Women only affect the speed of my reasoning!

It's really just a bit similar.

"That's a seahorse." Qin Xianshu said.

"Shiina, the one you're looking at is only a female seahorse. Because seahorses reproduce by male seahorses, the ones with pouches on their abdomens are male seahorses. It looks like that one to you."

"What about this?"

"This is pomfret. It would be delicious if steamed."

"Understood……"

The two of them just talked to each other. Basically, Shiina Mashiro was responsible for asking, while Qin Ushu was responsible for answering.

The time soon came to more than an hour later.

Due to the prohibitive cost of building aquarium halls in separate locations, the sightseeing corridor is essentially circular.

Wherever you go down, you come up again, but the entrance and exit are slightly different.

"By the way, Shiina, there's still a little time before lunch. Do you want to go see the mermaid show?" Qin Ushu asked back while standing on the upward conveyor belt.

"Okay." The girl immediately responded with a slight nod.

"Then let's go buy tickets now." Qin Sanshu said.

However, this sentence only ended when they arrived at the ticket office.

It's not that the tickets are sold out, or that the conductor has run away, but that the entire ticket office is gone.

Instead, there were uniformed police officers everywhere, and among them was a very familiar younger brother, the Summoner.

Qin Xianshu twitched the corner of his mouth slightly, thinking that it shouldn't be such a coincidence, but he still walked up and patted the other party's shoulder.

"Memu Police Department, what is going on?"

"Uh...ah, it turns out to be brother Xian Shu!"

The Mu Mu Police Department was a little reluctant to pay attention to him at first, but when they turned around and found out it was Qin Xianshu, their attitude suddenly changed 180 degrees.

"It just so happens that our Metropolitan Police Department just received a call from the police, saying that an accident occurred during the performance of the mermaid exhibition at the aquarium here, and the lead actor drowned."

"Oh..."

Chapter 29 Conjecture

Even the leading actor has sent it, so naturally the show has no choice but to be terminated.

"The name of the deceased is Michiko Osawa. She was 25 years old and was an actor specializing in aquatic performances at the Chiba Aquarium. According to the analysis, the cause of death should be drowning."

At the front of the spacious theater, investigators from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division were investigating the crime scene.

The architectural style of the entire theater is somewhat similar to that of a European classical drama. The stage is at the front, while the auditorium is slightly arc-shaped and steps upward.

The stage has obviously undergone a lot of modifications, and at first glance it looks like an oversized fish tank.

It retains the semicircular stage as the base and decorates it to look like an undersea scene. A high wall of transparent tempered glass is built around the edge of the stage and goes straight up to the dome. During the performance, it is filled with water. It can be used by actors and fish schools.

But now due to an accident, the water inside has been basically drained, all the fish have been moved away, and the artificial coral seaweed at the bottom has gradually emerged from the water.

and a large seashell.

Of course, the shell is also artificial. Qin Mianshu took a rough look from the outside and found that the joints seemed to be movable by motor operation. When the shell was closed, the internal space should be just enough to accommodate a slender woman curled up in it.

"According to the audience present, the body of Miss Michiko Osawa emerged from the shell when it was opened."

The Mumu Police Department looked at the corpse of the deceased on the ground in front of the stage that had been carried out by the search department personnel and said to Qin Umbrella comfortably.

"Um……"

There were many people surrounding the body who were investigating and recording. Qin Mianshu took a rough look at it from an angle. Lying on the ground was a young woman with a good figure, still wearing the swimsuit from the performance.

He turned to Mashiro Shiina, who was following him all the way, and pointed to the auditorium behind him.

"Sorry, Shiina, can you sit over there for a while? I have something to do here."

"...What happened to that man? Why is he lying on the ground?"

This time, Shiina Mashiro did not just nod obediently as before, but raised his own question after a moment of silence.

"There was an accident at the previous performance and he died."

Qin Xianshu did not hide anything and directly told the actual situation.

"The crime scene may be uncomfortable, so Shiina, just wait for me here, okay?"

He knew very well how facing a crime scene would have a mental impact on someone who had never seen a corpse, not to mention a special case like Mashiro Shiina whose mental age was estimated to be in the single digits.

Therefore, both emotionally and logically, Qin Ushu didn't really want Mashiro Shiina to go with him.

"No, I'm going too."

Her voice was not loud, but her tone was extremely firm.

"……you sure?"

"Well, that's part of the story."

The girl nodded, her attitude clear and sharp.

The two stared at each other in silence for a while, to no avail.

Qin Ushu couldn't resist, so he had to let out a breath.

"I know, then you come with me."

"Ah."

This response was much clearer than before.

Memu's police rank was there, and everything on the scene had to be decided with his approval. He was very busy, so he left while Qin Ushu and Shiina Mashiro were talking.

It is undoubtedly not allowed for an ordinary person to invade such a crime scene.

But no one came forward to stop him along the way.

During the journey, he could feel Shiina Mashiro's hold on his hand getting stronger with every step he took.

After all, it was the first time to face someone else's corpse, so I was definitely nervous.

Qin Ushu pulled Shiina Mashiro to the body surrounded by forensics personnel.

The work of collecting evidence has actually been completed long ago, and all that is left is to compile a report. They are still surrounding him just because they don't want the body to be exposed in broad daylight.

