Conan’s Corpse Picker

Jiang Xia turned around and found, as expected, that in the exhibition hall, Conan found the corpse very accurately.

And turned on the flashlight.

The two girls next to him stood outside the exhibition hall, looking at the corpse suddenly illuminated by the flashlight, they all froze.

A second later, two intertwined screams resounded through the corridor, the high-pitched vibrato that broke the boundary, more piercing than the alarm bell.

Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko huddled together, looked at Jiang Xia, remembered the blood on his body, and said incoherently: "You, you, you..."

Jiang Xia: "I didn't kill it."

The two girls on the opposite side covered their hearts and breathed a sigh of relief at the same time: "Oh, we also feel..."

Before he was completely relieved, he suddenly saw Jiang Xia looking at them, and said thoughtfully, "Do you believe me when I tell you?"

Mao Lilan: "..."

Suzuki Sonoko: "..."

This is too much like the lines when a good guy jumps back.

Two pairs of frightened eyes looked at Jiang Xia again: "!"

"It's not me." Jiang Xia said again patiently.

...

However, this time, Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko still looked terrified and suspicious.

Jiang Xia looked at them and felt that the reaction of these two students was quite interesting.

Sure enough, people have been fooled a lot, and their defenses will increase accordingly...

...

Jiang Xia had had enough fun, and lowered her tone: "The sentence I just said, 'You will believe me?', is actually just a simple interrogative sentence..."

Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko: "..."

Seeing Jiang Xia's "innocent" expression, the two pure and kind female classmates couldn't help but reflect silently.

"……"really. Looking back and thinking about it carefully, Jiang Xia's sentence just now, "You believe what I say?" - shouldn't it be understood as "You believe what I say? Trust me so much? It's touching"... or something like that!

Thinking of this, Suzuki Sonoko cleared his throat to cover up, walked back to the original place, grabbed Jiang Xia's hand, shook it vigorously, and said firmly:

"It was a joke just now! Of course we believe you very much."

...Ah, this hand is really easy to touch.

And it's different from what she thought before.

It's not cold.

It's quite warm to hold, maybe it can be used as a hand warmer in winter.

...

At the entrance of the exhibition hall, Suzuki Sonoko was obsessed with shaking hands with Jiang Xia.

Conan walked back from the corpse.

He first reminded Mao Lilan to call the police, and then looked at Jiang Xia:

"We believe that you didn't kill the person, but after all, you are the first person to discover the body, and the police will give priority to suspecting you—you should think about today's itinerary carefully, and it is best to find an alibi, and the way to come here , Have you seen any suspicious people?"

Conan does not blindly believe in Jiang Xia's character.

It's just that the corpse in the exhibition hall died in a terrible state, with blood splattered everywhere.

In other words, if the person was killed by Jiang Xia, it is impossible for Jiang Xia to be so clean.

In addition, Conan has seen Jiang Xia beating people before - beating him with a stick, like playing whack-a-mole in an arcade.

And like in the exhibition hall, the act of imitating oil paintings and nailing people to the wall... has a strong sense of ritual and is quite complicated.

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like Jiang Xia's style.

...

Therefore, Conan felt that the truth was probably that Jiang Xia passed by here, and for some reason, walked into the exhibition hall to take a look, and then accidentally stepped on blood.

As for why Jiang Xia didn't turn on the lights, scream, or call the police...

...Maybe it has something to do with his personality.

Everyone reacts differently when they see a dead body.

Conan really couldn't imagine the scene where Jiang Xia ran away while screaming.

"..." Thinking about it this way, Jiang Xia walked out of the exhibition hall calmly just now, which seems quite reasonable.

And theoretically speaking, Jiang Xia's state is...unstable. In short, some abnormal behaviors are very reasonable on him.

Conan: "..." Speaking of this, I don't know if Jiang Xia takes more than ten days of sick leave and misses more than ten days of class every month, and whether she honestly goes to the psychotherapy department to see a doctor.

Thinking of this, Conan couldn't help reviewing Jiang Xia's daily life that he observed: it seemed to be all speed racing, beating people, and visiting exhibition halls...

Conan thought tiredly, the answer is probably no.

...

The exhibition hall is not far from the Metropolitan Police Department.

High school students stand at the door of the Hell Hall, waiting for the police. The four people were frightened and reasoning, and those who wanted to pick up ghosts wanted to pick up ghosts... It didn't take long for the police to arrive.

...

In the hall of hell.

The roof lights were turned on, and the room was instantly brightened.

Police officers from the Mumu Police Department and the Forensics Division entered the hall together to search for clues, and sent several subordinates to ask witnesses about the situation.

Police officer Sato came out at the command, glanced at the four of them, and stopped at Jiang Xia's back.

According to her experience, the probability of the murderer appearing among the first discoverers is not low.

Compared with those two high school girls who turned pale and evasively dared not look at the dead body, and the elementary school student who was not as tall as Sato's legs, Jiang Xia's suspicion immediately climbed straight up.

However, after approaching, Jiang Xia turned around, and Officer Sato saw him in front of him, and was startled.

... She just met this man in the office not long ago.

