Conan’s Corpse Picker

the other side.

In the dark mountain forest, the little Beetle turned on its pale car lights and went down the winding mountain road.

After nearly ten minutes, we finally arrived near the suspension bridge.

Qianjian's mother-in-law stopped the car and opened the door.

After half of her body got out of the car, she seemed to feel a little cold, so she wrapped herself in a scarf and shrank back.

The other three glanced at her but said nothing. They got out of the car and went to the suspension bridge to check out the situation.

They saw a strong wooden bridge. Both ends showed signs of being blown apart and burned, and the middle section completely fell into the bottomless ravine below.

"Jiang Xia" lowered his head to observe for a moment, stared at the bridge intently, and said to the car: "Grandma Qianjian, please change to low beam, so you can't see your feet clearly."

As he spoke, he knocked on the handrail and judged the distance between the two sides of the canyon: just as he had thought before, combined with the wind blowing in this direction, it was not easy to float over with a hang glider.

Toru Amuro was looking at the road across the bridge, trying to see if there were any public security men poking their heads.

Jiang Xia followed Toru Amuro and looked in that direction - if the police were there and they saw the suspicious man in black following Toru Amuro, they would not take the initiative to poke their heads in.

In this case, a group of people can naturally stay in the annex for a while, waiting for the drama detectives to finish their show and lose their murderous aura before leaving.

Behind the three people, the car lights changed.

At the moment when it changed from high beam to low beam, the vehicle suddenly exploded with a "boom".

——The remaining car also exploded and burst into flames instantly.

The three people on the bridge turned around suddenly and looked in through the front window of the car. All they could see was a flash of fire.

The vehicle's handbrake then failed, and the broken car was pushed by the blast wave, slid down the slope, and instantly ran over in front of the three people.

None of the three people tried to stop him, but instinctively backed away.

The car followed the road they vacated and plunged into the cliff.

Jiang Xia raised her hand to extinguish the small flames on her body: "..."

...I always feel that according to this scene, if I rush over and shout "Mother-in-law!" at this time, the scene will be considered complete.

…However, this doesn’t quite fit in with Uzo’s character. Forget it.

Just as he was thinking about it, "Jiang Xia" next to him seemed to have come back to his senses.

Surprised, he chased him to the broken bridge, looked under the bridge, and shouted in vain and painfully: "Grandma Qianjian——!"

Jiang Xia: "..."

He stared at "his" back faintly: When he saw a vehicle exploding at close range, shouldn't he consider a reasonable hang-up here?

...However, according to Jiang Xia's observation, in the occasional relevant reports, reporters, perhaps out of consideration for "protecting the privacy of the underage detective", did not describe in detail his specific state when he hung up, and only said "solved the case" Speed ​​will be significantly affected."

Kidd may have been misled by this description, thinking that Jiang Xia would just lose his cool and slow down in solving crimes after encountering a vehicle explosion.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xia sighed inwardly - although Kidd would conduct detailed investigations on disguised targets most of the time. But occasionally, this phantom thief would be lazy, and even made a major mistake of "while pretending to be a tomboy, he mistakenly thought the other person was a man, so he acted as a man."

This time, Kidd suddenly wanted to replace "Jiang Xia", probably more out of interest. Breakthroughs are inevitable.

And thinking on the bright side, this is actually more convenient - if Kidd really starts to hang up dedicatedly, this bridge is so far away from the Dusk Annex, and he and Toru Amuro will have to find a way to get people back... It's better to be like this now .

The fire and the car quickly disappeared at the bottom of the cliff.

The sound of burning fire and the sound of materials cracking were all far away.

Jiang Xia looked away from "Jiang Xia" and secretly glanced at Toru Amuro.

When the boss looked at "Jiang Xia", something was definitely wrong.

After staring at "Jiang Xia" twice, Amuro Toru thought of something, turned around, and gave Zhen Jiang Xia a complicated look.

At the same time, Kidd also finished playing the "painful" part he added. After turning around, he also looked at "Kurosawa" secretly and warily.

——They all saw the flaw that Qian Jian's mother-in-law had revealed before, and realized that this old lady was probably the "organizer" who planned everything tonight.

And Kurosawa is the "companion" who appears with her.

Jiang Xia remembered the identity of the "Qianjian Descendant Companion" whom she had encountered, and understood the reaction of the two people.

As if he didn't see anything, he said in a relaxed tone: "Let's go back and tell everyone about the situation here. Fortunately, it's not too far from the annex, and it won't take long to walk back along the road... I didn't expect it to happen so soon. Another victim appears.”

"..."

Although the atmosphere between the three people was a bit strange, they finally set foot on the return journey together, walking farther and farther along the mountain road.

…

A long while.

It seemed that they were sure that they were completely gone and would not kill another comeback.

Beside the bridge, the weeds half as tall as a man suddenly moved, and an old woman with a stooped figure walked out of them.

Senjian Shidai, who was "sitting in a car and being blown up by a car", looked at the direction the three people left, then turned to look at the broken bridge with small flames, shook his head, put his hands behind his back, and slowly walked towards the dusk to say goodbye. direction of the pavilion.

——Senjian Yudai is the "organizer" who pretended to be Kidd, summoned detectives, and killed the gourmet detectives.

The bloody story she just told in the restaurant as the "host" was half true and half false.

——Forty years ago, a massacre did occur in the annex, but in fact, it did not occur at Karasuma's memorial service, but when Karasuma Renye was still alive.

At that time, Karasuma discovered that there was a considerable treasure hidden in this family-herited dusk villa, so he wanted to ask someone to help him find it.

Qianjian's mother-in-law's father is an archaeologist. At that time, Senjian's father and a group of scholars were invited by Karasuma Renya to hunt for treasures in this annex.

Qianjian and her mother were initially pleasantly surprised by the generous rewards Qianjian's father sent back one after another.

However, the good times did not last long. Half a year later, Qianjian's father lost contact.

The last letter he sent home had countless small holes pricked with needles. It was the code left by Qianjian's father, describing the atrocities that happened in the annex:

Renye Karasuma felt that his death was imminent, and the scholars he invited only ate money and found no treasure at all. In the end, the ruthless Karasuma killed them one by one in the annex, hoping that those who had not yet been killed would be able to unleash their treasure-hunting potential with their blood.

If someone could discover the truth hidden in the letter early, they might have a chance to take someone there and capture Renya Karasuma, who had not yet left, or at least rescue the survivors.

...However, it is a pity that by the time Granny Qianjian deciphered the truth hidden in the family book, more than twenty years had passed since the tragedy.