Conan's corpse picker

Chapter 388 Strange Ghost Embryos Added (Chapter)



Chapter 388 Strange Ghost Embryos Added (Chapter)

Chapter 388 Strange Ghost Embryos Added (Chapter)

The cab of the truck is too small for two people except the driver.

Jiang Xia gave up the seat to Yuanshan Heye, who was carrying a huge backpack, got out of the car and rolled into the back of the car, and sat with two other people who rubbed against the car and a motorcycle. place of goods.

The air is fresher than in the cab, but the metal base is a bit uncomfortable to sit on.

However, since there was a mass of wild murderous aura next to it, the comfort level in Jiang Xia's heart rose sharply.

……

After adding three people and a motorcycle, the truck started again.

This time, considering how many people were sitting behind, Takeda Yuzo drove a little slower than before.

Hattori Heiji leaned against the waist-high railing, looked at Jiang Xia who was in a good mood for some reason, and silently looked down at the dirt road that was constantly sweeping outside.

Thinking that the speed of the car is not fast, it is too late to jump off the car now.

...Wait, what are you thinking.

Hattori Heiji raised his hand and tapped his forehead to stop his dangerous thoughts.

...In fact, now that I have met Jiang Xia a lot, he is gradually not as repulsive as when I first met him.

Especially last time on Guchuan University's boat, Jiang Xia rescued him from a veteran wanted criminal - if he was really sneaked into the sea by the murderer at that time, at night and no one saw him, he might have changed Become a floating corpse in the sea.From this perspective, Jiang Xia is his savior.

Moreover, people will always gradually adapt to the environment.

It was the first time that Hattori Heiji saw Jiang Xia's speed of solving a case like reading a script, and he couldn't believe it;

The second time, I didn’t feel too convincing;

For the third time, I firmly believe that I can do it.

After that, four, five, six, seven, eighty-nine times...

Slowly there are antibodies.

It's just that the previous conditioned reflex of "not wanting to investigate the case with Jiang Xia" still survived and has not subsided for the time being.

——Heiji Hattori analyzed his mental journey of wanting to jump off the car just like this, and felt that it was inappropriate.

Avoidance is an unhealthy state of mind.Maybe Mom and Dad are right: people must learn to face difficulties.He is still young, and he still has many opportunities to improve. Sooner or later, he will be able to catch up with Jiang Xia's speed.

And no one likes being disliked by others.

Every time I see Jiang Xia, I turn my head and leave. This kind of behavior may cause some invisible harm to Jiang Xia's heart, just like He Ye and the two people in Tokyo said... although he didn't see the harm Where is it, I just feel that Jiang Xia is happier than him most of the time... But in short, one must have a conscience.

Hattori Heiji took a deep breath and temporarily suppressed the instinctive thought of "jumping the car".

And to be friendly, try to talk to Jiang Xia: "Why are you here?"

Jiang Xia turned to look at him.Due to the abundance of cases around Hattori Heiji, he always looked very pleasing to this Osaka black skin: "Like you, I received a commission letter with 50 yen in cash, so I want to come and have a look."

As he said that, he took out the letter paper that he had collected before, and gave Hattori Heiji a look.

Hearing this, Hattori Heiji's face darkened indistinctly.

He took Jiang Xia's letter and murmured in his heart: Jiang Xia received 50?He only has 20... It's not a commission fee from someone who is greedy, it's just that he is also a high school student detective, why is he so cheap?

Hattori Heiji felt a little subtle resentment in his heart.

However, after taking the entrustment letter from Jiang Xia, this little emotion dissipated immediately.

——The letter Jiang Xia received was handwritten vertically, signed, and sealed, and the wording was very cautious and polite. No matter how you look at it, it is a very formal letter of entrustment.

It was nothing like the one he had received.

His letter was machine-typed, and it was anonymous, and the wording... There was no wording at all, only two sentences of God and God.

... If the same person invites detectives on the same day, of course it is not necessary for one to give a signature and the other to write in a mysterious style.

If this happens, it means that it is two different people who sent the letter of entrustment to him and Jiang Xia.

And that means...

You don't need to investigate the case with Jiang Xia!

The corners of Hattori Heiji's mouth curled up, and then quickly pressed down as if nothing had happened.

He took out the entrustment letter he had received, shook it at Jiang Xia, cleared his throat, and said with regret:

"It seems that there are two families with the surname 'Takeda' here. We have to investigate separately."

