Chapter 541 Bourbon He Paid Too Much Please Give Me a Monthly Pass ()
Half a minute later.
Bang--
With the sound of a tire bursting, the car body suddenly shook.
Then he was quickly stabilized by Amuro Toru, slowly moved to the side of the road, and finally stopped.
It was as if Jiang Xia, who was soundly sleeping, was thrown violently by the shaking vehicle and woke up by grabbing his seat belt.
He was stunned for a moment, looked around, and then said helplessly: "Another flat tire in the woods?"
Toru Amuro: "..."
...Why does he sound like he is the one to blame for this? He is clearly just a victim of the incident.
After a moment of silence, Amuro Toru decided not to bother with the sleepy man and deal with business first: "Not many people pass by this area, and there are gravels on the road, which can easily puncture the tire... Let's replace the spare tire first."
Jiang Xia nodded and got out of the car with him.
…
Before opening the trunk, Toru Amuro walked around the car half a circle and found the flat tire.
Looking closely, I saw a deep scratch on the side, as if it had been run over by something sharp and was pierced.
Amuro Toru used a flashlight to observe it. He didn't know if he was being overly suspicious, but he always felt that the scratch was too smooth, and it looked more like it was scratched by something else than a stone... But maybe there was just a stone with a very neat sharp part.
He stared at it for a moment, temporarily making note of this doubt.
Then he stood up and walked towards the trunk.
After thinking about it all the way, he finally had a flat tire. For some reason, instead of being irritated, Amuro Toru felt a sense of relief as if a huge stone had finally fallen to the ground.
...Although he didn't want to admit it, in fact, he had already had this level of awareness when he decided to go out with Jiang Xia.
Come to think of it, compared to the time when I took Conan with me before, when "every tire would get flat as soon as we got to the suburbs", now that I've been walking alone with Jiang Xia for so many days, only one tire got flat... This is already gratifying enough.
Jiang Xia's physique for a flat tire while riding in a car didn't seem as strong as he thought. Was the problem really still with those little boys who grew up in a strange direction?
Toru Amuro opened the trunk while thinking.
Then I discovered that the spare tire was also broken.
He lowered his eyes and watched the scene calmly, with a strange light flashing in his eyes.
Then, while Jiang Xia was still checking the broken tire on the side of the car.
Toru Amuro took the opportunity to glance at his phone.
——Since he had thought about the possibility of a flat tire in advance, how could he be completely unprepared?
In addition to having his subordinates carry spare tires and be ready to pretend to be "passers-by" to provide support and wait for an opportunity to capture the tire destroyer,
In fact, Toru Amuro also got an infrared night vision camera and hid it in the trunk under the cover of miscellaneous items.
It's time to put this preparation to use. Let him see what was in the car when the spare tire was damaged...
Toru Amuro opened his mailbox and found a new email in it.
From the subordinate in charge of checking the camera situation.
He moved his finger and clicked to check.
As soon as I saw the word "sorry" at the beginning, my heart skipped a beat.
...The bad feeling grew.
Going further down, we saw that the email contained a compressed video attachment, which was the key part that was deliberately intercepted by the subordinates.
Toru Amuro turned his phone to silent mode and pressed play.
In the picture, in silence, the camera is pointing at the spare tire in the trunk and shooting quietly.
This harmonious picture did not last long.
After a second or two, the camera suddenly shook - not the slight shake caused by the vehicle's movement, but it suddenly moved forward a distance, as if something occupied the space at the back and pushed the camera forward.
Then, just half a second later, the screen suddenly went black.
——The camera was destroyed first.
Toru Amuro: "..."
The veins on his forehead jumped and the phone in his hand made a crackling sound, bouncing on the edge of breaking.
Toru Amuro was silent for a moment, remembering that he was now in the suburbs, with a member of the organization by his side. Even if his subordinates were following not far behind him, it would not be convenient for him to change his mobile phone... Finally, he took a silent breath and let go of his hand.
He raised his head and looked at the pile of debris next to the spare tire.
Just now he felt that there was a slight difference here from before, but he thought it was caused by the shaking of the car body.
...But now it seems that some kind of creature destroyed the camera hidden in the pile of debris, then punctured the tire, and restored the pile of debris to its original state.
Thinking of this, Toru Amuro reached in and searched.
A piece of broken camera equipment was quickly fished out, and it looked even more miserable than the burst tire and the punctured spare tire.
At this time, Jiang Xia seemed to be startled by the rustling sound. He left the tire on the side of the car and came to the trunk.
Before he arrived, Toru Amuro calmly hid the camera's body.
Jiang Xia used the light of Amuro Toru's flashlight to take a look into the trunk.
After seeing the spare tire clearly, he was slightly startled and asked in surprise: "Claw marks? Boss, your car..."
"No rats."
Amuro retorted reflexively.
Then, remembering that mice don't have such strong claws, he added: "There's nothing else that could possibly chew through the tire."
Next to him, Xiaobai raised his hands, curled them into claws, and waved them like paddling in the water.
Amuro Toru couldn't see it, but Miyano Akemi and the parents' ghosts applauded it very supportively.
Matsuda Jinpei, who was lying on Jiang Xia's shoulder, had only been in the job for a short time and needed to improve his skin. He looked at Jiang Xia, then at Amuro Toru, who had a calm face but a slightly flickering look in his eyes, as if he was doubting his life, and moved away from the victim with a guilty conscience and moved to the other side of Jiang Xia.
…
When Jiangxia checked the tires in the trunk.
Toru Amuro picked up his phone and looked through his inbox again.
I found that apart from the surveillance video just now, there was no other information.
...That is to say, the subordinates following behind him did not see any suspicious creatures following them. Otherwise, they would have sent him a message as soon as they found any signs.
But the fog is so thick today, and the trees in this mountain forest are so dense that even if something really follows them, the subordinates may find it difficult to discover.
…
Amuro Toru still felt a little disappointed as his wish to catch the powerful enemy with the infrared camera was dashed.
After calming down a little, he was alert to the thick fog around him while looking at the tire that had been damaged in the trunk.
——If taking shortcuts doesn’t work, then try the normal reasoning channel. It’s better than doing nothing.
This time, the strangest thing was that, just as Jiang Xia said, the marks on the tire were not bite marks, but more like scratches from something.
...The sharp claws of a ferocious beast?
However, to be able to scratch a tire of this thickness with one strike... this beast must be so big that it can fill the entire trunk.
But judging from the brief camera footage just now, the creature that suddenly appeared didn't seem to be that big.
(End of this chapter)
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