Conan's Corpse Picker

The mission point this time is relatively remote.

After getting off the Shinkansen, Jiang Xia originally thought that Toru Amuro was going to find a car rental company——In the case of Twilight Villa, the car they took along the way was completely blown into a wreck after countless tire blowouts. Open again.

But in fact, the situation is different from what Jiang Xia thought.

——When he arrived in Gunma County, Toru Amuro did not rent a car, but bought a new one directly.

Bourbon's idea of ​​reimbursement is simple and direct - the car was blown up in the Twilight Annex, and he has provided the organization with information about the large amount of gold in the Twilight Annex.Although the performance was intercepted by a mysterious cadre mixed in the crowd, he reported it to the boss first.But this matter is still related to the organization, and it is reasonable to reimburse the car that was blown up.

……

In the car shop.

Jiang Xia touched the hood of the new car, and habitually looked at its tires.Then I remembered that the car was not insured.

However, the boss wouldn't care about these, and the organization wouldn't feel sorry for a mere car... Jiang Xia's conscience was alive and kicking again.He rationally evaluated the thickness of the tires, and renewed his expectations for the next thing.

——Although we have already arrived in Qunma, Qunma County is not a single point, but a large area.

So, even though Toru Amuro's observation of him ended early, on the way to the mission location, what if he could pick up some unexpected gains...

And it seems necessary to encounter some cases again - after all, if Toru Amuro stops observing, they will stop encountering cases immediately... The timing is too coincidental, and it is easy to arouse the suspicion of the boss again.

……Um?On the other hand, if there has been no case, would Amuro start a second wave of investigations?

The balance in Jiang Xia's heart swayed back and forth like a seesaw that was evenly matched. He looked at Toru Amuro's back and fell into deep thought for a while.

Chapter 642 Is This Your Dropped Jizo

Toru Amuro was going through formalities at the counter when Ji Ling suddenly shivered.

He regained his senses, glanced at the cascading mountains in the distance, and thought silently, it was time to add some clothes—the ones prepared before departure had all been blown into ashes in the Twilight Villa.

However, don't buy too much this time.

After all, soon, this long and desperate journey will come to an end.

...Thinking about it this way, I suddenly felt that the sky outside became clearer.

……

a few hours later.

Tens of kilometers away, in the deep forest.

As dusk approaches, the light fades.

There was a sudden bang on the forest path, and there was the sound of a flat tire.

In the next second, a Mazda skillfully slowed down, rolled over the uneven dirt road, and stopped on the side of the road.

Amuro sighed silently.

Then he found that his mood was quite calm, and he seemed to have gradually adapted to this kind of thing... At the same time, he secretly rejoiced that when he declared the mission, he had been interrogated for ten days, and now he had enough time to waste on the road.

Moreover, once he accepts the setting of "Jiang Xia is an incident physique" and gives up avoiding Jiang Xia's acquaintances.At this time, when encountering an unexpected situation, if you assume the identity of a detective, you can barely experience the joy of solving puzzles...

……

After all, Toru Amuro is a skilled undercover agent, and he has outstanding ability to adjust his mentality.

This time, before Jiang Xia, who was rubbing his eyes after waking up from his sleep, questioned his soul, "Boss, why did you blow out again", Amuro Toru pushed the door and got out of the car, looked around, and began to search Where is the suspicious wilderness villa.

Then I found that the surrounding area was just an ordinary deep forest.

Unlike before, when you get off the car and look around, you can find a place to rent a night or borrow a phone.

"Boss, there seems to be a signal here."

Just as he was thinking, Jiang Xia's slightly surprised voice came from the car. Jiang Xia turned on the radio in the car and turned it off, then turned to him and asked, "Are you looking for a towing company? But at this time, everyone should be off work."

Toru Amuro was taken aback, and then realized that he seemed to have over-adapted to Jiang Xia's incident, and didn't even give priority to calling for help, but as if he defaulted to "there must be no signal around here".

"..."

He reflected on his actions in his absence.

Then as if nothing happened, I took out my phone and pretended I was just getting some fresh air and enjoying the forest, rather than forgetting to check the signal.

I checked the screen, and there was a signal.

So he called for help.

……

"I'm sorry, sir."

The staff member on duty asked where he was and gave this regrettable reply:

"Yesterday, a vehicle transporting metal materials rolled over on Jiuchun Road. Many sharp parts were scattered nearby, and the tires of several vehicles were punctured. At present, none of our vehicles on duty is free."

After finishing speaking, considering the desperate experience of travelers not going to the village and not going to the store, the staff provided a little suggestion with humane care:

"From the place you described, it should be near the Guikuya Cliff in the Toushen Forest—from there, walk southeast along the road for nearly 10 minutes. There is a hotel that is quite famous in the local area. The food and environment there They are very comfortable. Now it is the off-season of tourism, there should be vacancies in the hotel, and the price is not too high. You and your companions can go there for a rest first.

"When there is an empty car, we will pick you up immediately. Of course, you can also choose to rest all night, and we will send someone over the next morning, so the cost is only 40% of the night."

