Dorothy's Forbidden Tome

"Thank you for your compliment, Mr. Detective."

Listening to Adele's words, Douglas frowned, and then immediately said to Ed.

"What you said is just a hypothesis, based on the fact that Miss Adele has blood on her face. What if she is lucky and the blood doesn't splash on her face? The height of the blood on the wall Can't explain anything."

"Then we can also confirm the number of costumes. Miss Adele's original blood-stained dance skirt must be disposed of. Then there will be one less dance skirt of the same type in the theater. As long as the number of dance skirts is not small, Miss Adele's innocence is still assured."

Ed continued to speak, while Douglas continued to speak after glancing at the people in the theater in front of him.

"You're right, but whether there are more or less dance skirts is entirely up to the theater. Adele is of great value to the theater. It's hard to guarantee that they won't say no less in order to protect Adele. The testimonies of relevant persons need to be highly reserved.”

Douglas said in a neutral tone. After he finished speaking, everyone turned their attention to Ed, and Ed walked to Adele's side with a calm expression, and said while looking at the bright red dress on her body.

"Miss Adele, this dance dress on your body... the material seems to be very precious, and the price is expensive."

"Mr. Detective has good eyesight. This dance skirt of mine was specially customized for today's performance at Yinyuexing clothing store. As well as the one on me, the spare one is still in the closet backstage, and can be taken out at any time if needed."

Adele replied softly, and after listening to Adele's answer, Ed raised his eyebrows slightly, turned around and said to Douglas.

"You must have heard it, Mr. Police Officer, Miss Adele's dance skirt is custom-made outside. You can ask the custom-made business to find out how much you have customized. As long as Miss Adele can get the corresponding amount If the dress is intact, then there will be no problem."

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Ed said that the reason why he was able to see the unusual clothes on Adele at a glance was actually due to Nephness's contribution. Dorothy and Nephness sat together to watch Adele's During the performance, Nephness, who is very interested in various fashion products, saw at a glance that Adele's clothes were expensive and unusual, and excitedly asked Dorothy during the performance. Explained.

"Um……"

Listening to Ed's words, Douglas pondered for a while, and then nodded.

"You make some sense. We will check the relevant situation immediately. However, the high-end clothing and remote clothing stores like Yinyuexing may have closed now, so the verification will probably wait until tomorrow. Before that, Miss Adele is still the number one suspect, in order to prevent her from escaping, we still have to detain her in the police station first."

"Don't be so troublesome, Miss Adele doesn't have to go anywhere today."

Responding to Douglas, Ed continued to speak confidently, while Douglas looked at him with a frown, and then spoke with a hint of dissatisfaction.

"What are you trying to say, detective?"

"What I mean is, Mr. Police Officer, your detection method is a little problematic. In my opinion, the possibility of Miss Adele being the murderer is very slim. The key point for us now is not to argue whether Miss Adele is the murderer, but to take advantage of Now that the performance is not over yet, we still have a legitimate name to keep these thousands of spectators, and find out the real culprit while they are still among them."

Dorothy controlled Ed to speak positively, while Douglas smiled contemptuously after hearing Ed's words.

"It's really arrogance, detective. Regardless of whether Adele's suspicion has not been cleared, even if she is not the real murderer, the real murderer is still among the audience in this theater, but how did you keep him in such a short time?" Find him out there?

"If I remember well, Adele's performance will last from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-], and it is already [-]:[-], and there is still an hour and a half before the show will end. There's no reason to keep so many people, I don't think we can solve this homicide in just an hour and a half, so it's better to take it slowly."

Douglas said bluntly that his words were based on his past experience, so there was nothing wrong with it, and Ed smiled slightly after hearing this.

"I don't think so, Mr. Police Officer. As far as I am concerned, as long as the police officers and theater staff cooperate with me enough, then I can guarantee to catch the truth within an hour and a half."

Ed said it confidently, and after hearing his words, everyone including Douglas showed a look of disbelief, while Douglas said it directly.

"Find the real culprit within an hour and a half? Heh, I admit that you have some skills, but it's still too arrogant for you to say this."

"Crazy or not, you'll know if you try it? Anyway, an hour and a half is not too long, so let me try it." Ed finished, then looked at Douglas silently, and Douglas and Ed looked at each other After a while, he spoke.

