Chapter 76 What did you do at night? Please give me a monthly ticket≧≦
The next day, Toru Amuro woke up very early.
The bedding was a bit hard and I was not used to sleeping on it.
More importantly, yesterday's strange incident did have an impact on him.
——He dreamed of a giant rat hiding in his car and chewing his tires. In the dream, after being surprised, Amuro Toru caught this strange mutant rat and sent it to the country for research. Unexpectedly, the institute found a new zombie virus in the rat... Then Amuro Toru fought zombies all night in his dream, and finally woke up suddenly when he was surrounded by a large number of zombies.
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At this time, it was just dawn.
Although it was time for the monks to wake up, it was still early for the guests.
Toru Amuro tried to take a nap, but failed - as soon as he closed his eyes, the bloody mouths of mutant rats and mutant zombies swayed back and forth in front of him, making him lose all desire to sleep.
In the end, Toru Amuro had no choice but to sit up again with a pair of dark circles under his eyes.
He looked enviously at Jiang Xia who was sleeping soundly beside him, stood up and planned to go see if the car he called had arrived.
Unexpectedly, when passing by the dining room, I suddenly heard a muffled scream.
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Toru Amuro was startled and quickly ran towards the source of the sound.
On the way, he met two other young monks.
The three of them arrived at the door of the confinement room.
The eldest brother's legs and feet became weak and he fell to the ground by the door.
Seeing the others approaching, the eldest brother pointed upwards, trembling, "I, I saw the door of the confinement room was open, so I came in to take a look, and the result was..."
Toru Amuro walked in, looked up, and his eyes fixed.
——On the nearly ten-meter-high roof above the confinement room, the old abbot was hanging from the beam.
His head, with his eyes open in death, drooped limply, facing the door, swaying gently in the wind like a piece of dried bacon.
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Five minutes later.
After calling the police, Toru Amuro waited for the police to arrive.
He was worried that the monks in the temple would stop him from calling the police or secretly cut the phone lines.
However, neither of these situations occurred.
This made Toru Amuro feel a little relieved - since he could successfully contact the outside world, it meant that this time it should not be a serial murder case.
——It could be that the old monk committed suicide, or it could be just an ordinary murder.
If it's the latter...
Toru Amuro thought that this meant that there was a murderer hiding among these four seemingly honest little monks in the temple.
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Therefore, before asking about the situation, Amuro Toru went to the guest room first, intending to wake Jiang Xia up. In case he worked so hard to find out the truth, the murderer turned around and took his teammates hostage...
It's really not that Toru Amuro is overthinking it - he has experienced this kind of thing too many times, whether working with the public security or with members of the organization.
The only difference is that he tried his best to save his police colleagues, but his accomplices in the organization...
“…”Well, this is probably one of the reasons why few people in the organization are willing to partner with him.
"Jiang Xia." Amuro Toru pushed open the door of the guest room, "Wake up, someone is dead."
After shouting, he planned to go back to reason.
However, after taking two steps, he did not hear Jiang Xia getting up.
"……?"
Toru Amuro retreated back to the door of the guest room.
Jiang Xia lay motionless under the quilt, with no intention of getting up at all.
Toru Amuro was stunned.
Although it was still early, it was already daybreak. When most people were in such a light sleep state and heard someone calling their name, coupled with key words like "someone is dead"... would they fall into such a deep sleep?
Besides, Jiang Xia is not an ordinary person. His alertness should be much higher than that of normal people.
After a moment's silence, Toru Amuro suddenly had a bad guess.
Could it be that he wasn't "sleeping like dead" but was really dead...
How could someone kill someone next to him in the middle of the night without alerting him?!
Toru Amuro felt a sinking feeling in his heart when he thought of the tire that had inexplicably punctured yesterday.
He ran to the bedding, shouted "Jiang Xia!", and pushed the person aside.
I thought I would see a broken section on Jiang Xia's neck that was exactly the same as the one on the tire...but I didn't.
I touched him again and found that he was warm and had a pulse.
"..." The corner of Amuro Toru's eye twitched twice, and a faint blue vein appeared on his forehead. He grabbed the person and shook him, "Wake up."
After swaying for several seconds, Jiang Xia finally opened his eyes.
Amuro Toru looked at him, and suddenly a thought flashed through his mind - Jiang Xia looked so tired, could it be because he secretly did something bad last night, such as hanging the old monk...
But soon, Toru Amuro rejected this speculation.
He was confident in his alertness. Jiang Xia did go out last night, but he came back not long after. That was definitely not enough time for him to kill or hang someone. He stayed in the room afterwards.
——In short, Jiang Xia did not have the time to commit the crime, nor did he have a motive.
After coming to this conclusion, Amuro Toru sighed: Why am I always suspicious today...
He let go of her hand, stood up, and said to Jiang Xia, "Let's go to the hall first. There's been a murder in the temple."
(End of this chapter)
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