Conan's corpse picker

Chapter 390 Master Spider (joint chapter)
Thinking of this, Jiang Xia pointed to the storage room, and said to Takeda Yoko who helped guide the way: "Go over there and have a look."

Hattori Heiji was taken aback.

He remembered that before the twin sisters appeared, when Yoko Takeda asked Jiang Xia where he was going, Jiang Xia clearly pointed in the direction of the main house.

—— Hattori Heiji used to go to the scene of the crime to investigate first. For example, this time, if he had to choose, he would first go to the storage room where Akio Negishi died.

So just now, after seeing Jiang Xia make a completely different choice of "main house", Hattori Heiji was immediately alert and was deeply impressed by it, so he almost made a note to study why Jiang Xia chose that way.

But now, Jiang Xia has changed her mind...

Hattori Heiji asked suspiciously, "Didn't you go to the main house just now?"

"..." Yes, but now, the ghosts have gone to the storage room again...

Jiang Xia said calmly: "I thought about it for a while, and it really is safer to start the investigation from the scene."

Hattori Heiji: "..." In fact, he really wanted to ask why he thought investigating the main house was a good option just now.

But I'm too embarrassed to ask...

Next to him, Yoko Takeda didn't think too much about it.She doesn't know much about detective routines, but since Jiang Xia is going to the storage room now, it's good that she is responsible for leading the way.

She quickly led Jiang Xia to the storage room.Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha also followed.

Rob went to the kitchen to help the maid in Takeda's house.

——He just killed one person a few days ago, and he plans to kill another one later. He has ghosts in his heart, and he doesn't really want to stay with the detectives.

But before killing Takeda Shinichi, he needed an absolute alibi.

So Rob had no choice but to get together with the maid, praying secretly in his heart, hoping not to be disliked for his cooking skills...

……

The storage room was not too far away, and Yoko Takeda led the way, and the four of them quickly arrived at the place.

However, no matter how fast he arrived, Jiang Xia still didn't have time to see the ghost clearly.

Only when I first entered the door, I saw a few semi-transparent figures that were almost blurred in the corner of the room, and they passed by in a flash.

Although I didn't see anything, but this speed...

Jiang Xia gradually became alert, and had a bad premonition in his heart. Eight thick, furry spider legs appeared in his mind, and they moved quickly close to the ground.

As soon as Yang Zi, who was leading the way, turned his head, he saw Jiang Xia staring straight at the corner of the room with serious eyes.

She looked along suspiciously, and saw a small spider hanging on the corner of the wall, it was hanging down along the silk thread.

Yoko Takeda thought he understood.

She withdrew her gaze and explained: "We have a lot of spiders here. Fortunately, they generally don't bite people, and they are not easy to drive away, so they have been kept."

Hearing this, Hattori Heiji also frowned and looked at the little spider hanging in the corner.

It is often heard that "killing a spider is unlucky", but here it is impossible to even drive it away... He remembered the legend that Takeda Yuzo mentioned on the road, and the three hanged corpses, and felt that this Maybe a clue.

Hattori Heiji asked: "I heard that you worship Spider-sama very much here? What are its characteristics?"

... If the way the deceased died coincided with some of Spider-sama's habits, then the three cases of "suicide by hanging" in the Takeda family were very man-made—perhaps someone deliberately imitated a monster to kill.

Yoko Takeda obviously also knew about that widely circulated legend, she shook her head: "It's not admiration... Our attitude towards Mr. Spider should be called 'vigilance'."

After speaking, seeing the three young guests looking at her with interest, Yoko Takeda recalled:
"It is said that a long time ago, there lived a beautiful woman who looked like a fairy on this mountain. She often stopped by the side of the road, stopped the travelers, and asked them some questions in a soft voice, such as——

'Do you think there is a heaven in this world? '

'What kind of place is that? '

'Do you want to take a look with me? '

"...travelers are often captivated by her beauty and nod in agreement. Then they will be taken deep into the forest, never to return.

"A puppeteer heard this rumor and made a life-sized puppet equipped with an automatic device, letting it walk back and forth on the mountain road where Lord Spider often haunts, while he hid himself to check the situation.

"Later Master Spider really showed up, and she asked the puppet those three questions in a gentle voice. But the puppet never answered.

"Gradually, the eyes of the beauty in the white hat became scarlet, the corners of her lips were cracked, and her hands and feet were divided into six... She turned into a huge ugly spider on the spot. puppet."

