Chapter 2766-2778 [Rat’s Natural Enemy]
How to slow down Bourbon?
After sending the two children home, Jiang Xia took out his cell phone and called Toru Amuro.
…
Starlight Hotel.
After arriving here, Toru Amuro quickly determined the room where Taku Itakura would stay.
He adjusted the security hat on his head, touched the waiter uniform he had just taken out of his bag, pretended to be on patrol, and walked all the way to the kitchen.
——According to his observations these days, Itakura Takuya is a night owl, who has the habit of sleeping during the day and working at midnight. Therefore, this programmer often orders midnight snacks.
This was undoubtedly a good opportunity to trick him into opening the door. As long as he took over the food truck and sprinkled some drowsiness drugs in it, he could enter the house and pick the person up in a few minutes.
The plan went very smoothly, but at this moment, the cell phone he placed close to his body buzzed and a call came in.
“…”
Toru Amuro took out his cell phone, glanced at the screen, and his finger instinctively moved to the hang-up button.
But suddenly, he remembered the opportunity he missed to catch Akai Shuichi after hanging up the phone...Toru Amuro finally failed to press the button.
"Thinking about it carefully, Jiang Xia has been quite sensible recently. He usually emails me when there is something." Amuro Toru muttered to himself, "He called me suddenly. Could it be that he encountered a situation so urgent that he couldn't email?"
After thinking about it for a while, he finally convinced himself and answered the phone.
"Boss." Jiang Xia's low voice came from the other end of the phone, with a bit of solemnity and thought, "There is one thing I don't know whether I should say it or not."
Toru Amuro answered quickly: "Did Akai Shuichi come to see you again?"
"?" Jiang Xia, "No."
Amuro Toru was puzzled: "What is that?"
Jiang Xia paused for a few seconds, as if he was choosing his words. After a while, he said, "I saw Conan suddenly rush out on a skateboard before, so I followed him worriedly. When we passed a sushi restaurant on the way... I saw a familiar car in the parking lot behind the restaurant from the reflection of the billboard on the side of the house."
"Sushi restaurant?" Toru Amuro quickly reviewed the places he had passed by and gradually locked onto a store. He suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart, "What car?"
Jiang Xia: "Porsche 356a."
“……” Toru Amuro’s heart skipped a beat: his bad premonition came true.
At that time, there was Itakura Taku in front of him and that eye-catching kid on a skateboard jumping left and right in the traffic behind him. His attention was all focused on the front and back, and he really had no time to pay attention to any billboards on the street.
Now that I think about it carefully, that store is indeed owned by the organization. If Gin was also in the store at that time and saw his car and the person he was tracking...
Jiang Xia noticed the silence on the other end of the phone: "But I didn't see the license plate clearly, maybe that wasn't Gin at all, just another fan of the same model of car."
Amuro Toru came back to his senses, maintained a calm tone, and pretended that everything was under control: "I know. You don't have to worry about it, just stay away from here."
After hanging up the phone, Amuro Toru suddenly thought of something.
——Why did Jiang Xia tell him this specifically?
"Could it be that he really has noticed my undercover identity?" This thought flashed through his mind, but Toru Amuro quickly shook his head and dismissed it:
"It may also be that Jiang Xia noticed the tension between me and Gin, and Gin appeared nearby when I was on the move, so Jiang Xia wanted to remind me to avoid me being at a disadvantage with Gin during the internal fight."
Considering the unfriendly relationship between the members of the organization, Toru Amuro felt that this speculation was reasonable.
But compared to this, another thing is more important.
——Can the action of “inviting” Taku Itakura to leave continue?
After weighing the pros and cons for a moment, Toru Amuro stopped and did not continue walking towards the kitchen. Instead, he continued patrolling as if nothing had happened.
If Itakura Taku really had some extremely important information, then he could indeed take the risk and try to capture someone.
But in fact, since this person has neither joined the organization nor been captured and locked up by the organization... that means his value is probably limited. To put it in a worse way, maybe he has no value at all.
This kind of gambling-like action, like opening a blind box, is obviously not something a mature undercover agent should do.
"...It's better to be cautious." In the end, Amuro Toru could only sigh and make a regretful decision:
"I need to confirm whether Gin noticed me first... In addition, even if I want to arrest someone, I can't do it here. I have to at least act somewhere else to make an alibi, so that the suspicious person won't chase me and call me a rat every day."
If we talk about the person that undercover agents fear the most in the organization, Gin is definitely one of them.
Although the two of them didn't have much interaction, Toru Amuro could feel that Gin had never let down his guard against him.
After all, "Bourbon Whiskey"'s partners back then, "Scotch Whiskey" and "Rye Whiskey", were all undercover agents, and the rye whiskey was the one Gin hated the most, Shuichi Akai. Toru Amuro had reason to believe that Gin's suspicion of Bourbon Whiskey was mixed with a bit of personal grudge... But it turned out that this guy was right in his suspicion, he really was an undercover agent.
Thinking of this, Toru Amuro became even more hesitant.
——Gin is his enemy, and so is Uzo. If these two people join forces and deliberately use some cases to force Itakura Taku to change his residence, and then use this as a bait... things will be troublesome.
"I can't let my guard down." Amuro Toru thought, "I'll just forget about it tonight. I'll use this identity to hide for two days and see if the organization has sent anyone to keep an eye on me."
…
After hanging up the phone, Jiang Xia put down his phone, washed up and went to bed.
The next morning, he went next door to eat as usual.
Just as I was about to put down my chopsticks, my cell phone suddenly vibrated and someone called.
Huiyuan Ai looked over and guessed, "Is it the dentist from yesterday?"
Jiang Xia took out her cell phone and found that she had guessed correctly - the person opposite her was Mr. Endo who had lost his son.
When I picked up the phone, I heard Dr. Endo's anxious voice, trying to suppress it: "The kidnappers called! They wanted me to increase the ransom by another 20 million. I agreed and asked them to give me two hours to raise the money."
Jiangxia was playing a public show. When the two fake kids next to them heard this, they immediately put down their chopsticks and came over.
Jiang Xia: "Did you have a conversation with your son during this call?"
"Yes, yes. Just like yesterday, Keita is in a good mood and healthy." Dr. Endo asked puzzledly, "But... he said some nonsense, which sounded a little strange."
Jiang Xia: "What nonsense?"
Dr. Endo: "He said to me happily, 'Dad, there are so many crabs here!'
"Just when I was wondering what was going on, the kidnapper yelled at him and told him not to say those nonsense words.
"But my son was still very excited and kept saying 'There's a whale! The whale is spouting water!'
"I was about to ask more questions, but the kidnapper hung up the phone angrily."
(End of this chapter)
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