Dongcheng Huanyang is a scumbag, and a combat scumbag among scumbags. He is a scumbag to the extreme.
Generally, women who serve as magic assistants have certain requirements on appearance, and their looks must definitely be up to standard.
Generally speaking, if you take action against one of them, even if the two break up, you will still be hesitant to develop a relationship with the other one.
As it turned out, Dongcheng Huanyang's two assistants were his ex-wife and ex-girlfriend respectively. Judging from the order, he first broke up with his ex-girlfriend of three years and then married his ex-wife.
As a result, he continued to cheat after marriage and eventually divorced.
Then it was outrageous that the three of them continued to work together. Dongcheng Huanyang was not killed by the two men's axes and lived until today. Tang Ze thought that the other party was lucky.
Of course, despite all the complaints, Karasawa soon continued to listen to Kogoro Mouri introduce the third suspect.
The next person is named Ishida Kazuma. He is the beloved disciple of the deceased Tojo Genyo. In order for him to learn magic well, the deceased specially arranged for him to be responsible for photography.
Although he is only 19 years old this year, he has a talent for magic and is a very straightforward child. He is also the most trusted person by Dongcheng Huanyang in the magic troupe.
As for the man wearing a blue shirt and long hair, his name is Shingo Shoji, and he is 37 years old.
The two of them were originally brothers, but because he did not have the talent to become a magician, he was hired by Dongcheng Huanyang to do planning work.
But according to what Kogoro Mouri learned from Genyo Tojo.
Because the magic show arranged by Shoji Shingo was always somewhat different from the deceased's ideas, he originally planned to ask him to leave after this performance, or to put it bluntly, to fire him.
As for the last person, it was Hasegawa Minoru, who was in charge of the crane and was forty-five years old.
He owed the deceased Dongcheng Huanyang several debts. If he died, he would not have to pay back the money he owed.
It can be said that the entire magic troupe consists of a total of 5 people, except for the deceased Dongcheng Huanyang.
Except for his apprentice Ishida Kazuma, who had no motive to kill him, everyone else in the world had a motive to kill him.
After learning the information about the suspects, the basic situation of the case has become clear, but not much can be seen just from watching the video.
After all, the deceased Dongcheng Huanyang was killed under the gaze of countless viewers, and the content of the video only records the scenes seen from the perspective of the audience.
Since no one can find the flaw, it means that the criminal's method is not so easy to crack.
"Regarding this magic trick, could you please explain the specific techniques to us in detail?"
Tang Ze looked at the five people who were summoned and asked.
"This...if you ask us..." Misa Uehara looked embarrassed.
"The Magician's Code?"
Tang Ze saw that they looked troubled, but he wasn't too surprised. "How about this? I'll explain the magic tricks and you can help me judge whether I'm right. That way, you won't have to worry about it. How about that?"
"If that's the case, then it's possible." Nakagawa Chiaki nodded.
"Generally speaking, the secret to a water tank escape trick lies in the sink lid. No matter how difficult the 'lock' seems to be, the mechanism should be inseparable from the sink lid."
Tang Ze squatted down and checked the sink cover, a look of understanding appeared on his face: "As expected."
"Detective Karasawa, have you found anything?" Kogoro Mouri looked at the sink lid with curiosity.
"The mechanism is here." Tang Ze pointed to the round hole in the middle of the shackles for placing the legs. There was a simple padlock there, and there was no axis for fixing the latch.
"Strange? Why is there no fixed axis?" Takagi on the side asked in confusion.
"This is where the mechanism is."
Tang Ze smiled and said, “This sink lid that is made to look like a ‘shackle’ opens from the middle, with buckled ring-shaped ‘lock beams’ fixed on both sides.
While the magic trick was being performed by fitting the lid latch onto the protrusion and locking it with a large lock, the assistant also removed the middle shaft at the same time.
This way, the other end of the lid latch can be easily opened even if the other end is locked.
And that is the secret of this magic."
"That's amazing, Mr. Detective, you're absolutely right." Ishida Kazuma exclaimed in amazement after hearing Karasawa's words, "I didn't expect you to figure out the trick so quickly."
"A friend of mine performed this magic trick before, so I have some knowledge of it."
Tang Ze smiled and said, "I think the subsequent techniques should be similar. It's nothing more than using the strength of the abdomen to stand up, then grab the handle hidden inside the lid, and then open the lid to ventilate.
Then, when the curtain opens, pretend to be struggling."
"That's right, when the curtain opened, I did not see Mr. Tojo send me any distress signal, so the other party's struggle at that time should have been just a performance." After hearing what Karasawa said, Maori Kogoro on the side could not help but agree.
"Under normal circumstances, Dongcheng Huanyang should have removed the handcuffs, then used his abdominal strength to prop himself up, then grabbed the hand hidden inside the lid and stood up. This way, he could stand up from the sink."
Tang Ze said this while looking at the paused video. His expression was serious. "Obviously, the culprit tampered with the sink after the curtain came down a second time, preventing Dongcheng Huanyang from opening the lid and drowning in the sink."
"I know, the criminals are you two, Miss Uehara Misa and Chiaki Nakagawa!"
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