Chapter 319 The dwarf remains anonymous

In order not to scare away others, such as Hattori Heiji or some potential criminals, Jiang Xia specially prepared a hat and scarf when he came this time.

At the freezing seaside, this kind of dress is not special.

There were many people queuing up to participate in the prize-winning quiz. Some were holding Rubik's cubes, some were carrying yo-yos, and even a strong man carried a samurai sword. He seemed to want to show what the samurai spirit was on the spot, but none of these satisfied the organizer. condition.

After the knife-wielding brother was dragged away by security, Jiang Xia picked up his luggage, stepped forward, and showed the old banknote to the crew member guarding the door.

The crew member smiled politely and raised his hand towards the boarding channel at the back: "Correct answer, please come in."

 …

 Enter the passage and then pass through the corridor, revealing a lobby like the front desk of a luxury hotel.

Compared with the vast ship, there were not many passengers on the ship. There were only a few people who came with old banknotes, fewer than the staff.

 There were several people standing at the front desk, while others were sitting on lounge chairs, waiting for the front desk to assign them rooms.

Jiang Xia glanced around half a circle, feeling slightly dazed - there was a lot of murderous intent. It seemed that this ship was full of people with stories.

 …

 After the people in front left one after another, Jiang Xia got up from the rest chair and walked to the counter.

 At the front desk was a young lady with a bun and a typical face.

Jiang Xia looked down at the name register she pushed over, and found that each person had a separate page, and their names would not be seen by others later, so she wrote her real name with confidence.

Of course, I used wild grass so that even if someone saw it, I wouldn’t be able to recognize it at a glance.

There is also an occupation column in the registration book. Jiang Xia wrote "student", this time using a slightly easier-to-read font.

The front desk took the registration book he handed back, looked at Jiang Xia's handwriting unclearly, and then showed him the layout of the room and told him that since there were few guests, he could choose a room he liked.

Jiang Xia pointed casually and chose Room 2.

　　After taking the key and heading to the room, the ghosts were obviously a little more lively than usual. They were attracted by the murderous aura everywhere and looked around from time to time.

Jiang Xia also took a deep look at several rooms, thinking about who to start with.

 In my memory, there was a bank robbery in Tokyo twenty years ago.

Ye Caisan, who was known as the "Shadow Planner" at the time, led three accomplices and robbed 400 million from the bank and killed a female bank employee.

Ye Caisan is known for his meticulous thinking and impeccable methods of committing crimes. At the same time, he also insists on only seeking wealth and not killing anyone. Therefore, after the bank robbery, when he learned that the female employee who had been shot died, he felt quite guilty and wanted to surrender. However, he was stopped by three accomplices and shot several times into the sea to silence him.

Since the stolen money could not be used directly, the remaining three people decided to separate themselves first and wait until the twenty-year prosecution period had passed before taking out the money and dividing the stolen goods. The safe they use to store money requires a signature, seal, and key to open. In order to prevent anyone from taking it for themselves, the three people shared the three unpacking necessities equally, and each person controlled the same.

At the same time, this item is also the secret code for their agreement to meet twenty years later. In order to avoid pursuit, the three of them plan to have plastic surgery. At that time, it will be difficult to identify people by their faces, and they can only identify them with their items.

However, some people still have other ideas.

—Twenty years later, one of the three, Sadao Whalei, who was in charge of signing, decided to invite two of his accomplices to the ship, kill them one by one, take away their keys and seals, and then blame everything on Ye Caisan. No outsiders were present when they killed Ye Caisan. The outside world did not know that Ye Caisan was dead. They speculated that Ye Caisan fled out of fear of crime after the murder. To place blame, someone needs to reason.

 So Sadao Whalei, who lived in Kansai, wrote the anonymous letter and invited Heiji Hattori to board the ship.

At the same time, in order to accurately attract two accomplices, he used the name "Furukawa Dai" when he published the advertisement for the prize-winning game. "Furukawa Dai" has few strokes and is very easy to remember. It was Ye Caisan's commonly used pseudonym in the past.

Whalei Sadao felt that the outside world did not know this, and only his two accomplices understood its meaning.

However, in fact, "Furukawa Dai" is formed by re-spelling the name "Ye Caisan" by rotating it ninety degrees.

So this time, those who were led to the boat were not only the two accomplices from back then, but also Ye Caisan’s daughter who had been wondering where her father had gone during this period, the fiancé of the bank employee who was killed that year, and her father of the bank employee...

 And Jiang Xia, who knows the spoilers by heart.

 In short, except for the intruding detectives, the people on this ship are roughly divided into two groups, one is the robbers' group and the other is the victims' group.

Hide among the robbers is Sadao Whalei who wants to kill all his accomplices.

The other two robbers actually have some ideas about embezzling property - although the person with the signature cannot be killed, as long as the other person with the key or seal is eliminated, one less person will be able to share the money, and an extra six or seven will be made out of thin air. Millions of wealth.

In addition, the fiancé of the deceased bank clerk was also a ruthless person. This middle-aged man named Ebina Minoru brought a large box of time bombs and decided that if the robbers were found on the ship, they would blow up the entire ship with bombs and die together. If no one is found, the bomb is thrown into the sea.

 Neither side is a fuel-efficient lamp. The neutral Jiang Xia counted the number of people with murderous intent on their bodies and felt that the trip was worthwhile.

 He quickly found Room 2 where he was, walked in, locked the door, and placed his luggage and body.

 Then he transferred his consciousness to his puppet.

 —Before boarding the ship, he deliberately left a puppet in a hidden place near the port.

There are too many people on board with their own agendas. Although Hattori Heiji and Conan are very capable of attracting murder cases, their ability to commit crimes and commit suicide is not weak at all. Just in case, Jiang Xia felt that he should get a helper for himself.

If the situation is controllable, just scatter the puppet, wait until everything is over, then gather it back up, and let it disembark and retreat.

And if you encounter a situation where a puppet can be used, through the action of "boarding the ship", the puppet can appear legitimately and logically. Otherwise, if they come and go without a trace every time, broadening the minds of the detectives and making them doubt science, the advantages of puppets will be greatly weakened in the future.

 …

Soon, in the corner near the port, a puppet stood up, carrying an old version of 10,000 yen banknotes, and walked towards the ship that was filled with murderous aura.

The puppet is wearing a long black dress, a black wide-brim hat, and a pair of wide sunglasses on his face, covering the "z" mark that cannot be hidden under his right eye.

That's right, this time, Jiang Xia chose Miyano Akemi as the puppet's filler.

As for the other ghosts... The foggy dog ​​and the mermaid are not suitable to appear outside the comic exhibition; the parent ghosts can only hug each other on the boat, or use a lot of murderous energy to shrink one of them as much as possible, turning into a thin but shy man with a weird beer belly. , or a pregnant woman who looks like she's about to give birth... As for Xiaobai, Xiaobai's puppet still looks like a child.

 (End of this chapter)