Chapter 1
In the evening, the streets of City A are busy with traffic.
The bus is full of people who are getting off work, and they often call themselves "social animals."
But they themselves did not expect that in the eyes of a certain handsome guy, they really looked like some kind of animal.
For example, the auntie sitting in the front row of the bus, with her curly hair, looks like a puffer fish; the girl in a red dress sitting behind her looks like a quiet crayfish; and the fat boy behind them, who is so crowded that you can see the tonsils of the uncle who is making a phone call next to him, looks like a pork meatball (vacuum-packed version).
These animals have only one thing in common.
They are all very delicious.
——Qiao Yiqiao thought so while riding on the creaking old bus.
He is so hungry.
I haven't eaten for a day.
He could endure any kind of hardship except hunger.
Sometimes people hate their own talents.
At this moment, Qiao Yi Qiao hated his overly exaggerated imagination.
He desperately needed a distraction.
What to see?
The overwhelming advertisements outside the window attracted his attention.
The reason is simple—there are lots of yellow chicks on the ad.
They all look delicious.
But it's actually an advertisement for a movie.
The "Baby Bird Project" is coming with great momentum, bringing together many top directors and producers in the entertainment industry as judges and mentors, striving to unearth those film seed players hidden in the world.
All you need to do is submit a ten-minute short film and you will have the opportunity to receive careful guidance from a top director, who will guide you into the film industry step by step.
All filmmakers who hope to make a big splash, and even those who just like movies, are gearing up for it.
It is indeed time for a reshuffle in the film industry.
After several major earthquakes in the entertainment industry, the slowly recovering Chinese film and television industry is indeed different from the past.
Movies that used to be able to take in hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office with their special effects and great casts are now considered to be "all show and no substance," neither critically acclaimed nor commercially successful.
Investors are beginning to try to shift their focus to more impressive projects.
We are looking for good directors, good stories and good actors everywhere.
The "Egg Project" is the most ambitious one among them.
The deadline is three months from now, but I heard that we have received more than 1,000 submissions as soon as the film submission process started.
These things are in the news every day, and of course Qiao Yi Qiao knows about it.
But, he thought, what does this have to do with him?
He was just a poor hungry man.
It cannot be said that he has no connection with the movie, it can only be said that he is completely irrelevant.
Qiao Yiqiao entered the police academy at the age of 18. In the same year, he was selected as an undercover agent due to his outstanding performance in all aspects and joined the largest smuggling group in the city.
Qiao Yi Qiao went from being a small henchman to a core figure in his gang, then to owning his own gang, and finally becoming the leading boss. Every step was dangerous and he played a different role every day.
Just like an actor in a movie.
It’s just that if the actors don’t perform well, they will at most be scolded, but if Qiao Yiqiao doesn’t perform well, his life will be in danger.
So...Qiao Yiqiao has always performed very well.
This was a hidden front that no one knew about, and during these lonely and desolate (but not hungry) days, watching movies became his only entertainment.
Only when he looked at those who were performing as hard as he was, could he feel a little comforted and think that he was not alone.
But he thought that the importance of movies to him came to an abrupt end the moment the undercover operation ended.
After all, I love watching movies but I can’t eat enough.
He is really hungry.
After five years of struggle, retirement life after the disintegration of the organization was not as comfortable as imagined.
Although he received a considerable amount of resettlement money, his father fell seriously ill and is currently recuperating overseas, so he has almost spent all the money.
His father's cancer is quite complicated, and foreign countries are indeed more advanced in MDT (multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment system) and drugs. Otherwise, he would also like to let his father stay in the country for easier care.
In terms of treatment, the police have actually taken care of a lot, but unfortunately they cannot reimburse the subsequent recuperation.
The father also knew that he had spent too much money on the police and sighed all day long.
Therefore, Qiao Yiqiao didn’t want to trouble the police again regarding what happened next.
Although they now receive a monthly pension, when combined with their father's savings, it is only enough to cover his monthly convalescent expenses, not a penny left over.
Moreover, the reason why he only took a resettlement fee and severed all ties with the police was that he felt that his personality was indeed more arbitrary and he was afraid of causing trouble for the police because of his identity if he encountered any problems.
But at this moment, he had not realized that his superiors were still paying attention to him.
Of course, this is all a story for later.
In short, after sending his father abroad, he started delivering food in the city on a small electric scooter.
