The hotel annex, which serves as a theater, is located on a small island in the middle of a pool, and only a suspension bridge connects to the hotel, and when Gao Cheng crosses the suspension bridge with Shibara, the members of the magic troupe enter the theater one after another.

"Bang Bang!"

In the stepped theater, all the lights hit the stage, and the noble son Yurama, who had a bad personality, stood in the middle of the spotlight in a white cloak, and behaved elegantly like a prince charming.

And privately it's exactly two people......

Gao Cheng looked around the dimly lit auditorium and sat down in the seat at the back of the door.

"Everyone! Welcome to the Bones Hara Station Theater," Yurama opens with a gentleman's salute on stage, "I am Yurama ...... of the Fantasy Magic Troupe"

There was no one in the first few rows of Gao Cheng, only the hotel manager Nagasaki was sitting with a wooden box in his arms.

"The show of your sinful disciples is about to begin," Manager Nagasaki opened the wooden box nostalgically, squinting slightly and muttering to himself, "Let's take a look, Miss Reiko......"

"Huh?" Gao Cheng looked at Nagasaki suspiciously, and vaguely saw a small doll in the box.

"That's ......"

"It's probably a marionette of Reiko Konmiya," Detective Hakuba didn't know when he walked up to Gao Cheng, "the famous magician who died in this theater five years ago......"

"Reiko Konmiya?"

"You've probably seen the brochure, right? Reiko Konmiya is the head of the Konmiya Magic Troupe, the predecessor of the Fantasy Magic Troupe, and the first time I saw her was when I was a child...... It was also at a magic show in London, where she created a magic trick that was ingenious and exquisite, but unfortunately passed away unexpectedly during a rehearsal at this place five years ago......"

Detective Hakuba sighed and watched the performance on stage.

"Most of the large-scale magic tricks performed by the Fantasy Magic Troupe are created by her, even the 'living puppet' of the finale now...... Although it is said that it was the original of the magic troupe after her death, it is difficult to say exactly what happened. ”

"Oh?" Gao Cheng looked at the White Horse Detective in surprise, "Is the White Horse a magic fan?" I thought a high school detective like you didn't like magic very much......"

He had the impression that Conan was basically bored watching magic shows, and there was only the fun of debunking the tricks.

"Sort of." Detective Hakuba smiled awkwardly and sat down on the opposite side of the aisle.

"Everyone!" On stage, a trainee magician dressed up as a bunny girl appeared on the stage, "Next is the much-anticipated 'living puppet' magic trick that our fantasy magic troupe is proud of!" ”

Gao Cheng's attention was attracted by the stage: "It's Miss Satomi, she looks really good like this, and she looks very cute......"

Gray Yuan's little face fell: "The more beautiful it is, the more dangerous it may be......"

"Miss Satomi is the murderer? Impossible, right? Although on the train was the body she found......"

While Gao Cheng was thinking, the finale of the stage had begun, and a marionette about the size of a real person sat quietly in the middle of the stage, and the atmosphere of the scene fell silent.

"I'm a marionette, a sad marionette who can only be fiddled with silk threads......"

The puppet slowly stood up, cut the rope from its body with a pair of scissors, and began to move freely with excitement.

"Is this a living puppet?" Gao Cheng stared at the stage research, "There must be another silk thread control that is not obvious, right?" It's very average......"

The white horse detective smiled: "But it's jumping rope." ”

Gao Cheng's face was sweating: "It must be the silk threads on both sides dragging ......"

"Now it's time to cross-jump."

"Strange ......" Gao Cheng's head was a little big, "It's impossible, how did you control it?" Could it be that the puppets are robots? ”

Seeing that the puppets on the stage suddenly fell apart and assembled their bodies by themselves, Gao Cheng had some self-doubt and bit his fingers in a daze.

Even magic can't subvert physics, right? It's weird......

Watching the puppet begin to tie the cut rope by itself, Gao Cheng looked confused.

It is absolutely impossible to control it with silk threads, and it must be that the puppet has done something.

"Dididi!" Towards the end of the performance, the mobile phone that Twilight was carrying with her suddenly rang again, and the faces of several people changed suddenly.

"How? Is the magic of the Fantasy Magic Regiment still good? The strange voice smirked, "The 'living puppet' is over?" But the best is yet to come, hehe, I'll let you watch a rare big magic trick, and enjoy the second act of the death magic show! ”

"Smack!"

