Chapter 10 The Real Murderer
The girl was not the first to die; she was knocked unconscious by a wine bottle.
Then came the two adults who were already drunk. They reacted almost as soon as their daughter was knocked unconscious, but unfortunately the murderer was well prepared and they were slit in the throat one after another.
The man smiled, that weird smile that ruined everything.
Xu Zhizhi took two steps back unconsciously.
When the girl woke up, she saw a scene that made her eyes tear up.
Her best parents were being dismembered by the butcher they had rescued. Their pupils were dilated and their wide eyes were filled with panic.
Die with eyes open.
The girl's eyes were immediately filled with tears, and she opened her mouth to scream for help. There were people living upstairs and next door to her house, so someone should have heard her.
But she could only stare with her mouth wide open in horror, and she was so frightened that she couldn't utter a single syllable.
Until the murderer slowly walked up to her while she was lying on the ground, then lowered his head and stared at her in the dim light.
The ugly face instantly enlarged, and the light shone on the terrifying figure, casting a huge shadow over the petite girl.
The ugly hand grabbed the girl's hair and lifted her up. The two looked at each other and stared at her with gloomy eyes.
It was also the first time that she really saw what the people her parents had rescued looked like. There was boundless hatred and fear in her eyes. She regretted deeply why she had told her parents that there was someone at the door. Why didn't she be more indifferent and ignore the other person?
Tears fell like beads from a broken string, hitting the cold concrete floor one by one.
Blood gushed out like a fountain, and the girl let out a final, desperate, low cry.
Xu Zhizhi had already knelt on the ground crying. She wanted to walk up to her and hug her, to protect her from all the harm. For the first time, she was immersed in it and she wanted to stop all this from happening.
She tried to stand in front of the girl, but it was no use; the simulation would not stop because of her collapse.
Xu Zhizhi watched helplessly as a family who loved and cared for each other died in front of her, and she was filled with a sense of loss and powerlessness.
Before this, all that was presented to her was a text description and a cold photo.
At this moment, she clearly saw fresh lives being harvested, just like Wang Yuchun.
They all died at the happiest moment, but the murderer brutally killed them, shattering this beautiful dream.
Xu Zhizhi's eyes were filled with blood as she watched the murderer fiddling with the corpse and cleaning everything around him.
The noise made during this period was quite loud, but no one showed up, and no police arrived.
There was no extra sound in the bloody room. All the laughter and joy disappeared. There was only the friction sound of the murderer dragging his dirty body and cleaning everything.
Xu Zhizhi wondered if someone had paid attention, the tragedy would not have happened.
But later she thought that if the girl was left alone in the world, she would fall into endless misery.
When she woke up again, she stared at the snow-white ceiling. The time on her cell phone showed that one hour and twenty minutes had passed.
Next to her was the breakfast that Lin Yu had brought. Seeing that Xu Zhizhi was still sleeping, she put it down and left.
Xu Zhizhi had no intention of eating. She looked at her breakfast, closed her eyes and without hesitation entered the simulated scene again. She was not afraid at all. Her heart was full of courage. She wanted to bring that man to justice!
When she entered again, she saw the poor but harmonious couple, and the well-behaved, motivated and caring girl.
And there are the ungrateful people they helped. They had no idea what kind of devil was beneath the skin of the people they rescued.
The murderer obviously had a plan, carrying a sharpened knife, and his eyes were always filled with an unnoticed ferocity.
He would laugh while killing people, and his laughter was full of ominous aura.
The mysterious and inexplicable inner world, the complex human nature, and the simple and brutal destruction.
Destroying the most beautiful thing in the world, Xu Zhizhi suddenly felt that this idea was very familiar and thought of another possibility.
She finished watching it again with tears in her eyes, then opened her eyes and looked at everything in front of her.
To confirm her idea, she entered it again.
If her thoughts were really confirmed, then everything would be too terrible, and it would be beyond description as perverted.
After reading it again, Xu Zhizhi's heart sank, and her slightly opened lips tightly pursed.
She sat up from the bed, walked to the dining table in a daze, and ate the white porridge and six steamed dumplings on the table as if she was in a trance.
The things were cold, but not even one ten-thousandth as cold as her heart.
If it really is the other person, what should she do?
She should take the initiative and verify it.
At twelve o'clock, Xu Zhizhi and Lin Yu appeared on the set on time, followed by Qin Su.
He promised to protect Xu Zhizhi, so he would protect her closely.
The filming in the afternoon was about the follow-up investigation of the murder case. The male and female police officers visited the people around the murder case and asked them if they heard or saw anything on the night of the incident, and whether any suspicious people appeared.
But when they heard them asking about this, everyone kept silent. The person upstairs even said that he had fallen asleep a long time ago and didn't hear anything at all.
The case came to a stalemate, and they only got a clue that this case and Wang Yuchun's case were committed by the same person.
After filming the field investigation scenes, the next scenes were the indoor scenes between the male and female protagonists.
"In the case of Wang Yuchun, we could say that everyone went to work and no one heard anything. But this case is different. I just went upstairs to listen. I could hear your noises downstairs very clearly. The huge noise of the body being chopped up made it impossible for them not to hear anything at all!"
