Chapter 491 Jiang Xia is really dedicated
In the dark wooden house in the early morning of a stormy day.
Conan woke up relying on his amazing intuition, feeling that something bad was about to happen.
He rubbed his eyes and turned to look around.
Just then, a few flashes of lightning flashed across the room, briefly illuminating the room. Jiang Xia, who was sitting in the corner, and the figure holding a knife in front of him suddenly caught Conan's eye.
Conan was stunned and suddenly shocked - someone was attacking!
He reacted quickly, picked up the pillow, threw it hard, and shouted a warning: "Be careful!"
As he said this, the blankets spread out in a row began to move, and people were awakened from their sleep one after another.
Jiang Xia, who just grabbed the baton, said: "..."
The pillow thrown by Conan failed to hit anyone - he just saw the knife light reflecting the lightning, and based on this, he guessed the attacker's position and threw the pillow in the predicted direction.
However, the actual situation was somewhat different from what Conan had expected.
——The dark figure did not take the last step with the knife and stab Jiang Xia as he expected. Instead, he suddenly dodged backwards.
Therefore, the only purpose of the flying pillow was to stop Jiang Xia who was about to throw someone.
Jiang Xia caught the pillow.
The lucky Xiao Hei opposite him escaped the disaster, turned off the light of his mobile phone screen, turned around and disappeared into the darkness.
The chaos lasted for a short while. In the darkness, people kept asking loudly, "What happened?!" and "Is there a murderer?"
At the same time, the door clanged open and a dark shadow staggered out.
Jiang Xia used the ghost's night vision to look around and sighed softly.
Then, before the lights came on, he squatted down, gathered the murderous aura falling in front of him, and put it in his pocket.
This was the moment when he and the dark figure looked at each other. The murderous aura emanating from the figure was directed at him.
Xiao Hei's psychological quality was average this time... However, although he didn't hit anyone, at least he got some substantial gains in advance.
Just after he had calmed down his murderous aura, Toru Amuro pressed the light switch with a click.
The dark rest room was illuminated by the light.
With the lighting, the chaos around calmed down a little. A group of people with their own thoughts sat up, looked around, and found that the mystery novelist was gone.
Amuro Toru spotted a figure passing by the window: "...outside!"
He leaned against the windowsill and jumped out.
Jiang Xia looked back at the murderous room, thought for a moment, and quickly followed.
…
The scenery in the mountains and forests is extremely dim and difficult to track.
Fortunately, the people running away in front were screaming from time to time.
Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru followed the sound and finally found a cave.
The entrance of the cave is very wide, but about five or six meters inside, it suddenly becomes narrow.
Torakura Etsuko ran a few steps inside, and after using the light of lightning to see the narrow rocks around her clearly, she turned around and ran out of the cave like crazy, bumping into Jiang Xia who had followed in.
"Help, help!" She seemed to be in a daze, her hair was scattered all over her body, and her movements were not as graceful as they were during the day. She grabbed Jiang Xia tightly and muttered in her sleep, "The ceiling is falling down, the walls are squeezing me, he wants to kill me! He must have tampered with the house..."
"The ceiling fell down?" Conan came over without knowing when.
He raised his sleeve to wipe the rain off his face, thinking back to the rest area hut that stood firmly and had not collapsed, and then looked at Torakura Etsuko who seemed to be talking nonsense, and suddenly matched these situations with some symptoms: "Do you have claustrophobia?"
Jiang Xia’s focus is slightly different from Conan’s.
He supported Torakura Etsuko and asked with some concern: "Someone wants to kill you?"
He had long felt that the name "Etsuko Torakura" sounded very familiar, as if it was the same name as a character in a case that he remembered.
Now it seems that maybe it’s not just the names that are duplicated, but the people as well.
In other words, although this novelist has no murderous intent and no ghosts, she may be related to certain cases... Well, when she recovers later, I must remember to ask her for a business card and promote my detective business.
Thinking of this, Jiang Xia decisively classified the other party as his own client, raised his hand and patted her on the back to comfort her.
Etsuko Torakura's face turned pale, and she buried her head and gasped heavily.
Amuro Toru observed her briefly and felt that her distress did not seem fake:
"If it was a claustrophobia attack, then she might have been woken up just now and suddenly noticed that she was in a dark room, so she ran out in fear..."
If that’s the case, the figure that attacked Jiang Xia in the dark couldn’t be Etsuko Torakura.
Conan nodded, agreeing with this statement: "I just vaguely saw the person who attacked Jiang Xia brother. That person seemed to have short hair and a man's body shape. In short, he was not like Sister Yuezi with her hair loose. The attacker probably hid back in the quilt as if nothing had happened after the assassination failed, pretending to have just woken up."
In other words, the attackers are still hiding in the rest stop.
...Luckily, the attack had just happened, and the people in the house were on alert. In addition, it was not too long before dawn, and no one was in the mood to sleep. The attackers would not act rashly, so the place was safe for the time being.
In addition, when there was such a good opportunity for a sneak attack just now, the attacker did not assassinate the client, nor did he try to silence the unconscious male college student. Instead, he chose to attack Jiang Xia... Did the Silver Fox intend to kill the night watchman first and then leisurely eliminate his target, or was the robber worried that his identity would be seen through by the famous detective, so he took action first?
Speaking of which…
Amuro Toru looked at Jiang Xia and asked, "Did you fall asleep while on guard?"
In his opinion, this was a rather strange thing.
Although Jiang Xia seemed to be a lazy person in the organization's files, he had always had a good reputation among his clients. Even the owners of the shops where he occasionally took over work gave him rave reviews... This was not only because Jiang Xia easily left a good impression on others, but also because he was really serious at work.
But at such a critical moment tonight, Jiang Xia actually fell asleep not long after he started his vigil.
When Jiang Xia heard the boss's question, he lowered his head with a hint of guilt and said, "I don't know why, but I was so sleepy today that I lost consciousness after sitting for a while."
Conan also thought this was very suspicious. Jiang Xia took his part-time job as a detective very seriously, and his professionalism was obvious to all. In this case, rather than "carelessly falling asleep", it was more likely that someone had secretly thrown sleeping pills or something like that into Jiang Xia's meal.
Those who can do this...
"Is it that administrator?!"
(End of this chapter)
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