Chapter 2692 2704 [Hell Puppet Master]
"Threat letter?" The young detective seemed very interested in this topic. Jiang Xia looked at Officer Sato's bag and asked, "Can I see it?"
"This..." Sato Miwako was a little embarrassed. She reached into her bag and felt around, then took out a wooden box and placed it on the table.
It was an ancient square box with a few words engraved on the box: [Threatening letter inside.]
"Why did they bring the box with them?" Suzuki Sonoko poked the wooden box, a little confused, "Could it be that the threatening letters are actually a very thick stack? This criminal is too idle."
Officer Gao Mu shook his head: "This is a trap box. Unfortunately, we haven't found a way to open it yet."
Jiang Xia picked up the box, turned it over and took a look.
Next to her, Maya Hashimoto heard the words "unopened mechanism box", her ears twitched, and she silently moved back.
Hashimoto Maya: "..." Jiang Xia is too brave. What if this thing pops out a bunch of poison mist or some poison needles after it is opened? Wouldn't it hit the target so close? The kind detective really doesn't understand the evil of human heart...
Officer Takagi: "One of our colleagues is from Hakone. He said this kind of box is a specialty of Hakone. It is a box with a mechanism that cannot be opened without following a specific sequence. Many people make mistakes when following the instructions step by step, and there is no instruction on this box at all... Well, we wanted to try to saw it open, but after checking it, our colleagues in the forensic department said that it didn't seem to contain letter paper. If we saw it rashly, it might damage the items inside and anger the threatening person who sent the letter."
Officer Sato: "So we have no choice but to take this box and the ticket that comes with it to see the situation..."
"Click"
The subtle sound of a mechanism made Sato Miwako pause suddenly. She was stunned for two seconds and looked in shock. She saw that the lid of the "box that can never be opened" was loose and slid open a gap in Jiang Xia's hand.
Conan, who was standing on tiptoe and looking around: "..."
You opened it too fast! Shouldn't the normal sequence be to open it for a minute and then show it to me, and then everyone should work together to open it?
"Damn it, if he hadn't been concerned about Hashimoto Maya next to him, he would have rushed over to study the mechanism box. Now he's missed an interesting mechanism... It's all because of that suspicious guy.
Conan silently made a note of Hashimoto Maya in his heart.
Officer Takagi: "..."
...So you can even operate the mechanism? If you had told us earlier, we would have come to find you a long time ago! !
Smart people can really do anything. Think about this box that Jiang Xia opened obediently not long after it came into his hands, and then think about the scene of himself thinking about it all night last night... Officer Takagi sighed worriedly.
But soon, curiosity overwhelmed everything: "Look what's inside!"
Jiang Xia nodded and continued to push the lid of the box which had already slid open a gap, but the lid got stuck in the middle and could not be pushed open.
Seeing this, Hashimoto Maya became even more alert and retreated almost against the window.
Conan was originally staring at the mechanism box curiously, but at this moment he suddenly noticed the movements of this suspicious person.
He looked at Hashimoto Maya vigilantly, and quickly understood from his body movements that this man was wary of the mechanism box.
When Conan realized this, his heart skipped a beat and he blurted out "Be careful!"
However, at this time, Jiang Xia had already shaken the box skillfully a few times, and the mechanism box opened with a bang.
Conan: “!!”
He took off his coat and jumped towards the box cautiously, wanting to cover the strange thing first. But when he jumped up, he found that there was neither poison mist nor poison needles in the box... Looking left and right, it seemed to be just an ordinary wooden box.
Mao Lilan noticed something approaching, so she grabbed the restless child with her backhand and said, "Don't make trouble. Jiang Xia is doing something important."
Conan: “…”
The corner of his eye twitched slightly and he looked down, just in time to see Jiang Xia taking off the lid of the box and taking something out of the box.
——It was a palm-sized puppet, with strings attached to its limbs, a blank expression, and orange and yellow clothing.
At first glance, it was just an ordinary child's toy, but when Jiang Xia picked it up with the joystick, Suzuki Sonoko couldn't help but let out a "Ah!" sound - the puppet's limbs were bent backwards, and the entire torso was twisted into a strange shape, as if someone had deliberately broken it. When it was suspended in the air, it looked like a dried corpse.
Jiang Xia carried the puppet around and placed it on the small table on the side of Hashimoto Maya.
When the new kid turned himself into a cake stuck on the car window, Jiang Xia looked at the bottom of the box and said to the two policemen like a detective concentrating on solving a case, "There are a few lines of words engraved inside."
"!" Officer Sato said solemnly, "Let me see."
After taking the wooden box from Jiang Xia and reading it, her expression became more solemn.
It is written there:
[I cast a spell on the train passing through Hokkaido Shikabunaga
——Famous for his magic of death and horror
Hell Puppet Master]
"Death and terror..." Officer Gao Mu was a little scared at first, and then he couldn't help muttering, "With so many adjectives, no wonder they have to be written in separate lines - the self-introduction of this 'Hell Puppet Master' is actually longer than the threatening content he left behind."
Jiang Xia poked the puppet next to him and said, "It seems that his self-introduction may also be part of this threatening letter."
Officer Sato took a photo of the words and sent it to the Metropolitan Police Department. He then studied the box carefully and was a little confused: "Usually threatening letters have some purpose, but this letter seems to have nothing in it... What does the sender want to do?"
"If you interpret it literally, it seems like he wants to invite us to watch his magic tricks."
Officer Gao Mu suddenly thought of someone and said optimistically:
"Since we're here, let's take a look first. Speaking of which, I remember the explosion that led to the threatening letter didn't cause any casualties - maybe it was just a prank deliberately performed by a magician with a different aesthetic than the general public in order to attract the world's attention, just like that painter."
"Painter..." Officer Sato immediately understood who he was talking about: Kobayashi Seiji, the strange artist who had superb painting skills but always painted bloody corpses.
Since there are painters who like this kind of thing, it seems very normal to have another magician who likes bloody magic but has difficulty attracting audiences, so he decides to do something big to prove his worth. In fact, the Metropolitan Police Department receives many threatening letters every year, and there are many outlaws who want to become famous.
(End of this chapter)
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