Conan’s Corpse Picker

After Izumi Kaori introduced the location of the apartment, he turned back and looked at the star detective he was chasing.

Although Jiang Xia didn't speak, he was obviously in a good mood when he looked at the building and looked forward to entering the building.

Izumi Kaori felt relieved and said happily: "Let's go, let's go find Naomi - I remember she is in 203."

…

After going up to the second floor and taking a quick glance at the spacious corridor, the eyes of a group of five people soon fell on the door of 203.

——There were several large bags there, and inside were several large and exquisitely packaged lunch boxes. It seemed that they were meals delivered by the "Dolphin Restaurant" that Izumi Kayoli mentioned just now.

"Why don't you take the takeout in? Has she gone out?" Sakurako Yamamoto looked at the takeout at her feet and sighed, "You were clearly urging us to hurry up just now..."

They were all acquaintances, she complained and turned the doorknob.

The next second, Yamamoto Sakurako was suddenly startled: "...the door is not locked."

"Maybe she forgot to lock it, or she was actually at home, but she was busy touching up her makeup and didn't go out to pick up the takeout." Izumi Kayori didn't pay much attention. She called out to Naoko twice, but when she found no one answered, she simply opened the door and left. go out.

Two other friends followed suitably.

…

After all, Jiang Xia and Mao Lilan were not familiar with the owner of the house and did not go in immediately. Mao Lilan planned to wait for the owner of the house to come out and say hello before entering the house.

However, they could not wait to greet the owner of the house.

instead……

"ah--!!!"

Through the door, three screams rang out in unison, piercing through the apartment and echoing around like ghosts.

Mao Lilan was shocked: "?!"

Jiang Xia also immediately showed a vigilant look.

He was about to rush in, do his duty as a detective, and answer the call of the screams.

But at this moment, the peephole on the door next door suddenly dimmed - someone came behind the door and was peeking out quietly through the door.

Jiang Xia suddenly turned her gaze and stared at the cat's eyes in surprise for two seconds.

Then he frowned slightly, looking thoughtful.

Being stared at by Jiang Xia through the door, the guy next door obviously realized that he had been discovered.

"..."

A few seconds later, the door clicked and was unlocked.

A tall, scholarly man walked out of the room.

"...Mr. Okiya?" Seeing an acquaintance, the vigilance in Jiang Xia's eyes seemed to diminish a little, "Why are you here?"

"I usually live here." Subaru Okiya pushed up his glasses, hiding all the shouts and tension in his heart in the reflection of the lenses.

He turned to look at the door of the woman's room next door and asked calmly: "I thought I heard a scream just now... What happened?"

After being reminded like this, Jiang Xia seemed to have come back to his senses: "I don't know. I'll go in and take a look."

When he said the last half of the sentence, he deliberately raised his voice a little.

No one in the room objected, so Jiang Xia opened the door politely and ran into the room.

Mao Lilan also followed closely.

The figures of the two high school students quickly stepped into the corridor, followed the continuous screams, turned towards the living room, and disappeared.

Behind them, the wide open door was being pulled by elastic force and was closing again.

But before it could close, a hand reached out and blocked it.

"..."

Okiya Subaru blocked the door, making sure that he could rush to Jiang Xia for help when necessary, while looking left and right vigilantly, his eyes scanning the silent corridors on both sides inch by inch, trying to distinguish the aura of Uzo around him. .

——A few days ago, Akai Shuichi wore the disguise of "Okiya Subaru" and went to a skyscraper.

The matter of "Okiya Subaru has a secret" was completely exposed to Usa.

Subaru Okiya couldn't sleep or eat well.

Up to now, except for an email with "I will kill you if you dare to resign" written in the seam, Subaru Okiya has not received Usa's final verdict.

The most grueling moment is when the guillotine is about to fall. Coupled with the expectation of "running abroad and escaping from Uzo in two weeks"... Although he doesn't want to admit it, Subaru Okiya always feels like an unlucky cannon fodder with death flags all over his body. If he makes a wrong step, he will die violently. A murder case that fell from the sky.

…

Therefore, in the past few days, Subaru Okiya has been following Akai Shuichi's advice, secretly staying at home, minimizing his presence, and resolutely not opening the door to anyone.

He even bought an alloy box that was resistant to strong pressure, impact and high temperature, and slept in it at night to reduce the chance of being blown up by his neighbors for no apparent reason.

...After staying like this for a few days, the quiet and stable home life gradually gave Subaru Okiya a feeling of "quiet time".

He secretly thought that maybe in this matter, Uzo was actually a good boss who respected the secrets of his subordinates. He had no intention of directly convicting "Okiya Subaru" for entering the explosion site without permission that day.

…

However, it wasn't long before Uzo was given a good person card through the air.

As if someone had read his mind, the gloomy footsteps of the murder were approaching again.

——Three screams pierced the wall, causing Subaru Okiya, who was dozing over his paper, to wake up and stand up.

It is well known that screams often accompany murders.

And murders occasionally accompany Uzo.

Okiya Subaru instinctively wanted to figure out the situation. He subconsciously ran to the door and peeked out through the peephole... Who would have thought that just this slight change in light and dark would be discovered by Jiang Xia.

…

Okiya Subaru desperately didn't want to leave his safe house.

But he was seen by Jiang Xia just now, and he had no choice.

——Although the characteristics of the cat's eyes prevent Jiang Xia from seeing clearly who is in the house, if a murder does occur, the police will definitely visit nearby neighbors to collect evidence. Okiya Subaru has seen many murder cases and is quite familiar with this process.

Once things develop to this point, Jiang Xia will naturally discover that the person in the room is Okiya Subaru.

"..." If Okiya Subaru was just an ordinary passerby who didn't know Jiang Xia, he could have fooled him with the excuse that "he was scared when he heard the screams, so he didn't dare to go out, so he had to stay indoors and act like a crowd."

But it happened that he knew Jiang Xia and Mao Lilan, and he always behaved like an enthusiastic and good graduate student. Hearing the screams but hiding away would only make "Okiya Subaru" very suspicious.

——Yes, suspicious.

Frightened, frightened. This state did not affect Subaru Okiya's thinking, but made his mind spin faster.

Okiya Subaru has long studied Usa's killing methods. In addition to the one-stop package of "killed in a homicide", there are actually some variations.

——For example, Subaru Okiya can rely on his status as a "peripheral member of the organization" to unlock the package "A person considered a major suspect by the police, brought to the police station, and killed by a killer sent by the organization on the way" from Uzo.