The venue is well soundproofed. Standing near the exit, Vodka and Hashimoto Maya, who are very sensitive to sirens, were aware of it, but the audience in the infield could not hear it yet.
James looked at the empty seat next to him and quickly sent a message to Shuichi Akai: [The suspicious person suddenly left the venue. Maybe he has achieved some unknown purpose under my nose. I'm sorry, I didn't.
Can understand his actions and purposes.]
After a pause, James suddenly thought of something and suddenly looked up at the stage amid the whispers of the audience - if I remember correctly, the magician had been trapped in the water for more than 5 minutes. He... he was really still there
Alive?
"When we were escaping from the birdcage just now, the magician flashed next to Maya Hashimoto and me. At that time, my eyes were attracted by Jiang Xia and the girl, and I didn't pay attention to what Hashimoto was doing.
"Now Maya Hashimoto suddenly leaves the scene, and the magician is trapped in the water and cannot escape. This seems to be a coincidence... Is there some connection between these two things that I don't know about? Maya Hashimoto's purpose is to kill the magician?!
"
[Save people immediately!] James made a prompt decision and sent out another email - just after he endured the shame and told his subordinates what he described as being exposed, he received the news that Shuichi Akai was actually lurking in the background. [If he can save lives,
Yes, maybe we can get some key information from that magician.]
…
Amidst the noisy whispers, time continued to pass.
On the stage, two beautiful female assistants didn't even care about posing. They gathered together to discuss something in a low voice, and kept looking at the sink blocked by the curtain, as if the situation was beyond their control.
Backstage.
Akai Shuichi looked down at the message sent by his boss and frowned.
He always felt that something was not quite right, but James' analysis didn't seem to find much fault.
After hesitating for a moment, Akai Shuichi finally ran onto the stage and went straight to the water tank. Now that James has been exposed, there is no point in trying to hide his existence. It is better to save the magician first and then see what happens.
Something happened.
When the two female assistants saw the staff rushing onto the stage, they were stunned for a moment and instinctively raised their hands to stop them.
Conan, who intercepted the outsiders and was about to rush onto the stage to save innocent lives, saw their actions and stopped in his tracks: "..."
The busy primary school student came back to his senses and whispered to Jiang Xia: "Do you think this could be..."
The genius classmate really understood him. Jiang Xia took over the second half of his sentence: "What is the technique commonly used by the magic escape master Houdini?"
——When performing escape magic, ask the staff to cooperate and pretend to have an accident in order to arouse the emotions of the audience. Then the magician will escape when everyone thinks there is really an accident, shocking the whole audience.
.
"Since you think so, it seems that my guess is indeed correct." Conan breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, and glanced at the sink on the counter speechlessly, "This guy really loves to play tricks on himself... huh?"
Before he finished speaking, two figures flashed past him - Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko, with sad expressions on their faces like "I knew it!" and quickly rushed onto the stage.
Conan stood up abruptly: "They don't think something really happened, do they?"
Jiang Xia: "It's okay, isn't this exactly what the magician wanted for the show?"
Conan: "..." Having said that, what if Xiaolan didn't use enough force when she split the vat and punched the magician on the head who was about to make his debut...
He couldn't sit still anymore, so he quickly jumped off the stool and followed quickly with his short legs.
…
On the stage, two female assistants stopped Akai Shuichi, who was wearing work uniform, and whispered: "It's not time yet, why are you coming up now? ... No, you don't seem to be the person we arranged?"
Akai Shuichi: "...?"
He was just thinking about the message in this sentence, when two more figures quickly rushed onto the stage.
The female assistant was so worried that she quickly stepped forward to stop him: "Miss, please don't do this. First...let our staff check it first, just in case Mr. Xinghe hasn't failed yet?"
Suzuki Sonoko was furious and raised her hand to point at the dial next to her: "Ten minutes have passed. After such a long time, a hippopotamus who is not good at learning is about to drown. How do you still think that your magician is alive? - Hurry up and smash the vat.
, if you’re lucky, maybe you can be saved!”
Mao Lilan spoke much less. As a person of action at critical moments, she took a deep breath, made a fist with luck, and went straight to the water tank.
Just as he was about to punch it, he screamed frantically, perhaps out of some premonition of crisis, and with a crash, the heavy curtain surrounding the water tank was pulled open by one hand.
——Xinghe Tongwu appeared from behind the curtain covered in water and panting.
Mao Lilan: "!"
Suzuki Sonoko: "?"
Akai Shuichi: "..."
Xinghe Tongwu, who was being watched by the crowd, knelt on the ground and quietly raised his head to glance at the posture in front of him.
When he found out that the person who came to smash the vat was just a slender girl, he sighed inwardly, thinking that the assistants' adaptability was still too poor: he could just step forward and stop the young lady who came to rescue, and then wait until the arranged maintenance personnel
If you come on stage, won't the matter be solved?
But the matter has come to this, and there is no point in worrying about these anymore. And after all, they have good intentions...
Xinghe Tongwu could only accept the microphone handed to him by his assistant and finish the rest of the scene very dedicatedly.
He said to the audience in the audience: "I finally got away smoothly - please give me a warm round of applause for my good luck today, and for these three courageous gentlemen and ladies!"
There was a crackle and a wave of applause.
James was among the audience, looking up at the ace subordinate on the stage who was bathing in everyone's sight and silently lowering the brim of his hat: "..."
"If you think about it carefully, there is nothing shameful about Akai's identity. We are not entering the country illegally."
James was sweating profusely and comforting himself in his heart: "And in this way, rounding it all off, Akai has saved this magician. If we want to ask him about his teacher and fellow disciples, and find out the person suspected of being Uzo, how can we
Wouldn’t it be much easier?”
Everything seems to be moving towards their expected goal.
However, for some reason, James wiped the sweat from his forehead and always had a bad feeling in his heart.
At this moment, in the dark aisle, two people walking over checked their seat numbers and stopped next to him.
"Hello, I'm a police officer." One of the fat figures flashed his police ID card at him, "We received a report that someone said you were carrying controlled substances with you and were involved in illegal transactions - can you please let us check it?"
James: "..."
James touched the hard object in his pocket: "?!!"
