Chapter 294: Inhuman (102) (1st update + 2nd update + 0.5 update of 8500 thunderbolts) [VIP]
The entire hall was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly exploded.
The staff's sudden excited discussion drowned out the suddenly heavy breathing of all the guests. Huangmao took a few steps back, leaned on the sofa, and stared at the mobile phone in Bai Jinshu's hand with a horrified expression, as if he was holding a monster.
During the live broadcast, the sound of the sky and the sea became more and more creepy.
"Police...Police! Who is it! Who did it!"
He stumbled and even forgot to take his cell phone and just ran away.
The mobile phone that was still broadcasting live was thrown to the ground by him, reflecting the ceiling light on the villa's ceiling alone.
There was no sound during the live broadcast, and the barrage outside the live broadcast also exploded like the staff.
The already dense barrage of comments was now refreshing so fast that a sentence would disappear from the barrage before you could finish reading it. Everyone who was still watching the live broadcast at this point was shocked:
【Brother, are you okay? 】
[What's going on? Another death?]
[Impossible? Is this an act?]
[Who would have nothing better to do than act out this? ]
[If it is real, I hope it is acting. If it is acting, I hope it is real.]
[To be honest, the tone of Big Brother just now... didn't sound like an act.]
[This line delivery is much better than most of the cough... young actors, right? ]
[It really doesn't seem like an act. That voice just now was so scary.]
[Say something, brother, don’t scare us! ]
[Is anyone at the resort? Let’s go check it out! ]
[Who dares to go out? Damn it! ]
[Brother should...go find the police.]
【hiss……】
In the hall, Huangmao and Danmu took a breath of cold air at the same time: "Hiss..."
"What should we do?" He pulled the corner of his mouth and looked at everyone in panic, "Two more people died."
"Police..." Bai Jinshu had just said two words when he heard the door of the temporary interrogation room upstairs suddenly opened.
Two hurried footsteps were heard, and the policemen who came to ask for clues actually ran away.
"It's over..." Hong Conghua said in a low voice, "Two more people died, I'm afraid it's true."
If the "Sky is High and Sea is Vast" performance was really just to attract traffic, he would not have really called the police.
The police's action now makes it clear that this is true.
After the first murder occurred in this resort, the second murder occurred.
"You just said that the number one on the Tiangaohaikuo list asked him which room he was in. Did he tell you his room number during the live broadcast?" Bai Jinshu asked softly.
"No," Xiaoying shook her head firmly, "Tian Gao Hai Kuo has never revealed his room number."
That's strange.
Bai Jinshu blinked. He originally thought that it was Tiangaohaikuo who, under the instigation of the No. 1 on the list, revealed his room number in the live broadcast room, which led to targeted retaliation.
But now... he didn't tell his room number, so how did the murderer know where he lived?
Could it be that the murderer is an acquaintance of mine?
He raised his head and met four equally thoughtful eyes.
At the door, Director Qiao, who had just finished communicating with the park management staff, pushed the door open again and shouted in a louder voice, "Call the names of each group and see if everyone is present. No one is allowed to leave this villa tonight."
The staff members stood up, called the roll according to their groups, and gathered together again.
The six guests sat on the sofa, all frowning, not knowing what they were thinking.
"Director Qiao, Director Qiao!" Hong Conghua called out to the director, "What should we do tonight?"
Director Qiao stopped and wiped the sweat off his head anxiously: "Teacher Hong, a second murder case just happened in the resort. A woman in her thirties and her son were found dead in the room together."
"We all know about it," Huangmao silently pointed at the phones in everyone's hands, "It's probably spreading like crazy on the Internet now."
"Ah? How did you know?" Director Qiao was extremely confused.
In the blank look of Director Qiao, Bai Jinshu explained in a gentle voice: "The husband and father of the deceased should have discovered the body. He went out to broadcast the crime scene live at night, but he didn't expect to find that his wife and children were also killed when he returned to the room. Everyone in the live broadcast room, including us, and the staff in the hall just now..."
He paused and said, "We went straight to the scene."
"That day..." Director Qiao closed his eyes, his body swayed a bit, and he had to hold on to the sofa next to him to steady himself. "The police have already gone to the scene. Is that person still live streaming?"
"It's closed," Xiaoying glanced at her phone, "but even after the live broadcast room is closed, you can still send comments, so even though the live broadcast is closed now, the number of people online has been climbing."
The popularity has risen from one million to seven million, and it seems to be on the rise.
Although the host has stopped the live broadcast, the number of comments seems to be increasing.
The last scene of the live broadcast stopped on a very unfamiliar face. The face looked young, only about 30 years old. Although his brows were furrowed, he still had a sense of righteousness. He took a look at the live broadcast room and then directly closed the live broadcast.
