Corpse collector in Conan

Pisk suddenly understood.

Gin would not make such a joke during the mission. Since he said so, it means that this kind of mistake really exists - the camera that lit up in the banquet hall before did not look like the host of the memorial service at all. It was said that it was used to shoot slideshows, but it was taken from other angles! Unfortunately, he, who was pointing the gun at the chandelier, appeared in the photo, and the top management of the organization knew about it.

Big drops of cold sweat suddenly broke out on Pisk's forehead, and he realized the seriousness of the problem - the organization has always been very strict in keeping identities confidential, and now that he has made such a mistake, then Councilor Tunkou, who died under the chandelier not long ago, That was his fate.

But he doesn't want to die yet...

Piske's thoughts were racing. He spread his hands and smiled as warmly as possible:

"Don't be like this. I have never had any doubts about the organization. If I am really exposed, I can give up my current identity and become a person in the dark. And if you kill me, you will never find Shirley - I know Who rescued her, gave me a chance to redeem myself, and I can bring her back to the organization tonight."

...In fact, Pisk knew in his heart that with the mistake of "being photographed on the spot when killing someone" and the fact that he was increasingly feeling powerless due to his advanced age, even if he really caught Shirley, he might not be able to escape death.

So this is just a delaying tactic - as long as Gin agrees to let him atone for his sins and not kill him on the spot, then he will have the opportunity to create chaos while chasing Shirley and escape in the chaos.

When saying these words, Piske hesitated for a moment, not sure whether he should reveal to Gin that "Shirley has become smaller".

I don’t want to say it’s because, as a member with a wealthy status and living in the sun most of the time, Pisk actually doesn’t have much contact with people like Gin. I only know from rumors that Gin is a very hard-working person. He is either at work or on the way to work every day.

Therefore, in Pisk's opinion, such a model employee must also be interested in meritorious service. If Gin is interested in the credit for "discovering that Shirley has become smaller", then Gin can definitely shoot him to death after listening to the information provided by Pisk, and then take the information as his own... Say this now The truth will only make you die faster.

But if this was kept secret, Gin and the organization would not be able to know the importance of Pisk - without him providing the information that "Shirley is now a child", the organization would obviously be frustrated in finding Shirley. But if he didn't say it, Gin wouldn't know this, and might think, "Why can't I find someone that Pisk can find?", and then proudly shoot him to death... Damn it, how can it all lead to death?

The corners of Pisk's wrinkled eyes trembled slightly, and he couldn't decide which method had a greater chance of survival.

While he was struggling, a flash of light came out of the corner of his eye as he was facing the door - he suddenly found that someone at the door was looking in, and the exposed side face looked familiar...Jiang Xia? !

Pisk was startled, but then he cheered up and felt that he had a chance to survive.

——Now one more person means more chaos.

And judging from the email that Ginjiu had asked him not to provoke Jiang Xia, Jiang Xia is an enemy that gives Ginjiu a headache. The sudden appearance of such a person is very helpful for him to escape in troubled waters!

Pisk didn't have time to think too much. He grabbed the thought that flashed through his mind and pointed to the door: "That's him. He saved Shirley!"

...Although Pisk knew in his heart that Jiang Xia had been in his sight since Shirley disappeared and was definitely not the one to rescue Shirley.

But this sentence will undoubtedly make Ginjiu pay attention to Jiang Xia.

Then, Jiang Xia not only "rescued Shirley", he also witnessed the scene where Ginjiu raised a gun and threatened others... No matter which one it was, it would definitely make Ginjiu's priority of "killing Jiang Xia" rise to " Pisk who has a good attitude towards admitting mistakes" before!

However, the ideal script did not materialize.

Gin heard Pisk's excited shouting and did not look back - Pisk still had a gun in his hand, and he suspected that the old man was making trouble.

But soon, Vodka's startled voice came from behind: "Why is it you?!"

...Is there really anyone?

Gin first handed over Pisk's gun and then turned around.

Then he caught sight of Uzo who was leaning against the door and looking in.

"You really hold a grudge." Uzo looked at Pisk accusingly, "Isn't it because the sneak attack on me failed and I accidentally threw me... After that, we have been being questioned by the police. You should know me best. I have no time to do other things, and now you are framing me with such words. Could it be that you realize that you will not survive and want to make up some lies to create an opportunity to escape? "

As soon as Jiang Xia arrived, she heard Pisk's talk about "rescuing Shirley" and felt like a pot was flying towards her.

Moreover, he was also worried that once Conan and Haibara Ai left, without the driving force of death, Gin would not be decisive enough to silence him. If Gin is really deceived by Pisk's lies and doesn't kill him immediately...

