mynovelonline Chapter 707 (4k) Hide and Seek and Silencing
Chapter 707 (4k) Hide and Seek and Silencing
Chapter 707 (4k) Hide and Seek and Silencing
At the end of the play, those who had been poisoned or stabbed all climbed up, and the person who had fallen off the stage also slowly rose up on the elevator.
It seems that the drama is just a drama, and it did not turn into a real serial murder case because of Conan's arrival.
Or...it just hasn't become that yet?
When the three actors came to the center of the stage and thanked the audience that should have been empty, they noticed that there were some guests here, so they waved to them extra.
Junko Shimizu led Kogoro Mori and others to the backstage and explained the play on the way.
The character with the black feather mask is the 'Minister'. He is the enemy of the character with the colorful feather mask, the 'Prince'. They fought endlessly, and finally the minister stabbed the prince to death, but he himself slipped and fell to his death.
The gray-white feather mask that appeared last was the 'king'. The fight between the minister and the prince was actually planned by the king. After the prince and the minister died together, he came out and sat firmly on the throne, reaping the benefits.
However, the king, who was drinking fine wine, did not know that the wine in his glass had already been poisoned by the prince. So with a bang, none of the three fools got the throne and they all died.
"This is a satire on the struggle for power, right?" Kogoro Mori looked constipated and forced himself to make a comment.
Without directly answering Maori Kogoro's comment, Shimizu Junzi continued to evasively say: "This play was written by a famous British playwright in the 15th century. It has been performed dozens of times over the past few hundred years. The strange thing is that in almost every performance, one or more of the actors on the stage will have an accident. It is also called a cursed play."
Martin Sakamoto: "So you're going to fire an actor, so you're going to stage a cursed play and use the legend as an excuse?"
"Mr. Cat, you're joking. The troupe certainly doesn't want any accidents to happen to its precious actors, and some strange things happened during the rehearsal, so we invited Mr. Maori to eliminate the hidden dangers during the performance." Junko Shimizu couldn't figure out whether the talking cat was called Sakamoto or Martin. According to her observations and speculations along the way, the cat's name should be Sakamoto, and there was a man named Martin who was probably using a device like a phone on the cat to speak remotely.
Maori Kogoro straightened his back proudly: "Leave it to me, the famous detective Maori Kogoro!"
When they came to the backstage, Shimizu Junzi introduced them to the three actors who were performing the stage play. When they were talking to Maori Kogoro, Martin, who was standing on Conan's head, lowered his head and reminded them: "It's full of four people, guess who the dead person is and who the murderer is without a prize?"
"No one will die. I will catch the murderer." Conan said without hesitation, then froze: "No prize for guessing?"
What about the agreement that if Conan wins the bet, he will give Martin some spoilers about the future plot?
"I can't get the future plot." Martin yawned. "The boss was squeezed out of the organization by the vest. Gin went all over the world to hunt the boss. The vest helped you when your cousin died. Now the vest has left. It's good that the organization is not paralyzed. I don't know what will happen in the future."
This was the first time Conan knew that Ma Jia had left.
"So I don't know the main plot, unless I ask someone from the future, which is too troublesome. I can give some spoilers for small cases like this, but you don't want to know about these everyday cases, right?"
"Who said that?" Conan denied. Knowing the future a little bit in advance would give him one more chance to save people, so of course he would accept anyone who came: "I want any plot."
"Then wait until you win the bet... Wait, where's your bet?"
"Hey hey hey..."
"Hey, you want to get something for nothing?" Martin snorted twice and didn't bother with him: "You can't win anyway."
That's not necessarily true! Conan perked up and stared closely at the three actors who were chatting with Maori Kogoro, trying to find out who among them had ulterior motives.
Unfortunately, he was facing actors, and no matter how he looked at them, he felt that their performances were almost the same.
Instead, one of the actors felt uncomfortable being stared at by Conan, so he took the initiative to come over and ask, "Little brother, is there anything strange about me?"
"No, nothing... hehe..." Conan tried to get away with it.
Martin felt a little lost lying on this guy's head, so he stood up and looked around for a new mount.
Mouri Ran was standing behind Mouri Kogoro, Shinonome Nano and the little professor were curiously looking around backstage, and Haibara Ai was standing on the outer circle of the crowd, folding her arms and looking dazed.
