As soon as Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang got home, they were surrounded by lots of cats.
A group of big cats and kittens all pounced on Zhan Zhao, rubbing against him.
Carrying a number of large and small luggage, everyone went inside together.
Gong Sun and Zhan Zhao, who slept well on the plane, continued to discuss the Wheel of Caleb while unpacking the suitcases. Bai Jintang and Bai Yutang, who hadn't slept well, quickly went upstairs to take a bath and get ready for bed.
Gong Sun opened a huge suitcase and took out several large and small boxes. The twins leaned up curiously and asked, "damn, are these all illegal things?"
Gong Sun opened a box and showed it to them.
The twins caught a glimpse of a skeleton before they turned and ran away while shouting, "Oh my god!"
Gong Sun took out the skeleton and put it on the table.
Zhan Zhao reached out and touched it. "Is it a replica of the crystal skeleton?"
"Mmhmm." Gong Sun nodded. "It's an alarm clock." With that, he pressed the button... The alarm sounded with a creepy laughter.
"So cool!" Zhan Zhao said as he looked at it admiringly.
At this time, another car stopped outside.
Frightened by Gong Sun's skull alarm, the twins leaned against the entrance of the stairs on the second floor and said, "Chi Chi and Zhao Zhen are back..."
Before the two of them entered, they heard a lion's roar... Li Siben had not seen Bai Chi and Zhao Zhen for a long time, so it rushed out, placing its claws around Bai Chi and rubbing its head against him.
Zhao Zhen and Bai Chi managed to come in, put down their luggage and lay down on the sofa.
Li Siben hugged the two and continued to rub against them.
Zhao Zhen patted Li Siben on the big head and sighed. "What a thrilling trip. I almost couldn't make it back."
While the twins were opening Bai Chi's suitcase to look for the presents, they asked, "what happened? Did you guys encounter turbulence?"
"There was nothing wrong with the plane. It was the driver you called to pick us up." Zhao Zhen leaned on the sofa with a pillow.
The twins looked at each other. "No way! Mr. Meng is a good driver and has been our driver for many years."
"Let Zhan Zhao take a look first." Zhao Zhen said helplessly, "the driver slammed on the brakes at least three times along the way, drove in the wrong lane twice, and even ran a red light."
"What?!" Da Ding was surprised.
Holding Li Siben's big furry head, Xiao Bai nodded. "Yeah, he seemed a bit out of it. The first time, he said he saw a man on the rear window of the car. Then, he suddenly said he hit a child. Afterwards, he almost drove into the opposite lane."
"Then what happened?" Zhan Zhao asked.
"Later, Chi Chi and I drove him to the hospital, and then told his family to come and look after him before we left." Zhao Zhen shrugged his shoulders.
"What?!" Xiao Ding opened his mouth wide. He took out his phone and said, "I'll ask his family to see how he's doing."
Bai Yutang took a bath, wiped his hair, and saw Zhao Zhen and Bai Chi after coming out. After finding out what happened to them, he asked, "how was the airport when you arrived?"
Bai Chi told him what happened.
Bai Yutang frowned, while Gong Sun and Zhan Zhao leaned over curiously. "A dry corpse?"
"So weird."
At this time, Xiao Ding came back after talking on the phone. "I called Mr. Meng and his wife answered, saying that he was fine after getting examined in the hospital. She also said he has no history of mental illness. Mr. Meng doesn't know what happened to him, and he doesn't know if he really saw something or was hallucinating."
"Definitely hallucinating." Zhao Zhen said. "I didn't see whether there was a person on the rear window or not, but he definitely didn't hit a child."
"That's right!" Bai Chi also nodded. "No child would be on the road this early in the morning."
"Why would he be hallucinating?" Gong Sun frowned. "He wouldn't have something in his brain, right? He should get a more detailed examination."
Xiao Ding nodded. "He's getting examined now. Mr. Meng said he may have encountered an evil spirit."
"Evil spirit?!" Bai Chi's ears perked up. Bai Yutang shook his head, blew his hair dry and decided to go to bed.
Gong Sun and Zhan Zhao began to discuss the possibility of bumping into evil spirits.
..................
That night, nothing happened. The next day, Bao Sir sent a message to all the police officers who were at the end of their holiday, asking them to adjust and go to work two days later. Therefore... The people who came back from their holiday had dinner first.
