The Corpse Collector In Conan Chapter 388: Strange ghosts have increased (together

The truck cab is too small to fit two people except the driver.

Jiang Xia gave up his seat to Yuan Shan and Ye, who were carrying a huge backpack. He got out of the car and turned into the back of the car. He sat down with the other two people who rubbed the car and a motorcycle. A place for loading goods.

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

However, because of the wild murderous aura next to him, the comfort of this position in Jiang Xia's heart has skyrocketed.

……

With the addition of three people and a motorcycle, the truck starts again.

This time, taking into account the number of people sitting behind, Takeda is driving a little slower than before.

Heiji Hattori leaned against the waist-high railing, looked at Jiang Xia, who was in a good mood for some reason, and then silently lowered his head and glanced at the dirt road that kept swept back.

I thought that the speed of the car is not fast, but now it is too late to jump.

…Wait, what are you thinking?

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

...In fact, now that he has met Jiang Xia more and more, he is gradually less repulsive than when he first met him.

Especially the last time on Furukawa University's boat, Jiang Xia also rescued him from a veteran wanted criminal - if he was really attacked and thrown into the sea by the murderer at that time, at night, no one saw him, maybe he It's about to become a floating corpse in the sea. From this perspective, Jiang Xia can be regarded as his savior.

Furthermore, people always adapt gradually to their environment.

It was the first time that Hattori saw Jiang Xia's speed of solving a crime like reading a script, and he felt unbelievable;

The second time, I don't feel very convinced;

The third time, I firmly believe that I can do it.

Four, five, six, seven, eight or nine times...

Slowly there are antibodies.

It's just that the conditioned reflex of "I don't want to investigate the case with Jiang Xia" is still there and has not subsided for the time being.

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

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

And no one likes to be disliked by others.

Every time I see Jiang Xia, I turn my head and walk away. This kind of behavior may cause some invisible damage to Jiang Xia's mind, just like He Ye and the two in Tokyo said... Seeing where the damage is, I just feel that Jiang Xia is happier than him most of the time... But in short, one must be conscientious.

Heiji Hattori took a deep breath and temporarily suppressed the instinctive thought of "jumping from 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 was always very pleasing to the Osaka black leather: "Like you, I received a letter of entrustment with 500,000 yen in cash, so I wanted to come and have a look."

With that, he took out the letter paper he had collected earlier and gave Hattori Heiji a look.

Heiji Hattori heard the words, and his face was very dark.

He took Jiang Xia's letter and muttered in his heart: Jiang Xia received 500,000? He only has 200,000... It's not the commission fee from others, but he is also a high school detective. Why is he so cheap?

Heiji Hattori felt a subtle resentment in his heart.

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

——The letter Jiang Xia received was handwritten vertically, signed, and stamped. The wording was also very cautious and polite. No matter how you looked at it, it was a very formal letter of entrustment.

This is very different from the one he received.

His letter was machine-typed, anonymous, and worded... There was no wording at all, only two words that were whispered.

...If it's the same person hiring the detective on the same day, of course one doesn't have to be signed and the other written in a mysterious style.

If this happens, it means that the letters of entrustment to him and Jiang Xia are two different people.

And that means...

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

The corners of Hattori Heiji's mouth twitched, but he quickly pressed it down as if nothing had happened.

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

"Looks like there are two families with the surname 'Takeda' here, and we'll have to investigate each."

Jiang Xia glanced silently, as if "I'm very happy!" was written all over her body, but Heiji Hattori, who was about to shoot flowers from the top of her head, felt that whether it was Kansai or Kanto, the acting skills of this class of high school detectives were not up to standard.

However, he still gave a face-saving look at the paper Hattori Heiji was waving.

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

[Please arrive at the Takeda's house on Puppet Peak by dusk next Sunday

Otherwise, there will be a live puppet that will become the spider's bait]

Jiang Xia was silent for a while.

Actually, compared to the letter sent by Takeda Shinichi, he prefers this style of teaser letter in Hattori Heiji's hand - it's a mystery, and it looks like there will be a lot of ghosts...

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

While reading Hattori Heiji's letter of entrustment, he read it out like he was learning a foreign language: "Become bait for spiders...why feed spiders with live puppets?"

Yuzo Takeda, who was driving in front, had his windows open. The speed of the car is not fast, and the wind on both sides is not too loud.

He not only heard Rob's doubtful murmurs, but also heard the regrettable tone of Hattori Heiji's "Everyone's".

Feeling that the guest seemed to have misunderstood, Takeda Yuzo, who was cold and warm-hearted, interjected:

"If the letter mentions 'spider', it should be referring to our house - something bad happened in my house before, and people nearby said that we were cursed by Lord Spider, and that if we didn't want to be inexplicably Hang and kill, don't go near the 'Spider Mansion'...hmph, boring rumors."

