Chapter 18 10. Art lamp clown

Tonight's banquet is about to start. Before the start, His Royal Highness Ali will give a short speech. When it was time for Foreign Minister Fujikawa to give his thank you speech, he slowly stood up from his chair, but he didn't seem to know what to say, and kept looking around in bewilderment. His Highness Ali and the two ministers looked up at him suspiciously, while Manager Kawaguchi and Miko Shibasumi watched the whole situation with sweaty hands. At this moment, the guests at other tables were whispering, and they were all puzzled by the different attitude of Foreign Minister Fujikawa tonight.

All of a sudden, all the lights in the hall went out at this moment, and the surroundings were suddenly dark, and the guests all screamed in fear. "Wow!" At the same time, someone on the ceiling laughed wildly, and everyone looked up in shock and fear... The ceiling of the hall is very high, and a large art lamp hangs in the center. In the darkness, everyone can vaguely see someone climbing on the lamp holder of the art lamp. The man's body was painted with luminous paint, which emitted a blue light like will-o'-the-wisp in the dark. From the halo, it can be vaguely seen that his head is bald, with a tuft of hair on his forehead and side temples, his nose is round and big, his face is painted red, he is wearing a loose clown costume, tight like a monkey. Hold the light shaft of the art lamp.

"Wa hahaha……" He laughed and said respectfully to the guests below: "His Royal Highness Ali's welcome party is about to begin!" As soon as he finished speaking, he shook the art lamp vigorously. In an instant, the crystal pendants under the large art lamp collided with each other continuously, making crisp sounds; Falling. The guests present were all dumbfounded watching the clown performance in front of them. "Wow!" "Ouch!" It wasn't until they heard someone screaming that everyone came to their senses. "Turn on the lights! Turn on the lights!"

Someone kept yelling. "Hurry up, someone! Go behind the ceiling and arrest that suspicious person!" Others shouted excitedly. There was a commotion in the hall, but the clown on the artistic lamp looked at all this with a sideways smile. After he bowed to everyone, he followed the lamp axis of the artistic lamp and hid behind the ceiling. I saw a small square hole at the root of the art lamp. After the clown disappeared, the ceiling returned to its original shape. At this time, the art lights in the hall suddenly turned on, and at the same time, I heard Miko Chaijin shouting loudly:

"His Royal Highness Ali's ruby ​​is gone... and Minister of Foreign Affairs Fujikawa has disappeared!" Everyone looked back suddenly, and the gleaming ruby ​​on His Highness Ali's turban had indeed disappeared. In addition, Minister of Foreign Affairs Fujikawa fell by the pool in the center of the hall.