Chapter 378 Gin is actually a scumbag. Please give me a monthly ticket (^^)
Thinking of this, Jiang Xia said calmly:
"I don't know him, but I feel that he is very quick to react and very enthusiastic. If someone else suddenly opened the door in that situation, they might just be scared by the gun passing by... No, if they were afraid of trouble, many passengers would not dare to open the door after hearing the noise of smashing outside the compartment. But that gentleman was able to prevent Jia Yueli from getting the gun, which was a great help to me."
Conan: “…”
It sounds like Jiang Xia's first impression of Gin was more than just good, it was extremely good.
...Things were indeed developing in the direction he least wanted to see.
Conan looked at Jiang Xia with complicated eyes and wanted to ask: Where is your keen insight that allows you to recognize the murderer immediately after just one glance at the crime scene?
But on second thought, I feel that this is actually normal.
——Humans and material evidence are different after all. The latter have no thoughts, but the former are very cunning.
Jiang Xia was not good at identifying scumbags, and perhaps it was precisely because those scumbags wanted to take advantage of Jiang Xia that they always acted quite friendly towards him. Even if they had a purpose, this kind of friendliness was indeed real.
Therefore, Jiang Xia only distinguished this kind of "sincere" attitude, and unfortunately confused the scum's sincerity with sinister intentions with another kind of pure sincerity, so things turned out like this.
...Fortunately, I discovered the clue in time.
Conan pushed his glasses, feeling a sense of accomplishment for successfully pulling Jiang Xia to the shore before he slid into the abyss.
At the same time, the prickly conscience from planning to slander someone behind their back no longer hurts so much.
"Well, come to think of it, I've actually seen him before..." Conan took a deep breath, used all his acting skills that he had honed so far, and whispered to Jiang Xia, "By the way, don't tell anyone else what I told you today."
Conan deliberately added the last sentence to prevent the news from spreading and reaching the ears of someone who knew the truth, and being discovered by Jiang Xia to be false, which would then arouse Jiang Xia's desire to explore the Black Organization.
Although saying to others, "I'm going to tell you a secret, please don't tell anyone else," is almost like broadcasting it to the world.
But Conan felt that he knew Jiang Xia quite well - if Jiang Xia promised not to tell anyone, then he really wouldn't say a word. This should be safe enough.
Jiang Xia heard this and looked down at Conan.
After seeing the serious and uneasy look on the fake kid's face, he guessed that Kudo was planning to tell him that "there is actually a mysterious and vicious black organization in the world."
At this time, the train had started running again. The noise of the wheels rolling over the tracks, the sound of the wind outside, and the noise from the car body gradually became louder, and people outside the house could hardly hear the noise inside.
Jiang Xia asked the ghost to take another look around the area and found that no one was eavesdropping. Then he nodded and motioned for Conan to explain in detail. At the same time, he was thinking about what expression he should show when he heard about the Black Organization.
Well, there has to be a bit of surprise, a bit of disbelief, and a little bit of sudden realization of "I've always felt that something was wrong but I just didn't have the evidence"...
Jiang Xia quickly prepared himself to listen to the "secret".
However, what he didn't expect was that after Conan came closer, he said something mysterious:
"In fact, that person has come to Uncle Maori for several commissions before. The content is to track down the enemies in life to catch them, investigate the original wife of the cheating partner, and find a suitable place in his own yard to poison the cat because the neighbor's cat is too noisy and it is not illegal..."
Jiang Xia: “……?”
Even though the person being slandered was the evil Gin who was guilty of many crimes, Conan still had to suppress his conscience when he first said these words.
However, after getting started, he suddenly felt much smoother.
Conan looked at Jiang Xia's shocked expression and gradually got the hang of it.
He then cleared his throat and continued with his detailed description.
…
Ten minutes later, Jiang Xia, whose head was filled with gossip, sat on the bed in a daze and rubbed his ears.
His ears are dirty...
Also, Conan is crazy?
No, not really...
Combined with the awkward acting, I always feel that this fake kid actually has other purposes. Well... According to Conan's description of Gin, who is a scumbag in life, public morality, emotions, and morals... Is he here to sow discord?
After all, normal people would avoid such a scumbag.
Moreover, the "Gin" in Conan's words has been stepping on the bottom line of morality and the edge of the law, so even a detective with a strong sense of justice would not want to deal with such a person...
After nearly a minute, Jiang Xia recovered from the shocking gossip and vaguely understood Conan's purpose.
Then he fell into deep thought.
