Long night dreams

Chapter 11 The Show Begins (1)
Guo Haoran, Wang Yang and Li Shoulian searched every room on the second floor, but to their surprise, they did not find Roger's body.Every room on the second floor has the same layout, and it's really hard to tell which room the murder happened from just a little picture on the TV monitor.

But what I saw in the dark room just now was obviously a live broadcast, why can't I find the scene where Roger was killed now?Could it be that there is an unknown secret room in the corridor on the second floor?Guo Haoran looked around the corridor, but felt that this possibility was not great.Based on the length of the corridor and the width of each room, there should be no extra space on the second floor to build another secret room.

The three of them were about to go back to the dark room full of monitors with their heads downcast, when Wang Yang suddenly said, "Shall we go downstairs and have a look?" It is also possible that there is a secret place hidden somewhere on the first floor.

When they went downstairs, Li Shoulian suddenly exclaimed excitedly: "Roger's body must be on the first floor. The other two looked at Li Shoulian suspiciously. The bearded painter must not dare to tell them that he has an extraordinary sensitivity to the smell of corpses." He just twitched his nostrils and said, "I have a hunch, a strong hunch!Roger's body is here.

Li Shoulian twitched his nostrils and looked around the various scenes on the first floor. Finally, his eyes locked on the management room of Mrs. Jin.

Pushing open the wooden door of the management room, Roger was lying on the ground covered in blood. There was a big bloody hole in his chest.A large amount of blood oozes from his trouser leg, the blood has gradually dried up and turned a dark purple color, several tenacious flies are buzzing and flying around, trying to find what they think is a delicacy.

In view of the two incidents of suspended animation last night, Guo Haoran decided to examine Roger's body carefully.He took a step forward and pressed his finger on Roger's carotid artery - Roger was not breathing, this time he was really dead!

Guo Haoran pulled Roger's body again, and Roger's body immediately turned over, revealing his back.At this moment, Guo Haoran also noticed something was wrong. When Luo Jie's body turned over, his trouser legs clearly brushed against Guo Haoran's feet, but Guo Haoran didn't feel it at all.

Guo Haoran squatted down and pinched Roger's trouser legs with his hands. When his hands touched Roger, he was startled and took a few big steps back.He sat on the ground slumped, and shouted out of breath: "His leg is gone! His leg was sawed off!"
Li Shoulian tore open Roger's trouser legs excitedly, but when he saw Roger's legs, he couldn't help his stomach churning.Roger's entire left calf was missing, and the blood on the stubble had clotted, but it could still be seen that the incision was neat, as if it had been cut by a professional scalpel.

Wang Yang couldn't help vomiting, he yelled in pain: "How could this happen? Who would do such a cruel thing?"
The three of them helped each other back to the dark room full of monitors. After drinking a sip of hot tea, Guo Haoran felt a little better.He told Mrs. Jin and Su Xin what they found in the management room on the first floor. When he finished speaking, Mrs. Jin and Su Xin showed unstoppable fear on their faces.

After they went downstairs and confirmed again that the body belonged to Roger, the old lady Jin shouted: "Let's call the police quickly, a murder has occurred here, the show is not going on, call the police immediately!"
Li Shoulian said angrily, "Didn't the phone line be cut?"
Su Xin replied: "We lied to you during the show. The phone was cut in the dark room. As long as we connect the phone line now, we can continue to use it."
Li Shoulian's eyes showed joy, but Zhang Dongsheng immediately poured cold water: "Do you think that murderer is so stupid? Doesn't he know how to cut the phone line in another secret place? Could it be that he is still waiting for us to come?" Answer the phone and ask the police to arrest him? Don't forget, the murderer said--the blizzard-style killings really kicked off, and everyone here must die.

As soon as he had finished speaking, the room fell into a hopeless, deathly silence.

Facts proved that Zhang Dongsheng's analysis was correct. After Su Xin connected to the cut telephone line in the dark room, the phone was still silent like a mute.

