Chapter 311: Inhuman (119) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
Just as Bai Jinshu was thinking about this question, Xiaoying stumbled to her feet, but her legs almost gave out and she sat down again.
Fortunately, Hong Conghua helped her.
She seemed to be the only one among the three girls who could still stand steadily. She supported Xiaoying, looked around, and her voice sounded relatively stable: "What should we do now?"
There were two corpses on the ground. One was nailed to the ground by a sausage stick, and the other was torn apart by two cuts from a knife, one messy and the other fatal. Blood was splattered everywhere, and everyone had a lot of it on their bodies.
The murder was committed by five of them working together in a resort hotel where someone could appear at any time.
"Is there any surveillance?" Hong Conghua's first reaction was to look up and around.
"No," Bai Jinshu was brought back to his senses by these words. He looked around and replied, "There are some in the distance, but they are probably not clear enough."
There happened to be a very tall tree next to the lawn, with lush branches and leaves, blocking most of the surveillance.
The little girl seemed to be frightened and stayed in Hong Conghua's arms for a long time without saying a word. Nianyu got up from the ground, glanced at her phone, and typed a message on it: "Are these two people dead?"
AI's usual calm tone made Xiaoying seem to calm down a little.
"Dead." After Hong Conghua made sure Xiaoying could stand on her own, she went to check the breathing of the two men.
"Er Si...you..." She looked up at Bai Jinshu, seeming to want to say something but stopping herself.
The way Ersi killed someone just now didn't seem like it was his first time.
So neat and tidy.
She had heard of this professional villain in the entertainment industry to some extent, but she didn't expect that this guy was not only good at playing villains, but he could also kill people so quickly and efficiently.
Her mind was filled with the scene just now, and she didn't notice that her reaction was not normal.
Would an ordinary person be as calm as she is when seeing a murder?
Herbisk stood up from the side, and his tone now sounded calm, just like the AI: "If you don't kill them, they will kill you."
The situation just now was indeed critical. There was no one in the resort hotel at this point. If they did not fight back in time, they would be the ones to be killed.
But the feelings of being chased by the murderer with a knife and snatching the knife to kill the murderer are still different.
Hong Conghua and Nian Yu, the two people who did not actually take action, were fine, but Xiaoying, who had dealt the first blow, was now so frightened that he stood there for a long time, unable to speak.
In comparison, Bai Jinshu glanced and found that Herbisk was obviously much calmer than the other three. It was not known whether it was because of his personality or because he had witnessed someone's death last night.
He had already stood up from the ground and pulled the sausage skewer out of the fake yellow-haired man's neck.
Bai Jinshu... No, [11] I don't know what kind of clever strength he used when he made the move, but this fragile wooden stick was able to go straight through the person's throat and nail into the grass below.
When Herbiskus pulled it out, the corpse on the ground, which looked exactly like Huangmao, slightly raised its neck as the wooden stick was pulled out. Hong Conghua beside him hissed as if he had a toothache and covered his neck, feeling a phantom pain.
Bai Jinshu's mind was full of problems with [11] and [17], and he didn't have enough energy to deal with the three guests who were still recovering from witnessing death.
Herbiskus was clearly not the type to comfort others.
While he was lost in thought, the other three guests looked at him as if he were an alien, watching the guest with whom they had been spending every day for the past few days cleaning up the corpse as if it was nothing new.
"You..." Hong Conghua looked at him for a long time. He wanted to ask him why he was so skilled, but when the words came to his lips, his brain cramped and said, "Why don't you deal with these two bodies first?"
Herbisk was dealing with the wooden sticks on the body and cleaning up the broken glass at the scene, but he had no intention of dealing with the two bodies next to him.
Aren’t these two bodies the ones that need to be dealt with the most?
"No need," Bai Jinshu pulled himself out of his thoughts a little, "these two bodies will disappear on their own."
"Disappear?" Hong Conghua opened his eyes slightly, not knowing whether he thought Bai Jinshu was talking nonsense or felt that this sentence was too absurd.
"We already dealt with two last night." At this point, there was no need to hide what happened last night. Anyway, now that these two people were dead here, everyone was the murderer. "The bodies of the two people who were like us disappeared after they died."
Bai Jinshu lowered his head and glanced at the two bodies on the ground that looked exactly like the yellow-haired Xiaoying. He raised his head slightly and looked at Xiaoying: "After the bodies disappeared, we gained the memories of the two things that imitated us."
Herbisk nodded slightly.
"That is to say..." Hong Conghua ignored the following part, "You two have killed someone last night?"
"Let me correct you," Herbiskus crossed his arms, "this thing is not a human."
If someone disappears inexplicably after death, he is definitely not a human being.
"Xiaoying?" Nianyu's AI read out the words she typed, "Then do you have any extra memories?"
