The three people walked from the front to the backyard, but still found nothing more. However, the area at the back of the house is much larger than the front. As a yard for shooting, it is actually a bit luxurious - after all, many shootings require separate interior and exterior scenes.
When they walked inside, everyone also met An Youxi and the two leaders who had gone to the backyard to inspect first. An Youxi chatted happily with the two of them, and even met Lu Ning. Tang Yuexin only said hello briefly and continued talking to An Youxi.
Lu Ning had also seen such a sociable person. Since An Youxi was willing to take the initiative to take on this task, she nodded to him gratefully and walked into the innermost courtyard with Qu Yi and Guo Xiao. .
From the design point of view, this is probably where the most senior person lives here. It is almost decorated, at least it can be called exquisite compared to the previous house. Lu Ning quickly found an account book from the bookshelf and confirmed from the records above that this house was the so-called "Ling Mansion".
But Qu Yi saw more things from the account books.
"The income of this family has declined recently. It can be seen that there are a total of 18 stores they operate outside. However, the income of 16 stores has declined recently, with a decrease of more than 2% in the past three months. 10. The reason is a drop in sales, but these stores do not operate the same content, so it can be judged that they are most likely to have been suppressed by some officials or competed with peers. The operations of these stores are independent... the possibility of insiders Sex is low..."
Lu Ning covered her mouth.
"What are you doing? We can learn some possible plots in advance from this, right?" Qu Yi broke away from Lu Ning, but Lu Ning also shouted to her: "Think clearly first! This is a prop for filming a TV series! How is it possible to prepare such clear accounts for you?"
Qu Yi took a breath of air.
Indeed, even if it is for the audience to see during filming, it only needs to prepare a few key pages. Even if they are wealthy, the prop team will not actually prepare a ledger.
"But...but up here..."
Lu Ning snatched the account book from Qu Yi's hand, preventing her from reading further. She flipped through it herself, and indeed what Qu Yi said was that there was too much detailed information in this account book, so detailed that it didn't even look like a prop.
"It seems there are some problems." Guo Xiao also said, "Look at this."
The two turned their heads and found that Guo Xiao was pointing at a wood carving on the shelf in the room. The wood carving was carved into the shape of a horse's head. However, what made people feel a little uncomfortable was that there were some tumors starting from the middle of the neck of the horse's head. The protrusions are densely packed like barnacles all the way to the roots, and there is a layer of green color like mold on them.
"I don't think such weird things were prepared by the props team. Which normal person would put such weird things in their house?" Guo Xiao made a disgusting expression.
Lu Ning took a closer look, but she didn't smell any strange smell in her nose. If you look closely, you can also find that the moldy thing on it is just the color of the paint. If you follow the normal thinking, that is, the horse head is actually only carved to half of the neck, and the underground wood is originally growing on it. thing.
Putting aside the most ugly part, the carving technology of the horse head itself is very advanced, and can even be said to be lifelike. However, this is also the same problem as the account book just now - if it is not a key point prop in the plot, then the prop group is I wouldn't put such a thing here on purpose.
After the exploration, there were more questions, but this was expected by the tourists. Lu Ning and the other three searched the room carefully again, and finally exited after making sure that there were no other obviously abnormal items.
"What do you think should be done next?" She asked Qu Yi and Guo Xiao for their opinions.
"This is not the right time to go in depth. After all, it's just the beginning. Rushing to launch an investigation when we don't have any precautions may lead to unnecessary dangers." Qu Yi said, "Now that it is clear that this is the Ling Mansion, we may need to Find something you can use to deal with it, weapons, superpowers, people with abilities, anything.”
"I think so too." Guo Xiao said.
The idea is correct, this is also the process that ordinary tourists will go through. The three people came out to join An Youxi and others, and then continued to see the rest of the ancient area. This tour lasted a day, during which they also made some observations on several other points that seemed to have problems, but found nothing.
When I came back in the evening, the group of movie fans had dispersed. The hotel was brightly lit from the window, and almost every room was already occupied. During the meal, several people received the message from Yu Zhan. They will gather at the central square of District 1 at nine o'clock tomorrow morning. A start-up ceremony will be held there. All relevant personnel of the project team will go there, and some important ones will Directly responsible for cutting the ribbon.
"Hey, here we come. It looks like we will have to face a test starting tomorrow." Guo Xiao checked the information.
"It doesn't matter, we have been prepared for a long time." An Youxi smiled, "Everyone, let's find a small conference room later... to discuss?"
Of course no one refused this offer.
After eating, the four people sat down in the lounge on the floor and started talking about today's issues.
Lu Ning first told about the strange things that Qu Yi and Guo Xiao encountered respectively. There was no need to hide such things. After hearing this, An Youxi nodded and asked, "So neither of you noticed that something was wrong at the time?"
"My memory of that time is very vague. I don't even know why I suddenly started shouting like that. Now I can hardly remember the specific content of the 'quarrel'. Isn't it very strange?" Guo Xiao tried to recall, "My clearer memory is when Lu Ning told me that there was no one around, and that's when I felt a little creepy. In addition, whether you believe it or not, I have never suffered from schizophrenia, and my soul has not been polluted. It was all handled on time and definitely not accumulated to a high level.”
"On my side...because I am more familiar with things like accounts, I started to subconsciously analyze the content when I saw that. I didn't think about possible problems other than the accounts. This was indeed my negligence. Unlike Guo Xiao, I have a clear memory and cognition, but looking back now, it seems that I had a problem of over-concentration because I came into contact with areas that I am more familiar with.”
