Chapter 55: Bloodshed in the Backstage of the Theater

This poster is a still from "Romeo and Juliet". However, when I saw Juliet on the poster, I was stunned.

Strange, why do I think the Juliet in this still is so familiar?

I stared at Juliet on the poster for a long time, and I always felt as if I had seen her somewhere, but I couldn't remember it.

Suddenly, Juliet on the poster came to life and stood right in front of me!

She slowly took off her black wig and wiped off her eyeshadow. In an instant, a familiar face appeared in front of me.

"Mary? Is that you? I screamed.

That's right, this actress who plays Juliet is the blonde girl I often dream of - Mary! Unexpectedly, after putting on makeup. I didn't even recognize it?

Mary, I've finally found you, you've had a hard time finding me!

Mary smiled at me and looked at me affectionately. But it's not on stage, it's in front of me!

Here, isn't it backstage?

I froze for a moment, then turned my head and looked around.

Unexpectedly, there were many people suddenly appearing in the backstage, which was still empty and chaotic just now.

In front of the makeup mirror, those actresses in European-style classical costumes are drawing their eyebrows and applying lipstick in front of the mirror. In the aisle, there are several male actors in European-style costumes, holding scripts and seemingly reading lines. Ahead, at the end of the aisle, there was a red curtain, exactly like the one I had when I first entered the backstage. Next to the curtain, on the wall, the white clown's mask was still staring at me, but it was clean, it didn't seem to have any dust or spider silk on it, but it was very clean and white, even, so white that it was a little frightening.

What the hell is going on? Here, why is this happening again?

I lowered my head, but I found that the clothes I was wearing had also changed!

I'm wearing a costume now, just like Romeo in that poster!

Oh my God, how did I become Romeo? No, I'm playing Romeo now!

I was stunned, looked up, and saw Mary playing Juliet again.

Mary, dressed in a European-style classical costume, looked particularly charming, she still looked at me with a smile, and there was a certain ambiguous and bewitching look in her eyes. I was so close to her that I could smell the perfume on her, faint but mesmerizing.

I was about to speak, when suddenly the curtain behind Mary, the one I was facing, was lifted!

Then, a man rushed from behind the curtain!

When I saw that person, I almost screamed!

That person turned out to be Wu Song!

In his hand, he carried a bright steel knife, and his eyes like brass bells were glaring at me and Mary viciously!

Mary heard the voice and turned her head as well. As soon as she saw that "Wu Song", she was so frightened that she got into my arms and shouted, "Help me, help!" ”

I finally understood what was going on, but that Wu Song had already come to us.

"Mary, run!" I pushed Mary away so hard that I pushed her out and fell to the ground.

However, I didn't have time to run away, Wu Song had already rushed over and stabbed me in the chest!

Yes! It hurts! It hurts!

That knife, that knife is a real knife! This, this is not acting!

In a scream, I fell to the ground.

The moment I fell to the ground, I saw: the place where I fell was not the backstage, but the stage!

My head hung down, and the last thing I saw was the panicked, scurrying audience below the stage.

They all ran away, but right ahead, the raging flames were burning!

The theater is on fire!

But I couldn't get up again. Because, I'm going to die, die on this stage!

I closed my eyes, clenched my fists, and let go.

Darkness Descends Again······

I woke up again, my heart was beating so hard and my chest was still hurting a little. Could it be that something is wrong with my heart?

Although I already knew, just now it was another dream, and the knife didn't stab me in the heart at all. But why did my chest hurt so much, as if the knife that stabbed me in the chest was real!

I turned my head and looked around again. Here, there is no Romeo, no Juliet, no actors, no audience.

Here, it's still backstage, here, it's just me.

The poster in my hand had fallen to the ground.

I crouched down, picked the poster up from the ground, and shook the dust off it.

However, when I looked closer, I was shocked.

It turned out that on this poster, Romeo and Juliet's heads were missing, as if they had been burned off by cigarette butts. Judging from the burn marks on the cigarette butts, it is obvious that someone did it on purpose. But who hates them so much?

At the bottom of the poster, there is an inconspicuous line of text, and because the color of the word is very close to the background color of the poster, it is easy to ignore it if you don't look closely.

However, when I saw this paragraph, I froze.

