Chapter 2337 2349 [You are not dead yet? ]
The hour hand passes by minute by minute, and the ticking sound seems to be knocking on people's hearts.
With her extraordinary patience and willpower, Vermouth stayed focused and stayed there until dawn.
Then, facing the peaceful villa, he fell into deep thought: "..."
...What happens next?
Why has there been no movement since that "dong dong" sound? What is the current situation of Vodka, and what is the current situation of Uzo? ... What is the meaning of her existence?
After a brief swim in the ocean of philosophy, Vermouth could not come to a conclusion. She stood up and stretched her stiff body, then couldn't help yawning sleepily.
Although she often stayed up late, being so contented with scrolling through her phone that she didn't want to go to sleep and being so focused on what was happening downstairs that she couldn't fall asleep were two completely different things.
"Forget it, it's useless to think about it now, I'll know after I go out and take a look." Vermouth thought as she turned and went into the bathroom. She carefully adjusted her makeup in front of the mirror to cover up the dark circles under her eyes.
After confirming that there was nothing wrong with her appearance, she walked to the door. But she did not go out immediately, but put her ear to the door to listen to the noise outside.
She waited for a minute until people got up and went downstairs, then pushed the door open and walked out as if nothing had happened.
Just after taking a step outside, Vermouth paused slightly.
——The door opposite happened to open, and Jiang Xia walked out. This guy who had kept others awake for half the night was now refreshed, as if he had had a good sleep.
When he looked up and saw Vermouth, he greeted her in a good mood: "Good morning."
"..." Vermouth tried to smile, "You look like you slept well."
Jiang Xia recalled the faint scent of apples that he could smell in his dream yesterday, and nodded sincerely: "Thanks to you."
Vermouth: “?”
...What does this mean?
What did she do?
What else happened without her knowing?
Vermouth became silently alert, quickly recalling her every move, trying to interpret different meanings from them.
Before I could figure out where the flaw was, suddenly, a terrified scream came from downstairs.
“Someone, come quickly!” someone shouted in the living room, “Don’t sleep, something happened!”
When the fake detective heard the call, he stopped chatting with his colleagues and went downstairs quickly in two steps.
Vermouth looked at Jiang Xia's back, and remembered the screams downstairs, and she became alert.
"It seems that Vodka has finally left. I spent half the night there for nothing."
As Vermouth chased Jiang Xia downstairs, she sighed with grief.
It's a bit pitiful, but who can blame Vodka for knowing too much? According to her speculation, Cool Guy and Angel are also quite important people to Uzo - if Cool Guy's acting skills were better, or Vodka's observation skills were worse, this kind of thing would not have happened. "
She shook her head silently. "Be more careful in your next life, 'Mr. Yamada'."
"Um." Someone suddenly spoke up, staring at her silent lips, "Were you calling Yamada just now?"
"No." Vermouth raised her head calmly and was about to explain, but suddenly she was stunned.
——A burly man wearing sunglasses with slightly faded dark circles under his eyes stood opposite her, looking at her with a slight wariness.
Vermouth stepped back suddenly: "?!"
Vodka was startled by her sudden action: "?!"
…
After the awkward encounter, the two organization cadres did not communicate with each other. They each vaguely realized something, looked at each other warily, and then continued to walk to the living room without saying a word.
"How come this guy is still alive? He actually escaped Uzo's trap?"
Vermouth said nothing more, but her heart was not at peace at all: "What was that strange knocking sound I heard yesterday? I thought I could reverse-construct what happened there by seeing the crime scene, but now..."
Her curiosity began to surge, and she almost wanted to sneak into Vodka's room to take a look.
However, soon, this impulse was forcibly suppressed: "No, curiosity kills the cat, especially when Wuzo is nearby. I must not leave the team to investigate alone. Although Wuzo seems to be more interested in vodka, I must not forget that I may also become his target."
Thinking of the messy and tragic deaths on the Uzo stage in the past, Vermouth closed her eyes and completely abandoned the idea.
She turned her attention to another thing: "Speaking of which, since Vodka is not dead, why was there someone shouting downstairs just now?"
…
Jiang Xia stepped into the living room and saw the terrified tour guide and the messy floor.
——The tables, chairs and furniture here were all violently overturned. It was obvious that someone had broken in and deliberately destroyed them.
"Is it that villa-destroying lunatic?" The tour guide was devastated. "He really came to our campsite!"
Jiang Xia comforted him casually, then swept his eyes across the room and stopped on the large refrigerator in the corner.
Conan also saw that. He suddenly noticed a detail and secretly winked at his classmates.
However, due to the large height difference, his glance fell on empty space and no one noticed.
“…”
After a moment's silence, the fake elementary school student had to secretly glare at Vodka, then endured the humiliation and reached out to poke his classmate's legs.
After Jiang Xia and Hattori Heiji looked at him, Conan whispered: "There is a piece of clothing stuck in the gap of the refrigerator door - there is someone in there."
"Could it be that the guy was halfway through the destruction and noticed someone approaching, so he hid?" Hattori Heiji picked up a chair and tiptoed towards the refrigerator, intending to launch a surprise attack on the guy hiding inside.
But he soon felt something was wrong. He stared at the cloth stuck in the gap of the refrigerator door and had a bad feeling in his heart: "The color of this piece of clothing...why does it look familiar?"
Next to him, Jiang Xia reached out and opened the cabinet door.
As the refrigerator door opened, a corpse leaning against the door fell out, brushed past Jiang Xia and fell to the ground with a thud.
This is a successful middle-aged or elderly man who is dressed fashionably in a pink shirt and white trousers - it is the real estate tycoon who fled in panic yesterday.
At this time, there was a bloody wound on the side of his neck caused by an axe, and his face was a bloody mess. The cause of death was exactly the same as the body that fell from the tree yesterday morning.
Because the body was placed in the refrigerator, it had already cooled down completely. Without further investigation, the detectives shook their heads and sighed: the person was already dead and there was no hope of saving him.
Behind him, other people also heard the noise and came over one after another.
Seeing the body, Mrs. Fu was stunned for a moment, unable to believe: "My...husband?!"
(End of this chapter)
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