Chapter 4: One Hundred Ways to Approach Artists

Before being dragged by Gin to work overtime.

Jiang Xia was on his way to the "Yoko Kinoshita Filming Set".

——He needs to create an opportunity to get close to Yoko Kinoshita.

Because he has to touch the ghost fetus.

Judging from the programs in recent days, the baby has always been quietly coiled around Yoko Kinoshita's wrist.

If the ghost fetus is relatively weak or has a gentle temperament, Jiang Xia can use the "catch and run" method to take it directly home.

But if the ghost fetus is stronger than he thought... he will have to investigate the specific situation first, then make a plan and proceed step by step.

…

Jiang Xia checked Kinoshita Yoko's public schedule. She has no fan meeting recently.

If they went straight to the company to block them...their company's security was quite strong. If the matter got out of hand and caused a commotion, Jiang Xia would be in danger of being taken to the police station for questioning.

As a member of the Black Organization, "about to go to jail" is roughly equivalent to "about to be silenced by Gin."

The model worker is so skilled at killing his own people. We must not give Gin a chance to shoot...

In short, it would be best to "resolve it privately" with Yoko Kinoshita.

…

Yamadaira Town, next to the abandoned building.

Yoko Kinoshita and her agent were sitting in the car, planning to wait for their assistant to come back with their things before rushing to the next announcement.

This is the set of Yoko Kinoshita's new drama, a TV series about a passionate high school. The director very realistically chose a place where bad guys gather.

In the past, the bad guys kept to themselves and the crew members and were very well behaved.

But today, things are different.

——The agent looked through the car window and saw a group of unfamiliar hooligans carrying baseball bats and riding motorcycles, wandering around aggressively, as if they were trying to block people.

While the gangsters were searching separately.

The agent saw a handsome young man with suspicious behavior, who was highly suspected to be a target of gangsters, avoiding the crowd and running quickly towards their car.

This person is Jiang Xia.

The agent didn't know him. She frowned, guessing that this person was stuck in traffic and wanted to take their car to leave. She didn't want to get involved in this matter and planned to refuse.

Unexpectedly, when Jiang Xia approached and opened his mouth, he didn't say "help" nor did he beg for help.

Instead, it’s: “I’m the paparazzi who’s been following you lately.”

Manager, Yoko Kinoshita: “……?”

In the shocked and puzzled eyes of the two, Jiang Xia looked at Kinoshita Yoko and whispered, "Sister, you have had an abortion, right?"

As he spoke, he shook a CD in his hand, giving people the illusion that "this is evidence."

The agent was stunned and looked at Yoko Kinoshita hesitantly.

Just at this moment, a dozen meters away, the golden-haired gangster who was leading the blocking of people took a quick glance and saw Jiang Xia standing by the car.

He whistled arrogantly and stepped on the accelerator. The motorcycle roared closer, and the golden-haired man shouted excitedly and swung his stick at Jiang Xia.

Jiang Xia dodged sideways. The golden retriever's motorcycle could not stop and rushed far away.

Jiang Xia glanced over there, then looked back into the car, speaking faster:

"Those are hired by the rival newspaper. If my stuff falls into their hands, they will ask for a higher price - help me escape now, and I will give you a 40% discount on these materials."

The agent frowned, not really believing it.

But at this moment, Kinoshita Yoko looked at Jiang Xia through the car window, then looked at the thugs blocking the way, and suddenly said, "Let him get in the car."

The agent was stunned for a moment, then she turned her head sharply: "Yoko, you are not really...?!"

Kinoshita Yoko repeated in a gentle but firm voice:

"Let him get in the car."

————

Five minutes later.

Jiang Xia held the fake information in his hand and sat in the back row with a well-behaved look on his face.

Yoko Kinoshita's car was driving on the road leading to the city.

The agent held the steering wheel, irritably holding a cigarette in his mouth and sneering, "Boy, you are quite courageous. I asked you to get in the car, and you really dared to get in - without asking me where I was taking you?"

Jiang Xia also knew that he had been a bit unsportsmanlike today, so he followed the other person's question and asked considerately, "Where are you going?"

"Tokyo Bay." The agent took a puff of cigarette with deep eyes, exhaled the smoke, and said in a very deep voice, "Tonight, there will be another piece of cement in Tokyo Bay."

Jiang Xia: “…”

He continued to speak in the tone of a good student, and said sincerely: "You are all good people, you would not do this."

The agent uttered two short sounds: "Haha."

After getting rid of the tail and driving on the road.

The agent glanced at Jiang Xia in the rearview mirror and asked him for the quote for the information in his hand.

...With such big news, no matter whether it is true or false, it is absolutely right to keep the people calm first.

"Fifty thousand, maybe." Jiang Xia actually gave a bargain price, and then added a request as if he was embarrassed:

"Can I talk to Ms. Yoko alone? After following her for a long time, I found that she has many charming shining points. Now I actually admire her very much, otherwise I would not have kept the news and refused to take action."

The agent pondered the meaning of Jiang Xia's words and was shocked.

...paparazzi turned fan?

And from the sound of it, he wants to use the idol's negative information to exchange for some quality time alone with the idol?

The agent stole a glance at Jiang Xia from the rearview mirror and gave him a thumbs-up in his heart.

The paparazzi has a nice dream and wants to talk to you alone. Does he want to give you the opportunity to seduce your idol with your beauty?

She refused decisively.