The shadow of horror shrouded the Hongmen Hotel, like a curtain that was getting darker and darker.

Guo Haoran sat silently on a soft sofa in the dining room on the first floor, lit a cigarette, the smoke curled up, his face was gradually blurred behind the curling mist.After a long time, he said slowly: "I think there is something wrong here.

The scene where Roger was killed was seen through the monitor in the dark room. Judging from the layout of the room, it should be in a guest room on the second floor, but his body was found in the management room on the first floor.what the hell is it?Could it be that the mysterious killer in black mask killed Roger on the second floor and then moved his body downstairs?But in fact, they didn't see bloodstains in several rooms on the second floor, but they clearly saw blood gurgling around Roger on the monitor.

Guo Haoran patted his head and said to Mrs. Jin: "Let's go back to the dark room and look at the monitor screen again.

For the smooth broadcast of the reality show, all the pictures captured by the TV monitors were recorded on video tapes and numbered.Guo Haoran asked Su Xin to find out the video tape where Roger was killed. The video tape was still placed in the video recorder connected to the monitor. Su Xin pressed the button on the video recorder, and the video tape popped out automatically.

Su Xin looked at the video tape and suddenly said: "This is not the video tape of our TV station.

She pointed to the edge of the video tape and told Guo Haoran that there was no logo of their TV station on the video tape, and she did not put it in the video recorder.

Guo Haoran checked the video recorder carefully, and then called Wang Yang: "Xiao Wang, you are a student of electronics, come and see if there is anything wrong with this machine?"
Wang Yang looked at the video recorder, then took out a small iron lump from the back of the video recorder, and said, "This is a jammer. If there is a remote control, this thing will work automatically - such as Said it would suddenly turn the monitor into a snowflake, or make the monitor suddenly start working."
"You mean—" Guo Haoran motioned Wang Yang to speak more clearly.

"That is to say - this videotape should have been recorded long ago, and it was put in this machine. While we were all here, someone pressed the remote control, and the TV monitor appeared The scene where Roger was killed." Wang Yang explained.

Guo Haoran took a breath, and asked again: "Look at this jammer, if you want to remotely control it, how far away is it?"
Wang Yang glanced at it and said, "The power of this thing is very low, and the distance controlled by the remote control may not be very far. I guess the person who pressed the remote control was in this room at the time!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the people in the room suddenly became commotion.No matter how stupid people are, they can understand the meaning of Wang Yang's words. The possible murderer was hiding in this room at that time, and the murderer was among them.

The air in the dark room froze, like a powder keg fully loaded, as long as there is a little spark, a violent explosion will occur.All the people dare not speak, they have their own concerns, they are all afraid that their words will become that spark, and they are all afraid that a single word of theirs will cause a fierce dispute in this room.

It was Guo Haoran who broke the dull atmosphere in the room.

He half-closed his eyes and said: "In these weird events, Roger is undoubtedly a very key figure. He painted the patterns about Nine Stars and the white cloth in the mourning hall. And this program It is also his plan, and we have every reason to believe that he is one of the masterminds behind the scenes."
"But, who killed him? Don't forget, now Luo Jie has turned into a corpse." For Ye Mei's reason, Zhang Dongsheng tried his best to refute whatever Guo Haoran said.

"Then it is very likely that the murderer is Roger's accomplice, and the murderer wants to kill Roger to silence him." Guo Haoran obviously lacked confidence in what he said, because these words were purely based on the analysis in his mind.

He turned his head to Mrs. Jin and said, "Can you tell me how you came up with this program?"
The old lady Jin tilted her head to recall for a while, and then slowly explained the origin of this show.

It was indeed Roger's idea to decide to do this show.After he put forward his idea at that time, Mrs. Jin and Su Xin both felt very strange.In their impression, Roger is just an artist with solid skills, even if he is a little clever, he will not be able to come up with such a creative program idea.Su Xin jokingly asked Roger several times if the inspiration for this program was because he was once teased by a similar program on a friendly channel.But Roger shook his head and said it was entirely his own idea.

