Chapter 134 The New Shark Hand in the Winery and His Codename

Jiang Xia calmly brought the topic back to its original point:

"I didn't expect it to be successful, so I didn't have time to report it."

Vodka always felt that there was a loophole, but after tasting Jiang Xia's words, he felt that it made sense. The two ideas conflicted with each other, and his thinking was stuck for a moment, so he simply gave up thinking and nodded in agreement: "Indeed..."

Jiang Xia praised: "Come to think of it, you gave me this task as a test because Ikemura Gongjiang has been to my place before. I didn't expect that our assassination ideas are so consistent."

Gin: “…” Actually, no, the tasks are assigned randomly.

Moreover, to them, assassination is assassination, and they have never considered such a roundabout method.

However, for the sake of the organization's reputation, Gin would certainly not tell this matter.

He nodded: "Go back, don't leave Tokyo these days."

Jiang Xia responded, got up and went out.

The door clicked shut.

…

Vodka stared at the door for a while, then gradually came to his senses. He still felt something was wrong: "Boss, do you think this is just an ordinary coincidence? Maybe Chicun Gongjiang wanted to kill her husband, and Jiang Xia just happened to catch up..."

Gin sneered: "Do you really believe this is a coincidence?"

Vodka nodded: "It's not impossible." I heard that where the detective appears, there will be more murders than elsewhere...

Gin snorted at his naivety: "Have you ever wondered why Jiang Xia suddenly became a detective and was able to accurately solve the case in a very short time every time? In the words of the media - it's like 'seeing through the criminal's script'."

Vodka really hadn't thought about it. In his opinion, why should he think about it: it must be because Jiang Xia had been unlucky recently, so all the cases were thrown at him.

But Vodka didn't speak.

Because his eldest brother obviously has other ideas -

"Even if the clues look exactly the same, there are countless possibilities for their causes." Gin picked up the teacup and poured out some water. He asked Vodka, "Where did the water on the ground come from?"

"......?" Vodka wanted to check whether his elder brother had a fever, but he didn't dare to, so he could only answer honestly, "You just poured it."

Gin nodded: "The water stains that suddenly appeared on the ground could be water flowing down from an umbrella, or the waiter could have not held the teapot firmly when passing by, or of course it could have been someone pouring the water - the person who poured the water could have been you, me, or anyone else who passed by, but when I asked you, you immediately said it was me who poured it."

Vodka felt like Gin's words were a question, so he took the blame reflexively: "Then... was that what I poured?"

Gin: “…”

He paused, pretending he didn't hear anything, and continued, "Because you 'saw' my movements."

Vodka was stunned.

Considering what Gin said earlier, he thought hard for a while and finally realized, "You mean to say that Jiang Xia was able to find the 'truth' from the countless behaviors corresponding to certain clues in just a few seconds, not because of his accurate intuition, but because he 'saw' the causes of those clues in advance?"

"That's right." Gin leaned back in his chair and lit a cigarette, "Not only did he see it, but maybe even the 'script' was created and provided by him - just like what he did to Ikemura Kimie."

Vodka recalled the number of cases Jiang Xia solved, and suddenly felt a chill down his spine: "He is actually using murder to improve his detective credentials. No wonder the cases he solved were always so fancy and dramatic, but... there were many cases he encountered by accident."

Gin sneered and exhaled a puff of cigarette: "If it weren't for his previous statement, and only looking at this report, could you tell that he had contact with Ikemura Kimie beforehand?"

Vodka thought carefully about the contents of the newspaper and broke out in a cold sweat: "...No."

Jiang Xia is such a scary person. He looks like a good student, but secretly he is such a ruthless character who kills people without blinking an eye... Is this the next generation of the organization?

At this moment, Gin's cell phone vibrated.

He picked it up and saw a message from Chianti: [Caught up].

Vodka also caught a glimpse of the situation. He was startled: "Are there any other tasks?"

Chianti is a sniper in the organization, and Gin often looks for her when he is performing assassination missions.

But now, isn't Chicun Xun already dead...

"I asked her and Cohen to take turns watching Jiang Xia." Gin saw the doubts in his top subordinate's mind. "Jiang Xia has done a lot of similar killing exercises before. He should have some means to clear himself. But Chicun Xun is different from those miscellaneous soldiers before. Once the police work hard to investigate, or if there is a mistake on Chicun Gongjiang's part, Jiang Xia will be at risk of being exposed."

"If he is exposed, then he is just a smart, disposable killer." Gin looked out the window. He secretly counted his few available subordinates, and then thought about Jiang Xia. He couldn't help but have a little expectation, "If not, then the next time we meet... he will be an official colleague."

…

When Jiang Xia returned home, he first sent a message to Huihara Ai, telling her not to come and deliver meals or to show up during the next few days.

Haibara Ai replied briefly: [OK].

A few minutes later, the phone vibrated. Jiang Xia picked it up and found that it was still from Huiyuan Ai, this time with a few more words: [Be careful]

Jiang Xia replied: [ok].

Gin has been keeping an eye on him these past few days, and will definitely be conducting a thorough investigation, but Jiang Xia is not overly worried.

——Ikemura Kimie would not report him to the police, and it would be useless to do so because he was truly innocent.

Besides, it was difficult to find out the problems with Jiang Xia's lies - he did tinker with the office's collection of clippings every now and then, and Ikemura Kimie's friends did come very often. After all, her friends had more than ten cats in total, and all of them loved to run away from home.

So Jiang Xia continued his daily life calmly. Only at night would he focus his vision on Mist Tengu and drive the Ghost out for a while to see if Chianti and Cohen, who were lurking in the distance, had left.

The two snipers were quite dedicated and stayed on the roof regardless of rain or shine.

Some time passed like this.

One afternoon, Jiang Xia finally received an email with an address that was both familiar and unfamiliar.

Familiar because he had seen it in the spoilers.

It feels unfamiliar because this is the first time the owner of this address has sent him an email.

Jiang Xia opened the email and found that it was indeed from his boss: he had passed the organization's assessment.

The boss spent about two lines to give him some spiritual wine soup.

Then at the end he gave his code name - OUZO

Jiang Xia: "..." Why does this name sound so dark...

He silently opened the invisible plug-in, checked on the Internet, and found that this was a kind of Greek liquor. Not only was the liquor not black, but it was quite white after being mixed with water. The color looked like coconut milk... It was very unimpressive, and it seemed that a bottle of black liquor would be better.

However, at least the name of the wine is short and easy to pronounce, and it is not an overly weird name.

Jiang Xia took some time to figure out what kind of wine it was and put down his phone with satisfaction.

Afterwards, he drove Mist Tengu in its ghost form out for a stroll again and found that the snipers were gone.

It seems that he has successfully become a regular employee of the winery. Although I don't know what this thing is used for...

(End of this chapter)