Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 395 Roll over, Mourning Sauce (joint chapter)

   But it's okay - Yuan Shan and Ye found that although they had the same experience as the "horror movie protagonist" this time, there were eight of them. This is twice the number of people who disappeared, so I feel very safe...

   But soon, this sense of security was gone.

   Jiang Xia looked at Yuan Shan and Ye: "You stay here with the children, let's go out and have a look."

   Yuan Shan and Ye: "..."

   Staying in this cannibal hotel with a group of kids?

   She shuddered, followed her instinct with a dry smile and said, "I, I want to go out with you to find someone, it's not safe for the children to stay here..."

   "...That's fine." Jiang Xia didn't understand why the hotel was unsafe, but it didn't matter where Yuan Shan and Ye Xiang were. He walked outside the hotel, "There are a lot of people missing. In that case, let's find them separately."

  …

   Haibara Ai pointed Jiang Xia in the direction where she saw Etsuko Nonomiya.

   A few people chased down the mountain road for a while, but found nothing.

   Haibara Ai remembered the speed of Nonomiya Etsuko's actions just now, and felt that at this time, they should catch up with each other, but now, they didn't see anyone at all.

  ...Did you go in the wrong direction?

   Haibara Ai readjusted the map in her mind while walking.

Just as    felt right, her back collar suddenly sank—Jiang Xia carried her collar back.

   Almost at the same time, a heavy figure fell right in front of their eyes, hitting the ground with a thud.

   Yuan Shan and Ye, who were a step slower, were startled, and when they waved the electric light, they saw a young man lying on the ground with thick and sharp hair, like an unruly sea urchin.

   "...Mr. Erchuan?!"

   is the editor of that magazine.

   Jiang Xia looked at the people on the ground, then looked up again.

  Fujikawa Hajime fell from the cliff above his head. The top of the cliff is the famous star observation point.

  This cliff is tens of meters high. After dark, it is difficult for normal people to see the place so far away, and the ordinary flashlights they carry cannot illuminate it.

   But this had no effect on Jiang Xia. As soon as he went out, he borrowed the ghost's vision, so he could see the top of the cliff smoothly. And a shiny bald head looking down at the top - the editor-in-chief of that astronomical magazine is above.

   The editor-in-chief, who just threw his subordinates down, was looking down the cliff, but he didn't feel Jiang Xia's gaze, and only saw a few clusters of flashlights.

   So he didn't have the idea of ​​silence for the time being, he just retreated silently, took a short cut and ran back to the hotel.

  Jiang Xia saw that the editor-in-chief didn't try to throw things down and smash people, nor did he bring out the hidden shotgun and shoot it, and then he took back his sight.

   Then he squatted down, briefly probed Er Chuan Zhao's situation, and whispered, "The cervical vertebra is broken."

  Haihara pointed to the clenched hand of the spiky-haired editor: "He is holding a cigarette case."

   Usually, this might not be too noticeable.

But more than an hour ago, several people just got the news that "Kono left a death message with cigarettes in a cigarette case before his death", so the cigarette case in the hand of the hedgehog editor has also become noticeable—— This is most likely also some kind of death message.

   Jiang Xia put on his gloves again, took the cigarette case and turned it over.

   The scene from an hour ago reappeared, and several long and short cigarettes fell into his hands, but this time, the message became five long and two short.

   So how did these people come up with these troublesome puzzles at the moment of death... Jiang Xia looked at the smoke in his hand and fell into deep thought.

   After thinking for a while, the detective badge in Haibara Ai's pocket sizzled.

   Soon, Dr. A Li's voice came out: "Above! Look above!"

   Jiang Xia raised his head and saw several flashlights on the top of the cliff.

  Dr. A Li, Rob and several children found someone on the mountain.

   When the group arrived, the editor-in-chief had slipped away quietly, and there was no one on the mountain, only an open foldable phone on the ground.

Dr.    picked up the phone and pressed it on.

  I saw a typed suicide note inside.

  …

   "I sent invitations to get everyone here, in fact, to confess the crimes I committed a year ago."

  In the lobby of the hotel, under the gazes of a group of people with different expressions, Dr. A Li read the message on his mobile phone: "Yes, the one who killed Asao Kono was me - Hajime Erkawa.

"The day that Mr. Kono was killed was like a nightmare - both astronomy enthusiasts who refused to give in, we had a little argument on the cliff. Unfortunately, when he came back to his senses, he had already been pushed off by me. cliff.