"Well, it won't be long anyway, I can let you try, detective, during this time, we will cooperate with your investigation as you wish, it's an acknowledgment of your previous ability, but don't try If I play any tricks, I will keep an eye on you."

Douglas watched Ed and said, and Ed spoke with a soft smile.

"Thank you for your support, Mr. Police Officer, I will fulfill my mission."

Listening to Douglas' words, Dorothy, who was manipulating the corpse puppets in the auditorium, also smiled slightly. Now that she has obtained the cooperation of the theater staff and the police, and with sufficient resources allocated, she can finally use her full strength Going to catch the murderer.

After officially obtaining the right to investigate, Dorothy immediately started to handle the case. She manipulated Ed to speak to the theater management on the side.

"May I ask this gentleman, do you keep the floor plan of this theater here?"

"The floor plan? Let me think about it... Oh, there are some, the floor plan of the building should be in my office, and I will keep it after it is finished." The old manager of the theater responded to Ed. , while Ed continued to respond immediately.

"That's really great, now please take me to your office, please find those drawings, I need them."

"Okay, Mr. Detective, please follow me."

As he said that, the old manager walked towards the distance, while Ed followed immediately behind. Faced with this situation, many people present were puzzled, especially Douglas frowned.

"Why does this kid want a floor plan? Is he doing construction or handling a case?"

Ignoring the suspicious eyes behind him, Ed followed the old manager all the way to his office, and saw that the other party found several folded large drawings in a drawer and spread them out on the ground.

These are the floor plans of this theater, there are several in total, each floor, each corridor, each room, and even each audience seat in the main venue are marked on it. Looking at the details of the floor plan in front of you, To an extent, Ed nodded.

"It's all here, Mr. Detective, is there anything else you need?" After laying out all the drawings, the old pipeline said, and Ed answered.

"Very well, thank you, now I need to borrow your office for a while, I like to stay alone in a quiet room when I reason."

"Yes, Mr. Detective."

After a brief response, the theater manager walked out of his office, and now Ed...or Dorothy finally had enough room to reason.

Of course... if ordinary reasoning can solve such a case...

Obviously, this kind of case cannot be solved by ordinary reasoning. On the surface, it is an ordinary murder case, but in fact it involves secrets and extraordinary things at a deep level.

Douglas would never believe that the deceased most likely stabbed himself seven times, blinded himself, and created the entire murder scene himself.

He also would not believe that the real time of death of the deceased was not between 23:[-] and [-]:[-], but earlier.It was the first time that the Feiteng Dance Troupe performed on stage. When they performed "The Scarlet Mother", in the middle of the two programs, Maria was still alive when the dance troupe performed for the first time. After a chorus program came on stage again, Maria has become a corpse doll.

She was murdered in the time between these two programs, and then the murderer put a "shadow" necklace on her to help her conceal the characteristics of the corpse doll, allowing her to appear in "Mother Scarlet" assassinate Adele.

'This kind of case committed with extraordinary means requires equally extraordinary means to solve it. '

Dorothy thought this way, and then she controlled Ed to take out a golden coin and a string of crystal pendants from his pocket, as well as a piece of paper with a divination circle printed on it.

That's right, now Dorothy is going to use her strongest method of solving crimes, divination.

After Dorothy was promoted to a doctorate who simulated a puppeteer, her control over the spirit silk has been greatly improved. Now she can not only use the corpse puppet to perform simple rituals, but even let her spiritual vision be in the eyes of the corpse puppet. It also took effect, and she just used the spiritual vision of the corpse doll to see that the black necklace on Maria's neck was an extraordinary item of "Shadow".

Now Dorothy is going to use the pendulum divination method to divine the location of the real murderer.

Putting the coins on the paper circle, Dorothy asked Ed to squat in front of the floor plan of the theater, hang down the crystal pendant in his hand, and then silently recited the oracle in his heart.

'The location where the real killer of Maria Dorcana was killed tonight...'

After finishing the meditation, Dorothy swung the crystal pendant. As the luster of the gold coin became dim, the crystal pendant began to swing on the paper of the plan.

Then during the swinging process, followed by Ed's touch, Dorothy did not feel the force pulling the head of the pendant until the swinging pendant stopped completely, completely perpendicular to the paper, and fell outside the boundary of the plan. It is impossible to determine the pointing direction at all.