On it, it was written: "Romeo - played by Wu Qiang".

Wu Qiang? Could it be that Wu Qiang?

I thought of Wu Qiang's bed card that fell out of Mary's medical record book in the ghost hospital, and the coffin and spiritual position of the two side by side in the Mengshan Cemetery.

Wu Qiang, he, turned out to be the actor who played Romeo?

I tried to remember the face of Romeo I had seen on the poster, but since my attention had been focused on Mary playing Juliet, I didn't pay much attention to the actor who played Romeo. Now that Romeo's head has been burned off by a cigarette butt on this poster, I can't remember what he looks like.

However, the actor who can play Romeo must not look bad, at least, he won't have a face full of meat, like the face of a wanted criminal, right?

Wanted? When I think of this word, I think of the photo on the wanted warrant again.

However, I don't know what the wanted man in that photo looks like, whether he is handsome or ugly. The only thing that could tell him was that he was a wanted criminal, and that he had a thin chin and a thick beard.

However, another question bothered me.

There is no doubt that Wu Qiang is the actor in this troupe, and he must be a pillar to be able to play the male lead in this play. Then, the actress who played against him, that is, the actress who played Juliet, was Mary. In the Dream Hill Cemetery, I saw the coffins of the two of them placed together, like a husband and wife buried together. Whether it was a hallucination or not, at least in my memory or subconscious, the relationship between these two people was certainly not ordinary.

But in that dream I just had, I was wearing Romeo's costume, huh?

Could it be that I am the actor who plays Romeo, that is, Wu Qiang?

No, I'm Wu Qiang? And, I'm the actor in the troupe, and Mary is my colleague and partner?

If I were Wu Qiang, why would the actor who played Wu Song rush over and wanted to kill us when he saw me and Mary together? Why did he do this, was it out of jealousy, or was it something else?

Perhaps, what I have seen is not just a hallucination, but some kind of subconscious mind in me, or is it a variation of some memory that still remains in my brain?

Actually, before that, I had suspected that I might be Wu Qiang.

The reason is simple.

First of all, Wu Qiang is also a patient in that ghost hospital, and when I woke up, I was also in this hospital. Secondly, the relationship between Wu Qiang and Mary seems to be unusual, even if the two coffins are just my hallucinations, but at least I subconsciously think that the two of them are a couple, but I feel that I love Mary, so I am likely to be Mary's lover - Wu Qiang. Finally, although I have not seen Wu Qiang himself or his photos, the self I see in the mirror looks haggard, but not ugly, and should be the same age as him.

None of this can be just a coincidence.

Well, even if I am Wu Qiang, why don't I have any impression of the part where I was an actor in this troupe? Why are there only those scenes of me and Mary falling in love in my memory?

Also, who is the actor who plays Wu Song? Why did he kill me?

I get it, it's definitely a love triangle, a love triangle that happened in this troupe!

The actor who played Wu Song, he must be jealous of me! That's right, it must be. He was also in love with Mary, and he felt that I had robbed him of his sweetheart. So, he wanted to stab me to death!

However, there is another detail that negates my suspicions.

No, no. Just now, in my hallucination, why did I think that the person "Wu Song" was going to kill didn't seem to be me? He seems to be holding a knife and rushing towards Mary, huh? The person he was going to kill seemed to be Mary?

I closed my eyes and tried to remember the terrible dream I had just had. Perhaps, it is not a dream, but a memory that has been sealed in the dust for a long time?

Now, I'm going to calm down and not just let my fear take over my brain.

That's right, I must keep my "eyes" open in the depths of my memory, like an owl in the dark night, to capture every detail that I may overlook!

In my mind, that terrifying picture came to mind again.

Sure enough, when that "Wu Song" rushed towards me and Mary, I clearly saw that his eyes were staring at Mary! Moreover, the edge of the steel knife was also directly aimed at Mary's back! At that time, it was I who pushed Mary away from me, but I blocked myself from where she was standing. As a result, the steel knife was inserted into my chest!

The most incredible thing is that when I fell, I clearly saw that the mouth of "Wu Song" was actually open! In his eyes, there was an expression of consternation, not anger!

Could it be that the person he wants to kill is not me, but Mary?

Did he kill me by mistake······