Chapter 309: Inhuman (117) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
"What do you mean?" Huang Mao spoke first, "Your colleague means that this man killed the person?"
"My colleague said that the man's behavior was too different from that night. They suspected that he had murdered the man..." Nian Yu glanced at the yellow-haired man silently, and the AI in his hand read out the second half of the sentence emotionlessly, "But he has an alibi."
"That's not easy," the yellow-haired man slapped his thigh, "He hired a killer."
"Can we find a killer in a society ruled by law?" Xiaoying was full of doubt.
"If you want to find it, you can definitely do it," Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows slightly, "It just depends on whether you can find a channel."
"Look, I told you what I was saying," the yellow-haired man spread his hands. "Now it makes sense. This man hired a killer to kill his wife and son, and then in order to prove his alibi, he deliberately went out to broadcast live in the middle of the night, crying and shouting in front of the camera to clear himself of suspicion. Now that the person is dead, he won't pretend anymore..."
"That makes sense..." Hong Conghua touched his chin and changed the subject, sighing, "I say, Ersi, your connections are incredible. You can even contact the killer? Your circle is really messy."
"I just said I have a channel," Bai Jinshu smiled helplessly, "I didn't say I could contact him."
He is a law-abiding citizen.
Logically speaking, he had never been exposed to these things, but before he blurted out that sentence just now, he did search for some related business channels in his mind, and he didn't know when he wrote it down.
However, the circle is indeed full of mixed people. It is possible that he had some contact with them at some point and subconsciously noted down the contact channels.
After all, art comes from life, and many things that seem outrageous often happen in the real world.
"Those who understand, understand, those who understand, understand," Hong Conghua waved his hand, obviously not intending to continue to argue with him on this issue. Anyway, it was impossible for everyone to "But even so, the police are not stupid. Why didn't they think about what we thought about? Since they closed the case, they must have checked the man's cash flow to make sure that he didn't hire a killer."
"So this man hired someone he knew to commit the crime, so he didn't have to pay?" Huang Mao's thoughts were always very unique. "We are all family, so why talk about money?"
"Wake up," Nianyu's AI interrupted him coldly, "Are you a policeman or are you the police investigating the case? They must have thought about what you have thought about, and the surveillance also shows that no one has entered or left there. Don't forget that in addition to homicide, there is also the possibility of..."
The thought was not completed.
But everyone understood what was said next.
Apart from homicide, the last possibility is that these two people were killed by the thing that imitated them.
The reason they wanted to find someone to investigate this unknown person was not to find out whether he was the murderer of their relatives, but to suspect that before the deaths of these two people, something imitating them had appeared around them.
"Could it be that..." Xiaoying lowered her voice, glanced around, and said quickly, "In fact, all three of them were imitated, but they were not there that night, so the other two were killed, and the real Tian Gao Hai Kuo was already dead. Now the one who appears in front of everyone is actually the replaced Tian Gao Hai Kuo?"
"I think your answer is the most likely," Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes, "I also suspect that this man has been replaced."
When he saw the bodies of his wife and children in the live broadcast room that night, the wail he uttered did not seem to be acted.
The voice was too shrill and unbelievable. Not to mention an ordinary person, from his perspective, most actors in the entertainment industry with mediocre acting skills and dubbing skills above or below the passing line could not give that kind of feeling.
Even for voice actors, it takes a long time to prepare before shouting out such emotions. It is impossible for them to chat and laugh with everyone like Tian Gao Hai Kuo and then suddenly stop and shout out in the middle of speaking.
So the voice must come from his heart, otherwise it wouldn't sound so real.
He and the two deceased were a family of three. If the other two were targeted, it didn't make sense that he would be the special one.
"Doesn't that mean..." Hong Conghua shook his shoulders, "this person is dead too?"
If the people living here now have a false vision of the vast sky and sea, then the real vision of the vast sky and sea will most likely lead to bad luck.
"Did your colleague say anything else?" The yellow-haired man looked at Nian Yu.
"That's all," Nian Yu typed a line of words for the AI to read, "After all, this case just happened a few days ago. This information should be kept confidential. It's good enough that people can tell him this much."
That's true.
Xiaoying looked around at the thoughtful staff who had already finished cleaning up the set, and tried to ask: "Should we go check out Tiangaohaikuo now to see if there is anything wrong with it? See if that thing has disappeared along with Sister Conghua's update?"
"How can we tell?" Hong Conghua immediately denied. "First, we don't know where Tian Gao Hai Kuo is living now. We only know that he has moved to a new hotel. Second, we don't know what Tian Gao Hai Kuo looks like. Even if we go door to door looking for him, we still won't know which one is him."