"Let me think..." Xiaoying's voice was as soft as a mosquito. She stayed there for a few minutes before she whispered, "Not yet."
"How can there not be one?" Hong Conghua said anxiously, "Think about it again!"
"Really... I really can't remember." Xiaoying said in a low voice.
She paused for a long time before each sentence and seemed to be frightened. Her description of her extra memories was also very vague. We didn't dare to ask her more questions, so we could only put the question aside and wait for her to calm down.
Fortunately, among the three girls, except for Xiaoying who had a dull expression, the faces and thinking of the other two were relatively normal.
Hong Conghua hurried to Bai Jinshu's side and said, "Xiaoying doesn't have the memory you mentioned. What's going on? Could it be that you made a mistake?"
"No," Bai Jinshu shook his head and told him everything that happened last night. "Last night at about one o'clock, those two things entered our room and wanted to kill us. We killed them in return, and the bodies disappeared after a while. When I woke up this morning, I found an extra memory in my mind, which happened to be the part where I walked into the room and was killed."
"Hiss..." Hong Conghua touched his chin subconsciously, "That means Xiaoying will only know what the person who imitated her did tomorrow, right?"
Nian Yu took a breath and added, "And Huang Mao."
Speaking of yellow-haired, Bai Jinshu remembered.
Something is wrong.
He and Herbisk originally concluded that besides them, Huangmao was also the one who killed the imitation last night.
But now a replica of Huangmao has appeared. So did Huangmao meet his replica last night?
If not...his behavior today was a little weird.
And according to the current situation, it is obvious that each imitation that has turned into their appearance will try to kill the original and replace it. Then why doesn't this thing that imitates Huangmao kill Huangmao, but instead chases them?
There were too many mysteries to face, and even Bai Jinshu couldn't figure them out all at once. He simply put all these things behind him and faced the problems in front of him first.
"What's the house number of the villa in front?" He straightened his messy clothes, looked around, opened the map on his phone and located the current location, "Where are we running to? How far are we from Huangmao?"
"This is the edge of the hotel," Nian Yu's AI voice sounded, "If we go any further, we'll run out."
When we were running away just now, no one cared about which direction we were running, and there were no signboards in the hotel, so naturally we ran in the wrong direction and ran towards the edge of the hotel.
But the problem now is obviously not where they are, but that they don't know where Huangmao is.
Everyone looked at each other and saw the same message in each other's eyes.
The villa that seemed to be vast and open to the sea was probably near the gate of the resort hotel, but they just followed the direction of the delivery man's bicycle and had no idea where that place was.
This is embarrassing.
Fortunately, the next second, everyone’s cell phone vibrated, and Huangmao sent a series of voice messages in the group.
"I'm telling you guys, I think I found something! Give me some advice."
"I rely on you people?"
"Why aren't you guys where I just entered? Where are you?"
"Have you been discovered by the security? Should I call Director Qiao and ask him to rescue you?"
Huangmao sent these three voice messages very quickly, and before everyone had a chance to reply, he had already said a lot.
Before Hong Conghua could find a way to send the two words "No" in the group, Huang Mao's next voice message came out: "This shouldn't be the case. You didn't do anything. Why did the security arrest you?"
"You guys didn't go and eat delicious food without telling me, did you?"
Bai Jinshu held his forehead with his hand.
How did Huangmao's thinking jump to this point?
Normally, no one would starve him, so why was his first reaction after he found out that everyone had disappeared that everyone went to eat without him knowing...
Although he was speechless, seeing his thoughts jumping around like this, it didn't seem like anything had happened.
While Bai Jinshu was speechless, Hong Conghua quickly replied in the group: [I'm afraid you may have dragged me down a little and got lost. Please locate us so we can go there.]
Ten seconds later, Huangmao posted his location in the group.
Bai Jinshu clicked on it and saw that they had actually run quite a distance just now, and the yellow-haired man was more than one kilometer away from them.
Hong Conghua jumped from the built-in map of WeChat to the navigation software, turned on the walking navigation, and turned around hesitantly: "The two we are walking on now..."
Her words stopped abruptly.
Following her gaze, the two bodies on the ground had disappeared at some point.
Not only the corpse, but also the blood splattered on Xiaoying's face disappeared without a trace at some point.
The five people standing here now have no trace left except that their clothes look a little messy.
Bai Jinshu did not witness the disappearance of the corpse last night, but he inferred the process from [17]'s description. This was the first time he saw this scene.
Hong Conghua didn't notice it just now, but his eyes never left the two imitations. In just a moment, the two things disappeared.
Without any warning or any other abnormalities, the body disappeared in an instant along with the blood, including the two knives that were snatched from the two men. Everything belonging to the two imitations disappeared in an instant.
No wonder [17] told him not to worry yesterday.
In this situation, even if the most professional criminal police came here, they would not be able to infer from the clues at the scene that someone had died here.
