Thirteen deadly sins

Chapter 2 Death is coming
Not long ago, a reporter colleague from the entertainment section of our newspaper told me that a crew from our Xiulin City came to film a microfilm called "Death is Coming".I'm not a groupie, and I don't take it to heart.Unexpectedly, ten days later, the entertainment section of our newspaper suddenly published a piece of news about "The Crew of a Microfilm Encountered the Curse of Death". After reading the news, I was even more confused. Is there really a "curse of death" in this world?With this question in mind, I interviewed the person in charge of this case, my good friend--Xia Jianfeng, head of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Municipal Public Security Bureau.Xia Jianfeng told me that the crew of "Reaper is Coming" was indeed targeted by the "Reaper", and this "Reaper" is the hatred of human beings.

1
When the crew of the micro-movie "Death Comes" finished filming the last scene, everyone seemed very excited.Director Jing Haichen said that he would invite everyone to have a big dinner tonight, it was a celebration banquet for everyone.Everyone shouted in unison: "Long live the director!"

Jing Haichen was originally a professor in the Directing Department of the Academy of Film and Television Arts in the provincial capital. He went to sea a few years ago and made several low-cost literary films, but they never caught on.Last summer, he made a micro-movie "Death Comes".Micro-movies pay attention to three "micro", that is, micro-duration, micro-manufacturing, and micro-investment.The film is less than 20 minutes long, and the actors are all students of the drama club of the Academy of Film and Television Art in the provincial capital. It tells a thrilling story about a film crew being cursed by death, and people continue to die mysteriously.During the half-month filming process, the crew continued to report that there were supernatural events happening.When the film was finished, the leading actress, Chang Weilu, a freshman from the Provincial Academy of Film and Television Arts, suddenly committed suicide by jumping off a building, making this micro-movie full of horror and suspense from both inside and outside the film.The movie became popular before it was released, which whetted the appetite of the audience.After uploading to the Internet, within a day, the number of hits exceeded 100 million, and it was hailed as the hottest micro-movie of last year.

A well-known video website took a fancy to the potential of this micro-movie, and at the beginning of this year, Jing Haichen was hired to film the second part of "Death is Coming".Coincidentally, when the crew was filming the last scene - the scene where the leading actor Cheng Yun jumped off the building, Cheng Yun "flyed" directly from the roof of the fifth floor without any protective measures , was killed on the spot.This desperate jump was praised by many entertainment newspapers as "the most realistic death scene in history".After the movie was launched, the video site earned enough clicks and advertising fees.

After Jing Haichen thought about it, he felt that he couldn't let the website oppress him like this, so he invested in it himself, became the producer and director, and filmed the third part of "Death is Coming".Long before the filming started, he had negotiated copyright transfer matters with video sites, mobile phone operators, and vehicle-mounted mobile TV operators. With the placement of advertisements, the income has reached millions.There is another reason why Jing Haichen is so confident in the micro-movie he invested in, and that is the cast.In this movie, he not only invites students majoring in acting from the Academy of Film and Television Art in the provincial capital to participate in the performance, but also invites the popular horror movie star Muzhi to play the female lead.

The 27-year-old Muzhi had already met Professor Jing Haichen when he was still studying at the Academy of Film and Television Arts in the provincial capital.After graduating, she participated in the first movie, which was to play the female lead in Jing Haichen's movie.Later, she starred in several thriller movies in a row, which were well received by the audience, and she was hailed as the queen of the new generation of thrillers.It stands to reason that with her current fame, it is impossible for her to act in a small-scale micro-movie.She agreed to take part in "Death is Coming" not because of Director Jing's "friendship performance", but because she has the handle in Jing Haichen's hands.

It turned out that at the beginning of Muzhi's debut, in order to be able to play the female lead in Jing Haichen's movie, Jing Haichen had "unspoken rules".Later, after Muzhi became famous in thrillers, she never worked with Jing Haichen again.This time, Jing Haichen asked her to act as the lead actress in the third part of the micro-movie "Death is Coming" at a price of almost zero salary, so she was naturally unwilling.Unexpectedly, Jing Haichen took out a CD and played it for her.What is stored in the disc is the high-definition footage of her being "unspoken" by Jing Haichen.Jing Haichen said that as long as she participated in this micro-movie, he would give her the disc after the film was completed, and promised that there would be no copying, and he would never trouble her again in the future.Otherwise, he would put this video on the Internet and ruin her reputation.Muzhi was forced to have no choice but to bear the humiliation and agree.

Although "Death is Coming" is a micro-movie, although the sparrow is small and complete, there are about twenty actors and actresses in the crew, as well as photography, art, screenwriter, and production management.Jing Haichen chose Xiulin Town, a remote town hundreds of miles away from the provincial capital, as the shooting location for the third part of "Death is Coming".This is a tourist town with beautiful scenery. Behind the town is Xiulin Mountain. The mountain is strange and the forest is gloomy. It is said that during the Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guofan killed tens of thousands of soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom here. Event happens. All the plots of the third part of "Death is Coming" are unfolded in this mysterious Xiulin Mountain. The weird environment adds to the thrilling effect of the film.The entire crew has been busy for nearly half a month, and the film is finally finished, and everyone is relieved.After half a month of eating box lunches on the set, the director finally showed mercy and invited all the cast and crew to have a big meal. Everyone was naturally very happy.

At the celebration banquet, everyone held wine glasses and toasted the director one by one.

Jing Haichen didn't refuse anyone who came, his face flushed from drinking.

Zhou Xiaoyang, the number one male sitting next to him, seemed to have a grudge against the wine in the glass, and kept clinking glasses with Director Jing to toast.Zhou Xiaoyang is a senior student in the Acting Department of the Academy of Film and Television Arts in the provincial capital. He is tall, handsome, and has a good capacity for alcohol. This time he can play the male lead. It seems that he is really grateful to Director Jing.

In the face of this lively scene, there is only one person who stays out of it, sitting in a corner drinking beer silently, and this person is the female number one Muzhi.Don't ask her to come forward to toast Jing Haichen now, even if she looks at him one more time, she will feel disgusted.

After Jing Haichen recruited her into the film crew, his lust never died. Not only did he often harass her on the set, but he also asked her to come to his room to discuss the script every now and then. On a whim, he actually called her in the middle of the night and told her to go outside to "fight in the field" in the bamboo forest.If there is any disobedience, they will threaten with a CD.

Muzhi doesn't want to stay in this crew for a moment, wishing she could disappear from this dirty place immediately.

"Girl, what are you thinking about?" Just as Muzhi was frowning in a daze, a voice suddenly sounded from behind him, when he turned his head to look, there was already a person standing behind him, it was Uncle Hua.

Uncle Hua is the screenwriter of this movie, he is extremely rigid, he has been guarding the set all the time, if the director wants to change a word in the script, he will have to argue for a long time.Everyone on the set is afraid of him.But he has a very good attitude towards Muzhi, and he doesn't call her by her name when he calls her, but just calls her "girl" affectionately.Sometimes, when Jing Haichen secretly played tricks on Muzhi, others pretended to ignore the director's authority, but the upright Uncle Hua would always stand up and help her out.Mu Zhi, who grew up in a single-parent family, felt that Uncle Hua was very much like the father she imagined.

