Conan’s Corpse Picker

Jiang Xia was distracted, and he heard everything he needed to hear.

At present, it seems that the situation of the Takeda family is the same as he remembered.

——Three people died in total. It is said that Misa and her daughter committed suicide, and the partner named Negishi said that he committed suicide, but judging from the shikigami on Rob's leg, he was killed by Rob.

Moreover, the shikigami was still on Rob's lap, so the ghost fetus would not have been dropped by Negishi. It should be one of the mother and daughter pairs.

But theoretically speaking, a person who commits suicide cannot even lose a shikigami, let alone a ghost fetus, leaving at most a mass of murderous aura. Unless... either Misa or her mother committed suicide?

...is the smell of secrets.

After Jiang Xia came to this conclusion, he was not surprised. He remembered that the relationship between the family was quite confusing - Takeda Misa was ostensibly the daughter of Takeda Shinichi, but in fact Takeda Shinichi was infertile. So more than 20 years ago, Takeda Shinichi's wife asked the second eldest son of the Takeda family to give birth to Misa with her and raise him as Takeda Shinichi's biological daughter.

Later, Takeda Shinichi found out about this.

Takeda Shinichi was a drug dealer who had already broken the legal bottom line. Even if he tolerated it when he saw the truth, if he suddenly had an emotional outburst one day later, or got drunk and couldn't think about it... in this wilderness , it is not surprising to manually make people around you "commit suicide".

Many speculations flashed through Jiang Xia's mind for a moment, and then she quickly put her thoughts back together.

Now, he is not even sure whether the wild ghost fetus is the Takeda mother and daughter. Maybe it is other people who died nearby... There are too many possibilities, and it is useless to think about it. It is better to catch the ghost directly. Ask.

Of course, this is mainly to save time and has nothing to do with him wanting to see new ghosts as soon as possible...

Speaking of which, my ghosts have been floating out for several minutes, so why are they still running around?

Is the ghost so difficult to catch this time?

Thinking about it, Jiang Xia glanced in the direction where he sensed it.

The ghosts were obscured by the houses, and he had no see-through function, so he unfortunately couldn't see them.

But when he looked up, he saw a middle-aged man walking over with a smile on his face.

The man had a beard and a bald U-shaped hairline on his head.

He stepped forward and shook hands with Jiang Xia, indicating his identity as the client: "Hello, I am Takeda Shinichi who is sending you the letter."

With that said, Takeda Shinichi glanced at the people gathered in the yard, pulled Jiang Xia aside, and said in a low voice:

"You must have heard what Yoko said just now - in fact, what I want you to investigate is the matter of Mr. Negishi who 'hanged himself' a few days ago."

Jiang Xia nodded. At the same time, his eyes couldn't help but pause for a moment on Takeda Shinichi's dangerous hairline and stacked forehead wrinkles. He was slightly relieved - fortunately, the ghost was not the target of silence.

No, you can't say that either. If a second ghost really fell here, he wouldn't mind. After all, there are also unsightly ways to use it...

As Takeda Shinichi was talking, he suddenly felt a chill down his back, and had a vague illusion that he was being stared at by some eyes hidden in the darkness.

He looked back at the trees that were blown by the mountain wind, and felt that it was the wind. So he wrapped himself in his coat, turned around and continued to whisper to Jiang Xia about the commission:

"That's right. I suspect that Negishi didn't commit suicide, but was killed by someone. And this thing was probably done by someone in our family.

"So I have a merciless request - if you find the murderer, please keep it quiet and just tell me. I will naturally handle the rest of the matter properly."

Speaking of this, thinking of the person who killed Negishi and stole a batch of drugs from Negishi, Takeda Shinichi couldn't help but feel a little murderous intention in his heart.

——He usually has no outsiders here, but now Negishi was suddenly killed and his puppet was stolen. There are various signs that the murderer knows the structure of his family quite well, and there must be an insider.

Takeda Shinichi himself was doing some illegal activities and could not withstand investigation. And this "ghost" who knew part of his secrets gave him a strong sense of crisis.

Desperate to uncover this man, he took the risk and hired a detective who was said to be very keen.

Jiang Xia's speed in solving crimes is very fast. And Takeda just feels that what he lacks most now is time - if he catches the mole earlier, he can sell drugs with peace of mind earlier. Otherwise, he will lose a lot of money every day of stagnation.

