Chapter 1539-1547 [All are accomplices]
The apprentice was startled and explained hastily, "It is a medicine that can lower the heart rate after taking it. Because there is an underwater escape project in the second half, which requires holding the breath for a long time, the teacher took a pill 15 minutes in advance. This can assist the performance and increase the success rate."
Inspector Asa looked at him, then at Subaru Okiya who was huddled in the corner. He suddenly thought of something and said meaningfully, "Since there is no problem with the water tank cover, then think about it from another angle - if someone replaced the drug with something like a muscle relaxant, the magician would lose his abdominal muscles after taking the drug, and he would not be able to hook himself up to the surface of the water in a handstand."
Okiya Subaru: “…” Just speculate, why are you looking at me?
Stop hinting at me. Isn't it okay for me to agree to Uzo's proposal...
Subaru Okiya couldn't understand why this British policeman was always so obsessed with him.
However, thinking of Wu Zuo who was watching the show in some corner, he gradually felt that all this was very reasonable - the police inspector probably didn't know what he was thinking, he was just an ignorant tool bewitched by Wu Zuo. Otherwise, why would he issue an arrest warrant for an innocent tourist who was passing by and buying clothes yesterday?
Okiya Subaru sighed silently in his heart and decided that no matter how the police inspector suspected him, he would insist that he was not the murderer and hold on until this murder case was over.
…After surrendering and lying down, the sky seemed to turn blue.
…
Inspector Yasa stared at him with an oppressive gaze, hoping to get some clues out of him. However, this time, the suspicious Tokyo man completely ignored him and even started looking up at the ceiling at a 45-degree angle. No one knew what he was looking at.
His forehead twitched and several blue veins bulged. He was just about to walk closer to shake this guy and make him face the problem.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, Jiang Xia, who was standing next to him, followed Okiya Subaru's gaze and suddenly said as if he had suddenly realized something: "So that's it."
Inspector Yasa: “?”
Okiya Subaru: "...?"
Jiang Xia looked at Inspector Yasa and said, "I think there should be nothing wrong with the pill. I heard that during the 'Underwater Escape' performance, the curtain covering the water tank was pulled up once, but the magician did not make the distress gesture we agreed on before. If you are really worried, you can ask your subordinates to do a blood analysis to find out what the pill was that the deceased took before he died."
Inspector Yasa looked at Jiang Xia, then at Okiya Subaru, and snorted: "You seem to have always trusted this guy."
Jiang Xia nodded: "I think Mr. Tanaka is a good person."
"..." Subaru Okiya felt as if his conscience had been shot: before, he barely thought that he could be considered a good person, but now, he had to go along with Usa, and he didn't know what kind of crazy things he would be forced to do in the future... Although he could regret it at that time, he had already betrayed Usa once, and if he did it again, regretting it would definitely mean death. To be honest, Subaru Okiya didn't know what choice he would make at that time.
Jiang Xia casually gave out a nice guy card, and after doing so, he suddenly realized that although it was not obvious, his younger brother's face seemed a little distorted.
He was a little confused, but this guy had made random guesses more than once or twice, so he was too lazy to delve into it further. Instead, he looked at the water tank cover next to him and began to push the progress bar diligently.
"Compared to the box lid next to it, this lock bolt looks very new, and its shape is a bit strange." Jiang Xia asked the apprentice who was standing beside him with his head down, "Have you changed the lock bolt recently?"
The apprentice thought for a moment and said, "When we inspected the props a while ago, we replaced a batch of aging parts that posed a safety risk. It seems that this latch was also replaced."
After saying that, he followed Jiang Xia's line of sight and saw the lock bolt. He was suddenly startled and took a closer look: "Wait, this lock bolt... the shape seems to be different from before. Why is there an extra hole?"
Jiang Xia also squatted beside him: "The middle axis has also been shortened."
The apprentice nodded, somewhat bewilderedly: "Maybe the prop master installed some new mechanism."
The prop master beside them just happened to hear their conversation and looked even more confused than them: "No, if there was, how could I not know it."
"If you guys don't know..." Jiang Xia turned to look at the long-haired scriptwriter, "Then you are just pretending, right?"
Subaru Okiya followed his gaze and saw the cold sweat on the scriptwriter's forehead. He immediately understood: In a sense, the scriptwriter is also a colleague of Uzo. He should have thought that Uzo might start with him...
The scriptwriter looked like he wanted to refute, but it seemed that he hadn't found the words yet.
Before he spoke, Jiang Xia pointed to the top of the stage. He pointed to the place where Okiya Subaru had just looked up: "Unlike assistants and apprentices who have to be busy on the stage, after the official performance, you, the 'scriptwriter', don't need to appear in front of others. You only need to stare at the screen behind the stage.
“So during the performance just now, you were able to quietly leave your original position and hide in advance on the beam of the stage ceiling, just above the water tank. During the performance, the lights just couldn’t reach that position, so no matter whether it was the people in the audience or the members on the stage, no one could see you.
"The deceased was handcuffed to the lid of the water tank. The weight of the lid and the person was not light, so a steel bar was needed to lift the lid and put it on the water tank. The steel bar went straight to the ceiling. In this way, during the performance, the curtain around the water tank was pulled up, and you could use the curtain to cover yourself and slide along the steel bar to the top of the water tank and land on the lid.
"You brought a bolt 'axle' with you. After inserting it into the lid of the water tank, the lid that could be easily opened will be firmly locked. After that, you don't need to return to the ceiling. You only need to take advantage of the moment when the light becomes dim, lift the curtain from the blind spot behind you, and escape to the backstage, and you can complete this murder hidden in the magic."
After hearing this, Inspector Yasa felt that he understood what happened next: "After that, he only needed to quietly pull out the shaft while we were busy rescuing the dead, and pretend that this was an unknown 'magic accident' - no wonder I couldn't open the water tank cap at that time, but the scriptwriter who went to open the tank later could open the cap with just a flick of his hand!"
The scriptwriter gritted his teeth and snorted coldly: "Nonsense! I was always checking the stage effects backstage at the time, how could I possibly do such things? This is slander, be careful or I will sue you!"
Inspector Yasa signaled to the young police officer next to him: "Search him and look for the 'axle'!"
(End of this chapter)
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