Most comments speculated that this was the police rushing to the crime scene.
After the police closed the live broadcast room, many people began to make wild guesses.
The comments were swiping quickly, and I didn't know who posted this: [So, doesn't that mean... the phone that was live streaming was right next to the two corpses?]
These words flew across the screen quickly. I don’t know how many people saw it, but the rapidly scrolling comments suddenly slowed down a bit, and then scrolled even faster:
【Is anyone there? 】
[The classmate just now is the security guard's sister? Come out and tell us about the situation! ]
[Is there anyone at the resort who can tell me about the situation? ]
【Here I am. I am on vacation with my parents. When the first murder happened at around 2:00, I woke them up and packed our bags to leave. However, the police had not yet completed their investigation. The hotel asked everyone to wait in the lobby. After the surveillance footage at the main entrance is handed over to the police, guests who returned to the hotel before or after the death of the deceased and did not leave can leave.】
[It was around four in the morning, and I quietly took back my feet that were outside the quilt.]
【Then what? 】
[He ran away halfway through? 】
【Where are the people? Where are the people? 】
【I am here. I was typing just now. I will continue. Then there were a lot of people in the lobby. We kept waiting. During this time, many people couldn't wait and fell asleep. My parents fell asleep on the sofa. I was alone watching the live broadcast to keep myself awake. After the second murder happened, there were more people in the lobby. Many people came in just now. 】
All the rooms in this resort are different from ordinary hotels, which are not located in one building. Instead, they are all independent villas.
The original selling point of the resort was the overpriced holiday villa hotel. Each holiday villa was a separate room, and if you wanted to check out, you had to carry your luggage and walk to the hotel lobby in the middle of the night.
There were also many people who didn't even want to go to the lobby and wanted to leave directly with their luggage. The resort had to send security guards to the entrances and exits of each hotel to persuade them to return.
When the first murder happened, not many people planned to leave immediately. At two or three in the morning, most people were still asleep. Those who were carrying their luggage and preparing to leave were young people who had stayed up late.
But with the occurrence of the second murder, the situation became more and more serious. Many relatives and friends who were not in the resort called them at night to ask them to get up and leave quickly.
For a moment, the hotel lobby was crowded with tourists who were worried and making a lot of noise, and it seemed that there was a slight mass panic.
But the bad thing is that there is mass panic, but the good thing is that most people are staying with a large number of tourists.
Both murders took place in hotel villas where only two people were there. At this time, the more people around you, the safer you are.
The staff in the villa of the production team counted the number of people, and the same staff member ran over and said to the director: "Director Qiao, everyone is here."
"No one should go out tonight," Director Qiao took a deep breath, "Let's all stay in the hall and wait until tomorrow morning."
The staff nodded and turned around to arrange a place for the group of more than one hundred people.
Fortunately, the hall of this villa is big enough, and even if everyone lies on the floor, half of the people can still lie down.
The remaining half can be found in the billiard room, movie room, study and other places in the villa, where they can barely fit in a bed.
But this night...
Bai Jinshu lowered his eyes silently and shook his head slightly subconsciously.
I'm afraid no one can sleep tonight.
"Well..." Director Qiao said awkwardly, "Such a big thing happened tonight. Teachers, why don't you just squeeze in for the night? It's not safe to sleep alone."
"We understand." Fortunately, the guests were very reasonable. Bai Jinshu said in a gentle voice, "We have three men and four women. We will be divided into two rooms according to gender, three people per room. The other rooms will be given to the staff to rest. Is that okay?"
Everyone nodded to indicate that it was okay.
Nianyu said that there were important academic materials in her room, which would be troublesome if lost, and it was not convenient to give it away, so the three girls moved into her room. Hong Conghua also brought his laptop and drawing board down with the company of the other two.
Since Nianyu said that there were academic materials in his room, Bai Jinshu thought for a moment and turned to ask Herbisk: "Are there any important materials in your room?"
"The information is all in the computer. I'll just take the computer with me," Herbiskus shook his head. "My room is on the first floor. It would be better if all of our guests were on the same floor."
That's true.
Even if something happens, it is easier to take care of them on the first floor, which is better than going to find the staff of the program crew.
Nianyu's room is on the second floor, and the only person on the second floor is Huangmao.
The three of them walked up to Huangmao's room on the second floor. Several suitcases that he had brought by mistake were still scattered on the floor in a mess.
The racing suits and helmets were all on the ground.
Huangmao ran over awkwardly to close the boxes one by one and put them aside. As they were stuffed too cluttered, in the end, two helmets still couldn't be stuffed in. He could only put them on the table and barely closed the box.
