Chapter 277: Detection
At the main venue of Feiteng Theater, on the stage, the dance music gradually faded away. Adele, who had originally been dancing in the audience, led her dancers back to the stage at the end of the dance. Then the curtain was gradually drawn again, and they bowed together amid the applause of the audience.
After the curtain call, Adele quickly retreated to the backstage. She was wearing her performance clothes, and after casually changing into a piece of clothing, she quickly left the backstage, looking at the audience and walking quickly over there. After a while, she came to a long corridor and arrived at the door of box number seven.
At this time, the door of box number seven had been opened. Several theater waiters stood at the door, looking inside together. Next to them stood Ed, who was wearing a gray windbreaker and a top hat.
"How's the situation, Mr. Detective?"
Walking towards this side from the corridor, Adele gently asked Ed, and Ed answered directly, and Dorothy also let Ed speak directly.
"By the way, your dancing is so beautiful, Miss Adele, and he became very hungry after seeing it." Ed replied, and at the same time shifted his gaze to the inside of the door and took a look at the scene inside the box.
At this time, there was a bloody scene in the box. Various kinds of utensils were turned over everywhere, and the carpet was stained with blood. A body that had been eaten and broken was scattered on the blood-stained carpet. In the center of the box, a figure was lying there motionless.
Byron, who had recovered his human form, was now wearing a suit stained red with blood. He was lying on his back in the box, motionless, with his eyes wide open and saliva mixed with blood flowing from his mouth. Just now, his chest had stopped rising and falling. After swallowing a large amount of toxins, Byron finally died of the poison.
"For the extraordinary people of the Cup, a strong appetite is one of the desires that is easiest to control, especially for the extraordinary people on the path of beasts. I only need to give them some guidance casually, and their hunger will be uncontrollable."
Walking to Ed's side, Adele said this after glancing at the situation in the box. After listening to her words, Dorothy also felt a little touched in her heart.
"The beast path is more susceptible to being manipulated by appetite... In other words, the extraordinary people on other paths are more susceptible to being manipulated by other desires?"
Dorothy thought so in her heart, and Adele spoke to Ed after taking another look at the scene in the box.
"Yes~ According to your request, I left this guy's body intact. To be honest, this is much more difficult than killing him directly. Mr. Detective, you said that as long as his body is intact, you can help me solve the trouble with the police, right?"
Adele said this. If she just wanted to kill this black-level beast, she would have a more direct and easy way. She did this now because Ed had said before that if Byron's body could be kept as intact as possible, it would help her to be completely "innocent".
"Of course, after all, if a body with missing limbs were to wander around in front of ordinary policemen, they would probably lose control."
Listening to Adele's words, Ed responded with a smile, then he reached into his purse, fumbled for a while, took out a ring, and then put it on his hand. Adele keenly saw the engraved on the ring, a circle of little people dancing hand in hand.
"Is this... an extraordinary tool for manipulating meat puppets?"
"Yes, Miss Adele has a good eye." Ed responded to Adele, and waved his hand, which had already put on the corpse ring. Suddenly, Byron, who was lying in the box, immediately began to move and stood up in full view of everyone.
"Do you want to control this guy as a meat puppet? What can a rigid meat puppet do?" Adele asked with a hint of doubt as she watched Ed pull Byron up. And this time, the person who responded to Adele was not Ed, but Byron.
"Just cooperate with the performance, Miss Adele." Byron's stiff expression relaxed for a moment, and then he spoke. Seeing Byron like this, Adele was slightly stunned, and then looked at Ed and spoke with a smile.
"So... it was you who was the one who controlled the puppet on the stage. It seems that I owe you a few more points, Mr. Detective. Your ring is much stronger than the ordinary props for controlling living puppets..."
Adele stared at the ring on Ed's hand and said with interest, and Ed continued to respond with a smile.
"Haha, it's just a treasure I got from the time... That's it. Now that the leading actors are in place, I hope everyone will cooperate with me from now on."
After saying that, Ed glanced around, looked at Byron and several theater attendants standing at the door, and began to give instructions.
"Well, can I ask you now, are there any empty boxes in the theater? Oh, right, I need to take off this guy's clothes now. I also need a set of men's performance clothes, ordinary everyday styles will do."
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"Miss Adele! Do you know what you are doing? You are still a suspect, and you are still performing on the stage!" Police officer Douglas was standing in a corridor somewhere in the theater, and he shouted angrily to Adele in front of him, while Adele in front of him responded with a smile.
"Ah, sorry, sorry, I saw that the audience had been waiting for me for too long, so I couldn't help but dance one more time. I'm really sorry, Mr. Officer~"
With a playful look on her face, Adele looked at Douglas and responded, while Douglas continued to speak with his anger still not subsided.
"Miss Adele, do you know that your reckless behavior has increased your suspicion? If you continue like this, it will be useless for the detective to defend you."
"There is no need to explain now, Mr. Officer."
At this time, a figure that sounded familiar to Douglas came over. Douglas looked in the direction where the voice came from, and saw Ed walking slowly towards this side from the corridor on the other side.
"Detective boy...what do you mean by no need to explain? Have you given up the investigation and believe that Adele is the real murderer?" Douglas said as he looked at Ed who was approaching, and Ed answered slowly.
"Of course not. I said there is no need to defend myself... because I have already found out who the real murderer is. Miss Adele is innocent and does not need any unnecessary defense."
"What? You found the real murderer? Who is it? How did you find him?"
Listening to Ed's words, Douglas unexpectedly spoke, and Ed responded with a mysterious smile.
"For this matter, please bring someone with you, Officer. I'll tell you the details on the way."
Ed responded to Douglas. Douglas was stunned after listening to Ed's words, and then he spoke.
"Come on, I want to go see what you found."
After that, Douglas asked several policemen to guard Adele to her original room, and then took several other policemen with Ed to the upper level of the theater. On the way, Douglas asked Ed.
"Hey, kid, did you really find the murderer within an hour and a half? How did you find him? You're not lying to me, are you?"
"I can't possibly lie to you, Officer. In fact, I found the murderer through the clue of the blood-stained clothes." Ed answered directly while walking on the road, and Douglas spoke unexpectedly after listening to Ed's words.
"Bloody clothes?"
"Yes, I don't know if you still remember. I said that an important reason why Miss Adele was not the murderer was that there was no blood on her dance dress. And given the way Emmaus died, it was inevitable that the murderer's clothes were stained with blood. If Miss Adele was not the murderer, then how did the real murderer deal with his bloodstained clothes? After all, he still had time to continue watching the show, and he had to go out with other audiences after the show."
Walking beside Douglas, Ed analyzed and Douglas nodded thoughtfully.
"Well... indeed, the treatment of the bloody clothes is a problem. Please continue..."
"So I think there are two possibilities. One is that the murderer had planned this murder in advance. He brought some clothes for changing and went to another bathroom to wash and change after killing Miss Maria. However, the murder weapon found on the grass outside the window of the murder scene overturned this possibility."
Ed went on to say that after Byron manipulated Maria into "suicide", he threw the pet, which was used as the murder weapon, out of the ventilation window of the bathroom, and it was later easily found by the police.
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