Chapter 8 Chapter 7 The Far Eastern Circus

Dr. Oyamada was also surprised after hearing Kyosuke's narration about the tracking situation. Where did the Green Marsh Spring Mud disappear to?And who dropped the gem that Gongsuke picked up?Did it fall there long ago?Or spring mud?If it was from Chunni, how could he have such a precious thing? Stranger still was the bell.If the bell did not ring at all from August 15th to September 5th, then where was the bell that Dr. Ogata heard on the night of September 1st?In fact, after investigation, there is no other place to ring the bell in that vicinity except Takanawa Church.What is even more incredible is that no one who lived near the baron's mansion had heard the bell ringing on the night of September 1st.

So, is Dr. Ogata lying?No, no, according to the Metropolitan Police Department's investigation, Dr. Ogata is a loyal and honest person, and Dr. Koyamada also saw that he was not a liar at all during his conversation with him.So, was Dr. Ogata dreaming that night?It's incredible to think about it.Dr. Oyamada would have liked to conduct a more detailed investigation of these issues, but unfortunately, he did not have the time.Because Igarashi Takasaku's old man's birthday party is imminent. As everyone expected, it was indeed Dr. Oyamada's idea that Old Man Baosaku put up the "sun and moon jewel crown" at the birthday party for everyone to watch.In the past, the old man Baozuo was involved in a strange case, and when he was about to be imprisoned unjustly, he was saved with the help of a doctor.Therefore, as long as it is a doctor's request, everything will be granted.

"Understood, Mr. Oyamada!" Old Baozuo listened to the doctor's request, and on his ruddy face that did not look like an 80-year-old man at all, he showed a smile all over his face, and said with a sense of enlightenment: "You mean to use the 'Sun and Moon Gem Crown' as a bait to lure the baron out!" "Yes, yes. Baron Guliu is an outstanding scholar, and he is also superior in intrigues and tricks. However, he has a fatal weakness, which can also be said to be a disease - as long as he hears that there are gems, he doesn't care. No matter what risk you take, you must get it. Therefore, if he knows that you are going to take out the "Sun and Moon Jewel Crown" from the safe for guests to watch, even if he knows it is a trap, he will definitely came to snatch it."

"Ah, I totally understand. If this 'Crown' can play a role in capturing the big villain Baron Guliu, that would be the best." "Thank you for your kindness, thank you very much. However, old man..." When the doctor said this, he suddenly lowered his voice. "The opponent we have to deal with is the scheming Baron Guliu. Although we have to take full precautions, we should take precautions. Therefore, I want to put on the 'sun and moon jewel crown' on the surface, but in reality What do you think of the above with a counterfeit substitute?" When Dr. Koyamada said this, the old man Takasaku showed disapproval.

"That's not allowed. Although this is to lure the baron, it is also for other guests to watch, so you can't deceive other guests who come here without knowing the inside story. Once it is found out that it is fake in the future, then I will be Igarashi Bao is a lifelong shame." "You are right. Then send as many police officers as possible to keep a watchful eye!" "That's all right, but don't call in a uniformed police officer to protect the 'crown.' It would be disrespectful for me to treat the guests as thieves for fear of losing the 'crown', so I hope you don't show it too much."

"That's the reason. Then, install a secret device on the 'Crown', as long as you move the 'Crown', the alarm bell will ring immediately..." Baozuo old man listened to the doctor's words, thought for a while and said: "No, that's not okay. Some of the guests may want to take the 'crown' in their hands and have a look. It would be too rude to ring the alarm every time. Mr. Oyamada, I appreciate your kindness. However, Everything in the world depends on luck, and whether you lose it or not depends entirely on luck. In case, this 'crown' is stolen, I will accept my fate."

