Chapter 2004 2012 [Did you also discover Uzo? ]

After looking at Hashimoto Maya for a while, the male colleague suddenly thought of something and said, "Are you still going to buy that piece of land?"

Upon hearing this, Hashimoto Maya glanced at Kurata Seiji and nodded, not very enthusiastically: he still remembered that this guy wanted to treat him as the murderer just now.

Kurata Seiji walked closer and whispered, "How about this, I'll give you the seller's contact information, and you can contact them yourself?"

The woman next to him was startled: "This is against the rules."

Kurata Seiji waved his hands at her and told her to talk later. The woman pursed her lips and did not stop him.

Hashimoto Maya looked at them suspiciously.

And Kurata Seiji had already taken out a business card, quickly wrote the seller's email and phone number on it, and handed it to him.

Hashimoto Maya hesitated for a moment, then reached out to take it. Although I don't know why this guy's attitude suddenly changed, but... anyway, why not try asking at this address first?

He held the business card and took a look at it, and was about to ask something, but when he looked up again, there was no one in front of him.

Looking towards the gate, I saw Kurata Seiji dragging his female colleague, and the two of them were escaping from there.

Hashimoto Maya: “?”

...Could it be that this passerby is also his colleague?

Forget it, never mind. Anyway, I'll just focus on my work first, and as for the rest... I'll deal with the rest after I buy the land.

…

Kurata Seiji dragged the female senior along and ran away. After rushing out of the subway station and onto the busy street, he stopped, propped up his knees and gasped for breath.

The female senior was also exhausted from the rapid running. She cursed: "Are you sick? Why are you running so fast?"

Kurata Seiji: "You don't know what's good for you. I'm saving you!"

Female senior: “Ah?”

Kurata Seiji glanced behind him from a distance, lowered his voice, and said stealthily: "Don't you think that guy is very strange? You don't know, at noon, the president asked me to prepare two contracts, intending to rip him off, but guess what happened? - Before I got a penny, the president died first!"

Female senior: “……?”

Kurata Seiji: "Then in the afternoon, he pestered Kiyomi, but Kiyomi didn't respond, so he left angrily. As a result, it was just evening, and Kiyomi died!"

Female senior: “!”

She touched the goose bumps on her arm and asked carefully, "Could it be a coincidence?"

"How can it be such a coincidence!" Kurata Seiji waved his hand, "I was planning to provide evidence and send him to jail, but unfortunately I failed. In this case, I can only give him the contact information of the seller first, otherwise he will find our agent and the company will be dead again. What should I do? I don't want to be questioned as a suspect again, and I don't want to lie on the ground and be surrounded by a group of people."

The female senior muttered, "Now that you mention it, this person is a bit evil. But if we talk about the case, Jiang Xia was present in both cases."

"..." Kurata Seiji's brain froze for a moment, and he suddenly realized that it was indeed the case. He said decisively, "Then let's stay away from him in the future!"

Female senior: “…”

She had wanted to ask Jiang Xia for an autograph, but was dragged away by Kurata Seiji. And it didn't seem appropriate to go back now.

The body that fell to the ground just now did scare her. After hesitating for a moment, the female senior did not have the courage to return to the original place: "Okay, but I still think it's a coincidence that Jiang Xia is there. After all, the president and Qingmei have not offended him..."

The two people were talking in low voices, walking hurriedly as if they were being chased by a ghost, and soon walked away.

…

At the station, the police were still busy cleaning up the aftermath.

"The murderer used an alkaloid poison, which is relatively rare. Not many people here use it. Some natives in South America use it on blowguns. The murderer said she discovered it when she went abroad not long ago. After listening to the tour guide's introduction of this hunting method, she thought it was interesting, so she secretly brought some back to use in murder."

Inspector Megure felt somewhat relieved and looked at Jiang Xia: "Fortunately you guessed the location of the poison, otherwise this uncommon poison might have been missed during the test, and that would have been troublesome."

Sato Miwako passed by Jiang Xia in her busy schedule and handed him a pack of wet wipes. She whispered in a voice that Inspector Megure couldn't hear: "I just saw you secretly looking through the evidence. Go wash your hands first, and don't bring the poison back."

Jiang Xia nodded, pulled out a few sheets, and then handed the wet wipes to Conan: "I just saw you secretly looking through the evidence. Go wash your hands first, and don't bring the poison back."

Huihara Ai, who overheard his conversation with Officer Sato, said: "..."

…

The case was over and it was getting late, so Jiang Xia didn't stay any longer and sent the two children back home.

Hashimoto Maya left halfway, and Jiang Xia did not stop her: Today, both the murderous aura and the cases have far exceeded the previous levels, and I can go home with honor.

Unfortunately for Maya Hashimoto, getting off work is only temporary, and the new job is permanent.

Before it was too late, he edited an email, sent it to the email address provided by Kurata Seiji, and then waited quietly for a reply.

I thought it would take three to five days, or even half a month to receive a reply, just like before.

Unexpectedly, when he woke up the next day, there was an extra email in his mailbox - the widow who owned the land had replied to him and invited him to her house for a detailed discussion.

Hashimoto Maya: “…”

"This is too smooth. Could it be that Kurata Seiji gave me a fake email address in order to trick me or even murder me?"

Maya Hashimoto suspiciously investigated the address given in the email, and then found out that it was actually Asahi Katsuyoshi's mansion.

"No, it's still not right." Ever since Hashimoto Maya knew about the existence of Uzo in the world, she has been in a state of suspicion and vigilance:

"It's just a worthless piece of Haixin land. She doesn't need to pay attention to it at all. She can just find someone to come and get rid of me. But why did she invite me to her home to discuss it in detail? - Could it be that she is planning some murder there and wants me to take the blame?"

Hashimoto Maya was very hesitant.

But for the land that Wuzo liked, he had no choice but to go as promised.

Before leaving, he thought seriously about whether to ask Jiang Xia to go with him, but then he changed his mind and thought that black is white and black is white. It seemed unlucky to take Jiang Xia with him for the mission given by Wu Zuo. Now he was exhausted both physically and mentally, and just wanted to take over this place as soon as possible.

"Forget it, I'll go alone this time." Hashimoto Maya silently set Jiang Xia's phone to speed dial, always ready to cling to the detective's thigh for help when she was wronged. "It's not a big problem! At worst, I can bring Izuka Saburo with me. In this way, even if something goes wrong, I just need to run faster than my teammates."

Saburo Izuka, who was taking a leisurely vacation in the distance: A-choo!

(End of this chapter)