Chapter 295: Inhuman (103) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
Director Qiao didn't come back until the morning shooting was over.
And just as Nianyu said, there are more fans coming here.
After everyone struggled to get back to the nanny car from the filming venue, Hong Conghua was the first to speak up before the live broadcast camera was set up: "We can't go on like this."
She slightly parted the leaves of the blinds and looked outside: "There are so many people here, and the murderer hasn't been caught yet. What should we do tonight? Otherwise, everyone should send a Weibo to persuade them. We can't let the fans come anymore."
What if two more people die?
"Old Wu...ah, that's my agent," Bai Jinshu frowned, "He logged into my account and posted a Weibo this morning, but the fans who have already come will definitely not want to leave, and some who are planning to come will also refuse to listen to advice. As long as the show continues to be recorded and we don't leave, there will definitely be more and more people."
Not to mention the bored people who came for the gimmick of the murder case and the anchors who were just trying to take advantage of the popularity.
It's just a mess.
If he were the murderer, he would definitely go straight to the fans when he saw this situation and make the matter even worse.
"How could the production team stop recording?" The emotionless AI on Nian Yu's phone recited her words in a serious tone. "If the production team stops recording, it would be like actively transferring the label of the murder case from the resort to the variety show sign of [Cross-border Co-living]. Not only would they lose the resort, but they would also drag down their most popular variety show."
"Then what if we just leave?" Xiaoying asked with a frown, "Can we refuse to record the video on the grounds that a murder has occurred?"
"Miss, we have a contract," Herbiskus said, not sure whether his tone was sarcastic or polite. "Have you read the terms of the contract?"
"I've read that the condition for a guest to terminate recording is force majeure. Couldn't the force majeure for refusing to record be danger to life?" Hong Conghua frowned.
"Probably not," Bai Jinshu shook his head slightly. "This contract is different from ordinary variety show contracts. It was modified based on live broadcast. If it was a traditional recorded broadcast, even if a guest had a problem and temporarily left the recording, the production team would have time to find other guests or adjust the variety show arrangement to deal with it properly. But now it's a live broadcast..."
He didn't finish his words, but everyone understood what he hadn't said.
But now it is a live broadcast, and if any unexpected situation occurs, there is no time for the program team to discuss and solve it. Even if a problem occurs, a solution must be found quickly in a short period of time.
In this case, if it is not a very serious force majeure, such as a guest being injured and needing treatment, or a relative dying and returning home to attend a funeral, the program crew will definitely not let anyone go.
"Can we say that our seventh great uncle who lives far away has passed away and we have to go back to our hometown to attend the funeral..." Huangmao raised his hand.
"The great uncle of all six of us is gone?" Hong Conghua raised an eyebrow. "This is even more bizarre than a murder case in a resort!"
"You lost your grandpa, I lost my second grandpa, Ersi lost his third grandpa..." The yellow-haired man's voice became smaller and smaller. Finally, he sighed and leaned back. He took out a bottle of alcoholic beverage from the small refrigerator in the car and opened the pull ring. "Forget it, just treat it as a fart."
Herbiskus uttered a snort that was probably a mockery.
Hong Conghua also found a lollipop next to the nanny car and stuffed it into his mouth: "Doesn't anyone know anyone from the criminal police team? Can you tell me what's going on? A murder has occurred, brother. Can't the police seal off the resort?"
"It's not to the extent of blocking the resort area yet, right?" Xiaoying frowned and guessed, "I've never heard of blocking a resort area of several thousand square kilometers because of a murder case."
"It seems that only the area where the murder took place has been blocked off now," Bai Jinshu looked up from his phone, "My agent said that after yesterday, the resort area has been suppressing the popularity."
"Tsk," Huang Mao rolled his eyes, "It really is worthy of being an entertainment company. If they don't suppress the popularity, they will die."
"If you don't make money, you will die..." Hong Conghua twitched his mouth and was about to say something, but was stopped by Bai Jinshu.
"Hush," Bai Jinshu gestured, "The driver is here."
As the driver opened the door, the photographer with a camera also got into the car. Everyone could only tacitly pretend that nothing had happened in front of the camera.
