"I guess there must be some business on the doorstep." Martin put on his deerstalker hat and held his pipe with a wise expression.
"That's it, Mr. Detective... You see, the song and dance performance has already begun. We are already missing one dancer, and now even the second dancer can't come on stage..."
Walter Finn pointed to the hall next door, cold sweat breaking out on his forehead.
In the theater hall, Lingna's singing voice came.
She didn't seem to be affected by Eva's absence, and her singing was still so effortless and passionate.
"It is indeed a shortcoming that there is no one to dance with. Fortunately, Mrs. Lingna can support the venue alone, and her singing skills are worthy of the audience's tickets." Martin smiled nonchalantly.
"That's not it... Mr. Detective, the point is not how well Lina sings, but how Lina can sing here." Mr. Finn was already a little incoherent.
"If she doesn't sing here, where else could she go?" Martin couldn't help laughing.
"Well, it's hard to explain clearly! Two detective gentlemen, and Miss Quinn, please follow me!"
Under the guidance of Mr. Fein, the three of them went downstairs with confusion and walked into the dressing room on the first floor.
"Three of you, for the sake of the Lord, please promise me that no matter what you see next, don't spread it!"
Mr. Finn stood in front of the door, his face a mixture of pleading and panic.
"As long as you can afford the consulting fee, of course we will abide by professional ethics and promise to keep everything secret." Rogge said calmly.
"No problem, of course no problem! Things that money can solve are all small problems!"
Mr. Finn forced himself to calm down, took out the key, and opened the door.
As soon as the three of them entered, they saw the wax golem lying on its side on a bench with its back to the door.
"Lady Lingna's performance has already begun, why is the wax golem still lazy here and not dancing with her?" Louise asked in confusion.
"Dear, Mr. Fan just said that both of his dancers will not be able to perform on stage today. Eva sprained her ankle. As for the wax golem..." Rogge looked at Walter Fan, "It's out."
what is the problem?"
Mr. Fane trembled, as if with great fear, and uttered a sentence softly.
"She's dead."
"Dead?" Rogge was stunned for a moment, "I think you are saying that the wax golem is malfunctioning and needs to be repaired before it can function normally?"
"No, she's dead... she was strangled to death." Mr. Finn's voice was trembling and his face was bloodless.
Roger, Martin, and Louise exchanged glances.
He simply stopped questioning the already panicked Mr. Finn and walked quickly to the wax golem.
When their eyes fell on the wax golem's face, they all couldn't help but gasp.
The white wax on its face has been peeled off, revealing a green and purple face, with bulging eyes, a distorted face, and a tongue hanging out of the mouth.
This is typical of death by suffocation.
Although the face of the deceased was distorted, everyone recognized it at a glance. It was Mrs. Lingna!
That's right, Mrs. Lingna's body was placed in the dressing room, stripped of her clothes, smeared with a layer of white wax from head to toe, and she was also carefully put on a tutu and dressed up like a wax golem.
"What on earth is going on?" Louise turned around and asked Mr. Finn.
"I don't know..." Mr. Fan said, wiping his sweat. "When the song and dance performance was about to start, I came down to urge the wax golem to go upstairs. However, I called it several times and it didn't move..."
"I got angry and pushed it hard. As a result, it fell to the ground and its face cracked, revealing Lingna's face..."
Gulu
"Lord, this is like a nightmare!"
Mr. Finn held his head and lamented.
Rogge squatted in front of the deceased and carefully examined her face to confirm that there was no sign of disguising magic.
"It seems that the deceased is really Mrs. Lingna."
"That's weird." Martin scratched his head in confusion, "Never mind who killed Mrs. Lina. Since she died here, who is the woman singing in the theater on the second floor right now?"
"My brother, this is a good question!" Rogge slowly stood up with a solemn expression, "Since Mrs. Lingna's body was disguised as a wax golem, then the woman singing upstairs is probably the wax golem disguised as a wax golem.
Mrs. Lina."
"Uh...you mean, the wax golem can not only dance like Ms. Eva, but can also perfectly imitate Mrs. Lina's singing?" Martin couldn't help but sneer, "If it really has such an ability, Mr. Fane has picked it up.
It’s a treasure, it’s like having two singing and dancing stars at the same time, and you don’t have to pay a copper coin for their performance.”
Mr. Fein was stunned for a moment, and then his expression changed subtly.
"Brother, what are you talking about!" Rogge glared at Martin angrily, "Killing a person requires a life, and the wax golem is no exception! The place where it should be is not the stage, but the execution ground!"
"Stop being so nagging, go upstairs quickly, we can't let the murderer escape!"
Louise turned and rushed out of the dressing room.
Rogge and Martin also caught up.
As the three of them climbed the stairs, the wax golem pretending to be Lady Lina was singing the last cadenza.
This perfect high-pitched coloratura seems to be more passionate and tear-jerking than usual performances.
The entire audience was deeply moved, stood up collectively, and applauded warmly.
However, Rogge and others realized that this impostor's singing contained supernatural power...
She incorporated the minstrel's "Ecstasy" into her singing, which not only captivated the audience, but also made Roger, Martin and Louise in a daze when they heard the singing.
By the time the three of them woke up, the performance upstairs had ended.
At the same time, Gao Fei and Jiang Feng received two system prompts one after another.
…
System prompts: The player enters "Goddess Mode"!
System prompt: Main mission update - arrest the wax golem who murdered and impersonated Lena Bella!
…
Gao Fei and Jiang Feng inadvertently switched to a subjective perspective and rushed into the backstage of the theater as quickly as possible.
"Wow! The audience can't come in, what do you want to do!"
A maid who was cleaning the house was so frightened that she screamed when she saw three strangers rushing in.
Martin rushed up to her and asked her in a rough voice: "Speak quickly! Where is the counterfeit hiding?"
"What, what kind of counterfeit?" The maid was frightened by him and almost cried. She picked up the mop with trembling hands to block the aggressive Martin, "Don't mess around... I don't know anything!"
Goofy patted Martin on the shoulder to signal him not to be impulsive, and politely asked the maid: "Excuse me, where is Mrs. Lingna? We have something urgent and we must talk to her immediately."
The maid hesitated for a moment and replied in a low voice: "She is in the dressing room."
Gao Fei breathed a sigh of relief and turned to wink at Jiang Feng.
Jiang Feng quickly walked to the dressing room door and tried to open it, but found that the door was locked.
