Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 109 Phantom Thief

   Recently, Jiang Xia has received very few cases.

The newspaper ordered by    is still delivered every day, but Jiang Xia has been flipping through it for a long time, but he has not been able to find himself from it. His collection of clippings has also not been updated for several days.

In the end, Jiang Xia could only stop at a slightly familiar page - this page was printed with a photo of a blurry figure under the moonlight. Judging from the title, this was probably after the phantom thief Kidd stole something. Precious images of escape.

   In this world, Kaitou Kid is a bug-like character. His main job is a high school student in an island country who is full of talents, and his part-time job is a phantom thief who looks like the wind under the moonlight, and is very good at magic and disguise.

  Although to the outside world, Kaitou Kid's appearance and age are unknown, but because he is well versed in the way of pretending to be [beep-], he still attracts countless fans with his highly performative and superb techniques.

   In addition, Kidd likes to send a notice to the victim that needs to be decrypted before committing the crime, and his behavior is quite artistic, so reporters especially like to report on him.

Jiang Xia had also seen Kidd several times in the newspapers before, but because the phantom thief seemed to have the effect of resolving murder cases—every time Kidd appeared, there were not many dead people—so Jiang Xia had a general impression of him. If you see it, don't see it, just skip it.

   But this time...

Jiang Xia read the contents of the newspaper, and always felt that this incident might have something to do with him. Judging from the report, Kidd recently issued another notice, which was sent to the chairman of the Suzuki consortium. It was Suzuki Sonoko's father's.

   Kidd's goal is the dark star, the pearl regarded by the Suzuki family as the "Guardian of Suzuki".

   As he was thinking about it, Jiang Xia felt his phone vibrate. He picked up the phone, and Sonoko Suzuki's voice came from the receiver.

   "Have you read the news!" Suzuki Sonoko sounded very excited, "Kid is coming to steal something from our house!"

   Jiang Xia: "..."

   This tone is as happy as the New Year's Day. Those who don't know may think that she is Kidd's assistant, not some family member of the victim...

  Suzuki Sonoko came to invite Jiang Xia to help her catch Kidd.

The ostensible reason for    is to share the pressure for her working old father.

   In fact, she was curious about what the legendary thief Kidd looked like—Jiang Xia was so good at solving the case, maybe he could easily see through Kidd's theft plan and catch Kidd.

And... As a girl who has just passed the second phase of her junior high school and has not yet been fully cured of her second disease, Suzuki Sonoko actually wants to see two handsome guys fighting each other for her (the family's treasure)—yes, the focus of the battle is her, Not the dark stars.

   In addition, Suzuki Sonoko has checked some information before and knows that Kidd never kills people. There are even media reports that Kidd destroyed some upcoming murders and saved many people when he was free.

   And Suzuki Sonoko remembered Jiang Xia saying that he likes to crack tricks.

   She combined the two premises and immediately realized that this meant that in the process of fighting wits and courage with Kidd, Jiang Xia could enjoy solving puzzles without having to encounter those terrible murders, wonderful! Jiang Xia will definitely be very happy.

   So Suzuki Sonoko came to Jiang Xia decisively.

   But Jiang Xia is actually not interested in phantom thieves. In his impression, when Kidd played in the early days, it was basically calm and there was no murder at all.

   Until the back, Kidd's aura gradually couldn't hold back the growing Conan. When he stole, the murder cases increased a little.

The case of    "Dark Stars" has no ghosts from beginning to end.

   However, Jiang Xia pondered for a moment, but still did not refuse Suzuki Sonoko's invitation, trying to create a posture of "Jiang Xia will not refuse anyone who invites him to go out".

   In this way, Suzuki Sonoko can ask him out without worrying about whether Jiang Xia will accept the invitation or not before inviting him, and then remove the items that she thinks Jiang Xia does not like but have murder cases without authorization.

  …

   The day before the theft soon arrived. Jiang Xia found the Rice Flower Museum according to the address sent to him by Suzuki Sonoko.

  The protagonists are not in the hall, and it is said that they went to observe the terrain around.

  Jiang Xia simply said hello to Chairman Suzuki, and then came to the display cabinet in anticipation of "You must be able to defend it!" and looked at the huge black pearl - the dark star.

  In the theory of psychics, some objects that gather human wishes or obsessions contain energy that is called "energy core" by the defunct scholars, which can be used to feed ghosts to upgrade.

  The textbook lists some typical objects with energy nuclei, usually antique utensils, or striking gems.

   A year ago, Jiang Xia just entered this world. After landing, in addition to going to the cemetery hospital to look for ghosts and murderous spirits, he just went around museums or jewelry exhibitions, trying to find energy cores.

   But at that time, just like he couldn't find a ghost, Jiang Xia couldn't find any precious objects with energy either.

   A while ago, as Kudo Shinichi became Conan, Jiang Xia started seeing ghosts again. He went to the museums around the world again, but unfortunately, he still couldn't find the energy core he wanted.

   In the end, Jiang Xia gave up his efforts.

  ——The generation rate of ghosts and shikigami in this world is much higher than what he was used to before. The murderous aura is also very good: after the prisoners are exposed, they will take off their murderous aura obediently and go to the prison. Unlike the previous life, those who refused to admit it, absconded in fear of sin... and even were keen to perish together.

   Therefore, Jiang Xia quickly accepted this fact based on the Buddhist mentality that there are gains and losses.

   But yesterday, after receiving the invitation from Suzuki Sonoko, Jiang Xia had a whim and guessed that the treasures Kidd wanted to steal might be energy cores that he couldn't find anywhere.

   After all, in Jiang Xia's impression, if Conan is the protagonist of this world, then Kidd is definitely the second character with the aura of the protagonist. If one of the two protagonists is in charge of ghosts and murderous aura, and the other is in charge of the energy core used for star promotion... it's actually very reasonable.

   However, after seeing the dark stars up close, Jiang Xia was disappointed - he couldn't feel the energy from above.

  ...this seems to be a fake. And there is no energy nucleus in the entire museum.

The secret expectation failed to come true. Jiang Xia's motivation today was only about 60%, but now it has dropped to 1%. He sighed, and while no one was paying attention to him, he planned to find a place to sit and rest. .

   Just took a few steps, and suddenly three people entered the door. Jiang Xia glanced up, and unsurprisingly saw Mao Lilan, Suzuki Sonoko, and Conan—Maolilan and Suzuki Sonoko's best friends are more in love than Jin, and Conan's viscosity is also stronger than Jin.

   (end of this chapter)