This morning, the police asked Xiaolong again," Nishimura Shiho put away his mobile phone and said, "It's Yang Xiaolong, the son of the regiment leader, and this time he is the only one who has no alibi." ”

"Can you take us to the acrobatic troupe later?" Gao Cheng proposed.

Because of yesterday's incident, I haven't had time to meet with those acrobatic troupe people, and if I don't even know who is there, the investigation is just a joke.

The law does prohibit private investigators, but it is impossible if he just looks at it.

The truth is the truth and is not affected by his identity.

"I've been waiting for a long time," the hotel waiter brought a plate of hairy crabs, and said embarrassedly, "The dry pot beef can't be made for the time being, do you want to change the dish?" ”

"Then switch to sautéed potatoes." Gao Cheng said after reading the menu.

Time in Conan's world is a bit confusing, but the current Shanghai is 16 years, and he came to this restaurant that year, and he was impressed by the dried potatoes here, and he liked to eat more than any Shanghai specialty, and it was not so strange that only this dish was sweetened.

When the waiter left, Nishimura Shiho couldn't help but be surprised: "It turns out that what Sonoko said is true, Joto-kun is a language genius and is proficient in eight Chinese dialects......"

"Huh?"

Gao Cheng looked at the garden suspiciously.

What is proficient in the eight Chinese?

At the beginning, I can use Chinese, Japanese is a crossing welfare, English is a card draw, and others, I will also know a few words of Portuguese, Korean, Thai...... Do West Eight and Savadika count?

According to the standards of the system, the only ones who are really proficient are English, the kind that can be teachers.

"It's so sweet," Yuan Zi tasted a bite of the dried potatoes after serving the food, and his eyebrows jumped up, "But it's delicious, Ah Cheng, how do you know about this dish?" ”

"There's an introduction on TV." Gao Cheng offered a universal excuse.

It was already afternoon after eating, and the Bund was the same as he remembered, it was crowded before evening, but fortunately, it was not a holiday, and there was no need for police officers and soldiers to maintain order.

Because of the theater case, the original travel plan could not be implemented, and everyone followed back to the big boat after a meal.

"Hello, hello," the current head of the acrobatic troupe, Sou Fujido, after officially meeting with Gao Cheng and a few people under the introduction of Nishimura, enthusiastically handed out a business card, "I'm Sosuke Fujido, the producer of the Yang Acrobatic Troupe, and the two are Detective Mori Kogoro and Joto Takasei, right?" It's such an honor to be able to meet both of them at the same time in Shanghai...... Something went wrong with yesterday's performance, but next time it will definitely be enjoyable for both of you......"

Gao Cheng had no intention of dealing with these people, and stood quietly in the back to let the uncle come forward.

This kind of thing is more suitable for uncles, who are old and experienced, and look stupid in some aspects, which is easy to lower the other party's vigilance and inadvertently show their feet.

Fujido soon left under the pretext that he still had a job, obviously not wanting to have too much contact with the detective, but Uncle Maori didn't care, and couldn't take his eyes off the beautiful girls who stared at the acrobatic troupe.

Although there was no performance today, several key members of the acrobatic troupe stayed on the boat and did not leave.

Yang Leili, the adopted daughter of Head Yang, is a girl about the same age as Yuanzi and Xiaolan, like a sister next door but very precocious, and she is the actor who temporarily starred in the mermaid yesterday.

Then there is the photographer Yuji Koda, who made the photo album of the acrobatic troupe, with long curly hair like wool, wearing a black vest and leather pants, and his whole face has no expression, full of weird appearance, and he doesn't look easy to mess with.

In addition, there is a stage manager, an old gentleman named Zhou Liangyou, and a young man who does chores, Shi Damin.

The last person to meet was Yang Xiaolong, who had just returned from the Public Security Bureau, a teenager who didn't know how to deal with people and had a strange temper, and returned to his room with a face without even saying hello.

