This MC is so original

When the guard saw Villette, he immediately stood up and saluted.

"Your Honor, do you really want to give it to me? Does this have anything to do with the case?"

Villette calmly instructed in an unquestionable tone, "I believe Mr. Lu Xiu wouldn't make a meaningless request. And as I said, as Linnie's defense attorneys, they can conduct a full investigation at the crime scene. It's your job to cooperate with them, isn't it?"

"I understand, please wait."

After a while, the guard came back with two lists and handed them to Lu Xiu.

"Sir, these two are for the magic troupe members and the audience, and the other is for the names of our security personnel."

Lu Xiu took the two lists and began to quickly scan the names one by one. At the same time, he enlarged his minimap to the maximum and began to compare them one by one with the names on the minimap.

Before, when he used the small map to search for missing persons, he didn't know their names and could only confirm them according to the number of icons. But now that he has the names, he can compare them one by one to confirm the location of the missing persons.

However, this process takes some time.

Tartaglia was getting impatient waiting on the side and couldn't help asking, "Lu Xiu, you've been staring at these two lists. Did you figure out anything?"

Lu Xiu put away the two lists. He had just written down all the names, and by comparing the names displayed on the small map, he had confirmed one thing.

"There's one less person in the opera house, but there's one more person who shouldn't be there."

"What do you mean?" Tartaglia looked puzzled.

"Follow me to catch that man, and all the problems will be solved."

Chapter 307: True and False Halsey

Lu Xiu, along with Tartaglia and several guards, walked through the preparation room of the opera house until they stopped in front of a huge box.

Tartaglia looked at Lu Xiu, who had stopped, in confusion and asked, "Is there anything here?"

Lu Xiu smiled and pointed at the large box in front of him and said, "Don't you think this box is just right for hiding a person?"

Tadalia immediately understood. Although he didn't know how Lu Xiu knew that people were hiding here, based on his understanding of Lu Xiu, Lu Xiu would not bring them here for no reason.

Several guards quickly surrounded the big box, but they did not dare to act rashly because they did not know who was hiding inside.

It could be the missing girl, or it could be the murderer who planned all this.

Seeing that the wooden box was still motionless, Lu Xiu crossed his arms and calmly said to the person hiding inside, "Why aren't you coming out yet? If you come out now, we can still testify that you're surrendering, but if you wait for me to take action, then the situation will be different."

Upon hearing these words, there was a rustling sound from the wooden box. Then, under the vigilant gaze of the guards, the lid of the wooden box slowly opened, and a young girl stood up in the box with an embarrassed expression on her face.

Tartaglia and the guards recognized the girl almost at first sight.

"Ms. Halsey?!"

This person is Halsey, the missing girl in this case.

"No, she's not the real Halsey, is she, young lady?"

Lucius crossed his arms and stared at Halsey with a half-smile on his face, making her feel creepy.

Tartaglia said in confusion, "Lucius, I won't make a mistake. She is Miss Halsey, the lucky audience member chosen by Linnie. How could she not be her? They look exactly the same."

The guards also looked at Lu Xiu with confusion. They didn't understand why Lu Xiu said that.

Lu Xiu originally wanted to tell the girl's real name directly, but his words were not enough, so he had to let the girl tell the truth in person to make it convincing.

"After interrogating her, you will understand why I said that. Now take her back."

Halsey also stretched out her hands with a resigned expression, allowing the guard to handcuff her, but she still reminded him worriedly.

"I'm turning myself in! You guys agreed to testify for me!"

Lu Xiu naturally nodded and agreed: "Don't worry, I'll do what I say."

After getting Lu Xiu's assurance, the girl felt at ease and followed the guards away.

Tartaglia couldn't help but ask, "Lucius, tell me, who is that girl?"

Only Tartaglia was left at this time, and Lu Xiu did not hide it: "Her name is Lillian, as for the rest, I don't know."

"So, is this case solved?"

"We'll have to wait and see what Lillian has to say. She's the key. She's the only one who knows why Cowell is in the box where she was supposed to be."

The two chatted as they were about to return to the theater lobby to listen to Lillian's confession. Just opposite them, a young girl dressed very luxuriously came towards them, followed by two men in black.

