Conan's Corpse Picker

Just as they were about to exert their strength together, suddenly a hand was placed on the shoulders of the two of them.

Jiang Xia was startled and turned around.

I saw Mao Lilan standing behind them solemnly: "Let me try it."

Jiang Xia: "..."

He looked at Mao Lilan's legs, then looked at the door of the classroom with a little worry, and took a few steps back.

Chapter 1022 The tragic death of Huiyuan Ai

Mao Lilan took a deep breath and kicked heavily on the door.

The entire corridor seemed to tremble, and the door made a dying "creak" sound, but unexpectedly, it didn't fall down.However, its door hinge was a little loose, revealing a gap.

Jiang Xia: "..." Produced by Noah, the quality seems to be pretty good.

Mao Lilan was bounced back.

She quickly stood firm, and her bright eyes seemed to be ignited with fighting spirit.With the strength just now, he turned around and kicked the door hard again with a clear shout.

The gate finally failed to pass through, and fell to the ground with a crash, splashing a bleak dust.

Several people stepped on the door and rushed in, intending to knock down the muttering masked man and arrest him on the spot.Let Hui Yuanai down again to see if he is still saved.

However, in the next second, they looked at the empty biology classroom and stayed there.

——There is no one in the room, and there is nothing abnormal.

The hanging corpses, the candles on the ground, the wax oil that should have remained, and even the six-pointed star painted on the ground...all disappeared.There was not even a trace of burning smell in the air, as if what they saw just now was just an illusion.

Jiang Xia was the first to recover.He first stopped briefly at the place where "Miss Miyano" was hung in his impression.

Then, in line with the detective habit, he glanced at the window and said in a deep voice, "It's all locked from the inside."

"How could it be possible to disappear suddenly..." Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko stood at the door of the room, trembling and afraid to go in, "Haunted?"

Hattori Heiji frowned for a moment, shook his head, and said in a low voice, "There will be no ghosts in the detective dungeon, that'Sakura-senpai' has emphasized this point."

"It must be a prank." The security guard walked around with a flashlight, but he was relieved.

He glanced at a few high school students: "Your 'Mysterious Phenomena Research Association', some members are all talking about it. Today's incident, probably someone pretended to hang himself to play with you——Okay, don't make trouble, I have to continue patrolling, you guys go home quickly."

"..."

A few high school students reluctantly went back to the activity room of the "Mysterious Phenomena Research Association" to take a look, but Hui Yuanai still did not appear.

I wanted to go back and see a few other "unbelievable places".

However, it is probably because they failed to give information such as "Miyano Shiho's disappearance evidence".Just walking halfway, the foreground suddenly fluctuated.

- Eyes closed and opened, they returned home.

……

The night passed quickly.

Its daybreak.

Jiang Xia walked back along the street, came to the door of Hui Yuanai's house, raised her hand and patted the door meaningly.

Of course, no one came to answer the door——Haihara Ai had already been kicked off the assembly line by Akemi Miyano, and went to catch up on sleep.All that remains in the game is a scale model.

Not long after, other doors around him opened one after another.

In residential areas, the view during the day is much better than at night.The annoying fog is gone.

The remaining four people quickly ran to Jiang Xia's side and looked at Hui Yuanai's room: "Is she not at home?"

Jiang Xia nodded.

A group of people sighed and didn't ask any more questions: Although Jiang Xia was able to go out at night, after being forced to "go home" just now, it didn't take long for dawn.Counting the time, Jiang Xia has no time to go to school to find someone.

"Let's go to the school first." Jiang Xia looked at the sky at a 45° angle, her eyes seemed to be filled with worry, "I don't know how she is now..."

"It's more bad than good. Frankly speaking, I think she's dead, but the murderer hid her body in some way—you should feel the same way."

After Hattori Heiji finished speaking earnestly, remembering that Haibara Ai seemed to be familiar with Jiang Xia, he said in relief:

"Fortunately, the punishment of the game is 'after the game is over, the person who is out will die'... As long as you successfully pass the level and win that wish, there is still a chance to redeem everything."

Jiang Xia nodded, retracted his divergent gaze, and said solemnly: "Let's go."

……

Today is a normal working day and school starts.

As soon as a few people arrived at the school, they felt that the atmosphere today was very different.

The students of Fudo High School still get together in twos and threes.

But unlike the usual happy chat, this time, their volume was much lower, and their faces were full of unconcealable fear.In addition, there were still people gathered next to the old school building, looking at a certain window on the first floor, and quickly gathered into a large circle.

Jiang Xia looked left and right, and was about to find someone to inquire about the situation, when a figure passed through the crowd and ran over lightly.

The caring messenger is Sakura-senpai.

Yingshu Liulizi led a few people to the "Mysterious Phenomenon Research Association", with an extremely ugly expression, and said in a low voice: "Something went wrong!"

……

At the door of the "Unopenable Biology Classroom", a cordon has been pulled up, and a circle of students is surrounded outside.

Several people separated from the crowd and walked over, looking at the situation in the classroom, their eyes froze for a moment.

On the floor in the middle of the classroom, a six-pointed star pattern with a diameter of half a meter was drawn, and a candle was lit at each corner.At this time the candle had burned out, and the charred wick was stuck in a puddle of solidified wax.