However, Mrs. Jin and Su Xin were both afraid that Roger's idea was inspired by similar programs on other TV stations, and worried that if it was broadcast, it would attract complaints from other stations or even sue for plagiarism, so they repeatedly explained the incident to Roger Only then did Roger tell the truth, telling Mrs. Jin and Su Xin that this program came from an e-mail from an enthusiastic viewer.

The old lady Jin and Su Xin opened the email in Roger's mailbox. The email was sent by a very strange name, but the content of the email surprised them.The email described the whole process of the thrilling reality show in the form of a script, and attached schematic diagrams such as corpses falling from the ceiling and corpses hidden in bloody bathtubs.What's more, at the end of the email, the enthusiastic viewer also specifically explained that the whole process of the program was completely designed by him independently, and he gave it to Mrs. Jin's program production team free of charge, so there is no need to worry about the law.After reading these words, the old lady Jin and Su Xin finally fell to the ground, and started this thrilling reality show boldly.

Moreover, even this abandoned villa with one floor and one floor in Shizuo Village, two kilometers away from Cursed Village, was introduced by that enthusiastic viewer in the e-mail. The e-mail even mentioned the dark room in the stairwell. converted into a surveillance room.At first, Mrs. Jin didn't believe that there was such a place, but after asking Roger to go to the field for investigation, she finally believed that there really was such a place.The transformation of the abandoned villa into the Hongmen Hotel was completed by the artist Roger in two weeks, and it looks basically seamless.

After Mrs. Jin finished speaking, Guo Haoran suddenly asked: "What is the signature of the enthusiastic viewer who sent the email?"
The old lady Jin looked up at the ceiling, and then said three words leisurely:

"Jeffers.

Jeffers, Jeffers again.This man named Jeffers is really everywhere, from writing a book about the Nine Stars, to posting on the "Cuneiform" website, to writing a thriller reality show for a TV station. e-mail.He might even be the mysterious person who communicated with Lianzi online under the guise of Suxin's name and agreed to meet at the Hongmen Hotel.As for the mysterious man in black and masked who killed Roger and displayed everything on the TV monitor, the greatest possibility is - he is Jeffers!

At this time, Xia Qingqing suddenly tugged on Wang Yang's sleeve and said, "I'm hungry."
Her words completely eased the atmosphere in the room a lot.While everyone couldn't help laughing, they remembered that Mrs. Jin had made breakfast, but because everyone was in a hurry to leave, they didn't eat that rather rich meal.Hunger might really be contagious. When Xia Qingqing said she was hungry, everyone else couldn't help but feel hungry too.

"Go down and eat, I still have the morning meal in the refrigerator." Mrs. Jin waved her hand, motioning everyone to go downstairs, and she added, "Don't say, Roger bought it specially for this show." The refrigerator is really big."
Su Xin also echoed: "Yes, that's right. In fact, Roger is a very careful person. He looks thick and thick, but he is actually very delicate in his heart. He knows that I like ice cream, so he bought a lot of ice cream of various colors and put it on the table. In the refrigerator." Su Xin's eyes turned slightly red when she mentioned Roger, a former colleague who has now turned into a corpse.

"Yes, Roger knows that I am old and needs vitamin C supplementation, and he has prepared a lot of tomato juice for me. He is really a careful person." The old lady Jin added, her voice was also slightly choked.

Going down to the first floor, Mrs. Jin invited everyone to sit around the dining table. She went to the kitchen to heat up the hot food, and it was served quickly.Although Wang Yang had once testified that the murderer might be hiding among these gangsters, the atmosphere during the meal was a bit dull, but after all, everyone was hungry, so after a gust of wind, there was not much food left on the table.

