Chapter 322 I Want Some European Energy
"Yes, and besides him, the other two... the other passenger who didn't come to the restaurant was also a little suspicious. We asked the waiter on the way here, and he said there was no meal delivery service. It's unreasonable to hide in the room during dinner time."
To be fair, Conan actually thought Jiang Xia was suspicious. But thinking about it carefully, Jiang Xia did seem to have a habit of catching up on sleep in any corner whenever he had a chance, so he thought it made sense that Jiang Xia overslept and forgot to have dinner.
Jiang Xia hummed thoughtfully.
He knew that of the three so-called "passengers resting in the cabin", one was "Ye Caisan" disguised as Sadao Kujirai, and one was an anonymous puppet that had been disbanded. None of them existed, and the only real creature was Jiang Xia.
Of course, these things cannot be told to the two detectives.
Jiang Xia went with the two to knock on Anonymous's door, but no one opened it, so they returned to the restaurant.
There were two robbers and a bank employee who had brought a bomb on board in the restaurant, as well as Ye Caisan's daughter.
Jiang Xia's gaze stopped on the leg of robber No. 1 Kujirai Sadao, and saw a fresh ghost clinging to the leg. He knew that the remaining kidnapper had been asked by Kujirai Sadao to be killed.
The serial murder case has begun, and Jiang Xia no longer has to worry about scaring Kujirai Sadao with his appearance.
He looked at the bank clerk who was full of murderous aura and was about to sit down in a place closest to the murderous aura. At this time, Ye Caisan's daughter looked at them, holding a box of poker cards, and came over boredly: "Want to play cards?"
Jiang Xia glanced at her and felt that her eyes were wandering and her attention was not very focused.
He took the poker from Isogai Nagisa and said casually, "You seem nervous?"
Hattori Heiji and Conan twitched their ears, withdrew their gaze from the surroundings, and looked over here at the same time.
Isogai Nagisa chuckled softly and took out a box of cards from somewhere. She cut and shuffled the cards skillfully while speaking in a vague voice, "Nervous? A little, indeed. The sea is a scary place, especially the lightless sea at night. It can hide painful memories, an uneasy future, and even... a corpse."
This inexplicable and strange line made the two detectives look at her with gradually sharper eyes.
This does not include Jiangxia.
In his eyes, Isogai Nagisa was a rare person on the ship who didn't have murderous intent. Compared to other passengers who had their own thoughts, she just wanted to get on the ship to look for someone - Ye Caisan had been missing until now, and although Isogai Nagisa always said that she had lost her father, she still had some expectations in her heart. She felt that if it was past midnight and the statute of limitations was over, if Ye Caisan was really on the ship, he would come out to meet her.
Jiang Xia withdrew his gaze and began to look forward to the arrival of midnight.
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Isogai Nagisa quickly shuffled the cards and called over several other passengers in the restaurant, and the group gathered together to play poker.
Jiang Xia was distracted by the murderous aura lingering around him, but fortunately it had little impact on the game - Mao Lilan was not there today, so almost all the good cards were in his hands.
After playing a few rounds, when Jiang Xia came to his senses, he had a pile of candy beans as chips in his hands.
The others stared at him with complicated looks.
Hattori Hei counted the number of people playing cards together, and then looked at the messy pile of cards on the table, and couldn't help asking: "Have you been counting the cards in your mind?"
Isogai Nagisa's slender fingers held a handful of bad cards. She sighed tiredly, but also a little envious: "This has nothing to do with mental arithmetic. Anyone can play the same cards he has."
"No, I mean, when he shuffled the cards, did he calculate the position of each card..."
Hattori Heiji fell silent as he spoke, feeling that this speculation was not reasonable - Jiang Xia was not responsible for shuffling the cards every time, and there were rules for the order of drawing cards, so it was not possible to get specific cards in this way.
So Jiang Xia cheated?
Or is this guy actually a European emperor?
... Cheating shouldn't be the case, this is just a game for fun, and if it's the latter... Hattori Heiji suddenly realized: No wonder it's so hard to avoid him every time. Even if no one backstabs him, he will always run into Jiang Xia for various reasons. Wait, on the other hand, doesn't this mean that his luck is particularly bad?
Hattori Heiji fell into deep thought.
And gradually became a little autistic.
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Kujirai Sadao, Ebina Minoru, and Kanie Hisa were also uncomfortable. Although this was a pure game without any money involved, no one liked to lose from the beginning to the end.
Therefore, as soon as midnight passed, a group of people immediately found various excuses and left one after another.
Jiang Xia glanced at the murderous back of Ebina Minoru, and followed him under the pretext of going to the bathroom.
He remembered that in Ebina Minoru's luggage bag, there was a time bomb that was big enough to sink an entire ship.
Before dinner, Jiang Xia's main body was on standby in the room. When his consciousness was flying around like a ghost, he once floated into Ebina Minoru's room, poked his head into the bomb bag, and briefly checked the structure.
He discovered that the bomb had a number of anti-demolition features and was also very shockproof.
The former was probably because he was worried that someone might secretly dismantle it and interrupt his plan, while the latter was a guarantee of safety - if Ebina Minoru didn't find the robbers on the ship, he would throw the bomb into the sea.
In short, 99% of Ebina Minoru's reliance on killing people is on this box of bombs.
So if you want to make him lose his murderous aura, it is actually very simple: just throw the bomb box into the sea in front of him, and you will definitely be able to harvest a batch of murderous aura first. This process only takes a few minutes.
Afterwards, if Ebina Minoru's hatred was enough, he might adjust his mindset and decide to kill the robbers himself. Then he would have a little murderous intent again. Then, as long as the robbers died or surrendered, he could take the second batch...
Jiang Xia walked into the corridor, and countless Shikigami that were invisible to ordinary people flew out from under his feet, passed over Ebina Minoru, floated into his room through the crack in the door, and continued to pile up as raw materials for the puppet.
Miyano Akemi's soul also floated in, merged into the puppet, and took on the appearance of Anonymous.
Jiang Xia planned to pick up the box and leave in front of Ebina Minoru when he opened the door to give him a surprise.
But just when Ebina Minoru stopped at the door to look for the key, the sound of firecrackers suddenly rang out on the deck through the wall.
Of course, since it is also a gunpowder explosion, to someone who is unaware of the situation, it could also sound like a gunshot.
The "gunshots" apparently brought back some bad memories for Minoru Ebina.
After a moment of shock, the no longer young man turned around at a speed that was not in line with his age, and rushed towards the place where the gunshot came from, as if he wanted to immediately confirm the identity of the shooter.
At the same time, the door lock of his room twisted with a "click" and opened a crack.
Through the crack in the door, the puppet looked at the empty corridor, remained silent for a moment, and then closed the door as if nothing had happened.
(End of this chapter)
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