Chapter 869 The Price of Life
“Actually, you are not a disciple of the magic user, are you?”
Amuro Toru, who was frowning while looking at his cell phone with no signal, heard this and turned his head behind him. Looking over, I saw Baima Tan's confident face as expected.
This information was a bit personal, and no one else at the party doubted it. Instead, he, the uninvited guest, pointed it out for no reason. Toru Amuro raised his eyebrows and began to think about whether this kid really used family relationship investigation. Possibility of PC IP now.
Oh, the fact that he didn’t suspect it before was not because he trusted Detective Baima. He simply felt that a high-level police officer like the Police Director Baima would not be able to talk so easily even if he really made things easier for the younger members of his family. It's just a technique.
"Oh, how can you see that?" Toru Amuro put away his phone and put on a fake smile on his face, "You said it as if you are also an active member of the group."
"You again How do you know I'm not?" Detective Bai Ma asked back, and then replied in a leisurely tone, "You may not know my style of doing things. I am the kind of person who will prepare as much as possible before taking action. Once evidence is found, as long as there is evidence, I will solve the case. On the way here, I have browsed the recent discussions in this group. To be honest, your image is really different from that of this account. "Too far."
Only cares about recent familiar topics, and will not interrupt when he does not understand. He tries hard to cover up his lack of social experience, but he can't always hide that feeling in his words. Jerky...
Although it may be a bit arbitrary to say this, Hakuba Tan is willing to believe that the owner behind this account should be the two high school girls who followed Amuro Shiro.
Young, active, keen on fashionable and hot topics, not interested in more hard-core content or temporarily unable to develop the stage of interest, jumping out and energetic, not to mention occasionally exposed more Feminine mouth fetish.
Rather, if this account is really used by the dark-skinned man in front of me, then Toru Amuro should be a miracle in the history of his profiling.
"You have read all the content published in the group..." Toru Amuro nodded meaningfully, "You also take this case more seriously than you said yourself."
Baima Tan said that he would rather brave the heavy snow to fight to the scene because he concluded that Kaitou Kidd was here, and the natural closed environment would temporarily make it difficult for the opponent to escape. It was a good opportunity to catch a turtle in a jar, but It can be heard from his words just now that this guy knows far more about the grudges and hatreds of this group that resulted in lives being lost than he lets on.
"There's nothing wrong with you saying that." Detective White Horse did not deny his guess. Instead, he glanced at the stairs where Tang Ze and the others went up. "The profession of magician seems to be similar to that of entertainers, but They might play a very important role in this world..."
Feeling that his words meant something, Toru Amuro pressed his eyebrows. He was about to say something, but then... He looked up and was slightly stunned when he saw Karasawa and Doi Takesuki disappearing from sight side by side.
In his words, White Horse Detective explicitly said that the reason why he paid attention to Kaito Kidd was more about the magician's description than the identity of the other Kaito thief. It was hard to say whether it was a metaphor or a realistic description.
He originally thought that this was Detective White Horse trying to find out who Kaitou Kidd was. When he saw Karasawa's back, he suddenly realized that Detective White Horse's statement might not be all deception.
Karasawa, the Phantom Thief of the Heart, actually came to Kidd very early. He had not yet made the plan to fake his death, Shuichi Akai had not yet defected, and the Phantom Thief of the Heart had just started to become active. He took the initiative to approach Kaitou Kidd and had some collisions with him.
Before knowing the modus operandi and nature of the Phantom Thief of Heart, this move could be interpreted as a discussion among colleagues or even a nuisance. But now, what kind of person is the Phantom Thief of Heart and why? The purpose is to do things, Amuro Toru already knows everything about it, and he just relies on a kind of instinctive distrust that belongs to intelligence personnel to restrain himself from the Phantom Thieves.
Looking back now, the process and reasons for that collision and dialogue may be different from what everyone imagined.
At that time, Karasawa was not a relaxed vigilante. His own situation was still precarious. If it was not really urgent, he would not take the risk to contact the other party.