"If you want to find one, you can," Xiaoying held up her face and whispered, "Sister Conghua, don't forget that there are not many hotels in this resort area, and they are all concentrated in this area. Apart from the building we are staying in now and the Garden Hotel that had the accident, there are only a few other villa-type hotels."
"Hiss... Now that you put it that way, it seems easy to find," Huang Mao had already started to think, "At worst, I can just walk through all the places."
Nian Yu was even more direct: "Don't forget, after the murder a few days ago, all the tourists who were on vacation had left. Now most of the people on the island are fans who have rushed here. The fans are all young people in their twenties and thirties. Tian Gao Hai Kuo is a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties. It's easy to find him among the young people."
"Yes," Hong Conghua's expression relaxed for a moment, "Then let's..."
She looked around at the staff who had already packed up and left: "Let's try to look for them?"
Huang Mao's eyes suddenly showed some excitement: "Can it be done?"
"Is it okay?" Xiaoying looked around quietly, "Look, Director Qiao has left."
Director Qiao was so proud after today's recording that he left in a beaming mood. Although he didn't say it explicitly, he attributed the smooth progress of the crew to the successful opening ceremony.
The director above was jubilant, and the staff below also breathed a sigh of relief. The hotel's meal coupons only included breakfast, not lunch or dinner, and the staff usually ordered meals together through the crew.
The recording content of the past two days is all about intangible cultural heritage promotion. There is nothing to prepare or coordinate for tomorrow, so the venue staff intentionally took it easy and did not count the number of people who ordered dinner, implying that everyone can move around freely, which can be regarded as compensation for the staff's tense hearts these days.
However, for safety reasons, he still reminded everyone not to act alone, and everyone nodded and went out arm in arm with their familiar colleagues.
At this moment, half of the staff in the venue had already left, and the rest were cleaning up the venue or arranging the scenery for tomorrow. The guests sat on the sofas, so as not to disturb their work.
"Ersi, how about it?" Hong Conghua pushed him, rubbing his hands in anticipation, "Do you want to go?"
Bai Jinshu looked at Herbisk, who whispered, "If you go, I'll go with you."
"Let's go," Bai Jinshu seemed to think for a while and answered carefully, "But if we are recognized..."
"Don't worry," the yellow-haired man swung a pair of sunglasses in his hand, "I won't recognize you if you put these on."
Haibei has high light intensity, so sunglasses are not only for celebrities, but also for ordinary tourists. Although the sun has set, tourists who don't have any bags and are too lazy to take off their sunglasses are still walking in the resort in groups of two or three.
Most people on the island wore tropical-style shirts and shorts. Although they didn't plan to record the show in this villa, everyone still had a few pieces of such clothes in their closets, and now was the time to use them.
Bai Jinshu watched everyone change their clothes. Nian Yu told the driver not to pick them up as they all had things to do and were not in a hurry to go back. Then he walked towards the venues of other hotels eagerly and blinked subtly.
Something is definitely wrong.
They are just guests filming the show here. Whether the case is investigated or not has nothing to do with them. Even if these things that imitated them out of nowhere are very dangerous, they may have disappeared with Hong Conghua's update, and have nothing to do with them.
But after hearing about the recent situation of "the sky is high and the sea is vast", everyone, including him, had the first reaction to go and see for themselves.
Everyone seemed to have chosen to investigate and explore on their own very smoothly, ignoring the fact that they had no investigation experience as celebrities, cartoonists, or other people. They subconsciously chose to investigate in person and quickly reached a consensus to go together.
It’s okay for people like Huangmao and Hong Conghua who are usually more outgoing and lively, but Nianyu and Xiaoying didn’t make any denial after hearing about this plan, which was very wrong.
This sense of identity mismatch seems to be getting worse.
But the more he tried to figure out what was going on, the more his behavior deviated from his identity and the closer he got to his deviant thinking.
Bai Jinshu was just thinking about it when he felt something prick his right cheek.
"What's wrong?" He was stunned and had to stop thinking.
"Coconut water," Herbisco waved a coconut in his hand at him and pointed his chin in front of him. "Yellow-haired saw a coconut water cart about to close and was having a special sale, three for twenty dollars, so he bought one for everyone."
Sure enough, he held another coconut in his left hand.
Bai Jinshu took the coconut from Herbisk's hand and looked at the four people in front of him. He felt that the four of them did not seem like they were going to investigate the vast sky and sea.
They seemed to be on an outing.
The four people in front each held a coconut, wore island shirts and sunglasses, and looked completely integrated with the tourists around them.
On the contrary, Herbisk, who stands out from the crowd with his height, and as a star, he stands out in the crowd.
All the investigations are just excuses. Huangmao probably just wants to go out and have fun.
See him buying coconut water and straw hats, and also bought a few frangipani hairpins for the female guests. Then he walked and walked into a small convenience store in the resort. When he came out, he had six more sausages in his hand.
