Chapter 508: Edogawa Conan in the Shadow
Just as I was thinking about it, there was a loud bang in the ditch seven or eight meters away, and a burst of intense flames rose up.
——The red car exploded.
In the burning background, the driver of the little green car stared blankly over there.
After a moment, he suddenly collapsed to the ground, pounding his fist and crying:
"I was just going out for a walk, how could something like this happen... I didn't see his car at all, if I had looked around more carefully at that time... Wuwuwu... He, he died, is this my fault?"
As he was talking, in the light of the explosion, a shikigami finally emerged from the body of the red car driver. It slowly rose up, gradually drifted closer, and finally clung to the green car driver's legs.
Jiang Xia: “…”
His fingers trembled instinctively and he wanted to pick up the baton.
But remembering that there was Toru Amuro standing next to him, he could only change his action regretfully, raised his hand and patted the driver of the little green car on the shoulder, and comforted him: "Fortunately there is a surveillance camera above, let's wait for the traffic police to come and determine the responsibility - if it was just an accident, the sentence should not be more serious than murder."
The driver of the little green car who was busy crying: "..."
...Is it his illusion?
...Why do I always feel that the second half of this young man’s sentence has a hidden meaning?
But when he raised his head and stole a glance at Jiang Xia's calm but encouraging gaze, Che Gu Zhengsi felt that he was guilty and thinking too much.
So he hesitated for a moment, then continued to cover his face and sob.
Next to him, Toru Amuro didn't think there was anything wrong with what Jiang Xia said.
——Even if it was an accident, someone died here after all. In this case, for the parties involved in the car accident, it is equivalent to causing the death of a person with their own hands.
Ordinary citizens have never seen such a scene, so they panicked and thought they had killed someone.
Jiang Xia must have noticed this thoughtfully, so he deliberately compared "traffic accident causing death" with "murder" and told the green car driver the difference between the two... Jiang Xia's keen insight seems to be used not only in solving cases, but also often in the service industry. No wonder whether it is the clients who come to the detective agency, or the bosses and customers of various workplaces, they all speak well of him...
Toru Amuro's thoughts wandered briefly, but he quickly brought them back to focus.
——Come to think of it, was this really just an accident?
He glanced at Jiang Xia who was still comforting the driver, and a hint of doubt slowly rose in his heart.
...To be honest, he had never seen a death caused purely by accident near Jiangxia. Therefore, now, he always felt that there might be some hidden story in this car accident.
...Luckily there is surveillance here. When the time comes, we can check it out and we should be able to tell whether this was an accident or murder.
As Toru Amuro thought about this, he looked at the driver who was kneeling and crying. He observed suspiciously for a moment, but in the end, he said nothing.
He turned his head and looked into the distance on the road, waiting for the traffic police and ambulance to arrive.
…
Soon, a small dot appeared at the end of the road in sight.
A vehicle was getting closer.
...The ambulance and police car arrived so quickly?
...No, there was only one car coming, and it should be a passerby passing by here.
Thinking of this, Toru Amuro glanced at the intersection and planned to move the Mazda that he had just parked to the side to avoid traffic congestion.
As he walked from the place where he was hiding from the explosion to his car.
The car coming from a distance drove closer and stopped.
In the car, a middle-aged man stuck his head out, looked at the river, and asked Amuro Toru warily: "Why is there smoke in the river? What happened?"
When Toru Amuro heard this, he looked over and was stunned.
The driver who was looking out had a long face and a mustache. He looked ordinary but a little confused.
At the first glance, a name accurately popped up in Toru Amuro's brain, which was like an intelligence library.
——Moori Kogoro.
Although he has never seen them directly, recently, when his subordinates were investigating Conan Edogawa's information, they also collected information about this foster family, so Toru Amuro has seen photos of the Mori family.
And now, Maori Kogoro is the driver, and there seems to be someone sitting in the back seat of his car...
Toru Amuro suddenly thought of something, turned his head and looked over with mixed feelings.
I saw the rear window was just rolled down.
Then, two familiar-looking people poked their heads out from inside. Mao Lilan and Conan spotted Jiang Xia a little further away. They waved to Jiang Xia in surprise and joy: "What a coincidence, you're going out too?"
Toru Amuro: "..."
Why is there this kid wearing glasses everywhere?
...Come to think of it, it was the same in the previous times - every time, before or after my car had a flat tire, I would always meet Conan.
This time, no unlucky vehicle had a flat tire...
But one car exploded directly.
“…”
Amuro Toru was silent for a moment, and suddenly thought, maybe it was not Jiang Xia who should be locked out, but Edogawa Conan who always managed to meet them cleverly?
...For a moment, he even suspected that he was arranged by this weird kid.
But if he thought about it calmly, today, the time when he took Jiang Xia out was random, and the direction out of the city was random - to be more precise, it was decided by throwing the dice.
...There's no way Conan controlled his dice.
In addition, when he was in the city, he arranged for his subordinates to track and monitor him, but he did not find any suspicious people following his car.
So...are there really such coincidences in the world?
…
Conan was greeting Jiang Xia when he suddenly felt a chill on his back.
He looked over cautiously following his intuition and saw Toru Amuro staring at him on the side of the road, lost in thought.
Conan: “…”
Why is it this suspicious boss again?
The frequency with which he appears next to Jiang Xia recently is a bit too high...
…
I encountered a car accident on the road and there were people I knew on the side of the road.
Kogoro Mori didn't drive any further.
As a former criminal policeman and active detective, he instinctively pushed the door open, got out of the car, and asked Amuro Toru for details.
The two adults quickly walked aside to communicate.
Conan and Mao Lilan also jumped out of the car and ran to Jiang Xia.
They vaguely heard the conversation between Kogoro Mori and Toru Amuro, glanced at the smoking car in the river, and slowly extracted the key word "car accident".
After being stunned for a moment, the two turned their heads and looked at Jiang Xia. Their reactions were even greater than Jiang Xia's, who should have been AFK.
Car accidents, explosions, bodies in cars...
In my impression, Jiang Xia seemed to have a strong psychological shadow on this kind of scene. Every time he encountered similar factors, his speed of solving the case would slow down noticeably, and sometimes he would just stand there in a daze, motionless.
But now, he stood on the side of the road and seemed to be doing pretty well.
Ran Mouri and Conan were a little confused, but they didn't dare to ask directly.
——Maybe Jiang Xia has actually figured it out recently and is secretly receiving psychological treatment without telling anyone, so his condition has improved. And today he successfully ignored the "car accident" that triggered his PTSD.
If they ask Jiang Xia about it, and he recalls his past when he was idle, wouldn't that be very bad?
(End of this chapter)
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