Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 1164 1164 [Jiangxia who reverses black and white]

  Mori Detective Agency.

  Maolilan and Yuanshan and Ye were inexplicably hung up. They looked at the receiver, and after a while, Mao Lilan suddenly reacted and looked at the ornaments on the table:

   "This Guan Yu statue, shouldn't it be the mark left by the arsonist..."

   Yuan Shan and Ye got goosebumps when they heard her soft voice, as if afraid of disturbing something.

   She said stiffly: "I, I always feel that there seems to be some rustling noise at the door. Could it be that the devil came to the door..."

   Maybe they wouldn't be afraid if they put a real criminal directly in front of them.

But this mysterious method of "putting a terrible thing into the target's house, and then floating like a **** of death", coupled with the terrifying aura of having just killed a person, made their hearts beat violently. stand up.

   The two of them stood up vacantly, and made a judgment in unison: "Leave here first!"

   They ran to the door, hurriedly put on their shoes, opened the door, and suddenly saw a terrifying figure outside the door.

——The watermelon head with the middle part, the old-fashioned round-rimmed glasses, the slightly fat body... This is the man who gave them the "red horse" keychain on the bus, and he ran to them at some point in time. doorstep!

"what--!!"

  The two female high school students let out a terrified and helpless scream, and at the same time, they instinctively flew out with a sharp wind on the tip of their shoes, and went straight to the face of the "arsonist".

   Just as he was about to hit, the owner of the antique shop suddenly fell to the side, as if someone had pulled him away.

   The attack of the two girls failed, and they quickly retracted their feet.

   They looked to the side vigilantly, and then suddenly froze—the antique shop owner didn’t come by himself, and there was another person standing beside him.

   "...Jiangxia?"

  Maolilan and Yuanshan Kazuha were already prepared for a fierce battle.

   I didn’t expect that when I looked closely at this time, it turned out to be my own person.

   They breathed a sigh of relief subconsciously, followed by a series of question marks in their minds:

   "Have you finished investigating the case? What about Conan and Heiji? ... Do you know this person next to you?"

   "We haven't finished the investigation yet, the two of them are visiting the suspect." Jiang Xia turned to look at Xuantian Longde, who was in shock next to him:

"When I came back, I happened to meet Boss Xuantian nearby. He said that he was looking for two high school girls, which was very important - the people he described sounded a lot like you, so I also came over to see what happened. matter."

   said, he turned to look at Xuantian Longde: "What's the matter?"

"That, it's like this." Xuantian Longde came back to his senses, and when he saw Mao Lilan and Yuan Shan and Ye, he burst into tears, "Please return the keychain I gave you this afternoon! Otherwise, there will be a fire here. Yes, uncle, I, I can't help but burn this place down..."

  "..." Mao Lilan and Yuan Shan and Ye were once again frightened, but this time it was for other reasons-they never imagined that this kind of development would happen after the arsonist came to the door. He had to hurriedly said, "Just a moment."

   Then quickly ran back to the table and took Guan Yu's keychain.

   Gentian Longde took it in fear and put it away carefully.

   Almost at the same time, Mao Lilan subconsciously took out her mobile phone and pressed 110-in case of a criminal or case, she should call the police first, and her fingers moved instinctively.

   However, before pressing the dial button, a hand suddenly reached out and interrupted her movement.

   Jiang Xia stopped and said, "Wait a minute, I don't think he looks like a murderer."

  Maolilan and Yuanshan Kazuya: "...Huh?"

  No, doesn't it look like it?

   They took a closer look at Genda Longde's face. Although people shouldn't be judged by their appearance, according to their experience from childhood to adulthood, Xuantian Longde's appearance, coupled with his excited gasping expression at this time, seems to have the words "wicked" written on his face no matter what.

  "..." However, thinking about it carefully, the detective's judgment should be more accurate than theirs, not to mention that the detective is Jiang Xia who has done some investigations into the serial arson cases.

  Maolilan deleted the number he just entered and put down the phone.

   Yuan Shan and Ye Ze couldn't help being curious, and asked Jiang Xia, "It's not him? But doesn't the red rabbit keychain he distributed just match the 'Red Horse' signs left at the arson scene?"

  Xuantian Longde was stunned for a moment. After a while, he regained his senses. He shook his head with tears in his eyes and confessed: "It's really me! In fact, I always had the symptoms of sleepwalking when I was a child, and I did it again recently. It must have been at that time..."

   Jiang Xia saw him excitedly waving his hands full of tears, and couldn't help but step back a little: "...If it's not you, it's not you."

Mao Lilan, Yuan Shan and Ye also persuaded: "Yes, yes, why do you have to blame yourself? - Since you are sleepwalking, you should not remember what happened during that time, so how can you say that you are Are you committing a crime?"

   "??" Gentian Longde failed to understand the brain circuits of these young people. He repeated it back and forth several times, but no one would listen to his words, and he was a little angry for a while:

"You, you... Is it you who committed the crime or I committed the crime! Who else can the murderer be besides me? - The first arson case happened next door to my house. The owner of the wrecked house is my father's friend and also in my shop. frequent visitor.

"When he came to visit, I gave him Guan Yu's keychain. Not long after, his house suddenly caught fire in the middle of the night. The police found the iconic 'red horse' in his house, which I gave him. gift.

"I didn't think much about it at first, I just thought that the neighbors were very unlucky, that the horse's base was of excellent quality and very resistant to burns. But when I saw the report the next day, I realized that the owner of the house had absolutely no idea where the 'red horse' came from. Here! The police speculated that it was a token left by the arsonist, used to refer to the arsonist's jargon 'red horse', provoking the police... Do you know what this means!"

  What he said sounded a little weird and scary.

But Mao Lilan and Yuan Shan and Ye had completely listened to Jiang Xia's words at this time, and felt that the arsonist was someone else, so they thought about it rationally: "...It means that your neighbor is old and has a bad memory? ——Since he is the same age as your father, he should be quite old."

   "It's not for this reason!" Gentian Longde shook his head in grief and indignation. Before Jiang Xia appeared, he really never thought that surrendering himself would be so difficult:

   "I must have had a hallucination - I secretly put the red horse in his house, but I don't remember it, and then the sleepwalking attacked, I couldn't help following the keychain, and ran to his house and set it on fire.

"Not long ago, the case of Cupado-cho 4-chome was also the case. I was so scolded by Mrs. Zhujiao, and I was actually very angry... It must be that I pretended to endure it, but in fact I couldn't control it and turned back. After putting down the keychain, Burned her house down."

   (end of this chapter)