Chapter 4 Suspecting She Is a Criminal
The days on the set were boring. People were coming and going, the actors were constantly familiarizing themselves with the script and memorizing their lines, and the atmosphere was very tense.
Bai Sheng is a very picky person who demands perfection extremely, so if he doesn't perform well, he will only get harsh and ruthless comments and have to start over endlessly.
The previous villain candidate he was quite satisfied with chose to run away because he couldn't stand being scolded.
Those who are able to stay here still have some sense of faith in their hearts.
Xu Zhizhi was only interested in making money. She had calculated that the villain would appear in a total of six episodes, and the shooting period would be about three months.
After rounding off, excluding the costs, she should be able to make a net profit of NT$100,000, because the company would take a cut, pay taxes, pay Lin Yu's salary, and provide them with food, clothing, housing and transportation.
After calculating, Xu Zhizhi earned over 30,000 yuan a month after tax. For the first time, she felt the speed at which the entertainment industry made money, and she was determined to keep her job!
Just three days ago, she was a miserable low-level office worker with a monthly salary of 2,500 yuan, getting up at 7 am and going to bed at 11 pm every day.
Being a trainee lawyer is a life just like being a hospital intern, with an extremely low salary and a hard life.
She sat in a chair next to the director with her arms folded, watching the film very attentively for a while, then quickly wrote down the key points in a palm-sized notebook that she had taken out from somewhere.
Lin Yu stood aside, trying to recognize the crew members and actors.
Xu Zhizhi studied hard, and some people watched her every move carefully.
As the most outstanding and successful criminal detective captain in Jiang City, Qin Su undoubtedly has a thorough understanding of criminals. He understands the crime process of each criminal, their abnormal psychology, and is very clear about their true faces under disguise.
When he accidentally glanced at the video sent by Bai Sheng, he realized that the other party was not simply imitating.
The expression and state were exactly the same as those of the murderers he had seen before.
Almost every psychopathic murderer has a smile on his face when he is arrested or in court. They may not even realize that they are smiling because it comes from the fact that they do not feel they have done anything wrong.
Xu Zhizhi's smile is exactly the same as those murderous men and women.
Even if she had nothing to do with the case, he felt that she might have really committed murder.
He would not allow any criminal to escape the law, so he almost flew to Bai Sheng's set.
Bai Sheng looked at the madman next to him helplessly, but he couldn't persuade him, so he took him to sit next to Xu Zhizhi. The two of them sandwiched Xu Zhizhi in the middle, one on the left and one on the right, with only a distance of half a meter between them.
"How do you feel? The final makeup photos will be taken tomorrow, and I need you to adjust to the state you had before the audition." Bai Sheng looked at the screen, but spoke to Xu Zhizhi.
First, the plot requires that the makeup photos need to be used in publicity and must be refined; second, it is to reduce the other party's guard against Qin Su.
Xu Zhizhi nodded in agreement, "I will work hard! I will definitely take the most appropriate makeup photos!"
You have to listen to what the leader says, because he has given too much!
She had a fawning expression and her eyes sparkled at the thought of being rewarded, like a poor ghost who had never seen money.
Compared with the psychopath in the video, it's like an innocent little girl and a sick devil, they have nothing to do with each other.
Qin Su sat next to her, but was able to see each other's micro-expressions and movements clearly due to his angle and height advantage.
To be honest, Xu Zhizhi behaved like a normal person.
He even felt dazed for a moment. If it weren't for his professional knowledge supporting his rationality, he would have believed that the person in front of him had a dual personality that could switch between the two at will.
But he knew it was impossible, because if the other person had a psychopathic personality, it would be impossible for them to live in peace like this. The psychopathic personality would definitely want to completely occupy this person and would not leave any other personalities.
Is it really that the other person has good acting skills?
At this time, Xu Zhizhi also noticed Qin Su standing aside. She looked at Bai Sheng and asked, "Who is this?"
"...He is the professional instructor I hired to provide some professional knowledge to the crew." Bai Sheng was stunned for a moment, his eyes rolled quickly, and he arranged a position for Qin Su.
Deep down, he agreed. Qin Suo did provide a lot of guidance on the professionalism of the drama, because he was almost one of the people who knew the prototype of the drama best - the murder and dismemberment case.
Qin Su nodded subconsciously. He felt that it was necessary to get to know the other party better so as to make a judgment more conveniently, so he agreed: "Yes, if you have any questions, you can also ask me. I have done a lot of research on your role."
"Thank you! My name is Xu Zhizhi, you can call me Xiao Xu from now on! I don't know how to address you!" Xu Zhizhi turned sideways, stretched out her hand, and looked at the other person with kind eyes.
Qin Su's hand clasped with the other's hand, "Qin Su, just call me by my name, you're welcome."
"Okay, Brother Qin!" Xu Zhizhi withdrew her hand and said in a slightly flattering manner.
She had learned about the entertainment industry before. It is a small society with strict hierarchy, including the highest status of the crew, directors, and producers.
When you meet people, you should be polite, don't be too pushy, and call them brother or sister diligently.
