Program 1
"Hello, audience friends. Thank you to Sky Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sky Group, for its full sponsorship. The much-anticipated entertainment and legal education reality show, "Criminal Escape," is about to begin!"
On the screens of countless people, the young and beautiful host wore a friendly and decent smile, holding the microphone and said to the live camera: "This event has been preheated two years in advance, and the most interesting contestants have been selected."
As soon as she finished speaking, a wasteland with weeds appeared on the big screen behind her. The camera zoomed in, and a young man was curled up in a corner in a rough house sealed from the inside with cardboard and transparent tape, seemingly unconscious.
"This contestant is Wu Ci, an orphan who has just reached adulthood. He is not good at making friends, is taciturn, rarely goes online, and has no idea that the program exists. He was selected as a contestant of the program two years ago.
In accordance with the humanitarian spirit, the program preparation period was before he came of age. During the two years of preparation, we used various methods such as medical evaluation, continuous tracking, stealing his belongings, framing his behavior, and injecting hallucinogenic drugs to subtly influence him, making him believe that he had serious mental problems. And after he applied for a job, we set up various reasons to make him resign, causing him to suffer from problems such as being replaced by a quota, factional fighting, framing, and diversion of public funds.
In addition, there are various social setbacks such as unspoken rules, humiliation, abuse, cold violence, beatings, poverty, etc., simulating all the bad things that ordinary audience friends may encounter that affect their emotions. In this way, we can observe whether he will vent his hatred towards society after the show starts.
We will use drones and micro cameras to broadcast the entire show live to ensure that everything is absolutely true. To bring you a better entertainment experience, we have also invited the Dark Star Law Enforcement Team to hunt down the contestants, explain various criminal cases to everyone, and popularize legal knowledge to everyone. "
"The opening scenario of this show is that the contestant is in a state of confusion and high fever due to being homeless for many days, and is injected with sleeping pills without knowing it. When he wakes up at the beginning of the show, he will find a female corpse that was brutally tortured and killed in his residence. He then learns about the whole process of his murder of the woman on the news and sees a wanted warrant for himself.
During the two years of preparation, contestant Wu Ci has completely believed in his mental problems and no longer doubts the truth of this crime. How will he react after seeing the crime scene? Please wait and see! "
"Criminal Escape starts now!"
Wu Ci woke up from the cardboard on the concrete floor with a groggy head.
It rained yesterday and the construction site was short of workers, so he took the opportunity to work as a part-time worker for a day. At night, he felt hot, weak, short of breath, and groggy, and fell asleep as soon as he came back.
He seems to be in good health now, he should have survived, but he still has a slight fever.
Wu Ci coughed twice, but suddenly realized something was wrong.
This abandoned building usually only smells of dust, but now, even though his nose was a little dull from being cold all night, he still smelled a smell of... rust.
Is it blood?
For a homeless wanderer, death is very easy. If he dies or goes missing, no one will find him. So it is very frightening to see such anomalies suddenly appear in the place where he lives.
Wu Ci cautiously climbed up from the cardboard wrapped in an old blanket he had picked up. A cell phone protected by a pink case fell out as he moved.
He rubbed his eyes and picked up the strange phone.
The phone looked like a style that girls would like, probably a generic brand. But for someone like Wu Ci who was struggling to make ends meet, any smartphone was considered expensive.
The pink cell phone case hung there shiny, but it was stained with blood.
Wu Ci then noticed the palm of his hand holding the phone and found unwashed blood in the cracks between his nails.
So weird, so weird.
Did I touch something yesterday?
No, with such a strong smell of blood and such a small amount on my hand, it's definitely impossible.
In a place that Wu Ci couldn't see, bullet screens from the live broadcast room appeared one after another.
[It's a bit sad, living in a place like this. It seems that what the program team said is true. He is often fired.]
[Living in an abandoned building, you are really brave. You even used transparent tape and cardboard to seal all the entrances and exits. You seem to be quite experienced.]
[He looks like this... can a person really look like this? I'm curious about what the "unspoken rules" that the program crew mentioned are.]
[His eyes are blue, so beautiful. After seeing them, I feel cleansed from the inside out. This is so rare. I can be his boss. Can I be included in the unspoken rules?]
[Why hasn’t the body been found yet? Didn’t the production team fool him during the two years of preparation? Boring, I want to see a river of blood!]
Wu Ci was unaware of the malicious speculations and expectations in the barrage. According to his habit of living here, he looked at the sky outside through the vents he had left when he sealed the windows with cardboard. He put away his blanket and carefully opened the cardboard blocking the door to confirm that there was no abnormality outside.
But everything outside made him stop.
…The dismembered body was soaked in dark red dried blood on the cement floor of the abandoned building.
[Wow, there is no mosaic]
[Are you scared? Are you sweating profusely?]