"Since then, I've been wanting to confess. But as time went on, it became harder and harder to tell the truth... Eventually, my heart was overwhelmed with guilt and I decided to go back to this place a year ago. One day, before dawn, the police came to apologize with death.

   "I hope that the same cause of death as Kono's can soothe the unsleeping ghost in the forest.

  ——Er Chuan Zhao"

  Jiang Xia walked to the hall and glanced at the mobile phone that Dr. A Li was holding in his hand, thinking that the writing was quite similar.

Just now, when Dr. A Li was slowly reading his suicide note, he went to the rooms of the three travelers, and stopped at the door of each of them for a short while, and looked inside the room for the purpose of stepping on the ground before solving the case. prepare for.

  It doesn't matter what you see, the point is to see it, so you can explain many sources - intelligence that you didn't see directly, you can also use "the reasoning of famous detectives" to explain it accordingly. This is the convenience of brain supplementation...

   Just now, when the group of them returned to the hotel with a mobile phone with a "suicide note" written on them,

   Boss Tiantu, Etsuko Nonomiya, and the editor-in-chief, who were also missing before, have also returned to the lobby.

  Three people stand in a row, the perfect choice of three.

  Jiang Xia came out of the corridor and stopped in the corner of the hall, behind the three suspects.

As soon as I stood up, I felt that I should be leaning against the wall and copying my pockets, posing in a "seeing everything" posture commonly used by high school detectives, accompanied by a sneer... But before I could get my hands on it, a small head suddenly appeared next to it. .

  Haihara Ai got out of nowhere, and asked him with his eyes: How is it?

   "I get it." Jiang Xia finally had time to lean against the wall, and he whispered, "It's almost time for the police to come over and take care of the aftermath."

   "..." Haibara Ai couldn't help but looked up at him.

  ... Jiang Xia's tone just now was obviously not like a cheerful and sunny high school detective, but very much like the members of the organization who often laugh at the police. This group of people usually say something in front of the young peripheral members... No, that's not the point. Mainly because Jiang Xia, as a member of the organization, suddenly came up with the phrase "find the police for the aftermath", and always felt that something was not right.

   No, this is still not the point...

   Haibara Ai pressed his forehead, and was silent for a moment for this subtle sense of dislocation, and finally remembered what to do now.

  ——Judging from Jiang Xia's words, he should already know who the murderer is.

only……

   Haibara glanced sadly at the people in the hall.

   She was at the scene where Erchuan Zhao fell and died just now, knowing that the spiky-headed young man was holding a box of "death messages" in his hand. So the suicide note cannot be left by him - this is not suicide, the murderer must be someone else.

   In the worst case, there may be two murderers in this hall at the same time - the one who killed Kono a year ago, and the one who just killed the hedgehog editor.

   And there are only three suspects here...

   With a two-thirds probability, Ai Haibara now looks suspicious to anyone.

In addition, there are too many people who are not good enough in their own strength. If the situation is exposed, the scene is too chaotic, and the murderers or murderers take advantage of the chaos to take hostages, and Jiang Xia's situation will become very passive - from the truck incident just now. Look, Rob and Jiang Xia are not like companions to each other, and Rob may not be able to help. Not to mention Dr. A Li and the children, the high school girl with a ponytail was so thin that it could be blown away by a gust of wind... After careful calculation, it seemed that Jiang Xia was the only one they could fight.

Hai Yuanai looked at the very suspicious Tiantu boss and the bald and sweaty editor, then at Rob, who was not familiar with Jiang Xia, and finally glanced at a group of children, the old man Dr. Shan and Ye, whispered:

   "Why don't you pretend you don't know first, and call the police at dawn? ... Or I'll help you find some rope first?"

  ——After the suspects fell asleep, they knocked on the doors and broke in one by one, and the night attack stunned the murderer and bound them... This should also be a good solution.

   It happened that she brought a few tubes of anaesthetic - since the last time she was verbally accepted by Miss Anonymous as a peripheral member of the Anonymous Organization, Haibara Ai always carried some of these things on her body. It gave her a subtle reassurance of being in sync with the organization.

Jiang Xia did not accept this suggestion, he shook his head lightly, and said seriously: "It's still a long time before dawn, so don't think highly of the criminal's psychological quality - if he thinks this matter can't be hidden from us after tangled, he will leave with his luggage at night. , the follow-up will be very troublesome.”

