Chapter 269 Puppet Dance
In the Feiteng Theater, the band members played their instruments to their heart's content. The melodious and sad music echoed in the wide and dark space and reverberated in the ears of every audience member. On the stage, under the attention of everyone, Adele, dressed in red, continued to dance ecstatically.
The movements of Adele's limbs are graceful and natural, like the smooth pulsation of running water. Combined with her bright red dance skirt, this running water sometimes looks like blood, driven by the heart, flowing in her blood vessels.
Adele's graceful dance attracted the attention of all the audience. Everyone was immersed in it, and no one, including Adele, realized that there was a hint of murderous intent hidden in this dance.
Without anyone noticing, one of the dancers quietly left her position and slowly approached Adele from behind, dancing as she approached, so that the audience thought it was part of the dance. Although some of the other dancers noticed the abnormality of the dancer, they did not dare to stop and point it out, because the performance was still going on and Adele was still dancing. If they stopped, it would ruin the whole performance, so they could only watch the dancer who had deviated from the track approach Adele step by step.
They did not see the small sharp stone knife that had been prepared for carving symbols under the dancer's skirt.
Spinning and dancing, the unruly dancer finally approached Adele's back. During one of her turns, with a carefully choreographed dance move, she took out a grindstone knife from under her skirt, then stabbed it straight into Adele's back with her hand tightly grasped. In the next second, she would be able to pierce Adele's body and dye her red dance skirt real blood color.
At the moment when the dancer clenched the knife to stab Adele, her body suddenly trembled slightly unnaturally, and the hand that was stabbing Adele suddenly deviated, and the clenched knife passed directly past Adele. In a shadow somewhere, a pair of eyes saw this scene and couldn't help but frown.
The dancer's abnormal behavior finally aroused a reaction from the audience. Many of them screamed in surprise when they saw this scene. Some other dancers realized that something was wrong and stopped dancing for a moment. Only the orchestra was positioned lower than the stage, so their music did not stop. The performance was about to be ruined because of this accident.
At this moment, Adele, who was dancing, turned sideways and grabbed the dancer's wrist with one hand. She shook it slightly and dropped the stone knife in her hand. When the stone knife fell to the ground, she pulled it slightly to pull the dancer's body towards herself, and put her other hand around the dancer's waist.
In an instant, Adele and the dancer struck a duet, and Adele, with a powerful force, led the dancer to continue dancing on the stage. The assassin and the assassinated danced together, and the exclamations in the audience instantly turned into amazement and cheers. While dancing, Adele turned around in the center of the stage and swept her sharp eyes over the dancers who had stopped. The dancers were swept by Adele's eyes and immediately reacted and continued dancing to the music.
And so, the music continued, the dance continued, and amid the applause of the audience, Adele and the dancer she was hugging began a duet, an impromptu duet that was not originally planned. At Adele's pull, the dull-looking dancer began another dance, while the other dancers continued their dances as usual.
During the dance, Adele stared at the dancer's dull face. She lowered her voice, raised her red lips, and asked in a soft voice.
"Are you...Maria?"
As if she had heard Adele's question, the dancer named Maria's originally dull expression relaxed, and then her demeanor became natural, as if she were a real person.
"You almost died, you'd better stop your performance now."
Facing Adele in front of her, "Maria" spoke softly, and Adele smiled slightly and continued to speak softly.
"I know, thank you, but since the music hasn't ended, we have to continue dancing.
"Can you dance, stranger?"
Adele, who was hugging "Maria" and seemed to have understood the situation, continued to speak with a smile, and "Maria" gave a direct answer.
"Won't."
"It's okay, I'll be the guide, just follow me."
As she spoke, Adele made an effort to make the range of her dance moves a little larger, and "Maria" who was dancing with her tried her best to follow Adele's steps. Thanks to Adele's impromptu performance, the dance officially became a duet, and the dance continued.
Adele's dancing skills are perfect. She can clearly feel that her dance partner "Maria" is indeed a novice in dancing. However, she can still secretly guide "Maria's" movements with all kinds of superb techniques and hints, so that "Maria's" performance is within the scope of dance and there are no problems.
As the music continued, this dance, which originally had a hint of drama, began to deviate from the original script halfway through and turned into an impromptu performance with Adele and "Maria" as the protagonists. Although the dancers were all confused in their hearts, they still tried their best to keep up with the dance based on their years of rich dance experience. Their dancers were not much different from those arranged before, but the dance performed by Adele and "Maria" was completely different from the original.
Adele guided "Maria" to follow her dance steps. At first, she could feel that the dancer in front of her could barely keep up with her guidance but her movements were very unnatural. However, as time passed, she could feel that the unnatural feeling in "Maria" was getting less and less, and her movements following her guidance became more and more smooth. Sometimes she could dance spontaneously without Adele's guidance, and the coordination between the two people became more and more tacit.
Adele was somewhat surprised to find that the "Maria" in front of her was learning the dance she improvised at an astonishing speed, learning while dancing, and learning it again the instant she finished. Under Adele's guidance and teaching, "Maria"'s dancing skills improved rapidly. In just less than an hour, she went from passively receiving guidance to actively cooperating.
"interesting……"
Seeing Maria's incredible growth at such a terrifying learning speed, Adele's smile deepened. She immediately took the initiative to increase the difficulty of the dance. After figuring out Maria's learning speed, she also gradually increased the difficulty of her dance moves. Their movements began to become faster and more open. Following Adele, the difficulty and level of Maria's dance moves gradually climbed upwards, even surpassing Maria's original level.
The gradually rising pace between guiding and learning made the audience exclaim in amazement from time to time, and some staff members in the theater who had seen the rehearsal were completely dumbfounded. The dance performed on the stage was completely different from what they had rehearsed. They watched the scene on the stage with trepidation, fearing that something big would go wrong in this purely impromptu performance that they had never seen before and was unplanned. Fortunately, such a mistake never happened even once.
The dance between Adele and "Maria" became more and more intense, the movements became more and more difficult, the steps became faster and faster, and the whole dance seemed to gradually reach a crazy point in the spiraling process, as if it had gradually begun to exceed the scope of ordinary dance and was making rapid progress towards a certain field. A hint of uneasiness was revealed in the music.
Adele wanted to take the dance to the extreme, to madness, but when she realized that the music was about to end and time no longer allowed her to test the limits of the mysterious partner in front of her, she began to slowly slow down her movements, eased the overall pace, and then began to end the show with the other dancers.
Finally, after the end of the last part of the music, Adele and "Maria", who had successfully taken back the dance, also stopped at the end of the dance. The two of them stood in a row with the other dancers, bowed to the audience, and then were greeted with unprecedented thunderous applause.
The audience seats were boiling. After seeing such a performance, the whole theater was filled with enthusiastic applause and cheers. Countless audiences stood up from their seats and applauded enthusiastically. Among them, many of Adele's old audiences were also very excited.
"Adele! Adele! Adele!"
In the thundering audience, people even began to shout Adele's name spontaneously and in unison, and at the same time, the huge curtain at the end of the show began to slowly close, and the performers began to be hidden behind the curtain.
After the curtain was completely closed, the dancers immediately cheered and rushed towards Adele, and the crew who were originally terrified in the audience finally rushed up and surrounded Adele. To outsiders, this was an extremely successful performance, but in the eyes of the dancers and theater crew who knew the truth, everything that had just happened had made their hearts rise to their throats.
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