Chapter 12: Hollywood Baby
In the course of her investigation, Sarah finally discovers a series of amazing things.
Three people died in the café, three of them jumped into the lake, and all of them died in Lake Bettel, the same lake where Eddie said he was dragged away by strange fish.
weishenme and another one jumped off the building to his death?
What's the difference?
This is something that Sarah does not understand, and the summons of the café's owner, Firestone Gracie, will not solve the problem, because these people are suicides, and the medical examiner has made the most authoritative conclusion.
"Since they are all suicides, we have to work hard to do this!" Wren was the first to express his doubts, which were actually those of the other members of the investigation team.
But everyone feels a little weird, and if it's a coincidence, then this coincidence is really impressive, and I have to wonder if there's anything unspeakable in it.
This is the thinking of the police.
"I don't think so, there must be some reason for this!"
Sarah called Zhen Fan and asked Wren to continue investigating the crowd around the four victims, but she drove to the city of Temecula.
Zhen Fan's banquet was undoubtedly a success, Anne and Thomas were holding their stomachs when they said goodbye, walking a little swaying from side to side, even Claire also wiped her round belly, burping, and was hugged by Zhen Fan, holding his neck with both hands and refusing to send it.
"Mom, can my uncle come to my house?"
Zhen Fan took Claire to send the family out, Claire whispered and pleaded, and looked at Sarah pitifully as she spoke.
"No, but you can come here tomorrow!"
Anne felt that it was too disturbing for Zhen Fan, and was a little embarrassed, so she hugged Claire from Zhen Fan.
"I want my uncle to sleep with me and tell me stories!"
Claire still looked at Zhen Fan, tears flickering in her round eyes.
"That's not good, uncle still has a lot to do, how can Claire bear to disturb uncle? It's going to make my uncle sleep badly! ”
Thomas was also on the sidelines to help.
"Okay, I'll come back tomorrow!" Claire looked at Zhen Fan with some grievances, wanting to get a positive answer from him!
"Tomorrow? No problem, welcome to my little angel Claire tomorrow! ”
Zhen Fan smiled and pinched Claire's face, the family said goodbye and went back, Claire lay on Anne's back, and kept waving to Zhen Fan until she entered the house.
Zhen Fan returned to the room, cleaned up the house, tidied up for a while, leaned on the sofa, made himself a cup of tea, and turned on the TV, in fact, American entertainment programs are doing well, especially the local TV stations in Los Angeles, talk shows usually have high ratings.
"Today's our Hollywood baby, Christine? Jemes? Stewart. A middle-aged fat woman's exaggerated expression invited her as a guest, and the appearance of this woman surprised Zhen Fan.
That's right, this is the Christine he met when he was running, and he didn't expect to be a big star. Then the host began to introduce Christine's glorious deeds. Special mention was made of her performance in the latest film "Twilight - New Moon", as well as the success of the film.
"It's hard to believe that you are so young and have achieved such great success, if I say that I am not jealous of you, it must be lying, of course if I were a man, I would be crazy to pursue you."
The middle-aged woman's host spoke a little funny, this is the so-called American-style talk show, which is not funny at all, but the audience invited by the audience is more than daxiao at the right time.
"Would you fall in love with a werewolf or a vampire?"
The middle-aged woman finally threw out a gimmick.
"Of course, I said that if this shijie was crazy about werewolves and vampires, would you choose one or the other?" This is also a trap. Of course, it's a little strange to ask this question, but most people think it's the host's funny.
"I'm going to fall in love with one of them!"
Christine's answer was ingenious.
"If Shijie is really that crazy, there will be no need for special effects to shoot "Twilight" in the future, it is too much of a waste of the director's money, we can cut the expenses so that the director will not complain to the producer!"
Christine's words made a lot of people laugh.
The host obviously didn't talk about this strange topic anymore, what did the two say, Zhen Fan didn't pay attention to it, he just looked at this girl who was talking on the screen and was generous, and felt that she was different from her age.
"Tell me about your recent plans, I heard that you have been called by director Rupert Sams to star in his film "Snow White and the Huntsman", this is your first starring role, I heard that it is a big investment, obviously, it will have a huge boost to your career!"
"I will see each time as a new starting point!"
Christine's eyes flashed with wisdom, entangled with this difficult host, Zhen Fan watched it with relish, felt that it was not enjoyable, poured himself a glass of wine, and then squinted very comfortably, he decided to buy back the CDs of several movies starring Christine to take a look!
