Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 379 Business trip invitation from Gin (joint chapter)

When    mentioned "Uzo's mentality", Gin inevitably thought of Belmod, who had high hopes for him.

   However, judging from the attitude of Belmod after landing in Japan, she is not friendly to Uzo, and even has an inexplicable hostility.

   And with the speed at which Belmod consumes members of the organization on weekdays, if she pretends to clear the mind for Uzzo, she will actually lead people in the direction of destruction... It is impossible to prevent.

   Although recently, Belmode's attitude towards Uzo has improved significantly.

But it was precisely because the change in attitude was too obvious that Gin was instinctively wary of this anomaly, and felt that Belmode might have some ulterior motives-after all, from the first time she saw Uzo, to Now, in fact, not too long has passed. This sudden change in attitude is very suspicious.

   And the last time we met in the old factory, when Belmod mentioned Uzo, although she was calm on the surface, she seemed to have an indescribable persistence on the inside. This woman must have another purpose... But she and Uzzo are both valuable assets of the organization, no matter which side is damaged, it is the result that Jin Jiu does not want to see.

  In the end, Gin decides to temporarily isolate her from Uzo until she finds out about Belmod's strange attitude to avoid trouble.

  Belmode is of no use, but Uzo’s current state of rushing to hunt for his prey can’t be ignored…

  Gin took a sip of coffee, thought for a moment, and gradually came up with an idea.

   Based on the comparison of the situation before and after, he felt that recently, Uzo may have just killed too few people, and the number of people who died in his script could not fill his heart's criminal desire, so he behaved abnormally.

   And if that’s the case, then the problem isn’t really a problem at all.

  ——The assassination list of the organization is always a long list. Traitors, undercover agents and members who need to be killed after exposure are like waves of locusts, which are difficult to kill.

   If he could really eradicate his excessive killing intent by "providing Uzzo with material for crime", it would not only solve the hidden dangers of this criminal genius, but also save valuable manpower for the organization.

  Actually, in the process of killing people in the past, it was inevitable that some executives would expose themselves and then turn into new targets of assassination.

   In comparison, the possibility of Uzo revealing his identity is extremely low. If he is really allowed to participate in the silence mission in a limited way, rounding up is equivalent to saving at least twice the number of manpower.

   Just as he was thinking about it, Gin noticed that Uzo looked through the rearview mirror and looked at the information in his hand with interest.

   Then the young member pretended to be casual and asked, "You guys are going on a mission? Do you want to help?"

   These words fell into the ears of Gin, and it automatically became: Are you going to kill? Divide me a few.

  “…”

  Gin went through the recent task list in his mind and found that none of those people were assassination targets with a high level of secrecy.

   And the locations of the targets are mostly remote. If it was handed over to Wuzuo to kill, it would be easy to deal with problems in time, but it was just a chance to observe Wuzuo's current state.

   Thinking so, Jinjiu opened the mailbox and sent an email to Jiang Xia: "This is the target to be dealt with recently. After reading it, remember it."

   Jiang Xia was slightly startled, and quickly turned on his phone, switching back and forth between several tasks in the email, reading all the names first.

   Then he was a little surprised to find that there were quite a few names that impressed him - which meant that all the familiar people on the list had the hope of becoming murderous or ghosts.

  ...I just asked casually like a small talk, but I didn't expect that I actually got a useful task, and there are so many. He didn't know how many surprises there were in Jinjiu's quest mailbox...

   Jiang Xia glanced at Jinjiu's cell phone with a burning gaze. Only then did he take back his sight and continue to check the details of the task.

   The locations of several mission objectives are quite scattered, but they can faintly line up.

   And they have one very obvious commonality - they are all drug dealers.

  “…” organization fighting drug trafficking?

  Why do you want to fight for a job with the island police? Jiang Xia was lost in thought for a while.

   Looking further down, he gradually understood.

   This is not because the organization has any py transaction with the island police. Just a wave of unremarkable silence missions.

   - The "partner" that the organization uses to raise money, something has gone wrong recently.

   Due to the large organization and many personnel, the supervision of the organization is inevitably insufficient in the corners. And because they pay too much attention to confidentiality, there are always some daring and honest partners who do not know the details of the organization. They only naively regard it as a good backer or even a fat sheep, and use the organization's network and interpersonal network to do something to enrich their own pockets. matter.

