Because of my work, I know a lot of people who work in the media industry, but I don't know many people who work in entertainment journalism. There are even fewer "paparazzi", they only know one, and they don't usually contact each other until something happened to him recently.

The "paparazzi" do hard work, usually squatting day and night, following celebrities, eating, drinking and sleeping are basically solved in the car. Take a bottle to pee and go to the toilet unless it's really a large size. A well-known "paparazzi" said that in order to take photos of a celebrity's cheating, he followed for eight months. It's so hard, and it's normal for someone to die of overwork once in a while.

The "paparazzi" I know, Brother Miser, didn't die of overwork. But his studio in the Foresight Building in the CBD killed three employees in six days, from June 18 to June 23 — all of them with sudden cerebral hemorrhages.

The rest of the employees were horrified, and most quit despite the promise of a 50 percent increase in wages. It was originally a very lively studio, and there were only two little girls left who had not been long after graduation except for Brother Miser.

"I guess I'm looking for the next home, but I haven't found it for the time being, and I will definitely resign as soon as I find it." In the meat sandwich shop downstairs of the Foresight Building, Brother Miserly drank a mouthful of bean curd and told me and Zhou Yong.

He was much fatter than I remembered, his hair was coarse and thinning, and his spectacle lenses seemed to be thickened. I asked him why he was so vicissitudes. Brother Miserly smiled: "If you don't resist tossing, isn't Lao Jin enough to choke?" I heard that my legs were almost lame. ”

When it comes to my relationship with my miserly brother, I don't know it at all. We've only met a few times, and we don't usually contact each other at all - the kind that doesn't send blessing messages in Chinese New Year's Eve, at most there is a meeting feeling. He was a friend of old Kim. Because he always used the excuse of changing his pants and not bringing money when he ate, or leaving his bag at home without a card, he never paid for it, so Lao Jin called him a miserly brother.

Brother Miserly turned out to be a nightcrawler as well. "Later, I thought that tracking urban cases was not as interesting as tracking celebrities, so I changed careers and opened a studio, becoming a 'paparazzi', stalking, secretly shooting, digging up some celebrity scandals and scandals, and then selling them to major media." When I asked him why he had changed careers, he told me.

I came over to help this time, firstly, to see Lao Jin's face, and secondly, this matter is really interesting. Three people died of sudden cerebral hemorrhages within six days, and if the employees of this company were all seventy or eighty years old, I would still be able to understand it. But the dead are all young men in their twenties and thirties, which is really suspicious.

Generally speaking, in a short period of time, there are only three possibilities for someone to die in a row from some fixed way of death. One is the massacre, the second is the contagion, and the third is the serial murder. The first two are unlikely, but who would murder three "paparazzi"? Was it really an accident?

I asked if he had offended anyone lately. "How can you not offend people when you are a 'paparazzi'? Offended a lot! But they are all stars, and they won't retaliate or anything. ”

Zhou Yong: "That's not necessarily, you see that they are all slippery." A little white face, no kind eyes, it's normal to retaliate against you! ”

Brother Miserly shook his head: "No, if you really want to retaliate, you will come at me, what is the matter if I killed three employees in a row." ”

I said, "Can you tell me about the celebrities you've been tracking lately and what they've done?" ”

Brother Miserly said okay, and then told me a bunch of things: "M actress went back to Beijing, I went late that day, but I found an N male star wearing a mask at the airport, I suspected that I went to pick up the plane and took a few photos; Actress Y's marriage is in vain, and the couple is just maintaining it for the sake of their children. I followed the day on the 9th, and the two of us didn't talk much during the whole process, and they kept playing with their phones. ”

I said to Brother Miao: "You are also a senior, since you came to me, there must be something that you don't think is right." If you have any ideas, just say it, don't put it away. ”

Brother Miserly nodded: "Cheng, then I'll say it." ”

Brother Miserly learns by chance that several members of a popular group are participating in a mysterious training class. He had wanted to sneak into the training class and then secretly film and eavesdrop on some of the group's secrets. As a result, after conducting a background check on this training class, Brother Mi was shocked - this is a Tan Cui class.