That was also the first time that the thief Joker appeared in public...
Following this line of thinking, could it be that the investigation and contact with this guy, Detective White Horse, is related to What is Tang Ze doing?
While he was still thinking, a female voice screamed from the second floor.
Amuro Toru and Hakuba Tan arrived as fast as they could, and what they saw was Tanaka Takahisuke who was lying on the ground, pointing at the arrow stuck in the door, and his lips were trembling.
There was a shallow scratch on her right shoulder, and a little blood had begun to seep out from the small wound.
“There are, there are attackers, and there are people shooting arrows at me outside——!”
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“Is this X alloy?” Put arrows on the wall After pulling out the arrow, Kuroba Kaito looked through the things in his hand and turned to ask Karasawa.
After receiving a positive answer, he breathed a sigh of relief and shook his head helplessly.
"It seems that this is what I came here to find." He lowered his eyes, observed the short, brass-like metal at the end of the arrow, and weighed its weight, "But I didn't Imagine finding it like this."
"Do you think this is a relic brought by that Miss Tanaka?" Tangze pointed to the ring at the end of the arrow and said pertinently, "That's not necessary, Harujing. The props left by Mr. Fengchuan are also valuable treasures. It would be too luxurious to use them as props for killing tricks."
"No, it's just because it is a special prop for performances. Only when you use it can you perform such important techniques and props..." Kuroba Kaito shook his head, glanced at Karasawa's face, and swallowed back the second half of the content that was taken for granted, "Forget it, of course you, a layman, don't understand. I guess Ms. Tanaka wanted to use some fishing lines or steel wires to recreate one of Mr. Harui Fuden's more legendary performances, the one where she was trapped in the water tank a second ago and made a very hideous performance. With an expression as if he was about to suffocate, the next second, the person suddenly appeared in another position on the stage without warning. This requires a pulling structure that can bear the human body, and it cannot be achieved by just finding a ring. "
Just as he guessed, this arrow was also one of the props left by Harui Fengden, the once legendary magician, and was used to pull ropes and silk threads.
As a magician whose main performance is extreme escape, Harui Fengden’s performances are always thrilling, and he often makes successful escapes in the last one or two seconds, triggering cheers from the audience.
Tanaka Takahisa used it as a prop to commit crimes, not only to express his dissatisfaction with Hamano Toshiya, a pretender, but also to use the prop from Harui Fuden to take revenge. It is estimated that he could not find a lighter and stronger one temporarily. Reasons for testing equipment.
If someone is thrown out of the window by her, and just slips out a meter or two along the steel wire, the fixed structure will collapse under the load. An adult man with such a heavy weight will hit the wall outside the villa or something like that. ...
This kind of stage accident ranks among the top three in a magician’s nightmare.
"You have seen her tactics." Tang Ze was not surprised, "Then she will take action soon. Why don't you seem to be in a hurry?" "This sentence should be That's the right thing to ask." Kuroba Kaito glanced at him, "You come here to play for no reason, you know what will happen, right? She should take action soon, and she will probably make some noise soon. , attracting other people over, and then taking the opportunity to push Hamano Toshiya out, making him appear in the snow like a magician who transformed a living person... If you don't stop it, that guy with a bit of a mouth will Really dead?”
After the two people finished speaking, they looked at each other, neither of them detecting any urgency in each other's eyes.
After a few seconds of silence, they exhaled in unison and turned their heads in boredom.
"You found that little detective." Kuroba Kaito curled his lips, "It's boring."
"Didn't you deliberately hint at Hakuba?" Karasawa also He rolled his eyelids and said, "Are you very interesting?"
"Hey, even if I didn't hint at the situation upstairs, I guess that guy Bai Ma would have already investigated the interpersonal relationships in the villa when he came. I can even discover her identity as Harujing Fengden's granddaughter, there's no reason why he doesn't know..."
"You make it sound like I secretly reported the answer to Conan. I just said that he can go to Sonoko to ask about the interpersonal relationships in the group..."
