Conan’s Corpse Picker

"Yes, and besides him, the other two...the other passenger who didn't come to the restaurant was also a little suspicious. We asked the waiter on the way here, and he said there is no food delivery service here. It is unreasonable to hide in the room during dinner time. "

To be fair, Conan actually thinks Jiang Xia is suspicious. But thinking about it carefully, Jiang Xia did seem to have a habit of leaning on any corner to catch up on her sleep when she had free time, so she felt that Jiang Xia overslept and forgot about dinner, which seemed to make sense.

Jiang Xia sighed thoughtfully.

He knew that among the three so-called "passengers resting in the cabin", one was "Ye Zaizan" disguised by Whalei Sadao, and the other was an anonymous puppet that had been disbanded. None of them existed, except for Jiang Xia, a real creature.

Of course, these things cannot be said to the two detectives.

Jiang Xia went with the two of them and knocked on the anonymous door, but no one opened it. They went back to the restaurant.

Sitting in the restaurant were two robbers and a bank employee who had brought a bomb on board. In addition, Ye Caisan's daughter is also there.

Jiang Xia's eyes stopped on the leg of the robber No. 1, Sadao Whalei. When he saw a fresh ghost there, he knew that the remaining kidnapper had been invited by Sadao Whalei to go out and kill him.

The serial murder case has begun, and Jiang Xia no longer has to worry about surprising Whale Sadao with his appearance.

He looked at the bank clerk who was full of murderous aura again, and was about to choose a place closest to the murderous aura to sit down. At this time, Ye Caisan's daughter looked at them, held a box of cards, and came over boredly: "Playing cards?"

Jiang Xia glanced at her and felt that her eyes were wandering and her concentration was not very focused.

He took the poker from Isogai Nagisa's hand and casually said, "You seem nervous?"

Hattori Heiji and Conan's ears twitched, they looked away and looked over at the same time.

Isogai Nagisa laughed softly and took out another box of cards from somewhere. While she cut and shuffled the cards skillfully, she said in a slightly erratic voice: "Nervous? A little bit indeed. The sea is a very scary place. Especially the lightless sea at night, which can hide painful memories, an uneasy future, and even... corpses."

This inexplicable and weird line made the two detectives look at her with gradually sharp eyes.

This does not include Jiangxia.

In his eyes, Isogai Nagisa is a rare person on the ship who does not have murderous intentions. Compared with other passengers who have their own thoughts, she just wants to get on the ship to find someone. Ever since Ye Caisan disappeared, Isogai Nagisa always said that she lost her father, but she still had some hope in her heart. I feel that if it passes 0 o'clock and the prosecution period is over, if Ye Caisan is really on the boat, he should come out to meet her.

Jiang Xia withdrew his gaze and began to look forward to 0 o'clock.

…

Isogai Nagisa quickly shuffled the cards and called several other passengers in the restaurant, and a group of people gathered around to play poker.

Jiang Xia was distracted for a while by the murderous people lingering next to him. Fortunately, this had no impact on the card game - Mao Lilan was not here today, and almost all the good cards were in his hand.

After playing a few rounds and coming to his senses, Jiang Xia already had a pile of jelly beans on hand as chips.

The others stared at him with complicated eyes.

Hattori Hei counted the number of people playing cards together and looked at the messy pile of cards on the table. He couldn't help but ask, "Have you been counting cards in your mind?"

Nagisa Isogai held a handful of bad cards with her slender fingers. She sighed tiredly, but she was a little envious: "This has nothing to do with mental arithmetic. The cards he took can produce this effect for anyone."

"No, I want to say whether he calculated the position of each card when shuffling the cards..."

Hattori Heiji fell silent as he spoke, feeling that this speculation was not reasonable enough - Jiangxia was not responsible for shuffling the cards in every hand, and the order of drawing cards was also regulated, so he could not get specific cards in this way.

So Jiang Xia cheated?

Or is this guy actually a European emperor?

... Cheating shouldn't be the case, it's just a recreational game, and if it's the latter... Hattori Heiji suddenly realized: No wonder it's hard to avoid him every time. Even if no one stabs him in the back, he will always run into Jiang Xia for various reasons. Wait, on the other hand, doesn’t this mean that I am extremely unlucky?

Hattori Heiji fell into thought.

And gradually became a little autistic.

…

Whalei Sadao, Ebina Minoru and Kanie Hisashi were also uncomfortable. Although this is a pure game without the smell of copper, no one likes to lose from beginning to end.

Therefore, as soon as 0 o'clock passed, a group of people immediately made various excuses and left one after another.

Jiang Xia glanced at Ebina Mingmin's murderous back, followed him on the pretext of going to the bathroom.

He remembered that Ebina Minoru's luggage bag contained a time bomb that could sink an entire ship.

Before dinner, Jiang Xia's body was waiting in the room. When his consciousness was drifting around on the ghost, he once drifted into Ebina Minoru's room, put his head into the bomb bag, and briefly checked the structure.

He found that this bomb had many anti-dismantling designs, and it was also very shockproof.

The former is probably worried about being secretly demolished and interrupting the plan. The latter is a guarantee of safety - if Ebina Minami does not find the robbers on the ship, he will throw the bomb into the sea.

In short, 99% of Ebina Minoru's murderous power lies in this box of bombs.

Therefore, it is actually very simple to make him lose his murderous aura: just throw the bomb box into the sea in front of him, and you will definitely harvest a batch of murderous aura first. This process only takes a few minutes.

Later, if Ebina Minoru's hatred is enough, he may undergo some mental adjustment and then decide to kill the robbers himself. Then he felt a little murderous again. Then as long as the robber dies or is captured without help, he can capture the second one...

Jiang Xia entered the corridor, and countless shikigami invisible to ordinary people flew out from under his feet, passed Ebina Mingmin, floated into his room along the crack in the door, and continued to stack up as raw materials for puppets.

Miyano Akemi's soul also floated in, blended into the puppet, and became anonymous.

Jiang Xia planned to surprise Ebina Minami by picking up the box and leaving in front of him when he opened the door.

But just when Ebina Minoru stopped at the door to look for the key, a "bang--" firecracker sound suddenly sounded on the deck across the wall.

Of course, because it was also a gunpowder explosion, to someone who didn't know the situation, it could also be a gunshot.

Apparently the "gunshot" brought back some bad memories to Ebina Minoru.

After being startled, this man who was no longer young turned around at a speed that was inappropriate for his age and rushed towards the place where the gunfire came from, as if he wanted to immediately confirm the identity of the shooter.

At the same time, the door lock of his room clicked and twisted, opening a crack.

In the crack of the door, the puppet looked at the empty corridor, remained silent for a moment, and then closed the door as if nothing had happened.