Conan’s Corpse Picker

Is this... gunshot? !

Okiya Subaru immediately recognized the nature of the sound.

He became alert and turned around to look outside the door. He saw that Jiang Xia had followed the sound out of the room and headed straight for the stairs. The child wearing glasses followed immediately.

Seeing someone running, Okiya Subaru instinctively ran a few steps along with him.

After following outside, he realized when the cold wind blew that he shouldn't have come to join in the fun.

But this room is very close to the stairs. People are already on the stairs. It’s hard to go back in despair...

Okiya Subaru had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow Jiang Xia - but speaking of it, when he knew that he was not the real murderer, only Jiang Xia, a detective who could accurately see through the truth, could give him a sense of security.

"..." But he didn't dare to follow too closely. After all, just now, the detective really left a small shadow on his fragile mind.

…

The police's reaction was slower than theirs, and they followed behind.

Several people walked along the stairs from the 7th floor to the 6th floor. He saw Rimi Yoshino sitting in the corner next to the elevator, looking in his direction in horror.

Okiya Subaru looked at her, then looked back in the direction of her gaze, and his eyes fell on Jiang Xia.

Okiya Subaru: "?"

Why are you looking at Jiang Xia with such horror? Could it be...

He was startled, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind again.

But soon, his keen observation made him realize that he seemed to have made a mistake-it seemed that what Rimi Yoshino was looking at was not Jiang Xia, but the stairwell exit blocked by Jiang Xia.

The agent lady raised her hand and pointed to the stairs tremblingly: "Inside the Death Array...he, he ran away from there after he fired the gun just now."

"What?!" Inspector Asa just ran down in a hurry when he heard such shocking news.

He turned back to look at his subordinates and said angrily: "How did you search the building? How could you let people hide for so long!"

The subordinates looked at each other: They searched very carefully, but they still missed the real murderer? ...There must have been something wrong when my colleague was searching elsewhere!

Inspector Asa watched them getting ready to play football, and his forehead jumped: "...Forget it, let the forensic department come down to collect evidence first."

Then he looked at Yoshino Rimi, whose legs were weak, and frowned: "Tell me in detail what is going on."

With the support of Mao Lilan, Yoshino Rimi stood up in shock.

She looked at the stairwell: "Mrs. Nanjo said just now that the camera screen was too small, so I came down to prepare the projector. Because there is only one floor between here and the crime scene, the stairs are more convenient than the elevator, so I took the stairs down.

“Unexpectedly, as soon as I opened the door to the stairwell, I saw the man dressed as ‘Inside the Death Array’ who was about to step onto the stairs.

"He fired a shot at me. I was very scared at the time. I knelt on the ground with weak feet and escaped by mistake. After that, he didn't bother me, passed me, and ran away down the stairs."

Okiya Subaru looked at her, then at the open-air stairwell, and finally at the two familiar... barely acquaintances next to him.

Jiang Xia and Conan were seen touching their chins with similar movements, lowering their heads and thinking about something, very much like detectives.

The news about the calm in London and his own luck, which could not be said to be good or bad, gave Subaru a little more courage.

He quietly moved next to Jiang Xia: "Do you already know the murderer?"

...If Jiang Xia finds the real culprit, then he will naturally get rid of the suspicion, so that he will not need to be arrested by the police for investigation, nor will he need to be photographed by reporters and then published in the newspaper and seen by Wu Zuo.

The light of hope gradually brightened.

However, at this time, Jiang Xia yawned, shook his head, and frowned: "Sorry, I only slept a few hours in two days. I feel like my brain is rusted."

Okiya Subaru: "..."

do not--! ! ! Why did it happen at this time! !

conspiracy.

...Is this another Uzo conspiracy? !

Jiang Xia glanced at the frozen younger brother from the corner of his eye: "..." Well, this look of surprise that was roaring in his heart but not daring to show on his face was also very similar to vodka.

Let him think about whether there are any similar guys around, and take the time to pick it up. Maybe it is a fresh dessert flavor.

…

The group waited for a while.

Soon, the police officers had preliminary results:

"We found no traces of bullet casings or gunpowder - the escape stairs here are built on the side of the building and are open-air. The wind was strong tonight. Maybe the murderer fired too close to the stairs, so those traces ran outside. "

Inspector Asa felt confused: "Then go look outside!"

but……

He thought about the scene downstairs and his head got bigger: it was not easy to find a bullet in the grass outside, and it was already dark now.

Fortunately, now, there is another clue.

——The projector is ready, and they can play the video of the murderer "inside the Death Array" to get information about the murderer.

…

When they were about to start the screening, Conan also took advantage of the chaos and slipped into the room where the projector was.

When Jiang Xia and Okiya Subaru were talking just now, Conan also heard the sound.

Not missing the opportunity, he decided to take advantage of Jiang Xia's overtime work and increase his efforts to solve the case. Although in fact, Detective Kudo was serious enough every time he solved the case, but now, glancing at Jiang Xia next to him, he only felt that his detective skills were not good enough. There is still room for improvement.

Conan was about to find a suitable viewing position.

But when passing by the bookshelf with various tapes, he turned his head and suddenly found a single tape pulled out on top of the neatly stacked tapes.

"Um?"

Conan picked it up and took a look at it, and then he was surprised - this tape was actually warm. This means that it was probably left running in the machine until just now.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Xia noticed something strange on his side, and took a closer look - this kind of thing hidden on the bottom shelf, if it wasn't exactly the same height as Conan, would ordinary adults really It's hard to notice.

Jiang Xia's eyes passed through the transparent protective shell of the tape, fell on the tape inside, and then looked at the tape recorder beside it.

Then he handed Conan a glove: "Don't touch the physical evidence. This police inspector seems to have some opinions on us. He is not as easy to talk to as the Megure Police Department."

Conan subconsciously took the glove, and then suddenly was startled: "..." Wait, Jiang Xia called this tape "physical evidence"... Could it be that he also understood the method used by the murderer?

I agreed that my brain will be rusty today!

At the door, Subaru Okiya looked quietly at this side, and he could vaguely get a clue from the changes in the expressions of the two people.