Chapter 2794 2806 [Your car is going to explode]
In the garage.
Watching Jiang Xia and Conan walking away, the butler breathed a sigh of relief and leaned on the hood of the car somewhat exhausted.
But soon, he stood up nervously again.
"I didn't seem to hear any footsteps before. When did the young detective come? How much did he hear?" The butler turned around worriedly and looked at the tampered car.
Once you become suspicious, some things seem more and more strange the more you look at them.
He couldn't help but mutter in his heart: "Is this airbag really that conspicuous? Even a primary school student can see it. If she also found the problem, then..."
After hesitating for a moment, the butler took a deep breath and his eyes gradually became firm.
…
Jiang Xia took Conan towards the villa. When he was about to enter the door, he stopped and saw a familiar person.
——Akai Shuichi walked out from the grove on the side. Perhaps because of a whole night of hard work, there were some dark circles under his eyes, and his already ferocious face looked even gloomier.
Conan was startled by what he saw and became alert.
"Mr. Akai?" Jiang Xia tapped the ash off his cigarette, as if he was a little confused. "You...were you looking for the murderer nearby last night?"
"..." Akai Shuichi couldn't say that he saw a familiar curly-haired guy, and he didn't want to say that he had been chasing him all night without catching up.
Therefore, he did not answer, but distanced himself from these innocent citizens in a cold manner: "Don't ask too much, it has nothing to do with you."
Suzuki Sonoko and Mao Lilan, who had just followed the sound, saw this scene and couldn't help but whisper: "This guy was so quiet and honest yesterday, why is he suddenly so aloof today? Did he do something shameful last night, and Jiang Xia mentioned it and hit his sore spot, so his attitude changed drastically?"
Shuichi Akai was keenly aware of their gazes and suspected that the two female high school students were whispering about him behind his back.
However, as a battle-hardened FBI agent, he had long been accustomed to all kinds of stares. He said nothing more and turned away.
——Before going up the mountain, Shuichi Akai didn't expect to meet Jiang Xia here.
And now, having confirmed that Uzo's eyes were fixed upon him, he had to distance himself from these innocent Tokyoites as soon as possible.
…
Several high school students entered the villa, but Shuichi Akai did not follow them in.
He remembered that the housekeeper went to repair the car last night, and he didn't know whether it was fixed or not. If not, he would do it himself, leave this place with no signal as soon as possible, then call the police and use the excuse that a suspect was absconding nearby to have the police block off the area.
In this way, if luck is good, we should be able to catch the slippery curly-haired man - there are no other vehicles nearby, and although he disappeared in the blink of an eye just now, he must not be able to get far now.
…
The housekeeper hurriedly left the garage to prepare breakfast for everyone.
Not long after he left, Akai Shuichi pushed the door open and came to the car.
After looking around the car and sitting in the driver's seat again, Shuichi Akai looked at the airbag on the steering wheel and raised his eyebrows.
…
On the other side, in the restaurant.
Everyone who woke up sat down one after another, waiting for the meal to start. Not long after, the butler came in with a dining cart.
Just as he was about to put down the plate, he suddenly stared at a photo on the dining table and was stunned - the photo was of a young man sitting in front of a grand piano, playing the piano and looking at the camera with a smile.
"Does it look familiar?" Conan sighed as he looked at the photo frame. "This is the photo you put on your bookshelf."
The housekeeper's heart skipped a beat: "You came into my room?!"
Conan nodded. At times like this, the advantage of being a child came into play. If he was still the high school detective he used to be, it would be difficult for him to admit directly that he had broken into someone else's room.
But now, a first grader doesn't have to worry about legal issues. Conan continued like an outlaw: "In addition, I found a lot of chemicals in your cabinet, including sulfur... Ouch!!"
Maori Kogoro retracted his fist: "You rummaged through other people's cabinets and stole things? You really deserve a beating!"
Conan: "..." Damn it, next time I should let this old man fall asleep before reasoning...
Jiang Xia touched the big bump on Conan's head and remembered the sacrifice of his classmate. Then he continued what he had just said and said to the butler: "The explosive in the wine box last night was made by you using fertilizer, sulfur and those chemicals, right?"
The eldest son was stunned when he heard this: "Fertilizer and sulfur, these two things can actually be used to make bombs?"
Jiang Xia nodded: "As long as it is mixed in the proper proportion, its power will not be much weaker than the yellow bomb."
The butler gritted his teeth and snorted, "Nonsense! Not to mention whether I can make such a thing, even if I can, why would I kill the master? He pays me so much, I can't thank him enough."
Jiang Xia glanced out the window and began to tell a story from the past: "Five years ago, under the coercion of the deceased Mr. Horita, Ms. Fumiko's fiancé committed suicide. And everything you did today was actually to avenge him.
“You are the housekeeper here, and all birthday gifts received by the deceased will pass through your hands.
“So after receiving the rye whiskey sent by Mr. Ryoji, you set a mechanism inside the box and put in a homemade bomb made with phosphate fertilizer and sulfur.
"This type of bomb has no smell of gunpowder and is very easy to ignite, making it difficult for the deceased to detect it. When he was opening the presents at night, he was caught off guard and triggered the mechanism, killing him."
The eldest son suddenly realized: "I see... I knew it, how could Ryoji have the guts to kill someone."
The eldest sister-in-law looked confused: "But Liang Er had a knife in his bag, and he also ran away. Who else could the murderer be if not him? - Could it be that he and the housekeeper were accomplices?"
Jiang Xia shook his head: "Mr. Liang Er is just a scapegoat used to divert everyone's attention. His disappearance was also caused by the butler - only by clearing himself of suspicion can the butler proceed with the next plan and kill the second person he wants to kill."
“?!”
Horita Hiroshi, who was watching the show leisurely, hugged his wife in an instant: "What does this have to do with us! We have nothing to do with Kentaro's death!"
Just at this moment, a car drove past the window and headed out of the yard.
"Hmm?" Suzuki Sonoko noticed something was wrong. She leaned on the back of the chair and looked out. "Didn't they say that all the cars here are broken down and there's no way to leave? But how come something that looks like a car just whizzed past outside?"
The butler suddenly smiled, and his smile was meaningful: "Of course it's because I fixed my old friend. Now, it will carry the people in the car to where it should go."
(End of this chapter)
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