Chapter 2643-2655 [Three-party fight]
The familiar scene made the two high school girls unprecedentedly nervous.
Conan came back to his senses and comforted them: "There aren't that many accidents. The accident rate of escape magic is actually far less than many people imagine. Just watch with peace of mind."
After a pause, thinking of the bad luck of his classmates, he hesitated and said, "Let's take a step back. Even if there is an accident... When a magician performs an escape trick, he usually agrees on a distress signal with his assistant in advance. The magician who died last time was because there was a traitor around him. He was locked in a water tank by the traitor. This time, the stage is much wider than that time. No one can fall from the sky to harm people. There are also two assistants guarding the stage. They supervise each other, so there should be no opportunity to commit a crime."
After listening to this long string of words, Suzuki Sonoko couldn't help but touching her chin: "..." This kid has so many things in his head. Have today's elementary school students become so introverted?
Time passed by while we were chatting.
And all of this was presented on the stage - the escape water tank containing the magician was blocked by a curtain, and in front of the thick curtain, a half-person-high clock was placed there, with the hour and minute hands moving clearly.
In the blink of an eye, the hour hand was about to point from zero to five.
"It's already been more than four minutes." The two high school girls gradually had a bad feeling in their hearts. Suzuki Sonoko turned her head and whispered to Mao Lilan, "Is it really okay?"
"Big, probably." Mao Lilan was not sure. "Although 4 minutes is a long time, it is not difficult for a trained person to hold his breath... I hope he is okay."
Amid the amplified "tick" and "tick" sounds, the minute hand gradually exceeded 5 minutes and fell further back.
On the stage, the faces of the two beautiful female assistants gradually changed. Their smiles were originally uniform and professional like machines, but now, they looked at the clock hands with uneasiness on their faces.
Equally uneasy were the audience who gradually realized something was wrong.
The most uneasy ones... were the two lawless outlaws mixed in with the crowd.
Maya Hashimoto and Vodka, two people who seem to have nothing to do with each other at first glance, have their thoughts strangely synchronized at this moment.
"We can't wait any longer!" Hashimoto Maya thought to herself, "That magician is probably dead in the water tank. According to my experience, a large number of police will rush to the scene, investigate, and then drag some innocent people as suspects... like me who did nothing."
"Although at first glance, I have nothing to do with the dead magician, but if you think about it carefully, when that guy finished escaping from the birdcage just now, he just happened to 'flash' to my side - if someone says that I took advantage of the opportunity to do something, how should I respond?"
"Under normal circumstances, I could ask the person sitting next to me to testify for me, but now, the person next to me is an old guy who looks like he's from the FBI. From the way he looks at me, he seems to be suspicious of me... What if he not only doesn't help testify, but also adds insult to injury? Wouldn't I be in trouble?"
Hashimoto Maya, who had not been to the city for a while, suddenly felt the malice of the bustling city, and felt that this helpless feeling was damn familiar - before he took on the mission to build the island, he was on the edge of being a suspect every day, and he could only avoid being taken away by the police by holding on to Jiang Xia's thigh... Oh, Jiang Xia!
"Got it." Hashimoto Maya turned to look at Jiang Xia, as if he saw a ray of hope. He muttered to himself:
"If the magician on the stage was really murdered, Jiang Xia will definitely be able to find the murderer. Why don't I pretend to go to the bathroom and go to the door of the venue. When the crime happens, there will definitely be many audience members running away in fear. Then I will blend in with them and leave together to avoid the police.
"After this night, Jiang Xia will surely have found the real murderer. This way, I won't have to contact the police, nor will I have to face the FBI head-on... That's right, we can't wait any longer, we have to leave now!"
Thinking of this, he covered his stomach and stood up and left quietly.
Almost at the same time, another person stood up from another seat in a similar posture and also slipped towards the door.
Two people who were walking stealthily with their heads down bumped into each other at the door. They were startled at the same time, looked up suddenly... and were startled again.
Hashimoto Maya: "..." Where is Vodka going? Is he also hiding from Uzo? ——Wait! Judging from the various news reports a while ago, Lord Uzo likes to mess with this codename cadre... If that gentleman went after Vodka today, then once Vodka leaves, won't the danger also leave with him?
In this case, instead of running away, maybe I should stay in this seemingly dangerous venue...
Across from him, Vodka's heart also skipped a beat: "..." Why was this Uzo minion running around instead of staying in his seat? ... Could it be that his guess was wrong again, and the danger was not in this stadium, but outside?
The two men looked at each other for a moment, and at the same time they had the idea of going back, but at the same time they looked at each other warily, wanting to observe the other party's condition first.
In the distance, a pair of eyes looked at this side quietly and smiled coldly.
Almost the next moment, Vodka's ears moved, and he turned his head sharply to look at the door: "What's going on? There seems to be a sirens outside?!"
Hashimoto Maya: “?!”
He looked back at the stage with a confused look on his face: the two female assistants were still anxiously looking at their watches and had not yet lifted the curtain to discover the magician's body... How come the police had already arrived when the person wasn't dead yet?
Unless... those policemen were here for something else?
…
"There's something fishy about these two guys." Conan pushed up his glasses, and a cold reflection flashed across the mirror. "They really didn't come to this magic show to watch magic."
Just now, after guessing that Hashimoto Maya and the person sitting next to her were conducting an illegal transaction, Conan acted decisively and contacted Inspector Megure privately in the name of "Kudo Shinichi" and asked him to bring people here to search.
——This report lacked any evidence, and the police were called in purely because of the detective’s own credibility.
Therefore, Conan habitually wanted to dispatch the police in the name of Jiang Xia, but then he changed his mind and thought, what if a member of the organization was really caught today, and there was a traitor in the police who leaked the information of the caller to the angry organization...Jiang Xia and the people around him would probably be in trouble.
So in the end, after hesitating for a moment, Conan used the name "Kudo Shinichi".
"I hope Inspector Megure will do as I told you and not reveal the identity of the person who called the police to anyone." Conan sighed, "To put it another way, even if it is accidentally leaked... when the other party hears the name of a dead person, they will probably just think it's a bad joke and not investigate."
(End of this chapter)
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