Chapter 699 The Decisive Moment
After nodding, Matsuda Jinpei stood up and walked around in an attempt to cover up his mistake.
"good."
The psychic's master was also very satisfied with the result. After praising it, he handed it a cigarette and lit it in a good mood.
Matsuda Jinpei had no expression on his face, but he relaxed a little, feeling lucky that this experiment of torturing ghosts was finally over. He took the cigarette and took a deep breath, letting the murderous aura contained in the ghost mint dissipate more to calm himself down.
Just when he was halfway through, Jiang Xia looked at his watch, then turned around to get a new blood pack.
Matsuda Jinpei: “……?”
"There are still two or three hours until the appointment time. Hurry up and try a few more times after you're done. I'll practice."
Jiang Xia picked a blood bag that he liked, weighed it in his hand, and turned around to look at him with satisfaction:
"If it falls out due to lack of wrapping, or if you have to dismantle the puppet and reassemble it, it will be more convenient to replace it at any time once you become proficient in it."
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
Matsuda Jinpei: “…………”
His expression remained calm, but the slender fingers that were twisting the ghost mint trembled slightly, and the ash fell and landed on his legs.
Matsuda Jinpei lowered his head, glanced at the slightly lit cigarette butt in his hand, and then looked at Jiang Xia across the swirling smoke. Suddenly he felt that the cigarette in his hand was not a delicious ghost mint at all, but a last meal before he lay down and entered a bloody laboratory.
…
Two hours later.
Jiang Xia, who had become very skilled at stuffing blood bags, stopped to rest for a while, and let the ghost take a break as well.
Although Jinpei Matsuda didn't say anything and was just silently draining blood, Jiang Xia always felt that this ghost was a little haggard.
Fortunately, being exhausted is not a big deal, I can make up for it by taking some ghost mint. I usually work hard to store up murderous energy just to use it in similar situations.
When Jiang Xia thought about the appearance of a calm and handsome "Uzo" who would be able to get away with anything that required age checking, even the action of lighting the ghost mint became much more relaxed.
——The puppet will only be handed over to Matsuda Jinpeikai when the real body and the "fake Usa" have to exist at the same time.
Most of the time, the "fake Uzo" is actually himself.
It's not that he covets the puppet's age, but if Matsuda Jinpei himself were to go into battle and activate the puppet, it would be exhausting and wasteful, so it would be better to let the hardworking psychic do the hard work...
After briefly imagining the future, Jiang Xia changed into low-key clothes, took a large piece of plastic wrap and a thick briefcase, and left home.
He had to first take out the cash he had hidden a week ago, and then take the 100 million yen to meet up with Gin.
The reason for carrying a briefcase is, of course, to carry money.
The reason he brought plastic wrap was because he remembered that the money was stained with blood. A week had passed, and he didn't know how bad it had become. Although the blood in this world didn't spoil that easily, Jiang Xia still planned to wrap it in a layer to be on the safe side. To ensure that no strange smell would waft out when he was on his way to see Gin...
After arriving at the place where the money was hidden.
Jiang Xia summoned Matsuda Jinpei's puppet, asked him to put the money into the box, and then stuffed a blood bag into the puppet's head.
Afterwards, the two of them pushed the motorcycle all the way to the place where they had an appointment with Gin.
…
When they were almost there, Jiang Xia suddenly thought of something.
"..." Come to think of it, taking Jinpei Matsuda directly to see Gin seems to be more likely to be shot to death.
——I often see Gin, and when Conan is out, he will occasionally run into Gin. This gives Jiang Xia the illusion that "Gin can be seen everywhere"... But in fact, this does not seem to be the case.
Speaking of this, we have to mention Shuichi Akai. Five years ago, this ace FBI agent did not hesitate to sell his body and get into the organization undercover. After three years of hard work, he finally found an opportunity to work with Gin. In the end, they failed to work together - on the day of the mission, Shuichi Akai set up an ambush and planned to take the opportunity to catch Gin. And Rum on the black side also felt something was wrong, and fought with Shuichi Akai and his FBI teammates.
The ending was that the stupid teammate was unfortunately defeated, and Shuichi Akai's identity was exposed and he fled in a hurry.
...Having had this experience, Gin should be more alert to similar things.
If a strange man in black was brought directly in front of him, Gin's sense of crisis would increase immediately, and a sense of crisis would often stimulate aggression... His aggressiveness was already very strong.
"..." In any case, it's better to give them a buffer and let Jinpei Matsuda keep a polite distance from them when he shows up.
For a very suspicious boss like Gin, distance does not create beauty, but at least it can make his mentality tend to be calmer.
…
Thinking of this, Jiang Xia untied the briefcase tied to the back seat of the motorcycle.
At the same time, he called out to Matsuda Jinpei next to him: "Wait a minute."
Jinpei Matsuda turned around and saw the bag in his hand. He thought that Jiang Xia planned to park the motorcycle nearby and walk to the agreed location. He wanted him to help with the hard work.
So he raised his hand and took the bag, feeling very much like a tool.
As a result, after taking two steps with the bag, he was stopped again.
This time, Jiang Xia turned around and slapped a piece of money into his hand - of course, it was not the stolen money in the box, but ordinary cash.
"You'd better not follow me. Go to that store and wait."
Jiang Xia pointed to the coffee shop on the corner from afar.
It was a building with a European style, red walls and black tiles. The shape was simple and the lines were sharp. This appearance and color scheme seemed quite depressing at first glance, but with the bright floor-to-ceiling windows that almost covered the entire wall, the atmosphere suddenly became much lighter.
Originally, it would not be difficult for such a unique-style shop to attract customers. But it was born at the wrong time - the area opposite was being demolished, and now it is a ruin. Outside the beautiful French windows are only broken walls and tiles, and weeds are stubbornly growing out of the cracks in the ground, full of the indomitable spirit of the working people, which is incompatible with the romantic petty-bourgeois atmosphere of the coffee shop, so the number of customers has decreased.
But now, Jiang Xia is quite fond of this store.
He looked at Matsuda Jinpei and said, "Go sit down by the window, order something, and don't cover your head. If someone shoots you, lie on the ground and pretend to be dead, and wait for someone to come and deal with the 'body'."
Matsuda Jinpei was silent for a moment. Was that organization so cruel? Thinking carefully, it seemed that all the preparations he made today were just for playing the role of a corpse...
The psychic master patted his shoulder as if he could read his mind. "Don't feel burdened. This is just the worst case scenario. In fact, the possibility of them sniping you is actually not very high. Even if things really turn out like that in the end, I will invest in the store to prevent the store from going bankrupt because of you. Sitting in the store and not being killed is just the beginning. The real test will come later. Don't be careless."
(End of this chapter)
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