Two Phantom Thieves While they were arguing in low voices, Tanaka Takaki's perfectly timed scream passed through the not-so-wide corridor of the villa and echoed throughout the building.
At the corner of the third floor, Conan, who was leaning against the window to look out, glanced distractedly in the direction of the sound, stopped caring about that side, and continued to jump. , trying to open the window latch.
Two attempts failed. Undaunted, he was about to find a stepping stone when a pair of hands stretched out from behind, held his arms, and lifted him up. stand up.
"Xiaolan, uh, you are here..." Conan's body froze at first, but he did not relax after discovering the identity of the person behind him, and he laughed twice.
It's over. He was so focused on investigating the situation of this group of people that he even forgot to explain it to Xiaolan.
"Okay, you do your work first." Mao Lilan shook his head helplessly, then lifted him to the locked lock position of the window, "Isn't it quite urgent? I see you and After Yuanzi asked, she couldn't wait to speak and ran out. "
Although she complained, to be honest, she was used to it.
To make this reasoning madman so anxious, it is basically a moment when life is at stake, so he should hurry up and deal with the situation at hand.
Conan saw the window catch close at hand, and without caring about anything else, he quickly opened the tightly held lock and pushed open the window with all his strength.
The cold wind carried snow flakes and crashed into the window. After passing through the dark night and white snow, Conan tried hard to adjust the focus of his glasses and finally found what he wanted to see.
The thin chain is like a giant open net, crossing the windows of the villa and the flawless snow, connecting to the dark jungle trees outside the yard, like a huge sail, slowly opening open.
The arrow with the rope has been shot, and the sliding track has been formed.
While they were braving the severe cold and searching for traces of the mechanism, Takahisa Tanaka, who was covering the wound on her shoulder, was crying in terror, as if her reason had been defeated by this arrow from the outside, and she was describing incoherently. about what I have experienced.
“When I returned to the room, I felt something was not right...the curtains, the curtains were not closed...then I heard someone knocking on the door, so I walked to the door. , the result..."
As she spoke, her voice became more and more trembling, and her emotions seemed to be on the verge of collapse.
"Who is hiding in a place like this to lay secret arrows... I don't care, I feel like I'm a target by staying here..."
She pushed away hard and came closer to think. Araki, who wanted to check the situation, ran towards the downstairs.
In the middle of the third floor, Hamano Toshiya, whose hands were tied with tape and hanging on the terrace, showed an extremely frightened expression.
His whole body was hung outside the railing. It was an ingenious position that was difficult to observe from any window on either side.
Even if he were standing in his own room, without walking to the edge of the terrace and specifically lowering his head to look for it, he probably wouldn't be able to find a living person hanging outside the window sill.
The chain hanging him was extremely malicious, and there was another piece of slender and strong iron wire strung on it, like a collar, gently following his collarbone and encircling his neck.
There is no need to learn basic mechanics. Just look at the position where he is hanging and you will find that as long as the rope passing through the railing above his head is untied, the weight of his whole body will It will hang on this thin metal wire. At such a height, his ending can be imagined.
What frightened him the most was that as the cold wind intensified and calls and screams came from the second floor, the hemp rope above his head was loosening little by little. He could He clearly felt that his body was sliding downward at a slow but firm speed.
As soon as the slip knot of this rope is completely untied... he will be hung on this iron wire, fall into the two steel cable-like ropes below, and then slide down into the dust-free snow. Land...
Thinking of this, facing the blowing wind and snow, Hamano Toshiya's forehead actually broke out with sweat.
He wanted to shout for help, but the tape on his mouth stopped all his actions.
As for struggling, as long as he dares to act randomly, the rope above his head will only be untied faster...
In the dilemma of no way to heaven and no door to earth, Hamano Toshiya For the first time, I sincerely regretted my past nonsense.
What happens if a magician makes a mistake? A magician who doesn’t make a mistake just performs a successful magic. If he performs a magic trick, the cost is his life...!
(End of this chapter)