Chapter 119: The Murder on the Stage (2/2)
She slowly lifted the hair that was covering her right eye, only to reveal that the eye beneath was bright green! It was crystal clear like a turquoise gem. My first hunch was that it somehow didn’t look human at all…
The moment I fixed my gaze on this eye, I suddenly felt as if everything around me was receding away. The walls grew further and further apart, the sound and voices around me started to fade away. There was only one thing that my mind was fixed on—Professor Li’s wonderful eye and her gentle voice.
“Song Yang,” she murmured, “you feel very light now. You are as light as a feather, and you’re floating in a pool of water…”
My mind was suddenly empty, and I really felt as if I was floating in the warm blue sea, and the sky above me was clear and blue, with a huge green eye above staring straight at me.
Suddenly, the hallucination disappeared and I came crashing back to reality. What pulled me back was the sound of a group of students loudly chatting with each other and laughing. I stared at Professor Li and asked her, “What have you just done to me?”
“I didn’t do anything,” she answered coolly. “Hurry up and take the knife to Ye Shiwen!”
I ran towards the stage, but a thought was nagging at me. Did Professor Li try to hypnotize me?
I went up through the backstage and stood just behind the curtain. I saw Ye Shiwen waiting there anxiously. I gave him the knife and patted his shoulder to comfort him.
“Don’t worry,” I said. “I believe you’ll do great out there!”
“Thanks. Once this is all over, let’s all have a party!” He then slipped through the curtain.
The more I thought about what had just happened with Professor Li, the more suspicious I got. Just as I was lost in thoughts, I heard a piercing scream from the stage and smelled a pungent stench of blood. I rushed outside and saw Ye Shiwen sitting on Zhang Yan’s body, holding a bloody knife in his hand. Zhang Yan looked like she’d been stabbed multiple times on her chest. Her eyes were open, but they were already lifeless. Her body lay limply on the stage in a pool of blood.
The whole audience had erupted into chaos. Many students screamed in terror and had fled the auditorium. This scene was supposed to be the scene when Romeo heard of the news of Juliet’s death and rushed to see his lover. Who would’ve thought that Ye Shiwen would suddenly snap and stab Zhang Yan to death? Besides, wasn’t the knife supposed to be bladeless?
Zhang Yan was just talking to me a few minutes ago, yet now all that was left was a cold, unbreathing corpse covered in blood. I could hardly believe what was going on.
“No!”
It was Ye Shiwen’s scream. The knife fell out of his hand. “What have I done? What have I done?”
“Song Yang, tell me it isn’t true! I didn’t kill her, did I?”
“Calm down,” I told him. “We’ll wait until the police arrive.”
“What? Did you call the police? No, but I don’t want to go to prison! I don’t want to go to prison!”
He quickly jumped off the stage and attempted to flee, but I followed him and grabbed him grabbed his arm before he could run.
“Call the police!” I yelled at the security guards who were approaching us. “There was a murder!” I then gave them Xiaotao’s mobile phone number.
Ye Shiwen just realized that he’d killed his girlfriend with his own hands. Understandably, he broke down and screamed and wailed and cried. The security guards had to take over and pin him to ground to prevent him from escaping. It was a heart-wrenching sight to behold.
He then stared at me pleadingly. “Song Yang, you must help me! You must help me!”
I didn’t know what to say. No matter what, he’d just killed Zhang Yan in front of hundreds of people. What could I do to help him? Nevertheless, I told him, “I’ll do my best in discovering the truth of what just happened. But you must cooperate with the police in their investigation!”
He nodded with great difficulty because the security guard was pressing his head to the floor.
“You know I could never kill her! I love her!” he shouted.
“I know,” I sighed.
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