Chapter 274 Seeking Rest
In the huge venue of Feiteng Theater, the performance is still going on. Under the host's connection, programs keep taking turns to appear, including drama, magic, dance, singing... Wonderful programs are performed on the stage one after another, winning waves of applause from the audience.
Although the show on the stage was wonderful, the enthusiasm of the audience below the stage kept weakening, and the applause was getting lower and lower. This was not because the show on the stage was not good, but because the theme seemed to have gone off track.
The selling point of this performance was the famous dancer Adele, but apart from the two dances at the opening and the fourth show, she never appeared again. Adele was never seen in the show after the fourth dance, which made many audience members who came specifically to see Adele somewhat dissatisfied, and whispers of discussion were heard from time to time in the venue.
"That's strange...it's been a few shows...why hasn't Miss Adele appeared yet?"
Sitting somewhere in the front row of the audience, Nephnis muttered as she watched the show on the stage, then she turned her head to look at Dorothy beside her.
"Ms. Dorothea, Miss Adele hasn't shown up for such a long time. Is there something wrong?"
"Problem? Maybe... But the current performance hasn't ended yet, we can wait and see." Dorothy simply responded to Nefnis's words, and then continued to look silently at the show still being performed on the stage. Looking at Dorothy in front of her, Nefnis thought to herself.
"It seems that Miss Dorothea is a little distracted. Is she really thinking that the show is not good at the beginning? I hope Miss Adele can come on stage again soon..."
Nephnis was thinking this in her mind, and at this moment Dorothy's main focus was indeed not on the stage, but in the living area behind the backstage of the theater, in Maria's room. At this moment, she was using Ed's vision to stare at the four letters on the table, four letters she had just found, one of which was a letter telling the real murderer of Maria.
"What method can be used to identify the real murderer at the lowest cost?"
Looking at the four envelopes on the table in front of her with Ed's vision, Dorothy thought to herself that if she didn't come up with a suitable divination method and tried them one by one, she would most likely end up with a guaranteed winner.
The spirituality of the "lamp" is still very precious, and Dorothy is not yet at the point where she can squander the "lamp" at will.
'Perhaps I can divide them into two parts... and perform divination on each of them. For the one with the problem, I can perform divination again. In this way, I can use two divinations to solve the problem stably... But two divinations will also consume at least two points of 'Light'. Can it be less?'
Dorothy thought of the first plan, but this plan would certainly also have two "lights" on it. In Dorothy's opinion, she seemed to be able to reduce the consumption to even less.
'Thinking about it again, I think I can reduce the consumption even further if there is a more suitable method...
"For example, can I directly predict who among the writers of these letters has ill will towards Maria?"... No, this prediction directly involves those guys and will be counter-divinated, resulting in a failed prediction."
Dorothy thought in her heart that under the protection of anti-divination, if the target of divination involved the protected object, the divination would fail. Asking who of the four letter senders had malicious intentions, and the target of divination was the murderer protected by anti-divination, would not produce any results.
So Dorothy was able to use her cane to divine the location of the hidden letter just now. That's because the target of divination is the letter itself, not the writer.
"As long as the object of divination involves the murderer, then the divination will definitely fail... Then... can we do the opposite and divine which letters are not written by the murderer?"
Dorothy thought like this, and after thinking about it for a while, she suddenly had an idea.
"I have it... Can I do this..."
Thinking of this, Dorothy asked Ed to pick up the paper and pen on the table. She first controlled Ed to use the pen to write consecutive numbers on the four envelopes, marking the four letters as 1.2.3.4 respectively. Then she began to arrange the four numbers on a piece of paper, in groups of three.
Then Dorothy got the four combinations 123, 124, 134, and 234.
Then Dorothy asked Ed to use the scissors on the table to cut the four combinations from a piece of paper into four small pieces of paper, each with a three-number combination written on it.
After cutting the papers, under Dorothy's control, Ed crumpled the four papers into four small balls and put them all in a pen holder. Then Ed took out a piece of paper with a divination circle drawn on it, put the pen holder with the papers on the circle on the paper, and then put a gold coin on the circle for consumption.
All of this is the preliminary preparation process for divination.
After everything was ready, Dorothy began to prepare for divination, and she silently recited the divination in her heart.
"Among the four writers of the letter No. 1234 that I wrote, the one who has no ill will towards Maria Dokana is..."
Bu Yu finished reciting silently, and then Dorothy began to control Ed to draw lots. Ed took out a small ball of paper from the pen holder. At the same time, the luster of the gold coins on the magic circle became dim.
Ed took the paper ball in his hand, then unfolded it and restored it to a piece of paper. With the help of Ed's vision, Dorothy saw the number combination written on the paper ball, "124".
124. According to the divination language Dorothy used before, the writers of letters No. 1, No. 2, and No. 4 had no ill intentions towards Maria, and the only one with malicious intentions was No. 3.
Anyway, divination will only take effect when it targets the target of protection, which will invalidate the divination. This time, Dorothy's divination targeted the letter writer without any malicious intent, and did not directly target the murderer himself who was protected by anti-divination, so it was successful. Of course, this divination method is not tried all the time, because the more direct the divination is, the better. If the ritual is too complicated, the structure of the divination ritual will be unstable and invalid. Fortunately, there are only four letters and four permutations and combinations. If there are more letters, the permutations and combinations will increase, making the ritual more complicated and bloated, and the ritual will not work.
Dorothy used this number combination and divination method to draw lots, and she drew three letters without malicious intent at once, confirming that their writers were not the murderer. Then the murderer could only be number 3. Throughout this series of operations, Dorothy only performed divination once from beginning to end, and chose a "lamp" as the storage item.
"Finally, I found you..."
Dorothy thought to herself as she asked Ed to pick up the envelope numbered 3 from the table. Then she did not stop and directly opened the envelope to read the letter inside.
Through Ed's vision, Dorothy skipped over the love words in the letter and fixed her sight on the signature. However, there was no real name written in the signature, but a letter "B".
"Didn't you use your real name to contact Maria? But it doesn't matter, as long as we get the things, everything will be fine."
Dorothy thought so, and then she asked Ed to find all the letters signed by B. She cleaned up the scene and left Maria's room.
After leaving the living area, Dorothy asked Ed to find Adele directly. After Ed opened the door and entered Adele's room, Adele, who was sitting on the sofa tasting red wine, immediately turned her attention to Ed.
"Hey~ Mr. Detective, you came back so soon. From the looks of you, did you get anything?"
Adele said as she nodded at Ed, and Ed nodded in response.
"Yes, the harvest is good. I found the letter from Maria's problematic sponsor..."
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