He squinted his sleepy eyes, carefully fumbled for his phone, and then answered the call with his eyes still half-closed: "Hello?"
"Check the trending topics now."
Upon hearing this, Xiao He immediately woke up.
He glanced at the time on his phone, his brain forced itself to boot, and he managed to sit up in bed: "Okay, I understand."
Liu Rulan on the other end of the line didn't waste any words and hung up the phone immediately.
Xiao He immediately unlocked his phone and, following muscle memory, clicked on the trending topics list—
[The entire creative team behind "Mo Xun" has gone missing]
[The crew of the film "Silent Search" are suspected of disappearing and absconding]
[Searching for the Missing]
[To the members of the Silent Search team: Are you still alive? Everyone is looking for you.]
Xiao He: ?
Upon seeing these trending topics, Xiao He was initially bewildered, but his sluggish brain finally realized what he had seen.
Have all the main creators of "The Silent Search" disappeared?
In other words, the director, producer, screenwriter, several main actors, and so on have all gone missing.
"Holy crap!"
Xiao He immediately became restless.
"No way? Didn't the police close in? How did they all get away?"
But then Xiao He felt something was off.
He could understand why Feng Zhengyang and his group wanted to run away, but why were Chen Yulin and his group of actors running away?
Although they do have some problems, they definitely don't deserve to run away with Feng Zhengyang and his group!
Feng Zhengyang and Dong Zeng are guilty of murder; if they don't run, they'll die. The screenwriter Lu Qiu, though not guilty of murder, is definitely shady and is also a potential prisoner…
While other actors in the crew did indeed have various issues, Xiao He believed that most people, like Chen Yulin, were simply there because of the famous director Feng Zhengyang, wanting to participate in Feng Zhengyang's films and make a fortune. They were unaware of Feng Zhengyang and others' true intentions and circumstances, and even less aware that they would be implicated by the crew.
So they've disappeared too? What's going on?
Moreover, the police couldn't possibly be unaware of such a large-scale exodus...
Immediately, another guess came to Xiao He's mind—
Unless these people weren't missing... but caught?
Sure enough, Xiao He's phone rang again; it was Liu Rulan calling.
"Hello?"
Have you seen what's happening online?
"Hmm, so these people really are missing? Something doesn't feel right..."
"Indeed, they didn't disappear; they were all taken into police custody."
Looking out the window at the faint light rising on the horizon before dawn, Liu Rulan finally let out a long sigh.
"In addition, Feng Zhengyang and Dong Zeng resisted arrest by the police and were stabbed three times each by Tong Junhui. They have been sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. As for the others, they are said to be involved in some money laundering case and are currently at the police station."
Xiao He gasped.
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