Of course, for Takeda, the matter of "inviting Jiang Xia over" also involves certain risks, such as being discovered by Jiang Xia that he is secretly selling drugs.

Therefore, before sending a letter of entrustment to Jiang Xia, Takeda Shinichi had seriously struggled with this issue.

In the end, he came to the conclusion that it was not a big problem.

——Shinichi Takeda has read many reports on solving crimes.

He found that when detectives encountered both a murder case and a drug dealer, they focused their attention first on solving the murder case.

After the murder case is solved, he will start to solve other incidents, especially the high school detective.

So just keep an eye on Jiang Xia - if Jiang Xia finds the murderer but doesn't discover the secret of his drug trafficking, then pay the balance of the commission, send Jiang Xia away, and everyone can separate peacefully.

And if Jiang Xia discovers or behaves abnormally, then Takeda Shinichi will find out who the "ghost" is and secretly eliminate Jiang Xia, a detective who knows too much.

The most indispensable thing in the wilderness is a place to hide corpses. It is very convenient to silence them here.

Even if other people knew that Jiang Xia had come to Puppet Peak and found that Jiang Xia was missing, they called the police and brought the police here. If Takeda Shinichi killed the detective and left, the police had no evidence and had no choice but to give up - they could never do it for Find a person whose whereabouts are unknown and turn over the entire mountain.

The only troublesome thing is that Jiang Xia came as soon as he came, and he even brought two classmates with him...

Thinking of this, Takeda Nobu glanced at the pair of gifts from Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha, feeling a little embarrassed.

But soon I thought about it again.

——The worst case scenario is that the "ghost" will send Jiang Xia and his two classmates down the mountain, and then he will do something in the car to cause a car accident, and the four of them will pack up and hit the road, and it will be over.

Jiang Xia's attention was originally focused on the ghost fetus that was difficult to catch.

But as Takeda Shinichi fell into deep thought, his eyes gradually moved back to the head of the Takeda family in front of him.

Why did so much murderous intent suddenly appear? We are almost catching up with the foreign friend next to us...

He was confused for a while, then thought about it from Takeda Shinichi's perspective, and vaguely understood.

…

After Takeda Shinichi finished thinking, he looked at Jiang Xia again, waiting for Jiang Xia's answer to "Don't say anything when you find the mole, just tell him alone."

Jiang Xia looked at the swollen murderous aura on the Takeda family head, and his thoughts changed slightly.

He didn't nod.

Instead, he looked at the sky at a 45° angle and said indifferently:

"I reject.

"If Mr. Negishi was killed, of course I would give priority to calling the police. The law is the only justice - if I tell you the situation first and you erase the evidence for that 'family member', wouldn't I just I have become your accomplice in bending the law for personal gain."

After finishing speaking, Jiang Xia couldn't help lowering his gaze to the sky slightly, and secretly glanced at Takeda Shinichi with his peripheral vision.

I saw that the already strong murderous aura further expanded, completely surpassing Rob next to him.

...After all, Rob only wanted to kill one person. And Takeda now wants to kill four.

The veins on Takeda Shinichi's forehead twitched, but he still managed to maintain a smile, and his tone was even more polite than before: "...You are overthinking. I just want to do some ideological work and persuade him to surrender."

Hearing this, the young detective looked at him carefully, nodded meaningfully and said, "You'd better be."

Then he stopped talking, seemed to disdain talking to people like Takeda Shinichi, and walked back to the people who came with him.

Takeda Shinichi stared at this arrogant figure, his temples twitching.

After staring for a while, he remembered something and gave a sinister sneer.

Oh, this little detective who is used to living in the city probably hasn't noticed yet - their mobile phone signal here is very unstable. If you want to call the police, you have to use your home phone.

At that time, as long as the phone is guarded, there is no need to worry about Jiang Xia bypassing him and calling the police.

After that, when this kid finds out the "ghost", he will be silenced immediately.

Takeda Shinichi thought of Jiang Xia's desperate look just now, secretly snorted, and went to the studio without seeing anything.

Before that, he didn't forget to hide the phone line at home.

…

When Jiang Xia and Takeda Shinichi were talking, although they were separated from other people at a distance, the careful Takeda Yoko still found that the conversation between the head of the family and Jiang Xia did not seem to be pleasant.

She knew that Takeda Shinichi actually had a bad temper. When she saw Jiang Xia walking over silently, she immediately guessed that Takeda Shinichi might have been anxious to investigate the case just now and said something unpleasant to urge him.

