screenwriter mystery

Chapter 247
"Whether there is a mistake in the investigation is not up to you."

"Now, please cooperate with us if you don't want to be arrested."

Interrupting Barnum's excuse with the same expressionless face, Detective Zhou glanced at the tent behind the circus director, heard exclamations and applause from inside, and said coldly.

"Is it possible that I'm taking this as a threat from you, Sergeant?"

Hearing Detective Zhou's words, the expression under the circus master Barnum's hat became more and more gloomy.

Noticing the change in the expression on Barnum's face, [Lobster Man] trembled involuntarily.

"No, I'm just stating the facts."

However, meeting Barnum's eyes, the expression on Agent Zhou's face did not change at all, but his arm remained motionless and approached the pistol at his waist.

"..."

With a gloomy face, he was silent for Amanda and the others for a long time.

Barnum then retracted his gaze, bit his sharp teeth and said, "Since the police officers want to investigate, as a law-abiding citizen, I naturally raise my hands and feet to express my cooperation, but right now our circus performance It's still in progress, the entire circus is full of guests who came to watch the performance, even the investigation must wait until after the circus performance is over..."

As the head of the circus, Barnum must abide by the rules of the circus and cannot easily end the circus performance.

This is the rule set by the circus, and even Barnum, who is the head of the circus, cannot violate it.

Hearing the reason given by Barnum, Amanda and Detective Zhou exchanged glances.

From previous investigations, they already knew that many residents of the small town came to watch the circus performance today.

With such a gathering of people, it is really not suitable to start an investigation immediately, because if any dangerous situation occurs, the audience who came to the circus performance may be implicated in it.

So, hear the request made by the head of the circus, Barnum.

Amanda hesitated for a moment before she had to agree.

"Zhou, you, Phil, and Spike are here to watch the performance."

Of course, although she promised to wait until after the circus was over to investigate, Amanda was not completely defenseless.

Arranging Detective Zhou, Detective Phil and Spike at the circus is to avoid this from happening.

Detective Zhou and Detective Phil deal with common problems, while Spike is naturally designed to deal with special situations.

"Angela, you're on my team."

"Yes, boss."

Hearing that she and Amanda were in a group, Angela couldn't help showing a somewhat excited expression on her face.

But Amanda cast her eyes on Barnum in front of her, and asked word by word: "I don't think there should be any problem in investigating the members of the circus, Captain Barnum."

Faced with Amanda's request, Barnum's expression under the top hat twitched, and he pinched his nose and said, "Of course, there's no problem, as long as you don't affect the performance of the circus."

……

"Speaking of which, this is the first time I have seen a circus performance live."

The squad was divided into two groups and started investigations in the circus tent.

Detectives entered the auditorium on Wednesday, found a few vacant seats and sat down, watching [General Thumb] dressed as Napoleon in the center of the stage, riding the same short dwarf horse, and posing in the pose in the classic portrait.

Detective Phil, who was sitting next to Detective Zhou, couldn't help saying something in a low voice.

"We're not here to really see a circus performance."

Hearing Agent Phil's confession, Agent Zhou continued to keep his expressionless face.

He was sitting in the lively auditorium, listening to the continuous loud cheers and applause around him, but he frowned involuntarily, and stretched out his hand to grab his arm.

From the moment he entered the circus tent, he began to feel constant tingling pain from his infected arm, as if some invisible force was constantly affecting this arm that was supposed to be lignified and completely painless.

"Of course I know what our goal is."

Faced with this reminder from Detective Zhou, although Detective Phil was talking, his eyes were once again attracted by the double-headed sister who appeared in the center of the stage. Looking at the dancing posture of this deformed sister, Phil The detective involuntarily raised his palms and gave warm applause.

"However, in the current situation, even if there are so many people at the scene, if you want to investigate, you need to wait until they all disperse."

While speaking, Detective Phil turned his head and glanced at Detective Zhou beside him.

Immediately afterwards, his eyes suddenly became suspicious, he poked his head and glanced at the seat next to Agent Zhou, and asked strangely, "Where's Spike?"

Hearing Agent Phil's words, Agent Zhou quickly turned his head to look at the seat beside him.

However, there was at least one empty spot that came into view.

"He was here just now."

……

"Hi, I'm Agent Amanda from BSI, and this is Agent Angela..."

Circus, backstage.

Amanda and Angela entered it, and were dazzled for a while looking at the busy scenes in the backstage and the various weird-looking freaks.

After observing these freaks for a long time, Amanda chose a freak who seemed to have finished the circus performance, stepped forward and introduced herself.

"...We have some questions about the circus and would like to ask you, ma'am."

"Miss?"

Hearing Amanda's voice, [Bearded Child] turned his head and glanced at the two BSI agents, especially when he heard Amanda addressing himself, [Bearded Child] revealed a face hidden by a thick beard. Self-deprecating smile: "I haven't heard this name for a long time."

Shaking his head, restraining the expression under his beard, [Bearded Child] looked at Amanda in front of him: "Tell me, what do you want to know?"

"What should I call you?"

Amanda noticed a breakthrough from the attitude of the [bearded girl]. At least her reaction was not as evasive as the [lobster man] she met at the tent door before, and she continued immediately.

"You can just call me [Bearded Child], that's what the whole circus calls me."

"It's so disrespectful."

Angela who was on the side couldn't help frowning when she heard [Bearded Child] say her name. As a woman, she naturally knew that the name [Bearded Child] was not just a name but a nickname.

"Respect, there's nothing like that in a circus."

"We are all objects in the circus, and only special people can survive in the circus."

(End of this chapter)