After the filming crew left the villa in the morning, the remaining staff members apparently restored the villa where more than a hundred people had stayed for a night to its original state. When everyone entered, they could hardly recognize that this was the place where a bunch of people had played ball and watched a movie as if they were recording a video last night.
However, the camera was repositioned, greatly reducing the frame size, and a conspicuous red tape was pasted on the edge of the lens to clearly divide the shooting area and non-shooting area.
Before entering the filming area, everyone finally saw Director Qiao, who had disappeared for several hours.
He was talking to someone outside the filming area with one hand on his waist, and he looked fine, so it was estimated that the staff member was probably fine.
While several guests who could cook were preparing lunch for everyone, several guests in charge of preparing the food quietly slipped out of the camera and stopped the director.
"Director Qiao, what happened this morning?" The straightforward man stopped the director and got straight to the point, "Did a staff member go missing? Have you found him?"
"Found it, found it," Director Qiao let out a long sigh, patting his chest with lingering fear, "That guy probably didn't wake up last night and forgot that the props he was in charge of contained your clue cards. Stay in the villa and help everyone clean up the room."
"He didn't come?" Bai Jinshu tilted his head slightly, "Then why did I hear Conghua say that someone told him to get the props, but he didn't come back?"
"I guess I remembered it wrong. When I saw that the prop manager hadn't come, I told the others to go get him. Then the message got passed around and it became that the prop manager should go get it," Director Qiao sighed in frustration. "The whole team was in such a mess this morning. Everyone slept late last night, so things went wrong one after another this morning. This was a false alarm and scared everyone to death."
"So no one is lost?" Herbiskus confirmed, crossing his arms.
"No, absolutely not." For some reason, Director Qiao treated this economic tycoon with much more respect. "We have already counted the number of people, and no one is missing. The entire crew is safe now."
"So what are you going to do with the fans outside?" Herbiskus raised his chin and pointed outside, "What if something happens again tonight?"
"Should... not be possible?" Director Qiao hesitated a little. "The higher-ups said that the Criminal Police Team is now inclined to believe that the two cases last night were caused by fighting between the two parties, and there is no murderer."
"They are kidding..." Huang Mao said bluntly, "In the first case, the couple could be said to be enemies, but in the second case, they are also enemies? A mother and son got up at three in the morning and fought passionately? They even brought two machetes in their luggage when they went on a trip? Director Qiao, do you think this is reasonable?"
"Uh..." The director was a little embarrassed. He pressed his hand to signal them to speak more quietly so as not to attract the attention of the staff next to them. Then he waved at them and said, "Let's talk in the room alone."
After several guests followed the director into the room, the director continued, "The situation of the first case is unclear, but the second case was indeed a fight between the two parties. I just received the news."
He opened his cell phone and showed everyone the chat history from not long ago.
"The wounds on the two bodies in the second case were not caused by the same person," he explained. "It is said that the wounds on the adults were shallower and mostly distributed on the lower limbs, while the wounds on the children were fewer and most of them were more fatal. It can be seen that a very fierce fight took place before death, and both sides finally fought."
"Ah?" Huang Mao couldn't believe it. "Aren't they mother and son?"
How did it develop to the point where they were hacking each other?
"They kissed, right..." Director Qiao was misled by him and thought for a moment, "No, there should be no murderer in the second murder case. Even the fingerprints on the murder weapon belong to these two people. These two things happening together can only be a coincidence."
"Hiss..." Hong Conghua frowned in confusion. "But if they are mother and son, what kind of situation would make them cut each other while traveling? Where did the knife come from? Can a kitchen knife pass security inspection?"
"The knife... I'm not sure. I guess he bought it after he arrived," the director shrugged. "But you can rest assured. This is the information I got directly from the criminal police team. If I hadn't finally confirmed that the second case was not a copycat crime, I wouldn't have dared to let you continue recording."
A bit of fear finally showed on his face: "To be honest, I am also a worker. I would be afraid if a murder happened."
"Director Qiao," Bai Jinshu said gently, "Is there any news about the first case?"
"The first case..." The director thought for a moment, "I didn't ask, but it shouldn't be someone's deliberate murder, right? Let me ask..."
There was a knock from the staff at the door, informing everyone that the dishes for the other two guests were ready.
