Conan’s Corpse Picker

  Chapter 212 On how to be invincible

After    came to the river bank above the waterfall, Jiangxia and Hattori Heiji pulled the rope and pulled the body to the river bank.

One end of the    hemp rope was wrapped around the neck of the corpse, and the other end was connected to a wooden stake, which was firmly nailed to the river bank.

   Jiang Xia placed the body by the river, and Conan immediately approached. The three looked at the rope around Umihara's neck.

  The hemp rope was twisted several times and piled up in a mess. The knots were so messy that it was difficult to tell whether it was naturally formed or artificially knotted.

   But in any case, the location and time of Naomi Umihara's drop were too coincidental. Moreover, although the current of this river is turbulent, it does not seem to be so fast that it can rush people around so many times in a short period of time.

   Therefore, Conan and Hattori Heiji are still more inclined, this is a murder case.

   Jiang Xia looked at the corpse on the ground without speaking. After all, it was the mermaid who caused the accident. And the mermaid is not a human, the death caused by it indirectly can only be regarded as an accident when rounded up...

   Hattori Heiji wondered: "Since Miss Umihara has drawn the arrow, why didn't she lead the arrow, instead she insisted on running into the woods at this time?"

   A strange voice sounded from the side: "It's for the mermaid tomb."

   Jiang Xia looked at the sound and saw a short-haired woman with a mushroom head. This person's name was Heijiang Nao, who was the "lucky one" who had just drawn the dugong arrow.

   is also one of three people who set fire to the shrine warehouse three years ago.

Heijiang Nao clenched the divine arrow in his hand: "Nami must be waiting for the arrow under the waterfall, misunderstanding the wind and grass as a reminder to her from the mermaid, so she broke into the mountain... She was too impatient, at least she should Wait until you get the dugong arrow before taking action."

The "mermaid tomb" in    caught the attention of two detectives.

  —they remember that on the boat that came here, Menresa Ori mentioned the word, but she didn’t go into detail at that time.

  …

   Heijiang Nao didn't know that the person they burned to death in the warehouse three years ago was actually a human.

  So, like the other two companions, she was convinced that the charred bones found in the warehouse at that time were the flesh and blood of the mermaid.

   When she devoutly gave the tombs of the merman to several outsiders, Jiang Xia pretended to listen and looked at the dugong arrow in the hands of Heijiang Nao.

  It's getting cold, this arrow should be broken.

  …

   It was getting late, and after observing the situation at the scene, several people returned to the bottom of the waterfall with the corpse.

  Toyama Kazuha, Maurilan and Suzuki Sonoko were frightened by the "mermaid" hanging from the waterfall just now and did not keep up with the mountain. After regaining their senses, the three immediately called the police and tried to help - they were very skilled at doing this kind of thing.

   However, there is no police station on Mermaid Island, and the wind and waves on the sea are just too strong. It will take some time for the police to come.

   Jiang Xia handed over the removed body to the islanders, and returned to the hotel with a few classmates.

   He was going back to the house to rest. However, after entering the room, before closing the door, several other people had already squeezed in naturally.

   Jiang Xia: "?"

"Since the police can't arrive for the time being, then this matter can only be resolved by us first." Hattori Heiji pulled a stool and sat down, straightening the baseball cap he was wearing crookedly, "I always have a bad feeling. Premonition - this incident may not be over yet."

   Jiang Xia: "…Hmm."

   Then your intuition is pretty accurate...

  Conan hugged the earmuffs and sat down beside him.

He feels that recently, Jiang Xia's speed of solving cases has become normal. Although it is still a lot faster than other detectives, it is no longer as scary as the scanner before. Maybe it is a bottleneck period... It is hard to imagine Jiang Xia breaking through the bottleneck. look.

In this incident, Conan and Hattori Heiji had the same hunch, and the two quickly reached a consensus - in this special period, it is best to pull Jiang Xia, the three of them work together to discuss, and break the case as soon as possible, so as not to appear more victims.

   As for why you need to hold earmuffs when discussing... When you put the two keywords "Jiangxia" and "solving a case" together, earmuffs can make Conan feel more secure and make his thinking smoother.

   And Conan quickly found out that he was not alone - he just saw Hattori Heiji's hand also turned to the pocket where the earmuffs were placed, but he quickly put it down again.

   Hattori Heiji and Conan's mental journey are similar.

  —On this island with intermittent signals, he couldn’t play with his mobile phone, couldn’t buy the latest mystery novel, and he didn’t even bring homework, so he had a lot of time to think about life.

  So thinking about it, Hattori Heiji suddenly realized that for the time being, he couldn't beat Jiang Xia in reasoning. No matter how many times he tried, the result would be the same.

Since this is the case, it is better not to compare from the beginning, to solve the case with confidence and boldness, and treat Jiang Xia as a reference book that is placed next to him and announces the answers from time to time. As long as he does not take the initiative to establish a competitor for himself, no one can defeat him. .

   Moreover, to put it further, it is not suitable for a competition like solving a case.

   There is only one truth in the end, that is to say, what matters is not who solved the case, but the training he got in the process of solving the case...

  Thinking like this, Hattori Heiji firmly moved his hand away from his pocket, trying to take out the earmuffs.

  …

  If the accident factor is excluded, and the death of Umihara Nami is regarded as a murder case, in addition to the investigation of the traces at the scene, it is undoubtedly a key point to understand the reason why she ran to the mountain at that time.

   In this regard, the most obvious clues are only the Mermaid Festival and the "mermaid tomb" mentioned by Nao Heijiang.

  Especially the tomb of the mermaid - there are not many reports on this matter from the outside world, only the "merman bones in the warehouse" mentioned by Heijiang Nao can be found.

Even on Mermaid Island, there is not much information about it. Most of the islanders only know that there is such a tomb in the mountain, but they don't know the specific location of the cemetery. It is said that only Mingxiang and someone she trusts know where the tomb is hidden. .

   So this matter, we can only ask more about it on the island.

  Today is too late, even if the door is knocked hard, the islanders are disturbed to rest, and may not provide useful clues, it is best to go tomorrow.

   (end of this chapter)