Chapter 3641-3656 [Perennial Deficit]
Suddenly, a cloud of smoke exploded in the night sky, attracting everyone's attention.
After the smoke cleared, a person dressed in a white tuxedo, wearing a white top hat and a monocle suddenly appeared above the crowd.
Dozens of meters in the air, Kidd actually retracted his hang glider and stood leisurely in mid-air!
"Wow--!"
Inside the monitoring room of the Suzuki Museum.
Sonoko Suzuki was shaking the technician, making him project the best-viewing surveillance footage onto the largest screen.
Watching this cinematic entrance, she couldn't help but exclaim, "That's amazing! They actually stood in mid-air!"
She paused, then belatedly realized, "Wait, how can he stand directly in the sky?!"
Ai Haibara: "..." You finally figured out the key point...
The mini-scientist was also puzzled by this anti-gravity phenomenon. She guessed, "He appeared right between two tall buildings, and his levitation height did not exceed those two buildings... Could it be that there was something erected between the two buildings to support him standing there?"
Ran Mouri looked at her in surprise, recalling another first-grade student: "..." What's wrong with kids these days? Their thinking is as clear as high school students'...
Jirokichi Suzuki, however, was quite receptive to clever children. He snorted and agreed with Ai Haibara's guess: "That's right, it must be some kind of low-class trick."
As he spoke, he picked up the walkie-talkie and said to his highly paid security team, "Kidd has appeared! Get the nearby helicopters to his side immediately and cut all the steel cables around him! Without support, let's see how he can pull off this aerial acrobatic stunt!"
The closest helicopter was number 7, which immediately lowered its altitude and came above Kidd as requested by Jirokichi Suzuki.
Soon, a report came through the walkie-talkie: "This is Unit 7. There are no traps above Kidd, and he's standing..."
Camera No. 7 adjusted the camera angle and zoomed in: "So far, we haven't seen any props like wires."
Suzuki Jirokichi was taken aback: "No??"
Unit 7 didn't say anything, but zoomed in on the image a little more, the meaning was clear: See for yourself if you don't believe me.
Jirokichi Suzuki gritted his teeth and said, "You stay above it and keep a close eye on it! I'll have the other helicopters circle around it. I don't believe it can really ignore gravity."
Outside, to the astonished gaze of the onlookers, planes flew in from all directions, circling around Kidd, trying to find the piece of wire that suspended Kidd between the two buildings.
Inspector Nakamori finally came to his senses and said to his subordinates, "You two come with me to the roof of the building on the left, the rest of you go to the right—Kid won't stay in mid-air forever, he'll definitely retreat along the wire in a certain direction. When he comes over, we'll catch him on the spot!"
"yes!"
A group of police officers sprang into action. Seeing this, Conan quietly followed and ran up to the rooftop of the building on the right.
He stood on tiptoe and looked down through the gap in the railing, and he was stunned: there seemed to be no steel wire between the two buildings.
“Looking up from the street, it’s more than 20 meters away, so it’s easy to miss the wire. But from my position, I’m only a few meters away from where Kidd is…”
Even at such close range, I couldn't see the steel cable spanning between the two buildings. Could Kidd really be levitating?!
"Oh."
Out of the corner of his eye, Kidd caught sight of the group of stunned police officers and bespectacled elementary school students on the rooftop, and his spirits soared, except...
He glanced around furtively, thinking to himself, "I didn't see the Fog Tengu. I was going to remind him that there were a lot of planes flying over the museum today, and tell him to take cover..."
Could it be that the newspaper said today was just a rehearsal and there was nothing to eat, so Brother Tiangou was too lazy to come?
"Speaking of which, why didn't Jiang Xia go to the rooftop with that bespectacled kid?" Kidd's heart skipped a beat. "Could it be that he discovered my method?... No, no, no, maybe he's just lazy, too lazy to go out to the rooftop for some fresh air—didn't he just find a place to nap and fool the police when I was on a mission before?"
Thinking about it this way, Kidd felt much more at ease.
He snapped out of his daze, looked down at the sea of people gazing up at him, and called out, "Ladies and gentlemen!"
"Oh!!!" The crowd cheered enthusiastically.
Kidd: "On the night before my performance officially begins, please enjoy the miracles I create!"
After saying that, under the bewildered gazes of Inspector Nakamori and Conan, he straightened his cloak that was fluttering in the wind and suddenly took a step forward.
With a click.
The footsteps that were usually heard everywhere suddenly made everyone freeze in shock. Then, to their disbelief, Kidd took another step.
Tap, tap, tap...
The magician under the moonlight seemed to be walking on thin air, as if on a smooth and solid road, heading towards the Suzuki Museum.
With a buzz, the street below, which was packed with people, instantly erupted in chaos.
There were quite a few people who guessed there was a fishing line between the two buildings, but now, as Kidd walked steadily forward, this guess was disproven: Kidd couldn't possibly have installed pulleys on the roof to pull him forward—after all, just by looking up, you could see that the rooftops on both sides were already crowded with dumbfounded police officers, and if there really was such a device, they would have already taken it down.
On the rooftop, Inspector Nakamori rubbed his eyes hard and looked up again, but in his field of vision, he still saw the Phantom Thief Kid walking in the air.
He muttered to himself, "Am I actually dreaming? Kidd hasn't even started yet, and I'm just rehearsing in my dream like before? — Wake up!"
The subordinate standing nearby, watching his superior forcefully banging himself on the head, quietly took two steps to the side: Hitting yourself is one thing, but don't come over and hit me after that...
Inside the monitoring room of the Suzuki Museum.
"This is Unit 3, Kidd... is walking in the air."
"This is Unit 8. Kidd passed by me and walked towards the museum."
"here it is……"
"Alright, I saw it!" Suzuki Jirokichi looked at the scenes on the monitor with frustration and said angrily, "How did this guy do that?"
Sonoko Suzuki was also stunned. The pink scene of the famous detective battling the phantom thief in her mind paused for a moment. She said blankly, "Kid could really use magic, could he?"
Hearing Suzuki Sonoko's words, the demons nearby swallowed hard, as if remembering something.
Jiang Xia: "..." He does know a little bit, but his magic bar is always empty, so he can't use anything. Right now, he's relying on pure skill.
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