Chapter 2719-2731 [Forced to Open Business]
"Out through the window?" The "Joker" recalled the size of the train window and began to suspect that the detective opposite him had gained fame due to the efforts of some brainless fans - just like his own magician colleagues who had mediocre skills but had won a lot of popularity with just a handsome face.
This made him look at Jiang Xia with resentment: "Are you trying to say that during the one minute when the door was closed, the murderer climbed into the carriage through the window and climbed out with the body? - Oh, why don't we start the train now, and then demonstrate how to carry a body through that narrow window on a high-speed train."
"Carrying a corpse through a car window?" Conan snorted. "As a magician, you are so lacking in imagination. No wonder you can only rely on other people's magic notes to make a living at your age."
"???" The clown didn't expect that he would be confronted by a first-grade brat, "You...!"
Jiang Xia: "Conan is right. In this regard, you should learn more from the 'Hell Puppet Master'. For example, he knows that there is no need to let the whole corpse pass through the car - just let the head of the corpse pass through the window."
As he spoke, he suddenly took out a palm-sized puppet from his pocket: "Just like this."
Hashimoto Maya, who was very close to him, was startled: "?!" Why are you still carrying this thing! The puppet is a symbol of that adult, it's very unlucky, throw it away quickly!
Jiang Xia not only brought it with him, but also modified the little puppet.
At this time, the puppet was wearing a black top hat and a black windbreaker, dressed exactly like the dead leader of the magic troupe.
However, if you look closely, you can find that its body is very strange - it is soft and fluffy, and when a gust of wind blows, its limbs actually sway with the wind.
As everyone looked on in confusion, Jiang Xia stretched out his hand and the puppet's body suddenly turned into a long, thin bundle of tissue - only then did everyone realize that the puppet actually had no body anymore. It now only had a head with a mini windbreaker connected to its neck.
Jiang Xia: "This was the general appearance of the group leader at that time."
“But…” Looking at this strange puppet, the trainee magician who first discovered the body remembered something and whispered, “The leader I saw at that time didn’t seem to be lying flat on the ground. He had a body.”
"This puppet can also have a body." Jiang Xia suddenly turned to Hashimoto Maya and handed the thing in his hand to her, "Help me hold it."
Hashimoto Maya: “……?!”
He resisted the urge to shove the puppet into the stove and took the joystick with pretended calmness.
The puppet with only its head left was hanging in the air, swaying unsteadily. It turned half a circle intentionally or unintentionally, and its empty eyes just met Hashimoto Maya's gaze.
Hashimoto Maya: “…”
Look…what are you looking at! I am not like a disposable tool like you. I am Lord Uzo’s right-hand man. He will not pluck me and leave only my head!
As the ice tea gradually expanded under the stimulation of the puppet.
Jiang Xia slowly touched his pockets, and finally when he touched the third pocket, he took out a long balloon the size of a palm.
He pulled up the hem of the puppet's windbreaker with one hand and stuffed the balloon into its clothes with the other.
Suddenly, the strange, soft puppet was propped up by the balloon and appeared in front of everyone like a lively little fat man.
Jiang Xia fiddled with the puppet that had regained its body: "This is the 'body' of the corpse we saw.
“That is, the murderer killed the head of the magic troupe somewhere in the carriage beforehand and then cut off his head.
"After stopping the bleeding, he attached the head of the corpse to the windbreaker and filled the windbreaker with balloons of various sizes and shapes.
"The carriage where the body was was right next to the restroom. The murderer arranged the room, then connected the head and clothes of the body with a thin rope and connected the thin rope through the window into the restroom.
"After we found the body, we closed the door of the compartment to avoid the explosion. During this minute, the murderer pulled the string, pulled the head of the body and the windbreaker window out, and pulled them into the bathroom.
"Because of the prior fixation, the balloons in the clothes could not leave with the windbreaker. Without the windbreaker's barrier, the rose thorns pierced the balloons, and they exploded instantly, and the 'corpse' disappeared naturally."
“…”
Everyone was shocked by this bizarre method. At the same time, they also understood what Jiang Xia had said before.
"No wonder the murderer placed so many floating balloons in the car." Officer Sato suddenly realized, "In this way, even if we see the balloon fragments in the car, we will think they are the products of the explosion of those balloons, and we will not think that the leader has a balloon body!"
Jiang Xia nodded: "In addition, these balloons can block our sight and distract our attention instead of focusing on the leader.
“As for the roses covering the carriage, in addition to piercing the balloons, they can also be used to block others from approaching the body, thus preventing anyone from noticing anything at close range.
"Of course, this barrier made of thorny vines can't stop people for too long. But as long as they can slightly hinder the witnesses' steps, it will be fine. Because in addition to this, the 'Hell Puppet Master' has prepared another barrier - a psychological barrier."
Hashimoto Maya: "..." Speaking of psychological barriers, when will you take this thing away from me? ... Or is the current situation also a hint from Lord Usa? He noticed that I resonated with the lines of the puppets during the performance, so he used this to remind me?
...Jiang Xia! Don't be controlled by Wu Zuo! Quickly make this puppet disappear from everyone's sight!
When one member of the organization was praying, the other members were also thinking.
Next to him, Gin put down his teacup, snorted in his heart, and remembered the explosion that was a feint.
"Could it be..." Mao Lilan also understood something, "Could it be the first call from the 'Hell Puppet Master'?"
"That's right." Jiang Xia, "Not long before the commander's body was found, the rose salad on our table suddenly exploded. At the same time, the 'Hell Puppet Master' called and told us that there was a bomb on the train and the entire carriage was about to be blown up."
"Although he didn't blow up the train in the end, and only set off a rose firework at the predicted time, the news that there was a bomb on the train still left a deep impression on everyone on the train.
"In this situation, when we suddenly discovered smoke coming out of the carriage where the body was, our first reaction was that there was a bomb in the carriage, so we took cover. This gave the Hell Puppet Master time to make the body disappear."
(End of this chapter)
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