Chapter 47: Bringing the truth out (2)
The silence that rained down upon felt even louder and noisier than chaos. A wave of shock rushed through everybody, not because of the revelation of the case being a murder as much as the identity of the culprit himself. An eerie quietness traversed through the theater.
The son of Dai Yaling. The same son who shed genuine and mournful tears for his mother. The same son who almost attacked Ma Zhilan to avenge justice for his mother.
The same son now stood as the murderer.
Yin Chin let out an audible gasp, nudging her niece hard. The horror was evident in her gaze and so was her burning question. Dai Meihui stared at her husband, bewildered by the turn of events.
Jia allowed the truth to settle in the air for a moment before she said, "Miss. Huang had observed a sliver of light reflecting off the glass of his watch. Generally, it is unlikely for the glass of a wristwatch to produce any significant reflections because of the ambient light in theaters. Even if there is some sparkle, it would be likely too faint to be noticed. But..."
Jia climbed the steps back again and sat on Dai Fengge's seat this time. The lights in the theater then dimmed and upon her signal, a scene from the same movie of that day was beginning to load.
"You must not be able to see me now but wait for a moment, and keep your eyes focused in my direction."
The movie was playing somewhere from past the middle part. After a minute or so, the sound of a loud bomb blast screeched throughout the theater and for a few moments, a ray of bright light enveloped the theater.
"S-something really is shining...!" Wang Lei exclaimed before the momentary sparkle was lost in the darkness once again.
The dim and yellow theater lights were switched back on and as it did, everybody then noticed the watch on her wrist which was around the same size as Dai Fengge's. She hung her hand at a particular side angle towards Dai Yaling's seat.
"It is the same spot where I just saw the shine a second ago," Ma Zhilan confirmed what everybody else had witnessed too.