Chapter 105: Broadcast
On the night of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zhang Ran's family sat in front of the TV early, waiting for the start of "Time Prisoner".
Zhang Ran is very confident in "Time Prisoner", there is no movie of this type in China, and those who have seen it have given high praise. But this is his first feature film after all, and I am still a little nervous.
At the end of "News Network", Zhang Ran picked up his mobile phone, made up a text message, and sent a group message to the students of Form 01: ""Time Prisoner" is about to start, you all have to watch it! If I find out who hasn't read it, I will write 5,000 words of holiday learning experience after the start of school!"
In less than a minute, Chen Jianfeng sent a text message: "Stinky boy, let me write my learning experience?
Ouch, I sent it wrong, why did I send it to Dean Chen?
In fact, where do the students of the 01 table need Zhang Ran to remind them to watch, everyone changed to the movie channel early. Please, Mr. Zhang's movies are not supported, whose movies do they support?
Huang Shengyi's father wanted to see the weather forecast, so he had to discuss with her: "Shengyi, the movie channel program hasn't started yet, let's take a look at the weather forecast! After reading the weather forecast, the movie channel program hasn't started yet!"
Huang Shengyi directly refused: "There is also a weather forecast during the evening news, just watch it then, and now watch our Teacher Zhang's movie!"
Father Huang had no choice, so he shook his head helplessly, the sky is big, and his daughter is the biggest!
Sci-fi fan Wu Wenbo has been dominating the TV since seven o'clock and has been guarding the movie channel, and he has been looking forward to this day since he saw "Time Prisoner" in "China Film Report".
In addition to sci-fi fans like Wu Wenbo, there are countless ordinary viewers who are attracted by the trailer of "Time Prisoner", and they are also looking forward to "Time Prisoner".
Starting from the fifteenth day of the lunar month, the movie channel will broadcast a trailer for "Time Prisoner" every two hours. This is the movie channel's own film, and it must be promoted vigorously. This publicity position, if it is an ordinary movie, it will definitely not be able to get it without millions of advertising dollars.
Of course, the publicity effect of the movie channel is absolutely obvious, and the continuous bombardment has not only let movie lovers know about this movie, but even many ordinary TV viewers know about the domestic sci-fi film "Time Prisoner".
The time pointed to 7:35, and the movie aired on time.
In the dark night, at the entrance of the hotel, a tall man in black came out of the lobby carrying a person on his shoulder, and the time showed that it was 1 o'clock on August 20, 2001; immediately afterwards, Zhang Ran, who was dressed in black, and another person who looked like a doctor came out of the lobby and stood at the door of the hotel.
The doctor said to Zhang Ran: "He is finally dead!"
Zhang Ran said coldly: "He is innocent!" After saying this, the two walked out of the camera together.
Cai Yan, played by Zhang Jingchu, trotted out of the hotel lobby and looked at Zhang Ran's distant figure in a daze.
The screen switched, and fifteen minutes ago, Zhang Ran walked into the Xiang Hotel with the man in black and the doctor.
When Cai Yan opened the door and found Cao Lin lying on the ground in the living room, Zhang Ran and the others were not surprised at all. The doctor walked over, opened Cao Lin's eyelids, then touched his neck, turned to Zhang Ran and nodded: "He's dead!"
Cai Yan was taken aback: "What's the matter, why did he die? I'll call the police!"
Zhang Ran took out his ID and lit up in front of Cai Yan. It was a policeman, but she thought it was a little strange: "How did you know he was dead?"
Zhang Ran didn't answer, beckoned, and the man in black standing at the door walked into the room, rummaged through the room, opened everything, and shook off every piece of clothing to see, as if he was looking for something.
At this time, the man in black found the mp3 on the table, picked it up and prepared to put it in the box.
Cai Yan hurriedly said: "That MP3 is mine, Cao Lin borrowed it from me at night!"
The man in black glanced at Cai Yan, pressed the play button, and Cai Qin's "Forgotten Time" sounded. After making sure that there was no problem, the man in black returned the MP3 to Cai Yan.
They checked and found nothing unusual, so they left with Cao Lin's body and two boxes.
The name of the movie finally appears at this moment, Prisoner of Time.
There are only a few plots, creating a mysterious and eerie atmosphere.
Zhang Ran noticed that when he first started playing the movie, his father was still holding a teacup and drinking tea leisurely. At this moment, the teacup has been put down, and the eyes are firmly fixed on the TV.
The opening of the movie is very important, and Hollywood movies especially emphasize the attractiveness of the opening, often throwing the first suspense in the tenth minute, which quickly attracts the attention of the audience. If the first act of the movie doesn't attract the audience, then the audience may give up before the halfway point of the story.
After the name, Cai Yan sat on the steps at the door of the hotel, looking at the night and began to reminisce.
Time back to 24 hours ago, when it was almost 0:00 at midnight on the 18th, Zhang Ran and a man in black took Cao Lin and carried two large suitcases to the front desk of the hotel to check in.
Cai Yan took out the registration book, asked Cao Lin to sign her name, and completed the check-in procedures. The man in black paid for the room for two days, and then Cai Yan took them to the room.
Cao Lin was satisfied with the room, and when Cao Lin settled down, Zhang Ran and the man in black left the box and left.
Cai Yan arranged the room, came down from upstairs, and just went to the front desk to look through the check-in records, Cao Lin suddenly appeared in front of her and asked eagerly, "What's wrong with you?"
Cai Yan was taken aback, when did Cao Lin come down, but Cao Lin's words made her feel even more inexplicable: "What's wrong?"