Toru Amuro: "..." What cliff?

...sounds very unlucky.

And the name of the Forest of the Head God is also weird, inexplicably revealing a bit of a gloomy feeling...

However, there are no ghosts or gods in the world, and this forest looks nice and peaceful... The most important thing is that the trailer can't get through for a while.

Amuro thought, at present, since he has given up the plan to isolate Jiang Xia and no longer needs to guard against Jiang Xia and his acquaintances who can always show up from various places, there is no need for the public security officials to pretend to be "passing by here", Take him and Jiang Xia away—although this plan saves trouble, it is very labor-intensive and prone to flaws, for example, the subordinate also suddenly blows out, and then the three of them stay in the deep forest and look at each other, and then the subordinate inadvertently comes to him A sentence like "Mr. Jianggu"...

...in short, eventually.

Among the two suggestions given by the staff, Toru Amuro chose to let them pick him up the next morning.

Of course, overtime pay doesn't matter, but with the previous lessons, Amuro now feels that it is necessary to maintain adequate rest.Otherwise, let alone the harm to the body, it will easily affect his judgment.Even if you don't have to spend all your time monitoring Jiang Xia now, there are still organizational tasks to be properly handled in the future.

Thinking of this, after hanging up the phone, Toru Amuro sighed, and began to pack his luggage, preparing to take what should be brought to the hotel.

Jiang Xia also packed a backpack, and the two set off quickly.

——There wasn’t much luggage in the first place, and it was burned up when the car was blown up in the Dusk Annex. Now the luggage is even scarcer than before.This road is as easy as an autumn outing.

……

After walking for a minute or two, Jiang Xia's eyes suddenly moved.

——On the side of the road ahead, a dusty thing is falling.

Toru Amuro also noticed the abnormality immediately.

He looked at it suspiciously for a moment, and quickly recognized that it was a stone statue of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. At this time, the stone statue had been tilted, lying face down on the ground.

The stone statue is about the height of an adult's calf.With a bald head, big ears, and an old red bib tied around his neck.

The collapsed idol looks unlucky.

Although Toru Amuro did not believe in ghosts and gods, he still frowned, stepped forward to help it up, and stood it on the side of the road again.By the way, pick up a sharp piece of gravel next to Jizo, and throw it far into the bushes.

——In case there is a car that does not pay close attention to the road, runs over the ground, jumps up and then falls, and hits the rock just now... that will easily blow out the tire.

I have had a lot of tire blowouts. Now, Toru Amuro has begun to instinctively reject all kinds of environments that may cause tire blowouts, just like a person who always throws things likes to push the porcelain near the table back to the center of the table.

After eliminating the danger, Toru Amuro stood up, brushed off the dust on his hands comfortably, and continued to move forward.

After walking two steps, he suddenly felt that something was not right, turned his head again, frowned and looked at the standing stone statue and the place where the stone statue fell down just now.

Behind him, Jiang Xia stopped at some point.

Standing next to the stone statue, he said in a slightly doubtful tone, "This Ksitigarbha seems to be very flat."

Chapter 643 The Destined Encounter

Amuro nodded, feeling the same way.

——This stone statue is not a flat cylinder, but has edges and corners.Regardless of its shape or the inclination of its location, Jizo should not be lying on the ground face down.

However, when I saw it just now, it was facing straight down.

It didn't look like he fell down accidentally, but more like someone deliberately fixed him in that position.

"..." Thinking of this, Anshi Toru's eyes suddenly swept aside, and landed on the weeds and bushes half a person's height on both sides of the road.

He vaguely had a bad premonition in his heart: "Could it be that this is a message for help left by someone, or a message before death?"

In that case, wouldn't it be necessary to find a corpse nearby...

"Probably not." Jiang Xia's voice came from beside him.

His expression is not as serious as Amuro Toru.

Jiang Xia looked at Jizo closely for a while, then straightened up indifferently.

He continued to walk in the direction of the hotel: "I seem to have seen a similar legend somewhere recently... and the name of the forest you just mentioned is also familiar."

"yes……"

Toru Amuro remembered Jiang Xia's sensitivity to crimes and criminals, seeing that he looked like "no big problem" at this time, he unconsciously relaxed a little.

Then, while walking towards the hotel, Toru Amuro typed in "Head God Forest", "Lying Down Jizo", and what the staff member said "Ghost Crying Cliff", and pressed search.

Although there is a signal here, the signal is average.

The interface slowly turned in circles, and it took a long time to refresh a few news items.

Amuro glanced twice and remembered.

——A while ago, there was indeed relevant news.

At that time, he happened to be working in an izakaya where the mission target occasionally appeared, and he caught a glimpse of the TV in the corner twice. Not long after that, he was called to pay the bill, and he didn't read it carefully.

As he thought about it, he casually clicked on the details.

Then it was discovered that recently, there had been an unsolved mystery in this area, and the place where the crime happened happened to be in this forest.

……

When some authors write reports, they have the habit of putting things behind the scenes.The same is true of this news.