Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

The venue for the beauty pageant is located in a large banquet hall on the 19th floor.

There is a huge stage between the venues, inlaid with countless decorative lights, and on the top there are spotlights that are being adjusted by the staff.

In the open space in front of the stage, nearly a hundred round tables covered with white tablecloths were lined up, and flower arrangements of various shapes and silver tableware for western food had been placed on the tables.

Luxurious crystal chandeliers hung high, and in front of the two long tables on the sidelines, people from the restaurant placed food and drinks on the tables.

The staff of the TV station and the newspaper office are debugging various machines used in the live broadcast and taking pictures between the venues.

When Chi Feichi walked into the venue, he just received a reply email from Qinjiu.

[If there is no accident, I will be prepared for an accident. ——Gin]

Chi Feichi: "..."

Gin is the mouth of a crow.

However, he also felt that the possibility of no accident tonight was very low.

"Lighting!" The person in charge of the venue stood on the stage, looked up at the staff adjusting the searchlights, and had no time to take care of the group of people entering the venue, and shouted loudly through the microphone, "Adjust the concentration of the beam again, move faster, time Not much more! The puppeteer is going to rehearse, pay attention to see through his puppet to see the color of the light show!"

"Puppeteer?"

The three children and Nanatsuki Koshimizu thought of the "marionette" in the threatening letter, and couldn't help but look towards the stage. On the edge of the stage, they found a figure of a young man holding a puppet.

The man looks to be in his twenties, with short brown hair and slightly curly hair. He is wearing a white dress for performances. He is looking down at the child-sized female puppet in his hand. His expression is focused and his movements are gentle. knight.

Chi Feichi put away his mobile phone, led the way to the stage, and introduced the puppeteer beside the stage, "A world-class puppeteer, Shoichi Amano, although he is still young, whether it is a mechanical puppet or a string Puppets, he can manipulate them freely..."

Going closer, Koshimizu Nanatsuki also recognized Amano Shoichi, "He has been mentioned in many related reports, right? By manipulating various puppets, he can perform wonderful puppet shows by himself, so He has also been on the world-class performance stage more than once, and each performance can get a lot of praise."

"His puppets are all made by himself," Chi Feichi continued, "This time, he is invited to come over so that when the judges are evaluating Miss Hefeng, he can do sideshows, so as not to prevent the audience from It's too boring to wait."

As soon as Amano Sho noticed someone approaching, he paused to check the puppet in his hand, looked up at a group of people, and heard what Chi Feichi said behind him, he smiled shyly and said hello, "Are you from the hotel? ?”

"It's one of the investors."

As Chi Feichi said, he stretched out his right hand to Amano Xiangyi.

"Hi, I'm Amano Shoichi," Amano Shoichi hurriedly clamped the puppet under his left arm, freed his right hand to shake hands with Chi Feichi, then quickly looked at Chi Feichi's cyan eyes, and smiled Said, "You are...HIOSO in the naming source of SO Hotel, right? I heard the person in charge of the hotel talk about you and Ms. Yuanzi before. Thank you very much for your invitation this time."

Since Amano Shoichi spoke as gently and softly as Shinde Tomoaki, and seemed a little shy, Chi Feichi didn't say anything irritating, and cooperated with the greetings, "I'm also looking forward to the wonderful performance Mr. Amano will bring with puppets. "

This is also true.

He is more interested in watching puppet performances than watching Miss Hefeng on stage.

There are often beautiful women, but wonderful puppet shows are rare.

"I will do my best," Tian Ye nodded earnestly, and then smiled politely at Koshimizu Nanatsuki and the children, "Are you bringing this lady and the children to see the venue in advance? Or ...are the kids hungry?"

"Gululu..."

Yuan Tai's stomach growled in response to the occasion, but she herself gave an embarrassed laugh, and glanced at the long table by the side of the venue, "I seem to be really hungry."

Mitsuhiko felt a little ashamed, and put his hand on his forehead, "Genta, don't forget that we still have business to do..."

"It's okay, go eat something first if you're hungry," Chi Feichi comforted Yuantai, who was about to make a fuss, and said to Amano Xiang, "Then we won't bother Mr. Amano to prepare."

Amano Shoichi nodded with a smile, and waited for Chi Feichi to lead the children to the long table, then looked away, lowered his head and continued to check the marionette in his hand, and soon changed to a large mechanical puppet for inspection.

Chi Feichi asked the hotel staff for a plate, and asked the three children and Nanatsuki Koshimizu, who would be watching the background at night, to get something to fill their stomachs first, while he looked at the crystal chandelier in the venue and the blackout curtains in front of the windows and drape, and walked around the venue, looking at the hidden places such as behind the curtains and under the tablecloth.

The crystal chandelier is very heavy, and when it breaks, it will produce a lot of sharp fragments, which can smash and stab people to death, but the crystal chandelier is above the banquet table, Shou Hualian will only appear on the stage, and it is impossible to be hit by the crystal chandelier .

Behind the curtains and under the tablecloth, they were tidied up. There were no crossbow mechanism or any strange items.

The only thing worth noting is that the spotlights on the iron frame above the stage, as well as the lifting ropes, may become dangerous objects.

The former has a metal casing. If it hits a person's head, even if the person does not die, he will be knocked unconscious, plus a concussion and skull injury.

