Chapter 1511: 1519 [Okiya Subaru: Jiang Xia wants to kill me]
Subaru Okiya never thought that Jiang Xia was a scary person. In his eyes, this sunny and righteous detective has always been a symbol of "hope" - if he was framed as a murderer, Jiang Xia would definitely be able to uncover the truth and find the real murderer.
However, theory is theory. In reality, when he saw Jiang Xia for the first time, especially when he saw the baton in his hand, Subaru Okiya's intuitive alarm began to buzz.
He suddenly threw the ball of rope in his hand towards the detective who had fallen into the room, and instinctively turned around to run.
However, the tangled fishing net-like rope did not provide any blocking effect at all. It was easily swept aside by the baton in Jiang Xia's hand.
Then a hand grabbed from behind.
"!!!"
Although he didn't see the scene behind him, as Jiang Xia's hand approached, Okiya Subaru felt like his scalp was about to explode. For some reason, he thought of the first time he met Uzo, when that inhuman boss pressed his head from behind and made him admire the half-rotten skeleton buried under the cosmos.
The breath of death coming from behind was so strong that Subaru Okiya dodged to the side out of his desire to survive and actually avoided the grab.
But the next second, he tripped and lost his balance, falling to the ground.
He wanted to get up immediately, but before he could turn his thoughts into actions, a foot stepped heavily on his back, nailing the specimen in place like a wedge. Before Subaru Okiya could even shout out the complete "Help!!", he was stepped on with a groan, and the sound died on his lips.
In the chaos, he could only see shadows on the ground.
Light and shadow flashed by, Jiang Xia swung the baton in his hand, light shone from the window behind him, and his thick black shadow was cast on the ground, like a devil waving a sickle and grinning.
The next moment, the baton came down with a sound of wind, and it brushed against Okiya Subaru's nose and went into the ground.
KALA——
The metal tip of the baton smashed a deep hole in the ground, and cement fragments flew everywhere. A small piece of it scratched the graduate student's face, leaving a long and thin blood mark.
“…”
Subaru Okiya had never felt so clearly that from the perspective of the criminal being chased, the sunny and righteous high school detective could be so terrifying.
Cold sweat dripped down his forehead to the ground. His eyes rolled to the corners, staring hard at the flying cement ground in front of him. For a moment, he even forgot the pain on his face. Only a blank thought of his brush with death remained in his mind - if this stick had hit him on the head just now...
"Mr. Okiya?"
When countless versions of being beaten to death by a baton evolved in Subaru Okiya's mind.
He suddenly felt a lightness on his back.
The force that seemed to be embedding him into the ground disappeared without a warning. Jiang Xia moved the foot that was stepping on him away, squatted down and poked him with the baton, seeming very surprised: "Why is it you? Why are you dressed like this? By the way, why did you go to England?"
Okiya Subaru: "..." He recognized her. He actually recognized her! This level of disguise really can't fool a sharp detective like Jiang Xia at close range...
Once upon a time, Okiya Subaru was very worried that his disguise would be seen through by someone he knew.
But now, hearing these words, he felt like hearing heavenly music - at least it meant that he would not be accidentally injured by this terrible detective and locked up in the warehouse like pork.
For a moment, Okiya Subaru couldn't tell whether it was Usa's stage that was scary, or being beaten to death by the detective as a criminal. His reason told him that it was the former, but when Jiang Xia swung the stick just now, the air seemed to freeze, and he really felt that he saw the other side of death.
"Mr. Okiya? ...Did you make a mistake?"
Perhaps because he saw that he hadn't responded for too long, the detective hesitated for a moment, thinking that he had recognized the wrong person, so he stood up and stepped back again, as if he was worried that the criminal he had caught with great difficulty would run away, or as if he wanted to step on him and hit him a few times to test the feel of the situation before the police arrived.
The oppressive feeling that had just left came back with a vengeance. Subaru Okiya didn't expect that he would be back at the gates of hell so soon. When he saw the detective tentatively raising the baton, he immediately stopped caring about anything else: "It's me! Wait, I'm not the murderer!"
Subaru Okiya's original voice is undoubtedly very convincing.
The few times they had met before seemed to have made him be barely classified as a "companion" by the detective.
Jiang Xia finally stopped stepping on him, and instead reached out to pull him up, and considerately used the rubber part of the baton to pat the dirt off his body.
Okiya Subaru was startled by the slap and instinctively moved away.
Jiang Xia didn't care, he just looked at him in surprise: "I didn't expect it would be you. Someone upstairs was shot just now, and because the people guarding downstairs didn't see anyone leaving the building, the police suspected that the murderer was still in this building - I thought you were the cruel murderer."
Okiya Subaru: "..." The word "brutal" coming out of your mouth always feels a bit weird...
"By the way, you haven't told me why you are dressed like this?" Jiang Xia's voice soon rang out again. He looked at Okiya Subaru. In addition to the joy of meeting a friend in a foreign country, there seemed to be a trace of the detective's equal suspicion of everything in his eyes:
"Come to think of it, did you and I take the same plane when we came here? At that time, I felt that there was a person among the passengers who looked very much like you, but the light was dim and we were far away, so I thought I had made a mistake."
This day was full of ups and downs. Okiya Subaru's usually flexible brain became a little rusty and he didn't know what to say for a moment.
But he caught a glimpse of Jiang Xia's baton, which was not put away and was occasionally shaking, and he didn't dare to pretend to be mute.
After struggling for a moment, Subaru Okiya gritted his teeth and tried to be a riddler with deep difficulties: "There are some things I can't say, but my current identity is very important to me. If possible, I hope you won't reveal it. As for this case, it really has nothing to do with me. I just realized something happened here when I suddenly heard the gunshots."
Although Jiang Xia is still a high school student, because of his part-time job as a detective, he seems to have come into contact with many mysterious clients and seems to accept this kind of riddle-solving behavior well.
He stared at Okiya Subaru, thinking silently.
It wasn't until the other party finally couldn't keep his calm expression that he nodded: "No problem, I won't tell you. But I will investigate this case thoroughly - do you really know nothing?"
Okiya Subaru nodded like clockwork.
Jiang Xia responded but didn't say whether he believed it or not.
He pointed at the door of the warehouse and said, "In that case, let's go see the police together. After all, you are also a witness in this case, and I can't just let you go. Besides, if the murderer is still hiding nearby and pretends that you committed suicide out of fear of crime, things will be troublesome."
(End of this chapter)
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