Chapter 1964 1972 [Death Preview]
It was not until she walked out of the road and arrived at the bright entrance of the building that Hashimoto Maya suddenly remembered the specific task assigned by Uzo.
——He must observe the environment like that sinister and cunning boss, look for hidden murderous intentions, and then think about how to kill Jiang Xia in a natural way.
For a moment, Hashimoto Maya fell into deep thought: "Murderous intention? Should I let the drunk upstairs fall down and kill him, or pray that Jiang Xia slips and falls when going upstairs?
"Of course, the most convenient and simplest method is to start with food - if Jiang Xia is severely allergic to alcohol, and then he gulps down a bottle of beer out of curiosity, the task can be completed directly.
"But Jiang Xia is a law-abiding detective, and it's extremely difficult to trick him into drinking. This plan can only be implemented two years later at the earliest... Sigh, compared to this, the task of buying land is easier to do. It would be great if all the tasks in the future were this kind of task, but it's a pity that Wu Zuo can't satisfy my small request.
"Speaking of which, how about I just play it off for a year and then get eliminated when the deadline is up? That way I can at least have another year of fun. But if I work under Uzo, I may not be able to survive that long."
That being said, Maya Hashimoto soon became alert: the time limit was set by Uzo, and yesterday he said it was one year, but tomorrow it might become one day because he was dissatisfied with his own slacking.
Unlike all other bosses, you must never take advantage of any loopholes in front of Uzo - if you do, what you will most likely face is not a smooth road, but a scary curly-haired boss with a smile.
"Mr. Hashimoto."
Suddenly a voice sounded beside.
Hashimoto Maya came back to her senses with a start and looked at Jiang Xia, and saw the detective inviting her: "Since you are here, come up and sit with us. This is just to thank you for buying us some wine."
Maya Hashimoto wanted to refuse, but when she turned around, she found that she had been distracted and followed them to the apartment lobby and was about to reach the stairs.
Hashimoto Maya: “…” Maybe this is fate.
Thinking of Uzo's mission, Hashimoto Maya simply said, "Haha, okay, then I'll trouble you. I also want to make more Japanese friends."
As they walked upstairs, Conan fell behind, the suspicion in his eyes so thick that it was about to burst out - who in their right mind would follow a friend all the way to his or her home after meeting him or her by chance?
Even though he has the identity of a "foreigner" as a cover, Hashimoto Maya's Japanese is getting more and more fluent. Conan seriously suspects that this guy originally lived in Tokyo, but was just using a face with obvious mixed-race features to cheat people.
...This person is too suspicious.
And he actually seemed to be coming for Jiang Xia.
Conan was alert and puzzled at the same time, thinking to himself, "But his attitude is strange. He doesn't look like someone who is plotting something, nor does he seem to have a criminal aura... Instead, he seems to be involuntarily doing something?"
I can’t help myself…
Conan suddenly thought of some actors who were forced to take on bad dramas.
A figure in black flashed through his mind, and he suddenly remembered the woman in black who appeared in the Maori Detective Agency in the middle of the night and handed him a passport.
He didn't know if he was overthinking it, but he always felt that Hashimoto Maya's temperament at this moment was somewhat similar to that of the graduate student who had not appeared for a long time - Okiya Subaru.
…
When Kogoro Maori saw Jiang Xia and his friends going out and bringing back a stranger, he couldn't help but feel a little confused.
He stared with drunken eyes and glanced at Hashimoto Maya, and found that there was no sign of being beaten with a baton on his body, so he immediately came to a conclusion in his mind: this guy did not seem to be the source of the banging sound in the middle of the night that Omura Jun mentioned, and he was probably an acquaintance of Jiang Xia.
Kogoro Mouri immediately lost interest in this stranger. He took the beer handed to him by Ran Mouri and continued drinking happily with his old classmates.
Jiang Xia sat nearby and looked at the beers neatly stacked on the table. He picked up a can and played with it in his hands. He had actually just had a few drinks last night, so he didn't have any strong obsession with alcohol at the moment. It was just that the can was icy cold and comfortable to hold, and it went quite well with the iced black tea that was bubbling next to it.
…
Maya Hashimoto didn't want to kill anyone at all at this moment.
Ever since he met Uzo and heard some rumors about him, he has been consciously restraining his murderous intent and trying to make himself a flawless legal citizen in order to deal with one of Uzo's minions - local police.
...After all, for a qualified member of an organization, being treated as a murderer by the police is a more fatal problem than being killed by an ordinary person.
Hashimoto Maya: "..." Speaking of this, I have to say, luckily there is Jiang Xia! - As long as he can bear not to kill anyone, Jiang Xia can help him clear the charge of murder and save him from being silenced.
Thinking of this, the murderous aura that he had suppressed with great difficulty suddenly retracted.
Jiang Xia, who was sitting on the side without looking away, said: "..."
He was very dissatisfied with Hashimoto Maya's murderous speed and was thinking about how to spur this lazy younger brother on.
Just then, a crisp "click" sound came from nearby, like a piece of glass breaking.
Jiang Xia listened and looked towards the utility room nearby: "It seems that the sound came from over there."
Atsushi Omura's hand holding the beer can froze, and he suddenly had a bad feeling.
He got up and walked to the hut. He pushed the door open and saw a big hole in his window. Glass fragments splashed in from outside, as if it was smashed by something heavy, but strangely, there were no stones or anything like that on the ground.
Jiang Xia also walked over.
He stood at the door and took a look inside. Before he could go in and take a closer look, he heard a shout suddenly from the street outside.
"Ikuta?" someone shouted, "What are you doing lying here? Wake up!"
When Hashimoto Maya heard the location where the sound came from, her heart suddenly skipped a beat.
He walked quickly to the balcony and looked out, and saw two vague figures in the dimmest place of the street light.
One of them was lying on the ground, not sure whether he was drunk or had a sudden illness. The other one was squatting beside him, as if checking on his condition in the dark.
It was so dark that I couldn't see anything clearly.
But at this moment, a car happened to pass by, and the car noticed something was wrong and slowed down.
The bright car lights shone on the street, illuminating the scene below.
Downstairs, the man lying on the ground had his eyes wide open, his head was vaguely deformed, and a lot of blood was flowing out of his facial features - he was not drunk, nor did he die suddenly, but it seemed that he was hit on the side of the head by something heavy and died in the street.
The place where he fell was exactly where Hashimoto Maya passed by yesterday and stayed briefly.
What was playing in front of him was like another development in a parallel universe, a sequel to the story where Hashimoto Maya would rather die than surrender to Usa - for a moment, Hashimoto Maya was horrified as if the corpse lying downstairs had turned into himself.
(End of this chapter)
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