Chapter 15291537 [Signal for Help]

Next to her, Haibara Ai leaned against a chair that was very large for her, feeling the dim environment around her and hiding in it. She had a rare sense of security.

Jiang Xia got a basket of popcorn from somewhere. While Jiang Xia was busy talking to Inspector Asa, Huihara Ai leaned over to take a look, stretched out her little hand to grab a handful, held it in front of her body and ate it with a crunch, and also passed some to Mao Lilan next to her.

However, Mao Lilan shook her head and did not take it. Her hands were very busy - she was busy covering her eyes.

The magician in this troupe has the same performance style as his poster. He always chooses some scary and dangerous magic tricks that make people die in the next second.

In addition to the most basic magic box cutting, there are of course various other performances, such as tying the assistant to a huge roulette wheel and throwing darts at the roulette wheel to hit the balloon held diagonally by the assistant, and also a horror magic that is about to be performed at this moment.

——There was a huge machine on the table, which looked like an ancient four-poster bed, but there were many round holes on the bed board.

Above, parallel to the bed board, there is a steel plate of the same size hung, on which are densely packed sharp knives, and the tips of the knives correspond exactly to the holes on the bed board below.

"He's probably going to lie on that steel plate and let the sharp knife from above descend." Huihara Ai grabbed a handful of popcorn from the popcorn bucket in Jiang Xia's hand. She didn't appreciate this kind of magic very much. "It's just a curiosity, but it has no aesthetic appeal."

Ran Mouri: “…” Ai is too calm. Could it be that this magic is really not that scary, and she is just too timid?

She silently put down her hands that were covering her eyes and looked towards the stage tentatively. She happened to see the magician Bang Bang tapping the spikes - the dull texture told the audience that the sharp metal spikes were all real.

Mao Lilan immediately covered her eyes again: "No, no! If you keep stabbing him like this, his body will be full of bloody holes!"

It seems that Mao Lilan is not the only audience member who feels scared.

The magician glanced at the venue where people were constantly talking, nodded secretly with satisfaction, and then lay down on the terrible steel bed.

The beautiful female assistants leaned over and tied his hands and feet tightly with straps, then surrounded the bed with a piece of cloth to hide the magician's figure.

Mao Lilan covered her eyes tighter with her hands.

Next to him, Conan was unable to get any words out of Okiya Subaru for the time being, and suddenly noticed that the audience around him were exclaiming in low voices, so he also looked towards the stage curiously.

He saw through the purpose of this mechanism at a glance and comforted Mao Lilan: "Don't worry, the 'bandages' tied to his hands and feet are actually just Velcro, which can be opened by itself. The moment the curtain blocks his vision, he can easily break free from those things and hide in the gap behind."

Mao Lilan: "...was this also taught by your brother Jiang Xia?"

Conan froze: "Haha, yes, I learned a lot from him."

Mao Lilan knocked his head and said, "Then learn from your brother Jiang Xia next time and don't spoil the show suddenly!"

Conan: "..." I saw that you were nervous, so I helped you get rid of the nervousness in advance...

He was smiling awkwardly, but at this moment, he suddenly noticed that Subaru Okiya on the other side sat up straight nervously.

"?" Conan was very concerned about this mysterious graduate student and immediately turned around to look at him, "What's wrong?!"

Okiya Subaru didn't know whether to say it or not. After a moment, he raised his hand hesitantly and quietly gestured at an angle where other viewers wouldn't see him.

Huihara Ai was also staring at the stage, and she saw it clearly. She stopped chewing popcorn and said seriously, "The magician's palm suddenly opened and closed a few times just now. Wasn't that the 'emergency rescue signal' he told us when we were commissioned just now?"

- If I remember correctly, the magician had specifically warned that once he made that gesture, the detective would immediately rush onto the stage to stop the performance, even if it was in the middle of the show, because it was very likely that a member of the group had tampered with the equipment in order to kill him.

The large machine in front of him seemed to be a perfect opportunity to kill - as long as the magician could not escape from the steel knife bed in time as planned, he would die on the stage in disgrace due to a "performance accident".

"Emergency distress signal?!" Inspector Yasa's hearing was surprisingly good. Although it was just a few words, the words "commission" and "emergency distress signal" allowed him to quickly guess the current situation.

——If normally, Inspector Yasa would still have some doubts about this, then after what happened yesterday, after meeting Jiang Xia and that series of incredible murders, he had no doubt that a murder conspiracy was really taking place on the stage.

Seeing Jiang Xia standing up, Inspector Yasa also jumped up immediately and rushed to the stage before him, holding up his police ID and shouting, "Stop the performance immediately!"

However, as a calm, middle-aged man, he was wearing dark clothes today, and was not very noticeable in the dim audience area after the lights were turned off. His voice was drowned out by the music not long after it was heard.

Not only the actors on the stage, but even the audience in the aisles didn't notice him. Halfway through his run, Inspector Yassa tripped over a leg casually propped up in the aisle and nearly fell to the stage.

Jiang Xia took a few quick steps and grabbed the man before his head hit the edge of the stage: "..."... Why do these middle-aged people love wrestling so much?

Almost at the same time, on the stage, the assistants who were alarmed by Inspector Yasa instinctively shrank their bodies, and the mechanisms in their hands were pulled.

The steel plate full of steel blades on top of the steel knife bed fell down with a loud bang, accompanied by countless tiny piercing sounds.

The four-poster bed was surrounded by a curtain that hid the magician's body but allowed the foot of the bed to be seen.

The group of people lowered their sights and saw that at this moment, the half-meter-long spikes pierced through the bed board and emerged from the bottom. Blood flowed along the cone-shaped spikes and dripped onto the ground, forming a horrible pool of blood.

“…”

In the audience, Okiya Subaru hissed and covered his eyes, unable to bear to watch.

Haibara Ai secretly glanced at him, and her heart calmed down: Okiya Subaru's current reaction was not like that of an organization cadre, and even some peripheral members would be more indifferent than him. Such a person might be regarded as a waste in the organization, but it would undoubtedly make people feel safer if he was placed outside.

While she was speculating about this graduate student, she touched her chin, imitating Jiang Xia's reasoning.

Then he stiffened slightly.

Two seconds later, Haibara Ai silently took out a pack of wet wipes and began to wipe the sugar stains on her fingers and chin.

(End of this chapter)