Chapter 297: Inhuman (105) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]

Bai Jinshu frowned.

The two murders last night have not been fully solved yet, but today the European cartoon character suddenly came to life, and someone wearing the same clothes as him deliberately cut the steel cable of the bungee jumping machine.

It is truly a turbulent time.

It’s better to stop recording this program as soon as possible.

"Since you've been at the roller coaster, could it be that someone watched the live broadcast this morning and deliberately dressed like you?" Xiaoying asked worriedly on the other end of the phone, "Could it be that one of your extreme haters took advantage of the murder that happened in the resort yesterday and mixed in with the fans in the amusement park to pretend to be you, hoping to pin the blame on you or cause trouble for the production team?"

"No," Bai Jinshu replied quickly, although he was puzzled. "Let's not talk about whether I have such extreme anti-fans. This assumption alone is not true. When I was recording the water sports event at that venue in the morning, the hem of the clothes was completely wet. I changed into another one after we returned to the villa at noon."

After he changed his clothes, the live broadcast was interrupted. Then everyone put on the doll costumes. The one he was wearing now should not have entered the audience's sight.

"Then... could it be that you are wearing the same clothes?" Xiaoying guessed, "There are so many people here, and the clothes you are wearing are not unique and have a sense of design. There is someone who is very similar to you in height and hairstyle. It is normal that they look similar in the surveillance video because they are wearing similar clothes, right?"

She vaguely remembered that Ersi was wearing a beige T-shirt. The weather at the seaside was so hot that most tourists chose similar clothes. The sun was shining brightly, and looking around on the street, eight out of ten male tourists were wearing white T-shirts.

The only difference is the different patterns on these T-shirts. Through the surveillance camera, patterns of similar size look like a piece of clothing.

"It's possible," Bai Jinshu nodded, "What do others say?"

"Others don't know yet," Xiaoying lowered her voice, "After all, we're recording a show. I still have some basic intelligence. If I say it in front of a group of people and say that this guy looks like a celebrity who came to the resort to record a show, this matter will become a big deal."

She paused and said, "I went there with a few staff members. When I saw the man in the surveillance video who looked like you, I rushed out to call you. Now they are checking the surveillance cameras along the street to find out where the person who cut the cable went. No one has thought of you yet."

"Or maybe it's not the same clothes?" Xiaoying blurted out this sentence suddenly, and then paused and scratched her head awkwardly, "That, uh... villain who wants to destroy the world?"

Even when she said this herself, she felt that it was so absurd and funny beyond common sense.

Otherwise, it could only be some villain from Hong Conghua's comic who did it.

It’s understandable that the villain kills people, but why did he frame Ersi?

To create chaos?

Even if they wanted to create chaos, why did they choose him? Didn’t the villains know that they were recording a show and there were cameras on their heads?

"I want to know this question too..." Bai Jinshu, who was inexplicably dragged into this, held his forehead with his hand, "Are you in the visitor center now?"

"Yeah," Xiaoying nodded, "Do you want to come over?"

"Wait a moment," Bai Jinshu said affirmatively, "I'll come over and take a look at the surveillance video."

Now that the leaders of the entire amusement park have arrived, Xiaoying recognized the person in the surveillance camera as him at first sight. So he had to go there anyway, at least to export the footage from the camera to eliminate his suspicion.

After all, the same thing applies. Although we are recording a program, what happened concerns human life, so it is not possible to make special arrangements.

He wanted to wait for the maintenance personnel to finish checking to see if there was anything wrong with the coaster.

Two maintenance workers with tools next to the roller coaster have reached the final stage of inspection.

"Brother Dong, we've checked the car," the one on the left stood up and said, "There's nothing wrong with the car, it's just that it hasn't been maintained for a long time, so just add some oil."

"Should we check the track?" the one on the right thought for a moment. "If we do, the roller coaster will have to be closed today. It will take at least two or three days to check it bit by bit. If we do maintenance, it will take at least half a month."

"The track... no need?" A staff member interrupted. "If someone deliberately sabotages it, the jumping machine can cut the steel cable, but he can't climb onto the track of the roller coaster, right? Not to mention that we have a roller coaster every three or four minutes. Even if he really sabotages it after the roller coaster passes by, he will climb so high that the whole amusement park will see it."

