Chapter 4: The Line of Life and Death in the Dungeon
This investigation is because the client clearly stated that the police cannot be notified, so we don't want to trouble Team Xiao for help, but I can't count on it for the time being, I looked at my watch, there are only less than 43 hours before Wei Kai's death notice, and it is definitely not easy to find clues in such a short time. So we decided that the two of us would act separately, Li Jing would investigate the suspicious people around Wei Kai, and I would follow Zheng Min to investigate Sun Jiayan's clues. What is known now is that both Sun Jiayan and Wei Kai received a threatening letter in the same form. If it is confirmed that the threatening letter was written by the same person, in addition to the common denominator that they are both actors, there must be other connections that make these two people targeted by the suspect, and this person must be related to both of them.
After saying goodbye to Li Jing, Zheng Min and I planned to walk to the underground data warehouse of an entertainment company in the middle of the night to see if we could find valuable clues.
"Do you know why I chose that entertainment company?" On the way there, Zheng Min asked me.
I didn't figure it out and tried to ask, "Is it because of the best company in the industry?" β
"Quite the opposite." Zheng Min shook his head, "Although it is inappropriate for people in the same industry to say this, that company is not very popular." β
"Why?" I asked curiously.
"Too powerful, right?" Zheng Min suddenly laughed after speaking, "When I say this, it seems that I am particularly incompetent." Actually, no, entertainment reporters generally follow celebrities to shoot some of their daily lives, and then add fuel and vinegar to write something. If you are lucky and encounter some ulterior secrets of celebrities, then we can use it as a bargaining chip to negotiate with the artist agency or artist, generally in two situations, or we will pay a high hush money and then hand over all the things we photograph to the artist and the company; On the other hand, if the celebrity who is photographed is very famous, there will also be media who do not want money, but will find the star to do exclusive reports, or cooperate with the agency as a whole to do free page interviews to increase the popularity of the media, but generally this method is a small media to continue to increase their popularity. However, the second way has not been encountered since I entered this circle. There are also media, when they encounter celebrities who are not very good at being people, or artists who have made a stumbling block for themselves, it is a kind of revenge. β
I nodded in understanding, I followed Zheng Min on the street, probably because of the cold spring, walking on the street late at night, when the wind blows, there will still be a layer of goosebumps. I wrapped my baseball jacket tightly.
Zheng Min took out a scarf from his bag and helped me wrap it: "But this company is not, even in this industry, I have to say that this company is like a bastard." Is it still cold? Zheng Min asked me.
I shook my head, "It's much warmer, thank you." β
"Think about me more when you handle cases with Li Jing in the future, which is the real thank you." Zheng Min continued to pull me forward.
Before the topic of steel in my county was finished, I asked her: "Why do you say that company is a bastard?" β
"Insatiable." Zheng Min complained, "If you think of his company accepting money from people, I can still understand it." But their family really cannibalism without spitting out bones, if his reporter catches the handle of an artist, not only will he come to the door to extort money, but he will also expose the whole thing in the end. Many artists are miserable. And many things are also their speculations, which they write out with fuel and vinegar to mislead the public's opinion. That's a bit excessive. However, his reporter usually works very hard to keep an eye on the news, but I still think it is too much to make money by exposing other people's **. β
I looked at Zheng Min, and I really didn't expect Zheng Min, who is also an entertainment reporter, to say such a thing.
Zheng Min looked at me looking at her, probably guessing the subtext in my heart, and she smiled: "I know you will wonder why I say that, but although I am also an entertainment reporter, I usually do more positive things." And tracking artists is a very exhausting thing, very few girls do it, I usually attend press conferences to do interviews. Moreover, our company is affiliated with a publishing house, and it would be a shame for the publishing house to be found to do such a thing. β
"Then why did you pay so much attention to Wei Kai's affairs this time, he was threatened, right? Are you a fan of his? β
Zheng Min shook his head amusedly: "Why do you have such a strange idea?" I'm not a fan of unopened it, but the fact that he was molested can be considered a social case and can be classified as celebrity intimidation. This time it happened to be a star, and if it was someone from another profession, I would have been sent to do a follow-up report. What's more, didn't Li Jing also mention just now that it was related to the murder case of Sun Jiayan, which had not been solved before? If the murderer can be caught this time, it can be regarded as an explanation to the previous victim and society. β
With that, we walked to the door of the entertainment media company and looked up at the sign, which was called 'Black Entertainment'. "It's a fitting name." I sighed.
