Chapter 319: Pick the Dwarfs Anonymous
In order not to scare away others, such as Hattori Heiji or some potential criminals, Jiang Xia specially prepared a hat and scarf when he came this time.
On the freezing seashore, this kind of outfit is not unusual.
There were many people queuing up to take part in the quiz with prizes. Some were holding Rubik's Cubes, some were carrying yo-yos, and there was even a strong man carrying a samurai sword, as if he wanted to demonstrate the samurai spirit on the spot, but none of them met the organizer's requirements.
After the brother wielding the knife was dragged away by the security guard, Jiang Xia picked up his luggage, walked forward, and showed the old version of the banknote to the crew member guarding the door.
The crew member smiled politely and raised his hand towards the boarding passage at the back: "Correct, please come in."
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Enter the passage and walk through the corridor, and you will see a lobby that looks like the reception desk of a luxury hotel.
Compared with the vastness of the ship, there were not many passengers on board, and there were only a handful of people bringing old banknotes, even fewer than the staff.
Several people were standing at the front desk, and some were sitting on lounge chairs, waiting for the front desk to assign them rooms.
Jiang Xia glanced around the circle and felt a little dazed - there was so much murderous aura, it seemed that everyone on this boat had a story.
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After the people in front left one after another, Jiang Xia got up from the lounge chair and walked to the counter.
The receptionist was a young lady with a bun and a typical passerby face.
Jiang Xia looked down at the name registration book she pushed over to him and found that each person had an independent page and the name would not be seen by later people, so he wrote his real name with confidence.
Of course, I use cursive script, so that even if others see it, they won’t be able to recognize it at a glance.
There is also an occupation column on the registration book. Jiang Xia wrote "student", this time using a font that is slightly easier to recognize.
The receptionist took the registration book he handed back, looked at Jiang Xia's handwriting with a puzzled look, then showed him the layout of the room and told him that since there were few guests, he could choose a room he liked.
Jiang Xia pointed at random and chose Room 2.
After taking the key and heading towards the room, the ghosts were obviously a little more lively than usual. They were attracted by the murderous aura everywhere and looked around from time to time.
Jiang Xia also looked carefully at several rooms, thinking about who to start with.
I remember that there was a bank robbery in Tokyo twenty years ago.
Ye Caisan, who was known as the "Shadow Planner" at the time, took three accomplices, robbed 400 million from the bank and killed a female bank employee.
Ye Caisan was known for his meticulousness and flawless methods. At the same time, he insisted on only seeking money and not killing. Therefore, after the bank robbery, when he learned that the female employee who was shot had unfortunately died, he felt guilty and wanted to turn himself in. However, he was stopped by three accomplices and shot into the sea to silence him.
The stolen money could not be used directly, so the remaining three people decided to split up first, and wait until the 20-year statute of limitations had passed before taking out the money and dividing the loot. The safe they used to store the money required a signature, a seal, and a key to open it. In order to prevent someone from embezzling it, the three people divided the three essential items for opening the box equally, with each person holding one.
At the same time, this item is also the secret code they agreed upon for meeting each other twenty years later - in order to evade pursuit, the three of them plan to have plastic surgery each, so that it will be difficult to recognize people by face, and they can only use objects to identify them.
However, some people still had evil thoughts.
——Now, 20 years later, Kujirai Sadao, who was in charge of the signature among the three, decided to invite the two accomplices to the boat, kill them one by one, take their keys and seals, and then put the blame on Ye Caisan. When they killed Ye Caisan, no outsiders were present, and the outside world did not know that Ye Caisan was dead. It was speculated that Ye Caisan fled after committing the crime.
In order to put the blame on someone, someone needs to make the inference.
So Kujirai Sadao, who lived in Kansai, wrote that anonymous letter, inviting Hattori Heiji to board the ship.
At the same time, in order to accurately attract the two accomplices, he used the name "Guchuan Da" when he published the game advertisement with prize guessing. "Guchuan Da" has few strokes and is very easy to remember. It was a pseudonym that Ye Caisan often used in the past.
Kujirai Sadao felt that the outside world did not know this, and only his two accomplices understood what it meant.
However, in fact, "Guchuanda" is the name "Ye Caisan" rotated 90 degrees and re-spelled.
So this time, those who were led onto the ship were not only the two accomplices from that year, but also Ye Caisan’s daughter who had been wondering where her father had gone, the fiancé of the bank employee who was killed that year, and the bank employee’s father...
And Jiang Xia, who knows the spoilers by heart.
In short, except for the detective who suddenly showed up, the people on the ship were roughly divided into two groups, the robbers and the victims.
Hidden among the robbers is Sadao Kujirai, who wants to kill all his accomplices.
The other two robbers actually also had some ideas about embezzling the property - although the person who had the signature could not be killed, as long as the other person who held the key or seal was eliminated, there would be one less person to share the money, and they would have an extra 60 to 70 million in wealth out of thin air.
In addition, the fiance of the deceased bank employee was also a ruthless man. This middle-aged man named Ebina Minoru brought a large box of time bombs and decided that if the robbers were found on the ship, he would use the bombs to blow up the entire ship and die together. If no one was found, he would throw the bombs into the sea.
Neither side is easy to deal with. The neutral Jiang Xia counted the number of people with murderous aura and felt that the trip was worthwhile.
He quickly found his room No. 2, walked in, locked the door, and put his luggage and body in place.
Then he transferred his consciousness to his puppet.
——Before boarding the ship, he deliberately left a puppet in a hidden place near the port.
There were too many people on the ship with their own thoughts. Although Hattori Heiji and Conan were very good at attracting murders, they were also very good at causing trouble and causing death. In order to be on the safe side, Jiang Xia thought that he should hire a helper for himself.
If the situation is under control, disperse the puppet, and then condense it again after everything is over, and let it get off the boat and leave.
If there is a situation where puppets can be used, after the action of "boarding the ship", the puppets can naturally show up. Otherwise, if they come and go without a trace every time, it will broaden the detectives' imagination and make them doubt science, and the advantages of puppets will be greatly reduced in the future.
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Soon, in a corner near the port, a puppet stood up, carrying an old version of a 10,000 yen bill, and walked towards the ship that was surrounded by murderous aura.
The puppet was wearing a long black dress, a black wide-brimmed hat, and a pair of large sunglasses on her face, covering the "z" mark that could not be hidden under her right eye.
That’s right, this time, Jiang Xia chose Miyano Akemi as the filler for the puppet.
As for other ghosts... Mist Tengu and mermaids are not suitable to appear outside of comic conventions; the parent ghosts can only hug each other when getting on the boat, or use up a lot of murderous energy to shrink one of them as much as possible, turning it into a thin man with a weird beer belly, or a pregnant woman who looks like she is about to give birth... As for Xiaobai, the appearance of the Xiaobai puppet is still that of a child.
(End of this chapter)
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