Chapter 3629-3644 [Saving the Citizens]
Amuro Tooru glanced in the direction Hirukawa Takuji had left, and replied to Jiang Xia, "It's nothing."
I actually had some scratches on my body, but fortunately they weren't serious. Compared to a truly dangerous situation, they were just minor dirt on my clothes.
but……
Amuro Tooru glanced at Jiang Xia, and then at the ordinary-looking high school boy next to him who was calling the police. Then, as if remembering something, he raised his hand to cover his arm and said, "I'll go to the hospital. You clean up this mess."
Jiang Xia nodded.
Beside him, Kid, disguised, glanced at Amuro Tooru discreetly: "..." He had originally planned to call the police and then an ambulance, but this guy seemed to be fine. Was he even human? He had just been blown up.
Speaking of being blown up, there was a woman there just now...
Kidd glanced to the side and found that the woman's spot was long gone; she had probably already quietly left.
...Who are these people?
Kidd recalled how he had desperately swam to avoid the bomb, sighed silently, and decided to bury his experience in the sewers forever.
Amuro Tooru was about to extricate himself from the case when he suddenly remembered something and asked Jiang Xia in confusion, "You weren't with those police officers?"
Jiang Xia nodded: "Searching based on the riddles sent by the bomber was too passive, so I asked Inspector Megure to contact me when I encountered any puzzles. I checked other places myself and that's how I found this place."
He pointed to the slightly cracked sewer opening next to him, as if suddenly remembering something: "Boss, what are you doing with Attorney Shirai?"
Amuro Tooru didn't want to talk to him about the executives. For an outsider who didn't want to get involved in the organization's affairs, the more he knew about such things, the more dangerous it would be. So he casually said, "I just happened to run into you," and then pretended to feel dizzy, went outside, hailed a taxi, and went to the hospital.
After he left, Kidd clicked his tongue as he watched his retreating figure: "To be blown up like that and only feel dizzy, your boss is too tough."
Jiang Xia turned and glanced at him.
Kidd felt uneasy under his gaze: "What?"
Jiang Xia: "The police will be here soon. Since they're already here, why don't you try becoming a detective?"
"What kind of logic is this!" Kidd was baffled, but Jiang Xia's words did remind him. Hearing the faint sound of sirens in the distance, he took off running, "I'm leaving this place to you!"
As an international fugitive, although he was very confident in his disguise, he had no desire to deal with a group of police officers!
What if he gets to the Metropolitan Police Department and someone suddenly decides to tear off his disguise...?
"Hmm...it seems like nothing's wrong. At worst, I can just say I'm Shinichi Kudo?"
"However, it seems that Shinichi Kudo has gotten himself into a lot of trouble. Oh well, the priority right now is dealing with that old man Suzuki, so I'd better avoid getting involved."
...
Jiang Xia did not stop Kid from leaving, but casually tossed out a puppet cat, letting it encounter Kid and harvest the newly grown magic power from his body.
He waited like a proper detective, and soon a large number of police cars arrived with their sirens blaring. Inspector Megure and several other familiar officers got out of their cars and came over.
"Brother Jiang Xia?" Inspector Megure's eyes lit up, forgetting all about the unknown caller.
He came running over, then paused, stunned: "This is..."
Looking at the cracked sewer opening and the twisted manhole cover that had smashed a large crack in the ground, Inspector Megure was shocked: "This is 'the very center of seven'? What does this manhole cover have to do with seven?"
Officer Takagi, however, remembered something else and became somewhat uneasy: "Could this bomb be...?"
Jiang Xia confirmed his guess: "It's the one you threw into the sewer at the Tortoise and Hare Race Park."
Officer Takagi's face turned pale.
Jiang Xia patted him reassuringly: "It's not your fault, it's all because the other side is too cunning."
Inspector Megure then remembered the phone call that was halfway through, and he quickly asked, "Brother Jiang Xia, you just said that this bomb that was thrown into the sewer was actually part of the killer's plan... What exactly was the plan?"
Jiang Xia: "The picture book sample was sent to me, and with the death of Hirukawa's younger brother, which is suspected to be related to the private detective, at first glance, this series of bombings seems to be a revenge by Hirukawa Takuji against the private detective using the picture book drawn by his deceased younger brother."
"But this motive is just a smokescreen. Hirukawa Takuji's real purpose is to go back to his old ways—robbing vaults or armored trucks."
Jiang Xia pointed to the wellhead: "It's rained in this area recently, and the water level is quite high. As long as we fill the bomb pack with the right materials, it will float on the water and then travel with the current until it reaches the right location."
Officer Sato crouched down, shining his flashlight into the sewer, and saw a ring of blown-open railings: "Is this the killer's intended location? Why here?"
Jiang Xia looked at Officer Takagi: "Did any armored trucks pass by here today?"
Officer Takagi doesn't know, but he will investigate.
He picked up his phone and asked around randomly. Before long, he received a message: "The armored truck from Tianquan Security Company was originally scheduled to take this route, but they just said there was an emergency here and they changed their route and took a detour..."
As he spoke, he realized: "Hirukawa Takuji's real purpose is to rob this armored truck?!"
Jiang Xia nodded and praised his boss: "Boss Amuro bravely stopped the plan and has now gone to the hospital."
Officer Takagi suddenly realized: "They did say that one of the two people arguing was a mixed-race person with blond hair and dark skin. Could the other person be the bomber who planned all of this?"
He paused, then realized something was amiss: "But I just heard that the person who blocked the armored truck with Boss Amuro wasn't Hirukawa, but a woman."
Jiang Xia smiled and said, "It's probably just some helpful passerby who came from who-knows-where. We'll find out by asking Amuro later."
He got back to the point: "The armored truck belongs to Tianquan Security Company, and 'Tianquan' is the very center star of the Big Dipper—Hirukawa Takuji probably planned to somehow park the armored truck on top of the manhole cover, then detonate the ordinary bomb disguised as a time bomb, blowing up the armored truck to carry out the robbery. And the 'Tianquan' armored truck that was blown up is the answer to that last riddle."
"This person is really..."
Inspector Megure cursed a few times, then thought of the nerve-wracking day he'd spent running around like a manhole cover, and felt a headache coming on: "If you wanted to rob an armored truck, you could just open the manhole cover and throw a bag down the drain, why go through all this trouble?"
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