Chapter 300: Inhumanity (108 (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
The live broadcast was still going on. After Huangmao made a phone call outside, he frantically gestured to Bai Jinshu outside the camera to ask him to come out.
His movements seemed too hasty, so Bai Jinshu had to answer the questions in the barrage as quickly as possible, put down what he was holding and walked out of the screen.
"What's going on?" He had just left the shooting area and turned off the microphone on his collar when he heard Huangmao asking impatiently, "I just called Director Qiao to confirm. He said there will be no stand-ins this afternoon. All the plans for the afternoon were prepared for us to be recognized. The security guards of the entire amusement park have been trained on how to stop fans from rushing through the checkpoints, and how to prevent stampedes if a large number of people rush in the same direction."
"We weren't recognized the entire afternoon. The entire production team was surprised. Have you really never seen another dinosaur?"
"No," Bai Jinshu shook his head, his expression calm, "There is only one entrance to the roller coaster, and I was standing in front of the exit from beginning to end."
"That fan in the barrage..."
Before Huang Mao finished speaking, Bai Jinshu added: "But I left the entrance for a while."
"When Hong Conghua called us." Huangmao continued.
He raised his head and subconsciously glanced upstairs, making way for the staff carrying props behind him, and then continued: "That means, after you left the roller coaster exit, a person in a dinosaur costume appeared from nowhere, stood there, replaced your job, took photos with your fans, and then quietly left before you came back?"
Now that I think about it, this afternoon was indeed a strange one.
Many variety shows have used the tactic of guests hiding in doll costumes to interact with fans. When the official Weibo released the promotion at noon, many people commented below saying that the guests had to hide in the busy amusement park and complete their group's tasks. The most likely possibility is that they were inside various dolls.
Since someone has made such a guess, someone will definitely confirm it.
There are so many dolls in the amusement park. If only one or two people are looking for them, it may sound like a coincidence that they happen to be missed, but it is possible.
But they were recording a show, and many fans came with the idea of finding their favorite guests to take photos and get autographs, not to mention that many people had organizations and groups to share information. In this case, the six of them did not deliberately hide, so it was impossible for them to be missed by fans.
Even Director Qiao said that the contingency plan they made at the beginning was that they would be recognized, and they even trained all the security guards in advance and designed the process for what to do after being recognized. This afternoon's itinerary is called "Hidden Identity", and in fact the program team wanted to allow the guests and fans to interact intensively and create a program effect while being surrounded and blocked by tourists.
It can be said that no one expected that they would hide their identities until the end.
Although Bai Jinshu was not quite sure what happened this afternoon, it was common sense that the fans must have groups. Since they had groups, in order to catch people efficiently without blind spots, they would most likely be divided into different groups and areas, and then check the suspicious dolls in their own areas one by one, and then make a list and count them. In order not to disturb the staff, the dolls that were ruled out as suspicious would be put in the safe category.
Therefore, they were not stopped by fans to take photos, or take off their headgear, and even later on, they walked through the crowd in doll costumes without anyone noticing. This can only mean one thing -
Bai Jinshu gently held his chin up and said, "No, it's not just the time when I left the roller coaster entrance."
He scanned the crowd and said, "This afternoon, besides us, there was another person, or many others, who were wearing the same puppet costumes as us, active in the amusement park."
"This is the only way to explain why fans who have never passed by doubted or verified us, because they have already verified it," he tapped his chin unconsciously, "Before those fans found us, other people in the fan group had already verified that the person in the same doll was a staff member, so our doll model was included in the safe category."
Huang Mao frowned and took a few seconds to understand: "You mean... this afternoon, in addition to a few people who look exactly like us, there were also a few people wearing the same doll costumes as us?"
"And these people were not arranged by the program team." Bai Jinshu added.
"But..." He really couldn't figure it out now. "If you're saying that those who pretend to be us to destroy the rides and lure away fans are doing bad things, I can understand that, but why do they wear the same doll costumes as us so that we won't be recognized by fans?"
"To help us?" Bai Jinshu suddenly spoke.
"Help...?" The yellow-haired man was at a loss for a moment.