As expected of the old man Baosaku who became a billionaire by starting with bare hands!He even expressed a tone of indifference even if he lost one or two "crowns".But the more this happened, the more Dr. Oyamada felt that he had a great responsibility, what should he do if something goes wrong!Despite all precautions, there is still some concern. The third day of October for the birthday reception finally arrived.On this day, the sky is clear and clear, and the birthday party will be held in the courtyard. It is really a rare good weather. It was just half past ten in the morning, and the gate of Igarashi's house was already full of traffic and guests.

The birthday party is going to start at twelve o'clock and end at three or four o'clock in the afternoon.That is to say, the "Sun Moon Gem Crown" will be taken out of the safe for viewing around eleven o'clock, and then put back in place at four o'clock. Since the newspaper also reported on the program arrangement of the birthday party, if Baron Gu Liu wanted to come, it should be within this period of time.Therefore, for Dr. Koyamada, the five hours from eleven o'clock in the morning to four o'clock in the afternoon were really critical moments. The "crown" was put into the glass cover on time and placed in the middle of the hall.

All the people who had finished delivering their birthday speeches to Old Baozuo gathered in the hall to see the famous "Sun and Moon Gemstone Crown" with their own eyes.So the area around "The Crown" is always crowded with people. Perhaps because so many people were present that there was no longer any need for a watcher, not a single watcher could be seen around The Crown.However, this is too careless! Wait, what did the Police Department, Gongsuke and the others do? Beforenoon passed peacefully like this.The birthday banquet was decided to start at twelve o'clock, and the venue was in the big tent set up in the yard.This tent is a large tent that can accommodate more than 300 people, and the layout inside forms a very grand banquet hall.Not long after, the old man Baozuo and his relatives and friends sat at the table. The old man sat in the front, his close relatives and friends sat on the left and right, and the other guests sat in turn.Then, four or five representatives stood up and gave birthday speeches respectively, and then the old man Baozuo gave a speech of thanks again, and the ceremony was considered to be over.Afterwards, enjoy food and drink without restraint.

After the banquet, the guests are free to move.In the spacious courtyard, many service kiosks were temporarily arranged, and various food such as rice cakes, red bean soup and soft drinks were prepared, and everyone could take whatever they liked. Also, for those who don't want to eat anything, there are all kinds of playgrounds and entertainment areas - from airsoft shooting games, pétanque and miniature golf, to girls' hand dancing, magic tricks, Ball stepping and bicycle acrobatics, etc.It's really colorful and lively.These extravagant actors are all professional actors hired temporarily from various places.Of course, their life experience has been strictly scrutinized.