When this happened, Dorothy knew very clearly that it was the result of her own divination being blocked.

"It's useless. Those guys probably allocated a lot of anti-divination resources for this operation. Don't try to find them with divination, Mr. Detective."

At this moment, a familiar soft voice sounded in the office. Dorothy controlled Ed to look in the direction of the voice, and saw Adele Brieuz in red leaning against the door, Holding a thin cigarette in his hand, he looked at Ed in the center of the room.

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"Miss Adele?"

Seeing Adele appearing at the door, Dorothy felt slightly surprised, and then she manipulated Ed, who was still in the theater management office, to stop the divination in his hand, put the crystal pendant away on his body, and looked at Talk to Adele again.

"As an important suspect, you should be guarded by the Yan family at this time, right? Are you planning to escape?"

"If you run away, you'll be the real evidence. I've been accused by those guys. I'm not that stupid. Now I'm just using some small tricks to move around freely for a while. I can handle ordinary policemen." Looking at Ed in the room, Adele spoke slowly. While she was speaking, she took a puff of a thin cigarette in her hand. After exhaling the smoke, she looked at him with interest. Open to Ed and continue.

"Besides, the extraordinary detective with wisdom, Mr. Ed is clearing up my grievances, how can I escape? The case is the stage of the detective, and I can't tear down the stage for the dancers dancing on it."

Adele continued to say yes to Ed. Hearing Adele's words, Ed frowned slightly and continued to speak.

"Miss Adele, how do you know that you are not an ordinary person?"

"Hehe... This is a woman's secret."

"Secret..." Ed murmured repeatedly, while Adele nodded and continued.

"Yes, secrets, just like Mr. Detective, you also have your own secrets. I don't think you will tell me for no reason why you want to get involved in this matter that has nothing to do with you. Even for this reason You don't hesitate to use divination as a means of costing a lot, you know, the price of Tivian's 'revelation' is ridiculously high now."

'I know this, and I set this price up. ' Dorothy thought in her heart, while Adele continued to speak.

"Paying such a high price to arrest the real culprit of this case that should have nothing to do with you, Mr. Detective, I think your identity and even your motives are more interesting secrets."

With a thin cigarette between her fingers, Adele said with a lazy expression, and listening to Adele's words, Dorothy thought in her heart.

'Well, for me, this is actually not a big price, as long as that guy is found and killed, then the things will come back with profit, and my main purpose is this. '

Dorothy was thinking this in her heart, while she was manipulating Ed in her hand and said to Adele with a smile.

"If I said that, as a detective, my purpose is to find out the truth of the facts and restore the innocence of the innocent lady, would you believe me?"

Listening to Ed's words, Adele was slightly taken aback, and then said with a chuckle.

"It's so nice to say, I almost thought you didn't have a method of accumulating spirituality by solving cases, Mr. Detective."

"Why not?" Ed shrugged, Ed responded, and Adele waved her hand and spoke.

"Okay, okay, whatever you say, no matter what your purpose is, now that you want to find those people, then we can be regarded as allies with the same interests for the time being, although I don't know if you still have the same interests after the divination is invalid. What other means of tracing, if you can continue to trace, maybe I can provide you with some help."

"That's it, that's really what I wish for, Miss Adele, I just wanted to ask, do you know how many anti-divination resources they have?"

Ed asked Adele, but the other party glanced at Ed and spoke directly.

"Divination resources, no one knows about this, but what I can tell you is that those guys are backed by the Afterbirth Wolf Blood Society. If the Wolf Blood Society will give anti-divination protection, then don't try to divination anything about them unless you also have If you have the support of an association with the same size as the afterbirth, and are willing to conduct a full-scale divination battle with the afterbirth, then don't think about it."

Adele revealed it to Ed, and Dorothy finally began to know who the opponent was facing this time.

"Afterbirth Church... Wolf Blood Society, they are old acquaintances... But this is a bit troublesome. If those people really have anti-divination protection from Afterbirth Wolf Blood Society, as Adele said, then it would not be good It's a fortune teller, the Nest of Eight Points alone has the ability to spend tens of thousands of pounds to buy more than ten "Qi" in one go, and the reserves of "Qi" in the level association of the Afterbirth Church are definitely not much more, And there are enough high-level Extraordinary sitting in the town, it is really not wise for me to punish the Divination Afterbirth Cult with a higher level.

