Conan's Corpse Picker

Just as he was thinking about it, Conan suddenly noticed something next to him, and whispered to them: "The manager of the antique shop, why did he suddenly come back?"

Jiang Xia put away her thoughts and looked in the direction he pointed, and saw that Xuantian Longde didn't go to Mrs. Zhujiao's house to scold him this time, but came out of another house and left quickly.

Before I could look any further, another middle-aged man approached.

This time it was a stranger.But it was just unfamiliar to the detectives—he went straight into Zhujiao's house, with a briefcase under his arm, with a calm demeanor, and this natural appearance of returning home, he looked like Mrs. Zhujiao's husband.

"..." Conan and Hattori Heiji looked at the man with subtle sympathy.

……

"I'm back." Mr. Zhu Jiao walked through the courtyard gate and entered the door of the house.

When I opened the entrance door, I saw Mrs. Zhujiao and Mrs. Soga walking out of the living room together.

Zeng Wofu looked a little absent-minded, nodded, and said hello to his old classmates who just came home.

Mr. Zhu Jiao didn't care about a sudden addition of a man in the family. After all, Zeng Wo's husband had a good relationship with them, and he often came here, and today, the two of them even made an appointment to go drinking together.

"I'll go to the bathroom first." Zhu Jiaoming said, looking at Zeng Wofu, "I saw your car at the door——since you drove here, then I won't go to the garage, and I will sit in the garage later. Leave your car."

Mrs. Zhujiao took the briefcase in his hand, and she was a caring housewife no matter in her actions or words: "You guys are going to drink, don't drink and drive——Anyway, the izakaya is not too far from here, it's better to walk there Now, it’s like exercising.”

"Haha, okay then." Zhu Jiaoming thought of something, and said casually, "Aren't you bored at home by yourself, let's come together."

"No need, I don't like drinking." Mrs. Zhu Jiao declined.

No matter how caring she looks on the surface, she doesn't want to miss her favorite TV show just to listen to the conversation of these two stupid men: "There is a late-night broadcast of a football game tonight, I'm going to catch up on sleep now, so I can have energy at night Look."

"Alright then." Zhu Jiaoming also knew her temper, so he didn't try to persuade her.

……

Not long after, the two men walked out of the house talking and laughing, and left here.

"...Finally gone."

Hattori Heiji looked at their backs, especially Soga's wife, and breathed a sigh of relief.

He looked up at the sky, and the three detectives came at two o'clock in the afternoon, and they had already stayed until dark: "I'm so hungry, let's have dinner first, and then discuss what to do."

……

The neighborhood is full of residential areas, and the nearest restaurant is also facing the street.

The three walked there hungry.On the way, Hattori Heiji thought of something and turned to look at Jiang Xia:

"The timing of the arsonist's crime has no clear rules. It may be ten days and a half months, or it may be in the next instant. We can't just keep guarding like this... You should have encountered similar cases in the detective agency. Well, how do professional detectives usually solve this kind of problem?"

Jiang Xia: "..." Of course, throw it to the younger brother, or steal the nearby electricity and install a camera.

But it’s not easy to talk about these things directly. He modified it a little: "Teamwork, let people who are good at this field come to help, or use technology."

Hattori Heiji and Conan understood: "Are you looking for someone to watch for you, or install a camera? It is indeed more labor-saving."

Jiang Xia: "..."... Tsk, you are indeed an excellent detective seedling, and the translation is really fast.

The two genius detectives not only understood Jiang Xia's meaning in seconds, but also accepted it well.

Conan looked down at the button on his body, twisted it and sighed: "Dr. Ali only gave me a bugging device, but no portable video... When I go back, I will ask him when he can upgrade the equipment. "

……

After leaving the residential area, there are a few restaurants scattered on the street.

Jiang Xia glanced at every one of them, and was disappointed to find that there was no extra murderous look here, and it didn't matter which restaurant she ate.

So the three of them chose a shop at random and sat down.

……

Not long after the dishes were served, there were vague and chaotic noises in the street.

As soon as the three of them raised their heads following the sound, they saw several fire trucks approaching with their lights flashing, then passed by the street where they were at speed, and headed towards the residential area.

"?!"

The word "fire truck" can undoubtedly be closely associated with "arson".

Hattori Heiji and Conan became alert in an instant, and stood up quickly: "It must be something wrong with [-]-chome!"

The three looked at each other and quickly rushed out of the restaurant.

Jiang Xia remembered something, in order to prevent being caught by the store manager, he turned back when he just left the store, put down the cash, and then caught up with the two people who ran out just now.

……

Running back to the place just now along the original road, the detective was surprised to find that it was Zhujiao's house that caught fire just now.

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The house mainly made of wood burned extremely fast, and the fire in Zhujiao's house was so intense that it spread throughout the entire house in the blink of an eye.

When the three arrived, they were surrounded by crowds of onlookers with different expressions.

Firefighters carried a person from Zhujiao's house, quickly covered him with a white cloth, and loaded him into an ambulance.Although the face was so burned that the face could not be seen clearly, but at this time, only Mrs. Zhu Jiao was at home, so the identity of the deceased was quite obvious.

Mr. Zhu Jiao and the feng shui master were at the forefront of the crowd.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Jiaoming was stunned for a while, and rushed over: "Liangzi!!"

Zeng Wo hurriedly followed and patted his old classmate on the shoulder, as if comforting the man who had just lost his wife.

After a while, he turned his head again and glanced at the burning house.

