Before we had gone far, we saw the eye-catching signboard of the Wild Beast Circus. It was the most popular circus in Polnia. If it weren't for the wind and snow, the entire block would have been packed with spectators.
This was originally an ancient Colosseum, belonging to a declining aristocratic territory. Later, in order to mortgage debts, the place was sold. After many years of circulation, the Colosseum welcomed its new owner, and the Colosseum welcomed its new owner. The zoo was transformed into the Wild Beast Circus.
Jiang Chenchuan originally planned to disguise himself, but he didn't expect that he saw a familiar figure just as he walked to the door.
"Rena?"
Hearing Jiang Chenchuan's greeting, Leina was also surprised. You said that Polnia is so old, and it was a coincidence that they met at this time.
"Evel, are you coming to see the show?" Reina looked around, looked at the performance list at the door, and said doubtfully, "But the show is not suspended today..."
"Come to investigate a case, how about you?"
Jiang Chenchuan didn't want to reveal the museum's information, so he had to tell a little lie.
"We were discussing cooperation with Heart of the Brave, but it turned out that the sailors wanted to see the performance of the Wild Beast Circus..."
Reina's tone was full of helplessness.
"Just right."
Jiang Chenchuan consciously followed Reina, looking like her little follower.
"Do me a small favor and take me in."
Lena: "..."
As soon as I stepped into the Wild Beast Circus, an indescribable feeling came over me, as if something existed here.
Reina was stunned for a moment, a flash of red flashed before her eyes, and then, as if a strange filter had been added, the transparent lines floating in the air flew in one direction like fine yarn.
Jiang Chenchuan first noticed something was wrong with Lena, and then also felt something strange that was indescribable. He relied on his intuition and walked towards the stairs. Before he even stepped onto the steps, he was pulled by Lena.
"here."
Reina quickly broke away from the weirdness, and with a hint of determination in her eyes, she pointed out the exact path to Jiang Chenchuan.
Their goal was clear. Along the way, the passing actors, all of whom had not yet put on makeup, stared at the two strangers who broke into the backstage with confusion. However, seeing that their expressions were more serious than the other, no one dared to step forward and ask anything.
Therefore, there was almost no obstacle and she arrived at Kevin Koskolin's door smoothly. All the lines converged here. When Reina wanted to knock on the door, she was stopped by Jiang Chenchuan.
"I'll come, you stay back."
Jiang Chenchuan protected Reina behind him and raised his hand to knock on the door. The soundproofing of the circus was not very good. If there was any sound, it would be heard immediately. However, after they waited for a few seconds, there was no sound in the room. In response, there was no sound.
The two of them looked at each other and understood what the other meant. Reina stepped back and turned around to stop the manager who wanted to step forward to question. Jiang Chenchuan stepped back a few steps to gather strength, raised his foot, and directly hit the manager who was not very good at it. The strong door lock was kicked out.
As soon as the door was opened a crack, there was unstoppable blood flowing out. When the door was fully opened, the terrifying scene inside the room was fully seen. Even the manager who wanted to evict people was frightened and stayed where he was. The ground was motionless.
The first thing that spreads is not fear, but nausea. For people who have never seen such a bloody scene, the first reaction is usually stomach cramps, followed by an upward surge. Rena can't bear it for a moment, and starts to retching while grabbing the wall. stand up.
The whole room seemed to have experienced a bloody storm. Every wall was painted with alchemy circles in blood, and even the back of the door was painted the same. If Jiang Chenchuan hadn't forcibly destroyed it, no one would have discovered the body in a few days.
That's right, in the center of the largest and most complex magic circle in the room, there lay a hideous-looking corpse. The whole body was completely split from the middle. The posture was deliberately placed, like a sacrifice in a sacrificial ceremony.
Just now, Reina saw those illusory lines gathered at the corpse. However, the victim's face had been damaged, making it impossible to see his appearance clearly.
"Has anyone had sex with Kevin Koskolin? Or maybe they are familiar with his physical characteristics..."
In a place where no one dared to approach, Jiang Chenchuan poked his head out of the door and asked eagerly.
"be quick."
"What's wrong, Ivel, have you found any clues?" Only Reina, who had a pale face, answered him.
"The man just died and I need to find out the identity of the deceased."
Jiang Chenchuan had observed the scene. He was not familiar with the alchemy circle, but he was familiar with the state of death. After a brief investigation, he suspected that the deceased was not Kevin Koskolin at all.
"And we don't have much time left."
Everything in the room was obviously carefully arranged. The murderer emptied everything he could take away, leaving only the candles on the table and the clock on the wall.
Jiang Chenchuan had long noticed that the time of the clock was not rotating normally, but rotating counterclockwise. In other words, if he understood it correctly, it was a countdown device.
Delay devices can be seen everywhere in crimes, maybe to buy time to escape, maybe for... some sense of ritual.
No one is sure what will happen inside the circus when the clock reaches zero.
All the clues were quickly deduced in his mind. Before he became a detective, he had always been the commander of the team. He was the brain and the one who controlled the overall situation. Everyone's every move should be visible.
Standing in front of the corpse again, smelling the lingering smell of blood in the air, Jiang Chenchuan closed his eyes and began to calculate.
Based on the degree of coagulation of the blood and the sharp drop in temperature today, the precise time of death of the deceased can be calculated forward, plus the time spent setting up the scene, combined with the countdown device...
"Is there anything going on at eight o'clock tonight? For example, a performance or something...or some big event?"
Jiang Chenchuan stuck his head out again and asked.
The circus manager's mind went blank at first. After Jiang Chenchuan reminded him, he stumbled and said:
"Tonight? There is no...no event. Because of the snow, the performance has been postponed to eight o'clock in the evening two days later."
"Two days from now?"
So the murderer's ultimate goal is a large-scale performance two days later.
"Let me think about it, what can I do to satisfy his desire for [destruction]..."
While Jiang Chenchuan was thinking, Reina mustered up the courage to come to the door and looked at the messy but regular array in the room with a surprised expression.
"Summoning the flames of hell..."
"What did you say?"
Jiang Chenchuan noticed Leina's whisper, saying something terrible.
"When I was in the Noble Academy, I was exposed to the study of alchemy. If I remember correctly, this is a summoning circle that summons the fire of hell. The person who is burned can never extinguish the flame. It can only be burned in the flames. Burning until death..."