Ugly and huge...

Hearing this, Jiang Xia couldn't help but asked about the details of the spider like a picky buyer: "...is it really ugly?"

Yoko Takeda was startled, unable to understand why Jiang Xia asked this.

But he still answered rigorously: "Yes."

After finishing speaking, Jiang Xia felt a little lost for some reason, and hurriedly added: "However, the human form should be pretty."

Jiang Xia nodded, but thought of the ghost that disappeared just now with a swish.

Running so fast, even the foggy tengu with a pair of wings and the mermaid who can swim in the air can't catch up, how could it be in human form...

Seeing that Jiang Xia didn't ask any more questions, Takeda Yoko cleared his throat and continued:
"Seeing this, the puppet master hiding nearby woke up from Mr. Spider's beauty. He took out the rockets he was carrying and shot at the spider continuously. The big spider caught fire and fled to the depths of the forest screaming. Finally, it was burned to death in the in his lair.

"Later, when the villagers heard about it, they were afraid of being cursed by the dead spider, so they built a small temple at its lair to worship it. The mountain was also renamed 'Puppet Peak' in memory of the puppet master."

...doesn't seem very scary.

Yuan Shan and Ye rubbed their chins and gestured with interest: "If the traffic here is more convenient, that temple might become a tourist attraction!"

"Ah, this..." Takeda Yoko was a little embarrassed when he heard this sentence:
"The spider temple actually doesn't exist now—after my father-in-law passed away, Brother Xin expanded the site, bulldozed the temple, and built a warehouse on the original site.

"Three years after the completion of the warehouse, Meisha and Kinudai sister-in-law hanged themselves in that warehouse one after another. Their bodies were found very late, and their bodies were covered with cobwebs... In addition..."

Takeda Yoko looked at the side and whispered: "Although Mr. Negishi died in the storage room, not in the puppet warehouse, besides the noose around his neck, he also had a lot of fishing lines wrapped around his body, which looks like a fishing rod. Another spider's thread..."

Hattori Heiji's eyes lit up - this is it!
The two dead three years ago are hard to say, but Akio Negishi died so uniquely, the fishing lines wrapped around his body, no matter how you look at it, it looks like someone is using the "Spider-sama" gimmick to kill people... In other words, the Takeda Patriarch just now What did you whisper to Jiang Xia?He could barely hear the previous "Investigate the cause of Akio Negishi's death", but afterward, the voices of the two became smaller and smaller.

Hattori Heiji looked at Jiang Xia, and leaned over to ask.

But at this time, the maid and Rob stopped by.

The two knocked on the door and greeted warmly: "Dinner is ready."

Seeing Yoko Takeda looking at him inquiringly, Jiang Xia nodded, then turned and walked to the door, intending to finish the meal.

At this point, he had lost interest in the storage room—the key to solving the case was not here, and there were no ghosts around, so why not go eat something first.

……

The maid prepared a rather sumptuous dinner.

Jiang Xia found a place to sit down, and as soon as he picked up the chopsticks, he couldn't help thinking of the organization cadre who was allergic to drugs and the reminder of gin, and he paused for a while.

After a while, he stretched out his chopsticks as if nothing had happened, and caught the fried fish in front of him.

...shouldn't be a big problem.

Although the lessons of the seniors were quite painful, just in case, just in case, Jiang Xia threw the slow-moving parents ghosts who were unable to help in the ghost-catching operation to the maid and asked them to help keep an eye on the drinking water.

Judging from the current feedback, the meal has not been tampered with, and Takeda Shinichi has never appeared in the kitchen.

...Thinking about it, since Takeda Shinichi wanted to find out the ghost as soon as possible, he had to ensure that the detective he found was clear-headed and in a normal state.

And if he throws strange medicine into the dish as soon as they meet each other, he will only get a burden that can't help, so the gain outweighs the loss.

After figuring it out, Jiang Xia took a bite of the crispy golden fried fish without much psychological burden.

On the opposite side, the two little loli sitting next to Yoko Takeda stared at him.

Seeing this scene, the two little girls lowered their heads at the same time, looked at their dinner plates, and then froze for a while.

Soon, they turned to Yangzi, their clear voices were full of doubts: "Mom, why don't we have any fish?"

