Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 499 Jiang Xia is really dedicated

  It was a stormy morning, in a dark wooden house.

  Conan woke up with his intuition, always feeling that something bad was about to happen.

   He rubbed his eyes and turned his head to look around.

   Just a few flashes of lightning flashed across the room briefly. Jiang Xia, who was sitting in the corner, and the figure holding the knife in front of him suddenly fell into Conan's eyes.

  Conan was stunned for a moment, and then he was shocked—someone attacked!

   He quickly picked up the pillow and threw it hard, while loudly warning: "Be careful!"

   Following his words, the linen of bedding began to wriggle, and people woke up one after another from their sleep.

   Jiang Xia, who just held the stick: "..."

   The pillow that Conan threw failed to hit anyone—he just saw the light of the sword reflecting the lightning, and based on this, he guessed the attacker's location, and threw the pillow in the direction he predicted.

   However, the actual situation is somewhat different from what Conan expected.

  ——The black figure did not take the last step with a knife and stabbed Jiang Xia as he expected. Instead, he suddenly ducked back.

   So the only function of the pillow that took off was to stop Jiang Xia who was about to fall.

   Jiang Xia caught the pillow.

   The lucky little black opposite him escaped the disaster, turned off the light on the phone screen, and turned around to escape into the darkness.

  The chaos continued for a short period of time, and in the dark, people kept asking "What's wrong?!" and "A murderer?".

   At the same time, the door clattered open, and a black figure staggered out.

   Jiang Xia looked around with the help of the ghost's night vision ability, and sighed faintly.

   Then before the lights were turned on, he squatted down, gathered the murderous aura that fell in front of him, and put it in his pocket.

   This is the moment when he looked at the black figure just now, the murderous aura that fell from the figure was directed at him.

   This time, Xiao Hei's psychological quality is very average... However, although he didn't hit anyone, at least he got a little substantive gain in advance.

   Just finished cleaning up the murderous aura, and with a click, Amuro Toru pressed the light switch.

   The dark lounge was illuminated by lights.

   With the lighting, the surrounding chaos subsided a little, a group of people with different thoughts sat up, looked left and right, and found that the mystery novelist was gone.

  Amuro saw a figure passing by the window with sharp eyes: "...Outside!"

   He propped up the windowsill and jumped out.

   Jiang Xia looked back at the murderous room, thought for a moment, and quickly followed.

  …

  The scenery in the mountains and forests is extremely dim and difficult to track.

  Fortunately, the person fleeing ahead was screaming from time to time.

   Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru chased after the sound, and finally followed to a cave.

  The entrance to the cave is very wide, five or six meters inward, and suddenly becomes narrow again.

   Hucang Etsuko ran in a few steps, and after seeing the cramped rocks around him with the light of lightning, he turned his head like crazy and fled out of the cave, hitting Jiang Xia who was following him.

"Help, help!!" She seemed to be drowsy, her hair was messy, and her movements were not as graceful as during the day. She grabbed Jiang Xia tightly and muttered, "The ceiling has fallen, and the wall has also fallen. He's squeezing me, he's going to kill me! He must have done something to the house..."

   "The ceiling fell?" Conan came after him at some point.

He raised his sleeves and wiped the rain on his face, recalling the resting point hut that stood steadily and did not collapse, and looked at Hukura Etsuko, who seemed to be talking nonsense, and suddenly matched these conditions with a certain symptom. : "Are you claustrophobic?"

The focus of   Jiangxia is slightly different from Conan.

   He supported Hucang Etsuko, and asked a little concerned: "Someone wants to kill you?"

   He had long thought that the name "Tokura Etsuko" sounded very familiar, and it seemed to have the same name as a certain case character in his mind.

   Now it seems that it is not only the name, but also the person.

In other words, although this novelist has no murderous intentions or ghosts, she may be related to some cases... Well, when she recovers later, she has to remember to ask her for a business card and sell herself by the way. detective business.

   Thinking of this, Jiang Xia decisively classified the other party into her client category, raised her hand and patted her on the back to comfort her a little.

  Torakura Etsuko's face turned pale, and she buried her head and gasped for breath.

  Amuro Toru made a brief observation, and felt that her uncomfortable appearance did not seem like a fake:

   "If it was a claustrophobia attack, then she may have suddenly noticed that she was in a dark room after being woken up just now, so she ran out of fear..."

  In this case, the figure who attacked Jiang Xia in the dark would not be Hucang Yuezi.

Conan nodded, agreeing with this statement: "I vaguely saw the person who attacked Brother Jiang Xia just now. That person seems to have short hair and a body shape like a man. In short, it's not the loose-haired sister Etsuko-the attacker. Probably after the assassination failed, he hid under the quilt as if nothing had happened, pretending to have just woken up."

   In other words, the attackers are still in the rest station.

  ...Fortunately, the attack had just happened, and the people in the house were all vigilant at this time. In addition, it is not too long before dawn, no one is in the mood to sleep again, and the attackers should not act rashly, so it is still safe for the time being.

In addition, there was such a good opportunity for a sneak attack just now. The attacker did not go to assassinate the client, nor did he go to kill the male college student who fell unconscious. Instead, he chose to attack Jiang Xia... It was Yinhu who planned to kill the night watchman first, and then remove himself leisurely. The target of the robber, or is the robber worried that the detective will see through his identity, so he will act first?

  Speaking of this…

  An Shitou looked at Jiang Xia and asked, "Did you fall asleep while watching the night?"

   In his opinion, this is a rather strange thing.

   Although on the organization's profile, Jiang Xia seems to love paddling. But on the other hand, Jiang Xia has always had a good reputation among the clients. Even the bosses of the part-time job shop who occasionally work in his place have praised Jiang Xia as a substitute... Of course, this is not only because Jiang Xia is easy to make a good impression on people, but also because he is really serious about his work.

   But at a critical moment like tonight, Jiang Xia would fall asleep shortly after starting the vigil.

   When Jiang Xia heard the boss's question, Weishui lowered his head guiltily, and threw the pot at random: "I don't know why, I'm so sleepy today, I lost consciousness after sitting for a while."

  Conan also thinks this is very suspicious. Jiang Xia takes part-time detective work very seriously, and the degree of professionalism is obvious to all. In a situation like this, it's more likely that someone secretly threw sleeping pills or the like into Jiang Xia's meal, rather than "falling asleep carelessly".

   Those who can do this...

   "That administrator?!"

   (end of this chapter)