Conan's Corpse Picker

——A few days ago, Jiang Xia saw a quiz with prizes in the newspaper.The advertisement said that as long as you come to this port today with "important items that almost all Japanese people owned in the Showa era", you will have the opportunity to participate in the Ogasawara dolphin tour for free.

The person who published the advertisement in the newspaper was the same person who wrote anonymously to Hattori Heiji.

Chapter 319 Shorty Liba Unknown

In order not to scare away others, such as Hattori Heiji or some potential criminals, Jiang Xia specially prepared a hat and scarf when he came this time.

In the freezing seaside, this kind of dress is not special.

There were a lot of people queuing up to participate in the quiz with prizes, some with Rubik's cubes, some with yo-yos, and even a strong man carrying a samurai sword, as if he wanted to show the spirit of a samurai on the spot, but none of these satisfied the organizers. condition.

After the elder brother wielding a knife was dragged away by security, Jiang Xia picked up his luggage, stepped forward, and showed the old banknote to the crew guarding the door.

The crew member smiled politely and raised his hand towards the boarding passage at the back: "Yes, please come in."

……

Enter the passage, and then pass through the corridor, revealing a lobby like the reception of a luxury hotel.

Compared with the vast ship, there were not many passengers on board, and there were only a few people who came with the old banknotes, even fewer than the staff.

A few people stood at the front desk, and some sat on lounge chairs, waiting for the front desk to assign them rooms.

Jiang Xia's eyes swept half a circle, slightly in a trance—a lot of murderous intent, it seems that this ship is full of people with stories.

……

After the people in front left one after another, Jiang Xia got up from the rest chair and walked to the counter.

At the front desk is a young lady with a bun and a standard passerby face.

Jiang Xia looked down at the name registration book she pushed over, and found that each person was an independent page, and the name would not be seen by people later, so she wrote her real name with confidence.

Of course, the wild grass is used, and even if it is seen by others, it cannot be recognized at a glance.

There is also an occupation column on the registration book, and Jiang Xia wrote "student", this time using a slightly more recognizable font.

The front desk took the registration book he handed back, looked at Jiang Xia's handwriting unconsciously, and then showed him the layout of the room, telling him that since there are few guests, he can choose a room he likes.

Jiang Xia casually pointed and chose Room 2.

After receiving the key, on the way to the room, the ghosts were obviously a little more lively than usual. They were attracted by the murderous aura everywhere, and looked around from time to time.

Jiang Xia also took a deep look at several rooms, thinking about who to start with.

In my impression, there was a bank robbery in Tokyo 20 years ago.

Ye Caisan, who was known as the "shadow planner" at the time, took three accomplices and robbed [-] million yuan from the bank and killed a female bank employee.

Ye Caisan is known for his thoughtfulness and impeccable modus operandi. At the same time, he also insisted on only seeking money and not killing.Therefore, after the bank robbery, he learned that the female employee who was shot had died unfortunately, and he felt guilty and wanted to surrender.But he was stopped by three accomplices, and shot into the sea several times to kill him.

The stolen money cannot be used directly, so the remaining three people decided to separate first, and wait for the 20-year prosecution period to pass before withdrawing the money to share the spoils.The safes they use to store money need three things: signatures, seals, and keys to open.In order to prevent someone from taking it privately, the three divided the three unpacking necessities equally, and each of them controlled the same.

At the same time, this kind of item is also the secret signal for their meeting 20 years later—in order to avoid being hunted down, the three of them plan to have their own plastic surgery. It will be difficult to recognize people by face, but only by objects.

However, someone was still thinking about it.

——Now, 20 years later, among the three of them, Jingjing Sadao, who is in charge of signing, decided to invite two accomplices to the boat, kill them one by one, take away their keys and seals, and blame everything on Ye Caisan.When they killed Ye Caisan back then, no outsiders were present. The outside world didn't know that Ye Caisan was dead. It was speculated that Ye Caisan fled in fear of crime after the murder.

And to put the blame on, someone needs to reason.

That's why Sadao Kei, who lives in Kansai, wrote that anonymous letter inviting Hattori Heiji to board the ship.

