Chapter 1857-1865 [Entrapment of Uzo]
Jiang Xia nodded, but quickly shook his head, as if what he had found out made him hesitant.
Seeing this, Hashimoto Maya took the opportunity to speak, pretending to be very considerate: "It's better not to tell me such an important matter! What if I was fooled and the news leaked? You should check it yourself first. If there is anything I can help with..." Don't tell me, I dare not help.
Jiang Xia came to his senses and found that he had misunderstood the reason for his hesitation, so he explained: "It's not an important matter, but I'm afraid that if I tell you too late, you will end up like the previous clients..."
As he said this he sighed, and the rest of the words fell silent.
Hashimoto Maya was puzzled: "How could my former client...!"
Halfway through his words, he suddenly remembered what Jiang Xia had told him on the plane: after he pretended to be Ireland and told Jiang Xia that he was always involved in murder cases recently, Jiang Xia had said that he was not an isolated case - the detective seemed to have noticed similar phenomena a long time ago and had been investigating secretly, but had never found enough strong clues and evidence.
When Hashimoto Maya proposed to meet those unfortunate clients who had the same experience as "herself", Jiang Xia said that they were all dead.
Hashimoto Maya: “…” So it seems unlucky not to listen to Jiang Xia talk about his discovery.
…but it sounds even more “unlucky” to me!
After all, things like "luck" and "bad luck" are something you can still gamble on without hesitation, but when there is Uzo behind the "bad luck" and someone is manipulating the situation behind the scenes without any moral principles, you will definitely lose every time you gamble.
"I..." Hashimoto Maya was so confused that her head almost went bald: it was too strange that she refused to listen to the clues she had entrusted. If she really said "I won't listen!", then maybe Jiang Xia would find out the flaws before Uzo, send her to the police station, and then she would be silenced.
But if I listened... would I be targeted by Uzo because I knew too much?
...Obviously one is a righteous detective and the other is a terrible and conscienceless organizational cadre, but when he puts them in front of him, he finds that these two people are actually fatal factors to him.
Hashimoto Maya wiped her face sadly and finally made up her mind.
Anyway, there are risks in any choice, so it is better to avoid the immediate risk first. If I die, I can still be a ghost who knows the truth. He took a deep breath and said, "You tell me."
Jiang Xia looked at him, seeming a little puzzled by his death-prepared expression.
However, the considerate detective did not make things difficult for the unlucky man who had just experienced a plane crash and encountered two serial murders in a row. He pretended not to see anything and started talking about business: "In fact, we didn't find anything important..." He briefly described the course of the case, "What do you think of this case?"
Hashimoto Maya hesitated and said, "President Izuka got hold of the young female model and sent her to murder the top executives of his own company and eliminate dissidents, but in the end he was exposed in the details and was killed in return. The real murderer produced and sold his own products, and the tool was sent to the police station on the spot. Everything was very... smooth."
Hashimoto Maya: “…” So smooth.
It was as smooth as if Mr. Ireland had been hit three or four times by someone jumping off a building.
But it was just too smooth, and it revealed some traces of the script that couldn't be hidden.
Hashimoto Maya looked at Jiang Xia tentatively: "So..."
Jiang Xia said seriously: "So I think there is a manipulator behind this case who planned everything and acted like a screenwriter. He is the real murderer, 'Funeral Silver Coin'.
"And the dead 'President Izuka' is innocent. He is just a poor stand-in who was pushed out to press the button in time."
Hashimoto Maya: “…” The manipulator, the screenwriter…this is definitely talking about Uzo!
I didn't expect that Uzo would actually be caught by the detective...
Shocked and nervous, Maya Hashimoto's thoughts were in a mess: "..." Come to think of it, when Jiang Xia mentioned the guy Inozuka, he used the prefix "dead". Did he also think that Inozuka was dead?
That's right, I heard that he was shot in the room, and he was shot in the chest. It was so close, he was lucky not to die. But Izuka didn't die on the spot, and there was still some room for rescue... Is Uzo in bad condition?
"And now." Jiang Xia's voice suddenly sounded, interrupting his thoughts.
When Hashimoto Maya came to his senses, he saw the person opposite him extending a hand towards him.
Then he saw the high school detective showing him the iconic, confident smile often seen in newspapers, as if inviting his comrades: "The police and I have already laid out the net and placed the bait, and we are just waiting for the guy hiding behind the scenes to come here after hearing the noise. As a fellow victim involved in this serial murder case, do you want to come along and see what we can catch in the end?"
Hashimoto Maya: “…”
…I don’t want it!!
He stared at Jiang Xia's hand, and for some reason, for a moment he seemed to see a ferocious trap opening quietly in front of him.
The detective is obviously on the side of justice, but maybe it's because she is a criminal who is naturally opposed to the detective... In front of this detective, Maya Hashimoto always has a sense of crisis that she must always be vigilant.
He really didn't want to go, in every sense of the word.
Maya Hashimoto planned to refuse politely.
But before she opened her mouth, she inadvertently caught a glimpse of Jiang Xia's calm eyes, and the hint of scrutiny deep in his eyes, and it was as if a bucket of ice water was poured over her head, and Hashimoto Maya slammed the brakes.
Hashimoto Maya: “…” Wait, think about it carefully. Would Jiang Xia, a detective who would never point out the real murderer before all the evidence is gathered, really tell such important information to a stranger he has only met a few times before the mastermind is caught?
If he refused to participate at this time, turned around and left, and Jiang Xia failed to catch the person... then he would immediately become a suspected leaker in Jiang Xia's mind.
——No, to be more precise, Jiang Xia had already begun to doubt him, so he told him this matter on purpose!
Perhaps this trap is not only aimed at the "real funeral silver coin" who is hiding behind the scenes and is suspected to be Uzo, but also the "Mr. George" who is suspicious in every way.
My brain was racing, and some kind of desire to survive came into play.
When she came to her senses again, Hashimoto Maya found that she had stretched out her hand and firmly held Jiang Xia's hand.
Hashimoto Maya: “…”
I don't want to either.
…But this detective is just too scary.
After thinking for a while, Hashimoto Maya silently concluded: It was all the fault of the Inozuka brothers. Couldn't they kill them faster? In the end, they only killed themselves, leaving the detective here.
(End of this chapter)
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