Conan’s Corpse Picker

Chapter 366 The mastermind behind the scenes, the psychic. Please vote for me (σ≧▽≦)σ

The four children headed to the art classroom.

After they left, a middle-aged man's figure walked slowly and followed them secretly, slightly stooped. The man's face was gloomy, and his smooth head reflected the moonlight outside the window. He raised his hand to touch his head from time to time, and his eyes moved back and forth, as if he was observing the bad situation or thinking.

Further back, more than ten meters away, two figures stood quietly at the corner, silently looking at the situation ahead... These were Jiang Xia and "Amuro Toru".

Although nothing has happened yet, in the dark night, an adult is following several children, and the man's expression and actions don't look like a good person... This really makes people think of a series of crimes.

Jiang Xia roughly understood the situation when he saw the impressive bald head of the person following him from a distance.

If I remember correctly, this should be Conan and their academic director.

It all started a few days ago: the director's beloved wig was lost. He didn't want to see anyone during the day, so he had to go back to school in the dark at night to look for the wig.

Just now, after discovering that there were four children wandering around in the school, the director was worried that his head would be exposed, so he planned to take a series of measures to scare the children away before continuing the search.

Jiang Xia was reminiscing when the mermaid next to her wagged her tail happily.

The murderous aura on the "Amuro Toru" next to him, which was already about to be drained out, suddenly became much stronger at this time.

Jiang Xia turned around and took a look and found that Belmod's expression was calm, but his eyes looking at the dean were filled with danger.

He understood immediately - Belmode didn't know the real reason why the director was following the child, and he didn't even know that he was actually a teacher at the school. So now, she may be thinking that the director is some gangster with evil intentions.

The gangster's target includes Conan.

……Um?

Jiang Xia touched the murderous aura that had swelled around him, and looked at Conan who was walking into the art classroom in the distance through two windows, and suddenly felt that he smelled a business opportunity.

After the director approached the Young Detective Team, Jiang Xia also moved forward a little more.

Then he stopped at the corner, let a ghost float into the art classroom, and temporarily moved his vision to the ghost, using it to observe the situation in the room.

…

Conan was worried about alerting suspicious people in the school, so he did not turn on the lights. He just used his flashlight to shine on the plaster statues in the art classroom and observed carefully.

There is indeed a mark on the plaster base and the table that does not match, which corresponds to the mark left by the "victim" in the strange rumors. In other words, the rumors about the art classroom are not groundless.

Conan continued to look along the edge of the plaster while thinking.

Soon, he discovered that there was a mark on the forehead of the plaster statue that looked like it had been glued.

He looked at it doubtfully and reached out to touch it.

As the flashlight beam shook, Conan suddenly felt something was wrong.

Taking a closer look, I saw a mouth that had cracked open at some point on the top of the plaster. There were many sharp teeth in the mouth. The terrifying tips of the teeth pressed against Conan's hand that was stretched out to touch the plaster statue. It seemed that it would suddenly close in the next second. Bite those fingers off in one bite.

Under Conan's slightly dull gaze, the mouth appeared inexplicably, with the corners of his lips raised into a ferocious smile that could make someone stop their heart and lungs.

…

A scream suddenly came from the art classroom.

The child's penetrating voice spread far away along the quiet and dark corridor.

Jiang Xia withdrew his vision and clay, just in time to see "Amuro Toru" next to him stiffen reflexively, as if he wanted to run over to check immediately, but in the end he didn't know what he thought of, and stopped again.

Jiang Xia imitated Belmod's expression and reacted similarly to her, while at the same time glancing at the murderous aura that suddenly appeared on the woman's body.

... Kudo is so useful.

…

In the art classroom.

Although Conan was startled, he certainly would not be frightened by a mere clay mouth.

On the other hand, the other three children were frightened by his sudden movement and hugged each other like frightened birds.

Under their complicated gazes, Conan nervously looked at the plaster statue with a smooth forehead in front of him.

…The scary mouth disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared.

After observing for a moment, Conan approached unbelievingly, touching and tapping on the plaster doubtfully, trying to figure out the reason for the strange incident just now.

The other three children did not see the "mouth" just now.

Ayumi stared at Conan who was behaving abnormally, hesitated for a moment, and suggested fearfully: "Let's leave here first... or go find brother Jiang Xia?"