At the same time, in order to accurately attract the two accomplices, he used the name "Guchuan University" when he published the game advertisement for the quiz with prizes. "Gu Chuan Da" has few strokes and is very easy to remember. It was a pseudonym commonly used by Ye Caisan in the past.

Jingjing Dadao feels that the outside world does not know this, and only his two accomplices understand what it means.

However, in fact, "Guchuan University" is a spelling of the name "Ye Caisan" rotated ninety degrees.

So this time, not only the two accomplices from back then were lured onto the boat, but also Ye Caisan's daughter, the fiancé of the bank clerk who was killed, and her father... …

And Jiang Xia, who memorizes spoilers.

In short, except for the random detectives, the people on this ship were roughly divided into two groups, one group of robbers and one group of victims.

Hidden among the robbers is Sadao Kei who wants to kill all his accomplices.

And the other two robbers actually had some ideas about embezzling property. Although the person who holds the signature cannot be killed, as long as the other person holding the key or seal is removed, one less person will be able to share the money, and six more money will be made out of thin air. 7000 million wealth.

Also, the fiancé of the deceased bank clerk was a tough guy.The middle-aged man named Ebino Minoru brought a large box of time bombs and decided that if the robbers were found on board, he would use the bombs to blow up the entire ship and die together.If no one is found, throw the bomb into the sea.

Both sides are not fuel-efficient lamps, and the neutral Jiang Xia counted the number of people with murderous looks on their bodies, and felt that the trip was worthwhile.

He quickly found the No. 2 room where he was, went in and locked the door, and placed his luggage and body.

Then he transferred his consciousness to his own puppet.

——Before boarding the ship, he deliberately left a puppet in a hidden place near the port.

There are too many people with their own minds on board. Although Hattori Heiji and Conan are very capable of attracting murders, they are not weak at all in causing trouble.Just in case, Jiang Xia felt that he should give himself a helper.

If the situation is controllable, just disperse the puppet, condense it after everything is over, and let it get off the boat and retreat.

And if there is a situation where the puppet can be used, after the act of "boarding the ship", the puppet can appear legitimately.Otherwise, if they come and go without a trace every time, broaden the minds of detectives and make them doubt science, the advantage of puppets will be weakened a lot in the future.

……

Soon, at a corner near the port, a puppet stood up, took an old ten-thousand-yen banknote, and walked towards the murderous ship.

The puppet was wearing a long black dress, a black wide-brimmed hat, and a pair of large sunglasses on his face, covering the unhidden "z" pattern under his right eye.

That's right, this time, Jiang Xia chose Miyano Akemi as the stuffing for the puppet.

As for other ghosts... Fog Tengu and Mermaid are not suitable to appear in places other than comic exhibitions; parent ghosts can only embrace and get on board, or expend a lot of murderous energy to shrink one of them as much as possible, turning into a thin but weird beer belly A man, or a pregnant woman who looks like she's about to give birth... As for Xiao Bai, the appearance of Xiao Bai's puppet is still a child.

Chapter 320 The World of Two Without Jiang Xia

Among this group of puppets, probably only the pregnant woman and Xiaobai are considered normal and will not be regarded as strange creatures.

But if they are used to board the ship, the staff must not be at ease.

Even if the crew finally let the pregnant woman on board due to regulations, they may sneak over from time to time to check in order to prevent accidents.As for Xiaobai... If he drove him onto the boat and couldn't find a guardian, he would probably be treated as a lost child and sent straight to the police station.

... When will I be able to find a normal adult male ghost? It's best to hide the tattoo a little bit and pin it on the face... Jiang Xia sighed and adjusted his sunglasses.A second later, he pulled down the sunglasses he had just lifted up, and let it cover the tattoos under his eyes again.

He drove Miyano Akemi's puppet to the boarding passage, took out the old banknotes for the staff to check, and boarded the ship as an independent guest.

After entering the room and locking the door, Jiang Xia disbanded the puppet, planning to recreate the puppet when needed.

His consciousness returned to the main body, opened his eyes in the main body, and then took out a novel and opened it to pass the time, waiting for the boat to sail.

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Ten minutes later, Hattori Heiji brought Conan to the port.