"I'm not sure," Bai Jinshu shook his head, looking thoughtful. "Even if it was the first wave who used our identities to pretend to commit crimes, I don't quite understand them. After all, our every move was captured by the camera, and it couldn't be easier to prove that it wasn't us who did this. If they just wanted to use this video to blackmail the studio or the program team, destroying the amusement equipment doesn't seem like something that people who would blackmail the studio would be capable of doing."
"Let's call Director Qiao first," he ended the topic. "If Director Qiao is still at the visitor center, ask him to ask someone to check the daytime surveillance to confirm whether there are people wearing similar doll costumes at the same time. If we want to find out who is imitating us, we may be able to find them through these strange dolls."
The somewhat unusual conversation between the two just now has attracted the attention of the guests nearby. During the few minutes that Bai Jinshu and Huangmao were talking, the three people in front of the camera also obtained more information from the barrage.
As soon as Bai Jinshu sat back in front of the camera, he heard Xiaoying whisper to him, "Many people have met other dolls in the amusement park who are dressed the same as us."
Bai Jinshu nodded calmly: "Okay."
Sure enough, something strange happened this afternoon.
The staff outside the camera made a few gestures to everyone, indicating that the live broadcast could end and the closing words could be said.
Many messages were posted on the bullet screen: [Ah, today ended so quickly? ]
【Didn’t we stay there until after ten yesterday?】
【Could it be that the gossip is true? 】
【What gossip? 】
[You want to move to another house to live with the staff? I saw that too. ]
[Why change? Is living with the staff still considered sharing a room? The show has been doing this for so many seasons, why change it?]
[What is the specific content of the gossip? ]
[That is to say, after the murder case last night, the crew planned to move to a new house to have more people live together, otherwise it would be too dangerous for six guests to live alone in such a big house.]
[Oh, for safety, let's move... It's ok if nothing happens, but after the murder, six people still living in such a big house, it's really scary in the middle of the night.]
[What about the sisters at the scene? ]
[You're worrying too much. The sisters at the scene are all sharing a room. A house that is several times smaller than the one in the program group can accommodate more than a dozen people. Don't be afraid 233333]
【That's fine.】
As the live broadcast room was closed, these barrages also disappeared from the screen.
But this rumor is indeed true.
The original live broadcast time was from getting up in the morning until about ten o'clock in the evening, but due to the murder that happened yesterday, for safety reasons, Director Qiao did not dare to let the six guests live alone in a large villa. He had to let the guests and staff who were originally living in two villas move into one house.
This villa is installed with cameras everywhere and cannot be moved. It was the shooting location decided from the beginning. Many scenes have special set pieces. We could have made do with it for one day last night, but we certainly couldn't force the entire crew of nearly a hundred people into here today.
But the villa for filming had been arranged for so long that it certainly couldn't be moved, so during the day the program crew contacted the resort and asked the resort's management to vacate an entire floor of all the rooms in the only high-rise hotel on the entire island, preparing to completely turn the villa into a filming studio that would not be occupied at night.
The live broadcast ended early so that we could pack up and go to the hotel to rest early.
Bai Jinshu and the others finished their speech and watched the staff turn off the big screen in front of them before they stood up from the sofa. Nianyu's AI spoke first: "Who's going to call Conghua? She's still drawing up the manuscript upstairs."
"Let me go. I don't have any luggage to bring. I'll go help Conghua pack her things," Xiaoying raised her hand, "You guys can go pack quickly, too."
When we came here, no one thought that we would have to move to another place after only staying for one night. The rooms were decorated according to the needs of living for about half a month. Now we have to move out suddenly and pack our luggage from scratch.
Fortunately, they only stayed there for one night, and except for Hong Conghua who took out all his drawing board, computer and other things, everyone else didn't have time to unpack their luggage.
The remaining guests walked towards the room upstairs. Bai Jin didn't have much stuff, not to mention that he gave a lot of clothes to Huang Mao. After leaving some daily necessities and clothes to be changed for the next few days of filming, he packed his luggage in a few minutes. Before he could zip up the suitcase, he heard a knock on the door.
"Um... Ersi," Huangmao greeted him awkwardly after opening the door. "My suitcase is full. Do you have any space? Would you like to help me pack it?"
"Is this... a helmet?" Bai Jinshu looked at what he was holding in his hand.
