Conan’s Corpse Picker

The painter couldn't help but raise his chin, a little proud: "Of course it's true, don't underestimate the materials I have accumulated - in fact, I happened to encounter many of the cases I just mentioned, so I think that puppet is destined to be with me."

Jiang Xia was silent for a while, and when he looked at him again, his eyes became slightly different.

He took out his business card: "Although I should have given it to you last time, I'm worried that you didn't save my contact information..."

"Saved it." The painter looked at him meaningfully, "You are not much worse than my puppet."

Jiang Xia said seriously: "If you find any abnormalities around you that may be related to murder, you must tell me in time. Human life is at stake, and I will try my best to stop it."

The painter was about to reach out to take the business card with a changed style: "..."

... Suddenly I don't want to find you.

But on second thought, although this detective is good at solving cases, murders often happen in just a moment - I haven't seen Jiang Xia successfully prevent cases in the previous few times. In comparison, the characteristics of this detective being entangled in murders are really tempting.

As his thoughts raced, the painter’s hand, which had paused for a moment, continued to reach out and took the new business card.

He looked down and frowned: “The design is not bad, but this style doesn’t match you.”

Jiang Xia was a little curious: “What style should it be?”

The painter took out a smaller notebook from somewhere and quickly made a draft: “This is it.”

Jiang Xia glanced at it and found that the paper seemed to be a bone-eroded and rugged door, with sickles interlaced on both sides and black crow feathers on the corners. It was just a draft, but it could also show the spooky and strange taste.

Jiang Xia’s eyes lit up: “…” Not bad, not bad, just the black and white draft is so impactful, and when it is colored in black and red, and matched with the font that looks like a skeleton, the effect must be excellent. I have to trick him to come over to draw a few new business cards someday, and maybe I can get some cases by the way - this painter also looks like he has a strong case physique, and I think he is no worse than others.

But...

After a brief moment of fantasizing, the high school student who was in a good mood suddenly fell silent.

"Wait, if I remember correctly, I seem to be a detective." Jiang Xia touched his chin, his thoughts drifting away, "The people who come to me are either some successful people who follow the rules, or unlucky citizens who are threatened and want to get safety. What if I use this kind of business card... and scare them away?"

"But this pattern does look good..."

After hesitating for a moment, the psychic had an idea.

"It's not a big problem. At most, I can make it first and put it away. Even if I don't use it to send it to the client, I can give it to some people who won't be scared away by business cards, such as colleagues in the organization or the FBI-business cards, functionality is the most important. Even if these people don't like the pictures on them, they can't throw away the business cards. That's very impolite behavior."

When the detective and the painter were talking happily.

Next to him, Akai Shuichi looked at the painter's eyes and silently became much more solemn.

Akai Shuichi: "..." The different cases encountered in the past few years "happen" to be closely related to each other?

...There can't be such a coincidence in the world. There must be something fishy behind this "coincidence".

As he thought about it, Shuichi Akai pressed his phone, distilled all the cases he had just heard into an email, and then pressed send to his diligent colleague.

With those keywords, it should not be difficult to find news related to these cases, and as long as their authenticity can be proved and the painter's figure can be found on the edge of these cases, it can explain a very important thing-Kobayashi Seiji has been paying attention to Uzo at least five years ago.

"Continued contact with Uzo for 5 years... If this is true, there must be a lot of things to dig out from this painter. If you are lucky, maybe this person will be an important subordinate of Uzo and have many clues about him, just like vodka and gin."

Shuiichi Akai thought carefully: "But there is a question here-why did Kobayashi Seiji take the initiative to expose this information?"

"The best case scenario is that 'that person' did not notice my existence, so he didn't know that I would hear these words."

However, thinking of the close-up of his own death on the painter's paper and the many attacks he encountered today, Shuichi Akai silently ruled out this speculation.

"It should be another possibility." Akai Shuichi thought to himself, "Uzo wants to achieve a certain purpose through the painter. For this purpose, he doesn't mind letting the painter reveal some information that he thinks is insignificant."

"As for that purpose..."

Akai Shuichi's eyes moved and fell on Jiang Xia, who was attracted by the business card design.

Akai Shuichi: "..."

...The organization version of Moriarty is really interested in Tokyo Holmes. In addition to the murders that are usually messed up around Jiang Xia, the information brought by the painter today is probably also part of Uzo's game.

Although Bourbon, the undercover, protects Jiang Xia, compared with this busy man who works countless jobs a day, Uzo's pervasive infiltration is obviously superior.

"If this goes on, let alone protecting Jiang Xia, maybe Bourbon will fall into the hands of 'that person' one day-for a 'director' who is good at controlling people's hearts, it is not too difficult to see through the nature of people. If Bourbon doesn't have much contact with him, it's okay, but if he has too much contact... This is very dangerous for the undercover."

Akai Shuichi was a little worried about the safety of his undercover colleague: "We have to find a way to remind him. Of course, it would be best to form an alliance with Bourbon, and then we can work together inside and outside to find a way to get more information about Uzo."

The work increased one by one, Akai Shuichi sorted out his thoughts, and began to sort out future actions with great optimism.

…

Inspector Megure didn't notice that some detectives were slacking off nearby.

He looked back and saw Jiang Xia talking to the painter, and thought that the detective was helping the police find clues from that hard bone, so Inspector Megure quickly withdrew his gaze with relief and continued to make his own efforts.

He looked at the police officer in the forensic department: "Has the cause of death of the body been confirmed?"

The police officer nodded: "It was cyanide poisoning."

Akai Shuichi came back to his senses, looked over here, and secretly paid attention to the case in order to predict the various variables that might appear in it.

He was not surprised to hear the cause of death: not to mention the painter's death painting full of prophecies and warnings, the cause of death can be roughly determined from the appearance of the corpse - the body will lose color quickly after death, but the nails and lips of the corpse in front of him not only did not turn white, but instead showed a bright cherry red. This is undoubtedly one of the common symptoms of cyanide poisoning.