Chapter 1722-1730 [The Famous Detective Who Died]
So Jiang Xia hesitated for a while, and finally gave up on staging scenes like "the detective bravely rescues the friend he met on the plane", and decided to let Ireland work hard on his own and leave it to fate.
"It shouldn't be a big problem." Jiang Xia took a detour to the other side to look for the hostages. When he left, he casually sent two lucky ghosts out to help Ireland and Bourbon get rid of their murderous aura: he could feel that although the fire seemed to be raging on Ireland's side, in fact the murderous aura of the person involved was still growing steadily, and it didn't seem like it came from a dying person.
In other words, although this cadre is angry, he is probably far from death.
Jiang Xia: “…” That’s right. After all, he is a senior member. If he is deliberately surrounded, he might fail. But in this situation where no one pays attention to him and no one targets him, if Ireland can be burned to death in the warehouse, the quality of the organization’s members would be very worrying.
It seems I will have to stock up on blind boxes for a while longer.
While thinking, Jiang Xia walked a distance along the direction pointed by Mist Tengu.
When passing by a building, he suddenly heard "bang" and "bang" sounds coming from a window on the first floor, as if someone was shouting something loudly inside.
Jiang Xia walked over to the sound and got closer, finally hearing the details. There was a young girl in the room, banging on the window and shouting something like "Let me out, Sister Akiko!"
He remembered something and took out the business card he had received earlier and took a look at it. Hanai's secretary's full name is Hanai Akiko.
Jiang Xia: "..." She didn't even call him dad. Is the father-daughter relationship so shallow? It seems that this classmate is unlikely to become a criminal in the future.
…
Takei Naoko was a little confused when she was first arrested, but in the past few days she has gradually figured out the truth and guessed Secretary Hanai's plan.
First, she couldn't run away, and second, she was closer to this secretary who grew up with her than her father. Takei Naoko quickly accepted her fate and stayed here to cooperate with the kidnappers. Unexpectedly, everything was going smoothly, but just now, a loud noise suddenly came from the factory.
This kind of noise didn't sound consistent with "kidnapping by an acquaintance". After all, Takei Naoko was just a high school student who wasn't a detective. She had never seen this kind of scene before. She panicked and wanted to ask someone to let her out.
But no one heard her shout.
Just when I was feeling a little desperate, a face suddenly appeared outside the dusty window.
Naoko Takei: "!!"
She was startled and stepped back. After a few seconds, she finally saw the "ghost" that suddenly appeared.
——The person who was leaning against the window to look at her was not some factory ghost, but rather looked familiar. After taking a closer look, she recognized him and was surprised and delighted: "Jiang Xia!"
Although Takei Naoko was not familiar with this classmate at all, she even suspected that Jiang Xia didn't know her at all, but it didn't matter. She knew Jiang Xia and had heard of this classmate's deeds. In her impression, Jiang Xia usually caught the murderer alive, and only in very rare cases would the murderer die accidentally.
After all, he was the only acquaintance she had met in the past few days besides the kidnapper. The moment she recognized the person outside the window, Takei Naoko was so excited that tears came to her eyes.
She asked repeatedly, "What was that explosion just now? Sister Akiko is fine, right?... Oh, by the way, you may not recognize me, I'm your classmate, my name is Takei Naoko. Can you let me out? I want to know what's going on outside."
Jiang Xia: "..." Didn't Conan say she was very introverted? Why does she seem to talk a lot...
But that's not the point. He nodded and looked up at the window in front of him.
The window lock was installed inside the house and had been welded shut, making it extremely difficult to pry it open from the outside.
Jiang Xia didn't like picking locks, so he decided to use a more direct approach: "Stay away."
Takei Naoko nodded and stepped back obediently.
Jiang Xia originally wanted to pick up a stone, but before bending down, the figure of Toru Amuro suddenly flashed through his mind.
“…”
After hesitating for a moment, he finally did not bend down, but just took a half step back, gathered his energy in his dantian, and then punched forward.
With a loud bang, the window shattered.
Jiang Xia withdrew his hand, looked down, and found that his sleeve was cut by several holes caused by broken glass.
He stepped aside and silently shook off the glass shards on his body: Fortunately, I put some clay inside, otherwise it would not be the clothes that were torn, but myself.
Jiang Xia: “…” Come to think of it, how come the boss never got scratched when he smashed various windows with his bare hands before?
I'll have to ask him for advice when I have time. Maybe this undercover agent has some secret tips on breaking into the enemy camp... or is this some kind of talent, just like Conan's persuasion skills?
The glass fell down with a crash. Jiang Xia picked up another branch and used his hand with an intact sleeve to poke away the few pieces of glass that were about to fall off. "Okay, come out."
Takei Naoko was stunned.
She was stunned for a moment before she crawled out and hurriedly looked at Jiang Xia's arm: "Thank you, are you okay?"
"..." Jiang Xia didn't expect that he would be seen withdrawing his hands so quickly. His expression was calm, "It's okay."
He took a step forward and quietly blocked a stone in the weeds near his feet: it was not that he thought he could break the window with his bare hands if others could, but there happened to be no suitable props nearby and he was eager to save people.
Fortunately, Takei Naoko did not dwell on these details. She glanced at Jiang Xia's hand hanging by her side and saw that there was no blood flowing down the cuffs. It looked like he was really not injured, so she breathed a sigh of relief.
Then she was in no mood for small talk, so she just thanked him and rushed towards the place where the explosion came from.
Jiang Xia caught up with her.
The two of them walked one in front and one behind, and quickly went around the side where there was no fire to the front of the warehouse.
A large crowd of people had gathered here. The police were maintaining order at the scene, the firefighters were busy putting out the fire, and the reporters tried to rush to the front line, but couldn't, so they just found a place and started broadcasting the situation live to the camera.
Conan and Kinoshita Yoko thought of Jiang Xia who went in to pick up the cat, and their faces turned pale. A reporter next to them had a sad face: "We just got some unfortunate news. In order to delay the kidnappers' action, Jiang Xia went deep into the tiger's den and unfortunately died. The details will be..."
As he spoke, he tried to pass the microphone to Yoko Kinoshita, but Yoko Kinoshita didn't seem to react, so the camera turned and didn't capture her, but instead captured a person who happened to be passing by.
Jiang Xia: "...Who was killed?"
"Jiang Xia, don't you know?" The reporter turned around with a sad face, saw the person next to him clearly, and suddenly froze.
“…”
“Ghost——!!!”
Jiang Xia: “…”
...It seems that this reporter's psychological quality is not very good.
Jiang Xia cleared his throat and issued a condemnation: "The world is materialistic, don't casually express such views that mislead the public." Don't shout casually, it will scare his ghost.
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