Everyone who enjoyed the long holiday looked much healthier. They gathered together to exchange various gifts and talk about things that happened on their trip.
A large group of men gathered around and chatted enthusiastically. Another thing worth celebrating was Jiang Ping, who was no longer single. He Ying, a young doctor, was finally able to get Jiang Ping. The only person left in SCI who was still single was Bao Sir.
While everyone was discussing whether to find a wife for Bao Sir or not, the door was pushed open, and Bao Sir walked in with a plastic bag.
Bao Sir had brought a big bag of bread, which looked to be from the new bakery downstairs of his home. He thought the bread was delicious, so he brought some for everyone to taste. Everyone felt sorry for him for eating bread every day, and that they should find him a partner as soon as possible.
Bao Sir thought the atmosphere was weird and asked, "what are you guys doing?" while nibbling on a kebab.
Everyone looked up.
Zhan Zhao was very curious about yesterday's case, so he approached Bao Sir with a share of fried noodles and asked, "how's the airport case going?"
"Airport? Are you talking about the case regarding the Wheel of Caleb or the reporter jumping from a building?" Bao Sir asked.
"Are the two cases not related?" Zhan Zhao continued to ask.
Bao Sir asked back, "Why, do you think it's related?"
Zhan Zhao squinted his eyes and wondered why Bao Sir was speaking so seriously.
Bao Sir chewed the kebab and paused for a moment before saying, "the airport case is indeed a bit strange."
"What do you mean?" Zhan Zhao was curious, and Gong Sun also came over.
"That reporter named Zhang Yang had taken some pictures on his camera." Bao Sir said. "They were most likely taken in the bathroom before he died... Looked like a supernatural phenomenon."
"Supernatural phenomenon?" Everyone looked over curiously.
Yang Yang asked, "does that mean he saw a ghost?"
Bao Sir took out his cell phone and said, "I took some photos at the homicide department this morning."
Everyone wanted to take a look.
Bao Sir covered his cell phone and warned, "it's a little scary."
This made everyone even more curious.
Bao Sir then gave his phone to Zhan Zhao and reached for a roasted corn.
Zhan Zhao clicked open the folder with photos inside...
The first picture was next to the toilet sink. There was a man washing his head with water... This person looked very strange. The body was wrapped in layers of bandages and looked withered. The skin also looked wrinkled, like it had been air-dried.
It was a shame that they couldn't see the face clearly due to the shaking of the camera.
After that, Zhang Yang took several pictures in a row. It was basically the process of the strange man washing and splashing his face with water, then drinking the water.
Suddenly. The man turned around and Zhang Yang took a close-up picture.
"Oh..."
Everyone could not help but let out a cry of surprise. The face that had turned towards Zhang Yang was very wrinkled, like a mummified face, with two black holes.
"It has to be makeup, right?" Bai Chi was so frightened that he got goosebumps.
When Zhan Zhao continued to flip through the pictures, he saw that the man had suddenly rushed towards Zhang Yang. Then, one of the pictures got blurred, and so they couldn't see what happened after.
In another picture, the photo seemed to be taken upside down, with the camera on the ground. It had two feet wrapped in bandages, but the location was now inside a cubicle.
"Was Zhang Yang caught by him and then thrown into the cubicle?" Bai Yutang guessed from the angle. "He fell to the ground, but still managed to take some photos?"
"It's his instinct." Zhan Zhao said. "At this moment, Zhang Yang's adrenaline had probably surged right up. All he wanted to do was to capture this scene and make it to tomorrow's headlines. That way he would become rich. He was probably even working on a title for his headline and didn't have time to think about whether there was any danger or not."
The next few photos were very blurry, but it could be seen that the mummified body was attacking Zhang Yang. Afterwards, there were no more photos.
"He escaped to the window after he was attacked?" Bai Yutang frowned.
"That's instinctive as well." Zhan Zhao nodded. "The door was probably locked by that person. Zhang Yang had no way to escape and felt he was in danger, so he decided to jump out of the window... It's just that when he looked down... he realised his mistake."
Bai Chi frowned. "Is it really a corpse that made him like this? Did the Wheel of Caleb really resurrect?"
Bai Yutang flipped through the photos and enlarged them to look at them more carefully. In the photo that captured the feet of the corpse, he noticed a detail. He showed it to Zhan Zhao, who saw a blue stamp on the bandage wrapped around the legs.