Let me see which child is left alone again?
Measure distance, calculate acceleration, correct air resistance, check friction, choose angle, accumulate power - I jump.
Conan was kicked and staggered, while Martin turned into a black arc and jumped towards the top of Haibara Ai's head.
Haibara Ai, who seemed to be staring at the empty space in a daze, suddenly had a sharp look. She then made a quick move and grabbed the cat by the scruff of its neck in mid-air.
"Meow?" Martin tilted his head and acted cute.
Huiyuan Ai put down her arms and held the cat horizontally in her arms like a child, and then explained in a cold tone: "I don't want your fallen hair to mix with my hair. It feels perverted."
"Yes, yes, I'll take it seriously." Martin turned over in her arms, with his soft belly facing up: "Who says I'm a cat mother?"
It was obvious from the morning that she really wanted to have sex with me, but as the morning went by she was still too embarrassed to speak up, so she just shrank into the corner with a sullen face.
She tried every means to catch my tail the second day we met, why is she too embarrassed to do so now? Others are bullies in their dens, but the more familiar someone is, the less she can open her mouth.
However, she became more and more skilled in suppressing those naughty kids.
Haibara Ai looked at its belly, then looked down and found a small soybean and two quail eggs. She frowned, then looked up for a nearby trash can, ready to throw away this undisciplined cat.
"You're thinking about something dangerous." Martin understood her expression, then he turned over and jumped up, stepped on Huihara Ai's shoulders and got into her hood: "Take a nap, call me if someone dies."
Even though she was carrying a small backpack to support her, the weight of seven or eight kilograms hanging from the hood would obviously make the clothes uncomfortable around her neck, but Haibara Ai didn't say anything. She just pulled the collar of her sweatshirt to adjust it, and then quietly watched the progress of the case.
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After hearing about the abnormalities that occurred during the rehearsals these days, Kogoro Mouri had no clue what to do, so he simply wandered around the backstage of the theater, searching for any suspicious places, or asked the theater's handymen, art designers, prop masters and the like.
It was not until noon when everyone had their lunch boxes from the crew that Kogoro Mouri gained nothing. Kiyoko Shimizu said that as long as there were no accidents in the afternoon's performance, it didn't matter how those strange things happened.
After lunch, the little professor wanted to play with Sakamoto again, so Haibara Ai quickly took Martin out of her hat and handed it to the little professor like she was throwing away a hot potato. The official performance was about to start in two hours, and Maori Kogoro was going to inspect again. Of course, Conan followed him, one to solve the case, and the other to keep an eye on Maori Kogoro and prevent him from getting into trouble.
Then the little doctor thought it was fun and took Martin Sakamoto with him to go on patrol.
After spending a morning together, Xiaolan and Tounome Nano have become friends and are now chatting animatedly. Haibara Ai is standing aside to join in the atmosphere.
"Uncle, I think it's better to check the props again." Conan reminded: "If the prop sword and the real sword are taken by mistake, won't the brother who plays the prince be in danger?"
In order to improve their acting skills, the troupe found real swords for the actors to rehearse the fighting scenes. Of course, they still used prop swords on the stage.
The prop sword is a flexible, retractable structure. When used to stab someone, it will naturally retract into the hilt under pressure, making it look like it has stabbed someone's body, and then return to its original length when it is 'pulled out'.
When Kogoro Mouri heard this, he thought it made sense and immediately went to the prop warehouse.
"Wow!" the little doctor exclaimed.
The prop warehouse contains not only props for this play, but also all kinds of weird and strange things, such as mummy sarcophagus, warrior armor, and the big iron gate of the Garden of Eden.
The little doctor looked at it curiously and went straight into the gap between the boxes to explore.
On the other side, Maori Kogoro pulled out the prop swords that the 'minister' and the 'prince' were going to use, and pressed the swords back with his fingertips. Seeing that they retracted normally, Maori Kogoro nodded with satisfaction: "OK, there is no problem with the swords, let's go to the next place."
Conan nodded and followed Kogoro Mouri out. After walking a few steps, Conan suddenly turned back: Where is that little doctor?
