Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 516 Shadow-like Conan Edogawa

   As I was thinking about it, seven or eight meters away, there was a bang in the river ditch, and a violent fire broke out.

   - The red car exploded.

   In the burning background, the driver of the little green car stared blankly there.

   After a while, he suddenly collapsed to the ground, beating the ground and crying bitterly:

"Going out for a good trip, how could such a thing happen... I didn't see his car at all, if only I had looked around at the time... woo woo woo... he, he died, it would take a Is it my responsibility?"

   While speaking, a shikigami finally fully emerged from the body of the red car driver in the light of the explosion. It floated up and slowly approached, and finally caught the green car driver's lap.

   Jiang Xia: "..."

   His fingers trembled instinctively, wanting to get the swinging stick.

But remembering that An Shito was standing next to him, he could only change his actions regretfully, raised his hand and patted the driver of the little green car on the shoulder, and said with relief: "Fortunately, there is a surveillance camera on the head, wait for the traffic police to come and determine the responsibility - if It's just an accident, the verdict should not be more serious than murder."

   The little green car driver who was busy crying: "..."

  ...is it his illusion?

  ...Why do you always feel that the second half of this young man's sentence means something?

   But when he raised his head and glanced at Jiang Xia's calm, slightly encouraging gaze, Che Gu Zhengsi felt that he was guilty of being a thief and thought too much.

   So he struggled for a moment, continued to cover his face, and cried bitterly.

Beside   , Amurotou didn't think there was anything wrong with Jiang Xia's words.

  ——Even if it was an accident, after all, people died here. In this case, for the person involved in the car accident, it is equivalent to causing the death of a person by himself.

   Ordinary citizens have never seen such a posture, so they panic and feel that they have killed people.

Jiang Xia must have noticed this thoughtfully, so he deliberately compared "death in a traffic accident" and "murder" to tell the green car driver the difference between the two... Jiang Xia's keen insight seems to be used not only in solving cases It is often used in the service industry, so it is no wonder that whether it is the client of the detective agency, or the bosses and customers of various working places, they all praise him very well...

   Amuro Toru's thoughts briefly strayed a little, then quickly retracted.

  ——Speaking of which, is this really just an accident?

   He glanced at Jiang Xia, who was still comforting the driver, and a trace of doubt slowly rose in his heart.

  ...To be honest, near Jiangxia, he has never seen a death purely caused by an accident. So now, he always has a vague feeling that there may be something hidden in this car accident.

  ...Fortunately, there are surveillance cameras here. When you call it up and take a look, you should be able to know whether it was an accident or a murder.

   Amuro Toru thought while looking at the driver who was kneeling and crying. He watched suspiciously for a moment, but in the end he didn't say anything.

   He turned his head and looked into the distance of the road, waiting for the traffic police and ambulance to arrive.

  …

   Soon, a small dot appeared at the end of the road in the field of vision.

   Vehicles are getting closer and closer.

  …Ambulances and police cars came so soon?

  ...No, there is only one car coming, it should be a passerby passing by.

  Thinking of this, Amuro glanced at the intersection and planned to move the Mazda that had just stopped to the side so as not to block the traffic.

   When he walked from where he avoided the explosion to his car.

   The car coming from a distance approached and stopped.

  In the car, a middle-aged man stuck his head out, looked around the river, and asked Amuro Toru vigilantly: "Why is there smoke in the river? What happened?"

  Amuro looked over after hearing the words, and was startled.

  The driver of the probe has a slender face and a moustache, and there is a trace of confusion in his ordinary appearance.

   At first glance, Toru Amuro's intelligence library-like brain accurately popped out a name.

--Maori Kogoro.

  Although I haven't seen it directly, recently, when my subordinates investigated the information of Edogawa Conan, they also collected the information of this foster family, so Amuro saw through the photos of the Mouri family.

   And now, Mouri Kogoro is the driver, and there seems to be someone sitting in the back seat of his car...

   Amuro Toru suddenly thought of something, turned his eyes, and looked over with a complicated mood.

   I saw that the rear window was just down.

   Then, two familiar people stuck their heads out from the inside - Mao Lilan and Conan saw Jiang Xia in the distance at a glance, and the two waved at Jiang Xia in surprise and joy: "It's a coincidence, you also want to go out?"

   Amuro Toru: "..."

   Why is there this kid with glasses everywhere!

  ... Thinking about it carefully, the first few times too—every time, before and after my car punctured, I would always meet Conan.

   This time, there was no unfortunate vehicle blowout...

   But one car just blew up.

  “…”

  Amuro was silent for a moment, and suddenly thought, maybe it wasn't Jiang Xia who should be taken out in a closed manner, but this Edogawa Conan who always met them skillfully?

  ...For a moment, he even suspected that he was arranged by this weird child.

   But after thinking about it calmly, today, he took Jiang Xia to a random time and a random direction to leave the city—more precisely, it was decided by throwing dice.

  ...Conan can't possibly control his dice.

   In addition, when he was in the city, he arranged for his subordinates to follow and monitor, but at that time he did not find any suspicious persons following his car.

  So...is there such a coincidence in the world?

  …

  Conan was saying hello to Jiang Xia when suddenly there was a chill behind him.

   He followed his intuition vigilantly, and saw Toru Amuro staring at him on the side of the road, lost in thought.

  Conan: "..."

   Why is this suspicious boss again.

   Recently, the frequency of his appearance next to Jiang Xia is too high...

  …

   There is a car accident on the road, and there are acquaintances on the roadside.

   Mori Kogoro did not continue to drive forward.

   As a former criminal police officer and an active duty detective, he instinctively pushed the door and got out of the car, and asked Amuro Toru for details.

   The two adults quickly walked aside to communicate.

  Conan and Mao Lilan also jumped out of the car and ran beside Jiang Xia.

   They vaguely heard the content of the exchange between Mouri Kogoro and Amuro Toru, glanced at the smoking car in the river, and slowly extracted the keyword "car accident".

   After being stunned for a while, the two of them turned their heads to look at Jiang Xia, their reaction was even bigger than Jiang Xia who should have been on the phone.

   Car accidents, explosions, dead bodies in cars…

   In my impression, Jiang Xia seems to have a strong psychological shadow on this kind of scene. Every time he encounters similar elements, his speed of solving the case will visibly slow down, and sometimes he will be motionless and distracted.

   But now, standing on the side of the road, he looked like he was doing fine.

  Maurilan and Conan had some doubts in their hearts, but they dared not ask directly.

  ——Maybe Jiang Xia actually figured it out recently and is secretly receiving psychotherapy behind everyone's back, so his condition has improved. And today successfully ignored the "car accident", the factor that caused ptsd.

  If they ask, Jiang Xia once again recalled his mental journey when he hung up the phone, wouldn't it be very bad...

   (end of this chapter)