Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 538 Jiang Xia, you are about to change

   So in the end, except for Shuichi Hamura and editor-in-chief Doi, the two regulars, everyone else followed behind Toshiya Tiansuo and walked towards Daisuke Torokura's study.

   Jiangxia is also among them.

   This study, in its particular shape and location - is an octagonal room, built right on a protruding cliff. The only way to it is a corridor four or five meters long that connects the hall.

  An Shitou walked in the corridor, glanced at Jiang Xia next to him, and suddenly an evaluation of the study design popped up in his mind—a place that is very suitable for a secret room.

  “…”

  ...No fatalities have happened yet. Thinking like this is really unlucky, it's like cursing the owner... Amuro pressed his forehead and threw out the inexplicable thoughts.

   - Event constitution does not exist in the world. Even if it exists, it should only be that the parties involved encounter accidents more often than ordinary people. So it's mainly a problem between the murderer and the deceased... And now, the family seems to be quite harmonious, except that the husband is looking for a detective, and the wife seems to be looking for a detective...

   Amuro Toru: "…"

   The more I think about it, the more I feel that the novelist couple is in danger.

   Just keep an eye on it later, lest they kill each other...

  …

  Torakura Daisuke's study door was not locked.

  Tasso Toshiya knocked on the door and pushed open the door.

I saw that the study was dark, and the only light source was an old projector and the movie screen projected on the wall by it - Daisuke Torakura was not writing at this time, but was alone in the eerie study, watching vampire movies. .

   On the mottled and yellowed big screen, a woman had half of her neck twisted off, the vampire behind her silently grinned, her fangs were pulled out of her flesh and blood, and the stained blood kept dripping.

  Suzuki Sonoko was taken aback by this terrifying picture, and instinctively shrank behind Jiang Xia. At the same time, he secretly stretched out his hand and touched Jiang Xia's stick hidden on his body through the fabric.

  …I felt a lot of peace of mind all of a sudden.

   At the same time, the image of a vampire's attempted sneak attack quickly surfaced in her mind, being stepped on by Jiang Xia and knocking, and finally turned into a group of little bats fleeing in a panic. Then, after thinking about it, the scene changed unknowingly. It turned into Jiang Xia being bitten by a vampire group eager for revenge, turned into a cold vampire with Mo's feelings but more beautiful, and was rescued by an affectionate and kind human woman. Unfold Forbidden Love…

   Just when Suzuki Sonoko began to wonder whether the children of humans and vampires were humans or vampires, a deep laughter came from the shadows ahead.

  —a man in retro European attire and a scarlet cloak, with his back to the light of the projector, came over.

   "The Gunfield Detective?"

  Torakura Daisuke looked at the detective he had found. At the same time, it was found that there seemed to be a lot of people coming to the study - in addition to Yumi Gunda, there were also people from the Suzuki family who were late, and there were two strange men behind them.

  ...No, one of them is not unfamiliar, he has seen it on TV. It should be Jiang Xia, the detective who is said to solve the case very quickly.

  —Daisuke Torokura had of course heard of Jiang Xia when he was looking for a detective.

   But he looked at the photo and decisively crossed Jiang Xia off the candidate list.

  Tokura Daisuke found a detective, in fact, to investigate his wife's derailment.

  —He and Torokura Etsuko are twenty years apart. He is very concerned about this age difference, so he doesn’t want a young and handsome detective to step into his house and follow his wife, even for investigation.

  ... Who knows, even if Jiang Xia was not invited, such a person still stepped into his house, and there were more than one.

  Torakura Daisuke glanced at Jiang Xia, and then took advantage of the light reflected in the corridor to glance at Amuro Toru, who was also a little smaller than his wife, his face sank slightly.

   Then he passed the group and turned on the light switch in the study.

  Bright light poured down, illuminating the oddly-shaped decorations of the room.

  This octagonal study can be called half a vampire collection room—

   Around the room, there are various wooden sculptures with distorted and exaggerated expressions. In addition, there are rivets, silver mirrors, and bats that I don't know if they are specimens or models... Next to one wall, there is even a life-size cross that is nearly two meters high. There was also viscous "blood".

  Suzuki Sonoko has encountered many murders, and now she is no longer so scared when she sees the realistic fake blood on the cross.

   But I see it all...

   She secretly moved to Jiang Xia's side and clasped her arms skillfully: "It's a bit scary, like going back to the Middle Ages."

  Tokura Daisuke is quite happy with the evaluation of "scary".

   He hummed and threw off the red and black cloak behind him. As the cape slowly fell, he said solemnly: "I like to wrap myself in vampire costumes like this, and use a projector to summon vampires to come down in the study - it is in this atmosphere that I can write those masterpieces, let me Vampires are reborn under my pen."

Suzuki Sonoko nodded in agreement, but quickly touched his chin again, feeling that the logic didn't make sense: "But haven't you written a vampire novel for several years, I thought there would be some hero models in your study. "

  Tokura Daisuke: "…"

   As if an arrow had been stabbed in his heart, his face just turned dark again, and he didn't want to deal with these annoying guests anymore.

  —Jiang Xia and Anshitou, these two little white faces from the sky... and little black faces, needless to say, the three people in the Suzuki family are actually not very welcome.

   After all, according to Torokura Daisuke's idea, a literary master with a lofty status like himself should not bow his head to the rich - if he wants to borrow his precious vampire collection, the people in power in the Suzuki family should come forward. Unexpectedly, in the end, the Suzuki family only sent two juniors who had not yet been in power.

  …I just don’t take him seriously.

  …Let the students take them around casually and deal with it.

Thinking of this, Huokura Daisuke only left Guntian Yumei to negotiate the entrustment, and politely sent off to others: "I still have something to discuss with Gunda Detective, you can visit my collection, please come back first, the weather is already dark. early."

   Tiansuo Junya reminded in a low voice, "Teacher, it's hard to leave because of the heavy snow outside."

"..." Hucang Daisuke frowned and changed his words reluctantly, "Then help the guests clean up a few rooms and come out. You'll take them to the collection room later - well, don't gather here. Now, I still have work to do."

   A group of people vaguely sensed his impatience and didn't stay any longer. After thanking him, he turned and left the study.

  …

   After talking about the commission, we finished eating.

   After eight o'clock, a group of people gathered in the living room to drink tea.

   (end of this chapter)