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Chapter 21 Murder Magic (2)
From this, it can be concluded that the time when the deceased was killed was within ten minutes of the magic show "Human Puzzle".But because of this period of time, everyone was so engrossed in watching the wonderful programs on stage that there was no time to notice who had passed or stayed in the corridor behind the deceased.And at that time, all the lights were turned off, and the audience was pitch black, and it was impossible to see anything clearly.

According to the security guard at the gate, no one has come out of the theater since Zhang Tianqi's show started.

From this it is certain that the murderer must still be in the theatre.But there are nearly a thousand spectators sitting in the huge theater, who is the murderer?
Some investigators suggested simply spending more time and investigating one by one.

Fan Zetian thought for a while and said: "It's not necessary, just find out who has left their seats during the show "Human Puzzle", and then leave these people for investigation. Let them go back."

Several investigators immediately divided up to investigate, because Zhang Tianqi's show was very exciting and attractive, and even all the backstage staff ran to the stage to watch, so not many people got up and walked around during the show in the auditorium.

After strict investigation, there were only ten people including Feng Kun.

Among these ten people, two were female middle school students who were in junior high school. Because Zhang Tianqi's magic tricks were too scary to watch, they ran into the women's toilet and hid together.

The other three were addicted to cigarettes, squatting at the door of the men's toilet and smoking for more than ten minutes.

Among the remaining five people, except for Feng Kun, the other four are all from other places, and they don't know Miao Renfeng and his wife, so the possibility of committing the crime can be basically ruled out.

With the deepening of the investigation, the grievances between Feng Kun, Miao Renfeng and Ning Yi were gradually grasped by the police.

In the words of the police, there is a motive for killing.

And at this time someone remembered that when the show "Human Puzzle" started on the stage, Feng Kun seemed very disturbed. He ran around in the theater and passed the aisle behind the deceased at least twice.

The most deadly thing was that the careful Fan Zetian found a fresh bloodstain on the hem of Feng Kun's clothes.

After testing, it was found that the blood on his body came from the body of the deceased Miao Renfeng.

As a result, Feng Kun became the main suspect of the police and was immediately arrested.

3
It has been three days since Ning Yi visited Feng Kun in the detention center.

Although Feng Kun repeatedly denied that he was the murderer during the interrogation, the police believed that he was a rival in love with the deceased, had a motive for the murder, and had the blood of the deceased on his body. period of his detention.

As soon as Ning Yi saw him in the reception room, she shed tears of sadness, and said with a choked voice, "I'm sorry that I'm the one for you, and you want to take revenge, even though you're targeting me, why did you want to kill Renfeng?"

Feng Kun couldn't help sighing, and said, "Ning Yi, you are the person who knows me best in this world. How could you even believe that I killed Miao Renfeng?"

Ning Yi was taken aback, and asked: "Could it not be you? Then how come you are stained with Renfeng's blood?"

Feng Kun scratched his head and said: "I don't know what to say. Afterwards, I thought about it. It seems that when I was taking pictures of the show on the stage, I rubbed against someone in the corridor. Maybe that person did it on purpose. It stained me with blood."

Ning Yi thought for a while and said: "But the police checked all the people in the theater at that time. During Zhang Tianqi's magic show, only ten people left their seats, and the other nine people were all ruled out as suspects." , you are the only one left. If the murderer is not you, who is it?"

Feng Kun thought about it: "The police must have missed something. By the way, the police only checked the audience in the auditorium, and the backstage staff?"

Ning Yi said: "The backstage was empty at the time, and all the backstage staff crowded into the auditorium to watch the show."

Her words seemed to have touched Feng Kun's mind. He asked, "What about the people on the stage? Have the police seriously investigated the actors on the stage?"

Ning Yi shook her head and said, "I haven't seen the police interrogating them. Because Zhang Tianqi was leading seven apprentices to perform on the stage, and there were thousands of eyes watching them. It is impossible for them to come off the stage and kill people .The most important thing is that they have nothing to do with Renfeng and me, and they will never..."

