Chapter 636 Red Ghost Asking for Monthly Tickets☆
After a moment, the innkeeper pushed up his glasses and looked up at Jiang Xia in surprise.
He twisted the mustache on his lips and said excitedly: "It must be the high school detective from Tokyo. To be honest, I have been wanting to commission you recently, but I couldn't contact you. I didn't expect you to come directly..."
“…”
The waiter who had walked to the corner turned around and saw this scene. His expression changed several times and became much gloomier.
At this moment, Toru Amuro seemed to have keenly noticed something and suddenly turned his head to look over.
The two sides looked at each other unexpectedly. Shenbao Daxiong was startled and instinctively smiled at the guest.
Then he didn't dare to stay any longer, turned the corner, and quickly left the sight of Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru.
…
Toru Amuro withdrew his gaze, recalled the gloomy look that flashed across the waiter's face just now, frowned, and vaguely felt that something might be about to happen.
However, he had been working for a long time and had seen all kinds of workers. Some of them kept smiling in front of customers but scolded customers behind their backs. The waiter just now might be just an ordinary waiter. He looked gloomy just now because he was scolding in his heart that it was the off-season and he wanted to have a good rest, but customers came to increase their workload...
Toru Amuro recalled the face of the divine treasure Nobita and the employee badge on him.
After making sure that he had never seen this person on the wanted poster, nor a similar name, he withdrew his attention and looked at the innkeeper who had the commission.
After Jiang Xia said he was "temporarily free", the boss approached them and whispered mysteriously:
“It’s like this, wasn’t there a body of a man in red found nearby a while ago?
"——Actually, he came to my place five years ago and left some things."
…
Five years ago, the innkeeper received a strange guest.
The man was wearing a bright red jacket and had long hair. He called the boss to his room on the internal line in the middle of the night and gave him 100,000 yen, a locked box, and a letter.
——The man in red wanted to leave his suitcase and letter with the innkeeper, and the 100,000 yen was the storage fee.
He told his boss that if he came to pick it up himself, he would give him the box.
But if someone else comes asking for the box in his name, then he will conceal the fact of the box and give the letter to that person.
"The man in red said he would come back soon. As a result, the day after he left, someone came to pick up the box from me. But it was not him who came. It was a man wearing sunglasses and a hat with a thick beard on his face."
Because the two people in front and behind were both strange, the innkeeper was quite impressed by them:
"I followed what the red-dressed man had said before and concealed the box. I only gave the bearded man the letter. After the bearded man opened it and examined it, he angrily tore the letter into pieces, threw it into the trash can, and left."
"Wait until he's far away..." At this point, the innkeeper scratched the back of his head sheepishly, "Well, I was so curious that I couldn't help but pick up the shredded paper and piece it together.
"Then I found a few big bloody words written on it - 'I curse you to death'.
“After that, the man in red never showed up again, and the bearded man didn’t bother me any more, so I gradually forgot about it.
“Who would have thought that a few days ago, the police actually found the body of the man in red.”
The innkeeper said, looking at Jiang Xia expectantly: "I'm really curious about this matter, so I want to ask a detective to come and check what's going on with the box and the man in red. I haven't opened the box yet, you see..."
When Jiang Xia heard this, he looked at Amuro Toru as usual and asked for advice from his nominal boss.
However, when I looked over, I found that the boss had a complicated expression of "I knew it would be like this", which was strange.
"……?"
Jiang Xia couldn't understand what he was thinking.
However, there seemed to be no objection to him accepting the commission.
Jiang Xia looked at the innkeeper again, thinking of the murderous waiter in his shop, and nodded: "We have something else to do later, I'll take some time tonight to take a look. If I find anything, I'll tell you right away."
…
The deal is done.
The innkeeper took them back to his room, searched around for a while, and dragged out an old locked suitcase from the corner.
Considering that this matter involves a life, there may be something extraordinary hidden in the box.
The three did not open the boxes in the hall.
The boss first personally opened two guest rooms for them, then took the keys and the three of them came to Jiangxia's room.
…
He took out the key left by the man in red, opened the suitcase, and saw an old newspaper inside.
The newspaper was dated September five years ago. It was a sports newspaper, with the headline "Akagi Maru's First Victory" on the front page and a picture of two sumo wrestlers fighting fiercely - other than that, there was nothing else in the box.
The innkeeper was quite surprised by this result.
Under his gaze, Jiang Xia put on gloves, picked up the newspaper and shook it, then turned the pages and looked at it.
I found that there was nothing hidden in the newspaper - no matter how you look at it, it was just an ordinary newspaper.
Next to him, Toru Amuro breathed a sigh of relief silently.
He thought that once he opened the box, a mummified hand or some eyeball specimen would fall out... Fortunately, nothing happened.
While thinking, Toru Amuro checked the suitcase.
Then I found out that this was just an ordinary mass-produced locked suitcase without any mechanism.
The problem probably lies with that newspaper.
…
Next to him, the innkeeper looked disappointed.
Although he had no intention of embezzling the property of the man in red, he had thought that he had encountered some legendary puzzle when he suddenly encountered such a thing. But now, only a newspaper came out of the box.
...Maybe the man in red doesn't care about the contents of the box at all, and just wants to find an excuse to send out the cursed letter?
...Maybe there's some complicated riddle hidden in the newspaper?
The innkeeper sighed. He still preferred the adventure part and had no interest in crossword puzzles.
"It's getting late, why don't you two go eat first? In order to ensure the freshness of the ingredients, our main dishes are served for a limited time. There are still more than 20 minutes left before the end. If you're late, we'll only have the mass-customized bento."
The boss looked at Jiang Xia and said, "You can keep the box for now. If you solve the puzzle and find an adventure map or treasure map, you can borrow it from me. We usually go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables and have a lot of shovels and other things."
"OK."
Coincidentally, Jiang Xia also has no interest in solving puzzles.
Compared to this, he was more concerned about the murderous aura of the waiters in the store - although it was not much at the moment, it seemed to have great potential for growth.
He closed the lid of the box and prepared to eat first as the boss had asked.
(End of this chapter)
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