Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 390 Spider-sama (joint chapter)

   Thinking so, Jiang Xia pointed to the storage room and said to Takeda Yoko, who helped lead the way, "Let's go over there and have a look."

   Hattori Heiji was startled.

   He remembered that before the twin sisters appeared, when Takeda Yoko asked Jiang Xia where to go, Jiang Xia clearly pointed to the direction of the main house.

   - Hattori Heiji used to go to the crime scene to investigate first. For example, this time, if he was asked to choose, he would first go to the storage room where Negishi Akio died.

   So just now, after seeing Jiang Xia's completely different choice of "main house", Hattori Heiji was immediately alert and impressed, so he had to make a note to study why Jiang Xia chose that.

   But now, Jiang Xia has changed his mind...

   Hattori Heiji wondered: "Didn't you go to the main house just now?"

  “…” Yeah, but now, the ghosts are back in the storage room…

  Jiang Xia said calmly: "I thought about it for a while, and sure enough, it is safer to start the investigation from the scene."

   Hattori Heiji: "..." Actually, he wanted to ask why he thought investigating the main house was a good option.

   But I'm too embarrassed to ask the exit...

Beside   , Takeda Yoko didn't think too much. She doesn't quite understand the detective's routine, but since Jiang Xia is going to the storage room now, she should be responsible for leading the way.

   She quickly took Jiang Xia to the storage room. Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha also followed.

  Rob went to the kitchen to help the maid in Takeda's house.

  —He just killed one person a few days ago, and plans to kill another later. He has a ghost in his heart and doesn’t really want to be with the detectives.

   But before he can kill Takeda Shinichi, he needs an absolute alibi.

   So Rob had to get together with the maid, praying secretly in his heart, hoping not to be disliked by his cooking skills...

  …

   The storage room is not too far away, Takeda Yoko led the way, and the four quickly arrived at the place.

   However, no matter how fast he arrived, Jiang Xia still didn't have time to see the ghost.

  Only when I first entered the door, I saw a few translucent figures that were almost blurry in the corner of the room, and they passed by in a flash.

  I didn’t see anything, but this speed…

   Jiang Xia gradually became alert, and had a bad premonition in his heart. Eight thick furry spider legs appeared in his mind, and they moved quickly and quickly.

   As soon as Yangzi, who was leading him, turned his head, he saw Jiang Xia staring straight at the corner of the room, his eyes solemn.

   She looked along suspiciously, and saw a small spider hanging on the corner of the wall, it was hanging down along the silk thread.

   Takeda Yoko thought she understood.

   She looked back and explained: "We have a lot of spiders here. Fortunately, they usually don't bite people, and they are not easy to drive away, so I keep them."

   Hattori Heiji heard the words and frowned at the little spider hanging in the corner.

The saying that "killing a spider is unlucky" is often heard, but it can't even be driven here... On the way he remembered, the legend that Takeda Yuzo mentioned, and the three hanging corpses, he thought maybe this might be the case. is a clue.

   Hattori Heiji asked: "I heard that you worship Spider-sama here? What are the characteristics of it?"

  ...If the way the deceased died coincided with some of the habits of the Spider-sama, then the three "suicides by hanging" of the Takeda family were very artificial—perhaps someone deliberately imitated monsters to kill.

  Takeda Yoko obviously knew about that widely circulated legend, she shook her head: "It's not worship... Our attitude towards Lord Spider should be called 'vigilance'."

After   , seeing the three young guests looking at her with interest, Yoko Takeda recalled:

   "It is said that a long time ago, there lived a beautiful woman on this mountain. She often stopped by the roadside, stopped the traveling travelers, and asked them some questions in a soft voice, such as—

  ‘Do you think there is a heaven in this world? ’

  ‘What kind of place is that? ’

  ‘Would you like to take a look with your concubine? ’

  "...Travelers are often bewildered by her beauty, nodding in agreement. Then they will be led into the depths of the forest, never to return.

   "A puppet master heard this rumor and made a life-size puppet equipped with an automatic device, letting it patrol back and forth on the mountain road where Mr. Spider often haunts, while hiding himself to check the situation.

   "Later Spider-sama really appeared, and she asked the puppet the three questions in a warm voice. But the puppet never answered.

"Gradually, the beauty in the white hat turned scarlet, her lips were cracked, her hands and feet were divided into six... She turned into a huge ugly spider on the spot, savagely pounced on the person who refused to talk to her. puppet."