Only these people live on the ship, either Shiho Nishimura who doesn't have a place of his own, or Mr. Zhou who stays on the ship for some reason.

At the same time, these people are also the object of police suspicion.

There are metal detectors at the entrance to the theater, so the people who live on the boat are most likely the murderers of Captain Yang, and Yang Xiaolong, who has no alibi and has been arguing with his father, is the most suspect.

Especially yesterday, when the victim named Malujina was killed, Yang Xiaolong did not have an alibi.

If it weren't for the fact that the murder weapon could not be found, the police would probably arrest Yang Xiaolong directly.

The members of the troupe were quite taboo about "Silan", and Gao Cheng didn't plan to ask too much, but asked Takagi on the Japanese side to help investigate several Japanese in the acrobatic troupe, including Nishimura Shiho, a friend of the garden.

If the identity is okay, there should be a result soon.

On the theater stage, Gao Cheng finally had the opportunity to carefully inspect it, and when Yang Leili, the adopted daughter of the head of the troupe, took him to visit the stage of the acrobatic troupe, he looked around the water tank.

"This is the water tank used for the fish-man show," Yang Leili said, "I have practiced before, but it is too difficult, so today's first performance is not very good......

Gao Cheng stood on the edge of the water tank, and the picture of the crime appeared in his mind again.

The brightly colored female floating corpse in the water, the scene of horror and beauty coexisting, it is probably difficult for everyone to forget that night, and maybe they will dream of ghosts or something.

Of course, in Gao Cheng's eyes, it is just one detail clue after another.

Judging by the bleeding, the time to death was very short.

He had just carefully seen the group photo of the acrobatic troupe, he had seen the murdered foreign girl during the performance, and in one of the programs before the fishman performance, the foreign girl was still performing a turntable on the side.

In other words, the case happened after the end of the scene, and considering the time taken to dispose of the body, it is possible that the person was killed just after the end of the scene.

The show after the turnaround happened to be Yang Xiaolong's turn to assist, and it was also at that time that Yang Xiaolong didn't know why he didn't appear, so he was suspected by the police.

Gao Cheng thought back to yesterday's performance.

Bruce Yang's reappearance was when he performed the Crossing the Circle show, and unlike others, it didn't seem natural to wear shoes, and then he disappeared again, until the Fishman show, when he starred in a fishman wearing a mask and wearing a cloak on stage.

If it's a real murderer, there's no need to act so obviously, the alibi is too coincidental, and it feels like being used by a real murderer.

If this Yang Xiaolong really wanted to kill someone, he could find a time to do it in private, and there was no reason for the corpse to suddenly appear on the stage and cause panic.

Two points can be determined, one is that the murderer needs to use Yang Xiaolong as a cover to interfere with the police investigation, as if using Silan's curse to cover up his true motives, and second, the murderer must have some purpose in letting the corpse appear on the stage.

Judging by the results, the police cordoned off the scene as soon as possible, and then conducted a search...... It doesn't seem to do the killer any good, and the later the body is found, the better.

Gao Cheng pondered and slowly compared, and the poster of the Bund Theater flashed in his mind.

"Lei Li," Gao Cheng turned around and asked, "I remember that you still have a bear in the poster, right, and there is also a bear performance in the program list, but why wasn't there yesterday?" ”

"This ......"

"It was Mr. Fujido who was replaced," Shiho Nishimura explained, "and because he couldn't find Marujana, the finale was changed to a naughty show, and Naughty was the bear in the poster." ”

"Do you reverse the order?"

Gao Cheng grasped the only possibility.

The performance was terminated because of the corpse, so the finale bear did not have to appear on the stage.

If that's what the killer was for, then why the killer didn't want Xiong to perform on stage......

Will the murderer be exposed?

"Can you take me to see Naughty?" Gao Cheng asked with interest in Yang Leili's puzzled gaze.

Although there are still some unclear points, it seems that he is about to solve the case again.

There are too many lines to help him find the killer.