Conan's Corpse Picker

"……Um?"

Mao Lilan put down the disk, looked closely at the wall, and saw a hair. ——A poster promoting the "Society for the Study of Mysterious Phenomena" was pasted on the wall, with hair protruding from a corner of the poster.It looks like the person who put up the poster didn't pay attention and accidentally got their hair on it.

Mao Lilan, who likes to be neat, stretched out her hand, intending to pull that hair out.

As soon as I pinched it hard, the edge of the entire poster suddenly moved.

wow-

A corner of the poster fell off along with the cracked wall covering, revealing a dark hole in the wall.Mao Lilan looked over subconsciously, and caught sight of a skeleton unexpectedly—a corpse was actually buried in the wall.

Mao Lilan: "..."

Mao Lilan: "..."

Mao Lilan: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

"crunch-"

There was a slight movement of the floor, muffled by her terrified screams.Someone walked gently behind her.

The masked man stared quietly at the high school girl in front of him, and ruthlessly raised the huge hammer in his hand.

……

On the other side, under the wall outside the school gate.

Jiang Xia and Kudo Shinichi chatted for a while with the sword-wielding police officer, trying to get some news from him.

The police officer holding the sword looked at the two young men. It may be that the detective power of these two people was barely qualified. The police officer hesitated for a moment and took out a small notebook from his arms.

"The missing 'Initial Teacher' just mentioned disappeared 30 years ago, and there were indeed no other students who disappeared together.

"However, ten years ago, a female student suddenly disappeared, and she has not been found until now.

"That student is Chihiro Aoyama, and she is also a member of your 'Mysterious Phenomenon Research Association'. When we visited the school, many people said that she became a victim of the 'after school magician'... which is equivalent to nothing. There are no clues—your school is good everywhere, but it is too fond of making up stories, and everything can be made into incredible horror legends."

The police officer holding the sword was muttering and complaining when his cell phone rang suddenly.

He picked up the phone, and after listening to a few words, his expression suddenly changed.

Jiang Xia looked at him, realized something, and looked up to the street.

I saw the police car that had just gone away, suddenly turned around and drove back.

The next second, the sword-wielding police officer clicked and hung up the phone. He looked at the two detectives with an unusually solemn expression: "Another accident happened in the school!"

……

The three hurried to the door of the printing room.

——Just now the sword holding officer received an alarm saying that there was a suspected homicide here.

Just like when the body was found in the "unopened biology classroom" in the morning, there were still students who heard the sound and gathered at the door to watch the excitement.However, compared with that time, it is already school time after all, and there are not many people blocking the door of the printing room.

Jiang Xia had just arrived in the printing room, before he could see the situation clearly, he suddenly felt a figure rushing towards him.

Startled, he raised his hand in front of him.

Then he accurately caught a Suzuki Sonoko who was almost scared off by a headband.

Suzuki Sonoko grabbed his arm, moaning and wiping his eyes: "Xiaolan, Xiaolan..."

"?!" Kudo Shinichi was startled, pushed aside the onlookers blocking the door, and rushed into the printing room.

The originally tidy room was now scattered with messy papers, stained with bright red handprints, as if bloody hands had crawled across it.In the middle of the room, a large amount of paper was piled up, covering a raised object.A human figure can be vaguely seen from that bulge.

Jiang Xia passed Kudo Shinichi, who was stunned at the door, and quickly ran to the side of the protrusion, stared at the long strip for a while, carefully opened one side, and saw Mao Lilan's face.

There was not much blood on the girl's face, and her expression looked very peaceful.The ghosts are obviously quite friendly to her, and they are very virtuous and take the person off the assembly line first, and then beat the model at ease.

"..." Jiang Xia touched Mao Lilan's artery politely.

After a while, he turned his head, met the different gazes of the two classmates, and shook his head slightly: There is no hope.

Just after shaking, Jiang Xia's eyes paused.

——From Kudo Shinichi, several wisps of murderous aura sprang out from him.

"..." Jiang Xia stood up, walked to the neighbor, patted his shoulder hard, and said in a deep voice, "Win this game."

Kudo Shinichi was silent for a long time, then nodded vigorously.

Seeing this passionate scene, Suzuki Sonoko was a little infected.

She wiped away her tears with her sleeve, and stood up again: "We must catch that bastard 'magician'!"

……

Although the death of a companion is heartbreaking.

But this undoubtedly also inspired the detective's fighting spirit.

In just one day, all three were gone.Apart from Haibara Ai and Mori Ran, Hattori Heiji seems to be completely hopeless—he seems to have been assimilated into a passerby in high school because he gave the wrong answer in the reasoning link.

"The cause of death was a concussion caused by a skull fracture, and the amount of bleeding was very small." Jiang Xia walked around the police and brought back some information. Blunt weapon—Although the body was found in the printing room, it looks like a serial murder case of the "Seven Mysteries". However, judging from the murder weapon used and the traces at the scene, the printing room was not the first scene. Transferred here from elsewhere."