"let me see."

Qin Ushu pushed aside the crowd slightly with his hands and squatted down in front of the corpse.

The deceased was indeed a quite young woman with a fit figure and a good face.

The high school detective took out a pair of disposable surgical gloves from his trousers pocket and put them on. He gently held up the deceased's palm and looked at it carefully.

There were no signs of wrinkles on either the fingers or the palms. It looked like they had not been soaked in the water for too long, probably only a few minutes.

There were no obvious injuries on the surface of the body, except that the waterproof makeup on the face seemed to have been scratched a little, and there was a large white patch attached to the crook of the left leg, which was a little different from the color of the skin.

Qin Mianshu tore off the patch, put it under the tip of his nose and smelled it. There was a slight smell of Chinese herbal medicine.

"Rheumatic bone patch?" He was stunned.

It’s not very strange. People who work in or on the water all year round will have this kind of problem to some extent, such as boatmen, sailors, divers, etc.

But when you perform water sports with a rheumatism bone patch on it, aren't you afraid that the rheumatism bone patch will fall off if it gets soaked in water?

A little suspicious.

Qin Xianshu stood up, took off his gloves and patted the police officer Mumu who was directing the scene.

"Police department, is there anyone here who is familiar with the deceased?"

"Someone familiar with the deceased?"

The police department was stunned for a moment, then looked around and found a middle-aged man who looked about forty years old from the crowd not far away and said loudly.

"Um...Mr. Lin, could you come over here for a moment?"

"I see, come right away!"

The middle-aged man named Mr. Lin responded. After turning his head and exchanging a few words with the aquarium staff beside him, he immediately turned around and walked quickly to Officer Megure.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"Are you the person in charge here?" Qin Xianshu raised his head and glanced at him.

"Yes." The middle-aged man nodded after hesitating, "My name is Lin Yaren, and I am the technical director of this 'Venus Kiss'."

"Oh."

Qin Xianshu pointed at the dead young woman on the ground.

"Did Ms. Michiko Osawa suffer from any serious illness during her lifetime, such as leg pain or something like that?"

"Indeed." Lin Yaren saw the rheumatism bone patch in Qin Xianshu's hand.

"Miss Osawa does have joint pain in her knees, so she usually wears plasters when practicing. But she is a very rigorous person and has very high requirements for herself and others at work. She never performs during performances. It’s really strange that the stickers were actually posted this time..."

"Oh?"

Qin Sanshu raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this, but he didn't say much and just changed the question.

“What about the way actors enter and exit the stage?”

"When you enter, there is an isolation cabin under the big shell." Lin Yaren said, "The water in the isolation cabin is drained when there is no one in it. We will not fill the isolation cabin with water until the actors are ready to go on stage and enter the isolation cabin." , almost three-quarters of the way to the waterline, leaving room for the actors to breathe.”

"As for leaving, the actors from the previous performance will leave from the top of the stage with the help of lights turning on and off."

"understood."

Then he pointed to the place where the makeup on the deceased's face was scratched and asked.

"I don't know much about cosmetics. Is it common for makeup to be wiped off like this in your performances?"

"No, it's not common." Lin Yaren shook her head, "In order to present the best visual effects to the audience, our aquarium has always used relatively high-quality waterproof cosmetic materials."

"Ah... waterproof makeup like this is very strong and can't be washed away even if you splash it with water."

The voice sounded, but the person speaking was not a certain technical director named Lin.

Qin Xianshu looked back, and the first thing that came into view was a pair of slender legs wrapped in black stockings and police uniform skirts, and then the familiar face.

"Miwako-san?!"

"Yo~"

Sato Miwako said hello easily, her eyes seemingly casually passing by Shiina Mashiro, who was holding hands next to Qin Ushu.

"By the way, I haven't finished talking yet. Sister, I have used this kind of makeup several times before. Every time when I remove my makeup after going back, I have to use a wet towel and rub my face with makeup remover. Some places are not easy to use. I even had to pick at it with my nails after wiping it with a towel, it was just like peeling off the skin.”

"Is that so..."

Qin Ushu closed his eyes slightly and began to think, and a clear logical thinking diagram unfolded in his mind.

Assuming that this is a simple accident, then the process should be like this——

Michiko Osawa got into the passage under the big shell as usual before her performance officially started. However, due to a sudden and extremely violent attack of rheumatic bone disease, she was unable to stand up from the isolation cabin, and was eventually overwhelmed by the water.

But the problem in this case is that as long as she is not tortured by the leg pain to Shi Lezhi, as long as she takes a deep breath to let herself float before the water reaches her neck, she will not drown.

Or, the water injection device malfunctioned and lost control, completely filling the space in the isolation cabin, making it impossible for Michiko Osawa to breathe.

No matter which case it is, the biggest doubt is the isolation cabin.

And the scratched waterproof makeup...

Thinking of this, Qin Xianshu opened his eyes and raised a finger... his index finger.

"I have a guess, but it may not be correct."

Chapter 30 Assistant?Or girlfriend?

"This is the control room for the entire stage."

Five minutes later, under the leadership of performance technical director Lin Yaren, Officer Megure and his team arrived at the underground part below the stage.