Conan’s Corpse Picker

  Chapter 989 Another famous detective looking for a monthly pass ヽ(〃〃)~

  The two soon arrived at the cultural center in Shizuoka.

   When I got to the place, I found that it was quite lively.

  —There seems to be a play today. At the entrance of the cultural center, there is a huge hard-shell billboard with three gorgeously dressed actors printed on it.

   Two of the young men, dressed as knights, were fighting with swords.

  The old man in the background, sitting on a high throne with a shadow covering his body, sneered while drinking.

  …

   Just took a look, and a laughing voice came from the side: "This is a popular mask drama from the 17th to the 19th century. Today is John Benson's The Triumphof Folly. The translation is 'stupid victory'."

   Jiang Xia and the Henggou Police Department followed the sound and saw a well-dressed woman.

  The woman, in a suit and skirt, nodded gracefully at them, raised her hand and pushed her glasses: "Mr. Henggou, are you still here for the last case?"

   Halfway through, she saw Jiang Xia who turned back, and her eyes suddenly lit up.

   "Miss Zhishui." The Henggou Police Department recovered, "Your troupe is performing today? - I wish you a smooth performance. We still have something to do, so we have to go first."

   Zhishui Qianzi snorted, hesitated for a moment, and finally watched Jiang Xia leave.

  —their troupe, their first attempt at the "Stupid Victory" masquerade.

  Although the plot of this drama is good, there has always been a legend about it-from the 17th century to the present, every time it appears, at least one related person will unfortunately die.

   At first, neither the director nor Shisui Kinko took this legend to heart.

   But when we were rehearsing a while ago, there would always be accidents every now and then, so they felt that it was impossible and wanted to find a detective to come to the town.

  I didn't expect that today, before the most crucial performance, Jiang Xia would come.

but…

   Shimizu Kinko sighed:

   They are moving too fast, they have already hired a famous detective. The man was in the hall, watching the last rehearsal of the play.

   Now that I will bring Jiang Xia there, in addition to the Henggou Police Department will be unhappy, maybe the detective will also feel that the troupe is not optimistic about his ability... Let's forget it first.

  Shishui Kinko shook his head, reluctantly looked away from Jiang Xia's back, and returned to the hall.

  …

   On the other side, Jiang Xia and the Henggou Police Department walked towards the side door.

  Jiang Xia glanced in the direction of the stage from a distance across the thick building wall, and always felt that the air there was quite sweet - there seemed to be more than one kind of murderous aura.

   He remembered how the Henggou Police Department and the female agent met just now, and took a quick step to catch up with the Henggou Police Department who was wandering.

   Then he asked in a small talk: "The lady just now also knew about the case three days ago?"

"Huh?" The Henggou Police Department recovered and nodded hesitantly, "She knew something happened there, but she didn't know the details—the rest rooms that were blocked due to the murder were originally intended for their troupe, but Now they have to go to the other side, and…”

  Henggou Police Department reluctantly touched his coral-like curls:

   "Their director and manager learned that there was a murder in the lounge, and they didn't complain, but rather apologetically apologised.

"We didn't think it was right, we asked after it, and then we found out that it seemed to be because of the 'stupid victory' they were going to play. There have been many fatal accidents in history - it is said that since the beginning of the 17th century, it was related to that scene. Among the people who are related, there must be a sacrifice. So they think that this case is likely to be influenced by them... It's superstitious. "

   Jiang Xia looked a lot more serious: "Have there been many fatal accidents?"

   "Yeah, actually in my opinion, it's just a pure coincidence - which show hasn't had a problem.

   "It's just that this 'stupid victory', the overall atmosphere of the plot is very gloomy, so it is particularly impressive, and it was even passed down as a 'curse' in the end."

   The Henggou Police Department looks very materialistic.

   If it weren't for him saying, goosebumps all over his body, his words must be more convincing:

   "I also took a look at it at the time. This drama played a tragedy of power struggle - a duel between a prince and a minister, and was pierced by a sword from the minister. The minister laughed and fell from the roof.

"After the two perished together, the king, who was watching behind the scenes, raised his glass to the audience with a smile - the dispute between the minister and the prince was actually provoked by the king in order to eradicate dissent. However, the king could not stand to the end, the minister Poisoned in his wine and he poured it. In the end no one survived."

  Jiang Xia: "..." This drama seems quite realistic in this world. Is it based on reality?

  …

   While talking, the two had reached the side door.

   The Henggou Police Department opened the door, and took Jiang Xia to the rest rooms.

   "This is it." He found shoe covers and gloves and handed them to Jiang Xia, "A lot of physical evidence has been taken away, and the remaining traces are not too many..."

   Before he finished speaking, his phone suddenly rang.

The Henggou Police Department looked down at the caller ID, and couldn't help but twitched his forehead, showing a look of "the dog boss is here to persecute me again"—if it wasn't for this morning's boss bragging that the case could be solved in one day in order to drive away the reporter no stress...

   Henggou walked to the side and picked up the phone.

   Jiang Xia looked at his back, thoughtfully: The police in Shizuoka Prefecture are always so busy?

  ...Maybe when there is no case in Tokyo, you can come and visit them nearby. Anyway, the two sides are not far away, and there is also the famous Izu Beach here.

   Jiang Xia opened the door of the lounge while thinking about it, looking for possible murderous aura.

  The lounge is very clean and there are not many things. At first glance, there is nothing.

   Murder is not here.

   And the other adjacent lounges are also absent. Otherwise, at this distance, the ghosts must have brought their murderous aura back.

  "..." In the performance hall on the other side, I could feel a lot of murderous aura.

  …I really want to go and see it.

  Jiang Xia retreated to the corridor and looked at the vast topographic map on the wall, vaguely having a pleasant feeling of looking at a treasure map.

   He was thinking, what excuse should he find for a while and go for a walk there.

I saw the Henggou Police Department hang up the phone, walked back, and apologized: "Mr. Xiaogongshan's wife went to the police station to make trouble again, and now it's the month of security enhancement. Give me a call on the spot, and I'll come pick you up right away!"

   The young detective was startled.

   Then nodded, as if he didn't mind the scumbag behavior of the Henggou Police Department of "receiving guests and then throwing them away": "Don't worry, I'll contact you immediately if something happens."

   The Henggou Police Department left gratefully.

  …

   Jiang Xia quietly watched him leave.

   The corridor door clicked shut, and Jiang Xia turned around and left.

   Treasure hunt.

   (end of this chapter)