Chapter 3612, 3624: [The Rum Pot]

In the darkness, a glimmer of light suddenly appeared. Curaçao wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, but the next second, the officer who had spoken added, "As expected of Mr. Jiang Xia."

Everyone else wholeheartedly agreed: "As expected of Mr. Jiang Xia!"

Curaçao: "..."

...Never mind, what is she expecting? Shouldn't she have anticipated this when she heard that sentence?

Beside her, Eri looked at this strange colleague, lowered her head slightly, and a glint of light flashed on her gold-rimmed glasses: "..."

Miss Shirai... could she be a fan of Enatsu?

—This person, who is usually so reserved, became so agitated when he heard the police officers praising Jiang Xia in unison, moving back and forth by the railing. Could it be that he wanted to ask Jiang Xia for an autograph but was too shy to do so?

"If that's the case, I'll show her the scrapbook of Jiang Xia I made another day. If Ms. Shirai is really a fan of Jiang Xia, then I'll find an opportunity to get her an autographed photo, as compensation for misunderstanding her today." Eri thought to herself.

"However, although the whole case seems to have nothing to do with Ms. Shirai, and the logic of the whole thing can be put together, Ms. Shirai's postponement of the meeting time... is still a little strange."

...

Although everyone still had some questions in their minds, it was getting late. After the case was solved, the group didn't linger and went home.

When Kisaki remembered that Shirai had driven her car when she came from the law firm, she called out to "Attorney Shirai": "Let me take you home. Where do you live?"

"..." Curaçao didn't want to get involved with any of these people, so she politely shook her head. "My friend brought the car over for me, I can drive it back myself."

Curacso watched her lawyer colleague, who appeared to have been contaminated, walk away politely, then secretly breathed a sigh of relief and slipped into a nearby alley.

She determined the direction and walked towards the nearby parking lot.

What I told Eri earlier wasn't entirely a lie: she did have someone bring her car over with the spare key. However, the person who drove it wasn't a friend, but rather a fairly capable outsider.

Besides delivering the car, Curacso also instructed him to stake out the area and retrieve the information from President Nakamoto after the police left. Although past experience had shown that Uzo rarely tinkered with his stage repeatedly in the same location for a short period, Curacso had no desire to step back into the apartment that still reeked of the stage atmosphere after today's terrible experience.

Upon arriving at the parking lot, a familiar car was parked quietly there.

Curaçao skillfully checked the vehicle's condition, and after confirming that there were no problems, he opened the car door and got in.

The car door slammed shut with a slightly longer thud than usual. This tiny difference was almost unnoticed by anyone, but Curaçao paused for a moment, then suddenly spun around and raised her arm. She knelt on the driver's seat, the muzzle of her gun shifted off the headrest, and pointed directly at the back seat.

—Someone opened and closed the rear door at the same time as she opened and closed the driver's seat!

As this thought flashed through his mind, Curaçao saw the person who had slipped into the car, following the direction the gun was pointing.

Jiang Xia seemed completely unconcerned about the gun pointed at him. He simply examined the gun held in Curaçao's hand and then smiled regretfully, "So you've started using tranquilizer guns too."

Curaçao: "..." What got into my car?!

I'm going to burn the car tomorrow!!

His mind was in turmoil, but on the surface, Curaçao simply took a deep breath and slowly lowered his gun.

Although there is no evidence, it is easy to imagine that a human manipulator like Uzo would prefer to play tricks on those unlucky people who are easily startled and have huge reactions.

Therefore, the more frightened she was inside, the less she could show it on her face. She had to be calm, peaceful, and utterly uninteresting—once Uzo got bored, she would be safe.

Thinking this through, Curaçao calmly asked, as if nothing had happened, "What do you want?"

Jiang Xia watched the murderous aura emanating from the woman beside her, which swelled up and shrank back like a pufferfish, and leaned back in his car seat with a good mood: "Mihana Town is too far away, I don't want to walk, give me a ride."

Curaçao: "..." Far? What do you mean far! It's only one stop away. Besides, I can take any of those – police cars, subways, taxis, buses – why are they bothering me?!

She really wanted to grab the guy in the back seat and throw him off, or open the car door and run away, leaving the car and its contents far behind... But after much deliberation, she finally sat back in the driver's seat in silence, started the car in silence, and drove off in silence.

Forget it, it's not far anyway, I'll just finish delivering it quickly to avoid getting entangled with them again.

Jiang Xia was very satisfied to have found a suitable driver: the case was over, and his classmates probably wouldn't have the energy to bring in a new case anytime soon. In that case, it would be better to share a ride with his colleagues and catch up with them.

...

After driving the car out of the parking lot, Curaçao really wanted to step on the gas and speed to Beika Town in a few minutes to unload the goods as quickly as possible.

But considering the various risks that high-speed driving might bring, and the various scenarios that might follow, after a long silence, she finally became a law-abiding driver, stopping at red lights and going at green lights, carefully observing both sides of the road, and never speeding.

While I was focused on driving, the thing in the back spoke up: "How about it? This way of doing the task is easier, right? You can ask me for help if you need anything in the future. Colleagues should help each other like this."

Curaçao: "..." Relaxed? Not to mention the mental anguish of being next to you, to avoid leaving any trace, she didn't even dare to pick up the documents right next to her, and she had to risk losing her subordinates by making them work overtime... Hmm? Wait a minute.

Although she often uses her identity as a lawyer to get close to her targets, just like Amuro Tooru working as a hostess—not all of her clients are targets—a significant portion of Curaçao's clients are normal customers.

so……

Curaçao's heart sank slightly: "How did you know that Nakamoto was my mission target?"

Jiang Xia smiled mysteriously and remained silent.

Curaçao, however, felt she knew the answer: who else but her could know her mission? The answer seemed obvious!

In Curaçao's mind, an image quietly emerged of a one-eyed middle-aged man wearing an eye patch.

...Rum!

That old man did a lot of despicable things to recruit talent, including kidnapping, brainwashing, coercion, and bribery. He was a man of all kinds of vices.

Even among a group of talented individuals, Uzo's talent is exceptionally outstanding. Given Rum's personality, if he wanted to recruit him, sacrificing the interests of his other subordinates would be perfectly reasonable.

You wretched one-eyed wolf, you just wait...