Chapter 9: A Tragic Case

Xu Zhizhi looked over quickly. The other party's message was beyond her expectations and the efficiency was surprisingly high.

Choosing to tell her the news as soon as possible seems to mean there is real hope.

"Really?" Xu Zhizhi asked with an unconscious smile of surprise on her face.

Qin Su nodded, "Really? Thanks to your clues. If we really find the murderer, I will treat you to a meal."

Just as Xu Zhizhi was about to wave her hand, she noticed the other person's tired look.

"You haven't slept yet?" Xu Zhizhi asked.

There were red bloodshot eyes and slightly dark circles under the other person's eyes. I'm afraid he had been up all night.

Qin Su's face turned heavy. "No, I slept for a few hours."

After he finished speaking, his eyes looked a little empty, because a few hours was two hours, and he was too excited. He kept an eye on the progress and specially asked a criminal profiling expert to do the profiling. He didn't want to close his eyes at all.

Because once he closed his eyes, his heart started beating very fast and his mind was full of thoughts about the murderer.

Xu Zhizhi sighed inwardly, this was the other person's concern, it would be best if it could be resolved.

"Okay, let's go out for dinner when we have time." This was the only way Xu Zhizhi could answer.

At this time, the crisp sound of high heels can be heard, and a gentle female voice says, "I didn't expect you two actually know each other. It seems like you are quite familiar with each other. Let's go out for dinner?"

"Xu Zhizhi helped me with a favor. We agreed to... go out for dinner when we are free as a thank you..." Qin Su raised his head and looked at the other party. He was about to say that he would go out for dinner after finishing the case at hand, but when the words were about to come out, Xu Zhizhi reached out and gently pinched the outside of his forearm, and he changed it to go out for dinner when he was free.

He Wen smiled and said, "I think the offer of help is fake, but the offer of dinner is real."

"Hahahaha, Aunt He, don't say that. We are just friends." Qin Su said seriously.

He really didn't have that kind of idea about Xu Zhizhi, even though she was very beautiful.

Xu Zhizhi pursed her lips and smiled faintly without explaining.

He Wen gave Qin Su a teasing look and said, "It's okay to admit it. We are all adults, and you are not a child anymore. It's time for you to get married."

The two sides chatted for a while, and He Wen smiled and said he didn't want to be a third wheel and left.

Xu Zhizhi's scenes had to be filmed until 5pm, so she let the other party misunderstand her and just sat beside Qin Su waiting.

It was not until He Wen really left and stood more than ten meters away from them that Xu Zhizhi withdrew her gaze.

Qin Su looked at her, not understanding why she had deliberately created an ambiguous relationship between the two of them. The same thing happened with the case. She had known about it for so long and was only talking about the end of the proposal. Why did she deliberately interrupt?

If it weren't for Qin Su's good reaction ability, he probably wouldn't have understood what the other party meant. Even though he understood it, he didn't understand why Xu Zhizhi did that.

"Are you afraid that Aunt He is in danger?" Qin Su asked after thinking for a while.

Xu Zhizhi glanced at the other party, her eyes fell on He Wen's hands hanging naturally at his side, and said softly: "Yeah, I just don't want to drag innocent people into this, because I always feel that the murderer is nearby."

This was naturally an excuse. He Wen was half the other party's elder, and Bai Sheng, He Wen and Qin Su's father had been friends for more than ten years. In this case, the other party's first reaction must have been to refute the guess she had made.

The two had only known each other for a few days, and she didn't believe that the other party would believe her, and she didn't trust the elders.

When she turned around just now, she did not see He Wen. He Wen's gender and personality were also very different from the speculated murderer.

But she somehow felt that the other person must be a cat person.

Even though she was relieved and stopped doubting the other party, when Qin Su mentioned the case, which would reveal the progress of the case, she subconsciously chose to let Qin Su not say it.

"Indeed, this matter shouldn't involve the people around you anymore." Qin Su lowered his eyes, his voice so low that it was barely audible.

My uncle was an outsider who was dragged into this matter back then. He should not make the same mistake again.

The two fell silent, and Xu Zhizhi was thinking that her life was quite exciting. She had only been here for a few days, but the things she encountered were more exciting than those in the past few years.

If the murderer was on the set, or was He Wen, then since I had acted so carefully and realistically, he would definitely not let me off.

She has to learn to protect herself.

Thinking of this, she glanced at Qin Su beside her, "I feel like I'm in danger, you have to protect me."

