Chapter 1432 1440 [Why Target Bourbon]
Toru Amuro pondered over these words again and again, feeling that they had nothing to do with him and could not explain Jiang Xia's strange behavior just now.
He then tentatively analyzed: "It sounds like those who threatened him entered his home, and in order to escape, he wanted to jump from his balcony to the roof of the building opposite, but he lost his balance and fell down?"
Jiang Xia was about to nod.
But at this moment, Conan's eyes beside him suddenly became sharp.
He pushed up his glasses, and a flash of light flashed across the lens. "Uncle Amuro, you have never been to the deceased's home, so why do you think he would escape from the balcony to the building opposite? Are you familiar with the environment of these two buildings?"
Toru Amuro: “…” Is this an illusion? He always feels like this little brat likes to target him.
He had indeed never entered the deceased's home, but no matter if he was a police officer, a member of an organization, or both a police officer and an organization member... After arriving in a new environment, it was his most basic instinct to first observe the terrain and find various hidden routes. After all, he had to ensure that he could escape at any time, or take a shortcut to chase someone at any time.
Compared with the various complex environments he had seen before, the small apartment in front of him was simply the most basic level of difficulty.
Toru Amuro: “…” But if I really gave this reason, I’m afraid Conan would ask nonsense questions again.
Although there was no actual damage, it was annoying to be pestered by a child and asked "Why, why, why on earth?"... It seemed that Jiang Xia was really patient and was willing to play with this talkative child.
As he thought about it, he made up an excuse that was hard to refute: "When I was looking for a house before, this apartment was also within my range of choice, so I looked at the schematic diagram here and even came in with the agent to check it out in person."
Conan: “…”
He was unable to find any connection with today's case, so he temporarily stopped.
Jiang Xia patiently waited for them to finish arguing, and was disappointed to find that the smell of coffee did not increase in murderous intent, so he had to continue what he had just said: "But the strange thing is that after entering the deceased's room, we found that the door was locked, and there were no signs of a fight in the room. It seemed that no one else had broken in. And the deceased did not look very anxious - he even got a bottle of bourbon to drink by himself."
Toru Amuro: "?!"
...Bourbon? ?
He was extremely sensitive to this word. After all, it was his code name in the organization. He had used it for so long that it was as familiar to him as his own name.
After hearing this, Toru Amuro finally understood why Jiang Xia's expression was so strange just now - this clever subordinate had laid so much groundwork just so that he could naturally bring up the "Bourbon" matter when other people were present.
Toru Amuro: “…” It would be fine if there was just a bottle of bourbon on the table, but now, this “bourbon” of his happened to appear around the scene around the time of the crime.
In addition, the deceased "has been threatened by a group of mysterious people recently"... Adding all the clues together, from Jiang Xia's perspective, this is really too coincidental.
Perhaps Jiang Xia thought that the deceased was the target of "Bourbon" and that there was an organization involved in this matter, so he asked him tentatively.
Toru Amuro also felt that this was too coincidental and there might be a hidden story behind it.
But fortunately, he has always been good at managing his facial expressions, and his inner vigilance was not shown on his face.
He followed Jiang Xia's words and said thoughtfully, "There is such a thing. It seems that this is more like a premeditated murder than an accident. You guys should be careful. I will go to the 5th floor to check the situation first."
Having said that, he left in a hurry without staying any longer.
…
Wait until his footsteps fade away completely.
Conan couldn't help but whisper to Jiang Xia: "Have you noticed that Boss Amuro always seems to be working near the crime scene?"
Jiang Xia looked at him with complicated eyes.
Conan came to his senses after being stared at by him and was silent for a while: "..." Well, putting aside all the tinted glasses, if we talk about the probability of appearing at the crime scene, Jiang Xia and Uncle Maori are much higher than Boss Amuro.
Suspicion is suspicion, but we must be rational and objective when looking at people and things. At least in this case, there is a person who is obviously more suspicious than Mr. Amuro.
Thinking of this, Conan temporarily withdrew his attention from Amuro Toru and turned to look at Room 601.
——The name tag says “Kanda”, which is exactly where the client lives.
"Go in and take a look?"
As Jiang Xia spoke, he walked forward and pressed the doorbell.
The doorbell made a muffled click, and no music came out.
Jiang Xia was slightly startled and retracted his hand: "It seems to be broken, so let's knock on the door."
He was about to knock, but before he did, he suddenly remembered the vigilant look Dr. Kanda had shown when facing Toru Amuro just now.
So he stood on the other side and whispered to Conan: "You knock. Children are more likely to let people down."
Conan: "..." They were clearly here to investigate a case, but now they seem to be trying to trick the door open and do something bad...
But the identity of a child is indeed useful, so Conan didn't refuse it after thinking about it.
He walked up and started knocking on the door, accompanied by an innocent child's voice: "Uncle Kanda, Uncle Kanda! Are you home? Uncle Kanda!"
After knocking for nearly a minute, Dr. Kanda finally responded.
He hurried to the door and pushed the door, which was tied with an anti-theft chain, open a palm-wide gap.
A child's face appeared outside the door.
The child saw him and smiled innocently: "Uncle, can you give me a glass of water? I just wanted to get some water downstairs, but Uncle Maori punched me and told me not to touch anything in the house. But I'm really thirsty."
As he spoke, he couldn't help but glance at the stairs guiltily: If Uncle Maori heard about this, he would probably get punched again.
Doctor Kanda saw that there was only a child at the door and did not suspect anything. He remembered his gentle image and did not refuse the request.
Soon, he closed the door slightly, removed the anti-theft chain, opened the door, and said in a friendly manner: "Come in."
“Thank you, uncle!”
Conan trotted into the house.
Dr. Kanda was about to close the door when he suddenly discovered that there was another person following the child.
Facing his shocked gaze, Jiang Xia smiled even friendlier than he did: "I'm sorry, because those who threatened the victim might still be nearby, I was worried that something might happen to the child if he ran around alone, so I followed him - you are such a nice person, you won't mind, right?"
Doctor Kanda's forehead jumped and he wanted to change his mind immediately and throw the two men out to prevent them from finding any traces in their room that might be unfavorable to him.
...But now that things have come to this, doing so would only make me look suspicious.
Instead, give them a glass of water and send them away quickly, so that you are less likely to expose yourself.
(End of this chapter)
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