Chapter 302: Inhuman (110) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
As the alarm calls continued, more and more people came to the beach.
It looked like more staff were called up.
"On the reef, shouldn't this group of people be looking here?" Hong Conghua looked at the seashore in the distance in confusion, "Isn't this all beach? Where did the reef come from?"
"I did a search," Bai Jinshu looked up from his phone, "There are quite a lot of seaside scenes in the promotional area of this resort, but most of them can only be divided into three categories. One is the best photo spots on the cliff, one is the resort with a beach, and the other is the offshore area, which is full of diving and surfing bases."
"Only the cliff side can you see reefs, the other three sides don't have any."
"Then why are all of them here looking around with flashlights?" Xiaoying asked curiously.
"There are other staff members looking for it over there on the cliff, right?" Hong Conghua yawned, tears welling up in the corners of his eyes. "Let's look for it here as well, just to be safe."
"No," Bai Jinshu shook his head, "They probably think that there won't be any tourists on that side of the cliff."
"This location..." Herbiskus naturally picked up his phone and studied the promotional pictures of the resort. "It's hard for anyone to get there, right?"
In the picture, the best photography position on the edge of the cliff is at least ten meters above the sea level. Ten meters below is the sea surface with exposed reefs. Just one look at it is enough to make people dizzy.
Judging from the pictures of the resort in several chapters, the cliff is surrounded by guardrails, and there is no downward road around the cliff. If someone wants to reach the reef under the cliff from here, it is almost impossible.
"There are no roads around here," Herbiskus clicked on the picture, "It's very difficult to go down. Basically no one can reach here."
"Can't we take a boat?" Xiaoying looked confused.
"No," Bai Jinshu shook his head. "There are all kinds of reefs under that cliff. Any ship going there will probably be stranded."
The geographical location determines that the location is impossible to reach. There is no road and no boat can get close. The only way to reach the reef safely is to drop vertically from above with a rope.
The scenic area where the best photography spot is located is closed at night. There are security booths at several entrances and exits, and there are surveillance cameras near the cliff. It is basically impossible for anyone to go down here in the middle of the night.
The only possibility is that someone evaded the patrolling security when the scenic area was closed, stayed inside until late at night, and then tied a rope and hung down while the security guards were not paying attention to the surveillance.
But this possibility does not apply now. The missing ones are two girls who did not even take their mobile phones. They even teamed up with netizens they had known online for less than a day. It is too outrageous to say that they had planned to get to the reef from here for a long time.
"So it's not that the security guards think they can't get through, so they're only looking for them on the beach..." Xiaoying twitched her lips, "Are they too confident? What if something really happens?"
"There should be some on the cliff too. They have called the police. We should at least send a few people over to check and confirm the situation," Hong Conghua yawned again. "There is not enough space for more people to stand on the cliff. It's useless to go there. In the end, only one or two people were hanging down anyway."
This guess is more in line with the situation.
Hong Conghua yawned one after another, infecting everyone who had just woken up. Bai Jinshu yawned subconsciously as well, squinting his sleepy eyes as he looked at the increasingly crowded beach: "Can you guys who hacked into the police system find out whether these two people have been found?"
"It's hard to check," Hong Conghua shook his head. "The information they can get is also intercepted from the police. If the police go out immediately after receiving the alarm, the police will probably not update the information on the Internet. They probably call or send WeChat messages themselves. We have to wait until the information is intercepted and they upload the results of this alarm after the team is withdrawn to know whether they have found the person or not."
Nian Yu covered her mouth and yawned: "So what you mean now is that it's useless for us to wake up and worry."
This sentence was read out by AI in a calm voice, which added a lot of sarcasm and ridicule.
"I didn't ask you to wake up..." Hong Conghua said helplessly, "I just saw a light outside the window and wanted to go over to take a look, but Ersi woke up on his own."
"I heard footsteps," Bai Jinshu explained, "and I was worried that someone else had entered the room."
"If Ersi wakes up, I will wake up too." Herbiskus continued.
These three people talked back and forth, trying to pass on the blame completely.
Xiaoying relaxed a bit after feeling sleepy. "I woke up immediately after hearing my phone vibrate. I thought something was wrong."
Nian Yu: "We sleep in the same bed, so of course I can feel Xiaoying getting up."
The five people looked at each other.
The reason they woke up was that they thought something happened tonight.
"This is too paranoid..." Hong Conghua finally slapped his forehead, "If nothing goes wrong tonight, I will suspect that those who imitate us want to cause trouble every night to wear us down and lower our vigilance."
"Actually, something happened tonight..." Bai Jinshu curled his lips, "Doesn't the person who called the police look like a yellow-haired guy?"
Speaking of Huangmao, a loud snoring sounded in the room.
