Chapter 389: Jiangxia Illegal Incident (Combined Chapter)
The calm middle-aged editor looked at Hattori Heiji and the police officers who got off the car one after another, and was moved to tears: "I surrender!"
Hattori Heiji: "...?"
He glanced at Toyama Heye and the three children, whose eyes looked a little dull, and then looked at Jiang Xia, who was sitting on the small sofa next to them and seemed a little tired for some reason.
Finally, he looked down at the bald man who was hugging his legs and crying.
…The middle-aged man who shouted that he wanted to surrender did not have any scars on his face. However, as he struggled to move towards the police at the door, his clothes were scraped by the floor, revealing a large area on his shoulder, with a lot of bruises faintly visible inside.
"..." Hattori Heiji wiped his face silently. Although he was not there just now, he probably knew what happened here...
The policeman who walked over here also felt that the atmosphere in the room was a little strange. He asked, "What's going on?"
Hattori Heiji was slightly startled when he heard someone approaching. He leaned down reflexively and pulled back the collar of Mikami Heihachi that was too exposed.
Then he dragged the man up and handed him over to the policeman who came behind him. He cleared his throat guiltily and said, "Well, he seems to have a change of heart and wants to turn himself in..."
"Huh?" The tall policeman was a little confused.
But when the police saw Mikami Heihachi crying and giving off an aura of "take me away", they felt they understood - the murderer must have just been exposed by the detective and discovered that there was a misunderstanding in his murder and was feeling remorseful... They had seen a lot of such things.
The police pulled the man into the police car and sat him down.
——In fact, he originally wanted to have someone sit in the hotel lobby and ask about the situation first, but Mikami Heihachi refused to go back.
So I had to get in the police car...
…
Hattori Heiji looked at the closed door of the police car and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
...Although I don't agree with Jiang Xia's somewhat illegal behavior, Jiang Xia probably did this to protect the innocent people in the hotel.
And although Jiang Xia's beatings look scary, if you think about it carefully, he rarely takes the initiative to beat people - every time the criminals try to attack others, Jiang Xia goes to stop them, and then he can't stop himself, which makes him look so cruel...
Having said that, Hattori Heiji always felt that he was an accomplice and his conscience was a little guilty, and he was letting down the law he respected.
However, a mixed-race girl reached out and pulled the policeman, pointing at the sofa. Then the police fished out a slightly bent rifle from under the sofa... Hattori Heiji straightened his back again.
Jiang Xia and his friends actually encountered an armed gangster. For such people, they should indeed take the initiative and deprive them of their ability to resist - what if they have other mini guns hidden on them?
…
The case of the hotel has been deduced and the murderer is also very cooperative.
Some reporters arrived a little late. Huihara Ai noticed them quickly, immediately pulled up her hood to cover her conspicuous hair, put on a cartoon mask that fit her childish image to cover her face, and then hid behind the big-bodied Dr. Agasa, with a set of movements that were very skillful.
The police didn't notice this minor incident. They left some people behind to collect evidence. The other police officers registered the contact information of everyone in the hotel and prepared to go to Spider Mansion to continue working overtime to handle the unfinished cases there.
Jiang Xia also followed him back.
Next, he planned to transfer to Moon Shadow Island, and Spider Mansion was closer to the pier than the inn.
In addition, a kind-hearted policeman seemed to recognize him and told him that there was a new murder case at Spider Mansion. While his colleagues were busy dealing with the matter of Star Hotel, this young policeman told Jiang Xia all the details he knew about Spider Mansion. Then he stared at Jiang Xia eagerly, as if he was staring at a magical machine that could immediately spit out a list of murderers after inputting the scene information.
Jiang Xia was silent for a moment, then said "Rob is a little suspicious" and said nothing more. He planned to get on the police car - knowing that there was a case in Spider Mansion, as a high school detective with a strong desire for knowledge, it would be too strange if he didn't go.
…
Jiang Xia, Hattori Heiji, and Toyama Kazuha were riding in a police car, while Robert got in another car. Both sides avoided each other tacitly - Robert did not try to start the truck again, as the puppet clay in the keyhole was blocked too tightly, giving him the illusion that the car could not be started.
This time, the only person who stayed in Spider Mansion to solve the case was Hattori Heiji himself. Perhaps it was because of some potential that he had collected a lot of information, and the only thing left was the final language arrangement.