You have to come out quickly to light up the fire.

When Pisk saw Jiang Xia taking the initiative to enter the wine cellar, he felt excited. He felt that this must be a stupid young man who didn't bother to escape. After his peeping was exposed, he stood up openly and tried to confront the villain with love and justice.

However, as Jiang Xia's words fell to the ground, he gradually felt that something was wrong.

When Jiang Xia said those words, the wording was very strange - rescuing Shirley turned out to be "framing" him. In other words, from Jiang Xia's point of view, saving people is not a good thing... This, this does not seem to be the idea that a high school detective should have!

Also, why didn't Gin and Vodka kill him? !

Even if we still need to learn the whereabouts of Shirley from Jiang Xia, we should at least catch him and question him immediately!

Pisk felt Gin pointing the gun between his eyebrows without moving at all. Looking at Jiang Xia's unnerved smile, she felt a strong sense of disobedience. The strange situation gave him a wave of fear, and cold sweat soaked through his shirt like a spring.

The idea of ​​"accomplices" that briefly popped up before suddenly appeared in Pisk's mind again.

He suddenly realized something and stared at Jiang Xia with a hint of disbelief in his hoarse voice: "You are..."

"Yes, I am the benefactor who gave you the purple commemorative handkerchief and allowed you to escape from the police." Jiang Xia intercepted what Pisk really wanted to say.

"??" Pisk became completely angry and felt extremely ridiculous for a moment. Jiang Xia turned out to be another member, "Then you still fight...!"

boom--

Gin expressionlessly pulled the trigger.

In addition to being photographed while killing, he actually made other mistakes. He had to rely on Uzo's help to escape smoothly... He was indeed a waste.

In addition, after making various fatal mistakes, he did not want to make up for it as soon as possible. Instead, he deliberately provided wrong information and tried to take advantage of the chaos to escape. If such a moth lives for one second longer, it will be a stain on the tissue.

The gunshot, which was weakened by the silencer, rang out, and a cluster of blood burst out from behind Pisk's forehead. He fell to the ground with a ferocious expression, twitched and stopped moving.

The murderous aura directed against Jiang Xia naturally fell off his body, and the shikigami of Councilor Tunkou also fell to the ground on his legs, and the mermaid who was very active in picking up the murderous aura rushed towards him and hugged him.

Jiang Xia did not look at the murderous spirit and shikigami, but looked at Pisk expectantly.

Then I saw a white, paper-like soul gradually emerging from the old corpse.

It hesitated for a moment, slowly floated towards Gin, and tried to grab the leg of the man in black. But the closer it got, the harder it trembled... Finally, after touching Gin's calf tremblingly, the shikigami fled back to the corpse at a much faster speed than when he came. He held the body tightly again, as if he had returned home.

"..."

Jiang Xia stared at it, losing a little of its highlights.

...It's not a ghost fetus, it's a shikigami.

Although it is a slightly braver shikigami than other shikigami, it is still just a shikigami.

The ghost fetus is different from the leg-picking shikigami. Shikigami have almost no wisdom left, only some instincts remain. They hate and are obsessed with their murderers, so if they want to take away shikigami completely and smoothly, they must punish their murderers.

But ghost fetuses are different. There are many "human" characteristics left in the ghost fetus. It can be kidnapped, deceived, and coerced... Although this method is not worth advocating, if you want it, there is always a way to abduct it.

At first, Jiang Xia thought that if Piske succeeded in becoming a ghost fetus, he would try to put a sack on Gin with his vest on, intending to beat him up, trick the ghost, and abduct the ghost fetus using both soft and hard tactics.

But now, only one shikigami has fallen...

Jiang Xia's expectant heart suddenly fell to the bottom, and she completely lost her intention to lie to ghosts.

...Tequila doesn't drop ghosts, and neither does Pisk.

Could it be that the probability of a codenamed member of the organization becoming a ghost fetus after death is not as high as he thought?

...Haha, such a useless organization has no value in existing. Jiang Xia's eyes were dark, and she muttered in her heart like a villain, and felt that she should clenched her fingers to make a rattling sound at this moment... Unfortunately, there were others around, so it was not easy for them to do what mature adults should not do. thing.

Thinking of this, he turned his head and glanced at Gin, who was still full of murderous aura. His eyes couldn't help but pause for a moment at his superior's considerable murderous aura.

Thinking again about Belmod and the boss with great potential, Miyano Akemi also seemed to be from an organization... Jiang Xia sighed again and retracted his preamble.

Forget it, at least there is a stable murderous energy in the organization, and it can also provide ghost-picking targets from time to time...

