A blue train with three white lines rumbled into the station from the sea. In the distance was the setting sun, reflected on the sea.
The doors opened, and passengers got off with their suitcases, dusty and dusty, and met their waiting friends and relatives. The scene immediately became noisy and lively.
In contrast, the theater was quiet and silent, and the audience's eyes were bright, with wonder and fear of the unknown, and an uncontrollable desire to explore.
This worm-like thing is the sea train. It is not a ship, but it can float on the sea.
Many people got off from the box-shaped carriage, and the audience couldn't understand how it could do this?
Le Han and Rong Shenghua sat in the back row of Hall 1. They were moved by the cooperation between the cinema and Yuguizhai yesterday. After thinking hard all night, they bought the tickets for the first show early.
Looking at the sea train at this time, they stared at the light in their eyes without blinking. They couldn't tell whether it was a fantasy or a real thing.
The old conductor and the young train attendant came down from the operation room. During the chat, they revealed the information of this sea train, such as the use of floating light power to replace steam power, the unique shape of the front and rear of the train with special meaning, and the newly replaced carriage wallpaper used the pattern loved by a royal family a hundred years ago.
Such details are mostly not for advancing the plot, but more for portraying a world that is close to reality.
For the people of Dawu Dynasty, this short plot contains many mysteries-what is floating light power? What is steam power? What is the difference between the two? Who invented the sea train? Are ordinary people not afraid of being punished for using the items of the imperial court?
The platform is the terminal station. After the passengers get off, new passengers get on and go to a new destination.
The camera jumps very quickly, and characters get on from different doors and enter different carriages.
The sea train sets off again, rumbling past the audience.
Some audience members rub their eyes and mutter quietly: "There are so many people, I can't remember them at all."
The person next to them comforts: "Watch slowly, you will understand later."
There are indeed many characters at the beginning. Their clothes and appearance are not so easy to distinguish for the people of the Dawu Dynasty. It is indeed easy to be face-blind at first glance.
At this time, the audience is more concerned about the sea train than the plot. It runs fast and steadily on the sea as if it were walking on flat ground.
It was completely different from the carriages and cargo ships that the people of the Dawu Dynasty knew.
Outside the window, thick gray-blue clouds were stacked up, and the dusk was heavy.
In the carriage, there were mysterious people in dark brown robes, a group of people in black suits carrying heavy boxes, a woman in luxurious clothes with her daughter, a gentle man who claimed to be the editor-in-chief of a newspaper, a girl who claimed to be going to Taicheng to find her relatives, an old earl with a lame leg and sharp words, and a couple who were going back to their hometown to get married... In the dim light, they drank red wine and talked, or took out poker to entertain themselves, and some people leaned against the window and fell asleep.
As a story, this beginning seemed a bit dull.
The night gradually deepened, and the novelty of getting on the train wore off. Most of the passengers began to rest, and some got up to go to the bathroom.
"Bang——"
A heavy gunshot woke everyone up, and the first dead person appeared.
The shooting took place in the restroom connecting the first car and the second car. Passengers who heard the sound rushed to the crime scene from both ends. The bright red liquid oozed out from the crack of the restroom door, and everyone's brows were wrinkled.
The guests in the theater were agitated. It was really a murder case, and it started before they could react.
Le Han narrowed his eyes and stroked his fingers on the embroidery pattern on his cuffs.
When watching the trailer, he was very concerned about the heavy sound, as if it was some kind of signal.
Now it seems to be a signal of "murder", and he wants to know the source of the sound.
On the screen, several male passengers worked together to break into the restroom. The victim was a young man, lying face down on the ground, with a bullet hitting his chest. He was already dead.
After investigating the scene, the identity of the victim has not been determined.
The blood stains from the crack of the restroom door are also questionable. The victim was shot in the chest, with his legs facing the door, and there was not so much bleeding at the fatal wound.
Whose blood is it?
Who killed this man?
The people of the Dawu Dynasty were exposed to this type of video for the first time, and began to immerse themselves in the situation and guess the murderer.
"Who could it be?"
"I think it's that lame old man, who looks like a bad guy and speaks fiercely."
"It's possible. I think there's something wrong with the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. He always looks uncomfortable when he looks at people."
The audience didn't know what the editor-in-chief of a newspaper was, so they began to analyze it based on their personal impressions.
Xie Xu heard it from the side and couldn't help but whispered, "In that case, aren't the group of people in black clothes and the mysterious man in a robe more suspicious?"
Chen Yuning's eyes showed understanding. No wonder there were so many shots at the beginning. The murderer must be among the group of people who appeared.
Chen Yuning couldn't help but refute Xie Xu: "The group of black-clad men didn't show up after getting on the train, so there shouldn't be these two carriages, so they can be ruled out as suspects for now. As for the man in brown robe, he looks very similar, but he may not be the murderer."
Xie Xu frowned: "Then who do you think the murderer is?"
Chen Yuning shook his head: "The relationship between the characters has not been revealed yet, and there are not enough clues to infer the murderer."
