Conan’s Corpse Picker

In Tohru Amuro's perception, the case that allowed Bermod, a member of the organization with a heavy debt of blood, to solve the case appeared in a collection of newspaper clippings in his office... It was very unpleasant no matter how you thought about it, as if someone had poured it into his coffee. I lost a small northern cockroach - at first glance, the color seems fine and even blends in perfectly with the environment, but the actual nature is completely unacceptable.

When Jiang Xia heard Toru Amuro's suggestion, he nodded, cut out his own photo from the newspaper, and threw the rest into a garbage bag - there happened to be a report that didn't have a picture, so he pasted this one and the layout was neat.

Toru Amuro watched this scene silently, feeling that his employees seemed a bit narcissistic. Fortunately, this was not a big problem... When he saw the newspaper related to Belmode falling into the trash can, he let out a sigh of relief, Leave with your information.

Jiang Xia posted the photos, put the scissors, glue and case collection back into the drawer, and suddenly had nothing to do.

I was about to call Dr. Ali again and encourage him to take his children out to play more.

But just as he took out his cell phone, Jiang Xia suddenly heard a series of crisp sounds from the small wind chime on the door - someone pushed the door open and came in.

At first, Jiang Xia was wondering if Toru Amuro had forgotten to take something, or if he wanted to make a comeback to see if he had picked up the newspaper related to Belmode from the clean trash can and pasted it into the case collection - Jiang Xia It always felt like the boss was quite resistant to his contact with Belmode, and seemed to be worried that he wouldn't be able to withstand the charm of a mature older sister...

But as soon as the door opened and the air inside and outside circulated slightly, Jiang Xia realized that it was not Toru Amuro who came in.

But a strange woman.

The woman's face is pale and very thin. The corners of her eyes are slightly swollen under the thin layer of makeup. The gentle smile at the corner of her mouth also gives people the feeling of forcing a smile. When walking around, one could vaguely feel that her legs and feet were unnatural, as if she had been injured and her joints were still not very flexible.

...But compared to these details, Jiang Xia's eyes still focused more on her body.

——This beautiful and quiet guest is actually surrounded by a rather high-end murderous aura. He smells of a very light plant fragrance, like the flesh of some plants exposed after the skin is removed.

Jiang Xia couldn't tell what species it was specifically. But he didn't care. Anyway, as long as he knew that this was high-grade murderous aura and the smell wasn't unpleasant...

His eyes paused for a moment on the woman's murderous look. Jiang Xia quickly stood up to pour tea and received her attentively.

…

ten minutes later.

Okatani Noriko completed the registration form and pushed the stiff paper form back to Jiang Xia along the table.

After that, she didn't touch the black tea on her hand. Instead, she hugged the bag on her lap and looked down at her knees.

A relatively nervous defensive posture... Jiang Xia glanced at him and quickly looked away.

In his opinion, the reaction of the guest opposite was quite normal. After all, apart from the famous actor Hijikata who was deliberately misled before, this should be the first would-be murderer to come to him.

Originally, Jiang Xia thought this was a good start: it meant that his reputation had finally been adjusted to a normal dimension, and would-be prisoners began to dare to come to him as witnesses and try to fool him.

However, after taking a closer look at the registration form, Jiang Xia found that things seemed to be different from what she expected.

This guest named Okatani Noriko did not come to him to be used as a crime tool. Instead, he entrusted Jiang Xia to find someone—a man named Beichuan Qiangshi.

The two somewhat impressive names gradually reminded Jiang Xia of what was going on.

——A few months ago, when client Noriko Okaya and her fiancé went out together, they encountered an arrogant and provocative red sports car in the wilderness.

The owner of the sports car first kept honking the horn behind their car to urge her. After Okatani Noriko's fiancé gave way, the car began to snake in front of their car until the car in which Okatani Noriko was in overturned and crashed.

Noriko Okaya's fiancé died in the car accident, and Noriko Okaya was also seriously injured and hospitalized.

While in the hospital, she heard from the police officers who came to investigate the accident that under the current circumstances, it would be difficult for sports car owners to receive much punishment.

The angry Okatani Noriko concealed the relevant information about the sports car from the police and decided to take revenge on the sports car owner without saying a word.

After she was discharged from the hospital, she went to the Ministry of Transportation to check the person based on the license plate number she wrote down.

With the license plate number in hand, you can usually find out the name of the car owner and his registered residence at the time.