Tartaglia couldn't help but stop and raised his eyebrows to look at the trio who also stopped not far away.

"Huh? Are you here with bad intentions?"

Lu Xiu also squinted his eyes and stared at the three people in front of him, but strangely, on the small map, the girl among the three was a green dot representing friendship, and the other two were yellow dots representing neutrality, not as bad as Tartaglia thought.

"What can I do for you three?"

While Lu Xiu was looking at the girl in front of him, the girl was also looking at him, but the difference was that the more the girl looked, the more satisfied she nodded.

This made Lu Xiu feel a little confused.

"Yeah, it's decided!"

Suddenly, the girl's eyes lit up. She raised her hand, pointed at Lu Xiu, and said, "Please let me be your partner and help reverse this trial!"

"Huh?"×2

Lu Xiu and Tartaglia looked at each other in astonishment. They had no idea what was going on in this girl's mind. Why did she suddenly say she wanted to join them?

"Haha, my name is Navia. Maybe you don't know, but I've been paying attention to you since you were chatting with Lord Villette."

Perhaps amused by the stunned expressions of Lu Xiu and the others, Navia smiled and began to explain why she said that.

"I didn't expect you to find the missing girl so quickly. You're truly experts!"

Lu Xiu shook his head and asked Navia curiously: "But you still haven't told us why you want to join in."

"As for your motive... I've been following the missing girl case because of my father's situation, and I've noticed that you two are unusual, so I hope to cooperate with you. If you find the truth about the missing girl, please share it with me."

"Sorry, not interested."

Lu Xiu rejected Navia's proposal without thinking.

"We are investigating this matter only to clear Linni of suspicion and do not intend to investigate the girl's disappearance case."

Naturally, Tartaglia had the same idea as Lu Xiu. He got involved in this matter entirely because of Linnie's relationship with the servant and Lu Xiu.

After rejecting Navia, Lu Xiu and Tartaglia prepared to leave by bypassing Navia and the other two.

"Don't refuse so quickly. The help I offer is not simple. For example, just now when you were chatting with that girl, a guard hurried away with a strange look on his face."

Lu Xiu stopped when he heard this and looked at Navia with a frown: "So what? Isn't it normal for the guard to leave? He needs to report this matter to his superiors."

Navia smiled mysteriously.

"If that's the case, then it's nothing, but the guard went to the rest room where the magic troupe members are kept, and none of the guards' superiors were there."

Tartaglia frowned in confusion, raised his hand to pinch his chin and thought, "The lounge? Is there anything there that's worth the guards leaving Lillian, a key figure, to go there?"

Lu Xiu thought for a moment and suddenly raised his eyebrows.

"Linnie's luggage and the victim's luggage."

Tartaglia was also suddenly awakened by Lu Xiu's words. He murmured in surprise: "Hey, hey, hey, are you really thinking that this guard is trying to frame you? Lu Xiu, you have a very bold idea."

"It's just a random guess. There's no harm in being wrong. There are still many mysteries in this matter that are unclear."

Although Lu Xiu said this, he still walked towards the lounge, and before leaving, he turned his head and mentioned to Navia.

"If what you said is true, I will let you know if there are any clues about the missing girl in the future."

Chapter 308: Beware of Invisible People When Doing Bad Things

In the designated lounge of the Linny Magic Troupe, a man in security uniform was nervously opening closed cabinet doors everywhere.

"Where is Cowell's luggage?! Hurry up, there's no time..."

Time passed by little by little, and beads of sweat covered the man's nervous forehead. Just when his nerves were about to collapse, he finally saw Cowell's name tag on a cabinet at the very edge.

"found it!"

The man quickly opened the cabinet, took out Cowell's luggage bag, rummaged through it, and found three test tubes filled with a slightly transparent viscous liquid.

"I found it! The Primordial Sea Water. If I put this in Linny's luggage, all this will end, and my mission will be accomplished!"

Holding the test tube, the man's face was full of excitement. He carefully put Cowell's luggage back in its place. Then he hurriedly put the test tube of the original fetal sea water in his hand into Linny's cabinet.