"Zhang Tianqi has no entanglement with you, but it doesn't mean that he has no entanglement with me. The real purpose of the murderer may not be to put Miao Renfeng to death, but to put me in a desperate situation." Feng Kun suddenly remembered the day when Zhang Tianqi challenged him What he said before, "Otherwise, you will be ruined, and you will be too late to regret", his eyes lit up, he suddenly understood, and he slapped his thigh and said, "Yes, Zhang Tianqi must be playing tricks, he used the magic of "Human Puzzle" to do it. As a cover, he killed Miao Renfeng, and then put the blame on me, trying to put me in a desperate situation, so that I can never fight against him again."

"But at that time, the eight of them, master and apprentice, were all performing on stage. It was impossible for them to have the technique of avatar, to run off stage and commit murder under the watchful eyes of the public, right?"

"That's right, it's really not possible in real life, but if it's in magic, it's completely possible. Magic, yes, this is the magic that Zhang Tianqi really wants to show me, and this is what he really wants me to decipher. I believe that as long as I can crack his magic, I will be able to find the real murderer."

Ning Yi believed his words and asked, "Then what should we do now?"

Feng Kun involuntarily squeezed her hand tightly, and said, "I must decipher this murder magic trick. I have already photographed the process of Zhang Tianqi performing magic tricks with a digital camera, but when I was arrested, the camera and everything else on my body were taken away. The police took it away as evidence. Ning Yi, now, please do me a favor. Go to Fan Zetian, the head of the Criminal Investigation Brigade in charge of this case, and tell me that I can find the real Please ask him to return the camera to you, and then you can develop all the photos in the camera and let me study it carefully. As long as I can crack this magic trick, I can also solve this frightening mystery. Kill game."

Ning Yi immediately went to find Fan Zetian. Fan Zetian said that according to the rules, the evidence involved in the case cannot be handed over to others casually, but considering the special nature of this case, he still took out the memory card in the camera and handed it to a policewoman , told her to go to the photo studio with Ning Yi to develop the photos in the card.All photos had to be printed in two copies, one to Ning Yi and one to the police.

Early the next morning, Ning Yi showed the photo to Feng Kun.

This group of photos completely records the whole process of Zhang Tianqi leading seven apprentices to perform "Human Puzzle" on the stage.Feng Kun originally planned to take the photos, go back and observe carefully, and then decipher them on his own program, but when he actually saw these photos, he was in the police detention room and became a murder suspect.

He spread these photos on the ground one by one in order, carefully observed and studied them with great concentration.

The photos are like continuous TV shots, showing scenes of magical scenes in front of his eyes:

Zhang Tianqi first dismembered the disciples one by one, and then reassembled them. Then, the seven disciples assembled one by one lay in a transparent glass box, making various movements towards the audience.

For the first box, Zhang Tianqi threw the red cloth on the ground, and for the next six boxes, Zhang Tianqi took off the red cloth and put it on the box.

After showing his "unique skills" to the audience, Zhang Tianqi put the seven disciples back together again...

Feng Kun thought about the photo for three days, but he didn't understand what kind of blindfold Zhang Tianqi used to stage this great show of assembling a living person under the noses of nearly a thousand people.

He felt that he had encountered the most difficult problem in his life to decipher.

On the fourth day, Ning Yi came to see him and asked him if he had cracked Zhang Tianqi's murder magic. Feng Kun could only shake his head and sigh in frustration.

Ning Yi asked with some disappointment: "Then what should we do now?"

Feng Kun thought for a while and said, "Maybe there is only one person in this world who can crack this magic trick."

Ning Yi asked: "Who is it?" Feng Kun said: "That is Mo Daozi, his and Zhang Tianqi's master."

Ning Yi understood what he meant, picked up the photo and said, "Okay, tell me his current address, and I'll go find him right away."

4
After Mo Daozi retired, he moved to live in his ancestral house in the suburbs far away from the busy city.

Ning Yi found him and explained why he came. Mo Daozi looked at the photo she brought, pondered for a moment and said, "As my second apprentice, my magic has become better and better."

