Chapter 2235 2247 [Failure]
The old man was a little timid at first, but when he heard what Akai Shuichi said, his eyes lit up, and his cloudy eyes glowed again: "'Also'... So, you have asked Jiang Xia for a commission?"
——He has dealt with such a sharp detective like Jiang Xia, but has not been sent in. It seems that the young man next to him just looks fierce and is not a bad person?
The old man immediately felt relieved, and at the same time secretly reflected on his behavior of judging people by their appearance.
Shuichi Akai noticed that his guard had dropped, and said, "Jiang Xia is a very reliable detective. What do you want to see him about? Perhaps I can provide you with some consulting experience - by the way, what's his name?"
The old man did not tell his commission, but only laughed and said: "My last name is Shitara Shigekichi."
Shuichi Akai originally wanted to find out the name and then look it up, but he didn't expect it to be such a rare surname. He quickly associated the corresponding Chinese characters in his mind.
Shitara Shigekichi obviously knew that his name was special. It was raining and the car window was fogged up. He reached out and wrote two words on the window: "This is the surname."
Then he looked at Akai Shuichi: "What about you? How do you write your name?"
Akai Shuichi glanced at the car window, and at this moment, his eyes fixed, he felt someone gently touching the other side of his coat pocket.
——Shitara Shigekichi secretly put something in his windbreaker.
Akai Shuichi: "..." Is this the killer sent by Uzo? Did he plant a bomb?
No, the weight was not right. And the man's movements were flustered and furtive, and he looked like a novice.
He pretended not to notice and glanced at the car window twice, but did not raise his hand to write. He just gave a simple fake name in Chinese characters: "My name is Tanaka Taro, the most ordinary 'Tanaka'."
Shitara Shigekichi: “Uh…”
The name Tanaka Taro is one of the common names of passers-by in various works.
The old man looked at Shuichi Akai suspiciously for a few times, suspecting that the young man was giving a false name to fool him, but he couldn't be sure: after all, the reason why this name has become a common name is because it is really very common - whether it is "Taro" or "Tanaka", or even "Tanaka Taro", if you throw a billboard on the commercial street, it will hit several people, maybe the person really is called this name.
He did not expose the truth and continued the previous topic: "I originally planned to look for Jiang Xia, but when I passed by his detective agency, I found that it was closed. Alas, the famous detective must have received a lot of commissions, and I don't know when he will be able to finish his work and come back."
Shuichi Akai: "..." It has nothing to do with the commission. He was just tricked by the new foreign teacher into going on a trip.
After all, the matter was related to him. Although the old man next to him was a little suspicious, Akai Shuichi thought about it and said casually:
"You can email him or call him. His email address is on the registration book at the door, and you can also find the corresponding email and phone number on the website."
Shitara Shigekichi sighed and shook his head: "It's hard to explain over the phone, and emails are also... Oh, I still want to talk to him in person."
At this time, the vehicle stopped at the station again. A burly man with a flat head, wearing a white windbreaker and sunglasses, got on the bus and sat down in an empty seat.
When Shitara Shigeyoshi saw that person, his expression changed slightly and a few drops of cold sweat appeared on his forehead.
Akai Shuichi glanced at him, and then his eyes fell on the passenger who had just boarded the bus: "..." Shitara Shigekichi was afraid of this man? Who was this?
Shitara Shigekichi was obviously a little restless. He was stunned for a while and asked Akai Shuichi: "Do you take this train often? Is the Muromachi Hospital Station just in front?"
Shuichi Akai had memorized the route of this suspicious bus long ago. But normal people usually don't memorize such things, so he deliberately glanced at the bus route map posted in front of him, pretended to count a few times, and then answered: "Four more stops."
The two people spoke at normal volumes and the bus was quiet again. The sound of their conversation was clearly heard by the flat-headed man in front.
The man looked back at them and then turned back suddenly.
Shuichi Akai took everything in, said nothing, and just leaned back in his chair comfortably like an ordinary passenger.
But he didn't feel so relieved in his heart. He began to wonder whether the scene before him was a real coincidence or another test by Uzo.
Soon, four stops later, they arrived at the "Muromachi Hospital Station" that the old man had just asked about.
Shitara Shigeyoshi nodded goodbye to Akai Hide, then stood up and got out of the car under the latter's slightly surprised gaze.
Not long after he got off the car, the burly man in a white windbreaker in front of him noticed the movement and immediately got off the car as well.
Akai Shuichi's eyes fell on the two of them, and saw Shitara Shigekichi walked a distance and turned back to look at the bus.
Seeing the flat-headed man following behind him, he was startled and ran away.
The man with the flat head was stunned and started to chase after him. In the blink of an eye, the two of them ran into the alley one after the other.
Akai Shuichi: "...?"
He was stunned for a moment just like the other two.
Because the development of things at this time was completely different from what he expected.
He thought that Shitara Shigeyoshi had deliberately asked him about "Muromachi Hospital Station" in his normal voice just now, intending to feint and pretend to get off at that station. In fact, after the stalker chased him off the bus, he would use the terrain to make a detour, get rid of the stalker and get back on the bus.
However, it didn't happen. Shitara Shigekichi ran away straight after getting off the car, and the stalker was chasing him straight behind. According to the speed of the two people, without deliberately calculating, Akai Shuichi could determine by instinct: within two seconds after entering the alley, Shitara Shigekichi would be caught by the flat-headed man.
"If he had no intention of getting rid of the tracking, why did Shitara Shigekichi ask about my site, and not even try to lower his voice?
"The pursuer was sitting in front of us. He couldn't spy on our movements through the rearview mirror from that position, so he had to look back. If Shitara Shigekichi had lied about a stop and quietly got off at the stop before that stop, he might have been able to get rid of the pursuer. But he revealed the exact stop he got off at..."
Shuichi Akai felt uncomfortable all over because of the superficial scene that just happened, and his heart was filled with awkwardness, as if a person who was good at finding loopholes in a natural layout suddenly encountered a sieve - there were loopholes everywhere, front, back, left and right, which made people a little confused.
He had no choice but to slow down his thinking and rethink: "Maybe Shitara Shigekichi didn't know that the man in the white windbreaker was a pursuer? ... No, his expression changed when the man got on the car. He should have had some premonition. And the pursuer also turned his head and looked at us several times. If a normal person noticed this, he would be alert."
(End of this chapter)
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