The newspapers you ordered are still delivered every day.
But Jiang Xia flipped through it for a long time, but couldn't find himself on it. His collection of newspaper clippings has not been updated for several days.
Finally, Jiang Xia closed the newspaper, threw it on the table, sighed, and looked at the front page.
There is a photo printed on it, which shows a blurry figure under the moonlight - judging from the title, this is probably "a precious image of Phantom Thief Kidd's escape after he succeeded".
In this world, Kaito Kidd is a bug-like character. His primary job is as a high school student from an island country with many talents, and his part-time job is as a Phantom Thief who is like the wind under the moonlight. He is very good at magic and disguise.
Although to the outside world, Kaitou Kid's appearance and age are unknown. But he still attracts countless fans with his superb performance skills.
In addition, before committing a crime, Kidd likes to send a warning letter to the victim that needs to be declassified. His behavior is also very artistic. Therefore, reporters particularly like to report on his affairs.
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Jiang Xia has seen Kidd several times in the newspaper before. But because this strange thief is suspected of having the effect of resolving murder cases - every time Kidd appears, there are not many dead people - so Jiang Xia has a relatively average impression of him.
If you see it, just pretend you haven’t seen it and just skip it.
But this time...
Jiang Xia read the contents of the newspaper and always felt that this incident might be related to herself.
——This time the Phantom Thief notice letter was sent to the chairman of the Suzuki Foundation, Suzuki Sonoko’s father.
Kidd's goal is the pearl regarded as the "Suzuki Patron Saint" by the Suzuki family - the Dark Star.
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Just as he was thinking about it, Jiang Xia felt his phone vibrate.
He answered the phone and Suzuki Sonoko's voice came from the receiver.
"Have you seen the news?" Suzuki Sonoko sounded very excited, "Kid is coming to steal our things!"
Jiang Xia: "..."
Her tone was as joyful as the Chinese New Year. Those who didn't know better might have thought she was Kidd's assistant rather than a family member of the victim...
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Suzuki Sonoko came to invite Jiang Xia to help her catch Kidd.
The ostensible reason is to share the pressure of her hard-working old father.
In fact, she was curious about what Kidd, the legendary monster thief, looked like - Jiang Xia was so good at solving crimes, maybe he could easily see through Kidd's theft plan and catch Kidd.
And...as a girl who has just passed the second period of middle school and has not yet completely recovered from the second-year middle school disease. Suzuki Sonoko actually wants to see two handsome guys going tit-for-tat for her (the family's treasure) - yes, the focus of the battle is her.
It's not a dark star.
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Jiang Xia actually doesn't have much interest in the Phantom Thieves. In his impression, when Kidd appeared on the scene in the early days, it was basically calm and there were no murders at all.
It was not until later that Kidd's aura gradually became unable to suppress the growing Conan. When he committed crimes, the number of murders increased slightly.
In the case of "Dark Star", there is no ghost from beginning to end.
However, Jiang Xia thought for a moment and did not refuse Suzuki Sonoko's invitation, and worked hard to create a glorious image of "Jiang Xia does not refuse invitations to go out".
——Only in this way, Suzuki Sonoko can feel free to ask him out. Instead of worrying about "whether Jiang Xia will accept the invitation" before inviting him, and then crossing out items that she thinks Jiang Xia doesn't like but that involve murder cases.
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Soon the day before the preview arrived.
Jiang Xia found the Rice Krispies Museum according to the address Suzuki Sonoko sent him.
Conan and Mao Lilan also came.
However, none of them were in the hall at this time. It was said that they went to observe the surrounding terrain.
Jiang Xia then simply said hello to Chairman Suzuki, and then, with the other person's expectant eyes saying "You will be able to keep it!", he came to the display cabinet and looked at the huge black pearl - the Dark Star.
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According to the theory of psychics, some objects that gather human obsessions contain a certain kind of energy called "energy cores" that can be fed to ghosts for upgrades.
Typical items carried are usually antique utensils or sparkling gems.
A year ago, Jiang Xia had just traveled to this world. After landing, in addition to going to the cemetery hospital to look for ghosts and murderous intent, he also visited museums or jewelry exhibitions, trying to find energy cores.
But at that time, it was like failing to find a ghost. Jiang Xia also failed to find precious objects with "energy cores".
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A while ago, as Kudo Shinichi turned into Conan, Jiang Xia started seeing ghosts again.
He went around the museum several times in anticipation again, but unfortunately, he still couldn't find the energy core.
Yesterday, after receiving the invitation from Suzuki Sonoko, Jiang Xia suddenly thought:
Is there a possibility that among the treasures Kidd wants to steal, there are energy cores that he cannot find?
After all, in Jiang Xia's impression, if Conan is the protagonist of this world, then Kidd is definitely the second person with the protagonist's halo. If one of them is in charge of ghosts and murderous aura, and the other is in charge of the energy core used to ascend the star... it seems very
Reasonable.
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But now.
Jiang Xia was a little disappointed after seeing the dark stars up close.
-He couldn't feel the energy from above.
Moreover, there is no smell of energy core in the entire museum.
"..." The secret expectation failed to come true, and Jiang Xia's motivation plummeted.
He sighed, and while everyone else was busy doing their own thing and no one was paying attention to him, he planned to find a place to sit down and rest.
After taking a few steps, three people suddenly walked into the door.
Jiang Xia glanced up and saw Mao Lilan, Suzuki Sonoko and Conan as expected.
