Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 225 This detective shows his back, why not...

   After confirming the situation on the fourth floor, Jiang Xia went to the room where Naoki Uemura was, ready to pick up the cat.

   Of course, he also wants to be murderous.

   While Jiang Xia was going upstairs, three high school students were running wildly on the road with their own thoughts. Their goal was also this apartment.

  The three are Maurilan, Hiramatsu Quantum dragged by Maurilan as a guide, and Conan who is in a complicated mood.

  Hiramatsu Quantum is a student of Rice Flower High School. She has a good relationship with Akagi Hero and often helps Akagi Hero take care of her younger brother. Today, she is also the first to discover that Akagi's younger brother was "kidnapped".

  Because of the threat of kidnappers, Hiramatsu Quantum did not dare to call the police and find a detective.

   But she also didn't want to watch Akagi hero play match-fixing, so she wanted to secretly find a detective of a similar age to help, pretending that he was just a friend, so that it would not easily attract the attention of the kidnappers.

   Speaking of high school detectives, Hiramatsu Quantum immediately thought of Jiang Xia, who has recently appeared in newspapers and occasionally on TV.

But soon, she crossed this option again - Jiang Xia's recent exposure is too high, in case the kidnappers recognize Jiang Xia as a detective, do not listen to her "just a friend" explanation, and tear up brother Akagi, everything will be over. .

  Hiramatsu Quantum soon had another idea - when it comes to Jiang Xia, it is hard not to think of when he first became famous, someone joked that Jiang Xia was possessed by "Kudou Shinichi".

  ...So, Shinichi Kudo is actually a very suitable candidate.

So Hiramatsu Quantum went to the Maori Detective Office under the pseudonym "Akagi Quantum" according to some information he had inquired, calling himself "Kudo Shinichi's girlfriend", and wanted to use this magical operation to take Kudo Shinichi, who is said to have been in hiding. Lead to Akagi's house and ask him to help find clues.

  ...Fortunately, the kidnappers did not find out that Hiramatsu Quantum went to the Maori Detective Agency, and naturally did not find that she hired a detective.

  Unfortunately, Hiramatsu Quantum failed to attract Kudo Shinichi through this operation, and only attracted Maurilan, who had a chilled face, and Conan, who ran out of the house with her.

  Conan, with the shark anger of Mao Lilan, lived up to expectations and discovered the truth of the kidnapping case.

   Through a game console in the room, he guessed that the kidnapper was probably Naoki Uemura, and the three came to the apartment.

  …

When the    trio of high school students rushed to the vicinity of the apartment, Jiang Xia had already reached the fourth floor.

   He looked at the number 402, rang the doorbell, and at the same time observed the position of the door lock.

  The doorbell rang once, but no one came out to open the door.

   Jiang Xia pressed it again calmly, and at the same time visually checked the hardness of the door.

   Before he could change the way he knocked, the door clicked and the occupant inside unlocked it.

  Uemura Naoki hung the door chain and carefully opened the door a crack - the doorbell kept ringing, if he didn't respond, Akagi's younger brother who was abducted here might have to run over to open the door himself.

  Uemura Naoki looked out vigilantly, and after seeing Jiang Xia, his expression became a little puzzled.

He seldom pays attention to news other than sports. Although he occasionally saw the photo of Jiang Xia on the detective daily next door when he was buying newspapers, Naoki Uemura couldn't recognize it right away, he only felt that this man was outside the door. Somewhat familiar.

  ... Maybe some fan came to the door to condolence him?

  Uemura Naoki sighed and planned to say a few words to send people away.

   But before he could speak, the "fans" suddenly grabbed the doorknob and closed the door with a click.

  Uemura Naoki stared at the door in a daze, almost thinking that it was actually him who came to visit and ate the door closed, he was startled. What kind of way is this, knocking on the wrong door?

  In the corner of the door chain that Naoki Uemura didn't see, a white clay-like thing formed from under the chain button, and quickly extended along the gap, pushing the hanging door chain out.

   The door of this apartment does not have an automatic lock, and the lock can only be manually twisted.

  The clay disappeared silently, the metal chain clicked on the door frame, Naoki Uemura bowed his head in confusion, almost at the same time, the door handle was turned down, and the door was pushed open from the outside again.

  Jiang Xia walked through the door as if returning to his own house, passed Naoki Uemura, and headed to the balcony: "Sorry, my cat seems to be on your balcony, I'll take it and leave."

……cat?

The word    made Naoki Uemura startled.

   Suddenly, he remembered something—once he was reading a newspaper in the lounge. After reading it, his teammates exchanged the newspaper with him and gave him a third-rate detective tabloid.

  The first edition of the tabloid is a report of a detective who was called by the writer as "just looking for cats, but always involved in murder cases, and the soul of Kudo Shinichi has not yet rested".

   And the picture above...

  Uemura Naoki turned his head sharply, his clothes soaked in cold sweat, he stared at Jiang Xia who was walking towards the balcony - no wonder the person who knocked on the door looked familiar before, it turned out that this is a detective who has been in the newspaper!

   At such a critical moment, he forced his way into his house and said he was picking up cats... Ghosts wouldn't believe it! This detective is definitely going to confirm the situation of Akagi's younger brother.

  Uemura Naoki listened to the commentary of the ball game on TV, hung the door chain again, and then gritted his teeth and held his cane.

  ——No, I can't let Akagi Hero's younger brother go. Although more than half of the game was over, Hero Akagi was very reluctant to release the water, and he had lost his mind and scored a goal before, and the score is still sticking.

   If Akagi's younger brother is gone now, Akagi Hero is likely to lead the team to turn defeat into victory.

The idea of ​​   "Let Akagi Hero taste the taste of failure" took root in Naoki Uemura's heart, and he was a little stunned.

  Uemura Naoki looked at Jiang Xia's seemingly undefended back, his breathing became heavier, and he slowly raised his crutches.

  ...he won't kill people, at most knock them unconscious, this detective must stay here until the end of the game.

  ...No one can stop this game where Hero Akagi must lose!

  Uemura Naoki raised his cane, and behind him, the doorknob turned silently, and someone pushed the door open a crack from the outside.

   The door chain that was fastened to the door made a slight noise, but it was covered by the sound of Akagi's younger brother's game console, and Uemura Naoki didn't notice it.

   The people who opened the door were the high school students who had just arrived.

  ——When the three of them ran to this floor, before they turned the corner, Conan vaguely heard the sound of the door closing, and also heard voices.

  So when Hiramatsu Quantum wanted to ring the doorbell, Conan stopped her, and then tried her luck to open the door directly.

  I didn't expect the door to be unlocked. As soon as I pushed it, it slid open a crack.

   However, there is only one gap left - the door chain is hung on the door.

  Conan peered in through the crack of the door.

  Maolilan and Ping Song Quantum also followed in confusion.

   Just in time to see the house, Naoki Uemura picked up his cane and was about to hit the person in front.

   And the man in front...

  Conan: "!"

  Maolilan: "!!!"

   (end of this chapter)