Conan’s Corpse Picker

  Chapter 644 Red-clothed Specter Asking for a Monthly Pass☆

   After a while, the innkeeper pushed his glasses and looked up at Jiang Xia in surprise.

   He twisted the moustache on his lips and said excitedly: "It's the high school detective in Tokyo. To be honest, I've been thinking about entrusting me recently, but I can't get in touch with you. I didn't expect you to come directly..."

  “…”

   The waiter who walked to the corner turned his head and saw this scene, his face changed, and his face became a lot gloomy.

   At this moment, Amuro Toru seemed to be keenly aware of something, and suddenly turned his head to look over.

   The two sides looked at each other unexpectedly. Shenbao Nobita was startled, and instinctively smiled at the guest.

   Then he didn't dare to stay any longer, turned the corner, and quickly left Jiang Xia and Anshitou's sight.

  …

  Toru Amuro retracted his gaze, remembering the gloomy look that the waiter had flashed for a moment, and frowned, vaguely feeling that something might be about to happen.

   However, he has been working part-time for a long time and has seen all kinds of part-time workers. Some of them keep smiling face to face, scolding guests behind their backs. The waiter just now, or maybe just an ordinary waiter, looked gloomy just now, because he was scolding the off-season and wanted to rest, but there were guests who came to increase their workload and so on...

   Amuro Toru recalled Shenbao Nobita's face and the staff card on him.

   I was sure that I had not seen this person on the wanted list, nor did I see a similar name, so I withdrew my attention and looked at the innkeeper who had entrusted him.

   After Jiang Xia said that he was "temporarily free", the boss approached them and whispered mysteriously:

   "That's it, a while ago, didn't someone find the body of a man in red nearby?

   "—Actually, he came to me five years ago and left something behind."

  …

   Five years ago, the innkeeper received a strange guest.

  The man was wearing a bright red coat and had long hair. He called the boss in the middle of the night and called the boss to his room. He gave the boss 100,000 yen, a locked box, and a letter.

  ——The man in red wants to deposit the suitcase and letter with the innkeeper, and the 100,000 yen is the storage fee.

   He told the boss that if he came to pick it up, he would give him the box.

   And if someone else came to ask for the box in his name, then hide the box and give the letter to that person.

"The man in red said he would come back soon, but the day after he left, someone came to me to pick up the box. But it was not him, but a man with sunglasses and a hat and a thick beard on his face. ."

  Because the two people before and after are strange, the innkeeper was very impressed with them:

"As the man in red said before, I concealed the box, and only gave the letter to the bearded man. After the bearded man opened it on the spot and checked it, he tore the letter angrily, threw it into the trash can, and left. "

   "Wait for him to go away..." Speaking of which, the innkeeper scratched the back of his head embarrassedly, "Well, I was so curious, so I couldn't help but pick out the shredded paper and put it together.

   "And then found a few **** characters written on it - 'I curse you to death'.

   "After that, the man in red never appeared again, and the bearded man didn't bother me much, so I gradually forgot about it.

   "Who knew that a few days ago, the police actually found the body of the man in red."

The innkeeper said, looking at Jiang Xia expectantly: "I'm really curious about this, so I want to ask the detective to come over and check what happened to the box and the man in red. I haven't opened the box yet. ,look……"

   When Jiang Xia heard this, he routinely looked at Amuro and asked his nominal boss for advice.

   However, when he looked at it, he found that the boss had a complicated look of "I knew it would be like this", which was strange.

  “…?”

   Jiang Xia couldn't understand what he was thinking.

   However, there seems to be no objection to his accepting the commission.

   Jiang Xia looked at the innkeeper again, remembered the murderous waiter in his shop, and nodded: "We still have something to do later, I'll take a look tonight. If I find out, I'll tell you right away."

  …

   The deal is done.

   The innkeeper took them back to his room, and after searching for a while, he dragged out an old locked suitcase from the corner.

   Considering that this matter involves a human life, there may be something extraordinary hidden in the box.

  The three did not unpack in the hall.

  The boss first personally opened two guest rooms for them, then took the keys, and the three came to Jiang Xia's room.

  …

   took out the key left by the man in red, opened the suitcase, and saw an old newspaper inside.

The date of the    newspaper is September five years ago. It's a sports newspaper with the headline "Akagi Maru Hatsukatsu" on the front page, and a picture of two sumo wrestlers fighting - other than that, there's nothing in the box.

   The innkeeper was quite surprised by this result.

  Under his gaze, Jiang Xia put on gloves, picked up the newspaper and shook it, then turned the pages to read.

   found that there was nothing in the newspaper - no matter how you looked at it, it was just an ordinary newspaper.

Next to   , Toru Amuro breathed a sigh of relief.

   He thought that as soon as he opened the box, a mummified hand would shake out, or something like an eyeball specimen... Fortunately, there was none.

   While thinking, Toru Amuro checked the suitcase.

   Then I found out that this is an ordinary mass-produced luggage with locks, without any mechanism.

   The problem is probably still in that newspaper.

  …

Next to   , the innkeeper looked disappointed.

  Although he didn't want to embezzle the property of the man in red, but when he suddenly encountered such a thing, he thought he had encountered some legendary mystery. Who knows that now, only one newspaper has been opened in the box.

  ...Maybe the man in red doesn't care about the contents of the box at all, he just wants to send that cursed letter for an excuse?

  ... Maybe there are some complicated anagrams hidden in the newspaper?

   The innkeeper sighed. He still prefers the adventurous part, and is not interested in anagrams and the like.

"It's getting late, why don't you two go to dinner first - in order to ensure the freshness of the ingredients, our main dishes are available for a limited time, and now there are more than 20 minutes before the end, and then there will be only batch-customized bento. "

The boss looked at Jiang Xia: "Let the box stay with you. Well, if you solve the puzzle and find out what kind of adventure map or treasure map it is, you can borrow someone from me. We usually go to the mountains to dig by ourselves. Wild vegetables, lots of shovels and stuff."

"OK."

   Coincidentally, Jiang Xia is also not interested in solving puzzles.

  Compared to this, he still cares more about the murderous aura of the waiters in the store - although there are not many at the moment, but it looks like there is a lot of potential for growth.

   He snapped the lid of the box and prepared to go to dinner as the boss said.

   (end of this chapter)