Chapter 219: Venus in the Water
Behind the stage, Lin Yaren took everyone to visit the work area.
"This is the control room, where the lighting, music, and various mechanical controls for the show are all operated here......
"And then there's an iron cabinet for the staff......"
Lin Yaren explained along the road: "This is a dressing room, where Daze and the performance staff will put on makeup and change clothes, and at the end of the corridor in front of it, there is a lounge where the staff are waiting to appear, and there is a water tank leading to the big clam shell on the stage......"
"Oh?" Gao Cheng just looked at it casually.
The backstage is actually pretty much the same, and if you understand it too clearly, the show performance will not be interesting.
"This is our foreman here, Mr. Murakawa," Lin Yaren said, introducing a middle-aged uncle with a flat head, "He has been in this business for 20 years. ”
"Hello," Murakawa nodded flatly, "I'm sorry, the show is about to start, and I have to check the stage equipment, so I'll take my leave." ”
"Uh-oh."
Gao Cheng watched Murakawa enter the room at the end of the corridor, and turned to Lin Yadao: "I think I'd better go back to the audience first." ”
In the performance hall, the circular staircase was quickly filled with people, and Gao Cheng and Xiao Ai finally found a position in the middle.
At this moment, the lights go out, only the aquarium that serves as the stage is illuminated, and the mussel shell opens in the beautiful underwater landscape, and the shadow of a woman in a white dress floats up with the bubbles, as if the Venus of Roman mythology has really reappeared.
"It's beautiful!"
Venus's open skirt, slender legs swayed slightly, and he swam gracefully in the water with a school of fish, and the audience was stunned.
However, the woman has blonde hair, and it is obviously not the previous Miss Osawa.
"Strange, where's Miss Osawa?" Gao Cheng wondered.
"Miss Osawa won't appear until a while, and now it's the second Miss Yuriko of Venus Peak," Conan looked like he understood thoroughly, "You see, she controls the fish through the spice bag in her hand......"
Gao Cheng pouted, he really shouldn't be with this guy to watch a show, the rare atmosphere has been ruined.
"Smack." As the blonde woman's performance ended, the lights dimmed again, and after a few moments of waiting, several lights hit the middle of the stage at the same time, and the clam shell opened for the second time with the starlight light effect.
The audience watched curiously as a fiery red-haired figure emerged, but it did not have the grace of the previous Venus at all, the lights shone brightly, and the eyes widened, and the hair fluttered like aquatic plants.
There was a pause, and the screams suddenly boiled.
"Miss Osawa?!" Gao Cheng stood up awkwardly and looked closely at Daze, who was floating motionless like a dead corpse in the water tank, "How come?" ”
……
"The deceased's name is Michiko Osawa, she is 25 years old, and the cause of death is drowning......"
Next to the water tank in the lounge, forensic personnel lay Michiko Osawa's body flat for evidence.
"Miss Osawa is an actor in the water show at this aquarium," Takagi reported to Officer Twilight, "and she's the only daughter of the president of Osawa Construction Co., Ltd., which was originally involved in the construction of the aquarium and is now involved in the operation ...... it."
Gao Cheng stood beside him, looked at Conan silently, and walked to the water tank with his hands in his pockets.
It depends on the situation that something happened to Osawa when he was preparing for the water tank, and even the bilge was stained with a piece of foundation.
It's obviously okay beforehand, but I didn't see Michiko Osawa have much conflict with others, at most, it's a little bit of a big lady's temper, so I won't be killed.
Was it murder or an accident?
"Did Miss Osawa drown in this tank?" Gao Cheng asked Lin Yaren, "Is there a mistake in the staff's operation?" ”
"You can't go wrong, I've been operating in the control room with the staff."
Lin Yaren led everyone into the control room: "After the actor is ready in the water cabin, the signal light here will turn on, and we will start to fill water into it after we confirm it, and it will automatically stop when the water is filled to eight minutes, and there is also an emergency button in the water tank to control the water stop and drainage." ”
"Hmm," Twilight muttered, "if there's nothing wrong with the machine, it's time to investigate it and start experimenting right now." ”
"Yes."
The staff began to prepare the diving equipment and inspect it through practical operation.
Gao Cheng took the opportunity to interrogate with Twilight.
Although they haven't yet begun to check the tank control process, Twilight and Uncle Mori have begun to decide that Osawa's drowning was an accident.
Because Osawa has a patch on his knee, and there have been cases of knee pain patches in the past, it is very likely that he drowned in the water tank due to knee pain.
