Corpse collector in Conan

Jiang Xia was sitting in the co-pilot. Before she opened her eyes, she heard the whispers of the ghosts. Now that there were more ghosts, it was a little noisy, but she could still tell what they were saying - there was something nearby that could Pick up.

Jiang Xia looked outside through the car window. At the same time, he skillfully let the shikigami fly into the trunk, skillfully condensed the white puppet, and skillfully broke the tires in the trunk.

Tohru Amuro had no idea what was happening in the trunk.

After he realized that the car had a puncture, he was slightly startled and pulled over to the side.

Toru Amuro used to get into a car ten times, and his tire would only blow out once. But now, when he was on an ordinary errand, driving without speeding, his tire blew out twice...

Amuro glanced at Jiang Xia next to him, and suddenly felt that there was something wrong with the conclusion he had drawn before - Jiang Xia might not be lucky, but jumping back and forth between extreme good luck and extreme bad luck.

Otherwise, why would cars always break down along the way in Jiangxia?

Jiang Xia faced Toru Amuro's complicated gaze. He vaguely guessed Toru Amuro's thoughts, but he could only maintain innocence and doubts on his face: "?"

Toru Amuro: "...It's okay." After saying that, he opened the door and got out of the car, intending to put on the spare tire.

Jiang Xia actually felt that two flat tires in a row was too coincidental, but when he thought about it carefully, it was very reasonable.

—— Putting aside his own luck, Conan is still sitting in the car. The two are superimposed. How can it be justified without encountering some incidents.

Conan's back trembled. He raised his head sharply and met Jiang Xia's encouraging eyes.

Conan: "...?"

Jiang Xia looked away when the primary school student looked back in confusion and got out of the car, followed by the other three. When someone else wants to change a tire, they can't just sit in the car.

After getting out of the car, Mao Lilan found that the trunk lid was open, and Jiang Xia's reliable-looking boss had been staring at the trunk for a long time.

Mao Lilan approached suspiciously, and she saw a tire in the trunk with some jagged stubble on it.

…

Toru Amuro stared at the hole in the tire, lost in thought.

The last time the tire was bitten, the trunk was left open, which could be explained by the fact that some wild animal had slipped in when he wasn't paying attention.

This time, however, the trunk was closed securely. But as soon as he opened the lid of the box, he saw that the tire was punctured.

...If he hadn't taken care of the ignorant citizens beside him, Toru Amuro might have taken out his gun at this time.

But now, he could only look at it with a gloomy face, and rummaged through the debris piled in the trunk with his bare hands, trying to find the unknown and terrifying creature biting his tire, but unfortunately he found nothing.

This made Amuro Toru feel relieved and even more confused.

When he opened the lid of the box, he obviously didn't see anything slipping out. Why on earth were the tires...

Jiang Xia walked up to Toru Amuro, looked down, and wondered, "Why is it broken again?"

Toru Amuro always felt that his next words would be "I told you before that there are definitely rats in your car."

Toru Amuro: "...I think I picked it up by mistake before. I accidentally put the broken tire up."

He actually didn't believe he would make such a mistake.

But now, if the memory is not wrong, it means that there is a supernatural event.

Such a comparison... Sure enough, he was too tired in the past two days and remembered things wrongly. After all, he didn't close his eyes for almost the entire night yesterday. It was normal for his memory to be affected due to lack of sleep...

Conan put down his cell phone and walked next to them: "There is no signal here, but I saw a building over there that looked like a castle. We can borrow the landline phone from the owner and call a tow truck."

"Indeed." Jiang Xia also put down his phone. He had been waiting for this sentence for a long time.

Toru Amuro turned his head following the directions of the two people and saw an ancient castle standing in the forest through the layers of trees.

He didn't know if it was an illusion, but no matter how he looked at it, he felt that this old castle was eerie and had a strange aura.

...But there are no ghosts in this world.

So it must be an illusion.

Moreover, this place is in the middle of nowhere, with no other cars passing by, and no signal. If you want to leave as soon as possible, you really need a landline phone.

Toru Amuro took a deep breath and closed the trunk with a normal expression: "Let's go."

…

Jiang Xia looked at the castle in front of him. The yard around the castle was very large, and he couldn't detect anything unusual for the time being, but judging from the reactions of the other three ghosts, there were a lot of things that could be picked up hidden in this castle.