…

In the wine cellar, vodka was banging the bottles next to it, specializing in spirits with extremely high alcohol content such as Spiritas, in preparation for setting fire after the murder.

Jiang Xia's hand hanging by his side was slightly raised, ruminating in boredom at the murderous aura that swelled and floated to his side.

I was frustrated and wanted to urge the ghosts to work faster. At this time, a black shadow suddenly moved in front of my eyes.

——Gin turned around halfway and pointed the gun at him again.

Jiang Xia was startled, and temporarily let go of the murderous hand, showing a confused and innocent expression skillfully.

Gin's finger was on the trigger, and he was playing with a box of matches in his other hand.

Recalling what Uzo said when he first entered the wine cellar, he asked quietly: "You have been under the sight of the police and have been cut off from communication. You should have never seen the photo of the gun being shot... You How do you know Piske won’t survive?”

...Unless Pisk's death was caused by Uzo's manipulation.

Even if not, at least Uzo knew that the photo existed, but he didn't deal with it.

"..." Jiang Xia paused slightly. I have been looking forward to unboxing Pisk for so long that I have almost regarded this as a default fact...

Next to him, the sound of vodka hitting the bottle was heard. Immediately afterwards, the big man in black glanced at Jiang Xia with a look like "I knew it was like this!" and began to pray that the gun would go off in anger.

However, the sweet gunshot did not sound.

Instead, after noticing the pause in smashing the bottle, Gin glanced over and urged in a cold voice: "Do your job."

"Oh." Vodka hurriedly turned around and continued to bang the high-alcohol wine while trying to prick up his ears.

Soon, Uzo's voice sounded.

To Vodka's dismay, he did not feel guilty about having done bad things and was exposed on the spot. Instead, he was quite calm: "I heard your conversation in the corridor."

Gin frowned slightly after hearing this answer. Before entering the wine cellar, he habitually looked both ways in order to confirm his escape route and to prevent being followed. There was no one in the corridor at that time.

And he only mentioned the reporter and the film to Pisk not long after he entered the house. If Uzo wanted to hear this news, he would probably have to sprint to catch up, but just now, there were no similar footsteps in the corridor.

...However, upstairs next to the wall, there were always people walking back and forth communicating, which was quite noisy. If Uzo steps lightly enough and is covered up by the noise, this is not impossible. He does look very light.

There is also some supporting evidence.

Gin knew that in order to save time, when silencing a target like Pisk that he was not interested in, he would usually do it directly and rarely waste time telling that person the reason why he was silenced.

In fact, if he hadn't been blowing the cold wind on the roof for most of the day, and let go of the prey that had been chasing him for a long time, and needed something pleasant to do to adjust his mood, Gin would not talk nonsense to Pisk, nor would he Entertainment and relaxation by watching Pisk's funny expressions from calm to panic, and then trying to survive, but he will ask for information and beat people to death in a business-like manner.

...In other words, with Uzo's meticulous mind, if he hadn't really heard the relevant conversation, then he should have made up some other excuses that are not easily exposed. For example, after Pisk left, he had a good relationship with the police That's where he learned the relevant news and so on...rather than take the risk of lying to his face and saying that he heard the conversation.

Gin got a reasonable explanation and lowered his gun.

At the same time, he thought nonchalantly that even if it was Uzo who did it, there doesn't seem to be any problem.

After all, it now seems that Pisk is more useless than he thought - if Pisk had been more vigilant, dealt with reporters in time, and prepared handkerchiefs, then even if someone stumbled, he would not have ended up in this situation.

...In the final analysis, it is still unbearable. A person with no ability took advantage of the organization's funds and connections to reach this position after decades, but he didn't think about how to contribute to the organization. Instead, I heard that Pisk wanted to clear his name for the next generation...

Gin thought about it and nodded secretly as if he understood something. If you think about it carefully, Piske's death here tonight may actually be the result that the adult would like to see.

As far as Gin knew, there were many other urgent tasks tonight, but the boss reacted quickly and immediately sent a silence order when Pisk's mistake was just exposed. Moreover, in this operation, Pisk was left solely responsible for the most important part of "assassinating the mouth-swallowing congressman", while other young and strong cadres were only responsible for cleaning up some other trash...

Gin pondered for a moment, collected his thoughts, and stopped speculating.

Next to him, the highly concentrated wine was already flowing all over the place and evaporating to some extent.

Ginjiu raised his hand and asked Jiang Xia and Vodka to leave the room.

He went out himself, struck a match, and threw it backwards into the cellar.

The fire soared from the ground, engulfed half of the wine cellar with hurricane force, and spread rapidly.