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Deadly Eyes

On this night, the Red Star Theater was staging the red classic opera "Taking the Tiger Mountain"

By Aynaz SabooriPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
Deadly Eyes
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On this night, the Red Star Theater was staging the red classic opera "Taking the Tiger Mountain", played by Yang Zirong, a Plum Blossom Award winner, and young actor Chen Rui. He was dressed in a cloak, heroic, especially striking is the pair of gleaming eyes, conveying a wealth of emotion, with full of strength of action, won the scene a burst of applause and applause.

"Third master, he is not Hu Bill, he is a communist army which!" Luan Ping knelt on the ground and spoke bitterly to Zhanshan Diao.

At that moment, I saw Chen Rui slap his seat and shouted, "Luan, you are so cruel!" He stomped straight down from the steps, his eyes like electricity forcing Luan Ping, to point at him and cursing: "You want to borrow the third master's sword to kill me, I regret that I should not drink in White Pine Bay when not a knife to kill you!"

He heaved his palm downward and his harsh eyes pierced the other side like a knife.

The stage immediately resounded with thunderous applause, but the actor who played Luan Ping, Deng Zhigang, suddenly turned pale and trembled, and then he fell covering his chest.

"Zhang Ce, I asked you to investigate the case of Zhao Ming's sudden death, what are you doing turning up this video from ten years ago for me?"

After watching the video of the scene of the performance of "Wise and Powerful Mountain" back then, the chief of the criminal investigation section, Plateau, questioned a young police officer standing in front of him unhappily.

"I think there are many similarities between the deaths of Deng Zhigang and Zhao Ming. Chief, take a look at this surveillance video of Zhao Ming before he died."

Zhang Ce played out the video he had obtained on his computer, and the picture was clear enough to see that it was a routine internal meeting where Zhao Ming, the head of the Red Star Theater, was making a presentation announcing the rehearsal of the red opera "Taking the Tiger Mountain by Storm". From the video, we can see that his entire mental state is normal, however, when his gaze touches the left front at ten o'clock, suddenly his eyes widen and the muscles of his face shake uncontrollably.

"Chief, chief ......" Someone in front of him noticed the abnormality, and just shouted twice, Zhao Ming's eyes rolled out a large blue eye white, his body lopsidedly planted on the ground.

"Go and find out who is sitting at ten o'clock in front of the left." Gao Yuan said with a gloomy look.

"I have already checked, that direction is sitting exactly Chen Rui."

"You think, Deng Zhigang and Zhao Ming's death, are related to Chen Rui?"

Zhang Ce nodded with certainty: "I went through the investigation files from ten years ago and found many suspicions. Shortly before the performance, Deng Zhigang had a medical examination and there was nothing that could cause sudden death. Several actors present at the time confirmed that Deng Zhigang was on his deathbed and had fought to point at Chen Rui, saying in horror: 'The eyes ...... terrible ......' Later the theater also had rumors for a time that Chen Rui killed Deng Zhigang with his eyes."

"Eyes killed? What nonsense!" Gao Yuan frowned unhappily.

"I also know that such a claim is too bizarre, but from the scene video, Deng Zhigang did suddenly fall after coming into contact with Chen Rui's sharp eyes, and Zhao Ming also died of shock after seeing Chen Rui."

"But the evidence, where's the evidence?" Gao Yuan knocked on the table in annoyance, "You think the masses will accept such an absurd statement as 'eye murder'? If I were to publish such a conclusion, people would still be pointing their noses and calling us to police a bunch of rice buckets?"

"I will find the evidence!" Zhang Ce said with a firm gaze.

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Aynaz Saboori

How to explain? How to understand? What do we do with all the injustice?

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