Jiang Long's hand was almost touching the drink bottle. Suddenly, he heard a voice behind him shouting, and he retracted his hand as if he had been electrocuted. The drink bottle also rolled off the table and onto the ground, making a slight rolling sound.
Bai Han had obviously been running all the way back, his chest was heaving. He rushed forward to pick up the bottle of soda, then lowered his head to quickly check the bottle, and finally found a small, barely noticeable pinhole under the bottle cap.
The people around him all looked over because of what he said just now, all of them were extremely surprised. Qi Yubai even stood up from his seat and looked at him with doubtful eyes: "What did you just say?"
Jiang Long also stood up and stammered, "Yes... yes, what did you say just now... what was drugged?"
Bai Han hesitated for a moment, then handed the drink bottle to Qi Yubai and showed him the needle hole on it: "When I bought the water, I saw that medicine had been injected into it. Now it's best to call the police and seal off the scene, otherwise it will be difficult to find the murderer."
Qi Yubai narrowed his eyes: "The one who delivered the water just now?"
Bai Han nodded.
I don't know if he succeeded in stopping Jiang Long from drinking the poisoned drink, but Bai Han returned to his usual taciturn self. After he finished speaking, he remembered something and took out a bottle of soda from his pocket and handed it to Jiang Long: "... the ice drink you asked for."
Jiang Long glared at him, thinking how could Bai Han be even more stupid than him, who would drink at this time? He took it, looked at it, and threw it back: "What kind of ice drink is this? You warmed it up."
Bai Han was silent for a moment: "... Then I'll go buy a bottle?"
“?!!”
Jiang Long was angry and wanted to hit him on the head, but then he remembered that he had been hospitalized for a concussion a few days ago, so he hit him on the shoulder instead: "What are you buying? Call the police!"
Such a big thing happened, and the news quickly spread to the director team. At that time, Wang Yan was reviewing the shots with Chen Xiao. It was not that Chen Xiao's shooting was bad, on the contrary, his sense of the camera made Wang Yan very satisfied. It was just that the supporting actor who acted with Chen Xiao had no martial arts skills, so after practicing for a long time, the moves were still not smooth enough.
Wang Yan was so angry about the rush to shoot that his mouth was covered with bubbles. When he heard that a minor actor had secretly given him a poisoned drink, his eyes almost popped out of his head: "What?! There was a drug?! Who the hell dared to do this in my crew? Who did it?!"
Wang Yan was so furious that he had no intention of hiding his anger. The assistant was almost dying of anxiety, and quickly told him to calm down first, leaning close to Wang Yan's ear and whispering, "The police are here and are taking notes and testifying. Please keep a low profile. If the media outside get wind of this, it will easily make a big deal out of it!"
Wang Yan only knows how to film movies, and has no idea about the twists and turns of the entertainment industry. Upon hearing this, he scratched his hair in annoyance: "Then what do you say we should do?!"
The assistant said, "Let's quickly gather the male extras in the crew and call out their names. I heard the police are going to check and identify them. If the murderer really gets away, we won't be able to explain. Now we can only cooperate with the police."
Chen Xiao had just come down from the wire when he heard Wang Yan's loud voice. His heart skipped a beat and he quickly stepped forward to ask, "Director, what happened?!"
Wang Yan did not hide it from him and told him everything. However, just as he finished speaking, he saw Chen Xiao running away. He slapped his thigh anxiously from behind: "Hey, hey, hey, why are you running? Finish the last shot first!"
"Make it up later!"
Chen Xiao didn't have time to take any shots, and hurried back. When he got to the door, he saw a group of police standing there. He didn't have time to say hello, and looked around. When he saw Qi Yubai sitting inside, he hurried forward and grabbed his hand, and said in a tense voice: "You didn't drink anything?"
Qi Yubai had already removed his makeup and changed into his own clothes. He sat aside with his head down, his eyes heavy, and no one knew what he was thinking. He heard Chen Xiao's voice and raised his head subconsciously: "Why are you here?"
Qi Yubai didn't want to delay Chen Xiao's filming, after all, this matter affected his mood. But then he thought about the matter and thought it was unrealistic to hide it from Chen Xiao.
Qi Yubai glanced at Chen Xiao's hand that was holding his, and inexplicably felt that his fingertips were as cold as ice. He shook his hand back without making a sound and shook his head: "Don't worry, I didn't drink."
Chen Xiao heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this. He didn't know what he remembered, and looked at Jiang Long nervously: "What about you? You didn't drink, did you?"
Jiang Long was weak in heart and lungs when he was young, but luckily he escaped the disaster and soon recovered with full blood. Hearing this, he raised his chin slightly and looked at Chen Xiao unhappily: "Of course I didn't drink, do you think I look like a mute?"
Fortunately, Bai Han stopped it in time, otherwise the dog would have become a mute dog.