Along the way, Bai Jinshu had no space to think. Every once in a while, the yellow-haired man either handed him coconut water or grilled sausages. He also excitedly took out his cell phone and took several photos of the sunset, looking like he was finally liberated.
Bai Jinshu saw several tourists passing by looking at them, as if they were doubting whether they were guests. But maybe Huangmao was too ignorant. They had coconut water, grilled sausages and ice cream in their hands, which really damaged the status of the show guests in the minds of the general public. So everyone just walked along the way eating and drinking, and no one came forward to ask, which was also magical.
The four people in front were walking and looking at the map, and they walked out of the area of the Garden Hotel and entered the area of another resort hotel.
There are not many hotels in the resort, about five or six. Each hotel has a different focus. For example, the main selling point of the Garden Hotel is the villas and the good surrounding environment, while the remaining hotels are parent-friendly and have three or four children's playgrounds in the hotel area. Some hotels also have swimming pools in each villa. The one you are going to now is the one with the swimming pool.
There is quite a distance between hotels in the resort, and passengers are usually transported by electric cars. After everyone got on the electric cars, I finally recognized myself from several tourists on the same car.
Huang Mao and Hong Conghua deceived them again and again, making them believe that the six guests were out on a secret mission to find clues hidden by the program team in the entire park. If they publicized this news, they would not be able to complete the mission. They made several fans willing to keep the news secret for them, and only then did they get away safely.
They said they came here to find the man with the vast sky and the boundless sea, but Bai Jinshu estimated that no one had any hope of really finding him here, and most of them were just trying their luck.
It was lunchtime, and most of the tourists were in the various restaurants in the resort. Huang Mao was analyzing seriously, "Tian Gao Hai Kuo's live broadcast a few days ago was very loud, so he definitely wouldn't be in a crowded place, so he must be in his hotel room now."
Hong Conghua twitched his lips and took a sip of coconut water: "Are you sure? No one has seen his face. If he doesn't shout in the crowd that I am the sky is high and the sea is vast, who would care about him? The six of us appearing in the crowd will be more eye-catching than him."
Nian Yu pinched her chin and said something very confusing: "Yes, and this man said in the police's account relayed by Nian Yu's colleague that he was very impatient with the police's investigation and questioning. So he must be annoyed that the police disturbed his comfortable vacation life alone. How could he stay in the hotel?"
Only Xiaoying came to his rescue and said, "Why don't we look for it first, and then go to the restaurant after we're done."
Huangmao scratched his face, feeling that it was indeed the case, and blinked awkwardly: "So should we look for it now or go to the restaurant?"
The electric car hasn't left yet.
"Forget it," Bai Jinshu said, "Since we're here, let's take a look around here and see if there are any middle-aged men."
He spoke not because he thought Huangmao's idea of seeking the far away instead of the near was correct.
The main reason was that he suspected that Huangmao also killed the thing that imitated him last night and obtained the other party's memory. In the other party's memory, he saw some things related to Tiangaohaikuo's whereabouts, but it was not convenient to say it out loud, so he could only bring everyone here in this way.
Without waiting for others to react, Herbiskus walked straight forward.
With someone taking the lead, the rest naturally followed.
Because of the swimming pool, the villas in this hotel appear to be larger than those in the Garden Hotel.
There are few tourists walking on the road at this time, and each villa has drawn curtains for sun protection. Looking around, the entire hotel villa area is deserted.
Just when everyone thought that there would probably be no clues to be found here, a horn suddenly sounded behind them.
Bai Jinshu turned around and found that the person honking in the distance was a delivery boy riding an electric scooter.
Seeing that there was no one in the hotel villa complex, the six of them walked in the middle of the road. They probably blocked the delivery boy's way, so he honked the horn to ask everyone to make way.
Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes and stared at the delivery guy who flashed past them and rode his electric scooter towards the front.
"Let's go." He whispered, and subconsciously pulled Herbisk forward.
Last night, two people killed two things that imitated them in the room together. Although he had no memory of the subsequent processing, after vaguely understanding this information, Herbisk's ranking in his mind was subconsciously higher than that of the other guests.
Since it was unclear whether everyone had killed someone last night, it was clear that he and Herbisk were in the same boat.
Since they have already planned to get involved, if this matter is not clarified, there will be no peace between the two of them.
What's more, the other party's attitude towards him today was obviously much more friendly than in the past few days, which showed that he also understood this truth.
The two walked a short distance forward before they heard the yellow-haired man behind them, as if his brain waves had suddenly connected: "There's something wrong with this delivery guy! There's something wrong with the person who ordered the takeaway. Who orders takeout in a resort now?"
The price of a hotel here is hundreds or thousands per day. Most fans come here to watch their favorite guests recording a show. They find like-minded guests on social software and share a room with them. They hope to meet them by chance or appear on camera when the show is being recorded. They spend most of their time outside.