"Um..." Huang Mao shook the quilt, and two racing gloves came out from it. His face turned red with embarrassment, "You two... uh, the three of us, it seems that there is no room for us to lie down."
The bed in each room is not small, but it is a bit crowded for three people.
The girls were fine, as they could sleep together if they hugged each other, but it seemed weird for the three men to hug each other...
"I don't need a bed," Bai Jinshu shook his head. "I got used to it when I was filming. I can sleep on a stool."
"Ah... isn't that bad?" The yellow-haired monster said embarrassedly, "I'm used to it during training, and I can also sleep on the stool. How about I sleep on the stool?"
"It's okay for three people to lie sideways." Boss Herbisk frowned.
"It's okay," Bai Jinshu curled his lips slightly, "If you feel bad about it, just give me a pillow. I'll sleep on the table."
"Besides..." He paused and sighed softly, "I'm not sure if I can sleep tonight."
Four people died in one night, all in their own villa. No one would be able to sleep peacefully, right?
Herbisk frowned slightly: "Then you might as well lie down instead of sitting."
"Yeah, yeah," the yellow-haired guy chimed in, "It's no big deal that the two of us are lying down while you sleep on the bench. If it really doesn't work, the three of us sitting by the bed all night is better than letting you sit on the bench alone. If people tell others that we two are bullying you."
Bai Jinshu laughed: "That's not the case... I'm not someone who will be bullied so easily."
"That's not necessarily true," Huang Mao complained silently, "I think since you have such a good temper, it's easy for you to be bullied in your entertainment industry."
Herbisk looked over silently, with a rare look of approval in his eyes.
Fortunately it's not being broadcast live now.
Otherwise, if his agent, Old Wu, saw this scene, he would definitely be proud of his artist's superb acting skills, while at the same time gritting his teeth and wishing everyone could see the truth that this ancestor was coldly abusing him every day.
Bai Jinshu sighed and finally sat on the bed: "Okay, okay."
"That's all," the yellow-haired man nodded complacently, "At worst, the three of us can just sit there and stare at each other until dawn."
This sentence really came true.
Fifteen minutes after the three of them turned off the lights, Huangmao tossed and turned in bed, sighing and groaning, thinking that he had done it very discreetly. Finally, the big boss of the economic circle lying next to him could no longer bear it: "If you can't sleep, get up. Can you be as quiet as Ersi? If you keep doing this, you will wake him up."
"Ahem..." Bai Jinshu coughed softly, "I didn't fall asleep either."
He is just more content and doesn't have the habit of tossing and turning in bed.
"Hey, I..." Huang Mao saw that none of the three people were asleep, so he simply got up from the bed and turned on the light, "I just can't fall asleep once I close my eyes."
"I'll go out and get a glass of water." He said this and walked downstairs.
After the yellow-haired man left, only Herbisk and Bai Jinshu were left lying in the room.
"What do you think..." Bai Jinshu was silent for a few seconds, then looked at Herbiskus beside him, "Will there be a third case tonight?"
"I don't know," the big shot shook his head. Perhaps he felt that his answer was too perfunctory, and added, "It's normal to show up or not."
If he doesn't show up, it's just that two consecutive homicides have aroused everyone's vigilance.
If it does appear, it would be a provocation and show-off by the murderer to everyone.
It seems that neither result is ideal.
Bai Jinshu held his forehead with his hand and said, "I really hope that the police will announce that the case has been solved as soon as the sun rises tomorrow morning."
"Yes," Herbisk looked down at him, "I have a friend who knows someone in the criminal police team. I will ask him to ask about the case tomorrow."
"I hope so..."
Bai Jinshu sighed and saw the yellow-haired man leaving. He brought two glasses of water and a few bags of cakes in. "Would you two like to have a midnight snack?"
"Midnight snack?" Bai Jinshu propped himself up and looked over curiously, "Where is the midnight snack?"
There was no rice in their kitchen, so where could they get a midnight snack?
"The fans downstairs gave it to me," the yellow-haired guy pointed downstairs, "There's a guy on the staff who's my fan. When he saw me going downstairs, he thought I was too hungry to sleep, so he stuffed me with a few egg yolk pies they brought. Do you two want some?"
"The staff downstairs haven't slept either?" Bai Jinshu was the first to notice this.
"I didn't sleep, I didn't sleep at all, how could I sleep?" Huang Mao lamented, "Forget about whether to sleep or not, there are people playing billiards and ping-pong tables, and there's a family movie playing in the theater, all filled with canned laughter, and it's as lively down there as if we were camping."