Uncle Hua mopped a chair and sat down beside her, and asked, "Girl, why don't you toast Director Jing?"

Mu Zhi tilted her head and said angrily, "No."

Uncle Hua chuckled and said: "Girl, if you eat in this circle, you will always meet him again. Don't tear your face apart. Go over and toast him with a glass of wine, say a few polite words, and it's over."

Mu Zhi knew that Uncle Hua was doing it for her own good, so she couldn't bear to show his kindness, so she hesitated for a moment, took a glass of wine, got up and walked towards Jing Haichen.

Seeing her approaching, Jing Haichen laughed loudly and said, "Ha, our big beauty can't bear the loneliness at last."

Muzhi forced a smile, and said, "Director, thank you for your care, I would like to offer you a toast." He picked up the glass and touched him lightly.

Jing Haichen raised his neck, drank a glass of white wine proudly, then put his hands on her shoulders, whispered into her ear, "At 09:30 tonight, I am in the bamboo forest behind the mountain. Wait for you."

Mu Zhi was startled, her heart sank.Jing Haichen once used a motorcycle to drive her to the bamboo forest behind the mountain to "discuss scripts". Of course, she knew what he meant by asking her to go tonight.She wished she could throw the wine glass in her hand on his head.

2
This celebration banquet lasted from four o'clock in the afternoon until after eight o'clock in the evening.Everyone drank a lot of Erguotou, came out of the hotel, feeling that the excitement was still unfinished, clamoring to see the nightlife of the tourist town, so they went to the night market in twos and threes, shoulder to shoulder.

Because Muzhi had something on her mind, she had no intention of going shopping, so she went back to her residence early alone.

The crew did not live in a hotel, but was stationed in a four-story old house under Xiulin Mountain.

This house is called Xiulin Villa. It is surrounded by high-rise buildings in the shape of a "mouth" with a small patio in the middle.The villa faces south and backs north, with water in front and mountains behind, which coincides with the meaning of "mountains and rivers gather, and wind and water are hidden".It is said that it was originally a private villa built by a provincial senior official in the early 90s. Later, the senior official committed suicide by jumping off the building in the villa because of corruption and bribery.It was originally a treasured place of Fengshui, but it became a haunted house overnight.Later, the villa was auctioned by the government, and a coal mine owner bought it at a low price.The mine owner happened to be Jing Haichen's classmate, and when he heard that Jing Haichen was going to shoot a movie in Xiulin Mountain, he offered to lend this old villa building to the crew to live in.Jing Haichen saved a sum of accommodation expenses, so naturally he wished for it.In fact, Xiulin Villa has been uninhabited for many years, only an old gatekeeper Tong Bo lives in a small room behind the gate.

When Muzhi returned to Xiulin Villa, Tong Bo was sitting in front of the arched gate in a vest and shorts, listening to the radio.

Mu Zhi greeted Tong Bo and went upstairs.She lives in a large house in the middle of the third floor on the north side.According to Jing Haichen's arrangement, except for the director and the lead actress who lived alone in a single room, the rest of the crew shared a room with two people, and lived separately on the third and fourth floors.

Muzhi went back to the room, took a shower, and checked the time on the phone, it was already ten past nine at night.She sat by the bed and hesitated for a long time, Jing Haichen asked her to go to the bamboo forest behind the mountain at 09:30 to "talk about the script", the purpose can be imagined.Go, she really doesn't want to be humiliated again; if you don't go, you have another reason in Jing Haichen's hands. If you really annoy him and publish the contents of the CD on the Internet, her stardom will be completely ruined up.After thinking for a long time, I finally decided to meet Jing Haichen again.

She secretly made up her mind: she must take this opportunity to make a complete break with him!

When Muzhi went downstairs, she happened to meet Uncle Hua coming down from the fourth floor with a pipe in his mouth.

"Girl, are you going out?" Uncle Hua greeted her.

She nodded and said, "It's too hot, go out for a walk." She didn't want Uncle Hua to see anything, so she lied.

Uncle Hua said: "Yes, the weather is very stuffy, I'm afraid it will rain heavily. I also want to go to the street to get some air."

When he walked out of the gate of the villa, he suddenly heard a sound of "Wah-wah". Muzhi turned his head and saw Zhou Xiaoyang, the male number one, holding the big stone lion at the door with his hands, squatting on the ground and vomiting vigorously.She frowned, thinking that the child really drank too much.Go over and hand him a pack of tissues.

Zhou Xiaoyang took the tissue without raising his head, wiped his mouth, and walked into the gate as if nothing had happened.

Walking eastward from the villa for about ten minutes, there is a bamboo forest, each bamboo is as thick as a bowl, and tens of acres of bamboo forests are connected together, which is quite spectacular.During the day, some tourists come here for sightseeing and taking pictures. At night, when the wind blows the bamboo leaves and makes suspicious rustling noises, no one dares to approach rashly.

Mu Zhi walked eastward along a concrete path, the lights on the road were dim, and no pedestrians could be seen.When she came to the edge of the bamboo forest, she saw a motorcycle parked by the side of the road from a distance, and she recognized that it was Jing Haichen's mount.This Yamaha was originally abandoned in the villa by his mine owner classmate, and it happened to be used by Jing Haichen, who rode it on a rampage all day long on the set.

Muzhi walked into the bamboo forest from where the motorcycle was parked, and she saw Jing Haichen sitting on the grass with his back to the concrete path, leaning against a bamboo plant.

Muzhi called out "Director Jing", but Jing Haichen didn't respond.Taking a closer look from behind, he realized that he was listening to music on his mobile phone with earphones plugged into his ears and a peaked cap that he usually wears at work.No wonder she couldn't hear her cry.

Standing behind him, she was about to shout again, when she suddenly caught a glimpse of a brick-sized stone exposed on the grass under her feet.Her heart skipped a beat.She originally came here with the intention of making a complete break with Jing Haichen, but she knew in her heart that Jing Haichen was a treacherous, greedy person, and she would never let her go easily.If the third part of "Death is Coming" made money, he would continue to use the disc as a threat to force her to make the fourth and fifth parts... What awaited her would be a boundless nightmare.To truly and completely end this matter, there is only one way - to let this hateful man die immediately!
The idea popped up in a flash, and it never went away.

She looked at the stones on the ground and tried hard to remember that Jing Haichen asked her to come to the bamboo forest tonight, but no one else knew about it, and she walked all the way without meeting anyone else.If Jing Haichen died here, no one would suspect her.

She had a limited amount of alcohol, and she drank a few glasses of beer at dinner, and she was already a little bit drunk, but at this moment, her alcoholism was strong, and her murderous intent was even stronger.He bent down, picked up the stone on the ground, lifted it up high, and suddenly threw it at the top of Jing Haichen's head.

Jing Haichen was caught off guard, and received this fatal blow, without even making a sound, he turned his body sideways, fell limply to the ground, and did not move any more.

