Chapter 2644-2656 [FBI and the Outlaws]
The venue was well soundproofed, and Vodka and Hashimoto Maya, who were standing near the exit and were very sensitive to the sound of sirens, noticed it, but the audience inside the venue could not hear it yet.
James looked at the empty seat next to him and quickly sent a message to Akai Shuichi: [The suspicious person suddenly left the venue. Perhaps he had achieved some unknown purpose under my nose. I'm sorry that I didn't understand his actions and purpose.]
After a pause, James suddenly thought of something and looked up at the stage amid the whispers of the audience - if he remembered correctly, the magician had been trapped in the water for more than 5 minutes. Was he... was he really still alive?
"When we were escaping from the birdcage just now, the magician appeared next to me and Hashimoto Maya. At that time, my attention was attracted by Jiang Xia and the girl, and I didn't notice what Hashimoto was doing.
"Now that Hashimoto Maya suddenly left, the magician is trapped in the water and can't get out. This seems a bit coincidental... Could it be that there is some connection between these two events that I don't know about? Hashimoto Maya's goal is to kill the magician?!"
[Save him now!] James made a prompt decision and sent another email. Just now, after he told his subordinates about his exposure, he received news that Akai Shuichi was actually lurking in the background. [If we can rescue someone alive, maybe we can get some key information from the magician.]
…
Time passed by amidst the noisy whispers.
On the stage, the two beautiful female assistants didn't even bother to pose. They huddled together, whispering about something, and kept looking at the sink covered by the curtain, as if the current situation was beyond their control.
Backstage.
Akai Shuichi looked down at the message from his boss and frowned.
He always felt that something was not right, but there didn't seem to be much fault with James' analysis.
After hesitating for a moment, Shuichi Akai finally ran onto the stage and headed straight for the sink - since James had been exposed, there was no point in him hiding his existence. It would be better to save the magician first and then see what was going on.
When the two female assistants saw the staff rushing onto the stage, they were stunned for a moment and instinctively raised their hands to stop them.
After intercepting the outlaws, Conan, who was about to rush onto the stage to save innocent lives, saw their actions and paused: "..."
The busy primary school student came back to his senses and whispered to Jiang Xia: "Do you think this could be..."
The genius classmate really understood him. Jiang Xia took over the second half of his sentence: "Is this the common technique used by the magician Houdini?"
- When performing an escape magic trick, ask the staff to cooperate and pretend that there is an accident, so as to mobilize the audience's emotions. Then the magician will escape when everyone thinks there is a real accident, shocking the audience.
"Since you think so, it seems that my guess is correct." Conan breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at the sink on the table speechlessly, "This guy really likes to be mysterious... huh?"
Before he finished speaking, two figures suddenly flashed past him - Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko, with a sad expression on their faces that said "I knew it!", and they quickly rushed onto the stage.
Conan stood up: "They don't think something really happened!"
Jiang Xia: "It's okay. Isn't this exactly what the magician wanted?"
Conan: "..." That being said, what if Xiaolan fails to control her strength when she splits the jar, and hits the magician on the head who is about to make a brilliant appearance...
He couldn't sit still anymore, so he jumped off the stool and followed quickly with his short legs.
…
On the stage, two female assistants stopped Akai Shuichi, who was wearing a work uniform, and whispered, "It's not time yet, why are you here now? ... No, you don't seem to be the one we arranged?"
Akai Shuichi: "...?"
He was just thinking about the information in this sentence when two more figures swiftly rushed onto the stage.
The female assistant was extremely worried and hurried forward to stop them: "Ladies, please don't do this. Let our staff check it first. What if Mr. Xinghe hasn't failed yet?"
Suzuki Sonoko was furious and pointed at the dial next to her: "Ten minutes have passed. After so long, the unskilled hippopotamus would have drowned, and you still think your magician is alive? - Hurry up and smash the jar. If you're lucky, there might be hope!"
Mao Lilan said much less. As a person of action at critical moments, she took a deep breath, clenched her fists, and ran straight to the water tank.
Just as he was about to punch it, at this moment, perhaps with some premonition of crisis, there was a crazy cry, and with a splash, the heavy curtain surrounding the sink was pulled open by a hand.
——Xinghe Tongwu appeared from behind the curtain, covered in water and panting.
Mao Lilan: “!”
Suzuki Sonoko: “?”
Akai Shuichi: "..."
Xinghe Tongwu, who was being watched, knelt on the ground and quietly looked up to glance at the situation in front of him.
When he found out that the person who came to smash the tank was just a slender girl, he sighed inwardly, thinking that the assistants' ability to respond was still too poor: if they could just step forward to stop the young lady who came to rescue people, and then delay until the arranged maintenance personnel came on stage, wouldn't the problem be solved?
But now that things have come to this, it is meaningless to dwell on these things. And after all, they are kind-hearted...
Xinghe Tongwu could only take the microphone handed to him by his assistant and finish the rest of the scenes very professionally.
He said to the audience, "I finally got out of this situation. Please give me a big round of applause for my good luck today and for these three brave gentlemen and ladies!"
There was crackling and applause.
James was among the audience, looking up at his ace subordinate on the stage, who was bathed in everyone's gaze and silently lowering the brim of his hat: "..."
"If you think about it carefully, there's nothing shameful about Akai's identity. We didn't enter the country illegally."
James comforted himself with sweat dripping down his face, "And in this way, rounding off, Akai saved the magician's life. If we want to ask him about his teacher and fellow students and find the person suspected to be Uzo, wouldn't it be much easier?"
Everything seemed to be moving in the direction they expected.
However, for some reason, James wiped the sweat from his forehead and always had a bad feeling in his heart.
Just then, two people walked over in the dark aisle, confirmed their seat numbers, and stopped next to him.
"Hello, I'm a policeman." One of the chubby figures showed him his police ID. "We received a report that you were carrying controlled items and suspected of illegal transactions. Would it be convenient for us to check it?"
James: “…”
James felt the hard object in his pocket: "?!!"
(End of this chapter)
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