As he spoke, Ed walked towards Adele, and then placed a pile of letters on the coffee table in front of Adele. After Adele picked up a letter at random, opened it and took a look, she said to Ed.

"I found it just now... I just asked Luffy, and he said Maria's private life is a bit messy, and she might have more than one sponsor. I was worried that you wouldn't be able to find the letter you were looking for for a while."

"I have my own way. Now that the most important thing has been found, I'd like to ask Miss Adele for help next." Ed continued to say to Adele. After listening to Ed's words, Adele glanced at Ed and said.

"Ask me to help? So, Mr. Detective, how do you think I can help you now?"

Listening to Adele's words, Ed looked at her seriously and then said.

"Ms. Adele, you are a Beyonder of the Cup, and a Cup of a relatively high rank."

Dorothy asked Adele directly, the dancer... red... desire... and the Wolfblood Society's hatred... Combining these key points, Adele's extraordinary journey is actually very obvious. She is an extraordinary person with a "cup" path. The fact that she can be taken care of by the Wolfblood Society proves that her class is not too low.

"Yes, isn't this a very obvious thing~"

Adele responded as a matter of course, and after getting the other party's affirmation, Ed continued.

"Since Miss Adele is a Beyonder of the Cup, then she must know some method to improve her sense of smell. After all, smell is one of the senses of the Cup. So I would like you to use the scent on these letters to find the murderer."

Dorothy controlled Ed and said so. He learned this trick from Bill. When Bill was in the Igwinter Charity, he almost found himself with the sense of smell of the "Cup". Now Adele is obviously an upper-middle level of a more advanced "Cup" association, so she can definitely do the same.

Although the letter passed through many hands and had the smell of many people when it was sent, there were multiple copies of the letter. Although the multiple copies of the letter were handled by different postmen, the writer and the recipient were the same. Therefore, as long as you find the old smell in the letter and remove the smell of Maria and Luffy, the remaining smell is the writer's.

If you ask why the writer, as a Beyonder, did not use "Stone Wisdom Powder" to remove the smell when sending the letter, it is because there is more than one Beyonder in the theater. If the letter using "Stone Wisdom Powder" falls into the hands of Beyonders under Adele before Maria receives it, it is very likely that there will be problems.

For example, after Dorothy used Stone Wisdom Powder to remove the smell of the hair accessory with the mark symbol on it, she gave it to Anna for tracking. The hair accessory itself had its smell removed and was worn by Anna. Under the cover of Anna's own scent, Bill would not be able to find out that there was something wrong with the hair accessory. However, if the odorless hair accessory fell into Bill's hands alone, then Bill would immediately find the problem, because the lack of smell itself is the biggest abnormality.

If the writer used Stone Wisdom Powder to remove the smell of the letter before sending it to Luffy, then when it reached Luffy, who was born as an Extraordinary Person, he would immediately discover the problem, and their entire process would be unable to proceed.

Therefore, Dorothy could be sure that the letter carried the scent of the writer. As long as she could identify this scent, she would have clues to find the murderer.

Listening to Ed's words, Adele smiled slightly, and then continued to speak.

"It seems that you have a wealth of secret knowledge, Mr. Detective. Yes, as a 'cup', I do have a deep ability to identify smells. The method you mentioned to find the murderer is indeed feasible, but... it would be a bit of a fuss if I went to find it myself. I think it would be better for you to do it for me."

As she spoke, Adele stood up from her seat, walked to one side of the dim room, took out something from an exquisite box, and after returning to the sofa to lie down, she handed Ed three talismans and three small pieces of dried meat.

"These scent-seeking talismans, by consuming the 'cup', can allow you to have a stronger sense of smell than ordinary tasters for a short period of time, and stronger than ordinary scent-identifying talismans. Using it, you can identify the smell on this letter and find the owner of the smell in this theater.

"This thing is quite precious. I don't have many. I'm giving you all three of them. And these dried meats are all spiritual storage items of the 'cup'. They will provide you with the spiritual energy you need for the talisman."

Listening to Adele's words, Dorothy let Ed take the talisman and jerky. After examining the jerky in his hand, Ed said.

"What kind of meat is this? It can't be human flesh, right? If it's human flesh, I'll just forget about it."

"Wow~ It turns out that Mr. Extraordinary Detective has a very high moral bottom line. That's really rare. He is worthy of being a righteous detective?" Looking at Ed's response, Adele said with interest. She felt that she was becoming more and more interested in the man in front of her.

"Don't worry, this is not human flesh, it's beef. Although human flesh is indeed the best choice for 'cup' storage and has always been favored by the blood-eating faction, not all 'cup' storage must be human flesh.

"Although some 'Cup' associations also accumulate spirituality by eating the flesh of living beings, they mainly eat the flesh of livestock. Although the spirituality in the flesh and blood of animals is much weaker than that in humans and is extremely difficult to obtain, if the method is correct, it is still possible to obtain the 'Cup' from the flesh and blood of animals. These animal meat jerky storages are made by them. You can try them. They taste very good."

Adele explained slowly. While listening to Adele's explanation, Ed looked at the dried meat in his hand. After looking at it for a long time, he couldn't tell whether it was human flesh or not, so he had to put it away first.

"Forget it, just keep it for now. I can use my own 'cup' to activate the talisman anyway."

Dorothy thought so, and then asked Ed to collect the talismans and storage items. Then she asked Ed to ask Adele again.

"Thank you for your support, Miss Adele. Now I can finally find the murderer. However, in order to reduce the search range later, I have another question for you. Miss Adele, what is the maximum range of your passive perception of killing desire?"

"With me as the center, the radius is 137 meters. I can sense any desire directed at me within this range." Adele answered directly, and Dorothy asked Ed to nod after hearing it.

Then, Dorothy closed her eyes and called up the floor plan of the theater she had just seen in the management office from her complex memory. Then, she drew a picture in her mind like using a drawing software, using Adele's range of activities on the stage as the reference point and drawing a large circle of 137 meters according to the proportion given in the picture.

This big circle included many places in the theater, and even most of the auditorium. In other words, the murderer would not be within this range, otherwise his murderous intention would be sensed by Adele.

Adele's perception circle immediately helped Dorothy eliminate most of the search area. Now she only needed to go to the very small remaining edge area to look for the murderer's scent there.

It doesn’t take long to find these few marginal areas.

"Thank you for your cooperation, Miss Adele. I think... this search has come to an end. Please wait for good news..."

As Ed was about to get up and leave, Adele called him before he left and spoke to him with a serious expression from behind.

"Mr. Detective, if you really find the wolf cub hiding in this theater, don't act rashly. Remember to inform me. Those guys are very dangerous."

Listening to Adele's words, Ed paused slightly, then he turned around and spoke to Adele with a smile.

"I can understand that... you are concerned about me, Miss Adele?"

"...I just wanted to personally kill the person who dared to cause trouble at my show and kill Maria, don't get me wrong. But I would also feel sorry if an excellent detective like you died because of your rash actions."

Adele said to Ed quite seriously, and Ed smiled and bowed to Adele, then turned around, opened the door and walked out of the room.

Now, it's time to find out the murderer.