Chapter 618: Outlaws
Just now, when Jiang Xia saw those burly men rushing towards Amuro Toru, he actually vaguely understood why Hattori Heiji suddenly wanted to take him away - Jiang Xia had a good memory, and his eyesight would not be weakened by the dark environment. Therefore, as soon as the burly men rushed out, he saw their faces clearly. Not long ago, Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru had just returned from the police station in Tottori Prefecture. If I remember correctly, he had just seen several of them in the police station.
...Therefore, it is not difficult to guess that the people who carried out the raid were actually a group of police officers.
Considering the frequency of contact between Hattori Heiji and Conan, as well as Conan's wary attitude towards Amuro Toru, it is probably that the imaginations of the two high school detectives have a little bit of mutual connection.
However, Jiang Xia did not expect that Hattori Heiji was so capable that he could even borrow police tools in Tottori.
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Considering that high school students are at the age when they need to look good.
Consider also that if high school students who care about their reputation feel socially dead, they may avoid him in the future.
So, facing Hattori Heiji's question, Jiang Xia did not deny it directly, but just looked back with a little doubt, letting Hattori Heiji understand it himself - the cruel truth he understood himself was always easier to accept than hearing it from others, and relatively speaking, it was not so embarrassing...
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“…………”
Although Hattori Heiji is extremely slow in emotions, he is quite sensitive in other aspects.
Just now, after showing Jiang Xia the phone that showed "No Signal" and telling him that the signal was blocked, but Jiang Xia still said nothing, Hattori Heiji actually had a bad feeling in his heart.
Now, I see Jiang Xia's puzzled expression as if asking "What are you talking about?"
Hattori Heiji finally realized that maybe, maybe... he was overthinking?
"..." He remembered Conan's speculation that "Jiang Xia must have been kidnapped by that unscrupulous boss!" and felt that the friendship between him and Kudo was crumbling.
Thinking of this, Hattori Heiji's face turned dark and light black.
Finally he came to his senses and looked at Jiang Xia: "...Why haven't you used your phone recently?"
Jiang Xia sighed helplessly: "It seems that the client this time has encountered an unruly detective before and his information was leaked, so he has high requirements for confidentiality. The boss is quite familiar with him, but he doesn't trust a stranger like me, so I kept my phone in the car. In addition, I heard from the boss that his phone accidentally exploded with the car yesterday..."
"...Have you ever thought that they have colluded in advance and are trying to make you die 'accidentally'?" Hattori Heiji's eyes twitched, and he struggled desperately, "Also, why do you always go deep into the mountains and forests? Don't you think those places are suitable for silencing people?"
Jiang Xia: “…”
This requires the boss's precious dice... No, now it's his precious dice.
Of course, we can't say anything directly about the dice.
After all, detectives have to believe in science.
Jiang Xia pondered for a moment, thinking about how to answer this question scientifically.
At this moment, a voice suddenly came from behind him and answered for him: "Because we are looking for someone."
…It was Toru Amuro’s voice.
——The unscrupulous man surrounded by strong men... Ahem, the innocent boss followed me here without knowing when.
Jiangxia had ghosts report the incident, so they were not surprised by this visitor.
Hattori Heiji became alert out of habit.
Yuanshan Heye was also startled and subconsciously hid far away. But then he thought about it and thought that Jiang Xia said that Amuro Toru was not a bad person...
She stopped where she was again, watching nervously.
Toru Amuro pretended not to notice anything unusual about the high school students.
He answered Hattori Heiji's question naturally: "The commission we received this time is to find a person with suicidal tendencies. When we follow the traces he left behind, we certainly can't miss those so-called suicide sanctuaries in the deep mountains and old forests... Well, if I continue, it will violate the confidentiality requirements - are you satisfied with this answer?"
Hattori Heiji nodded awkwardly.
...This reason is barely acceptable.
More importantly, Jiang Xia discovered that the signal was blocked before, but still didn’t tell him anything... From these points of view, this "kidnapping incident" may really be just a misunderstanding?
...Speaking of this, Hattori Heiji suddenly became puzzled - why is the unscrupulous boss here?
What about the police helpers that I found?
Hattori Heiji glanced behind Amuro Toru.
I didn’t see the group of strong policemen he borrowed from his father.
At this time, several people happened to run to the control room of the haunted house.
Hattori Heiji put aside his doubts, walked into the control room in the dark, and turned on the lights that had been turned off.
With a slight click, the haunted house returned to its previous state of dim light.
Then he turned off the signal jammer brought by the police and returned to the corridor as if nothing had happened:
"The staff of the haunted house just now asked us to wait for him in the X-ray room... Let's go back and take a look. Didn't we promise to help him see how the 'corpse' performance went?"
After saying this, Hattori Heiji looked calm and left quickly, escaping from the social death scene. His figure was so fast that it seemed like a dark shadow blending into a haunted house.
Yuanshan Heye was frightened by this dark and silent shadow and shuddered. She felt that it was more terrifying than the zombies before. After coming to her senses, she tried to comfort herself, that was Hattori Heiji, that was Hattori Heiji, that was Hattori Heiji...
Only then did he try to calm down and quickly catch up.
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The four people walked along the corridor towards the X-ray room.
Not long after, they passed by the place where they had just separated.
Hattori Heiji turned the corner, the mechanism was triggered, and a prop zombie pounced towards him with a roar.
Hattori Heiji glanced over casually, and when he saw clearly, he jumped back in shock.
...Although he had known that there was a prop zombie here, when the thing that jumped out was different from what he imagined in his mind, this abrupt change still gave him a sense of fright.
——Originally, zombies should have been covered in tattered bandages and cloth.
However, the zombie that popped out this time was particularly bald, and the bandages wrapped around its body had disappeared, leaving only a plastic frame in the shape of a human body. The bandages had been removed by some unscrupulous tourist.
Following the zombies and looking deep into the shadows nearby, one can vaguely see several people wrapped in bandages piled up there - the plainclothes policemen are struggling to move, looking for the rope buckle of the bandages in an attempt to untie themselves.
Hattori Heiji: "..."
While he was silent with mixed feelings, three people behind him caught up with him.
Toru Amuro also glanced at where the strong men were gathered.
He had actually discovered the identities of this group of people - although he couldn't see their faces clearly, but just now, in the chaos, someone's police ID fell out of his pocket.
(End of this chapter)
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