Conan's corpse picker

Chapter 644 The Ghost in Red Asks for a Monthly Pass☆
After a while, the innkeeper pushed his glasses and looked up at Jiang Xia in surprise.

He twirled his mustache and said excitedly, "It's that Tokyo high school detective. To tell you the truth, I've been thinking of making a commission recently, but I couldn't get in touch with you. I didn't expect you to come here directly..."

"..."

The waiter who walked to the corner turned his head and saw this scene, his face changed several times, and he became more gloomy.

At this time, Toru Amuro seemed to be keenly aware of something, and suddenly turned his head to look over.

The two sides looked at each other unexpectedly.Shenbao Daxiong was startled, and instinctively smiled at the guest.

Then he didn't dare to stay any longer, turned the corner, and quickly left the sight of Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru.

……

Toru Amuro looked away, remembering the gloomy look on the waiter's face just now, and frowned, feeling vaguely that something might happen soon.

However, he has been working part-time for a long time and has seen all kinds of part-timers.Among them, there are some types who keep smiling in front of their faces and scold customers behind their backs.The waiter just now, or just an ordinary waiter, looked gloomy just now, because he was scolding the off-season in his heart and wanted to have a good rest, but some customers came to increase their workload and so on...

Toru Amuro recalled the face of Shenbao Nobita and the employee badge on him.

After making sure that he had never seen this person on the arrest warrant, nor did he see a similar name, he withdrew his attention and looked at the innkeeper who had a commission.

After Jiang Xia said "temporarily free", the boss approached them and whispered mysteriously:
"It's like this, a while ago, didn't someone find the body of a man in red nearby.

"—Actually, five years ago, he came to my place and left some things behind."

……

Five years ago, the innkeeper received a strange guest.

The man was wearing a bright red coat and had long hair. He called the boss in the middle of the night and called the boss to the room. He gave the boss [-] yen, a locked box, and a letter.

——The man in red wants to deposit the suitcase and letter with the innkeeper, and the [-] yen is the storage fee.

He told the boss that if he came to pick it up by himself, he would give him the box.

And if someone else came to ask for the box under his name, then hide the box and give the letter to that person.

"The man in red said he would come back soon, but the day after he left, someone came to me to pick up the box. But it wasn't him, but a man with sunglasses and a hat and a bushy beard. .”

Because the two people before and after are weird, the innkeeper has a deep impression on them:
"I did what the man in red said before. I concealed the matter of the box and only gave the letter to the bearded man. After the bearded man opened it and checked it on the spot, he angrily tore up the letter, threw it into the trash can, and left. "

"Wait for him to go away..." Speaking of this, the innkeeper scratched the back of his head embarrassingly, "Well, I was really curious, so I couldn't help but pick out the shredded paper and put it together.

"Then I found a few big bloody characters written on it - 'I curse you to death'.

"After that, the man in red never appeared again, and the beard didn't bother me much, so I gradually forgot about it.

"Who knew that the police found the body of the man in red a few days ago."

The innkeeper said, looking at Jiang Xia expectantly: "I'm really curious about this matter, so I want to invite detectives to come over and check what's going on with that box and the man in red. I haven't opened that box yet ,look……"

Hearing this, Jiang Xia routinely looked at Toru Amuro and asked his nominal boss for advice.

However, when I looked over, I found that the boss had a complicated look of "I knew it would be like this", which was weird.

"...?"

Jiang Xia couldn't understand what he was thinking.

However, there seems to be no objection to his acceptance of the entrustment.

Jiang Xia looked at the hotel owner again, remembering the murderous waiter in his shop, and nodded: "We still have something to do later, I'll take a look tonight. If I find something, I'll tell you right away."

……

The deal is done.

The innkeeper took them back to his room, searched for a while, and dragged out an old leather suitcase with a lock from the corner.

Considering that this matter is about a human life, there may be something terrible hidden in the box.

The three of them did not open the box in the hall.

The boss first opened two guest rooms for them, and then took the keys, and the three came to Jiang Xia's room.

……

He took out the key left by the man in red, opened the suitcase, and saw an old newspaper inside.

The date of the newspaper is September five years ago.This is a sports newspaper, the headline on the front page reads "Akagi Maru's first victory", and the accompanying picture shows two sumo wrestlers fighting fiercely-other than that, there is nothing in the box.

The innkeeper was quite surprised by this result.

Under his gaze, Jiang Xia put on his gloves, picked up the newspaper and shook it meaningfully, and then flipped through the pages.

It was found that there was nothing in the newspaper - no matter how you looked at it, it was just an ordinary newspaper.

Beside, Toru Amuro breathed a sigh of relief.

He thought that when he opened the box, a mummified hand would shake out, or something like a specimen eyeball... Fortunately, there was no such thing.

While thinking, Toru Amuro checked the suitcase casually.

Then it was discovered that this was an ordinary mass-produced leather suitcase with a lock, without any mechanisms.

The problem probably still lies in that newspaper.

……

Beside, the innkeeper looked disappointed.

Although he didn't want to embezzle the property of the man in red, he thought he had encountered some legendary puzzle when he suddenly encountered such a thing.Unexpectedly, only one newspaper was opened out of the box now.

...Maybe the man in red didn't care about the contents of the box at all, but just wanted to send that cursed letter with an excuse?

...Maybe there is some complicated anagram hidden in the newspaper?

The innkeeper sighed.He still prefers the adventure part, not interested in word puzzles and the like.

"It's getting late, why don't you two go to dinner first? In order to ensure the freshness of the ingredients, our main course is only available for a limited time. There are still more than 20 minutes before the end. If it is later, there will only be mass-customized bento."

The boss looked at Jiang Xia: "Leave the box with you for now. Well, if you solve the puzzle and find something like an adventure map or a treasure map, you can borrow it from me. We usually go to the mountains to dig Wild vegetables, lots of shovels and things like that."

"Ok."

Coincidentally, Jiang Xia has no interest in solving puzzles either.

Compared to this, he is still more concerned about the murderous spirit of the waiters in the store - although there are not many at present, it seems that there is great potential for growth.

He buckled the lid of the box, ready to eat first as the boss said.

(End of this chapter)