Conan's Corpse Picker

……

Akai Hideichi recalled the email sent by Okiya Subaru just now, and comforted him:

"Have you ever thought that there is actually another situation - the case just now had nothing to do with Uzo, it was just an ordinary murder case.

"I remember that when you registered the information about the 'Witness Protection Program', you said that you have no friends, and the few close friends who were rare were unfortunately involved in the murder case... Thinking about the bright side, you may have a little bit of incident physique, today The matter is actually your own problem.

"As for the key words mentioned by the murderer. The rent of your apartment is high, and it's normal for the tenant to be related to 'overseas'. In addition, 'lost job' is one of the common reasons for anger..."

As he spoke, Akai Shuichi's voice lowered slightly.

... He also felt that this case was really a coincidence.

But it is undeniable that there is such a possibility.

Akai Hideichi sighed, stopped worrying about the probability, and talked about the business: "I just found out some information about that witch, and I need to verify it as soon as possible, so I can't stay here any longer."

Okiya Subaru replied calmly, "...that's it."

Akai Hideichi heard the despair in his voice, and remembered the topic of "wolf is coming" just now, and then thought about the fact that the opponent was Uzo, who was unusual no matter what he thought...

So he added:

"If there is a similar situation again, you can still come to me without any scruples.

"However, it's not an option to continue like this. If you are really worried, you might as well take advantage of the chaos and move to a place with fewer acquaintances.

"In this way, even if Uzo wants to involve you in a murder case, he will lack enough material-although you still have the chance of being killed as a 'passerby' or 'cannon fodder', such a role on the edge of the stage , the degree of freedom is obviously higher, which is better than being directly targeted.”

Okiya Subaru: "..." You and Uzo seem to have a good brain circuit, so it's very vivid, and you immediately understand the advantages of moving...

Okiya Subaru thought carefully about this proposal.

Chapter 1117 Uzo visits the door

However, while thinking about it, Okiya Subaru looked around at the "safety fortress" he had carefully arranged these days, and then thought about the experience of being questioned by Police Officer Sato and almost being taken away as a suspect...

Although he believes in Akai Shuichi, Okiya Subaru is a top student after all, and occasionally has his own judgment.

He rationally refused, "I'm here, but I don't really have any acquaintances. I'm more familiar with the terrain in this area, I know where there are potential dangers nearby, and I've ruled out some dangers.

"On the contrary, if you really move to a strange place, Wu Zuo really needs to adapt to the new stage, but at the same time, I also have to adapt to the new environment. I... well, I dare not bet that my adaptation speed will be faster than him."

While listening to the phone, Akai Hideichi looked around Okiya Subaru's house through the scope, and suddenly found that this engineering graduate student with strong hands-on ability had secretly managed a lot of hidden emergency mechanisms.

... If Okiya Subaru hadn't mentioned this, he really couldn't have noticed it at a glance just now.

Thinking of this, Akai Shuichi thought to himself: Since he didn't notice, maybe Uzo would accidentally fall on it?

"Alright. Then you can stay."

Since this temporary teammate had his own ideas, Akai Hideichi did not interfere with Okiya Subaru's choice: "I will continue to let my colleagues stare at this side. You should remember the four photos I showed you before— —They work in pairs, rotate every 6 hours, and will pick you up when necessary.”

After hearing these arrangements, Okiya Subaru had a little more confidence in the FBI.

He repeatedly confirmed that the responders had a good temper, had no conflicts with each other, were in a healthy state of mind, and had not been spoken to by strange curly-haired men in black.

Afterwards, Okiya Subaru reluctantly added Akai Hideichi's teammate to his alternative escape plan.

……

After discussing the situation, Okiya Subaru breathed a sigh of relief, and leaned against the back of the chair with some relief.

Just about to hang up the phone, but at this moment, he suddenly heard a soft "boom" from the direction of the door.

...like someone knocking on the door.

Okiya Subaru: "...??"

Suddenly Akai Shuichi's words "According to Uzo's style, he should knock on the door directly" just now flashed through his mind, and he felt goosebumps silently.

Okiya Subaru: "..." It can't be that Uzo is really here.

No, no, there was just a sound just now, maybe some debris fell into the corridor and was blown by the wind and hit the door, so...

"dong dong"

"dong dong dong"

The knocking sound sounded again, clearer than the first time, and with a very clear interval - no matter how it sounded, it was not an accidental impact, but someone was seriously knocking on the door.

"..."

The luck in Okiya Subaru's heart was shattered by Kacha.

His mind was blank for a moment, and when he came back to his senses, he had already leaned over behind the boss chair, covered himself with the wide steel core back, and at the same time drew out the gun hidden under the table, clicked it into the chamber, and aimed at the boss. by the door.

"Who?"

Okiya Subaru kept his voice steady and shouted from afar.

There was a slight pause in the knocking sound.After a while, it rang again, but the man didn't answer, just continued to knock on the door as if nothing had happened.

Okiya Subaru's scalp went numb when he heard the regular slapping sound, and for a moment he almost suspected that he had time-traveled into a horror movie.

However, in the face of a crisis, it is useless to blindly escape.

He carefully dodged to the door, listened carefully for a moment, and looked out through the cat's eyes.

There was no one in the hallway or outside.

Almost at the same time, a gust of wind passed by his feet, followed by something patting his leg.