   Generally speaking, as long as the business of the organization is not delayed, the organization will not be held accountable.

   And once those people are on the verge of being exposed, or they are too bold to cross the line, the organization's assassination list will add a string of names.

   Like now.

   This time, the "line" formed by the target of killing the mouth has a similar problem:

   A certain talent secretly used the drugs in his hand to control some business objects while fighting a small-scale physical business war. Among them, there is a certain cadre sent by the organization to visit privately.

  The careless organization cadre smoked the topped cigarettes handed over by the other party. Unfortunately, he was allergic and was carried into the icu by his colleagues on the same day. These things also entered the organization's field of vision.

After the    investigation, the organization found that the other party's small actions had been going on for a long time. Even some peripheral members have had indistinct intersections with them.

   Considering that the line has become less and less valuable recently, the organization simply put the key people in the entire line on the silence list and cleaned them in batches-they are very skilled in this kind of thing.

   "Starting next week, I will go to Tottori Prefecture first, and then take a boat to Tsukiko Island from there." Gin briefly summarized the itinerary of the business trip, "If you want to go, remember to reserve about a week."

   "No problem." Jiang Xia replied neatly.

Although this time I have to travel far, if there is another case in Tokyo, it will be difficult to manage time properly, but in three or four days, it is very efficient to encounter so many cases, and there is no reason not to go. .

  ...Wait, having said that, if Conan wasn't there, would he still be able to pick up the ghost successfully?

   Thinking of this, Jiang Xia briefly fell into contemplation.

   After he decided to go home, he would find an opportunity to investigate Conan's itinerary next week, and try his best to get the halo of death without exposing himself.

   However, to be honest, whether Conan goes or not, Jiang Xia will definitely go for this mission.

  ——The world and the spoilers he knows, occasionally have certain discrepancies. Therefore, I cannot fully trust my own memory.

  For example, now that Jinjiu has received the task of killing the mouth, then no matter whether the target of killing the mouth has been irradiated by Conan, when Jinjiu passes by one by one next week, they will all die.

  ... So Jiang Xia must follow along, so that at worst he can pick up some gin's murderous aura.

   As for how to maintain Uzo's image... Those silence targets themselves attracted a lot of hatred and were hated by many people.

  Try a little, maybe even if Conan is not around, the murder will still happen as scheduled.

   No matter how bad it is, isn't there still Xiaobai?

  ——With the help of the energy core produced by Kidd, Xiaobai's "forced confession" skills have been improved a bit than before.

   If there is never a passing murderer who kills the target, Jiang Xia plans to use Xiaobai's skills to force the target to make an affectionate confession to Jinjiu.

  With the temper of Gin, in this case, facing someone who is already on the silence list, the probability of him hitting the opponent's Tianling Gai with one shot is very high. In this way, once a person is completely dead, naturally there is no need for "Uzuo" to appear.

  …

   Entered the city, waited for the vodka and gin to leave, Jiang Xia drove his vest to return the car.

   Then he reviewed today's assassination list and returned home in a good mood.

   The next day, Jiang Xia went to the detective office to receive some wives who had been waiting for a long time and returned some cats.

   Then he looked at the mailbox.

   Originally, it was just a routine flip, but this time, a good thing fell out of the stacked colorful flyers.

  —a letter of considerable weight.

After    sent the guests away, Jiang Xia opened the letter to check, and found a heavy envelope with a smaller size inside.

   There is also a piece of paper folded in half, and there is a little soaked and wrinkled scar on the back of the paper, like a trace left by glue.

   took out the letter paper, unfolded it, and saw that there were several lines of sentences collaged with single words. The word paper was cut from various places:

  [On the next full moon night, the shadows on Moon Shadow Island will begin to disappear, please come and investigate]

   The inscription is "Aso Keiji", which is also collaged with single characters

   Moon Shadow Island…

   Jiang Xia rubbed the envelope and was deeply impressed by this case.

  ——He remembered that a lot of people died on Moon Shadow Island before and after, and there were grievances between generations. It was really a rare Feng Shui treasure.

  Yesterday, the assassination list given by Gin actually included the residents of Yeongdo for several months. Counting the time, on the night of the next full moon, it is almost the time when he and Jin Jiu and others will go to the island... It can be seen that this island has a destiny with him.

