Chapter 369 What to do when you encounter your boss while racing (Combined Chapter)
In Amuro Toru's perception, the case solved by Vermouth, a member of the organization with a lot of blood on his hands, appeared in the collection of clippings in his office... It was very unpleasant no matter how you thought about it, it was like someone threw a small northern cockroach into his coffee - at first glance, the color was fine, and it could even blend perfectly into the environment, but its actual nature was completely unacceptable.
When Jiang Xia heard Toru Amuro's suggestion, he nodded, cut out a photo of himself from the newspaper, and threw the rest into the trash bag - it happened that there was no picture in a report, so he put this photo up and the layout became neat.
Toru Amuro watched this scene silently, feeling that his employee seemed a little narcissistic, but fortunately this was not a big problem... Seeing the newspaper related to Vermouth fall into the trash can, he breathed a sigh of relief and left with his information.
Jiang Xia pasted the photos, put the scissors, glue and case collection back into the drawer, and suddenly had nothing to do.
I was just about to call Dr. Agasa again to harass him and urge him to take the kids out to play more often.
But just as he took out his cell phone, Jiang Xia suddenly heard a series of crisp sounds from the tiny wind chimes on the door - someone pushed the door open.
At first, Jiang Xia wondered if Toru Amuro had forgotten to take something, or if he wanted to make a surprise attack to see if he had picked up the newspaper related to Vermouth from the clean trash can and pasted it into the case collection - Jiang Xia always felt that this boss was quite resistant to his contact with Vermouth, as if he was worried that he could not withstand the charm of a mature big sister...
However, as soon as the door was opened and the air inside and outside began to circulate slightly, Jiang Xia realized that the person who came in was not Toru Amuro.
But a strange woman.
The woman's face was pale and very thin. Her eyes were slightly puffy under the thin layer of makeup, and the gentle smile on her lips gave people the feeling of forced laughter. When she walked, you could vaguely feel that her legs and feet were not natural, as if she had been injured before, causing her joints to be not very flexible.
...However, compared to these details, Jiang Xia's gaze was more focused on her body.
——This beautiful and quiet guest actually had a rather high-class murderous aura surrounding her. She smelled like a faint plant fragrance, like the flesh of some plants after the skin is removed.
Jiang Xia couldn't tell what species it was. But he didn't care. As long as he knew it was high-grade murderous aura and the smell wasn't bad, it was fine...
His gaze paused for a moment on the murderous look on the woman's face, Jiang Xia quickly stood up, poured tea, and received her attentively.
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Ten minutes later.
After filling out the registration form, Noriko Okatani pushed the stiff paper form across the table back to Jiang Xia.
After that, she didn't touch the tea beside her, but hugged the bag on her legs and looked down at her knees.
A rather tense defensive posture... Jiang Xia glanced at it and quickly looked away.
In his opinion, the reaction of the guest opposite was quite normal. After all, apart from the famous actor Hijikata who was deliberately misled before, this should be the first would-be murderer who took the initiative to come to him.
Originally, Jiang Xia thought this was a good start: it meant that his reputation had finally been adjusted to a normal dimension, and potential criminals began to dare to come to him as witnesses and try to fool him.
However, after looking at the registration form carefully, Jiang Xia discovered that things seemed different from what he expected.
This guest named Okatani Noriko did not come to him to be a tool for committing a crime. Instead, she came to ask Jiang Xia to find someone - a man named Kitagawa Tsuyoshi.
The two names that seemed to have some recognizable impressions made Jiang Xia gradually remember what was going on.
——A few months ago, when the client Noriko Okatani was out with her fiancé, they encountered an arrogant and provocative red sports car in the wilderness.
The owner of the sports car first kept honking the horn behind their car to urge them on. After Noriko Okatani's fiancé gave way, the car began to zigzag in front of their car until the car Noriko Okatani was in overturned and crashed.
Noriko Okatani's fiancé died in the car accident, and Noriko Okatani was also seriously injured and hospitalized.
While in the hospital, she heard from the police officer who came to investigate the accident that under the current circumstances, it would be difficult for the owner of the sports car to receive much punishment.
The angry Noriko Okatani concealed the relevant information about the sports car from the police, and decided to take revenge on the owner of the sports car herself without saying a word.
After being discharged from the hospital, she went to the Ministry of Transport to check on the person based on the license plate number she had written down.
With the license plate number in hand, it is usually possible to find out the name of the owner and where he was registered at the time.
