Original God's Dark Priest

Safir felt extremely wronged. She had done nothing, but a bump appeared on her head. It didn't hurt much, but...

She glanced down and met Ying's confused gaze.

Well, it actually hurts a lot. My face hurts.

This is so embarrassing.

Everyone was exclaiming and applauding Linnie's performance, only Funina was busy trying to comfort Miss Louise who was sulking.

The kind that is angry and can't be appeased.

At this moment, something strange happened. The water tank that Linnet had used on the stage suddenly fell from a height and hit the box that Linnie had entered.

That box is the one that Linny entered, and Rosalin will walk out from there. If nothing unexpected happens, Rosalin should be in that box now.

If the water tank fell and Rosalyn was still in the tank, she would definitely die.

The wooden box was smashed to pieces, the water tank also shattered, and glass fragments mixed with water droplets splashed onto the stage.

"What's going on?" Little Paimeng was shocked.

Looking at the messy stage, Linnie also showed a look of horror, which was not what he expected.

When Funina saw this scene, she was so shocked that she was speechless and didn't even bother to comfort the sulking Saphir.

Of course, Saphir had no time to sulk. She jumped onto Funina's shoulders and watched the incident on the stage carefully. She soon confirmed that the accident did not cause serious consequences and no one was injured.

This made her feel relieved. It seemed that her judgment was correct. This person had indeed encountered an accident again.

As to whether this was an attempt to silence him or some other accident, we'll have to wait until he wakes up and ask him clearly.

Among the audience, there were still some who were excited but confused: "Is this... also part of the magic?"

She turned to look at Lini who was already stunned: "Mr. Lini, you are going to restore the stage next, right?"

After hearing this, Linnie was speechless. He was a magician, not a wizard. How could he possibly restore the stage?

He was somewhat at a loss and looked unconsciously in the direction of Saphir.

Saphir sat upright on Fininna's shoulder, his heterochromatic cat eyes filled with calmness, not panicking at all.

Seeing her calm look, Linnie calmed down. Although it was a little hard to accept, he had to tell everyone: "Sorry, this... was an accident."

"What?" Paimon was shocked. "Accident... then... Kesha... No, that's not right. Rosaline is still in the box, right?"

Navilette immediately stood up and announced, "The performance is suspended! Medical staff, follow me. The security team will protect the scene, control all performers, and temporarily block the entrance and exit of the opera house!"

"That's right! If it was an accident, we must find out the cause. If it was not an accident, then, then it cannot escape the judgment of the God of Justice!" Finina activated her innate skill: Echo.

Safir shook his head helplessly. The little fool was already a little panicked. Fortunately, no one was killed, otherwise it would be another mess.

Violet was already used to Finina's reaction. He turned to comfort Ying and Paimon: "Don't panic, we will soon find out what happened."

When the security team began to investigate, Rosalin slowly walked out from the backstage carrying the performance assistant, attracting everyone's attention.

"It's her! She's not in the box and nothing happened!" Someone immediately found her and shouted.

Seeing that Rosalyn was okay, many people, including Linnie, breathed a sigh of relief.

The Villette checked the smashed magic box again and nodded: "The magic box has been damaged, but fortunately no one was inside, so there were no casualties."

He turned to Rosalyn: "Madam, you..."

Rosalin snorted coldly and threw the assistant in her hand onto the floor covered with broken glass. The broken glass scratched the other person's face, but she didn't care about it at all. Instead, she said, "Linnie, is this your assistant? I think you need to give me an explanation."

"What do you mean?" Linnie was confused.

That Villette also smelled something unusual.

Seeing that no one was confused, Rosalin snapped her fingers, and the water stains on the ground began to slowly freeze. The person lying in the water woke up from his coma due to the sudden drop in temperature.

"Cowell, Mr. Linney's magic assistant... He is also one of the murderers in the serial disappearance of girls." Rosalyn's voice was soft, but it shocked everyone.

Villette's breathing became heavier: "Serial disappearance of young girls..."

"I...I don't know what you're talking about!" Cowell wanted to quibble, but soon his words were blocked in his throat.