"I mixed up the suitcases for the competition and the ones for the show..." Huangmao said awkwardly, "The suitcases are not easy to zip up, and now that there are a few more clothes you lent me, it can't be closed at all. These helmets can't be put in. If you have space here, can you help me put them away?"
"Then why don't you just put it in the room?" Bai Jinshu asked curiously, "It's not like you won't be back, you're just using this place as a photo studio. Can't you just put it here and ask your friend or your agent to take an extra box when you leave?"
"I'm afraid of throwing it away..." Huangmao scratched his head embarrassedly, "My equipment all has special meanings. You know the competitive industry. I'm obsessed with using these equipment to win the championship, so I don't feel comfortable leaving it here."
"Let me check my suitcase," Bai Jinshu looked at his suitcase, "there should be room for one more helmet, but the second one is unlikely to fit."
"One is enough, one is enough!" Huang Mao stuffed a helmet into his hand excitedly, "I'll ask Hong Conghua or Xiaoying to bring the other one for me. Thank you, Ersi!"
He ran away without looking back, apparently heading towards Xiaoying's room.
Although Huangmao looked careless and forgetful, he seemed to be quite careful in maintaining his helmet. Bai Jinshu took a look at the helmet that he stuffed into his hand. There were many scratches on it, but one could still see the traces of the owner's careful maintenance.
When the staff finished tidying up the shooting room downstairs, the six guests also went to the hotel with their luggage.
After assigning the rooms, Hong Conghua watched Director Qiao walk away. He looked around and whispered to everyone, "I asked the supporting actors who came to the real world, and they all had no impression of this villain who could transform into someone else's appearance. But because it was us who imitated him, they suspected that we were being targeted."
"Is there any need to doubt this?" Huang Mao interrupted, "What's the point of just doubting? What should we do?"
Hong Conghua glanced at him silently: "...They suggested to me that we should infiltrate the staff to protect our safety, mainly me. Then catch the person who tried to impersonate us, and by the way, find out who killed four people last night."
"Sneak in?" Bai Jinshu blinked. "How are they going to get in?"
Suddenly he remembered that he was not mistaken. Hong Conghua's supporting characters also respected the rules of comic characters very much. They either had red hair, blond hair or blue hair, and many had green eyes and purple eyes. This combination was obviously not ordinary people. How could it be impossible for them to be mixed in with a group of ordinary people with black hair and black eyes, right?
"So I denied it," Hong Conghua sighed worriedly, "but it is true that we are being targeted. There are many staff and cameras surrounding us during the day, but it becomes a blind spot at night. It is indeed unsafe tonight."
"I understand. So you want to sleep with your supporting actor tonight?" Xiaoying continued.
"Not really... They said they won't disturb our normal rest, and they won't let us show up in the room and be discovered by others. They just want us to put these two things, one on the back of the door, and one on the collar," Hong Conghua scratched his head and took out two things, "One of these is a listening device, and the other is a small infrared one, which can detect the presence of a second person in the room."
We have all been filmed by cameras for two days, so a listening device and an infrared camera really aren't a big deal and we accepted it very naturally.
"And this," Hong Conghua sent a software to everyone's mobile phone and added a few special channels. "These channels were given to me by them. The one labeled 1 is the one they hacked into the police station's emergency telephone switchboard on the island. If someone calls the police tonight, we will be able to hear the content of the call."
"If those things are still pretending to be us and committing crimes, the moment we receive the news, we should quickly inform others."
"OK," the yellow-haired man adjusted the channel, "What are the other two?"
"The one in the front is their internal channel, used for communication," Hong Conghua looked up, "and the one in the back is the emergency channel, they'll call people in if there's an emergency."
"Any more questions?" She looked at everyone and got a round of denials.
"Good night then," Hong Conghua waved half-heartedly, and walked towards his room with his suitcase.
For her, not only had she been running around all day, but she also had to stay up late at night to draw. She really couldn't muster up the energy.
The rest of the people looked at each other, shrugged, and closed the door.
The program crew originally arranged a double room for three men and three women for safety reasons. It happened that Hong Conghua and Huang Mao, who were unlucky enough to be excluded, lived in the room with the workers.
Hong Conghua had to stay up all night to finish a manuscript, so he happened to share a room with the editor, and the two of them stayed up all night together.