This film is more interesting than expected, but it's a pity that the Prince of Jin didn't come today.
There was a banquet in the palace, and the Prince of Jin and his family had to go to the palace early, so they couldn't spare time.
In fact, the families who could get the invitation were all similar, and they had to go to the palace early.
But Xie Xu and Chen Yuning wanted to watch "Train on the Sea" anyway, so they sneaked out early in the morning and prepared to watch it before going to the palace.
As it turned out, this film did not disappoint.
At a critical moment, the train attendant appeared and revealed the identity of the deceased - a jewelry merchant, who was on a business trip to transport a beautiful pigeon blood ruby to Taichung.
Because the jewelry merchant often took the sea train, the train attendant remembered him, and the two chatted for a few words when checking tickets today.
After the identity of the deceased was clarified, the motive for the murder was also speculated - ruby.
The breakthrough to find the murderer was the blood that did not belong to the deceased. The murderer was likely injured during the murder. Next, all they had to do was check the passengers in the carriage, and those with injuries were the murderer.
Halfway through the check, the noblewoman's daughter Anne was found with a clean bandage tied around her wrist.
Anne was only thirteen years old, with an oval face, double ponytails, wearing a gorgeous black puffy skirt, and a sharp look.
She was not panicked when the conductor grabbed her wrist and dragged her up from her seat. Instead, her mother, Madame Sera, anxiously explained that her daughter's wrist was sprained when she fell off a horse a few days ago, and she was unwilling to untie the bandage for everyone to see.
The lame old count scolded loudly and impatiently, forcing Anne to untie the bandage to prove her innocence.
The passengers on the train looked at Madame Sera and Anne, and although they did not force them out loud, the meaning in their eyes was the same as that of the old count.
"Ahhh——" A woman's scream interrupted the inspection, and something seemed to have happened in the carriage behind.
The second dead person appeared.
This time the crime scene was the restroom connecting the second and third carriages. The deceased was Janet's lover Chad.
Chad and Janet were the couple who were going to return home to get married. Janet was the first person to discover them.
They were passengers in the second carriage. After the jeweler's death, they were also subject to interrogation. But Chad was in a hurry, and before the interrogation of the first carriage was over, he told Janet that he was going to the restroom.
As a result, he never came back. Janet found it strange and got up to go to the restroom to look for someone.
She knocked on the door but no one answered. She felt a little uneasy. Then she saw the blood oozing from the crack of the door and screamed in fear.
Everyone broke open the door of the restroom. Chad's death was very similar to that of the jeweler. He was shot in the chest and died in one shot.
But this scene was even more horrifying, with blood spraying everywhere.
Soon, everyone found that Chad's right forearm was bandaged and soaked in blood. After untying the bandage, the wound was still bleeding.
Ah...
The passengers exchanged glances with each other. Mrs. Sera pointed at Chad's body and said loudly: "He is the murderer. The wound on his arm is still bleeding. It must be him."
But what was the motive?
The ruby on the jeweler's body was indeed missing. The train conductor and the lame count began to search Chad's body.
No ruby was found, and everyone's eyes gradually turned to Janet who was still crying.
If Chad really killed the jeweler to steal the ruby, then the ruby should be on him.
But it was not found, and things became confusing.
And who killed Chad?
There are many connections between people, light and dark intertwined, complex and difficult to understand.
Sometimes you can't find the hidden line, just start with the most obvious relationship.
Abandon your emotions and look at the people and things around you with a rational eye.
Janet noticed the unclear meaning in the eyes of the crowd, raised her head uncomfortably, and asked with a sob: "Why are you looking at me like this?"
The audience was not calm.
"They suspect this woman is the murderer?"
"This woman looks weak, it's impossible for her to kill an adult man easily. And aren't they going back to their hometown to get married?"
"I can't figure it out, who is the murderer?"
Kuba stood in the aisle of Hall 1, one hand around his chest, the other hand raised to touch his chin, his eyes wide open, trying to find clues from the details revealed on the screen.
On the train, everyone forcibly searched Janet and Chad's luggage and searched Janet's skirt, but the ruby was not found.
Who was the murderer?
This became the question in the minds of all the audience in the theater.
The other passengers racked their brains to find the real murderer. The brown-robed man who had been sitting in the corner of Carriage 3 since the beginning stood up silently, blocked the door connecting Carriage 3 and Carriage 2, pulled out a Gatling gun from under his robe, and shouted loudly: "You have been held hostage by me, put your hands on your head, squat down, and don't move!"
The accident happened suddenly, and the passengers on the train and the audience in the theater did not react for a while and were stunned.
But Gatling's intimidation was strong enough. The passengers on the train quickly crouched on the ground according to the instructions of the man in brown robes, trembling like fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
The man in brown robes was a robber. He got the news from other places that there were several wealthy and powerful people sitting on this train.
He originally planned to take action when it was darkest, but murders occurred one after another during the journey. Passengers in the first-class carriage wanted to move to the back carriage for safety.
Helplessly, he had to take action in advance.
One passenger was so scared that his legs went limp and he accidentally fell down. His companion turned around to help him.