How could there be fans who would stay in the hotel instead of going out to order takeout?
Could this takeaway be just Sky High and Sea Wide?
"You just realized it..." Hong Conghua's speechless voice sounded, "We are ready to catch up."
Although we say we should chase after it, there is actually no need to do so.
The entire hotel villa area is indeed empty. Even standing here, you can clearly see the delivery guy stop in front of a villa, take the meal out of the trunk and pass it through the door, then ride away on his small electric stove.
"This is a lot of takeout," Hong Conghua used his phone's camera to zoom in more than ten times, staring at that direction and taking several photos. "This takeout bag is almost bigger than the delivery guy's head. Can one person finish so much takeout?"
This is a tropical resort, and takeout will definitely go bad if left overnight. Even if it is kept fresh in the hotel's small refrigerator, with takeout so convenient, no one would go on vacation to deliberately order a lot of dinner the day before and have the leftovers for breakfast the next day.
"Could it be that he is really a fan who is too lazy to go out so he is staying in the hotel?" Xiaoying touched his chin.
This amount is definitely not for one person.
"I don't know," Huang Mao said sincerely, and then he started to act stupidly, "Why don't we just take a look?"
The curtains at the front and back of the villa were all drawn, but judging from the similar layout of the surrounding villas, the glass door leading to the swimming pool was a door without curtains. Huang Mao tentatively observed the villa and quickly set his sights on a tree: "I'll jump in from there and take a look!"
Without waiting for others to react, he nimbly jumped up the tree.
"Hey--" Before Hong Conghua could finish his words, he saw the yellow-haired man take a run-up and jump into the tree like a monkey.
"No," she was stunned. "There are surveillance cameras here, right? If I'm caught driving, how am I going to explain it to the police?"
"Don't even mention how to explain it to the police," Nian Yu typed silently, "It would be fine if they only caught Huang Mao, but if they caught five of us, Director Qiao's hair would be in danger."
Six guests broke into the fan room together in the evening? I couldn’t even imagine how this news would spread.
Bai Jinshu curled his lips and said, "Let's find a place without surveillance to wait for him."
He is now more and more certain that Huangmao must have killed the thing that imitated him last night to get some information. The thing that imitated him not only deceived fans into going to the aquarium, but also carried them off the cliff. He might know more than himself and Herbisk.
Instead of waiting here together, it is better to find a secluded place where Huangmao can express himself freely without any restrictions. If we really want to know something later, we can just ask him alone.
Herbisk gave him a questioning look, and Bai Jinshu nodded slightly.
He is sure that Huangmao is the same now.
Several guests walked around the villa and soon found a small lawn with little surveillance nearby, and sat down there.
Hong Conghua seemed quite unhappy with Huangmao's self-assertion and kept muttering to himself all the way. Xiaoying, as a die-hard fan of Huangmao, had the confidence from nowhere to say that Huangmao would be fine. She hugged Hong Conghua's arm and said good things to him.
The three girls gathered together, and Bai Jinshu naturally sat with Herbiskus. He took out his phone and typed two lines: [Yellow Hair probably killed the thing that imitated him last night. The remaining three girls probably don't know what happened last night. ]
Herbisk nodded.
Bai Jinshu deleted the previous one and typed a new one: [He may have seen something from the memory of the thing that imitated him, and is now confirming it. Do you think we should ask him what he knows in exchange for his trust by killing the imitator last night? ]
Herbisk took the phone from him and typed: [You make the decision.]
Bai Jinshu held the phone and fell into deep thought.
Killing someone is no small matter, even if it was just a humanoid creature. What's more, Herbisk was also involved. If he made a wrong bet and the yellow-haired man didn't kill the imitating thing last night, then spreading the news would be tantamount to self-destruction.
It’s not that he hasn’t thought of a more obscure way of saying it, but the problem is Huangmao’s brain. He was really afraid that if he said it too obscurely, the other party wouldn’t understand.
It is recorded that when Bai Jinshu was deep in thought, Hong Conghua beside him suddenly let out a sigh.
"Hey, Huangmao is back, so soon?" Not far away, Huangmao ran towards everyone. Although Hong Conghua was unhappy, she stood up the fastest. Curiosity drove her to walk in the direction of Huangmao, and asked as she walked, "Did you see it? Is that a fan or Tiangaohaikuo in that room?"
Bai Jinshu quickly deleted the content on his phone and turned around, just in time to see a hint of doubt in Xiaoying's eyes, followed by vigilance.
Then, she suddenly jumped up from the ground with extraordinary agility and grabbed Hong Conghua: "Don't go over there!"
"Ah?" Hong Conghua staggered when she pulled him.
Xiaoying grabbed her arm tightly: "That's not him!"
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