Conan's corpse picker

Chapter 89

At the same time, the second floor of the castle.

Jiang Xia disappeared without warning.

In the room, Toru Amuro, Mori Ran, Suzuki Sonoko, and Conan all fell silent.

——Among them, none of them could even tell the exact time when they saw Jiang Xia for the last time.

There happened to be two windows in this room, and a clothes hanger was placed in the middle to block the view.

Suzuki Sonoko and Mao Lilan didn't see Jiang Xia, thinking that Jiang Xia was at Amuro Toru's side.

And Toru Amuro felt that Jiang Xia must be on the side of Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko based on Jiang Xia's enthusiasm for his two classmates.

As for Conan... He just arrived at the window, and when he saw the huge chessboard full of puzzles, he fell into deep thought, never thinking about the question "Which window is Jiang Xia at?"

Now that Conan is aware of the situation, he silently bows his head to reflect—his observation ability is so poor that he didn't notice that there was a living person beside him... It shouldn't be, it really shouldn't be.

……

There is no signal here, so I can't use my mobile phone to ask where Jiang Xia is.

"Maybe...you went to the bathroom?" Suzuki Sonoko whispered his conjecture.

The four of them went to the bathroom to look around.

No one at all.

Considering the complex terrain of this castle, several people walked around on the same floor again, but they still couldn't find Jiang Xia.

Finally, the four stared at the end of the corridor and fell silent.

This is a bit strange.Even if you get lost, you won't get lost to other floors.

Conan frowned, remembering Jiang Xia's reasoning speed, and suddenly thought: "Jiang Xia... did my brother solve the puzzle, so he went to the place indicated by the chess piece?"

After this idea came up, Conan remembered how Jiang Xia answered the questions cautiously when he was dragged by Kudo Yukiko to participate in the puzzle-solving game when he was a child. Don't tell others, but check it yourself first.

Amuro Toru doesn't have so many brain supplement materials like Conan, he misunderstood: "You mean, Jiang Xia went to find the treasure by himself?"

This kind of stealthy behavior without saying a word is easily reminiscent of "swallowing treasure alone".

But Toru Amuro thought of those organizational funds that were not embezzled by Jiang Xia, but were all used to advertise the store.And Jiang Xia's refusal to sell Fengshui pills, I feel that the employees should not be like this.

Suzuki Sonoko and Mao Lilan, of course, didn't think about the bad side.

Suzuki Sonoko slapped his palm with a small fist, thinking he understood: "He must be obsessed with solving puzzles, too focused, and forgot to tell us when he left—that who, Kudo, doesn't he also often suddenly think of clues? Run away?"

Mao Lilan nodded deeply: "Indeed."

After such deduction, although the mental journeys of the four people were completely different, they managed to come to a similar conclusion.

"This castle is very big. If you want to go to the treasure location to confirm, it will take a lot of time." Amuro said, turning around, "Let's go back to the original room and wait, maybe after a while, Jiang Xia will be alone came back."

……

However, it turns out, no.

Jiang Xia didn't show up until dinner time.

Instead, Mamiyaman sent someone to look for them - he prepared a feast for the guests, and wanted to ask about the progress of solving the puzzle by the way.

When the four of them arrived at the restaurant, Jian Gongman rubbed his hands and greeted them.

Then he was surprised to learn that the detective he expected the most had disappeared.

……

And after so long, Jiang Xia's teammates finally realized that things seemed to be beyond expectations.

——No matter why Jiang Xia left, she still hasn't come back so late, maybe it's because of some accident.

Amuro Toru's face was particularly ugly.

Looking out of the dark window, he couldn't help thinking of the weird tooth marks on his tires and the inexplicable blowout.

If the flat tire was not an accident at all, but was affected by something else, such as a demon...

Toru Amuro: "..."

What are you thinking!The world is scientific.

He shook his head quickly, shaking the unreliable thoughts out of his mind.

Then he focused his attention on "finding the missing Jiang Xia".

Ma Gongman also summoned the servants at home to help find him.

……

at the same time.

In the gloomy secret passage, there is another person, desperately trying to find Jiang Xia out.

Xi Chuan Suimi, the maid who had plastic surgery to look like a fake old lady, was walking silently in the long passage with a wooden stick.

She usually pretends to be a demented old man, but in fact, she has been paying close attention to things at home.

Today, as soon as a few guests came, Xi Chuan Suimei immediately noticed.

She leaned over pretending to be crazy and foolishly, and chatted with the guest.

When she found out that there were actually two detectives among the guests, she was shocked.

One is to worry that these people covet her treasure;

The second is that she has killed so many people before, so she naturally feels guilty when facing people like police and detectives.

……

Xichuan Suimi originally planned to find an excuse to drive the guests away later.

But before that, she suddenly heard that the young famous detective had disappeared.

"..." Others couldn't figure out why a living person disappeared out of thin air.

But Xi Chuan Sui Mei was very clear in her heart.

——she knew there was a secret passage in the castle.

Moreover, after several years of boring exploration, she knows the distribution of secret passages like the back of her hand.

In Xi Chuan Suimi's impression, there happened to be an entrance to a secret passage near where Jiang Xia and the others were observing the chessboard.

Xi Chuan Suimei: "..." That detective must have discovered the secret passage and walked in.

(End of this chapter)