Chapter 2702-2714 [Top Hawk Dog]
The air was a little quiet. At this time, Jiang Xia waved the brochure in his hand with sympathy: "Mr. Hashimoto should have read this."
Conan: “…”
Hashimoto Maya's eyes lit up: "That's right!"
This was not a lie - although he did not read it carefully, he did hold the book in his hands to fan himself because he felt it was too hot in the car.
Jiang Xia flipped through the brochure and stopped at one of the pages: "This is the tourism brochure for Corpse Field. I just took a look at it. It contains some introductions to the members of the Fantasy Magic Group."
Everyone gathered around the table and looked down curiously, and saw that it was a magnificent photo made up of two pages of paper. The background of the photo was a stage, and above the stage hung several oval portraits.
The photos are arranged one by one, each one more familiar than the last.
"Aren't these the magicians who performed in the dining car just now?" Suzuki Sonoko quickly recognized them. She pointed at them one by one, "That annoying fake prince, the mermaid princess, the prop master who looked like a comedian, the psychic with purple eye circles, and... huh?"
Her fingertips stopped at the leftmost photo, and she looked left and right but couldn't recognize it: "Who is this auntie in the cheongsam? It seems she has never appeared in the photo before."
Officer Takagi: "Oh, she's the one..."
“Buzz——!!”
A shocking sound interrupted the policeman's words.
Everyone was stunned for a moment and looked at Jiang Xia in unison.
Amidst several gazes, Jiang Xia felt in his pocket and took out the old black-and-white screen mobile phone - he had been holding this phone since he answered the phone last time.
"It seems that the magician has a new inspiration." Jiang Xia clicked on the hands-free mode, "Hello?"
The person opposite laughed mysteriously a few times: "Everyone, do you like the rose blizzard I gave you?"
"Not bad." Jiang Xia said sincerely, "But why is it a blizzard and not rain?"
“…”
The Hell Puppet Master was silent for a moment. He didn't want to let such a boring question lower the atmosphere he had worked so hard to create. He pretended not to hear and continued as if nothing had happened: "The next performance is about to begin. It's the one you've been waiting for..."
"Huh? He didn't answer your question just now!"
Suzuki Sonoko felt that she had discovered a blind spot. She slammed her palm and felt that she was extremely clever: "I understand, this call is a recording!"
"...Dear lady, this is not a recording." The "Magician of Hell" tried his best to maintain the elegance of a gentleman. However, somewhere in the carriage, a murderous aura like mist was silently expanding.
He calmed down his mood and tone, and continued with that malicious tone and smile: "Okay, please don't interrupt. I called to inform you that the death magic you have been looking forward to for a long time is about to begin - please enjoy it."
"Really?" The audience was not as enthusiastic as expected. Suzuki Sonoko looked suspicious. "Last time you said that this car would be blown up into the sky by a bomb, but it didn't. You are not trying to trick us again this time, are you?"
“…”
The Hell Puppet Master silently took note of the chattering actors, and then he finished his lines with an iron will: "The stage is in Room 5 of VIP Carriage No. 1. The theme is red roses and colorful balloons. Although the props are simple, the content is quite exciting. I named it - Vanishing from the Sky."
Suzuki Sonoko: "Uh, your naming ability..."
“Beep, beep, beep”
The call was hung up.
Jiang Xia looked at her admiringly, then stood up and said, "Let's go and take a look first."
…
The stage that "Hell's Puppet Master" mentioned is some distance away from here.
A group of people ran towards that direction along the narrow aisle, leaving a trail of curious people behind them.
After finally arriving at the place, Jiang Xia pushed open the door, but before he could stand firmly, he suddenly heard a scream from the front.
"ah--!!"
A figure stood at the door of Box 5, looking at the opened door in horror. It was the trainee magician who performed puppet magic.
She seemed to be frightened by the scene in Box 5. She stepped back suddenly, stumbled, and slid down to the ground, leaning against the wall.
"Are you okay?"
Jiang Xia expressed his concern as he ran closer. He turned his head and looked into the room, and saw that the box had been covered with roses without him noticing. Roses with branches and dew on them were piled up layer by layer to form a half-meter high platform.
And in this blood-red sea of flowers, a middle-aged man wearing a top hat, a black robe and a small mustache was lying in the middle, surrounded by roses and countless floating colorful balloons.
"Isn't this the leader of the magic troupe!" Officer Takagi took a closer look and his expression changed slightly, "His face..." was unnaturally pale. Although it is not polite to say this, he looked like he was dead.
While coming to a conclusion in his mind, he also wanted to try to rescue him. However, just as he was about to go in, Officer Takagi hissed and reluctantly retracted his legs.
——The rose vines covering the box were not treated and were covered with sharp thorns. Countless vines were crammed here, turning into a thorn fence like a copper wall, making it impossible to destroy this scene full of weird beauty.
At this moment, there was a slight hissing sound, and a few wisps of light smoke emerged from the side of the corpse.
"Oh no!" The crowd that had squeezed in to watch the excitement fled away at a speed no slower than when they gathered. "Run! There's a bomb!"
The bomb had actually started to smoke, and it was clear that an explosion was imminent. The two experienced policemen reacted quickly, slamming the door of the box shut and pushing the other people at the door to the side.
Almost the next moment, a loud "bang!" sounded from the box.
Immediately afterwards, amid the crowd's screams of terror, a series of "bang bang bang" sounds rang out one after another.
"……Um?"
Hashimoto Maya, who had already fallen to the ground with her head in her hands and was about to roll away, was startled when she heard the voice.
Although the "explosions" are dense, the intensity sounds... a little mini, doesn't it?
——Not to mention the bomb, even a pistol with a silencer would probably sound louder than the explosion.
"It was the balloons that exploded." A voice said what he guessed in his heart. Jiang Xia finally got rid of Officer Sato's iron arms with a polite force and stood up from the ground. He picked up Conan who was almost crushed into a pancake and turned his head to look at the box. "The smoke that rose should not be the prelude to the explosion, but just some smoke."
As he spoke, he walked to the door of box No. 5 and pushed it open.
The others approached cautiously, looked inside... and then froze in place.
——In a closed compartment, on a high-speed train. The body of the head of the magic troupe actually disappeared from a compartment surrounded by passengers.
(End of this chapter)
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