Conan's Corpse Picker

But not today.

Today, Kogoro Mori is better off taking other avenues.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xia turned her eyes slightly, and landed on the short-haired woman next to the public phone.

On the woman's forehead is a black wide-brimmed headband, which is included in Yoko Kinoshita's commemorative album, which was released just yesterday.

The short-haired woman—that is, Qingdao Quandai—made several phone calls before finally getting through.

She showed a joyful expression, but just after listening to a sentence, she realized that she had been dove.

Then he was furious: "I can't come with a cold?! There's no rest for such a minor illness! You don't think it's easy to get tickets for the concert, do you? I don't care, you come to pick me up and my sister right away!"

What responded to her was the sound of "beep--" and "beep--" when the other party disconnected the phone.

Qingdao Quandai's face was extremely ugly, and she slammed the receiver back onto the landline with a bang.

There are not many customers in this store, and the store is not too big.And because Jiang Xia has been looking over there, the three people sitting with him unconsciously paid a little attention to the whole generation of Qingdao.

Mori Kogoro's eyes lit up when he heard the conversation that Qingdao Zendai just had.Keenly captured the two key words "concert tickets" and "can't come".

He immediately realized that he had a ticket.

Mori Kogoro stood up and hurried to the side of Qingdao Quandai, wanting to buy the extra ticket.

Qingdao Quandai squeezed his chin and thought for a moment, then suddenly pursed his lips and smiled: "You don't need to buy the ticket, you can just use it, anyway, it's a waste for me to keep it. But, you have to do me a favor..."

……

The "help" proposed by Qingdao Quandai refers to asking Mori Kogoro to send her to her sister, and then drive the two sisters back to the concert.

Mori Kogoro readily agreed, feeling deeply that he had earned it.

After getting in the car, he lit the ignition, and habitually glanced at the rearview mirror, and suddenly found that there was an extra person in the back seat.

Mori Kogoro turned his head and looked at Jiang Xia suspiciously: "Why are you following? You lost your ticket too?"

With the straw in his mouth, Jiang Xia perfunctorily began to come up with excuses. Kogoro Mori in his normal state is very easy to fool, just say something casually.

But before he could speak, Mao Lilan next to her suddenly raised her hand and pressed her father's face, pushing Mao Li Kogoro's head back to its normal position: "Isn't it better this way, there are so many people."

...Jiang Xia must have suddenly realized the beauty of being with friends after meeting them, and didn't want to go to the concert alone, so she plucked up the courage to follow them uninvited, but Dad The meaning in the words was to ask Jiang Xia to get off the car... that's too much!

Thinking of this, Mao Lilan snorted, folded his arms and said non-negotiably: "There is enough space in the back seat—Conan doesn't take up space. When that Miss Qingdao gets on the bus, if there are really not enough seats, I can still hug her." with him."

Jiang Xia caught a glimpse of Conan froze from the corner of his eye.

Then he saw this unruly elementary school student blushing silently, and at the same time Conan turned his face, and secretly cast Jiang Xia's gratitude of "you are really a talent" + a learned look.

Jiang Xia: "..." You have lsp eyes, so everyone is an lsp.

Conan failed to understand Jiang Xia's meaning.He withdrew his gaze, leaned back on his seat shyly and expectantly, and began to imagine a bright future.

……

Qingdao Quandai sat in the passenger seat. On the way, she chatted with several people very talkatively.

She cleverly brought the topic to her younger sister, saying that her younger sister was getting married soon, but she was in a bad mood.That's why she got tickets and wanted to invite her sister and brother-in-law to the concert.It's just that tonight, when the appointed time came, my sister never showed up and couldn't be contacted. She was a little worried and planned to go home to pick up her sister.

Mori Kogoro is not interested in the short stories of these parents.He glanced at Qingdao Quandai's headband: "I've always wanted to ask, is that on your head..."

"It's a gift from the album released yesterday. In addition to this, I also gave a keychain of the same style." Quandai Qingdao pointed to the headband, which had "yoko-" printed on it.

After finishing speaking, she was a little strange: "You don't have any?" Since I can get Miss Yoko's concert tickets, I should be able to buy yesterday's album, why...