The remaining yellow-haired guy originally wanted to just randomly choose a staff member, but it turned out that there was a fan among the staff. The guy who stuffed him with egg yolk pie last night defeated all the competitors and successfully got the opportunity to sleep in the same room with his idol.
"Can I borrow the bathroom in your room? Is anyone taking a shower?" Not long after the door was closed, the yellow-haired guy ran over. "It's so stressful to sleep in a double room with a fan. This guy's eyes lit up when he saw me trying to take a shower! Does he like me? I'm straight!"
"...Don't think too much." Bai Jinshu held his forehead and pointed to the bathroom in a good-natured manner: "Use it, no one is washing it. Remember to take your helmet away after use."
"Forget it... or I'll leave it here with you," the yellow-haired man twitched his lips, "If this helmet is taken to the neighbor, the guy will be so excited that he won't be able to sleep tonight. It's better to leave it with you to be safe."
Huang Mao borrowed the bathroom, so Bai Jinshu had to sit back on the bed temporarily. Beside the other bed, Herbiskus seemed to be studying the new software. Bai Jinshu looked at it curiously and asked, "What did you study?"
"Did they make this app themselves?" Herbisk wondered thoughtfully.
"I think so?" Bai Jinshu thought for a moment, "Any questions?"
"No," Herbisk closed his phone, "I'm just curious about how these people hacked into the alarm channel and made an APP in just a few hours."
"Hmm... Comic cheat code, right?" Bai Jinshu thought for a moment, "It should be the setting of green onion?"
He also opened the software and took a look. The other two channels were quiet, and there was a lot of historical information floating on the chat channel.
"These are..." Bai Jinshu clicked on them and found that they were actually some photos of the scene.
The first homicide last night?
"Since they hacked into the police channel, I tried to ask about the progress of the investigation into the two murders yesterday," Herbiskex took the initiative to explain, "These are the data they hacked out."
"What does the information show?" Bai Jinshu flipped through it and found that most of them were pictures of the scene, and there were also some video clips. Judging from the cover, it seemed to be the surveillance cameras around the villa.
"The data shows that there were no signs of outsiders entering the two rooms where the murders occurred yesterday," Herbisks leaned over and stretched out an arm from his shoulder, playing the video clip on his screen. "The one you clicked on is the surveillance footage of the second murder. The estimated time of death of the two people is 3 a.m., one is 20 to 30 minutes later than the other. This is surveillance footage at seven times the speed."
"Seven times the speed... because there's nothing in this video?" Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes.
If there is any information, the people who are viewing the surveillance video would probably want to slow it down seven times, so it is impossible to play it at seven times the speed.
"Yes," Herbisk nodded behind him and stretched out his hand to pull the progress bar. "From the time the anchor Tiangaohaikuo heard the news and went out at 2 a.m., until he returned to the house and found his wife and children dead, it took a total of half an hour. No one entered the villa during that entire period."
"The police also managed to piece together the scene around the villa from various angles by accessing the surveillance cameras at the entrances of surrounding villas, but no one entered the villa at all."
No wonder it was finally judged to be a fight between mother and son.
No outsiders entered the entire process, and there were only two people's fingerprints on the murder weapons. There is no more reasonable cause of death than this.
"What about this?" Bai Jinshu leaned back unconsciously, waiting for the other party to say more.
"The one above?" Herbiskus clicked on the surveillance camera above him. "These are all from the surrounding villas."
Bai Jinshu noticed that the person who sent the message added a sentence after sending the surveillance footage: [There is no problem with the second surveillance footage.]
"The second one is no problem...but what about the first one?" He frowned.
"It is said that a paragraph is missing," Herbix replied. "Do you remember that the first victim was a couple?"
"Yeah," Bai Jinshu nodded, "someone found it when he came back to the hotel after drinking in the middle of the night."
"Yes, the person who found the deceased showed up at 2:30 in the morning, and the estimated time of death in the first case was 2:00 in the morning." Herbisk's voice was very low. "The first case is different from the second case. From the time the couple returned home at around 8:00 pm to the time of death at 2:00 am, the two people went back and forth several times. The last time was at around 1:00 am when they went to the supermarket in the resort to buy beer. Then they returned to the room with the beer. Half an hour later, the two returned to the room empty-handed again."
"Wait a minute..." Bai Jinshu held his hand in surprise, preventing him from clicking on the new video. "What do you mean half an hour later, the two of them returned to the room empty-handed again?"