But her teammate, Yoko Kinoshita, thought about it and said, "Okay."

broker:"……"

She almost ran a red light, and slammed on the brakes before crossing the line, staring at her own artist in the rearview mirror with a look of disappointment.

Kinoshita Yoko stared back firmly.

After more than ten seconds of silence, the agent sighed and looked away.

…

After a while, the agent parked the car in a relatively secluded place and got out of the car: "I'll give you five minutes."

Then he turned to Yoko Kinoshita and said, "Explain it to me later."

After saying that, she slammed the car door.

This car has decent sound insulation.

Jiang Xia glanced through the car window at his agent who was standing on the street, lighting a cigarette in annoyance, then turned to Kinoshita Yoko next to him and confessed, "Sorry, I don't have any dirt on you."

Kinoshita Yoko was not angry. She leaned back in her chair and smiled in a very Buddhist way: "I know."

She did have a miscarriage, but it was a natural miscarriage, and at the time she had a decadent attitude that life and death were determined by fate, and she never went to the hospital.

So just now, when Jiang Xia took out the "CD containing evidence", Kinoshita Yoko knew that this young man was making things up.

But she still let Jiang Xia get in the car.

On the one hand, because the man is not very old, it would be a pity if he was beaten to a pulp by the thugs, so he wanted to save him.

On the other hand, she had something else she wanted to ask.

She looked at Jiang Xia and said hesitantly: "Have you really been following me during this period?"

——Recently, Yoko Kinoshita encountered an unidentified stalker and suffered a series of cruel harassment: not only threatening letters and phone calls, but the man even broke into her house and moved her furniture without permission.

Yoko Kinoshita originally planned to hire a detective to investigate.

But just now, when she met Jiang Xia, she suddenly thought: If the "stalker" is Jiang Xia, then if she has a frank talk with him, the problem may be solved.

…

At this time, the "stalking suspect" was sitting next to her, and Yoko Kinoshita had already prepared her words.

However, when the words were on the tip of her tongue, she turned around and met Jiang Xia's eyes, which seemed very clear at first glance, and she was unable to ask, "Are you the perverted stalker who harassed me?"

Yoko Kinoshita: “…” I heard that the hearts of today’s minors are more fragile than eggshells.

What if Jiang Xia didn't do it? When I asked him that, Jiang Xia had the second-year thought, "Since you all think I'm a bad guy, I'll just be a bad guy!"

She is harming others and herself, and her sins are grave.

…

Jiang Xia sat next to them, watching Kinoshita Yoko wanting to say something but stopping herself from saying it... After a minute, she still said nothing.

Jiang Xia couldn't help but feel a little confused.

However, from Yoko Kinoshita's question just now, he guessed something.

Many details of this world are actually different from the "Detective Conan" that Jiang Xia has watched.

——For example, Yoko Kinoshita and her very attractive female agent.

But there is more of the same.

For example, Jiang Xia has a detective classmate named Kudo Shinichi.

Another example is that Kudo Shinichi has a childhood sweetheart who is pretty and cute and can punch through steel plates. This is also Jiang Xia's classmate, named Mao Lilan.

According to Jiang Xia's "prophecy", one day in the future, Kudo Shinichi will be knocked unconscious by Gin, drugged, and turned into Conan.

Then Conan will move into the detective agency of Mouri Ran's family, live with Mouri Ran, and solve cases by the way.

One of those cases was "Miss Yoko's" commission regarding a stalker.

Although there are differences in time, the details are not exactly the same.

But Jiang Xia still intuitively felt that the Yoko Kinoshita in front of him was the "Ms. Yoko" who was harassed by the stalker.

…

The agent did not allow them much time to talk.

After figuring it out, Jiang Xia didn't let Kinoshita Yoko continue to struggle. He took the initiative to ask: "Do you want to ask about the stalker?"

Yoko Kinoshita was stunned.

"..." Jiang Xia knew about it before he even said anything. Could it be that... he is really the stalker? !

Jiang Xia looked at her frightened expression and waved his hand, "It's not me."

Yoko Kinoshita: “…”Hmm?

Jiang Xia started to talk nonsense: "But when I was filming you, I did see a suspicious person." He suggested, "Why don't I help you solve this matter - just consider it as a thank you gift for letting me take the ride just now."

Yoko Kinoshita looked at him and thought: Is this young man planning to change his career from being a paparazzi to becoming a detective?

After all, Yoko Kinoshita is a resident of the detective world, and in her eyes, being a detective is indeed the right path.

Although Jiang Xia sounded like a novice, Kinoshita Yoko hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Okay."

On the one hand, she didn't want to discourage Jiang Xia's enthusiasm for changing careers.

On the other hand... Originally, she was planning to ask a detective to solve the problem. But now, with the help of Jiang Xia, who had seen the "stalker" with his own eyes, maybe the problem could be solved faster.

…

After the discussion, Yoko Kinoshita left Jiang Xia her personal cell phone number and address.

Jiang Xia took note of it carefully, then naturally extended his hand towards her, indicating a handshake.

——This was his original purpose. He glanced at the "jelly bracelet" on Kinoshita Yoko's wrist, the ghost fetus that ordinary people could not see.

Yoko Kinoshita didn't think much about it and raised her hand to shake his hand.

Originally, according to the position where the little ghost baby was lying, Jiang Xia could just touch it with this grip.

Unexpectedly, the ghost baby seemed to dislike Jiang Xia. When Kinoshita Yoko raised her hand, it silently moved back a little.

...and suddenly became untouchable.

(End of this chapter)