Chapter 18: chapter 18

The woman on the phone apparently froze, and then hesitantly asked, "Are you the gentleman by the fountain tonight?"
"Yes ma'am. By the way, my name is Asa." Asa fixedly looked at the ceiling, his tone flat.
"Oh sir, I didn't expect you to think about it so soon." Alice's voice was a little surprised. "What is your decision? If you are willing to join our company, I am willing to provide you with an unimpeded performing arts path."
"No, ma'am, I don't intend to enter the show business." Asa took up Mu Yuan's photo, squinting and playing.
"Oh, that's a shame, you are in such a good condition." Alice's tone was a little low, and Asa was interrupted by what she was trying to say.
"Actually my profession may be a magician." Asa paused, staring at the man in the picture.
"Oh! I didn't expect you to be a magician. I personally like to watch magic shows. Although our company does not sign a magician, I hereby invite you to join our company."
Ms. Alice paused. "Now many magicians have entered the entertainment industry and performed through television media. I think you called me, didn't you want to reject my invitation? Mr. Asa."
"Yes, Ms. Alice, I don't know when you are free. I think we can have a cup of coffee together." Asa sat up and threw the photos in the coffee table.
"Oh sir, I'll be free tomorrow afternoon. I'll fly back to Hollywood the day after tomorrow."
"Then see you at the cafe on the first floor of Bellagio at two in the afternoon tomorrow."
Alice promised happily, "Okay, then we'll see you in the cafe tomorrow."
"Then I won't disturb you, rest, Ms. Goodnight."
Asa said goodbye to Alice, hung up the phone and sat motionless on the sofa.
Dean didn't mean to talk, and the silver-haired baby was surprisingly quiet. The emerald green eyes stared at the photos thrown on the coffee table.
That man like Asasha.
For a moment, the huge cypress suite was silent, only the sound of the wall clock "click, click" moving.
Dean sat on the sofa and looked at the baby, as if suddenly thinking of something, "By the way, Mu Yuan was not only Berg's former employer but also his adopter. Berg lived in Rasvi until he was fifteen In Gas's sewer, he was not brought home until he met Mu Yuan. "
After that, he looked at the well-behaved child sitting next to Asa, "In fact, he was accepted as a disciple by Mu Hai in the first week after Mu Yuan's death."
Asa rubbed his fingertips and glanced at the baby beside him, "Just like I picked him up?"
"I think so."
Dean continued, "Haig declared that Mu Yuan had buried Berg's talent, and only asked him to be a ridiculous prop master with him."
Asa fell into silence, staring coldly at the spread out photo on the coffee table.
Dean was about to say something, and as soon as he looked up, he saw the cold eyes of the baby beside Asa.
Contrary to the innocent eyes just now, the emerald pupils reflected by the orange light are cold and inorganic, like a emerald ice crystal, beautiful but without emotion.
Opening his mouth, Dean finally said nothing.
In fact he had forgotten what he just wanted to say ...
Dean was dazed by the wall clock that kept moving. Two hours had passed, and Lyle hadn't returned yet, just as he was considering whether to leave.
Click
The door handle was turned away, and Lyle came in from the door, holding a heavy leather bag in his hand, and exaggeratedly shouted as he entered the door, "Oh darkness, these materials are really heavy!"
Dean glanced at him. "Why didn't you fly back?"
Lyle handed the folder to Asa, complaining, "Why did you let me fly so heavy with this heavy thing? Of course I threw it out of the police station and went to pick it up again!"
Asa ignored the conversation between them, and just opened the seal on the leather belt to take out the autopsy report and a stack of photos of the accident scene.
Putting the photo aside, Asa first looked at the report. The professional autopsy report of the forensic doctor was more accurate than the photo.
The autopsy report is very detailed, and the forensic doctor also detailed the cause of the death.
Non-fatal injuries: bleeding of eye mask, rupture of multiple organs of the body, comminuted fracture of lumbar spine, comminuted fracture of left leg.
Causes of death: Skull fragmentation, left chest ribs puncture the left lung lobe, resulting in hypoxia, compression of the heart and arrhythmia; many fatal injuries ...
But Asa did not pay attention to this, and his attention was focused on the forensic trauma judgment in the next column.
There was written: Mild necrosis of wrist muscles due to poor blood circulation.
Necrosis?
Only when the hands are tightly entangled with string, will there be necrosis due to poor blood flow.
Asa's eyebrows were twisted together, some strange violations and feelings sprang up.
Magic shows don't seem to use ropes that cause blood flow. It should be the kind of rough hemp rope, because this kind of hemp rope has a large force area, and the tied knot is not too tight, and it is generally easy to loose.
Even long-term binding does not cause ischemic necrosis.
But if they do n’t use this kind of rope for this show, then ...
Putting down the autopsy report, Asa was not in a hurry to look at the photos, and his mind began to clear the known information.
