Chapter 17201728 [Braised Bourbon]
Under the gaze of those eyes that looked like his younger brother, Secretary Hanai's hand holding the lighter began to tremble, and finally fell down weakly.
Conan ran over and comforted her while being ready to secretly inject her with an anesthetic needle at any time: "Leave with us first and turn yourself in to the police. Miss Naoko still needs you. Do you think you can leave her to this father who completely ignores her for his work? The sooner you get out of prison, the better her future will be."
Secretary Hanai's tears started to flow. She suddenly wanted to kneel down and cry, but Conan pulled her out of the warehouse: If you rush now, maybe it can be considered as surrendering, but if the police come in later, it will be too late.
Yoko Kinoshita quickly made way and followed them to find the police, recording this touching scene with the camera in her hand.
Kinoshita Yoko: "..." It seems that children are the most empathetic. It is a truth that adults can also think of, but when Conan says it, it is particularly convincing for some reason...
…
One minute ago.
Conan was busy persuading the secretary.
Behind the warehouse, Jiang Xia successfully found the Dark Cloud Snow Cat. He picked up the cat skillfully, and suddenly seemed to feel something was wrong. He turned around and saw a person hiding on the beam above him.
Jiang Xia was startled, then asked in a low voice in surprise: "Boss? Why are you here?"
Toru Amuro: “…” Even though I was hiding here, he could still see me. This guy has really good eyesight. As a top student, he is not nearsighted at all.
...Oh, that's right, he almost never saw Jiang Xia reading or studying. His good grades all depended on his good brain, so it was normal for him to have good eyesight.
Jiang Xia saw that Amuro was silent with a gloomy face, as if he had misunderstood something, and his expression changed slightly: "You, are you..."
As he spoke, he secretly looked around, obviously thinking that the organizational cadres suddenly ran to such a deserted place and were definitely not doing good deeds - maybe there was a corpse or something hidden nearby that needed to be dealt with urgently.
Amuro Toru likes to maintain his image as a cadre in front of others, but in front of Jiang Xia, he always feels strangely like he is a bad example for his juniors. He corrected him nonchalantly: "There is no body. I just came to take a look because I have something to do."
Jiang Xia breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that he had gotten rid of the suspicion of "murder and corpse dumping" and instead thought that Amuro Toru was simply scouting the area or making a deal. As a detective who came from an organization, Jiang Xia was obviously more accepting of the latter than murder. After all, detectives occasionally commit some illegal acts such as scouting.
At this point, Jiang Xia realized that he had not seen the scene where his boss dumped his body, and he immediately returned to normal.
He even took the initiative to help his boss share his worries: "There are police officers everywhere now, it might be dangerous for you to hide here - how about pretending that I sent you here, and you can blend into our team?"
When Toru Amuro heard this suggestion, his heart was briefly moved.
But soon, he felt that it was not possible: If he really agreed, how could he explain that Jiang Xia knew in advance the kidnappers' transaction location?
For a famous detective like Jiang Xia, any suspicious point may be magnified at some point.
Toru Amuro: “…” So, Jiang Xia’s situation in the Red Team is a bit like his situation in the organization: doubts accumulate little by little and may eventually lead to a catastrophe. This hidden danger must be avoided.
and……
Toru Amuro looked at his watch and thought of Ireland, who had not shown up since the meeting time. If he could sneak into Jiang Xia's investigation team now, he would be able to get away safely, but Ireland might think that he, the boss of the detective agency, was colluding with Jiang Xia to play a trick on him.
Ireland couldn't find him normally, but it was easy to seek revenge on Jiang Xia, and the cadres of the organization always ignored other people's lives...
As a multifaceted person who wears multiple hats, Toru Amuro weighed the pros and cons in his mind in an instant.
He sneered and rejected the proposal in a low voice: "There must be a lot of reporters where you are, and you even started a live broadcast during this period. Not all members of the organization are as ostentatious and like to be on camera as you. In the future, avoid me when you are outside and don't cause me similar troubles again."
...Although it was a little troublesome to avoid the police search and evidence collection, dealing with those not-so-smart colleagues was not a big problem for him. It was just a little extra training in his daily training.
Jiang Xia: “…” The boss is quite skilled at making threats, but unfortunately the murderous aura he brings out cannot keep up - look at Gin, if he uses the same expression when speaking, the murderous aura he exudes can be two or three times more than normal.
Toru Amuro didn't notice Jiang Xia's angry look.
Because at this moment, at the warehouse door, Conan and Secretary Hanai's conversation suddenly stopped.
He poked half of his face out from behind the rusty steel beam and peeked over there carefully, and saw that Conan actually persuaded the murderer to leave with just a few words.
Toru Amuro raised his eyebrows in surprise: "..." So fast?
I didn't realize this kid was quite good at talking. Much more efficient than some negotiation experts, or was it that this lady didn't have a strong desire to kill?
Anyway, the current situation is in his favor - after all, they are here to catch the kidnappers, and the police must have blocked the factory by now. The smaller the incident between the kidnappers and the victims, the less attention the police will pay to this place, and the search will be relatively rough, and they will withdraw faster.
——It seems that there is no need to worry about how to leave. As long as he waits for the secretary to turn himself in and reveal the location of the hostages, he can leave here openly after the police withdraw.
While thinking, Toru Amuro secretly stared at the door.
Seeing Conan, Yoko Kinoshita and the secretary leave to find the police, Katsuhiko Takei sat on the ground in shock. No one was paying attention to this side for the time being, so he hung himself down from the beam, let go, and landed silently on a pile of waste materials.
Just as he stood firm, Jiang Xia, who was standing next to him, saw something and let out a low "ah" in surprise while holding the cat.
Toru Amuro immediately became alert and followed his gaze towards the warehouse door, and saw a rusty piece of iron hanging on the beam over there.
The piece of iron had already loosened, with only one corner still connected to the beam, about to fall off.
At this moment, perhaps it was blown by the wind at the warehouse door, or because Amuro Toru had just hit the beam, under the gaze of the two, it slowly rotated, suddenly broke away from the roof, and fell straight down.
…Below was the hard stone ground, with a large area of gasoline spread out on the ground, and the lighter that the murderer had dropped when he was crying.
More than ten meters apart, the entire scene fell into the eyes of the two people - and Amuro Toru knew in his heart that whether it was the iron piece accidentally hitting the mechanism of the lighter, or the metal falling to the ground and creating a spark, with the whole barrel of scattered gasoline as the foundation, as long as this happened, the warehouse would instantly explode into a sea of fire.
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