[Is this body real or fake? Won't he be able to tell?]
Seeing the questionable barrage floating by, the host in the live broadcast room immediately smiled and explained: "Our program team attaches great importance to authenticity. This corpse belongs to a patient with organ disease. She cannot pay for treatment, and because her parents asked She owed a loan to the Tianji Consortium for buying a house for her brother. According to the regulations, she should donate her body immediately if the Tianji Consortium needed it. So before the show started yesterday, we obtained the consent of her family and killed her in the fastest and most painless way. Death, setting up the most realistic crime scene."
[As expected of the program team, the energy is so great, so real]
[The owner of this corpse was really unlucky. He was seriously ill and was forced by his parents to buy a house for his younger brother, which resulted in him owing a loan. His parents then sold him without his consent and killed and dismembered him.]
[The truth is the most important thing, why bother with that?]
[Yeah, her death has nothing to do with me. She is just a bunch of poor people with no money or power. I didn’t want her to die. Don’t disturb me from watching the live broadcast!]
[How long will it take for Wuci to mistakenly think that he killed this man and start running away? I can't help but see the ferocious expression on his face, which looks like a saint incarnate.]
Wu Ci, who was praised as "the saint coming to the world", opened his pink cell phone belatedly. The photo on the locked screen of the cell phone happened to match the head of the girl who died with her eyes open on the ground.
Just in time, a public security message suddenly popped up on the phone's lock screen:
[Please note that at around 11pm last night, a girl was forcibly abducted by a man in the old neighborhood of Sky City and her whereabouts are still unknown. Please lock your doors and windows at night, pay attention to safety, and report it enthusiastically.]
It was 11:33 last night, when Wu Ci regained consciousness. As for the old street, it was his only way to go...
Everything seemed clear and pointed to only one result.
“…Is it me who did the murder? I…my illness flared up again, and I killed someone this time?” Because the program crew secretly injected Wu Ci with drugs, Wu Ci’s brain was still groggy. The aftereffects of the drugs made everything seem like a veil, and he felt a sense of unreality when he suddenly accepted what had happened.
Judging from her age, this girl should still be studying. She was so young and should have had a bright future, but she died at the hands of a man like him.
Wu Ci knelt on the ground, almost trembling, and apologized to the girl's body over and over again.
He simply didn't dare to imagine the fear that the girl might have felt if she was killed and dismembered alive after meeting him last night.
Logically speaking, Wu Ci had followed Master Yu San and should have seen a lot of this kind of thing. But he knew his position very well. He was just fighting for a small thing to avoid starving to death, and he was no different from all ordinary people.
Wu Ci never considered himself to be of the same level as Master Yu San. He respected everyone's life and the law, and would never treat people as objects or pets.
Therefore, even if he was poor and wandering around, he would never use the gambling skills and the knowledge of walking in the gray area of violating the law that Master Yu San taught him. Even if he was subjected to the ill will of others, Wu Ci would tolerate and be tolerant again and again, because he knew that it was not easy for everyone to live in this world, and everyone had anger in their hearts.
The most important thing he should do is to be well-mannered and not get angry with other ordinary people, and let the malice stop with him.
But now... he actually killed someone... and the victim was an innocent person, a young girl who should have been studying and growing up in school!
Wu Ci's hands, which the Third Master Shuangyu had praised as "as perfect and precise as a scalpel" and that would never make mistakes, could not stop shaking.
——The blood of innocent people is on his hands.
These hands once cut the cards cleanly under the lights of desire in the casino, and were determined to win the game for upper-class people like Yu Sanye. They would also withdraw at the right time, never getting involved, and causing Wu Ci to fall into those abysses and quagmires.
But now, the guilt and pain made Wu Ci somewhat silent. He gently closed his daughter's eyes, opened the girl's cell phone with trembling hands and called the emergency number.
He said calmly, "Hello... My name is Wuci. I may have had a mental breakdown and killed the owner of this phone last night... I am willing to take all responsibility... Also... May I ask, does this girl have any family? I have saved some money, can you pass it on to them for me... Sorry to bother you... I am very sorry to increase your work..."
[No...what is he doing?]
[I don’t understand. Use the victim’s phone to call the police?]
[Looking at him like this, he's not really going to turn himself in, is he?]
[It's so funny. Look how scared he is. He's finally not that pathetic and pitiful look anymore. He looks like Xiao Chou.]
[No way, there are still people like this now? If you kill someone, you have to turn yourself in? Won't you run away? If you turn yourself in, what else do I need to see?]
The host responded appropriately, "Thank you for your questions. We have already made preparations. After the contestant surrenders, he will be temporarily detained. Everything is arranged inside. Once he is in, even if he is not afraid of death and does not want to escape, he will definitely become a wanted murderer who is on the run. We will definitely not let our show lose its appeal. I hope the audience will continue to support it."
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