Conan's corpse picker

Chapter 549 Bourbon, He Paid Too Much for a Monthly Ticket ()
After half a minute.

boom--

With the sound of a tire bursting, the car body shook abruptly.

Then he was quickly stabilized by Toru Amuro, slowly leaned towards the side of the road, and finally stopped.

Jiang Xia, who seemed to be sleeping soundly, was slammed by the shaking vehicle and woke up grabbing her seat belt.

He was stunned for a moment, looked left and right, and then said helplessly, "A tire blown out in the woods again?"

Toru Amuro: "..."

...Why does he sound like he should be blamed for this matter, he is obviously just a victim of the physique of the incident.

After a moment of silence, Toru Amuro decided not to bother with those who hadn't woken up, and dealt with the business first: "People don't often pass by in this area, and there are gravels on the road, which can easily puncture tires...let's replace the spare tire first."

Jiang Xia nodded and got out of the car with him.

……

Before opening the trunk, Toru Amuro walked half a circle around the car and found the punctured tire.

If you look closely, you can see a deep scratch on the oblique side, which looks like it was run over by some kind of sharp object and was punctured miserably.

Toru Amuro checked with a flashlight.I don't know if it's because of my overthinking, but he always feels that this scratch is too flat, and it looks more like it was scratched by other things than a stone... But maybe there is a stone with a very neat sharp part here.

He stared for a moment, temporarily remembering this doubt.

Then stood up and walked to the trunk.

I thought about it all the way, and finally encountered a flat tire at this time.For some reason, compared to being restless, Toru Amuro felt a faint sense of solidity in his heart as if the huge rock had finally landed.

...Although he doesn't want to admit it, in fact, when he decided to come out with Jiang Xia, he already had this level of awareness.

Speaking of which, compared to the "tire blowout as soon as I arrived in the suburbs" when I took Conan with me, now I have only blown one tire after walking alone with Jiang Xia for so many days... It is enough to be gratifying.

Jiang Xia's physique with a blown tire in a car doesn't seem to be as strong as he thought.Does the problem really lie with the group of little boys who grew up in a strange direction?

Toru Amuro thought as he opened the trunk lid.

Then it was discovered that the spare tire was also broken.

He lowered his gaze and watched the scene calmly, a strange light flashed in his eyes.

Then, while Jiang Xia was still checking the broken tire on the side of the car.

Toru Amuro took the opportunity to glance at the phone.

——Since he thought of a possible tire blowout in advance, how could he be completely unprepared.

In addition to letting the subordinates carry spare tires, ready to pretend to be "passers-by" at any time to provide support and wait for the opportunity to capture the tire destroyer,
Toru Amuro actually got an infrared night vision camera and hid it in the trunk under the cover of sundries.

It's time to put this hand ready to use, let him see what was in the car when the spare tire was damaged...

Toru Amuro clicked on the mailbox, and found that there was a new email 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, I saw that this email contained a compressed video attachment, which was a key part deliberately intercepted by his subordinates.

Toru Amuro turned his phone to silent and pressed play.

In the picture, in the silence, the camera was shooting quietly at the spare tire in the trunk.

This harmonious picture did not last long.

After a second or two, the camera shakes suddenly—it is not a slight shake caused by the driving of the vehicle, but suddenly moves forward for a certain distance, as if something behind occupies the space and pushes the camera forward.

Immediately after, just half a second later, the screen suddenly went black.

——The camera was destroyed first.

Toru Amuro: "..."

The veins on his forehead twitched, and the phone in his hand made a crackling sound, bouncing on the broken edge.

Toru Amuro was silent for a while, remembering that he was in the suburbs with a member of the organization with him, even if his subordinates were not far behind him, it would be inconvenient to change the 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 from before, but he thought it was caused by 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 tire, and restored the debris pile to its original shape.

Thinking of this, Toru Amuro reached in to search.

A piece of broken camera equipment was quickly fished out, which looked even more miserable than a blown tire and a broken spare tire.

At this time, Jiang Xia seemed to be alarmed by the sound of turning over, leaving the tires on the side of the car, and came to the trunk.

Before he arrived, Amuro quietly hid the body of the camera.

Jiang Xia glanced into the trunk with the help of Toru Amuro's flashlight.

After seeing the spare tire clearly, he was slightly taken aback, and said in surprise, "Claw marks? Boss, in your car..."

"No mice."

Amuro retorted reflexively.

Immediately afterwards, remembering that mice don't have such strong claws, he added: "There is no other thing that can bite the tire."

Next to him, Xiaobai raised his hand, hooked it into a paw, and waved it like paddling water.

Amuro couldn't see it, but Miyano Akemi and her parents applauded it very much.

Matsuda Jinping, who is lying on Jiang Xia's shoulders, has only been in the job for a short time, and his thickness needs to be strengthened.It looked at Jiang Xia, and then looked at Toru Amuro, who had a calm face but a slight twinkle in his eyes, who seemed to be doubting his life, and moved a little away from the victim guiltily, and moved to the other side of Jiang Xia.

……

When Jiang Xia checked the tires in the trunk.

Toru Amuro picked up his phone and checked his inbox again.

It was found that apart from the monitoring section just now, there was no other information in it.

...In other words, the subordinates following behind did not see any suspicious creatures following them.Otherwise, you must have sent him a message when you noticed the signs.

But today the fog is so heavy, and the trees in this mountain forest are very dense, even if it is really followed by something, the subordinates may not be able to find it.

……

The wish to catch the enemy with the infrared camera has come to nothing. At this time, Toru Amuro still inevitably feels a little disappointed.

After calming down a little bit, while he was vigilant against the thick fog around him, he looked at the brutally murdered tires in the trunk.

——Take a shortcut and fail, so try the normal reasoning channel, it’s better than doing nothing.

This time, the strangest thing was that, as Jiang Xia said, the tires were not bite marks, but more like marks from being scratched by something.

...the claws of a beast?

However, a tire of this thickness can be scratched in one blow... The size of this beast is probably so big that it can fill the entire trunk.

But judging from the brief video footage just now, the creature that suddenly appeared does not seem to be that big.

(End of this chapter)