Conan's Corpse Picker

When Jiang Xia checked the tires in the trunk.

Toru Amuro picked up his phone and checked his inbox again.

It was found that apart from the monitoring section just now, there was no other information in it.

...In other words, the subordinates following behind did not see any suspicious creatures following them.Otherwise, you must have sent him a message when you noticed the signs.

But today the fog is so heavy, and the trees in this mountain forest are very dense, even if it is really followed by something, the subordinates may not be able to find it.

……

The wish to catch the enemy with the infrared camera has come to nothing. At this time, Toru Amuro still inevitably feels a little disappointed.

After calming down a little bit, while he was vigilant against the thick fog around him, he looked at the brutally murdered tires in the trunk.

——Take a shortcut and fail, so try the normal reasoning channel, it’s better than doing nothing.

This time, the strangest thing was that, as Jiang Xia said, the tires were not bite marks, but more like marks from being scratched by something.

...the claws of a beast?

However, a tire of this thickness can be scratched in one blow... The size of this beast is probably so big that it can fill the entire trunk.

But judging from the brief video footage just now, the creature that suddenly appeared does not seem to be that big.

Chapter 550 Rejecting the Arrangement of Fate

In addition, Toru Amuro continued to rule out: This will not be because Jiang Xia set up a trap.

Jiang Xia has been sitting next to him, still wearing a seat belt.Even if he keeps his eyes on the front while driving, if the person sitting next to him does something small enough to break a tire, or if he has set up a similar mechanism in the car in advance, he will never fail to notice.

...so how the hell did these tires break?

In this world, there are still many things that cannot be fully explained by science.

In the past, Toru Amuro always felt that those things were far away from him.

But now...

"..."

When the observation of Jiang Xia is over, and when you have some free time, maybe you can try to take Conan and Jiang Xia out together, and then find an excuse to apply for more infrared devices, pinhole cameras, hunting nets and the like. Azimuth monitoring of own vehicles.

Although there are unexplainable things, there must not be too many.Perhaps, this is actually a tire blowout achieved by some ingenious technique, but he has not been able to see through it yet...

Jiang Xia seems to think so too—Amuroto saw Jiang Xia look at the tires for a while, then began to observe the frame of the trunk lid, and pressed the rear seat a few times, as if concentrating on thinking about unknown creatures sneaking into the trunk, breaking the Tire method.

Seeing this, he took the opportunity to type an email and send it to his subordinates.

—— Immediately take a spare tire, pretend to be tourists or people visiting relatives, drive "passing" here, and pick them up.

In addition, there are spare infrared cameras on the side of the subordinates.

Considering his own lessons learned, when Amuro sent out the news, he asked Kazami Yuya to set up two opposite instruments to monitor the trunk in all directions to prevent any blind spots.

In this way, even if Kazami Yuya had a flat tire when he came to pick them up, he could still find out the culprit of the flat tire.

……

After solving the current predicament, Toru Amuro put away his mobile phone and glanced at the faint light that was tens of meters away.

——There seems to be a foreign-style mansion there, where travelers with flat tires can stay overnight.

...but he won't go.

Next to him, Jiang Xia rummaged through the trunk for a while, but couldn't seem to find any useful clues, so he had to stop.

He straightened up, followed Amuro Toru's line of sight to look at the light source, and suggested, "Why don't you go there and stay there for a night, and wait for the towing company to go to work tomorrow, and then find someone to tow the car away?"

Toru Amuro shook his head: He wants to wait for his subordinates to come over and set out on the road overnight.

Of course, the real reason cannot be told to Jiang Xia directly.

Toru Amuro quickly found an excuse.

He showed a gloomy smile that belonged to Bourbon, as if he knew all the truth:

"Don't you think it's a coincidence?——We happened to have a tire blowout here, and there was another mansion near the blowout point. It seemed like someone was forcing us to go to that house."

Jiang Xia: "..."

... a little guilty.

But after thinking about it, unless the boss completely abandons the concept of science, in his eyes, the co-pilot who has been sitting quietly next to him to catch up on sleep obviously has no chance to do anything to the tires.

So Jiang Xia maintained the calmness on his face, and nodded along with Toru Amuro's words: "Indeed."

At the same time, I began to think: If the boss is determined not to stay overnight, then how to let him in as reasonably as possible...

At this time, Wu Tiangou fell from the side and landed on Jiang Xia's shoulder as if nothing had happened.

——This is the place it liked to stay in the past, but it was later occupied by the new ghost Matsuda Jinpei of unknown circumstances.At this time, Matsuda Jinping moved to the other side because of guilt, and crowded with other ghosts, this place was temporarily vacant.

Wutiangou took a sneak peek at Matsuda Jinpei, folded his wings nervously and sat down.

Finding that the other party did not intend to come back, it breathed a sigh of relief, hugged its knees and recalled the beautiful life of having its own exclusive territory in the past.

Then he got back to business and told Jiang Xia that it had just peeked at the content of the text message sent by Toru Amuro.

——Toru Amuro arranged for the public security "passers-by" to come and rescue the two people who were forced to break down.

Jiang Xia: "..."

... No wonder the boss is so confident, he would rather stay in the cold woods in the middle of the night than enter the house.It turned out that he still had the idea of ​​leaving.