The security captain frowned and said, "Let me ask the leader. You guys oil the car first."

"By the way, are the springs and screws on the car okay?" he confirmed again.

"Don't worry, everything is fine. Even if it's not oiled, it will just be a little rough when it first starts running, but it won't affect normal use," the maintenance worker nodded and waved to the roller coaster starter standing on the platform, "Young man, turn off the pre-start power supply while I add oil."

"Brother, do you want to take the car for a test run after lubricating it?" the staff member he pointed to asked casually.

"If it's just for lubrication, there's no need to run it dry," the maintenance worker scratched his head, "but according to the procedure, it should be run dry for a lap. It only takes three or four minutes anyway, so just run it once."

Bai Jinshu looked at the phone in his hand that was still on the line: "Xiaoying? Wait for me, I'll come after the roller coaster is ready."

"Besides me, have you told anyone else?" he asked. "Before I come, please inform Director Qiao. If something like this happens, he has to be there."

"OK," Xiaoying asked, "Do you want to talk to the others?"

"No need for now," Bai Jinshu thought for a moment, "We have already turned off the cameras once before. If everyone turns off the cameras and comes here to check the surveillance, we won't be able to edit out any content from the footage this afternoon."

"Besides, we are inside the visitor center this time, and there are passers-by coming and going. It will be difficult to fool them if we meet them."

"That's right," Xiaoying scratched his head, "I'll turn on the camera and add some water to the picture. Call me when you get there."

Bai Jinshu nodded: "You notify Director Qiao first and see what he plans to do with this afternoon's recording? Should he continue or stop? Then I'll come over when everything is ready here."

He could have simply left and gone to the visitor center.

But he had an intuition that told him this matter might not be over yet.

I'm afraid that there were more than one bungee jumping machine that had accidents in the amusement park today, it's just that the bungee jumping machine was discovered the fastest, while the others have not been discovered yet.

After the maintenance worker finished oiling the car, he got off and waved to the staff next to him: "Hey, do you have wet wipes or a faucet or something?"

Probably because he was not wearing gloves, the maintenance worker's hands are now covered with black oil. Not only do they look dirty, but they also seem difficult to wash clean.

"Wet wipes can't wipe clean enough, right?" The staff member obviously thought so too. Someone said, "The exit of the roller coaster is the public restroom. Brother, why don't you go to the sink and wash yourself?"

"Alright."

The two maintenance workers raised their oily hands and prepared to wash them, while the remaining staff members followed the usual procedure and lowered all the safety bars even if there were no passengers. After making sure that all the safety measures on the vehicle were in place, they pressed the start button of the roller coaster.

With a gust of wind, the dragon head of the dinosaur roller coaster instantly rushed forward, and the few people on the platform gathered together and chatted casually as usual.

"What are you posting in the group?" The one who pressed the start button turned around and asked

"No, I didn't see it. Hurry up and reply to say I got it. The team leader asked us to relay the message and not tell anyone about the accident on the bungee jumping machine today. If it gets out, we will trace the source directly and fire the person if we find it." The staff member in charge of checking the safety belts answered casually.

"Tsk...that's all you can do." A girl rolled her eyes.

Bai Jinshu didn’t have that so-called group. He walked a few steps towards a staff member and saw the content on his mobile phone.

A series of received.

These people also acknowledged the call and put their phones away.

"Hey," the staff member in charge of starting the machine whispered, "someone really damaged the cable of the bungee jumping machine. Isn't it just a matter of looking for someone to take the blame for natural wear and tear?"

"Why is it natural wear and tear?" Bai Jinshu asked curiously.

"The cable," the staff member turned around halfway through saying this. He didn't realize that he was a celebrity who came to record the show, but thought he was a colleague, so he advised, "There are no tourists now, why are you wearing a hood? Take it off and fan yourself. It's so hot..."

"I'll pick it later. It's not hot now." Bai Jinshu waved his hand. "Brother, I'm just curious. Why do you say it's natural wear and tear? Tell me about it."

"You haven't been to the bungee jumping machine during your shift?" The staff member gave him a strange look. "Haven't you seen the routine inspection every morning before the equipment is put into operation? That cable."

He gestured, making a circle with his hands. "This thick cable is made of strands of wire twisted together! There are five of them on a chair, and they are all this thick. If one is broken, it won't have any effect. The chair will only fall down if all of them are broken!"