"Really? Then maybe you can refer to the news I have here." An Youxi pondered for a moment and said, "I walked with those two almost the whole time. Tang Yuexin has a very detailed understanding of each building in the base, but this is also is a question. I specially selected some parts that were not part of the original architectural design of the base and asked her about them, such as the function of the room, the living conditions of the home, etc. She was able to answer them all."
"If someone who participated in the shooting should have learned about this kind of thing, right?" Guo Xiao said.
"Can they all get the script before us? In fact, I have sent a message to the director to confirm that the script will be sent to us after the opening ceremony. Of course, we mainly want to see how the storyboards and other parts should be But it is impossible for the staff here to get the script." An Youxi said seriously, "In addition, both Tang Yuexin and Joseph have a very abnormal politeness. Do you understand? These two people are too enthusiastic. I even made some slightly more offensive requests to test the waters, but they didn’t take it seriously.”
"What request?" Qu Yi asked.
"I pretended not to pay attention and dropped my phone into the pool, and then asked Joseph to help me fish it out. But he really took off his coat and went down to help me fish it out," An Youxi said.
"I said he was a little wet when he came back... I thought he was sweating." Lu Ning recalled, "This is indeed a bit unconventional."
"In addition, I also found some other things." An Youxi took out his mobile phone and placed it on the table. "Please take a look at these photos."
The photos showed several places that everyone had been to today, but there were obviously some differences. For example, there were obvious patterns of cracks on the walls, the water marks on the ground looked like human faces, and there were gaps between the books on the bookshelves. There seemed to be many eyes looking out through the gaps.
"Wait... wait, we have been filming today, but we didn't take anything, just black and white!" Qu Yi hurriedly took out his camera and reversed to the parts he shot. Apart from the black and white picture, there was really nothing else. They are all normal, there are no parts of An Woo-hee at all.
"These photos were processed by me using software." An Youxi explained, "You can't see these things even with basic photography. Look at the water stains on the human face. They don't exist at all under normal photography. They can only be seen through normal photography." Only through infrared analysis to find out the low-temperature parts can we find out that there is a pattern of a human face inside, but you probably can’t tell anything by using the video directly." An Youxi explained, "And on this one, there are books on the bookshelf. For those with eyes, you must set the camera to inverse color mode and then reduce the brightness to about 50% before you can detect it."
"Why can you discover these?" Lu Ning interrupted him, "If it were just a discovery condition, I would think it was a coincidence, but the conditions for the discovery of these things are obviously different. The camera has many functions. You also have a Do you want to try them all?"
An Youxi laughed.
"What are you laughing at?" Guo Xiao asked loudly.
"Because this is what Tang Yuexin told me." An Youxi shook his head slightly, "After I asked some questions and found that they really knew everything, I asked... 'What method do you think can be used to shoot here? What's the best outcome?'"
Then he got his answer.
Guo Xiao cursed in a low voice, and Qu Yi also had an expression that something was wrong. Lu Ning thought for a while and asked An Youxi: "Are you sure your current state is completely normal?"
"Very cautious, Lu Ning." An Youxi smiled, "But unfortunately I can't be sure of myself now. These words are indeed said by me based on my current knowledge, but I don't know whether my current knowledge is What problem has arisen? Now, let me ask you, as someone who has also been involved in abnormal phenomena, are you still mentally normal?"
"So what if it's abnormal?" Lu Ning sneered, "At least we still have the will to resist, and that's enough."
After the discussion, everyone returned to their rooms. Lu Ning sat on the bed and stared out the window. Qu Yi went to take a shower, and he could hear the sound of running water coming from the toilet.
It was still dark outside the base at night. When it is not fully open, there are no bright lights at night, and you can still see clear stars in the sky.
Lu Ning suddenly remembered a question.
The group of movie fans I saw in the morning totaled several hundred people, but according to the map, although there are quite a few hotels in the base, only this one was opened early to accommodate the filming crew, and the rest were not put into operation at all. . The location of the base is close to a two-hour drive from the nearest town. Are those movie fans really going back and forth like this every day? She didn't see anyone acting like a movie fan near the hotel at all.
When thinking about this problem, Lu Ning's eyes were attracted by the things outside the window.
The tenth floor of the hotel is already very high, and there are no tall shelters around it. From Lu Ning's window, you can actually see directly the square that was surrounded by movie fans in the morning.
She saw pairs of red dots of light.
Are there dozens or hundreds? The moment Lu Ning saw those light spots, her brain seemed to be intensely burned, and she lost the ability to think in an instant. She could only dullly remember the scene outside the window, relying on instinct and a trace of consciousness that had not disappeared.
A column of turbid smoke was rising from that place, and the red light spots were moving but not flickering. Lu Ning felt as if her eyes were able to ignore the surrounding darkness. She saw those crawling creatures with feathers on their bodies, with hunched hemispherical backs, and used their thin hands to pick up some substances from the root of the smoke column. .
Strange, she knew what it was, she even knew what it felt like, what it smelled like, what it tasted like, what...
"Lu Ning! I've finished taking a shower, do you want to take a shower too?"
The headache-inducing sound seemed to come from another world, but it also allowed Lu Ning to finally regain the ability to control her body. She blinked and agreed to Qu Yi, then raised her hand to wipe her mouth, feeling a little stunned.
"Why are you drooling? It's strange..."
She shrugged, took out a new set of clothes from her suitcase, and walked into the bathroom. It was still quiet outside the dark window, and a hint of cicada chirping came from the distant tree.