But this former boss is good at everything except driving skills.
The day after delivering a takeaway, he crashed his car.
The vehicle he hit was a Porsche. Not only was his electric scooter written off, but he also lost his remaining savings and even used up his credit card limit.
Making money has become his top priority now.
But finding a job is extremely difficult, otherwise he would not have chosen the career of delivering food, a career that is not suitable for idiot drivers.
Due to confidentiality reasons, he didn't know how to explain to employers that he only had a high school education and had done nothing after the age of 18.
For the young generation in China who are constantly competing for their chance to make a living, having a gap year is considered a sin in the eyes of HR professionals, not to mention that Qiao Yiqiao had a gap year of five full years...s.
Therefore, having not found any stable job and having lost his electric scooter, he is now sitting alone on a broken bus, returning to his small courtyard in a rural area far away from City A.
If it doesn't work, he can just rent out the courtyard, but this is the only asset his father left him.
The main reason was that the courtyard was too shabby. Apart from him, no one else would be willing to live there, unless they were an unjust tyrant.
After staying up all night for several days, he was hungry and cold. He originally wanted to take a nap on the swaying bus, but he didn't expect that he couldn't even get this precious sleep time.
Standing next to his seat was a girl with a cotton candy-like hairstyle. She must have just finished a date with her friends. She was wearing a pretty little dress and was sending messages with a sweet smile on her face.
It's really nice to have someone to accompany you, Qiao Yiqiao thought unconsciously.
If there was anything he missed about his five years undercover, it was his brothers.
It's hard not to have some genuine feelings after eating thousands of meals together.
But they all dissipated.
But the girl's enviable state was not the reason why he had trouble falling asleep.
Behind her stood a fat man who looked like a dehydrated anglerfish.
The bus was not very crowded, but the anglerfish did not go anywhere else and just stood next to the girl.
Qiao Yiqiao is good at acting, so he can naturally judge other people's acting skills.
Just looking at the man's expression, I felt something was wrong.
Although he pretended to be indifferent, he kept secretly moving his feet towards the girl's legs.
Very poor acting skills, Qiao Yiqiao judged in his mind.
It was as if he was afraid that others didn't know that there was a hidden camera on his shoe.
Unfortunately, the office workers in the car were all busy with their phones and no one noticed the man's abnormality.
The man noticed Qiao Yi Qiao's gaze and glanced at him.
Qiao Yiqiao is a very handsome man, and due to his natural constitution, he does not get tanned even after working as a delivery boy for a few days.
His figure is even a little "thin", and among the crowd he looks like a student with good grades. It is hard to imagine that he was once the boss of thousands of younger brothers.
However, after being in the organization for a long time, his temperament inevitably acquired a gloomy and oppressive feeling.
He was not afraid of the anglerfish's gaze and looked up at him.
It was this light glance that made the anglerfish feel an inexplicable palpitation.
But his greasy eyes rolled, and he raised his eyebrows at Qiao Yi Qiao, signaling him to be quiet.
The meaning is very clear: we are all men, we understand.
Qiao Yiqiao sneered in his heart.
court death.
I was already annoyed when I was hungry, and I felt even angrier when I saw the ugly ingredients.
So, the next second, the anglerfish man, who was still thinking about how much praise this secretly filmed video would get from the friends in the secret photography group, suddenly felt a strong pain in his feet.
"Ah——" He suddenly screamed like an angry... anglerfish.
If you ask why Qiao Yiqiao stepped on this, it might be because he has a bit of a mysophobia.
——As a film and television lover, he doesn't want to see people ruin what is captured on camera.
Sean Baker was able to use shaky handheld camera to shoot the film "Tangerine" which won fame in Cannes. Zhang Yimou was also a "master of candid photography" in his early years, but he was able to make good movies like "Qiu Ju: A Story of a Woman."
Same equipment, same action, but this anglerfish has no good intentions.
With this sound, everyone on the bus looked at the anglerfish.
Except Qiao Yi Bridge.
Qiao Yi Qiao looked down at his phone, wearing noise-cancelling headphones, looking as if nothing had happened.
The anglerfish man was confused.
Who the hell stepped on him? And why was he so cruel?
But being exposed to everyone's sight made him extremely panicked, so he quickly lowered his head to avoid the dozens of gazes.
Only he himself knew how powerful the kick was. It crushed his camera directly and the fragments were embedded in his flesh.
"Grass."