Zhan Zhao squinted and said, "it's the stamp of the Romanian Museum."
"This bandage is used to protect the mummified body when it is getting transported." Bao Sir said, "that team of archaeologists has already identified it."
After Zhao Zhen saw the picture, everyone asked him if there were any other clues.
Zhao Zhen slightly shrugged his shoulders and said, "it is also possible that someone is pretending, so they wore makeup and attached the pupils for effect. These days, makeup can do anything, and turning into a corpse is easy for makeup artists."
Bao Sir asked, "so it's makeup?"
Zhao Zhen shrugged. "I don't know, it may even be real. There are all kinds of strange things in the world."
Everyone gave him the side eye glance, as he basically said nothing useful.
"Speaking of mummies."
At this time, Chen Jiayi ran over and handed out movie tickets to everyone.
Everyone saw the title of the film, 'The Last Night'.
"What's this?" Zhan Zhao asked curiously.
Qi Le raised his eyebrows and said, "I'm inviting you guys to see the premiere of this film."
"A horror movie?" Gong Sun was curious.
"Yes, the lineup is amazing!" The twins leaned over and said, "our company filmed it."
Bai Yutang, who probably hadn't seen a movie for years, took the movie ticket and asked, "do horror films make money these days?"
"The genre doesn't matter. The most important thing is having famous actors, that way it will be popular." As soon as Xiao Ding talked about business, he became more serious. "There's Jiang Nan, Jia Yi and Wang Xulie, as well as the special effects made by Lin Ruo's company, music made by the Qi Le Band, and the great magician..." While Xiao Ding spoke, he pointed to Zhao Zhen, "Cameo from a friend."
Bai Chi looked at Zhao Zhen curiously, as if asking, "you acted?"
Zhao Zhen shrugged. "Just acting as a magician, not that difficult."
"Xulie... I've heard of this name before." Bai Yutang thought for a moment. "Is that the one who threw firecrackers at the reporter?"
"Wow! He is indeed famous. Even you, who doesn't usually care about the entertainment industry, knows him." The twins said happily.
"Threw firecrackers at the reporter?" Gong Sun asked curiously.
"Xulie doesn't hold back." Chen Yu said. "The firecracker effect from his concert was entrusted to my brother's company. Later, a reporter sneaked into the concert to take pictures. So, Xu Lie secretly lit a string of firecrackers and stuffed them into the reporter's pants..."
The corners of everyone's mouths twitched...
"He's done a lot more than that!" Qi Le continued. "That day, a thief snuck into his house and was caught by him. He tied up the thief and hung them outside the window waiting for the police to arrest them. He lives on the 27th floor. He got the thief to admit that they were wrong and even quarrelled with them. Then Xulie accepted the thief as his assistant. Everyone called the thief 'The Hanging Man'."
"Pft..." Everyone wanted to laugh.
Bai Yutang was a little curious, so he asked, "you still signed him?"
"He's popular!" The twins' eyebrows raised. "Jintang likes him a lot! This kid used to do Muay Thai, and he had done part-time singing rock and roll in an underground band. He's got a great voice! The last concert he held with Qi Le made a lot of money for the company. Plus, he also has a talent for acting, he's Jiang Nan's godson."
Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows. The premiere was tonight, and since they had nothing to do, they could go.
Zhan Zhao glanced at the plot of the film, "Oh? It's based on psychology?"
"Yes!" Chen Jiayi nodded.
"Psychology..." Zhan Zhao gently touched his chin and then tilted his head to think.
Bai Yutang said while placing a roast chicken wing on Zhan Zhao's plate, "what are you thinking?"
"Hmm?" Zhan Zhao seemed to have just returned to his senses. He scratched his head thinking, "nothing", then went on to gnaw on the chicken wing.
After dinner, everyone went out in the evening to support Chen Jiayi's new film.
Horror films nowadays were all in 3D. The film they were watching was very good, with the male protagonist played by Xu Lie, pursuing the female protagonist played by Jia Yi. Later, the male protagonist found out that the female protagonist had a very strange mother, played by Jiang Nan.
In the film, the male protagonist found out that one of the two was a corpse, but he couldn't tell which one. After a series of terrifying incidents, he realised that he had mental issues, killing both the female protagonist and her mother. He also realised he'd been talking to the corpse all this time.
