Chapter 504: Toru Amuro: ...Fake corpse? Asking for monthly ticket(づど)

Chao Wenzao speculated that Silver Fox was not at the rest stop because he was out looking for an assassination target. In addition, it may be that the missing home invasion robber wanted to escape in a hurry after killing his wife, so he kidnapped a "caretaker" who was familiar with the mountain roads to help guide him.

 There is no need to think too much about the former for the time being - in that case, Silver Fox will come to him himself.

 As for the latter, the initiative will be in the hands of the burglary and murderer. If the robber wants to escape, he will definitely choose the road that can go down the mountain the fastest and avoid the direction of Danyuan Village, which is fully searching for him... There are not many roads like that!

 …

 Kawabe Akira and the "administrator" are indeed on the path expected by the client at this time.

Hang by the river is exactly the name of the home invasion and murderer. He is not as good as his name. He did not hang by the river, but has been wandering around the mountains.

Yinhu, who was held hostage, did not expect that he came to kill someone, but he actually became a hostage. He glanced sideways at the robbery and murderer next to him, with a gloomy expression disguised by his layered beard, secretly looking for an opportunity to fight back.

 But before he could take any action, the ground suddenly trembled.

—An earthquake broke out in the mountains.

A magnitude 3 earthquake would hardly even cause the houses to collapse, but when it happened on this mountain after the rain, it knocked down a large piece of earth and rock, forming a sudden landslide.

 The landslide was located just above the two gangsters who had their own agendas.

The two of them stumbled over the small pieces of earth and rocks that fell first, and then got up in a hurry, trying to escape in a panic.

The aftershocks have not yet subsided, and the huge mountain is shaking uncontrollably. The earth and rocks above the head merge into a torrent and approach with a roar. The sound is loud, and the scene makes people's heart rate increase sharply. The two of them have encountered many earthquakes, but this kind of situation is rare.

Before they could figure out where to run, they suddenly saw a hard rock with a **** standing a few meters away. On the towering stone, a stranger stood leisurely.

He looked at the two people below for a moment, and the strange man in black nodded slightly towards them.

Although he didn't say anything, his calm look silently gave the panicked people the illusion that he was a safe place around him.

The two gangsters' eyes lit up and they ran over there rolling and crawling on the ground.

at the same time.

 tens of meters away, on the hillside diagonally above.

Toru Amuro's eyes had just locked on the two gangsters struggling among the gravel, and then he followed their line of sight and saw the rocks next to them, as well as the figure on the rocks who was holding a roll on his head. An oddly familiar person.

 When identifying an acquaintance, you often don’t need to see the face clearly. You can recognize the identity just by relying on your usual movements and body shape.

At this moment, the moment the man in black on the rocks below nodded, a name suddenly popped into Toru Amuro’s mind—Matsuda Jinpei.

After looking at the natural curly hair and the sunglasses on his face, the name suddenly seemed to have been traced, becoming more specific and clear.

—Matsuda Jinpei was his classmate in the police academy. He was good at dismantling and provoking troubles. Toru Amuro also learned some bomb defusing and boxing skills from him.

Three years ago, Matsuda Jinpei died in the line of duty while dismantling bombs. To this day, Toru Amuro still occasionally sneaks to the cemetery with the organization on his back to offer incense to his contemporaries... So now, Matsuda Jinpei has died in the line of duty, and the person below who is it? !

While he was stunned, the falling earth and rocks had crashed past the stone where Matsuda Zhenping had landed, and the two gangsters also climbed up at the critical moment.

The two people's feet were slipped by the falling earth and rocks. They quickly retracted their feet and climbed onto the rocks, showing a little bit of luck.

But before the expression could be fixed, the "rock" where the three people landed suddenly collapsed into countless small stones, which merged into the torrent of soil below, and then turned into a shikigami invisible to ordinary people, and disappeared silently.

At this time, it happened to be the most violent wave of the landslide. The three people were instantly submerged in the earth and rocks, and two screams were heard.

Diagonally above, Toru Amuro is thinking about life: "?!"

He looked at the fragments of clothing exposed among the fallen rocks and subconsciously took a few steps forward.

Before he could go deeper into the dangerous area, a man suddenly ran over and stopped him: "Boss? There's a landslide ahead. Let's take a detour." Amuro Toru came back to his senses and looked to the side, realizing that he was looking for him separately. Human Jiangxia.

Following Jiang Xia was Conan, who had short legs but never fell behind.

 The two people seemed to be attracted by the movement of the landslide and ran over to take a look at the situation.

Toru Amuro was distracted by their conversation.

 When he turned around to look at the landslide site, he saw that the torrent of earth and rocks had already rushed through. The roaring sound of the collapse grew from near to far, and the surrounding area gradually calmed down. The three people who were caught in the mud could no longer even see the corners of their clothes.

　　　…”

 There has just been a landslide and the entire area here is unsafe.

 But Toru Amuro thought of the figure that looked more and more familiar the more he thought about it, and he was extremely concerned about his old classmate who seemed to be resurrected from the dead.

He looked at Jiang Xia: "You go back to the rest stop first, or find another way down the mountain to call the police and call for support - the 'administrator' and the robber were washed away by the landslide. In addition, there seems to be a... strange tourist."

“There are other tourists?” Jiang Xia was startled, as if she heard that innocent people were involved, and became concerned about this matter.

 Almost at the same time, Conan also blurted out: "I'll go take a look, maybe there's still hope."

Then he took the lead and ran down the road.

Toru Amuro quickly followed.

Jiang Xia looked at the backs of the two detectives, sighed, poked the foggy dog, letting it stay to observe the situation, and followed him down the mountain.

The landslide just now was not caused by him, it should be called "the power of nature".

Although the aftershocks have subsided and the mountain does not look like it will continue to slide for the time being, it is still extremely risky to face such a natural disaster and run to find survivors.

Jiang Xia specially left a ghost on guard, so that if something went wrong later, the people below could have some time to run away... The red party in this world is really stubborn in order to save people.

 …

Going around to the bottom of the mountain and finding the place where the torrent of mud stagnated, Conan remembered something and took out his cell phone and pressed it.

 Then he said in surprise: "There is a signal."

Then he started dialing quickly, 119, 110, Danyuan Village Office...

Toru Amuro didn’t look over there.

Unconsciously, he has become accustomed to Conan's behavior being different from ordinary children...

He walked to the place where the earth and rocks were stagnant, squatted down, and occasionally moved aside areas that felt abnormal to check, like a search and rescue machine working attentively.

 …

When Tohru Amuro was digging around, Jiang Xia was also digging beside him.

Compared to Toru Amuro who lacked information, Jiang Xia dug up the soil and his goal was much clearer.

Not long after, when the soil beneath him was pushed aside, a small hibernating animal like a shikigami was awakened and slowly poked its head out.

Jiang Xia's eyes brightened slightly, and she stretched out her hand to catch him.

 (End of this chapter)