Conan’s Corpse Picker

The corridor on the second floor of Zhengying's house is unexpectedly narrow.

The light switch was set in the middle of the corridor. Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko followed Xinghe Dougo and walked deeper by the light from the stairs.

After taking only two steps, Mao Lilan, who was afraid of ghosts, began to feel her heart beat faster.

She looked at the moonlight coming in at the end of the corridor, and felt that in this cooler light, the porcelain jars on the balcony became weird: "This place..." Why is it so narrow and dark, which makes people feel uncomfortable. Of...if I had known earlier, I wouldn’t have followed.

Xinghe Tongwu was very used to this. He looked at this place and recalled his living experience ten years ago. He quickly raised his hand and pointed forward: "I remember entering through the door on the right, which is the room where the teacher is."

As he spoke, he stopped and reached out to press the switch on the wall next to him. However, there was a click - the switch moved, but the light did not respond.

"Huh? What's going on..." Xinghe Tongwu clicked and clicked back and forth in disbelief, but the light never came on.

Not only was there no light, but suddenly, even the light coming from the stairwell disappeared—the villa actually had a power outage.

Mao Lilan, who was already a little scared: "!!"

She grabbed the arms of the two people next to her: "You, don't go, I'm scared!"

…

At the same time, there was another person on the first floor of the villa who was just like the female high school student upstairs, her heart was about to jump to her throat.

Maya Hashimoto: "..." Power outage? How could there be a sudden power outage? ! Is there any conspiracy or danger about to emerge?

For a moment, it seemed as if a big curtain slowly opened in his mind, and behind the curtain, there emerged a horrific scene of some innocent passers-by being brutally assassinated in the dark, or being treated as suspects after the darkness ended, and being brutally chosen one of three.

"..." Maya Hashimoto shuddered, and in the next moment, he made a quick decision and grabbed Jiang Xia next to him.

"Well, I can't see the road clearly with my sunglasses on." Maya Hashimoto cleared her throat, "How about I follow first..."

Click.

Before he finished speaking, a bright beam of light came and dazzled his eyes.

Conan turned on the flashlight on his watch and mercilessly shined light on the suspicious person in front of him: "... Can't see the road clearly with sunglasses on? Then Uncle Hashimoto, just take them off."

"It sounds like an excuse at first sight. This guy must have other purposes for approaching Jiang Xia." Conan pinched his throat and reminded in a childish voice, while snorting in his heart, "You'd better put some bugs or something like that, so that I You can type it later and ask Jiang Xia to check your pockets, and then expose your true identity as a suspicious person."

This is indeed said bluntly. Maya Hashimoto just didn't dare to take off her sunglasses because of Uzo's order. She really felt that her vision was blocked in the dark, so she blurted out this excuse.

When he came back to his senses, he quickly wanted to round out his words, but he didn't know where to start.

At this moment, Jiang Xia said clearly: "Is Mr. Hashimoto afraid of the dark? I have a friend who is like this too."

"!" Maya Hashimoto was overjoyed, "Yes, yes, I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm really afraid of this."

Conan: "..."

Sometimes it's not good to be too flexible. You can easily close some loopholes in a reasonable way like this... Wait, did Maya Hashimoto know Jiang Xia's character, so she deliberately said something full of loopholes? ...How cunning!

The two people with their own thoughts looked at each other, and then looked away in the dim light where no one could see the other clearly.

Jiang Xia flicked Conan's wrist: "Stop swinging the flashlight around and look for where the switch is."

"Oh, okay." Conan came back to his senses and shined a flashlight on the surrounding walls. "It seems that the electric switch is not in this room."

Hearing this, Jiang Xia walked to the door and pushed it open.

When I looked up, I saw Mrs. Zhengying walking out of the room opposite. Jiang Xia looked at the elderly lady: "Where is your electric switch?"

"Over there." Mrs. Zhengying pointed quickly, "Inside the bathroom."

Jiang Xia nodded, dragged Hashimoto Maya along the road, and quickly found the switch: it was indeed tripped.

He reached out and turned on the switch, and in an instant, the light everywhere became bright again.

Maya Hashimoto looked left and right vigilantly to make sure there was no trap, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

However, before this breath of relief could be finished, a frightened scream suddenly came from upstairs: "Ouch!" - if you listened carefully, it seemed that there was more than one scream, but a duet of screams.

Conan: "!" This is Xiaolan's voice!

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other side.

Shuichi Akai instinctively ducked back as quickly as he could dodge a bullet, and took off his headphones.

After getting rid of the huge noise, the corners of his eyes twitched slightly and he rubbed his ears: "..." The lung capacity of these female high school students is really terrible, or in other words, the equipment provided by FBI is too high-definition, this scream is almost like It was close to his eardrum.

He was shaken by the sonic attack. After a moment, his mind came back. Akai Shuichi analyzed the situation on the other side with a frown from the few words he overheard.

"First there was a power outage, and after a while there was a sudden scream. Were they attacked in the dark?" This idea flashed through his mind, but was quickly denied by him, "No, there was no sound of fighting... huh?"

Wait, could it be...

"There's been another murder."

A voice came from his ear. The woman's voice was filled with vicissitudes of life, a certain clarity, and a certain certainty like reminiscing about the past.

Akai Shuichi turned around and saw Judy with a complicated face.

Akai Shuichi: "Why are you here?"

Judy: "James said he was arrested... Ahem, he was drinking tea and chatting at the Metropolitan Police Department and couldn't get away, so he asked me to come and pick you up for him."

Akai Shuichi: "..."

Judy sat down next to him, took out a can of hot coffee, and when Akai Shuichi stretched out his hand... he opened it with a pop, tilted his head back and drank half a can.

——Originally, Judy was still a little excited about working together after a few days, but now... the moment the scream sounded, she felt a flood of memories flooding into her heart, making her suddenly lose the idea of ​​​​romanticism, and her mind was filled with all kinds of unexpected cases.

"We have to retreat a little." Judy put down the coffee and wiped her mouth. "Based on my experience, the police will come quickly and search the villa as the center."

...

Not long after, a police car arrived.

Inspector Megure yawned sleepily and ran upstairs, and saw his dear brother Jiang Xia from the narrow corridor at a glance.

Inspector Megure: "..." Great, it seems I don't have to stay up all night tonight.

As he thought about it, he looked at the end of the corridor. Next to the window sill, under the moonlight, a short-haired woman was leaning against the wall without any breath, her head covered with blood.