   Ugly and huge...

   Hearing this, Jiang Xia couldn't help being like a picky buyer and asked the details of the spider: "...Really ugly?"

   Takeda Yoko was startled, wondering why Jiang Xia asked this.

   But he still answered rigorously: "Yes."

   After saying that, Jiang Xia felt a little lost for some reason, and hurriedly added: "However, the human figure should be beautiful."

   Jiang Xia nodded, but in his heart he remembered the ghost image that disappeared with a swipe.

   Running so fast, even the mist tengu with a pair of wings and the mermaid that can swim in the air can't catch up, how could it be a humanoid...

   Takeda Yoko saw that Jiang Xia did not ask any more questions, cleared his throat and continued:

"Seeing this, the puppet master who was hiding nearby woke up from the beauty of Lord Spider. He took out the rocket he was carrying and kept shooting at the spider. The spider caught fire and screamed and fled to the depths of the forest, where he was finally burned to death. in its own lair.

   "Then the villagers heard about it and were afraid of being cursed by the dead spider, so they built a small temple in its lair to worship it. The mountain was also renamed 'Puppet Peak' in honor of the puppet master."

  …It doesn’t seem to be very scary either.

   Yuan Shan and Ye touched their chins and gestured with interest: "If the traffic here is more convenient, that temple might become a tourist attraction!"

   "Ah, this..." Takeda Yoko was a little embarrassed to hear this sentence:

   "The spider temple is actually gone now - after my father-in-law passed away, the eldest brother of Xin expanded the land, leveled the temple, and built a warehouse on the original site.

   "Three years after the completion of the warehouse, Misa and Sister-in-Law Kinshiro hanged themselves in that warehouse. Their bodies were discovered very late, and their bodies were covered in cobwebs... In addition..."

Takeda Yoko looked around and whispered, "Although Mr. Negishi died in the storage room and not in the puppet warehouse, in addition to the noose around his neck, he also had a lot of fishing line wrapped around him, which looked like a Another spider silk..."

   Hattori Heiji's eyes lit up - this is it!

It's hard to say about the two dead three years ago, but Akio Negishi died so uniquely. The fishing lines wrapped around him looked like someone was using the "Spider-sama" gimmick to kill people... Having said that, the Takeda family owner just now What did you say quietly to Jiang Xia? He could barely hear the previous "investigation of the cause of Negishi Akio's death", but later, the voices of the two became quieter.

   Hattori Heiji looked at Jiang Xia and leaned over to ask.

   But at this time, the maid and Rob stopped by the way.

   The two knocked on the door and greeted warmly: "Dinner is ready."

   Jiang Xia saw Takeda Yoko look at him inquiringly, nodded, turned and walked out the door, intending to finish dinner.

   At this point, he has lost interest in the storage room - the key to solving the case is not here, and there are no ghosts around, it is better to go eat something first.

  …

  The maid prepared quite a sumptuous dinner.

   Jiang Xia found a place to sit down, and just picked up the chopsticks, the organization cadre who was allergic to drugs and the reminder of gin could not help but paused in his mind.

   After a while, he casually stretched out his chopsticks and caught the fried fish in front of him.

  …It shouldn’t be a big problem.

  Although the senior's lesson was rather painful, just now, Jiang Xia, just in case, threw the ghost parents who were slow moving and couldn't help in the ghost hunting operation to the maids, and asked them to help stare at the drinking water.

   From the current feedback, the meal has not been manipulated, and Takeda Shinichi has never appeared in the kitchen.

  ...Thinking about it too, since Takeda Shinichi wants to find out the ghost as soon as possible, then he has to make sure that the detective he finds is clear-headed and in a normal state.

   On the other hand, if they meet each other and throw strange drugs into the dishes first, he will only get a burden that can't help, and the gain will outweigh the loss.

After    figured it out, Jiang Xia took a bite of the crispy golden fried fish without much psychological burden.

Opposite to   , the two little loli sitting next to Takeda Yoko looked straight at him.

   Seeing this scene, the two little girls lowered their heads at the same time, looked at their plate, and then stayed for a while.

   Soon, they turned to Yoko, and the clear voice was full of doubts: "Mom, why don't we have fish?"

   "The fish is bought according to the number of people who are booked, so..." Takeda Yoko explained in a low voice, picking up the fish from her plate, "Then mother's for you."