Although Miwako Sato was not a police officer in the Forensics Division, she had been involved in so many murder cases, so she had some experience.

—she could tell roughly how long the body had been dead.

And at this time, according to her rough judgment... Jiang Xia was sitting in their office to report the crime when Zhenzhong's boss was killed.

"..." It seems that this time, the murderer was not among the people who first discovered the body?

…………

The police quickly completed their inquiries.

Unfortunately, however, the witnesses failed to provide much clues

But soon, the Mumu Police Department was pleasantly surprised to find that there was a surveillance camera in the Hell Pavilion, facing the scene of the crime.

The Mumu police department waved happily: "Go and adjust the monitoring!"

...

five minutes later.

See the monitoring screen.

The Mumu Police Department couldn't be happier.

Surveillance did film the murder process.

But the murderer's face was not photographed—the murderer wore a set of Western knight armor with an iron mask on his face, which completely blocked his face.

...

When the policemen looked at the monitor and sighed.

Beside, Jiang Xia fiddled with her mobile phone silently.

There is an extra video in it, which he secretly photographed just now.

——Just now, the curator Ochiai of this exhibition hall squatted down and pretended to tie his shoelaces while everyone else was watching the surveillance.

During this period, the white-bearded grandfather used the action of "squatting down" to secretly use a good pen to replace the pen on the floor that Boss Zhenzhong had used before his death and could not write with a single pen.

This is part of the Ochiai curator's murder plan.

A few hours earlier, he donned knightly armor to conceal his identity and deliberately killed people on camera. During this process, the old curator did not kill Boss Zhenzhong with a single blow, but left some gaps for him. As expected, Boss Zhenzhong realized that he could not hold on when he was being attacked, so he touched it. A piece of paper on the next table, and picked up the pen that was also there, intending to secretly write the name of the murderer.

However, that piece of paper was actually placed there by the old curator in advance. On the piece of paper, another employee's name had already been written in advance.

Moreover, the pen in Zhenzhong's boss's hand was broken, and he couldn't write at all.

The Hell exhibition hall is dimly lit, and it is difficult for the camera to distinguish such a small difference.

Therefore, as long as afterwards, Director Ochiai promptly replaced the bad pen used by Boss Manaka with a pen that can write normally.

Putting it all together, the whole thing became "before Boss Zhenzhong died, he wrote the murderer's name on a note while the murderer was unaware".

But in fact, that person's name was just an employee who was blamed.

...

While the police were contemplating the surveillance.

Jiang Xia skipped all the reasoning steps and walked to the old curator.

Curator Ochiai was holding his hands behind his back, staring deeply at the oil painting on the wall—gazing at the opposite of the corpse, the oil painting of a knight killing a demon, but was splashed with dirty blood.

In the eyes of the curator, the new owner Zhenzhong broke his promise - it is said that he will continue to open the exhibition hall after he promised to buy the exhibition hall. But now, he suddenly wanted to tear down the exhibition hall and transform it into a restaurant.

So curator Ochiai doesn't regret the murder: he is punishing Manaka, the guy who defiled the art.

Therefore, the curator feels that the bloody knight in the oil painting is very similar to his own situation.

——Handsome, tragic, sacrificing everything, just to eliminate evil.

... A man should be like this.

Just as he was feeling emotional, a sentence suddenly floated beside him:

"The righteous knight subdued the devil, but at the same time, he was also infected with the blood of evil... Do you think so?"

Curator Ochiai: "!"

Startled, he suddenly turned his head to look to the side.

I saw the young man who first discovered the body walked to his side at some point.

"..." Director Ochiai thought of Jiang Xia's words, always felt that he meant something, and felt guilty for a few seconds.

After a while, he twirled his waist-long beard and forcibly calmed down.

——Probably because I thought too much.

This perfect murder plan cannot be easily seen through.

The little boy in front of him was probably just talking about oil paintings.

...

However, Director Ochiai just comforted himself in this way.

In the next second, Jiang Xia's topic completely deviated from the oil painting.

Jiang Xia suddenly said in a low voice: "You should know that when signing a land sale contract, the seller can impose restrictions on the subsequent use of the land—for example, write 'continue to operate the exhibition hall and not use it for other purposes' in the contract. "

Curator Ochiai was taken aback.

Jiang Xia continued: "It's just that this kind of restriction will dissuade many buyers. In other words, once restrictions are added to the contract, the land will become difficult to sell.

"—It now appears that your former boss did not include the 'restricted land use' agreement into the contract.

"Promises that are not written into the contract cannot be trusted. Even a rookie who has just joined the company for a few months knows this, let alone your former boss..."

When Jiang Xia said this, he looked up at the curator, hesitant to say: "Speaking of which, you are already very old, and you have worked hard in the workplace for decades. You are also a curator, and you must have signed Quite a few contracts—you never thought about that, did you?"

Slipping to the side, Conan who eavesdropped silently for a long time: "..."

Although he didn't quite understand the cause...but judging from what Jiang Xia said, he seemed to suspect that the curator was the murderer.

……Why?

Also, how could Jiang Xia know so clearly about the exhibition hall?

Did the lady at the ticket office tell him?