Conan’s Corpse Picker

The Young Detective Team was about to start taking notes.

A man followed the police officer into the office.

It was an old-looking man with a square face. He kept looking at the gold watch on his wrist, paying special attention to the time.

"Mr. Masuo?" Officer Sato was slightly startled when he saw him, "Didn't your lady say that in the afternoon..."

"We did agree to come together." The store manager Masuo rushed to say, "But there is something to deal with at the bank today, so I made an appointment with my wife to meet directly at the police station - she hasn't arrived yet?"

"...Not yet." Sato Miwako was a little confused.

What she actually wanted to say just now was, "Didn't your lady say you would come over at 3pm?" - this was the time that Mrs. Masuo had made an appointment with them before.

But now, according to Mr. Masao, it seems that he and his wife have made an appointment to come together at 2 o'clock.

Although there were some contradictions between the two people's words, recalling Mrs. Masuo's dazed look before, Officer Sato felt that the frightened wife who had just been taken hostage might have remembered it wrong. Or the couple didn't have time to discuss it.

Officer Sato was about to remind the Masuo store manager to go find his wife and ask about the situation.

At this time, Masuo Gui had already consciously taken out his mobile phone: "I asked her if she went out."

As he spoke, he turned his cell phone on speakerphone and placed it on the table. Then he freed his hand, found a handkerchief, and wiped his face.

He moved very slowly. Before he finished wiping, he could already hear Mrs. Masuo's voice on the other side of the phone through the hands-free:

"Hello? Husband, what's going on?"

The store manager Masuo picked up the phone, and the corner of his mouth covered by the handkerchief slowly opened into a sinister smile, but then quickly restrained it.

He made an excuse to let Sato say a few words to Mrs. Masuo, and then took the phone himself - in this way, when his wife was "assassinated to death", he would be at the police station and there would be a solid absence. prove.

…

At two o'clock, Jiang Xia closed the door of the detective agency, picked up the cat, and prepared to find the client "Shibata Kayo".

The address she sent is not too far from here. Let's set off now and twist the accelerator a few more times on the way, so that we can arrive at 2:10 as promised.

Although he couldn't associate anything with the name "Shibata Kayo", Jiang Xia always felt that a surprise was waiting for him with this special connection.

So it's best to do it exactly as the client's wife asked - not a second earlier, not a second later, if it says two-ten, it will be two-ten. In order to prevent some of my own actions from disturbing others...

…

The Masuo family.

Masao Kayo continued riding her exercise bike while talking to her husband carefully on the phone.

Her vigilance towards her husband and the gradually increasing pressure of the exercise bike prevented her from noticing the increasing resistance under her feet.

——Where Masuo Kayo didn't pay attention, a fishing line was pre-connected to the axle of the wheel.

The other end of the fishing line extended behind her - there was a bookcase behind the exercise bike, and the fishing line was connected to the top of the tall bookcase.

As the exercise bike runs, the fishing line is wound into the wheels and the cabinet behind it is pulled and tilted.

Eventually, the bookshelf lost its balance and suddenly fell over Kayo Masao on the exercise bike. A flash of cold light flashed - a dagger was secretly placed on the top of the cabinet.

Masuo Kayo heard the strange movement behind him and turned around suddenly, just in time to see the bookcase pressing against him.

She let out a scream of terror, and was stabbed deeply into her back by the dagger. She fell to the ground and gradually became silent.

Opposite the phone.

Everyone in the Metropolitan Police Department was startled by the sudden scream.

Conan stared at the cell phone where the scream came from, a flash of light appeared on his glasses, and his expression gradually changed from sleepy to serious.

Sato Miwako grabbed the mobile phone from the Masuo store manager: "Mrs. Masuo? What's wrong?"

The Masuo store manager also tried his best to suppress his happiness and shouted worriedly: "Kayo!!"

There was no response on the other side of the phone. There was no movement from Mrs. Changwei.

Everyone in the police station looked at each other, remembering the gangster whose face she had seen when he kidnapped Mrs. Masuo three days ago, and suspected that Masuo Kayo was being targeted.

…

Soon, a police car drove to Masuo's house.

In addition to the anxious Masuo store manager, there were two policemen in the car, Sato and Takagi, and...

A bespectacled elementary school student sneaked into the car unprepared.

…

2:09:01 p.m.

Jiang Xia pulled out his car keys and walked quickly from the nearest parking lot to the address "Shibata Kayo" left for him.

And knocked on the door at 2:10 on time.

After a minute, no one answered the door.

Jiang Xia was about to wait on the other side of the road. At this moment, he noticed a flash of white passing by out of the corner of his eye.

Looking down, he saw a fresh shikigami fluttering out of the crack in the door.

Suddenly realizing that there was a spiritual medium in front of him, Shikishen briefly held the door frame and froze for a moment, then moved to the side little by little, followed the wall and walked around Jiang Xia, and continued to drift into the distance.

Jiang Xia: "..."

The shikigami all ran out, and it seemed that some of them were gone.

Follow the procedures that a detective should have, try to confirm the scene, try to give first aid to the deceased, then call the police and start moving forward quickly.

Of course, it would be best if the murderer hasn't left yet, just hold down and knock...

The residents of this house seem to pay special attention to safety, and the walls are rarely covered with barbed wire that is difficult to reach. It’s not easy to translate directly.

But there is a tree outside the courtyard wall.

Jiang Xia stood on tiptoe and took a look at the surroundings, then glanced at the word "Zengwei" on the door plate. After thinking for a moment, she turned and left the main entrance, preparing to go in from the side.

If "Shibata" is replaced by "Masuo", the name "Masuo Kayo" can make him think of something.

And if it was the case in his memory, then around 2 o'clock, Mrs. Masuo would have passed away.

There are surveillance cameras in Toru Amuro's detective agency, and Jiang Xia also passed by one or two cameras on the way here. No matter how you look at it, there is no time to commit the crime. Even if he enters the house now, he will only be an enthusiastic detective who "fears something unusual and is worried about Mrs. Masao's safety and runs to check the situation." His behavior was regarded as a murderer...

…

Not long after Jiang Xia's figure turned to the side.

A car screeched to a halt in front of Masao's house.

Officer Sato and others jumped out of the car and ran straight to the gate.

The store manager Masuo found the key, opened the door, and led people into the house.

Then he raised his finger and pointed to the living room and said to the two police officers: "I'll go over there and have a look. Could you please help me find the second floor."

Seeing that the two policemen's attention had successfully turned upstairs, Katsura Masuo dragged his bulky body towards where Mrs. Masuo was, preparing to lift up the fallen cabinet and hide the fishing line on the top of the bookshelf. Thumbtacks disguise everything as a perfect home invasion and murder.