Even if she was beaten, she didn't want to stay in this scary place where even Conan would be scared...

Conan was completely interested.

He couldn't find the mechanism for a while and couldn't take the things away, so he took out his mobile phone and used the last bit of power to take pictures of this weird plaster statue.

After observing several other plaster statues and finding that none of them had mouths, Conan felt more and more that what he had just encountered must be a man-made trick, but he had not yet been able to figure out the principle... …perhaps some unique material that expands and then evaporates under certain conditions?

After taking pictures of the plaster statue from all angles, Conan touched it one last time, and then said enthusiastically: "Let's go to the health room and have a look."

With that said, he quickly walked out of the door.

Conan remembered that a few days ago, someone claimed to have seen the mannequin in the health room running wildly in the corridor - now it seems that perhaps this series of "weird campus legends" is actually a mastermind behind the scenes who is proficient in chemical materials. Hide in the shadows and do mischief.

The other three children looked at each other for a moment, not daring to wander off on their own, and finally had no choice but to follow Conan.

A group of people soon came to the health room.

There are some ordinary-looking utensils stacked here, and there are no cold, humanoid plaster statues. It is more relaxing than the art classroom.

Ayumi looked around and felt a lot calmer.

When the other three students were looking for mannequins, she also wanted to help, so she casually pulled away a covered cloth against the wall.

An adult-sized mannequin without any skin on its surface emerged from under the cloth without any warning.

Ayumi stared blankly up at this "person" with only muscles and blood vessels on his body, giving people a bloody feeling as if he had been skinned. When his scalp exploded, he let out a scream that sounded like his throat was being torn. , escaped out of the door at an unprecedented speed.

Conan was startled, and after regaining consciousness, he quickly chased after him.

The three little boys ran through two right angles in the direction where Bumi left, and then stopped at the stairs in the middle of the corridor. Just now, they clearly saw Bumi turning in, but at this moment there was nothing in front of them. There was no sound of people escaping upstairs.

"...Ayumi?"

Conan shouted tentatively.

No one responded, only the echo fell to the ground like ripples. The three little boys stood with bated breath, clearly hearing the sound of their own hearts beating wildly in the quiet night.

With a hint of crying, Mitsuhiko said in a voice that was too weak to be heard: "Ayumi, Ayumi must have been swallowed up by the legend..."

Without one person out of thin air, Conan was no longer as relaxed as before.

But he firmly does not believe that there are "legends": "Those 'weird legends' are all man-made. It is likely that someone hiding in the school captured Ayumi!"

He looked around, turning his flashlight for clues.

Before looking around, Kojima Genta next to him suddenly let out a howl like a slaughtered pig.

Conan turned his head suddenly and saw Yuantai tremblingly raising his hand and pointing to the window of the opposite building.

The building here is in the shape of "口". Looking forward, one can see a skinless "person" pressed against the glass opposite, looking straight at them stiffly and coldly - it turned out to be the skinned mannequin just now!

...It can't be moving on its own, someone must have moved it. Conan gritted his teeth and rushed over.

Mitsuhiko and Genta followed instinctively.

…

After the children left in a mess, the wooden door of the tool room on the ground floor of the first floor slowly slid open, revealing three figures.

Jiang Xia let go of Bumi's hand and glanced down at her.

After Ayumi rushed out of the health room just now, she ran around in a panic and tried to hide in a corner.

Then he bumped into Jiang Xia, who was habitually hiding in the corner.

Then, because Ayumi bumped into someone in the darkness, she opened her mouth to scream in panic, but before she could scream, Jiang Xia covered her mouth.

...Jiang Xia didn't know why she wanted to stop her screaming. It might just be a conditioned reflex after watching too many anime movies.

After completing this action, he came back to his senses and looked at the other two people in the surrounding space with a slight embarrassment.

But she saw that Bumi was stunned, and after Jiang Xia let go, she didn't say anything again.

As for Belmod, she didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with this reaction. Instead, when Jiang Xia was arresting people, she instinctively looked to both sides to confirm the situation... with a very skilled look.

When no one around you is embarrassed and no one realizes that something is wrong, the embarrassment will naturally disappear...

The person involved, Jiang Xia, quickly returned to normal.

