Chapter 324 Tips for being lazy

Jiang Xia turned around after throwing the bomb package and saw Ebina Mingmin staring straight at the sea. He fell to his knees as if he had been hit by a huge blow, and the murderous aura lingering on his body gradually fell away.

Ten seconds later, a new murderous aura slowly emerged from this retired social worker who had once decided to blow up a boatload of people, and his serious face became slightly distorted.

Jiang Xia leaned on the railing and said chattingly: "You are here to find those robbers back then."

 The word "robber" touched Ebina Minoru's mind. His dull pupils slightly dilated, and he retracted his gaze towards the sea, turning to the black-clothed puppet in front of him whose clothes were swaying in the sea breeze.

Just listen to her whisper: "Ye Caisan is dead. The remaining three people in the gang are all on the boat now. One of them has turned into a charred corpse, one is hanging on the escalator outside, and the other is mixing with the crowd. You can concentrate on acting - I mean Sadao Whalei. You can wait for the internal strife to end, or you can do what you want to do."

 …

Hattori Heiji and Conan were still looking around the ship, sometimes arguing together and sometimes acting separately.

 After a while, both sides had basically formed ideas, and only the final verification was needed.

Conan returned to the cabin and asked the crew where there was a good hiding place on the ship.

Hattori Heiji is a practical person. He carried a borrowed searchlight and looked around for a hiding place.

After searching all the cabins, finally, when he came to the edge of the deck shrouded in deep night, as the searchlight shone on the hull below, a figure suddenly appeared in the circle of light.

 Hattori Heiji suddenly paused and turned the flashlight back.

 Just below, he saw a man tied to a ladder, with the roiling seawater beneath him.

 —That person is Kaniejiu who has been missing for some time. However, it was completely different from what he had expected before. Kaniejiu was not actively hiding here, but was firmly tied to the ladder. In addition, a looper rope hung tightly around his neck. The other end of the rope hung down and swayed slightly as the body swayed.

 Hattori Heiji's eyes passed over Kaniejiu's ferocious face and his chest that no longer rose and fell, his expression slightly stagnant.

 …This man is dead.

 The sudden increase in the amount of information caused him to fall into temporary confusion. The appearance of this corpse overturned most of his previous inferences, and by the way, it also overturned Conan's.

 … Could it be that when they asked Jiang Xia who was right just now, Jiang Xia didn't say anything, not because he couldn't reason it out, but because Jiang Xia felt that they were both wrong?

 Hattori Heiji frowned and reorganized his thoughts.

At the same time, a tall figure behind him sneaked closer under the cover of the sound of waves and sea breeze, raising the steel pipe in his hand - Namui Nabuo had just passed by, and when he saw Hattori Heiji standing in this position, holding a searchlight and shining down , you know that this detective knows too much and must not stay.

 …

 Hattori Heiji was thinking intently when a voice of "Get away!" suddenly came from behind him. The person who issued the reminder seemed to be running very fast. When the last sound came out, the source of the sound was already much closer.

　　It was Jiang Xia's voice... When this thought flashed through Hattori Heiji's mind, he subconsciously moved to the side.

An iron rod brushed against his shoulder, whipping up strong wind, and knocked heavily on the railing. With a long buzzing sound, Hattori Heiji turned his head stiffly and looked at the dented railing in confusion, and a layer of cold sweat suddenly appeared on his back.

At the same time, he also saw Sadao Whalei, who was holding an iron rod and trying to sneak attack him, and behind Sadao Whalei, a stick that was so fast that it was almost just a shadow.

 … This is a sneak attack that has just ended, and a sneak attack in the present tense.

Facing the sneak attack, Hattori Heiji reflexively wanted to shout "be careful" and push the attacker down. But in the current scene, he felt like something was wrong.

 In the end, Hattori Heiji just hesitated to speak and watched as the swinging stick that came from behind fell and hit Whalei Sadao's shoulder hard.

The strong man weighing more than 200 kilograms felt like he had been kicked by an elephant. He rolled and fell to the side. He lay on the deck and couldn't get up for a while.

"I didn't expect that I would encounter such a thing when I came out to enjoy the wind... It seems that the murderer can be caught on the spot." Jiang Xia walked to the side of Whalei Sadao and took a look at Hattori Heiji, whose clothes were soaked in cold sweat and looked slightly embarrassed, " Sure enough, detectives are a profession where people can easily be silenced. What did you just see?"

“Kaiejiu was tied to the rope ladder outside and is already dead.” Hattori Heiji was talking when he suddenly caught sight of Whalei Sadao reaching into his arms and tremblingly taking out a gun.

He tensed up instantly and was about to give a warning, but before he opened his mouth, an elongated swinging stick was swung on Whalei Sadao's wrist with strong wind. The gun slid along the deck, hit the wall with a thud, and stopped.

Jiang Xia glanced at the gun and swung the stick again: "Go and take it, it might be evidence. Don't let it fall into the sea."

Hattori Heiji came to his senses and ran over to pick up the gun across the handkerchief. He took out another handkerchief and checked it awkwardly across the handkerchief: "There is a bullet missing. Worker... Conan picked up one in the machine room before. Bullet casings, and from what he said, there was blood on the ground there.”

"So that's it." Jiang Xia raised his hand again and knocked away the dagger that Whalei Sadao had fumbled for again.

The dagger moved along the track where the gun had just slid, and was held down by Hattori Heiji as if he were picking up gold coins. He picked it up and put it away together.

 At the same time, he also paused slightly because of Jiang Xia's declaration which was equivalent to "I understand everything".

Although he has now roughly sorted out what happened on the ship, many details are still blank. Even so, it was based on the fact that he and Conan exchanged a lot of information, and he himself searched around the ship for a long time. But Jiang Xia has been distracted in the restaurant, under the watch and protection of the crew...

 He looked at Jiang Xia with complicated emotions: "Have you deduced everything?"

 “Not yet, I’m not in the mood today.”

Jiang Xia raised her hand and pressed her forehead in despair, and then raised the stick with a enthusiasm that was not suitable for this situation: "Fortunately, we caught the suspicious person. If you ask him, everything should be clear."

Hattori Heiji:"…"

Sadao Whalei also paused for a moment, waiting, waving a stick and asking questions. This is not what a detective should do.

He suddenly felt a sense of crisis in his heart, and struggled to get up: "I didn't kill anyone! I received a threatening letter before, and someone said they were going to attack me, so I took an iron rod to defend myself. I attacked him because I just said As I walked over, I suddenly saw a dark figure. I suspected that someone was trying to harm me, so I hit him first... I overreacted, but I didn't kill him - ow!"

 (End of this chapter)