Conan’s Corpse Picker

The apprentice was startled and hurriedly explained: "It is a medicine that can lower the heart rate after being taken. Because there is an underwater escape event in the second half, which requires holding one's breath for a long time, the teacher took one pill 15 minutes in advance. This way It can assist performance and improve success rate.”

Inspector Asa looked at him and then at Subaru Okiya who was huddled in the corner. He suddenly thought of something and said pointedly: "Since there is no problem with the water tank cover, let's think about it from another angle - if someone puts it The medicine was replaced with something like a muscle relaxant. After the magician took the medicine, his abdominal muscles lost strength and he was unable to lift himself up from the water while standing upside down."

Okiya Subaru: "..." Just guess, let's see what I do!

Don't continue to hint, why don't I agree to Uzo's proposal...

Okiya Subaru couldn't figure out why this British policeman was always so obsessed with him.

However, thinking of Uzo who was watching the show somewhere at this moment, he gradually felt that all this was very reasonable - Inspector, he probably didn’t even know what he was thinking, he was just an ignorant tool man who was bewitched by Uzo That’s all. Otherwise, everything was fine. Why did he order the arrest of an innocent tourist buying clothes who was passing by yesterday?

Okiya Subaru sighed silently in his heart, and decided that no matter how suspicious the inspector was, he would first insist that he was not the murderer and hold on until the murder case was over.

...After surrendering and lying down, the sky seemed to turn blue.

…

Inspector Asa stared at him with oppressive eyes, originally expecting to find some clues. Unexpectedly, this time, the suspicious Tokyo man ignored him at all, and even started to look up at the ceiling at a 45-degree angle, not knowing what was going on. Watch something.

His forehead twitched and a few veins stretched out. He was about to come closer and shake this guy to make him face the problem.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Jiang Xia looked at Subaru Okiya next to him, and suddenly said as if he had a sudden realization: "That's it."

Inspector Asaph: "?"

Okiya Subaru: "...?"

Jiang Xia looked at Inspector Asa: "I think there should be no problem with that pill, because I heard that during the performance of 'Underwater Escape', the curtain covering the water tank was closed once, but the magician did not do what we did at that time. The sign for help that was agreed before - if you are really worried, you can ask your subordinates to do a blood analysis, and you will be able to find out what medicine the deceased took before he was alive."

Inspector Asa looked at Jiang Xia, then at Subaru Okiya, and snorted: "You seem to have always trusted this guy."

Jiang Xia nodded: "I think Mr. Tanaka is a good man."

"..." Subaru Okiya felt like his conscience had been stabbed: before, he barely thought he could be considered a good person, but now, he has joined forces with Uzuo, and he doesn't know what he will be like in the future. Force Gan to do something crazy... Although he can regret it when the time comes, he has already betrayed Uzo once. If he does it again, regretting it will definitely mean death. Things haven't come to an end yet, and to be honest, Okiya Subaru doesn't know what choice he will make at that time.

Jiang Xia casually handed out a good guy card. After sending it out, he suddenly found that although it was not obvious, his face seemed a little distorted.

He was a little confused, but it wasn't just once or twice that this little guy was making random guesses. He didn't bother to delve into it further. Instead, he looked at the water tank cover next to him and began to push the progress bar diligently.

"Compared with the box lid next to it, this lock bolt looks new and its shape is a bit strange." Jiang Xia asked the apprentice who was standing aside with his head lowered, "Have you changed the lock bolt recently?"

The apprentice thought for a while: "When we inspected the props a while ago, we replaced a batch of aging parts that pose safety risks. It seems that the latch was also replaced at the same time."

After saying that, Jiang Xia followed Jiang Xia's line of sight and saw the lock bolt. He was suddenly startled and took a closer look: "Wait, this lock bolt... its shape seems to be different from before. Why is there an extra hole?"

Jiang Xia also squatted next to him: "The shaft in the middle has also been shortened."

The apprentice nodded, a little confused: "Maybe the prop master installed some new mechanism."

Next to them, the prop master happened to hear their conversation and looked even more confused than them: "No, if there is, how could I not know about it."

"If you don't know..." Jiang Xia turned to look at the long-haired script writer, "That's what you're pretending, right?"

Okiya Subaru followed his gaze and saw the cold sweat on the script writer's forehead. He suddenly understood: speaking of it, in a sense, the script writer can also be regarded as Uzo's colleague. I should have thought that Uzo might start with him...

The scriptwriter seemed to want to refute, but seemed to have no idea yet.

Before he spoke, Jiang Xia pointed to the top of the stage. He was pointing to the place where Okiya Subaru was looking up just now: "Unlike the assistants and apprentices who have to be busy on the stage, after the performance officially starts, you, the 'script writer', don't have to appear in front of other people, you only need to watch from behind the stage. Just touch the screen.

"So when you were performing just now, you could quietly leave your original position and hide in advance directly above the water tank and on the beams of the stage ceiling - during the performance, the lights just couldn't reach that position, so whether it was in the audience seat No one in the audience or the members on the stage can see you.

"The deceased was handcuffed to the lid of the water tank. The lid of the water tank was not light even with the person attached, so it was necessary to use a steel bar to lift the lid and place it on the water tank. And the steel bar went straight to the ceiling. In this way, during the performance, The curtain around the water tank is pulled up, and you can use the curtain to slide along the steel bar to the top of the water tank and land on the lid.

"You have brought a latch 'shaft' with you. After inserting it into the water tank lid, the lid that can be easily opened will be firmly locked. You don't need to return to the ceiling after that, just At the moment when the light dims, you can lift the curtain from the blind spot behind and escape to the backstage, and you can complete this murder hidden in magic."

After hearing this, Inspector Asa felt that he understood what happened next: "Then he just needs to quietly pull out the shaft while we are busy rescuing the deceased, and then he can pretend that it is an unknown 'magic accident'—— No wonder I couldn't open the water tank lid at that time, but the scriptwriter who went to open the box later was able to open the lid with just a lift!"

The script writer gritted his teeth and snorted coldly: "Nonsense! I had been checking the stage effects backstage, how could I possibly do these things. This is slander, be careful I will sue you!"

Inspector Asa motioned to the young police officer next to him: "Search him for the 'shaft'!"