Chapter 742 The Correct Way to Encounter
A group of people quickly rushed back to the city and followed the address engraved on the cat tag and found "Zengwei"'s house.
But there was no one at home, it seemed that they had gone out.
Jiang Xia placed the cat box next to the mailbox. After thinking for a while, he left a business card so that the owner could contact him easily. In case Zeng Wei and others thought that this was a warning from some perverted murderer, such as "your cat is dead, you are next."
...In addition, he could also take this opportunity to develop some clients. Maybe the cat's original owner would introduce some serial murder cases to him.
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On the way here, Jiang Xia let the children take the tram and he rode back alone on a motorcycle.
Taking advantage of this opportunity to be alone, he successfully reached an agreement with the smart cat who had just come to his doorstep, and agreed to sign a contract if the real murderer was caught.
During the communication, the cat looked at his pocket of ghost mint and nodded repeatedly, very actively, which made Jiang Xia feel that he was overthinking... Maybe just when he took out the ghost mint and lit it, he didn't need to say anything, and the cat just followed him...
However, it is easy to find the real murderer. After all, the real murderer is often haunted by ghosts or murderous auras.
So after fooling the newly caught cat, Jiang Xia did not give up looking for the person just because it was so easy to fool. He carefully compared and confirmed the city map and the location of the transmitter stuck on the car, and memorized the route in his mind.
After delivering the cat corpse, Jiang Xia thought about those sections of the road and looked at his watch:
"By the way, my boss asked me to pick up a finished product from the sculpture shop. I'll go there first, and then I'll start investigating that suspicious person. It shouldn't take too long."
The three kids from the Junior Detective Team's eyes lit up: "Okay! Then we'll go first."
...They wanted to take the opportunity to escape and avoid investigating the case with Jiang Xia.
Being too obsessed with "being a good kid" might lead to missing many important clues. Besides, apart from this point, the pressure brought by Jiang Xia's presence was too great for them.
And now, it just so happens that Brother Jiang Xia has something to do, so they can take the opportunity to separate from him, and then act bravely like a normal young detective team.
Jiang Xia saw the mischievous glimmer in the eyes of the three men, but he didn't mind and nodded.
He has successfully been involved in this case. Rather than keeping the Junior Detective Team around, it would be better to let them go out and freely develop their talents...
The two sides reached a secret agreement.
Three figures ran quickly to the street corner, like three free birds.
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Next to her, Haibara Ai instinctively shrank back when she heard the word "boss".
Jiang Xia had told her that "Amuro Toru" was also a member of the organization. And Huiyuan Ai had seen Amuro Toru a few times before. Although Jiang Xia, the source of the aura, was beside her at the time, it was not very obvious, but Amuro Toru did have that terrifying aura of the organization. This made her a little scared.
But then I thought, I'm going to another store to pick up the goods, not to that detective agency with a lot of cameras...
Huiyuan Ai hesitated for a moment, and remembered the curly-haired man in black who passed by her door last night, and how she had been looking outside unconsciously this morning, worried that the man in black with strange motives would come again...
She didn't want to go home, so she tentatively followed Jiang Xia.
Seeing Jiang Xia glance at her and not stop her, Huihara Ai secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
——If the situation was dangerous, Jiang Xia would have given her a heads-up in advance, just like he had done before. Since Jiang Xia didn't say anything this time, it meant that it should be safe for her to accompany him to retrieve the items.
She was a little happy, so she ran a few steps faster and followed more closely.
Conan didn't think too much about it. In the morning, when he suddenly went to Jiang Xia's house to ask Jiang Xia to help with the Valentine's Day social, he found that Jiang Xia had changed into a coat and was obviously preparing to go out, as if he had something to do. Now he was going to get something, which happened to match what Jiang Xia was wearing this morning.
The only thing that concerned Conan was the "boss" in Jiang Xia's words.
Although Jiang Xia has worked in many places, as far as Conan knows, except for the part-time job at the detective agency, the other jobs were not found by Jiang Xia himself, but by Amuro Toru, who loves working part-time and sometimes can't leave, so Jiang Xia takes over. So the "boss" that Jiang Xia mentioned should be referring to Amuro Toru...
Conan has always felt that something is wrong with Toru Amuro, but he has never had any concrete evidence.
A while ago, this unscrupulous boss suddenly took Jiang Xia on a business trip, which made Conan's vigilance peak. In his impression, whether in reality or fiction, there are many cases where two people go out together and then one of them "accidentally dies" in a foreign land... But this time, Jiang Xia came back smoothly, and he didn't mean to call the police at all, so Conan could only continue to maintain a skeptical wait-and-see attitude.
This time, he quickly caught up with Jiang Xia.
Unlike Haibara Ai, Conan actually hopes to meet that strange boss and observe him up close.
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However, the three of them failed to successfully reach the pick-up location in Jiangxia.
——While passing by a street, they "happened" to pass by a crime scene and heard the sound of sirens.
When I suddenly heard this kind of noise, as a detective, it was hard for me to resist not getting closer to observe.
Soon, they successfully deviated from their route, put aside the things they wanted to get, and followed the sound to the door of an ancient-style house.
There was a cordon at the door and some onlookers gathered outside.
Jiang Xia passed through the gap between them and walked to the place near the gate. Looking inside from the gate, there were houses with tiled eaves on both sides of the courtyard. In the middle hung a plaque with a few large characters on it - "Young Master Pavilion". Through the gate, you can see some menus nailed to the wall of the hall.
——This is a specialty restaurant.
Policemen kept moving back and forth between the police car and the yard. In a corner of the yard, several people were busy.
When Jiang Xia looked over there, the police officer who was busy asking questions turned around as if he had realized something and looked towards the door, and his eyes met his.
Sato Miwako: "...Jiang Xia?"
She was a little surprised, and the pen in her hand that was constantly recording paused for a moment.
Soon, she whispered a few words to the police officer next to her, then walked across the yard and towards the door.
Not long ago, Officer Sato received a message from Inspector Megure saying that he had met Jiang Xia by chance.
Although Inspector Megure secretly said that if she encountered a bottleneck in the investigation, she could use Jiang Xia who had returned from a business trip.
However, Sato Miwako lacked experience in picking up "brothers" and was not very natural in using the role of a detective. After receiving the news, she hesitated for a moment but decided to investigate on her own.
...What I didn't expect was that Jiang Xia actually came to the door himself.
After hesitating for a moment, Sato Miwako decided to bring Jiang Xia in to solve the case.
——Although she thinks the police should work hard on their own, they should also be able to flexibly rely on the help of professionals during investigations.
When it comes to solving cases, Jiang Xia is clearly considered a "professional".
(End of this chapter)
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