Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 584 Porcelain Skilled Worker

   Seeing that Amuro fell silent, the old woman raised her hand tremblingly and pointed to the deep forest:

   "According to the direction you are going now, it is actually a good road - turn left at the fork in front, and you will be there in ten minutes.

   "Although it's a bit willful to say that, I hope you can send me a trip. That dinner is really important, and I'm going to be late..."

   Kidd glanced at the old woman who was trying to hitch a ride, glanced at Amuro Toru again, and leaned back in the seat again.

  ... He had planned to wait until the intersection leading to the Twilight Annex before trying to break Amuro Toru's car. In this way, in such a place with no signal, you can only look for houses within sight, and use the phone for help—for example, the Twilight Annex in the distance.

   That was also Kidd's destination.

   However, Kidd observed the current situation and realized that this time, it seems that he does not need to bother.

  Because if I remember correctly, the old woman who came to take a ride is actually a celebrity.

  —— Her name is Chikan Koyo, and she is a relatively well-known easy chair detective, that is, the kind of detective who can deduce the situation without going to the scene and simply listening to the client's narration at home.

   Kidd felt that as a colleague, Toru Amuro should know her. And according to what Toru Amuro muttered before he stopped the car, even for the reputation of the Amuro Detective Agency, the boss probably wouldn't refuse this kind of request for a ride.

  …

  Amuro Toru looked worried, but he finally sighed, nodded, and agreed.

   Qianjian mother-in-law thanked her.

   Then she went back to her own car, opened the co-pilot's door, and pushed the person inside: "Wake up, we have to change cars."

   Kidd looked curiously at the passenger seat of the front car through the car window.

   In his impression, according to previous investigations, Qianjian's mother-in-law did not open a detective office, nor did she have an assistant, and usually lived alone at home. Why did she bring an extra person to the party this time?

   As he was thinking about it, he saw a strange young man get out of the car in front of him.

   The man seemed to have just woken up, with his fluffy natural curls slumbering slightly. At this time, he was yawning.

  ——This is Jiangxia's new vest, a puppet constructed with Matsuda Jinping as the frame. When Jiang Xia gave him a false certificate, he casually named him "Kurozawa".

   Amuro Toru was distracted by the window frame, wondering if he had to stay in that "Twilight Annex" tonight.

   Spotting another person in the car in front of him getting out of the car, he glanced casually.

   Then his eyes stopped.

  …Matsuda? ?

  …

   Toru Amuro's best friends are all dead now.

   Among them is Matsuda Jinping, who was blown up by a bomb.

  Although Matsuda's body was hard to identify when he died, he was indeed the only one in the exploding Ferris wheel. The police should not commit such a thing as collecting the wrong body, Matsuda Jinhei is indeed dead.

but……

  Amuro suddenly remembered the figure they saw in the mountains a while ago, when he and Jiang Xia received the request to "hire a killer to kill themselves".

  Although the distance was far away at the time, the figures of acquaintances were easy to identify. No matter how he looked at it, Toru Amuro felt that it was his old classmate who had unfortunately sacrificed. The natural rolls of clothes and sunglasses might collide, but the actions and shapes of acquaintances were unique and easy to identify.

   It was only at that time that the person who was highly suspected to be Matsuda Jinping was swept away by the landslide within a few seconds of watching. After digging for a long time, it didn't come out.

   In addition to Amuro Toru himself, no living person has seen "Matsuda Jinping". In the end, Amuro Toru had no choice but to regard that day as a hallucination.

  …

  However, he didn't expect that, just barely convincing himself that it was an illusion, he actually saw a person who looked like Matsuda Jinping once again.

  ...Even if you put aside the friendship between old classmates, the matter of "resurrection" alone is enough to make Amuro stop breathing.

   Just this time.

   Amuro Toru looked at the people getting off the car for a while by the headlights, and gradually realized that something was wrong.

  ——The "Matsuda Jinping" he met this time, whether it was sunglasses, curly hair, or a black casual suit, was exactly the same as what he had in mind. But between the actions, there is no longer that kind of familiarity.

   Taking a closer look, although the appearance is surprisingly similar, there are also some differences from Matsuda...

  "..." Could it be that the last time I saw it in the mountains, it wasn't Matsuda, but the person in front of me?

   As for the similar body shape... Maybe I saw a familiar dress, so I unconsciously made up the corresponding action?

  …

   The young version of "Matsuta Jinping" that got out of Qianjian's mother-in-law's car is of course a puppet driven by Jiang Xia and constructed with Matsuda Jinping as the main raw material.

  The appearance of the puppet will neutralize the characteristics of the ghost and the spirit of the psychic. So now this Matsuda puppet looks naturally similar to Matsuda Jinping.

Before   , after Jiang Xia settled down on the main body, he went down the road and bumped into the car of Qianjian.

   - Matsuda Jinping's puppet, who he arranged to be "Xitu" who smuggled over from Burma, the pseudonym "Kurozawa", is still an invisible person in society and has no corresponding detective status. It would be too suspicious if he went to the Dusk Pavilion alone as a guest.

   So Jiang Xia found a companion for himself.

  When he touched porcelain, in order to explain the problem of not bringing his luggage and to make the old woman less wary, Jiang Xia had the ghosts of his parents hanging on his body, and casually made up that he was a traveler who came to the mountains to commit suicide after contracting a terminal illness.

   Qianjian's mother-in-law seemed to have some kind of empathy for this, plus she had other plans. After a moment of silence, she let Jiang Xia get into the car, and the two naturally became companions.

The last time I put this vest out of Danyuan Mountain, the vest buried by the landslide was opened by the Matsuda formation. After Jiang Xia drank the strange crystal in the shape of a tear, the ghosts and shikigami got it. big increase.

  In the past, if the vest wanted to move, Jiang Xia had to go into battle in person, but now, the ghosts can also drive for a long time.

   This is probably one of the reasons why Toru Amuro regarded the new vest as Matsuda Jinping when he was in the mountains last time, because the shell was indeed Matsuda Jinping.

   However, ghosts are born unable to speak, even if they can run around with puppets, they cannot make a sound. Moreover, compared to Jiang Xia's own manipulation of the puppet, the ghosts were murderous and tiring to drive.

   So in addition to the occasions where double-opening is required, other times, Jiang Xia usually goes into battle in person.

  ...like now.

  …

   The headlights were dazzling, Jiang Xia and Qianjian Yudai, who were standing in front of Mazda, did not see Amuro Toru's change from calm to shock to pretending to be calm.

   Qianjian's mother-in-law pushed Jiang Xia, a companion he picked up on the way, to wake up and reminded him to change cars.

   Then she walked over to the Mazda and grabbed the tool man at random.

   (end of this chapter)