"Let's go first," Herbisk looked at everyone in the room, "We'll talk about what happens next this afternoon."
These two murders now have to wait for the police to investigate.
Although the attention on the Internet has been suppressed, the effect of the live broadcast last night was so horrifying that many netizens are urging the police to release the results of the investigation as soon as possible. Now that Director Qiao has received the news, it must be not long before the police issue an announcement.
Sure enough, the police issued a notice in the afternoon.
At the beginning, everyone's reaction was the same as Huangmao's. At three o'clock in the morning, a mother and her son were slashing each other passionately with knives. This reason was too bad.
But as various evidence emerged, people gradually discovered that this might be true.
Many people believe that there may have been conflicts between the two, and this trip was originally intended to reconcile family conflicts, but the first homicide case irritated the nerves of the two. Tian Gao Hai Kuo, the only person in the family who could reconcile the conflicts between the two, was not there because of the live broadcast, which led to the tragedy.
"What about the first one?" Hong Conghua asked with a frown, sitting in front of the makeup mirror with her legs crossed, letting the makeup artist behind her toy with her hair.
"There must be a murderer in the first case, right? Isn't there still a murderer who hasn't been caught yet?" she asked.
"But this at least shows that the murderer does not have a tendency to commit serial crimes," Bai Jin said calmly, "He only committed the crime once, which means that it is very likely that he only wanted to kill these two people, which means that he would not attack others."
"That's true..." Huang Mao finally escaped from the makeup artist and bowed to the air a few times. "Anyway, I just need to spend the next ten days peacefully. I don't ask for anything else. I just hope to finish recording the show safely."
After falling into the water in the morning, his originally styled hair was flattened, but the strange thing was that the makeup artist did not touch up his hair, leaving the yellow hair hanging down beside his face.
"What is the project this afternoon?" Bai Jinshu turned around and asked.
"In the afternoon... let me check," the makeup artist behind him took a look, "Originally it was indoors, and the venue was rented from a flower shed here, but that shed is near the crime scene, and Director Qiao was afraid that fans would follow and something might happen, so he temporarily moved the task location."
There were some heavy footsteps coming from behind.
Everyone turned around and was surprised to see several staff members holding huge doll costumes.
"That's it," the makeup artist finished the last bit of work and nodded with satisfaction, "This afternoon Director Qiao said that since the fans will follow us anyway, why not lead them to a place farther away from the crime scene so that the police can quickly complete the investigation and close the case, so we changed the location to the amusement park farthest from the crime scene."
"Then this afternoon we will..." Xiaoying pointed behind her.
"Wear a doll costume?" Bai Jinshu touched the tip of his nose, "and complete the task without revealing your identity?"
"It looks too hot..." The yellow-haired guy complained with a twitch of his lips, "This is the seaside! It's tropical!"
"So all the cosmetics I used just now are waterproof." Bai Jinshu silently glanced at the dressing table, and then silently glanced at Herbisk in the distance.
Although wearing puppet costumes is a process that has been overused in variety shows, I still can't imagine what this guy would look like in those costumes.
But soon, Nian Yu posted a message in the group: [If the puppet costume hides the identity, then does that mean we don’t have to follow the live broadcast? ]
Yes.
Everyone looked up, with a look of understanding on their faces.
Does that mean they can communicate through group chat in the puppet server?
"I want this one!" While everyone was making their own plans, Huangmao had already gone over to choose a doll with great interest. "This snowman looks cool, I like it!"
"What a kind heart..." Hong Conghua sighed, "I wish I had such a strong heart."
Xiaoying said weakly: "Brother Huangmao just has a better personality..."
"I understand. He's stupid," Hong Conghua patted her shoulder. "He's missing something in his brain."
[I want the bee one.] Nian Yu said in the group.
"Then I want the panda one." Hong Conghua quickly followed.
Although there is no live broadcast now, the camera is still there, and this part will definitely appear in the edited program. If you have anything to say, you can say it in the group after entering the doll.
"I'm fine with anything..." Xiaoying was very easygoing, "Brother Ersi, what do you want?"
"Me?" Bai Jinshu thought for a moment, "I can do it too..."
His eyes unconsciously moved among the remaining dolls, and he raised his mouth maliciously: "But I think Herbisk is more suitable for that one."