"Let's go," Herbiskus said with an unchanged expression, looking up at everyone, "We just told Huangmao that we want to go there. If we take advantage of this period of time when there are imitations and go directly to him, it will be dangerous."
After being reminded by him, Hong Conghua quickly picked up the phone and gave Huangmao a few words of advice, telling him not to trust anyone. After they met, they sent messages to each other on the phone to confirm each other's identity before they felt relieved.
Several people just broke the glass of the villa. Nian Yu just wrote down the house number and planned to find an excuse to give the hotel money as compensation to delete the surveillance when she goes out.
After all, they are not employees of the hotel and don’t know the location of all the surveillance cameras. There is no guarantee that there may be some hidden surveillance cameras that can capture their actions.
Fortunately, the identity of the program team's guests was a good smokescreen. They only had to say that they accidentally broke the glass and did not want the surveillance footage to be posted online and taken out of context. So they were willing to pay several times the compensation and hoped that the park would delete all the surveillance footage after they entered here today, and then they could naturally delete this content.
Everyone was anxious to explain the situation to the park security before the resident of the villa came back. After meeting the yellow-haired man and confirming his identity, they hurried towards the door and told him to go back and say whatever he wanted to say.
Killing two "people", even if they were imitations, is not a reason that can be stated openly.
Faced with Huangmao's questions, everyone tacitly chose to use the same rhetoric they used to fool the hotel staff.
The people who smashed the glass were guests who were recently recording a program in the resort. The hotel initially planned not to charge any money, but several people insisted on compensation and demanded that the surveillance footage be deleted. In the end, the hotel manager made the final decision on both sides.
The compensation for breaking the glass is 700 yuan, the workers' cleaning fee is 300 yuan, and the hotel only needs to be compensated 1,000 yuan.
The biggest problem was actually that only guests lived in this room. Fortunately, the guests happened to be fans of Bai Jinshu. After a few photos and autographs, the girls didn't seem angry at all about the broken glass of the villa they rented. Instead, each of them had a smug smile on her face as if she had made a fortune.
We walked back along the way we came. At this point, most of the guests had already returned to the hotel. Fortunately, the light was poor at night and we were not recognized on the way back.
"By the way, what did you say you discovered just now?" Sitting in the hotel restaurant, Hong Conghua remembered that Huangmao had said in the group that he had discovered something big.
"Oh oh oh, I found something!" Huang Mao slapped his head and started talking before the food was served, "After I climbed in, I found that there were three people in the house."
When Huangmao climbed in in the afternoon, the whole house was quiet.
Following his previous findings, he walked carefully to the door, only to be dumbfounded.
He chose to climb in through the back door because he observed other villas and found that only the glass door leading to the swimming pool had no curtains, so he could look directly into the house, so he climbed in from here.
But after entering, he found that the back door of the house was blocked by a cabinet.
The only observation hole was blocked, and Huangmao was unwilling to give up, so he simply started walking around the house, trying to find a curtain that was not drawn. He happened to find one during his search.
One leaf of the Venetian blinds in the villa's kitchen may be broken and cannot be closed, and through the gap you can vaguely see the scene inside.
The problem is obvious at first glance.
The lights were on in the room, and three people could be vaguely seen.
The closest person was a boy who looked about fifteen or sixteen years old. He was wearing a loose basketball jersey and was wringing a large bottle of drink that was delivered with the takeout.
There were two figures in the restaurant further away. Their ages were unclear, but they were probably a man and a woman.
After taking a closer look, they should be two elderly people. I guess a family lives in this villa.
"Wait a minute," Hong Conghua interrupted his narration, "There is a family living here... Could it be the Tiangaohaikuo family?"
I'm afraid she wouldn't have entertained such speculations before this afternoon.
But after facing the imitation directly and knowing that this thing killed the original in order to replace it, it is easy to associate the people inside with the two people who were killed.
"I don't know either," Huang Mao curled his lips, "The police haven't released what the deceased looks like, but most of the people living on the island now are fans. I thought this family of three didn't run away when a murder happened a few days ago, and they are still living here now. There must be a ghost, so I continued to watch in the kitchen."
After the fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy in the jersey opened the drink, he carried the bottle to the living room, and the family started eating.
The living room was too far from the kitchen. Huangmao thought he would not be able to see anything new, but unexpectedly, while they were eating, the middle-aged man suddenly received a phone call and went to the kitchen with the phone in his hand, looking very angry.
"He seemed to be shouting something into the phone... something like, don't ask me, don't disturb my life, etc." Huangmao scratched his head. "I originally thought he was here to collect debts, but then I thought, that's not right. Didn't the policeman that Nianyu's colleague called say that he would not cooperate with the investigation? I immediately became interested."
