"As for their sponsors... I've never actually asked about that. You can go find Luffy at the theater. He's my direct subordinate and a Beyonder. He handles emails and contacts at the theater. One of his jobs is to help send and receive letters for other people in the theater.
"The dance troupe often lives in the theater. If there are letters sent to the theater, they will go directly to Luffy, who will then send them to other people. They all have correspondence with their respective sponsors. You can ask him if he has sent letters to Maria frequently, and if so, has he seen who the sender is."
Adele made this suggestion to Ed, and Dorothy did not stop after hearing it, but immediately controlled Ed to stand up.
"Thank you for your advice, Miss Adele. Time is running out, so I will continue to investigate the case."
"I'm waiting for your news, Mr. Detective."
After saying goodbye to Adele, Ed left the room and went to find Luffy at the theater. He asked the police to help him find him. Soon, the police brought the target to him. It was a middle-aged man in waiter's clothes.
"You, Mr. Luffy, I heard that you work in the theater, and one of your jobs is to help other people in the theater send and receive letters?"
Ed, wearing a top hat, spoke to the man in front of him, and the other party responded respectfully.
"Yes sir, if there is anything I can do to help you I will do my best."
"Thank you. I just want to ask you...Does anyone often send letters to Maria?" Ed continued to ask Luffy, and Luffy answered after thinking about it.
"Maria... poor child... someone did give it to her at the time, and it seemed to be more than one person. She seemed to have correspondence with many people."
Luffy answered like this. Hearing Luffy's words, Dorothy's expression brightened up, and then she continued to control Ed and said.
"So do you know where Maria's letters are usually kept?"
"Well... I think she would have kept it in her room. Maria came to the city from a rural area to make a living. She has only been here for two years and has not yet rented or bought a house, so she lives directly in the theater. Her letters should be hidden in her room."
Luffy continued speaking, and Dorothy, who had obtained the important clue, immediately asked Ed to speak.
"Thank you for the clue, Mr. Luffy. It helped me a lot."
Afterwards, Ed said goodbye to Luffy, and then went to find the theater manager, from whom Dorothy got the key to Maria's room. At Ed's request, the theater manager asked a waiter to take him to Maria's room.
At the back of the theater, in the staff living area, Ed, led by a waiter, stopped in front of a wooden door in a dim corridor.
"Thank you, I can do it myself from now on."
Ed said to the waiter who led the way, and the other party left immediately after a simple response. Then, Dorothy asked Ed to use the key from the management to open the door in front of him and enter a single bedroom.
This is a small bedroom with only a table, a bed and a wardrobe. It is simple and clean, with no other decorations except a few small ornaments on the table.
Arriving in Maria's room, Dorothy did not waste time blindly looking for the whereabouts of the letter. Instead, she closed the door and walked to the center of the room, leaned her cane on the center of the room, and then recited silently.
'The location of the letters hidden by Maria Dokana.'
After reciting the thought, Ed let go of the cane and let it fall down. As the gold coin inside the decoration on the top of the cane quickly dimmed, the whole cane fell in one direction, with the head of the cane pointing under the bed.
Seeing this, Dorothy immediately asked Ed to put away his cane, and then asked him to crawl under the bed. After searching carefully for a while, she finally found a small wooden box.
Dorothy took the wooden box out and placed it on the table. When she opened it, there was a thick stack of letters inside, at least thirty or forty of them. Dorothy was a little surprised when she saw them.
"So many?! This Maria is quite talkative."
Afterwards, Dorothy took out all the letters and used her ability as a scholar to quickly read the handwriting of the writers. She finished screening all the letters in two or three seconds and selected the handwriting of the four writers with the longest appearance. They were the four writers who communicated with Maria most frequently. Each of them sent Maria several letters.
"Now, we just need to see who among the four of them is Maria's financial sponsor."
With this in mind, Dorothy asked Ed to open each of the four letters, hoping to determine who Maria's financial sponsor was based on the contents. However, after Dorothy quickly glanced at all four letters, she immediately thought to herself, "Shit!"
"Damn... This Maria is a sea king..."
Dorothy said this in her heart. Yes, judging from the contents of the letters, the writers of these four letters are all Maria's sponsors. She has four sponsors! She dances with four people and has ambiguous relationships with all four of them!
"Fuck... is this life so indulgent? At the moment, there are four sponsors with whom he has an ambiguous relationship. From what I read, one of them is a woman. This man and woman are all in this situation."
Dorothy complained in her heart. Although she had heard Adele say that some dancers had multiple sponsors, she didn't expect Maria to be one of them, and she had four sponsors at once. This made Dorothy's case handling work much more difficult.
Among these four letter writers and four financial sponsors, who is the extraordinary one, the one who killed Maria and turned her into a corpse?
Looking at the four letters in front of Ed, Dorothy fell into deep thought. She was thinking about how to quickly find the real murderer.
After thinking about it, Dorothy finally came up with the idea of... divination!
That's right, Dorothy has now divined the real murderer out of these four candidates, even if the other party has counter-divination, because Dorothy can use the other party's counter-divination to determine which of the four letter writers has the question.
Now Dorothy only needs to perform divination on these four letters one by one, and set the divination words to "Is the writer of this letter an extraordinary person who wants to harm Maria?"
This divination directly involves the murderer himself who is protected by anti-divination, so if Dorothy only uses a little resource, she will not be able to get any result. The worst result is that she will not get any result.
These four letters were divined one by one. If the divination gave a positive result, it would prove that the writer of the letter was not the murderer. If the divination gave no positive result, it meant that the divination for the writer of the letter was interfered with by the counter-divination, which proved that there was something wrong with the writer of the letter.
According to this method, Dorothy divined the four letters one by one, and the one that was disturbed and could not produce any result would be that letter.
Dorothy thought of a solution, but did not do it immediately because although this solution was not feasible, it might waste a lot of "lights".
"No... If I have bad luck and do divination four times in a row, and finally get a problematic letter, then that wave will cost me four points of 'Light'. The previous divination has already cost me two points, and now another four points... I can't handle it."
Dorothy thought that although this method of trying one by one was not effective, it was too stupid. It was like playing a game of hand-drawn characters from a pool, with four guaranteed draws. If you were lucky, you would get one at a time, but if you were unlucky, you would get all four draws and end up being the guaranteed draw.
Dorothy was not one to gamble on her luck, so she was only too willing to use this method of divination.
"No, I can't waste my spiritual energy like this. There must be some other divination method that can save my spiritual energy and hit the target in one shot."
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