Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 248 Don't worry, I won't find strange people

   In Jiang Xia’s impression, the place where Jiangyuan Shinan was scheduled to die was a party called “Izu Mystery Journey”.

The host of the    party is a forum id "Dark Night Baron". The Dark Night Baron invited some people online to the Izu Princess Hotel for a three-day, two-night trip.

   During the trip, the organizer will act as the "Dark Night Baron", hiding among the many participants, and creating some events one after another. Those who can discover the true identity of "Night Baron" can get a prize - a virus also named "Night Baron".

Before   , after Jiang Xia saw the name "Jiangyuan Shinan" on the assassination list, he immediately went to the forum to search for relevant news.

   He successfully found the Night Baron's event post, but by then, the registration had already ended.

  If you want to pick up ghosts, you have to travel to the same place, or you have to stare at other people's places - this forum does not have real-name authentication, and the places can be transferred.

   And Jiang Xia remembered that an old friend of Dr. A Li happened to sign up for this trip, but just before departure, that person's granddaughter fell ill. So he gave the opportunity to Dr. Agsa.

Dr.    is not very interested in the computer field. Recently, he is still preparing to participate in the society, and he has no time to travel.

   Therefore, Jiang Xia felt that if Dr. A Li really received an invitation, he could go to his house to check the situation, and he would probably be eligible to participate.

   Anyway, the two families are so close, so I stopped by when I was returning a lunch box or eating a meal.

   Compared with paying out of your own pocket and deliberately going to Izu, this kind of participation qualification "delivered by others" is less likely to cause suspicion.

  …

   After making a plan, the next day, Jiang Xia went to the next door to rub Huiyuan Ai a breakfast.

   As a result, he went too early. Dr. Li stayed up all night to conduct experiments yesterday, and he still hasn't gotten up yet.

   Jiang Xia sighed silently, the old man deserved so little hair.

   The first attempt to rub the case failed.

  Dr. A Li's charging time is unknown. Waiting until he wakes up is unrealistic and too deliberate.

   So Jiang Xia didn't stay for too long, but continued to do business - after going out with a few cat bags, he routinely went to the detective office. Be prepared to receive invitations and deal with the backlog along the way.

   One day passed, all the cats were delivered, and no invitations came to the door.

  Jiang Xia said he was very calm.

  In the evening, Jiang Xia locked the door of the detective office and continued to go to Dr. A Li's house to grab a meal. By the way, he started the second attempt to investigate the case.

   This time, the Doctor was awake, but he didn't mention the Izu Mystery Journey, perhaps because he hadn't received a transfer from someone else.

   However, what was more unexpected was that Jiang Xia suddenly received a text message after eating.

  …

   The sender is shown as "Kozaburo Hijikata", a middle-aged actor who is quite famous but has been plagued by recent scandals.

   Not long ago, Jiang Xia and this person participated in the same detective variety show.

   At that time, Hijikata Kosaburo discovered Jiang Xia's "cheating" behavior in the reasoning game, and his attitude immediately changed 180°, from turning a blind eye to Jiang Xia, or even avoiding it, to exchanging business cards with a smile.

   Jiang Xia then conveniently saved his number.

  …

   At this time, after receiving the text message, Jiang Xia unlocked the screen and clicked to view it.

   Then, unsurprisingly, he found out that this is indeed a message inviting him to be a guest-the reason is that Hijikata Kosaburo will take up a detective TV series in the near future, and he wants to ask Jiang Xia, a famous detective, to ask him about the real detective life.

  The time is relatively short, just tomorrow. And there are some cryptic additional messages.

   Jiang Xia smelled a hint of badness from this invitation.

   But he didn't mind, because the obviously murderous aura was stronger.

  Jiang Xia moved his fingers happily, and returned to the past, "must be on time for the appointment".

   He still remembered the murderous aura of Hijikata Kozaburo.

   It seems that after so many days of preparation, Hijikata finally couldn't hold back and planned to implement his plan of "killing his wife in front of the detective".

  …

   Kosaburo Hijikata's recent life has been chaotic - he and his wife gave each other green hats, but he was inferior and failed to leave evidence of his wife's derailment. Instead, he was photographed by the other party.

   Currently, his wife is taking advantage of this to extort high alimony from him.

   Hijikata Kosaburo couldn't beat the opponent, so he decided to overturn the board in anger.

  ——He used the arrangement of the house to carefully design a murder method, and planned to find a person who spoke enough to be a "witness" for him. After the crime was committed, he tried to clear his name on the spot, and by the way, deducted the cauldron of the murder to the young neighbor who greened him.

   In the last variety show, Tufang broke through Jiang Xia's "cheating", which made him feel that Jiang Xia was a sloppy detective with no reputation and no strength. The ability to solve the case depends entirely on the capital operation and the efforts of the think tank behind it.

   And the recent serial murder case in the underwater restaurant made Kozaburo Hijikata confirm this idea.

  ——What has a shadow on the car accident... Oh, this must be just an excuse for Jiang Xia not to solve the case. The real reason for not solving the case must be that the incident happened suddenly. In that closed sea, his think tank could not provide support, so in that case, he didn't say anything.

   In short, in Hijikata Kozaburo's view, Jiang Xiaichi is an excellent "witness".

   And in the last show, Jiang Xia looked obviously flustered after being cheated by him. Kozaburo Hijikata claims to be an old fritter in the entertainment industry. In the face of such a timid, indecisive, mentally weak young man, he can control it with one hand.

   Jiang Xia has the handle in his hands, and he must not dare to refuse this invitation.

  For the sake of safety, in the invitation text message sent to Jiang Xia, Hijikata Kozaburo also arranged the meeting time very close, which was also to make Jiang Xia have no time to discuss with his think tanks.

   In addition, after the "ps", Hijikata Kozaburo also specifically stated that this is a friendship guidance - two people can meet in private, and don't bring some strange people into the mix.

  This "strange person" is of course alluding to the think tank behind Jiang Xia.

  …

   Hijikata Kozaburo sent a well-written text message, just about to pour a cup of tea.

   As soon as I stood up, my phone rang.

   He was startled, looked at the screen, and saw that it was Jiang Xia who replied - the fake detective really agreed.

   And it turned out to be back in seconds.

   This speed and attitude made Hijikata Kosaburo nodded secretly in relief.

   From this point of view, Jiang Xia really realized that the handle was caught by him.

   Maybe these days, Jiang Xia has been waiting anxiously to be contacted by him, and even added him to the special attention... That's why he responded so quickly.

   (end of this chapter)