Conan’s Corpse Picker

Chapter 236 How can a detective beat someone? Please vote for me (〃)

Kouki Sawaki was startled for a moment, then nodded to them and gave up a little bit of his position.

When he turned around, he showed a sneer from an angle that Jiang Xia and Conan could not see, and it flashed away.

"That's a lot of wine." Conan followed Jiang Xia and Sawaki Koei and walked past countless full wine cabinets. He couldn't help but mutter, "How long will it take to drink this?"

Jiang Xia thought of the huge bookcase in Kudo's house: "You have so many books, haven't you read them all?"

Conan: "..." To be honest, he hasn't finished reading yet...

Of course it's not easy to admit this kind of thing, but fortunately, there's Fairy Sawaki next to him. Conan took advantage of the situation and showed a child's tone, saying the lines that a child should say: "Haha, there are so many books, a primary school student can't read them all... huh?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the fake smile on Conan's face suddenly stopped and he looked forward.

——He suddenly felt a flash of silver passing through his field of vision. If you look carefully, you will see that there is an extremely thin steel wire stretched across the adult at the calf level.

"……"What is this?

As questions emerged in his mind, Conan suddenly felt a sense of crisis in his heart, and he blurted out: "Stop!"

"What?" Kohei Sawaki didn't seem to react. As he walked, he looked back at Conan and bumped into the section of steel wire.

The steel wire moved and turned through countless mechanisms. A tight bowstring sound suddenly sounded, which was particularly harsh in the closed wine warehouse.

——There is a crossbow mechanism behind you!

Conan thought of Jiang Xia behind them and was suddenly startled: "Be careful!"

The sharp crossbow arrow struck instantly. Conan couldn't see its shadow at all, and only heard a burst of sound.

At this moment, Jiang Xia raised his hand at a speed that he couldn't see clearly. The crossbow arrow with a fierce speed was like a piece of flying cotton wool, and he caught it casually in his hand.

Under the shocked gazes of the two people behind him, Jiang Xia lowered his head and looked at the murderous weapon.

Then he looked towards the direction it was flying from and said calmly: "There is no one over there... It seems that this is a trigger mechanism that was arranged in advance. It seems that the person who left the letter has a big problem."

Conan, who was already reviewing methods to stop bleeding: "..."

Although he doesn't know why, he always forgets the setting "Jiang Xia is actually very good at fighting". But this time...if I read correctly, the arrow was shot from Jiang Xia's back.

...can you catch this too?

Conan looked at Jiang Xia, who was unscathed, and then at the arrow in his hand. Apart from admiration, he was also a little envious.

If he had such a skill back then, he might not have had to deal with Gin's sap when he was near the amusement park, nor would he have to be shrunk like this.

Conan: "..." Why didn't he learn fighting skills from this group of teenagers before?

I regret it now, very much.

…

"what happened?!"

The sound of the crossbow firing, as well as Conan and Sawaki's exclamations, quickly attracted others.

The Mumu Police Department saw the arrow in Jiang Xia's hand and was suddenly shocked: "This is the same as the one that the attacker shot into my stomach before! I heard that Dr. A Li was also attacked by it."

Jiang Xia handed the metal arrow to the Mu Mu Police Department and came to the end of the corridor.

He looked at the crossbow hidden inside and the "Eight of Spades" placed next to the crossbow, and thought thoughtfully: "It should be the same attacker."

Police and detectives discussed the attack in hushed tones. Sawaki Koji stood beside him with an ugly expression.

The Mumu Police Department saw his appearance and patted him comfortingly: "It seems this is a trap for you. Fortunately, you are lucky and you happen to be with Jiang Xia."

Shido Nagaaki looked at Jiang Xia in surprise: "I didn't expect you to be quite powerful. I have read the reports about you, and I thought you were a purely cerebral detective who can't fight."

"I really don't know how to fight." Jiang Xia said seriously, "I was just lucky. I just grabbed it casually, but I didn't expect to catch it by chance."

…He didn’t want to expose that.

——The cases Jiang Xia came across were often sudden, and few media were present in advance.

Since the police discovered that the prisoners taken over from Jiang Xia were more or less humanoid, certain police officers rarely let reporters into the scene immediately out of consideration for protecting minors and protecting the reputation of detectives. .

The result of this is that there are very few media who know that Jiang Xia likes to knock people out and is good at knocking people out.

I heard that there was once a tabloid that got the inside story from somewhere and tried to criticize this kind of abuse of prisoners and lack of humane care.

However, after the report was published, it failed to cause society to think about the ethics of detectives as expected. Instead, only letters of protest and unsubscription notices came like a snowflake.

The innocent tabloid was scolded for making things up out of nothing, using imprecise wording, and deliberately distorting and misleading the truth—how could a high school detective who hates evil beat someone for no reason?

Even if he was beaten, it must be because the prisoner was too cruel and Jiang Xia had no choice but to defend himself.

Otherwise, what else can I do? Do I have to be beaten by the prisoner?

…

Therefore, later on, few reporters mentioned these things. When writing about Jiang Xia, they only focused on reconstructing those cases with fancy techniques.

In the final analysis, the audience of detective newspapers in this world cares more about the quality of the case. As long as the method is novel enough and the narrative is eye-catching enough, it doesn't really matter whether the detective who solves the case is a ruthless mole-beating machine in private, or a good person who is used to having long conversations with criminals.

Fortunately that's the case. Jiang Xia secretly thought: Otherwise, if the prisoners turned around and ran away when they saw him, how could he stay at the scene and happily murderous?