Conan’s Corpse Picker

Chapter 225 This detective showed his back, why not...

After confirming the situation on the fourth floor, Jiang Xia went to the room where Uemura Naoki was, preparing to pick up the cat.

Of course, he also wants murderous intent.

While Jiang Xia was going upstairs, three high school students were running wildly on the road with their own thoughts. Their goal was also this apartment.

The three people are Mao Lilan, Quantum Pinsong who is dragged by Mao Lilan as a guide, and Conan who is in a complicated mood.

Quantum Hiramatsu is a student at Mihua High School. She has a good relationship with Hero Akagi and often helps Hero Akagi take care of her younger brother. Today, she was also the first person to discover that brother Akagi had been "kidnapped".

Due to the threat of kidnappers, Pingsong Quantum did not dare to call the police or find detectives.

But she also didn’t want to watch Hero Akagi play match-fixing, so she wanted to secretly find a detective of a similar age to help, pretending that he was just a friend, so that it would not easily attract the attention of the kidnappers.

Speaking of high school detectives, Hiramatsu Quantum immediately thought of Jiang Xia, who often appeared in newspapers recently and occasionally appeared on TV.

But soon, she crossed out this option again - Jiang Xia's recent exposure has been too high. If the kidnapper recognizes Jiang Xia as a detective, refuses to listen to her explanation of "just a friend", and kills Akagi's brother, everything will be over. .

Hiramatsu Quantum soon had another idea - speaking of Jiang Xia, it's hard not to think of when he first became famous, someone joked that Jiang Xia was possessed by "Kudo Shinichi".

...In this way, Kudo Shinichi is actually a very suitable candidate.

So based on some information he had found out, Hiramatsu went to the Mori Detective Agency under the pseudonym "Quantum Akagi" and called himself "Kudo Shinichi's girlfriend". He wanted to use this magical operation to bring Kudo Shinichi, who was said to have been hiding, into hiding. Led to Akagi's house and asked him to help find clues.

...Fortunately, the kidnappers didn't notice that Hiramatsu Quanta went to the Maori Detective Agency, and naturally they didn't notice that she hired a detective.

Unfortunately, Quantum Hiramatsu failed to attract Shinichi Kudo through this operation, and only attracted Mao Lilan with a solemn look on his face, and Conan who followed her out the door.

Conan endured waves of shark anger from Mao Lilan and lived up to expectations and discovered the truth about the kidnapping case.

Through a game console in the room, he guessed that the kidnapper was probably Naoki Uemura, and the three of them came to the apartment.

…

When the trio of high school students rushed to the apartment, Jiang Xia had already reached the fourth floor.

He looked at the house number of 402, rang the doorbell, and observed the position of the door lock.

After the doorbell rang once, no one in the room came out to open the door.

Jiang Xia calmly pressed the button again, and at the same time visually inspected the door's hardness.

Before he could change the way he knocked, the door clicked and the occupant inside unlocked it.

Uemura Naoki hung the door chain and carefully opened the door a crack - the doorbell kept ringing. If he didn't react, Akagi's brother, who was abducted here, might run over and open the door by himself.

Uemura Naoki looked outside warily. After seeing Jiang Xia, his expression became a little confused.

He rarely paid attention to news other than sports. Although he occasionally saw Jiang Xia's photo in the Detective Daily next door when buying newspapers, at this time, Uemura Naoki failed to recognize it at the first time. He only thought that the person outside the door Something looks familiar.

...Perhaps some fan came to express condolences to him?

Uemura Naoki sighed and planned to say a few words and send the person away.

But before he could speak, the "fan" suddenly grasped the door handle and closed the door with a click.

Uemura Naoki stared at the door in shock, almost thinking that it was himself who came to visit and was rejected. He was startled. What kind of number is this, knocking on the wrong door?

In the corner that Naoki Uemura didn't see, in the door chain, a white clay-like thing emerged from under the chain button, and quickly stretched along the gap, pushing the hung door chain out.

The door of this apartment does not have an automatic lock, and the lock can only be turned manually.

The clay disappeared silently, and the metal chain clicked onto the door frame. Naoki Uemura lowered his head in confusion. Almost at the same time, the doorknob turned down, and the door was pushed open from the outside again.

Jiang Xia walked in the door as if she were going back to her own home, passed by Uemura Naoki, and headed to the balcony: "Sorry, my cat seemed to have wandered onto your balcony. I took it and left."

……cat?

This word made Naoki Uemura startled.

Suddenly, he remembered something - once he was reading a newspaper in the lounge. After reading it, his teammates exchanged newspapers with him and gave him a third-rate detective tabloid.

The first page of the tabloid is a report about a detective who is described by the writer as "who only wants to find cats, but is always involved in murder cases. The ghost of Kudo Shinichi has not yet rested in peace."

And the picture above...

Uemura Naoki turned around suddenly, his clothes soaked with cold sweat. He stared at Jiang Xia who was walking to the balcony - no wonder the person who knocked on the door looked familiar before. It turned out that this was a detective who had been published in the newspaper!

At such a critical moment, he forced his way into his house and said he was picking up a cat... even a ghost would not believe it! This detective must be going to confirm the condition of brother Akagi.

Naoki Uemura listened to the commentary of the football game on TV, hung up the door chain again, then gritted his teeth and held onto his crutches.

——No, we can’t let Hero Akagi’s brother go yet. Although more than half of the game has passed, Hero Akagi was very reluctant to let go. He was distracted and accidentally scored a goal before, but now the score is still sticky.

If brother Akagi leaves now, Hero Akagi is likely to lead the team to turn defeat into victory.

The idea of ​​"let Hero Akagi taste the taste of failure" took root in Naoki Uemura's heart, which already made him a little dazed.

Uemura Naoki looked at Jiang Xia's seemingly undefended back, his breathing became heavier, and he slowly raised his crutch.

... He won't beat people to death, at most he will knock them unconscious. This detective must stay here until the end of the game.

...No one can stop this game that Hero Akagi must lose!

While Naoki Uemura raised his crutch, behind him, the doorknob turned silently, and someone pushed the door open a crack from the outside.

The fastened door chain then made a slight noise, but it was covered by the sound of Akagi's brother's game console and Uemura Naoki was unable to notice it.

The people who opened the door were the high school students who had just been killed.

——When the three of them ran to this floor, before they turned the corner, Conan vaguely heard the sound of the door closing and heard voices.

So when Hiramatsu Quantum wanted to ring the doorbell, Conan stopped her, and then tried his luck to open the door directly.

Unexpectedly, the door was actually unlocked. As soon as I pushed it, it slid open a crack.

However, there was only a crack left - there was a chain on the door.

Conan looked in through the crack in the door.

Mao Lilan and Hepingsong Quantum also followed in confusion.

Just in time to see inside the house, Naoki Uemura picked up his crutch and was about to hit the person in front of him.

And the person in front...

Conan: "!"

Mao Lilan: "!!!"