Chapter 353 You did it, please vote for me ()

Pisk suddenly understood.

Gin would not make such a joke during a mission. Since he said so, it means that this mistake really existed. The camera that lit up in the banquet hall before was probably not used to shoot slides as the host of the memorial service said, but was shooting from another angle! He, who was aiming the gun at the chandelier, unfortunately appeared in the photo, and the top leaders of the organization knew about it.

Big drops of cold sweat instantly broke out on Piske's forehead as he realized the seriousness of the problem - the organization has always been very strict in keeping identities confidential. Now that he has made such a mistake, his fate will be the same as that of Senator Tunkou, who died under the chandelier not long ago.

But he didn't want to die yet...

Pisk's thoughts raced. He spread out his hands and smiled as warmly as possible:

"Don't be like this. I have never had second thoughts about the organization. If I am really exposed, I can give up my current identity and become a member of the secret staff. And if you kill me, you will never find Shirley - I know who rescued her. Give me a chance to redeem myself, and I can bring her back to the organization tonight."

...In fact, Pisk knew that with the mistake of "being caught on camera killing someone", coupled with his advanced age, which made him increasingly unable to cope with the situation, he would probably die even if he really caught Shirley.

So this is just a delaying tactic - as long as Gin agrees to let him atone for his sins and not kill him on the spot, he will have the opportunity to create chaos and escape while chasing Shirley.

When saying these words, Pisco hesitated, not knowing whether he should tell Gin that Shirley had become smaller.

I don't want to say it because, as a member with a rich identity who lives in the sun most of the time, Pisco doesn't really have much contact with people like Gin. I only know from rumors that Gin is a very hardworking person, who is either working or on his way to work every day.

Therefore, in Pisco's opinion, this kind of model employee must also be interested in merit. If Gin is interested in the credit of "discovering that Shirley has become smaller", then Gin can just shoot him to death after listening to the information provided by Pisco, and then take the information for himself... Telling the truth at this time will only kill him faster.

But if this is kept secret, Gin and the organization will not know the importance of Pisco. If he hadn't provided the information that "Shirley is a child now", the organization would obviously be frustrated in the search for Shirley. But if he didn't say it, Gin wouldn't know this and might think "Why can't I find someone who can find Pisco", and then arrogantly shoot him to death... Damn, how could he end up in a dead end.

The corners of Piske's wrinkled eyes trembled slightly, and he couldn't decide which way would give him a greater chance of survival.

Just as he was struggling with this, he saw a flash of light from the corner of his eye as he was facing the door. He suddenly realized that someone was leaning forward to look inside. The slightly exposed face looked familiar... Jiang Xia? !

Pisk was stunned for a moment, then he became excited, feeling that he had grasped a chance of survival.

——Now, one more person means more chaos.

And judging from the email that Gin had sent him before, telling him not to provoke Jiang Xia, Jiang Xia is an enemy that gives Gin a headache. The sudden appearance of such a person will be very helpful for him to escape in troubled waters!

Piske didn't have time to think about it. He caught the thought that flashed through his mind and pointed to the door: "It's him. He rescued Shirley!"

...Although Piske knew in his heart that Jiang Xia had been in his sight since Shirley disappeared, and was definitely not the one who rescued Shirley.

But this sentence will undoubtedly make Gin pay attention to Jiang Xia.

Then, Jiang Xia not only "rescued Shirley", he also witnessed Gin threatening others with a gun... No matter which one it is, it will definitely make Gin's priority of "killing Jiang Xia" rise above "dealing with Pisco who has a good attitude of admitting his mistakes"!

However, the ideal script did not appear.

Gin heard Pisk's excited shouting, but did not turn back - Pisk still had a gun in his hand, and he suspected that the old man was trying to make a feint to the east and attack in the west.

But soon, Vodka's startled voice came from behind: "Why is it you?!"

...Is there really someone?

Gin first confiscated Pisk's gun, then turned around.

Then he saw Uzo leaning against the door, looking inside.

"You really hold a grudge." Jiang Xia looked at Piske in reproach. "You just failed in your sneak attack and I threw you to the ground... After that, we have been questioned by the police. You should know that I don't have time to do other things. Now you are accusing me of this. Are you aware that you are going to die and want to make up some lies to create a chance to escape?"

As soon as Jiang Xia arrived, he heard Piske's topic about "rescuing Shirley" and felt like he was being blamed.

He was also worried that once Conan and Haibara Ai left, without the driving force of the Grim Reaper, Gin would not be decisive enough to silence him. What if Gin was really deceived by Pisco's lies and didn't kill him immediately...