However, Okatani only found out that the owner's name was "Kitagawa Tsuyoshi", but could not get a valid address - Kitagawa Tsuyoshi moved once and did not update the information afterwards, so Okatani's information was cut off. She searched for a while on her own, but still found nothing, so she finally decided to take the risk and ask for help from a detective.
So what happened today happened.
Maybe he noticed that Jiang Xia's eyes stayed on the registration book for a little too long.
Noriko Okatani added in a low voice, trying to cover up the truth: "Well, I just want to know Mr. Kitagawa's current address, nothing else..."
Jiang Xia: “…”
Isn't it suspicious enough to suddenly check someone's address? You might as well just say "I want to kill someone at their home"...
He muttered to himself, but after looking up at the fresh murderous aura on Okatani Noriko, Jiang Xia swallowed all the grudges and nodded considerately: "I know."
The reason for the entrustment was simply written on the entrustment registration form.
Okatani Noriko said that she met Kitagawa Tsuyoshi while traveling in early June. But she was shy at the time and was embarrassed to exchange contact information. After returning, she missed the man more and more, so she decided to find someone to investigate.
"This is the guy." Okatani Noriko reached into her bag and fumbled for a moment, then took out a folded paper and unfolded it. "This is his portrait and license plate number..."
Jiang Xia lowered his eyes and looked at the simple sketch of a man with triangular eyes, a triangular face, an inverted mouth and a ferocious look. The corner of his eye twitched.
No matter how you look at it, this doesn't fit the characteristics of a "secret crush". There must be some hatred involved to draw someone like this.
But after all, he is a distinguished VIP guest... Jiang Xia tried to show an admiring expression: "What a handsome guy... Such a person should not be difficult to find, leave it to me."
Seeing that Jiang Xia had no doubts, Noriko Okatani secretly breathed a sigh of relief, stood up, bowed to him, and left quickly.
The door opened and closed, and the office became quiet again.
Jiang Xia picked up the documents on the table and put them away, then poured out the tea, washed the teacup, closed the door, and left the detective agency.
Afterwards, he came to the car rental agency and planned to pick a suitable car.
A murderous aura is a necessity for a psychic who raises ghosts.
But in this treasure world, obtaining murderous aura is not a burden for Jiang Xia, but more like a challenging collection game.
Although there are now two relatively stable sources of high-level murderous aura in Gin and Vermouth, and Toru Amuro is expected to join them in the future, Jiang Xia can only pull away a little murderous aura that overflows from the surface every time because he has not been able to fundamentally resolve their murderous intent.
He wants a long-lasting high-level murderous aura.
Of course he wants the full set of high-end murderous aura at once.
In Jiang Xia's opinion, Noriko Okatani wanted to kill people because she wanted revenge.
Therefore, there are two main ways to fully capture the refreshing murderous aura of the plant pulp on Noriko Okatani.
One is to start with Noriko Okatani, and have her locked up for years or even decades until she has no desire to avenge her deeply-felt fiancé, or directly sentence her to life imprisonment with no possibility of commutation, so that she realizes on the spot that killing is hopeless and her murderous intent disappears... But to achieve this, Noriko Okatani must kill someone first, and if she really kills someone, her murderous intent will naturally dissipate.
This is very contradictory, so this option can basically be ruled out.
It would be more convenient to start from another place, such as looking for the car racing enthusiast Kitagawa Tsuyoshi.
Since he likes to challenge people to race cars and always does this, there is a high probability that he will do it again in the future.
It is not difficult to find the address of Kitagawa Tsuneshi. Jiang Xia plans to observe secretly and do a sting operation when Kitagawa is about to go out. If Kitagawa falls off the cliff during the provocation, then Okatani Noriko will have no one to kill, and the murderous aura on her body will certainly be difficult to maintain...
In addition, Jiang Xia remembered several cases that were all related to car racing in the wilderness.
Even if Beichuan doesn't go there at that time, he might run into other cases.
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There are all kinds of cars in the car rental company. Jiang Xia did not send his real body directly, but opened a vest.
——Considering that although the client was very low-key, she had had contact with the original body after all, so to be on the safe side, Jiang Xia did not choose Miyano Akemi and Xiaobai who often appeared, but instead used the parent ghosts.
The tattoo of the connected parent ghosts is right at the part where they are connected, and can usually be covered by clothes, which is more convenient.