'Although I have 'enlightened' a lot and can return it, it is not used in this way, and the 'light' is also limited. If there is no need for something, the instinct is wasted...

"This time...maybe we can't mainly rely on divination to solve the problem..."

Dorothy thought this in her heart, but she also manipulated Ed to speak to Adele.

"Thank you, Ms. Adele, for reminding me. I have my own measure here, but I'm curious now, Ms. Adele, you actually have a feud with the Wolf Blood Society. I don't know if I can know the grievances between you?"

"For this, let's talk about it after you solve the case. If Mr. Detective, you can really solve this case and save my reputation from being damaged, then I can not only tell you what you want to know, but we and Wolf Blood will We will also reap our friendship and thanks for the things between us."

Taking another sip of the cigarette in her hand, Adele murmured, and Dorothy also keenly grasped a trace of meaning in Adele's words.

'Adele called us...that is to say, she is not alone, she is also a member of an association, and it is an association that is hostile to the Afterbirth Church and the Wolf Blood Society.

"Adele cares more about her reputation than the secular judgment she may face. Yes, this kind of framing by the Wolf Blood Society cannot harm Adele herself. The mortal police cannot keep her, an extraordinary person." , but Adele's reputation in the secular world could indeed be ruined by such framing.

"People from the Wolf Blood Association failed to assassinate Adele, and then decided to create this kind of framing, wanting to destroy Adele's reputation as a worldly dancer. It seems... this reputation is very important to Adele, an Extraordinary What is the special significance of it. '

Dorothy quickly parsed out some other meanings in Adele's words in her mind, and then she manipulated Ed to smile at Adele.

"I'll do my best, Miss Adele."

"Then I'll wait and see, Mr. Detective, I'll wait for news from you at the police, and if you need anything, find me there.

"By the way, I will give you some hints at the end. Maria died before she performed the fourth "Mother Scarlet" with me. The one who danced with me there was just a meat puppet."

"So it's a meat puppet?" Ed pretended to be surprised, and Adele responded with a mysterious smile.

"I thought you had figured it out, Mr. Detective."

After blinking at Ed, Adele threw the cigarette butt into the trash can, then opened the door and walked out, leaving Ed alone in the room for a moment.

'This woman...'

Dorothy thought of this in her heart, and then she controlled Ed to sit on a sofa, and after posing in a contemplative pose, she fell into thinking.

'Then, let's try to find the murderer by some other clues.

'What needs to be confirmed now is the real cause and time of Maria's death. Maria was still alive in the second performance, and she came up as a corpse puppet in the fourth performance, so...she is in the The time of death was between the end of the second show and the beginning of the fourth show...if I remember correctly, it was between 32:55 and [-]:[-].

'Before controlling Maria's body, his body has no external injuries, and may have died of poisoning or suffocation.

'Anyway, let's check now...'

After confirming these points, Dorothy controlled Ed to stand up from the sofa, tidied up the ground briefly, and then walked out of the management office, all the way to the backstage of the theater, where he found Fei Teng who was being questioned by the police The other dancers of the troupe.

"Gentlemen, can I also ask them a few words?" Ed said to the police who were conducting inquiries, and because of Douglas's promise before, Ed now also has the right to investigate, so the police also asked Ed's inquiry was allowed.

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"Of course, Mr. Detective."

After that, Ed found a dancer who had a good relationship with Maria and began to ask about the situation. Looking at the nervous dancer in front of him, he asked calmly.

"Excuse me, miss, did you see Maria between the second performance and the fourth performance? You went backstage together, right?"

"Hmm... Between the second and fourth scenes... Let me think about it... After returning to the backstage in the second scene, Maria seemed to be very happy to go out by herself. I asked her what she was doing? She said mysteriously that it was a secret, and did not answer me. When she came back, the fourth performance was about to start. Due to the rush of time, she went directly to the stage with us as soon as she came back. I didn’t even have time to ask her What did you do?"

After thinking about it for a while, the dancer in front of Ed spoke directly, and Dorothy frowned slightly after hearing this.

'Sure enough, Maria went out after the second scene, not backstage, but the point is that she went out by herself, and she was happy when she went out?What is she doing here? '