Chapter 3108 3120 [Vermouth's Defeat]
A series of ding-dong sounds.
A minute passed and no one answered.
Vermouth looked at the dead silence at Agasa's house: "......?"
Her heart sank, and she had a bad feeling. After hesitating for a moment, the "newspaper salesman" raised her hand, and with an indescribable feeling, she rang the doorbell again.
“Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong——”
The passing crows were all disturbed by the noise and looked down, but there was no response from the house.
"Are you here to see Dr. Agasa?" A postman stopped beside her, stuffed a travel postcard into the mailbox, and chatted casually, "Half an hour ago, I met his car at the traffic light and chatted with him for a while - he went out for an outing."
Vermouth: "..."
The busy postman did not stay long. He glanced at the unhappy guest with a puzzled look, then waved his hand, thinking it was better to mind his own business, and continued with his work.
As the bicycle drove away, the street became empty again.
A cold wind blew by, rolling up a few fallen leaves. Belmode stood alone on the street, silently wrapping up his coat like an empty-nest old man.
After a long while, she finally couldn't help but yelled in her heart: "..." Wuzo! !
…
I was angry, but I couldn't just barge into someone else's house in broad daylight. And on the wall of this tech grandfather's house, there were some things that looked weird at first glance, but made people feel cold when they looked closely.
In addition, Uzo's house was next door, and there were a few cameras hanging on his walls. After hesitating for a long time, Vermouth finally gave up the idea of forcing her way into the house and left sadly.
As she walked further away, a camera in the street light quietly stopped turning.
…
On the drive from Tokyo to Izu.
Noah lay on Jiang Xia's shoulder, pushed up his non-existent glasses, and reported to Jiang Xia like a diligent secretary: "Vermouth really went to our place!"
Jiang Xia nodded, leaning against the car window and taking a sip of coffee: "I thought I would find a way to make Vermouth's tire burst so that I could delay the departure of Professor Agasa, who is a procrastinator. I didn't expect that Vermouth's procrastination is even worse. Professor Agasa and Haibara Ai are almost out of Tokyo, and she just left..."
Although I was a little skeptical about the efficiency of this organization member, no matter what, the travel companions I packed with finally set off one after another.
Jiang Xia stretched himself and forgot about Vermouth for the moment. Then he stood up and walked along the carriages, looking for the Maori family who were also on the train.
The three people were using a travel package and were sitting in a different section from him. But they were on the same train after all, and since he had nothing else to do, he might as well sit next to them and maybe pick up some interesting cases.
…
“A-choo!”
Conan, who was hiding in the bathroom and making a phone call, rubbed his nose and looked towards the door vigilantly.
Not noticing that no one was eavesdropping, he retreated back to the corner and continued to talk to Hattori Heiji on the other end of the phone: "What exactly is the conspiracy of the 'mysterious person' who invited Jiang Xia?"
Hattori Heiji listened to the rumbling sound on the phone and scratched his head speechlessly: "Do you have to call me while you are in the car? It is difficult for me to hear clearly."
Conan snorted, eager to share his experience with this little friend: "What can I do? - You have no idea what I just saw in the parking lot."
Hattori Heiji was curious: "What did you see?"
Conan: "Vodka!"
Hattori Heiji: "!"
He stood up in shock! ... and then quickly sat back on the stool with boredom: "It's not surprising to run into that guy by chance - don't you run into him every now and then?"
"That's different." Conan said seriously, "Recently, the frequency of those people appearing around Jiang Xia seems to have increased. And I always feel that the air in Tokyo is very unsettled. There must be some conspiracy brewing.
"More importantly, Huiyuan seemed to have said that when she was in that organization, she had to report before going out of town - by analogy, their other members should not leave the territory at will.
"But now, Jiang Xia was just asked out by some 'mysterious client', and Vodka appeared in the parking lot of the station right after, looking like he was going out too...
"Something's wrong. I always feel something is wrong. Could it be that they think Jiang Xia is familiar with the Tokyo police and it would be difficult to kill him if he stays here, so they plan to attack him in another place?"
"This..." Hattori Heiji frowned unconsciously after listening to his speculation.
Theoretically, criminals are more inclined to commit crimes in places they are familiar with, so even if they really want to do something, they probably won't leave Tokyo.
But on the other hand, what Conan said made sense - perhaps it was because of Jiang Xia's influence in Tokyo that the group had to change location.
Hattori Heiji: “…” But then again, why did that organization target Jiang Xia?
A high school detective should have nothing to do with them, so what on earth was there that made them make such a fuss about him?
Hattori Heiji always felt that he had discovered something strange that was difficult to explain. Suddenly, a word flashed through his mind, and he muttered: "...Question magnet effect."
If a large group of problematic people spontaneously gather around a certain person, it is very likely that the center of the circle they surround has some kind of negative magnetic field that is strong enough to maintain this state.
- In other words, one or two problematic people all came to Jiang Xia. Could it be because the problem lies with Jiang Xia himself?
As this thought flashed through his mind, Hattori Heiji's heart suddenly skipped a beat and he broke out in a cold sweat.
But he quickly came to his senses, shook his head and slapped himself on the forehead.
"What am I thinking? Isn't this pure victim blaming?"
He exhaled forcefully, as if to expel those strange thoughts from his mind, and at the same time he muttered in his heart: "Speaking of which, didn't Kudo do anything, but was inexplicably beaten into a brat by that organization?
“They also fed Kudo such a precious experimental drug, but they didn’t stay to observe the follow-up... In short, the behavior of this organization cannot be guessed by common sense.
"Also, even though I don't want to admit it, Jiang Xia is definitely not ordinary. I've always thought that I'm an extremely smart person. In fact, my ability to solve cases and my speed of reasoning are better than those classmates who claim to be smart. But since I met Jiang Xia, compared to him, I seem to have become one of those 'ordinary people' in my own eyes.
"It's reasonable that this kind of thinking that is far beyond the ordinary people was targeted by that organization and they wanted to use it...
(End of this chapter)
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