"Do you think an average person can cut it?" He raised an eyebrow, looked around and didn't see the two maintenance workers and the security captain, so he lowered his voice and whispered, "You all know about the cable behind the chair. A part of it is blocked by the steel plate of the chair. I guess the cable has been worn out a long time ago. When it was discovered today, they quickly blamed it on someone who sabotaged it."

Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes inside the hood.

There is something strange about this.

They don't know, but the employees who work here know it best. According to his gestures, the cable is at least as thick as three fingers put together. It has a very high safety factor and it is absolutely impossible for it to be cut by human power.

Even if one cable breaks, the other four cables of the same thickness will not cause the entire seat to fall down.

If this thing was really destroyed intentionally, then the person who destroyed it must not be an ordinary person.

"Don't talk nonsense," his colleague next to him pushed him, "Didn't we already call the police?"

"What's the point of calling the police? Are you stupid?" the staff member curled his lips in disdain and educated his colleague. "All the facilities in our park are on duty in shifts. I'm asking, if the cable is worn out, then the people who took turns there before are responsible. If it started to wear out several years ago, then the manager must be held responsible. No one in the park has noticed! Then everyone will be responsible. You are responsible and so am I."

"It's better to say it was vandalized," he said in a very understanding tone, "Anyway, today something happened, some celebrity came to record a show, there were a lot of tourists and all kinds of people here, so it was a mess. Who knows who did it? Anyway, it's not the park's responsibility."

If there was a problem with the facilities in the park but no one was injured, it is not the workers' fault. However, if the responsibility is traced back to every employee who has been rotated anywhere, then no one standing here can escape.

As soon as this theory came out, several staff members nearby showed a look of conviction on their faces.

If Xiaoying hadn't called to tell him that she saw a figure that looked like him on the surveillance camera, Bai Jinshu would probably have believed the staff member's inference after hearing what he said.

While they were discussing, the roller coaster car had already returned after running an empty circle.

Several staff members standing by the platform walked to the front, ready to wait for the carriage to return to its place and remove the safety bars on the seats.

At this moment, something strange happened.

Just as the dinosaur head at the front of the carriage passed the edge of the platform and was about to enter the station, everyone heard a very loud "clang--"

The sound, with its lingering echo, spread throughout the entire station in an instant, and as the sound appeared, the carriage that had just passed the platform suddenly fell backwards.

After a terrifying loud noise, the vehicle fell under the track.

At the junction of the track and the platform, a section of the originally flat track was missing.

Countless horror scenes that had happened in many people's dreams actually happened at this time. One of the tracks became loose and broke directly when the roller coaster passed by.

The vehicle passed through this shaky track, and when it reached the middle, the track broke completely and began to fall down from the middle of the vehicle.

The front and back of the roller coaster were connected, and the middle sank, causing both sides to fall towards the middle, causing the front of the car, which had just passed the platform, to move backwards sharply, and then the entire car fell to the ground.

Even though the height of the last section of track is the lowest point of all the tracks, it is still three or four meters high. If you jump down from a height of three or four meters without any protective measures, you will get injured, not to mention that now everyone and the car will be thrown down together.

The safety bar of a roller coaster is fixed at the waist of the tourist. It is the only protection measure and it can only deal with the situation where the roller coaster dives forward while running.

In a situation like the one just now, the car and the people fell off the track. If the car was full of tourists, I don't know how many people would be killed or injured.

Fortunately, this trip was empty.

For some reason, when Bai Jinshu saw this result, he felt as if it was just as expected and everything had been settled.

Unfortunately, he was the only one present who felt that the dust had settled. The few staff members who had been chatting not long ago were all stunned where they were.

The security captain ran up to the platform quickly, holding a walkie-talkie, looked at the roller coaster car outside the platform, and slowly took a step back.

If there were tourists on it, there would be a car full of injured people.

Everyone's hands were shaking unconsciously. After clicking several times, the security captain finally clicked the button on his intercom: "Dinosaur Roller Coaster... There's an accident on the Dinosaur Roller Coaster."

He swallowed hard and said, "It happened during an empty run, no tourists were injured."

Now he doesn't have to go out of his way to look for Xiaoying.

A group of staff, including the security captain, walked towards the visitor center.