Young people of similar age gathered together. Even though there was the shadow of two murders looming over their heads, humans are social animals after all, and being with their own kind does make people feel at ease unconsciously.
"If you really can't sleep, just go down and play table tennis with them," the yellow-haired man said vaguely while chewing on an egg yolk pie, "I saw Hong Conghua playing table tennis downstairs, and his skills are pretty good."
The three girls who shared the other room couldn't sleep either.
Bai Jinshu and Herbisk looked at each other and got up from the bed: "Let's go."
It’s so hard to fall asleep tonight, so I might as well play some billiard to clear my mind.
After all, it was useless for them to think more, as whether the case could be solved depended on the police, and they couldn't even leave the door now.
*
After a night passed, around six in the morning, everyone finally couldn't hold on any longer and went back to their rooms or found a stool or recliner to take a nap.
The guests returned to their rooms in a daze and fell asleep.
When Bai Jinshu woke up in a daze, there was a knock on the door and the sound of birds singing outside the window.
He moved his neck and found that he seemed to be lying on an arm.
But this arm... shouldn't be his.
This is an arm in a shirt.
He actually fell asleep in Herbisk's arms.
Bai Jinshu twitched his lips and sat up to take a look at the room.
There were only two of them sleeping on the bed, but there was no quilt. Huangmao's sleeping posture was really worrying. He rolled onto the floor with the quilt wrapped around him, and now he was sleeping with his legs spread out.
Bai Jinshu rubbed his forehead, shook the yellow-haired man up from the ground, and opened the door again.
It was Director Qiao who came to the door to wake them up.
Director Qiao glanced inside the door. He was not surprised by Huang Mao's messy sleeping posture. Instead, he spoke softly with some embarrassment: "Teacher Er..."
"Er Si is enough." Bai Jinshu insisted.
"Er Si..." Director Qiao paused, "We...will start recording in an hour, how about getting ready?"
"Start recording?" Bai Jinshu frowned.
"I contacted them again this morning," Director Qiao sighed slightly, "The program management said that our variety show will continue to be broadcast live without any pause. Because everyone went to bed late last night, we will start recording at 10 o'clock."
"The murderer last night..." Bai Jinshu asked.
"The murderer hasn't been found yet," Director Qiao paused, "but the leadership has already communicated with the criminal police. We need to be careful in the next twelve days and not act alone. Then we all just need to live in a villa..."
After he finished speaking, a voice calling Director Qiao came from downstairs.
Director Qiao turned around, responded, and hurried downstairs.
Only Bai Jinshu was left standing at the door, his expression gradually becoming solemn.
The murderer hasn't been found yet, but the company's top executives are so anxious to continue the show. Aren't they afraid that something might happen to the guests?
Even if nothing unexpected happens to the guests, what if something happens to any of the staff members?
With such doubts, the six guests got the answer only when they all got up, put on makeup, and prepared to take the car to the original variety show recording venue.
"Who are these people?" Xiaoying opened the curtains a little while sitting in the nanny car, and stared at the huge crowd outside the car window, "Shouldn't all these holidaymakers have left this morning?"
"These are..." Hong Conghua turned his head and squinted for a long time, then widened his eyes in surprise, "Fans?"
"Ah?" The yellow-haired guy exclaimed, and rushed to the window, successfully spotting his team's flag in the sea of people. "Oh my god, they are really fans? How did the fans come here?"
"Yesterday's live broadcast," Bai Jinshu quickly determined the reason why so many fans were here, "Before yesterday, the program team had not announced the specific recording location, but last night's murder case happened, and when we were live streaming in the middle of the night, we heard the staff say that the police were going to investigate, so the fans knew that we were recording here."
"Ah, this..." Hong Conghua curled his lips, "But it's just one night, where do so many fans come from?"
[I flew here overnight,] Nian Yu posted in the group, [After the murder happened last night, fans who knew where we were recording the show started booking tickets. These are just the first batch of fans, and there will definitely be more to come. All the tickets for these three days are already fully booked.]
[By the way, Ersi, I saw your fan club urged fans not to come,] Nianyu added, [but many people have already bought tickets and even booked rooms. The resort is fully booked these days, and some people even stayed in a motel more than ten kilometers away and shared a car to come.]
"No wonder..." Bai Jinshu whispered.
No wonder the show’s top management let them continue recording without finding the murderer.
A murder just happened in the resort. If their production crew also left, it would undoubtedly be the last straw that broke the camel's back. The resort would be sentenced to death in the public opinion field and in the minds of target customers. Who would dare to come to this place in the future?
