Chapter 323: AFK Button
Minoru Ebina was attracted by the gunshots and turned to run towards the deck. When he turned around, he saw Jiang Xia leaning against the wall in the corridor, seemingly distracted.
Although he felt a little strange, he didn't want to ask any more questions at this moment. He quickly crossed Jiangxia to look for the sound of gunfire.
After he left, the dull-looking man behind him suddenly moved his eyes.
Jiang Xia stood up away from the wall, looked back at Ebina Minoru's back, and followed him with a complicated expression.
…
Next to the restaurant closer to the deck, Conan, Hattori Heiji and Samezaki Shimaharu, who returned to the restaurant after 0 o'clock, have already climbed the stairs leading to the deck.
They also heard "gunshots" outside.
The three men went up the stairs to the deck and saw that the flag flying on the lookout tower was burning.
In addition, not far from his feet, there was a banknote nailed to the ground with a knife. On the banknote were two lines of sharp words:
[Poseidon, the god of the sea, gave me life, and my shadow has been resurrected]
Jiang Xia stepped onto the deck and just looked from a distance when he suddenly felt a fat figure flash by. He turned his head and saw that it was Kujirai Sadao with a beer belly.
The "gunshot" just now was actually caused by Sadao Kujirai using a cigarette as a timer to ignite the firecrackers that had been set up in advance.
At this time, the mastermind behind the scenes, Brother Jingjing, took another look at the banknotes he had nailed to the ground and the words he had written on the banknotes. He was horrified and howled, "It's him! Ye Caisan is still alive, help, help him--!!"
This line was so suspicious that everyone on the boat looked at him with strange eyes.
But before he could ask further questions, a timing device installed in another place was activated - a violent explosion was heard on the deck at the stern, followed by billowing smoke.
…
What was blown up was a box containing an emergency escape ladder.
A group of people hurried over and saw a vague figure in the burning box through the dancing flames.
Jiang Xia looked at the flames of the explosion and the charred corpses in the fire, and suddenly realized that this seemed like a good reason to AFK.
Just as I was thinking about it, I saw Conan and Hattori Heiji, who were in the front, whispering a few words and looking around.
Finally, both of them looked at him with an expression of surprise and relief.
Judging from the eavesdropping intelligence sent back by Xiaobai, these two people seemed very relieved that Jiang Xia was not the first target for silencing because he solved the cases too quickly in the past.
Jiang Xia: “…”
He didn't think it was a big deal at first, but after hearing what the two people said, he suddenly felt that he had lost a lot of murderous intent.
Next to him, Kujirai Sadao, who was laughing inwardly, suddenly felt his hair stand on end.
He turned his head suddenly and looked around, and found that the Tokyo detective next to him was looking at him for some reason, with a deep and puzzling look in his eyes.
…
The fire was gradually put out.
The watch on the corpse's wrist and some deformed cosmetic material on his face appeared in front of everyone. Someone recognized that the watch belonged to a passenger named Kanie Hisahisa.
A group of people gathered together to observe the body and began to check the alibis of everyone on the boat. As they were checking, Isogai Nagisa suddenly remembered someone.
She held her chin and said, "In addition to the two guests who hid in the cabin and never showed up, there was actually another person who lacked an alibi. At the beginning of the dinner, a Mr. Kameda said he was seasick and returned to the room first. I never saw him again after that."
...In fact, you just saw it, that charred corpse. Jiang Xia thought boredly while glancing at the two classmates who were concentrating on arguing about the case. He couldn't help thinking that if Mao Lilan was on the boat now, she might have already made rich associations about the explosion and the charred corpse, and would take the initiative to ask Jiang Xia if he wanted to go back to the room to rest, so that he could start hanging up more reasonably.
It's true that you don't know how to cherish until you lose something. If I encounter this kind of thing next time, I must try to bring a thoughtful girl with me... Jiang Xia missed his thoughtful classmate Mao Li for a moment. Just as he was thinking, the two detectives who were arguing at the table suddenly turned to him and asked, "Which situation do you think it is?"
Jiang Xia: “……?”
The three of them looked at each other for a moment, and Jiang Xia gradually realized that Hattori Heiji and Conan seemed to have different opinions, so they were asking for his opinion.
However, he didn't listen to the lecture just now, and the ghosts were not interested in these things and didn't listen to anything.
Just when Jiang Xia hesitated for a moment and wanted to guess "none of them are right", Conan suddenly thought of the previous explosion and charred corpse, and realized that the reference book might not be online today - he remembered that every time Jiang Xia encountered something similar, it would be like his reasoning ability was blocked... No, it was that he would think of the past and his thinking became sluggish.
This made Conan feel mixed emotions. He was happy that he could concentrate on solving the mystery today, but he was also worried that the murderer might have other intentions, which might lead to the death of other people.
In any case, since the truth is still unknown, it is necessary to look for evidence.
The two men quickly got up and left.
Jiang Xia did not join them, and when he saw Ebina Minoru also returned to the room, he leaned back in his chair and let the shikigami and puppet follow him.
…
Minoru Ebina returned to his empty room, sat on a chair, looked at the bomb in the center of the room, and closed his eyes silently.
The explosion just now and the money stuck on the ground made him think that Ye Caisan and his accomplices must be on the boat.
In other words, his plan of mutual destruction could be implemented.
Just as he was thinking about what it would feel like to be killed by a bomb, Ebina Minoru heard a slight noise in front of him - the heavy bomb bag was lifted from the ground, and the strap made a sound of being stretched.
Minoru Ebina was startled and suddenly opened his eyes. In the middle of the room, a woman in a black dress nodded slightly to him, walked to the door with his bag, unlocked the door, and walked out naturally.
"……?"
How did this person get in? Did I go to the wrong room? Wait, whose room is this? ...My bomb!!
A series of thoughts flashed through his mind, and Ebina Minoru jumped up from the stool and quickly ran out of the door.
At one end of the corridor, the silhouette of the man who stole his bomb was reflected. The "robber" was walking at a steady pace, but Ebina Minoru found that no matter how he chased him, he seemed to be a distance away. This gave him the illusion that the man on the other side was floating. When he came to his senses, the two had already reached the deck.
In the darkness of the night, the sea breeze blew in his face, and Ebina Minoru watched the woman raise her hand and swung it. The heavy bomb box drew an arc and was thrown dozens of meters away. Finally, it made a beautiful splash in the sea, sank quickly, and disappeared without a trace.
Jiang Xia heard several ghosts shouting in surprise.
(End of this chapter)
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