Mu Yuan died because of a performance accident, and the ropes used to bind his wrists during the performance were very problematic. And the props master responsible for the rope, Berg, turned to the magic master Hagrid one week after his death. Berg and his teacher simultaneously smeared an unknown magician.
All the spearheads finally pointed at the old man with great prestige in the magic circle.
"What's the name of the magic performed by Mu Yuan? Does it have anything to do with Hagrid?"
Dean was staring at each other with Lyle. At first listening to Asa's question, he kept answering, "Oh, he performed Master Hagrid's famous work 'Coffin Escape', but his performance failed. Successfully copied, in fact, there are already five or six magicians who have died from this magic, and everyone prefers to call it 'desperate magic'. "
Lyle gasped on the sofa and interjected, "Oh please, what magic can't be replicated? Isn't that all magicians' blinding eyes?" Then frowned and thought, "we The blood race has power. Would it be more entertaining to enter the magic circle? "
Dean smiled and glanced at her, "Please, who would use the power there ..." When he was halfway there, he suddenly stopped, looking at Asa strangely, remembering that he had just called the entertainment company. There was some speculation on the president's phone.
Lyle jerked up from the sofa, "Oh God of Darkness! Why didn't I think I could be a magician? As long as I show a little superpowers, those cute prey will scream at me ! "
Asa, who had not spoken, suddenly looked up and smiled and said to him, "If I throw you away from here now, you flying in the sky will also make people scream, believe me."
Lyle stunned and complained, "Oh my lord, is it really appropriate for you to make me shut up by turning around like this?" He sat down and approached Dean, whispering, "Adult only threatens to use this sentence every time, next Next time we moved to the room on the first floor to see what tricks he could change! "
Asa Rao looked at him with interest, but did not speak. He picked up the accident photos on the table and looked up, but the arc of the corner of his mouth was frozen.
One by two, Asa turned faster and faster, and the suffocating heart palpitations spread over his nerves. When he saw the last few photos, his whole brain exploded!
Numerous complex emotions filled his nerves.
really! This magic is not a hemp rope prop, but a thin nylon rope!
In the photo, the young man's hands were tightly, the rope was tightly tightened in the flesh, and the blood on his wrist was blurred. Asa even felt that the rope had been stuck in the flesh! The slender hands could no longer see the original color, a faint black-violet.
A magician who has been stripped of his hands has only one end!
dead!
Dean and Lyle spotted Asa's anomalies and went over to look at those photos.
The scenes in the photos are without exception open air squares. The broken coffins are surrounded by fine parts. It is five or six meters away. A young brunette is lying motionless in a pool of blood.
I can't see the exact face, but the posture of the body is very distorted, and the directions of the hands and feet are completely beyond the limit that humans can twist.
"Oh, this man is so miserable that he was hit like this. I heard that the rope was a knot." Dean said with emotion. "At that time, Berg, a prop master, was taken to the police station to make a record. He claimed to be Mu Yuan said that he would increase the difficulty of magic and insist on a knot. He was released from the police station by Haig a few days later. "
Lyle interjected a little bit, "The police officers actually believed this! Oh no, it must be the little white-eyed wolf that betrayed the Chinese magician."
Dean was said by Lyle, and he frowned and analyzed, "Mu Yuan imitated Hagrid's magic, and Berg became a disciple by Hagrid a week later. All this seems too coincidental."
"He doesn't want magic to succeed." Asa's voice was very low, completely different from the usual gentleness. "Hagrid didn't want to make this magic successful. A magic master who has been known for so many years, how can an unnamed Chinese person succeed? Copy his magic.
Arranging the photos on the coffee table, Asa looked at Dean.
So, please look into the other magicians who died in this magic. I think the truth of the matter will be very interesting. . "
Dean looked right, and asked solemnly, "Master, what do you mean?"
Asa laughed lowly and did not answer his words, but apparently, what he meant was what Dean thought.
Lyle looked at Asa with admiration, "Oh lord! You are really a wise person, just looking at these materials will infer the truth of the matter. However, after so many years with Berg and Mu Yuan, the relationship should be deep Yes, how could it be so easily bought? "
"As long as the temptation chip is big enough, what is such a bit of adoption?" Asa stared coldly at Lyle and said with a sneer, "Look, he doesn't get what he wants now, and one that could never go away People on the ground have achieved such a great achievement. "
"Oh Lord, look at what I do, but I am loyal to you! Plus I was not picked by you!" Lyle took two steps to the left, avoiding Asa's sight, and exclaimed exaggeratedly. "In fact, he was picked ..."
Asa and Dean followed his fingers and looked at the baby with the big gun.
Asa's eyes were a little darkened, and he turned to the pair of ignorant children's eyes for a while and did not speak.
Samael's cold voice passed into Lyre's ear suddenly, "Do you want to die ?!"