Muzhi's heart almost jumped out of her throat, she didn't care to take another look at Jing Haichen's body, threw down the stone, turned around and ran out of the bamboo forest.

3
Muzhi ran back to Xiulin Villa, when the gatekeeper, Tong Bo, was about to close the door. The two heavy wooden doors had already been closed. She hurried in, ran upstairs, rushed into her room, closed the door with a bang, and leaned against the door. Behind, limp down.

Her teeth were trembling, and there was only one thought in her mind: I killed someone, I killed someone... Shocked and frightened, tears welled up.

She didn't turn on the light, and just sat motionless in the dark, leaning against the door. After an unknown amount of time, a pale lightning flashed outside the window, followed by a shocking thunderclap, which exploded above her head.

Muzhi's face was pale, and she hugged her shoulders tightly, trembling with fear in the darkness.

After the thunder, there was a crash, and the pouring rain began to pour down.

After sitting in the dark for an unknown amount of time, she finally came to her senses, stood up with support, fumbled and pressed the light switch, and the suddenly lit light made her eyes hurt.She wiped the tears off her face, went to the bathroom to take a shower, washed all the clothes and shoes she had changed, and confirmed that there were no traces of stepping into the bamboo forest behind the mountain, so she was a little relieved.

Muzhi looked at his phone, it was already 10:30 in the night, he calmed down, and was about to go to bed, when he suddenly heard a sound of "嗵嗵嗵嗵" coming from the wind and rain, it seemed that even the house was about to vibrate together, so he listened It turned out that someone was banging on the gate of the villa outside.

It's so late, who will come back from outside?

Feeling puzzled, she opened the door and leaned over the wooden railing in the corridor to look down, only to see that Tong Bo heard the sound of knocking on the door, ran out of the porter shirtless, and kept shouting: "Don't knock! Knock, here we come." He removed the latch from the inside and opened the door with a creak.There was only a bang of the accelerator, and a yellow Yamaha rushed in from the steps like an arrow, and rushed to the center of the patio before turning off the engine and stopping.

The rider on the motorbike is tall, wearing a very special fiery red raincoat and helmet, Muzhi recognized it at a glance, isn't this Jing Haichen?
She wobbled and nearly fell off the railing.This, how is this possible?Didn't Jing Haichen have already been stoned to death by me?Was he not dead at all?Yes, it must be that I used too little force in panic and just knocked him out.

Thinking of this, she suddenly felt relieved, after all, she was not a murderer yet.But on second thought, if I attacked him with a stone, would he retaliate against me?Well, probably not. At that time, he was sitting in the bamboo forest listening to music and never looked back. He probably didn't know that it was me who attacked him from behind.Although there is no need to worry about being a murderer anymore, but with Jing Haichen's "resurrection", the grievances between her and him are still unresolved, what should we do?

Several thoughts swirled in her mind, and a heart that had just been let go couldn't help but hang up again.

She stood in the shadow of the corridor and looked down, only to see Jing Haichen took off his helmet and hung it on the motorcycle, wearing a raincoat and hat, walked into the stairwell, and thumped up to the third floor.

Jing Haichen lives on the third floor in the south, facing Muzhi's room across the courtyard.

Jing Haichen took out the key to open the door, and then closed the door with a bang.

The lights in the room were quickly turned on, reflecting his slender figure on the curtained windows.

After entering the house, he first took off his rain hat, took off his raincoat and threw it aside, then bent down and brushed off the muddy water on his shoes. At this moment, it seemed that the mobile phone hanging on his waist rang. The phone answers the call.I don't know if it's because of the rain, the noise, or the bad signal, but he speaks loudly, and Muzhi can barely hear him through the courtyard.

"Hey...well, it's me...it's you? It's so late, what's the matter...Do you have to make it clear tonight...See me? Now? It's so late...Oh, okay Just wait, I'll come over right away..." Judging from the content of the intermittent conversation, it seemed that someone had an urgent matter and wanted to see him immediately for an interview.

Jing Haichen had no choice but to put on his raincoat and hat again, went downstairs to the motorcycle, put on his helmet, opened the door by himself, stepped on the motorcycle, and as soon as his butt smoked, he rushed into the rainy and foggy night outside.

When Tong Bo heard the sound and came out to close the door, the motorcycle had long since disappeared.

Mu Zhi was staring at the slowly closing door in a daze, when she suddenly heard some voices above her head, looked up, and saw that the number one male, Zhou Xiaoyang, was also looking upstairs.He lived on the fourth floor, the room above Muzhi's head, and he lived with the second male lead of the crew.

Zhou Xiaoyang didn't seem to see it too clearly. Seeing that Muzhi was also looking around, he bent down and asked, "Sister Muzhi, did Director Jing come back just now?"

Mu Zhi nodded and said yes, came back and went out again, as if someone called him for something urgent.

Zhou Xiaoyang let out a thoughtful "Oh", and quickly shrank back in.

Muzhi went back to her room with a complicated mood. She was sleepless for a while, so she sat on the bed and took out her mobile phone to play online.

The sound of rain outside the house gradually subsided.

She had just played a few rounds of Doudizhu with others on QQ when she heard a "bang" sound from the patio.

A few seconds later, someone in the corridor suddenly yelled: "No, someone jumped off the building, someone jumped off the building..."

Muzhi was startled, hurried out of bed, opened the door and leaned down to look, only to see a person lying on the ground in the middle of the courtyard, surrounded by bright red blood.

Her heart tightened, and she ran downstairs with her slippers on.

Tong Bo also ran out when he heard the sound, and turned on the headlights in the courtyard.

Muzhi looked intently, and the person lying in the pool of blood was actually Zhou Xiaoyang, the number one male who had talked to her just now, and she couldn't help being stunned.

Others in the crew heard the sound and ran down one after another.

The rain was still falling unhurriedly, the courtyard was wet, and everyone surrounded Zhou Xiaoyang in the rain, and couldn't believe it was real for a while.

Only Tong Bo stepped forward boldly, looked at Zhou Xiaoyang's face, shook his head and said, "The brains are all thrown out, there is no hope."

Everyone looked at each other, speechless.

In the crowd, suddenly a girl covered her face and screamed, "Curse, curse of death!"

Everyone felt chills, and invariably remembered the horror legend about this movie: when filming the first part of "Death is Coming", the female lead Chang Weilu committed suicide by jumping off a building bizarrely; One jump, and the most realistic death scene was staged; now that the third part has just finished filming, the male lead actually fell from the building in the rainy night... The movie version of "Death is Coming" is actually staged in real life.

Who will the god of death look at next?In the icy rain, everyone felt a heart-piercing chill.

"Uncle Tong, open the door, open the door!"

Suddenly there was a knock on the door outside the house, startling everyone in the silence.

Tong Bo hurried to open the door, and the screenwriter Uncle Hua came in.He didn't open an umbrella and was almost drowned.While entering the door, he said that he had found a mahjong parlor to play mahjong. Unexpectedly, when he came back, it was raining heavily... Before he finished speaking, he looked up and saw everyone standing in the courtyard, with a corpse lying on the ground, and he froze for a moment.

