Conan’s Corpse Picker

In the dark wooden house on a stormy morning.

Conan woke up with a cheating intuition, always feeling that something bad was about to happen.

He rubbed his eyes and turned to look around.

Just a few rays of lightning flashed across, briefly illuminating the room. Jiang Xia, who was sitting in the corner, and the figure holding a knife in front of him suddenly fell into Conan's eyes.

Conan was startled and suddenly startled - someone was attacking!

He reacted quickly and picked up the pillow, threw it hard, and shouted a warning: "Be careful!"

Following his words, the rows of blankets began to squirm, and people woke up from their sleep one after another.

Jiang Xia, who had just grasped the stick: "..."

The pillow thrown by Conan failed to hit anyone - he had just seen the light of the knife reflecting lightning, and based on this, he deduced the attacker's location and threw the pillow in the predicted direction.

However, the actual situation was somewhat different from what Conan expected.

——The dark figure did not take the last step with the knife and stabbed Jiang Xia as he expected. Instead, he suddenly hid behind him.

Therefore, the only function of the pillow that took off was to stop Jiang Xia who was about to throw someone.

Jiang Xia caught the pillow smoothly.

Lucky Xiao Hei opposite him escaped, turned off the light on his phone screen, and turned around to escape into the darkness.

The chaos lasted for a short period of time. In the darkness, people kept asking loudly, "What happened?!" and "Is there a murderer?".

At the same time, the door opened with a bang, and a black figure staggered out.

Jiang Xia used the ghost's night vision ability to look around and sighed quietly.

Then before the lights were on, he squatted down, collected the murderous aura that fell in front of him, and put it into his pocket.

This was the moment when he and the dark black figure looked at each other. The murderous aura that fell from the figure was directed at him.

Xiao Hei's psychological quality this time is very average... However, although he didn't knock anyone, he at least made some substantial gains in advance.

Just after clearing up his murderous intent, Toru Amuro pressed the light switch with a click.

The dark rest room was illuminated by lights.

With the lighting, the surrounding chaos subsided a little. A group of people with different thoughts sat up and looked around and found that the mystery novelist was missing.

Amuro Toru's sharp eyes saw a figure passing by outside the window: "...outside!"

He propped himself up on the window sill and jumped out.

Jiang Xia looked back at the murderous room, thought for a moment, and quickly followed.

…

The scenery in the mountain forest is extremely dim and difficult to follow.

Fortunately, the people running away in front were screaming from time to time.

Jiangxia and Toru Amuro chased after the sound, and finally followed them to a cave.

The entrance to the cave is very wide, and five or six meters in, it suddenly becomes narrow again.

Etsuko Tokura ran a few steps in, and after using the lightning light to see clearly the tight rocks around her, she turned around and fled out of the cave like crazy, bumping into Jiang Xia who was following him.

"Help, help!!" She seemed to be asleep, her hair was messy and scattered around her body, and her movements were not as graceful as during the day. She held on to Jiang Xia tightly and muttered in her sleep, "The ceiling has fallen, and the wall has fallen. He's squeezing me, he wants to kill me! He must have tampered with the house..."

"The ceiling fell?" Conan followed him at some point.

He raised his sleeves to wipe the rain off his face, recalling the resting hut that was standing stably and not collapsing, and looking at Etsuko Tokura who seemed to be talking nonsense, and suddenly made the connection between these situations and a certain symptom. : "Are you claustrophobic?"

Jiang Xia's focus is slightly different from Conan's.

He supported Etsuko Tokura and asked with some concern: "Is someone trying to kill you?"

He had long thought that the name "Etsuko Tokura" sounded very familiar, as if it had the same name as a character in the case in his memory.

Now it seems that maybe not only the name is important, but the person is also important.

In other words, although this novelist has no murderous intent or ghosts, she may be related to some cases... Well, when she recovers later, you have to remember to ask her for a business card and promote yourself by the way. detective business.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xia decisively included the other party as her client, and raised her hand to pat her back to comfort her.

Etsuko Tokura's face turned pale and she buried her head and panted heavily.

Toru Amuro made a brief observation and felt that her uncomfortable appearance did not seem to be fake:

"If it was an attack of claustrophobia, then she might have just been woken up and suddenly noticed that she was in a dark room, so she ran out in fear..."

In this case, the figure who attacked Jiang Xia in the dark could not be Etsuko Tokura.

Conan nodded and agreed with this statement: "I just vaguely saw the person who attacked Jiang Xia's brother. The person seemed to have short hair and was built like a man. In short, it was not the look of Sister Etsuko with her hair loose - the attacker Probably after the assassination failed, he hid under the quilt as if nothing had happened, pretending to have just woken up."

In other words, the attackers are still among the rest stops.

...Fortunately, an attack had just occurred, and everyone in the room was on alert. In addition, it is not too long before dawn, no one is in the mood to sleep anymore, and the attackers should not act rashly, so it is still safe there for the time being.

In addition, given the good opportunity for a sneak attack just now, the attacker did not assassinate the client or silence the male college student who was still unconscious. Instead, he chose to attack Jiang Xia... It was Yinhu who planned to kill the people watching the night first, and then leisurely get rid of himself. target, or was the robber worried about having his identity revealed by a detective, so he took action first?

Speaking of which...

Toru Amuro looked at Jiang Xia and asked, "Did you fall asleep during the vigil?"

In his opinion, this is a strange thing.

Although in the organization's profile, Jiang Xia seems to love paddling. But on the other hand, Jiang Xia has always had a good reputation among clients. Even when he occasionally works part-time as his replacement, the bosses of the work shops have rave reviews for Jiang Xia as a substitute... This is of course not only because Jiang Xia easily leaves a good impression on others, but also because he is really serious about his work.

But at a critical moment like tonight, Jiang Xia fell asleep not long after starting the vigil.

When Jiang Xia heard the boss's question, she lowered her head slightly guiltily and casually said, "I don't know why, but I was very sleepy today. I fell unconscious after sitting for a while."

Conan also found this matter very suspicious. Jiang Xia takes his part-time job as a detective very seriously, and his level of professionalism is obvious to all. In a situation like this, rather than "accidentally falling asleep", it is more likely that someone secretly threw sleeping pills or something like that into Jiang Xia's meal.

People who can do this...

"Is it the administrator?!"