The magician's assistant on the stage became panicked and told other staff: "There seems to be something wrong."
His voice was "inadvertently" heard through the microphone attached to his collar, and bursts of exclamations began to erupt from the audience.
Some staff shouted "Closing soon", while others shouted "Bring me the axe!".
Conan sat on the stage, motionless, even feeling a little bored.
When Suzuki Sonoko let go of him because of nervousness, he took the time to popularize the science: "This is also a regular part of the escape magic. In order to create a tense atmosphere..."
As he finished speaking, a figure flashed beside him.
——Mao Lilan nimbly dodged the staff, rushed onto the stage, shouted low, and rushed forward to kick the water tank.
But before she could kick it, the curtain was opened with a crash. Xinghe Tongwu looked very helpless, walked out from behind the curtain dripping wet, and half-knelt on the ground.
Just now, Xinghe Tongwu suddenly felt a chill in his back.
According to the plan, he was supposed to delay coming out for two minutes.
But he still followed his intuition and showed up in advance.
Looking at the beautiful high school student walking towards him, Xinghe Tongwu felt that he was worrying too much. He came to his senses and started to recite his lines.
After thanking him for his good luck, thanking the staff who tried to rescue him, and thanking Mao Lilan who "screamed to wake him up when he was about to lose consciousness", Xinghe Tongwu stood up with the help of the staff and greeted the audience.
, left the stage amidst a round of applause.
Conan chuckled in his heart, secretly wrote down the name of this magic exhibition, and vowed that if there are tickets from here among the prizes in the next lottery, he will not draw them and let Mao Lilan buy them next time.
After Xinghe Tōgo's magic was over, Kujiyuan Yasu came on stage.
He is not young anymore, his disciples are gradually emerging, and it is time for him to retire.
After hearing him smile and say, "When this performance is over, it's time to go behind the scenes and spend more time with my family." Shiraishi nodded happily, feeling that the difficulty of the task had been reduced a lot.
Ninety-nine yuan Kang chose the birdcage escape magic.
He will enter a cage that is suspended twenty centimeters above the ground. The assistants will cover the cage with a piece of cloth, then throw sharp knives and spears into the cage, and finally burn the cover with fire.
Cloth, leaving only an empty cage - this is the script.
When the props were brought onto the stage, Kinoshita Yoshiro continued to educate Shiraishi:
"There is a small opening at the bottom of the back of the birdcage. After the magician enters the cage and is blocked by the cloth, he will change into the same clothes as the assistants, then climb out through the opening and mix with the assistants——
You see, in order to cater to Teacher Jiujiu’s fat figure, all the assistants this time have beer bellies.”
Once the trick is exposed, the wonderful magic suddenly becomes boring.
Shiraishi glanced at the cage twice, then at the sprayer next to him.
This thing is ostensibly to create a fairy atmosphere and match the magical atmosphere.
But in fact, it was to cover the magician's feet when he came out of the cage, and to cover the dark coat that was still on the ground after he changed out of it - underneath the coat were the same clothes of his assistants.
Regardless of the purpose, this thing is of great help to Shiraishi.
It snuck close to the cage against the black curtain. When Yuankang entered the cage and the assistants covered it with cloth, he jumped into the cage under the cover of the mist at the bottom.
Then he took out his candle.
…
The music on the stage was loud, and the assistants surrounded the cage, dancing and covering it with cloth, preparing to greet the magician who was about to sneak out.
The assistants all wear uniform tuxedos, a beer belly, and a clown mask.
Soon, the cloth at the back of the cage moved, and "Ninety-nine Yuankang" bent down and got out.
The black coat was slung on his arm and quickly thrown to the ground. The mask pinned to the back of his waist had already been put on his face.
"Ninety-nine Yuan Kang" stood up straight, took the hat from his assistant, and put it on his head - now, he looked no different from the assistants around him.
As the conductor of the entire magic show, he looked at the sword hanging from the top, picked up his long sword, and made a "start" gesture.
The mechanism was activated, and the long knife fell from the top and was deeply inserted into the bird cage.
…
Jiujiu Yuankang's appearance is very ordinary.
Suzuki Sonoko watched for a while and then lost interest.
She leaned on her seat in boredom and looked sideways at Shiraishi. She wondered why Shiraishi slept so firmly without sliding to the side. At the same time, she felt that he was such a gentleman when he fell asleep and refused to fall on a girl.
He was very different from some gangsters who loved to take advantage. He was indeed the man who caught her attention.
Conan looked at her face with resentment and shyness for a while, feeling that this classmate was more difficult to understand than magic.
While he was complaining secretly, there was suddenly a commotion in front of him, and someone was vaguely shouting "He's dead!".
Conan turned around alertly and looked at the front row.
The same method is usually not carried out twice in a short period of time.
Even if Xinghe Tongwu and Kujiu Yuanyasu are not close and have not negotiated, then after seeing Xinghe Tongwu's routine, Kujiu Yuanyasu should cancel this "pretending to escape failure" routine in time.
...Or, this veteran magician predicted the audience's idea of "never playing the same routine twice". When the audience felt that the real routine was only when they didn't follow the routine, he suddenly started to use the routine again to create a magic trick.
A new routine?
But soon, as the big curtain in the front row began to slowly close, Conan came to a conclusion.
——Maybe something really happened.
Otherwise, the curtain in front will not be closed, because the magician can perform too many operations while it is closed. In this way, regardless of whether the final escape is successful or not, in the eyes of the audience, this will be a failed magic.
…
The assistants were the first ones to discover something was wrong.
——In addition to the mechanical knives descending from the sky, for the sake of show effect, the assistants will each have a knife and insert the knife into the cage.
Some people felt resistance in the middle, but they just thought it was hitting someone else's knife, so they changed the direction and continued to insert. After all, "Ninety-Nine Yuankang" had already got out of the cage under their gaze. No one thought that there would be something inside the cage.
Someone.
Later, they finally realized something was wrong when they noticed blood dripping from the edge of the cage.
And it was obviously almost the scheduled time, but Yuankang Jiujiu never showed up at the designated place.
Some brave people lifted the cover and peeped inside, and vaguely saw a man in the dim cage with a dead look on his face, with a falling sharp knife stuck in his head.
The assistant screamed and fell to the ground.
At this time, Kinoshita Yoshiro's ignition device installed on the edge of the cage started, and the flammable cover caught the flames and burned instantly, revealing the body in the cage.
The screams in the hall instantly drowned out the background music.
Almost at the same time, a ray of light hit the center of the auditorium.
Wearing a clown mask and a tuxedo, the man in black, who had removed his obstructive "beer belly", appeared where Ninety-nine Yuan Yasu should have appeared, and was bowing leisurely to the surrounding audience.
Anyone who would do such a thing at this time is not a murderer, but definitely an accomplice! This is the conclusion that most people have come to.
But Conan thought more than them.
When Mao Lilan hesitated to go up and kick him, Conan kept capturing information on the suspect.
——Black clothes, wearing a mask, superb magic, will appear out of thin air...
Conan was thinking about it, and suddenly a person popped into his mind,