Every inch of the house was licked by the flames, and nothing in the house would remain.

……

A few meters away, in the crowd of onlookers.

Conan looked at these two people, frowned for a moment, and whispered to Jiang Xia and Hattori Heiji: "Didn't they go to drink? I remember that there are no izakayas in the nearest shops, and they should have gone further away place. How come they arrived faster than us?"

"Maybe there is something I forgot to take. Or maybe someone notified him after seeing the fire." Jiang Xia frowned and analyzed, while taking a bite of the chicken roll in his hand, "Of course, it may also be part of the murder plan. Because I was worried, I wanted to come back and have a look.”

Conan and Hattori Heiji smelled the aroma, looked at his hand quietly, and let out a hungry cry: "...What time is it, you still have time to eat!"

One of them ordered ramen and the other ordered curry rice.

The hot food was served, and before I could take two bites, I saw the fire truck roaring past, and of course the food was also thrown in the restaurant.

Jiang Xia looked at the chicken roll in his hand and sighed: "Just now the fire truck passed by so suddenly, I didn't realize it, so I grabbed it and went out. I wanted to throw it away on the way but I couldn't find a trash can, so I had to eat it first Drop it, otherwise you won’t be able to put it in your pocket and take it home.”

As he spoke, he took another bite sadly.

After a pause, Jiang Xia seemed to think of something, and said with emotion: "No wonder Boss Amuro always said that when a qualified detective makes a commission, he should always prepare food that is convenient to carry—speaking of it, every time I go out with you, it seems that I always Will miss the meal..."

"...Huh??" Hattori Heiji felt that there was an extra pot on his back out of thin air, "The second half of the sentence should be my line!"

...Even he often encounters cases himself.But every time I come to Tokyo, or my Tokyo classmates go to Osaka to visit him, the chances of missing a meal will obviously increase a lot.

Although Conan also felt that there were many murders around Jiang Xia, he took a little look at himself before speaking.

"..." Then he realized rationally that even if Jiang Xia was not around, he would indeed be unable to eat because of sudden cases.

So the words got out of my mouth, so I had to change the subject: "Boss Amuro has never been a serious detective before. I don't think you need to listen to his suggestions carefully, after all, he..."

I was about to insinuate about Toru Amuro's suspiciousness.

At this time, a child's voice suddenly sounded from the crowd of onlookers nearby: "Look, Mom! I'm right. The red horse that can bring fire has appeared!"

"Red horse?!" The detectives immediately forgot other topics and approached him quickly, "Little friend, what are you talking about about the red horse?"

Red Horse is the police's code name for "arsonists".Moreover, the previous three serial arson cases occurred in [-], [-], and [-] chomes respectively. In each case, a small red horse ornament appeared on the scene.

……

The child feels that he has seen something extraordinary.Hearing someone ask, decisively share with them:

"I saw it with my own eyes! When I was watching Masked Rider in the living room just now, I wanted to sing the theme song along with the TV, but before I could speak, the outside suddenly became very bright."

"I looked over to the curtain, and I was startled." The child stretched out his short arms, trying to gesture with something that seemed huge to him, "On the curtain, this——so big The shadow of a horse!"

The child's mother hugged him, and looked at the few people who suddenly rushed over to ask questions, with a hint of vigilance in her eyes.

Jiang Xia looked at her: "Which side of the house is your home on fire?"

The young housewife looked at him, and then at Conan, who was among the two high school students and was about the same age as her son. She felt that they didn't look like bad guys, so she raised her finger hesitantly: "The right side is the one closest to you." .”

Hattori Heiji and Conan looked at each other, and before the fire was extinguished, they rushed to the courtyard wall of the woman's house, jumped over the wall and entered the hospital in the blink of an eye, trying to restore the child's perspective and collect clues.

Jiang Xia turned to look at the shocked woman: "This fire is likely to be part of the recent serial arson case. My classmate probably heard the shadow of a horse on the curtains of your house, and worried that you would also be set on fire. They were marked as criminals, that's why they suddenly broke in... I'm really sorry, I'll catch them right away."

Seeing the woman nodding gratefully, he also ran to the wall and flipped in quickly.

……

As soon as Jiang Xia entered, he saw Hattori Heiji and Conan, who were already standing outside the window of the living room of the woman's house, looking seriously at Zhujiao's house next door.

The fire was so fierce that the whole house was engulfed in flames. It is not known how Mrs. Zhujiao was rescued just now.

Directly facing here, there is a window with a slit open.

Where it opened, there was a blood-red horse.It was the size of a palm, but its aura was terrifying. Against the background of the flames and distorted air, it seemed that it had just crawled back from hell covered in blood.

Jiang Xia took out her phone and took a picture with Kacha to prevent it from being burned.

By the way, you can also show the owner of the house outside the photo: this kind of hell drawing from the perspective of the camera may divert the attention of the innocent house owner, so that she forgets to pursue the three detectives who broke into other people's yards.

Two high school student detectives don't know what the mature and stable social detectives are thinking.

Seeing Jiang Xia join them, the two discussed the case with him: "The child saw the shadow of the horse when Masked Rider started - this show started at 07:30 in the evening. When he sang the theme song Seeing 'bright light', no shadows, and then seeing the horse on the curtain ... it sounds like the arsonist set the fire at 7:30, put the horse in the window slit, and caused it."

……

At the same time, the three people couldn't see outside the courtyard.

Next to the scene of the fire, among the crowd of onlookers, a familiar face appeared among the three detectives.