Chapter 1536 1544 [You are taken over]
"Also..." Usa looked down at Okiya Subaru's phone and smiled, "I want to contact Akai Shuichi in person. You are so sensible, you will definitely not disrupt your boss's schedule without permission."
Okiya Subaru remembered his intention to send a message to Akai Shuichi just now, and nodded stiffly.
Uzo then tore his gaze away from him and left the room.
When passing by the door, Miss Spider, who had been quietly guarding the door, turned around and followed him naturally, like a loyal secretary who followed him closely and was always ready to be deployed.
The two men in black walked out one after the other and disappeared from Okiya Subaru's sight under his extremely complicated gaze.
…
Jiang Xia walked into the corridor, dispersed the puppets in the blind spots of his vision, and returned his consciousness to his body.
Of course, he didn't forget to leave a ghost behind before leaving - even though Okiya Subaru looked like he had given up on escaping, he still had to be prepared for the worst.
In addition to preventing him from escaping, this can also have another use: Jiang Xia always felt that this little brother had bad luck since he went abroad. If he suddenly died when he was not careful at the last step of bringing him back to the country, it would seem a bit of a loss.
When consciousness returned to the body, the originally vague noise suddenly became clear.
Jiang Xia was sitting in the audience. Before he even opened his eyes, Inspector Yasa pushed him a few times: "Don't sleep! Something happened!!"
After pushing the detective, Inspector Yasa rushed to the stage, cursing, "That guy better stop playing tricks on me! If I find out that he is trying to trick us into going on stage again, I will definitely give him a good kick, no matter if it's a stage effect or not!"
Jiang Xia rubbed his eyes and looked in the direction he was running. He found that the props that had been used on the stage had been moved away, and only a large water tank was left standing on it.
The water tank is like a fish tank, surrounded by transparent glass and topped with a heavy iron cover. From a distance, you can vaguely see an upside-down figure in the water tank.
Beside him, Huiyuan Ai turned around and looked at Jiang Xia. Seeing that he was looking at the stage and didn't seem to know what was going on, she moved closer and explained in a low voice:
"This is an underwater escape magic. First, the magician's feet are handcuffed to an iron cover. Then a machine lifts the iron cover and covers the person on top of the water tank. In this way, the person will be put into the water tank upside down. Then the assistant will lock the iron cover and cover the water tank with a curtain to block the audience's view.
"Based on the magician's previous style, his original plan was probably to make us think he was drowned, and then suddenly appear outside the water tank in the chaos.
"But just now when the assistant pulled up the curtain again, the magician was still in the water tank. The assistant was also stunned, as if something unexpected had happened."
Ai Huihara looked at Inspector Asa who was rushing to the stage and whispered, "But I think this time, it might be the same as last time, for performance effect. You see, although the assistant seems to be stunned, the magician's apprentice, the stage photographer, has been filming the scene in the water tank. And if there really was an accident, he should have tried to save people."
"Is that so?" Jiang Xia thought for a moment, frowned, and stood up, "I'll go take a look too."
He ran quickly towards the stage and when passing by the audience, he found that the audience on both sides were also arguing. It seemed that they also had many different opinions. Some thought that there was a stage accident and that the magician might have died, while others thought that this was another wonderful performance by the magician.
Jiang Xia ran to the front of the stage and just as he jumped on it, he suddenly found someone jumping up next to him.
Although Conan's legs are not long, his jumping ability is surprisingly good. As soon as he landed on the stage, he quickly ran towards the water tank - he had just gone to the bathroom, and when he came back he found that the atmosphere was not right, so he rushed over immediately.
Several people quickly gathered around the water tank. Inspector Yasa was hitting the wall of the water tank, but the magician inside was floating with the water and there was no response.
Jiang Xia turned to look at the two pretty female assistants. Unlike the last time, when the magician pretended to be dead on the steel knife bed, the two assistants had obviously received instructions and behaved very calmly. But this time, they seemed at a loss, and seemed to have no idea what to do next.
At this time, the scriptwriter and prop master in the backstage reacted, and the scriptwriter's voice soon rang out in the assistants' earphones: "What are you standing there for! Quickly open the lock on the lid and get the person out!"
The prop master also clicked a switch to close the heavy curtain, instinctively preventing the audience from seeing the accident, and then operated the machine to lift the lid of the water tank.
The lid rose, and the magician hanging on it also left the water. He was pale and dripping with water, like a water ghost who had just been caught on the shore. Mao Lilan had just lifted the curtain and jumped onto the stage when she saw this terrible scene.
"ah--!!"
She screamed instinctively.
At the same time, he instinctively took out his cell phone and started calling an ambulance.
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The chaotic emergency response, especially the drawn curtain, finally made the audience below realize that something was wrong.
Ai Haibara was stunned for a moment, then she pulled Professor Agasa and quietly slipped onto the stage from the side.
Just as she found Jiang Xia who was helping to press her chest, Huihara Ai saw a camera lens passing by.
She was startled, and looking carefully, she found that the magician's apprentice, who was dressed in low-key black clothes, was filming the first aid scene from various angles as if it were a normal performance.
Huiyuan Ai remembered her wrong guess just now, her eyes twitched, and she couldn't help asking: "Why are you still taking pictures?"
The apprentice paused and sighed. He looked at the magician who was carried away after failed rescue efforts and turned off the camera.
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Even though the master was dead, the disciple kept taking pictures, which seemed a bit strange.
But thanks to the apprentice's subconscious photography, many images of the time were preserved.
"Look carefully, look carefully!" On the stage, Inspector Yasa paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, watching the video on the screen while saying to the police officers who had just arrived, "This may contain the killer's fatal flaw. We must find the lunatic who dared to kill people on the stage!"
Jiang Xia was watching the videos when he suddenly noticed that the curtain next to him opened and closed slightly - all the members of the circus were called over, and the one who walked in was the low-key Okiya Subaru.
Jiang Xia looked at him sneaking around and trying to reduce his presence, raised his hand and greeted him: "Come on... Mr. Tanaka."
Inspector Yasa had been secretly watching Jiang Xia, hoping to find out who the detective was observing by observing him, and then find the murderer.
At this time, Jiang Xia looked at Okiya Subaru, and he immediately noticed this person.
(End of this chapter)
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