Is there something wrong with this surveillance?
"There's just no sign of these two people coming out in the surveillance video." Herbisk's answer confirmed his guess.
"The surveillance footage of the two people leaving was cut?" Bai Jinshu continued, "The police delayed issuing a notice because the surveillance footage of the first case was incomplete. It is very likely that the footage of the two people leaving is the key to the case?"
"No," Herbiskus shook his head unexpectedly, his hair brushing against his ears. "I don't know about the police, but the person who posted the video said that it has not been edited."
"It has not been edited..." Bai Jinshu shuddered, "That is to say, the two people who entered the room later were not actually those two people."
"Those are the people pretending to be them..." He immediately understood what Herbiskus meant. "You mean the two people who came in later are the same as the ones pretending to be us today!"
"They were killed by two people who looked exactly like them, so the murderer couldn't be found because the police only thought that the surveillance footage was cut. They would never have thought that there were two extra people!"
"So the second case of mother-son fighting was..." He grabbed Herbisk's wrist and turned his head.
"They were killed by something pretending to be them." Herbisk nodded.
Bai Jinshu took a deep breath slowly.
No wonder this group of people said they would protect them tonight.
It’s not because someone is impersonating them. The fundamental reason is that they discovered that the victims in the first and second cases that happened last night were killed by people impersonating them.
So as people who were impersonated, the six of them were in danger.
Since these things will become people they know, then the yellow-haired...
He didn't seem to be sending any messages in the group when he came in.
Bai Jinshu felt his breathing stagnated for a moment, and he quickly adjusted it a few times, slowly raised his head and looked towards the bathroom.
He made eye contact with the yellow-haired man who walked out of the bathroom wrapped in a bath towel.
The yellow-haired man's hair was dripping with water, and he was shaking his head like a husky, rubbing it with a towel while shaking it. In between wiping his hair, he looked up at Bai Jinshu and was also stunned.
Bai Jinshu's vigilance was stretched to the extreme, his expression was solemn, and his left hand slowly reached for the kitchen knife beside him.
It doesn't matter why there is a kitchen knife here. He doesn't know why he was able to pass security check with a kitchen knife in his luggage, but in this situation, it is better to have a weapon than not to have one, and a kitchen knife is better than bare hands.
"Wait wait wait wait!" Seeing what he had in his hand, the yellow-haired guy shouted in horror, "No! Wait! What are you doing, Ersi! I didn't mean to catch you guys! Damn you two! I didn't see anything! I'm recording a show! I have elderly parents, young children, and a fleet of cars to support! You can't kill people to silence them! Isn't it necessary to kill people to silence them? What I said before was not meant to discriminate against you! I will keep it a secret for you!!!"
The more he described, the more confusing it became, and in the end he simply jumped out of the door and ran away, wrapped in a bath towel.
Bai Jinshu:……?
"That should be the real yellow-haired one." Herbiskus spoke after a moment of silence behind him.
"If it's true, just post a message in the group to prove it. Why is he running away?" Bai Jinshu looked confused.
He was running and making a lot of noises, and everyone on the entire floor could hear him.
Not to mention that Huangmao felt that his fans' gazes were too enthusiastic just a dozen minutes ago, and he repeatedly stated that he was a straight man. He even ran to their room to borrow the bathroom to take a shower. Now he goes back with his upper body naked. That guy must be crazy.
"I think," a muffled laugh came from behind, "maybe the posture of the two of us made him misunderstand something?"
Bai Jinshu:?
What posture?
"Ah?" He uttered in confusion, and then realized that the muffled laughter almost came from his ear.
The mobile phone screen was too small. Just now, in order for Herbisk to explain the content to him, the two of them got closer and closer. Now, their postures looked like one was sitting in the other's arms.
Bai Jinshu: ...
Okay, he gets it.
It is easy to imagine what Huangmao misunderstood.
Bai Jinshu: "...Then why didn't you explain to Huang Mao just now?"
"I didn't react either." The other party explained confidently.
The author has something to say:
Some strange rumors will spread tomorrow (x)
The yellow-haired man who shouted so loudly that everyone in the corridor could hear him said: "Ah? I hid it very well. I don't know who told it?" (Head in hand)
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