Chapter 739 Familiar Cat
Conan: "..." How did Jiang Xia's event physique suddenly become so strong? As far as I can remember, there weren't many murders around him before.
After thinking for a moment, an idea suddenly popped into Conan's mind - he remembered what the older people liked to say, "People who have experienced near-death will open the door to 'that world' and be haunted by vengeful spirits."
The hairs on his back stood up instinctively. But soon, Conan knocked his head speechlessly.
...What are you thinking? You should believe in science.
And even if there really is a ghost... Jiang Xia was on the verge of death more than a year ago, but he suddenly became involved in cases a while ago, after Kudo Shinichi was brutally knocked down by the Black Organization.
Thinking of this, Conan's thoughts, which had just returned to the right track, couldn't help but divert again, and remembered those ridiculous reports when Jiang Xia just started to become famous, such as "Kudo Shinichi died accidentally, and his ghost was unwilling to possess his classmates."
"..." So, superstition is really bad. Isn't Kudo Shinichi still alive and well?
Conan lowered his head, looked at himself to calm himself down, and subconsciously looked at Jiang Xia.
Then he was slightly startled and found that Jiang Xia looked a little strange, as if he was surprised about something.
"?" Conan was a little confused and looked around carefully again.
By this time, they were close to the tree.
Conan sniffed. When he got so close, he could smell the faint smell of a corpse, but it was very faint and came and went, like an illusion.
"..." In today's weather, whether it's meat or a corpse, it won't rot too quickly, so it's normal for the smell to be mild. Speaking of which, where is the thing that emits the smell?
…
Jiang Xia raised his head and looked at the tree above his head.
Haibara Ai noticed his movements and looked up following Jiang Xia's gaze.
There were many branches overhead, with a few dead leaves hanging from them, but nothing resembling a "corpse". Huiyuan Ai also sniffed, but perhaps because the wind was a little stronger than before, she didn't smell anything.
Just as I was watching carefully, the branch suddenly shook violently.
Haibara Ai was stunned for a moment, and moved her eyes to the side, and found that Jiang Xia suddenly raised his hand and grabbed the horizontal tree trunk above while there was no one around.
After trying to shake it, he found it was fairly solid, so Jiang Xia exerted a little strength, climbed up, and stepped on the solid tree trunk. Then he climbed up a little more.
Soon he stopped, his eyes fell on a bunch of branches, and his gaze paused slightly.
A lighter color appeared before my eyes.
——There was actually a cat lying there.
The cat's body was motionless and it was no longer breathing. It was probably dead.
And judging from the words on the collar and the color of its fur, it seems to be a cooked cat... not the kind of "cooked" that has been cooked, but I seem to have seen it somewhere before.
Just as I was thinking about it, I felt something move vaguely between the cat's chin and the rough tree trunk.
It flashed past in his peripheral vision, and Jiang Xia immediately noticed something.
He found a thin glove in his pocket and put it on, then carefully lifted the cat up a little.
The translucent thing suddenly shrank sharply, and then it rushed out from the side away from Jiangxia and jumped off the tree trunk.
The mermaid happened to be floating over there watching, and when she saw something falling, she instinctively grabbed it and held it in her hand.
After taking a curious look at it, the mermaid's eyes twitched after seeing it clearly, and she threw it aside in disgust.
Kiri Tengu caught it like a pass, and held it, looking at it curiously.
Soon, remembering that the psychic master seemed to be very interested in this thing that exuded the aura of a ghost fetus, Mist Tengu flapped its wings and flew closer to Jiang Xia.
…
Jiang Xia quickly saw clearly what this strange new ghost was.
Judging from the nature of what I feel...it does look like a ghost fetus.
A normal ghost fetus is usually the size of two palms put together. Xiaobai is smaller than other ghosts.
However, this time the ghost was even smaller than Xiaobai, and looked to be about the size of a coin. And judging from its appearance, it was actually a cat.
Jiang Xia: “……?”
Can animals also become ghost fetuses?
...It was the first time he saw it.
The new cat ghost was very energetic. After being caught, he was stunned for a moment, and then began to struggle bravely.
The Mist Dog was suddenly jumped onto its back and scratched by the cat. It spun around in the air a few times in a somewhat awkward manner. After making the cat dizzy, it caught it again and stretched out its hands to keep the dangerous cat away from its wings.
Afterwards, Kiri Tengu sighed while holding the cat, and looked at Jiang Xia eagerly, hoping that Jiang Xia would take the cat over as soon as possible.
Jiang Xia observed for a moment, and taking advantage of the tree branches below to provide cover, he stretched out his hand towards the Mist Tengu.
The scratching of a ghost on a person is not harmful. If the psychic medium is not very sensitive in this regard, an ordinary person may not feel anything at all - before, the mermaid was so big, and the bite was just a little itchy at most. Now this cat, I think it's not a big deal.
Jiang Xia prepared himself to be tickled and stretched out his hand.
However, as his hand approached, the cat froze for a moment, retracted its claws, and looked up at him. Its attitude was completely different from when it faced the mermaid and the Mist Tengu just now.
After a while, as if it smelled something like "the boss's scent" or "the meal ticket's scent", it actually calmed down very tactfully. When Jiang Xia's hand approached it, it stretched out its head to rub against it in a flattering manner.
Jiang Xia: “…”
This familiar feeling of being a lackey...it must be the Siamese cat from Masuo Yukinaga's family.
——As I recall, a while ago, President Masuo and his accomplices teamed up inside and outside the bank to rob their own branch.
Mrs. Masuo, who is nearly 20 years younger than President Masuo, discovered something was wrong and was about to go to the bank to identify her husband, but was killed by President Masuo in advance. Before that, Mrs. Masuo was actually a frequent customer who came to Jiang Xia to find a cat. Her cat was a Siamese with a weird temper.
The Masuo family had no children. After the incident, Masuo's wife died and Masuo Gyūn was imprisoned, so no one had the conditions to keep a cat. At that time, I don't know if this Siamese cat smelled the scent of loneliness. When Haibara Ai suggested to Jiang Xia, "If you like cats, why not try to adopt one?", it started to act cute to Jiang Xia in a very servile manner, and its expression was very similar to now.
But at that time, Jiang Xia didn't have one. So the cat punched his leg, meowed angrily a few times, and left.
Later, the cat was taken away and adopted by President Masuo's niece... and then, somehow, it unfortunately died in this park.
"..." I thought it was quite human before. Maybe it has a chance to become a ghost because its IQ is too high?
Jiang Xia reached out his hand and wanted to touch the cat's head.
However, the cat ghost was too small. In the end, he could only poke it all over with regret.
(End of this chapter)
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