Conan’s Corpse Picker

When Pu Si Qinglan opened the door, he suddenly saw Jiang Xia's face outside. The corners of her eyes twitched, and the murderous aura that had been loose on her body suddenly became tight again.

Jiang Xia glanced at her and invited her in a friendly way: "We plan to play poker for a while. Come together when you have time."

"..." Pu Siqinglan frowned, and her first reaction was to refuse.

This thought flashed through her mind, and she was slightly startled. She was surprised to find that she actually resisted being in the same space as Jiang Xia.

This strange feeling of fear actually aroused her vigilance - she was the "Scooper" who made even the Interpol police fearful, but now she actually wanted to hide from a high school student who had nothing but good luck. Something happened.

A killer must never be afraid to get close to his target. No matter how you think about it, entertainment activities that can bring people closer together, such as "playing cards", are a good opportunity for Jiang Xia to let down his guard.

Soon, Pu Si Qinglan showed a smile in Suzuki Sonoko's disappointed eyes: "Okay, wait a moment."

She turned back to the house and packed her handbag.

The doorway suddenly became vacant, and it happened to be facing the TV cabinet.

Conan casually glanced inside and suddenly saw a photo frame placed on the TV cabinet. The back of the photo frame is facing this way, and you can't see clearly what the photo inside looks like. You can only see a few letters written on the back.

"...Gregory?"

Conan muttered and read out.

Suzuki Sonoko followed his gaze and noticed the photo frame on the table.

She was startled and began to think: as soon as she arrived in the room, she took out the photo frame and set it up. It seemed that this photo was extremely important to Pu Siqinglan and she wanted to see it every moment.

She remembered that many people had the habit of carrying photos of important people with them, and she suddenly made a guess. Her eyes flashed with gossip, and she happily guessed: "It must be a photo of Miss Qinglan's boyfriend!"

It turns out that she already has a boyfriend. If I had told him earlier, it would have shocked her.

But soon, Suzuki Sonoko was startled again: Wait, regardless of whether she has a boyfriend, she had seen Jiang Xia helping Pu Siqinglan pick up her mobile phone before, and Pu Siqinglan took the opportunity to touch Jiang Xia. back of hand.

...If you have a boyfriend and still flirt around, wouldn't things become even more terrifying? ——A simple perverted nympho, and a perverted nympho who is not bound by moral constraints and cheats openly, no matter how you think about it, the latter is more dangerous!

Suzuki Sonoko: "..." Moreover, this kind of chaos in the adult world may have a more unique appeal to some people. Scumbags are very good at disguise, and it is easiest to deceive sincere people... As she thought about it, her eyes couldn't help but drift to the side.

Jiang Xia saw her strange expression and was startled for a moment. What kind of look was that? "What's wrong?"

Suzuki Sonoko looked at him, then at Pu Si Qinglan who was not far away in the room, but hesitated to speak.

Pu Siqinglan had good ears and heard their conversation.

Only then did she realize that she had been distracted for a moment and had forgotten the name written on the back of the photo frame.

She walked to the TV cabinet, flipped down the photo she didn't want anyone to see, and then went out and blended in with the others as if nothing had happened: "Pack it up, let's go."

…

Half an hour later, in a room on the yacht.

A group of young people gathered around the refreshments on the table, holding black tea and chatting and laughing.

In fact, a few people were playing cards. But a one-sided card game is really unfriendly to strangers. Although it is just a game, losing all the time can also affect your mood.

Suzuki Sonoko used to play poker with Mao Lilan a lot, and she was used to losing. Conan, on the other hand, always meets Jiang Xia at the scene of solving crimes, a guy who is in a hurry to reveal spoilers, and now he has already developed a leisurely character of being indifferent to winning or losing.

But as the card game progressed, the two guests, who had just met them not long ago, saw their interest drop.

Suzuki Sonoko, the host, realized belatedly that she had chosen the wrong entertainment item, so she changed the content of the small party and replaced it with refreshments and tea - sitting together eating and drinking, so that there was no luck or winning or losing.

Kasaka Natsumi looked at the poker that Jiang Xia had put aside and breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, she usually thinks that her luck with cards is pretty good, but for some reason today, she lost from the beginning to the end. The good cards were all played by Jiang Xia or Mao Lilan, which made her almost think that these high school students were teaming up to perform an undefeated magic... Well now, the nightmare game is over.

…

Kasaka Natsumi held up a cup of tea, took a sip, breathed a sigh of relief, and chatted about daily life with the high school students:

"I have been living in Paris since many years ago. Therefore, the words I use now often fail to keep up with the times, and sometimes some strange Japanese sentences will appear suddenly."

As she was talking, she suddenly remembered something, nodded her chin and thought: "After returning to Japan, maybe because I saw the familiar environment, a sentence I heard when I was a child always flashed in my mind - although I can barely remember it. pronunciation, but I can’t remember the meaning of the sentence at all…I don’t know if it was a unique buzzword of that era.”

“Remember the pronunciation but don’t understand what it means?”

Conan was bored, and when he heard this sentence, his eyes lit up: "Maybe it's not a buzzword, but some kind of word puzzle - I have some experience in solving puzzles, why don't I say it, and we can help See what it means."

Kasaka Natsumi couldn't help but smile when she saw a first-grade elementary school student seriously saying that he was good at solving puzzles.

However, children’s self-confidence is indeed easy to inflate and they will feel that they can do anything. She did not break this beautiful illusion, but simply answered Conan's question: "That sentence seems to be——"

She moved her lips lightly and uttered a string of Balala mantra-like words: "Balusheni Kukatame."

"..."

Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko heard that this might be a crossword puzzle, and originally planned to join in the fun and decipher it.

But before I heard it, I really didn’t expect... that it would be so weird.

Conan also took a sip of tea silently, looking at the sea view outside the window, pretending that it was not him who just said he wanted to guess the crossword puzzle, so as to buy himself some time to think.

Seeing their silence, Natsumi Kasaka shared her guess: "I think this may be asking a person named 'Balu Snow' if he went to buy meat!"

In Japanese, the pronunciation of "meat" is close to Niku, and "kata" is very similar to the past tense of "buy". When she explained this, the whole sentence suddenly became less strange than when she first heard it.

Conan nodded thoughtfully, trying to hear more information: "Who is Baluche?"

"I don't know, I've never heard of such a person." Kasaka Natsumi laughed and said, "But such a strange pronunciation is probably the only way to pronounce a person's name like this."