"The fish are bought according to the predetermined number of people, so..." Takeda Yoko explained in a low voice, while picking up the fish on her own plate, "Then mother's is for you."

After Kinudai's sister-in-law hanged herself, the family's finances were all in charge of Takeda Shinichi.

And Takeda Shinichi was extremely frugal in these small things, and refused to buy any extra ingredients.

Now a few uninvited guests came suddenly, and the other dishes were evenly distributed, but it was obvious that the fish distributed according to the number of people was not enough.

Takeda Yoko thought about it while helping to serve the meal, and felt that the guests must not be short of food.

So she gave two meals without fish to her two children.She felt that children tend to distract themselves while eating, so they shouldn't notice.

Unexpectedly, this time, the two little clever ghosts noticed it all at once...

Jiang Xia heard the movement at the opposite table, felt the greedy stares of the two little girls, and then remembered that when he picked up the fish just now, the eyes of the two lolis followed the tip of his chopsticks, and the movement of chewing the fish was not obvious stop.

...I always feel that there is something wrong with him here.

But he ate it all... Jiang Xia glanced at the remaining half of the small fish, and bit it into his mouth without hesitation, chewing and chewing.

Then he wiped his mouth under the gaze of two resentful eyes, left the table halfway, and went to the bathroom.

Let Yoko Takeda handle such a trivial matter as dividing the fish... The famous detective has other things to do.

Like going to see the new ghost he just got.

——Yes, after eating for a while, news finally came from the ghosts.

They held down the new ghost that was running fast.

Jiang Xia turned two turns and entered the empty bathroom.

Then on the sink, I saw the ghost that had been chased and intercepted, and finally fell into the encirclement.

——Mermaid, Mist Tengu, Miyano Akemi, and Shiro occupy exactly four sides, surrounding a translucent thing.

Jiang Xia took a closer look.

Originally, he was ready to see a big fluffy spider.

Unexpectedly, after the wind-like ghost stopped and looked carefully, it turned out to be a beautiful ghost fetus wearing a bamboo hat.

Although there are many places covered by clothes, the exposed parts and general outline are completely Q-version human figures, without any strange things like eight eyes and eight legs.

Jiang Xia secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Noticing that there was no one around, he tentatively asked, "Mrs. Juandai?"

This is the name of Takeda Shinichi's wife.

The pretty new ghost looked up at him, covered his cuffs, and lowered his head again.

It seems to respond to the name, but it doesn't look like the person... Well, try another name first.

Jiang Xia shouted again: "Miss Meisha?"

This time, the new ghost gave a noticeable meal.

Then she slowly raised a piece of wide cuff to cover her face, and gracefully moved small steps and turned 180°, with her back to Jiang Xia, with a look of shamelessness.

Jiang Xia: "..."

Calling "Mei Sha" reacted even more, it seems that it should be her... No, not necessarily.Perhaps Mrs. Juan Dai heard "Meisha" and thought of her coquettish operation of finding her brother-in-law to have a child. She felt embarrassed, so she didn't want to see people...

Calling names is really not a good way to identify them.

Jiang Xia simply reached out and poked it.

He can sense the general obsession of ghosts when he is in direct contact with wild ghost fetuses.

And ghosts who have obsessions and want to get rid of their obsessions are the best abductions—usually, there are some clever ghosts who instinctively understand the abilities of psychics and seek help from psychics.

The beautiful new ghost who ran very fast was poked by Jiang Xia, and subconsciously wanted to run again.

But she didn't know whether it was because the mermaid was too fierce, or because she felt that Jiang Xia could do something for her. In the end, it stopped moving.

Jiang Xia examined its reaction: Very good, it seems to be able to communicate normally.

So skillfully enter the transaction process:
"Do you have any wish? I can help you realize it, as long as you are willing to pay a small price..." For example, selling yourself to a hardworking psychic.

……

After some simple communication.

Jiang Xia was sure that the ghost in front of him was actually Misa Takeda who "hanged himself" first.

Takeda Misa was originally a nurse in a nearby hospital. She has a beautiful appearance, a cheerful personality, and a very peaceful life.

But a few years ago, when Takeda Shinichi learned the truth that he was infertile and that Misa was not his own daughter, life became difficult for Takeda Misa.

Not only was she pushed onto the pillar by Takeda Shinichi when she was persuading the fight, she was knocked out of shape.He even learned the truth from his "father".

(End of this chapter)