Muzhi told him what happened, and Uncle Hua asked, "Where's Director Jing?"

Mu Zhi said: "It seems that something has gone out."

Uncle Hua glanced around at the crowd, the crew was full of young people, and he was considered the oldest.He quickly calmed down and said, "Stand back, everyone, don't move the corpse, and protect the scene." Turning back to Tong Bo, he said, "Call the police."

4
More than ten minutes later, when the rain stopped, a police car roared up and stopped at the gate of Xiulin Villa. Several policemen jumped out of the car. The leader was a fat man with a police cap on his head. number one.As soon as he arrived at the scene, he showed his police officer ID and introduced himself, saying that his surname was Peng and he was the director of the town police station.

Director Peng squatted down to check the body of the deceased. Seeing that the body was already cold, he was indeed dead, so he turned around and asked several policemen to control the scene.They asked the crew members about the name and identity of the deceased, and only after learning the reason why the crew came to Xiulin Town did they begin to ask about the incident.Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, saying that they heard a bang, and when they came out to check, they knew that someone had jumped off the building.

After Director Peng learned that the deceased lived with others in a room on the fourth floor, he glanced at everyone and asked, "You, who shared a room with him?"

"I..." The male number two who was squatting on the edge of the steps tremblingly raised his hand and stammered, "Yes, it's me..."

Director Peng beckoned him over and asked, "Tell me, what's going on?"

The second male number was also a student studying at the Academy of Film and Television Arts in the provincial capital. He was obviously frightened, his face was pale, and he trembled a little when he spoke.He said: "I, after dinner tonight, I wandered in the street and didn't return to my room until ten o'clock in the evening. When I came back, Zhou Xiaoyang was already in the room, watching on the sofa with his laptop computer. Movies. But I saw his eyes straightened and his expression dull. It is more appropriate to say that he is staring at the computer screen in a daze than watching a movie. I greeted him, but he ignored him. I know he had a drink at night There was a lot of wine, and it was understandable that it was a bit abnormal. At about 10:30 in the night, the sound of a motorcycle came from the courtyard. He came out to take a look, and when he returned to the room, he suddenly said: "He is back." It’s gone.” I asked him casually, who’s back? He said Jing Haichen. I thought to myself, Director Jing often leaves late at night, what’s so strange about that? So I didn’t take it seriously. They also sat down to watch together. But Zhou Xiaoyang couldn’t sit still any longer. He sat down for a while, stood up for a while, and walked back and forth in the room. After a while, he went out and stood in the corridor. After a while, he suddenly jumped over the railing without making a sound, and jumped down from the fourth floor..."

"Wait a minute." Director Peng interrupted him, "You mean, he jumped off by himself, and no one pushed him, right?"

The second male said, "Yes."

Director Peng stared at him and asked, "Why are you so sure?"

Male No. [-] said: "I could just see where he was standing from the open door. I just watched him jump down the stairs by himself. I was stunned for a moment, and it was too late to stop him. Besides, I ran When I came out, there was no one else in the corridor. The first person to shout 'someone jumped off the building' was me."

Director Peng asked: "As a roommate in the same room, do you know why he committed suicide by jumping off the building?"

The male number two shook his head and said, "I don't know. Although he usually looks a little melancholy, it's not to the point where he can't think about jumping off a building. Besides, his dream is to be an actor, and the first movie he's shooting has just finished, and he's still thinking about it." It’s too unbelievable to commit suicide by jumping off a building in such a haste without seeing the work I’m starring in.”

Director Peng nodded, agreeing with his idea.The second male number looked around, suddenly his eyes flickered, and he lowered his voice anxiously and said, "So I said, there is only one reason, and that is the curse of the god of death. He was cursed by the god of death, and he cannot escape."

"Reaper? Curse?" Director Peng froze for a moment.

The male number two told him the rumors that the crew of "Death Is Coming" was cursed by the god of death and accidents happened one after another.

Director Peng curled his lips and said: "It's useless to stop talking to me about it. According to the current situation, this case can only be treated as a suicide case for the time being. We will call the funeral home's car to pull the body later. I will report the case tomorrow. Go to the City Bureau and ask colleagues from the Criminal Investigation Brigade to follow up. By the way, everyone from your crew is here, right? Who is in charge?"

Male No. [-] said: "The person in charge of our crew is Director Jing, the director Jing Haichen."

Director Peng looked at the crew and asked, "Who is he here?"

The second male said: "He went out. We called his cell phone just now, but no one answered. Everyone is here except him."

Director Peng nodded and said, "Okay, I'll make a note. When your director comes back, tell him to come to the police station early tomorrow morning to explain the situation."

Not long after, the hearse from the funeral parlor drove over, and Zhou Xiaoyang's body was carried into the car and taken away.Director Peng also waved his hand, and took a few of his men into the police car.

Muzhi stood in the courtyard, staring blankly at the bloodstains on the ground, feeling that Director Peng had settled the case a little easier.But what was wrong, she couldn't tell herself.

5
Mu Zhi returned to her room, it was almost two o'clock in the morning.

She was lying on the bed, unable to fall asleep.The scene of Zhou Xiaoyang falling to her death, lying motionless in a pool of blood, was like a high-definition photo, frozen in her mind.

She had heard rumors that the crew of "Death is Coming" was cursed by the god of death, but she never took it to heart. Now that the lead actor Zhou Xiaoyang committed suicide by jumping off a building for no reason, and the bloody corpse was lying in front of her, she was suddenly shocked. I feel that this crew really seems to have been cursed by the god of death, full of weirdness everywhere.

There was another thing that also puzzled her greatly, and that was Jing Haichen's whereabouts.After he came back late at night, he answered the phone and immediately went out on his motorcycle again.

Where did he go?Why did no one answer the phone when such a big incident happened to the crew?
Did he really not know that she was the one who attacked him in the bamboo forest?Will he come back?
Could it be that this ominous crew was really cursed by the god of death?
This time it was the number one male who died, who will be cursed next time?Will it be her number one female?

Her heart was gripped tightly by a mysterious and indescribable fear, and she could hardly breathe.

Tossing and turning on the bed, he didn't fall asleep until it was almost dawn.

I don't know how long I slept, but I was suddenly awakened by a knock on the door. I got up in my pajamas and opened the door. There was a female crew member standing at the door.

The female theater manager said that something happened to the director of the scene, and the police were waiting for us in the courtyard, so she quickly got dressed and went downstairs.

Muzhi's heart skipped a beat, and she hurriedly changed her clothes, before even washing her face, she hurried downstairs.

Everyone in the crew, except the director Jing Haichen and the lead actor Zhou Xiaoyang who jumped to his death last night, stood in the courtyard.

There were two policemen standing on the patio steps, and one of them was a fat man, Director Peng who had been here last night.

Director Peng said that you people are really worrying. Yesterday's case was not closed yet, and today I was forced to get up early.