Kudo Shinichi is no longer looking murderous, and has regained his sanity.

He nodded: "The intentional use of that murder weapon is probably to reduce the amount of bleeding and facilitate the transfer of the corpse... The murderer has quite a lot of experience."

Chapter 1026 You know too much

"The earliest scene must be in the club activity room!" Suzuki Sonoko tried hard to provide the information he knew.

Before I knew it, it was getting dark.

The only three people left the scene before the police recovered their senses, and hurried to the activity room.

……

Going down to the first floor, Jiang Xia glanced at the computer table, and his eyes stopped on the table: "...the first scene is really here."

— There was a little fresh blood splattered on the table.

Suzuki Sonoko stood beside him, looking down at the table. For some reason, she always felt cold all over, as if being watched by a pair of invisible eyes.

She shuddered, and turned her head to look in fear, trying to dispel this groundless delusion.

Unexpectedly, when he turned around, he really met a pair of eyes hidden in the gap.

"Ahhh!!" Suzuki Sonoko jumped up and pointed out the window, "Yes, there is someone!! There is someone there!"

The eyes by the window quickly left, and the peeping person turned and fled.

However, just after running a few steps, there was a "swipe" sound behind him, and someone jumped out from the window of the activity room.

In a few seconds, a hand was on his shoulder, he swung him in a circle, and slammed him against the nearby wall.

The voyeur slammed into the wall with a "boom", dizzy and forced to stop.

Jiang Xia blocked his way, looked at him for a moment, and recognized him: "... security guard?"

He looked down slightly, and saw that the security guard who was always circling beside them was actually holding an unusually heavy book in his arms——the "30 Years Bound Edition of Journals" that should have been lost.

"This... I picked it up next to the garbage collection point."

The security guard followed Jiang Xia's gaze and looked into his arms.

He was silent for a moment, as if he had made up his mind: "Since you are also members of the 'Society for the Study of Mysterious Phenomena', I will leave this to you!"

He suddenly put the things in his hand into Jiang Xia's hand, and ran away quickly.

The force was too strong and the movement was too sudden, Jiang Xia was shaken by the pile of brick-like books.When he regained consciousness, the security guard had already run away quickly: "..."

"What's going on?" Kudo Shinichi chased after him.

Just as he stood firm, there was a pile of things in Duang's arms.

Jiang Xia handed him the book and patted the dirt on his hands: "The lost bound edition has been found."

Kudo Shinichi looked at the book in his hand, not paying attention to the dust on his clothes, his eyes lit up.

He remembered what Yingshu Liulizi said before - the key to unlocking the "seventh mystery" is in this set of bound journals spanning 30 years.

……

"1987 was a sad year for our Mysterious Phenomenon Research Association. The police tried all means, but they failed to find out the whereabouts of Chihiro Aoyama. The only thing she left behind was this A manuscript written before disappearing."

In the activity room, Jiang Xia followed the precious marks left by Hui Yuanai "before his death" to find information related to the case.

It is difficult for three people to read a book together.

He continued to read the manuscript left by "Qingshan Qianxun": "I launched an investigation to find out the six mysteries of Fudo High School..."

"Six inconceivables?" Suzuki Sonoko leaned next to Jiang Xia, looked at the "six" written in black and white, couldn't help but raised his hand and tapped his forehead, suspecting that he had been too stimulated and his memory was confused, "I thought it was The seven wonders..."

"It is indeed the 'Seventh Great' now, but this is a manuscript from ten years ago." Jiang Xia reminded her, "Era and legends are progressing."

Suzuki Sonoko folded his arms and shuddered: "..." This kind of terrible legend, it's better not to progress...

Next to him, Jiang Xia glanced down at his watch, and continued to read Chihiro Aoyama's manuscript:

"During the investigation, I found a strange thing - 20 years ago, the location where the old school building was located was actually the research institute of 'Takahata Pharmaceutical Company'. I heard that there were six people who disappeared near there. I think... ..."

When the manuscript arrived here, it suddenly stopped.

Jiang Xia pressed her forehead: "..."

... Forget it in life, why is there a group of riddlers in the game.

He was silent for a moment, looking at the pages next to him.

——Although Chihiro Aoyama's "investigation report" only wrote a beginning.But perhaps to make up the numbers, or perhaps out of respect for the deceased, all the materials she collected were copied and stuffed into this issue of the journal of the "Society for the Study of Mysterious Phenomena".

The three of them glanced at a few pages quickly, and a slight ripple suddenly appeared in their vision.

Kudo Shinichi was stunned, and raised his hand to press his eye sockets.

After a while, he suddenly realized that it was not a problem with his eyesight, but that it was time for school to end—the last time, around this time, they were suddenly teleported back home, because "you shouldn't stay in school after school ".

"..." There is almost no time.

Kudo Shinichi thought of something, and turned his head to look at Jiang Xia: "Don't go alone at night, it's too dangerous!"

After a pause, he felt that this was unrealistic - if it were him himself, facing the truth that was close at hand, he would probably not be willing to stay at home overnight and do nothing.