Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 129 Who are the people in Tokyo?

   Hattori Heiji is looking forward to the next competition.

   However, when he came to the door of Jiang Xia's office, what he saw was a "closed" sign and a person who was locking the door.

  Toru Amuro sensed that someone was approaching, he turned around, looked at Hattori Heiji, and stopped the movement of his hands.

   Hattori Heiji also looked at Amuro Toru, and soon, he realized that this foreigner was definitely not Jiang Xia. But since they are in the same office, the two should know each other.

   Hattori Heiji stepped forward: "That detective named Jiang Xia works part-time here? When is he usually there?"

  An Shitou looked at him and pointed to the registration book hanging by Jiang Xia next to the gate: "There is no fixed working time. If you have an appointment, you can fill in the form first, and he will pick it up when he is free."

   "Is that so..." Hattori Heiji touched his chin with interest, and suddenly asked, "What about Kudo Shinichi?"

   Amuro Toru: "...?" Who?

   "I've actually been thinking about whether it was Jiang Xia who solved those incidents, or the 'missing' Kudo Shinichi." Hattori Heiji said directly:

"I checked your office, and although you put a lot of advertisements at the beginning of the establishment, but it has not been effective. Until a while ago, Kudo Shinichi disappeared, and it became famous here... You don't think it's too coincidental. Yet."

   As he said, he looked at Amuro Toru carefully, trying to see the flaws in the employees of this detective agency, but he saw that the other party had a confused expression of "What the **** are you talking about?" from beginning to end.

   Hattori Heiji snorted in his heart. Really good at acting, no flaws can be seen at all, as expected of someone who is in the same office as Kudo and Jiang Xia: "Then I'll say it straight - is Kudo Shinichi hiding with you and secretly instructing Jiang Xia to solve the case? "

   Amuro frowned. These words reminded him of the "Kudou Shinichi Theory of Possession" that had prevailed a while ago, this kind of arrogant remarks that trampled science underfoot...

  Amuro's impression of Hattori Heiji immediately dropped by 50 percentage points.

But he thought about it: Hattori Heiji did not mention the ghost, but explained it from a more scientific point of view, although this explanation is also ridiculous... Thinking of this, his impression of Hattori Heiji reluctantly increased by 3. percent.

"You mean to say that Jiang Xia solved the case by cheating?" Toru Amuro turned to look at Hattori Heiji, and said with a kind expression, "Since you came here specially for this matter, you should have collected information beforehand - as long as After reading the report, you should know that Jiang Xia and Kudo Shinichi have completely different styles of solving cases.

"You will come up with the funny idea of ​​'Kudou Shinichizang solved the case behind Jiang Xia', which should be misled by the media. It's good for young people to be active, but they should always be assertive. It's not good to be so easily disturbed. Having said that, I think you look familiar—you're that high school detective in Osaka, Hattori Heiji?"

   Hattori Heiji was startled.

   was originally called "funny" by others, and he planned to refute it, but when he heard the last sentence, his mood suddenly changed.

   Hattori Heiji pressed the brim of his hat with a deep expression: "You know me?" This is probably the sweet trouble of being a celebrity. If you want to argue, you are afraid of meeting fans suddenly...

"Well, I'm quite impressed." Toru Amuro nodded, "We made newspaper clippings from other detectives' cases for study and reference, but you were the only one in it, which was pitch black every time, so we had to find your color photos... ... It's really inconvenient that the case report is only in black and white."

   Hattori: "...?"

   When you talk, you talk, why suddenly raise your skin color? ? and……

   He said angrily in disbelief: "You are also worthy of mocking me?? If you were in the newspaper, you would definitely be a mess!"

   Amuro Toru suddenly raised his hand towards him.

   Hattori Heiji was startled and flashed to the side. But soon, he realized that Amuro was not trying to attack him - the hand stopped in front of him.

   When the two hands were placed together, the color difference that was not obvious at first suddenly became clear.

  Amuro glanced over: "Look, I'm actually a bit whiter than you."

Hattori Heiji:"……"

   The corners of his eyes twitched, and he suddenly came back to his senses, realizing that the topic was too skewed: "Wait, I'm asking you Jiang Xia and Kudo Shinichi, what does it have to do with my skin color?!"

   "It doesn't matter, it's just a sudden, unprovoked association -- like you somehow put together two unrelated detectives."

After bullying the junior, Amuro put down his hands in a good mood: "For us, solving a case is not a game, it is a job that needs to be taken seriously. I hope you don't disturb our daily life with the fun of playing games or deciding whether to win or lose... Anyway, don't come again."

   After saying that, Amuro locked the door with a click and left.

   Hattori Heiji glanced at his fast-moving back, and then glanced at the closed office door: "..."

  ...Tokyo detectives are so unfriendly.

He traveled a long way, and he didn't see Jiang Xia or Kudo Shinichi. He didn't ask anything, and was ridiculed inexplicably... At the same time that Hattori Heiji's impression of Tokyo was -1, -1, -1, Unwilling to fight also ignited.

   He came here today to find the famous detective in the East to have a showdown.

   As for whether "the high school student detective of the East" refers to Jiang Xia or Kudo Shinichi, to be honest, Hattori Heiji has no idea.

   Jiang Xia and Kudo Shinichi's case-solving styles are indeed very different, as some critics have said - unlike Kudo Shinichi, who likes to sell secrets, Jiang Xia always solves cases very quickly, as concise as he is reading an outline.

   However, Hattori Heiji felt that this difference may be evidence that Kudo Shinichi secretly gave Jiang Xia advice.

   How can a normal person solve the case so quickly and accurately every time.

   But if someone told Jiang Xia the truth of the case in advance, and Jiang Xia came out with a reasoning conclusion, then his speed of solving the case and the order of narration would make perfect sense.

  ... But this is just a guess after all, maybe Jiang Xia is really the kind of genius in solving crimes.

   In short, Hattori Heiji intends to rely on his reasoning ability to figure out how Jiang Xia solved the case.

   Currently, among the two key figures, Kudo Shinichi is missing.

   And the office to which Jiang Xia belongs is clearly registered in the newspaper-every time Jiang Xia solves a case, he must mention the office's address. When Hattori Heiji was gathering information, he thought it would take a long time to find Jiang Xia's location by flipping through a pile of newspapers, but he didn't expect that any one he picked up would have the information in bold.

   Therefore, he came to Jiangxia first, intending to explore the truth.

  If the person who solved the case is really Jiang Xia, then come to Jiang Xia for a test.

   If Kudo Shinichi hides behind his back to solve the case, then pull Kudo Shinichi out for a comparison.

   However, there is a big gap between ideal and reality - Jiang Xia is not in the office at all, and there is no address of his home in the newspaper.

   As for asking others... Hattori Heiji recalled the experience just now and sighed tiredly. The employees here are very angry, and they are very difficult to talk. It is no wonder that there are so many advertisements before and no customers come to the door.

   Hattori Heiji was disappointed for a while at the closed office door, and quickly cheered up again.

   Fortunately, in addition to Jiang Xia, he has another clue related to Kudo Shinichi - Kudo Shinichi seems to have a girlfriend.

  Thinking of this, Hattori Heiji picked up his luggage and embarked on the journey again without admitting defeat.

   (end of this chapter)