It turned out that when someone went to exercise in the bamboo forest behind the mountain this morning, he found a dead body lying in the grass, so he immediately called the police.Director Peng led people to the scene and found that the deceased was a man with a stack of identical business cards in his pocket, with the words director Jing Haichen written on it, so he thought this should be the one who didn't answer the phone in the crew last night. The person in charge.He immediately called to report the situation to the city bureau, and people from the city criminal investigation team rushed to the scene soon.He now wants to take the crew to the scene to confirm the identity of the deceased and accept questioning.

Muzhi's heart sank.None of the crew had recovered from Zhou Xiaoyang's panic when he was "cursed by the god of death" and jumped off the building last night. Now that the director also suffered bad luck, they couldn't help but look at each other. Everyone saw it through each other's eyes. Doubt and fear.

Everyone silently came to the edge of the bamboo forest behind the mountain.

A red cordon has been pulled up in the bamboo forest, and many policemen are busy inside the cordon.Muzhi saw a Yamaha motorcycle parked by the side of the road, with Jing Haichen's fiery red raincoat and blue helmet hanging on it, which he wore when he left Xiulin Villa on a motorcycle late last night.A man was lying down in the grass in the bamboo forest, and a policeman was snapping pictures of him around him.Because standing outside the cordon, the distance was too far, and the appearance of the deceased could not be seen clearly.

Director Peng shouted at a dark-faced middle-aged policeman inside the cordon, "Captain Xia, I've called all the crew here."

The so-called "Team Xia" said without looking back, "Let them wait outside the cordon and ask two people to come in and identify the body."

"You go over there." Director Peng pointed to the number two male who had spoken to him last night, then looked at Muzhi, "Beauty, you go over too."

Mu Zhi and No. [-] man raised the cordon, bent down and got in, walked to the grass, and saw the man lying on the ground, his skull had been smashed into a lotus shape, and there was a bloody peaked cap beside him.

Muzhi's heart was pounding, her stomach convulsed, and she squatted on the ground and vomited vigorously.

The second man's face was pale, and he no longer dared to look in the direction of the corpse. He turned his face to the police and said, "Yes, it's him, it's Director Jing..."

Xia Dui called them to the side, and while tearing off the white gloves on his hands, he said, "My name is Xia Jianfeng, and I am the captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Municipal Public Security Bureau. You can call me Xia Dui." Seeing that they both clicked He went on, "I ask you now, when was the last time you saw the dead?"

Male No. [-] hurriedly said, "It was after ten o'clock last night, when he came back on a motorcycle."

Mu Zhi added: "Yes, he returned to the set on a motorcycle, and seemed to answer a phone call in the house. It seemed that someone was in a hurry to see him, so he went out on a motorcycle immediately. I checked the phone The time on the screen should have been after 10:30."

She told the police again what she vaguely heard Jing Haichen said when he answered the phone.

"The clues you provided are very helpful to us." Xia Jianfeng said while nodding his head, "According to our trace inspection personnel's investigation, the deceased's skull was crushed with a blunt instrument, which is what we usually call the Tianling Gai, causing his death." Death. The murder weapon has been found next to the body. It is a stone the size of a brick. It is estimated that the deceased was wearing a peaked cap when he was attacked, so the cap was also stained with a lot of blood. According to the preliminary inference of the forensic doctor, the time of death should be between 11 o'clock and 30 o'clock last night Between two o'clock. We have already consulted the people of the Meteorological Bureau. The heavy rain last night started around ten o'clock in the night and stopped raining around 10:30 in the night. The deceased's motorcycle was parked on the side of the road. The raincoat has been taken off, which means that the heavy rain has stopped at that time. In addition, you have seen the deceased around 11:30, so we have reason to believe that the specific time of Jing Haichen's death was between [-]:[-] and twelve o'clock last night. When the sky was about to dawn this morning, there was another heavy rain, and the murderer’s fingerprints on the stones and footprints on the grass have been washed away by the rain. This is very unfavorable for us to solve the case.”

When he said that Jing Haichen was crushed to death by that stone, Muzhi suddenly swayed and almost fell down.She was completely confused: what the hell is going on?At 09:30 last night, I smashed Jing Haichen on the head, but did not kill him. Could it be that, two hours later, at the same place, someone actually smashed him to death with the same stone and the same method? ?
Xia Jianfeng glanced at her and said, "Based on your reaction, Jing Haichen left the crew after 10:30 last night, and the time of his death was after 11:30, and there was an hour of it." From your residence to this bamboo forest, if you ride a motorcycle, it will take a few minutes at most. During the one hour in between, was Jing Haichen in this bamboo forest, or somewhere else? You are the only ones on his phone The missed calls to him later, and the previous call records have been deleted, so we will not be able to find out who called him last night to ask him out for a meeting. Do you have any clues about this?"

Mu Zhi and the male number two shook their heads at the same time.Male No. [-] said: "We only heard that Director Jing and the owner of Xiulin Villa are classmates, but that classmate is currently traveling abroad. Besides, we haven't heard that Director Jing has any other friends in this town."

Xia Jianfeng nodded and said, "Well, we've thought of that too. So the police speculate that the person who called him last night to ask him out is most likely the murderer who killed him, and the murderer is most likely someone from your crew .”

Hearing this, Muzhi swayed again.

The second male number touched the back of his head and said, "But from 11:30 to [-] o'clock last night, during the time when Director Jing was killed, all members of our crew were in Xiulin Villa to accept the investigation by Director Peng. There is no time to commit crimes."

Xia Jianfeng thought for a while, then asked: "Then last night, when Jing Haichen answered that mysterious call, was there anyone who wasn't on the set?"

The male number two recalled it for a while and said, "It seems that Uncle Hua is the only one who is not here."

Xia Jianfeng asked again: "Last night, who was the last person from your crew to come back?"

Male number two said, "It's also Uncle Hua."

Muzhi said: "I remember that after Zhou Xiaoyang jumped off the building, when we were helpless in the courtyard, Uncle Hua called the door outside. Zhou Xiaoyang's watch stopped at three minutes past eleven after it broke , Uncle Hua came back about ten minutes later. It should be around 5:[-] at that time, and the error will not be more than three to five minutes."

Xia Jianfeng glanced at the crew standing outside the cordon and asked, "What does Uncle Hua do? Which one is Uncle Hua?"

Mu Zhi pointed her finger and said, "He is our screenwriter, the oldest one."

Xia Jianfeng said: "Go and call him over, I have something to ask him."

6
When Muzhi called Uncle Hua in from outside the cordon, Uncle Hua was holding his briar pipe in his mouth. The tobacco in the pipe had already been extinguished, but he didn't realize it, and was still smoking with relish.

Uncle Hua is actually not old, he is only in his 40s, but he stands out from the group of young college students.

Xia Jianfeng looked Uncle Hua up and down, and asked straight to the point: "Last night, you were the last one to return to the set, weren't you?"

Uncle Hua nodded and said, "Yes, when I came back, everyone except the director was in the courtyard."

Xia Jianfeng changed the subject, stared at him and asked, "Where did you go last night?"