"Which one?" The yellow-haired man patted the doll costume beside him, "This one! This octopus is the heaviest! It has eight tentacles!"
"But it looks very unhappy..." Bai Jin said silently, "Don't you think it looks a bit like Herbisk?"
Herbisk:?
Huangmao examined it carefully for a few seconds and nodded affirmatively: "Very similar."
"Then it's happily decided!" He held the huge unhappy octopus head and stuffed it into Herbisk's arms, "Here."
"I'll repeat it again..." Hong Conghua murmured as he looked at the face of this economic circle tycoon, "I wish I had a heart as strong as Huangmao's."
After playing tricks, Bai Jinshu stood up with satisfaction. While the big man was still not reacting, he quickly picked out a dinosaur doll and put the headgear on himself, avoiding the other party's condemning gaze and looking away as if it had nothing to do with him.
You have to wear doll costumes anyway, so it doesn't matter what you wear.
*
The playground in the resort is actually a more comprehensive amusement area.
In addition to some large-scale amusement facilities commonly seen in amusement parks, such as pirate ships and roller coasters, there are also areas such as oceanariums and swimming pools. Their activities are mainly in the amusement park.
However, before the recording started, the program team announced that the guests were hidden in the entire amusement area. They also closed the afternoon live broadcast, leaving only a scoreboard on the director's side to update the facts, which greatly increased the difficulty for fans to find the guests.
Bai Jinshu was wearing a dinosaur doll costume, handing out flyers while scrolling through the group chat with his other hand. Huangmao was scrolling through a large amount of content in the group, which was enough to show how idle he was.
But he is indeed free.
The first person to choose a doll costume, Huangmao, chose a Q version of the program sponsor, and his task was to sell a certain amount of sponsor's drinks.
The sponsor has a special new product promotion booth in the amusement park. The Q-version doll is a mascot near the booth. It only needs to sing "You Love Me, I Love You" once every half hour. If there are no tourists to interact with it, it can arrange the rest of the time by itself.
At this time, a large number of tourists and fans were looking for the guests hidden in the amusement park. Not many people went to buy cold drinks, and no one thought that there would be a yellow-haired person inside the sponsor's Q-version doll.
He wrote a lot of posts in the group:
[So many cute sisters holding your support banners 艾尔肆@尔肆]
[Wow, I saw a guy holding an insect magazine. Is he here to see Director Nian? @Nian Yu]
[I saw the comics by Conghua and the T-shirts co-branded with x Yiku. Look! The main character is printed on this one, right? @葱花]
【picture】
[Why do you have so many female fans? ]
[Why are all my fans men? ]
[What's going on! Aren't there any girls watching the car race? ]
[Hehe, luckily Xiaoying and He Si don’t have many fans, so I’m not the last among all the guests. ]
[By the way, do you know who He Si is? ]
[Hahahahahaha is the abbreviation of Herbiscus! I saw that in the live broadcasts started by fans! @hibiscus]
Thoughts: […Can you please be quiet?]
Thoughts: [You are hurting my eyes. ]
Bai Jinshu: ...
It would be strange for anyone to say this, but Nian Yu, who was born hearing-impaired, said that it might really be that the noise hurt his eyes.
Other people's reactions did not give Huang Mao face at all:
Conghua: [Hahahahahahahahaha I told you to swipe the screen. ]
Xiaoying: [Puff.]
Even Herbisk came to add insult to injury.
Hibiscus: [Don't give me random names.]
Bai Jinshu glanced around, then retracted his hand and typed: [You kept scrolling and your phone was vibrating. I almost got exposed.]
Huangmao: [Oh, hold me. ]
Huangmao: [Wait, that's not right, you and I are not in the same group, wouldn't it be just right if you were to expose yourself! ]
Huangmao: [I’ll brush it. I’ll brush it.]
chopped green onion:【……】
Conghua: [Is it possible that the two teammates in your group are also in this group? ]
Nianyu: [It’s so noisy, why don’t we create a small group without yellow hair. 】
The group finally quieted down.
In fact, only the group is quiet.
Bai Jinshu was bombarded with private messages from Huangmao.