   And there is a case at the Spider Mansion. After the case is solved, he has to find gin and vodka as soon as possible to meet, to prevent the two busy men in black from thinking that he is slow, leaving him and running to Moon Shadow Island in advance...

  Haihara Ai looked at Jiang Xia thoughtfully, feeling that he already had an idea: "Do you have a way to call the police?"

   As these words came out, she suddenly remembered the strange landline in the hotel.

  ——In the past, when encountering a similar closed situation, the telephone line was often cut directly.

   But this time, the whole phone line was gone.

   This might mean…

   "The phone line wasn't destroyed, it was hidden... Do you have a way to get it?"

   Haibara Ai thought that she would soon find the police, end the case, go back to her room and get a good night's sleep, her eyes lit up slightly.

   Jiang Xia was about to nod his head, but suddenly remembered something.

  He looked down at Haibara Ai, who was calm and calm, and looked like an elegant adult except for the appearance of a child.

   suddenly remembered the scene in the original world line, where this fake child pretended to have a stomachache, rolled all over the floor, and forced the person hiding the phone line to hand over the line.

  … ashamed to say. He was a little curious.

   Jiang Xia looked at Huiyuan Ai, pressed the emerging conscience, then looked at Huiyuan Ai, and then pressed down on his conscience...

   Haibara Ai was waiting to hear "the way to find the telephone line", but he didn't hear anything for a long time.

   She raised her head suspiciously.

   Seeing Jiang Xia staring straight at her, he hesitated.

Haibara Ai:"……?"

   "That..." Jiang Xia said his words, bent down and whispered, "If you pretended to be acute appendicitis and rolled on the ground with stomach pain, that person might have taken out the thread."

Haibara Ai:"……"

   She thought about the shameful scene, and her originally dignified expression slowly froze.

  ...If everyone present didn't know she was an adult. But now, Jiang Xia is beside him, and there is also a well-informed Dr. Li.

  Haibara's eyes flickered sadly, looking at his calm self reflected on the black window, he fell into deep thought.

  ... If someone else uses her as a tool, she may take the opportunity to extort a fashionable new bag.

   It’s not that I can’t afford it myself, I just want to see the other person’s pained expression and use that heartache to make up for my shame.

   However, Jiang Xia's proposal actually makes sense. If you want to get the phone line without injury, this, this seems to be a way.

  Ai Haibara looked at the neat floor in the hall, silently thought about the pose and lines for rolling around later, and gathered up her courage.

   But even if I decided to do it, it was still a bit awkward.

She looked calm, but couldn't stop her mouth, and muttered to ease the atmosphere: "If the child has appendicitis, he will hand over the phone line... That kind of person is really so kind? Wait, that means you already know who is hiding. The phone line? If you know who it is, there should be another way."

   was originally just an embarrassed time to find something to say.

   Who knew that the voice had just fallen, and Hui Yuanai suddenly saw Jiang Xia's eyes drifting to the side with sharp eyes, as if a little guilty.

Haibara Ai:"?"

   She recalled Jiang Xia's actions just now and was sure that she was not mistaken.

   So he pulled him in shock and confirmed, "...Do you really have another way?"

   Jiang Xia: "..."

  Although he has many ways to divert others' attention, he is also very good at talking about things that he doesn't want to discuss. But when I was directly caught and questioned like this, I was still not used to lying so directly.

   After Huihara asked, he saw Jiang Xia's eyes drifting to the side again, and he nodded lightly - the amplitude was slightly invisible, but he was indeed nodding.

Haibara Ai:"……"

  ... It's dangerous, she was about to lie down just now.

   And now...

  Haihara Ai immediately put away his attention on the floor, stood up straight again, and the corners of his eyes jumped slightly: "If you have a way, go by yourself!"

   Jiang Xia sighed slightly as if disappointed.

   After a while, he turned around and looked at the suspicious people in the hall.

  Haihara saw this sadly, glanced at him, and couldn't help but be a little worried.

  When Jiang Xia walked over there, she stretched out her hand to grab someone and whispered, "I want to hear what method you're going to use first. If it's not very safe, I-I can actually..."

   "It's fine, it's safe. You can do something else..." Jiang Xia deeply reflected on his conscience and felt that it was a bit too rich in strange places.

   He instructed Haibara Ai a few words, waved at her, and walked over to the three suspects in a normal mood.

   Then before everyone could react, he held down the stunned boss Tiantu, put his hand into his pocket and dragged it.

  ...and pulled out a neatly coiled bundle of telephone wires.

   (end of this chapter)