However, Noriko Okaya only found out that the name of the car owner was "Kitagawa Takeshi", but failed to obtain a valid address - Kitagawa Takeshi moved once and did not update the information afterwards, so Okaya Noriko's information was cut off. She searched for it on her own for a while, but found nothing, so she finally decided to take the risk and ask a detective.

So what happened today.

Maybe he found that Jiang Xia's eyes stayed on the register for a long time.

Noriko Okaya added in a low voice to cover up: "Well, I just want to know Mr. Kitagawa's current residence, there is no other intention..."

Jiang Xia: "..."

Isn't it suspicious enough to suddenly check someone else's address? You might as well just say "I want to come and kill people"...

He muttered secretly in his heart, but after looking up and taking a look at the fresh murderous aura on Okaya Noriko's body, Jiang Xia swallowed everything back and nodded considerately: "I know."

On the entrustment registration form, the reason for the entrustment was simply written.

Okatani Noriko's statement is that she met Kitagawa Takeshi while traveling in early June. But she was shy at the time and was embarrassed to exchange contact information. After she came back, she missed that person more and more, so she planned to find someone to investigate.

"That's this person." Noriko Okaya reached into her bag and fumbled for a moment, then took out a folded piece of paper and unfolded it, "This is his portrait and license plate number..."

Jiang Xia lowered her eyes and looked at the sinister-looking simple figure with triangular eyes, triangular face, and upside-down mouth, and her eyes twitched.

No matter how you look at it, this doesn't fit the characteristics of a "crush object". You have to have some hatred to draw someone like this.

But after all, he is a distinguished VIP guest... Jiang Xia tried his best to show an expression of appreciation: "What a talented person... It shouldn't be difficult to find such a person, leave it to me."

Seeing that Jiang Xia had no suspicion, Okatani Noriko secretly breathed a sigh of relief, stood up, bowed to him, and left quickly.

The door opened and closed, and the office became quiet again.

Jiang Xia picked up the information on the table and put it away, then poured out the tea, washed the teacup, closed the door, and left the detective agency.

After that, he came to the car rental agency and planned to choose a suitable car.

Murderous aura is a necessity for psychics who raise ghosts.

But in this treasure world, obtaining murderous intent is not a burden to Jiang Xia, but more like a challenging collection game.

Although there are already two relatively stable sources of high-end murderous aura in Gin and Belmode, and Toru Amuro is expected to join them in the future, Jiang Xia can only flee every time because he failed to fundamentally solve their murderous intent. A little murderous aura overflowing from the surface.

He wanted a long stream of high-end murderous aura.

If he could get a full set of high-end murderous energy at once, of course he wanted it.

In Jiang Xia's view, Okatani Noriko wanted to kill someone because she wanted revenge.

Therefore, there are two main ways to completely get the fresh and murderous smell of plant flesh from Noriko Okaya.

One is to start with Noriko Okaya and imprison her for several years or decades until she has no desire to avenge her fiancé, for whom she has a deep affection, or directly sentence her to a life sentence that cannot be commuted, making her realize on the spot that there is no hope of killing someone. , murderous aura falls off... But to achieve this step, you have to wait for Noriko Okaya to kill someone first, and if she really kills someone, the murderous aura will naturally dissipate.

This is very contradictory, so this option can basically be eliminated.

It would be more convenient to start from another place, such as looking for the drag racing enthusiast Kitagawa Takeshi.

Since he likes to invite people to race cars and does this kind of thing all the time, there is a high probability that he will do it again in the future.

It is not difficult to find the address of Kitagawa Qiangshi. Jiang Xia plans to observe secretly and conduct a fishing and law enforcement when Kitichuan is about to go out. If Kitichuan himself falls off the cliff during the provocation, there will be no one to kill Okaya Noriko. , of course it will be difficult to maintain the murderous aura in his body...

In addition, Jiang Xia remembered several cases, all related to racing in the wilderness.

Even if Beichuan doesn't go there, he might run into other cases.

…

There are all kinds of cars in the car rental agency. Jiang Xia didn't let him go directly, but opened a set of vests.

——Considering that although the client is very low-key, she has had contact with the real body after all, so to be on the safe side, Jiang Xia did not choose Miyano Akemi and Xiaobai who often appeared, but used the ghosts of her parents.

The ghosts of parents who are connected have their tattoos exactly where they are connected. They can usually be covered by clothes, which is more convenient.

