Chapter 172 Uncle Police, there is a murder here!
The Oriental Movie Metropolis in Blue Island was jointly invested and developed by Wanda and the Blue Island government in 2013.
After two years of construction, the progress of the project is only about halfway, so there are not many crews here.
Meng Bai has been here for more than half a month. Apart from the occasional curious construction workers and passing tourists, he has never seen other crews.
Although there are about a hundred people in the crew, it still looks very empty in the wide park.
It is okay during the day, but it is a bit creepy when shooting night scenes at night.
In particular, the crew has a lot of props such as the "skull" before. Anyone who takes a look at it suddenly can be easily scared.
However, no matter how scary it is, someone still has to be on duty every night. After all, the equipment is placed here, and some people who want to take the "wrong path" will notice it.
What you fear will come true. Early in the morning, Meng Bai was still sleeping when he was woken up by his mobile phone.
The caller was Liu Zhi, who told him that the crew was almost robbed last night.
"Stolen?" Meng Bai woke up from his somewhat confused state and frowned, "What was lost?"
"Uh, we just counted and found that nothing seemed to be lost."
"Huh?"
Liu Zhi said in a strange tone: "How should I put it, the thief broke in from the prop room."
Meng Bai was stunned for a moment, and then reacted.
The prop room Liu Zhi was talking about was the place where the crew used to store those "custom props".
If he remembered correctly, in addition to the "skeleton" he saw on the first day, there should be hanging "human skin", "headless corpse", "charred corpse" after burning, etc.
"Well - cough cough."
Meng Bai covered his mouth and tried not to laugh out loud.
Thinking about it carefully, the "thief" was also quite miserable. He finally broke into the door in the middle of the night, but he saw those things face to face.
Thinking about that scene, I feel sad for him.
"By the way, how did you find it?" Meng Bai asked curiously.
"Oh, it was the production crew on duty who heard someone screaming, but it was early in the morning and they didn't dare to check. It wasn't until the morning when they checked the prop room and found it was pried open that they estimated that someone had come in."
"Okay, since nothing is missing, don't bother calling the police." Meng Bai instructed: "Find someone to fix the broken doors and windows, and check if there are any other loopholes."
After saying that, he thought for a while and continued: "Also, contact the security company and ask a group of security guards to stand guard with the crew to avoid any danger."
Although he is a producer, Meng Bai has always believed that financial costs should be "saved where possible and spent where necessary.
" "Thieves" are like this, and there will be a second time. Given that the park where the filming is indeed a bit empty, Meng Bai feels that some professional security personnel are still needed.
Anyway, the budget funds are sufficient and there is no shortage of this little money.
As for calling the police, forget it. In this case where nothing is missing, it is not even up to the standard to file a case, so there is no need to bother the police uncles.
Unfortunately, Meng Bai had a good idea, but "trouble" did not let him go.
That afternoon, Meng Bai was discussing the following filming with Wang Wei, when they suddenly heard a loud siren outside.
Then, a staff member ran in and told them that several police cars were outside.
"Did someone call the police before?"
But even if the police were called, not to mention that they were a little slow, it was just an attempted "theft", wouldn't it be enough to call a local police officer? Is it necessary to bring so many people?
The two walked out with doubts in their hearts and looked outside. My goodness, more than a dozen policemen got off four police cars, and they were vaguely distributed in an encirclement formation.
Looking at a group of policemen not far away, Meng Bai suddenly had an idea.
Damn! Could it be that the thief called the police last night?
"Hello, uncle policeman."
As the person in charge of the crew, Meng Bai naturally had to contact him.
"Hello, comrade." A middle-aged policeman came over and said to him, "I am a policeman from the West Coast Police Station of Blue Island, and this is my ID. Are you the person in charge here?"
"Yes."
"Is it the park management?"
"No, we are a crew that rents this place to shoot." Meng Bai showed an "innocent" smile.
"Drama, crew?" The middle-aged policeman was stunned for a moment, then seemed to have thought of something, took a deep breath and asked: "What drama are you shooting?"
"Criminal investigation." Meng Bai kept smiling and said: "It's mainly forensic themes."
"...Do you have the filing documents?"
"Yes, wait a minute." Meng Bai said, took out his mobile phone, pointed out the relevant documents and photos and handed them over.
The middle-aged policeman looked at it, and his face gradually began to show a bit of a helpless expression.
He returned the phone to Meng Bai and explained: "It's like this, comrade, we received a report at noon, saying that someone was found here... killing and hiding the body."
Meng Bai nodded: "The person who reported the case was a thief, right?"
The middle-aged policeman nodded with a helpless expression: "Yes."
The police are naturally not stupid people, and they roughly understand what is going on here.
However, even if they understand, since it involves "human life", they can't just believe it based on a few words, and they still have to check what needs to be checked.
Meng Bai naturally couldn't stop him: "No problem, we will cooperate with the work."
The middle-aged policeman's surname is Li, and he is the captain of the police station. He waved his hand, and more than a dozen policemen with police dogs searched the crew's set carefully.
Everything else was normal until he entered the prop room and took a look at the scene inside. Captain Li finally understood why the "thief" called the police.
"Don't say it, you did a really good job." Turning over several "corpse" props, Captain Li couldn't help but praise.
Meng Bai smiled and said, "Those who eat this bowl of rice always have to be more serious."
"That's right. In recent years, there have been many TV dramas about police officers, and we all think they are outrageous."
The searching police took the luminol reagent and sprinkled it around to confirm that they were really artificial props, and then ended the search.
This search took an entire afternoon, and the entire crew couldn't shoot.
This is why Meng Bai was too lazy to call the police in the morning. It would be better to shoot a few more shots if he had that time.
"Sorry, Boss Meng, I'm sorry for delaying your filming." Before leaving, Captain Li said to Meng Bai.
"It's okay, it's all for the safety of the people, everyone understands." Meng Bai said.
The investigation has been done, what else can be done, and besides, the police can't be blamed for this matter.
"Here is my phone number, if our crew has any questions, you can contact me later." Captain Li took the initiative.
"Don't mention it, I really want to trouble you with something, but I don't know if it's appropriate?" Meng Bai said with a smile.
Captain Li was stunned for a moment, probably because he didn't expect Meng Bai to be so impolite. But he didn't care, nodded and said: "It's okay, you say."
"It's like this..." Meng Bai said: "Our police station should also have the task of publicity and assessment."
"That's for sure, every government department has it." Captain Li said.
"Then it shouldn't be easy to get on the national or central media, right?"
"It's not so bad. We have some cooperating media. But for a district and county branch like ours, we don't have much material worth reporting." Captain Li smiled bitterly and said, "Many interesting cases can't be released to the public. Ordinary trivialities or administrative work don't seem necessary."
Meng Bai made an "I understand" expression, then leaned closer and said, "So what do you think of today's material?"
"You mean, you want to publicize this?"
"Yeah, our crew needs attention as well." Meng Bai didn't hide the fact and said directly, "The title has been thought of for us, 'The thief turned himself in and led to a wrongful murder case, and the law enforcement for the people demonstrated his loyalty.'"
Captain Li was stunned. Don't say, don't say, this title does sound a bit like that.
"What about the media..."
"Don't worry, our crew will arrange it." Meng Bai said, "But I may have to trouble you to accept a few more interviews in the future."
"That's fine, but I have to go back and apply to our leader. Don't worry, the leader should be happy with such a positive case."
After saying that, Captain Li patted Meng Bai on the shoulder and said, "It must be you people in the entertainment industry who can grab traffic."
(End of this chapter)
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