Chapter 634 Is this the Ksitigarbha you dropped?
Toru Amuro was processing procedures at the counter when he suddenly shuddered.
He came back to his senses, glanced at the mountains in the distance, and thought silently that he should buy some more clothes - all the clothes he had prepared before setting out had been reduced to ashes in the Dusk Villa.
Don't buy too much this time, though.
After all, this long and desperate journey will soon be over.
...Thinking of this, I suddenly felt that the sky outside had cleared up.
…
A few hours later.
Dozens of kilometers away, deep in the forest.
As dusk approaches, the light fades.
There was a sudden bang and the sound of a tire bursting was heard on the forest path.
The next second, a Mazda slowed down skillfully, drove on the uneven dirt road, and stopped by the roadside.
Amuro Toru sighed silently.
Then he found that he was actually quite calm, as if he had gradually adapted to this kind of thing… At the same time, he was secretly glad that when he applied for the mission, he applied for a full ten days, so now he had plenty of time to waste on the road.
Moreover, once you accept the setting that "Jiang Xia is prone to incidents" and give up avoiding Jiang Xia's acquaintances, when you encounter an emergency, you can put yourself in the role of a detective and barely experience the fun of solving a mystery...
…
After all, Toru Amuro is an experienced undercover agent and has outstanding ability in adjusting his mentality.
This time, before Jiang Xia, who had just woken up from a nap and was rubbing his eyes, could ask a soul-searching question, "Boss, why did you have a flat tire again?", Toru Amuro had already pushed the door and got out of the car, looked around, and began to look for any suspicious wilderness villas.
Then I found that there was just an ordinary deep forest around.
It’s not like before, where you can just look around after getting off the bus and find a place to stay or borrow a phone.
"Boss, there seems to be a signal here."
Just as he was thinking about it, Jiang Xia's voice with a hint of surprise came from the car. Jiang Xia turned on the radio in the car and then turned it off, then turned to ask him: "Do you want to find a towing company? But at this time, they should have gone off work."
Toru Amuro was stunned, and then he realized that he seemed to have adapted too much to Jiang Xia's physical condition. He did not even prioritize calling for help, but instead assumed that "there must be no signal around here."
“…”
He reflected on his out-of-touch actions in his mind.
Then I pulled out my phone as if nothing had happened and pretended that I was just breathing in the fresh air and enjoying the forest, and that I hadn’t forgotten to check the signal.
I turned on the screen and saw that there was indeed a signal.
He then dialed the number for help.
…
"I'm sorry, sir."
The staff on duty asked him where he was and gave a regrettable reply:
"Yesterday, a truck transporting metal materials overturned on Jiusen Road. Many sharp parts were scattered around, puncturing the tires of several vehicles. Currently, none of our on-duty vehicles are available."
After that, considering the desperate experience of the travelers who were in the middle of nowhere and had no shops to visit, the staff provided some small suggestions with humanistic care:
"From what you described, the location should be near the Ghost Crying Cliff in the Toushen Forest. From there, walk southeast for about ten minutes along the road. There is a hotel that is quite famous in the local area. The food and environment there are very comfortable. Now is the off-season for tourism. The hotel should still have rooms available, and the price will not be too high. You and your companions can go there to rest first.
"We will pick you up as soon as there is a vacant car. Of course, you can also choose to rest for a whole night, and we will send someone to pick you up early the next morning. In this way, the fee is only 40% of the night fee."
Amuro Toru: “…” What cliff?
...It sounds very ominous.
And the name of the Toushen Forest is also strange, and it somehow exudes a bit of a gloomy feeling...
However, there are no ghosts or gods in the world, and this forest looks beautiful and peaceful... The most important thing is that the trailer will not be able to get here for a while.
Amuro Toru thought that, now that he had given up the plan to isolate Jiang Xia and no longer had to guard against Jiang Xia and his acquaintances who always showed up from various places, he didn't need to ask his public security subordinates to pretend to be "passing by" and pick him and Jiang Xia up. Although this plan was easy, it was very laborious and prone to flaws. For example, a subordinate's tire would suddenly burst, and the three of them would be left in the deep forest staring at each other, and then a subordinate would accidentally say something like "Mr. Fūya" to him...
...In short, in the end.
Among the two suggestions given by the staff, Toru Amuro chose to have them pick him up the next morning.
Of course, overtime pay doesn't matter, but with the previous lesson, Amuro Toru now feels that it is necessary to get enough rest. Otherwise, not to mention the harm to the body, it will easily affect his judgment. Even if he doesn't have to spend so much effort to monitor Jiang Xia now, there are still tasks for the organization to handle properly in the future.
Thinking of this, after hanging up the phone, Toru Amuro sighed, began to pack his luggage, and prepared to take what he needed to the hotel.
Jiang Xia also packed a backpack and the two of them set off quickly.
——I didn’t have much luggage to begin with, and it was all burned when the car was blown up at dusk. Now my luggage is even less than before. This journey was as relaxing as an autumn outing.
…
After walking for a minute or two, Jiang Xia's gaze suddenly moved.
——There was a gray object lying on the side of the road ahead.
Toru Amuro noticed the abnormality at the first moment.
He looked at it puzzled for a moment and soon recognized that it was a stone statue of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. At this time, the statue had fallen over and was 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 its neck.
The collapsed statue does not look auspicious.
Although Toru Amuro didn't believe in ghosts and gods, he still frowned, walked over to help it up, and stood it on the side of the road again. He also picked up a sharp piece of gravel next to Jizo and threw it far into the bushes.
- What if a car didn't look at the road carefully and ran over the Dizang, which would rise up and then fall down, crushing the rocks just now... that would easily cause a tire to burst.
He has had so many flat tires that Toru Amuro has begun to instinctively reject any environment that may lead to a flat tire, just like a person who is always throwing things around likes to push the porcelain near the edge of the table back to the center of the table.
After eliminating the danger, Toru Amuro stood up, brushed off the dirt on his hands comfortably, and continued to move forward.
After taking two steps, he suddenly felt something was wrong. He turned around and frowned at the standing stone statue and the place where the statue had fallen down.
Behind him, Jiang Xia stopped walking without knowing when.
He stood beside the stone statue and said with a slightly puzzled tone: "This Ksitigarbha seems to be lying particularly flat."
(End of this chapter)
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