In addition, although they are a pair of ghosts, if you work hard when constructing the puppets, you can make one of them as small as possible.

In short, if you throw the parent ghost into the puppet clay, you can get three types of vests.

A couple who embraces each other all the time.

Pregnant woman looking about to give birth.

...and a young guy with a huge beer belly.

Minus the beer belly, it barely meets Jiang Xia's expectations for the vest.

Jiang Xia finally chose a young guy.

He planned to pick a car that was not reserved and drive away directly. The two people hugging each other obviously couldn't drive in front of the staff - it was too weird to sit in the driver's seat in front of many staff and guests while hugging each other, even if they were wearing vests, think about it. That scene was also nerve-wracking.

In addition, pregnant women with such a big belly may be rejected by car rental agencies who are afraid of getting into trouble... So it is better to use a young guy. A bigger beer belly is not a problem, as long as the steps are steady and healthy.

After thinking about it, Jiang Xia left his body in the cafe near the car rental shop and hung up. His consciousness moved into the young man's puppet, and he walked into the car rental shop with a belly that was uncomfortable.

As expected, he received several shocked looks.

Fortunately, although there are few young men who have grown up with alcohol at this age, they are not unavailable. The staff quickly looked back naturally, no longer looking at the puppet's belly, and began to professionally ask about his needs and introduce various vehicles.

Jiang Xia looked at it for a while and picked out a car with a rather showy appearance - the same model as Kitagawa Qiangshi's red sports car. If you can really meet Kitagawa Qiangshi, then the chance of being provoked by him will also increase significantly.

…

Although with Jiang Xia's current small treasury, he can directly buy cars when needed, or even use one and throw away another like Amuro Toru who has bilateral reimbursement. But after careful consideration, he gave up the idea for the time being.

He still prefers to travel on a motorcycle than a car, so that when he is in an emergency and encounters a traffic jam, he can fly around on the roof of other people's cars - as long as the paint is not knocked off, in this world, something like It is difficult to be held accountable for behavior.

In addition, and more importantly, if she doesn't have a car, Jiang Xia can easily use other people's cars when going out, or choose appropriate public transportation.

In this way, compared with driving alone, the chance of encountering a case will obviously increase significantly.

On the other hand, if you own a car and then use other people's cars, you have to use your brain to find excuses. Moreover, when going out with acquaintances in the future, "taking Jiang Xia's car" will naturally appear among the options, and this may interfere with the students' intuitive judgment leading to the case.

…

The red sports car that Jiang Xia picked happened to have no reservations during the recent time period.

He showed his driver's license and paid cash while driving the big-bellied puppet, and drove away smoothly under the slightly anxious eyes of the staff.

The driver's license was obtained from the black market not long after he got his parents' ghost. Although Jiang Xia secretly disliked the appearance of the pair of puppets, he still had to have a vest. He might suddenly need it one day - such as today.

Kitagawa Qiangshi's new address is not difficult to check. In Jiang Xia's impression, he happens to live in Tokyo now.

So after renting a car, Jiang Xia went to the police station to make the last record while getting off work.

While sitting on the bench waiting, he drove the puppet and sneaked over to find out Kitagawa Qiangshi's current residence - there were not many people in Tokyo with the same name as Kitagawa Qiangshi, only three in total. Combined with age and the charming portrait provided by the plant-flavored client, the process of finding someone was quite easy.

After confirming Beichuan Qiangshi's current address, Jiang Xia sneaked out in the middle of the night, skillfully drove a puppet, stole some electricity from other people's homes near Beichuan's house, installed a camera, and watched Beichuan Qiangshi go out.

Two or three days passed.

At noon, when Jiang Xia was dozing off, she was woken up by the ghosts who were responsible for watching the surveillance screen.

He took off the magazine covering his face, sat up, and saw a red sports car slowly driving out of the yard on the screen.

Through the front window of the car, a high-quality camera captured the face of the car owner: sharp cheekbones, sharp chin, triangular eyes... It was the key to getting the murderous aura of the complete plant flesh - Kitagawa Qiangshi.

…

A mountain road near Tokyo.

Jiang Xia drove back and forth in his newly rented, polished car.

This section of the road is too long. If you leave the main body behind and let the puppet wander freely, it will consume too much murderous energy and the gain will not be worth the loss.

And if you put the main body in the car and take it with you, you might as well just let the main body drive.