Jiang Xia silently glanced at Hattori Heiji, who seemed to have "I'm very happy!" written all over his body, and felt that the acting skills of this year's high school detectives were not up to standard, whether it was Kansai or Kanto.

However, he still took a look at the paper Hattori Heiji was waving to save face.

Compared with the letter sent by Takeda Shinichi, the style of Hattori Heiji's letter is obviously different. There are only two sentences on it:

[Please arrive at Takeda's house on Puppet Peak before dusk next Saturday

Otherwise, there will be living puppets becoming bait for spiders]

Jiang Xia was silent for a while.

In fact, compared to the letter sent by Takeda Shinichi, he prefers the notice letter in the style of Hattori Heiji's hand - playing tricks, with a look that many ghosts will appear...

On the other side, Rob Taylor, who was also rubbing the car, saw the two letters and moved over curiously.

While reading the commission letter from Hattori Heiji, he read it out as if he was learning a foreign language: "Become the bait of a spider...why feed the spider with a living puppet?"

Yuzo Takeda, who was driving ahead, had his window open.The speed of the car is not fast, and the wind noise on both sides is not loud.

Not only did he hear Rob's puzzled murmur, but he also heard Hattori Heiji's regretful "check each other".

Feeling that the guests seemed to have misunderstood something, Takeda Yuzo, who looked cold and warm-hearted, interjected:

"If the letter mentioned 'spider', it should be referring to our family—some bad things happened before my family. People nearby said that we were cursed by Mr. Spider. If you kill him, don't go near the 'Spider Mansion'... Huh, what a boring rumor."

When Yuan Shan and Ye heard the "curse", goose bumps appeared on Bai Nen's arms.

She stroked her skin quickly, using friction to generate heat to resist the coolness, half comforting herself and half confidently saying: "There are no monsters and curses in this world! There must be someone secretly playing tricks. This time they invited detectives to come for the same reason." Find out about this matter—with Jiang Xia and Heping, we will definitely be able to expose the truth of that 'curse' immediately!"

Hattori Heiji:"……"

This "Takeda" is also that "Takeda"?

...We can't investigate separately from Jiang Xia.

Also, why did He Ye put Jiang Xia's name in front of him?Don't you usually mention people you are more familiar with first...

Hattori Heiji sat in the convertible car, silently tightening his coat, feeling the chill from the mountain wind.

Rob didn't notice the inexplicable depression of his companions. He touched his chin and asked in confusion, "Why haven't I heard such rumors?"

"You came here three years ago. I remember that after you were crushed by the collapsed rocks that year, it was Misa who took care of you." Takeda Yuzo recalled this, suddenly remembered something, and his voice lowered, "No wonder you I've never heard of such rumors..."

Rob didn't dwell on the rumours.

He asked with a smile like a guest intent on visiting his benefactor: "Speaking of Meisha, how has she been these past few years?"

"..."

Takeda Yuzo, smoking a cigarette, was silent for a moment, raised his hand and pointed out the window.

The four people in front of and behind the car were startled, and looked along the direction at the same time.

According to the normal development, it should be that I happened to meet "Mesa" on the side of the road here, so Takeda Yuzo pointed it out to them.

However, looking carefully, there was no one in that direction, not even a bird.

Just wondering, I heard Takeda Yuzo say dryly:

"Look, does that mountain look like a sleeping puppet? In fact, this is one of the reasons why Puppet Peak got its name..."

Hattori Heiji:"……"

Yuan Shanhe Ye: "..."

This topic turned too bluntly...

... Could something have happened to that "Mesa"?

But Takeda Yuzo looked like he didn't want to say it, so he probably wouldn't be able to ask for a while.

Hattori Heiji didn't open his mouth again, he just made a note of this secretly.

At present, he does not know exactly what the client wants him to investigate.The letter Jiang Xia received didn't mention the reason for the entrustment, so he could only write down all the suspicious points for later use.

Next to him, although Jiang Xia turned his head meaningfully when Takeda Yuzo pointed at the "sleeping puppet", his attention was not on the shapeless hill at all.

He lowered his hand slightly, and secretly touched the murderous aura that floated to his hand with the wind.

The murderous intent spread from Rob.

When mentioning "Mesa", the murderous intent of this foreign friend is particularly inflated.In addition, there is a fresh shikigami on his calf right now.

Although Rob is lost, has never heard of the legend, and looks like he "hasn't come back for three years".

But in Jiang Xia's impression, this foreigner has actually been at Puppet Peak for several days.

