Chapter 342 Case Closed
Jiang Xia could barely discern a hint of redness on his face from being stretched - a feature that was not present in a disguise - before he opened the door and got a ride that was much faster than taking the subway.
…
Before the traffic police turned into the street, Amuro Toru stepped on the accelerator and drove away, asking, "What's going on?"
Although he had roughly pieced together the course of events, he still wanted to hear Jiang Xia's perspective.
Jiang Xia sighed: "I just met Ms. Ogata, our English teacher. She doesn't have a very good personality, but she is a very nice person. She asked me to have a few drinks with her, and who knew..."
Amuro Toru nodded thoughtfully: "Did she ask you anything?"
"This..." Jiang Xia pressed his forehead and thought with great effort:
"I asked some questions about detectives. O... the person pretending to be Mr. Ogata said that Gin had used APTX4869 on Kudo Shinichi, my classmate, the high school detective who disappeared a while ago.
"But this drug seems to be still in the experimental stage and cannot be 100% lethal. Kudo Shinichi's death was confirmed by Shirley, who has already defected, and the authenticity cannot be guaranteed. So she suspects that the detective is not dead and wants to find some clues from me."
Toru Amuro listened carefully, but did not immediately connect the missing Kudo Shinichi with the clever elementary school student with glasses.
After all, for someone like him who believes in science, it is really difficult to think of something like "adults becoming smaller" at first glance.
Toru Amuro's thoughts quickly turned to other things - the situation was somewhat different from what he expected. He thought that Vermouth was coming for Shirley, but unexpectedly it was not the case.
Toru Amuro: “…” So why does Vermouth pay attention to a high school detective?
Theoretically speaking, if Kudo Shinichi was not really dead, this would definitely be a major mistake made by Gin at work. Could it be that that woman was trying to find fault with Gin?
Vermouth is also a mysterious girl, and Toru Amuro finds it difficult to understand her thought process.
After thinking for a while, Toru Amuro looked at Jiang Xia next to him and suddenly asked: "I heard that you are not only Kudo Shinichi's classmate, but also his neighbor... What do you think? Is he really dead?"
Jiang Xia, who was still pretending to be drunk, was stunned.
...Is it so direct?
However, even when facing Toru Amuro, he cannot tell the truth now - after all, the boss is still "Bourbon".
After thinking carefully for a long time, Jiang Xia closed his eyes and whispered as if he had made up his mind: "He should be dead."
Toru Amuro nodded thoughtfully, but didn't say whether he believed it or not.
He changed the subject to something else:
"That woman's code name is 'Vermouth'. If you've paid attention to the entertainment industry, you should be able to recognize her. Her normal identity is Chrissie Wynyard, the international female star with outstanding acting skills."
As he spoke, Amuro Toru recalled that Jiang Xia had just shown mercy to Vermouth's men, and added:
"Vermouth is good at disguise and voice changing, and has a very bad personality. Many people who work with her will lose their lives for unknown reasons, but she is very valued by the boss and will not be held responsible for this. Therefore, even among the code members, many have died in vain while performing missions with her, and she has not been held responsible yet... In short, don't be fooled by her deceptive appearance."
Jiang Xia nodded, not wanting to be discovered by the Red Party cadres about her desire for Vermouth's murderous aura, so she defended herself by saying, "I thought she was Teacher Ogata at first."
"..." Amuro Toru was even more hesitant to speak.
The Mazda drove two blocks away before he said carefully, "Next time when you go out, don't drink the drinks handed to you by others."
...Although this is actually common sense, now, Toru Amuro suddenly realized that most of the time, it was girls who were reminded of this sentence. Now it seems that gender discrimination is not desirable, and propaganda and education should take into account all aspects and should not ignore another vulnerable group.
Jiang Xia hesitated for a moment, feeling that his boss was thinking too much.
But since he did drink with someone he didn't know very well, he couldn't directly refute it, so he had to argue in a roundabout way: "It was the waiter who handed me the drink."
"..." A longer silence, "Anyway, don't go into the bar."
"...I usually avoid bars, but I just couldn't refuse your hospitality."
“…”
…
silence.
Silence is the Mazda of today.
When the car passed by the Amuro Detective Agency, Jiang Xia glanced out the window and cleared his throat: "I'll stay here."
Toru Amuro came back to his senses from the education problems of the younger generation and remembered that Jiang Xia had the habit of checking the mailbox regularly, so he found a place to stop nearby, dropped off the person, and drove away alone.
He was indeed busy today. In addition to his original part-time job, he also temporarily added a lot of new work to himself - such as investigating when Vermouth and Gin became enemies, so that Vermouth was trying hard to catch Gin's braid, and checking the out-of-date detective whose life and death was in a Schrödinger state.
…
Jiang Xia stood on the side of the road, watching Toru Amuro's car drive away, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
In fact, he had just checked his mailbox not long ago, so he was not in a hurry to open it today.
But the atmosphere in the car was a bit awkward - he didn't expect that Toru Amuro would suddenly jump from business to yesterday's drinking.
Pretending to be drunk and being taken away by a beautiful sister... at least someone who looks like a beautiful sister after removing their age, sounds like a good experience. But from the perspective of others, it's a completely different situation. I don't know if Amuro Toru saw those damn "care tools" when he entered the bedroom just now. I hope Vermouth will have some shame and kick the things away where no one can see them after he leaves...
As Jiang Xia thought about it, he shuddered in embarrassment.
He silently wrapped his open coat tightly and walked quickly towards the detective agency.
…
As Detective Jiang Xia's fame grew, the growth rate of letters in the mailbox also increased significantly.
But according to Jiang Xia's experience, among those extra ones, there are very few invitation letters and appointment forms, but mainly advertisements and insurance.
As his fame grew, the things he sold in his ads became more and more outrageous. Last week, someone even made an appointment to come to his door and wanted to sell him a yacht...
When Jiang Xia saw the unique appointment form, he was silent for a few minutes and then decisively accepted the appointment.
Afterwards, he chatted with the middle-aged, capable female salesperson who came to his door for a while, and got out the lady's name, old name, her husband's name, father's name, sister-in-law's old surname, friend's name, etc. ... and then confirmed that this sales lady had nothing to do with the case.
So Jiang Xia politely rejected the other party's sales pitch and sent the salesperson away, who looked a little disappointed and said he still wanted to make an appointment for the next and the next time.
…
Jiang Xia thought back to the past where he had achieved half the result with twice the effort. While trying to learn from the lesson and come up with a more efficient way of teasing people, he gathered all the papers and magazines in the mailbox and brought them into the office.
Not long after, he pulled out a rare envelope from it.
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