All of a sudden, the lights in the theater went out, and the stage and the audience were instantly plunged into darkness.

"What's going on?" Gao Cheng stood up suddenly, his cold hair standing on end.

"Is that part of the show? How come it's all dark and I can't see anything......"

"Smack!" In a matter of seconds, the stage lights turned on again, and Gao Cheng looked straight at the stage, the marionette had disappeared under the spotlight, and in its place was the corpse of the noble son Yurama sitting on a chair.

The corpse was wrapped in a rope, a dagger was inserted through a rose in the heart, the bright red blood was strangely striking in the light, and the eyes wide under Yurama's long golden hair were terrifying.

"Ah——!h The audience was silent as death at first, and then suddenly burst into an exclamation, and Officer Twilight and the others and the magic troupe hurried to the stage, their faces turning pale.

"Mr. Yurama!"

"Already dead......"

"What the hell is going on?" Twilight gloomily held the phone that had been hung up, "That bastard! What kind of death magic show is there! ”

"The seesaw principle ......" Tokitsu Junya suddenly spoke, "Look at the ceiling, there is a doll hanging on the other end of the rope, it seems that the weight of the corpse falling from the ceiling dragged the doll up." ”

"Really ......"

Everyone looked up, and sure enough, they saw the marionette and rope from before stirring together on the ceiling shelf.

"It's not just that," Gao Cheng walked onto the stage, "There is only one exit here, and I have been sitting there at the door, and I have not seen anyone leave, which means that the murderer is still in the theater." ”

"Still here?" Twilight turned solemnly to Takagi, "Check right away to see if any audience members have left their seats, and by the way, check all possible places where there are many people to see if there are any suspicious characters!" ”

"Yes, Police!"

Half an hour later, Takagi returned to the stage with the results of the cross-examination: "From the time the lights went out until the body appeared, no one in the audience left their seats. ”

Gao Cheng asked, "What about the suspicious characters?" ”

"It's all searched," Twilight shook her head, "I didn't find any suspicious people hiding, the only possibility now is ...... The murderer of Yurama is among the members of the magic troupe......"

"Wait, wait a minute," Zuojinji laughed, "Mr. Policeman, don't jump to conclusions so suddenly, all of us have alibi, the murderer used the seesaw principle to replace the puppet with a corpse using a ceiling beam, this is a quick magic trick that we magicians usually use, yes, but ......

"The murderer had to be on the ceiling to do this, and it took a lot of time to go down a steep staircase from that side to the sides of the stage, but as soon as the lights came on, we all rushed to the stage, right?"

"Yes," the mountain god Yukai chimed in, sweating profusely, "It will take a minute or two to get down from the roof......

"That's not necessarily," Shi Jin interrupted with a chuckle, "If the murderer comes down with the corpse, a moment is enough, can you ask about the weight of the doll?" ”

"70 kilograms," Gao Yuanyao looked at his notebook, "I used to measure it when I put it on the plane." ”

"What about Yurama?"

"It's about 60 kilograms, and I measured ...... during last year's physical examination."

Shi Jin smiled even more affirmatively: "In this way, it shows that the murderer came down with the corpse, because only by adding the murderer's weight can the weight of the puppet exceed 70 kilograms." ”

"Just, even so," the mountain god Yukai said with an ugly expression, "Anyone can use this technique, right?" ”

"Indeed, any of you can," Tokitsu Junya glanced over the people of the magic troupe, and the corners of his mouth rose, "but the contemptible happened to see something interesting, about the mystery of the disappearance of the corpse on the train, and even how the corpse appeared in the hotel, the contemptible already has some clues......"

"You already know?" Twilight was surprised, "How the hell did that corpse disappear?!" ”

"I can't say it yet," Shi Jin chuckled and glanced at Gao Cheng, and walked away with his hands in his trouser pockets, "When the whole case is solved, the contemptible will naturally tell you everything." ”

Gao Cheng frowned and watched Shi Jin walk out of the theater.

What the hell did this guy find......

"Brother Chenghu," Twilight said in a frustrated mood, "why were you preempted by an outsider?" Don't have a clue at all? ”

Gao Cheng shook his head silently.

Shi Jin must have found some clues that he didn't know, so it seems that he shouldn't expect this guy to say it......

What a nasty guy.

However, the suspicion has narrowed down to the members of the magic troupe, and as long as you investigate carefully, you will definitely be able to find more clues, and it may not be impossible to find the murderer.