Conan’s Corpse Picker

However, Haiyuan Ai looked over cautiously and found that it was different from what he imagined.

The person at the entrance of the courtyard was not a suspicious man in black, but a young girl wearing a beige windbreaker. She was startled when she heard the sound of the iron mailbox. Before Jiang Xia had time to speak, she jumped out and fled the scene.

By the time Jiang Xia and Hui Yuan Ai reached the entrance of the courtyard, the figure had already fled far away and quickly disappeared around the corner.

"...?" Jiang Xia looked at the figure with no murderous intent and no ghost hanging on its calf. She was confused for a while and then remembered. He always has a good memory, "It was a colleague I met when I was working at a burger house... The employee registration form there required us to fill in our address. She was the senior who led us to fill in the form, so she should have remembered the address at that time."

Haibara Ai:"……"

She took out her handkerchief and secretly wiped the cold sweat she had just gotten out of fear. At the same time, she glanced at Jiang Xia disapprovingly: Jiang Xia works in an organization, her identity is inherently sensitive, and she is a public figure. It is safer to fill in a false address. Or at least include a work address, like that detective agency. Otherwise, if you meet a bad person...

Wait, Jiang Xia's organization seems to be full of bad guys. He probably isn't afraid of this...

While thinking about it, Hui Yuan Ai looked at the mailbox next to him with a slightly speechless gaze - when the girl was wandering outside the door just now, Hui Yuan Ai could vaguely see her fiddling there, as if she had put down something.

…

Soon, Haiyuan Ai walked out of the yard, squatted down, and picked up a gift box from the ground.

The box is about the size of two palms, packaged in light pink and crisscrossed with golden ribbons. The girl just now seemed to want to stuff it into the mailbox, but the mailbox was full, and even the top of the mailbox had no space. In the end, the flat gift box could only fall to the ground.

Combined with today's day, think about what just happened.

Haihara Ai suddenly understood: "Today is Valentine's Day... I originally wanted to make chocolates in the morning, but something like that happened last night and I forgot to do it."

Jiang Xia: "...?"

He took out his phone and clicked it, glanced at the date, and found that it was Valentine's Day again without even realizing it. Time really flies by. What about the various other festivals in between? That should also be a period of high incidence of cases...

Jiang Xia sighed slightly sadly and looked at the pile of chocolates at the door of her home.

These were secretly released after 0 o'clock. The gift-givers were probably a group of girls or women who did not have murderous intentions. They stopped at the door for a while and then left. I didn’t enter the house, so the ghosts didn’t notice, or they might have noticed, but felt there was no need to say anything.

If this continues, by the next Valentine's Day, a sign must be placed in front of the house in advance, indicating that chocolates are not accepted here. If you want to give chocolates, you can send them to Amuro Detective Agency - that way, when the boss goes there, you can Grab a coolie to help move the chocolate bricks.

…

Chocolates can’t always be piled on doorsteps and in mailboxes.

Haiyuan Ai helped Jiang Xia move the chocolates in front of her house into the house. In addition, considering that it was only morning, Valentine's Day had not completely started yet. She and Jiang Xia worked together to make a small sign indicating where to store the chocolate, and put it on the door, pressed it, and glued it firmly.

After instinctively helping with the work, Haiyuan Ai remembered the previous business again.

She wanted to find out about the man in black last night.

However, just as he opened his mouth, there was another movement at the gate.

——This time, it was not the sound of the mailbox lid opening and closing, but the sound of the doorbell being rang.

It was an acquaintance who came.

He rang the doorbell and tried the courtyard door with his feet. I found that the door was unlocked, so I pushed the door open and came in consciously.

Haiyuan Ai silently looked at Conan who was approaching: "..."

Conan glanced at her doubtfully and then at Jiang Xia. For some reason, he felt that he had come at the wrong time.

He looked at the children's clothes that Hui Yuan Ai was wearing in surprise, thinking that she was here to show off her new clothes to Jiang Xia, so he politely complimented her: "You look pretty good today."

"..."

One second later.

For some reason, Haiyuan Ai pressed her fluffy skirt and looked over with an even more fierce look.

Conan: "...?"

He touched the back of his head in confusion, feeling that the woman's thoughts were very difficult to guess. So let’s not guess anymore.

Conan looked at Jiang Xia with a solemn expression and a hint of embarrassment: "Um, are you free today?"

"Yes." Jiang Xia nodded quickly.

Conan glanced at him slightly moved: Jiang Xia was obviously about to go out in her current outfit. But he probably realized that he needed help with something, so he immediately said he was free... Jiang Xia is really interesting to her friends.

Next to her, Haibara Ai also secretly pricked up her ears: Conan occasionally does some serious business, and his incident physique is also very strong, and he always encounters things related to the organization... Now that he suddenly came here, could it be the same as last night? Is it related to the Men in Black?

Haibara Ai pinched his chin and fell into deep thought: If the man in black knew that Haibara Ai = Shirley, then after mastering the extremely important information that "adults can become smaller", he would like to deduce that "Kudo Shinichi = Conan "In fact, it's not difficult at all. It just depends on whether he pays attention to those high school detectives.

Under the watchful eyes of Jiang Xia and Hui Yuan Ai.

Conan looked confused and hesitated for a while, then finally gritted his teeth and said, "It's like this - last night, Xiaolan made some handmade chocolates in the kitchen."

The keyword "last night" immediately aroused Haihara Ai's vigilance.

She nodded and prepared to continue listening - maybe Mao Lilan ran out of ingredients when she was making chocolate, so she and Conan went to a 24-hour convenience store to buy them. As a result, they happened to meet the mysterious man in black who exuded an organizational atmosphere. man?

...But wait. In Conan's eyes, Jiang Xia seems to have nothing to do with the black organization. Hui Yuan Ai frowned, feeling that he had guessed where things were going, but at the same time he felt something was wrong.

Then she heard Conan lower his voice and then said solemnly:

"I made chocolates on the eve of Valentine's Day. She must have planned to give them away, but when I asked, she actually said they were not for 'Kudo Shinichi'. So, I, ahem, used a little bit of technology..." Conan felt guilty. He fiddled with the bow of the voice changer in his pocket and said, "I went to Sonoko to inquire about the situation - and then I learned that they were actually going to attend a party held by someone else on Valentine's Day. The chocolates were prepared for that."

Haibara Ai:"……?"

……That's it?

"..." She recalled her speculation just now and felt that things should not be so simple, because Conan's face looked very serious.

Haiyuan Ai confirmed without giving up: "Then what?"