Well, it's obvious that the young professor is still in the warehouse. Conan looked at Maori Kogoro who was walking in front of him, hesitated and went back to the warehouse to find someone. Although Martin was accompanying the young professor, he had to be a reliable person to be at ease.
Conan returned to the warehouse: "Doctor, Martin, are you in there? We are leaving!"
In a corner among the many miscellaneous items in the warehouse, the little doctor said to Martin seriously: "Shh! Don't talk, Sakamoto."
When children are in the mood to play, they don't care what time they do or what they do. The little professor first thought that this place was very suitable for hide-and-seek, and then he suddenly wanted to play hide-and-seek, so he hid here on the spot and waited for Conan to catch him.
Martin didn't care and nodded.
But while the young professor was saying "hush" to Martin, Conan had already found them among the sundries: "You are here, hurry up and leave."
"Hmm..." The little doctor made an unwilling sound.
"Doctor, it's dark here and I can't see anything. Let's go somewhere else to play." Seeing that the little doctor was difficult to appease, Conan decisively changed his words.
Before the little doctor could agree, footsteps and the sound of a door opening were heard outside the prop warehouse. Conan subconsciously went into the hiding place of the little doctor and Martin.
As expected, the person who opened the door of the prop warehouse was not Maori Kogoro, but a middle-aged man in his 50s. His name was Komazuka Hiroshi, and he was one of the three actors who played the old king.
The two men and the cat looked out from the gap between the boxes and found Hiroshi Komazuka holding a sword in his hand, which immediately made Conan give up the idea of going out to say hello.
Komazuka Hiroshi came to the sword rack with the white hand-guarded rapier, picked up the white prop sword used by the "minister" on the sword rack - this sword would "pierce" the prince's chest, and then exchanged his own sword with the prop sword.
It can be imagined that the sword brought by Hiroshi Komazuka was a real sword, which should be the real sword used by the two actors when practicing, and now he has exchanged it with the prop sword.
Not only did he exchange the two swords, Komazuka Hiroshi also laughed sinisterly at the sword rack and muttered to himself: "Hehehe, Robert, you are dead now!"
Robert is the actor who plays the prince, a Japanese-American. Once Komazuka Hiroshi exchanges the minister's prop sword with a real sword, Robert will most likely be stabbed in the heart by the minister's real sword.
He really wanted to kill someone, Conan understood immediately. It was a coincidence that he stayed here this time, and he just happened to witness Komazuka Hiroshi's plan to kill.
It seems that this time he can easily stop Komazuka Hiroshi's murder plan, so that no one will die in this case, and win the bet with Martin! Thinking of this, Conan excitedly clenched his fists and said "Yeah".
As a result, his butt hit a box with a deflated ball on it. After a subtle impact, the ball rolled off the box and made a sound.
"Who's there!" Hiroshi Komazuka instantly realized that there were other people in the warehouse, and stood up to look over there.
Conan subconsciously covered his mouth and noticed the stares of the man and the cat beside him, and could only smile awkwardly.
Then Martin Sakamoto suddenly stood up and gave Conan a big kick, driving Conan out of the hiding place.
Conan stumbled out from the corner, looked at Komazuka Hiroshi and could only smile awkwardly again, pretending to know nothing: "Hello, uncle."
"Goodbye, uncle!" Then Conan ran towards the warehouse door.
However, Komazuka Hiroshi grabbed him by the back of his collar and lifted him up, then covered Conan's mouth: "Sorry, kid, you can't tell anyone about this."
Then, Komazuka Hiroshi found some tape and sealed Conan's mouth. Then he looked around and opened the lid of the mummy's sarcophagus in the warehouse, threw Conan in, and closed the lid again.
“Hmm——!” “Hmm——!”
Conan struggled inside the coffin, occasionally pushing up the lid of the sarcophagus, but it was still not enough to free himself.
Komazuka Hiroshi felt that it was not safe enough, after all, it was just a prop sarcophagus, and the lid was made of wood and not very heavy. So Komazuka Hiroshi brought in a large box and put it on top of the sarcophagus.
After sealing Conan, Komazuka Hiroshi felt that it was not over yet, and once again looked towards the hiding place where Conan came out: "Is there someone else there?"
The little doctor and Martin hiding in the back: It’s spicy!
(End of this chapter)