As the provider of important clues, Xu Zhizhi felt that his request was not excessive.

"I'll let two colleagues follow you? There are a lot of people on the set, and they'll protect you closely when you go out?" Qin Sugang was stunned for a moment when he heard the news, but when he thought of what the other party said, the murderer might be nearby, he proposed this method.

Xu Zhizhi pursed her lips, "No, just you. We'll be the ones who have a crush on each other for a while."

Only in this way can we get really close without arousing suspicion.

Qin Su looked at Xu Zhizhi. He could clearly see the fear in her eyes. He thought she might be frightened.

"Okay," Qin Su agreed carefully after hesitating for two seconds.

Xu Zhizhi smiled and said, "Thank you. Don't tell anyone about this for now, okay?"

"Yeah," Qin Su continued to answer.

Perhaps because she was protected by someone, Xu Zhizhi relaxed and acted very naturally when she was shooting some scenes as the background for the male and female protagonists in the afternoon.

Life on the set was irregular and complicated, but Xu Zhizhi adapted very well.

Bai Sheng has been grinning from ear to ear recently because his wife comes to the crew almost every day. You know, she was not interested in these things before, but now she stays for half a day. He is so happy.

Even the instances of swearing have dropped rapidly, with only a few sarcastic remarks at most, which is completely within the tolerance of the crew.

But the matter about He Wen and the murderer has always been on her mind, and she has been waiting for the portrait of the real murderer to be revealed.

Just after a nightmare, Xu Zhizhi received a message on her mobile phone. She sat up, picked up the phone and opened it with squinting eyes.

Ignoring the glaring light from her cell phone, Xu Zhizhi stared at the portrait.

The portrait shows a man with a rugged face, squinting eyes, a wide forehead, a garlic nose, thick lips, dark skin, and short hair. Even from the portrait, one can see his fierce and disturbing temperament, like the discomfort of being stared at by a mentally ill person on the street. He is the type of person that makes people afraid and avoid him upon seeing him once.

He Wen and He Wen are two extremes, and they are completely different in terms of gender and appearance.

Thinking of this, Xu Zhizhi put down her phone, and lay back on the soft pillow as her neck could no longer support itself.

Fortunately, fortunately it wasn't the case. This week He Wen took good care of her and the crew. He had a very good relationship with Bai Sheng, Qin Su and others. He was a perfect elder.

The current portrait doesn't look like her at all, and there are no obvious signs of plastic surgery on her body, only some traces of minor adjustments, so it can be basically determined that it is not her!

She completely relaxed, remembering that perfect, loving, caring elder.

However, the most urgent task is to find suspicious people around. Xu Zhizhi opens her eyes and thinks about who in the crew can match the person.

As for Qin Su, he has already brought professionals to investigate the situation around the crew.

He was more motivated than anyone else to find the murderer.

Feeling half relieved, Xu Zhizhi also encountered the on-site filming of the family annihilation case.

In this criminal drama, the cases committed by the villain Xu Zhizhi are the main plot, and other cases are also interspersed between the male and female protagonists. Due to the filming arrangements of the cases, they do not have much time to act against each other. In most cases, they are confronting each other from a distance, calculating and provoking each other like a cat playing with a mouse.

In the early stage, the villain played by Xu Zhizhi kept playing tricks on the male and female protagonists, and only in the later stage did they get clues from clues.

According to the script, the penultimate case of the murder of a family is the turning point of everything.

The last time Xu Zhizhi played a villain, she received 71 malicious points, plus her usual malicious points, a total of 121.

Now that the case was about to be filmed, she decided to once again open the crime assistance system's crime simulator and once again face the opponent.

Looking forward to getting more clues and playing this villain well.

She knew that the other party would definitely hide deeper, and her excellent performance would continue to attract the other party to get closer.

It was difficult to pry open the defenses of such a vicious murderer, but she believed that the other party's attention to her must have resonated with her.

This is the key.

Although Xu Zhizhi was full of fear, she still chose to continue on this path.

This time the simulation can only be done three times, because each time costs 35 malicious points. Xu Zhizhi looked at the simulation time before clicking the button.

Compared to the previous simulation time of more than an hour, this time the simulation lasted up to four hours!

She looked at the time and decided that she only needed to arrive at the set at noon today. Her shooting time was at 6 pm, so six hours was enough time for her to put on makeup and get familiar with the camera position.

As for the crime scene, it was not filmed in one night. It took at least three nights in total to shoot.