   After the sister-in-law of the silk generation hanged herself, the family's finances belonged to Takeda Shinichi.

   And Takeda Shinichi is extremely frugal in these small things, and refuses to buy too many ingredients at all.

   Now suddenly there are a few uninvited guests, and the other dishes are evenly mixed, but you can't tell, but the fish allocated according to the number of heads is obviously not enough.

  Takeda Yoko thought about it while helping to serve the meal, and felt that he must not shorten the meal of the guests.

   So she gave two meals without fish to her two children. She felt that children liked to get distracted while eating, so she shouldn't have noticed.

  I didn't expect that this time, the two little clever ghosts noticed it at once...

Jiang Xia heard the movement at the table opposite, felt the greedy gazes of the two little girls, and remembered that when he picked up the fish just now, the eyes of the two loli turned with the tips of his chopsticks, and the movement of chewing the fish was not very obvious. stop.

  …It always feels like there is his pot here.

   But I ate it all... Jiang Xia glanced at the remaining half of the small fish, and bit it into his mouth without any burden, chewing it.

   Then he wiped his mouth under the gaze of two resentful eyes, left the table halfway, and went to the bathroom.

  The trivial matter of dividing the fish, let Takeda Yoko handle it herself... The famous detective has other things to do.

   Like going to see the new ghost he just got.

  —That's right, after eating for a while, news finally came from the ghosts.

   They held down the fast new ghost.

   Jiang Xia turned two corners and entered the empty bathroom.

   Then on the sink, I saw the ghost who finally fell into the encirclement after being chased and intercepted.

  - Mermaid, Misty Tengu, Miyano Akemi and Xiaobai occupy exactly four sides, surrounding a translucent thing.

   Jiang Xia took a closer look.

  Originally, he was ready to see a big hairy spider.

   Unexpectedly, after the ghost that moved like the wind stopped, after a closer look, it turned out to be a beautiful ghost with a hat.

  Although there are many places covered by clothing, the exposed parts and general outline are completely Q-version humanoids, and there are no strange things like eight eyes and eight legs.

   Jiang Xia breathed a sigh of relief.

   Realizing that there was no one around, he tentatively said, "Mrs. Kindai?"

   This is the name of Takeda Shinichi's wife.

  The pretty new ghost looked up at him, wrapped his cuffs, and lowered his head again.

   It seems to respond to the name, but it doesn't look like me...well, try another name first.

   Jiang Xia shouted again: "Miss Meisha?"

   This time, the new ghost was clearly stunned.

   Then she slowly raised a wide cuff to cover her face, and gracefully took small steps and turned 180°, her back to Jiang Xia, with a faceless appearance.

  Jiangxia: "…"

   Calling "Misha" has a bigger reaction, it seems that it should be her... No, not necessarily. Perhaps Mrs. Kindai heard "Misha" and remembered her sleazy operation to find her brother-in-law to give birth to a child. She felt embarrassed and didn't want to meet anyone...

   Calling by name is really not a good way to identify.

   Jiang Xia simply reached out and poked it.

   He can sense the general obsession of the ghost when he is in direct contact with the wild ghost.

   The ghosts who have obsessions and want to solve the obsessions are best to kidnap—usually, there are some clever ghosts who instinctively understand the abilities of the psychic, and take the initiative to ask the psychic for help.

   The pretty new ghost who ran very fast was stabbed by Jiang Xia, and subconsciously wanted to run again.

   But I don't know if the mermaid standing in front of her was too fierce, or if she felt that Jiang Xia could do something for her, and in the end, it stopped moving again.

   Jiang Xia looked at its reaction: Very good, seems to be able to communicate normally.

   So enter the transaction process skillfully:

   "Do you have any wishes? I can help you achieve it, as long as you are willing to pay a small price..." For example, selling yourself to a hard-working psychic.

  …

   After some simple communication.

   Jiang Xia was sure that the ghost in front of him was actually the Takeda Misa who was the first to "hang himself".

   Takeda Misa was originally a nurse in a nearby hospital. She is beautiful, cheerful, and lives a very peaceful life.

   But a few years ago, Takeda Misa's life became difficult after Takeda Shinichi learned the truth that he was actually infertile and that Misa was not his own daughter.

   She was not only pushed to the pillar by Takeda Shin one by one when trying to persuade her to fight, but she was smashed. It is from the mouth of "father" that he learned the truth of the year.

   (end of this chapter)