The heroine Jiang Mu is a rookie criminal police officer. Her face is flushed with anger. She speaks about her findings very quickly and angrily. She doesn't understand why they say they didn't hear it when they clearly heard it.
The male protagonist Yu Fengqiao patted his apprentice on the shoulder and said, "The murderer has not been caught. This matter has caused a lot of uproar in the city. They dare not say it, fearing that after they say it, the murderer will come to retaliate against them."
The murderer was so brutal that no one was not afraid.
They didn't even dare to call the police. If the landlord hadn't come to collect rent on that day and found blood flowing in the house, it would probably have taken another two days for them to discover the incident.
Jiang Mu looked grim. "We will protect them! And if someone heard the noise and came to check, the murderer would definitely not be able to escape!"
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Yu Fengqiao's face became extremely serious and he shouted angrily, "Where did you learn everything in school?"
Jiang Mu looked at Yu Fengqiao, opened his mouth, and finally fell silent.
Seeing that she understood, Yu Fengqiao's voice softened a bit and he explained, "Our duty is to protect ordinary people, not to blame them. After being in this industry for a long time, you need to be clear about some things and think more from other people's perspectives. They are just ordinary workers and cannot do such difficult things. Don't ask others to take risks, otherwise what do we police officers do?"
"Okay..." Jiang Mu lowered his head and looked at the girl who was cut and piled up on the chair. She covered her mouth and nose, and tears flowed out uncontrollably.
She realized she couldn't stay here anymore, so she turned around and left quickly to check for clues elsewhere.
It's wrong to blame anyone, and she doesn't want to do that, but this family is so miserable.
Watching Jiang Mu leave, Yu Fengqiao squatted down and continued to search for clues.
Later, he found a piece of clothing fiber in the gap between the girl's fingernails. He must have taken it when she wasn't paying attention.
He put on gloves and carefully placed the evidence into an evidence bag.
Then there is the silent filming without dialogue. At this moment, silence is better than words, and many things are revealed bit by bit.
However, this scene was not easy to perform. Bai Sheng was stuck several times and was not allowed to pass.
"You don't have enough expressions! Do you understand the look and movements of an experienced detective? Angry? Sad? A professional detective doesn't have time to make so many expressions. You must have read the previous materials!" Bai Sheng roared loudly, and the whole set was filled with his voice.
Then just start over.
But sometimes the more you want to act well, the worse you act.
After a few times, Bai Sheng's face turned red with anger and he announced that the filming would be suspended temporarily.
Due to limited investment, Xu Zhizhi and others did not have a professional dressing room. Most of the time they had to sit near the set to put on their makeup and start shooting directly after they were done.
Bai Sheng looked at Xu Zhizhi who had just finished putting on makeup and waved his hand, "Xu Zhizhi, come over here and show him how calm a murderer can be, and how gloomy and evil he is. Act it out, and Xu Yunlai will stand next to you and act with you. Use your brain to think about how to suppress a psychopath, otherwise the audience will laugh at you when the film is released. You want to catch a murderer in this state! Props, props, go up and deal with the scene!"
Xu Zhizhi stood aside and nodded. At this time, the order was reversed.
After the props were processed, they filmed the crime scene, then restored the scene to its appearance before the murder, and then filmed the cooking and dinner invitations scenes.
Originally, we should have shot it sequentially, but the makeup for dismembering the corpse takes a long time, and we had to start doing it at five or six in the morning to catch up with the afternoon shooting time. If we shot the front part first and then the makeup part, it would have to be done in the evening, which didn't fit the script, so we had to do it this way.
Xu Zhizhi felt a little embarrassed when she was named, but Xu Yunlai gave her a congratulatory smile, as if saying, "Thank you, young hero, for saving my life."
Xu Zhizhi didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Xu Yunlai was really sincere.
Standing in the middle of the set, Xu Zhizhi noticed that He Wen appeared beside Bai Sheng at some point. Her steps paused slightly and became heavier.
She pretended not to see the other person, her face changed and she smiled, leaned down and grabbed the air and pulled it back. It seemed that she was grabbing the victim's hair and pulled the other person up to face herself.
"Look, our people's police can't catch me?!" She showed an evil and rampant smile on her face, and looked at the male protagonist Yu Fengqiao with eyes full of ridicule.
As if crossing time and space, the murderer and the police looked at each other.
Yu Fengqiao was shocked by the mockery and cruelty in Xu Zhizhi's eyes. It took him two seconds to get into the role. His eyes became as calm as water. It seemed that in an instant, the roughness and restlessness in him disappeared, and he turned into a battle-hardened criminal policeman.
The look he gave Xu Zhizhi was both good and evil, but his face was fierce, full of determination and self-confidence.
He looked straight into Xu Zhizhi's eyes without flinching, "No, no matter what, no matter what, no matter how long it takes, I will bring you to justice!"
"Good, good, good!" A loud applause was heard, and Bai Sheng clapped and shouted excitedly.
Xu Zhizhi did not continue looking at the other person, but turned her head to look directly at He Wen who was standing tall, revealing a strange and interested smile.
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