Dressed as a mystery novel victim

Compared with the entertainment area, the circus performance area looks deserted.

A truss with the words "Circus Carnival" is placed at the entrance, and the huge lion smiling face on the circular signboard looks distorted, but the decoration is still quite festive.Tourists also went in, but most of them looked disappointed when they came out, and the posters introducing how exciting the show were were thrown all over the place.

Yang Qingshui picked up one, "Ice and Fire Clash" - a lion jumping through a fire hoop and an elephant spraying water at the same stage, "Fairy Tale World" - dwarf acrobatics and fat witch farce, and "Girl in a Jar" Wait for weird names.

"You can't laugh just by looking at the name." It's either an animal show or a special-type person hunting show.

There was only an animal circus in the matinee. There were more than a dozen people sitting sparsely in the circular auditorium across the fence. They could only see disgust and boredom on their faces, and the children were incomprehensibly puzzled—the red-haired baboon on the sand was powerless and pushed aside. The stack of bricks moved to the other side, presumably to show primate intelligence?The tiger lying on the other side of the brick stack should have been running around the field and howling at the audience from time to time, but he was so sick that he refused to move at all. The front paws fell down again.

The animal trainer who led the performance was also unprofessional. When the two animals could not complete the instructions, they only knew how to whip them, but nothing else.The baboons hid and howled, not even caring about the superficial humanitarianism, and the audience only felt that they were watching a torture rather than a circus.

Someone couldn't stand it anymore, "There's something wrong with you, aren't you, what are you acting for?"

"Just show us these 31 tickets. Are you an animal trainer? Do you have a professional certificate?"

Some people began to clamor: "Hey, refund the ticket!" "Refund the money!"...

The animal trainer turned a deaf ear, put chains on the two beasts, drove them to the underground passage, faced the shouts, moved his knees as a bow, and the show ended.

The word disdain was vividly expressed by him. The audience who paid to enter the venue were annoyed. Seeing that he was about to leave, the nearest person picked up the mineral water bottle and threw it, hitting the animal trainer on the back of the head.

"Back..." The audience was about to yell, but the animal trainer looked back at him, smiling at the corner of his mouth, but his eyes were fierce, and he shut up angrily.

Yang Qingshui was used to all kinds of unreasonable people in Gaoqiao City, but he always missed the two tortured creatures. When he walked out of the circus area, he asked Lin Zhilu, "Can't the police do something?"

"We can only take care of animals when they hurt people." Lin Zhilu has been in the industry for seven years. He knows that this profession cannot be equated with justice. "Just now I called the Animal Management Bureau and asked them to send someone over."

"It's useless." After passing the carnival snack street, the clown twisted the balloon against the wall.

This clown who looks like Uncle McDonald's, isn't he just the one who despised him for grabbing children's balloons? Yang Qingshui was stunned.

The clown recognized him, "Are you the police?"

Lin Zhilu didn't deny it: "What do you mean it's useless?"

"People from the Animal Management Bureau have collected their money and will not really do anything. They have been complained a few times before, and they only came to make a show, and finally let it go." The clown tightened the balloon string until it broke , "The bastard who whips the whip, beat them without performing training. Several times I saw his garbage filled with blood-stained gauze."

Yang Qingshui: "What is he plotting?" The pleasure of publicly cruelty to animals?

The clown glanced at him, "They don't make money from this. The circus is just a cover to cover up what they do in private."

Lin Zhilu: "What is it?"

"I don't know. They don't allow others to enter their underground passages. Once I slipped in and was discovered by that person and was beaten up." The clown still had lingering fears when he said it, "He said that next time he dared to peek again, he would kill me." I cut off all the fingers I used to pinch the balloon."

The carnival team walked all the way, and the children laughed and ran between the floats. The joyful atmosphere was like a grand party.There was a sudden burst of screams from the crowd, and everyone was frightened by the screams and stopped celebrating.

After finding the source of the sound, the onlookers took a step back to make room for the victim's family. The wife knelt on the ground with a pale face, and the little girl looked at her father lying in a pool of blood at a loss.

There was a lot of discussion, and a small flower pot that had been broken at the man's feet was scattered all over the ground.

The two rushed to the accident center and couldn't help but look at each other.The injured person was the man who just smashed the water bottle of the animal trainer.

"It's dangerous, if you walk two steps faster, we will be the ones hit..."

Yang Qingshui leaned in among the couples who were talking, "Excuse me, when you said that the accident happened, you stood behind the injured?"

The man pulled his girlfriend over and said warily, "Who are you?"

Yang Qingshui lifted his chin slightly to signal his companion.Lin Zhilu showed helplessness and showed them his police ID.

"Don't be nervous, just to understand the situation with you, where did you see him get hit?"

"Here, that's right there." The man pointed to the next row of buildings, a whole row of barbed wire flower stands, and there were indeed many potted plants on them, "But it's a bit strange to say, if you want to hit people who are walking against the wall, we should first hit the people walking against the wall. Our group is on the outside. It's a bit far from that flower stand."

Girlfriend: "Maybe it's the wind?"

"Anyway, it's a disaster."

When they inquired about the news, the ambulance had already arrived and carried the man onto the stretcher. After all, it was just an accident. The crowd gradually dispersed and continued to play, leaving only a pool of blood on the ground.Saying goodbye to the couple, the two did not talk, and went to the row building together tacitly.

The carnival was being held, and the three-story building used as a dormitory for the employees of the playground was empty at this time, and no human voice could be heard all the way up the stairs.Staff mobility is high, and there are fixed working hours. There are frequent cases of theft in employee dormitories, and thieves are not easy to find.In order to save money, the iron doors of the dormitory are all equipped with flat keyholes, which can be opened with only three or five professional strokes.

The fourth room from the left is the place where the flowerpot fell, and the two walked over.The door was open, shoe prints could be seen in the reflection of the floor tiles, the window was open, and there were bloodstains on the ground not far away.

"At this position, if the flowerpot didn't go down in a parabola, it wouldn't hit that person at all." Yang Qingshui said.

Lin Zhilu pointed to the window frame, there was a mud print on the outer edge that was hard to detect without looking carefully, and the fingerprints of fingers could be vaguely seen.

Yang Qingshui: "He's a ruthless person." The mineral water bottle is exchanged for a flower pot, and ten times the amount will be returned.

At this time, Lin Zhilu looked at him calmly, put his index finger on his lips, and motioned for silence.