Chen Xiao finally put his heart back into his stomach after hearing this: "What did the police say?"
Qi Yubai saw Chen Xiao running with sweat all over his forehead, and handed him a tissue: "The police just came to investigate and collect evidence. The drink was sent back for testing, but it must have been injected with something. The syringe was found in the corner."
Chen Xiao has already started to think quickly about who the murderer is, and he lists several options with high probability in his mind: "Do you know who it is?"
Qi Yubai frowned slightly. "It's a male extra. His face was blackened, so I can't see what he looks like. There are few surveillance cameras here, and there are so many extras. It's probably not easy to find him."
This incident was obviously aimed at Qi Yubai. He frowned, and the aura around him became a little gloomier than usual. When the crew was busy, the staff would distribute lunch boxes and mineral water, and occasionally they would ask for help in passing messages and things. If Chen Xiao hadn't repeatedly warned him, Qi Yubai might have really drunk that bottle of water.
"It doesn't matter. We'll find out sooner or later."
Qi Yubai Wushi touched his throat, his fingertips slowly tightened, and secretly warned himself not to panic. Since the murderer has already emerged, it is only a matter of time before he is caught. The most urgent thing now is not to affect the filming process, so as not to cause trouble for the other party.
Bai Han was an eyewitness. He provided the police with photos and a short video clip from his phone, and was questioned and recorded. He was released only after a long time.
The police roughly reconstructed the appearance and height of the minor actor and began to intensively investigate the suspect. Although there were at least hundreds of extras in the film and television base, there were many who were pulled in to act as extras, so it was not easy to find them. There was a crew shooting a costume drama in the film and television city at the same time.
Director Wang Yan rushed over to negotiate with the police and tried his best to cooperate with the work. I don't know what he said, but he finally found Qi Yubai and Jiang Long: "The police have already started an intensive investigation, and will notify us as soon as there is any news. You must have been frightened by what happened today, go back and have a good rest, I'll also keep an eye on this."
Director Wang Yan paused for a moment before continuing, "… Just give me a favor. Before the truth comes out, try not to disclose it to the media, so as to avoid panic and lose focus on filming. This happened on my set, and I will definitely give you an explanation."
At his age, he values his work more than anything else, and rarely bows to investors. It is not easy for him to slow down his tone and say this now.
Although Qi Yubai was difficult to serve, he was very reasonable: "Don't worry, we will shoot the rest of the scenes as planned. We will definitely not delay the progress. Just shoot quietly and wait for news from the police. We will never leak it to the media."
Jiang Long was not so easy to talk to. He felt that his young heart had been hurt and he needed some compensation: "Director, I want to stay on the set for a few days and wait for news from the police, but my role is too small."
In other words, it means to add more drama.
Wang Yan turned around and looked at the assistant beside him: "Who did Jiang Long play?"
The assistant flipped through the play and reminded quietly, "A wicked young man who robbed a good woman was stabbed to death by the protagonist three minutes after he appeared on the screen."
Chen Xiao stood aside dumbfounded, thinking that Jiang Long had gone crazy, accepting such a minor role
Director Wang Yan saw that Jiang Long's role did not affect the main plot, and for the first time ever, he agreed: "Hurry up and call Rong Xuan, and ask him to write the villain two episodes later."
The assistant hesitated: "Rong Xuan doesn't work overtime..."
Wang Yan scratched his hair in annoyance and growled, "Give him overtime pay!"
After what happened today, everyone's mood was somewhat affected. When returning to the hotel at night, Qi Yubai didn't say a word, and it seemed that he was too silent. Chen Xiao saw it all the way, and after dinner, he avoided everyone and quietly went into his room.
The hotel was very high, and Qi Yubai was standing alone on the balcony, not knowing what he was doing. Chen Xiao approached and found that he had a cigarette in his hand, so he took a puff of it directly from him: "You protect your throat by not smoking or drinking, why are you suddenly smoking?"
Qi Yubai turned around and looked at him, his hair messed up by the night wind, his eyes bright: "I didn't smoke."
He gave up a lot of things for singing, and even restrained himself in everything, avoiding smoking, drinking and spicy food, and persisted for many years. Finally, he wanted to smoke a cigarette on impulse, but found that he didn't know how to smoke.
Chen Xiao looked down at the cigarette in his hand and found that it was not lit. He tapped the railing twice and said with a smile: "You know what, singing with a smokey voice is quite nice."
As soon as he raised his voice, Qi Yubai's emotions became a little subtle. He touched his neck unconsciously: "You said... If I really drank that bottle of water, what would happen in the future?"
The system suddenly rang: Ding! Please note that the villain's blackening degree has risen to 10
Chen Xiao was stunned when he heard this, because of Qi Yubai's question and the system's words. In his previous life, he had seen Qi Yubai being poisoned and finally retired from the circle quietly, and he didn't know how to answer for a moment.