...Kudo-san is truly a talented person.
Jiang Xia discovered that this was inconsistent with his two previous expectations - Conan told him about the organization, and he used the excuse of obtaining intelligence to get close to the Black Organization; Conan did not tell him about the organization, and he used the good impression to get close to the organization... none of them matched.
...From now on, I'll try to avoid members of the organization when I'm in public.
If he really can't avoid it and is seen acting with Gin again, he can only find a reason to expose Conan's lie today, such as "It's hard to imagine that there are such scumbags in the world, so I observed him secretly and found that he was not the same as what you said", and then go to investigate.
Of course, this is a trump card that can only be used at the last moment.
Because, if he said that, the shrunken detective would feel socially dead and avoid him from then on, and no longer give him cases, that would be very bad... Alas, it is really difficult to be caught between the red and black sides. He obviously just wants to get rid of some murderous aura and pick up some ghosts, and live a peaceful life of becoming stronger...
…
Not long after the police boarded the train, the vehicle continued to move, but it was still some time before it arrived at the station.
Since the murderer who shot and killed the Izumo boss was caught on the spot and the police had already figured out the murderer's method and motive, they did not pay much attention to the other passengers.
Not only Jiang Xia, but everyone else also returned to the box one after another, either to catch up on sleep or to pack their luggage.
Jiang Xia didn't sleep all night, but he picked up a lot of murderous intent.
He thought of tomorrow... no, it was already early morning... He remembered that he would arrive in Tottori Prefecture today, and there was a case waiting for him at the Spider Mansion in Tottori Prefecture, so he went to the smoking area and ordered a ghost mint - it was freshly rolled with the murderous aura of Kayoshi Rinori, and a little bit of apple-flavored murderous aura was added to enhance the flavor, which was very fresh.
That is, when you suck it up, there will be a greedy mermaid hanging on your hand, which is a bit heavy.
Although he didn't finish a whole cigarette, the ghost mint this time was filled with high-grade murderous energy. With the energy replenished, Jiang Xia's fatigue from the night was swept away. He disposed of the cigarette butt and returned to his own box.
As soon as his thoughts became clear, Jiang Xia suddenly remembered that something seemed to be missing this time.
If you think about it carefully, in this case in the original plot line, Yusaku Kudo and Yukiko Kudo also returned from the United States - Yusaku Kudo saw the reports about the robbery of Keitaro Izumo's jewelry store, and he remembered the manuscript of his novel that he had lost a long time ago. He felt that something was wrong, so he returned to Japan with Yukiko Kudo to see if there would be any case.
...But now, the two have not appeared. Perhaps it is because Kudo Yusaku is busy recently and has not paid attention to the case reports here.
It’s a good thing they didn’t come, mainly because Kudo Yusaku didn’t come - although the big Kudo’s fighting ability is worrying, he has a very useful brain, and the father and son together are not as easy to fool as just one son.
All in all, good luck.
…
The murder case took a lot of time. At noon, the train carrying the two bodies arrived in Tottori Prefecture late.
Jiang Xia finished the statement in the car. After leaving his contact information for the police in Tottori Prefecture, he got out of the car and left.
At this time, Gin and Vodka had already gone to pick up the car - the organization also had a branch in Tottori Prefecture, and they had prepared a car for Gin in advance.
Conan hesitated for a while and found that Gin and Vodka left first. Then after a while, Jiang Xia got off the car.
He then breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that his plan to prevent contact between the two parties had succeeded - Gin had indeed forgotten to threaten the innocent detective because of his focus... Thinking of this, Conan waved goodbye to Jiang Xia in a good mood, and took a taxi with Mouri Kogoro and Mouri Ran to attend the class reunion.
Jiang Xia looked at the backs of the three people and suddenly had an urge to follow them - the three people walking side by side looked like something bad was about to happen around them, which was extremely tempting.
But on second thought, he actually didn't have much impression of "Mouri Kogoro's wedding banquet".
In other words, the probability of something happening there is not high.
In comparison, the organization’s target - Spider Mansion is indeed more worth visiting.
"Spider Mansion" is actually a nickname referring to the Takeda family who live on Puppet Peak.
Kuilei Peak is the name of a mountain. There was once a legend about the monster "Spider-sama" near it, and a related temple was built.
A few years ago, the current head of the Takeda family, Takeda Shinichi, expanded the land, demolished the Spider Temple, and built his own warehouse.