Ada walked up slowly from the stage holding a diary and handed it to Villette.

After analyzing Rosalyn's experience, Safire concluded that this incident was related to the serial disappearance of girls that year. He immediately asked someone to contact Ada, who was also at the scene, and asked her to search Cowell's luggage.

This search yielded some findings.

The diary handed to Villette was more of a detailed record of the experiment than a diary.

It clearly recorded the use of the water from the original fetal sea to dissolve the Fontaine people, and several bottles of unused water from the original fetal sea were found in Cowell's luggage, which was solid evidence.

After looking at all the evidence, Villette's eyes turned much colder when he looked at Cowell.

The serial disappearance of young girls has been a dark cloud hanging over the heads of the people of Fontaine for twenty years. Today, there has been an inadvertent breakthrough.

A murderer was captured alive, and he might have all kinds of valuable information in his mouth, which would be of great help to him.

Someone took him away, and Villette looked at Rosalin with a softer look: "Thank you for your help, ma'am. May I ask how you found out all this?"

Seeing that Villette had Cowell taken away so casually, Safire frowned slightly. At this point in time, it would be better for the prisoner not to leave everyone's sight.

We already know that the water from the original fetal sea can dissolve the Fontaine people, but if we still handle it so carelessly, there will be problems.

But she wanted to stop it, but she was powerless. The matter had already been handed over to Fontaine, and the Fatui should not interfere.

Moreover, she was just a cat now and couldn't even change back to her own appearance during the day, let alone intervene in this matter.

After watching Cowell being escorted away, Safire decided to send someone to keep an eye on him secretly.

So Veronica, who was originally following Rosalin, flew to Ada's ear and whispered to her about Saphir's arrangements.

Ada nodded in understanding and left quickly.

"It's not that difficult. Of course, before I explain everything, I want to ask Mr. Lini a question." Rosalin looked at Lini, who was a little terrified when his name was mentioned, with a hint of teasing in her eyes, "What's the matter with that number selection machine?"

"Uh..." Linnie was speechless.

The audience began to whisper: "Number selection machine? Did Lini tamper with the number selection machine?"

"That doesn't matter, right? It's normal to have a second person to perform magic tricks, right?" Some people thought this question was strange.

But there are also sober people: "This is a big problem. If this lady is not Lini's agent and she is sure that there is something wrong with the number selection machine, does that mean..."

"Is there a story behind this? This..." the audience was talking about it.

Even Funina became interested: "Oh? Mr. Linnie, I think you really need to answer this lady's question."

Under pressure from all sides, Lini could only confess: “Well, okay, actually… the real owner of your ticket is a Fontaine painter named Halsey.

I witnessed her ticket being stolen and thought, if someone else came to the show, I could just pull out Halsey's seat number and catch the thief."

At this point, Linnie scratched his head and said, "I am just upholding justice. This shouldn't be considered illegal, right?"

"Magic is a kind of sleight of hand and a means of fraud. Since it does not cause serious consequences, it is naturally not illegal." Navilette nodded, giving Linny a reassurance.

After hearing Linnie's explanation, Rosalin was relieved: "So that's it, the thief is called Lillian, from Mond. I saw her when I lived in Mond before. She is a habitual thief.

This time she even sneaked into Fontaine. After I saw her, I taught her a lesson, and then I used this ticket to watch the show.

Unexpectedly, it happened to be the time for you to uphold justice."

Rosalin explained why she was here, and the initial mystery was solved.

All that remains is this stage accident.

Because there were no casualties, the atmosphere at the scene was relatively peaceful. However, because it was related to the serial disappearance of young girls case, no one chose to leave. Instead, they waited patiently on the spot, wanting to know more information.

It is very rare to eat this kind of live melon, and it is difficult for humans, who take eating melon as their nature, to resist this temptation.

So Rosalyn briefly recounted everything that happened after she entered the box.

...

"That's right. Cowell probably mistook me for Halsey. What a twist of fate. Mond and Fontaine look similar. Maybe that's one of the reasons why he made the mistake.

Lillian did a good thing. If she hadn't stolen the tickets, Halsey would have been killed." Rosalin spoke for Lillian without leaving any trace.