After answering the phone call, the middle-aged man in the room seemed to have no mood to eat. He put down his chopsticks and walked towards the bedroom.
Huangmao decided to take it easy and simply climbed up to the second floor using the water pipe.
All the curtains on the second floor were drawn tightly, and there was no other broken blind for him to see inside, so he could only hear the sounds in the room.
"The man made several phone calls inside, like he was trying to contact a private jet or something. Then two other people came up, and I heard a few words of their conversation..." The yellow-haired man recalled and summarized what the other party said, "It was probably that the man was complaining about why the police kept asking about the two fakes. I will find a way to take you back."
"Then the female voice said something about us avoiding the limelight or something like that. I stayed there for a long time and didn't hear anything else, so I came out to look for you guys."
"Do you think this person is broad-minded?" The yellow-haired man scratched his head.
"Kind of," Bai Jinshu nodded, "It sounds like his wife and children were replaced by substitutes, and he thinks the fake ones are the real ones now. But because the identities of the two have changed to death, they can't leave the resort island through normal transportation, so they can only rent a private plane?"
There was no way he could board the plane with two people confirmed dead.
"The sky is high and the sea is vast. Can't you tell that your wife and children are fake now? Instead, you plan to take them home?" Hong Conghua knocked on the edge of the table thoughtfully.
This was an unexpected development.
They originally just thought that the sky was high and the sea was dangerous, and there was a high possibility that he would be replaced by those things, but they didn't expect that his two wives and children who were killed by the substitutes would appear by his side again.
The dishes on the table were gradually served. Huang Mao picked up a piece of blood curd without thinking: "Uh... then should we continue investigating? If we continue investigating, how else can we investigate? We can't just tell Tian Gao Hai Kuo that hey, buddy, your wife and children are fake, and now these two are the murderers of your real wife and children, then they will punish us, right?"
Hong Conghua frowned and looked like he wanted to say something.
The moment his eyes fell on the Maoxuewang, he let out a loud dry heave.
"Oh my god..." Huang Mao was so frightened that he dropped the chopsticks in his hand. "Conghua, are you okay?"
Hong Conghua closed his eyes and covered his nose, unable to say the words "it's okay" with a clear conscience.
When ordering the dishes just now, everyone was thinking about something else and let Huangmao order whatever he wanted. Unexpectedly, this guy actually ordered Maoxuewang.
She had just killed someone in the afternoon... killed something that looked like a human being, so she felt vaguely uncomfortable in her heart. Huangmao even prepared a big bowl of maoxuewang to stimulate her sensitive nerves.
The Maoxuewang was actually nothing special. Although it looked like a bowl of red, it wasn’t enough to make her gag, which was fine, but the problem was that this bowl of Maoxuewang was topped with a thick layer of coriander.
It would have been fine if he hadn't seen it. As soon as he saw this thing, Hong Conghua felt his stomach churning. He couldn't eat anything no matter what he said. He also forgot what he was going to say. He grabbed his phone and room card and went back.
When she retched, the rest of the people also felt something was wrong.
Xiaoying and Nianyu also left one after another. Huangmao was speechless at the table. It was not right to keep them, nor to continue eating. He could only look at Bai Jinshu and ask, "What's wrong with the three of them?"
Bai Jinshu held his forehead with his hand: "It's too hot... Maoxuewang is a Sichuan dish, they don't have an appetite."
The yellow-haired man slapped his thigh and said, "Hey, why didn't you tell me earlier? I would have ordered something lighter and asked them to come back."
"Forget it," Bai Jin said. He felt that once the blood curd was served, the three of them would not be able to eat anything else Huang Mao ordered. "If they are hungry, they will find food by themselves."
"Do you still have an appetite?" He looked at Herbisk next to him, fearing that he would be disgusted like the other three people by the bowl of Maoxuewang that Huangmao had unknowingly ordered.
"I don't eat blood clots," Herbiskus shook his head slightly, his eyes scanning the table, "Let's go."
Since Herbisk had no appetite, Bai Jinshu was not disgusted, but he really didn't want to eat spicy food in such a hot day, so he simply shrugged his shoulders and left the restaurant, following him back to the room.
The series of events tonight were too abrupt. Not to mention the other four people, he also needed some time to sort it out.
Especially when this happened to me.
Thinking of this, Bai Jinshu suddenly remembered that wasn't the script for the twenty-four characters given to him by Old Wu?
He picked up his phone and called his agent.
"Hello? Ersi, do you still remember your unlucky agent? It's been so many days since the recording started and you still remember to call me, I..." The call was connected, but Bai Jinshu interrupted the other party before he could finish speaking.
"Old Wu," he unconsciously flipped through the character design booklet he had given himself, "Where did you get this most popular character design booklet?"
The author has something to say:
I had a dysmenorrhea today. It was a lot late. I'll just randomly pick 20 from the first 40+.
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