"What time is it?" Cao Lin's eyes flashed with horror.
Cai Yan was frightened by Cao Lin's expression and looked at the time: "August 19th, 0:00 past 1 minute in the morning." When did you come down?"
Cao Lin ignored Cai Yan's question, was stunned, and said, "Oh, that's it, thank you." With that, he went back to sleep.
But at 3 o'clock in the morning, Cao Lin knocked on the door outside the building, and he was hunched up, his pale face like a dim light.
Cai Yan hurriedly went out, opened the glass door, and asked, "You just settled down, don't you have a good night's sleep?" When did you go out?"
Cao Lin was stunned: "Oh, I'm not tired." When I went out, you didn't see it. β
Cai Yan felt incredible: "However, the door of the building has always been locked!"
"Really?" Cao Lin smiled, "You remember wrong. That's where I got out. β
At half past nine in the morning, Cao Lin passed by the front hall and walked upstairs.
Cai Yan watched him go upstairs, but in a blink of an eye, she saw Cao Lin coming in from outside the door and walking upstairs.
Cao Lin greeted Cai Yan as if he hadn't met just now: "Good morning!"
Cai Yan looked at him in surprise, held her head, closed her eyes and opened them again. Am I crazy? Is my brain aging prematurely? Am I dreaming?
But only a few seconds later, Cao Lin walked in from outside again and greeted Cai Yan: "You have worked hard!"
Liu Yifei couldn't understand it, and asked in a low voice, "Mom, what's going on? That man is a ghost, right?"
Liu Xiaoli didn't understand: "I don't know, it's not a science fiction movie, there shouldn't be ghosts!"
Cao Lin is so weird, the atmosphere of the movie is getting weirder and weirder, and even Zuo Xiaoqing, who lives in the room next to Cao Lin, feels Cao Lin's abnormality.
She stood at the gate of the hotel, staring at Cao Lin's back as he disappeared into the street, and said to Cai Yan with a nervous expression: "This person is very strange!"
Cai Yan nodded, it was indeed too weird, like a ghost, elusive.
Zuo Xiaoqing lowered his voice and said, "I heard someone crying in his room. β
"Crying?" Cai Yan was a little skeptical, Cao Lin didn't look like a person who could cry.
"That's right! I heard it lying on the door!" Zuo Xiaoqing suddenly turned inside, and his face suddenly wrinkled with horror.
Cai Yan turned her head and found Cao Lin coming out of the hall again. She was dumbfounded, not knowing how to explain what was happening in front of her.
Waiting for Cao Lin to walk away again, Zuo Xiaoqing trembled and said, "He's not a human, he's a ghost!"
The sun is shining overhead, the sun is sudden, how can it be a ghost.
As soon as Cai Yan looked up, she saw a figure on the balcony of Cao Lin's room, which seemed to be Cao Lin. Cai Yan took a few steps back and covered the sunlight with her hands to retell. That's right, it's Cao Lin's room, and Cai Yan was suddenly terrified!
"Did you see it? You saw it? He wasn't a human, he was a ghost!" Zuo Xiaoqing also saw the figure in the room and shouted excitedly.
Cai Yan pulled Zuo Xiaoqing, ran to the management room, took the electric baton, came to Cao Lin's door and stopped, put her ear to the door and listened.
"Mr. Cao, are you inside?" Cai Yan knocked the door, but no one answered.
Cai Yan took out the spare key and opened the door, holding the electric baton in her hand, and cautiously walked into the room with Zuo Xiaoqing, trying to figure out what was going on.
The room was empty, and Cao Lin was not there.
In this way, Cai Yan saw Cao Lin entering and exiting the door of the building more than a dozen times, and the whole portrait was hidden in the fog, with a mysterious and strange atmosphere. She really couldn't figure out what was going on, there were no ghosts in this world, what was Cao Lin?
In the afternoon, Cai Yan wore earplugs, held a book in one hand, and rhythmically tapped the desktop with the other. As soon as she looked up, she saw Cao Lin staring at her, so she asked, "What's wrong?"
Cao Lin said curiously: "What does it mean that you are rhythmically tapping on the tabletop?"
Cai Yan explained with a smile: "Yes, have you watched "Tragedy on the Nile"? Someone put a cobra in Poirot's room, he knocked on the door frame, told the colonel next door for help, and the colonel came over and ended up with the snake!"
"I see, it's funny!"
"It's Morse code, a code word. After reading the novel, I thought it was interesting, I studied it for a while, I just learned it, and I'm recording it into MP3, trying to see if the sound can be translated. β
At nine o'clock in the evening, Cao Lin came back from outside tiredly. He walked to the front desk and said to Cai Yan: "Are you still practicing Morse code?" Lend me your MP3, and I'll record a paragraph for you to see if you can translate it." β
"You won't!" Cai Yan smiled.
"I've learned!"
"How can you learn in a few hours?" Cai Yan was taken aback.
"Whether it's true or not, you can find out if you try it. β
"Okay!" Cai Yan handed the MP3 to Cao Lin.
The scene cuts back to the door of the hotel. Cai Yan, who was sitting on the steps in a daze, suddenly remembered the conversation between herself and Cao Lin, and her eyes lit up. She quickly opened her MP3 recording, and the tapping of her fingers suddenly sounded.
There is no doubt that this is a message left by Cao Lin, and he has successfully concealed the man in black!
(Thanks to "Jia Ran, Riding Alone, Meow's Pig Four, Λ VisionΛ5Lookingfor, I Meng Xiao, asdfasdfad" for rewarding, asking for collection and recommendation!)