While the car was driving on a winding mountain road, the tires suddenly made a loud bang.
Then it collapsed.
Jiang Xia was awakened by the familiar movement. She was still a little dazed, but her body had instinctively begun to gather puppets in the trunk, preparing to puncture the spare tire.
However, before the puppet was formed, Xiaobai and Miss Spider, who also consciously floated into the trunk, floated back one after another, looking a little lonely.
——This time, because Yuya Kazami suddenly disappeared, and the police were busy searching for the strange passenger who hitchhiked in the middle of the night, the group of people was inevitably in a hurry, and Toru Amuro was also inexplicably out of sorts.
In short, there was no new spare tire in the trunk.
Jiang Xia was awakened by the sound of a flat tire.
Toru Amuro had already expertly stabilized the car, parked it on the side of the road, and sighed.
Then he adjusted the position of the gun bag, pushed the door and got out of the car.
Jiang Xia followed him out of the car and walked to the back of the car.
When Toru Amuro reached out and pushed open the trunk, he glanced down and was startled.
After a while, the undercover police officer, who had been very sleep deprived recently, frowned and muttered in a low voice: "This time the whole thing was stolen..."
Jiang Xia: "...?"
...Slander, this is slander.
He didn't steal tires, and neither did the puppets.
Xiaobai and Miss Spider seemed to have the same feeling, looking at Toru Amuro, a faint light flashed in their eyes.
Although someone suddenly took the blame, Jiang Xia was silent for a moment, thinking of the surprise trip carefully arranged by her boss, and decided to pretend that nothing happened.
He habitually looked around, planning to find a place to stay.
However, it was still some distance away from the Dusk Annex. He didn't see the annex whose quality had been greatly reduced, but he saw another building.
Jiang Xia pointed diagonally ahead: "There is a gas station there, there should be spare tires."
Toru Amuro glanced in the direction of the gas station and nodded.
Although the subordinates who followed them from afar kept spare tires, they could pretend to be passers-by at any time and come to deliver the tires.
But now, it would be too suspicious to wait for someone on the road instead of going to the nearby gas station.
Thinking of this, Toru Amuro yawned, rubbed his forehead, and walked towards the gas station: "Go and take a look."
After taking two steps, I suddenly remembered something and stopped again.
He turned around, looked at Jiang Xia who was following him, and stopped him: "There is still some important information in the car, you can stay here."
...This is a lie.
...The main reason is that after walking all the way to this point, even Toru Amuro, who firmly does not believe in coincidence and only cares about physical evidence, will inevitably become wary of such things as "incident constitution" at this time.
Although the dice decided that he would continue to observe Jiangxia until the end of the plan, Toru Amuro actually wanted to take a rest. He didn't really want to stay in this kind of mountain anymore, but planned to at least stick to an urban area with comfortable hotels.
In short, considering that in a place like a gas station, even if there are not many customers, there will definitely be some staff there, Toru Amuro decisively decided to keep Jiang Xia away from there and stay in an unmanned car. He went to get a spare tire.
Go quickly and come back quickly.
As we all know, as long as there are no people, there will be no murders.
Jiang Xia nodded, had no objection to this, and returned to the car.
There are actually not many cases at gas stations.
What he cares about more than this is: after crossing two more mountains and crossing a bridge, there is the Dusk Villa where a case may occur...
…
In a gas station.
Kidd wore an ordinary disguised face and wore a dark blue employee uniform. He mingled among the staff and secretly looked at the passers-by.
Recently, he failed to find a suitable gem, but accidentally discovered that someone was using his name to defraud.
——Several famous detectives received a dark invitation letter, inviting them to have dinner at the "Twilight Villa". The signature of the invitation letter was "The Phantom of the Forsaken Son of God."
Kidd stared at this long string of signatures for a while and frowned.
"Phantom" has the meaning of elusiveness, which goes without saying. The remaining "son abandoned by God", combined with biblical allusions, can make people think of "little goat". When this word is changed into English, it becomes
Kid——Kid.
...Just like a letter of authorization with cash in it can always accurately summon Hattori Heiji.
If you commit crimes in Kidd's name, you will always be punished by God.
After Kidd discovered that his name had been used fraudulently, he decisively decided to sneak into this mysterious dinner to see what was going on.
…
Today, he came to work at this gas station not far from the Dusk Annex just to guard his target - Ikumi Gunida who was invited.
Kid planned to stun Ikumi Gunada who was passing by and hide her, while he disguised himself as her and went to the banquet.
Before that, he had seriously considered "disguising himself as Jiang Xia" and conducted corresponding investigations on Jiang Xia.
So now, as soon as Toru Amuro entered the gas station, Kidd immediately recognized him - he seemed to be the boss of the detective agency where Jiang Xia worked.
Suddenly seeing Tohru Amuro and thinking about Jiang Xia, who had been away from Tokyo recently, Kidd's mind suddenly became active.
Speaking of which, when he was browsing the treasure news yesterday, he seemed to have seen reports on Jiang Xia's case. In the corners of those pictures, there was also a bit of Toru Amuro. Although he didn't directly photograph the person, he was familiar with Kidd's needs.
In terms of human body features, the Phantom Thief is still relatively easy to recognize.
In other words, since Amuro Tetsu appears in this gas station, Jiang Xia is probably nearby too...
…
To Kidd, Jiang Xia was just a detective whom he had met several times at the crime scene.
According to Kidd's observation, although Jiang Xia is very keen and often gives him the illusion that "this detective has seen through my disguise", in general, Jiang Xia does not seem to be enthusiastic about "catching the Phantom Thief". On the contrary
, he often sat in the crowd of police officers and was distracted, and he was even suspected by the Zhongsen Police Department because of this, and he was arrested and had his face slapped several times.
...If he hadn't been worried that his disguise would be ruined when his face was caught, Kidd would have tried to disguise himself as Jiang Xia - Jiang Xia seemed to have a good relationship with the second lady of the Suzuki family, so it was easy to get close to the treasure.
location.
And this time, among the detectives invited to Dusk Villa, Jiang Xia was actually included.
When Kidd first discovered this, he was very excited: the dinner was not directly signed by "Kidd", but required solving a mystery; in addition, there was no reservation for stolen treasures.
In other words, the Zhongsen Police Department, who loves to tease Jiang Xia’s face, will not appear...
Thinking of this, Kidd suddenly had an idea and planned to disguise himself as Jiang Xia, but he decided against his long-cherished wish and took on the challenge of playing this detective who seemed to him somewhat mysterious.
However, the day before, after going to the office where Jiang Xia worked, Kidd discovered with regret that there was indeed an invitation letter from Dusk Annex in the mailbox at the door of the office, but the invited Jiang Xia was not there.
