Chapter 1361:1369 [Killing Intent]
When Pu Siqinglan opened the door, she suddenly saw Jiang Xia's face outside. Her eyes twitched, and the murderous aura that had been somewhat loose on her body instantly became tight again.
Jiang Xia glanced at her and invited her in a friendly manner: "We are going to play poker for a while, come and join us if you are free."
“……”Pu Siqinglan frowned, and her first reaction was to refuse.
This thought flashed through her mind, and she was slightly stunned. She was surprised to find that she was actually somewhat resistant to being in the same space with Jiang Xia.
This unfamiliar feeling of fear, on the contrary, aroused her vigilance - she was the "Scoop" that even Interpol feared, but now she wanted to hide from a high school student who had nothing good except good luck. What was going on?
A killer must not be afraid to get close to his target. And no matter how you think about it, "playing cards" and other entertainment activities that can bring people closer together are a good opportunity for Jiang Xia to let down his guard.
Soon, Pu Siqinglan smiled at Suzuki Sonoko's disappointed look: "Okay, wait a moment."
She turned back to the house and packed her handbag.
The doorway was suddenly empty, facing the TV cabinet.
Conan glanced inside casually and suddenly saw a photo frame on the TV cabinet. The back of the photo frame was facing this way, so he couldn't see what the photo inside looked like. He could only see a few letters written on the back.
"…Gregory?"
Conan muttered it out loud.
Suzuki Sonoko followed his gaze and also noticed the photo frame on the table.
She was stunned and started thinking: As soon as she arrived in the room, she took out the photo frame and arranged it. It seems that this photo is extremely important to Pu Siqinglan, and she wants to see it every moment.
She remembered that many people have the habit of carrying photos of important people with them. Suddenly, she had a guess, and with a gossipy light in her eyes, she happily guessed, "It must be a photo of Miss Qinglan's boyfriend!"
So you already have a boyfriend? You should have told her earlier so that she wouldn't be so surprised.
But soon, Suzuki Sonoko was stunned again: Wait, putting aside the issue of whether she has a boyfriend or not, she saw with her own eyes that when Jiang Xia helped Pu Si Qinglan pick up the phone, Pu Si Qinglan took the opportunity to touch the back of Jiang Xia's hand.
...If she still flirts around when she already has a boyfriend, wouldn't that make things even more terrifying! -- A simple perverted nympho and a perverted nympho who is not bound by moral constraints and cheats openly, the latter is more dangerous no matter how you think about it!
Suzuki Sonoko: "..." Moreover, this kind of chaos in the adult world may have a more unique appeal to some people. Scumbags are very good at disguising themselves, and it is easiest to deceive sincere people... As she thought about it, her eyes could not help but drift to the side.
Jiang Xia was stunned when he saw her strange expression. What kind of look was that? "What's wrong?"
Suzuki Sonoko looked at him, then looked at Pu Siqinglan who was not far away in the room, and seemed to want to say something but stopped herself.
Pu Siqinglan had good hearing and heard their conversation.
Only then did she realize that she had been distracted for a moment and had forgotten the name written on the back of the photo frame.
She walked to the TV cabinet, turned the photo she didn't want anyone to see upside down, and then walked out and mixed in with the others as if nothing had happened: "We've packed up, let's go."
…
Half an hour later, in a room on the yacht.
A group of young people gathered around the snacks on the table, drinking tea, and chatting and laughing.
Actually, they were playing cards. But the one-sided game was really unfriendly to strangers. Although it was just a game, losing all the time also affected their mood.
Suzuki Sonoko had played poker with Mao Lilan many times before, and she was used to losing. Conan always met Jiang Xia, a guy who was in a hurry to spoil the plot, at the scene of the crime, and now he has developed a leisurely character who doesn't care about winning or losing.
But as the game progressed, the interest of the two guests, who had just met them, gradually waned.
The host, Suzuki Sonoko, realized belatedly that she had chosen the wrong entertainment, so she changed the content of the party, replacing it with snacks and tea - sitting together to eat and drink, so that there was no such thing as luck or winning or losing.
Natsumi Kosaka looked at the poker cards that Jiang Xia had put aside and put away, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
In fact, she usually thought that she had good luck with cards, but she didn't know what happened today. She lost from the beginning to the end. All the good cards were in the hands of Jiang Xia or Mao Li Ran, and she almost thought that these high school students were working together to perform an undefeated magic trick... Fortunately, now the nightmare card game is over.
…
Kosaka Natsumi picked up a cup of tea, took a sip, breathed a sigh of relief, and chatted with the high school students about their daily lives:
"I have been living in Paris for many years. So my vocabulary is often out of date, and sometimes I will suddenly say some strange Japanese words."
As she spoke, she suddenly remembered something and tapped her chin in thought, "After returning to Japan, perhaps because I saw the familiar environment, a sentence I heard when I was a child kept flashing through my mind - although I can barely remember the pronunciation of the sentence, I can't remember the meaning of the sentence at all... I don't know if it was a unique buzzword of that era."
“You remember the pronunciation, but you don’t understand the meaning?”
Conan was bored, and when he heard this, his eyes lit up: "Maybe it's not a buzzword, but some kind of riddle - I have some experience in solving riddles, why don't you tell us what it means."
Natsumi Kosaka couldn't help but smile when she saw a first grader seriously saying that he was good at solving puzzles.
However, children's self-confidence is indeed easy to swell, and they will think they can do anything. She did not break this beautiful fantasy, but simply answered Conan's question directly: "That sentence seems to be-"
She moved her lips slightly and uttered a string of words that sounded like a spell: "Balusheni Kukadamei."
“…”
When Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko heard that this might be a riddle, they originally planned to join in the fun and interpret it.
But before I heard it, I never thought... it would be so weird.
Conan also silently took a sip of tea, looking at the sea view outside the window, pretending that it was not him who asked to guess the riddle just now, so as to buy himself some time to think.
Seeing their silence, Natsumi Kosaka shared her guess: "I think this might be asking someone named 'Balushue' if he went to buy meat!"
In Japanese, the pronunciation of "肉" is close to "niku", and "kada" sounds very much like the past tense of "买". After she explained it this way, the whole sentence suddenly didn't sound as strange as it first sounded.
Conan nodded thoughtfully, trying to get more information: "Who is Baluxue?"
"I don't know either. I've never heard of such a person." Kosaka Natsumi laughed, "But such a weird pronunciation, only people's names would feel like this."
(End of this chapter)
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