Corpse collector in Conan

"...That's it. That's why I asked you if you saw anything strange." The owner of the house blushed and explained a little.

——After she recovered from the frightened state, she felt that she had acted too surprised.

And the courier boy in front of me makes people want to improve his favor. She really didn't want to be thought of as a weirdo.

"That's it..." Jiang Xia didn't think the owner was nagging. Anyway, this was the last express delivery and it wouldn't delay work.

And the more he listened, the more familiar it seemed.

He had seen this case before...

Jiang Xia briefly recalled the case.

When he came back to his senses, he found that the owner of the house was still looking at him eagerly.

Jiang Xia smiled softly at her and said with relief: "Since the legend of the 'haunted house' is very popular, then the screams you heard may be children who sneaked in without permission to explore."

With that said, Jiang Xia raised her head, looked over the messy fence, and took a look into the courtyard of the "haunted house".

What a discovery.

He pointed over there: "Look, it looks like those two are in the yard."

The girl breathed a sigh of relief: "It turned out to be a naughty child who caused trouble..."

She subconsciously followed Jiang Xia's words of "look", stood on tiptoes, and looked into the courtyard of the haunted house, hoping that the children playing could heal her from the fear just now.

However, she didn't get to see the "lively children exploring the yard" as she had hoped.

Instead, I saw two children paralyzed in the yard in a "big" shape, motionless, and their condition looked wrong, as if they were dead.

girl:"……"

She stayed for two seconds, let out a scream of terror, and subconsciously wanted to hold on to the people around her for comfort.

But as soon as she stretched out her hand, she suddenly thought of something and broke into a cold sweat.

...A normal person, seeing two unconscious children lying in the yard of a haunted house, would be as calm as this courier boy, as if there were two dogs lying in the yard.

Once doubts arise in your mind, it becomes difficult to contain your thoughts.

A lot of reasoning surged in the girl's mind.

——If you think about it carefully, the courier boy seems to be too concerned about the haunted house.

Shouldn't he be very busy at work, so why would he stop and listen to himself?

According to the convention of mystery novels, could it be that the two children in the yard were killed by the courier boy?

And because he lives nearby, he is regarded as a witness and is about to be silenced? ! !

Jiang Xia twisted her chin and looked at the sweating house owner with confusion, guessing that she might be afraid of the child's body.

So he said comfortingly: "Don't be afraid."

The tone is calm, the voice is pleasant, and it is very convincing.

But there was a buzz in the girl's head, and she automatically helped Jiang Xia complete the subsequent lines - "I'm afraid it's too late, you know too much."

Homeowners gradually lose their highlights.

She wanted to hold her head and shout, "Don't kill me, I don't know anything!", but because she was too scared, she looked at Jiang Xia tremblingly and couldn't make a sound.

Under her desperate gaze, the "mastermind" who was so close away grinned again and said sinisterly——

"Can you help me call the police?"

"..."

Girl: "...Huh?"

...Why is this line so different from what she thought?

"Please call the police, my phone is out of battery." Jiang Xia took out the phone, shook it slightly, and then took it back:

"I went to the 'haunted house' to have a look. I can't leave the fainted children alone. You go home first and lock the door, and don't come out. If the children didn't scare themselves out by themselves, it means there may be someone nearby. Dangerous person."

"..." The dangerous person is you, isn't it?

The girl came up with this idea uncontrollably.

Then she slapped herself in the face to wake herself up.

Although she has an unusually rich imagination, her mental state is fine and she can distinguish between fantasy and reality.

At this time, when she heard that Jiang Xia was going to the haunted house and asked her to go home and lock the door, she suddenly realized that she might be thinking too much.

...misunderstood him.

The courier boy dared to break into the haunted house and save the children from unknown dangerous elements...

What a warm-hearted and good man!

As for why he remained so calm when faced with two children who were suspected of being dead...

Well, it must be because they have good mental qualities.

The girl felt very guilty and moved, and burst into tears instantly.

