Conan's corpse picker

Chapter 2526 2530 [Crow's Mouth]

However, to Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya's disappointment, Dr. Agasa's old friend not only did not delay them, but arrived a few minutes early.

"Agasa!" A 7-seater commercial vehicle stopped outside the courtyard gate, and a middle-aged man with a kind smile got out of the car. The man raised his hand and greeted Dr. Agasa, "Let's go, do you have a lot of luggage? Do you need my help?"

Conan looked at the man and suddenly realized: "It turned out to be Mr. Sakaguchi."

Jiang Xia's ears twitched: "Your acquaintance?"

Conan shook his head, a nostalgic expression on his face: "Not really, but he has a German Shepherd at home. When I was in elementary school, I would pass by his house on the way to and from school. The dog looked very familiar with me and even ate bread from my hand through the gate. Calculating its age, it should be almost 8 years old. Time flies."

As he was talking, he remembered something and whispered to Jiang Xia, "If you get caught speeding one day, you can also look for him. I remember that he is a lawyer who specializes in legal issues involving minors. For the sake of our neighbor, he will definitely be able to get you out smoothly."

Jiang Xia glanced at him: "...Although there is no evidence, I always feel that the probability of you being caught for skateboarding is greater than the probability of me being caught." After all, the versatile psychic can abandon the car and replace it with a leopard at any time and walk upstairs, while some elementary school students' solar skateboards are not so convenient.

But when Jiang Xia mentioned this lawyer, he vaguely thought of another thing: "When I was in the third or fourth grade, did his family have any cases?"

Conan nodded, his expression becoming somewhat heavy: "His son committed suicide. At that time, the older brother seemed to have just entered junior high school."

The two were chatting casually when, at the gate of the hospital, Dr. Agasa ended the greetings.

He turned around and waved to the children, saying cheerfully, "Let's go, get ready to go!"

……

The group put on their coats, picked up their luggage, and checked to see if they had forgotten anything.

Lawyer Sakaguchi was bored waiting by the car, so he made a phone call: "Hello? Xiaogang, oh, I'm ready to leave. Did you forget to feed John?"

"Haha, does it miss me?" Sakaguchi Masayoshi said with a smile, "I will be away for about two or three days this time, so I'll have to trouble you to look after the house for me. By the way, give the phone to John, I want to talk to it - we will be separated for so many days, and I miss it a lot."

The lawyer was having a warm chat with his friend who was helping to feed the dog.

At the same time, on the other side of Beika Town.

Kogoro Mori walked home yawning, taking tired steps and in a daze.

Mao Lilan followed behind him, muttering in dissatisfaction: "You can drink with friends all night long... You are old, you should pay a little more attention to your health."

"At an old age?" Maori Kogoro snorted, "Your father is in the prime of life!"

Mao Lilan rolled her eyes and was about to say something, but at this moment, a terrified scream of "Ah--!!" suddenly came from a single-family house next door.

Maori Kogoro:"……?"

Mao Lilan: “?!”

The father and daughter were stunned, looked at each other for a moment, and responded skillfully.

Maori Kogoro rushed to the house next door, climbed over the gate, and knocked on the door. Maori Ran followed him over there, took out her cell phone and pressed the alarm.

"Is anyone there? Who was shouting just now?" Maori Kogoro shouted, "Open the door quickly, or I... Puff!!"

The door was suddenly pushed open from the inside, and a young woman wearing a miniskirt and fashionable clothes rushed out, crawling.

Maori Kogoro was hit in the chest by a door frame and almost couldn't breathe. Maori Ran, who had already reported the address, ran over quickly, supported him with one hand, and supported the young woman who was kneeling on the ground with the other hand: "What's wrong? Are you okay?"

The young woman trembled and spoke incoherently: "The dog, the dog named John...it suddenly jumped on Xiaogang, and Xiaogang...Xiaogang's neck was broken!"

This statement was confusing, but fortunately, the Maori father and daughter quickly extracted the key words: broken neck.

...It sounds like a murder has occurred?

Maori Kogoro didn't dare to delay and rushed into the house immediately. Maori Ran was worried about her old father who was very weak after staying up all night, so she ran in.

The two walked through the spacious corridor and came to the living room, where they saw a young man lying in a twisted posture at the corner of the escalator leading to the second floor - his eyes were wide open, and his head hit the wall, bent 2 degrees from his body.

Further up the stairs, a sturdy dog ​​stopped there, looking down fiercely.

"This is... John?" Mao Lilan suddenly recognized him. This was also the place she often passed by when she was in elementary school. She realized later, "Is this lawyer Sakaguchi's house?"

At this moment, she suddenly found a mobile phone lying at her feet. The screen of the phone had some cracks, but it was still on, so it must have fallen from the deceased's hand.

Mao Lilan carefully approached and found that the screen showed that she was on a call. After hesitating for a moment, she carefully reached out and pressed the speaker button.

An anxious voice sounded: "Hello? Hello? - Speak up, Xiaogang, hello?"

Mao Lilan: "Um, is Xiao Gang your friend?"

As she said this, she looked up at Maori Kogoro.

Seeing her father standing next to the body and shaking his head regretfully, Mao Lilan immediately understood everything. She sighed and said to the person on the other end of the phone, "Mr. Xiaogang may have passed away. If it's convenient, would you like to come over?"

……

On the other side, in front of Dr. Agasa's yard.

Conan's ears moved slightly, and he whispered to Jiang Xia: "I always feel like I heard Xiaolan's voice."

Jiang Xia looked at Attorney Sakaguchi who was anxiously on the phone: "It shouldn't be an illusion - his receiver is leaking some sound, it is indeed Xiaolan who is talking on the other end."

"!" Conan rushed forward and grabbed Lawyer Sakaguchi's trouser leg, "Stop talking nonsense and take us there quickly!"

Lawyer Sakaguchi was startled by him: "Oh, okay. I... I'll go back right away!"

……

The business car that was originally used for traveling now became a tool for rushing to the scene.

The vehicle roared forward, and in the last row of seats, three real children sat together in a daze.

The three of them looked at each other. Kojima Genta scratched his head, as if waking up from a dream: "So why are we in the car?"

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya: "…Because just now Jiang Xia opened the car door and shouted to us, 'Get in the car'."

Then their legs moved up swiftly without their control.

"But why did they ask us to get in the car?" Yoshida Ayumi activated her young woman's instinct, "Is Jiang Xia afraid that we will abandon the adults and go skiing alone?"

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya shook his head rationally: "No, maybe he's worried that the adults are gone and we kids might do something reckless, so he wants to keep a close eye on us."

(End of this chapter)