Uncle Hua chuckled and said, "I don't have any other hobbies. I just like to play a couple of mahjong in my spare time. Yesterday I went out after dinner and went back to the crew to take a shower. In the corridor, I ran into a girl named Muzhi. It was about nine o'clock at the time. I went to the street, found a mahjong parlor, played mahjong for two hours, and didn't go back until after eleven o'clock at night."

Xia Jianfeng looked suspiciously at him, and said, "Then tell me, which mahjong parlor in town do you play mahjong in?"

Uncle Hua frowned and said: "It's hard to say. I think there are quite a lot of mahjong parlors on the street here, one after another. I just walked into one at random and didn't pay much attention. Now I don't remember where to go." Which mahjong parlor is it?"

Xia Jianfeng said in a blunt tone: "So, you can't provide any definite evidence that you were playing mahjong from nine o'clock to eleven o'clock last night?"

Uncle Hua said with a pipe in his mouth, "If you must understand this way, then that's fine."

Xia Jianfeng said: "Let me ask you again, did you go to the bamboo forest last night?"

Uncle Hua said in a teasing tone: "No. This is a place for young people to fall in love. I have never been here before."

Xia Jianfeng nodded, looked him up and down again, and suddenly stared at the pair of yellow leather shoes on his feet and asked, "What size shoes do you wear?"

Uncle Hua said, "I'm skinny and have big feet, and I wear size 44 shoes."

Xia Jianfeng's expression changed slightly, and he said, "Take off your right shoe and show me."

A look of suspicion flashed across Uncle Hua's eyes, but he still did as he said, bent down to take off a leather shoe, and handed it to him.Xia Jianfeng called a trace inspector next to him and asked him to compare the shoes.

Xia Jianfeng glanced at Uncle Hua and Muzhi next to him, and said: "There was a heavy rain last night, and the traces left by the murderer on the scene have basically been washed away by the rain, but we still extracted a piece of dirt from the dirt next to the deceased's motorcycle." The first shoe print, after preliminary analysis and verification, is the footprint of a men's leather shoe size 44."

When Uncle Hua heard this, he couldn't help but subconsciously looked down at his bare feet on the grass, a look of panic flashed in his eyes.

Not long after, the police trace inspectors came to report to Xia Jianfeng, and it was basically confirmed that the large shoe prints extracted at the scene were left by this yellow leather shoe.

Xia Jianfeng's gaze was like lightning, and he looked straight at Uncle Hua.Uncle Hua's face was pale, his eyes were flickering, he didn't dare to look at him, he just smoked his pipe for a while.

Xia Jianfeng reminded: "You have no tobacco in your pipe?"

Uncle Hua was startled, and then he noticed that the pipe had been turned off, and hurriedly took down the pipe to fill it with shredded tobacco.

Xia Jianfeng already had the bottom line in his heart, and said in a tone of insight: "Tell me, why did you kill Jing Haichen?"

Muzhi was taken aback, and said, "Captain Xia, did you make a mistake? Director Jing died between 11:30 and [-]:[-] last night, but Uncle Hua died at about [-]:[-] last night. Back to the crew. When Director Jing was killed, he was in Xiulin Villa, and everyone in the crew can testify to this."

Xia Jianfeng smiled slightly and said, "About this point, the murderer played a trick on us. When he killed Jing Haichen, it was actually still raining, but the rain had gradually diminished. According to the weather conditions at that time It is not difficult to judge that the rain will stop completely in a short time. Therefore, when the murderer killed Jing Haichen, because it was raining, Jing Haichen was still wearing a raincoat. But after Jing Haichen died, the murderer put the raincoat on his body The raincoat was taken off, hung on the motorcycle, and then the cap he often wore was stained with blood and thrown beside the body. This can give the police an illusion that since the deceased took off the raincoat, he was killed when he was attacked. , the wind and rain must have stopped, which caused the police to make a wrong judgment and pushed back the time of Jing Haichen's death by more than half an hour. It happened that there was another heavy rain this morning, and the body of the deceased was drenched again. I almost fell into the trap of the murderer."

Muzhi finally understood, and asked him, "You mean, the murderer killed Director Jing before the heavy rain stopped at 11:30 last night, right?"

Xia Jianfeng nodded and said, "Yes." He turned his gaze to Uncle Hua, and asked coldly, "This rare large-size shoe print that appeared at the scene of the crime is enough to identify the murderer, right?"

Uncle Hua's face was pale, he looked at him, then turned his head to look at Muzhi, sighed and said, "Well, I admit, I left that shoe print, and I killed Jing Haichen."

According to Uncle Hua's account, he sneaked into the film crew in order to kill Jing Haichen, but he never had a chance to do it.Last night was the last night for the film crew to live in Xiulin Villa. If you don't do it, it will be difficult to have a chance in the future.It just happened that it rained heavily in the middle of the night, which could cover up many traces left by committing the crime, so he called late at night and invited Jing Haichen to the bamboo forest. , smashed hard at his Tianling Gai.Before Jing Haichen could snort, he collapsed to death in a pool of stagnant water in the bamboo forest and grassland.When Jing Haichen died, he was still wearing a raincoat. The rain was still falling, but the intensity of the rain was obviously decreasing. It is estimated that the wind and rain would stop within half an hour.In order to create evidence for himself that he was not here when the crime happened, he took off Jing Haichen's raincoat and hung it on the motorcycle, so that people would think that Jing Haichen died after the rain stopped.The time of his murder was around 11:30 in the night. After setting everything up, he returned to the set at [-]:[-], and the rain stopped at [-]:[-].If the police determined that Jing Haichen was attacked and killed after the rain stopped, then he would have sufficient alibi.

Mu Zhi was almost stunned, grabbed Uncle Hua's hand and said, "This, this is impossible. You have no grievances with Jing Haichen, why did you kill him?"

Uncle Hua looked at her with love in his eyes, and said softly, "Girl, if my daughter was still alive, she would be as beautiful as you."

Muzhi was startled, and asked: "Your daughter..."

Uncle Hua said: "My surname is Chang, and Uncle Hua is the pseudonym I use when publishing my works. My daughter's name is Chang Weilu."

Muzhi yelled "Yeah": "Chang Weilu? Is that the girl who jumped off the building and died when filming the first part of "Death is Coming"?"

Uncle Hua nodded and said: "Yes, that's her. She was only 19 years old at the time and was a freshman at the Academy of Film and Television Arts in the provincial capital. Before she died, she called me and cried to me that she was shot by director Jing Haichen. This beast was ruined. The next morning, I received the news that my daughter fell to her death. The police committed suicide by jumping off the building, and no one held Jing Haichen accountable. Only I knew that Lulu was killed by Jing Haichen. Forced to death by an animal. In order to avenge my daughter and prevent more children from being ruined by Jing Haichen, I decided to kill this beast with my own hands. In order to get close to him, he solicited the second part of "Death Is Coming" online. I wrote a script for him, but it was not adopted. It was not until the third script that he took a fancy to it, and I also took this opportunity to sneak into the crew..."

Xia Jianfeng's face was serious, and he said: "If everyone in this world is like you, avenging their injustices and revenge for their vengeance, wouldn't it be a mess?"

