Chapter 346 Bait for Shirley (Combined Chapter)
After Vodka made the proposal, he glanced at Gin and found that Gin did not respond and seemed not very interested in this plan. He sighed in his heart.
But he quickly thought, since his elder brother didn't just say something like "stupid", it meant that this plan was not rejected outright... There's hope, maybe there is hope!
Even if their guns were often sent for maintenance, the probability of accidental discharge was very low, but this would at least cause trouble for Uzo - no one likes to be suddenly taken hostage out of nowhere, not to mention that Uzo is at the age of a middle school student who doesn't listen to others. If Gin decides to implement this plan and Uzo refuses him...
Hehehehe.
Thinking of Uzo's rating in Big Brother's heart that was about to drop sharply, Vodka was in a very good mood.
…
Vodka is a qualified mind reader.
On the way back to Haido Town, Gin was indeed thinking and refining his proposal.
In Gin's opinion, Vodka is sometimes incredibly stupid, but when he occasionally has a flash of inspiration, he can also come up with solutions that are worthy of reference.
Gin recalled Uzo's usual cold attitude towards the Miyano sisters, and felt that he would definitely cooperate with his plan.
However, if there are hostages, then there must be corresponding villains.
But now, besides Uzo, the only member present at the memorial service is Pisk, and Pisk has other important tasks.
If we temporarily transfer a few members over, given the subordinates' usual disobedience, if their guns go off accidentally, they might kill Uzo in a real way... Tsk, it's better to wait until he and Vodka arrive before implementing this plan cautiously.
Gin estimated the road conditions and realized that it would take some time to reach the scene.
So he thought about it and edited an email to Jiang Xia:
[Shirley may be here. If she tries to contact you, bring her to me when you can. You should be able to recognize her. If that is not possible, shoot her on the spot.]
Just as he was about to send the message, Gin's fingers suddenly paused.
After a few seconds, he deleted the words and address he had typed, and entered Pisk's email address in the recipient field.
...Uzo has always been very proactive in dealing with certain killing missions, and the content of this mission just happens to include "killing Shirley."
In other words, even if he asked Wu Zuo to wait quietly for Shirley to contact him, he would probably not listen to his advice and take the initiative to attack, just like he had done before when he had nothing better to do and would take the initiative to harm passers-by...
If Shirley wanted to contact Wu Zuo, she would have observed carefully in advance. If Wu Zuo happened to be looking for her at that time, she would have noticed something unusual and would have alerted him. After all, it was true that Shirley was kind and nosy, and it was also true that she was timid and careful, and she might have been scared away by the slightest sign of trouble.
Therefore, let's leave this observation task to Piske.
A bystander can see clearly. Some places may be blind spots for Uzo, but Pisk can see them standing next to him without attracting too much attention. This additional task of observing only with the eyes will not affect Pisk's original task too much.
With this in mind, Gin sent an email to Pisk:
[There is a high school detective named Jiang Xia at the memorial service. Shirley may try to contact him or hide nearby to observe him. You can use this to find Shirley.
After you find her, send me the exact location. If she is in disguise, send me her current features as well.] Then he forwarded it to Wu Zuo, asking him to catch her before Shirley could react. In this way, the two bottles of wine in the venue would each do their own thing, with a clear division of labor, and would not delay each other.
Although this email may lead Piske to discover Uzo's identity.
However, keeping the identity of "Uzo" secret is not a hard and fast rule. It is just a suggestion to prevent teammates from falling behind, which comes from Gin's rich experience.
Now that the incident happened suddenly, catching Sulli is of course a higher priority than the "confidentiality" stipulated privately.
Besides, Piske is an old member of the organization after all, so he is quite tight-lipped. It doesn't matter if he finds out. Besides, he may not be able to find out that Uzo looks like a good person...
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Beihu City Hotel.
In the banquet hall, Pisk was talking in a low voice with the chairman of the Foreign Trade Company.
Halfway through his speech, he suddenly felt the phone in his pocket vibrate.
He calmly ended the conversation and walked aside to check his phone.
The contents of the mailbox startled him. A high school detective?
Pisk quickly thought of the young man who was walking around the venue and handing out business cards.
He glanced at Jiang Xia, with a hint of doubt in his old eyes. Was this detective secretly colluding with Shirley? Why did Shirley contact him?
