"Who is the criminal?" Takuro Yuda also asked hurriedly.
"But the deceased committed suicide with a gun, right?"
Izutsu Naoko said with a questioning look on her face, "You're not thinking that one of us three hid in the elevator and just stretched out one arm to pretend that Mr. Fubuki committed suicide, are you?"
"How could that be?"
Tang Ze laughed when he heard this and said, "Apart from the girls and children, all of us present here are either detectives or criminals.
If there really is a criminal, then the person extending his gun-wielding hand from the side would be discovered no matter what, right?
After all, their bodies are completely different."
"So, do you have a different answer?" Naoko Izutsu stared at Tang Ze and said.
"Just wait and see."
Tang Ze pointed at the elevator when he said this. Everyone looked in the direction of his hand and found that the elevator that had been paused on this floor had resumed operation at some point.
At the window of the closed elevator door, the two katakana characters in the last words "Goodbye" also appeared on the transparent glass.
As everyone waited, the elevator slowly rose up.
But what they didn't expect was that the person standing in the elevator was Detective Takagi!
"Eh!? What's going on?"
Everyone present was stunned when they saw the person on the elevator, because Takagi, wearing a white shirt, was standing there.
Before everyone could react, Takagi, who was aiming his hand at his temple in the elevator, fell down as if he had been shot.
"What's going on!"
Seeing this scene, Detective Otaki exclaimed: "This is exactly the same scene we just saw!"
"Yes, yes!" Xiaolan nodded repeatedly: "The scene I saw at that time was similar to this."
"Yeah, it seemed like the person was suddenly shot and then fell to the ground!" Yuanshan Heye also agreed.
"What is going on? Takagi is clearly standing here, so why is there another Takagi in the elevator?" Kogoro Mouri looked at Takagi standing next to him with a puzzled look, then looked at the elevator with a look of shock.
"I'm not too sure." Looking at everyone's focused gazes, Takagi touched his neck and smiled awkwardly: "Hattori-kun just borrowed my coat, and I've been here ever since."
"What is the truth? Can't you all see it for yourself?"
Looking at the puzzled crowd, Tang Ze pressed the down button of the elevator, and under the gaze of everyone, the elevator quickly and slowly descended to the third floor where they were.
After the elevator came down, they still saw Takagi in a suit standing in the elevator, his face exposed in the elevator window.
"Two Takagi..."
Before Kogoro Mouri could finish his words, the elevator door mirror with spray-painted text opened, revealing the full appearance of the person inside.
Hattori Heiji, wearing Takagi's suit, was standing in the elevator holding a tablet computer, and Takagi's face was revealed on the tablet he held in front of his face.
"This is the truth of the trick."
Tang Ze smiled and said, “People’s vision can be easily deceived.
We didn’t see the trick when the elevator doors were closed because we were facing the elevator head-on.”
"Just now, when Detective Takagi was checking the smoke reaction, I actually asked him to go with me to the appliance store behind the apartment building to borrow these things."
Hattori Heiji smiled and said, "I first used the tablet computer to record Detective Takagi's location, and then pressed the tablet computer against the elevator door window while playing the image.
Except for the face, everything else is played by me."
"And the spray paint prevents the edges of the tablet from breaking."
Tang Ze pointed to the red katakana on the elevator door and said, "Because of the red text, we can only see the screen but not the outlines around it, the hand of the person behind it, and the hair that is not covered by the tablet.
It can be said that the reason why the criminal was able to carry out such a trick has a lot to do with the katakana he wrote.
In this way, the tablet and Hattori-kun completed the "two people are equal to one person" trick.
"But Detective Tang Ze, isn't this a bit too far-fetched?"
Otaki asked hesitantly, "Xiaoping was just pretending to shoot, but what we saw was a direct shot through the head.
If we follow your reasoning, Detective Tang Ze, the criminal would have held the tablet against the elevator window while using his other hand to shoot in front of himself.
Wouldn't that be very dangerous? After all, the elevator is a confined space. Not only is there a risk of ricocheting, but it will also leave bullet marks in the elevator.
More importantly, prisoners don’t know whether their movements can be aligned with the images on the tablet.”
"That's not the case." Hattori Heiji waved his hand: "I didn't have enough time to prepare, so I only used a tablet.
But the prisoner used four tablet computers, so he could play the video at exactly the same time."
"Four!?"
Maori Kogoro was surprised and asked, "So, all the scenes we saw before were videos?"
"That's right, except for the face in the video, the upper body of the criminal is also in the video wearing the same suit as Mr. Bupu." Tang Ze nodded.
"But can one hand hold down four tablets?" Xiaolan looked at her own hand and asked with some doubt.
“The biggest difference between humans and animals is that we can use tools.”
Tang Ze smiled and explained, "If we stick four tablets on a wooden board and then hold the board against the elevator door, we can solve this problem."
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