Chapter 321 Don’t knock on the door to ask for monthly tickets ()
The short-haired woman who spoke just now was actually Ye Caisan's daughter. She didn't believe that Ye Caisan was dead. Suddenly she saw the advertisement published by "Gu Dachuan" in the newspaper, so she went on board to look for clues.
Listening to her popular science, Hattori Heiji gradually formed an impression of the "Shadow Planner". He remembered hearing about this person from Hattori Heizo a long time ago.
Almost at the same time, a man with white hair and deep wrinkles on his face at the next table came back to his senses after hearing the news that "Ye Caisan is on the boat". He stood up suddenly and asked the waiter in a stern voice: "Where is Ye Caisan's room?"
The waiter was startled: "... in room 1."
Samezaki Shimaji pushed away the dining chair, turned around and rushed to the guest room - he was the father of the bank clerk who unfortunately died in the robbery, and he was also one of the police officers in charge of the case that year.
Today is the 20th anniversary of the "400 million bank robbery". If Ye Caisan can be caught before midnight, the gang can be forced to return the stolen money and pay a price for what happened that year.
Although Hattori Heiji and Conan were still a little confused, they chased after him reflexively.
The waiter hesitated for a moment and followed with concern.
As the four people ran away in a hurry, the group of people in the restaurant who all had some relationship with "Ye Caisan" were silent for a moment, lost the mood to eat, and quickly dispersed.
The Mist Tengu, who was hanging in the air acting as a surveillance camera, looked around and quickly floated towards Jiang Xia's room.
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Room 1 was locked. Samezaki Shimaji knocked for a long time but no one responded.
The waiter opened the door with a spare key and saw that the room was completely empty. There was no one, not even any luggage.
Samezaki Shimaji angrily punched the door, then quickly ran away and prepared to search the boat.
Hattori Heiji and Conan had already figured out the statute of limitations issue at this time and wanted to go and help.
But before leaving, the two passed by Room 2 next door with the door closed, and suddenly thought of something and stopped at the same time.
The two looked at each other and called the waiter who had not yet walked away: "Is there anyone staying here?"
The waiter took out the registration book, looked at it, and nodded. Normally, he should have added "Mr. X", but he glanced at it and couldn't recognize the man's name.
While the waiter was trying hard to recognize the words, Hattori Heiji and Conan's attention had completely shifted to Room 2.
——Although the noise on the sea is very loud, just now, Mr. Samezaki was banging on the door and shouting in the next room No. 1, and the people in Room 2 should have heard some of the noise, but now, the guests here are not paying attention to what is happening outside...
Suspicious, very suspicious.
Then again, not going to the restaurant for dinner is itself a suspicious factor.
...Perhaps the person living here is the mysterious client?
Thinking of this, Hattori Heiji stopped and started knocking on the door.
His intuition told him that there might be extremely important information hidden behind the door.
He frowned and knocked for more than ten seconds. When he was about to ask the waiter to help open the door, the door lock turned with a "click".
Hattori Heiji perked up and looked at the open door.
A second later, his confident smile froze on his face.
...After some effort, he actually knocked out a Jiang Xia.
Jiang Xia seemed to have just woken up. He was straightening his uneven collar with one hand and resting the other hand on the door handle.
The two sides looked at each other, and Hattori Heiji couldn't control his expression: "...Why are you here?!"
At the same time, he subconsciously began to look for the answer in his mind: After he told Conan about the commission, he never separated from Conan until the ship set sail, so it couldn't be Conan who informed on him.
In addition, Mao Lilan and Yuan Shanheye can also be ruled out - if they were the ones who informed on the matter, they must have boarded the ship together, but now, it is obvious that only Jiang Xia is in the room. As for the other two passengers who are said to be resting in the room, one is Ye Caisan, and the remaining one is wrong in number, so it should not be them. In this case...
Could it be that Jiang Xia also received the same anonymous letter of entrustment? Or...
The image of Shizuka Hattori whom he met in the morning came to Hattori Heiji's mind. In order to prevent being backstabbed, he only told Shizuka Hattori about the commission he had received.
It couldn't be what he thought...
As Hattori Heiji's pupils gradually trembled, Jiang Xia looked at him, then looked at Conan who was subconsciously hiding by the door, and said calmly: "I saw the advertisement in the newspaper, it seemed very interesting, so I came to take a look."
Hattori Heiji was startled: "Newspaper?"
Jiang Xia was also startled: "You don't know?"
Seeing that Hattori Heiji was confused, he raised his hand and took the bag hanging on the hanger next to him, took out the newspaper with the advertisement from the backpack, and handed it to Hattori Heiji.
Hattori Heiji took a quick look and his first reaction was relief: Great, his mother didn't betray him.
... Come to think of it, my mom actually doesn't know Jiang Xia at all. Tsk, she's been backstabbed so many times that her thinking has become inertial.
Hattori Heiji pressed his forehead to calm his expression.
Then he glanced at Jiang Xia who seemed to have just woken up, held the door handle as if nothing had happened, and said as he closed the door: "Well, it's nothing, actually. You continue to sleep, we'll leave first..."
"You knocked on the door so urgently just now, maybe something happened." Jiang Xia grabbed the door edge as if nothing had happened, stopping the door from closing. His eyes swept over Hattori Heiji and finally fell on Conan.
Hattori Heiji also turned his gaze to Conan.
Conan was stared at by both parties: "..."
He paused for a moment and said in a chatty tone, "It seems that there is a wanted criminal on board the ship."
"I see..." Jiang Xia straightened his hair that was messed up when he was offline just now, and walked out the door under Hattori Heiji's increasingly desperate gaze, "I can't sleep anyway, I'll help you look for it."
Hattori Heiji looked at Jiang Xia's back as he blended into the team naturally: "..."
...He never knocked on doors randomly in public places again.
After all, no one knows what kind of creature will come out of the door.
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Although Hattori Heiji was quite dissatisfied with Jiang Xia joining his and Kudo's duo team.
But now Jiang Xia was here, and he had knocked her out personally. In the end, Hattori Heiji could only learn from the lesson in his heart while explaining the previous situation to Jiang Xia, adding his own opinion:
"I always feel that the passengers on this ship are very suspicious. No matter how famous a thief is, he shouldn't be so well-known after twenty years. But just now, except for the two of us, all the other guests in the restaurant knew him, and they expressed varying degrees of shock at his existence."
Jiang Xia nodded, indicating that he was listening: "So that's why you followed me here, wanting to see the mysterious 'Ye Caisan' and help arrest him?"
(End of this chapter)
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