Of course the ghosts and murderous auras above    are the same.

   In addition, to Jiang Xia, the significance of this letter's existence is of course not only the so-called "destiny".

   - It's also a good excuse to go to Moonshadow Island.

   Moon Shadow Island is not next to tourist attractions, and the island's economy is not developed, so the sense of existence is very low.

   Originally, Jiang Xia thought that it would sound strange and abrupt when he suddenly came to the island, so he planned to cover up his whereabouts as much as possible, and even prepared a mask and sunglasses.

   Unexpectedly, the reason for coming to the door was given to him by himself.

   As long as there is a reason to go to Moon Shadow Island, it is of course very reasonable to pass the Spider Mansion in Tottori Prefecture in the middle.

  ...Today is also a day to clear the suspicion in advance, and everything goes well.

   Jiang Xia straightened out his thoughts and carefully collected this precious letter.

   At the same time he gradually remembered something.

  ——He remembered that in the original world line, when Mouri Kogoro received a request from Yueying Island, the letter did not contain cash, but it was transferred later.

   But now...

   As he thought, he picked up the small heavy envelope beside him.

   unfolded it and looked at it, and saw a stack of 10,000 yen banknotes stacked on top of each other. After a rough scan, there were almost 50 sheets.

   He even sent the cash with the letter... Could it be that the client this time also heard about Hattori Heiji's deeds, knew a lot about high school detectives, and knew that they would be summoned by cash that could not be returned?

  ——Do not write the specific mailing address on the proxy letter. Then, after the detective receives the money, whether it is to avoid "receiving the money without doing anything" or to repay the money, he has to go to see it.

  Other high school detectives may be troubled by this situation, and the grumpy ones will curse.

   But for Jiang Xia, his reason for going out is even more sufficient.

  ... This is really a very considerate client.

   Jiang Xia also repacked the money, and finally threw the other flyers into the garbage bag.

  …

   While waiting for the last guest to come to the door, Jiang Xia walked outside the detective office, breathing the not-so-fresh air, checked his phone for a while, and saw a piece of news.

The    news was released in the early hours of this morning.

  Someone noticed the smashed guardrail on the mountain road in the suburbs. After that, the charred sports car at the foot of the mountain and the charred corpses in the car were also found one after another.

   By the time the news was released, the car, and the body in it, had been fished up from the bottom of the cliff.

   In the case reports of this world, it is not taboo to post photos of the murder scene.

   For example, in this report, there are close-ups of the vehicle and the charred corpse inside.

   Jiang Xia glanced over the crooked half of the license plate in the photo, and zoomed in on the corpse to take a look.

   Then I discovered that even if Kitagawa Qiangshi died, his stubborn cheekbones and triangular chin were still so sharp and prominent... Although the client's painting is ugly, she is actually quite good at controlling the essence.

   In this way, if she is still following the news in this regard, she should be able to see and recognize the enemy she wants to kill.

   After looking at the photo, Jiang Xia looked at the text again.

   It was mentioned above that there were gunshot marks at the scene, which was also the direct cause of death of the deceased. In addition, there are not many clues for the time being, so at present, the police suspect that the deceased was seeking revenge, or was targeted by an illegal organization, and is investigating in this direction.

After reading   , Jiang Xia returned to the interface with confidence, deleted his browsing records, and returned to the detective office.

   - The corpse was shot to death before falling off the cliff.

   All of this has nothing to do with him being a legitimate detective without a gun.

  …

  In the evening, after Jiangxia closed the business, he locked the door of the office, followed the address on the entrustment registration form, and came to the block where Noriko Okaya, the client of the plant flavor, was located.

   Okaya Noriko was probably worried that the detective could not find her if she had clues about the enemy, so she did not deliberately hide her address, but was accurate to the house number.

   Jiang Xia soon came to the vicinity of Okaya Noriko's house.

   But instead of entering the building, he let the ghost drift over to check the situation.

  The foggy tengu clawed at the window edge and probed quietly.

   I saw Okaya Noriko lying on the table, crying while holding a photo frame.

   Judging from the number of toilet paper **** thrown aside, this process has been going on for quite a while.

   (end of this chapter)