Actually, the age difference between the two is not that big. A defected member of the organization and a righteous detective, their positions are exactly opposite...
These two characteristics reminded Piske of a novel he had accidentally read from Vodka before: a high school boy went out and picked up a beautiful villain who fell from the sky, and then the two of them began to live together with each other, playing and fighting.
...This kind of thing actually happens in reality?
The 71-year-old Pisk took a sip of wine, shook his head and cursed in his heart, "Shameless young people, they really dare to pick up anything."
Having said that, since Jiang Xia has had contact with Shirley, he must not be let go easily.
Gin was so careless that he forgot to arrange for the treatment of this person... Was he too excited to finally catch Shirley who escaped, or did he give the task of dealing with Jiang Xia to another member? Piske remembered that Gin said that there were people in the field who would coordinate according to the situation.
But after thinking it over, he still felt that it would be safer to ask one more question on such a crucial issue.
Piske replied: [How does the detective handle it]
Half a minute later, a new email from Gin arrived in the mailbox:
[Don't mess with him, just pay more attention to Shirley]
Pisk: “……?”
The word "provoke" always feels a bit subtle. It's as if in Gin's eyes, compared with that high school student who hasn't even grown all his hair, he, a senior member of the organization, is the weaker party... Is this detective really that powerful?
…
Jiang Xia was originally still looking at Piske from time to time, admiring the murderous aura in him.
But soon, he discovered that Piske began to observe him secretly in return - after checking his cell phone once.
Jiang Xia then stopped looking over there, feeling somewhat confused.
It is unlikely that Pisk would suddenly notice this ordinary detective - even when he was collecting the business card just now, he vaguely showed a kind of disdain for the detective and didn't want to look at him any more, but now he suddenly changed his attitude... What news did Pisk receive?
Just as he was thinking about it, the mermaid who was floating around Pisk and playing murderous games swam back to Jiang Xia, poked him, and secretly told Jiang Xia the content of the email she had just peeked at.
Jiang Xia seemed to be thinking about something.
Catch Shirley?
Did Haibara Ai sneak into the venue?
Jiang Xia was a little surprised for a moment - even someone as timid as Haibara Ai came here, so how could Conan be far away?
Blind boxes have promise.
By the way, when Haibara Ai arrived, Miyano Akemi was completely unaware of this and was still concentrating on Pisk's murderous intent... Her ability to sense her sister is much lower than her ability to sense murderous intent. Jiang Xia secretly condemned the weak sisterhood.
After condemning him, he asked Mist Tengu to fly a little higher to look for any children who had sneaked in without permission.
Not long after, he used Mist Tengu's perspective to see the two children who were seeking death on the other side of the crowd.
Although I don't know what happened, but judging from the fact that the two were there and Gin knew that Shirley would be there, things probably developed like in the original world line...
Even if Haibara Ai stays at home every day, she will still rush to the scene at such a critical moment. This is actually a path that Jiang Xia had never imagined.
But to be honest, this kind of scene is actually very good for him.
——Gin must have been full of murderous intent when he heard that Shirley was there. When he arrived with a gun in hand, in the cold wind and snow, and found that Shirley had run away, his murderous intent would probably increase dramatically... Jiang Xia thought about it and couldn't help but touch the ghost mint in his pocket.
This would indeed allow him to pick up a lot more murderous intent, but since the plan had changed, he had to make some other preparations.
Thinking of this, Jiang Xia found a dimly lit corner and leaned against the wall.
The shikigami and the ghost fetuses crawled through the wall and piled up in the empty corridor, becoming taller puppets with slender bodies.
A minute later, Anonymous adjusted her skirt, lowered the brim of her hat, and walked away quickly.
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Jiang Xia was offline for a while.
After he had dealt with everything and regained consciousness, he looked around the hall again and saw that the door of the banquet hall had opened again. Several policemen walked silently into the hall and blended into the crowd.
Ten minutes ago, Inspector Megure received a call from Kudo Shinichi.
Brother Kudo told him that someone wanted to assassinate Councilman Tōngguchi at the memorial service. When Gin called Pisker for the first time, he had not yet discovered the existence of the bug, and his words revealed some information. It was through this that Conan deduced the organization's assassination target.
…
Jiang Xia observed in silence.
