Chapter 231: One Step Ahead
No, there is another possibility that Terai chose to fly here. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Who did he follow?
Who is following? Who has that kind of leisure in the middle of the night for people to follow?
Undoubtedly, the spider who had other intentions for Kidd the Monster Thief.
Maybe the helicopter was lured here by spiders.
Kurosawa's eyes sank, and he looked out over the river, then turned around and looked at the neighboring residential area.
Not long after noon, the sun was still shining in the sky, and it was much milder than the initial heat.
There's an old woman leading her Alaska for a walk on a nearby trail.
"Wait a minute, please. ”
"Huh?"
"I'm sorry, lady, I don't know if I can interrupt me. ”
"Ah...... You call me ......"
"Do you live nearby?"
"Hmm. ”
"I'd like to ask you something. Last night...... Probably around this time. Kurosawa raised his wrist to gesture to his watch and gestured the time, "I wonder if you have seen any strange sights around here?"
"At this time, ah......" The old man squinted his eyes and thought for a while, and said in a warm voice, "I don't remember the exact time, but in the middle of the night I was knitting a sweater for my grandson, and I happened to be sitting by the window, as if there was indeed some white light flashing......"
"What is that...... I can't give you much information. She shook her head and pointed out the direction to Kurosawa Gin, "But you can ask the oil well who lives in room XXX on the X floor of the XX floor, that kid likes to fish in the middle of the night and rest at home during the day." ”
"Thank you. Kurosawa smiled and walked briskly.
"But it's strange...... old woman seemed to say to herself, "why do the young people of these days like to inquire about the night's events?"
Kurosawa Gin's footsteps paused.
He turned around and looked at the old lady in surprise: "Is there anyone else who inquires besides me?"
"Yes. The old grandmother nodded, "About one meter eight tall, with brown wavy hair and reddish-brown eyes...... It doesn't look like it's a Japanese person......"
"When was that?"
"Around seven or eight o'clock this morning......"
Is that so......
Kurosawa bowed slightly at the old woman to show her gratitude for the information, then turned and walked towards the apartment.
......
Arriving at the apartment that the grandmother had said, Kurosawa Silver rang the doorbell, but there was no response from inside the door.
He waited for nearly five minutes, during which he knocked on the door and rang the doorbell one after another, but no one came out to respond, but the door on the left was suddenly pushed open, and an ordinary housewife walked out of it, looking at Kurosawa Silver curiously: "Are you looking for an oil well?"
"Yes, I'm going to go to the oil well and ask about something. Kurosawa nodded.
The housewife smiled: "This child has been very popular with men recently, a handsome guy of mixed race came to her in the morning, and a handsome guy like you came in the afternoon." ”
Kurosawa Silver raised his eyebrows, and there seemed to be a faint light in his eyes, but he nodded silently: "Is she at home now?"
"She's still sleeping at this time, or I'll go in and help you take a look, I happen to have her key...... Ahh ”
Kurosawa turned around, and sure enough, he saw a crack in the door being pushed open, and a pair of black eyes poked out of it.
The housewife looked at Kurosawa Gin, then at the eyes, and couldn't help but smile intriguingly, and turned back to her room.
The black-eyed master pulled the door closer.
"What's the matter?"
"Are you Miss Yasui? I'd like to ask you about last night's river. ”
"Aliens. ”
"What?"
"I saw aliens. She spoke in a slow, coherent voice.
"Please be specific. ”
"I was sitting on the bank of the river fishing, but suddenly there was a strong wind. I saw a black unidentified object appear over the woods on the other side of the riverbank, casting a white light, someone walked out of the white light, and then the white light disappeared, the unknown object disappeared, I blinked and looked again, and the person was gone......"
"It could be that the helicopter flew over there, opened the hatch and dropped the person down, and flew away. ”
"What a coincidence. She snorted lightly, "That's what the guy who found me in the morning said the same." ”
"After all, it's easy to make mistakes in the dark. ”
"I still believe it's aliens. She said lightly, "I was riding a jet ski across the lake to the woods on the other side of the riverbank. ”
"......" Jet Ski? The corners of Kurosawa's mouth twitched violently.
