Lord of the Silver Crow

"This sentence has appeared many times."

While searching for other clues, Bao Lin said:

"In his detective novel, in a pantomime performance, the narrator said this when he saw an actor playing a clown pick up a policeman."

"So, what does this sentence express?"

Bante asked in a puzzled way.

Yago silently cast his sights on Paulin.

Paulin raised the chair, looked around again, put it down, and replied at the same time:

"The policeman on the pantomime stage is not a fake, but a real policeman. The clown is a thief. He stole something and kicked and beat a real policeman under the eyes of the audience and the audience."

"The stupid audience did not realize this, cheering in the audience, cheering the clown and the policeman's acting skills."

He briefly described it.

"In other words, Mr. Taberji might go to the...theatre?"

Bante seemed to have thought of something, and looked at Yago beside him with a somewhat ugly expression.

"I don't know." Yago shook his head while answering briefly, "This is just a possibility."

"We can look for it carefully and see if there are more clues."

Paulin did not deny Yago's opinion, but nodded in agreement.

The two spent ten minutes looking for a circle in this small room, but they did not find other clues.

In this situation, the two had to ask another question-

"Mr. Banter, are you sure that Mr. Taberji will only leave clues in this room?"

Under the gaze of Yago and Paulin, Bante suddenly felt the pressure and straightened his back unconsciously:

"Mr. Taberji's former editor said so."

"Can we go to the other room to see?" Yago asked, looking up over Bante's shoulder and looking at the opposite door.

After ten seconds of silence, Bante said with some hesitation:

"It’s better not to do that. Although I don’t know what method Mr. Taberji used, but I heard that it was because he discovered that the editor of the last publishing house he signed for broke into another room without authorization. Mr. Taberji directly Dissolved the contract with that publisher."

Hearing these words, the two looked at each other, and then Bao Lin said:

"Then let's go directly to the Dillard Theater to confirm his presence or not."

"Good, good."

Bante nodded immediately and walked towards the stairs.

When Yago was following with Paulin, he couldn't help but asked in a low voice:

"Is there no danger at the Di Lud Theater?"

The wanted Sequence 7 Extraordinary, "Puppet Master" Dennis, nearly killed him and Alena Xia at the Di Lud Theater.

If Captain Friesen had not given up chasing and chose to protect them, he and Alena Xia might have died.

There have been too many recent things.

The Mid-Sequence Extraordinary was killed, the priest Sallylyn did not return, the tramp who was hunted down, the old "Bone Picker" who chased the tramp, and the Brotherhood of Lanterns, the "puppet master" Dennis who committed a large number of crimes It hasn't been found yet...

Now, Elsa and Old Fanks have disappeared inexplicably...

He felt danger everywhere.

Regarding his question, Paulin responded in a low voice:

"Don't worry, the captain said that the Knights in the Mist's Extraordinary team base is near the Dillard Theater."

Cavaliers in the Mist Team?

This Yago didn't expect it.

But also, the Cavaliers in the Mist team abandoned the area of ​​Dillard City before, and now the people from the Cavaliers in the Mist team have returned, so the new business district will not be said to be safe, but at least compared to the previous one where no one supervised it. The situation is better.

And just near the Di Lude Theater, the "Knight in the Mist" team can never be incapable of even being able to guarantee the safety of the neighborhood.

However, as the saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest place. Maybe Dennis would choose the Dillard Theater as a hidden place?

......

Soon, they came to Huoshu Street and came to the elegant retro hemispherical building.

Compared to before, this opera house now looks quite deserted.

A few days before it opened, there were homicides, and many people were killed. The opera house was also ordered to close.

As for by whom?

Not to mention the pressure from several church forces at the same time, even Viscount Nafar can do it alone.

By now, Yago didn't know that the Di Lud family was an extraordinary family.

Glancing at the completely decolorized poster on the bulletin board, Yago and Paulin squeezed under an umbrella, and followed Bent to the canopy of the Dillard Theater.

"I think I know why Mr. Taberji is here."

Looking at this familiar building, Bant uncomfortably adjusted the red bow tie in front of his neck:

"But I don't like this material."

Where the murder happened, is there anything better that can be used as the material of detective novels?

Yago and Paulin naturally understood this.

The patter of raindrops were still falling. After swaying the door, Bant, who had not succeeded in opening the door, sighed, raised the unclosed umbrella again, and walked to the right.

After a short half-circle, the three people saw an unclosed window.

Also, there are shoe prints on the windows, and the muddy shoe prints have not completely dried up:

"Mr. Taberji must have never expected that we would come so soon, just..."

Paulin habitually smiled at Yago, remembering something halfway through, and swallowing the joke in the second half.

Then he turned his head and asked Bante:

"We can go in from here, Mr. Bent."

"I hope there is no security."

Bent responded, and then took the lead in the window wall and turned into the theater.

Paulin and Yago followed closely behind.

......

There is no light inside the theater.

Even though the lighting design is quite good, because it is rainy, the interior of the theater does not look bright.

It was similar in style to the church. The open windows on the left and right of the vault, which was a few meters high, only shed light enough for visual observation, and the light through the stained glass was slightly gloomy.

In this quiet and unoccupied theater auditorium, there is only the sound of three people's footsteps and the sound of rain clicking on the stained windows. With the light, there is a weird and gloomy feeling.

"Mr. Taberji!"

Not knowing if it was for courage or not to be afraid, Mr. Bent yelled.

While shouting, the three of them walked all the way onto the stage, from the left side of the stage around into the circular corridor in the background.

Since it is possible that Mr. Taberji came here for the purpose of obtaining materials, it is naturally obvious where he would be.

The three of them went side by side and came to the backstage, outside of the opera actress Elaine's room.