Conan’s Corpse Picker

When members of the organization are dealing with the follow-up.

On the other side, the FBI is also busy.

Judy finished the transcript skillfully and left the Metropolitan Police Department.

After thinking about it, she dialed her immediate boss James and reported to him the general situation today.

"I already know."

In a forest, James stepped on dead leaves, held his mobile phone, and sighed silently: "We are still too naive - even though we have decided not to chase Uzo, but to focus on Belmod." policy, but now it seems that the other party does not want to let this page go easily. Your experience today is really a life-and-death situation."

When Judy heard this, she scratched her head in embarrassment: "I didn't help much just now. I survived in a daze. Speaking of which, I always feel that the other party seems to be targeting Xiuyi more than me - maybe My identity as a foreign teacher has been disguised well, and those guys haven’t noticed the problem yet?”

James: "..." You are quite optimistic. Who was excited when he heard the sirens not long ago.

He twirled his pale beard and said seriously: "Don't be careless, be prepared for the worst."

"Okay." Judy suddenly remembered something and her expression became serious, "By the way, what happened to Xiuyi? I remember he climbed over the guardrail and got into the deep forest on the roadside - Jiang Xia Detective Affairs The boss of the place is chasing him for some reason, but with Shuichi’s skills, he must have successfully escaped.”

"Of course, it's just..." James responded, quite pleased with the skills of his FBI ace. However, when he thought of another related incident, his emotions quietly became complicated.

On the other side of the phone, Judy heard the clue keenly, and her heart tightened: "Just what? What happened?"

James pinched his forehead with a headache: "We are looking for Shuichi's gun."

"?" Judy was silent for a moment, "...what's going on?"

James didn't answer, but just glanced at Akai Shuichi next to him.

Akai Shuichi sighed.

He actually had some guesses about Toru Amuro's true identity, and this forest was not a real jungle, but surrounded by roads on all sides - if Toru Amuro used the guise of the police to mobilize enough manpower to blockade this place, then he was an outsider. The FBI never takes action against innocent public officials. But if you don't strike hard, you may be dragged here.

So after thinking about it, when he briefly left Bourbon's sight, Shuichi Akai hid the prohibited item on his body-his pistol-in the woods.

In this way, even if he is stopped by the police, he is just an innocent citizen who was forced to be involved in the bus bombing incident. After that, he only needs to wait for the incident to be over, then go back and take the gun away, and everything will be resolved smoothly.

...This is how it should be.

But in fact, the situation was different from what he expected: First of all, for some reason, Amuro Toru's manpower seemed to be somewhat insufficient, and he was far from able to form a siege around him, allowing him to leave here very smoothly.

And when the matter came to an end and he took his companions back to get the gun, another unexpected situation also occurred.

-The gun can't be found.

"Are you sure you stuffed it into the pile of dead leaves in this area?" James held a rake in his hand and rummaged through the pile of leaves, "I didn't see it..."

Akai Shuichi also held a nail rake of the same style and said calmly: "Perhaps the mountain wind has changed the shape of the pile of dead leaves. Let's look carefully."

"But it's true... huh?" James paused and looked slightly happy - the nail rake in his hand hit something hard.

"I hope it's not a stone..."

While praying secretly, he squatted down, found the right position and opened the dead leaves on it, exposing the hard object.

Taking a closer look, James fell silent: the good news was indeed what he expected, not a stone. But the bad news…

"Where did you get the iron box? It looks pretty new, I guess you just bought it." James picked up the box with his gloved hands and brushed off the dust on it. After observing for a moment, he looked at Akai Shuichi inquiringly, "Open it and take a look?"

"Wait." Akai Shuichi reached out and took the iron box. He originally wanted to identify whether there was a bomb in it or whether it was a trap left by someone. However, as soon as he took it, he came to a conclusion - this The iron box was so light that it seemed like there was nothing inside.

After thinking about it, Akai Shuichi walked around his companions and came to the downwind, stretched out his arms, and carefully opened the iron box.

Fortunately, there was no poisonous gas inside, and there was no poisonous needle ready to go out. There was only a postcard lying quietly at the bottom of the box.

"..."

Akai Shuichi stretched out his hand and slowly took out the postcard while his colleagues watched curiously and warily.

I saw a few brisk characters written on it:

[Thank you for the gift, I am very satisfied]

James: "..."

Akai Shuichi: "..."

He touched the card with his fingertips and suddenly felt something was wrong. Soon, Shuichi Akai turned over this postcard made of special material with a slight movement of his fingertips.

The postcard is filled with scarlet red, and the back of the postcard is a hand-painted oil painting - the entire picture is filled with flames, and the red fire is burning, as if it is fueled by blood. They surrounded and licked a dilapidated bus, with several twisted figures inside.

I don't know if it was intentional or an illusion, but Akai Hideo looked carefully and felt that the most severely burned figure in the C position seemed to be wearing a black hat on his head.

Akai Shuichi: "..."

This strange, weird and impactful painting style quickly made a name pop up in his mind - Kobayashi Seiji.

The oil painting on the postcard has dried, which means that the painting was already finished: at the Teitan Junior High School campus festival not long ago, the painter sketched his appearance of taking poison and dying on the spot. And this time, this guy actually drew the scene of the bus explosion in advance.

...There is no doubt that this person is definitely problematic.

But what is more problematic is that Uzo did not hide this at all, but sent this painter to the FBI so openly.

It was too blatant and too arrogant that people could not think of any other possibility except "bait".

"This..." James originally thought that today's incident had a certain element of surprise, but when he suddenly saw this painting, he felt that the hair on his back stood up.

After being speechless for a moment, he instinctively looked at his own ace: "What on earth is going on?!"

Akai Shuichi frowned and studied the business card in his hand for a while, then threw it back into the iron box: "When you were investigating Vermouth these days, I focused on this painter... but unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any information about Uzo for the time being."