Chapter 321: Don't knock on the door
Chapter 321 Don't knock on the door
The short-haired woman who spoke just now was actually Ye Caisan's daughter. She didn't believe that Ye Caisan was dead. Suddenly I saw the advertisement of "Gu Dachuan" in the newspaper, so I got on the boat to look for clues.
Listening to her popular science, Hattori Heiji gradually got an impression of "Shadow Planner", he remembered hearing about this person from Hattori Heizang a long time ago.
Almost at the same time, a man with frosty hair and deep nasolabial lines on the next table recovered from the news that "Ye Caisan is on the boat", he stood up abruptly, and asked the waiter sharply, "Where is Ye Caisan's room? ?"
The waiter was taken aback: "...In Room 1."
Shizaki Shimaji pushed aside the dining chair, turned and rushed to the guest room—he was the father of the bank clerk who unfortunately died in the robbery, and one of the police officers who was in charge of the case back then.
Today is the 20th anniversary of the "400 million bank robbery". If Ye Caisan can be caught before 0:00, the gang will be able to spit out the money they stole and pay some price for what happened back then.
Hattori Heiji and Conan were still a little stunned, but conditioned reflexes to catch up.
The waiter hesitated for a moment and followed up uneasy.
As the four of them ran away in a chaotic manner, the group of people in the restaurant who were somewhat related to "Ye Caisan" were silent for a moment, and they lost the mood to eat, and soon dispersed.
Hanging in mid-air as a monitor, the foggy tengu looked around and quickly drifted towards Jiang Xia's room.
…
Room 1 was locked, and Shimaji Shimazaki knocked for a long time, but no one responded.
The waiter opened the door with the spare key, and saw that the room was very empty, not to mention people, not even luggage.
Shirazakijimaji angrily slammed his fist at the door, and quickly ran away, ready to search for the ship.
Hattori Heiji and Conan had already figured out the prosecution period and wanted to help.
But when they were leaving, the two passed by Room 2, where the door of the next door was closed, and suddenly thought of something and stopped at the same time.
The two looked at each other and stopped the waiter who hadn't gone far: "Is anyone staying here?"
The waiter took out the register, looked at it, and nodded. Originally, at this time, he should have added "It's Mr. XX", but he glanced at it and couldn't even recognize the name of this person.
While the waiter was struggling to read, Hattori Heiji and Conan's attention had completely shifted to Room 2.
——Although there is a lot of noise from the sea, just now, Mr. Shaozaki was hammering the door and shouting in Room 1 next door. People in Room 2 should be able to hear some movement, but now, the guests here But I don't know what's going on outside...
Suspicious, very suspicious.
Having said that, not going to a restaurant for dinner is a suspicious factor in itself.
...Maybe the one who lives here is the mysterious client?
Hattori Heiji thought of this, stopped and started knocking on the door.
His intuition told him that there might be extremely important information hidden behind the door.
He frowned and knocked for more than ten seconds, and when he was about to ask the waiter to help open the door, the door lock "clicked" and turned.
Hattori Heiji was refreshed and looked at the open door.
After a second, his confident smile froze on his face.
... After a lot of hard work, he actually knocked out a Jiang Xia.
Jiang Xia seemed to have just woken up, with one hand tidying the uneven neckline, and the other hand on the doorknob.
Looking at each other, Hattori Heiji couldn't control his expression: "...Why are you here?!"
At the same time, he subconsciously began to find the answer for himself: after he told Conan about the entrustment, he never separated from Conan until the ship sailed, so it would not be Conan's whistleblower.
In addition, Mao Lilan, Yuan Shan and Ye can also be ruled out - if they were the two who were the whistleblowers, they would definitely have boarded the boat together, but now, Jiang Xia is obviously the only one in the house. As for the other two passengers who are said to be resting in the room, one is Ye Caisan, and the other one is wrong, it should not be the two of them. In this case……
Could it be that Jiang Xia also received the same anonymous letter of entrustment. or……
Hattori Heiji's mind came to Hattori Shizuka, whom he met in the morning. In order to prevent backstabs, he received a request and only told Hattori Shizuka the whole process.
It won't be what he thinks...
Under Heiji Hattori's eyes, Jiang Xia looked at him, and then at Conan, who was hiding by the door, and calmly said, "I saw the advertisement in the newspaper, and it was very interesting, so I came over to have a look. "
Hattori Heiji was startled: "Newspaper?"
Jiang Xia was also startled: "You don't know?"
Seeing Hattori Heiji stunned, he raised his hand and took the bag hanging on the hanger next to him, found the newspaper with the advertisement in his backpack, and handed it to Hattori Heiji.
Hattori Heiji glanced at him, and his first reaction was a sigh of relief: Great, my mother didn't betray him.
... Then again, think about it carefully, my mother doesn't know Jiang Xia at all. Tsk, I've been backstabbed so many times, my thinking has become inertial.
Hattori Heiji pressed his forehead to calm his expression.
Then he glanced at Jiang Xia, who seemed to have just woken up, held the doorknob as if nothing had happened, and closed the door while saying, "Well, it's actually nothing, you continue to sleep, we'll go first..."
"I knocked on the door in such a hurry just now, what happened?" Jiang Xia grabbed the edge of the door as if nothing had happened, preventing the door from closing.
Hattori Heiji's gaze also turned to Conan.
Conan, who was double-watched: "..."
He paused for a moment, and said in a chatty tone: "It seems that a wanted criminal has slipped into the boat."
"Is that so..." Jiang Xia straightened his messy hair when he hung up the phone just now, and walked out the door under Hattori Heiji's desperate eyes, "I can't sleep anyway, I'll accompany you to find it."
Hattori Heiji watched Jiang Xia sneak into the team's back naturally: "..."
...he no longer knocks on doors in public places.
After all, no one knows what creature will come out of the door.
…
Hattori Heiji was quite critical of Jiang Xia joining him and Kudo's two-person team.
But now Jiang Xia has come, and he typed it out himself. In the end, Hattori Heiji could only absorb the lessons from the bottom of his heart, while telling Jiang Xia about his previous feelings, with his own opinion:
"I always feel that the passengers on this ship are very suspicious - no matter how famous the thief, after 20 years, he should not be so well known, but just now, except for the two of us, all the other guests in the restaurant knew him and treated him well. The presence of the people showed varying degrees of shock."
Jiang Xia nodded, indicating that he was listening: "That's why you all came here, want to see that mysterious 'Ye Caisan', and help him arrest and bring him to justice by the way?"
(end of this chapter)