Seeing that all the food was swept away, the old lady Jin drank tomato juice, put her hips on her hips and said proudly to Su Xin: "Look, the old lady's cooking skills are not bad, right?"
While licking a piece of strawberry ice cream, Su Xin complimented, "Yes, of course Mrs. Jin is a master, and you are my idol."
But as soon as Su Xin finished saying this, her complexion sank. She covered her stomach and cried softly: "Oh, why do I feel my stomach hurts and my head is so dizzy?" There was something wrong with my stomach, my head seemed to be dizzy, and my vision gradually blurred.

Guo Haoran pointed at the food on the table and shouted: "No, there is something wrong with this food! Someone put medicine in the food. He raised his head, his eyes were round and red, and he stared straight at Mr. Jin Wife struggled and said: "You cook all the dishes, it must be the medicine you added!That murderer must be..."
Before the last word "you" could be said, Guo Haoran saw Mrs. Jin's body paralyzed and limply fell to the ground. Her eyes were still open, as if she couldn't believe what happened before her. everything.

Guo Haoran didn't have time to react, he just felt that his mind was in chaos, his vision seemed to be covered by a layer of frosted glass, and everything he saw was hazy.While half asleep and half awake, he turned his head to scan the others, and he saw the traveling companions around him fall to the ground with their heads tilted one by one.

He knew that he was about to fall into a coma.He has no way or ability to stop this.

He closed his eyes and waited helplessly for the arrival of the Sandman.

Finally, he passed out.

The rays of light were absorbed into Guo Haoran's pupils one by one. When he woke up and turned around, he felt exhausted and his throat was full of burning sensation.

Guo Haoran struggled to stand up, but just as he straightened up, he staggered and fell to the floor again.He knew that knowledge was caused by the weakness of his whole body after eating the food mixed with drugs, so he slammed on the ground and took a few deep breaths.At the same time, he looked around and saw that the limbs of the traveling companion lying next to him were struggling slightly. It seemed that the effect of the medicine had almost been consumed by the body's metabolism.

Finally, Guo Haoran stood up. He supported the table and carefully looked at the traveling companions lying on the floor. He wanted to know what happened when he was unconscious.

Ye Mei fell across the table with her eyes closed, her fingers intertwined with Zhang Dongsheng who was also lying on one side.The bearded Li Shoulian enjoyed it very much. Even if he was stunned, he kept snoring, with a stream of saliva hanging from the corner of his mouth.Lian Zi covered her chest with her hands, trembling all over.Even though Wang Yang was unconscious, he still stood beside Xia Qingqing, holding his girlfriend tightly with both hands, fearing that she would be hurt in any way.Su Xin still held half a stick of ice cream in her hand, but the ice cream had long since turned into a puddle of sweet water.They were all lying on the ground across from the dining table, and the room was filled with a strange smell.Wet, fishy, ​​smell like blood.
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There is only one person missing in the room, Mrs. Kim!
Where did Mrs. Jin go?Could it be that she also became a victim in the hands of "Jeffers"?Guo Haoran only felt that his mind was in a mess. He remembered that before he fell into a coma, he even pointed out that Mrs. Jin might be the murderer, but now it is Mrs. Jin who is missing!
Guo Haoran felt a little dazed, he suddenly felt a bit cool at the tip of his nose, as if some slippery liquid was flowing on it.He wiped it with his hands, and the liquid was a bit viscous and had a fishy smell, like blood.

At the thought of blood, Guo Haoran panicked with a "thud" in his heart, a puff of qi stagnated in his chest cavity and couldn't go up or down.He put his fingers in front of his eyes and glanced, his legs felt a little weak at once—there were really a few drops of blood smeared on his fingers.

Where did this smelly blood come from?Guo Haoran didn't feel any wounds on his face, but the blood on his fingers was an undoubted fact.Just when he was confused, the tip of his nose was cold again, and another drop of viscous liquid dripped on his nose.Guo Haoran understood right away—the blood was dripping from the ceiling, and it just landed on his nose.

He raised his head and looked up to the ceiling nervously.

It's Mrs. Kim!
(End of this chapter)