Chapter 416: Unscrupulous Winery Oppresses Peripheral Members
If this "necklace" was really a personalized accessory chosen by Jiang Xia, then when he wanted to hide it, he could just find an opportunity to take it off without having to cover it with a scarf.
The current situation means that he can't take it off himself... Thinking of this, the dark silhouettes of Uzo, Gin and Vodka began to spin in Amuro Toru's mind again.
Come to think of it, the exaggerated patterns on the necklace look like the style of a designer in the organization's equipment department. Plus, the thickness is enough to lay out the circuit... Is it equipment produced by the organization?
Toru Amuro never misses any free information in the organization.
He recalled the list of equipment provided by the organization and did not remember this kind of "necklace" being on it. It might be a product still in the experimental stage, and some cadres took it out and used it in advance.
As for "certain cadres"... combined with what Jiang Xia said just now, "I met Gin and Vodka on the road", there is no need to guess who the owner of this equipment is - Gin can indeed often get some drugs or equipment that are still in the experimental stage.
While speculating, Toru Amuro used a little force to open the "necklace" and vaguely saw the metal electrode inside.
Sure enough, it’s a fake necklace. This should actually be some kind of control device... huh?
...control device?
The similar keywords made Toru Amuro's mind flash back to his previous speculation that "the organization has some way to restrain Usa", and then he linked the two together, and the idea of "Jiang Xia = Usa" emerged.
But soon, he rationally dismissed the idea.
——It is impossible for an organization to use such a simple and crude method to restrain an important cadre. Although the key words happened to collide, they should be two different things.
He let go of her hand, frowned and asked, "What exactly happened?"
Hearing this, Jiang Xia sighed silently and wrapped her scarf quietly.
Then start preparing to throw the pot.
At present, he does not want to reveal the identity of "Uzo" to Toru Amuro.
On the one hand, they don’t want to be recorded in the island country’s public security register, and then have the information leaked back to the organization, causing trouble.
On the other hand, a peripheral member who is just slacking off in the organization and a formal member who has been given a code name...for the police, these are two completely different concepts.
Toru Amuro may turn a blind eye to the former, allowing him to develop freely, and even lend a helping hand when necessary.
But towards the latter, the public security can no longer maintain the same attitude - even if the red side in this world has too much conscience, after knowing that "Jiang Xia is Uzo", whether for guidance, supervision, arrest or rebellion, Amuro Toru will inevitably pay excessive attention to him.
...Although the boss can also attract cases, compared with others, his event physique and murderous aura are not really strong. For Jiang Xia, this excessive attention is really unnecessary, and it will only interfere with his wandering between various camps to pick up ghosts.
...In short, for the sake of stability and freedom, it is better to keep the vest as long as possible.
Just yesterday, the boss sent him an email, telling him that the application for upgrading the confidentiality level that Gin had guaranteed for him had been approved. Now, even if Bourbon wanted to check, he could no longer find him through the organization's database.
As long as you pay more attention when you interact with others on a daily basis, the vest should be able to survive for a while.
However, even if he couldn't use the database, Amuro Toru was on the black side after all, and he had a large number of police officers at his disposal. This special dual identity determined that he was the most likely red side to find out the whole story of "Uzo"'s business trip. The group photo that Jiang Xia left on the boat was not originally meant to fool Amuro Toru.
If you want to change the boss's mind, you need to use other methods.
For example, instead of waiting for Toru Amuro to sort out the doubts from scratch and get closer to the truth, Jiang Xia thought it would be better to draw a fork in the road first and let the boss go astray at some key points...
When Toru Amuro asked for details, Jiang Xia chose his words:
"At the beginning, I met Gin and Vodka on a train to Tottori Prefecture. There was a shooting on the train. When arresting the criminal, Gin intercepted the other party's pistol. Later, he was questioned as a witness."
Amuro Toru nodded slowly.
It sounds a bit ironic that Gin acted bravely to help others, but considering his suspicious and cautious character, this action is not difficult to understand - Gin intercepted the gun, certainly not to prevent the murderer from accidentally hurting the citizens around him, but to prevent other dangerous elements with weapons from appearing in the car.
Jiang Xia saw Amuro Toru nod and continued without changing his expression:
"In addition to gin, I also met classmates on the bus who were going to Tottori Prefecture to attend a wedding. I chatted with them for a few minutes when we got off the bus, and by the time we were done, gin and vodka were gone.
“I thought I would never see them again.
"But one day later, a few hours before I boarded the ship to Moon Shadow Island, Gin and Vodka found where I was staying and asked me to board a tour ship called 'Haiyuan' to investigate the situation on the ship."
At this point, there has begun to be a subtle misalignment between the topic and the facts.
Jiang Xia did some fiddling during the narration - Gin and Amuro Toru usually have communication barriers, so they won't be honest about such details, so there's no need to worry about not being able to cover up the lie:
"After boarding the ship, I didn't find anything too obvious. After sending him the photos of the ship and the observations that Gin asked me to take, Gin told me to 'stay in the cabin and don't mind my own business.'"
"So I didn't go out afterwards. Later on... Gin and Vodka should have also boarded the ship, because Gin said in the email he sent that he would take back the 'necklace' when we were about to reach the main island.
"But then a murder occurred on the ship. When I solved the case, there was no one from the organization in the cabin. I don't know whether Gin took advantage of the chaos to leave, or he never boarded the ship in the first place, and he said he would take back the 'necklace' just to play a trick on me..."
At this point, Jiang Xia's expression became somewhat helpless, as if "he just wanted to work and solve cases in peace, but had to face the oppression of unscrupulous organization cadres, feeling weak, pitiful and helpless."
Toru Amuro: "..."
In other words, in such a short period of time, Jiang Xia not only had the misfortune of meeting Gin, he even encountered a murder case.
...This is really the standard luck of a high school detective. No wonder people say that being a detective is a gift from heaven. After all, not everyone can encounter murders at any time and in any place.
Amuro Toru patted his unfortunate employee's shoulder sympathetically, and glanced at the "necklace" on Jiang Xia's neck that symbolized the organization's evil forces: "This should be a piece of equipment that is still under development. It's not easy to dismantle it before we understand its structure... I'll go to the equipment department to ask for you."
(End of this chapter)
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