Chapter 2711 2723 [Chase]
Everyone in this hotel is gathering in the theater tonight to watch magic, which means...
Officer Gao Mu turned around and looked at Jiang Xia, as if he was looking at a life-saving straw: "Um..." He raised his hand humbly and gestured, "Is there a smaller range?"
Fortunately, the reliable famous detective is still reliable this time.
Jiang Xia thought for a moment and said, "There is no timing device on the ceiling. That is to say, when the body fell, the murderer was on the stage. When the body and the puppet were replaced, the lights in the venue were only turned off for a few seconds. This time was not enough for the audience to reach the stage and climb up the ceiling. So..."
He looked at the group of people who were also listening attentively: "The murderer should be among these members of the magic group."
Several magicians: “?!”
There was a panicked silence for several seconds, and then the "clown" magician smiled and said, "Haha, this judgment is too arbitrary. You may not know this in the audience, but in fact, backstage, all of us have perfect alibis."
"Alibi?" Officer Sato looked at him. "Tell me more about it."
The Clown raised a finger, pointed upwards, and said with a smile: "It does take a long time to get from the audience seats to the ceiling, but in fact, it takes even longer to get from the stage to the ceiling - and vice versa."
He pointed at the magic troupe and said, "After seeing Yuramana's body, everyone rushed to the stage immediately. This means that we were not on the ceiling at the time. In this case, how could we be the murderer?"
Jiang Xia shook his head: "It does take some time to get from the stage to the ceiling, but from the ceiling to the stage, all you have to do is jump down.
“The ‘living puppet’ is your signature item, and that puppet is well made and heavy.
"After the lights in the magic theater went out, the murderer grabbed the corpse hidden in the ceiling and jumped down. The weight of the two of them pulled the puppet up, and the weight of the puppet also helped the murderer land steadily without getting hurt."
"So that's it!" Suzuki Sonoko suddenly realized, and felt that the strange scene of the "puppet turning into a corpse" on the stage just now was not so scary anymore.
Suddenly she thought of something, touched her chin, and asked the magicians like Jiang Xia: "How much do you weigh? - Answer honestly, this is very important!"
Several magicians were confused, but finally, the apprentice female magician with a round face said, "I weigh 55 kilograms."
Someone started talking, and the others hesitated for a moment before speaking out. The fake psychic said, "I weigh 81 kilograms."
Manager: “I’m 50 kilograms.”
Mermaid: "...I weigh 53 kilograms, why are you asking this!"
Seeing that the other members had already answered, the "clown" sighed and said, "I'm 72 kilograms. Little girl, why are you asking these questions?"
Suzuki Sonoko smiled and kept the topic in suspense: "Let's talk about it later. First, tell me, how heavy is that doll?"
The manager flipped through his notebook and said, "I remember weighing myself when I took the plane last month... I found it! It was 70 kilograms."
Suzuki Sonoko was stunned: "Only 70 kilograms?"
She, she originally wanted to do some addition and subtraction with the weight of the corpse, the murderer and the puppet: only when the sum of the former two is greater than the latter, can she achieve the method Jiang Xia just mentioned.
But now, this seemingly heavy and solid puppet is only 70 kilograms, plus the weight of the corpse... Doesn't that mean that anyone can use this technique smoothly? ?
Seeing that she suddenly remained silent, the trainee female magician asked curiously, "Ms. Suzuki, are you asking about weight?"
“…”
Looking into her clear eyes, Suzuki Sonoko gradually began to sweat profusely.
Suddenly, Suzuki Sonoko accidentally caught a glimpse of Mao Lilan next to her, and an idea flashed in her mind: "Chase, chase stars! - To be honest, I am actually a big fan of your magic group, and I am really curious about your personal data, so..."
Members of the magic troupe: “…”
I'm a little angry, but getting angry in front of fans in public is a big taboo in the entertainment industry... Never mind, I won't bother with this annoying fan.
Jiang Xia patted Suzuki Sonoko and whispered, "When solving a case, any detail may play a key role - it may not be useful now, but it may be useful in the future."
"That's right!" After receiving the affirmation from the professional detective, Suzuki Sonoko suddenly felt that the matter of asking about weight just now became great and crucial. She raised her fist and said, "I will definitely be able to successfully solve this case!"
Hashimoto Maya: “…” Haha.
…
The case does need to be solved, but meals also need to be eaten.
——The staff on the other side were still repairing the bridge, so everyone had to stay in the theater for a while. Since they had nothing to do, the magic troupe members began to clean up the backstage diligently.
Suzuki Sonoko opened her bag and dumped out a bunch of snacks.
"I wanted to eat while watching the show, but the magic was so good that I forgot to eat snacks."
Suzuki Sonoko rubbed her hungry stomach, looked at the pile of snacks on the ground, and then looked at the two members passing by. She said, "Manager, and the apprentice magician, you two should come and eat together. You must be hungry after being busy all night."
Compared with the weird "clown", the bad-tempered "mermaid", the taciturn "medium", and the two corpses that can no longer eat, these two are rare normal people.
After hearing Suzuki Sonoko's invitation, and looking back at the high school students' table full of snacks, the two gradually became unable to move, and finally decisively followed the call of their instinct and sat down at the table.
"Thank you very much." The manager gave a bitter smile like a worker. "To be honest, too many things happened tonight and we didn't have time to eat."
Suzuki Sonoko laughed out loud: "Then eat as much as you want."
Of course, snacks are not free.
The dedicated detective collected clues: "When the murder happened just now, the hotel manager's reaction seemed a little strange. I vaguely heard him muttering something like 'another death' - has there been an accident in this theater before?"
The expressions of the two people from the magic troupe changed slightly.
After a moment of silence, the trainee female magician took a bite of the chocolate bar and said hesitantly, "You should have heard that five years ago, our pillar, Mr. Kinmiya, died in an accident during a practice. The place at that time was this lakeside theater."
The manager didn't expect her to answer every question so he reminded her quietly, "Don't do this kind of thing..."
"It doesn't matter." The trainee female magician shook her head. "That incident was reported in the news back then. As long as we investigate it carefully, we will find out the truth sooner or later. Besides, it is an objective fact that something happened in the troupe. There is no need to hide it."
(End of this chapter)
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