Chapter 2258 2270 [Weakness of Minions]
After saying that, Jiang Xia looked at Hashimoto Maya who was being held by a few kids, and said with a smile: "Just a little joke - you seem to be very busy recently? Why haven't you come to work for so long?"
When Hashimoto Maya heard this, she felt a chill in her heart for some reason, and instinctively explained, "I suddenly have something that I can't leave for. I'll be back as soon as I finish it."
Jiang Xia seemed to be stunned, then said considerately: "Of course you have to deal with your own affairs first. I'm not that short of manpower here, so there's no need to be so reserved."
Hashimoto Maya came to her senses: "..." It must be because Wu Zuo always lingers around Jiang Xia, which is why I think of Wu Zuo when I see Jiang Xia now, and then I experience a terrible sense of oppression... This must be Wu Zuo's alienation plan, I can't be fooled! Although my people can't run away, my thoughts must be free!
Jiang Xia looked at his slightly changing expression and the sudden weakening of the murderous aura on his body, and was silent for a moment: "..." Why is the change different from what I imagined?
The younger brother's thoughts were hard to figure out, so Jiang Xia simply stopped caring and looked at Conan: "What happened to you?"
Conan: "One..."
He originally wanted to say "a small commission", but when he looked at Hashimoto Maya, and then at Jiang Xia who came after receiving an anonymous email, Conan fell into deep thought for a short while: Could it be that he was thinking wrongly, and this was not a simple misunderstanding, but was there really another hidden story behind it?
…
Anyway, since I'm here, I might as well check it out.
Conan returned to the store and planned to go to the room with the "No Entry" sign to check the situation.
However, when he turned around, he saw the young detectives who had been so active just now huddled together, muttering quietly: "Why don't we go home first? I haven't finished my homework today."
Conan: "..." There is no homework today. You just don't dare to solve the case in a mischievous way under Jiang Xia's nose.
He shook his head and thought that it would be better for these little brats to go back so that they would not be involved in danger.
However, Conan soon discovered that he had overestimated the courage of the naughty kids: the three kids pushed each other, and in the end no one dared to say to Jiang Xia, "Haha, we're leaving", and they just stayed at the scene silently.
Only Mori Rintaro, who had little contact with detectives, welcomed this great detective who came out of nowhere: "I'll take you to see Uncle Kamekura right now!"
He ran back to the restaurant with a group of people and knocked on the door which seemed extremely mysterious to him.
With a creaking sound, the door slowly opened a crack.
A man with a pointed chin and monkey face leaned out and glanced outside the door.
Jiang Xia and Hashimoto Maya were standing far away, so Kamekura Yuji's eyes fell on the children first. He saw his little boss at a glance: "Rentaro? What's the matter?"
Mori Rintaro: “Uh…”
He hadn't figured out how to ask. He couldn't just confront him with "Are you plotting something?"
Conan looked at this real elementary school student and had no choice but to step forward silently. He pretended to be a childish and innocent, looking at Kamekura Yuji admiringly and said:
"It's like this. We heard that since you came here, the restaurant's business has been getting better and better. You are simply the reincarnation of a lucky fish! - Can you let me see your palm?"
"Palm reading?" Kamekura Yuji glanced at the superstitious child, thought for a moment, then smiled and stretched out his hand, "Look."
As soon as he spread his hands, Conan's face changed suddenly.
After Kamekura Yuji retreated to his secret room, Conan pushed the others away and whispered, "His hands are all calloused."
...Could it be that the man is really digging a tunnel with a shovel every day?
"It could also be traces left by the chefs cooking every day." Jiang Xia said, "From your description, this is very similar to the Red Hair Society case. In this case, let's check nearby to see if there is a 'vault' that is worth the thieves spending two or three months digging through."
Theoretically, if there is such an important case, the first thing to do should be to call the police.
When Hashimoto Maya thought of this, she suddenly realized: it seems that Jiang Xia didn't think that someone was secretly digging a tunnel, but perhaps in order not to rule out every possibility, or perhaps in order to teach those young detectives, this high school detective did not point these out, but patiently accompanied the children to solve the case.
Hashimoto Maya: "..." What a good detective. However, Jiang Xia may not know that these promising talents he has targeted have been secretly corrupted by a terrible guy.
As he thought about it, he couldn't help but look at Conan: This little devil is really sinful.
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Following normal thinking, the few of them took a walk on the street.
The three kids from the Junior Detective Team didn't even dare to run away. When they found that Jiang Xia looked relatively friendly at the moment, they understood something and all of them put on a well-behaved look, imitating the detective assistants that occasionally appeared on TV.
"There's a bank! ... Well, the notice says it's been closed for a week. It's about to go bankrupt, so its vault must be empty."
"There's also a jewelry store over here. The jewelry store is open!"
With the diligent work of several young intelligence agents, store intelligence was quickly gathered.
Jiang Xia took a look at the jewelry store and walked in.
"Detective?" The owner of the jewelry store was a middle-aged man dressed in a suit, very Western style, with two slightly curly mustaches.
He laughed when he heard the purpose of the detectives:
“Is there a thief on this street? Don’t worry, our store has the most complete and strict security. No one can steal jewelry from us - this is also thanks to the lessons left by the previous owner.”
Jiang Xia looked at the jewelry store manager with the flag flying high, handed him his business card, and quickly extracted the key words: "The lesson left by the previous owner?"
"That's right." The shop owner stroked his beard and sighed, "A batch of jewelry worth 300 million yen was stolen from this store, and the criminal has not been caught until now."
"If it wasn't like this, I wouldn't be able to kick out the previous owner... Well, if it wasn't like this, we wouldn't have adopted the latest anti-theft system to protect this store like a rock."
Jiang Xia: "When did the theft happen?"
"Let me think..." the shop owner pondered, "About five years ago."
Conan was originally suspicious about something, but when he heard the time limit, he gave up his thoughts:
"I thought the jewel thief hid the gems nearby and planned to sneak back to retrieve them after the statute of limitations had expired...but the civil statute of limitations for gem theft is a full twenty years, and since the theft happened five years ago, it seems I was wrong."
At this moment, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya suddenly said excitedly: "I understand, I understand everything!"
Conan: “……?”
(End of this chapter)
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