She held Jiang Xia's hand and shook it. The courier rolled to the ground without even looking at it, and said very solemnly:

"I'll call the police immediately, you must come back alive!"

Jiang Xia: "..."

Although I don't know what happened.

But the number of strange brain-filling monsters seems to have increased again.

Jiang Xia sighed silently in her heart, followed the girl's example, and solemnly said: "Okay."

He took two steps towards the haunted house and turned around again worriedly:

"Don't look outside. If you are discovered, dangerous people may break into your house and silence you. Don't come out if you hear any noise. Remember?"

"Yes!" The girl nodded vigorously, ran home, locked the door, and obediently closed the curtains.

Jiang Xia nodded with satisfaction.

Witness-1

You can feel free to do trouble in the haunted house.

He also brought in a passerby who could prove his innocence. In this way, he would not have to explain to the police why he entered the haunted house. The passerby would naturally help explain.

Jiang Xia walked towards the haunted house and climbed over the fence lightly.

After falling into the yard, he glanced at the two little boys lying dead on the grass and walked straight past them.

Although this is the first time we meet,

But Jiang Xia quickly matched the two people with the characters in his memory through the children's weird body shapes.

——On the ground are Conan’s classmates, two first-grade children.

The fat one's name is Genta Kojima, and the thin one's name is Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya.

Together with a little girl Yoshida Ayumi, and a stubborn boy Conan, the four people formed the young detective team of Didan Elementary School.

Since Genta and Mitsuhiko are lying here, today is probably the first group activity of the Young Detective Team:

Haunted house adventure.

It now appears that this adventure is nearing its end.

——Yunta and Mitsuhiko were brutally raped.

Conan and Ayumi are probably still trying to survive in the haunted house.

Just now, of the "rumors" told by the girl next door, only the first sentence was true.

——Five years ago, the male owner of the "haunted house" was brutally murdered.

But it was not the robber who killed him, but his son.

Back then, the owner of the house angrily called his son a waste, and was shot in the head with a candlestick from behind.

After the mistress grieved, she chose to protect the child. She disguised the scene as a home invasion robbery, and then pretended to move, but in fact she hid in the basement of the bungalow with her son, planning to survive the prosecution period.

Before long, the son could not withstand the psychological pressure and wanted to surrender.

However, his mother did not agree and forcibly locked him up in the basement.

The "low sound" heard by the neighbors was actually his son's roar of regret and pain. The will-o'-the-wisp in the house is the image left by the mother when she passed by the window holding a candlestick.

Jiang Xia felt a little lucky when she thought of this.

——After so many years, judging from the aura detected by the ghost baby, it seems that the leg-picking god transformed by the male master is still there.

Moreover, he might be able to get some murderous aura from the mistress.

Jiang Xia put on her gloves and walked enthusiastically to the side door of the bungalow.

He remembered that this was where the Young Detective Team sneaked into the haunted house.

However, at this time, Jiang Xia reached out and twisted, but the door was locked.

...It seems that the hostess took some defensive measures after throwing out the two naughty children who broke into the haunted house.

As an organization member, Jiang Xia should take out the tool at this time, click a few times, and pry the lock cleanly.

However, picking locks is not Jiang Xia's specialty.

And a psychic must look like a psychic...

Jiang Xia took back her hand and took half a step back.

Two pieces of paper shikigami flew out from under his feet and slipped silently into the room along the crack in the door.

After that, the shikigami overlapped and gradually expanded, gathering into something like a white clay figure.

——At first glance, it looks like a white "little black". Just no facial features.

This kind of puppet has no thinking. Completely controlled by a psychic.

Jiang Xia felt the puppet's position.

After a while, "Xiao Bai" in the room slowly stood up straight, fumbled his hand behind the door, clicked, and unlocked the door.

After completing the task, Xiaobai collapsed silently.

The paper god returned to Jiang Xia's seal space.

Jiang Xia stretched out his hand again.

This time, he opened the door successfully.