Feeling guilty to begin with, he did not dare to cause any trouble and got off the bus in a hurry at the next stop.
Then he was taken away by two police officers who rushed here.
The anglerfish man didn't figure out why everything happened so quickly until he entered the police station.
What he didn't notice was that the thin student also got off at this stop.
Qiao Yi Qiao found an inconspicuous corner at the entrance of the police station and started smoking.
The phone also showed the screen of the text message conversation with the police chief.
After being an undercover agent for a long time, sending messages when no one is paying attention is a common occurrence.
After smoking, Qiao Yi Qiao started to read news about various part-time jobs.
It's a pity that you need a college degree or above, and there's really not much to do except physical work.
The aroma of roasted sweet potatoes wafted over from the side.
Qiao Yiqiao looked up and saw an old lady in her twilight years selling her last two sweet potatoes.
The old woman's face was full of wrinkles, and this look of hunger could not be disguised no matter what.
Qiao Yi Qiao thought about it, took out the only twenty yuan left in his pocket and bought the sweet potatoes (and complained why they were so expensive) so that the old lady could go home quickly.
After eating the sweet potatoes, he finally felt better. Qiao Yi Qiao calculated that it was almost time, so he bought a medical mask from the pharmacy next door and put it on. After thinking for a while, he took off his shirt, revealing his well-developed muscles and large tattoos.
Other bigwigs have tattoos of Guan Gong, dragons and tigers, but Qiao Yiqiao chose to have tattoos of the sea, seagulls and albatrosses.
However, Qiao Yiqiao did not take off his shirt to show his tattoo.
After all, I only have a few tops, and I have to wash them when they get dirty, and laundry detergent is very expensive.
He has a habit of not meddling in other people's business, but once he does, he will take care of it to the end.
He knew that for such voyeurists, especially when the act of taking photos has not yet succeeded, the only thing the police can do is to criticize and educate them.
The authorities have their own frustrations. Qiao Yiqiao has been an undercover agent for five years and knows all this too well.
fortunately.
He is now out of official status.
He originally wanted to use another cell phone to contact the person who was covering this area before to help solve the problem, but as soon as he turned on the phone, he thought it was better to forget it.
Qiao Yiqiao didn't want to trouble others, nor did he want to drag others into trouble.
Sure enough, within a few hours, the anglerfish man was released, and when he walked out of the police station, he did not forget to raise his middle finger behind him.
Criticize and educate him? Dream on!
Aren’t those women wearing such revealing clothes in the middle of summer just for him to take pictures?
The man was humming a song as he walked down the street. He hadn't decided yet which bath center to go to today when he suddenly felt someone flash behind him. Then a mask was put on his face and he was dragged into a dark alley.
The hands of the people who were pulling him were like tiger claws, twisting his flesh so hard that it hurt, and he couldn't get away at all.
Just as he was about to scream, his mouth was stuffed with his own smelly, bloody socks, and he couldn't make any sound.
What's going on? He didn't ask for money or rape her... He didn't do that!
But before he could think too much, a fist as hard as iron hit him with a bang, and he felt like all the bones inside were shattered.
He shed tears spinelessly.
The other party didn't say anything, just fought.
He was beaten so hard that his entire body was in great pain and he felt as if his muscles were all broken.
The beating lasted about five minutes, but in reality it felt like a century.
Finally, the other party stopped, lifted his head and pressed it against the wall.
Although he couldn't see the other person's face, the man felt a burst of heat with murderous intent coming towards the back of his head. He wanted to hide, but the hand was holding his head tightly and he couldn't avoid it.
“Still filming?”
Qiao Yiqiao's voice was full of intimidation, gloomy and hoarse.
The man just realized why he was beaten.
He rubbed his face against the wall in discomfort, shaking his head violently.
But he didn't expect that his humble behavior would earn him another beating.
There is no good meat left on him.
"If you shoot again, I'll hit you again. Remember that?"
Qiao Yiqiao asked again.
The man nodded like a chick pecking at rice.
After that, he felt the pressure around him dissipate, but it took another half an hour before he had the strength to lift the mask off his face.
The moonlight is nice tonight, but now it is covered by clouds and it is pitch dark.
The man thought silently, when he was beaten just now, the man didn't even breathe, could he be a ghost?
Is this really retribution?
It’s still a retribution with the taste of sweet potatoes.
He immediately took out his phone and sent a message to the candid group: "Family members, who understands?