Mori Kogoro sighed: "I was almost able to buy it, but I met a client who was a bit talkative halfway, which delayed the time. That kid would not buy it—"

As he said that, he pointed to Jiang Xia in the back row: "He used to help Miss Yoko, and he went to the 'Perspective Detective Agency' with Miss Yoko, and they had a good relationship, so his albums were sent directly by Yoko. There are no gifts." In Mori Kogoro's words, there was a bit of pride and showing off of "My acquaintance knows Miss Yoko!".

He originally thought that, as a fan of Yoko Kinoshita, Qingdao Quandai would look envious and even scream when he heard this.

In fact, Qingdao Quandai's reaction was even more exaggerated than he expected—she froze in place, the key ring in her hand clicked and fell on the armrest box, and slid along the box cover to the ground in the back row.

Chapter 116 All this is too heavy for Jiang Xia

Jiang Xia caught the keychain and handed it to Qingdao Quandai.

Miyano Akemi lay on Jiang Xia's wrist, and let out a very unfriendly breath towards this woman. Jiang Xia remembered that this was a trendy language she had recently learned from a client's cat.

When the whole generation of Qingdao saw Jiang Xia, they flinched indistinctly.

But she soon realized her gaffe, raised her hand again, and took the keychain from Jiang Xia with a dry smile: "I didn't expect Miss Yoko's acquaintance to be by my side—this feeling is so amazing, it's like It’s like Miss Yoko also reduced the dimension to be next to me, I was so surprised, I was a little scared, hahaha.”

Then she leaned back in her seat and fell silent.

Qingdao Quandai insisted that someone accompany her to pick up her sister because she killed her sister last night and disguised the scene as a secret room to commit suicide.

And in order to achieve the best exoneration effect, she needs someone to discover the body at the same time as her.

Originally, the discoverer selected by the whole generation of Qingdao was her "brother-in-law-to-be" and also her ex-boyfriend.But she didn't expect that the other party suddenly caught a cold and rejected her invitation.She was anxious, and Kogoro Mori came over to talk to her.

At that time, the whole generation of Qingdao only felt that they were very lucky, and immediately accepted these tools of exoneration that were delivered to their door.

Mori Kogoro, who can lose tickets, must have a careless personality, and he will not find her flaws.As for the other three... At that time, the whole generation of Qingdao looked far away and found that they were two people of high school age and a child, so they didn't take it to heart—students are usually very naive, so don't worry about being exposed by them .

When they first got in the car, because they were closer than before, Qingdao Quandai looked at Jiang Xia who was sitting in the back, and felt vaguely familiar.

But at that time, the light in the car was a bit dim, and they couldn't see clearly. Qingdao Quandai still didn't think much about it, only thought that Jiang Xia bumped into some male star.

But now, combined with the "perspective detective agency" that Mori Kogoro said, the whole generation of Qingdao understood everything in an instant—she had never seen a similar face in a star magazine, but had seen Jiang Xia himself!

... This turned out to be the famous detective who solved the case very quickly.

Also, just now Kogoro Mori seemed to say that he was almost able to buy Yoko's album, but met a "client" halfway.

client...

The whole generation of Qingdao was sweating profusely.

That being said, the uncle next to him is probably also a detective by profession.

...Invite "witnesses" casually, even if you accidentally invite detectives, but there are only two of them...Qingdao Quandai's eyes were dark, and for a moment, she wanted to pass out and be sent to the hospital , to escape reality.

It's a pity that the body can't be kept for long.If you miss today, it will only be more difficult in the future.

Besides, who said that detectives would be able to see through her plan?Her plan is very ingenious, completely different from other stupid prisoners who have been caught, as long as you stay steady and don't panic, it will succeed!

The whole generation of Qingdao secretly clenched their fists to cheer themselves up.

……

The car stopped at the door of Qingdao's house in a strange atmosphere.

This is a single house.Qingdao Quandai was a little relieved at this time, she welcomed the four of them into the house, let them sit in the living room, and trotted away on the pretext of looking for her sister.

Jiang Xia entered the living room and looked around casually.There are posters plastered in all directions, even on the ceiling.The album photos in the cabinet are in pairs, and there are some creased cardboard boxes next to them, which looks very lifelike.

He meandered around, telling others that he had collected clues.

Finally, when Jiang Xia stopped by the coffee table, there was a sudden scream from the corridor outside, and the sound of hammering on the bathroom door.