In such a happy atmosphere, everyone happily spent half a day in this golden autumn.However, just around two o'clock in the afternoon, a disappointing thing happened—the sound of a loud band playing suddenly came from outside the mansion.That was the performance of the Far Eastern Circus that had recently set up a tent in the open space behind Igarashi's house and was performing. Dr. Koyamayo was worried about the fact that the circus used the open space behind Igarashi's house for performances, but after waiting for the investigation results of the police department, it is said that nothing suspicious was found. First of all, the circus performance started before the announcement of the old man's birthday party.It is estimated that no matter how the monster baron peeks at the timing, it is too late to make any decisions in this regard. But Dr. Oyamada was still worried, so he once met with the head of the circus. It seems that he is a good man with integrity. On the day of the birthday party, Dr. Oyamada wore inconspicuous clothes and mixed among the guests.When he heard the noisy playing, he suddenly frowned, but the other guests seemed to have gotten used to the noise, and they still played vigorously. It was two o'clock, and there were only two hours before the end of the four o'clock conference.Dr. Oyamada planned to use this time to go around the house. Dr. Oyamada came to the hall and saw that it was still crowded with people.So he stood by the door and inspected the visitors one by one, and found no suspicious person.Then, he made another wonderful move—a pair of two-meter-high large vases were placed on both sides of the door, and there were large chrysanthemums with lush branches and leaves in them. The doctor knocked on the two sides in turn. a vase.Strangely, as if answering his tapping, he tapped the bottle from inside the bottle. After hearing the Li Yin, the doctor walked out of the hall as if he was relieved. At this moment, he was stunned for a moment.A light balloon floated gently in the sky about fifty meters above. The doctor was a little puzzled, but immediately realized that it was a light balloon used by a man called an "Indian magician" when he was juggling.In the whole entertainment venue, this place has the most people gathered, what exactly does he want to do?The doctor also walked over due to kindness. That Indian magician, with a big arm and a thick waist like a circus Hercules, his face was painted black with ink, his head was wrapped with a white cloth, and he was wearing an Indian dress full of gold and silver silk. He sat cross-legged on the ground, blowing play the flute.To the left and right of the magician sat a boy and a girl, their faces also painted black, and dressed in the same clothes as the magician.On the black faces of the two children, only the eyes glowed white, but those eyes were dazed and dreamy. After the magician finished playing the flute, he raised his hands in prayer like a Muslim.The two children also raised their hands to pray for Tao. When the prayer was over, the magician put his finger to his mouth and whistled again, and the boy stood up and began to climb the rope of the light balloon, and then the girl also stood up and began to climb.After a while, the boy and girl who climbed the rope climbed into the cage hanging under the light balloon and hid.At this time, the magician also stood up, took out a bow-shaped knife from the scabbard at his waist, held it in his mouth, and began to climb the rope like a ghost. After a while, the figure of the magician also disappeared into the cage of the light balloon.At this moment, there was a "click", and something fell from above. Looking carefully, it was the boy's arm! The spectators were so frightened that they sweated, and then hands, feet, and body fell off one by one.The last ones to fall were the heads of the boy and the girl. Because it was too frightening, all the spectators turned pale and trembled with fright.At this moment, the magician slid down from the top, picked up the fallen hands and feet, started to butt the trunk, and then put his head on top of the body. Strange to say, he immediately turned into the original boy and girl again. Holding hands and nodding their heads, they saluted everyone. There was a storm of applause. "Oh, that's amazing, how did that change?" Some young girls among the onlookers applauded.A gentleman who seemed to know everything was standing beside them, explaining something to them.Dr. Oyamada also heard what the gentleman explained intentionally or unintentionally, which is roughly as follows: "Do you know? It's something called a collective hallucination. Didn't the magician play the flute just now? We listened and listened, and we were in a trance as if we had entered a dream. That's why we saw that kind of music. Illusions. There is an interesting story about this issue! It is said that this kind of magic is very popular in India. Once, a tourist who did not know whether it was the United States or the United Kingdom secretly recorded this scene on film. Although this stuff can fool human eyes, it can't fool machines anyway! When you go back and develop this film and show it, guess what? When those spectators stare at the phantom At that