Conan’s Corpse Picker

  Chapter 90 How to Distribute Bento Safely

   Nishikawa Suimei realized that Jiang Xia had entered the secret passage, and immediately panicked.

  In those days, she didn’t actually burn Mrs. Tai to death, but imprisoned the person in the secret passage, so that she could have plastic surgery in the appearance of Mrs. Zhen Tai.

   In other words, the body of Mrs. Tai is still lying in the secret passage.

   And the location of the corpse happened to be very close to the place where Jiang Xia entered. According to the insight of those detectives, Jiang Xia may have seen it…

   Nishikawa Suimei thought about it, and gradually became murderous.

   So, under the pretext of wanting to rest, she locked herself in the room, then opened the entrance to the secret passage in the room with a wooden stick, intending to take advantage of her familiarity with secret passages to sneak attack on Jiang Xia and kill the detective who knew too much.

   However, Nishikawa Suimei wandered around the secret passage for a long time, but he never found Jiang Xia. A few times, she felt as if someone was passing by her side, but when she looked at it sharply, she couldn’t see anything.

…what happened?

   Could it be that Jiang Xia has actually gone out? Or have been hiding in a corner without moving?

   Nishikawa Suomi’s heart was gradually shaken, and she clenched the wooden stick.

  …

   As soon as Nishikawa Suimei entered the secret passage, Jiang Xia immediately locked her position.

  —Although the souls burned to death by Nishikawa Suimei were very stunned, they didn’t pick her up. But Nishikawa Suimei killed more than that, she also killed Mrs. Zhentai.

   And Mrs. Tai knew very well who the murderer was, so the shikigami she transformed into after her death was now firmly on Nishikawa Suimei’s leg and became Jiang Xia’s locator.

   When Nishikawa Suimei entered the secret passage, Jiang Xia had already collected the shikigami. He was about to start eliminating obsessions in batches and signed a contract, and Nishikawa Suimei delivered it to the door himself.

   After seeing her figure clearly, Jiang Xia’s expression softened a little – come on, come, and specially sent a wooden stick, which is so embarrassing.

   However, no matter how caring and sensible Nishikawa Suimei is, Jiang Xia will not change her original plan. This woman is an important tool to help the ghosts eliminate their obsessions.

  Jiang Xia stood in the dark, watching Nishikawa Suimei pass by in front of him, and then whispered the truth about the castle fire to the shikigami who died in vain in the paper bag.

Only when    shikigami have a clear goal can they know where their obsessions lie, and it is easier to eliminate them in batches.

  These souls don’t have much thinking ability, but they are only very sensitive to the cause of their own death and the murderer who killed them. At this time, they were spoiled by Jiang Xia, and the originally messy and scattered obsessions gradually converged, and the goal was precisely aimed at the fake old woman in the secret passage.

  Jiang Xia saw that he had achieved his goal, so he originally wanted to beat people as usual.

   However, when he walked lightly behind Nishikawa Suimei and was about to take the stick in her hand, Jiang Xia thought of something and made a move.

  … Nishikawa Suimei killed so many people at once in order to seize the treasure, if she just beat her up, the grievances of the shikigami might not be quelled.

  Not only human beings, Shikigami also pays attention to the power of many souls. Souls with the same cause of death gather together, interfere with each other, and superimpose each other, which will give birth to more powerful obsessions.

  Last time, the open-section murderer at the seaside of Izu had only four shikigami on his body, but after he was beaten like that, none of the shikigami loosened at all. After he fell off the cliff, Miyano Akemi managed to tear off the soul.

   And now, more people die in vain…

   After Nishikawa Suimei walked a little further, Jiang Xia opened the paper bag, lowered his head and counted carefully, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven… a total of eighteen souls.

   Count again, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven… or eighteen.

   When Jiang Xia was counting, Xiaobai and Miyano Akemi looked up and saw his movements, and were slightly startled.

   After a while, the two ghosts climbed up along Jiang Xia’s legs skillfully, got close to the paper bag, and wanted to line up at the end of the line to help Jiang Xia make up the number.

  The Tengu Ghost had never experienced such a “troop deployment” scene. It flew up swayingly, observed the situation in confusion, and tentatively lined up behind Miyano Akemi.

  Jiang Xia tapped the three ghosts with his fingertips. After tapping, he almost wanted to release the other shikigami in his heart… But in the end, he realized that it was not the occasion to count these, so he had to stop regretfully and do business first.

   In short, now that so many grievances are gathered together, it is difficult to end the matter without handing a lunch to the murderer.

   Even an ordinary death may not be able to clear the obsessions of the shikigami.

   Jiang Xia hesitated for a moment and decided to do a small experiment first.

   He picked up a stone, held it in his hand and silently tapped it, and quickly caught up with Nishikawa Suimei who had been out for a while.

   When Nishikawa Suimei passed a step, Jiang Xia raised her hand and threw it. The woman fell down, just stepping on the stone, her soles crooked, and she rolled down the stairs.

   The stairs here are relatively steep. After Nishikawa Suimei rolled to the bottom, she fainted for a while, and then she was sore all over and got up with a groan.

   Jiang Xia looked down at the shikigami in the bag, and felt that their resentment was not lacking at all. On the contrary, there is a vague trend of strengthening, and there is a kind of emotion like “We died so miserably, and she ended up here?”

  Jiangxia: “…”

   A group of souls, there are quite a lot of things.

but…

   Jiang Xia touched the paper bag, and his eyes quickly returned to kindness. Forget it, who made them so easy to pick up, there are more, and some requirements are not unsatisfactory.

   Having said that, Jiang Xia did not intend to kill.

   For ordinary people, death is the end. But for psychics, death may just be the beginning of trouble.

   After most people die, they cannot generate too strong souls. But the aura of the psychic itself is quite special. In history, there are many people who died at the hands of the psychic, then turned black and landed, which is a precedent for a big boss.

For Jiang Xia, the situation of being killed by a blackened soul after killing a person is roughly equivalent to “randomly shaking the number from 1-100000, and if it reaches ‘64541’, he will die on the spot” – this is an extremely low probability event , but as long as there is a probability, it means that that situation is likely to happen. According to experience, the best way to avoid it is to not shake it at all.

  … So, you definitely can’t directly strangle someone to death.

   Even if you have to give out a bento, you have to use euphemisms and twists to make the soul stunned for a while. First, you need to understand whether its death has anything to do with the psychic. In this way, if you really accidentally shake a boss-level blackened soul that will die with one touch, you can take appropriate life-saving measures before its obsession takes shape.

  While Jiang Xia was thinking, Nishikawa Suimei grabbed her head and got up from the ground.

   She stood up suddenly, threw herself to the wall, slapped the next trap, and left the secret passage as if escaping.

   Jiang Xia looked at the place where she disappeared, recalled part of the tunnel layout that she had observed when picking up ghosts before, and walked around to the other side.

   (end of this chapter)