The man in brown robes raised Gatling and "clicked, clicked" mercilessly, and the two passengers were almost wiped out.
The train was so quiet that you could hear the sound of waves hitting the carriages.
And the theater was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
What kind of weapon is this?
So scary.
Chen Jingshan and Liu Gennong were in the No. 3 Cinema Hall. After watching the trailer of "The Sea Train Serial Murder Case", they made an appointment to watch the feature film together.
Liu Gennong became the most popular storyteller in Liangjing City by rewriting the scripts of cinema films.
But the movie "Searching for the Deep Sea Monster" that was shown in the cinema before was really difficult to adapt into a script, which frustrated him.
And this time, just by watching the trailer of "The Sea Train", he knew it would be popular in Liangjing, and he couldn't wait to make an appointment with Chen Jingshan.
The more he watched, the more excited he became, and he was also guessing in his heart who the murderer might be.
At this time, he was frightened by the weapon in the hand of the man in the brown robe.
Even if you can't fully understand that kind of weapon, people instinctively feel fear.
In another theater, the audience was also shocked by Gatlin.
Wan Baozhu and two maids sat in the middle of the back row.
Cuizhu and Qingfei huddled together, their eyes empty and they dared not look at the scene behind them. Wan Baozhu frowned, and her eyes were full of solemnity.
However, the fear did not last long. The man in the brown robe looted the valuables and retreated to the outside of the third carriage.
The last shot was him falling in the bathroom, his belongings scattered all over the floor, and he was shot in the chest and died.
Before the passengers recovered from the shock of being robbed, the third victim who died in the same murder method appeared.
Most of the passengers were exhausted, but they dared not relax.
Without knowing the rules of the dead and finding clues to the murderer, you might be the next person to die.
Xie Xu kicked the backrest of the front seat, feeling restless, but not daring to relax for a moment, "Who is the murderer?" In
the lobby lounge, Lu Yao was reading a book in a corner with a glass of orange juice at hand.
Fu Chi had just inspected the theaters on both sides and walked to Lu Yao's side, "The audience is going crazy, and you can hear their collapse outside, asking 'Who is the murderer?'"
Lu Yao looked up, with a smile in his eyes, "This is the most attractive part of suspense movies."
Fu Chi sat down opposite her, "What are you reading?"
Lu Yao lifted up the book, revealing the back cover.
Fu Chi's eyes moved slightly, "Is this the original novel of "The Serial Murders on the Sea Train"? " Lu
Yao nodded: "You also know the author."
Fu Chi looked at the author's name carefully again, with a puzzled look in his eyes: "I don't remember." Lu
Yao reminded: "She works at the Furry Shop."
Fu Chi was stunned for a while, his eyes determined: "Jiuhua."
This movie was bought back from the Sea of Eden, and there are only a few human employees working in the Furry Shop.
Lu Yao closed the pages of the book and stroked the cover with his fingers, "I didn't pay attention when I bought it. Jiuhua was also surprised. I thought I bought it because I knew it was her work."
"The Serial Murders on the Sea Train" was adapted from Jiuhua's early unpopular novel of the same name, and the story is set in the year 2530 of the Sea Calendar.
The sea train that appears in the movie is the only real sea train in the Sea of Eden, connected to a small island rich in tropical fruits.
The entire journey is less than ten kilometers, but it is one of the most important transportation routes in the Sea of Eden.
The historical development of the Sea of Eden is not exactly the same as that of Lu Yao's world, but the development of scientific and technological civilization has a taste of different paths leading to the same destination.
For example, the floating light power that appears in the movie is a renewable and pollution-free energy source taken from the ocean, which is very similar to the electricity in Lu Yao's world.
The characters' clothing and the level of civilization development in the movie are similar to those in the early nineteenth century in Lu Yao's world.
Jiuhua learned that Lu Yao bought the movie version of "Sea Train" and brought her a set of the original book when she came to work the next day.
Lu Yao has already read most of the book, and through Jiuhua's writing, he has learned a lot about the history of the Sea of Eden.
The seeds of civilization are gradually spreading. I wonder which direction the Dawu Dynasty will develop in the future?
Is the existence of cinemas a blessing or a disaster for the people? It
seems that it is still unclear.
After the premiere of "The Serial Murder Case at Sea", the audience came out of the theater with a dumbfounded look on their faces, as if they had run out of energy.
The plot is obviously very powerful. Someone ran to the ticket counter as soon as he came out and threw his wallet over, "Another ticket for "The Serial Murder Case at Sea!"
The murderer was found, but the first time I watched it, I didn't pay attention to many details. I had to go back and watch it several times to understand it.
There were more than one such guests. Many young people bought tickets to return after watching it for the first time and pondered it carefully.
Xie Xu and Chen Yuning stood at the door for a long time. The final murderer turned out to be... The ending was too unexpected and it was a bit hard to accept.
Unfortunately, they didn't have time to watch it again today, and finally left in despair.
Wan Baozhu saw Lu Yao in the rest area and walked straight towards her.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
