Chapter 305 Death Multiple Choice Question

Soon, Kidd brought Conan back to the villa.

He grabbed Conan's hand and rang the doorbell, then let go and let Conan fall to the ground by the door, pretending that the child rang the doorbell himself. Kidd quickly turned to the side of the house and returned to his room through the window before anyone came out.

A few seconds later, Mao Lilan opened the door from inside the house.

She looked around in confusion, and her eyes quickly fell on her feet: "Conan!?"

Seeing this, Suzuki Sonoko and Jiang Xia also came over.

Suzuki Sonoko was also very confused. She stroked her chin and thought for a long time, then speculated like a detective: "This naughty kid must have wanted to stay and play so much that he ran back without Uncle Maori on his back, and then fainted at the door due to a fever."

Jiang Xia also pretended to be thoughtful and touched his chin like her. However, he didn't say anything, just showed a thoughtful expression.

The three men planned to take Conan back to the room.

As they went upstairs, they were met by the enthusiastic Doi Takeshu.

Kidd, who had already put on the appearance of an honest passerby, pretended to ask about the situation, then patted his chest and said, "Leave it to me. I'm a medical student and I'm good at handling these things."

I was thinking to myself, I have to quickly check if the unfortunate child has any missing flesh or bloody tooth marks. If so, I should rush him to the hospital, maybe he can be saved...

…

Kogoro Mouri finally drove to a place with signal and contacted Inspector Megure.

However, the police told him that they could only take action in the morning - although there were roads in the mountains, it was too dangerous to walk at night. Helicopters were prone to hitting power lines and trees, and there might not be a place to land, so they could only do some intelligence gathering first.

At this time, the people in the room also vaguely discovered that something was wrong.

The "Escape King" and the "Shadow Mage" who were scheduled to attend the party never showed up.

The owner of the villa, Araki Yoshi, tried to contact them, but the call went unanswered and there was only a busy tone.

Jiang Xia took a look at the telephone line extending behind the cabinet and suspected that it had been secretly cut, and he had preliminary evidence.

The others obviously lacked similar experience and did not realize the seriousness of the problem. They quickly began to discuss other matters - the late "Escape King" served as the chairman and was responsible for arranging tonight's program. Without him, the banquet would have difficulty proceeding as originally planned.

Tanaka Takahisa's eyes moved slightly, and she smiled and suggested, "Why don't we elect an acting chairman first?"

Hamano Rino, who had pretended to be a cute girl, immediately agreed: "Since today is a 'magician lover gathering', let's use magic to decide the chairman."

Jiang Xia nodded along with the rest of the crowd. He pretended not to know that the two had just reached a private agreement. As far as he could remember, this method of using magic to select an acting chairman was proposed by Tanaka Takahisa to Hamano Toshino. Hamano Toshino always loved to be in the spotlight, so he agreed without much thought.

The magic selection method looks very random: you need to find some white paper first, and have one person write the name of everyone in the villa on the paper, and then let another innocent passerby blindfold himself and draw marks on the shuffled papers with names written on them.

The person with the ○ in the drawing is the acting chairman, the × is the banquet manager, and the △ is responsible for boiling the bath water. And Hamano Toshino will use "prediction" to guess who will do what job after the innocent passers-by finish drawing.

Of course, this effect was not achieved because Hamano Toshino was good at fortune-telling, but because Tanaka Takahisa, who was responsible for writing people's names on the paper, was his agent.

While writing down people's names, she would draw the symbols of ○×△ in advance, and then hand a pen that could not write to the innocent passers-by who had been blindfolded.

Now we have the magic performer and the shill, what we lack is an ignorant passerby to serve as the magic prop.

Hamano Toshino looked at Suzuki Sonoko, the youngest child in the room, according to his own aesthetic taste.

He was just about to speak when Jiang Xia, who had been walking around the room, was attracted by their conversation and happened to stop between him and Suzuki Sonoko. It would seem too deliberate to bypass Jiang Xia to find Suzuki Sonoko at this time.

The corner of Hamano Toshino's eyes twitched slightly, and she quickly looked away without looking for Jiang Xia.

——He actually recognized Jiang Xia as a detective and a celebrity, but he didn't say it because he didn't want the other person to overshadow him.

And now, Hamano Toshino was thinking with a sense of crisis. If he was halfway through the magic trick and the detective suddenly became very serious and insisted on taking off the blindfold to check the paper when Tanaka Takahisa handed him the paper, then the magic trick would be considered a failure...

Thinking of this, Hamano Toshino looked around again and his eyes quickly fell on Doi Takeki who had just come down the stairs.

This medical student looks silly and seems easy to deceive.

Jiang Xia followed his gaze and looked over: "..."

As far as I can remember, Kidd has done a lot of things that messed up other people's magic tricks...

Tanaka Takahisa also noticed that Hamano Toshino was wavering on the selection of candidates.

She thought of the chat records between Red Herring and her account, and felt that Hamano Toshino might have made a mistake. So she turned her back to the crowd and winked at Hamano Toshino.

Tanaka Takahisa thought it would be better to choose Jiang Xia. She didn't know that this was a detective, she only remembered that the "Disciple of the Magician" usually spoke very naively, and there was no better prop than this.

Hamano Toshino was stunned for a moment, then misunderstood, thinking that Jiang Xia was also a proxy brought in by Tanaka Takahisa.

At this moment, he recalled the route Jiang Xia had taken just now, which was like strolling around the street. He vaguely felt that he understood - Jiang Xia must be using that method to subtly make him choose him.

"...Then please do me a favor." He finally walked towards Jiang Xia reluctantly.

Soon, the magic came to a conclusion. Naoko Kuroda became the acting chairman and Takahisa Tanaka was responsible for boiling the bath water.

Toshino Hamano was tricked by his own "sitter" and became the banquet manager who had to hide in the room alone to plan surprises for the banquet.

The magic show failed, and Hamano Toshino touched the back of his head and walked away embarrassed and confused.

Jiang Xia did not leave immediately. He first looked at the note thoughtfully for a while. Other detectives in this world also seemed to like to do this before the official case. Jiang Xia has now learned it and is a qualified science detective.

The group of people were doing their own things and soon dispersed.

…

While boiling water, Tanaka Takahisa took the opportunity to climb upstairs, went to Hamano Toshino's room, and strangled him to death.

Tanaka Takahisa's forum account was actually previously used by her grandfather Harui Fuden.

Harui Fuden is a well-known magician, which is why others think that Tanaka Takahisa's account speaks like an old man - because at the beginning, the person who used it was indeed a real man.

A while ago, Chun Jingfeng saw people discussing his magic in the forum, so he took the risk and performed another extreme escape, and then unfortunately died.

After that, "Escape King" and Hamano Toshino treated the incident as a joke in a joking manner, and were targeted by the highly active Tanaka Takahisa, turning the online feud into an offline battle.

The legendary "coming along the Internet cable to kill you".

(End of this chapter)