Conan's corpse picker

Chapter 109 The Phantom Thief
Recently, Jiang Xia has received very few cases.

The newspapers ordered are still delivered every day.

But Jiang Xia turned around for a long while, but couldn't find her figure from above.His clipping collection has not been updated for several days.

Finally, Jiang Xia closed the newspaper, threw it on the table, sighed, and looked at the front page.

There is a photo printed on it, which is a blurry figure under the moonlight - judging from the title, this is probably "precious image of Kaitou Kidd fleeing after he succeeded".

In this world, Kaito Kid is a bug-like character.His job is a high school student in an island country full of talents, and his part-time job is a phantom thief who comes and goes like the wind under the moonlight, and is very good at magic and disguise.

Although to the outside world, Kaito Kidd's appearance and age are unknown.But he still attracts countless fans with his highly performative and superb techniques.

In addition, before committing a crime, Kidd likes to send a notice letter to the victim that needs to be decrypted, and his behavior is also very artistic.So journalists especially like to report on him.

……

Jiang Xia had also seen Kidd in the newspaper several times before.But because this strange thief is suspected to have the effect of resolving murder cases-every time Kidd appears, there are not many dead people-so Jiang Xia has a relatively general impression of him, and he skips it as if he didn't see it.

But this time...

Jiang Xia read the contents of the newspaper, and always felt that this incident might have something to do with him.

——The Phantom Thief notice letter this time was sent to the chairman of the Suzuki Foundation, Suzuki Sonoko's father.

Kidd's goal is the pearl that the Suzuki family regards as "Suzuki's patron saint" - the dark star.

……

Just thinking about it, Jiang Xia felt the phone vibrate.

He picked up the phone, and Suzuki Sonoko's voice came through the receiver.

"Have you read the news!" Suzuki Sonoko sounded very excited, "Kidd is coming to steal our house!"

Jiang Xia: "..."

Her tone was as happy as the Chinese New Year, and those who didn't know might think that she was Kidd's assistant, not some family member of the victim...

……

Suzuki Sonoko came to invite Jiang Xia to help her catch Kidd.

The ostensible reason is to share the pressure of her hard-working old father.

In fact, she was curious about what the legendary phantom thief Kidd looked like—Jiang Xia was so good at solving crimes, maybe he could easily see through Kidd's theft plan and catch Kidd.

And...as a girl who has just passed the second stage of secondary school and has not yet fully cured her secondary disease.Suzuki Sonoko actually wanted to see the two handsome guys confront each other for her (the treasure of the family)—yes, the focus of the battle was her, not some dark star.

……

In fact, Jiang Xia is not very interested in the strange thief.In his impression, when Kidd played in the early days, it was basically calm and there were no murders at all.

Until the end, Kidd's aura gradually couldn't suppress the growing Conan. When he committed crimes, the number of murders increased a little.

In the case of "Dark Star", there was no ghost from the beginning to the end.

However, Jiang Xia thought for a moment, and did not refuse Suzuki Sonoko's invitation, and worked hard to create a glorious image of "Jiang Xia never refuses invitations to go out".

——Only in this way, Suzuki Sonoko can ask him out with confidence.Instead of worrying about "whether Jiang Xia will accept the invitation" before inviting him, and then arbitrarily crossing out the items that she thinks Jiang Xia doesn't like, but there is a murder case.

……

Soon it will be the day before the preview.

Jiang Xia found the Mihua Museum according to the address Suzuki Sonoko sent him.

Conan and Mao Lilan also came.

However, none of them were in the hall at this time, it is said that they went to observe the surrounding terrain.

Jiang Xia simply greeted Chairman Suzuki, and then, with the expectant eyes of "You will be able to keep it!", he came to the showcase and looked at the huge black pearl - the dark star.

……

In the theory of the psychic, some objects that gather human obsessions contain some kind of energy called "energy core", which can be used to feed ghosts to upgrade.

The more typical carrying items are usually antique utensils or brilliant gems.

A year ago, Jiang Xia had just transmigrated into this world.After landing, apart from going to the cemetery hospital to look for ghosts and murderous spirits, he just wandered around museums or jewelry exhibitions, trying to find energy cores.

But then, it was like failing to find the ghost.Jiang Xia also failed to find the precious object with the "energy core".

……

A while ago, as Kudo Shinichi became Conan, Jiang Xia started seeing ghosts again.

He went to the museum again looking forward to a few laps, but unfortunately, he still couldn't find the energy core.

Yesterday, after receiving Suzuki Sonoko's invitation, Jiang Xia suddenly thought:
Is there a possibility that among the treasures that Kidd wants to steal, there is an energy core that he can't find?
After all, in Jiang Xia's impression, if Conan is the protagonist of this world, then Kidd is definitely the number two character with the aura of the protagonist.If one of them is in charge of ghosts and murderous aura, and the other is in charge of the energy core used for ascension to stars...it seems very reasonable.

……

However, now.

After seeing the dark stars at close range, Jiang Xia was a little disappointed.

—he couldn't feel the energy from above.

And there is no energy core in the entire museum.

"..." The secret expectation was not fulfilled, and Jiang Xia's motivation plummeted.

He sighed and planned to find a place to sit down and rest while the others were busy and no one was paying attention to him.

Just a few steps away, three people suddenly walked into the gate.

Jiang Xia looked up and saw Mao Lilan, Suzuki Sonoko and Conan as expected.

(End of this chapter)