Chapter 496: Toru Amuro: ...Pretend to be dead? Ask for monthly votes (づど)
Chao Wenzao speculated that Silver Fox was not at the rest stop because he was out looking for an assassination target. In addition, it is also possible that the missing burglar wanted to escape in a hurry after killing his wife, so he held the "administrator" who was familiar with the mountain road hostage to help him find the way.
There was no need to think too much about the former for the time being - in that case, Silver Fox would come to him himself.
As for the latter, the initiative will be in the hands of the robber and murderer. The robber wants to escape, so he will definitely choose the fastest way down the mountain, and avoid the direction of Danyuan Village, which is searching for him with all its strength... There are not many such ways!
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At this time, Akira Kawabe and the "Administrator" were indeed walking on the path expected by the client.
Hebianhuang is the name of the burglar and murderer. However, he was not as good as his name suggests. He did not hang around the river, but was wandering around in the mountains.
The held hostage Silver Fox never expected that he would become a hostage after coming to kill someone. He squinted at the robber and murderer next to him, his expression gloomy under the disguise of his beard, secretly looking for an opportunity to strike back.
But before any action could be taken, the ground suddenly shook.
——An earthquake occurred suddenly in the mountains.
A magnitude 3 earthquake is unlikely to collapse even houses, but when it occurred on this mountain after the rain, it shook down a large amount of earth and rocks, forming a sudden landslide.
The landslide occurred right above two bandits who had their own plans.
The two were tripped by the small pieces of earth and rocks that had fallen earlier, and they hurriedly got up and tried to escape in panic.
The aftershocks had not yet subsided, and the huge mountain was shaking. The earth and rocks above were like a torrent, rushing towards them. The sound was so loud that it made people's heart rate rise sharply. The two of them had encountered many earthquakes, but they had rarely seen such a situation.
Before they could figure out which way to run, they suddenly saw a hard rock with a slope standing a few meters away. On the towering rock, a stranger was standing leisurely.
After looking at the two people below for a moment, the strange man in black nodded slightly at them.
Although he didn't say anything, his calm appearance silently gave the panicked people an illusion that his side was a safe place.
The two gangsters' eyes lit up and they crawled over there.
At the same time.
A few dozen meters away, on the hillside slanting upwards.
Toru Amuro's eyes had just locked onto the two gangsters struggling among the rubble, and then he followed their line of sight and saw the stone next to them, and the person on the stone with curly hair and an inexplicably familiar figure.
When recognizing acquaintances, you often don't need to see their faces clearly; you can recognize their identities based on their usual movements and body shapes.
At this moment, the moment the man in black on the stone below nodded, a name suddenly popped up in Amuro Toru's mind - Jinpei Matsuda.
After seeing the naturally curly hair and the sunglasses on the face, the name suddenly seemed to have a layer of outline, becoming more specific and clear.
——Jinpei Matsuda was his classmate in the police academy. He was an expert at dismantling and causing trouble. Toru Amuro also learned some bomb disposal and boxing skills from him.
Three years ago, Jinpei Matsuda died while defusing a bomb. Until now, Toru Amuro would occasionally sneak to the cemetery without the organization's knowledge to pay respects to his good friends from the same period... So now, Jinpei Matsuda has died, who is the person below? !
While he was stunned, the sliding earth and rocks had already passed by the stone where Matsuda Jinpei was standing, and the two gangsters climbed up at the critical moment.
The two men's feet were slipped by the rolling earth and rocks, and they quickly retracted their feet, climbed onto the rocks, and showed a little relief on their faces.
But before that expression could freeze, the "rock" on which the three people stood suddenly collapsed into countless tiny stones, merged into the torrent of mud below, and then turned into Shikigami that ordinary people could not see and disappeared silently.
This happened to be the most violent wave of the landslide. The three people were instantly buried in the earth and rocks, and two screams were heard.
Diagonally above, Amuro Toru was thinking about his life: “?!!”
He looked at the pieces of clothing that emerged from the rolling earth and rocks, and subconsciously took a few steps forward.
Before he could go deeper into the dangerous area, a man suddenly ran over and stopped him: "Boss? There's a landslide ahead. Let's take a detour."
Toru Amuro came back to his senses, looked to the side, and found that it was Jiang Xia, who had been looking for someone with him just now.
Behind Jiang Xia, there is Conan, who has short legs but never falls behind.
The two people seemed to be attracted by the noise of the landslide and ran over to check the situation.
Toru Amuro was distracted by their conversation.
When I turned around and looked at the landslide site, I saw that the torrent of earth and rocks had already rushed past. The rumbling sound of the collapse spread from near to far, and the surroundings gradually calmed down. The three people who were swept into the mud could no longer be seen even the corners of their clothes.
“…”
There had just been a landslide and the whole area here is unsafe.
But Amuro Toru recalled the figure that looked more and more familiar the more he thought about it, and was extremely concerned about his old classmate who seemed to have come back from the dead.
He looked at Jiang Xia: "You guys go back to the rest stop first, or find another way down the mountain to call the police and request backup - the 'administrator' and the robber were washed away by the landslide. In addition, there seems to be another... strange tourist."
"Are there other tourists?" Jiang Xia was startled. He seemed to have heard that innocent people were involved and became concerned about the matter.
Almost at the same time, Conan blurted out: "I'll go and see, maybe there's still hope."
Then he took the lead and ran around downwards.
Toru Amuro quickly followed.
Jiang Xia looked at the backs of the two detectives, sighed, poked Mist Tengu, asked it to stay and observe the situation, and followed them down the mountain.
The landslide just now was not caused by him, it should be called "the power of nature".
Although the aftershocks have subsided and the mountain does not seem to be about to continue to slide for the time being, it is still extremely risky to run to find survivors in the face of such a natural disaster.
Jiang Xia specially left a ghost to keep watch, so that if something went wrong later, the people below would have some time to escape... The red team in this world is really stubborn in order to save people.
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When Conan went around the foot of the mountain and found the place where the mud torrent had stagnated, he remembered something and took out his cell phone and pressed it.
Then he said in surprise: "There is a signal."
Then he began to dial quickly: 119, 110, Tanyuan Village Office...
Amuro Toru didn't look over there.
Unconsciously, he had gotten used to Conan's unusual behavior from an ordinary child...
He walked to the place where the earth and rocks stagnated, squatted down, and from time to time he moved aside the places he felt were abnormal to check, like a search and rescue plane working attentively.
…
While Toru Amuro was digging everywhere, Jiang Xia was digging beside him.
Compared to Toru Amuro who lacked information, Jiang Xia had a much clearer goal when he dug the soil.
Not long after, when the soil beneath him was pushed aside, a shikigami, like a hibernating animal, was awakened and slowly poked its head out.
Jiang Xia's eyes lit up and he reached out to grab it.
(End of this chapter)
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