Since the mission of solving the case has basically been completed, Hattori Heiji is currently more concerned about something else than this.
"While you were away, I learned a lot from the Takeda family's servants." Hattori Heiji sighed, "I roughly know why Takeda Misa suddenly hanged herself."
Just now when the police officer was telling Jiang Xia about the murder case in Spider Mansion, Yuanshan Heye was also there and listened a lot.
So after getting in the car, she kept her ears perked up to eavesdrop on the two people in the back seat discussing the case. Suddenly hearing this, she leaned back on the seat and turned around, asking in confusion, "Why?"
"This is the message Rob left when he left three years ago—"
Hattori Heiji glanced at the police car diagonally in front of him, then looked away with a complicated look.
Then he raised his hand and gestured a few letters in the air to Yuanshan Heye: "When asked about his evaluation of Miss Misa, he wrote 'shine' to describe his first impression of Misa, meaning that she is like a ray of light. But Miss Misa's English is not very good, and she read this word in Japanese romanization as 'shi ne'..."
Yuanshan and Ye were stunned. Suddenly they felt a little sad and a little absurd.
Jiang Xia suddenly felt numb on his shoulder...not mentally, but really.
He glanced at the car window, and through the reflection of the dark sky, he vaguely saw Miss Spider, who was originally sitting on his shoulder, stretching out her eight sharp legs at some point, clinging to him tightly as if she had nowhere to put them. The translucent hat on the new ghost's head drooped, and large tears flowed out under the cover. The tears gathered on her chin, and then dripped into her clothes one by one, and finally returned to the ghost fetus's body... This cycle repeats over and over again, which is very economical.
It's just that it takes a lot of energy to toss back and forth...
Having just received a lot of murderous aura from the bald editor-in-chief, Jiang Xia thought about it and became a little more generous for a moment. He took out a mint and lit it, intending to relieve his fatigue from staying up all night, and to give Miss Spider some nourishment at the same time to prevent her from crying herself to death.
The lighter clicked, a flame leaped out, and a round spark lit up at the end of the cigarette as he breathed.
Yuanshan Heye's originally dull gaze moved slightly and moved over.
She looked at the cigarette that didn't go well with Jiang Xia, and thought she should say something like "It's not legal for you to smoke," or "There's a policeman sitting in front of you."
However, when I secretly turned my head, I found that the young policeman driving the car seemed to be a young man who had just started his job. He was still shocked by this absurd love tragedy story and did not notice that someone was sitting behind him and violating the law prohibiting underage smoking.
Looking at Jiang Xia again and thinking about what happened just now, Yuanshan Heye thought, maybe this is also a way for Jiang Xia to relieve stress... and this cigarette doesn't smell like tobacco, but more like some plants... Maybe it is just smoke on the outside, and is actually a special medicine made by the strange doctor in Tokyo.
So in the end, she just stared at Jiang Xia's cigarette silently and said nothing.
Hattori Heiji's mental journey was not that complicated and tortuous - he was still concentrating on how to solve the case later.
Although detectives shouldn't hide the truth, the shine incident doesn't seem to have much impact on the subsequent handling of the case.
"Let's not talk about it." Jiang Xia felt that Miss Spider was pulling him harder, so he had to speak to tip the scales in Hattori Heiji's heart:
"'Hanging himself because of Shine' is just a guess after all. There may be other hidden secrets. If you are not sure, just keep it secret from the police - this is not partiality, but just to avoid misleading others."
"!" Hattori Heiji felt that the second half of the sentence made sense, and he stopped worrying about it. "That's right."
Police officer in the front row: “…”
He was still in the car, and he actually said "hide it from the police" in front of him. That's too much.
...But never mind, since everyone treats him as if he doesn't exist, he might as well pretend he didn't hear it. The young police officer sighed with mixed feelings and continued to be an emotionless driving tool.
After Hattori Heiji finished his struggle and had extra energy, he suddenly realized something.
He paused for a moment and looked at Jiang Xia suspiciously: "Why do I feel that you are not surprised at all after hearing about this tragic misunderstanding... Have you known about it a long time ago?"
“…”
Jiang Xia actually wanted to put on a surprised expression, but was interrupted by Yuanshan Heye.