The latter can be used in conjunction with other items to hang people, such as the necklaces of Miss Hefeng...

Since Amano Shoichi had already started the rehearsal on the stage, Chi Feichi was in no hurry to check the stage facilities again, and stood under the stage to watch Amano Shoichi's puppet performance.

Many of those puppets were the size of a child. The spotlight hit a puppet dressed in a samurai costume. The warrior puppet held a bow and arrow in its hand and turned around in a circle. The arrow was aimed at a target not far away, and the arrow was shot. Hit the bullseye.

A group of smaller mechanical puppets gathered behind the samurai puppets. When the arrows hit the bull's-eye, they either kept jumping up and down, or kept clapping and clapping. They were very happy.

The marionette controlled by Shoichi Amano walked from the darkness into the light. The female puppet has golden curly hair and a pair of beautiful big eyes. When she came to the samurai puppet, she bowed gracefully, and then got up and started to move her hands.

Under Shoichi Amano's control, the movements of the female puppet's hands and feet are smooth and harmonious, with a dignified and elegant range. Even if the puppet does not make a sound, it still makes people feel that the female puppet is speaking gently to the samurai puppet.

The puppet next to it just stopped for a while, and jumped and clapped again. The female puppet turned and walked aside, the movement was obviously much lighter, and the spotlight also moved with the female puppet, and soon left the area where the warrior puppet was.

Koshimizu Nanatsuki and the three children came to the front of the stage with plates, and stood together with Chi Feichi to enjoy the puppet rehearsal.

Fei Chi poked his head out from under Chi Feichi's sleeve, staring at the puppets on the stage with interest.

On the stage, the female puppet was walking, turning around from time to time, moving briskly and calmly, like an elf descended from the mortal world.

When encountering a dog puppet whose four legs are lifted alternately and walking in place, the female puppet will squat down and stroke the head of the puppy puppet with her right hand back and forth. When encountering a male mechanical puppet playing the violin, the female puppet will lean back Taking a quick step back, I tried to lean forward a little bit, stepped forward, came to the male puppet again, raised my hand for "silent communication", and spun around the male puppet like a ballet dancer. move on.

The light on the stage was completely darkened. When the lights came on, a mechanical puppet rolled down the steps. Next to the steps was a puppet in the image of a clown writing a letter in tears. A group of puppets on rolling balls surrounded the clown. Turning in circles, besides being lively, it also sets off a kind of loneliness that no one understands on the clown puppet.

Shoichi Amano manipulated the marionette and reappeared under the light. The female puppet first clapped in front of the somersaulting puppet to encourage it, and then went to the clown puppet, stroking the back of the clown puppet, as if to comfort it. Soon, it came to the rolling ball In front of the puppets, we played bocce with other puppets.

"Bravo!"

"Puppets are like living!"

"Mr. Amano is amazing!"

After the rehearsal, the three children exclaimed in amazement. If they hadn't held a plate in their hands, they would have applauded.

Shoichi Amano looked at the children's eyes shining, and smiled shyly again, "Thank you, I'm really happy that you guys like the puppet show."

On the stage, after the lights were turned on, the puppets placed all over the stage also appeared in the light.

Koshimizu Nanatsuki looked at the puppets, "There are so many kinds of puppets, so many puppets come together, it's as lively as a puppet paradise, are all these puppets made by Mr. Amano himself?"

"That's right, I made all these puppets. The puppet that somersaulted down the stairs and the puppet that hit the bull's-eye with an arrow are all Japanese-style mechanical puppets," Shoichi Amano knelt down to tidy up the puppets on the stage, referring to the puppets, There seem to be endless things to say, "The puppet playing the violin, the clown puppet crying and writing letters, and these stepping puppets are called automatic puppets, which are French puppets. In addition, I have also made English puppets and German puppets, but Those two Japanese puppets were actually round in the Edo period."

Nanatsuki Koshimizu continued to test whether Shoichi Amano had a penchant for making real puppets, "These puppets are really big, basically the size of a child."

Sho Amano put a bunch of mechanical puppets into a cardboard box, and said with a smile, "Originally, there shouldn't be such a big one. This is to let the audience in the audience see the puppets clearly, so I made them like children. As a result, the puppet show looks like a live-action show, which is more popular with the audience."

"Then, if the puppet is made into an adult size, won't the audience see it more clearly?" Koshimizu Nanatsuki pretended to be harmless, and the puppet's eyes in the stands were full of love, as if they were really Give Amano Sho an idea, "And the puppet performance looks more like a real-life performance. A puppet as big as a person can also give the audience a great visual impact. Thinking about it, I think such a stage is very interesting."

"A puppet in the size of an adult..." Shou Amano raised his head and scratched his head, with a somewhat dumbfounding expression on his face, "This kind of idea is very interesting, but such a string puppet will be difficult to manipulate. If you use silk threads to control the puppet, it will Fingers need to have strong strength, and it will be difficult to control the movement of the puppet. If the string is too thick to control the puppet, the puppet show will lose its original sense of mystery because the string is too obvious. The performance method of pulling the string seems to be clumsy, and it is the pursuit of puppeteers in this life to make puppets as flexible as human beings, as if giving them life."

Nanatsuki Koshimizu couldn't help but nodded, "That's right..."