“… Not much, but still alive.”
Chen Xiao threw the cigarette on the ground, stepped on it, and then reached out to pull Qi Yubai into his arms. He hugged Qi Yubai so hard that it hurt him a little: "If you can't sing, dance with me. If you can't dance, act. Anyway, you will have a way out."
Chen Xiao also likes singing, but he doesn't regard singing as the whole of his life. There are many things in his life, such as music, friends, or other things. But in Qi Yubai's dull life, it seems that singing is the only thing that can support him to move forward.
Qi Yubai didn't say anything and closed his eyes. It is undeniable that he was panicked for a moment when the incident happened, and even now he still feels palpitations. Qi Yubai didn't know what he was afraid of, but he knew that there was a silent panic spreading in his heart, and he urgently needed comfort.
He held Chen Xiao's face and whispered seriously, "Kiss me."
Chen Xiao hugged him tightly around the waist as he wished, and then he pressed him against the balcony door and kissed him.
Qi Yubai hooked his arm around Chen Xiao's waist, tilted his head slightly up, and saw the dark night sky. He put his arm around Chen Xiao's neck and said in a hoarse voice, "You want me."
He said: "Chen Xiao, you want me to..."
Chen Xiao pushed him against the cold door: "We still have to shoot tomorrow."
Qi Yubai hugged him tightly and refused to let Chen Xiao leave. Chen Xiao had no choice but to pick him up and walk into the room, kicking the balcony door shut.
Chen Xiao did it very gently.
Qi Yubai lay on the bed, staring at the dazzling lights on the ceiling, and suddenly understood why he was so panicked today...
He had so few things that losing even one of them would be a fatal blow.
But fortunately, there is Chen Xiao...
Qi Yubai closed his eyes and kissed the man on his body, holding the back of his head tightly, with a bit of silent cruelty. This is his, no one can take it away. Compared with the illusory future, it is more real and he loves it more.
In the following days, they continued to film as usual. Although some rumors were accidentally leaked, fortunately there was no substantial evidence and the media could not make up anything.
The police inspected the bottle of drink and confirmed that it had been injected with drugs. If you drink it, not only your throat, but also your stomach will be in trouble. They conducted intensive investigations around the film and television city for several days, and finally found the extra actor who was suspected of delivering water that day through nearby street surveillance. They arrested him in a cheap rental house and brought him to the police station to assist in the investigation.
The man who put drugs in the drinks was called Wang Weimin, with an ordinary background. He used to help deliver lunch boxes on the set and occasionally played a minor role. When he was arrested by the police, he admitted the crime without much resistance, but the reason he gave was extremely absurd.
"That celebrity named Qi was acting like a big shot. I couldn't stand him, so I wanted to teach him a lesson. Now I'm unlucky enough to be caught by you. You can sentence me to whatever you want."
Wang Weimin didn't even finish elementary school and couldn't read a single word, so how could he come up with the idea of injecting strong acid? It's really unbelievable.
The police did not believe him completely. They investigated Wang Weimin's family background and his bank statements in recent years and found that he had a wife who was suffering from liver disease and was being treated in the hospital. Three days ago, a huge amount of 500,000 yuan in deposits inexplicably appeared in his bank account.
But when the police questioned him, Wang Weimin refused to say anything, as if he was dumb. When pressed, he said he earned it himself, but he couldn't explain how he earned it.
The police could only dig deeper into the information of the transfer, and they were surprised to find that in addition to Wang Weimin, there were three other people involved in this matter. The first two were nothing special, they were all street thugs who were only responsible for the connection, but the identities of the three were somewhat intriguing.
"Chen Fan?"
When Qi Yubai heard the name, he felt it sounded familiar. He frowned and thought for a moment before remembering who the other person was. His eyes suddenly became stern: "Is he Luo Yuan's assistant?!"
"it's him."
Chen Xiao glanced at the people coming and going outside the crew, as if sighing, and lowered his voice to say to Qi Yubai: "This kid is too cunning, he would never show up, and changed two contacts in the middle. If the last gangster didn't find it troublesome and didn't want to give Wang Weimin cash, and directly transferred the money through the bank, it would be really difficult to find out."
Qi Yubai had been busy with drama these past two days and had little time to pay attention to the case. Hearing this, he sneered, "It's really him. What did the police say?"
Chen Xiao told Qi Yubai the gossip he heard from Jiang Long: "The case has been handed over to the local police. I guess Luo Yuan will be taken back for investigation this afternoon. Anyway, the paparazzi in City B always take advantage of loopholes. If he is really arrested, there will definitely be rumors on Weibo."
It's a good thing to find the murderer, which is better than hiding in the dark and letting people panic. The police will always find evidence. Qi Yubai thought of Luo Yuan and sneered: "It seems that I didn't deal with him too lightly before."