Later, his attention was attracted by the spider ghost again. He was very concerned about those crystal tears. He was worried that they would not be caught by his sleeves and would fall somewhere else and be difficult to recover... He forgot to fool Hattori Heiji for a moment.
However, facing these high school detectives with full imagination, it should be too late to start fooling them now...
Jiang Xia bit the butt of Ghost Mint's cigarette and lowered his voice: "Surprise is not only about showing it on your face."
——He just needs a cigarette to calm down. This is much more serious than showing surprise on his face.
Hattori Heiji: "..."
Although it made sense, he always felt that this Tokyo detective was just trying to give him a perfunctory answer...
However, remembering that this afternoon, when they were on their way to Takeda's house, Robert used words like "shining" and "shine" to describe Takeda Misa during their casual chat.
Think about that police fanboy who just kept giving Jiang Xia information about Spider Mansion...
Hattori Heiji suddenly felt that it was normal for Jiang Xia to think of the shine thing before he spoke - Jiang Xia, after all, could see nothing strange in the shortest time, and those who understood would understand.
…
After sorting out the case at Spider Mansion and solving Miss Spider's commission, Jiang Xia stuffed the burnt ghost mint into the portable ashtray.
Then, facing Hattori Heiji's strange gaze, which was sometimes suspicious and sometimes enlightened, he strategically pretended to sleep.
Judging from the information provided by Hattori Heiji just now, this Kansai detective had already deduced the case before following the police to the Star Hotel.
It's just that Hattori Heiji is still struggling with the matter of Robert's Shine message, and coupled with the sudden murder at the Star Hotel, the case has not been solved yet.
Now that all the problems have been solved, Jiang Xia thought that by the time he "wakes up", Hattori Heiji should have solved the case automatically.
...I hope that after reading the reports on Hattori Heiji's case, potential clients will realize that asking this Osaka detective to come over may bring disaster to the client. Then, in order to avoid such disasters, they will send letters of commission to other detectives instead - yes, such as a high school detective in Tokyo who is friendly and efficient in solving cases.
…
After thinking about Shine, Hattori Heiji planned to go over his own experience of solving the case with Jiang Xia - it was just like doing homework. If the teacher didn't give out the reference answer, then the question was done. But if the answer was placed next to it, many people would not be able to help but flip it open and take a look... Hattori Heiji was in this situation at the moment.
But just as he sorted out his thoughts and turned his head, before he could shake Jiang Xia who had his eyes closed, Yuanshan Heye in the front row suddenly stretched out an arm and slapped him on the mouth with precision.
Yuanshan Heye whispered: "Don't disturb his rest - I heard that he met that kid named Conan yesterday and was forced to stay up all night."
...Although Toyama Kazuha didn't know the relationship between "meeting Conan" and "staying up all night", when she was taking a nap at the Star Hotel just now, she heard Jiang Xia explain it this way to his acquaintances.
After hearing what Jiang Xia said, the old man and the children did not refute him. This shows that this might be the truth.
Hattori Heiji understood.
Did you encounter a case on the way to Jiangxia?
In this case, it will be published in the newspaper tomorrow, so I will buy a copy and read it...
Thinking of this, Hattori Heiji couldn't help but glance at Jiang Xia again: This guy actually put the blame on Kudo. He could easily run into a case just by looking at the stars, and there were two deaths. If you count the one he solved all night when he met Kudo, he encountered three cases in one day... Hiss, what's wrong with this guy?
Hattori Heiji felt that this probability was beyond the scope of "coincidence".
But on second thought, the frequency of his own cases was also ridiculously high in the eyes of ordinary citizens.
Maybe the ordinary citizens have exactly the same feeling towards him as he does towards Jiang Xia now... In any case, this should just be some kind of coincidence. It could even be God's will, something like "the stronger the ability to solve cases, the more cases will pile up".
No, that's not right. The world is materialistic. We must believe in science. There is no such thing as God's will...
Hattori Heiji was briefly confused.
…
When they arrived at the Takeda family, Jiang Xia took the opportunity to take a look at a dark corner nearby while Hattori Heiji was reasoning.
However, no suspicious man in black came out to meet him.
There is still no signal on the phone and I can't receive emails or text messages.
Jiang Xia looked at the empty inbox and couldn't help but start to worry that Gin and Vodka thought it was too troublesome to encounter a murder case along the way, so they left him alone and ran away.
(End of this chapter)
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