Qin Su frowned slightly. This person was completely different from when she was performing.
Xu Zhizhi was clueless and after saying hello she continued to learn how to act.
Qin Su, who was standing by, curiously asked the other party a few questions about the details of his acting experience and his understanding of the character in the script.
Xu Zhizhi knew almost nothing. Due to time constraints, she only learned about a few important plays and scripts.
So Qin Su didn't get anything useful from asking her, and all he got were things from the script.
The understanding of the characters is also answered according to the person's own reluctant understanding.
Bai Sheng, who was standing next to him, could also answer Qin Su's questions, but in the end he almost gave up.
While the actors were leaving the stage and the staff were adjusting the situation, Xu Zhizhi checked the simulation column of the crime assistance system.
Because the skill list is not applicable now and the anatomical skills cannot be applied to her acting career, all she needs to do is simulate the killing scenes required by this role, experience it as immersively as possible, and interpret this role.
Moreover, the most practical skill column here has a malicious value of more than 800, but the simulation function does not require it.
The simulation function requires anywhere from ten to thousands of malicious points at a time, depending on the difficulty of the simulated scene.
Xu Zhizhi had calculated carefully that this role only required the simplest simulation scene, input of the scene description and some understanding of the role, as well as various related data, and it could be simulated.
She has ten chances in total, and she must achieve the effect of the free trial version given today in order to meet the director's requirements.
They studied until the afternoon, when Xu Zhizhi and Lin Yu returned to the hotel together.
During the period, she also struck up a conversation with the actors who played the male and female leads. These two have been in the entertainment industry for four or five years, but for some reasons they still have no status. Neither of them had any resistance to Xu Zhizhi's conversation.
Because even if Xu Zhizhi has some negative news outside, she has acted in several TV dramas and is more famous than them. Moreover, they all saw Xu Zhizhi's performance today. She is a pure acting talent, not at all like what people outside say.
He is powerful yet humble, so just make friends with him.
Because everyone was very tired after spending a whole day on the set, they added each other on WeChat and then went back to their respective apartments.
Lin Yu and Xu Zhizhi dragged their suitcases and packed their bags to get ready for check-in.
The apartment is a suite, and even has a kitchen and bathroom, which is convenient for assistants to stay in, as well as for living and washing.
Lin Yu patiently put away the toiletries, hung the pajamas and clothes she would wear every day in the closet, and took out the sheets and quilt covers and put them on.
Xu Zhizhi sat at her desk and concentrated on looking for information, not only about the script, but also all the information she could get about the prototype case of the script.
The prototype of the script is a serial mutilation murder case sixteen years ago. The murderer was extremely cruel. He randomly killed two families and then went on the run to commit three more crimes, killing a total of twelve people.
The modus operandi was extremely brutal. After dismembering the bodies, they piled them up and placed them back where they usually lay or sat.
There were even two occasions when they were so rampant that they were displayed in public. The scenes were bloody and horrifying, making people terrified and even children stop crying.
He once made the people of an entire city live in constant fear for him.
Under tremendous pressure, Jiang City dispatched a large number of police forces to conduct investigations, but there were no clues. The murderer's gender, age, and appearance were unknown. There were only simple height estimates and possible gender estimates.
Because the murderer acted extremely cautiously, he left almost no useful clues at the scene.
Why do we say almost? It’s because the police found a ten-centimeter-long black hair at the crime scene.
This was also the only clue the police obtained that year, and it was also the point that made countless Jiangshi people criticize their incompetence.
This was also the shame of the entire Jiang City Criminal Investigation Brigade at the time, and it has not been washed away in more than a decade.
Xu Zhizhi also frowned after reading the description because it was too horrifying.
At the same time, she was a little worried because the existing information was not enough to support the simulation. It was difficult to simulate the entire character's modus operandi and techniques, as well as some of the performance details she wanted to obtain, with just text.
Just when Xu Zhizhi was worried, she suddenly thought of Qin Su, whom she met during the day. The other party seemed to have said that he had collected a lot of information and done a lot of research.
Thinking of this, Xu Zhizhi put down her pen, picked up the phone next to her and contacted Bai Sheng.
They didn't add each other's contact information, so if they wanted to contact Qin Su now, they had to go through Bai Sheng first.
After Bai Sheng understood Xu Zhizhi's needs, he sent her Qin Su's WeChat message.
Qin Su was a man of few words, and Xu Zhizhi noticed that, so she directly said that she wanted to better understand the character.
After she expressed her needs, the other party seemed very hesitant. Twenty minutes later, he sent a bunch of information and asked Xu Zhizhi not to spread it.
Xu Zhizhi agreed immediately.
There are not only multiple photos of the crime scene, but also some text materials about the case. After comparing the script, Xu Zhizhi found that the filming of the case was highly authentic.
After entering this data into the system, Xu Zhizhi clicked on the on-site simulation of the first case.
This murder case that happened sixteen years ago slowly revealed the tip of the iceberg to Xu Zhizhi.
--------------------
My friend made the cover! Looks good! Zhizhi knows the entertainment industry and solves crimes, fame and fortune!