Chapter 687: Run Slowly
The silence in the air was not because the three were surprised that there was someone nearby.
But the man on the ground had a very strange appearance - for some reason, the little leader had bare legs, and the exposed skin was covered with purple stripes like his face, as if he had just been beaten and scolded by his angry old father.
After a long while, Jiang Xia's ears moved and he heard Amuro Toru's low comment: "...It's immoral."
Jiang Xia: “…”
His eyes drifted slightly, and then he quickly calmed down - strictly speaking, he just borrowed the belt from the little leader, and did not directly take off his pants. As for the current situation... maybe the little leader felt that the fabric was rubbing against his skin, so he took off his pants himself? Or he didn't have the strength to hold up the belt all the time, so he simply let the pants fly freely... No matter how you look at it, it seems that the person involved has a bigger problem - as an elegant adult, how can he not wear pants because of such a small matter. This shouldn't be the case. This shouldn't be the case.
Toru Amuro didn't notice that there was a guilty employee standing next to him, nor did he think that Jiang Xia was related to this matter.
He actually suspected that this was the work of those peripheral members of the organization. Those people were as obedient as lambs to be slaughtered in front of the code-named cadres, but in fact most of them were out-and-out lawless lunatics. Amuro Toru felt that it might be that when those peripheral members set up recording and video equipment nearby according to his own requirements and planned to take pictures of the relevant information of Watanuki Tatsuzo, one of Watanuki Tatsuzo's younger brothers mistakenly entered the area, so the peripheral members took the initiative to teach him a lesson... Tsk, he clearly said that he just needed to hide nearby and not conflict with others to avoid alerting the enemy. These peripheral members in Gunma Prefecture are not very obedient.
Besides, even if you wanted to teach him a lesson, why did you make it... into the state it is now?
Is there a potential pervert among the peripheral members?
Toru Amuro was somewhat speechless because of the current situation.
At this moment, the corner of his eye moved - after a moment of stiffness, Watanuki Tatsuzo turned around and ran away like a fat but agile rabbit.
Watanuki Tatsuzo also didn't know what happened, but he was shocked. And now, his assistant failed to sneak attack and was knocked out in a second, and his capable subordinate turned into that ghostly look again... There must be something incredible hidden in this forest. Without the help of his younger brothers, Watanuki Tatsuzo didn't want to fight with two young and strong detectives and an unknown pervert.
Theoretically, there is nothing wrong with the strategy of running away.
But Watanuki Tatsuzo overestimated his own speed. Although he was indeed an agile fat man, he was only more agile than a normal person, and compared to the professionals in pursuit...
Just after Watanuki Tatsuzo jumped out a few meters, he heard the sound of pursuit from behind him - if he was a rabbit trying to escape, then Amuro Toru was undoubtedly like a professional greyhound. He easily caught up with this old cadre of the middle school period who was particularly long-winded, and hit Watanuki Tatsuzo on the back of the neck with one hand.
Tatsuzo Watanuki uttered a dying groan, fell to the ground with a thud, and did not move anymore.
Amuro's perspective line instinctively followed the movement of his prey, and when his eyes fell on the ground, he was stunned.
——I wasn’t surprised that Watanuki Tatsuzo fell.
But after Watanuki Tatsuzo fell down, Amuro Toru looked down and found that there was another person lying on the ground.
After a closer look, he looked familiar... Toru Amuro always had a good memory and quickly recognized him - the person under his feet seemed to be one of the peripheral members responsible for assisting them this time. Toru Amuro had seen this person's photo on the list of assistants sent by the organization branch in Gunma Prefecture.
"..." Didn't the peripheral members attack Watanuki Tatsuzo's subordinates? But now... what's going on? Why is the peripheral member also lying on the ground? And it seems that although this person has saved his pants, there are also traces of being whipped on his exposed skin. It seems that he has been treated similarly to the little leader just now.
Amuro Toru was a little confused for a moment. Could it be that there was an undercover agent among the peripheral members? Was the "undercover agent" sent by Watanuki Tatsuzo under his feet regarded by the peripheral members as Watanuki Tatsuzo's companion and knocked down together?
As soon as this speculation emerged, Amuro Toru rationally erased it from his mind - it was unlikely.
Because, if there really is an undercover, then the other peripheral members will at least tell him, the temporary boss. After all, no matter which branch or level, discovering an undercover is not a trivial matter. Undercovers have grown from the seedling stage, so it is absolutely necessary to tell the higher-ups about this kind of thing...
"There are people here too."
As Toru Amuro was thinking, he suddenly heard Jiang Xia's slightly surprised voice behind him.
This young man with keen observation skills had obviously noticed the situation on his side and had made new discoveries.
Toru Amuro turned around following the sound, but before he could see clearly, he saw Jiang Xia turning to another nearby bush.
Jiang Xia carefully pushed aside the branches and shone the flashlight inside. His tone became serious: "There are some here, too."
As he spoke, he squatted down and felt around, then uttered a voice that was either relieved or puzzled: "They're all still alive."
“…”
Toru Amuro was silent for a moment, walked to Jiang Xia's side, looked down at the few people Jiang Xia had just discovered, and conducted a brief search nearby.
A few minutes later, he confirmed that half of the people who fell nearby were peripheral members of the organization, and half were strangers, and most of them were the younger brothers of Watanuki Tatsuzo.
Amuro Toru stared at the fallen members and counted them silently in his mind. He felt that even if they were peripheral members, there shouldn't be so many undercover agents. It turned out that this was not the problem...
Besides, there were no signs of a fight around here.
Compared to the grand scene of fighting on both sides, the current scene is more like some insidious predator quietly appeared and took down these people one by one, like a venomous snake that hits the target in the dark and hunts quietly. Wait, so their mission...
Amuro Toru's expression changed slightly, and he swept the flashlight around the peripheral members. Soon, he found something that didn't fit in with the dead leaves - it was a device that had been disassembled but not yet installed. As the beam of light shone on it, a dark cold light flowed on the surface of the device.
He walked closer and fiddled with it for a while, and found that the video equipment was still there, but the recording equipment was gone.
After thinking for a moment, he walked back to the tree where the corpse was buried and looked carefully. As the flashlight shone over, he saw a ray of reflected light on the branches above his head and in the densest foliage.
Toru Amuro handed the flashlight to Jiang Xia, asking him to help with lighting. He climbed up to take a closer look and found that the recording equipment was still running.
(End of this chapter)
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