*

In group chat:

Thoughts: [What's going on? Are all the large facilities in the amusement park closed?]

Huangmao: [No, it’s time to get off work, right?]

Conghua: [It’s only 5pm, why are you getting off work…]

Huangmao: [What happened? ]

Conghua: [It seems like there is a float parade, and all the amusement facilities are temporarily closed. Just now, a park staff member came to ask us if we want to get on the float together. After the float parade is over, it will be time for the amusement park’s fireworks. We will go home directly after the float parade is over.]

Huangmao: [Float? I want to go and play! Do you agree? ]

Conghua: [Give up, you are the sponsor's puppet, and the sponsor's puppet has no right to be on the float, you should just watch us go.]

Huangmao: [Sponsor, that would be even better, move the ad space! I'll ask the other three people if they can come! ]

Huangmao: [@尔肆@小影@hibiscus]

Huangmao: [Where are the three of you? ]

Huangmao: [Do you want to come to the float? ]

Er Si: [I haven't completed today's task yet, you guys go ahead.]

Xiaoying: [Me too.]

Huang Mao: [Then He Si Le! Do you want to come together? ]

In the group chat, Herbisk did not reply, but in the private chat box, Bai Jinshu received a message.

Hibiscus: [Something happened?]

Ersi: [? ]

Hibiscus: [I've read the introduction to the amusement park. The float parade is not scheduled at this time. The float is being moved forward now. Something has happened. All tourists need to be moved away from the accident site.]

This guy is really sharp.

Hibiscus: [You and Xiaoying are involved? Do you need help? ]

Bai Jinshu glanced at the director who was urgently called in to the tourist center in the distance and Xiaoying who was explaining something to him, then lowered his head and typed: [Not needed for now.]

【But there is one thing you need to be mentally prepared for. 】

[It wasn't just the two of us who were dragged into this, but the six people who participated in the show. 】

"Ah?" Director Qiao said in a bewildered voice after listening to Xiaoying's narration, "You mean, there are problems with a bunch of large equipment in the amusement park? Elements is now looking for who did it, but the one on the bungee jumping machine looked like Ersi, and the one on the roller coaster looked like the work of Herbisk?"

"To be more precise... the six of us were all near the amusement facility that had the accident," Bai Jinshu glanced at the unanswered chat box and walked in to correct it. "There was a person dressed similarly to me who stayed near the broken cable of the bungee jumping machine for a long time. And between the last inspection and the passenger loading of the roller coaster, there was a person who entered the queue area but did not appear on the platform. From the surveillance footage, it looked like Herbisk was of similar stature."

"The people who appeared near the pendulum and the pirate ship were me and Huangmao, but I was inside the visitor center during the surveillance video, and Huangmao's doll never left the stall, so it couldn't be him."

"The same goes for the remaining cyclone motorcycle and the aeroball," Bai Jinshu frowned. "Before the rope of the aeroball broke, the only person who stayed around was Nian Yu. As for the loose seats on the cyclone motorcycle, the surveillance showed that Hong Conghua had sat on them."

"Hiss..." Director Qiao took a breath, "It wasn't you guys who did it?"

"How is that possible?" Xiaoying twitched her lips.

"That's fine," Director Qiao patted his chest exaggeratedly, "Since it wasn't you who did it, then someone is deliberately imitating you to cause panic."

He frowned and picked up his phone. "This situation is a bit serious. I have to tell the police I added on WeChat that we have to reduce outdoor recordings and recordings with a large number of people in the next few days until we catch these people. I will adjust the schedule with my assistant and put some projects that can be completed indoors in the front."

Director Qiao frowned and held up his cell phone to make a call. Bai Jinshu and Xiaoying looked at each other and saw the tacit understanding in each other's eyes.

Director Qiao only knew that someone was pretending to be them and deliberately sabotaging various facilities, but what they didn't say was that the people who destroyed the facilities were not ordinary people.

In other words, all the destroyed settings do not look like something that could be done by human power.

Six large facilities were destroyed, and the people who appeared in the surveillance videos before and after the destruction were the six guests of the show. Logically, the leaders of the park should have attached great importance to it. However, after checking the extent of damage to all the facilities, everyone who watched the surveillance videos ruled out the possibility that this was deliberate destruction.

The reason is that these facilities do not seem to be able to be destroyed by human power.