The natural effects of the 3D horror film were extraordinary. Lin Ruo's technical team was truly world-class, as the film had scared many audiences, including Bai Chi.
Zhan Zhao and Gong Sun were very excited to see it, while Bai Yutang fell asleep. Bai Jintang was also yawning throughout the film. If he hadn't been the boss of the company, he would have slept as well. Fortunately, people were wearing 3D glasses, so they couldn't see him properly.
When the film was over, everyone took off their 3D glasses. Zhan Zhao helplessly woke up Bai Yutang.
Bai Yutang was half asleep as he rubbed his neck.
Zhan Zhao hugged his arm and asked him, "Captain Bai, what do you think?"
"Hmm?" Bai Yutang sat up. "Well, the chair is very comfortable."
Zhan Zhao sighed while thinking, "of course nothing scares you".
Right at that moment, there was a commotion at the back of the audience. Afterwards, people started screaming.
Bai Yutang instinctively looked around, and Zhan Zhao pulled on his arm, pointing to the front.
When Bai Yutang looked back, he saw that the lead actors had appeared on the stage. When Xu Lie came up at the end, the screams were the loudest.
Everyone agreed that Xu Lie was indeed quite handsome. He was thin and tall, and looked very delicate. He had slightly tanned skin, short hair, with great features.
Xu Lie yawned as he walked, obviously he had just woken up.
Bai Yutang looked at the time. It was almost 10:30 in the evening.
The creators took turns greeting the audience with microphones. Just at this moment... The door on one side was pushed open and the lights came on.
Bai Yutang looked out and saw a group of people coming in.
At first, the twins raised their eyebrows, wondering if someone had come to cause trouble. However, after looking closely, they realised the people had IDs on them.
Bai Yutang recognized them at a glance. The one walking in front was Ai Hu.
Ai Hu ran onto the stage in only a few steps. He walked up to Xu Lie and showed his ID. "Xu Lie, you are suspected of murder, please come with us to the station."
Xu Lie looked confused. "Huh?"
Bai Jintang looked at the twins.
The twins shrugged their shoulders and shook their heads, indicating that they did not know what was going on.
Bai Yutang touched his chin curiously.
When Xu Lie was taken away, Bao Sir asked Ai Hu about the situation.
Ai Hu said, "a body was found in Xu Lie's car."
Everyone frowned.
Jiang Nan asked, "which car?"
"Yellow Porsche."
Jiang Nan shook her head. "You guys didn't investigate properly. Xu Lie's car broke down a long time ago and has been parked in the parking lot downstairs all this time. You can't even turn on the engine."
Xu Lie's assistant nodded. "That's right, the yellow one has been dead for a long time."
Ai Hu nodded. "We know, but the body was found in his car, so we need him to answer some questions. If he is cleared of suspicion, we will let him go."
Everyone had no objection, as the police had their own case handling process.
However, this movie became a hit. The next day, the front page of all the news was about the protagonist being taken away on the day of the movie premiere.
The twins watched the box office skyrocket and felt that they had opened the door to a new world after finding out they could advertise like this.
Xu Lie's suspicion was cleared very soon, and he was released.
His fans made an uproar and demanded an apology from the police to compensate him for the loss of his reputation. Fortunately, Bai Jintang had a good relationship with the police, so the company naturally would not pursue the issue. When the media interviewed Xu Lie, he did not care.
On the first day when everyone from SCI returned to work, Ai Hu transferred the case of the body in the car to them.
"Serial murders?" Bai Yutang was puzzled.
"We don't know if they're connected or not, but we found a video." Ai Hu said. "At that time, there was no camera near the yellow car, so we didn't find any evidence. That's why we directly arrested Xu Lie. But coincidentally, the owner of the car in front had installed an anti-collision and anti-theft camera on their car, which recorded what happened. By the way, it was a resident of the building who died, and his car was parked near the yellow car."
Everyone was curious to watch the video.
In the dimly lit underground parking lot, a black car arrived and parked in a parking space next to the yellow car.
A man got off. He seemed to have seen something next to the yellow car, so he went over to have a look. Afterwards, he turned around and ran... Right when he was about to escape, something jumped up behind him, held his head, and dragged him into the dark corner.
The weird image made everyone from SCI open their mouths wide in shock, unable to speak.