Conan's corpse picker

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.

……

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, but 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.

……

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."

Hattori Heiji just felt the name "Yesai San" sound familiar, when he saw the expressions of all the passengers in the restaurant changed, some were panicked, some were complicated, and some hated.

The detective radar alerted Hattori Heiji and Conan: "... Ye Caisan?"

The short-haired woman sitting nearby looked at them, smiled lightly, and said with reminiscence: "He is a criminal genius known as the 'Shadow Planner'. He was also responsible for a 20 million bank robbery [-] years ago. The mastermind...after that case, he disappeared."

Not far away, Wu Tiangou hovered over the dining table, watching the scene seriously.

Jiang Xia didn't show up at dinner either.He didn't want his appearance to interfere with what was going to happen next, but he was a little curious about how far it had progressed, so he temporarily moved the vision and hearing of the main body to the ghost, and let the ghost float out to check the situation.

For Jiang Xia, apart from Hattori Heiji and Conan, everyone else in the restaurant was unfamiliar.However, he still used the characteristics of each person to match the real person with the character in the spoiler.

(End of this chapter)