Chapter 1538 1546 [doubt everything] Ask for monthly ticket o(〃'▽'〃)o
Inspector Yasa nodded. "According to the preliminary autopsy results, the cause of death was indeed drowning. Considering the special nature of your magic props, there must be some reason why he failed to escape from the water tank in time."
At this point, he suddenly remembered something and looked at the two female assistants suspiciously: "Oh, right, since the premise for him to successfully push open the water tank cover is that you secretly pulled out the shaft of the lock on the water tank, then as long as you don't pull out the shaft, he can only drown in the water tank, right?"
"Wait." The two beautiful female assistants felt something was wrong the more they listened. "What do you mean? Are you trying to say that we are the murderer?! Although that scumbag deserves to die, how could we possibly do something like murder! Take a look for yourself--"
The magician's ex-wife rummaged around on her body, pulled out a thin metal shaft, and angrily held it out in front of Inspector Yasa: "This is the lock shaft on the water tank. We did pull it out. And the water tank cover must be able to be opened normally. Didn't you fiddle with the cover when you put Dongcheng down just now? Didn't you forget it yourself?"
The magician's girlfriend also took out the same metal shaft and dangled it between her fingers: "Don't tell me we took the shaft out later - we never even got close to the water tank cover from the beginning of the show until now!"
Inspector Yasa looked at the lock shaft in their hands, and his momentum stagnated: "I did fiddle with the lid, but your device looks a bit complicated. I didn't open it yet, so I went to do artificial respiration..."
The scriptwriter gestured: "After you left, I untied his feet from the radiator cap. The radiator cap did open with one flip, and they did pull out the lock shaft."
Inspector Yasa looked at him, not quite convinced. After all, in his opinion, these group members were all in the same gang, and their testimonies against each other needed to be carefully considered.
Jiang Xia pointed at his apprentice and pushed the case forward: "Before and after the 'accident' happened, Mr. Ishida never stopped filming. Why don't we watch the video again?"
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During the performance, two large screens are installed on both sides of the stage so that the audience sitting in the back can also see what is happening on the stage clearly.
One of them shows the overall situation on the stage, and the other one is directly connected to the camera in the apprentice's hand, which will show the close-up shots he took on the stage to the audience at the same time.
Therefore, the video footage now in the hands of the police also includes the image of the magician putting his feet into the water tank lid and having his assistant lock his feet.
Inspector Yasa asked the young police officer to rewind the video and press play.
The two female assistants watched the replay footage nervously - being suspected by the police was indeed a nervous thing, and they desperately hoped that this footage could prove their innocence.
Soon, a close-up of the lock appeared on the screen. The female assistants grabbed the huge padlock with their slender white fingers and locked the water tank cover tightly.
According to the magic procedure, the next step is to secretly pull out the metal bolt on the lock shaft. However, when everyone was holding their breath to watch, the scene suddenly turned and the camera was aimed at the magician lying on the ground, and the magician waved his hand leisurely towards the camera.
Subaru Okiya huddled in the corner, looking at the high-spirited magician in the camera: "..." He looked quite impressive. It was a pity that he met Uzo, and he had too much material to write about, so he didn't survive in the end...
The female assistants were also stunned by this change. After a moment, they came to their senses and turned to look at the apprentice in charge of filming: "Why are you moving the camera around!"
The apprentice waved his hands innocently: "I didn't move it randomly, I moved it on purpose - if you were seen moving the metal shaft, our performance would be exposed."
The magician's ex-wife frowned helplessly: "You underestimate our hand speed. Even if we shoot it directly, as long as we keep that angle, we won't be exposed... Tsk, why didn't I realize you have this problem before. I really should have taken the time to watch the replay of your previous performances."
Inspector Yasa didn't expect that this person would change the scene so well. But now that things have come to this, it's impossible to go back and reshoot. He sighed and raised his chin to the young police officer next to him: "Skip to the part where the dead body is fished out and the water tank cover is opened."
The young police officer nodded and pressed the fast-forward button.
Soon, he found the target scene.
On the screen, the magician who had just smiled calmly had now turned into a dripping corpse. Two female assistants held his head and laid him flat on the ground.
The camera then moved to Inspector Yasa who was opening the water tank cap.
The middle-aged police inspector was looking at the complicated water tank cover in front of him at a loss. At this time, Jiang Xia, who was helping the magician press his chest, looked down at the magician's mouth, hesitated for a moment, turned around and shouted to him: "Artificial respiration!"
Inspector Yasa came to his senses, stood up, ran over and started blowing.
As he left the spot, the camera followed him and soon the water tank cover could not be captured in the shot.
“…”
Inspector Yasa stared at the camera that was turned away again, and his breath got stuck in his throat. After a while, he turned his head and looked at Jiang Xia: "Why are you calling me for something? Can't you do it yourself?"
"I'm busy doing chest compressions." Jiang Xia pointed at the screen, "Look, the water tank cover is open."
"!" Inspector Yasa looked up and saw that perhaps the noise from the water tank cover attracted the apprentice's attention. After filming the artificial respiration for a while, the apprentice moved the camera again to the magician's feet.
In the scene, the scriptwriter successfully lifted the lid and released the magician's feet.
"It seems that the female assistants really pulled out the bolt." Inspector Yasa touched his chin and suddenly had a new suspect. He looked at the magician's apprentice suspiciously:
"Why can't you capture the key points? Also, when there was an accident during the magic show, while we were trying to rescue the magician, you were still holding the camera and filming in an orderly manner, as if you didn't care about his death at all..."
"Of course I care!" The apprentice raised his voice and interrupted him, "But I'm not a medical professional after all. You're already providing rescue, and I'll just be in the way if I squeeze in. As for why I kept filming, it's because Master once told me in a casual chat that if anything happened to him, I must not stop filming and must record the situation, because that would be proof that he, a professional magician, has lived."
It sounds like it's quite passionate.
But this obviously couldn't dispel Inspector Yasa's suspicion: "Speaking of which, I suddenly remembered something - during the break between the first and second half, you handed the magician a pill. What was that?"
(End of this chapter)
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