Later, people committed suicide by hanging in the warehouse one after another. The bodies of the dead were found too late, and were covered with spider webs. People nearby said that the Takeda family was cursed by Lord Spider.
In addition, the Takeda family was famous for making puppets, and puppets needed to be controlled with thin strings, so their family gained another nickname, "Spider Mansion".
The head of the Takeda family, Takeda Shinichi, is actually a member of the drug trafficking line that the organization wants to clear this time.
Of course, what is more important to Jiang Xia is that Takeda Shinichi is actually one of the protagonists in a murder case...
Now, although Conan has gone to attend the wedding banquet, it doesn’t matter, because there is still Hattori Heiji here - as far as Jiang Xia knows, Hattori from Kansai also has the ability to attract murders, and is particularly good at attracting serial murders.
As for whether Hattori Heiji would come today, Jiang Xia didn't think it was a big problem.
——Hattori Shizuka, Hattori Heiji's mother, heard about Jiang Xia's perfect score after she returned to Osaka from Tokyo last time. Although Hattori Heiji's score was also very good, compared with Jiang Xia, he seemed to have a lot of room for improvement.
Hattori Shizuka felt that Jiang Xia's ability to balance studying and solving cases was very good, and she would communicate with him every now and then.
Jiang Xia also got to hear a lot of information from the enthusiastic aunt, for example, Hattori Heiji recently received another letter of commission with money smuggled in it. In order to pay the money back, he had to go to the Spider Mansion in Tottori Prefecture today to handle the case. It seemed that Toyama Kazuha was also there.
...Thinking of this, at the station, Jiang Xia struggled to withdraw his gaze from the backs of his two classmates and his classmate's father, picked up his luggage, and prepared to leave the station.
Before leaving the station, he took a look at the floor plan.
Then send a message to Gin:
[See you at Exit 5]
Exit No. 5 is the farthest from the taxi spot, and Kogoro Mouri will not pass by that direction when he goes to visit his classmates. It is also the place least likely for the righteous detectives to see "Jiang Xia privately contacting members of the mysterious organization."
If choosing a station doesn't solve the problem, and if you're unlucky enough to be caught red-handed, then you can only blame your boss: He says that he just met the enthusiastic Gin when he got out of the station, and he insisted on inviting him to take a ride. He feels that Gin must have other purposes for being so enthusiastic, so he took the risk to get on the car to find out what was going on, just like Kudo Shinichi took the risk to follow Gin and Vodka to find out what was going on...
Reasonable, in short, it is very reasonable.
Jiang Xia was thinking about random things out of boredom while following the crowd to Exit 5.
As soon as he went out, he saw an ordinary-looking Honda parked on the side of the street, with a rare dark black sun film on the windows to block his vision.
Jiang Xia looked around secretly, but didn't see any strange elementary school students, nor any suspicious taxis passing by.
So he quickly walked forward, opened the car door, and sat in the back seat where he would least be seen.
In the front row are the familiar driver Vodka and his older brother Gin.
After confirming that he had not boarded the wrong bus, Jiang Xia leaned back in his chair with confidence, waiting to pick up the ghost when he arrived at the station.
The car set off quickly.
After walking for a while, Jiang Xia gradually sat up straight.
He looked out the window at the strange scenery, his eyes slightly puzzled:
"This doesn't look like the way to Spider Mansion."
Gin raised his phone and said, "The spies here found two rats. Let's go and deal with them on the way."
Jiang Xia was stunned.
He glanced at the location information displayed on Gin's phone, calculated the distance, and suggested, "Let's go separately. I have to go to the Spider Mansion first. I have an appointment with someone."
...Have you made an appointment with someone?
Gin looked at him in silence.
Shouldn't he be the one planning the mission itinerary? Could it be that Uzo had tampered with it in advance?
Seeing this, Jiang Xia opened his backpack, reached in and felt around, and quickly found two folded pieces of letter paper stacked together.
He took out one of them and handed it to Gin:
"Actually, I received a commission a while ago."
For Jiang Xia, the anonymous letter from the murderer sent from Yueying Island a week ago seemed to be the beginning of good luck.
——The day before leaving for a business trip, Jiang Xia found another letter of authorization from the office's mailbox.
It was sent by Shinichi Takeda, the owner of Spider Mansion, and he also enclosed 500,000 yen in cash in the letter.
Shinichi Takeda did not write the specific content of the commission in the letter. He only said that there was an important matter and asked him to come for a secret investigation. The specific content would be discussed in detail later. He also told him that 500,000 was just an advance payment.
(End of this chapter)
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