He waved his hands and said, "Take him down." Two policemen heard the order and immediately stepped forward to handcuff Uncle Hua.

Seeing him stepping on the wet grass with one bare foot, Muzhi couldn't bear it, and said, "Captain Xia, let me put his shoes on for him."

Xia Jianfeng sighed, nodded, and handed the leather shoe to her.

7
Muzhi held the shoe, bent down, and was about to put on the shoe for Uncle Hua, when her eyes fell on the yellow leather shoe, a certain heartstring seemed to be touched suddenly, and she was stunned.

She suddenly remembered the scene of Jing Haichen coming back and going out on a motorcycle late last night.

It was raining heavily at that time, Jing Haichen was wearing that fiery red raincoat and helmet all the time, from the beginning to the end, she never saw his face.

Just based on his motorcycle, his raincoat and his figure, she took it for granted that the man was Jing Haichen.

She clearly remembered that when Jing Haichen got on the motorcycle, she saw the leather shoes exposed under the raincoat, which were exactly a pair of yellow leather shoes.

She thought of Uncle Hua's paternal love for her, and also remembered the kind eyes of Uncle Hua when he saw her just now, and she suddenly understood with a twitch in her heart.

"Wait a minute." She stood up and said to Xia Jianfeng, "Captain Xia, don't embarrass Uncle Hua. In fact, the person who killed Jing Haichen was not him, but me."

Xia Jianfeng was startled, stared at her and asked, "Is it you?"

Muzhi nodded, and told about how she was forced to join the crew and how she attacked Jing Haichen with stones in the bamboo forest last night.Then she went on to say: "Since I joined the crew, Uncle Hua has cared about me silently like a father. Whenever I was harassed by Jing Haichen, he would always find a way to help me out. If I can guess That's right, my abnormal behavior last night caught Uncle Hua's attention, so he followed me to the bamboo forest and saw me stone Jing Haichen to death. In order to exonerate me, he took Jing Haichen's key, Opened the trunk of the motorcycle, took out Jing Haichen's raincoat, pretended to be Jing Haichen and went back to the crew once in the heavy rain, in order to push back the time of Jing Haichen's death from 09:30 p.m. Only in this way can I have proof of my alibi at the time of the crime, so that I can disassociate myself from this murder case. Now the police found his footprints at the scene of the crime. In order not to implicate me, he had to admit himself It's a murderer."

"No, that's not the case. I killed Jing Haichen, I really did." Uncle Hua shouted at Xia Jianfeng.

Xia Jianfeng looked at him, then at Muzhi, but didn't speak.

Uncle Hua's eyes were red, and he said softly to Mu Zhi: "Girl, thank you, you really don't have to do this, you don't have to take the blame for me. I killed people, as long as I can get rid of this bastard Jing Haichen, I will die. It's worth it...Girl, act hard, your future is bright..."

At this time, a policeman ran over and reported to Xia Jianfeng that there was a surveillance camera installed on the wall of a newly built villa opposite Xiulin Villa, which could capture the scene at the intersection in front of Xiulin Villa.The police looked at the video data from last night and saw that at 32:[-] and [-]:[-] in the evening, a man in a raincoat rode a motorcycle through the crossroads to enter and exit Xiulin Villa.The distance between each other is far away, and the video is blurry, but after technical processing, it can be clearly seen that what the rider exposed outside the hem of the raincoat at that time was indeed a pair of large-sized yellow leather shoes.

After hearing this, Xia Jianfeng couldn't help frowning.He knew that the deceased Jing Haichen was wearing a pair of black leather shoes.In other words, the person who rode a motorcycle back to the set late last night and then left immediately was not Jing Haichen, but Uncle Hua.

Muzhi said: "I didn't lie to you, Jing Haichen was really killed by me, Uncle Hua is innocent."

Uncle Hua stomped his feet and sighed: "Girl, you are so stupid, why do you admit that you are a murderer? Is it worth it to ruin your future and life for that bastard? Wouldn't it be better to let my dereliction of duty father bear everything?" ?"

Muzhi knelt down in front of him with a plop, and said with tears, "Thank you Uncle Hua, I really can't do that, if I don't tell the truth, I won't be at ease for the rest of my life."

Xia Jianfeng sighed and said: "Now I only have one question that I still don't understand. According to our investigation, after 'Jing Haichen' returned to the crew room late last night, he received a phone call. 'Jing Haichen' spoke quite loudly. , Several people in the crew heard it, it was indeed Jing Haichen’s voice. If that Jing Haichen was really pretended to be Uncle Hua, how did you imitate his voice on the phone? Do you know ventriloquism? No?"

Uncle Hua said: "I don't know ventriloquism. I have the same body shape as Jing Haichen, but the voice is very different, and I can't imitate it if I want to. But I did some research on Jing Haichen, and I know that he used to be a director before he became a director. The guest actor has been in a couple of bad movies where he happens to be on the phone with someone. I just found that movie online last night and he's in the movie with someone on the phone , and played it on my netbook after amplifying the sound."

Xia Jianfeng nodded as if suddenly enlightened, waved his hand, and said to the two policemen next to him, "Take both of them back to the police station for investigation."

8
Just as the two policemen were about to walk out of the cordon with Mu Zhi and Uncle Hua, Xia Jianfeng seemed to have suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly shouted: "Wait a minute."

Muzhi and Uncle Hua stopped, turned around and looked at him.Xia Jianfeng quickly caught up and asked Muzhi, "When you killed Jing Haichen, how many times did you hit him with stones?"

Muzhi said: "Just hit it once, and he fell to the ground and didn't move."

Xia Jianfeng asked Uncle Hua again: "After this, did you hit Jing Haichen's head with a stone again?"

Uncle Hua shook his head and said, "No, I hid in the dark and saw Mu Zhi smashing Jing Haichen to death. I went to check after she ran out of the bamboo forest. At this time, Jing Haichen's head had been smashed and he had already passed away. "

Muzhi said: "Captain Xia, please believe me, I'm telling the truth, please don't embarrass Uncle Hua again, Jing Haichen was really killed by me, all the crimes are borne by me alone."

Xia Jianfeng frowned and said: "It is precisely because I believe what you are telling the truth that I feel that there is something strange about this case. According to the forensic examination, the skull of the deceased Jing Haichen has been smashed to pieces, and from the shape of the wound To judge, Jing Haichen's head was not just hit once by a stone, at least four or five times. Besides, you are a weak girl, if you can produce such an 'effect' with one hit, then I can only say You are born with supernatural power."

Mu Zhi said strangely: "But I really only hit it once, and he fell to the ground and didn't move."

Xia Jianfeng thought for a while, then asked her again: "You just said that at around 09:30 last night, you came to the bamboo forest for an appointment, and saw Jing Haichen sitting on the grass, leaning on a big bamboo, with earplugs in his ears, looking Listen to music, don't you? Did you see his face then?"

Muzhi shook his head and said, "No, he has always turned his back to me."