[Ersi, look at what I found! ]
【picture】
The other party sent a photo full of people, with a yellow-haired face in the crowd. At first glance, Bai Jinshu thought that the yellow-haired face was caught by fans, but after looking carefully, he realized that the face was wrong.
[This seems to be a supporting character in Conghua’s comics, a foreign guy. My fans said I look like him, but I’m not like him. We just both have blond hair.]
Huangmao rambling: [I just saw a golden-haired person walking by and thought he was a foreigner. When he got closer, I realized he was wearing a cosplay costume. Conghua’s comics are indeed a hot comic. There are actually cosplayers.]
[I am a real fan. I came to find Conghua and she even brought C clothes and played C. What kind of spirit is this. 】
【Many fans surrounded him and took photos. 】
[Look,] Huang Mao posted several more photos, [This guy just came to buy water, speaking English and paying in US dollars, isn’t he too dedicated?]
Bai Jinshu twitched his lips: [It's so noisy, can't you go and share it with Hong Conghua alone? ]
Huangmao: [No, it's so interesting. It seems that some people are organizing a group to play the comic characters of Conghua. They all made an appointment, right? I saw a lot of them just now.]
Bai Jinshu looked out from the dinosaur doll and actually saw a person in the crowd wearing very strange clothes, which looked like cartoon costumes.
This person had a bit of anxiety and confusion on his face. He was surrounded by a group of fans taking pictures and looked like he was looking for someone.
Many tourists were attracted by this person. Bai Jinshu's pressure suddenly dropped. He lowered his head and sent another message: [I'll help you transfer her.]
He selected all the chat records with one click and sent them to Hong Conghua, with a note: [Huangmao sent this to the wrong person.]
Hong Conghua did not respond.
Most likely he's been entangled in something.
Bai Jinshu put away his phone and started handing out flyers to attract tourists.
His mission this time was to attract tourists in front of the tallest and scariest roller coaster in the entire amusement park. The more people came, the more points he could get.
Many tourists nearby were attracted by the coser, and the yellow-haired man was still harassing him relentlessly. Bai Jinshu sat on the stool nearby and was about to reply when he found someone sitting next to him.
This person... seems to be playing the comic character of Hong Conghua?
Bai Jinshu didn't want to be surrounded by fans, so he stood up and planned to change seats. However, just as he was about to leave, this person stopped him, which was uncharacteristically the case.
"Hello, excuse me," the man said politely, "I would like to ask if you know anyone?"
Bai Jinshu:?
"You are...?" He lowered his voice.
Could it be that he was recognized by fans?
"I'm here to save the world," the man said in a very shameful manner, "I see a very familiar aura on you, you are the key to saving the world, so I want to ask, do you know anyone?"
Bai Jinshu: "Ah?"
He originally thought he was recognized by fans, but what kind of development is this?
Just then, the group chat was updated.
Green onion: [It's broken, brothers. ]
Green onion: [Something big has happened.]
Huangmao: [Shit, you've been recognized, haven't you?]
Huangmao: [What's going on! You were caught by fans! ]
Huangmao: [Conghua, you are so fast! ]
Scallion: […No.]
Conghua: [Don’t be afraid of what I’m going to say next. ]
Huangmao: [We are recording a program, we are not afraid.]
Conghua: [My comic character has traveled to the real world. ]
Conghua: [Because I have delayed the update for too long, the plot has been interrupted by the protagonist losing too much blood for three months. The blood is almost drained out, so the protagonist group is urging me to update. ]
Xiaoying: [? ]
Huangmao: [No, this is just a joke for show effect? ]
Conghua: [I wish this was just a joke! ]
At this moment, Bai Jinshu heard the people around him hurriedly stand up and look into the distance: "He seems to be coming too, I'll go stop him!"
In an instant, the figure disappeared.
Conghua: [And there is something even more terrifying. ]
Bai Jinshu: [? ]
Conghua: [The murder case seems to be related to me. ]
Conghua: [They said that the villain from my comics is here too.]
The author has something to say:
Mirage is a game that extracts real-world information from everyone who enters it, and then mixes it together to make everyone lose their memory. For example, the variety show recording comes from Metal, and the entomologist comes from Jinling.
Obviously, he identified Sister Yan's bizarre native world as a comic character entering reality ()
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