Everyone was silent for a moment and looked in the direction where the snoring came from.
The only one who showed up tonight was the imitator of Huangmao, and now, all five people except Huangmao have woken up, and all of them are yawning.
But Huangmao, who should have woken up, was sleeping soundly and even snoring as if it had nothing to do with the discussion while everyone was discussing the matter.
Hong Conghua said faintly: "Sometimes I really want to know where Huang Mao got such a big heart."
Xiaoying whispered: "Brother Huangmao sleeps better?"
"Stop talking to him," Bai Jinshu twitched his lips, "Conghua looks like he's going to hit someone."
One is the unlucky cartoonist who worked late into the night, and the other is the real victim of the night who was soundly sleeping. The yellow-haired guy deserved to be beaten.
Herbiskus yawned nonchalantly beside him: "So now we have nothing to do except continue sleeping?"
He pulled Bai Jinshu and said, "Good night then. Let's wait for the news about those two people to come out."
Bai Jinshu was pulled by him and almost lost his balance.
"Go to sleep!" Hong Conghua waved his hand. "You are so sleepy that you can even hear the sound of my footsteps. Did you not fall asleep tonight?"
"That's not the case..." Bai Jinshu yawned and fell on the bed, "I just slept lightly tonight."
"Go to sleep!" Hong Conghua waved his hand. "It's almost five o'clock. If something happens tonight, it will only be dawn in more than an hour."
They couldn't go to the cliff to check it out in person, so they could only wait for news.
If the thing that imitated them was intended to wear down their spirits, then this tactic was undoubtedly very successful. When Bai Jinshu woke up the next day, he felt a splitting headache.
The only one who slept well last night, Huangmao, looked at everyone in shock: "Why do you have so many dark circles under your eyes?"
"Good question," Hong Conghua walked over with a cup of coffee like a ghost, "Did you know that something happened again last night?"
"What's the matter?" Huangmao looked confused.
"Someone like you called the police and reported that the two missing tourists appeared on the reef..." Bai Jin glanced around halfway through his narration, and suddenly seemed to remember, "By the way, how are those two people?"
Didn’t you say that we would wake them up when there was news?
"It's okay," Hong Conghua waved his hand. "I don't know the specific situation, but in the end the people were rescued by the police who came down with a safety rope. We have watched the surrounding surveillance cameras, and no one knows how these two people ended up there. This is the information we have at the moment."
As for the others, she had no information, so it was useless to call the other five people.
Everyone looked at each other, and Huangmao spoke up actively: "Do you want to have breakfast? I'll get it for you at the cafeteria?"
"Iced coffee, thanks..." Bai Jinshu paused, "Forget it, I'll go with you."
He wanted to hear whether other staff or tourists knew about this.
After Bai Jinshu left, the remaining four people thought about it and decided to follow him.
It was still early at this time, and there were few tourists in the buffet restaurant. All those inside were staff from the program team.
When Director Qiao saw the five of them, he was stunned for a moment: "You have dark circles under your eyes..."
"I didn't sleep well last night," Xiaoying said listlessly, "Director Qiao, it's impossible for me to sleep well in this situation."
"That's true," Director Qiao shrugged, "I'm sorry to bother the makeup artist..."
"Director Qiao, do you know what happened last night?" Bai Jinshu said straight to the point, "I didn't draw the curtains yesterday, and I felt a light flickering on the beach in the middle of the night."
"Ah? There's a light?" Director Qiao looked puzzled. "I don't know? What happened last night?"
Everyone looked at each other.
"Nothing..." Bai Jinshu shook his head, "I don't know either. I was afraid that something happened to the tourists, so I came to ask you."
It seems that Director Qiao doesn’t know either.
Guide Qiao didn’t know, let alone the other tourists.
Everyone grabbed some breakfast, each received a large cup of iced coffee, and sat around a table to eat breakfast together.
"Director Qiao said that we will go to the villa to broadcast the content of waking up in the morning, and then today..." Huang Mao came back with a plate of food and asked around for information, "We will arrange a more relaxing schedule tonight. Director Qiao said we will go to the cliff to watch the sunrise."
"The edge of the cliff?" Hong Conghua asked casually, "Can we go to the edge of the cliff now? Isn't it fenced off?"
Weren’t those two people the ones who came from the edge of the cliff last night?
Sure enough, halfway through breakfast, there was a commotion at Director Qiao's table. Ten minutes later, the assistant director ran over to apologize to the guests, saying that there was a problem with the program arrangements, and something seemed to have happened in the originally scheduled shooting area last night. They needed time to coordinate, and the guests had to wait for news.
"Look, I'll tell you..." Hong Conghua silently swallowed the last bite of bread, "After we found out they inexplicably appeared under the cliff last night, we must cordon off that place and find out how they got there."