But if they continue to record here... then a steady stream of fans will come here just to see them, and the countless fans' star-chasing blog posts with the name of the resort will suppress the negative trends here. By the time the case is solved, after a long time, who will remember that a murder had happened here.
The recording was originally arranged here to boost consumption in the resort area. Although the recording location has been exposed in advance, the original goal has been achieved.
As Bai Jinshu spoke, everyone in the car realized this, and for a moment everyone's expressions changed.
"Tsk," Hong Conghua finally let out a tsk in dissatisfaction and leaned back in his chair, "Let them just pray that nothing happens next."
"We also have to pray that nothing happens in the next few days." Bai Jinshu added.
With so many fans here, if anything happens to one of them, they will be finished with them. These top executives are simply...
What if the murderer saw them live streaming here and deliberately continued to commit murders, or even killed staff members and fans?
Herbisk, the only investor in the program group, said calmly: "But this is indeed the choice that maximizes benefits."
Such a large resort is designed as a high-end resort. I don’t know how much money the company will lose if it is abandoned.
"But I am really unhappy..." The yellow-haired man curled his lips, "These people don't take human life seriously. Aren't they afraid that the four people who died last night will come looking for them in the middle of the night?"
"Alright, alright, stop talking," Hong Conghua quickly stopped him, "I don't want to be possessed by a ghost in the middle of the night, so just say it now."
Huangmao: "Pah, pah, pah, pah, it's none of our business in the first place!"
Although everyone was unhappy, they all tried to save face when getting off the car. After signing a lot of autographs, everyone finally walked into the venue for recording the variety show.
The content of the variety show recording is nothing more than the same old tune. The guests are divided into two pairs to compete against each other while completing various water projects. The winning group will get new information.
However, everyone was in a bad state this morning. They only slept for a few hours last night. Halfway through the recording of the show, four out of six people fell into the water.
The two exceptions, Bai Jinshu and Herbisk, completed the recording efficiently and obtained new information together with Xiaoying in their group.
However, when the program team was distributing clues, there seemed to be a small accident.
Bai Jinshu saw that outside the camera, Director Qiao suddenly stood up with a frown, asked something to a staff member next to him, and after getting an affirmative nod, his face turned pale.
what happens?
The six guests exchanged glances implicitly in front of the camera.
After a few minutes, the assistant director next to Director Qiao announced with a normal expression holding a project card that the overtime phase had begun. The losing team would have the right to revive one team member.
Something happened.
Everyone looked at each other. When the overtime was about to start, Bai Jinshu, relying on the fact that most of the cameras were filming the 1v1 between Huangmao and Xiaoying, turned off the microphone stuck on his collar, signaled others to do the same, and whispered, "What's wrong with the production team?"
"It seems like a staff member is missing," Hong Conghua replied calmly, "I just heard Director Qiao asking, didn't he tell him to go get it? Where is he?"
"What?" Herbix asked.
"That clue card," Hong Conghua whispered, "something went wrong just now. The clue card that was originally intended to be sent to you is missing. Director Qiao quickly asked someone to look for it, and unexpectedly learned that the person in charge of the prop cards in the props group who was responsible for keeping it is missing."
Nian Yu frowned slightly.
Bai Jinshu: "The person is missing? Didn't they say we can't act alone?"
"Who knows," Hong Conghua said quickly as he watched the 1v1 on stage end, "Anyway, we've lost someone now. I don't know what to do. I'm going to turn on the microphone."
Hong Conghua turned on the microphone on his collar. The 1v1 battle was over, and everyone had to turn on their microphones as well.
The 1v1 between Huangmao and Xiaoying ended with Huangmao's victory. The other group chose to resurrect Nianyu, and the program team could no longer drag it on.
Director Qiao has disappeared, and the only people still at the recording site are the assistant director and the rest of the staff who don’t know what’s going on.
The photographer holding the camera interviewed all six guests one by one according to the assistant director's instructions, but still did not wait for the person who came to look for them to come back.
The assistant director handed them three cards and said deliberately, "These three cards contain important information about the villa you live in. Don't let others see them, and don't leak the information."
The photographer was very smart and moved the camera to the front to create suspense, and the crane camera also deliberately left the position behind the guests.
Bai Jinshu, Herbisks and Xiaoying looked at each other subtly, and followed the assistant director's instructions, covering their cards ostentatiously, pretending to check a secret.
really.
His heart suddenly began to lift.
The card is blank, there is nothing on it.
This is not a clue card prepared by the program team at all. It was probably made temporarily by the props team just now. There is no sealing wax, so they can only barely cut three "Cross-border Co-living" logos from somewhere and stick them on the back of the cardboard, and then use the camera to blur the line.
At the same time, this also means that the staff member holding the prop card is really missing.
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