Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 87 Tire Destroyer

Jiang Xia was sitting in the co-pilot, and before he opened his eyes, he heard the murmuring of the ghosts. Now there are more ghosts, and it is a little noisy, but he can still tell what they are saying – there is something nearby. pick up.

   Jiang Xia looked outside through the car window, and at the same time he skillfully let the shikigami fly into the trunk, skillfully condensed the little white puppet, and skillfully broke the tire in the trunk.

   Amuro Toru had no idea what was going on in the trunk.

   After realizing that the car had a flat tire, he was slightly startled, and pulled the car to a stop.

  Amuro had been on the car ten times before, and the tire would have blown only once, but now, he is on an ordinary trip, driving the car without speeding, and the tire blew back and forth twice…

  Amuro glanced at Jiang Xia next to him, and suddenly felt that there was something wrong with the conclusion he had drawn before—Jiang Xia might not be lucky, but jumped back and forth between extreme good luck and extreme bad luck.

  Otherwise, the car would always break down halfway along the Jiangxia area.

   Jiang Xia faced An Shitou’s complicated gaze. He vaguely guessed Anshitou’s thoughts in his heart, but he could only maintain innocence and doubts on his face: “?”

   Amuro Toru: “…It’s okay.” After speaking, he opened the door and got out of the car, intending to put on the spare tire.

   Jiang Xia actually felt that it was too coincidental that the tire burst twice in a row, but after thinking about it carefully, it was very reasonable.

  ——Let’s not talk about his luck, Conan is still sitting in the car. The two are superimposed, and it is justified without encountering some incidents.

  Conan’s back was frightened, he raised his head sharply, and met Jiang Xia’s encouraging gaze.

  Conan: “…?”

   Jiang Xia withdrew his gaze from the doubtful glances of the elementary school students, got out of the car, and the other three followed. When other people want to change their tires, they can’t sit still in the car.

   After getting off the car, Mao Lilan found that the trunk lid was open, and Jiang Xia’s reliable-looking boss had been sluggish in front of the trunk for a long time.

  Maolilan approached suspiciously, and she saw a tire in the trunk with some jagged stubble on it.

  …

   Amuro Toru stared at the puncture in the tire, lost in thought.

   The last time the tire was bitten, the trunk was open, which can be explained as some wild animal slipped in without him noticing.

   This time, however, the trunk was closed tightly. But as soon as he opened the lid of the box, he saw that the tire was broken.

  …If it wasn’t for the few ignorant citizens beside him, Amuro might have taken out the gun at this time.

   But now, he can only look slightly dark, and open the pile of debris in the trunk with his bare hands, trying to find the unknown horror creature that bit his tire, but unfortunately found nothing.

   This made Amuro Toru heaved a sigh of relief, but even more confused.

  When he opened the lid, he didn’t see anything slipping out, so why the tires…

  Jiang Xia walked to Anshitou’s side, looked down and asked, “Why is it broken again?”

  Toru Amuro always felt that his next sentence was “I said long ago that there are definitely mice in your car”.

  Amuro Toru: “…It must have been taken by mistake before. I accidentally put the broken tire on top.”

   He actually didn’t believe he would make such a mistake.

   But now, if not mistaken, it means that something supernatural happened.

   Such a comparison… As expected, he was too tired for the past two days. He must have remembered something wrong. After all, it was normal for him to sleep almost all night without sleeping, and his memory was affected…

  Conan put down his phone and walked to them: “There is no signal here, but I see a building that looks like an old castle over there. We can ask the owner to borrow a landline and call a tow truck.”

   “Indeed.” Jiang Xia also put down his phone, he had been waiting for this sentence for a long time.

   Amuro Toru turned his head along the direction of the two people, and saw an old castle towering in the forest through the layers of trees.

   I don’t know if it’s an illusion, no matter how he looks at it, he feels that this ancient castle is gloomy and has a strange atmosphere.

  …But there is no ghost in this world.

   So it must be an illusion.

   Besides, there is no store in front of the village, no other car passing by, and no signal. If you want to leave as soon as possible, you really need a landline phone.

  Amuro took a deep breath and closed the trunk as usual: “Let’s go.”

  …

   Jiang Xia looked at the old castle in front of him. The courtyard around the castle is very large, and he can’t detect anything abnormal for the time being, but judging from the reactions of the other three ghosts, there are a lot of things hidden in this castle that can be picked up.

