Conan’s Corpse Picker

When Conan heard that he was going to the police station to provide a testimony, he remembered that that time was exactly the movie time they had arranged with Jiang Xia.

When Conan asked about it at the time, the naughty kid said it was not a big problem.

Conan naively thought that the three children had informed Jiang Xia that they were going to let Jiang Xia go.

Unexpectedly, when the appointment time came, the naughty kid asked Conan hesitantly to call Jiang Xia and refuse to watch a movie together - very much like a group of gamblers who put off their vacation homework until the last night. Demon, I don’t want to face it.

Conan has always been powerless against these children. He sighed and took out his phone.

Conan is not afraid of Jiang Xia.

But he was neither afraid of returning nor afraid. As a representative of the Pigeon people, he still felt a little guilty in his heart for collaborating with the naughty children.

——In Conan’s view, Jiang Xia is obsessed with asking the children to go out and watch movies together. It may be because Jiang Xia didn’t have the opportunity to experience it when she was a child, so now she is curious to try “everyone sits in the cinema and watches a series of childhood memories movies”.

In this case……

After Conan finished letting go, in Jiang Xia's silence, he took the time to mend his conscience:

"Speaking of which, yesterday I bought a mystery novel and won a few movie tickets in a lottery. Why don't we invite Xiaolan and the others to go with us tomorrow?"

... Xiaolan is definitely not afraid of Jiang Xia, nor will she be delayed by events and frequently miss appointments like these ignorant naughty kids.

And Conan was very considerate - he felt that the reason why Jiang Xia insisted on taking the children along instead of asking Mao Lilan and other friends to watch the Gomera movie together was probably because it was too embarrassing for high school students to watch such a children's movie.

The reason of "lottery" can solve this problem smoothly. After all, it was something that was drawn, and it would not be seen without looking at it, and with him as a "child" around, Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko would not feel too unnatural.

On the other side of the phone, Jiang Xia still didn't speak. Through the receiver, you can vaguely hear his breathing - it doesn't look like he threw the phone away in anger, but he was deep in thought.

Conan paused, glanced at the young detective team next to him, and then thought about Jiang Xia who might have gone out and was about to go to the cinema, but was innocently raped, he couldn't help but add in a low voice:

"By the way, Officer Sato seems to have encountered a difficult case. If you have no other arrangements, you can take the time to contact her and ask for details."

...As for whether Jiang Xia will come to Officer Sato after asking for details, and then meet the children who are following Officer Sato to confirm the witness scene, that is another matter.

Later, Conan discovered that Jiang Xia, as he said, could "feel the meaning of his own existence from solving cases."

——Different from the silence just now, as soon as these words about "difficult cases" came out, Jiang Xia responded quickly, and seemed to be in a good mood: "Okay, I'll ask, and you should pay more attention to safety when investigating."

"Yes." Conan breathed a sigh of relief and hung up the phone.

Then he ignored the angry looks of the three children that seemed to say "Traitor!", took out his wallet, and glanced bitterly at the few thin banknotes inside.

Just now Conan said that he won a movie ticket... It is impossible to win a prize in a lottery. Maori, his daughter and Jiang Xia are both good at this kind of thing, but he is much inferior.

Originally, Conan planned to use his remaining pocket money to buy a newly released hardcover version of Detective Zuoji.

But now, there are four more tickets to buy. After all, the remaining money is not enough to buy a whole set of books. But if you buy one or two less books, there is no point in collecting...

Conan struggled for a moment, and a card that seemed to be emitting golden light slowly appeared in his mind.

——His dad’s credit card.

...Well, that’s it.

After all, I can’t work with this body, and my money will only be used less and less. In the past, I could use a month's pocket money, but now it's always not enough... Before recovering, I'd better hug my parents' thighs.

…

The scheduled movie trip was cancelled.

Jiang Xia glanced at the phone a little boredly, and remembered what Conan said later. After all, he was idle, so he dialed Officer Sato.

The call was quickly answered.

"Jiang Xia?" Sato Miwako was a little confused at first, and then suddenly became alert, "You want to call the police? How is the prisoner?"

Jiang Xia: "..."

Did Officer Sato have a little misunderstanding about him...

Jiang Xia decided not to worry about these trivial matters: "No, I haven't encountered a case. I just heard from Conan that you have a difficult case here, so I wanted to ask if I could help."

Sato Miwako breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good that I didn't meet the prisoner. It turns out that Conan was calling you just now..."

She is currently with the Junior Detective Team - Officer Sato is responsible for taking Ayumi to the place where she saw the arson suspect, confirming the location of the sighting, and searching for evidence around it.

When Conan was on the phone just now, Sato Miwako happened to receive a call from the Megure Police Department and didn't pay attention to what Conan said.

But now, she thought, this kid with glasses was reporting to Jiang Xia. The speed of delivering news is quite fast... Could it be that Conan's abnormal words and deeds in the past are also related to the close communication between him and Jiang Xia?

Miwako Sato's thoughts wandered a little, but she quickly recovered and turned to the business that Jiang Xia had just asked her about.

"We are tracking down an arsonist." After Miwako Sato finished speaking, she suddenly remembered that the arsonist had not left any puzzles, so it probably could not be considered a "difficult case" in the eyes of the detectives. Conan and Jiang Xia should be referring to another case that was mentioned in their chat just now.

Taking into account the detective's strong curiosity and Jiang Xia's occasionally extraordinary mobility, Miwako Sato patiently explained:

"Actually, it's not a difficult case - I took Ayumi and the others to confirm the scene where the arsonist was witnessed. This area happens to be very close to the place where my father died in the line of duty. So on the way, I stopped by to pay homage to my father, and then I met some of my father's old classmates and chatted a little more about the mysterious cases from back then.

"Children don't understand the statute of limitations. Conan may have mistakenly thought that it was a current case, so he wanted to ask you to track down the criminal... But in fact, the case that led to my father's death occurred 18 years ago, and it has been three years since the prosecution period ended. ”

Jiang Xia listened to a few key words and gradually got an impression: "Is it the 'Chou Si Lang Incident'?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly felt something, his eyes paused slightly, and his peripheral vision turned in a certain direction.

There happened to be a subway entering the station just now.

After the vehicle stopped, four gray-haired old men got out of the vehicle talking and laughing.

Walking towards the exit of the station and passing by Jiang Xia, the four of them heard the word "Chou Si Lang Incident" and subconsciously glanced in the direction of Jiang Xia.

One of the short men was suddenly startled after recognizing Jiang Xia's identity as a detective.

Then there was an obvious murderous look on him.