Conan’s Corpse Picker

——Just now, after asking Jiang Xia and the others to leave messages for the guests at the Red Tree Hotel, Homi stayed there and waited for the customers to go up the mountain to meet up.

He rested for a while on the way. After regaining his strength and feeling bored, he wandered back from the shooting location to the tree with the old handkerchief tied around it. He was a little confused as to why the guest was looking for this tree.

Then I happened to see several peripheral members of the organization that Toru Amuro had hired.

Previously, Toru Amuro discovered that there were bones hidden under the tree, so he sent people over and asked them to hide nearby and prepare to wait and get the evidence that Watanuki Tatsumi hid the corpse and the cadres of the organization - this is probably Watanuki Tatsumi. The reason three was caught by Epimetheus was also the reason why he leaked the secret to the other party in this transaction. With this, you can almost make a submission to the organization.

After the peripheral members arrived nearby, they discussed under the tree for a while, installed some equipment, and then each found a place to hide.

Bomi didn't know the inside story. He only saw those few people who looked fierce and not friendly from a distance, so he didn't dare to get close.

He hid behind a thick tree and watched for a while, and finally pretended that he was just a passing tourist and returned to the place he had made an appointment with Watanuki Tatsuzo.

At the same time, he felt a slight movement in his heart and noticed some inconsistencies - this customer was very generous and seemed to be very obsessed with that tree. But at the same time, the customer never took the initiative to contact me, and his whereabouts were somewhat secretive. Plus what happened just now...

It seemed that the customer was interested in more than just the tree and the old red handkerchief on it.

But there is something else hidden.

...For example, what treasure is buried there, and both groups of forces are looking for it? He had heard a lot about such treasures hidden in the mountains. The group of people just now might be installing detection equipment.

Thinking of this, Mimi's eyes lit up slightly.

It just so happened that he was very tight on money recently, and he didn't know if he could force a guest to join him. After all, if there was really a treasure hidden under the tree, then the little traveling fee he received would be too meager. This is not the same price as “finding a tree that can inspire screenwriters”.

ホヅミ has been on the set all year round, has seen a lot of dramas, and has some experience on how to be a qualified Riddler.

After simply straightening out his thoughts, he looked at Watanuki Tatsuzo, who was walking towards him, and showed a mysterious smile: "I found the tree."

"Really?!" Watanuki Chenzo smiled honestly and sounded surprised.

When he was about to say something, he checked his voice to see if Mimi noticed anything wrong with the tree.

Before he opened his mouth, he heard ホヅミ change the topic, with a hint of threat in his tone: "Tsk, tsk, there is something terrible hidden there, I saw..."

He wanted to say that he saw someone wandering nearby, and he must be the customer's competitor. Without him, a local to lead the way, the customer would never be able to catch up with the excavation, and then there would be a wave of price increases.

As a result, just as he started talking, his stomach suddenly felt cold.

Severe pain followed.

"You know too much."

The gray-haired Watanuki Tatsuzo changed his appearance from the kind old man just now, looked at him coldly, and then pulled out the short sword stuck in Mimi's body.

ホヅミ: "..." Wait, this, this is completely different from the promised direction...

All the strength in his body seemed to drain away from the wound, and Mimi suddenly fell into a pile of dead leaves. His trembling lips moved, and he didn't know for a moment whether he should shout "Help!" or say "I actually don't know anything"... The dim highlights dissipated from his eyes, and at the last moment of his life, ホヅミ's mind With a sudden movement, he used all his strength to grab the book he had dropped on the ground.

…

Toru Amuro was hiding behind a tree with Jiang Xia. Observe secretly.

According to Amuro Toru's idea, the normal process is that after the two people had a brief conversation, they walked together to the place where the bones were hidden - this process would be recorded by cameras hidden near the bone burial ground and peripheral members of the organization, and became Target Five. There was irrefutable evidence of infighting within the same group years ago, which further revealed the reason why he was caught by another organization.

However, as the mountain breeze brought the conversation between Homi and Watanuki Tatsuzo, Toru Amuro gradually felt that something was not right.

As soon as this thought flashed through his mind, he heard a scream under the maple tree - Watanuki Chenzo suddenly drew his sword and pierced Mimi with one blow.

Toru Amuro: "..."

He actually wanted to save Mimi, an innocent passerby. After all, Watanuki Chenzo's past had little to do with the organization, so there was no need to strictly follow the confidentiality principle and kill everyone who knew about it.

But I didn't expect...it was too fast. The threats and silence came too quickly.

There is not only Jiang Xia around, but also some other peripheral members of the organization. Toru Amuro sighed inwardly, maintaining the emotion that Bo should have, turning a blind eye to the loss of a human life, and continued to watch indifferently, pretending that he had not thought about first aid at all and helped call an ambulance.

After Mian Guanchen finished killing everyone, he snorted coldly, but secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

He also knew that his behavior of "paying people a lot of money to find an old tree with a red handkerchief tied to it" was a bit strange. But if the money is small, the TV station probably won't send someone to help him find trees. And if you spend too much, it will arouse the vigilance of some paranoid people like now.

Watanuki Tatsuzo's worst-case scenario was to call the police immediately after finding the maple tree and digging out the accident out of curiosity. That would cause big trouble.

Fortunately, this stupid person did not do that, but chose the method of "threat"... Mian Guanchen and the other three straightened their collars in a humane manner, left the body and prepared to let their younger brother handle it at night, while they themselves started Swirling around.

——Since Homi has discovered the secret of the bones, it means that he must have dug up the soil.

In other words, I don't need this fool to lead the way. I just need to walk around and see which tree has been disturbed, and I can easily find the target.

A minute passed.

Five minutes passed.

Half an hour passed.

Watanuki Chenzo looked at dozens or hundreds of trees around him, but found nothing.

When it got dark, he kicked the tree trunk next to him in frustration. The branches and leaves rustled, and there was a faint sound of voices coming from the camping place in the distance. Watanuki Chenzo glanced over there and didn't stay any longer. He left the body angrily and quickly returned to the hotel.

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"..."

After waiting for a moment, seeing that he was indeed gone, Amuro Toru and Jiang Xia walked out from behind the rock where they were hiding.

When Amuro Toru walked to the side of Mimi and squatted down to check his vital signs, Jiang Xia glanced at the fresh shikigami that passed him faintly and chased Watanuki Chenzo, preparing to grab the murderer's leg.

Then he withdrew his attention, turned back to look at the body on the ground, thought for a while and said: "I thought Watanuki Tatsuzo had obtained the detailed address from Mr. Mimi, but now it seems that he did not. In this way, he dared to kill people... …”