"There are three points," Conan pondered and returned to the water tank, seeing Gao Cheng, who was also investigating, and raised three fingers, "First, there is only one place at the bottom of the water bilge that has rubbed the foundation on Miss Osawa's face, second, Miss Osawa has a patch on her leg because of knee pain, and third, the cosmetics scattered in the dressing room and the plastic paper left after the patch is applied......
It seems that Miss Osawa suddenly had knee pain in the dressing room and put a patch on it, and then hurriedly went to the water tank, and accidentally drowned because of the pain while filling the water...... But no matter how much it hurts, it won't even have time to press the panic button, and it's ......"
Conan's eyes lit up and he said, "Miss Osawa has always been very professional, and she cares very much about the audience's gaze, so it's really strange to be on the stage with a patch." ”
Gao Cheng's face fell, and he suddenly understood Uncle Maori's mood.
Conan is really inflated every time he stinks, and he likes to run around the murder scene like a bear child......
"Huh?" Uncle Maori walked out of the control room with a straight face, and lifted Conan, who was still reasoning and analyzing, from behind, "What are you doing here, you stinky boy?!" ”
Gao Cheng gloated as Conan was taken away.
"How?" Gray Yuan stood next to him and asked, "Do you know what's going on?" ”
"It's just like he said, someone in this incident deliberately wanted to make us feel surprised," Gao Cheng's face became serious, "I already know who the murderer is." ”
Gray Yuan was surprised: "So fast? ”
"Then this guy is much faster than me," Gao Cheng looked at Conan at the door of the control room, and he didn't have a good airway, "After the machine is checked, it is estimated that it will start reasoning, really, I finally came to see a show, but I ran into them, I will give them a call before I see where to play next time." ”
"Work hard to earn money before you go anywhere next time."
“……”
In the dressing room, Gao Cheng called the foreman Murakawa alone.
"That," Murakawa looked at Gao Cheng hesitantly, "Is there anything you want me to do?" Officers, they've already started experimenting......"
"You're the killer of Miss Osawa, aren't you, Mr. Murakawa?" Gao Cheng went straight to the point.
"Huh?" Murakawa was stunned for a moment, and laughed dryly, "What are you talking about?" Even Mr. Maori and the police officers said it was an accident......"
Gao Cheng didn't speak, just looked at Murakawa quietly, and slowly Murakawa couldn't laugh himself, clenched his fists and said: "When Daze drowned, I was in the control room, how could I kill her?" You know that, right? ”
"Of course I know, but I also know that you went to the toilet when Miss Minegishi was performing."
Gao Cheng said flatly: "That little time is completely enough for you to commit a crime, I think, you should have come here first to stun Miss Osawa who was still putting on makeup, put a patch on her and then carried her to the water tank, the foundation at the bottom of the water tank is the proof that Miss Daze is lying there, and after the water injection starts, it won't be long before Daze will drown." ”
Murakawa's face changed for a while, and he gritted his teeth: "What about the evidence?" All you said was speculation, and I said I was the murderer without even a single evidence......"
"I just want to ask you, Mr. Murakawa," Gao Cheng did not respond, but asked rhetorically, "Is it really possible to kill people so casually?" Is it really necessary to kill Miss Osawa? ”
Even in the dream battlefield, he is a little difficult to kill, and the shadow after the killing even affects the reality, I really don't know how the murderer of so many events can be so calm when he kills for the first time.
"That woman," Murakawa's face trembled, gritting his teeth and lowering his head, "two years ago, my wife and child died after being hit by a car, and she was the perpetrator, and when her father came here, I heard the conversation between their father and daughter, and I smiled as if telling a story...... That woman didn't think she had committed a great sin at all, and it was only natural that she would die a tragic death this time! ”
Murakawa said and took a deep breath and looked at Gao Chengdao: "This is probably retribution, that's why I drowned accidentally......"
"What about you?" Gao Cheng interrupted, "Isn't there a trace of guilt?" What's the difference between that and her? ”
"I ......"
"If you want to talk about evidence," Conan's figure appeared in the doorway, "Didn't Mr. Murakawa already know about it?" ”
"What?" Murakawa's body froze.
"Brother Joto has noticed just now, uncle, you washed your coat and hung it on the side of the locker, there is a faint lipstick mark on it, in fact, my uncle also has lipstick on his neck," Conan said with a cute face, "That must be Sister Osawa's lipstick, right, Brother Joto?" ”
"Uh, yes."
Gao Cheng frowned.
Stinky boy, no one will treat you as a dumb person if you don't make a sound......