"What should we do today if we can't go?" The yellow-haired guy scratched his head.
"The production team is so unlucky..." Bai Jinshu twitched his lips, "There was a murder on the first night of recording. On the second day, the amusement park's rides were damaged by people pretending to be guests. Two fans and tourists were also lost. On the third day, the scheduled location was surrounded by the police and had to be re-selected."
"Director Qiao just told a few staff members to go find some fruits and snacks," Xiaoying said silently after returning from a walk. "He said he suspected that the feng shui of the filming location was not good. The reason why the production team has been having bad luck is definitely because they didn't pray before the filming started. Now they need to find a master to calculate a date to make up for it."
"Will it work if you worship that?" Huang Mao looked at Er Si, the only person in the industry at the table, picked up a piece of orange from the plate and stuffed it into his mouth, mumbling, "I think it would be better if the whole crew worshipped Hong Conghua and asked her to send these ancestors away as soon as possible."
"Send it immediately, send it immediately..." Hong Conghua collapsed on the table and said, "I have already sent all the almost-complete storyboards to my assistant for refinement."
"If we can't go to the beach today, do we not have to do the live broadcast in the morning?" Nian Yu thought for a while and asked.
"Not necessarily," Bai Jinshu rubbed his forehead, "It's unlikely that they won't broadcast live. If they don't broadcast live, they should at least explain what's going on, right?"
I guess by the time the time comes, the director won't be able to stop even if he forces the six of them to play cards for the whole morning.
However, Bai Jinshu's plan failed unexpectedly this time.
Less than half an hour after returning to the room from the restaurant, Bai Jinshu suddenly heard the door of the next room being pushed open, and Director Qiao's voice rang out: "Isn't Huang Mao here?"
"I, I, I'm here!" Huang Mao jumped up from the sofa and opened the door. "Director Qiao, do you want to talk to me about something?"
"You didn't go out last night, did you?" Director Qiao turned around and asked.
Bai Jinshu suddenly felt uneasy.
"No...no." The yellow-haired man had a strange expression on his face for a moment.
"That's fine," Director Qiao breathed a sigh of relief and waved to the yellow-haired man, "The police want you to cooperate with the investigation."
*
Huangmao was taken to the police station in the resort by several staff members.
There was no clear explanation for the missing of one of the six guests, and the planned location was blocked and could not be used, so this morning's live broadcast was completely ruined.
Bai Jinshu waited in the room for a while, but no staff came to notify him, so he leaned on the sofa and fell asleep in a daze.
After an unknown amount of time, a staff member knocked on the door. Herbisks seemed to open the door and heard the other party say that the shooting location had been coordinated and asked all guests to prepare to go.
Bai Jinshu yawned, feeling much clearer after taking a nap. He opened his eyes and walked to the door: "Where are we going to shoot?"
"Director Qiao said that a diving base has been temporarily cleared," the staff member replied, "We will record diving at this location this afternoon and tomorrow."
Bai Jinshu's mouth twitched.
It can be seen that Director Qiao was really frightened by this series of accidents.
This trail is a resort, and its main attraction, besides its “high-end” name, is the large area where one can dive.
It is said to be temporarily cleared, but in fact, someone should have gone to the diving base to cordon off an area. After all, the area available for diving is very large, and the areas of different institutions are different. In order not to disturb the recording, it is possible that the program crew temporarily found a diving institution that has no scheduled guests to book the area.
If this happens again, it will really be a feng shui problem.
After all, most people in the entertainment industry are superstitious. So many things happened the first time the program crew switched from recorded broadcast to live broadcast. Several guests registered with the police. If a few more incidents happen, there is no guarantee that the recording will not be stopped directly.
Director Qiao naturally didn't want to stop the recording, so he could only coordinate with all parties as quickly as possible to move everyone to a safe place.
The hotel holiday villa area where a murder occurred, the amusement park where the equipment was inexplicably damaged, and the beach with many tourists were not allowed to be visited. The only place left to go was the diving area.
It is impossible for six people to shoot together when filming diving, which gives the camera enough room to operate.
The five guests who were called out by the staff looked at each other. Huangmao had not returned yet.
Although Huangmao is a bit stupid, there is sufficient evidence that he was not present last night, and there are five of them as witnesses, so he should not have been gone for so long.
It was not until all five people had listened to the diving instructor's explanation of the next key points that Huang Mao finally arrived in another small boat. As soon as Hong Conghua saw him, he asked, "What's going on? Why did you take so long?"
"Don't mention it."
Huang Mao looked around, and after Bai Jinshu said, "The camera followed the diving instructor first," he said with relief, "The two girls who disappeared yesterday insisted that they met me alone at the amusement park, and then I asked them not to be discovered by other tourists during the recording of the program, and then they took me to a remote place."