I was beaten up by someone just now. What a jerk..."
But he regretted it as soon as he finished typing a line.
Because he saw another dialog box clearly appearing on his dialog box.
I sent it myself.
The content is the scene of himself being beaten up just now.
That sweet potato evil ghost actually had time to take a video and send it to the group while beating himself?
At this moment, the group was completely silent, and everyone felt insecure.
Hundreds of group members seemed to be afraid that they would be the next target of the sweet potato ghost's beating.
Except one person.
She is a student who just graduated from the directing department of the Film Academy. Her previous metoo short film just won the International Student Award.
She has been lurking in this group for three months just to get material for her next feature film.
She had been so immersed in this group that she felt she was becoming greasy, but she suddenly came to her senses after seeing this short clip.
Although the film is short, it seems to have been designed from the camera movement to the action to the lighting.
Could it be that someone took this photo intentionally?
But if it was intentional, then the man who was beaten acted too realistically.
The guy who beat people up didn't seem to be acting, and every move he made had a hint of violent aesthetics.
But what is the purpose of doing this?
She sent the short film to her former mentor, a famous first-line director who is now the chairman of the organizing committee of the "Egg Project", and asked him to help check whether the film is real.
The tutor sent a message back quickly, with only four words.
“Interesting.”
…
On the country road.
Sweet potato "hungry" ghost Qiao Yiqiao jogged and lit a cigarette.
The video he just shot of the anglerfish being beaten up was indeed deliberately designed.
After all, what he wanted was to shock hundreds of group members with this short video, so of course he had to make it as impactful as possible.
While squatting at the alley entrance, he had already rehearsed the entire process dozens of times, down to the precise details of how to perform each action, what he would say, what angle to use to film it in order to make it more bloody and scary, and so on…
This process is quite interesting.
Qiao Yi Qiao had a very unrealistic idea: it would be great if he could make money from this. It would be great to beat people up while recording videos and earning income at the same time.
Unfortunately, in this society, a non-staff Don Quixote cannot make money.
So sad.
He joined the police academy at the age of 18. On the one hand, he was influenced by his father, an old undercover agent. On the other hand, he had the innocence and passion unique to teenagers and wanted to make the world a better place and minimize the crime rate.
But I can't find a way to do it.
Is there really something in this world that can affect so many people?
never mind.
Don’t want to think about it anymore.
Now that we don’t even have bread, forget about dreaming.
What's even more abominable is that teaching this anglerfish a lesson made him miss the last bus.
However, it was not too far from the small village where he lived, only about five or six kilometers, so he decided to run home.
His whole body was covered with the nosebleed of the sea creature, and the slightest touch would swell all over him, which really made him angry.
Fortunately, there were not many people around at night, so Qiao Yi Qiao dealt with it casually and didn't take it seriously.
But at this moment, Qiao Yi Qiao did not expect that there was also a shirtless man in a convenient sports field not far away.
The man was over 1.9 meters tall, with a muscular body and eight abdominal muscles bulging so high that they could reflect the moonlight. He also had a fierce look on his face and looked like someone who was not easy to mess with.
But Wang Yiming, as a second-generation rich man, was naturally not afraid of trouble. He held up his phone and said to the other party: "I told you to get out of the way. We are going to shoot a skit. Do you understand?"
The man looked at the mess on the ground, said nothing, and continued to stare at Wang Yiming fiercely.
Wang Yiming was also anxious: "Isn't it just throwing away your junk? I'll compensate you with a lot of it later. Can I give you 500 yuan? We need to use this place. The moonlight will be gone soon. Do you know how to grab the moonlight? Get out!"
He just felt that he was unlucky.
After graduating from film and television school and being idle at home for more than a year, his father finally gave him an ultimatum - if he didn't work, he would go to the family mine to work as a gold miner!
Wang Yiming was a little helpless. He had only learned to be a director and couldn't do anything else.
Besides, he just spent his time fooling around in school, and now he has an empty head and doesn't know what to shoot.
What's more, even if there was a film to be shot, he was too lazy to write the script and plan the storyboard.
It has to be filmed again, edited, color adjusted, special effects added, dubbed... it’s annoying just thinking about it.
At this time, his childhood friend and strategist reminded him, "Short videos are so popular now, why don't we go down and make short dramas!"
Only then did he remember the short filming.
Yes, the threshold is low and you can make money, so why not do it!