Snow White? I don't know what this beauty will look like when she plays Snow White, Zhen Fan is still looking forward to it.
The knock on the door interrupted Zhen Fan's conjecture, and he opened the door a little unhappily, Sarah stood alone at the door, her car parked outside.
It's completely dark outside, but it's still a little bright with street lights.
"Are you planning to stay? I'm really sorry, our room is full, let's find a place somewhere else, well, there is a neighbor to my left, there may be no one, the hostess is unfortunately killed, and the man is imprisoned, just so you can spend a charming night! ”
"Come on, don't do this in front of me!"
Sarah directly ignored Zhen Fan's hippie smile, brushed his hand away and walked in, sat on the sofa by herself, saw a glass of wine poured on the coffee table, grabbed it and took a sip.
"It doesn't taste good, it's the kind of low-grade goods in the supermarket?"
"To be honest, the place where you drank just now happened to be what I drank!"
Zhen Fan sat down next to her.
"So what?"
Sarah grinned and blinked, it was obvious that this provocative action was very rusty, and even a rookie like Zhen Fan was not impressed.
"What do you think about the suicide case?"
Sarah didn't talk nonsense, and directly told Zhen Fan about the situation of the investigation these days.
"Since it's suicide, weishenme, do you still have to toss?"
Zhen Fan's eyes were staring at Christine on the screen, but unfortunately as soon as he glanced at it, the show was already over, Christine was gone, and then there was an advertisement!
"Don't you think it's weird?"
"So what?"
Zhen Fan replied to herself with Sarah's words.
"Your advisor, of course I have to listen to your opinion, if it's a coincidence, the girl you sent the flowers chose to jump off the building, while the others chose to jump into the lake?"
This is also the thing that Sarah does not understand the most.
"Maybe the opinion on suicide is more unified, of course, the influence of the former on the latter cannot be ruled out!"
Zhen Fan's opinion is also in vain, and this point has been ruled out by Sarah. Because there is no intersection between these four people at all, they are all strangers.
"I'm just a consultant, I have my opinion, and you don't believe it, then I have fulfilled my duty as a consultant, and now is my time to rest, if you want accommodation, a hundred dollars!"
Zhen Fan stretched out his hand.
"Zhen, I just want to solve this mystery!" Sarah knew that she had something to ask for, so she seemed very low-key, and of course Zhen Fan's performance made her a little disappointed.
Seeing Sarah like this, Zhen Fan couldn't help but shake his head.
"Do you believe that there is a god on Shijie?"
Zhen Fan's expression was a little serious, and he asked her questions very seriously.
"W-what does this have to do with the Secret Self?"
Sarah hesitated and looked at Zhen Fan.
"Don't care so much, you just say you believe it or not?"
"God is in every heart!"
Sarah thought that her answer was clever, not blaspheming God, but also expressing her own skepticism and denial.
"Do you believe that people have souls?"
Zhen Fan's serious appearance made Sarah a little helpless.
"Don't go around the bend with me, Zhen, you just won't help me when you say that?"
"You answer this question first, this has a certain connection with me helping you!"
Sarah couldn't help but laugh.
"Say you're a psychic? Don't say this, okay? Please, could you be more serious and discuss the case with me? Zhen, I do need your help! ”
Zhen Fan shrugged his shoulders and smiled: "If you don't believe it, then what else can I say to you?" ”
"Well, if that's the case, then I believe it!"
Sarah had no choice but to make a compromise.
"If you are not sincere, forget it, since you don't believe it, it is in vain! You go to the attic, there are guest rooms, or you drive back by yourself, and if you do, I'm sure you'll have a round on your forehead tomorrow and be an Indian. But that's not bad!"
"you Indians!"
Sarah was a little annoyed, her purpose for coming here was not realized, and she was unwilling to go back like this, so she sat on the sofa and refused to move, so she glared at Zhen Fan angrily.
Zhen Fan stood up and smiled.
"Of course, if you don't move, I'll let you stay. Actually, it's been a long time since I've lived in a room with a woman, and besides, the door to my bathroom is broken and won't close. ”
"Think beautifully, I'm leaving, I'll call you tomorrow!"
Sarah snorted, stood up dissatisfied, and walked out.
"Be careful when driving, and it's best not to exceed 60 mph."
Sarah pouted disdainfully, went out of the room, got into the car, closed the door, and lit the light.
"No more than sixty miles, you are an idiot for me!" She decided to go to the lake tomorrow.