Chapter 341 You Are Late
Just as Vermouth hesitated, abandoned her reserve, and was about to lean over to bite the towel, a series of footsteps sounded in front of her, and Jiang Xia walked back to her again.
“…”
Vermouth froze slightly.
Drugs, poison, and deadly fishing lines kept flashing through her mind... She raised her head slowly and cautiously, her eyes fixed on Jiang Xia's hand with the awareness of death, and she found that he was holding...
A brand new pot with a strange shape.
...It looked very familiar. She had just brought it in a few minutes ago and had thought about giving it to Uzo.
Jiang Xia took a step closer and slammed the pot down next to her: "Keep it for yourself."
Then he left the room in disgust, no longer paying any attention to this abominable cadre who had no moral integrity and wanted to take away his moral integrity as well.
Jiang Xia took the elevator downstairs. Remembering that Vermouth had just passed by the lobby, he did not walk through the hall, but went basement and left through the garage.
When he was leaving, he turned around and glanced at the hotel, thoughtfully: he had just had a small fight with Vermouth, and he didn't know whether the hotel's neighbors would complain about Vermouth for disturbing their neighbors later.
But what does this have to do with him? He is just an ordinary member of the organization who was killed innocently. Everything is Vermouth's fault.
Jiang Xia suppressed his nonexistent conscience, identified the direction, walked towards the station, and planned to go home.
Just after walking two blocks, I suddenly heard a familiar engine roar approaching from the corner.
Jiang Xia was startled and instinctively hid behind a nearby thick tree.
Immediately afterwards, a Mazda RX-7 was seen whizzing along the road, so fast that Jiangxia almost didn't recognize what kind of car it was.
Jiang Xia turned around and looked at the back of the vehicle from afar:
Although I couldn't see the license plate clearly, it had already turned, but this car model, this car speeding up on the winding street...
Is it Toru Amuro’s car?
Jiang Xia: “…” Why is the boss here? Did Conan invite reinforcements?
But this is too fast. It’s only been a short time since Vermouth called Conan... How did Toru Amuro find this place?
Jiang Xia hesitated for a moment, inevitably curious.
So he did not leave immediately, but instead asked Kiri Tengu to try to catch up with Amuro Toru's car to see if he was going to that hotel.
At the same time, Jiang Xia himself returned along the same route and observed secretly.
…
Toru Amuro did go to the hotel.
It was pure luck that he was able to find the right place so quickly - a while ago, one of his targets happened to stay in this hotel for a long time, so Toru Amuro sneaked in and worked as a worker for a while.
The employees have a small contact group. Toru Amuro is popular and was not kicked out after leaving.
Ten minutes ago, he finished making a harassing call to Gin and glanced at his phone. He originally wanted to find a few more people who knew Vermouth to ask, but he accidentally discovered that the group was quite lively.
When I clicked on it, I saw one of my former colleagues cautiously sending a message for help:
"I just received a handsome guy who looked like a high school student. He was suspected to be followed by a drunk female pervert... Should I call the police?"
The replies below were varied. Some suggested that she mind her own business, some just wanted to join in the fun and ask how handsome he was, and some even wanted to see what a "female pervert" looked like.
But Toru Amuro had vaguely grasped something, so he privately chatted with the front desk and sent a photo of Jiang Xia: "Is this the person?"
The receptionist was shocked: “Yes, yes, yes!”
...That’s how Toru Amuro found the place.
Toru Amuro rushed all the way to the hotel, and with the help of the front desk, he quickly locked onto the room where Jiang Xia had just been.
He took the elevator upstairs, pushed the door open cautiously, and was surprised to find that the scene in the room was almost completely opposite to what he had imagined.
——There was no sign of Jiang Xia here. Instead, Vermouth was sitting on the bedside with her clothes dishevelled, one hand holding a cell phone, talking to someone, the other hand was tied up with a messy towel and handcuffed to the bedside.
This embarrassed look made Amuro Toru's eyes light up slightly.
However, before he could go up and give Belmode a knife, and then send him to the police station with a one-stop service, Belmode looked up at him, then sneered into the phone: "Don't worry, I didn't do anything to him... You should ask him what he did."
“…”
Toru Amuro took a closer look at Vermouth's cell phone screen and found that she was indeed on a call. He could only give up the idea of capturing her with a little disappointment.
Speaking of which, Amuro Toru secretly thought, why didn't Jiang Xia cuff Vermouth's other hand as well, letting this scourge of society starve to death here? Or at least make it so that she couldn't make a phone call, so that he could manipulate her to get her to the police station... He sighed in his heart, feeling deeply regretful.
In the room, Vermouth hung up the phone and looked at Amuro Toru with a slight wariness.
She always felt that Bourbon seemed unfriendly, and even made her feel a little threatened just now.
But then she thought again, according to the information she had found not long ago, Uzo was currently recruiting subordinates in Bourbon's store. And Bourbon, the mystic lone wolf, finally recruited a suitable employee, but she took him away halfway... It was normal for him to have a bad attitude at this time.
Vermouth put down her phone and continued to untie the towel on her right hand that Jiang Xia had tied into a knot, as if nothing had happened. She looked at Amuro Toru calmly and said, "You're late. He just left."
Amuro Toru looked at her embarrassed appearance and laughed: "I can see it."
Vermouth: "..."
…
In the stairwell on the same floor, Jiang Xia, who had slipped in from the underground garage, could feel the two men's surging murderous aura through a wall. He felt extremely comfortable and hoped that this wonderful time would last longer.
Unfortunately, however, Vermouth and Amuro Toru don't seem to have many common topics.
Toru Amuro asked a few questions, but didn't get any decent answers, so he left quickly without helping Vermouth unlock the handcuffs.
Before Amuro Toru left, Jiang Xia slipped into the depths of the corridor.
He waited for the elevator to go down before going downstairs again and leaving quietly.
…
Jiang Xia took a detour, emerged from an alley halfway, and headed towards the subway station.
Just as he walked out of a street, he heard the familiar sound of a speeding car behind him. The car was getting closer and closer, and finally it screeched to a halt beside him.
Toru Amuro glanced at Jiang Xia from the car window and found that he was indeed safe and sound. He nodded at him with relief.
——According to common sense, Jiang Xia should have opened the door and got in the car at this time, and then the two of them should have left quickly before the traffic police arrived.
However, Jiang Xia did not move. Instead, he looked at Amuro Toru's car first, and then looked at him with a slight vigilance.
Toru Amuro was stunned at first, but then he quickly understood - every failure makes one wiser. It must be that Vermouth had disguised herself to deceive people before, which left too deep an impression on Jiang Xia, so now everyone looks like an impostor to Jiang Xia.
Thinking of this, Amuro Toru pulled his face in a good-natured manner, indicating that there was no disguise on it: "Get in the car first, the patrol traffic police will be here soon."
(End of this chapter)
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