The whole generation of Qingdao anxiously shouted: "Meicai, open the door! I know you are inside, open the door quickly!" As they spoke, they began to cry.

This kind of emotional change was originally in Qingdao Quandai's script, but at this time, when she thought of the two detectives who were close at hand, and herself who had to fight the famous detective, she couldn't help crying. A little real feeling.

The other three people reacted quickly to the change. When Jiang Xia turned his head from the coffee table, Mao Li and his daughter and Conan had already rushed to the bathroom following the sound.

Jiang Xia also followed quickly.

When he arrived at the bathroom door, he saw Qingdao Quandai twisting the doorknob vigorously and tugging at the door.

The frosted door swayed slightly, but it could not be opened. It seemed to be stuck by tape from the inside—through the frosted glass, it could be seen that there were many light yellow tapes on the four sides of the door. It seemed that they not only The gap was firmly blocked, and the door was also glued together.

At the same time, a few large characters were taped in the middle of the glass door—Farewell.

Mori Kogoro was shocked: "What's going on?"

Qingdao Quandai wiped away tears: "I couldn't find Meicai anywhere, and later I found that the bathroom door was the wrong color, and when I took a closer look, I saw this... She must have taped the door to death from the inside, I called Do not open the door..."

Mori Kogoro looked at the helpless woman in front of him with pear blossoms and rain, comforted her not to worry, and proposed to knock the door open together.

Qingdao Quandai leaned against the door lock, nodded vigorously, and a smile that was about to succeed appeared on the corner of his lips covered by his hands.

But within a second of laughing, a hand suddenly stretched out from the slanting stab.Jiang Xia flicked her aside, revealing the doorknob she was blocking behind.Hold the doorknob and twist and push.

With a creak, the "closed door" slid open a gap lightly.

Jiang Xia continued to push the door open, and at the same time looked at the door frame in a procedural way: "It's not attached firmly, it seems that the person who pasted it just put tape on the door, and then closed the door... This is a fake secret room .”

Qingdao Quandai's smile froze on his face.

The only luck is that no one noticed her at this time.

——As the bathroom door slid open, the scene inside was completely presented to everyone.There was a puddle of blood in the bathtub, and a long-haired woman was kneeling beside the bathtub, her left hand was limply hanging in the water, and her right hand was holding a bloody knife, she seemed to be dead.

Mao Lilan and Conan were startled, and suddenly had a strong sense of déjà vu, and they turned their heads to look at Jiang Xia in unison.

Jiang Xia didn't notice the look in the eyes of the two. He saw Mori Kogoro rushing into the bathroom, so he took out his mobile phone to keep up, planning to call the police when Mori Kogoro said sadly, "He's dead" to save time.

But just after taking a step, Mao Lilan, who was frozen beside him, suddenly trembled.She raised her hand with lightning speed, turned around, and rushed Jiang Xia from the door to the outside of the house like a gust of wind, and then pushed him against the wall on the same side.From here, there is absolutely no view into the bathroom.

"..." Jiang Xia put down the hand that was almost hit by conditioned reflex, looked at Mao Lilan, a little puzzled.The way of this domineering president...was it taken away by Suzuki Sonoko in the second term? "What's wrong."

Mao Lilan looked very nervous, and whispered: "Don't...don't look."

Conan also looked solemn: "Leave this matter to us."

Mao Lilan nodded subconsciously following his words.

After clicking, she suddenly felt that something was wrong, she looked down at Conan suspiciously, and asked suspiciously, "Why are you..."

Chapter 117 The Law of Mood Conservation

Mao Lilan had seen the scene of suicide in the bathroom of Qingdao's home a year ago.It's just that at that time, it was Jiang Xia who was soaking beside the bathtub.

She pushed Jiang Xia out suddenly just now, and she was also worried that this similar situation would trigger some kind of self-destruct button deep in Jiang Xia's memory... But why did Conan react the same as her?

At that time, only Shinichi, her, and the doctor were the only ones who saw Jiang Xia.And Conan should be just an elementary school student who appeared in Mihua Town not long ago...

Mao Lilan's gaze gradually became sharper.

Jiang Xia looked at her expression, and always felt that there should be a trace of murderous intent here, but unfortunately he couldn't find it.

Conan was just a little drifting just now, but his IQ is still online.He immediately realized his mistake.