"I saw a man with a black cloth on his face and a three-eyed mask on his head floating in the air, surrounded by a faint white smoke, and the whole picture was as delicate as stage art. Her calm tone seemed to change.
He held out his palm to me, and I floated up and staggered to him. ”
He put his hand on my head and said softly, please go to sleep, and the next second I passed out. When I woke up, it was early in the morning, as if nothing had happened. I was still sitting on the jet ski, just leaning on the tree next to me. ”
"All in all, I think it's a miracle that only aliens can do. ”
There was a different kind of emotion brewing in her dark eyes, and her tone was slightly agitated at the end, but her tone remained steady.
Kurosawa Silver snorted softly.
"It seems that you don't believe it as much as the half-breed from not so long ago, so go over there in the woods and find out for yourself. ”
The girl snorted softly, her tone tinged with an exasperation of not being believed, and she closed the door as she spoke.
Kurosawa's silver eyes quickly pressed the door.
"What for?"
"May I venture to ask where you drove the car into?"
"Naturally, I drove into the woods with a 'boom', and I almost hit the aliens. ”
"Then the puzzle is solved......"
The girl's eyes poked out through the crack in the door again.
Kurosawa Silver pursed his lips and smiled slightly.
"White smoke is made of dry ice to confuse your senses. ”
"The reason why you feel like you're floating in the air isn't magic, it's that you see things around you descending with your naked eyes and think you're going up. ”
"In the same way, you think you're close to him, but you're standing still, and it's he who is close to you. ”
"You're not going to be in a coma because he says you can sleep, it's because you're stimulated by an anesthetic needle and faint. ”
The girl was obviously stunned, especially when she heard Kurosawa Silver say the latter sentence, she couldn't help but wipe the back of her neck.
Perhaps she was in a coma after being pricked with an anesthetic needle there......
Kurosawa looked at her with a smile.
The girl's eyes narrowed, but she didn't compromise on this, she pushed the door open, and her figure suddenly rose up, and she appeared in front of Kurosawa Silver completely.
"Tell me why things around me are going down. ”
"Take advantage of mirrors. Kurosawa Gin's words are succinct, "As long as you install a mirror in your vicinity and gradually adjust the angle upwards to reflect the sky, you will naturally feel that you are descending when you are affected by the things around you...... It is likely that he has accomplices by his side. ”
"What do you mean by him floating in the air? I remember that I was at his level soon after. ”
Kurosawa went on to explain, "There are many ways to float in the air, maybe he uses a long stick stuck into the ground, and the tip of the long stick is coiled with a wire that adapts to the shape of the human body, and then he sits on it. As for you later feeling that he was at the same height as you, it may be that he slipped off the stick. ”
"If that's the case, he slides down and the tree behind him will go up, and I can't possibly not see it. ”
"What if the tree behind it is also equipped with mirrors?"
“...... Changing the distance between the mirror and me is much harder than changing the angle of the mirror, and I will definitely find out. ”
"There is no need to change the distance between the mirror and you. All he has to do is decorate the back with branches and so on disguised as a tree trunk and walk towards you. ”
"Then what is he doing with a mirror and a twig, and he is still using these tricks on me?"
The girl glared.
This question choked Kurosawa Gin.
If it's a related person, Kurosawa can tell him very clearly-
Bringing props is a very common thing for a magician (illusionist) - especially since the spider himself went out not long ago to lure Kaito and others here to prepare props, which is normal.
Take the mirror, for example...... It is very likely that the spider prepared a lot in advance in order not to be noticed by too many people, and prepared to use a mirror to cover his whole body in the air to achieve the purpose of "invisibility" - this magic trick was also used by Kaito.
After that, the spider may have been premeditated to lure Kaito and the others to the edge of the woods, and it is even more understandable to make more preparations here.
And since more preparations have been made, it is natural that there must be no less accomplices.
If there were no accomplices, how could the helicopter put people down and leave? It must have been someone who took control of the plane and drove the helicopter after Kaito and Terai got off the plane - and it is very likely that this person was ambushed on the plane in the first place.
In general, Kurosawa already has a certain understanding of the links here.
However, of course, he couldn't just say it to the girl in front of him, and he tried to be as careful as he went.
"Perhaps to conceal the crime......"