"Anyway, let's go check it out first..."
After confirming these points, Dorothy controlled Ed to stand up from the sofa, cleaned the floor briefly, and walked out of the management office, all the way to the backstage of the theater, where he found the other dancers from the Feiteng Dance Troupe who were being questioned by the police.
"Gentlemen, can I ask them a few questions, too?" Ed said to the police officers who were conducting interrogations. Because of Douglas's previous promise, Ed now also had the right to investigate, so the police officers allowed Ed's questioning.
"Of course, Mr. Detective."
Afterwards, 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 and fourth performances? You went backstage together, right?"
"Well...between the second and fourth shows...let me think about it...after returning to the backstage after the second show, Maria went out on her own as if she was very happy. I asked her what she was doing there. She said mysteriously that it was a secret and didn't answer me. When she came back, the fourth show was about to start. Due to the tight schedule, she went on stage with us right after she came back. I didn't even have time to ask her what she was doing there."
The dancer in front of Ed thought for a while and then spoke. Dorothy frowned slightly after hearing this.
"Of course, after the second show, Maria went out. Not to the backstage, but the key point is that she went out on her own and she was very happy when she went out. What was she doing?"
Dorothy thought so in her heart, and then she manipulated Ed to ask the dancer in front of her a few more questions, but she didn't get any useful information.
Afterwards, Ed thanked the dancer for her cooperation, then stood up and left the backstage. During this process, since Dorothy did not get enough useful information, she began a new round of thinking.
'It seems... we still can't figure out what happened to Maria between the second and fourth scenes... maybe we can deduce this case from some other angles now.
'First of all, after the second show, Maria left the backstage happily by herself. No one knows where she went, but since this was a premeditated assassination, Maria's departure must have been arranged. She left so happily. If it was not the influence of some extraordinary ability, then she might have been kicked out by someone, or she might have made an appointment with someone else.
'Another point worth noting is that after Maria came back, she immediately participated in the fourth dance of "Mother of Scarlet". At that time, she was already a corpse puppet. However, in the first period of "Mother of Scarlet", she was still able to dance with others reluctantly. Although her movements were stiff, she could keep up. As a backup dancer, there was no problem in the eyes of ordinary audiences...
'This is very strange. As a corpse, Maria was already dead in spirit and soul, but she could still dance and still dance with Adele. This means that... the one who manipulated Maria, who might be the murderer, could also dance this dance, or at least knew how to dance as a companion. That's why he was able to follow the overall dance right from the start without making any mistakes and being discovered by the audience...'
At this time, Dorothy finally realized a very important point, that is, the corpse doll Maria was able to dance with others at the beginning. Although the movements were stiff, the rhythm was not slow at all. Maria was dead at the time, and she could not dance by herself, so it was her controller who manipulated her to dance.
Therefore, the controller who controls Maria also knows this dance, and he can dance as a backup dancer for "Mother of Crimson"!
"The manipulator also knows how to dance with Adele, and this dance seems to be a new work of Adele, which has never been performed before... So the murderer, the manipulator, knows how to dance with Adele, which means... Adele's secret dance rehearsal has been leaked. Maybe there is a mole in the theater?"
Dorothy was stunned when she came to this conclusion. Then she immediately manipulated Ed to come to the room where the police were guarding Adele. After saying hello, she walked in and found Adele lying on the sofa reading a magazine in the closed room.
"What's wrong, Detective, have you made any progress?" Adele said as she closed the magazine, crossing her legs and revealing her snow-white legs from her red dress, while Ed sat down next to her and spoke.
"That's about it. Now I have some guesses and I want to come to you to verify them." Ed said, pressing down the brim of his hat. Then he told Adele about his guess about the mole, and Adele frowned and shook her head.
"Impossible, it can't be that something went wrong with the people in the theater."
Adele spoke confidently, and Ed asked directly.
"How can you be sure that there is no problem? Since Maria, who danced at the beginning, was a meat puppet, it means that Maria's controller would definitely dance this dance. And you advertised that this dance was your latest work, so it is possible that a traitor in the theater secretly learned your dance."
"No, to avoid the paparazzi and to keep it absolutely confidential, we did not rehearse this dance in this theater, but in my personal private place. Therefore, even the people in the theater will not know what "Mother of Scarlet" is like." Adele continued to say affirmatively. After he said this, Dorothy couldn't help but look condensed. It was unlikely.
"So...what is the possibility that your private place could be infiltrated?"
"It's unlikely. Although the girls don't know, I have a full range of anti-detection measures in there, whether it's invisibility, small meat puppets, ghosts, and walls... If those guys could infiltrate there, I would be finished long ago."
Adele said seriously. Listening to Adele's words, Dorothy felt speechless.
Chihiro, free novel, skirt, 2?5;5,5:?:9.;.?5?:3"0"0 'How big is the heart to arrange a dance in a place like the headquarters of a secret society... Do you have to be so defensive against paparazzi? Why use so many extraordinary anti-detection methods...'
Dorothy complained in her heart, and then she manipulated Ed to continue asking Adele.
"Then it's impossible that the girls in your dance troupe are the traitors?"
"That's even more impossible. These girls are all people I have examined. Some of them are my 'students' directly. I trust them."
Adele responded. Dorothy was startled when she heard her words. She knew what a "student" meant in the mouth of an extraordinary person. It generally referred to other low-level extraordinary people who were led by this extraordinary person. This showed that Adele's level of extraordinary person was probably not low. Among the other people in the dance troupe, there were other extraordinary people who were led by her.
"Trust can sometimes be an illusion." Dorothy asked Ed to remind Adele that she believed that trust alone could not explain the problem, and the traitor could still be among the other dancers in the dance troupe.
However, Adele's response was somewhat beyond Dorothy's expectations.
“Trust can be an illusion, but desire cannot.”
"Desire?" Listening to Adele's words, Ed had a hint of confusion in his voice, but Adele glanced at Ed and continued with a smile.
"Do you know why... those guys want to use flesh puppets to assassinate me? That's because... my ability. I can feel the inner desires of others around me, especially... their desires for me.
"Whether it's love or appetite... I can feel the desires of everyone around me, and murderous intent is also a desire in a way, the desire to kill others...
"I can sense the desires of the spirits around me, and when there is a desire focused on me, my perception range will be wider and more precise. So when someone within my perception range has murderous intentions towards me, I will immediately know his location."
Adele explained slowly and Dorothy felt depressed after hearing her words. She manipulated Ed to speak.
"So, it is very difficult to assassinate you, and meat puppets have no desires and no killing intentions, so they choose to use meat puppets to assassinate you..."
"Yes, even if the meat puppet approaches me from behind with a knife, I won't have any killing intentions. I won't sense it, because the meat puppet has no desires..."
Adele spoke with a hint of laziness, and as she spoke she moved closer to Ed, pressed her body against Ed's, and put Ed's hand on her exposed thigh.
Then she put her mouth close to Ed's ear and whispered quietly in a charming voice.
"It's just like you. You don't have any desire for me... Detective..."
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