Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 642 Is this the Jizo you dropped?

   Amuro Toru was going through the formalities next to the counter when he suddenly shivered.

   He came back to his senses, glanced at the cascading mountains in the distance, and thought silently, it's time to add some clothes - the ones prepared before departure had already been blown to ashes in the annex at dusk.

   However, don't buy too much this time.

   After all, this long and hopelessly long journey will come to an end soon.

  …Thinking about this, I suddenly feel that the sky outside is clear.

  …

   in a few hours.

   Dozens of kilometers away, in the deep forest.

   As dusk approaches, the light dims.

   There was a sudden bang on the forest path and the sound of a flat tire.

   The next second, a Mazda skillfully slowed down, rolled over the uneven dirt road, and stopped on the side of the road.

   Amuro sighed silently.

   Then he found that his mood was quite calm, and it seemed that he had gradually adapted to this kind of thing... At the same time, he was secretly glad that when he applied for the task, he applied for a full ten days, and now he has enough time to waste on the road.

   Moreover, once you accept the setting of "Jiangxia is an event physique", and give up acquaintances who avoid Jiangxia. At this time, when encountering emergencies again, I substitute the identity of a detective, and I can barely experience the fun of solving puzzles...

  …

   Amuro Toru is a skilled undercover agent after all, and he is excellent at adjusting his mentality.

This time, without waiting for Jiang Xia, who was rubbing his eyes, who had just woken up from his sleep supplement, to ask "Boss, why did you have a flat tire again?", Amuro pushed the door and got out of the car, looked around, and started looking Where are the suspicious wilderness villas.

   Then I realized that the surrounding area was just an ordinary deep forest.

  It’s not like before, you can just look around after getting off the bus and find a place to sleep or borrow a phone.

   "Boss, there seems to be a signal here."

   Just as he was thinking, Jiang Xia's slightly surprised voice came from the car. Jiang Xia turned on the radio in the car and turned it off. He turned to ask him, "Are you looking for a tow truck company? But by this time, it should be already off work."

   Amuro was startled for a moment, only then did he realize that he seemed to have gotten used to Jiang Xia's incident too much, and he didn't give priority to calling for help, but tacitly agreed that "there must be no signal around".

  “…”

   He reflected in his mind about his actions when he was not in the state.

   Then he took out his phone as if nothing happened, and pretended that he was just breathing fresh air and enjoying the forest instead of forgetting to check the signal.

   Press the open screen to see, and sure enough there is a signal.

   He then made a call for help.

  …

   "I'm sorry, sir."

   The staff on duty asked where he was, and then gave a regrettable reply:

   "Yesterday, a car carrying metal materials rolled over on Jiusen Road. Many sharp parts were scattered nearby, and the tires of several cars were punctured. At present, none of our cars on duty are free."

   After finishing speaking, considering the desperate experience of travelers who can’t go to the village or the store, the staff provided a little advice with humane care:

"According to the location you described, it should be near the Guiwai Cliff in the Head God Forest - from there, walk southeast along the road for nearly ten minutes, there is a well-known local hotel, where the meals and environment are all It's very comfortable. Now is the off-season for tourism, the hotel should still have vacancies, and the price is not too high. You and your companions can go there to rest first.

   "We will pick you up immediately when there is an empty car. Of course, you can also choose to rest for a whole night, and we will send someone over early the next morning, so the cost is only 40% of the night's cost"

   Amuro Toru: "..." What cliff?

  …sounds unlucky.

   And the name of the head **** forest is also strange, inexplicably revealing a bit of gloomy feeling...

   However, there are no ghosts and no gods in the world, and this forest looks good and peaceful... The most important thing is that the trailer can't come over for a while.

Anshitou thought, at present, when he has given up on the plan to isolate Jiang Xia, and he no longer has to guard against Jiang Xia and his acquaintances who can always emerge from various places, there is no need for the public security department to pretend to be "passing by". Pick him up and Jiang Xia away - this plan is easy, but it is very labor-intensive and prone to flaws. For example, the subordinate also suddenly bursts the tire, and then the three of them stay in the deep forest and look at each other, and then one of the subordinates inadvertently speaks to him. "Mr. Down Valley" etc...

  … Anyway, finally.

   Among the two suggestions given by the staff, Toru Amuro chose to let them pick them up the next morning.

   Overtime pay doesn’t matter, of course, but after learning from the previous lesson, Amuro now feels that it is necessary to maintain adequate rest. Otherwise, let alone the harm to the body, it will easily affect his judgment. Even if you don't have to put all your effort into monitoring Jiang Xia now, there are still organizational tasks that need to be handled properly in the future.

  Thinking like this, after hanging up the phone, Amuro Toru sighed and started to pack up, preparing to take what he should bring to the hotel.

   Jiang Xia also packed up a backpack, and the two of them set off quickly.

  —There was not much luggage in the first place, and it was burnt clean when the car was bombed in the annex at dusk. Now the luggage is even scarcer than before. This road is as easy as an autumn hike.

  …

   After walking for a minute or two, Jiang Xia's eyes suddenly moved.

  —On the side of the road ahead, a gray thing was lying down.

   Amuro Toru also noticed the abnormality for the first time.

   He looked at it suspiciously for a moment, and quickly recognized that it was a stone statue of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. At this time, the stone statue was already crooked and lying face down on the ground.

  The statue is about the height of an adult's calf. Shaved head, big ears, and an old red bib tied around his neck.

  The collapsed idol looks unlucky.

  Amuro Toru didn't believe in ghosts and spirits, but he still frowned, stepped forward to help it up, and stood on the side of the road again. By the way, he picked up a sharp gravel next to the Jizo and threw it into the bushes far away.

  —In case there is a car that doesn't look carefully at the road, runs over to the ground, rises and falls again, and hits the stone just now...it's easy to blow out the tire.

   I had a lot of flat tires, and now, Toru Amuro has begun to instinctively reject all kinds of environments that may lead to flat tires, just like people who always fall things like to push the china near the table back to the center of the table.

   After eliminating the danger, Toru Amuro stood up, patted off the dirt on his hands comfortably, and continued forward.

   took two steps, and suddenly felt that something was not right. He turned his head and frowned at the standing stone statue and the place where the stone statue fell down just now.

Behind   , Jiang Xia did not know when to stop.

   He stood beside the stone statue, and his tone was slightly puzzled: "This Ksitigarbha, seems to be very flat."

   (end of this chapter)