And in the center surrounded by candles, on the beam directly above, "Miss Miyano" hung her head down, quietly hanging there.

——everything is the same as what they saw in the corridor yesterday.

If it weren't for the door that was kicked open by Mao Lilan, several people would even suspect that the peaceful scene they saw after breaking in yesterday was just an illusion.

However, it is impossible for five people to see the hallucination at the same time——the corpse really just disappeared and reappeared, like a bloody and shocking "big transformation of the dead" magic.

……

The policeman who led the team was a middle-aged uncle.

He turned his head and saw Yingshu Liulizi, his eyes quickly turned from her to Jiang Xia and the others, and then waved to them.

……

"Currently, the time of Miyano-san's death is from nine to ten o'clock last night."

The criminal policeman surnamed "Jianchi" held up the old notebook in his hand, flipped through the main points, and looked at Jiang Xia and the others at the same time: "I heard that you happened to be in the old teaching building at that time, right?"

Jiang Xia looked up and looked around, and found that the people who appeared last night, including various NPCs, had gathered at the door of the classroom at this time.

He nodded, remembering something, and added rigorously: "There is also a person wearing a mask. He was holding a candle and standing next to the corpse."

The sword-wielding police officer nodded. He looked like the common police officers in the first search section. In this strange world, it gave the detectives a sense of familiarity.

He handed over a floor plan: "How did you find the body last night? Also, did you notice anything suspicious?"

Jiang Xia took a look at the floor plan and pointed out: "We were in the activity room of the 'Mysterious Phenomena Research Society'. After going out, we stood in this corridor and suddenly saw a fire in the next building."

Chapter 1023

The corridors of the two buildings are on the same straight line.From outside the Mysterious Phenomena Research Institute, looking towards the old school building, you can just see the "unopenable biology classroom" at the end of the corridor.

"When we saw the dead body through the window, the classroom door was open, there was a dead body hanging in the room, and the masked man was standing next to the dead body. But wait until we ran to this corridor."

Jiang Xia clicked on the floor plan: "The classroom door is locked firmly. After kicking the door open, all traces are gone."

Kudo Shinichi paced back and forth by the table, obviously also very concerned about the matter of "the corpse suddenly disappeared and reappeared".

Following Jiang Xia's words just now, he muttered in a low voice: "In other words, the time for the door of the biology classroom to disappear from our field of vision is only a short ten seconds. Wax oil and candles, clearing the magic circle... This is simply impossible—not to mention that all the windows were locked at the time, and it was a secret room.”

"No, nothing is impossible."

The consultant teacher's face was pale, and his lips were trembling.He took out his handkerchief and wiped his sweat, and said dreamily, "This kind of magic is not a problem at all for 'after school magicians'."

"The magician after school? The key figure in the 'Seventh Mystery'?" Hattori Heiji looked at the consultant quickly, "You really know about him!"

The consultant teacher was startled and realized that he had made a slip of the tongue.He shook his head, as if he didn't want to talk anymore, and just wanted to get away quickly.

Fortunately, the "sword-wielding police officer" next to him finally looked like a policeman.

He grabbed the consultant and said sharply: "Now that a murder has occurred and a student has died, this is not the time to hide the news! I'm asking you as a policeman—what is that 'after school magician'?"

"..." The consultant teacher was caught and couldn't run away. After hesitating for a long time, he said slowly:

"It's not a thing. It's a person who actually exists.

"—Before the old school building was abandoned, there was a strange teacher named 'Initial Monemon' in the school. I heard that he would secretly perform various strange rituals at night.

"At that time, there was a bold student who was curious about the truth of this rumor, so he secretly went to the old school building at night. He peeped in through the crack of the door, and saw a sea of ​​blood in the room, and countless corpses. Only the head The text teacher was still alive, standing in a pool of blood and laughing wildly.

"The peeping student was so frightened that he ran away and called the police.

"However, when the police arrived, those bodies had disappeared, and there was no one in the room, except for the words in blood on the blackboard - 'I will stay in this school building forever'. Since then, Mr. Initial has never appeared again. Pass."

……

There was a brief silence in the classroom because of this bloody story.

Jiang Xia looked at the police officer holding the sword: "Have there been mass deaths or disappearances in the school?"

"No." The police officer holding the sword scratched his hat. "It is true that a teacher with the surname 'Initial' disappeared. This surname is not so common. I have some impressions... But not so many students disappeared--[-]% because of someone's headache. The teacher of writing disappeared, so he spread the rumors and made this terrible legend."

As he said that, Police Officer Jianchi sighed: "Don't pay attention to these unsubstantiated information, let's take a look at the current cases."

He glanced at Jiang Xia, then at Hattori Heiji and Kudo Shinichi, and became a little more enthusiastic: "I heard that the three of you are detectives and have solved many cases?"

"?"

Kudo Shinichi was taken aback, and when he came back to his senses, he quietly communicated with his two friends: "The real detective identity can be brought here for use?"

Jiang Xia also said in a low voice: "If there is no police to provide relevant information, it will indeed be very difficult to solve the case. Now it is much more convenient - I can't tell, the designer of the copy is quite conscientious."

He nonchalantly changed the topic, and then got back to business: "Remember to ask the police about the disappearance of that 'Initial Teacher' - both the consultant teacher and the police know about it, this must be an important clue .”

"it is good."