Conan's corpse picker

Chapter 516 The Shadow-Like Conan Edogawa

Just thinking about it, seven or eight meters away, there was a bang in the river ditch, and a burst of intense flames rose.

— The red car exploded.

In the burning background, the driver of the little green car stared blankly over there.

After a while, he suddenly collapsed on the ground, beating the ground and crying bitterly:

"Take a good trip, how could you encounter such a thing... I didn't see his car at all, if only I had looked around more at that time... Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Is it my fault?"

While speaking, in the flames of the explosion, a shikigami finally fully emerged from the body of the driver of the red car.It fluttered up, drifted closer, and finally landed on the lap of the driver of the green car.

Jiang Xia: "..."

His fingers trembled instinctively, wanting to reach for the stick.

But remembering that there was Toru Amuro standing next to him, he could only change his actions regrettably, raised his hand and patted the driver of the little green car on the shoulder, and said in relief: "Fortunately, there is surveillance above the head, let's wait for the traffic police to come and determine responsibility—if It was just an accident, and the sentence should not be more serious than murder."

The driver of the little green car who was busy crying: "..."

... Was it his illusion?
...Why do I always feel that the second half of this young man's sentence has something to say?
But raising his head and taking a peek at Jiang Xia's calm and slightly encouraging gaze, Chegu Zhengsi felt that he was guilty of being a thief and thinking too much.

So he struggled for a moment, then continued to cover his face, crying bitterly.

Beside, Toru Amuro didn't think there was any problem with Jiang Xia's words.

——Even if it was an accident, people died here after all.In this case, for the parties involved in the car accident, it is equivalent to causing the death of a person with their own hands.

Ordinary citizens have never seen this posture, so they panic and feel that they have killed someone.

Jiang Xia must have noticed this thoughtfully, so he deliberately compared "death caused by traffic accident" with "murder" and told the driver of the green car the difference between the two... Jiang Xia's keen insight seems to be used not only in solving cases In practice, it is often used in the service industry. No wonder whether it is the clients who come to the detective agency, or the bosses and clients of various working places, they all speak highly of him...

Toru Amuro's thoughts went astray for a short while, but he quickly retracted.

——Speaking of which, is this really just an accident?

He glanced at Jiang Xia who was still comforting the driver, and a trace of suspicion slowly rose in his heart.

...To tell the truth, he has never seen a death caused purely by accident in the vicinity of Jiangxia.So now, he always had a vague feeling that there might be something hidden in this car accident.

...Fortunately, there are surveillance cameras here. When the time comes, I should call it out and have a look. I should be able to know whether it was an accident or a murder.

Toru Amuro thought while looking at the driver who was kneeling and crying bitterly.After observing suspiciously for a moment, he finally said nothing.

He turned his head and looked at the distance of the road, waiting for the traffic police and ambulance to arrive.

……

Soon, a small dot appeared at the end of the road in the field of vision.

Vehicles are approaching.

...the ambulance and the police car came so soon?
... No, there was only one car coming, and it should be a passerby passing by.

Thinking of this, Toru Amuro glanced at the intersection, intending to go over and move the Mazda that stopped just now to the side, so as not to block the traffic.

When he walked to his car from the place where he avoided the explosion.

The car coming from a distance approached and stopped.

In the car, a middle-aged man poked his head out, looked around the river, and asked Toru Amuro vigilantly: "Why is there smoke in the river? What happened?"

Amuro Toru heard the words and looked over, then was taken aback.

The driver who was probing had a long and thin face, with a mustache and a hint of confusion in his ordinary appearance.

At the first glance, a name jumped out of Amuro Toru's intelligence-like brain.

--Maori Kogoro.

Although I haven't seen it directly, recently, when the subordinates investigated Edogawa Conan's information, they also collected the information of this foster family, so Amuro saw the photos of the Mori family.

And now, Kogoro Mori is the driver, and there seems to be someone sitting in the back seat of his car...

Toru Amuro suddenly thought of something, turned his gaze, and looked over with complicated emotions.

I saw the rear window was just put down.

Then, two familiar people poked their heads out from inside - Mao Lilan and Conan saw Jiang Xia who was a little far away at a glance, and they waved to Jiang Xia in surprise and joy: "What a coincidence, you want to go out too?"

Toru Amuro: "..."

Why is there a kid with glasses everywhere!
...Thinking about it carefully, it was the same as the previous few times—every time, before and after my car blew out, I would always meet Conan.

This time, there was no unlucky vehicle with a flat tire...

But one car exploded directly.

"..."

Toru Amuro was silent for a moment, and suddenly thought, maybe it wasn't Jiang Xia who should be taken out of the closed door, but this Edogawa Conan who could always meet them cleverly?
... For a moment, he even suspected that he was arranged by this weird child.

But think about it calmly, today, he took Jiang Xia out at a random time and in a random direction—more precisely, it was decided by throwing a dice.

... Conan could never have manipulated his dice.

In addition, when he was in the city, he arranged for his subordinates to follow and monitor, but at that time he did not find any suspicious people following his car.

So... Is there really such a coincidence in the world?

……

Conan was greeting Jiang Xia when suddenly his back felt cold.

He vigilantly followed his intuition and saw Toru Amuro staring at him by the side of the road, lost in thought.

Conan: "..."

Why is it this suspicious boss again.

Is the frequency of his appearance next to Jiang Xia recently too high...

……

There was a car accident on the road, and there were acquaintances on the side of the road.

Mori Kogoro didn't drive any further.

As a former detective and active detective, he instinctively pushed the door and got out of the car, and asked Toru Amuro for details.

The two adults quickly walked aside to communicate.

Conan and Mao Lilan also jumped out of the car and ran to Jiang Xia's side.

They vaguely heard the communication between Mori Kogoro and Amuro Toru, glanced at the smoking car in the river, and slowly extracted the keyword "car accident".

After being dazed for a moment, the two turned their heads to look at Jiang Xia in embarrassment, their reaction was even greater than Jiang Xia who should have hung up the phone.

Car accidents, explosions, dead bodies in cars...

In my impression, Jiang Xia seems to have a strong psychological shadow on this kind of scene.Every time he encounters similar elements, his speed of solving the case will slow down visibly, and sometimes he will be motionless and distracted.

But now, standing on the side of the road, he seemed to be doing well.

Mao Lilan and Conan were a little puzzled, but they didn't dare to ask directly.

——Maybe Jiang Xia actually figured it out recently and is secretly receiving psychological treatment behind everyone's back, so her condition has improved.And successfully ignored the "car accident" factor that caused ptsd today.

If asked by them, Jiang Xia once again recalled the mental journey when he hung up the phone before, wouldn't it be very bad...

(End of this chapter)