Speaking of it, although it is not difficult to damage Kazami Yuya's tires, as far as Jiang Xia knows, besides Kazami Yuya's car, there are many other police cars behind.

If you tie them all up one by one, the workload will be too much.And it always feels like the intent becomes too obvious that way.The puncture incident also lost a sense of mystery, which easily aroused the boss's desire to explore and slowed down his resignation to the "puncture" incident...

So let's change to a slightly more technical idea.

such as……

Let Kazami Yu also disappear in this forest for a while?

——Although the boss is a bit of a monster in terms of work, he is not the kind of person who can continue to go on the road ruthlessly as if nothing happened after his subordinates disappear.

In other words, if Yuya Kazami who came to pick him up suddenly disappeared, Toru Amuro should also stay nearby until the police find him.

In this way, Jiang Xia also had the opportunity to stay for a while next to a nearby house that looked rather gloomy and had the potential to be a ghost.

……

Thinking of this, when Toru Amuro said to him, "Maybe someone deliberately spread sharp objects on the road to cut tires and attract people into the house, so it's best not to go directly there, and check the situation in the car first", Jiang Xia had nothing to do. Nodding his head in dissent, he and Toru Amuro returned to the car.

Then he yawned, leaned against the back of the chair, and skillfully entered the process of dozing off.

At the same time, he released the shikigami in the tattoo space, making the shikigami drift away.Eventually transformed into puppet clay under a thick tree, piled up and formed.

The puppet emerged from nothing, and as Miss Spider jumped into it, under the tree, a figure wearing a white kimono and a hat of the same color formed faintly. It was mixed in the dense fog, like an ethereal stream of water vapor.

Jiang Xia possessed himself consciously, and adjusted the bamboo hat unaccustomedly so that it could block the tattoo on his forehead.

After that, with the slight sound of the cloth being torn, the puppet stretched out eight slender spider legs from behind.Jiang Xia identified the direction and began to walk quickly through the forest.

——When signing a contract with ghost fetuses, ghosts have a chance to awaken special skills.

Some of these skills are very useful, and some are... complicated.

As for Miss Spider, her awakened skills are related to the legend of her hometown.It's a little more complicated, but if used properly, it can provide a good boost.

Before, Jiang Xia tentatively named this skill "Questions and Answers from Heaven".When activating the skill, the user should ask the target in turn "Do you think there is a paradise in this world?", "What kind of place is that?", "Do you want to go and see it with me?".

Chapter 551 The Disappearing Police and "Questions and Answers in Heaven"

If all three questions are asked and the target gives an affirmative answer to the last question, he will get lost to a place where no one can find him within the next 1 to 72 hours.The specific time is random.

If at the end of the question, the target gives a negative answer, then from the time of his refusal, within 1-72 minutes, the person who activates the skill will grow eight spider legs that can be manipulated freely.

The third situation is a little more troublesome - if the target keeps ignoring people, or gets annoyed and leaves on the way without waiting for the third question, then in the next 1 to 72 minutes, the person who activates the skill, Will slip into some extreme lack of self-confidence and will try to engage in some dangerous self-destructive behavior.

...According to Jiang Xia's previous experiments, this skill sounds a bit mysterious, but it is safe to use for both others and oneself.Especially for him himself, the third situation is still controllable.

Moreover, Jiang Xia felt that Feng Jianyu was not like the cold and silent type.

Using "Heaven Questions and Answers" on him this time, it is best to achieve the first situation-Supaze Jian Yuya is lost safely.

At that time, Toru Amuro would not insist on leaving even for this subordinate who got lost inexplicably.And as long as he stays in this area, Jiang Xia can find what he wants.

If Yu Kazami is too sensible and refuses to go to heaven with Miss Spider, at that time, he has to pretend to be a fraud gang who touches porcelain late at night, knocks Kazami unconscious, takes his wallet away, and hides him in a safe place , until the ghost is picked up...

……

Nearly ten kilometers away.

Kazami Yu also checked the equipment to be brought, put away the spare tire, and explained the work to his colleagues who were not as reliable as him.

Then drive away.

……

The fog filled the air, and the road in front and behind quickly became difficult to see clearly. It seemed that he was the only one in the whole forest, which was strangely gloomy.

Kazami Yu also pushed his glasses, worried that this kind of visibility would go the wrong way, and at the same time he didn't want to follow in the footsteps of his boss-sudden tire blowout, so he drove extra carefully.

He lowered his head from time to time to confirm the location of his boss from the locator - Toru Amuro specially brought a transmitter to prevent his subordinates from being lost.

……

Just look down from time to time, confirm the position, and walk out safely for a while.

After that, before a fork, Kazami Yuya slowed down the speed as usual, and carefully identified the location of the transmitter.

When he started again, he flickered out of the corner of his eye, and suddenly felt that something was not right.

Immediately afterwards, the car body shook suddenly.

—he bumped into something.

Everything happened too fast and too abruptly.In the dense fog, Kazami Yuya instinctively stepped on the brakes.

After that, he stayed there for half a second, and then he played back the image that flashed across the retina just now in his mind - a man in white clothes who almost melted in the fog walked past the car easily, just in time for him to run down.

...he hit someone? !