Chapter 2659-2671 [Magician's Escape]
Mrs. Zhengying gritted her teeth, as if she wanted to say something but didn't know how to start.
At this time, the kind detective shook his head for her: "She is not the murderer, but she has guessed the murderer."
Hashimoto Maya: “?!”
"If the murderer is not this old woman, then doesn't that mean it must be between Iida Riki and Hoshigawa Dougo?"
Hashimoto Maya belatedly remembered her mission to hire a magician, and began to reason: "Iida Riki's magic skills are okay, but his appearance is really not up to par. If I want to choose one of them as an employee, I can only find Hoshigawa Dougo. And all this is the will of Lord Usa - I understand! The murderer must be Iida..."
"Mr. Xinghe." Jiang Xia looked at Xinghe Tongwu, "Don't you have anything to say?"
Hashimoto Maya: “???”
As they were talking, a group of people with different thoughts had already arrived at the stairs.
Jiang Xia went up to the second floor and asked the two high school girls, "Is this what you saw when you first came up here?"
In the narrow corridor on the second floor, the overhead lights were still off and the light was dim, with only a little light from the first floor and moonlight to illuminate.
Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko looked up at the end of the corridor and said in surprise: "Yes, it is this dark and eerie feeling... Oh, and that vase is exactly the same as the first one!"
Jiang Xia nodded, and suddenly raised his hand to press the light switch in the corridor. The mechanism set by the murderer was triggered, and the villa lost power again, plunging into darkness.
Seeing this, Officer Chiba, who was waiting in the bathroom on the first floor, quickly turned on the power again as Jiang Xia had just said.
In just two or three seconds, the light came on. Everyone on the second floor saw the scene in front of them and was suddenly stunned - at the end of the corridor that was originally empty, there was suddenly a police officer named Takagi.
"Takagi?" Inspector Megure was stunned. "When did you go there?"
Officer Gao Mu laughed, feeling the joy of being a magician's stooge. He said mysteriously, "I have been standing here without moving."
"Hmm?" Inspector Megure looked suspicious. "You really didn't take advantage of the power outage just now to walk out of the database next door?"
Conan: "..." I wish you had half as much trust in your subordinates as you do in Hashimoto Maya and Vodka...
He sighed, thought for a while, and winked at Jiang Xia.
The next moment, the child suddenly jumped up in fear and pointed behind everyone: "Look behind you!"
"!" The others were startled by him and turned around instinctively, but there was nothing behind them.
When they turned around again, they were surprised to find that Officer Takagi had disappeared again.
"Takagi?" Inspector Megure stared at the door at the end of the corridor. "You retreated back to your room again, didn't you?"
"No, really not, Inspector!" A defending voice came from the void, "I have been standing here without moving!"
Everyone followed the direction of the sound, and then discovered to their disbelief that the sound actually came from the end of the corridor, where the body had been before - it was as if Officer Takagi had suddenly disappeared.
Jiang Xia looked at Hashimoto Maya: "When Conan called out just now, you didn't respond or turn around - you should have known what happened, right?"
Hashimoto Maya nodded cautiously.
Jiang Xia patted the member of the organization who was full of the sweet summer atmosphere and said: "Then you will explain it to everyone."
Hashimoto Maya: "..." Thank you for your training, you are such a good boss. But I don't want to be a detective at all, and I don't want to show off my presence in front of the police...
However, looking at Conan, who was a "senior" in a sense, and remembering his positive performance, Hashimoto Maya, with the idea of "learning from old employees", finally gritted her teeth and spoke.
Facing the curious gazes of others, he pointed to the study room next to him, which was the magic room where Mr. Zhengying stayed. "Just now I saw Mr. Jiang Xia open this door, and the inside of the door... is a whole mirror."
"Mirror? But when I entered the room just now, there was no mirror behind the door."
Upon hearing this, Inspector Megure walked forward curiously.
This magic room was not far from the light switch. He opened the door, intending to take a look behind it. However, when he accidentally saw the scene in the room, he took a step back subconsciously as if he had seen a ghost: "This, this... How could this happen?!"
Jiang Xia walked up to him and looked into the room - not long ago, this looked like just a normal study room.
However, when the door was opened, a narrow corridor appeared inside. At the end of the corridor was a window illuminated by moonlight, and a vase was quietly placed on the windowsill.
...Everything was exactly the same as the end of the corridor where the body was before. It was as if that space had been copied and pasted and moved to this study.
Suzuki Sonoko and Mouri Ran were also stunned: This... Is there really space magic in the world?
"This is not space magic, but a beautiful sleight of hand." As if he had guessed their thoughts, Jiang Xia reached in and turned on the light in the study.
The light was bright, and the "corridor" in the study suddenly appeared clearly in front of everyone - the 'door to the database' on the left wall was actually just a built-in cabinet door in the room, and the snow-white wall on the right was just an unfolded projection screen.
The vases at the end of the "corridor" are not placed on a windowsill, but on a table with a window-like glass cabinet behind it.
Jiang Xia walked into the room, put away the projection screen, and moved the small table away. In just a few seconds, the study room returned to its original state.
"Before the power outage, what Xiaolan and Yuanzi saw was not the real corridor, but the study reflected by the mirror. That's why they couldn't see the 'vase on the windowsill' clearly at that time, because there was indeed no moonlight at that time."
Inspector Megure looked left and right at the door, looking annoyed: "There's such a big mirror behind the door, and I didn't realize it until now."
Jiang Xia comforted the policeman who was indeed not very observant: "That's because just now, it looked like just an ordinary door - in fact, this door is also a magic prop."
As he spoke, he pulled the trigger and reached out to pull the wall. The other half of the door popped out and snapped together with the door in front of him. The mirror was immediately caught in the middle.
Jiang Xia touched the intact door and said, "It looks very ordinary at first glance, but it is actually thicker than ordinary doors, and there is a vertical seam in the middle - this should be specially made by Mr. Zhengying for performing the 'Christmas Tree Magic'."
"Although Mrs. Zhengying did not introduce this magic to us in detail just now, it is not difficult to guess the specific content of this 'magic' based on the photos in the album just now."
(End of this chapter)
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