...This is not kind. The detective came so far away and still got a cold shoulder. This detective looks young, and Brother Xin is too harsh on him. Investigating a case is not something that can be accomplished overnight, it always takes some time.

Thinking of this, Takeda Yoko walked towards Jiang Xia and smiled apologetically:

"Let me show you around the house. Where do you want to start? We will try our best to help."

"Huh? Well..." Jiang Xia came back to her senses, turned her eyes slightly, and looked at the main house.

He sensed that the ghosts were rushing there now, so he pointed towards the main house: "Then go first..."

Before he finished speaking, two little girls who looked exactly the same suddenly ran out of the side room.

The twins were originally running towards Takeda Yoko to find their mother.

However, halfway through, the two of them glanced at Rob. After recognizing him, they were startled at the same time.

Afterwards, their faces, which were originally curious because they saw the guests, instantly became a little hostile.

When Rob saw a familiar child, he came over to say hello nostalgically:

"Hi~ Sae, Emei, you have grown up a lot."

The two little lolita took a step back in disgust. They stared at Rob for a while, then got together and whispered loudly to each other:

"murderer……"

"He's killing again."

"Terrible"

"It's terrible."

After muttering, they looked up and found Robert looking at them in confusion. The two of them immediately ran to the side vigilantly, tugged on Jiang Xia's coat, raised their heads and said expectantly: "Brother Detective, are you here to catch him?"

Next to him, Takeda Yoko was stunned.

She walked towards her two daughters and scolded her softly: "What nonsense are you talking about!"

"Wow! Mom is so scary O(≧口≦)(≧口≦)O!" The two children crowded together, let go of Jiang Xia, and ran back to the side door, disappearing quickly.

Takeda Yoko hesitated between "catching up and educating the naughty child" and "continuing to help the guests lead the way."

In the end, I chose the latter.

——Shae and Emei are not usually so ignorant. This time they may be a little excited to see the guests suddenly... and they also often watch TV and have seen Jiang Xia on TV. Maybe they suddenly said that Rob was the murderer just now just to find an excuse to drag Jiang Xia. It's hard to guess what a child is thinking. It's better to wait until you're done entertaining the guests before trying to reason with them.

Thinking like this, Takeda Yoko looked apologetically at Rob, who seemed to be being used as a star-chasing prop: "I'm sorry, I'll ask them to apologize to you later..."

"It's okay, it's okay." Rob waved his hand.

He glanced again at the direction the two little girls were leaving and became nervous. He was worried that he was seen hanging Akio Negishi a few days ago, so the children would call him "the murderer".

Fortunately, few people believe what the child said, and his alibi is quite solid... Rob looked at the "witness" he invited, Hattori Heiji, and felt slightly relieved.

Jiang Xia skillfully restored the coat that had been pulled askew by the children - he was often pulled by Haihara Ai and Conan.

He glanced at the worried Rob and knew that the children suddenly calling Rob "murderer" actually had nothing to do with Negishi Akio, but the twins felt that Rob had killed their sister Misa.

——Three years ago, when Rob recovered from his injuries and left, Misa was vaguely aware of his feelings and shyly asked her two sisters to help inquire.

Rob recalled his impression of Misa and euphemistically wrote "shine" on a small piece of paper, indicating that Misa was like the shining light in his life.

However, because Misa is not good at English, Robo is not good at Japanese - he can only speak but not write, and his mouth was injured by rocks and rocks.

So during the period of recuperation, the two of them had been writing and communicating in Japanese romaji.

And the English word shine, pronounced according to the Roman pronunciation, can be split into two kana "しね"

...which is what many anime characters like to shout "Nisunai!" when fighting - let people die.

A few days after passing the note, Misa really died.

The two twins thought about what happened before and after, and felt that this must be Rob's conspiracy, so they determined that he was the murderer.

...Jiang Xia thought with emotion, it can be seen that sometimes, it is very important to learn a foreign language well.

In addition, people should not be too shy.

If Misa wasn't so shy that she didn't dare to ask about her impressions face to face and only dared to find someone to pass a note; or if Rob was more straightforward and wrote "love" with a big stroke of his pen when asked, it would be another story...

However, since there is a ghost fetus now, it means that the "suicide" three years ago is still doubtful, and it is hard to say what the details are.