Ning Yi said: "I have never seen such a magic trick on TV, it is indeed very creative."

"Very creative?" Mo Daozi laughed and said, "Where does he have any creativity? It's obviously plagiarizing other people's ideas."

Ning Yi was taken aback, and asked, "Plagiarism?"

Mo Daozi said: "There is a story called "Stealing Peach" in "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio". As soon as the rope was thrown into the sky, the rope immediately hung in the air until it reached into the clouds, and then the son was asked to climb up by the rope to steal peaches from the sky. The son climbed up to the middle of the cloud, and he could not even see the shadow. After a while, Just a few peaches fell from the sky. The old man was very happy when suddenly the rope fell down, and then his son’s head, hands, feet, and limbs also fell off. The old man said that his son must have been stealing peaches from the sky and was discovered by the gods, so he was caught and chopped It became a few dollars. While weeping sadly, he picked up his son's limbs one by one into the box. Others thought he was pitiful, so they gave him a lot of rewards. After receiving the rewards, the old man knocked on the box and said, "Boy, don't come out yet." When will I wait for the reward?' His son jumped out of the box and kowtowed to the person who gave the reward."

Ning Yi nodded and said, "It turns out that the idea of ​​Zhang Tianqi's magic came from here. Now that the old man knows the origin of this magic, he naturally knows the mystery of it?"

Mo Daozi said: "Zhang Tianqi's three-legged kung fu can fool others, but he can't fool my old man's eyes. I know a little about the mystery of this."

Ning Yi hurriedly said, "Then tell me quickly."

Mo Daozi shook his head and said, "I can't tell you."

Ning Yi was taken aback, and asked, "Why?"

Mo Daozi said: "Never tell the secret of magic. This is the rule of magicians. Feng Kun violated the rule, and he should be punished."

Ning Yi knew that Mo Daozi had a weird temper, and it was useless to talk more, so she left his residence disappointed, came to the detention center, and told Feng Kun what Mo Daozi had said.Feng Kun knew that his master had always been worried about his involvement in the magic show on the TV station. Since he wanted to protect Zhang Tianqi, there was nothing he could do about it.

Ning Yi looked at her watch, it was already almost five o'clock in the afternoon, and her son Miao Jian, who was in middle school, was about to go home from school for dinner, so she hurried away from Feng Kun and hurried home.When I got home, I realized that I had left in such a hurry that I forgot to give Feng Kun the stack of photos. He put the photos on the table, put on an apron, and went to the kitchen to cook.

Not long after, Miao Jian came home from school and saw the photos on the table.

He naturally knew that his mother was running around to find out who killed his father, so he couldn't help picking up the photo and looking at it seriously.

After watching for a while, he couldn't help but "huh", frowned and said, "It's strange, why is there one person missing on the stage?"

Ning Yi heard the voice running out of the kitchen, and asked inexplicably, "Why is there a missing person?"

Miao Jian didn't answer her words, but frowned, as if he suddenly thought of something, jumped up and said, "Ah, I see, I finally understand who and what method killed Dad."

Ning Yi's heart skipped a beat, and she hurriedly asked, "You, do you really know who killed your father?"

Miao Jian picked up the photos on the table and said, "For a while, I can't explain it to you. Take me to Uncle Feng Kun. He is an expert. He will understand as soon as I tell you."

Ning Yi was dubious, and hurriedly took him into a taxi to the detention center. With the help of Fan Zetian, he quickly found Feng Kun.

Miao Jian said excitedly: "Uncle Feng, I finally found the murderer who killed my father." He picked out a photo from the stack and put it in front of Feng Kun, saying, "Look quickly, there is something wrong with this photo ?”

Feng Kun took a look and saw that it was a photo of Zhang Tianqi showing the audience seven live people. After looking at it carefully for a while, he shook his head and said, "There is nothing wrong."

Miao Jian pointed to the photo and said, "Take a closer look. In the photo, Zhang Tianqi took off the red cloth on the front glass box and threw it on the ground. What about the six red cloths behind?"

