Conan’s Corpse Picker

How to make bourbon slow down?

After sending the two children home, Jiang Xia took out her mobile phone and dialed Toru Amuro's number.

…

Starlight Hotel.

After arriving here, Toru Amuro quickly determined the room where Taku Itakura stayed.

He adjusted the security hat on his head, and at the same time touched the waiter's uniform he had just received in his bag, pretending to be on patrol, and walked all the way to the kitchen.

——According to his observations these days, Itakura Taku is also a night owl and has the habit of sleeping during the day and working at midnight. Therefore, this programmer often orders midnight snacks.

This was undoubtedly a good opportunity to trick him into opening the door. As long as he took over the dining car and sprinkled some drowsy drugs in it, he could enter the house and pick the person up in a few minutes.

The plan was very smooth, but at this moment, the cell phone he kept next to him buzzed with a call.

"..."

Toru Amuro took out his phone, glanced at the screen, and instinctively moved his finger to the hang up button.

But suddenly, I remembered the missed opportunity to catch Akai Shuichi after hanging up the phone... Amuro Toru failed to press the button in the end.

"If you think about it carefully, Jiang Xia has been quite measured recently. He usually sends me an email when something happens." Toru Amuro muttered in his mind, "I called him suddenly. Is it because he encountered a situation that is too urgent to send an email?"

After thinking about it like this, he finally convinced himself and picked up the phone.

"Boss." Jiang Xia's low voice came from the other side of the phone, with a bit of solemnity and thought, "There is something I don't know whether to talk about or not."

Toru Amuro answered quickly: "Akai Shuichi came to see you again?"

"?" Jiang Xia said, "No."

Amuro Toru became confused: "What is that?"

Jiang Xia paused for a few seconds, as if he was talking. After a while, he said: "I saw Conan suddenly rushing out on a skateboard before, so I followed him uneasily. When I passed a sushi restaurant on the way... I saw a familiar car in the parking lot behind the store from the reflection of the billboard on the side of the house.”

"A sushi restaurant?" Toru Amuro quickly reviewed the places he passed and gradually zeroed in on a store. He had a bad feeling in his heart, "What kind of car?"

Jiang Xia: "Porsche 356a."

"..." Amuro Toru's heart thumped: the bad premonition came true.

At that time, there was Taku Itakura in front of him, and the eye-catching kid jumping left and right in the traffic on his skateboard behind him. His attention was all focused on the front and back, and he really didn't have time to pay attention to any street billboards.

Now that I think about it carefully, that store is indeed owned by the organization. If Gin had been in the shop at that time and saw his car and the person he was following...

Jiang Xia noticed the silence on the other side of the phone: "But I didn't see the license plate clearly. Maybe it wasn't Gin at all, but just another enthusiast of the same car."

Amuro regained her composure, maintained a calm tone, and pretended that everything was under control: "I understand. You don't have to worry about this, just stay away from here."

After hanging up the phone, Toru Amuro suddenly thought of something.

——Why did Jiang Xia tell him this specifically?

"Is he really aware of my undercover status?" This thought flashed through his mind, and was quickly thrown away by Toru Amuro, shaking his head:

"It may also be that Jiang Xia noticed the tense relationship between me and Gin Jiu, and Gin Jiu appeared nearby during my operation, so Jiang Xia wanted to remind me so that I would not suffer a disadvantage from Gin Jiu during the internal fight."

Considering the unfriendly relationship among the members of the organization, Toru Amuro felt that this speculation was quite reasonable.

But there is another thing that is more important than this.

——Can the action of "please" Taku Itakura be continued?

After weighing for a moment, Toru Amuro stopped and did not continue walking to the kitchen, but continued to patrol as if nothing had happened.

If Itakura Zhuo really has some extremely important information, then he can indeed take the risk and try to arrest people.

But in fact, since this person has neither joined the organization nor been arrested and locked up by the organization... it means that his value may be limited, or at worst, he may not have any value at all.

This kind of gambling-like operation like opening a blind box is obviously not what a mature undercover agent should do.

"...Prudence is the best." In the end, Toru Amuro could only sigh and made a regretful decision:

"I have to confirm whether Gin has noticed me first... Also, even if I arrest someone, I can't do it here. I have to at least take action somewhere else and get an alibi, so that the suspicious man won't chase me and call me a rat every day. ”

When it comes to the people in the organization who are most feared by undercover agents, Gin is definitely one of them.

Although the two of them didn't interact much, Toru Amuro felt that Gin never let down his guard against him.

After all, "Bourbon"'s partners at the time, "Scotch Whiskey" and "Rye Whiskey," were all undercovers. Among them, Rye Whiskey was the most hated by Gin, Akai Shuichi. Toru Amuro had reason to believe that Gin had a negative influence on Bourbon. Ben Whiskey's suspicion was mixed with a bit of personal grudge... But, this guy's suspicion was right, he was really an undercover agent.

Thinking of this, Toru Amuro hesitated even more.

——Gin is his enemy, and Uzo is also his enemy. If these two people join forces in pairs and deliberately use some cases to force Itakura Zhuo to change his residence in order to fish... things will be in trouble.

"Don't be careless." Toru Amuro thought to himself, "Let's forget about it tonight. Let's lurk in this identity for two days to see if the organization sends anyone to keep an eye on me."

…

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Xia put down his phone, washed up and went to bed peacefully.

The next morning, he went to eat next door as usual.

Just as he was about to put down his chopsticks, his phone suddenly vibrated and someone called.

Huihara Ai looked over and guessed, "Is it the dentist from yesterday?"

Jiang Xia took out her phone and found that she guessed right - the person on the other side was Mr. Endo who had lost his son.

When she picked up the phone, she heard Dr. Endo's anxious voice, which he tried to suppress, "The kidnappers called! They asked me to increase the ransom by another 20 million. I agreed and asked them to give me two hours to raise the money."

Jiang Xia was playing the radio. When the two fake kids next to him heard this, they immediately stopped eating and came over.

Jiang Xia: "Did you talk to your son during this call?"

"Yes, yes. Like yesterday, Keita was in a good mood and very healthy." Dr. Endo asked in confusion, "But... he said some nonsense, which sounded a bit strange."

Jiang Xia: "What nonsense?"

Dr. Endo: "He said to me happily, 'Dad, there are so many crabs here!'

"Just when I was wondering, the kidnapper scolded him and told him not to say those inexplicable things.

"But my son was still very excited and said something like 'There is a whale! The whale is spouting water!'

"I was about to ask in detail, but the kidnapper hung up the phone angrily. "