It was almost time for the boat to sail, and the passers-by who came because of the advertisement had already left one after another.Hattori Heiji walked to the boarding passage without hindrance, showed the old version of banknotes in the letter to the staff guarding there, and boarded the ship.

He followed the long corridor to the lobby. When checking in at the front desk, Hattori Heiji shook the old banknotes in his hand and asked, "Why can you get on the ship just by showing you this?"

The front desk stared blankly, with a strange expression on his face for a moment.This made her suspect that Hattori Heiji did not succeed in solving the puzzle by himself, but heard the news that "the old version of banknotes can be used for free travel opportunities".

This is cheating...

But the front desk thought about it again, she was just a laborer, and she didn't need to pay for the expenses of the guests.She quickly adjusted her expression and responded with a smile: "Because the gentleman who paid the fare in advance requested so."

Hattori Heiji was taken aback when he heard that, the anonymous sender actually hired a whole ship in order to ask him to solve the case? ... This is too sincere, what kind of case does the client want to investigate?

A series of shocking cases of rich and powerful families began to emerge in the mind of the Osaka detective.

After a while, he hid the excitement of facing a huge challenge, and asked calmly: "Where is that gentleman now? I want to say hello to him."

Conan also looked at the front desk curiously.

The front desk shook his head in a bit of embarrassment: "I haven't seen him. He contacted us by phone. The prepaid fee was also transferred directly. There was no personal contact."

Hattori Heiji nodded thoughtfully, and didn't ask any more questions.

In this way, the identity of the client is also a mystery, um... Maybe this is actually a test, the client may be hanging out on the boat, waiting to see when the detectives will find him.

Fighting spirit welled up in Hattori Heiji's heart.

After leaving the front desk, he would have liked to pat his peers on the shoulder, expressing competition and friendliness.

But due to the height problem, he could only lower his hand in the end, and touched Conan's head: "Haha, Jiang Xia finally didn't rush to answer this time, let's compete, Kudo!"

"..." Conan silently pulled his hand away.

Maybe it was because he had been with Jiang Xia for a long time, and when he heard this declaration suddenly, he always had the feeling that Hattori Heiji was still a kid.However, Conan subconsciously looked at the people around him, thinking that the employer might be hiding on the boat.

The two put away their luggage, turned around and found that there were several other guests on board.

This made Hattori Heiji realize that there were some errors in his previous thinking-the client didn't hire him a whole ship, but probably just bought him a position with money.

...This disappointed Hattori Heiji a bit.It's not that he was disappointed that the other party didn't spend money for him, but that in this way, all the reasoning dramas he had imagined just now could not be realized.

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It may be that it's not time for dinner, there are very few people on board, and there are only two guests in the restaurant except for the service staff.

One is Ebina Minoru, a middle-aged man with glasses and a rigid face.The other is the very silent, taro-like squint-eyed uncle Kameda Teruyoshi.

The two of them didn't know whether they were introverted or in a bad mood, they just exchanged a few polite words very tensely, and left quickly.

Hattori Heiji found nothing and could only temporarily return to the room.

In the evening, he and Conanka came to the restaurant for dinner.

This time, there are more people than before, but compared to the whole big ship, the population density is still too sparse.

Conan also felt a little strange.

After sitting down at the table, he grabbed the passing waiter and asked in a long voice with a child: "Uncle, why is there only so few passengers on such a big ship? It's so deserted."

The waiter originally wanted to say that there were only so few people who could answer the question correctly, but felt that this might be misinterpreted as mocking the passengers who failed to board the ship.So in the end, he just repeated Conan's words in another way with great desire to survive: "Including the three passengers who are resting in the room now, there are only 11 people who participated in this trip to Ogasawara."

Conan and Hattori Heiji were startled at the same time.

Only three people resting in the cabin?There are fewer passengers on this ship than they thought.

At this time, the handsome and well-dressed man beside him, Tadao Kei, twirled his mustache and joined the topic with great interest:

"By the way, I remember that there was an old pedant among the passengers. We met in the corridor in the afternoon and chatted casually—he seems to be an expert in marine biology research?"

The waiter recalled the guest registration form: "You mean Mr. Ye Caisan? He did say that he has a lot of research on the ocean."