Conan’s Corpse Picker

Jiang Xia: "..."

Fortunately, someone in the audience was smart enough. Conan looked at the oval dining table and then at the chairs next to the dining table, as if a bolt of lightning flashed through his mind.

"Now they just look like ordinary tables and chairs." Conan said excitedly, "But looking down from top to bottom, each of the four rounded chairs surrounds an oval table in the middle, combined with the uniquely shaped backrests of the chairs... It looks like white crabs lying neatly across the floor!”

"Really?" Dr. Ali stood on tiptoe trying to find the so-called "crab" from a high place. He sighed, "That child can really abstract objects - that is to say, the kidnapper gave Dr. Endo this morning. They were eating here with that child when they made the call?”

Jiang Xia shook his head: "Whether you want to see the 'whale spray' or the 'crab', this height is far from enough. The height of the floor must be close to the position where the 'whale' floats - the kidnappers and hostages should I am in a room upstairs, and from that room I can see the whale, the smoking chimney, and the crab downstairs at the same time.”

There are quite a few rooms that meet the conditions, but not too many.

Jiang Xia led a few people to the elevator and prepared to go to a higher floor. Just as he was about to go in, his phone buzzed and he received an email.

There are only a few numbers on the email, "2409".

Jiang Xia glanced at the familiar sender, walked into the elevator, and pressed the 24th floor button - the boss would not just sit idly by and ignore this kidnapping case, whether it was "Toru Amuro" who valued the safety of citizens' lives, or he thought they were annoying. "Bourbon" who wanted him to get the kidnappers away quickly would work diligently downstairs to help them find out information.

Next to him, Conan, who saw Jiang Xia pressing "24" on the elevator and still trying to calculate the approximate floor in his mind, was startled and had mixed feelings in his heart.

...At the same time, he couldn't help but miss his fellow detective who was far away in Osaka.

When Hattori Heiji sneezed one after another in the distance.

In the Starlight Hotel, the elevator height rose rapidly.

"Sure enough, after rising, the tables and chairs below look more and more like crabs." Haihara Ai stood on the sightseeing elevator, looking down through the transparent wall, "What a child with a rich imagination, I hope he is okay now ”

While talking, the elevator finally went up all the way to the 24th floor.

Conan looked around, trying to determine the room where the kidnapper was most likely to be hiding. Looking at it like this, he found that Jiang Xia walked straight towards room 2409 without hesitation.

Conan: "..." How could this be so! Is the gap between him and Jiang Xia really that big? It shouldn’t be, is there something he didn’t discover...

The fake primary school student looked towards the room suspiciously, and was surprised to find a cleaning truck parked at the door of the room.

Jiang Xia walked over, looked down at the trolley, and asked the cleaner who was selecting tools: "Has the guest in this room checked out?"

The cleaner came to his senses and nodded: "You have something to do with them? - That family of three just left. If we go down now, we should be able to catch up with them to go through the formalities at the front desk."

Jiang Xia turned around and said concisely: "Go downstairs."

Haiyuan Ai, who was walking at the end, immediately turned around, trotted back to the elevator, and pressed the button.

The elevator was still stopping at this floor. She pressed the button and the door reopened. At the same time, Haiyuan Ai looked aside and found that the elevator next door happened to stop on the first floor.

"It seems that when we went upstairs, the two kidnappers happened to be coming downstairs next door." She sighed silently, "It's just a little bit worse... It would be better if it were later or earlier."

Jiang Xia walked by and walked into the elevator, patting her furry head: "It's not too late."

Hearing his calm tone, Hui Yuan Ai calmed down and quickly followed the elevator.

Soon, the elevator went down again and rushed to the first floor.

…

Meanwhile, the hotel lobby.

Two kidnappers, a man and a woman, dragged their suitcases with their children, pretending to be a family of three, and were checking out at the front desk.

There was a young girl at the front desk. She didn't seem to be very skilled in business. She moved slowly and glanced at them suspiciously every now and then.

This look was a bit strange, but the two kidnappers had a guilty conscience and kept their heads down, so they didn't notice anything strange about her.

And at this time, the two people were talking in a low voice. The female kidnapper looked at Keita who was playing with toys obediently and whispered to the man: "Do you really want to kill him? This child is different from other children. He is very obedient and easy to coax. In fact, I think..."

"Shut up! A woman's kindness." The man interrupted her with a low curse, "The more this happens, the more worthy of death. To be so sensible at this age, this kid must be very smart - maybe he is just pretending not to recognize it yet He knew that we were kidnappers and had firmly remembered our characteristics!”

The little girl at the front desk pricked her ears and vaguely caught words like "kill" and "kidnapper". She froze: "..." You, don't talk about this in front of others! It’s so scary!

But having said that, this shows that what the young man said just now is true - there are indeed kidnappers in his hotel, and the two kidnappers seem to be trying to abscond with the hostages!

While screaming in his heart, the front desk continued his slow movements, pretending that checking out was a very troublesome thing.

"Although the blond and dark-skinned mixed-race security guard just now repeatedly told me not to call the police, and said that it would easily alert the kidnappers and lead to some bad things happening... But to be fair, he himself is very suspicious!"

Cold sweat broke out on the forehead of the little girl at the front desk, and her mind instantly recalled all the mystery novels and TV series she had watched in her life:

"With so many hotels, why do the kidnappers stay in ours? - It's probably because they have an insider in our hotel!

"Speaking of internal agents, only the security guy was recently hired. He is good-looking, can do anything, and is very good at dealing with people. Our mean and stingy manager actually happily agreed even though there was no shortage of people. Hire him as a security guard... Why would he be a security guard if he can't do anything like that? So there is only one truth - he must have another agenda!"

The vigilant front desk lady was not fooled by the beauty trap in the end. She gritted her teeth and quietly pressed the alarm button while Amuro Toru went to the elevator just now.

At the same time, she felt annoyed, regretting that she had quickly told the security guy about the kidnappers in the hotel - think about it carefully, the two kidnappers were living well just now, but now they suddenly wanted to go downstairs to leave, couldn't it be because this security guard was there? Give them a tip?