As for the four hours, it is not really four hours, but the time inside the simulator. According to the actual time spent, it may be reduced to one third.

After pressing the simulator's suspension button, which emitted a faint blue light, Xu Zhizhi's eyes went dark and she appeared in an urban village.

Urban villages were quite lively at night more than a decade ago. Migrant workers would mostly choose this kind of cheap and crowded housing to save more money for their next generation's education, living and savings.

Under the dim or white light, in the alley below the building, which was almost within reach of one's hand, a middle-aged man, about thirty years old, with traces of building concrete all over his body and dust all over his head, walked to his home on the second floor with a box of beer.

"Yufen, prepare some dishes. Xiao Wang and I will have a drink to celebrate." The middle-aged man looked excited, with a blush on his cheeks.

In the one-bedroom, one-living room cement building on the second floor, there was no decoration. A woman wearing a plaid shirt, with dark skin and a gentle smile walked out of the room where various odds and ends were neatly placed. "What? Is it time to get paid? Then put the wine away and call Xiao Wang next door. I'll go out to buy some halogen and stir-fry two dishes. The kids are back just in time."

With a clang, the man placed the green beer carton on the cement floor. He walked into the room and looked at his daughter, who was sitting on the bed, holding a pen and doing her homework on the wooden table next to the bed. A smile appeared on his face. He reached into his bag with his cracked hands and stuffed a green bill into the girl's blue school uniform jacket. "Here, fifty for you. Don't tell your mother."

The girl, who was about thirteen or fourteen years old, smiled and said "hmm".

"Be good! Study hard," the man said, rubbing his daughter's head with a gentle, fatherly smile on his face.

His girl is very hardworking, and he only has this one girl. He hopes that she will bring honor to him in the future and make those people in his hometown embarrassed.

The little girl watched her father go out to wash rice and cook, then went next door to call Uncle Xiao Wang, reached into her pocket and touched the money that still had a little sand and gravel on it, pursed her lips, then took out the money and put it in her mother's shirt pocket.

Soon my mother bought some brine pig ears, and then skillfully fried peanuts on the simple stove, stir-fried mustard greens and pork in oil, beat four eggs, mixed them well, fried them until golden brown, and made egg and tomato soup.

This is already considered a sumptuous meal for this family. When there are only two of them, they would have at most one dish and one soup, with just a little bit of pork fat added to make it smell fishy.

The girl hadn't finished her homework, but she still stood up, took the bowl of rice, and put the dishes away.

At this time, the Uncle Xiao Wang mentioned by the other party also walked in from outside the door. He was wearing thick clothes, his hair was messy, and there was a faint fishy smell on his body.

He was picked up by the girl's father downstairs half a month ago. His mind was a little confused, but he felt sorry for the boy so he gave him the food.

Later I found out that he was abandoned by his parents and brother and kicked out of the house, and had been wandering for quite a while.

The whole family was kind-hearted. Although they did not let the man into their house, they still gave the other person two hundred yuan.

Two hundred yuan at this time is enough for the other person to rent a house to shelter from the wind and rain, and to have food and drink for a while and find a job to survive.

The other party was not stupid either. Although he was taciturn, he still survived.

After half a month, the two companies became familiar with each other.

As soon as I got my salary, I was ready to have a good meal. Thinking that the other person was alone, I invited him to my home for a simple meal.

Four people sat on each side, and the girl's cup contained orange juice that her mother had bought specially for her.

The faces of the family of three were filled with happiness. The parents kept picking up vegetables and meat for the girl, telling her to eat more. From time to time, they also picked up some vegetables and meat for Xiao Wang.

At the crime simulation scene, Xu Zhizhi felt a chill down her spine as she looked at Xiao Wang, whose figure had been replaced by the profile portrait she had seen.

In the last case, she was so frightened that she vomited and had a visual shock, but this time she felt panic and extremely unwilling because she felt that the other party was destroying something. Why did the murderer choose them?

Realizing this, Xu Zhizhi clenched her fists, tears kept falling from her eyes, she was filled with despair and anger, and she was almost on the verge of collapse.

Because he can't bear to see others being happy, he wants to destroy their happiness, cut them into pieces, and make them no longer show happy and sweet smiles.

Wang Yuchun is like that, as are the three members of his family, and so are the others.

Then after three rounds of drinking, all three of them were a little drunk.

Under Xu Zhizhi's fixed gaze, the dirty man revealed the sharp knife that had been sharpened to a very sharp point hidden under his thick clothes.

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