"!!"

Okiya Subaru lowered his head suddenly, saw the situation on the ground clearly, and suddenly froze.

——There is no terrible intruder within sight.

Only one cat came in through the cat hole at the bottom of the gate.It pressed a gray mark on Okiya Subaru's clean trousers. He was standing at the entrance, looking around at his room, as if he was inspecting his territory.

This cat is completely black, with only four white paws. It is half-sized and looks like a vigorous cat in the period of youth and growth.

Okiya Subaru looked at the familiar cat, feeling very complicated for a moment: "..."

The cat hole at the bottom of the gate was specially made when he wanted to raise a cat.

But later, the hole was opened, but the cat ran away from home and never came back.After seeing each other again, Okiya Subaru saw this black cloud treading snow cat lying in Uzuo's arms, looking like a dog licking a dog, which was heartbreaking.

Later, Okiya Subaru kept the cat hole for a while without giving up.It wasn't until "Okiya Subaru" came into contact with Uzo a few days ago that for safety's sake, Okiya Subaru reluctantly locked the hole... Who knew that the cat still came in.

Okiya Subaru squatted down and checked the door opening with some fear. It was difficult to determine whether he had forgotten to lock it, or if the clever cat managed to open it.

After a while, he turned his head to look at the black cloud treading snow cat, stretched out and retracted the hand beside him, retracted and stretched out, and heaven and man were at war in his heart.

—While the uzzo is scary, the cat is innocent.

In the past, when he didn't know that it was Uzo's cat, Okiya Subaru also experienced a few days of carefree cat raising.

But on the other hand, at this juncture where Uzo was staring at him, Okiya Subaru was worried that if he did something about these "Uzo-related elements", it would make the bad situation even worse. wonderful.

……

Okiya Subaru put away his gun and lowered his head to figure out the purpose of Uzomao's appearance.

In the distance, Akai Hideo outside couldn't see clearly what was going on inside the house.But he heard an abnormal movement through his mobile phone, and immediately realized that something was wrong.

Akai Shuichi's eyes silently became sharper.He didn't ask "what's the matter" hastily, but he didn't hang up the phone, but listened to the situation on the other side with bated breath, and the sniper rifle in his hand was locked on the window of Subaru Okiya's apartment again.

Akai Shuichi: "..." He has locked the area around the apartment. Just now, he confirmed that no one could sneak in.

If there really was Uzuo's minion, did that person ambush in the apartment beforehand, or did he sneak in with the police team just now, and then didn't leave?

……

Inside the house, Okiya Subaru walked around the cat for a while.

After a while, he remembered something, picked up the detector next to him, carefully squatted down, and slowly approached the black cloud treading snow cat.

The cat glanced at his instrument, and looked away as if not very interested.

Okiya Subaru glanced at the phone again, and found that there was no message from Uzo, so he quickly checked the cat around to make sure that Uzo didn't frantically equip the cat with a bug.

After checking, Okiya Subaru breathed a sigh of relief, and brought the phone to his ear again.

He said in a low voice, "Just now I heard something knock on the door, and then I found out... that Uzo's cat came to my house."

Chapter 1118

Okiya Subaru thought to himself: The fact that Uzo's cat is here probably means that Uzo is here.

——This also means that the case just now was not a coincidence.

……

Akai Shuichi didn't have that many thoughts.

On the contrary, he felt that since Uzo had said that he would condone his subordinates' "secrets", the chances of Uzuo immediately attacking "Okiya Subaru" were actually not high - there are plenty of opportunities for ruthless cadres who want to kill their subordinates.Compared with this, Akai Shuichi was more worried that when he was not around, Uzo suddenly came to interview, and then found some fatal problems from Okiya Subaru's abnormality.

So at this time, Akai Shuichi calmly proposed another possibility:

"I remember that you raised it for a few days before, maybe it was at that time that the cat recognized the door of the house-in fact, when I was watching people outside for a while, I occasionally saw cats of similar colors passing by from a distance and entering various places. Every family visits, especially near Mihua Town and Cupo Town, and you can often see it haunting.

"Thinking about it, it might just pass by your house and go in for a walk.

"In addition, it is also possible that it is not Wu Zuo's cat at all, but it just happens to have the same coat color--cats have a strong reproductive ability, and they reproduce from litter to litter. In an area, there will always be many cats with similar coat color. "

Moreover, Akai Shuichi thought to himself: No matter what, it's just a cat.

If it is a dog, it is possible to receive certain training and go to Okiya Subaru's house with a certain purpose.

But the cat... Even Uzo, he must not have trained cats to this level—that man is an organized crime planner and a killer with insight into people's hearts, not an animal breeder, let alone a circus animal trainer division.

Rather than panicking over a "Uzo's cat", Akai Shuichi thought more about how to take the opportunity to install a transmitter on the cat and follow along to Uzo's lair.

"..." It's a pity that since Wu Zuo dared to keep pets, he probably wouldn't make such a simple mistake.

Moreover, it is now at a critical period when the secret of "Okiya Subaru" is exposed and is being watched by Uzo.At this time, whether it is for Akai Shuichi or Okiya Subaru, it is the best choice to settle down temporarily.

Akai Hideichi rubbed the handle of the gun, regretfully suppressing this thought.

……

In the distant apartment.