Three years ago, when Rob recovered from his injury and left Puppet Peak, he fell in love with Misa Takeda who took good care of him.He plans to learn Japanese well, take care of his own affairs, and come back to happily fall in love.

As a result, after three years, I came back and saw that Misa Takeda was dead.

——It is said that not long after he left, he suddenly hanged himself.

Rob knew that Misa's father, Nobuoda Takeda, was very bad towards her, and felt that Misha must have been forced to death by her father.So after some investigation, it was found out that Takeda Shinichi was trafficking in drugs, and he came up with a series of plans.

Rob first killed the partner who helped Shinichi Takeda in drug trafficking, and hung that person in the storage room.Then he stole a drug-filled puppet and used it to threaten Takeda Shinichi, planning to trick him to the warehouse on the second floor, and then use the pre-arranged mechanism to kill him and avenge Meisha.

The entrustment letter that Hattori Heiji received was actually written by Rob.

The chance meeting of the "lost brothers and sisters" just now was even more man-made - Rob intends to use this method to create an illusion of himself as a "newcomer", and then eliminate his suspicion.

……

The truck bumped on the mountain road for more than an hour, and a vast yard appeared in the distance.

The courtyard walls and houses here are made of exquisite and strong materials, but after years of wind and sun, they all look a little old.At dusk, the setting sun gradually fell, the light dimmed, and the whole mansion exuded a gloomy and strange atmosphere.

As the vehicle approached the Wutian family's house, Jiang Xia's bored gaze slowly stopped in that courtyard.

He stared for a moment, then lowered his head to look at the ghost beside him in confirmation.

Even the ghosts seemed to feel something, and they were leaning on the side of the car, staring at the courtyard of Wutian's house in unison.

The mermaid stared at it for a while, and secretly hid the murderous ball she was playing with in her arms. The cautious demeanor reminded Jiang Xia of those happy houses that hurriedly put away the precious handicrafts before the bear children visited.

... This kind of reaction, it seems that there is really a ghost.

...But now that Hattori Heiji and Rob have just arrived, Takeda Shinichi should still be alive.Who dropped this ghost?

Jiang Xia was a little puzzled for a while, and then quickly thought about it.

No matter who dropped it, since he found out, it's his family's ghost...

Using the movement of the car frame, he poked a few ghosts who were still concentrating on sensing, and motioned them to catch the unfamiliar new ghosts... Cough, please come and talk.

……

The truck quickly pulled into the yard of Takeda's house.

Along the way, although Hattori Heiji refrained from asking Takeda Yuzo, he was very concerned about the "Misa" who made Takeda Yuzo change the subject abruptly, and planned to wait until Takeda's house, and then find another person to ask about the situation.

After getting out of the car and entering the "Spider Mansion", a group of people met a middle-aged woman with an ordinary appearance and a gentle temperament at the door of the house.

This is Yoko Takeda.

There are three brothers in the Takeda family - Takeda Shinichi, the current head of the family, Takeda Ryuji, a cultural man who lives in the city, and Takeda Yuzo, an honest man who went to pick up Jiang Xia and others just now.

Takeda Yoko is the wife of Takeda Ryuji, and she is also the only middle-aged woman in this family. The eldest wife has passed away, and the third child is still a bachelor.

Hearing Hattori Heiji's question about Takeda Misa, Yoko looked around and whispered, "Three years ago, she hanged herself in the puppet warehouse."

Jiang Xia sensed her own ghost chasing something running around more than ten meters away, as well as the vaguely sensed ghost fetus, and asked thoughtfully, "Suicide?"

"Yeah." Takeda Yoko twitched his hands together nervously, thinking of the terrible corpse, and nodded in fear.

She looked at Jiang Xia, and obviously recognized that this was a well-known detective, suppressed her shock and continued: "Not long after Meisha's death, my sister-in-law—Meisha's mother was also hanged at the same place gone."

"the same place……"

Jiang Xia frowned and repeated her words, pretending to be thinking seriously, but her mind had already drifted elsewhere.

Next to him, Hattori Heiji, who was really thinking seriously, only felt puzzled at this moment.

Seeing that Yoko Takeda didn't take the initiative to elaborate, he asked, "Why did they commit suicide?"

"I don't know." Takeda Yoko looked even more confused than Hattori Heiji, with a hint of fear in his expression, "And it's not just that. A few days ago, Mr. Negishi—the assistant of Nobuichi-san—also passed away.

"He hanged himself in the storage room while we were not at home during the day..."

(End of this chapter)


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