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

She quickly stroked her skin and used friction to generate heat against the coolness, half comforting herself and half confidently saying, "There are no monsters and curses in this world! Someone must be working in secret. This time they asked detectives to come, It should also be to find out about this matter - with Jiang Xia and Heping, I will be able to expose the truth of the 'curse' immediately!"

Heiji Hattori: "..."

This "Takeda" is also another "Takeda"?

......Can't investigate separately from Jiang Xia.

Also, why did He Ye put Jiang Xia's name before him? Don't people usually mention more familiar people first...

Heiji Hattori sat in the convertible car, silently tightening his jacket, feeling a little cold from the mountain wind.

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

"You came here three years, right? 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 became lower. "No wonder you haven't heard such rumors..."

Rob stopped worrying about the rumors.

He smiled and asked like a guest who was attentive to visit his benefactor: "Speaking of Misa, how has she been in the past few years?"

“…”

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

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

According to normal development, this place should have happened to meet "Misha" on the side of the road, so Takeda Yuzo will point it out to them.

On a closer look, however, there was no one in that direction, not even a single bird.

I was wondering when I heard Takeda Isamu 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..."

Heiji Hattori: "..."

Yuan Shan and Ye: "..."

This topic is too blunt...

...Is there something wrong with that "Misha"?

But Takeda Yuzo doesn't seem to want to say anything, and he probably won't be able to ask for a while.

Heiji Hattori didn't speak any further, just jotting down this first.

At the moment, he doesn't know exactly what the client wants him to investigate. In the letter Jiang Xia received, the reason for the entrustment was not written, so he could only write down all the suspicious things first and wait for it to be used later.

Besides, Jiang Xia also turned his head when Takeda Yusan pointed at the "sleeping puppet", but his attention was completely off the hill that was actually shapeless.

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

The murderous aura spread from Rob.

The foreign friend's murderous aura was particularly inflated when he mentioned "Misha". In addition, on his calf, he was also holding a fresh shikigami at this time.

Although Rob is lost, he 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 left Puppet Peak recovering from his injury, he had fallen in love with Takeda Misa, who took good care of him. He plans to learn Japanese well, deal with his own affairs, and then come back to fall in love happily.

After three years, I came back and saw that Takeda Misa was dead.

——I heard that not long after he left, he suddenly hanged himself.

Rob knew that Misa's father, Nobu Takeda, treated her badly, and felt that Misa must have been forced to death by her father. So after some investigation, it was found that Takeda Shinichi was involved in drug trafficking, and he came up with a series of plans.

Rob kills his partner who was helping Takeda Shinichi's drug business and hangs the man in the storage room. Then he stole a puppet with drugs and used it to threaten Takeda Shinichi, intending to trick him into the warehouse on the second floor, and then use the pre-arranged mechanism to kill people and avenge Misa.

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

The chance encounter of the "lost brothers and sisters" just now was a man-made encounter - Rob intends to use this method to create the illusion of "new arrivals" and eliminate his suspicions.

……

The truck was bumping on the mountain road for more than an hour before a vast yard appeared in the distance.

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

As the vehicle approached the Takeda's house, Jiang Xia's boring gaze slowly stopped in the courtyard.

He stared for a moment, then looked down at the ghost beside him as if confirming.

The ghosts also felt it, at this time, they were clinging to the edge of the car and staring at the yard of the Takeda family.

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

...This kind of reaction seems to be a ghost.

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

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

No matter who dropped it, since it was discovered by him, it is his family's ghost...

He poked at a few ghosts who were still concentrating on sensing by holding on to the frame of the car, and motioned them to catch the unfamiliar new ghost...cough, please come and talk.

……

The truck soon pulled into the Takeda's yard.

Although Hattori Heiji held back and didn't ask Takeda Yuzo along the way, he was very concerned about the "Misha" who made Takeda Yuzo change the subject bluntly, and planned to wait until Takeda's house and find another person to ask about the situation.

Get out of the car and enter the "Spider Mansion". At the door of the house, a group of people met a middle-aged woman with an ordinary appearance and a gentle temperament.

This is Yoko Takeda~IndoMTL.com~ There are three brothers in the Takeda family - the current head of the family, Takeda Shinichi, the cultural man Takeda Ryuji who lives in the city, and the honest Takeda Yuzo who just went to pick up Jiang Xia and others.

Takeda Yoko is the wife of Takeda Ryuji, and is currently the only middle-aged woman in the family - the eldest's wife has passed away, and the third is still a bachelor.

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

Jiang Xia sensed the ghost of his own house who was chasing something chasing around a dozen meters away, as well as the ghost who had a vague sense of it, and asked thoughtfully: "Suicide?"

"Yeah." Takeda Yoko nervously clapped her hands together, remembering the terrifying corpse, and nodded in fear.

She looked at Jiang Xia, and apparently recognized that this was a rather famous detective. After suppressing her shock, she continued: "Not long after Meisha's death, my sister-in-law, Meisha's mother, was also there. The place hangs."

"The same place..."

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

Besides, Hattori Heiji, who was really thinking about it, was only puzzled.

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

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

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

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