time, the magician and the boy and girl were sitting on the ground without moving, so we knew that it was a collective hallucination." "So, isn't that a kind of hypnosis?" "Yes. But even hypnotism is a marvelous thing to make so many people see the same vision." When Dr. Koyamada heard the word "hypnotism", he was stunned for a moment. At this moment, there was a loud noise from outside the wall, and then a large number of people rushed in from the back door. "Why, what happened?" "Hurry up and escape!" "Escape? Escape from what?" "The beasts of the circus are gone!" "The lion is running!" "The boa constrictor ran away too!" "The crocodile is running too!" "The gorillas are running too!" "Oh! Come this way!" The circus crowd yelled, crowded, shoved, and shouted, and rushed in through the back door like an avalanche.It's terrible!The yard of Igarashi's house is in a state of chaos! There were more than 300 guests who came to Igarashi's house today, plus 200 to 300 people who watched the fun at the circus, the yard was crowded, and these people kept shouting: "Oh! The lion is coming from there!" "Oops gorilla, gorilla!" "oops!--" "Help!" People were crying and screaming, getting dizzy and bumping around. "Oops!" Dr. Koyamada yelled, and hurriedly wanted to go back to the hall, but he couldn't get through. Not only could he not get through, but he was pushed back by the crowd.Just then, I heard: "Wow!" a lion roared. "Bang!" There was another pistol sound on the ground.Needless to say, the Igarashi family, even the surrounding areas were plunged into terror. Besides, in the hall, when there were five or six guests around the "Crown" applauding, suddenly a group of frightened and pale-faced people ran in from all directions, and the frightened onlookers also fled from the "Crown" on site. "Why, what's the matter? What's the matter?" "What's the matter? All the beasts from the circus have come out!" "What? Beast!?..." "Yes... yes! Lions, gorillas, crocodiles, and boa constrictors have all come out. If you linger any longer, you will be bitten to death!" "Oh, it's amazing!" The crowd ran out of the hall in a hurry, but there was only one person who did not run. It was a gentleman with black eyes, a mustache, and a beautiful dress.He saw everyone running out in a panic, secretly showing a wicked smile through the sunglasses. The gentleman looked around for a while, then walked quickly to the glass cover, looked around again with mischievous eyebrows, then opened the glass cover, and reached out to get the "crown". He confirmed again that no one was there, and no one Excuse me... This strange gentleman thought that the opportunity was rare at this moment, so he took out the "crown" from the glass cover.At this moment, I suddenly heard the sound of kicking and walking behind me. The strange gentleman turned his head and looked back excitedly, his hair stood on end in fright. A real, down-to-earth gorilla walks slowly across the yard.This is a gorilla about two meters tall, probably the guy who just ran out of the circus.The strange gentleman saw it coming, and took out his pistol desperately and shot it.This shot brought disaster. Originally, this gorilla had been kept in the circus for a long time, so it was not very wild anymore, but the bullet fired by the gentleman "hissed" across its cheek, which offended the gorilla, and it became very angry Angry and furious. "Wow!" With a roar, he bent his spine and rushed towards the strange gentleman suddenly. "Oh! Help!" Before the strange gentleman fired a second shot, he was pinched by the ferocious gorilla, and it was over with a painful scream. In addition, when the strange gentleman was about to steal the "crown", two people from the large vases on both sides of the door leaned out half of their bodies to watch his actions.That is the Waiting Power Police Department and Usami Kyosuke.The two saw that the strange gentleman had stolen the "crown", and when they were about to jump out to capture it, the gorilla walked in. However, there was no time to breathe, and the fight happened just now.The two of them were so frightened that they could only watch the result of the struggle in a daze.Not long after, Kyosuke seemed to come to his senses all of a sudden, and hurriedly pulled out his pistol to shoot at the gorilla, but it was too late. The fight between the gorilla and the strange gentleman is over. The gentleman, exhausted and unconscious, fell to the floor with a thud.The gorilla picked up the "crown" that had fallen by the side, played with it as a rare toy for a while, put it on his head, and walked out of the hall triumphantly. Waiting for the force police department and Usami Kyosuke to witness this situation, they were very panicked, jumped out of the vase, and wanted to chase the gorilla, but found the strange gentleman lying on the ground, Kyosuke ran over and picked it up, "Ah!" Let out a cry. "Ah! Isn't this the Green Marsh Spring Mud?" It turned out that during his fight with the gorilla, his sunglasses and mustache were all knocked off, revealing his true colors.Kyosuke took a closer look, and it was indeed Aonuma Haruni. Let's go see the gorillas again!When the gorilla wearing the "crown" triumphantly walked out of the hall, he frightened the