Chapter 549 Bourbon, he paid too much, asks for a monthly ticket ()
Half a minute later.
boom--
With the sound of a tire exploding, the car suddenly shook.
Then he was quickly stabilized by Toru Amuro, slowly moved to the side of the road, and finally stopped.
Jiang Xia, who seemed to be sleeping soundly, was suddenly shaken by the shaking vehicle and woke up grabbing the seat belt.
He was stunned for a moment, looked around, and then said helplessly: "A flat tire in the woods again?"
Toru Amuro: "..."
...Why do you sound like he should be blamed for this? He is obviously just a victim of the incident.
After a moment of silence, Toru Amuro decided not to argue with the people who were awake and to deal with business first: "People don't often pass by this area, and there are some gravels on the road. It's easy to puncture the tires... Let's put the spare tire on first."
Jiang Xia nodded and got off the car with him.
…
Before opening the trunk, Toru Amuro walked half a circle around the car and found the blown tire.
If you look closely, you can see a deep scratch on the side. It looks like it ran over something sharp and was punctured.
Amuro Toru used a flashlight to observe. He didn't know if he was being careless, but he always felt that this scratch was too flat. It looked more like it was scratched with something else than a stone... But maybe there was something there.
A stone with very neat sharp edges.
He stared for a moment, temporarily writing down this doubt.
Then he stood up and walked to the trunk.
After thinking about it all the way, I finally encountered a flat tire. For some reason, instead of being agitated, Amuro Toru felt a faint sense of relief that the huge stone had finally landed.
...Although he didn't want to admit it, in fact, he had already had this level of consciousness when he decided to come out with Jiang Xia.
Speaking of which, compared with the previous days when I took Conan with me, "every tire would blow out as soon as I arrived in the suburbs", now I have only had one tire blow out after walking alone with Jiang Xia for so many days... which is gratifying enough.
Jiang Xia's physique, which had a flat tire when riding in a car, seemed not as strong as he thought. Did the problem really lie with those little boys who grew up in strange directions?
Toru Amuro thought as he opened the trunk lid.
Then I discovered that the spare tire was also broken.
He lowered his gaze and looked at this scene calmly, a strange light flashed in his eyes.
Then, while Jiang Xia was still looking at 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 tire blowout in advance, how could he be completely unprepared?
In addition to asking subordinates to carry spare tires, be ready to pretend to be "passers-by" to provide support, and wait for opportunities to capture tire saboteurs,
Toru Amuro actually got an infrared night vision camera and hid it in the trunk under the cover of debris.
It's time to put this preparation to use and let him see what was in the car when the spare tire was damaged...
Toru Amuro clicked on his mailbox and found that a new email had indeed appeared in the mailbox.
From the subordinate responsible for checking the camera situation.
He moved his finger and clicked to check.
As soon as I saw the "Sorry" at the beginning, my heart skipped a beat.
...the bad premonition increased.
Further down, you can see that this email contains a compressed video attachment, which is the key part that the subordinates specially intercepted.
Toru Amuro put her phone on silent and pressed play.
In the picture, there was total silence, with the camera pointing at the spare tire in the trunk and filming quietly.
This harmonious picture did not last long.
After a second or two, the camera suddenly started to shake - it was not a slight shake caused by the movement of the vehicle, but it suddenly moved forward a certain distance, as if something from behind occupied the space 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 mobile phone in his hand made a small "clicking" sound, bouncing on the broken edge.
Toru Amuro was silent for a moment, remembering that he was in the suburbs now, with an organization member by his side. Even if his subordinates were not far behind him, it would be inconvenient to change his cell 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 due to the shaking of the car body.
...But now it seems that this is clearly some kind of creature that destroyed the camera hidden in the debris pile, then broke the tires and restored the debris pile to its original state.
Thinking of this, Toru Amuro reached in and rummaged around.
A broken piece of camera equipment was quickly fished out. It looked even more miserable than a blown tire or a punctured spare tire.
At this time, Jiang Xia seemed to be alerted by the sound of rolling, leaving the tires on the side of the car and coming to the trunk.
Before he arrived, Toru Amuro quietly hid the camera body.
Jiang Xia took a look into the trunk with the light of Amuro Toru's flashlight.
After seeing the spare tire clearly, he was slightly startled and said in surprise: "Claw marks? Boss, in your car..."
"No rats."
Amuro Toru retorted reflexively.
Then, remembering that mice don’t have such powerful claws, he added: “There are no other things that might bite the tires.”
Next to him, Xiaobai raised his hand, hooked it into a claw, and waved it like water.
Tohru Amuro couldn't see it, but Akemi Miyano and her parents applauded it very much.
Matsuda Jinpei, who was lying on Jiang Xia's shoulder, had only been in the job for a short period of time, and his face needed to be strengthened. It looked at Jiang Xia, and then looked at Toru Amuro, whose face was calm but whose eyes were slightly twinkling, and who seemed to be doubting his life, and he moved away slightly with a guilty conscience.
He picked up the victim and moved to the other side of Jiangxia.
…
When Jiangxia was checking the tires in the trunk.
Toru Amuro picked up his phone and checked his inbox again.
I found that except for the piece of monitoring just now, there was no other information in it.
...In other words, the subordinates who were following them did not see the suspicious creature following them. Otherwise, they must have sent him a message when they discovered the signs.
But the fog is so thick today, and the trees in this mountain forest are so dense, even if something really follows him, it may be difficult for his subordinates to detect it.
…
His wish to capture the enemy with an infrared camera failed. At this time, Toru Amuro still felt a little disappointed.
After calming down a little, he was wary of the thick fog around him while looking at the brutally damaged tires in the trunk.
——If you fail to succeed by taking shortcuts, then try using normal reasoning channels. It’s better than doing nothing at all.
This time, the strangest thing is that, as Jiang Xia said, the tires are not bite marks, but more like scratches from something.
...the claws of a beast?
However, to be able to scratch through a tire of this thickness with one blow... the size of this beast is probably so big that it can fill the entire trunk.
But judging from the brief camera footage just now, the creature that suddenly appeared did not seem to be that big.