Chen Xiao glanced at him when he heard this, thinking that Qi Yubai was indeed easy to attract hatred: "Have you dealt with him before?"
Qi Yubai did not hide it: "I used to be a trainee with him. During the dance troupe selection, he put glass fragments in another team member's shoes. I found out and reported it to the higher-ups. Afterwards, he was put on ice for a year. Maybe he hated me."
Chen Xiao could only describe it in one sentence: "A puppy will always eat poop."
Qi Yubai glanced at him and said, "Can you be more elegant?"
Chen Xiao felt that he was not wrong, and it was better than a dog that can't change its eating habits. He made a face at Qi Yubai and stood up to reshoot his scenes.
However, Jiang Long never had a day of rest. He and the screenwriter Rong Xuan had a quarrel. Rong Xuan followed the director's idea and changed the scene where he raped a woman and was stabbed to death by a sword. The specific process was as follows:
Arrested, brought before the officials, brought to court, beaten with a stick, and imprisoned.
Jiang Long was so angry: "What a lousy screenwriter! Is this a plot that can be written?!"
Rong Xuan felt that this plot was very reasonable. He adjusted his glasses, smiled at Jiang Long, and offered friendly advice: "If you are really dissatisfied with this ending, then change it to exile, or execution after the autumn. I still have two hours before get off work ends, so it's not too late to change it now."
Jiang Long thought, is this the point? Is this the point? ! However, before he could say anything, Chen Xiao pulled him aside and said, "Do you have a sense of professionalism when filming? There is no such a decent person for you to act."
Chen Xiao had played the role of a traitorous minister who was torn into pieces by five horses before. Even if he didn't want to play the role, he still had to do it. Jiang Long was just a newly bought mahjong that needed to be played.
Qi Yubai had nothing good to say. Hearing this, he curled his lips sarcastically, leaned against the pillar with his arms folded, and said sarcastically: "You might as well let the protagonist stab you to death with a sword. I would rather die standing than live on my knees."
Jiang Long: "Why should I listen to you? I want to live!"
Stimulation therapy is the most effective for Jiang Long. He changed into his costume and went to film. Live one episode at a time, only fools die.
Near the afternoon, Chen Xiao was bored and was browsing Weibo. Suddenly, he found the hot search terms with the words #Luo Yuan arrested#. He quickly clicked in to check and found out that at 3 o'clock this afternoon, Luo Yuan and his assistant Chen Fan were taken back by the local police to assist in the investigation because they were suspected of intentional poisoning. Although they were taken away secretly, because there were many staff at the scene, the news still spread like wildfire and swept the entire Internet in just a few hours.
Netizens were shocked and in an uproar when they saw the news, wondering what crime Luo Yuan had committed, why was he suddenly taken away by the police? Finally, according to insiders, it turned out that Luo Yuan was suspected of hiring someone to poison Qi Yubai, so he had someone inject drugs into Qi Yubai's drink to poison his voice, and was found out by the police.
As Qi Yubai said before, this is not a palace drama, and the poisoning incident was also extremely absurd. However, it really happened in front of the netizens, and it is conceivable that Weibo was full of curses, and almost everyone was shocked by Luo Yuan's viciousness.
To poison a talented singer's voice and make it hoarse, wouldn't that be equivalent to ruining the rest of his life? Only a dark-minded person would come up with such a plan.
Chen Xiao looked through a few Weibo posts and saw that they were all cursing Luo Yuan. Finally, his hands were sore that he turned off his phone. He was about to tell Qi Yubai the news when he saw Qi Yubai suddenly go out to answer a phone call. When he came back to see him, he said, "The police just called me and said Luo Yuan was arrested."
This result was expected and reasonable. After all, the law is long and there is no loophole. As long as you do something bad, you will eventually be exposed.
At this moment, Chen Xiao finally felt that his heart, which had been hanging for a long time, had finally settled down safely. He was afraid that Qi Yubai would drink the poisoned drink, and he had been worried for these days, but fortunately, he finally caught the murderer behind the scenes.
Chen Xiao couldn't do anything, so he could only bump into Qi Yubai's shoulder: "Thank God, I finally don't stare at you every day."
Qi Yubai snorted coldly when he heard this, turned his head and said unhappily: "I finally don't want to drink your leftover water."
but…
Qi Yubai stared at Chen Xiao expressionlessly for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Chen Xiao, you still keep staring at me."
lifetime.
He was so determined and confident. Chen Xiao did not refute him, but just smiled at him with eyes as bright as spring breeze.
"," Chen Xiao said, "I will keep an eye on you for the rest of my life."
Ding!
The system beeped silently:
Please note that the villain's blackening degree has reached 0. Congratulations on successfully completing the task and receiving a rebirth reward.