Conan reborn as a detective

Chapter 1064 The Curse of the Murloc

"ah--!"

On the stage of the Bund Theater, in the water tank where the mermaid was performing, a girl from an acrobatic troupe who temporarily played the role of a mermaid escaped screaming from the water. As the lights came on, a dead body floated in the red water tank.

The tragic scene completely destroyed the performance. All the audience stood up in fright, and the police who had been watching secretly rushed onto the stage.

"what happened?"

"Don't move! Don't move! No one can go out!"

A criminal policeman climbed up to the water tank and lifted the mask on the corpse's face solemnly.

He was shot again, and his tongue was cut off.

The deceased was a foreign woman from the acrobatic troupe. She had been in charge of the mermaid show for several years, but she changed people temporarily for some reason today.

"Call the forensic doctor!"

"The murderer should still be here, block the exit!"

Gao Cheng ran to the front of the stage at the first time, but was stopped together with others. He only saw the dazzling red in the water tank and the corpse in costume.

This is not Tokyo. He has no right to participate in the investigation, so he can only look around the water tank through the crowd.

The corpse appeared suddenly, and logically it should have fallen in, but the surrounding area of ​​the water tank was not wet by the splashed water...

Gao Cheng's gaze turned to the colorful ropes hanging down beside the water tank to decorate the stage. During the performance just now, these ropes seemed to be connected with the scenery behind them, rising and falling in reverse.

It seems that the only way to let the corpse suddenly appear in the water tank when the lights are turned off to change the scene is through these ropes.

Gao Cheng jumped over the police and quickly scanned the scene.

The murderer should be a member of the acrobatic troupe...

"Police officer!" Fujido rushed to the stage in a panic when he heard the movement, "What, how?"

"The entire ship is now being searched, including everyone on board."

The police didn't have a good look at Fujido, the person in charge.

There had already been a murder case, and the Bund Theater should not continue to perform. This guy caused such a big trouble by going his own way.

There were too many people at the scene, and it took a lot of time just to search.

Gao Cheng and Uncle Mao Li lined up to wait for the search. Yuanzi said in a low voice, "Miss Nishimura said that the police have come to investigate this week. They suspect that the only captain's son who doesn't have an alibi is the murderer, but the murder weapon has never been found."

"A pistol?" Gao Cheng saw the police using a metal detector.

"Well, it seems to be an American bodyguard pistol, only the size of a palm..."

"Our people have been outside all the time, so there is no possibility of the criminal throwing the murder weapon into the river," a police officer reported to Officer Li who led the investigation in the backstage of the acrobatic troupe, "and there is no sign of external intrusion, and the audience is After checking the body, he was allowed to leave, and the entire theater was searched, and no murder weapon was found..."

"Let me tell you," Uncle Mao Li saw everything in his eyes and probably guessed the current situation, "The security check here is too bad, and people brought guns in again and again."

"It's not that the gun came in, but that gun was here from the beginning," Gao Cheng shook his head and said, "Whether it was a week ago or this time, the murderer used the same gun."

Police officer Li happened to pass by, heard Gao Cheng and the others, and also questioned in Japanese: "You said it is the same pistol? How is it possible? We have investigated it carefully in a week, although it is the same kind of weapon as this time Model pistol, but it should have been thrown into the Huangpu River through the toilet window by the prisoner..."

"But you didn't find it this time, did you?" Gao Cheng switched to Chinese and got up and said, "You can't throw it into the river this time, right?"

"This..." Police Officer Li didn't care about his high-standard Mandarin, and his face was a little embarrassed.

There were police guards outside, and of course no one threw anything through the windows.

"As long as the appraisal is done," Gao Cheng analyzed, "If the murderer wants to prepare another gun, the pistol in the first murder doesn't need to be hidden at all, it can be left at the scene. The reason why it can't be found is because Because the murderer is going to hide it and continue to use it."

"Sounds reasonable," Officer Li frowned. "The fact is that there is no murder weapon on board..."

"It's just that I didn't find it," Gao Cheng couldn't help but begged, "Officer, can I assist in the investigation? Maybe..."

"Irrelevant people and others should not hinder the handling of the case." Officer Li's gaze paused on Gao Cheng's face, "You are Kido Gaocheng, right? I heard about you when I was studying in Japan, but you didn't intervene in this case." Room, this is not Tokyo."

Gao Cheng watched the police leave without any surprise.

In this case, I can only collect clues by myself. Fortunately, there are people in the acrobatic troupe.

The performance ended hastily, and everyone in the circus on board looked extremely gloomy. Even though the police had left, it didn't get any better, so the night passed like this.

the next day.

"Everyone thinks it's the curse of the murlocs," Nishimura Shiho explained with great concern at a riverside restaurant on Zhonghua Road. "The mask used to kill the leader was spring, and this time it was summer, followed by autumn and winter..."

"Miss Xicun," Gao Cheng interrupted and asked, "What is the curse of the murloc and Si Lan's revenge?"

"Do you also know?" Nishimura Shiho didn't hide anything, "Silan is a former team member here, and was promoted to be the protagonist of the murloc game six years ago, because she can dive underwater for more than 5 minutes. The murloc game is a very important project. It was very popular soon, it became the finale, plus she is very beautiful, Si Lan became the chief star of the acrobatic troupe, but..."

"But?"

The uncle was still immersed in the blow of Gao Chenghui's Chinese, and he couldn't slow down. He didn't even move his chopsticks on the hairy crab that he had always wanted to eat. He only diverted his attention when he heard "beautiful".

"One day after the performance," Nishimura Shiho said regretfully, "Silan's makeup remover was replaced with concentrated sulfuric acid, and half of her face was burned. After that, she never appeared in front of everyone again, until she was shot at with a small pistol. He committed suicide by the Huangpu River, leaving behind a curse, and the body and the pistol have not been found."

Yuanzi and Xiaolan hugged each other again: "Curse, curse... Could it be that Silan's ghost came to take revenge?"

"Although it's not very clear," Nishimura shook his head, "but the death of the leader is exactly the same as the curse, and the four masks of spring, summer, autumn and winter that Silan used to perform in the past that day are also gone."

While talking, Xi Cun opened the phone photo and said, "This is the curse left by Si Lan."

In the photo, there are slightly weird blood characters, and it seems that there is a lot of resentment.

"The belly of the fish dies, the soul of the deep sea screams, Chunlei twists his left ear, Xia Yan snaps out his tongue, Qiu Lan pulls out his right eye, the winter cold burns his skin, the pear garden burns in the sky, the zombie takes revenge..."

Gao Cheng left a photo as a backup.

The spring and summer curses did fit, Yuanzi and the two were trembling with fright, but in his opinion, it was obvious that someone borrowed this curse to hide their real motives.

Overall there are many problems.

He didn't know about the first case, but this time the criminal left a lot of traces.

There was a lot of blood at the scene, all because the prisoner forcibly moved the corpse. The police haven't noticed yet, that's why the prisoner took so much trouble to move the corpse.

(End of this chapter)