Zheng Min snorted disdainfully: "Without them, this trip to the muddy water would not be so dark." Some artists, as working figures, are very bad in private, and they can also be exposed to let them reflect. But some are exposing other people's families, ** and friends or something, to increase their own circulation, which is disgusting. β
Zheng Min looked at the gate, there was a security guard on duty in the hall, Zheng Min didn't look back, and whispered to me: "The security of this company is very strict, probably afraid that the artist or his economic company will steal the information they filmed, so the security here is particularly strict, in addition to the reports we can see now, the security system and the 24-hour open monitoring facilities are also difficult to break through." β
"So what do we do now? You can't go back in vain, right? Li Jing is still waiting for the good news of our victory. β
Zheng Min finally glanced back at me: "Are you recovering your legs?" β
I realized she was talking about my leg bone surgery, and I quickly nodded: "It's been a long time coming?" Do you mean the two of us rushing in? β
Although there were no lights, I could still feel Zheng Min roll his eyes: "If we break through, it's a question of whether we can see the sun tomorrow." She pointed to a manhole cover at her feet and said, "Help me." β
I quietly opened the manhole cover with her, and she motioned for me to go down with her. I took the headlamp handed by Zheng Min and climbed down the ladder inside, Zheng Min motioned for me to turn on the headlamp, and then she also climbed down the ladder and took the manhole cover.
"How did you find this path?" I asked Zheng Min while walking in the underground pipes. This underground pipe should have been abandoned for many years, but it is still clean, except for some damp smell, there is not much garbage accumulated.
After getting off the pipe, Zheng Min has been walking in front of me to lead the way: "I have a friend who works in a civil engineering company, and through his connections, he found the early architectural drawings of the 'Black Entertainment' building, and found this road. β
"Just so that one day I can sneak in and see if there is any information I want?" It's too hard for work, I can't believe it when I look at her back.
Zheng Min didn't speak, he kept walking forward according to the drawing map in his hand, and finally stopped at another exit, turned his head to me and said, "Xiaozhi, this is the floor of the archive storage room where we are going. She looked at me and opened her mouth, but in the end she didn't say anything else to me.
Maybe I was worried that I would tell her about it, so I hurriedly swore to her: "Don't worry, I will never say anything about this matter, and even Li Jingjing will not sue SΓΉ." β
She shook her head, and began to move the cover, using an air voice: "By the way, dim the headlamp, so as not to attract the attention of the security guards patrolling the building after we go up for a while, and don't make any noise." I nodded and dimmed my headlamp and wrapped my scarf around it, hoping to block out some more light.
Carefully following her to the ground, we came to a place where there were dense filing cabinets, and Zheng Min took out two black bandanas and two pairs of gloves from his school bag. Because it is a basement, you can only use the faint headlamp to find Sun Jiayan's file. In a cabinet marked S, we saw the file box with Sun Jiayan written on it, Zheng Min took out **, opened the file cabinet, and took out the file box. Zheng Min took me to the back of a filing cabinet, and after taking out the file, I took Zheng Min's headlamp, and Zheng Min took out his mobile phone to take pictures of each page. After about 10 minutes, the two of us quickly put the file back in front of each page, and then fled the scene in a hurry. It was already three o'clock in the morning when we got back to the ground, and the two of us gasped and looked at each other, and we both laughed, with a sense of alliance after being naughty together as a child.
"Scared the hell out of me." I gasped.
Zheng Min looked at me and said half-jokingly: "I'm also gambling on luck, but because Sun Jiayan is no longer alive now, 'Black Entertainment' put her information in the old archives, if it was in the current news archives, it would be absolutely impossible for the two of us to come out alive today." β
After getting the information, we planned to go back to my house first, and import the photos from Zheng Min's phone to the computer, and the two of us gathered in front of the screen to study it. Judging from the information we found alone, Sun Jiayan does not have a deep background as rumored by the outside world, she is an actor from a professional class. The social relationship is not as complicated as imagined, looking at the photos in the information, in addition to Wei Kai, there are only some directors and producers who take ordinary photos of eating, and the opposite sex in the circle is very good, but the relationship with other actresses in the circle seems to be average, and almost all of Sun Jiayan's female friends are outsiders.