"Threatening letter?" The young detective seemed to be very interested in this topic. Jiang Xia looked at Officer Sato's bag, "Can you let me see it?"
"This..." Miwako Sato was a little embarrassed. She reached into her bag and touched it, then took out a wooden box and placed it on the table.
It was a simple square box, with a few words engraved on the box: [There is a threatening letter inside.]
"Why did you bring the box with you?" Suzuki Sonoko poked at the wooden box, a little confused, "Could it be that the threatening letter is actually a very thick stack? This prisoner must be too idle."
Officer Takagi shook his head: "This is a mechanism box. Unfortunately, we haven't found a way to open it yet."
Jiang Xia picked up the box, turned it over and looked at it.
Next to her, Maya Hashimoto heard "the unopened mechanism box", her ears twitched, and she silently moved her body back.
Maya Hashimoto: "..." Jiang Xia is too courageous. What if this thing pops out a handful of poisonous mist or some poisonous needles after opening it? Wouldn't it be right to hit the target at such a close distance? A kind-hearted detective really doesn't
Understand the dangers of people's hearts...
Police Officer Takagi: "We have a colleague who is from Hakone, and he said that this kind of box is a specialty there - it is a kind of mechanism box that cannot be opened without following a specific order. Many people can do it by following the step-by-step instructions.
Wrong, and there is no instruction at all on this box... Alas, we originally wanted to try sawing it open, but after inspection, our colleagues from the forensics department said that it did not seem to contain letter paper, and cutting it off rashly might damage it.
The items contained therein angered the person who sent the threat."
Officer Sato: "So we had to take this box with us first and follow the package of tickets that comes with the box to see the status..."
"Click"
The subtle sound of the machine made Miwako Sato's words suddenly pause. She was stunned for two seconds, and looked around in shock. She saw that the lid of the "absolutely unopenable box" was loose and slipped open a gap in Jiang Xia's hands.
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Conan, who was standing on tiptoe and looking around: "..."
You opened it too fast! Shouldn't the normal order be to open it for a minute but it can't be opened, so show it to me and then everyone can work together to open it?
"Damn it, if he hadn't been worried about Maya Hashimoto next to him, he would have rushed to study the mechanism box. Now he has missed an interesting mechanism... It's all because of that suspicious guy.
Conan silently made a mental note to Maya Hashimoto.
Officer Takagi: "..."
...So you can still turn on the computer? If you had told me, we would have gone to find you!!
As expected, smart people can do anything. Think about the box that Jiang Xia opened obediently not long after it arrived in Jiang Xia's hands, and then think about the scene where he thought about it all night last night... Officer Takagi sighed sadly.
But soon, curiosity overcame everything: "Look what's inside!"
Jiang Xia nodded and continued to push the lid of the box that had slid open a gap. However, the lid got stuck on the way and could not be pushed open.
Upon seeing this, Maya Hashimoto became even more alert and retreated so much that she almost pressed against the window.
Conan was originally staring at the machine box curiously, but now he suddenly noticed the movements of this suspicious person.
He looked at Maya Hashimoto warily, and quickly understood the man's caution against the mechanism box from his body movements.
Upon discovering this, Conan's heart skipped a beat and he blurted out "Be careful!"
However, at this time, Jiang Xia had already shaken the box skillfully a few times, then opened the entire mechanism box with a clatter.
Conan: "!!"
He took off his coat and rushed towards the box warily, trying to cover the strange thing first. But when he jumped up, he realized that there was neither poisonous mist nor poisonous needles in the box... Looking left and right, this
It seems to be just an ordinary wooden box.
Mao Lilan noticed something approaching and grabbed the moving child from the air: "Don't make trouble, Jiang Xia is doing business."
Conan: "..."
The corners of his eyes twitched slightly, and he looked down, just in time to see Jiang Xia take off the lid of the box and take something out of the box.
——It was a palm-sized string puppet. The puppet's limbs were connected with silk threads, its expression was empty, and it was wearing orange and yellow clothes.
At first glance, this was just an ordinary children's toy, but when Jiang Xia picked it up with the joystick, Suzuki Sonoko couldn't help but let out a "Ouch!" - the puppet's limbs were folded, and the entire torso was twisted into a weird shape.
The shape seems to have been deliberately broken by someone. When suspended in the air, it looks like a dried corpse.
Jiang Xia turned the puppet around and placed it on the small table next to Maya Hashimoto.
When the new boy turned himself into a cake pasted on the car window, Jiang Xia looked at the bottom of the box and said to the two policemen like a detective concentrating on investigating the case: "There are a few lines of words engraved inside."
"!" Officer Sato looked solemn, "Let me take a look."
Taking the wooden box from Jiang Xia's hand, after reading it, her expression became more solemn.
What is written there is:
[I cast magic on the train that passed through Hokkaido's Bone Plains
——Famous for his magic of death and terror
Hell Puppet Master]
"Death and terror..." Officer Takagi was a little frightened at first, and then couldn't help but muttered, "With so many attributive words, no wonder they have to be written in separate lines - this self-introduction of the 'Puppet Master of Hell' is actually better than what he left behind
The threatening content is longer.”
Jiang Xia poked the puppet next to him: "It seems that his self-introduction may also be part of this threatening letter."
Officer Sato took a photo of those lines and sent them to the Metropolitan Police. He held the box and studied it carefully. He was a little confused: "Usually threatening letters have some purpose, but this letter seems to have nothing written... Send the letter
What do people want to do?"
"To interpret it literally, it seems like he wants to invite us to watch his magic."
Officer Takagi suddenly remembered a person and said optimistically:
"Come here, let's take a look first. Speaking of which, I remember that the explosion that triggered the threatening letter did not cause any casualties - maybe this was just a magician whose aesthetics was different from that of the public, deliberately doing it to attract the attention of the world.
The mischief he pulls out is just like that painter’s.”
"Painter..." Officer Sato immediately understood who he was talking about: Kobayashi Seiji, that strange artist with superb painting skills, but always painted bloody corpses.
Since there are painters who like this kind of thing, it seems very normal to have another magician who likes bloody magic, but suffers from being unable to attract an audience, so he decides to do a big job to prove his worth - the Metropolitan Police actually does this every year
I received many threatening letters, many of them from outlaws who wanted to make a name for themselves.
