Chapter 10 Refrigerator
Han Fei felt a little embarrassed when he heard Director Jiang's praise. He couldn't tell Director Jiang that he had really experienced it himself.
"I've found a treasure. With you in the lead role, the first few scenes are guaranteed to be a success." Director Jiang looked at Han Fei and smiled with satisfaction. "I was wondering if your acting skills were so good that you wouldn't be popular. Now it seems that you've been looking in the wrong direction. You can try more horror movies in the future."
"My dream is to become a comedian. I like to see people smile. I enjoy that feeling."
"People always have to eat. You can become famous through horror movies, and then act in comedies." Director Jiang was very satisfied with Han Fei: "You passed the audition. Go home and have a good rest today, and you will officially join the crew tomorrow."
"I..." Han Fei didn't know if he could survive tonight. According to the rules of the game, he had to log in to the game every day.
"I will try my best to get you more pay, don't worry ." Director Jiang has a very straightforward temper, and all his emotions are shown on his face. Of course, this may be the reason why he has not become a big director until now.
It took only about ten minutes from the start of the audition to passing it. Han Fei was about to leave after grabbing a box lunch from the crew when his cell phone vibrated again. This time it was Li Xue who called him.
"Did you find anything?"
"No. 21, North Street, Old City District, I'll wait for you here. I found Meng Shi."
"Okay! I'll be there right away!"
The Flower of Evil crew was at Yard 15, North Street, not too far from Yard 21, so Han Fei ran over directly according to the navigation on his phone.
After passing through many old buildings, Han Fei finally stopped at the gate of an old residential compound.
"This way!" Li Xue's voice rang out in the family compound. She was still dressed the same way as she was in the morning, but there was a Phantom series motorcycle parked next to her.
"Meng Shi lives in the staff quarters on North Street?"
"There are twelve people named Meng Shi in the city. I screened them all, but didn't find anyone who matched your description. You didn't give me the feeling that you were lying, so I expanded the screening range and finally found Meng Shi." Li Xue said here, staring at Han Fei's face for a long time.
"Go on, why are you looking at me?"
"Follow me." Li Xue led Han Fei into unit four, and they went to the third floor together.
At the door of the rightmost house on the third floor, there was a brazier with half-burned paper money in it. Looking inside the house, there was a black-and-white photo on the dark altar.
"You told me in the summons room that you met Meng Shi last night, but in fact the Meng Shi who matched your description had died ten years ago."
"Dead?" Han Fei stood where he was, not even daring to enter the door.
The store manager passed away a few days ago, and Meng Shi also passed away ten years ago. Han Fei discovered that everyone related to the game, except himself, seemed to be dead.
"No, there is another person." Holding on to the last glimmer of hope, Han Fei looked at Li Xue. Before he opened his mouth, Li Xue seemed to know what he wanted to ask.
"Chenchen is Meng Shi's grandson. His original name was Meng Chen. He also died ten years ago."
"Are they all dead?" Han Fei felt a chill on his back. He never expected that the NPCs in the game were people who died ten years ago in real life.
Han Fei felt his scalp tingling when he thought about how he had sat with them and eaten dumplings last night and even felt very warm.
What kind of hell game is this?
"You two, if you don't have anything to do, please leave. I don't want to be disturbed anymore." A middle-aged man with white hair walked out of the slightly crowded room. He looked to be in his forties or fifties, but his hair was completely white and his health was not very good.
"Uncle, we don't mean to disturb you. There are many suspicious points in this case. Technology is more advanced than before, and many unsolved cases have made breakthroughs. You should also want to bring the murderer to justice as soon as possible, right?" Li Xue, who usually gives people the impression of being fearless, is unprecedentedly gentle in front of the victim's family. He speaks in a soft tone and is very patient.
"It's been ten years, and the murderer still hasn't been found. My health is getting worse and worse, and I can't stand it anymore." The middle-aged man walked into the kitchen, placed a bowl of freshly made dumplings on the altar, then lit a stick of incense and bowed three times towards the black and white photo.
"Did grandma make dumplings every New Year's Day and New Year's Eve when she was alive?" Han Fei looked at the photo of the old lady on the altar and walked into the house unknowingly: "I remember she said that dumplings symbolize the change of years, reunion and happiness, and eating dumplings can get rid of the bad luck of the year."
Han Fei's words seemed to touch the man's memories. He looked at Han Fei in disbelief, as if the old man had said something similar before he died.
"Grandma is very good at cooking. The fish soup she stews is very fresh and milky white. You can smell the fragrance from a long distance away..."
"How do you know this?" The middle-aged man took the initiative to walk towards Han Fei: "Have you seen my mother? You should have been a teenager ten years ago, right?"
"I did meet her, and she even treated me to some dumplings." Han Fei didn't know what to say, and he didn't want to be considered a psychopath, so he rationally changed the subject: "Uncle, can you tell me about grandma?"
Some memories are very painful. The middle-aged man hesitated for a long time before letting Li Xue and Han Fei into the house.
"My mother is a good person, a very good person. She never married and adopted three orphans. She used all her hard-earned money to support these three children." The middle-aged man sat on the other side of the sofa: "I am the eldest brother. I have been in poor health since I was a child. My mother named me Meng Changshou. I am the most useless among the three brothers."
"The second child is called Meng Changxi. He is an abandoned baby with a deformed face. But he is very smart and has been excellent in both character and study since he was young. However, perhaps because of that face, he has a low self-esteem and is introverted and gloomy."
"The third brother is Meng Changan. He is the most capable among the three of us brothers. He has the best academic performance and the most friends. He has won so many awards that they can't fit on one wall. He has now joined a large company, Yongsheng Pharmaceuticals, and is said to be a senior executive in the department ."
When talking about the third child, Meng Changan, the middle-aged man's eyes finally showed some color, but that color soon dimmed again: "The third child sent me money every month, but he never came back since Mom's accident."
"What happened to grandma ten years ago?" This is what Han Fei wanted to know more.
"I didn't know about this at first. I didn't realize it until my second son disappeared and the police came to our house." The middle-aged man's eyes were full of self-blame and pain: "After my mother retired, she opened a cold drink shop. The police found many dead animals and a dead person in the freezer of her shop."
"Body hidden in freezer?"
"The forensic time of death was inferred to be a week ago. During this week, my mother must have known that there was a body hidden in the freezer, but she did not call the police." The middle-aged man clenched his hands together.
"Could it be that the old lady killed that man?" It is very important for Han Fei to find out whether the old lady is a good person or a bad person. This is an important breakthrough for him to survive in the game.