How could it be possible for someone to cut a three-finger-thick steel bar with bare hands in a few seconds, shake the foundation of a roller coaster track with bare hands, and damage the top rotating axis of the pendulum with human body?

No matter which one it is, it will take three or four hours with all the tools to destroy it.

After seeing the extent of damage to all facilities, several leaders of the park immediately ruled out the possibility that someone had mixed in with the tourists and deliberately caused damage, and instead began to check people who had entered and left the amusement park during the closure of the park in recent days.

Only Xiaoying and Bai Jinshu were left outside discussing in a low voice.

"What should we do? Should we tell the other four people about this?" Xiaoying pointed to her cell phone.

What she meant was that the current situation was probably related to Hong Conghua's comics. All six of them were involved, and the other four at least had the right to know the truth.

Bai Jinshu nodded slightly: "I have already told Herbiskus."

Such a big incident happened in the amusement park. In order to prevent the spread of damaged amusement facilities, several park leaders made a prompt decision to advance the time of the floats. They also used the excuse of the floats to close several high-altitude projects that "would affect the floats when running at high altitudes", leaving only some safe amusement facilities on flat ground, such as carousels and spinning cups.

"What is going on?" Xiaoying scratched her hair in a panic. "I just wanted to record a program to promote intangible cultural heritage at first. It's only the second day, and there's a murder case, a villain resurrected, and an accident at the amusement park. I don't even dare to imagine what will happen in the next eleven days."

"Look at it calmly," Bai Jinshu comforted him in a gentle voice, "At least now that we have confirmed that the villains have arrived, the protagonists have also arrived."

It is enough to know that this series of strange things are caused by the villain. As for catching the villain and punishing him, these people who are economic operators, actors and cartoonists are not professionally qualified, so it is better to leave it to the protagonist who came here through time and space to solve it.

"Don't you think that these villains will deal with us before the protagonists deal with them?" Xiaoying held her head and said quietly, "This group of people are targeting us! Why? I'm just a weak shadow puppet artist!"

She even stood up and jumped when she was excited, then continued to squat and hold her head in autism: "Hong Conghua, please draw faster, I can't stand it anymore."

Bai Jinshu shrugged: "Look, nothing happened. According to the villain's logic, he definitely didn't do this to kill people, he did it for fun. We just need to send him back before he can have fun."

"I see. We ordinary people seem to be quite entertaining..." Xiaoying looked up dejectedly. "Hey, why are the four of them here?"

Bai Jinshu looked up and saw four people walking towards him on the road not far away.

They were standing a little far away and my faces couldn't be seen clearly, but based on their clothes I could tell they were the remaining four guests.

Xiaoying said in surprise: "Didn't you say you only told Herbisk? How did the other three know we were here?"

"Director Qiao said so," Bai Jinshu said casually.

"That's right," Xiaoying thought for a moment and waved at the four people, "Here! Here!"

The four people in the distance saw this and instead of walking towards them, they waved at them.

"Hmm? They asked us to come over," Xiaoying pulled Bai Jinshu's arm, "Did something happen again? Let's go and take a look."

Bai Jinshu followed her and suddenly felt his cell phone vibrate.

Hibiscus: [Six people? Where are you now? Do you need me to come over?]

Bai Jinshu paused.

"What's wrong?" Xiaoying turned around and saw him looking at his phone. "Did Director Qiao send you a message?"

Bai Jinshu frowned and looked up at the four people in the distance who were still waiting for them to come over: "Wait a moment, don't go over yet."

He stopped Xiaoying.

Before Xiaoying could ask him what he meant, their cell phones vibrated twice at the same time.

Conghua: [Eh, are you guys just going to stand there like this? ]

Green onion: [Won’t we be caught? ]

Words: [Picture]

Thoughts: [No one is surrounding you three.]

Huang Mao: [Who said he wouldn't come to join the float? In the end, he still said he didn't want to come and see me. Hehe. ]

Huangmao: [Picture]

Who's coming to see?

Bai Jinshu paused for a moment, and clicked on the picture at the same time as Xiaoying.

Huangmao's photo was probably taken from the doll's eyes, with a little plastic blur, but it can still be identified through their clothes. He took a photo of three tourists standing on both sides of the float.

In the photo, Bai Jinshu saw his blurry face, and seemed to be looking straight in the direction of the camera.

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