Conan’s Corpse Picker

Chapter 111: On the Feasibility of Disguising as Jiang Xia. Please vote for me ()

Kidd chose to appear after 0:00 on April 1st.

The police and Conan were on guard on the roof of the building, but failed to arrest anyone and only picked up Kidd's second invitation.

That night, Jiang Xia went to bed early and did not go to the Abedo Hotel to join in the fun.

However, some enthusiastic police officer told the media about his interpretation of the notice letter. Soon, there was another report about Jiang Xia in the newspapers.

…

The next day, Jiang Xia held the newspaper in one hand and played with scissors in the other. He hesitated for a moment on half of the page, and finally cut it out and pasted it into the collection. Minus the half that describes Kidd, of course.

It was at this time that Jiang Xia suddenly discovered that Kidd, as an international-level Phantom Thief, had another wonderful use - he could be used to take photos with him.

Jiang Xia: "..." As he appears in newspapers more and more often, one day, he will receive an invitation to pick up ghosts from afar...

…

However, Jiang Xia had been looking forward to it day after day, but never saw an invitation letter to solve the case.

Instead, we waited for the date announced by Kidd in the second notice letter.

——In the second notice letter, Kidd did not write those complicated riddles, but wrote straightforwardly: [On April 19th, I will go to Queen Celisabeth to retrieve the Dark Star]

April 19th happens to be the 60th anniversary of the Suzuki Foundation.

At that time, the Suzuki family will invite celebrities from all walks of life to hold a grand sea party on the cruise ship.

…

Suzuki Sonoko invited Jiang Xia as usual.

Jiang Xia walked around the boat and received a bunch of business cards. At first, he just passed by the crowd, but where he passed, several middle-aged women stopped him, handed over the business cards, and asked for them. Regarding his contact information, he kindly said that he had seen news about him and hoped to cooperate with him if there was any commission in the future.

There are several precedents for exchanging business cards. When the people nearby saw this scene, they came over to exchange with Feng without knowing why.

Changing things around, Jiang Xia had a thick stack of small cards on her body.

He walked to the corner, took out the business card and looked at it, and then he was surprised to find that there were many familiar names on it. Jiang Xia searched his memory and gradually matched these names with cases that had not yet occurred - each one may represent a ghost in the future.

"..." It was a very wise decision to be invited to board the ship today.

…

Jiang Xia happily put the business card into the box, feeling much more energetic than before.

Suzuki Yuanzi and Mao Lilan saw everything in their eyes and were also very pleased - Jiang Xia must have been surrounded by so many people for consultation and felt the meaning and value of life. And Jiang Xia was patient throughout the whole process and was really helpful!

Conan didn't feel that much. He had been busy observing the people around him.

There was also a pair of headphones plugged into his ears, and Dr. A Li's voice came from inside to provide information: "By the way, when Kidd steals treasures, he usually disguises himself as someone else and approaches the target secretly - that is to say, except for You and anyone on board may be Kidd pretending to be someone else, so be careful!"

"I know. I just tested Xiaolan and Yuanzi, and they were fine. Next..." Conan followed the principle of "prioritizing the prevention of backstabbing" and turned his attention to Jiang Xia.

In Conan's opinion, the possibility that Jiang Xia is a fake is actually not high.

——If Kidd wants to pretend to be someone, then in order to avoid being a gangster, he must prevent both parties from appearing at the same time.

To do this, you need to control the actions of the person being played, such as stunning the person and tying them up in a corner - this is also Kidd's most commonly used method.

And Jiang Xia...

"..."

Conan recalled the scene in which he used an anesthetic needle to target Jiang Xia, and Jiang Xia immediately held the stick in his pocket and swung it secretly as if he could read his mind, and gave him a faint look... It might be a bit difficult for Kidd to replace Jiang Xia.

Later, after seeing the enthusiastic attitude of the ladies on the ship towards Jiang Xia, Conan completely gave up the suspicion - no need to think about it, this must be the real thing.

…

After the boat sailed for a while, the Suzuki family began to take the stage to deliver speeches.

Later, Suzuki Sonoko's trouble-loving mother got a lot of black pearls that looked exactly like the "Dark Star".

She gave one to each guest and arrogantly declared war on Kidd: "Only one of these pearls is genuine! If you can, steal it!"

Jiang Xia also received one.

He lowered his head and looked at the fake in his hand, and then at the real one pinned to Mrs. Suzuki's chest.

The one worn by Mrs. Suzuki is the only genuine one here.

But in Jiang Xia's eyes, strictly speaking, this large group of pearls are all the same - they all have no energy core.

He completely lost interest in this case, poured a glass of dark red grape juice into the goblet in front of him, then held it like red wine, and walked around the crowd again, intending to see if there was any A business card that slipped through the cracks.

…

At the same time, Kidd had indeed gotten on board.

He was so talented and so bold that he directly pretended to be the chairman of the Suzuki Group, the father of Suzuki Sonoko. He also made an impromptu speech in front of the chairman's face.

Not long after that, someone discovered that the real Suzuki chairman was still at home and had just gotten up.

"Still at home?! Then this thing on the boat is fake!" Zhongsen Police Department was shocked, picked up the walkie-talkie, and shouted frantically, "Seal the banquet hall! Catch that bastard 'fake chairman' out!"

But it was too late.

Kidd had already left the hall silently.

He took advantage of the chaos in the hall just now, stunned the unsuspecting Mao Lilan, hid her elsewhere, and pretended to be her.

Just now, Jiang Xia saw Conan pulling Mao Lilan from a distance. He remembered that Kidd's next disguise target seemed to be Mao Lilan, and he originally planned to stop him.

But before that, Jiang Xia wandered to the most crowded place in order to collect business cards.

By the time he managed to get through the crowd, the two classmates had already disappeared.

"..." Jiang Xia stared at the banquet hall and fell into deep thought for a moment.

If the person targeting Mao Lilan was a brutal murderer, he would definitely drive a puppet and follow him out to take a look.

But now, the one who is targeting her is Kidd, a pacifist... Jiang Xia looked at the policeman who was blocking the door of the banquet hall a few seconds later, refilled his glass, and returned to the crowd.

…

Not long after, Conan and "Maolilan" returned to the banquet hall one after another.

At this time, Mao Lilan was already a fake.

Kidd looked around the banquet hall with Mao Lilan's face in his face, and his eyes paused on Mrs. Suzuki and Jiang Xia.

The reason for looking at Mrs. Suzuki is because Kidd guessed the location of the real dark star.

Looking at Jiang Xia, I was just a little curious - when Kidd was looking through his own related reports in the newspaper, he also read about Jiang Xia, a detective who solved crimes like a cheat.

I just don’t know if Jiang Xia is only good at solving murder cases, or if he is also good at other things, such as catching monster thieves...

Thinking of this, Kidd looked down at his "Maolilan" outfit and remembered that this high school girl was Jiang Xia's classmate, and originally wanted to go over and test it out.

However, as soon as he took a step toward Jiang Xia, he saw the detective who was counting business cards with his head down suddenly raised his head and glanced at him. Then Jiang Xia showed a slightly strange look in his eyes, looking him up and down like X-rays.