Feng Kun said: "The six pieces of red cloth at the back were all placed on the glass box by Zhang Tianqi casually."

Miao Jian said: "No, he didn't build it casually. The position of the red cloth on each glass box is carefully designed. Look, except for the first glass box in the front without red cloth, The red cloth of the second box is just placed on the left arm of the person in the box, which completely covers the left arm of the person in the box. The red cloth of the third box is just placed on the right arm. The fourth box The red cloth of the box was just placed on the torso, the red cloth of the fifth and sixth boxes was just placed on the left and right legs respectively, and the red cloth of the last box was placed on the head intentionally or unintentionally. Each piece of red cloth, They all properly cover a human body part. This is actually an unsophisticated deception. The audience is deceived by visual habits and thinks that what is lying in the box should be a complete body with hands, feet, head and torso. People, it’s not. If I’m not mistaken, each piece of red cloth is actually empty. That is to say, except for the front, the first glass box closest to the audience is a complete Besides people, the person lying in the second box is actually a person without a left hand, the third is a person without a right hand, the fourth is a person without a torso, the fifth and sixth are without a left leg and a The one with the right leg, and the last one, is actually a headless one."

Feng Kun suddenly understood: "You mean that there are one pair of hands, one pair of feet, one torso and one head missing on the stage. And when these body parts are combined, it happens to be a person."

Miao Jian nodded and said, "Yes, there is indeed one person missing on the stage. Zhang Tianqi actually used the body parts of six apprentices to piece together seven people."

Feng Kun's mind turned quickly, and he said: "So the remaining person must have been instructed by Zhang Tianqi to sneak off the stage when the smoke filled the stage, quietly kill your father in the dark, and then wipe the blood on the On me, put the blame on my people."

Miao Jian said: "Yes, he did all this without anyone noticing, and then took advantage of the second time when the stage was filled with smoke, he sneaked back to the stage and appeared to call the curtain."

Feng Kun finally understood completely, and said: "Zhang Tianqi has already known through the organizer of this magic competition that you are going to participate, and also knows that your parents will definitely come to watch the competition, and even more knows that your father and I are rivals in love, so we should come to the competition early. He set up this trap for me to fall into. When the police searched for the murderer in the auditorium and finally found me, they never imagined that the real murderer was actually on the stage.”

Miao Jian smiled childishly, and said, "I didn't pay much attention to it when I was watching the show on the spot. I didn't see the clue until now when I saw the photos."

Feng Kun couldn't help turning his head to look at Fan Zetian who was standing next to him, and said, "Captain Fan, what are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and arrest people according to the order."

Fan Zetian scratched the back of his head and said embarrassedly: "Wait, you guys spoke too fast just now, I still don't understand."

Miao Jian smiled, and then repeated the reasoning just now.

Fan Zetian finally understood, patted him on the head and said, "My boy, you really deserve to be a young magician. I'll take someone to 'invite' all Zhang Tianqi's master and apprentice here. When the case is over, I'll treat you to dinner."

5
Two months later, Fan Zetian ran into Feng Kun on the street.

At this time Feng Kun has remarried with Ning Yi, and he is shopping with his wife and children.

Fan Zetian grabbed him, and couldn't help asking the question that he had been wondering for a long time: "Old Feng, although Zhang Tianqi's magic murder case has been solved, he sawed the human body open in magic, and then put it back together again." But no one knows the secret of your secret, and your show on the TV station has stopped broadcasting again, so no one has revealed the secret of this magic. Hey, how did he put together a living person, do you know?"

Feng Kun and his son looked at each other with a smile, and said, "To tell you the truth, after nearly half a month of contemplation by my son and I, the magic of "Human Body Puzzle" was finally deciphered by our father and son."

"Really? Tell me quickly, what is the mystery in it?"

Feng Kun shook his head and said, "No, I can't tell you this."

Fan Zetian asked, "Why?"

Feng Kun said: "Never tell the secrets of magic. This is the rule of magicians. I have already suffered because I did not abide by the rules. I don't want to get into any trouble again."

(End of this chapter)