I have to come out quickly to add fuel to the fire.

When Pisco saw Jiang Xia take the initiative to enter the wine cellar, he became excited, thinking that this must be a young man who was not willing to run away and stood up openly after his peeping was exposed, attempting to confront the villain with love and justice.

However, as Jiang Xia finished his words, he gradually felt something was wrong.

When Jiang Xia said those words, his wording was very strange - saving Shirley was actually "framing" him. In other words, in Jiang Xia's view, saving people was not a good thing... This, this didn't seem to be the way a high school detective should think!

Also, why didn't Gin and Vodka kill him?!

Even if we still need to find out Shirley's whereabouts from Jiang Xia, we should at least catch him and interrogate him immediately!

Pisco felt the gun that Gin pointed at his forehead without moving. Then he looked at Jiang Xia's calm smile and felt a strong sense of disharmony. The strange situation brought him fear like a tide, and cold sweat soaked his shirt like a fountain.

The thought of "accomplice" that had briefly popped up in Pisk's mind once again appeared at this moment.

He suddenly understood something and stared at Jiang Xia, his voice hoarse with a hint of disbelief: "You are..."

"That's right, I'm the one who gave you the purple commemorative handkerchief and helped you escape from the police." Jiang Xia interrupted what Piske really wanted to say.

"???" Piske was completely furious. He felt it was ridiculous that Jiang Xia was actually another member. "Then why are you fighting......!"

Bang--

Gin pulled the trigger expressionlessly.

In addition to being caught on camera killing someone, he actually made other mistakes and had to rely on Uzo's help to get away successfully... He is indeed a loser.

In addition, after making all kinds of fatal mistakes, he did not think about making up for them as soon as possible, but instead deliberately provided wrong information and tried to escape during the chaos. Such a parasite would be a disgrace to the organization if he lived one more second.

The gunshot, weakened by the silencer, rang out, and a cluster of blood burst out from behind Pisk's forehead. He fell to the ground with a grim expression, twitched, and stopped moving.

The murderous aura directed at Jiang Xia naturally fell off his body, and the shikigami of Councillor Tunkou on his legs also fell to the ground, and was pounced on and hugged by the mermaid who was very active in picking up murderous aura.

Jiang Xia didn't look at the murderous aura and the shikigami, but looked at Pisk with anticipation.

Then, a whitish, paper-like soul was seen gradually emerging from the old corpse.

It hesitated for a moment, then slowly floated towards Gin, trying to grab the black-clothed man's legs. But the closer it got, the more it trembled... Finally, after tremblingly touching Gin's calf, the shikigami fled back to the corpse at a much faster speed than when it came, and clung to the corpse again, as if it had returned home.

“…”

Jiang Xia stared at it and lost some of its brilliance.

...It's not a ghost fetus, it's a shikigami.

Although it is a shikigami that is slightly braver than the other shikigami, it is still just a shikigami.

The ghost fetus is different from the leg-stealing shikigami. The shikigami have almost no wisdom left, only some instincts, and they hate and are obsessed with the murderers who killed them, so if you want to take the shikigami away intact and smoothly, you must punish the murderers who killed them.

But ghost fetuses are different. There are still many "human" characteristics in ghost fetuses, which can be abducted, deceived, coerced, and bribed... Although this method is not worth advocating, as long as you want it, there is always a way to abduct it.

At first, Jiang Xia thought that if Pisco could turn into a ghost fetus, he would try to put a sack on Gin, intending to beat him up and trick the ghost, and then use both soft and hard methods to kidnap the ghost fetus.

But now, only one shikigami has fallen...

Jiang Xia's expectant heart instantly fell to the bottom, and he completely lost the desire to deceive the devil.

… Tequila doesn’t drop ghosts, and neither does Pisco.

Could it be that the probability of code-named members of the organization becoming ghost fetuses after death is not as high as he thought?

...Heh, such a useless organization has no value in existence. Jiang Xia's eyes were dark, and he muttered in his heart like a villain, and he felt that he should make a crackling sound with his fingers to fit the situation...Unfortunately, there were other people around, so it was not good to do things that mature adults should not do.

Thinking of this, he turned his head to look at Gin who was still full of murderous intent, and his gaze couldn't help but pause on his boss's considerable murderous intent.

Thinking about Vermouth and the boss who has great potential, Miyano Akemi also seems to be from an organization... Jiang Xia sighed again and took back his previous words.

Forget it, at least there is a stable murderous aura in the organization, and it can provide ghost hunting targets from time to time...