people in the yard. "Oh! The gorilla is coming!" "Ah! Isn't that still wearing the 'crown'?" Maybe the gorilla got impatient when he heard people's yelling, so he climbed up a big tree next to him, and then jumped up to the balcony on the second floor. "Oops, the gorilla jumped on the balcony!" "This is troublesome, just shoot it to death with a gun!" While people were yelling loudly, the owner of the circus ran over out of breath. "Don't, don't! Please wait a moment, that gorilla is very tame. As long as we don't mess with it, it will never harm anyone. Please leave it to me!" After explaining to the noisy crowd, the boss turned around and shouted at the gorilla: "Come on, Goro! Be obedient! Come down quickly! We will never mess with you. Come, come down quickly!..." Goro may be the name of this gorilla, but because of the shot that blamed the gentleman just now, Goro may not have calmed down. The boss called it, but it ignored it, and still looked away as if nothing had happened, showing no sign of thinking about it. "Come on, what's the matter with you, aren't you usually very obedient, what's the matter today? Come on, Goro... Ah!" Just then, a terrifying sight appeared on the balcony—— Not only the owner of the circus was scared "Ah!", even the people present were also scared to hold their breath. A large congratulatory colored ball with a diameter of more than three meters hangs above the balcony.This big colored ball is going to be cut open by Bao Zuo at the end of the birthday party, and dozens of doves symbolizing peace and colorful sail streamers will fly out from it. But, for unknown reasons, suddenly two arms stretched out from the colored ball and the crack, and in the right hand held a gleaming short knife. The gorilla didn't see it at all, and still walked slowly on the balcony proudly wearing the "crown".When the gorilla walked right under the colored ball, one hand suddenly grabbed the gorilla's neck from behind, and the other hand stabbed the gorilla with a "poof".This knife was so cruel that even the handle of the knife was about to go in. The gorilla let out a scream of "Gah!" At this moment, a monster quickly jumped out of the colored ball and hugged the gorilla's shoulder.Bite, who would have thought that it was the Monster King, the Gorilla Baron! "Ah! Baron Gorilla! ... Baron Gorilla! ..." The terrifying atmosphere brought by the chirping and chirping hit everyone's heart like a tsunami.Everyone present felt shuddering, and almost turned into stiff fossils, staring blankly at the big contest on the balcony. "Wow!" Although the gorilla was seriously injured at the beginning, it was still struggling desperately, while the gorilla Baron hugged the gorilla's back tightly and refused to let go, and then used the sharp short knife, puff, puff Stabbed several times in a row. "Wow, wow!..." After the gorilla roared earth-shatteringly, although it was still very fierce, it couldn't stand the continuous stabbing after all, and seemed to be exhausted.With the last scream of "Wow", the gorilla turned into a bloody corpse and fell from the balcony. The moment the gorilla fell, the gorilla baron quickly took off the "crown" from its head, then looked around alertly, and cut the cable that was pulling the balcony with a click. This cable is connected in all directions from the pillar standing in the center of the courtyard in order to hang the national flags.Baron Gorilla tested the strength of the cable, threw away the top hat he was wearing on his head, put on the "crown" he had just snatched, and held the blood-stained dagger tightly in his mouth. In his mouth, he grabbed the cable with both hands as if counting one, two, three, and kicked down the railing on the balcony. Look, how wonderful the acrobatic performance of the monster baron is! The body of the monster baron holding the cable is like a pendulum, swinging back and forth in the air and drawing a semi-circular arc. When he finds the right angle, he spreads his hands and leaps to the magic light balloon He grabbed the light balloon and the sling. Unexpectedly, when the Baron grasped the hanging rope, he quickly aimed his knife at the hanging rope under his feet with one hand, and only heard a "click", and the hanging rope was cut off.The light balloon originally tied to the sling flickered away.The people watching below were stunned. "Oops! It escaped with a light balloon." Dr. Oyamada, Waitori Police Department, and Usami Kyosuke did not arrive at the scene until then. "Bang, bang, bang!" They fired several pistol shots at the balloon from below, but the Gorilla Baron climbed to the top of the sling quickly and unhurriedly.At this time, the people below suddenly noticed that several people poked their heads out of the cage, they were the Indian magician and the two boys and girls.The ropes that tie the cages are manipulated by magicians from below. At this time, the gorilla Baron had crawled up to the cage, where he jerked his head downwards and shouted: "Hey! Dr. Koyamada! Do you know who the two children in the cage are? They are my nephew Tatsuhiko and your daughter Miyoko!" "what!--" The people below all screamed in unison, but it was too late, the light balloon fluttered in the air and flew away with the wind...