After doing all this, the man finally breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and hurried back to the door of the lounge, putting on a guard posture.

After a while, another guard came back and greeted the man with a smile.

"Vaughn, thank you for standing guard for me. I nearly died from holding my piss. I don't know what these leaders were thinking, leaving me alone to guard this place. What's so special about guarding this lounge? If you hadn't come, I'd probably have to stand here alone forever!"

Vaughn, standing aside, nodded in agreement: "Well, you're right, but I have to go now. After all, my superiors have given me other tasks."

"Well, go ahead, go ahead."

After getting rid of his colleagues, Vaughn left in a hurry, his right hand tightly covering his right pocket in a very unnatural manner. Although his colleagues behind him were confused, they did not take it to heart.

Shortly after Vaughn left, five figures suddenly appeared in the lounge.

"What a magical potion!"

Navia kept looking at her reappeared arm, staring at Lu Xiu's profile in surprise.

Although Tartaglia's expression was relatively calm, he was actually amazed at Lu Xiu's magical little props. He even considered whether he should ask Lu Xiu privately if he had anything that could enhance his strength.

Lu Xiu ignored Navia's shocked face, stopped the camera in his hand and handed it to another guard beside him.

The guard quickly took it respectfully, then turned to Villette and asked, "Master Villette, what should we do now? Should we arrest Vaughn immediately?"

Navilette and Lucius spoke up to stop him almost at the same time.

“Not yet.” ×2

Villette looked at Lu Xiu in surprise and asked, "Mr. Lu Xiu, do you think the same as me?"

Lu Xiu nodded. "Everyone saw it just now. Vaughn took out three tubes of reagents from Cowell's luggage. He put one tube in Linnie's luggage and kept the other one on him. I also found this sentence in Cowell's notes."

Lu Xiu took out a notebook from somewhere and pointed to a sentence on one of the pages.

[The water of the original fetal sea can dissolve the Fontaine people, but further experiments are needed]

"Dissolve?!"

Navia was startled when she heard this and covered her mouth in surprise.

"Just as the prophecy says, the Fontaine people will eventually dissolve in water. Could this water refer to the primordial fetal sea?"

"I think that's probably right." Lu Xiu turned his head and suggested to Navelette, who was thinking, "Catch the thief with the dirty tricks, catch the adulterers with both. Since Vaughn took a bottle of Primordial Fetal Sea Water away, it's obvious that he wants to use it to dissolve someone, and that person might be..."

"Ms. Halsey!"

Navia gave the answer first.

Villette raised her head and instructed the guard beside her, "Go and prepare. Give Vaughn the opportunity to approach Miss Halsey. You should know what to do with the rest."

"Yes!"

After receiving the order, the guard immediately left the lounge to prepare for the next sting operation.

After watching the guard leave, Villette turned his gaze to Lu Xiu again. Although the expression on his face was still as calm as usual, his eyes were full of feelings.

"Thank you, Mr. Lu Xiu. Without your help, we might have wronged Mr. Linny."

Lu Xiu also politely waved his hand and said: "It's okay, I think with Mr. Villette's ability, he will be able to find out the truth in the end."

"Even so, Mr. Linnie will still suffer injustice, which I don't want to see. Next time there's a chance, please let me entertain Mr. Lu Xiu once as a thank you."

"you are welcome."

The atmosphere between the two became more and more harmonious, and Villette's unchanging expression became a little softer. The case had made great progress, which meant that he no longer needed to spend a lot of energy on the case, and began to talk to Lu Xiu about other topics.

"Mr. Lu Xiu, the invisibility potion you just gave us has a very unique smell. It gives people an ethereal feeling. It's magical."

Lu Xiu was a little surprised, then smiled and said, "Then Mr. Villette likes water very much? You are the first person I have met who cares more about the taste than the efficacy of the medicine."

Villette's lips curled up slightly. "Well, tasting different kinds of water is one of my few hobbies."

"That's great! I have a variety of waters here, and I can let Mr. Villette enjoy them."

"Oh? Then I'll have to prepare a sumptuous meal as a reward for Mr. Lu Xiu."