Chapter 679: Usage of Different Vests

Late at night, seeing people tumbling and crawling into the hotel and hearing them calling the police, Amuro Toru felt the increasingly chaotic scene and had mixed feelings.

...He had been fishing for a week. And now, for Bourbon who was doing a mission for the organization, this was not a good time for the police to get involved.

But if the police are confused enough...

Toru Amuro thought of the police inspector named Yamamura So in Gunma Prefecture.

If this kind of person can end up like this, then the other police officers in this county are probably the same.

…

Although this maple forest is located in the mountains, it is not far from the city.

The police arrived shortly after.

Toru Amuro was observing secretly when he suddenly saw a few people he knew walking towards him in the hall.

——Although it was late at night, Maori Kogoro was trapped in a car in a storm last night, and his sleep schedule was reversed, and he still hasn't adjusted yet. He was just about to rest with his daughter and Conan, but they all couldn't sleep for various reasons.

Now, the sound of a police car squeaked from the window, and the three people's ears moved, and they put on their clothes and ran downstairs. Next door, "Vermouth" disguised as Suzuki Sonoko also opened her eyes alertly and went down to the hall.

In an instant, this place was occupied by Jiang Xia's acquaintances.

Toru Amuro: "..."

However, on second thought, what does Jiang Xia’s acquaintance have to do with him?

The quarantine is over, it's just some people I know...

Amuro Toru took a sip of coffee leisurely. The mission of observing Jiang Xia was coming to an end, and the air of freedom was so beautiful.

…

As a detective and former criminal policeman, Maori Kogoro always wants to get involved when he encounters a case. And now, he happens to have a junior who is good at solving cases.

In Kogoro Mori's opinion, Jiang Xia must look more reliable than these sleepy local police officers, and Jiang Xia should also be planning to go up the mountain to take a look, which is the curiosity that all detectives have.

But when he turned around, he found Jiang Xia sitting on a rattan chair in the corner of the hall with his back to him, and had no intention of getting up.

"Suzuki Sonoko"'s gaze had already fallen over there.

She curiously walked around to Jiang Xia's front and found that the young detective had his eyes closed, as if he was asleep, so she made a silencing gesture to Maori Kogoro who was about to shout "Jiang Xia, let's go!" At the same time, she sighed in her heart. Jiang Xia was probably really tired. These days, he had consumed too much unnecessary energy in order to plot against Bourbon... cough, in order to deal with Bourbon's provocation.

As she thought about it, she glanced to the side and frowned.

Bourbon looked radiant and seemed to have slept well. Ha, this intelligence agent seemed to have worked in many places, including bars and clubs that were open at night. Bourbon had been dragging Jiang Xia to wait in the lobby, probably because he wanted to use up Jiang Xia's energy in the field of staying up late, which he was good at?

...a crude, insidious, but unexpectedly useful plan.

Toru Amuro didn't notice the murderous and condemning look in Vermouth's eyes.

At this time, he was also looking at Jiang Xia, wondering in his heart - Jiang Xia had rested well on the way. When he was driving, Jiang Xia was catching up on sleep in the passenger seat. How come he fell asleep after staying up so late? ... Could it be that he had slept too much in the past few days, so he got used to sleeping for a long time?

Toru Amuro looked at Jiang Xia, who was curled up in the chair and sleeping peacefully, and thought about the days when he had difficulty sleeping in the past few days. With mixed feelings, he walked over coldly and shook the person awake.

...It's not that he's arguing with a child, but in front of Vermouth, Bourbon wouldn't be so considerate as to let Jiang Xia put aside his mission and continue sleeping just because "his subordinates are sleeping".

It's not okay to indulge peripheral members like this. Bourbon is not that kind of person...

…

At the same time.

Thousands of meters away, in a dark maple forest.

Jiang Xia, who was driving the Matsuda puppet, increased the force of the whipping and pulled out all the murderous aura from the last source of murderous aura at three times the speed.

Then he threw away the belt he had seized, walked to a corner where no one could see, dispersed the puppet, and his consciousness returned to his body.

As early as when the alarm sounded in the hotel, the ghost who stayed beside the main body told him the relevant news.

It was just that the two sides were a bit far apart, so there would be a slight delay in the transmission of this kind of information. In addition, the smoke had already started, and if he didn't get rid of all the murderous aura before leaving, it would be as uncomfortable as peeling only half of an orange, so he delayed for a little longer.

Fortunately, he did stay up late today, so it was normal for him to react a little slower...

Ten seconds later.

In the Red Tree Hotel, Jiang Xia opened his eyes and looked around.

A group of people saw him "wake up" and told him briefly about the current situation in the hotel and the fact that a camper found a body. No one was suspicious of the situation just now. After all, if you tell them that "a person sleeping in front of them is actually knocking people out in the mountains", no one would believe it.

Jiang Xia showed the proper expression of surprise and curiosity about the scene, and nodded to indicate that he understood.

Then he mixed in with them and went up the mountain with a few gossiping people.

If a murder suddenly happened nearby, how could the detective not go and take a look? Even if he knew that mountain very well...

…

I came to the filming location again, and saw the dark red handkerchiefs and maple leaves fluttering in the wind among the trees.

The assistant director of "Winter Maple Red" who had asked them to help leave a message in the hotel guestbook had now turned into a corpse.

He lay motionless under a tree, next to a police officer who was setting up lights.

As Jiang Xia approached, he found a notebook lying quietly among the dead leaves on the ground, half of it buried by leaves rolling in the wind.

The notebook is dark in color and is inconspicuous at night.

He remembered that he and Toru Amuro had just peeped on the mountain and saw the deceased holding the notebook before his death. He bent down and picked up the notebook.

Up to now, Jiang Xia has become very skilled at finding various clues at the scene of the case and collecting them. In order to avoid the embarrassing situation of "difficult to explain the source of key intelligence" when solving the case - he can't say "Conan told me" like Kudo Shinichi. Conan is Kudo Shinichi's pseudonym, and they are both good friends of the red team. He is not like that. He can't say "Uzo told me", otherwise anonymous police will probably block the scene and try to search for his precious pseudonym...

In short, at present, it seems that this notebook that the deceased touched for the last time is undoubtedly a message left before death and an important check-in point.

This is a special diary with the date printed on it in advance.

Cut in from the loosest part and turn it over, you will see a bloody fingerprint on the word "April 1st", which should be the last place the deceased grabbed it.

(End of this chapter)