A group of people walked to the door. Through the tall iron gate, they could see a gardener pruning crops in the yard. The yard is very vast, and there are many huge sculptures of chess pieces placed on the lawn. A young man is squatting next to the sculpture, looking at it thoughtfully.

Maybe it was because there were very few visitors in the deep mountains and wild forests, so the two people in the courtyard didn't notice the guests at the door.

At this time, a car drove from outside and stopped behind Jiang Xia and others.

A middle-aged man with middle-parted hair got out of the car. The man opened the courtyard door and looked at them doubtfully: "Who are you?"

His eyes passed over the others, and when they stopped on Jiang Xia's face, he paused slightly.

Jiang Xia had seen similar looks many times in the past few days.

He soon realized that the man in front of him probably recognized him as a detective.

The previous variety show "Perspective Detective Agency" and the subsequent live broadcast of solving crimes seemed to have some effects. Jiang Xia always feels that this time, his popularity is much higher than before.

I don’t know when I will receive the invitation to enter the serial murder case from afar...

The person who recognized Jiangxia was named Mamiya Mitsuru, and he was one of the owners of this castle.

After listening to several people's requests to borrow the phone, Mamiya Mitsuru enthusiastically welcomed them into the castle.

Toru Amuro breathed a sigh of relief, but he picked up the phone in the corridor and pressed the number, only to find that he couldn't dial it.

He was startled, and the strange tooth marks on the tires appeared uncontrollably in his mind again. After a while, Toru Amuro looked at Mitsuru Mamiya silently, his eyes slightly focused.

Mamiya Mitsuru originally wanted to let it go.

But when he was suddenly stared at like this, his vest suddenly felt cold, giving him the illusion that his life was being threatened.

For the moment, Mamiya Mitsuru couldn't care less about creating the sense of mystery that detectives like. He sped up his speech: "That's it! Yesterday's earthquake affected the phone lines. When I came back, I stopped by and asked about it. I was told that it would not be possible until tomorrow. Repair it - I have no other intention of inviting you in. I just want you to have a place to rest. By the way... well, I have something to ask you."

This sentence sounds more like human speech than anything else.

Amuro Toru's expression brightened slightly. Since the external line was broken, there was really nothing we could do. We couldn't walk down the mountain with two weak girls and a primary school student.

He looked at Mamiya Mitsuru and asked for details.

Jiang Xia looked out the window while listening to Mamiya Mitsuru's story.

Just now, when Jiang Xia saw the chess sculptures in the yard outside, she knew exactly which case this was.

This castle has a steeple, and the view from the top is excellent. So Mamiya Mitsuru's father-in-law regarded it as a "treasure" and arranged a series of puzzles in the castle, with the answers pointing to the top of the spire.

After the death of this playful old man, the legend of the treasure became more and more outrageous, and everyone thought it represented a lot of wealth.

Four years ago, a maid finally had a wrong idea. She burned everyone who was familiar with the Dowager to death, and transformed herself into the Dowager's appearance, replacing the original old man. She planned to stay in the castle for a long time until the treasure was found.

Mamiya Mitsuru did not realize that his mother-in-law had secretly changed into someone else. He was also concentrating on searching for the treasure, and suddenly thought out of the blue that he could use external help - such as the detective who came to the door in front of him.

When Conan heard that there was a puzzle here, he became excited. Toru Amuro also became somewhat interested. After all, he also had a little detective soul flowing through him.

Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko are not very good at solving puzzles, but the courtyard here is beautifully manicured, and they quickly moved to the window, overlooking the "chessboard lawn" that was said to contain a lot of information.

Jiang Xia looked at the backs of several people, then looked at Xiaobai who had just walked out of the wall, grabbing his trousers and complaining, and walked quietly to the next room.

According to the preliminary investigation of the ghosts, there are indeed many shikigami in this castle.

But they were burned to death in a daze before they were alive. When they had just become shikigami and still had room to move, they didn't know which murderer to pick out, so they had to pick up the place where they died - there were still people there. There are still a few scorch marks on the body from before death, which makes it safer to pick it up.

These shikigami who were trying to die in vain were obsessed with their souls, and they had so many souls that Xiaobai and the others couldn't successfully capture them for a long time.

So Jiang Xia planned to enter the secret passage. The secret passage here is connected to the tower opposite that was burned down four years ago. He plans to go and see the condition of the shikigami. If everything goes well, we might be able to pick up more than ten shikigami in this wave.