Chapter 320 A World for Two Without Jiang Xia
Among this large number of puppets, perhaps only the pregnant woman and Xiaobai are relatively normal and will not be regarded as strange creatures.
But the staff would definitely not feel at ease if they were allowed on board.
Even if the crew finally let the pregnant woman on board due to regulations, they might sneak over to check from time to time to prevent any accidents. As for Xiao Bai…if he was driven onto the ship and no guardian could be found, he would most likely be treated as a lost child and sent directly to the police station.
...When can I find a normal adult male ghost? It would be best if the tattoo is hidden and not on the face... Jiang Xia sighed and adjusted his sunglasses. A second later, he pulled the sunglasses down again to cover the tattoo under his eyes again.
He drove Miyano Akemi's puppet to the boarding gate, took out the old version of the banknotes to show the staff, and boarded the ship as an independent guest.
After entering the room and locking the door, Jiang Xia disbanded the puppets, intending to rebuild them when needed.
His consciousness returned to his body. He opened his eyes in his body, then picked up a novel and opened it to kill time while waiting for the ship to depart.
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Ten minutes later, Hattori Heiji brought Conan to the port.
It was almost time for the ship to depart, and the passers-by who had come because of the advertisement had already left one after another. Hattori Heiji walked to the boarding channel without any hindrance, showed the old version of the banknotes in the letter to the staff waiting there, and boarded the ship.
He walked along the corridor to the lobby. When checking in at the front desk, Hattori Heiji shook the old version of the banknote in his hand and asked, "Why can I get on the ship just by showing you this?"
The receptionist was startled, and her expression was strange for a moment. This made her suspect that Hattori Heiji did not solve the puzzle himself, but heard the news that "old banknotes can be used to buy free travel opportunities" from somewhere.
This is cheating...
But the receptionist changed her mind and realized that she was just an employee and she didn't have to pay for the guests' expenses. She quickly adjusted her expression and responded with a smile: "Because that's what the gentleman who prepaid the boat fare asked for."
Hattori Heiji was stunned. The anonymous sender actually hired a whole ship to ask him to solve the case? ... This was too sincere. What case did the client want to investigate?
A series of shocking cases involving wealthy families began to emerge in the mind of the Osaka detective.
After a moment, he hid his excitement at the huge challenge and asked calmly, "Where is that gentleman now? I want to go say hello to him."
Conan also looked at the front desk curiously.
The receptionist shook her head in embarrassment: "I haven't met him. He contacted us by phone, and the prepaid fee was also transferred directly. We have never had any private contact."
Hattori Heiji nodded thoughtfully and didn't ask any more questions.
In this case, the client's identity is also a mystery. Well... maybe this is actually a test. The client may be hiding on the ship, waiting to see when the detective will find him.
Hattori Heiji felt a surge of fighting spirit in his heart.
After leaving the front desk, he wanted to pat his colleague on the shoulder to express competition and friendship.
But due to the height problem, he could only lower his hand and touch Conan's head: "Haha, finally Jiang Xia didn't answer first this time, let's compete, Kudo!"
"..." Conan silently pulled his hand away.
Maybe because he had been with Jiang Xia for too long, he felt that Hattori Heiji was still a little kid when he heard this declaration. However, Conan subconsciously looked at the people around him and thought that the employer might be hiding on the ship.
The two put away their luggage, took a quick look around, and found that there were several other guests on the ship.
This made Hattori Heiji realize that there were some errors in his previous thinking - the client did not hire an entire ship for him, but probably just paid for a position for him.
...This made Hattori Heiji a little disappointed. It wasn't that he was disappointed that the other party didn't spend money on him, but that in this way, all the reasoning dramas he had just imagined could not be realized.
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Maybe it was not time for dinner yet, there were very few people on the boat, and there were only two guests in the restaurant besides the service staff.
One is a middle-aged man with glasses and a stern face, Minoru Ebina, and the other is a very silent, squinty-eyed uncle named Terukichi Kameda who looks like a taro.
I don't know if the two of them were introverted or in a bad mood, but they just exchanged a few polite words very tensely and left quickly.
Hattori Heiji found nothing and could only return to his room temporarily.
In the evening, he and Conan came to the restaurant at dinner time.
This time, there were more people than before, but compared to the entire ship, the population density was still too sparse.
Conan also found it a little strange.
After sitting down at the table, he stopped a passing waiter and asked in a childish voice, "Uncle, why is there only so few passengers on such a big ship? It's so deserted."
The waiter wanted to say that there were only so many people who could answer the question correctly, but he thought that this might be misinterpreted as him mocking the passengers who failed to get on the ship. So in the end, he just repeated Conan's words in another way with a strong desire to survive: "Including the three passengers resting in the room now, there are only 11 people participating in this Ogasawara trip."
Conan and Hattori Heiji were both stunned.
There were only three people resting in the cabin? There were fewer passengers on this ship than they thought.
At this time, Kujirai Sadao, who was well-dressed and well-built, twirled his mustache and joined the conversation with great interest:
"Oh, by the way, I remember there was an old scholar among the passengers. We met him in the corridor this afternoon and chatted with him for a while. He seemed to be an expert in marine life research?"
The waiter thought about the guest registration form and said, "Are you talking about Mr. Ye Caisan? He did say that he is very knowledgeable about the ocean."
Just as Hattori Heiji felt that the name "Ye Caisan" sounded familiar, he saw the expressions of all the passengers in the restaurant change. Some were panicked, some were complicated, and some were hateful.
The detective radar alerted Hattori Heiji and Conan: "...Ye Saizo is it?"
The short-haired woman sitting nearby looked at them, smiled lightly, and said with a nostalgic tone: "He is a criminal genius known as the 'Shadow Planner.' He was also the mastermind behind a 400 million bank robbery 20 years ago... After that case, he disappeared."
Not far away, Mist Tengu was hovering beside the dining table, watching the scene carefully.
Jiang Xia did not show up at dinner. He did not want his presence to interfere with what was going to happen next, but he was a little curious about how far the situation had progressed, so he temporarily transferred his vision and hearing to the ghost and let the ghost float out to check the situation.
To Jiang Xia, except for Hattori Heiji and Conan, everyone else in the restaurant looked unfamiliar. However, he still matched the real people with the characters in the spoilers based on each person's characteristics.
(End of this chapter)
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