Then, before the police saw him, he picked up the wine glass at hand, drank two sips of wine quickly and silently, and secretly sprinkled some on his clothes to make himself smell like alcohol.
——With Inspector Megure's ability to randomly capture people who are useful in solving cases, it is only a matter of time before he discovers Jiang Xia at the scene, and then comes over and asks "What do you think?"
If Jiang Xia fails to solve the case and does not provide any clues, it will seem a bit abnormal.
But if the case is solved... After all, Piske is a veteran member. He can be killed by the organization because of his mistakes, but he should not die to pave the way for new members to make achievements. Since he is mixed with the organization's salary and murderous aura, he should have some superficial sympathy.
So I have to find an excuse not to solve the case.
There was no car accident, no explosion, and no fire here, which did not match the false "weakening buff" that Jiang Xia had released before.
But luckily, there is wine here.
...Just pretend to be drunk and get away with it.
…
As expected, after Inspector Megure assigned patrol areas to his subordinates who had sneaked into the venue, he turned around and took two steps when his eyes fell on Jiang Xia.
A hint of surprise appeared on his face, and he moved his slightly clumsy body through the crowd towards Jiang Xia.
The place where Jiang Xia was standing was very inconspicuous, but fortunately, there would occasionally be some glamorous rich ladies around who would glance at him. Inspector Megure instinctively felt that there might be something wrong with someone who was noticed by several people. Unexpectedly, when he followed their gaze, he actually found Jiang Xia.
...With Jiang Xia here, after explaining the situation to him, with his observation skills, he might be able to find the potential criminal quickly.
As Inspector Megure approached, he found Jiang Xia was staring at the table, seemingly distracted.
It was not until he leaned over and patted her shoulder that Jiang Xia raised her head belatedly.
"Inspector?" Jiang Xia was startled at first when he saw who it was, and then asked in a low voice with a hint of surprise, "You're here to attend the memorial service, too? Don't you have to work overtime today?"
"..." Inspector Megure was suddenly reminded of such a sad thing as overtime, and paused for a second with sadness.
After he recovered, he was about to explain, but suddenly he said "Hmm?" and felt something was wrong: "Why do you smell like alcohol? You are not old enough to drink."
Jiang Xia paused slightly.
After a moment, he slowly put the glass on the table behind him, moved his feet to cover it, and explained in a way that made it even more obvious: "I didn't know it was wine just now."
Mumu Police Department: "..."
It seems that not only did he drink illegally, but he also drank a lot. He lied so poorly that it was no wonder that when he came over just now, he felt that Jiang Xia's reaction was slower than usual and he didn't even notice someone approaching.
Can the case be solved in this state... Inspector Megure is in a dilemma, hesitating between telling Jiang Xia the details of the case and giving her an ideological education first.
Before I could come to a conclusion, the host's voice came faintly from the other end of the hall: "... Next we will show the slides that Director Sakamaki collected during his lifetime. Please enjoy--"
As soon as he finished speaking, the staff who had been prepared turned off the switch.
The lights suddenly went out.
The hall was plunged into darkness, with only a glimmer of light coming from the slide projector at the front of the banquet hall. The light that was not there for the purpose of illumination failed to penetrate the banquet hall, and most of the place was dark beyond human vision.
Under the round table in the banquet hall, as Jiang Xia's consciousness possessed it, the anonymous puppet that had been on standby for a while opened its eyes, lifted the tablecloth, and crawled out silently.
The puppet inherited the ghost fetus' night vision ability and can see its surroundings clearly even in the dark.
It held up the hem of her skirt, her eyes moved slightly, and soon her gaze fell on several cameras - long before the lights were turned off, Jiang Xia had already picked out several cameras that were easy to "borrow".
However, perhaps because Conan and Haibara Ai arrived, things went much more smoothly than Jiang Xia had expected.
——Before Anonymous could choose a lucky reporter to borrow the camera, he saw a man and a woman hugging each other in the dark a little further forward, kissing passionately.
Next to them, a smart reporter heard something wrong, his ears twitched, and he raised the camera in his hand.
At this time, Councillor Tunkou had already followed the instructions in a daze and came under the chandelier.
With the two lovers in the background, Pisk aimed at the chandelier and raised his silenced gun.
(End of this chapter)
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