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 would stay.
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 is undoubtedly a good opportunity to trick him into opening the door. As long as he takes over the dining car and sprinkles some drowsy drugs in it, he can 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 her phone, glanced at the screen, and instinctively moved her 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 emails when something happens." Toru Amuro muttered in his heart, "I called him suddenly. Could it be that 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 talking. After a while, he said: "I saw Conan suddenly rushing out on a skateboard, so I followed him uneasily. When I passed a sushi restaurant on the way...
From the reflection of the GG plate on the side of the house, I saw a familiar car in the parking lot behind the store."
"Sushi restaurant?" Toru Amuro quickly reviewed the places he passed and gradually locked onto a store. He had a bad feeling in his heart, "What kind of car?"
Jiangxia: “Porsche 356a.”
"..." Amuro Toru's heart skipped a beat: the bad premonition came true.
At that time, there was Taku Itakura in front of him, and that 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 the GG sign on the street.
Now that I think about it carefully, that store is indeed owned by the organization. If Gin was also in the store at that time and saw his car and the person he was tracking...
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 specifically tell him this?
"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 loss 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 compared to this, another thing is more important.
——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 Taku Itakura really possesses some extremely important information, then he can indeed take risks and try to arrest people.
But in fact, since this person has neither joined the organization nor been arrested and imprisoned 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-style operation, like opening a blind box, is obviously not something a mature undercover agent should do.
"...caution is the best." In the end, Toru Amuro could only sigh and made a regretful decision:
"I have to confirm first whether Gin has noticed me... Also, even if I arrest someone, I can't do it here. I have to at least take action elsewhere 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 strong 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 and deliberately use some cases to force Taku Itakura 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 it tonight. Let's lurk under 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 her phone, washed up and went to sleep peacefully.
On the morning of the second day, he went to eat next door as usual.
Just as I was about to put down my chopsticks, my phone buzzed. Someone called me.
Huiyuan Aixunsheng looked over and guessed: "Is it the dentist from yesterday?"
Jiang Xia took out her cell phone and found that she had guessed correctly - the person opposite was Mr. Endo who had lost his son.
After answering the phone, Dr. Endo's anxious voice came over the phone: "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 collect the money."
Jiang Xia was driving for the public. When the two fake kids next to him heard this, they immediately stopped their chopsticks and came over.
Jiang Xia: "During this phone call, did you have any conversations with your son?"
"Yes, yes. Just like yesterday, Keita is in a pretty good mood and is very healthy." Dr. Endo said doubtfully, "But... he said some nonsense, which sounded a bit strange."
Jiang Xia: "What nonsense?"
Dr. Endo: "He happily said to me, 'Dad, there are a lot of crabs here!'
"Just when I felt strange, the kidnapper scolded him and told him not to say those incomprehensible words.
"But my son was still very excited and said, 'There is a whale! The whale is spraying water!'
"I was about to ask more questions, but the kidnapper hung up the phone angrily."