As soon as the yellow-haired guy sat down, he started talking: "They thought we were filming a variety show, so they didn't think too much about it and headed straight for the aquarium. They said they knew their phone was in their friend's hands, but they thought it was a rare opportunity to be with me, not to mention that they could be on a variety show, so they didn't go back to get it. They didn't care about the radio, and took me into the aquarium, and walked around with me for more than an hour until the aquarium closed, then they walked out with me."
"As soon as I left the aquarium, I had no memory of what happened next. When I woke up again, I was on a reef and was carried up by the police who responded to the call."
"Did they really stay in the aquarium for that long?" Hong Conghua didn't believe it.
"Not at all!" Huang Mao got angry when he mentioned this. "If the two of them stayed in the aquarium for so long, how could the security guards not have noticed them when checking the surveillance cameras?"
He unscrewed a bottle of mineral water and drank half of it before speaking in one breath, "I said I was not there during that time. I have sufficient videos and witnesses to prove that I was somewhere else. The person they followed was not me at all. The police also said that they could not access the surveillance cameras in the aquarium and they did not enter the aquarium at all. As a result, these two people did not believe it at all and thought that the program team had teamed up with the police to deceive them. They also repeatedly looked at the law enforcement camera and asked if this thing was a lens from the program team and whether you were filming a program."
Bai Jinshu twitched his lips: "And then?"
"Then the police would have no choice. These two people didn't break any laws or regulations. They insisted that they met me and said their memories were incomplete. I couldn't just let them blackmail me. I had enough evidence to prove that I was not there. The police could only notify the family to come and pick me up. They didn't dare to let them leave alone, fearing that they had mental problems and something would happen on the way back."
"As for me, I can only keep comforting these two people until the park sends their phones to me," Huang Mao rubbed his hair irritably, "What on earth does that person pretending to be me want to do? He lured two tourists away and put them under the cliff, and called the police to rescue them. It's really incomprehensible."
"Not sure..." Bai Jinshu touched his chin. "It seems that this thing is not aggressive towards us at the moment. It is more inclined to use our identities to cause trouble to others. It seems to be different from the previous two murders."
"I think they are all the same," Huang Mao curled his lips, "Those four people died physiologically. If the six of us continue like this, we will die socially."
"It's not that serious..." Hong Conghua patted his shoulder. "At least nothing can go wrong this afternoon. We are all on this boat, surrounded by water, and the camera is still live. With these buffs stacked up, even if they use our identities to deceive people, no one will believe them."
The best way to prevent yourself from being slandered is to always appear in front of the public.
As the diving instructor in front came back with the camera, everyone tacitly changed the topic.
Among the six guests, only Bai Jinshu and Hong Conghua had some diving experience, the other four were complete novices, so the first wave to go into the water were naturally these two.
This diving area was relatively empty. Although other diving teams could be seen everywhere, because each diving agency in the resort contracted a different area, even if they were recognized as the crew recording a program, most people would just wave at them excitedly. The bolder ones would shout a few words of support at them. No one rowed over directly.
Bai Jinshu prepared all the equipment, made a gesture to those around him, and dived down from the edge of the boat with Hong Conghua.
Diving for beginners is not difficult at all, not to mention that they are doing it for recording a program, so they naturally choose an area that is more suitable for beginners and has more beautiful scenery.
Not having to talk once in the water saved a lot of trouble. The diving instructor was responsible for holding the camera, and the two of them only needed to make gestures towards the camera.
After making a few heart-shaped and other hand gestures, Bai Jinshu was about to go down when he discovered that the water surface did not seem peaceful.
The other dive instructor on the boat seemed to be frantically gesturing at them to get on.
Unable to make eye contact through the mask, Bai Jinshu frowned slightly and made a gesture to the diving instructor indicating that he was feeling unwell.
The diving coach must have been specifically reminded by the program crew not to film if any accidents occurred. He understood the message and waved to everyone with the camera, made a farewell gesture, and then cut off the camera neatly.
The three people did not dive very deep. When Bai Jinshu emerged from the water, the sounds on the water surface suddenly entered his ears clearly.
On a boat not far away, several people were gathered together in a noisy manner.
Several boats that were originally separated by a large distance were now gathered around that boat. There seemed to be a person sitting in the middle of the crowd. No one knew what had happened.
"What's wrong?" Hong Conghua hurriedly took off his mask and spoke before he could even climb over the side of the boat.
"There was a diver over there who almost got into trouble just now," Xiaoying leaned over and whispered, "It seems like something got tangled up on his feet and he couldn't get out. It took several coaches from several boats to pull him up."
"It's happening right now," she paused, and seeing the camera was filming the other side, she whispered to Bai Jinshu and Hong Conghua, "They say this sea area is unclean, there are water ghosts, and someone must have died here."
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