In addition, although they are a pair of ghosts, when constructing the puppet, if you work hard, you can make one side as small as possible.
In short, by throwing the parent ghosts into the puppet clay, you can get three types of vests.
A couple hugging each other all the time.
A pregnant woman who looks like she is about to give birth.
...and a young man with a huge beer belly.
Minus the beer belly, it barely meets Jiang Xia's expectations for a vest.
Jiang Xia finally chose the young man.
He planned to pick a car that was not reserved and drive away directly. However, two people hugging each other obviously could not drive in front of the staff - sitting in the driver's seat in a double hug in front of many staff and guests was too weird. Even if it was a vest, the thought of that scene was enough to make one's scalp numb.
In addition, a pregnant woman with such a big belly might be rejected by the car rental company who is afraid of getting into trouble... So it is better to use a young guy. A big beer belly is not a problem. As long as he walks steadily and looks healthy, that's fine.
After thinking it over, Jiang Xia left his real body in a coffee shop near the car rental company and moved his consciousness into the young man's puppet. He walked into the car rental company with his big belly sticking out, feeling a little uncomfortable.
As expected, I was met with several shocked looks.
Fortunately, although there are not many guys who have a big belly at this age, there are some. The staff quickly pretended to naturally look away, no longer looking at the puppet's belly, and began to professionally ask about his needs and introduce various vehicles.
Jiang Xia looked around for a while and picked out a car with a rather flashy appearance - it happened to be the same model as Kitagawa Tsuneshi's red sports car. If he really met Kitagawa Tsuneshi, the chances of being provoked by him would increase significantly.
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Although Jiang Xia could buy a car directly when he needed it with his current small treasury, or even use one and throw one away like Amuro Toru who had double reimbursement, he gave up the idea for the time being after careful consideration.
Rather than driving a car, he still prefers to travel by motorcycle, so that when he is in a hurry and encounters a traffic jam, he can fly around on the roof of someone else's car - as long as he doesn't scratch the paint, in this world, it is difficult to be held accountable for such behavior.
In addition, more importantly, if you don’t have a car, Jiang Xia can naturally hitchhike on someone else’s car or choose appropriate public transportation when going out.
In that case, the chance of encountering a crime will obviously increase significantly compared to driving alone.
On the other hand, if you have a car, you will have to think of excuses to use when you want to borrow someone else's car. And when you go out with acquaintances in the future, "take Jiangxia's car" will naturally appear in the options, which may interfere with the students' intuitive judgment leading to the case.
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The red sports car that Jiang Xia chose happened to have no reservations in the recent period.
He drove his big-bellied puppet, showed his driver's license, paid the cash, and drove away smoothly under the slightly anxious gaze of the staff.
He went to the black market to get his driver's license shortly after getting his parents' ghost. Although Jiang Xia secretly disliked the appearance of this pair of puppets, he still had to have the necessary vests. He might suddenly need them someday - like today.
Kitagawa Tsunefumi's new address is not difficult to find. In Jiang Xia's impression, he happens to live in Tokyo now.
So after renting the car, Jiang Xia went to the police station to make the previous statement before getting off work.
While waiting on the bench, he drove his puppet to find out Kitagawa Tsuneshi's current residence. There were not many people with the same name as Kitagawa Tsuneshi in Tokyo, only three in total. Combined with his age and the very charming portrait provided by the client, the process of finding him was quite easy.
After confirming Kitagawa Qiangshi's current address, Jiang Xia sneaked out in the middle of the night that night, skillfully drove the puppet, stole some electricity from other people's homes near Kitagawa's home, installed a camera, and waited for Kitagawa Qiangshi to go out.
Two or three days passed.
At noon, when Jiang Xia was dozing off, he was awakened by the ghosts who were responsible for watching the surveillance screen.
He took the magazine covering his face, sat up, and saw from the screen a red sports car slowly driving out of the yard.
Through the front window of the car, the high-quality camera captured the face of the car owner: pointed cheekbones, pointed chin, triangular eyes... It was exactly the key to getting the complete plant pulp and murderous aura - Kitagawa Tsuyoshi.
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On a mountain road near Tokyo.
Jiang Xia drove the newly rented, polished car around.
The path is too long. If you leave the main body behind and let the puppet wander freely, it will consume too much murderous energy and the gain will not outweigh the loss.
And if you put the main body in the car, it would be better to let the main body drive directly.
(End of this chapter)
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