The Corpse Collector in Conan
Chapter 1695

1690 [The Phantom Thief's End]

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Jiang Xia placed a Ghost on Curacao and had it keep harvesting as quickly as possible. Who knew when they would meet again? He might as well collect more this time.

As he thought, Jiang Xia looked through countless cars toward Curacao and Irish: Perfect. Ever since speaking with him, Curacao seemed to have entered executive mode, and her output had surged. The Killing Intent drifting around her now was no less than that of the executives who were permanently stationed nearby.

And when she encountered Irish, Irish's previously somewhat sluggish Killing Intent instantly sprang back up like bamboo shoots after rain—both were senior members of the Organization, and Irish knew perfectly well that a colleague arriving near him at a moment like this could not possibly be purely friendly forces. They might silence him at any time, depending on the circumstances.

"Very nice." Jiang Xia happily counted his gains. "Too bad the landing site is Hokkaido. If this were Tokyo, even more executives would definitely have come to join the fun."

Come to think of it, if Akai Shuichi ran into a whole group of executives at once, what exactly would his Ever-changing Killing Intent become?

At times, Jiang Xia imagined a mass of Killing Intent shifting flavors like flashing colored lights; at other times, a blended Killing Intent with a peculiar flavor flashed through his mind.

"Too bad the executives are all lone wolves. It'll be difficult to gather them together, since the Organization doesn't have team-building events." Jiang Xia's thoughts turned. "I'll try to find an opportunity. If I really can't gather the full set, I can start by getting two or three together and see what happens."

Thinking of the buy-one-get-one-free FBI subordinates who were about to fall into his hands, Jiang Xia briefly imagined an

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