He waited for a while in the darkness as if nothing had happened, and after the three children ran away, he put Yoshida Ayumi on the ground next to him.

Ayumi looked up and saw clearly that it was Jiang Xia. She was stunned for a moment and subconsciously stepped back.

At the same time, she turned her head and looked to the side, looking for a friend who could be beaten with her. However, there was no one on both sides of the corridor, and the farther away she went, the darker it became, as if filled with a terrifying black fog.

"..."

Ayumi thought about the plaster statue with cold eyes in the art classroom just now, and then thought about the mannequin that looked like it had been skinned alive, and suddenly shuddered.

Then she moved forward on her toes, reaching the place where she was just one step away from hitting Jiang Xia. She raised her tender little arms and silently hugged Jiang Xia's legs.

... She would rather be beaten by Brother Jiang Xia than be eaten by that terrifying model, or have a layer of skin torn off by it and become the same kind... Compared with the weird legend, at least Brother Jiang Xia is better looking, and He doesn't kill.

Jiang Xia picked up a temporary follower inexplicably.

He looked at Ayumi, who was quiet and quiet, but her legs were weak from fear. He felt that this level of naughty child was acceptable, so he bent down and picked up the child.

After that, Jiang Xia lowered his head and looked at his elongated shadow in the dim light. He found that after adding Ayumi, his shadow outline instantly expanded abnormally, and he nodded secretly with satisfaction.

In fact, if Bomei rides on the neck, the scaring effect should be better.

But this kid seems to be wearing a skirt today... forget it.

After facing the shadow on the ground and adjusting her hugging posture, Jiang Xia planned to follow them to see the current situation of the three children.

However, when he looked up, he saw "Toru Amuro" beside him frowning slightly, wondering what he was thinking of.

Seeing Jiang Xia looking at her, Belmode, who was wrapped in murderous aura, whispered: "I also saw the window on the opposite side through the crack in the door just now. There was indeed a mannequin facing this way and sticking to the window, but..."

Speaking of this, she pointed to the corridor at right angles to here through two windows.

According to her observation just now, the figure following the children was hiding behind the side window.

In other words, there was someone else who moved the mannequin.

——In addition to them, there are actually two people hiding in this teaching building, which is not too big.

After Jiang Xia heard this, he frowned slightly on the surface, keeping in sync with Belmode.

But then, while Belmode wasn't paying attention, he glanced at her suspiciously.

...He thought that based on Belmod's concern for her cool guy, when she noticed signs of danger, she would rush over as soon as possible to prevent Conan from misfortune. Unexpectedly, Belmod was quite calm.

Is it the mother-son tutoring in the black organization that is different, or is it the result of her rational considerations?

The latter actually makes some sense - he and Belmod have been hiding well, so in Belmod's view, in the eyes of the person following Conan, he and a few children should be the only ones in the school.

So if the person following you has the intention of killing someone, he can just pick up the mop, rush over and kill indiscriminately, there is no need to beat around the bush and scare people.

Bermod may have felt that if she rushes over in this non-fatal situation and exposes her affection for Conan to Uzo, who is also in the organization, she will lose a lot of advantages - even if she is facing Amuro now This kind of behavior will also make Uzo next to her suspicious, and while doubting her attitude towards children, he will take off her vest at the same time.

Belmod endured it very hard.

Because of this, the murderous aura in her body gradually increased unknowingly.

Jiang Xia watched silently, her mood constantly +1, and continued to lead Ayumi to the health room.

Although there was a bit of anxiety on his face that he was pretending not to be anxious, there was actually no disturbance in his heart.

After all, based on what happened tonight, Jiang Xia had already guessed which incident it was.

——Two sneaky "bad guys" in the shadows, one is the dean with only a wig in his eyes.

The other one is Conan and his new class teacher, Kobayashi Sumiko.

Teacher Kobayashi's appearance is very similar to that of Officer Sato, but his inner personality is completely different.

In comparison, Xiaolin Chengzi is more introverted and weak. She is very nervous about the upcoming parent-teacher meeting.

So every night, she would sneak into the school and put mannequins, plaster statues, and some dolls in the classroom in the dark, letting them act as students and parents, and conduct parent-teacher meeting exercises... Well, in another sense. Said, this is actually a very courageous person, worthy of a woman in the same mold as Officer Sato.