Each episode of a short drama is only 1-5 minutes long, and the shooting period is only a few days. Add in the editing, and it can be completed in half a month at most!
Even film and television enthusiasts who have never learned directing or screenwriting can shoot it!
So he spent the whole morning writing a 600-word script, and then called the actors to start filming.
There aren't many other friends in his circle, but there are a lot of handsome men and beautiful women, so he quickly completed the team.
But I didn't expect to encounter such an evil spirit just as I started shooting on this fitness equipment.
There were a lot of woven bags next to the equipment. He thought they were garbage and threw them away. But he didn't realize they were other people's "belongings", so the situation became awkward.
The man refused to say anything and just stared at them.
Wang Yiming originally thought that this man had a good height and figure, and his appearance was also unique, and he was quite suitable to play a cameo as a gangster villain in their short play.
But I didn't expect that he was a mute and had a bad temper.
Now he is clenching his fists as if he is going to hit him.
To be honest.
Although Wang Yiming looked imposing and impressive, he was actually trembling with fear.
This guy doesn't look like someone who is easy to mess with. He exudes an aura that makes him deadly if touched, just like a martial arts master who lives on the streets in Hong Kong movies.
But there are so many people watching...
He thought, after all, they were five or six big guys over 1.80 meters tall, and if they attacked together, they shouldn't be at a disadvantage, right?
However, opposite him.
There is only one word in A'mo's mind now -
"beat".
All he knows in his life is fighting.
His status, wealth, and even his life were all earned by him.
His experiences since childhood have taught him to kill whenever he is beaten.
Until he met his Ah Da.
Ada appeared like light and saved him from his original world.
"From now on, you'll be with me. My last name is Qiao, so you should be Qiao too. Since you don't like to talk, I'll name you Qiao Mo."
Yes.
He originally only had a nickname, "God of Killing". If that man hadn't appeared, he wouldn't even have a name.
After that, he followed that man wholeheartedly and became his younger brother.
The moment he got a name, he was willing to dedicate his life to A Da.
In a sense, he is the boss's loyal follower.
But after following him for five years, the other party only took him out to calm the situation on very rare occasions, and there was never a single situation where he actually took action.
Ah Da has been quietly solving problems on his own.
Ah Mo knew that this was Ah Da's way of protecting him.
It was precisely because of these five years of meticulous protection that he was able to escape unscathed when the organization collapsed, without even having to go to jail.
However, his A Da, his light, disappeared half a year ago.
The organization also fell apart.
Some say the boss is dead, others say he was sentenced to life imprisonment...
But Amer didn't want to believe it.
If the boss is gone, everything he does will be meaningless.
So he gave all the money left by the boss to his brothers, became a homeless man, and looked everywhere for any trace of the boss.
With his size and appearance, no one dares to bully him.
Until tonight when I met some rich second-generations who were not afraid of death.
He hasn't done it for many years, but he has never given up exercising, so it seems he has to give it a try today.
A'mo clenched his fists, the muscles in his arms bulged, and huge strength gathered bit by bit.
However.
Just as he was about to throw a punch, he heard a voice he had been longing for.
"Ah Mo!"
A cold voice came from the night.
Amer couldn't believe it.
His fist stopped in mid-air for a moment. He looked into the night with nervous anticipation.
I happened to see this scene while running past the Qiaoyi Bridge.
He didn't have time to wonder why he met the younger brothers he had recruited during his undercover period here, because he knew A'mo too well and knew that if he saw him in this posture, he would definitely kill him, so he could only hurriedly call for him to stop.
Wang Yiming was so frightened by the man's fist and murderous aura that he closed his eyes and felt that his death was approaching.
But he didn't expect that when he opened his eyes again, he would see such an outrageous scene——
The man who had a murderous look on his face just now suddenly changed his expression, like a giant wolfhound over 1.9 meters tall, running to another human-shaped object covered in blood with tears in his eyes.
"Wow, wow, wow, A-Da, you turned into a ghost and you still want to come find me!"
A'mo cried and threw Qiao Yiqiao to the ground.
The hungry ghost Qiao Yiqiao, who was oppressed to the point of suffocation, immediately experienced the revolving lantern of life.
As the saying goes, hitting people is not good.
You see, it's retribution.
Wang Yiming (trembling version):?
Is he dead?
Is the scene before my eyes really like what is shown in the movies, a paradise on earth?!
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