After all, he is a fellow Mondstadt native, so she would like to help in any way she can. She would also feel ashamed to have a Mondstadt native go to jail in Fontaine.

Villette understood what she meant. Fontaine had always had a provision for making amends for one's crimes. If it was really as Rosalin said, and it turned out to be a good thing, it would not be impossible to let Lillian go.

Soon, other on-site investigations were completed. Just as Rosalyn said, many props matched the numbers, and the rope that suddenly broke was proved to be mixed with flammable tinder, which instantly ignited when burned by the fireworks and burned the rope, so the doubts about the water tank falling were also resolved.

Vielette reviewed the entire process and now everything is clear.

Cowell is one of the murderers in a serial disappearance of young girls. In this performance, Linnie just wanted to find an opportunity to teach the thief Lillian a lesson, but he didn't tell anyone else about it.

So the news Cowell knew was that Linnie had modified the number selector, and the final result was Halsey, the young painter from Fontaine.

After learning this, Cowell felt that this was a good opportunity to commit a crime, so he used his identity as a prop assistant to start making arrangements in the box.

The damaged, water-soaked balloon in the box contained the original fetal sea water that he had prepared in advance. Originally, when Halsey entered the box and descended through the lifting device, the hook pulled by the rope would pierce the balloon due to the contraction of the rope.

This will cause the primordial fetal sea water inside to fall down and pour onto Halsey's body to dissolve it. Then, when Linnie's performance is over, fireworks will be ejected, igniting the rope mixed with tinder, and the water tank hanging by the rope above will fall because the rope is burned.

The water in the tank will then surge out, covering the dissolved Halsey.

This is a perfect case of missing girls, and his purpose is very simple. As long as it is achieved, the magician Linny will be unable to defend himself and will be regarded as the murderer of the serial missing girls case.

This case can be pinned on the fools.

By then, if a similar case happens again, everyone will suspect that it was done by the Fatui. Anyway, the Fatui have a bad reputation, and because of what happened to Saphir, the people of Fontaine are very afraid of this organization.

This will provide a very safe environment for the real murderer.

The idea is nice, but... because of Rosalind's intervention, it can only remain an idea.

"It's unbelievable! Cowell... would actually do such a thing." Linnie frowned, "He joined our team not long ago. He has always gotten along well with his colleagues and has a good temper. I didn't expect that these were all disguises..."

"You can only know a person's face but not his heart. You have only known each other for a short time, so it is normal that you cannot see clearly what kind of person he is." Rosalin said calmly.

She had wanted to tell Linnie to thank Safire. If it weren't for her, Cowell would have been stuffed into the box and smashed to death. By then, not only Linnie, but also Rosalyn would be suspected of being the murderer.

Safir's idea saved them a lot of trouble.

Thinking of this, Rosalyn had a smile on her lips. It was still so pleasant to work with this guy, just as usual. Apart from anything else, at least Safire's handling of many things was really admirable.

Linnie was still a little discouraged: "Can I... go see Cowell?"

Cowell is his assistant, and he still finds it difficult to accept this.

Navrette nodded slightly. "In principle, prisoners who have been detained are not allowed to be visited. However, perhaps you can get useful information from him."

That Villette was talking nonsense in a serious manner, he was just giving face to Saphir.

Linnie thanked Navilette and was taken by the guards to where Cowell was imprisoned.

In the room, Cowell looked dejected, and he didn't react even when Linnie arrived.

Linney looked at Cowell, who was sitting against the wall, and sighed, "Why would you do such a thing?"

“…” Cowell remained silent and did not respond.

Linnie's voice was a little louder: "Answer me, Cowell, why did you collude with that murderer, and where is your accomplice?"

"At this point, do you still want to act with me, Mr. Linney?" Cowell suddenly raised his head slowly, with a hint of determination in his eyes.

Lin Nidun felt something was wrong, but before he could react, Cowell raised the corner of his mouth: "My accomplice, isn't it you?"

The next second, his entire skin turned blue, and then exploded with a bang, turning into a pool of water.

Linny, stunned.