze, glanced at the security guard, and said in a low voice:

"He had a walkie-talkie on his waist. I passed by the security room just now, and I remember there were three or four people inside. If he held down the security guard and forced his way in, I'm afraid he would immediately call his companions.

"However, at night, the school will not keep so many security guards. There is a roster on the wall, and only one person is on duty every night. If you want to go to those 'unbelievable' places to investigate, just in terms of 'breaking through the security defenses', at night Much easier than during the day."

Several others nodded.Hattori Heiji glanced around and muttered in a low voice, "I'll find some rope to tie up the security guards at night."

Suzuki Sonoko: "..." These detectives are really skilled when it comes to crimes.but……

She thought of the six legends that gave her goosebumps just now, and couldn't help touching her arm:

"However, if it's not the security guards that need to be dealt with, but those legends, the danger at night will be doubled immediately."

Jiang Xia shook her head, and secretly corrected the rules: "Judging from the words of Sister Yingshu, those 'legends' should be man-made. Otherwise, it will be too difficult to pass the level."

Kudo Shinichi very much agrees, there are no ghosts in the world, and there shouldn’t be any in detective dungeons:

"The series of 'Several Incredibles on Campus' are actually just the assumptions that most people are afraid of, and they have been passed down into legends - such as going back to an empty classroom alone at night, looking for something you forgot, and then you will worry about something. Turn around and see a horrible scene, so there is a legend that "you can see the female student who hanged herself in the classroom as soon as you turn around"; the guillotine in the printing room is extremely sharp. It would not be possible to cut off a human hand so neatly, so there is a 'bloody handprint in the printing room'..."

"That's right, but in this school, the legend of 'unbelievable' is too specific." Hattori Heiji touched his chin, feeling that something was wrong:

"'Music Classroom' and 'Old Well' are normal, these are places where legends frequently occur.

"But here, the legend is specific to the 'biology classroom'—either something really happened in that classroom, or someone deliberately spread this kind of news with some purpose."

Hattori Heiji also played a lot of games. Speaking of this, he boldly assumed: "According to the idea of ​​breaking through the game, I think things may progress step by step-from the first one to the sixth, from the ordinary oolong incident, leading to a small boss , and the last seventh wonder, 'the after-school magician', is a truly terrifying murderer."

We are planning to discuss where to find the suspect.

Before he could speak, there was a piercing ringing in the air.

Several people were startled, and followed the reputation vigilantly.After a few seconds, I realized slowly:

"This seems to be the bell for the end of get out of class?...It's such an old bell."

As soon as the words were finished, a strange voice suddenly sounded in my ear: "Huh! How many new ringtones do you want, and I will play "Jingle Bells" for you?"

Suzuki Sonoko shuddered, "Aw!" in fright, and turned his head.

I saw the security guard who had been hovering around them, and walked beside them at some point.

The security guard was also taken aback by Suzuki Sonoko who suddenly screamed.

After a while, he came back to his senses and didn't bother with the girl. He waved the explosion-proof stick in his hand: "It's time for school to end, you are not allowed to stay on campus, hurry back!"

"……okay."

A few high school students nodded perfunctorily, exchanged glances secretly - pretended to go back to the classroom to pick up things, and then just hid in the school secretly.After that, in the dead of night, the extra security guards left, and then came back to investigate the "six incredibles".

The calculation was well done.

However, in the next second, the eyes of several people blurred, and the familiar spatial fluctuations suddenly appeared.

When they opened their eyes again, they looked around in shock.

——He went straight home.

……

The "residential area" in the game.

Mao Lilan stood at the porch, looking at the room in surprise.

——This is exactly the "Maori Detective Agency" in reality.

For a moment, she almost suspected that she had left the game.

But he looked down: what he was wearing was not the uniform of Didan Middle School, but the uniform of that "Fudo High School".

In addition, if you look through the window carefully and look outside, you can find that the street scenes are actually a bit strange, they are not the same as in reality-this is probably a block made up by the game without authorization.

Mao Lilan sighed sadly: "..." It seems that he is still in the game.It should be that the bell rang for the end of get out of class just now, and it was time for school to end, so they were all thrown back home.

Curiously, he turned around the room, flipping through various items.After a while, she remembered something, and suddenly looked out the window, only to see that it was already dark.

"Hmm... I remember that Ms. Miyano said that those 'unbelievable phenomena' all happened at night. If I want to get more information, I'm afraid I have to go to investigate at night. Jiang Xia and Shinichi should also be able to think of this, so next, it should be You want to visit the school at night, right. They probably all went home too..."

While muttering in her heart, Mao Lilan walked to the table, wanting to call her classmates.

I found the landline, just picked up the receiver, and before trying to dial someone's home, a voice suddenly came from behind.

A person poked his head out from behind the door: "Hey, the phone is broken. Now I can only answer calls, but I can't make outgoing calls. I have already asked someone to fix it, but that bastard let me go, and it hasn't been fixed yet."

"?!"

Mao Lilan was startled, turned her head, and saw that it was "Maori Kogoro" who spoke, she was stunned: "Why are you here?!"

"Maori Kogoro" was stunned: "This is my home! Where am I not here?"

Mao Lilan: "..." Her father is not among the players.

It looks like... this is also an npc?

Chapter 1016 The Strange Nanny

Mao Lilan secretly observed "Moori Kogoro", and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that this was an NPC: a normal person suddenly ran to such a place, so he should ask about the situation.But "Moori Kogoro" doesn't look abnormal, as if things should be like this.

"..." More importantly, upon closer inspection, Fei Yingli is also at home—this couple who have been separated for many years, unexpectedly get together harmoniously at this time...Although this has always been Mao Lilan's dream, it is obvious that , which is unlikely to happen in reality.

……

Mao Lilan sighed, looking at the peaceful coexistence of her parents, while thinking about what to do now: According to what "Miss Miyano" said earlier, everyone else has probably gone to the campus now, and she can't be left behind .