…

In the wine cellar, Vodka was banging bottles around, picking out highly alcoholic liquors such as Spilitas, in preparation for arson after the murder.

Jiang Xia raised his hand hanging at his side slightly, and rubbed the murderous aura that was expanding and floating towards him out of boredom.

Just as he was trying to urge the ghosts to work faster, a dark shadow suddenly moved in front of him.

——Gin half turned his body and pointed the gun at him again.

Jiang Xia was startled, and temporarily released his hand that was holding back the murderous intent, skillfully revealing a confused and innocent expression.

Gin had his finger on the trigger and his other hand was playing with a box of matches.

Thinking of what Uzo said when he first entered the wine cellar, he asked in a low voice: "You have been under the police's sight and your communications have been cut off. You should not have seen the photo of the shooting... How do you know that Pisk is dead?"

...Unless Pisk's death was caused by Uzo.

Even if not, at least Uzo knew about the existence of the photo, but he did not deal with it.

"..." Jiang Xia paused for a moment. He had been waiting for the unboxing of Pisco for so long that he almost accepted it as a fact...

Next to him, there was a pause in the sound of vodka bottles being smashed. Then, the big man in black suddenly glanced at Jiang Xia with a look that said "I knew it would be like this!" and began to pray that his brother's gun would go off accidentally in his anger.

However, the pleasant sound of gunfire did not rang out.

Instead, Gin, after noticing the pause in smashing the bottles, glanced over and urged in a cold voice: "Do your job."

"Oh oh." Vodka turned around hurriedly and continued to clang the high-alcohol liquor, while trying to prick up his ears.

Soon, Uzo's voice was heard.

To Vodka's disappointment, he did not feel guilty about being caught doing something bad, but was quite calm: "I heard your conversation in the corridor."

Gin frowned slightly after hearing this answer. Before entering the wine cellar, he habitually looked both ways to confirm the retreat route and to prevent being followed. There was no one in the corridor at that time.

And he had only mentioned the reporter and the film to Pisk not long after he entered the room. If Uzo wanted to hear the news, he would have to sprint to catch up, but there was no similar footsteps in the corridor just now.

...However, on the upper floor next to the wall, there were people walking back and forth and talking, making quite a lot of noise. If Wuzo's footsteps were light enough, it would not be impossible to be covered by the noise. He did look very light.

There is another piece of evidence.

Gin knew that in order to save time, when he wanted to kill a target like Pisk who did not interest him, he would usually act directly and rarely waste time telling the person the reason why he was being killed.

In fact, if he had not just been on the rooftop blowing in the cold wind for most of the day, and had not let go of the prey he had been chasing for a long time in a moment of thought, and had urgently needed something pleasant to adjust his mood, Gin would not have talked nonsense with Pisco, nor would he have entertained and relaxed by appreciating Pisco's funny expression from calm to fear and then trying to struggle to survive. Instead, he would have asked for information in a businesslike manner and killed the man.

...In other words, with Uzo's meticulous mind, if he didn't really hear the relevant conversation, he should have made up some other excuses that were not easily exposed, such as saying that after Piske left, he learned the relevant information from the police with whom he had a good relationship... instead of taking the risk of lying to his face and saying that he heard the conversation.

Gin got a fairly reasonable explanation and lowered his gun.

At the same time, he thought indifferently that even if it was really done by Uzo, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

After all, it now seems that Pisk is even more useless than he thought - if Pisk had been more vigilant, dealt with the reporters in time and prepared a handkerchief, then even if someone had tripped him up, he would not have ended up in this situation.

...In the final analysis, it is still because he is not talented enough. A person with no ability has been using the organization's funds and connections for decades to get to this position, but he has not thought about how to contribute to the organization. Instead, I heard that Pisk wants to whitewash his next generation...

Gin thought about it and nodded secretly as if he understood something. If he thought about it carefully, Pisk's death here tonight might actually be the result that the adult would like to see.

As far as Gin knew, there were many other urgent tasks tonight, but the boss reacted quickly and sent an order to silence Pisk as soon as his mistake was exposed. Moreover, this time, Pisk was responsible for the most important part of "assassinating Senator Tunkou" alone, while other young and strong cadres were only responsible for cleaning up some other small fish...

Gin pondered for a moment, gathered his thoughts, and stopped speculating.

Next to it, the highly concentrated liquor had already flowed all over the floor and evaporated.

Gin raised his hand and asked Jiang Xia and Vodka to leave the room.

He himself walked out, struck a match, and threw it back into the wine cellar.

The fire rose up with a roar, engulfing half of the wine cellar with the force of a hurricane and spreading rapidly.

(End of this chapter)