Chapter 40 - League of Poor Students (17) (1/2)

“I told you she did it.”

“I really don’t know what she wants. She must be crazy. We’ve rehearsed for such a long time, will it all be ruined by her?”

“Headmaster, she must give us an explanation!”

“Be quiet!” the headmaster shouted loudly. Is what I said useless now?

“It wasn’t me.” Ming Shu threw up her hands. “Believe it or not.”

“There’s no enmity between you and Mengmeng. She must have been framed by someone,” Ye Miaomiao said, after Ming Shu’s words. “Headmaster, we must find out the truth and prove that Mengmeng is innocent. Mengmeng isn’t such a bored person.”

The headmaster looked at Ming Shu, who tilted her head and bit into her lollipop, a slight smile on her innocent face. She could smile even now. Was she crazy or merely calm?

“Headmaster.” Ming Shu stopped biting the lollipop, her clear voice ringing through the whole room. “Do you smell blood in the room?”

“Blood?” The headmaster sniffed the air unconsciously. But there was only the pungent smell of oil paint.

“Lu Meng, don’t change the topic.” One student pointed at Ming Shu. “It must be you who ruined our costumes. Now you’re trying to scare us to distract us. This is the school’s auditorium. Where would any blood come from?”

“Yeah!”

“Headmaster, don’t listen to her.”

Ming Shu smiled and said to the headmaster leisurely, “Headmaster, I suggest you call the police now. No matter whether I did it or whether there is blood, we’ll know the truth once the police are here.”

Ming Shu glanced at Jin Yuqi in particular. From Jin Yuqi’s appearance and behavior, maybe she also didn’t know the truth and was even confused about why there were so much paint.

The headmaster deliberated for a while and asked Ming Shu, “Lu Meng, the room reeks of oil paint. How can you smell blood?”

The smell of oil paint was so overpowering that they couldn’t smell anything else at all. Why could she, a simple girl, distinguish the smell of blood?

“I say there is, so there must be.” Ming Shu kept smiling, confident.

“…” Did the straight-A student’s behavior differ from normal people’s? Thinking that she was the straight-A student who never lied, the headmaster finally decided to ask the teacher beside him to call the police.

Jin Yuqi became worried when she heard the headmaster decided to call the police. She had thought that this matter would be solved easily, not expecting that the teacher would call the police.

There was so much oil paint and…

Jin Yuqi gripped the fabric of her clothes and tried to calm down. But she was still worried and couldn’t be as calm as the others.

Soon the police arrived. Some of the policemen had seen Ming Shu at the police station yesterday. They furrowed their eyebrows when they saw her, indicating their confusion at seeing this troublemaker again.

The policeman asked for information from the headmaster first. The headmaster also felt it was strange that there was so much oil paint here, so he told the policeman that Ming Shu had caught the smell of blood.

The policeman asked them to go outside to wait, then told his colleagues to search the room.

The students stood in groups of two or three and discussed, waiting outside and craning to see inside but unable to discern anything.

“Why haven’t they come out in so long?”

“Is it true there’s blood?”

“The oil paint really is strange. Other than on our costumes, there’s a lot spilled on the floor. It’s weird.”