Xia Jianfeng then asked her if she found anything strange when she approached Jing Haichen?Muzhi shook his head and said no, but after thinking about it for a while, he said that if there was anything strange to say, it would be his hat.His peaked cap was originally only worn when working on the set, and he never wore it after get off work.So when she saw him sitting there wearing a peaked cap in the bamboo forest, she was stunned for a moment.

Xia Jianfeng said: "That's right, the fatal injury on Jing Haichen's head is definitely not something that you, a girl, can smash out at once, and his head was not only hit once."

Muzhi immediately understood, and said, "You mean, someone smashed his head before me, just because the murderer wiped the blood and put a hat on him to cover the top of his head, so I didn't notice it, did I?"

Xia Jianfeng nodded and said yes.

According to his deduction, before Muzhi threw the stone at Jing Haichen, Jing Haichen had already been stoned to death with the same stone.It's just that the murderer disguised Jing Haichen's body and asked him to sit on a bamboo plant facing the depths of the bamboo forest, so that anyone who walked in from outside the bamboo forest and saw Jing Haichen's back would never think of him. Already a dead man.

He called one of his men outside the cordon who was giving statements to the rest of the crew and asked, those people outside, did anyone act alone between last night's dinner and 09:30?The policeman reported no.After dinner, the crew went to the streets in small groups to hang out or buy souvenirs. Everyone had a companion to prove that they didn't return to Xiulin Villa until after 09:30 at night.In the whole crew, only four people left alone after dinner, the director Jing Haichen, the screenwriter Uncle Hua, the female lead Mu Zhi, and the fourth male lead Zhou Xiaoyang.

Xia Jianfeng had already heard from Director Peng that the lead actor jumped off the building last night, so he asked, "Is this Zhou Xiaoyang the one who jumped off the building last night?"

Muzhi nodded and said: "Yes." After thinking for a while, he added, "I met him at the gate of the villa last night before I went to the bamboo forest. He seemed to have drunk too much and was squatting on the ground vomiting hard."

Xia Jianfeng asked what kind of person he was?

Mu Zhi said that he is over 1.8 meters [-] tall and has a strong body. It is said that he has practiced Taekwondo.He is also a melancholy person, and he rarely takes the initiative to talk to other people except talking about work with the director.

Xia Jianfeng asked him again if he acted strangely last night?

Muzhi thought for a while, then shook her head and said no.

The male number two on the side suddenly raised his hand and said, "There is one thing, I don't know if it's a strange move."

Seeing that Xia Jianfeng was looking at him with encouraging eyes, he went on to say, "During dinner last night, after sister Mu Zhi gave a toast to Director Jing, Zhou Xiaoyang used Director Jing's mobile phone to make a call. He said his The phone ran out of battery. But when I went back to the room, I saw his phone next to the computer, and it showed that there were still two batteries and two batteries."

Xia Jianfeng's eyes lit up, and he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Thank you, you provided this clue, which finally allowed me to solve a knot in this case. By the way, Director Jing doesn't usually wear a watch, right?"

Male No. [-] nodded and said yes, he thought it was troublesome to wear a watch, and usually used his mobile phone to check the time.

Xia Jianfeng said: "That's right. I have reason to believe that Zhou Xiaoyang didn't really want to make a call by borrowing Jing Haichen's mobile phone, but wanted to speed up the time in his mobile phone by ten, twenty or ten minutes."

Muzhi was taken aback, and asked, "Why did he do that?"

Xia Jianfeng said: "The reason is actually very simple, just because he also has murderous intentions towards Jing Haichen."

Zhou Xiaoyang wanted to kill Jing Haichen, but he couldn't find a good chance to do so.At the dinner party last night, he overheard Jing Haichen's whisper about Muzhi meeting at the bamboo forest at 09:30 in the evening.Naturally, he has a vague understanding of the relationship between Muzhi and Jing Haichen, and he feels that this is a good opportunity to not only kill Jing Haichen, but also blame others to save himself.He quietly adjusted Jing Haichen's mobile phone time by ten, twenty, ten minutes, so that when Jing Haichen arrived at the bamboo forest, it was much earlier than the time agreed with Muzhi.At this time difference, he came to the bamboo forest, smashed Jing Haichen to death with a stone, and then took Jing Haichen's hat from the motorcycle and put it on him to cover his smashed head , and leaned his body on the bamboo with his back facing the path outside.In this way, when Muzhi came to the appointment at 10:09, he was found dead. Given the relationship between her and Jing Haichen, the police will definitely list her as the number one suspect and will never suspect Zhou Xiaoyang .When Muzhi went out last night, she happened to meet Zhou Xiaoyang coming back from the bamboo forest.Zhou Xiaoyang vomited while supporting the stone lion at the gate. It might be because he drank too much wine at night, or it might be that he himself felt sick to his stomach from the bloody scene he created himself.

But what Zhou Xiaoyang didn't expect was that Mu Zhi, a beauty star who seemed so weak, would also have murderous intentions towards Jing Haichen, and would hit Jing Haichen on the head with a stone he threw away, and then What Uncle Hua did for Muzhi was beyond his plan.Late last night, Zhou Xiaoyang saw "Jing Haichen" riding a motorcycle back to the set, thinking that he had really come back to life, not only felt extremely strange, but also immediately felt that he was in a bad situation, desperate, so he had to jump off the building and commit suicide , for relief.

But Muzhi doubted Xia Jianfeng's reasoning: "Jing Haichen chose Zhou Xiaoyang to be the male lead in this micro-movie, he should be grateful to Jing Haichen, why would he want to kill him?"

Xia Jianfeng said: "Maybe we should ask director Peng about this issue. As far as I know, his people have already conducted some investigations on Zhou Xiaoyang who jumped to his death last night."

He called Director Peng over and told him the situation.

Director Peng said: "My people did conduct some investigations on Zhou Xiaoyang this morning, and they have just called to report to me. Zhou Xiaoyang is a senior student at the Academy of Film and Television Art in the provincial capital. He once had a The lover's name is Cheng Yun. Of course, Zhou Xiaoyang is a homosexual."

Muzhi almost cried out: "Chengyun? Isn't that the male lead who fell to his death due to a prop error in the second part of "Death is Coming"?"

Director Peng nodded and said: "Yes, according to the investigation, Zhou Xiaoyang has always believed that the death of his lover Cheng Yun was not an accident, but that the director Jing Haichen tampered with the wire when shooting the last scene, causing The male number one Cheng Yun's last jump became the most realistic death scene in history. Jing Haichen's purpose in doing this is to attract the attention of the media and the public to the maximum with the minimum investment, so as to promote and hype his work. Purpose."

Xia Jianfeng breathed a sigh of relief, and made a final "summary speech", saying: "Of course, Zhou Xiaoyang is dead, and there is no proof of his death. The above are all reasonable speculations based on the evidence currently available to the police. Whether it is true or not is still to be determined." Investigate thoroughly."

He glanced at Mu Zhi and Uncle Hua, "No matter what, I have to invite you two back to the bureau to cooperate with our investigation." His tone of voice was much softer than before.

"Okay." Muzhi and Uncle Hua nodded at the same time.The two glanced at each other, and both saw a trace of relief in each other's eyes.

(End of this chapter)