Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 431 The Curse from Koizumi Hongko

   Getting out of the environment full of hypnotic gas, and then being blown by the refreshing night wind outside, Kidd's almost closed eyes struggled to open.

   He first glanced around vigilantly, but didn't see the police chasing after him, then he breathed a sigh of relief, stood against the wall, and looked at Wutiangu.

   I saw the misty tengu reaching into his sleeve and feeling it. He found a dull ruby ​​and threw it back to him—it was the "red ghost" that Kidd offered to him just now, and he didn't know when it was finished.

   Kidd skillfully caught the gem that looked like an abandoned bento box.

   He held the stone that looked like a lost flower and a willow and looked at it for a while, hesitated for a moment, then silently raised the gem and lit it at the huge full moon in the sky.

This is the method to determine whether there is "Pandora" in the gemstone - according to what Kidd heard from the organization named after the animal, "Pandora" is a legendary "stone of life", which contains immortality The secret of agelessness.

   "Pandora" is usually hidden inside other gems, and the identification method is to point the gem at the moon. If there is a "Pandora" hidden in it, then Pandora will glow red under the illumination of the moon.

  …Theoretically it should be like this.

   However, this time, Kidd looked left and right at the gem in his hand, and he was still unable to determine whether there was Pandora in it.

  —he didn't see any strange light in it.

   But considering that this is a gem that Wutengo has eaten after all, maybe there was a "Pandora", but it was eaten by Wutengu as a snack just now...

   Kidd himself has little interest in "Pandora". But the "death" of his father, Kuroba Rouichi, and the mysterious organization seemed to be related to this legendary gem, and Kidd wanted to know the truth.

   He put down the hand holding the gem to check, hesitated for a moment, and planned to ask Wutiangou if there was any abnormality in the taste of the gem today, such as being particularly delicious, or a little bit gnawed... Use this to judge whether there is "Pandora" in this gem. If there is, he can also trace the source of the gem.

   But just after he was ready to speak, before he could ask, he suddenly saw Wutengu turning his head slightly.

   The pair of dark-gold vertical pupils, which were unusually conspicuous in the night, zoomed slightly, and their gaze fell to a certain point in the void, as if they had seen something that interested him.

   Kidd was stunned for a moment, and he looked over, but saw nothing. In his eyes, the fog tengu was just staring at a piece of ordinary air.

  …Is there something that is invisible to humans?

The thought of    just flashed, and a sharp sting suddenly penetrated his heart. The sudden onset of pain was sharp and specific, like an invisible steel drill passing through the heart.

   The severe pain made Kidd's head buzz, he let out a muffled groan, raised his hand to cover his heart, and stumbled to his knees on the ground.

   The hand felt hot and moist and smooth, Kidd reluctantly opened his palm, glanced at it, and saw that a star of blood had been stained on the white gloves that were trembling slightly from the pain.

   He looked blank: ... what's going on?

  Misttengu also seemed to be alarmed by the movement of his kneeling, his eyes moved back from the void, and he looked at him thoughtfully.

   Jiang Xia looked at the monster thief who had been attacked, and then looked at the illusory black line connecting Kidd and the distance.

   After a while, he tentatively raised his hand and grasped it.

  —Just now, Jiang Xia suddenly felt an extremely attractive energy flowing along the black line.

   In the gap where he was struggling to observe carefully or intercept it directly, the breath quickly poured into Kidd's body, and then disappeared without a trace while Kidd groaned and fell to the ground.

  ...The energy came fast, and it didn't come too fast, and there was no time for Jiang Xia to study it carefully.

   But Jiang Xia recalled the feeling just now - the energy that rushed over seemed to contain the breath of an extremely pure energy nucleus. Although the quantity is less, the quality is not inferior to those gems stolen by Kidd.

   For ghosts, energy cores are an excellent tonic.

-Although ghost fetuses are the backbone of puppets, but now, Jiangxia's ghosts can't independently control the actions of puppets. This is precisely because they are still relatively weak at this stage. Just maintaining the shape has already exhausted all their strength, and they really have no energy to do it. do something else.

   But if the energy core is strong enough and strengthened to a sufficient degree, Jiang Xia will be able to have some self-consciously active puppet younger brothers instead of going into battle every time.

so…

  Why suddenly there are energy cores flowing over?

  Jiang Xia looked down at Kidd's pained expression, spread his wings behind him, and casually fanned the sweaty event physique thief, while vaguely guessing.

  —This must have something to do with Kidd's witch classmate.

   Kidd looked like he was attacked by some kind of magic. The thing that rushed along the black line just now should be the cause of the damage to Kidd, that is, the magic power of the witch.

   It can be seen that the magic of this world can be used as an energy nucleus?

  The ghosts didn't expect that the ordinary black thread suddenly brought food. After a moment of sluggishness, they flew and hung on Kidd's body, trying to pick out the energy core that had just disappeared into Kidd's body.

   Regrettably, that magic power disappeared silently after causing some flesh wounds to Kidd.

   Jiang Xia was also a little disappointed when he looked at the illusory black line that had returned to its ordinary state.

   But soon, he calmed down again.

  ...After attacking Kidd, this phantom black line did not disappear.

   In other words, Koizumi Hongko probably has other purposes. The attack just now was probably just a pre-dinner dessert, and there must be a full meal later.

   Thinking of this, Jiang Xia wrapped the virtual black wire around his hand twice to make it easy to use force, then tentatively held Kidd down and tugged it hard.

   There was a soft sound that ordinary people could not hear.

   The phantom black line adhering to Kidd was torn off abruptly.

  —It worked.

   Jiang Xia's eyes lit up indistinctly. He held the vacant end of the virtual black line, pressed it on his hand, and waited expectantly for it to change hands.

   However, the black line seems to have a bit of positioning function - it may be that it found that the attachment target is not right, it quickly slipped away from Jiang Xia's hand, and stretched out towards Kidd, trying to continue to climb on him.

  Jiangxia: "…"

   He stared blankly at the dishonest thread for a while, and when the black thread was about to touch Kidd, he pulled it back, wrapped it around his wrist, and knotted it heavily.

  The illusory black line stagnated for a moment, and the top slowly bent back, as if observing the knot in confusion.

   After a few seconds, it began to wriggle slowly, as if trying to unravel itself, but the results were slow.

   Jiang Xia looked at it silently: This method of robbing the curse seems to be really effective.

   So he pulled over the line and quickly tied countless dead knots again.

   Don't worry about not being able to untie it - if the subsequent black line is useless, he can directly disperse the puppet and regroup.

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   (end of this chapter)