   A group of people walked to the door, and across the towering iron gate, they could see a gardener in the yard pruning crops. The yard is very wide, and there are many sculptures of huge chess pieces on the lawn. A young man is squatting next to the sculptures, looking thoughtfully.

   It may be that few people visit in the deep mountains and forests, and the two people in the courtyard did not notice that there were guests at the door.

   At this moment, a car came from outside and stopped behind Jiang Xia and others.

   A middle-aged man with a mid-parted head came down from the car. The man opened the courtyard door and looked at them suspiciously: “Who are you?”

   He glanced at the others, and paused slightly when he stopped on Jiang Xia’s face.

   Similar eyes, Jiang Xia has seen it many times in the past few days.

   He quickly realized that the person in front of him probably recognized himself as a detective.

   The previous variety show of the “Perspective Detective Agency” and the follow-up live broadcast of the crime solving did seem to have some effects. Jiang Xia always felt that his popularity was much higher than before.

  I don’t know when I will receive the invitation letter for serial murder from far away…

   The person who recognized Jiangxia was called Ma Gongman, and he was one of the owners of this castle.

  Mamiya Manchu welcomed the people into the castle enthusiastically after listening to the request of several people to borrow the phone.

   Amuro Toru breathed a sigh of relief, but he picked up the phone in the corridor and pressed the number, but found that he couldn’t get out.

   He was stunned, and the strange tooth marks on the tire appeared uncontrollably again in his heart. After a while, Amuro Toru silently looked at Mamiya Man, his eyes darkening slightly.

  Ma Gongman originally wanted to sell it.

   But suddenly being stared at like this, his vest suddenly became cold, giving birth to an illusion that his life was threatened.

For a while, Mamiya couldn’t care about creating a sense of mystery that detectives liked. He speeded up his speech: “That’s it! The earthquake yesterday affected the telephone line. When I came back, I dropped by and asked, and I learned that it will take tomorrow. It’s fixed – there’s no other reason for you to come in, I just want you to have a place to rest, by the way…cough, I want to ask you something.”

   sounds like a human word, not something else.

   Amuro Toru looked slightly stunned. Since the external line is broken, there is really nothing to do. You can’t walk down the mountain with two weak girls and a primary school student.

   He looked at Mamiya full and asked for details.

   Jiang Xia looked out the window while listening to Mamiyaman’s narration.

   Just now, when he saw the chess sculptures in the yard outside, Jiang Xia knew exactly which case it was.

  This castle has a minaret, and the view from the top of the tower is excellent. So Mamiya’s father-in-law regarded it as a “treasure” and arranged a series of puzzles in the castle, with the answers pointing to the top of the minaret.

   After the death of this very playful grandfather, the legend of the treasure became more and more outrageous, and everyone thought it represented a lot of wealth.

   Four years ago, a maid finally had a crooked mind. She burned all the people who knew Mrs. Tai to death, and changed herself into the appearance of Mrs. Tai, replacing the original old man. She planned to stay in this castle for a long time until the treasure was found.

  Ma Gongman did not find that his mother-in-law secretly changed someone. He was also concentrating on finding treasures, and suddenly wisely thought that he could use an external force—such as the detective who sent him to the door in front of him.

  Conan was immediately excited when he heard that there were puzzles here. Amuro Toru was also a little interested, after all, he also had a little detective spirit flowing in him.

  Maurilan and Suzuki Sonoko are not very good at solving puzzles, but the courtyard here is beautifully manicured, and they quickly gathered by the window, overlooking the “chessboard lawn” that is said to contain a lot of information.

   Jiang Xia looked at the backs of several people, and then looked at Xiaobai who had just come out of the wall, pulling the cuff of his trousers to complain, and walked gently to the next room.

  According to the preliminary investigation of the ghosts, there are indeed many shikigami in this castle.

But they were stupefied and burned to death by a fire. They didn’t know which murderer to pick up, so they had to pick up the scorched ashes of their bodies nearby – there was still a little body breath there. A sense of security.

  These shikigami who died in vain had a lot of obsessions, and they had so many souls that Xiaobai couldn’t get them down successfully for a long time.

   So Jiang Xia planned to enter the secret passage. The secret passage here is connected to the tower on the opposite side that was burned down four years ago. He intends to see the situation of the shikigami.

   (end of this chapter)