Zhou Yong was a little puzzled when he heard this: "What is Tan Cui?" ”

I said, "Tan Cui is a sect in India, called the Quan Le School, which has been popular in the United States for a long time. By the time I returned home, there were still many Tan Trei classes in the United States. "This sect believes that men and women can gain power through sex. ”

Zhou Yong's eyes lit up: "Brother stingy, where is this class, are you still recruiting?" ”

Brother Mi ignored him, and then continued: "The Tan Cui in China was brought up by a person named Qin Mingyuan. This man is Osho[1]

's believers are not quite the same as Tan Cui's set in the United States. ”

Zhou Yong: "Brother Miser, did you get involved?" ”

Brother Mi nodded: "It's easy to mix in, but it's hard to get to the core." Some of the special events they hold are only for senior members, and if you want to photograph the group, you have to mix with senior members. When I got back to the company, I had a meeting with four employees. These four people are my cronies, and they have been with me since I started this studio. I asked them to spend most of their time undercover to gain more trust and qualify for special events. They lurked there for two months. Finally received an invitation on June 15 for a party two weeks later. ”

"In order to celebrate the victory, we even went to have a big dinner that night. Then, three of them had accidents one after another. ”

I said, "All three of them went undercover?" ”

Brother Mi said: "Yes, there is only one little girl named Zhao Tongjie who has no accident, and the remaining three people are dead." I nodded. That said, there is a real high probability that there will be something wrong with that training course and the so-called special event. I asked if I could talk to Zhao Tongjie. Brother Mi said, "Okay, she should be upstairs." ”

Zhao Tongjie is one of two employees who have not yet left. Since her junior year, she has been interning at her brother's company. Although she has only graduated a year ago, she is one of the oldest employees in Mi Ge's studio.

Zhou Yong and I went upstairs and arrived at Brother Mi's studio. After entering the house, Zhao Tongjie was shopping on Taobao, and when he saw Brother Mi coming in, he hurriedly closed the page. Brother Mi introduced us to each other: "Xiao Xu wants to know about the training class, I think about it, let him take over this matter." ”

Zhao Tongjie and I entered their small conference room. She wanted to pour me a glass of water, but I said no need to bother, but she still insisted on pouring it: "It's okay, it turns out that I will boil water and pour water in the company." ”

When I asked about the training class, she was a little reluctant to recall: "The group of people were not mentally normal, the men looked at the women, and the women looked at the men, and their eyes were green. ”

I said, "Did you get an invitation to that party?" She shook her head: "No, but Brother Feng, Brother Yang and Brother Jing received it." ”

I asked her if she had thought about why she hadn't received the invitation. She said: "I thought about it, maybe I wasn't beautiful enough, some beautiful female students received invitations as soon as they came." As for Brother Feng and the three of them, they should have had something to do with the senior female students in the class in private, so they received it. ”

I asked, then no one asked her out? She said yes, but she didn't. I asked if I could bring someone with me when I received an invitation. Zhao Tongjie said that he could bring one, but only the students in the class.

After chatting with Zhao Tongjie, Zhou Yong and Brother Mi were still chatting about gossip in the entertainment industry. Seeing me coming out of the conference room, Zhou Yong came up: "Brother Xu, what can you talk about?" "I said I had to go to the training course and find a way to get an invitation.

Zhou Yong was excited: "When are we going?" "I said I wouldn't take him this time, I needed a beautiful woman. Zhou Yong was reluctant: "Brother Xu, why don't you have me every time there is a good thing, it's really not good, I can wear a wig and pretend to be a beauty!" "I told him not to pull the calf.

Zhou Yong and I were chatting, and Brother Miserly brought me a pair of glasses, handed them to me, and I looked at them: "THANKO's camera glasses." ”

Brother Miserly smiled: "Connoisseur! ”

Zhou Yong: "Brother Xu usually likes to study these, like a voyeur. ”

Brother Miser: "This is a new model this year, and it can shoot for about an hour." If you can make it to that party, bring it. I nodded.

This training provider has its own website. I logged on to the website and found that I had to pay 5,000 yuan to buy a membership before I could watch the content, and I needed a mobile phone number to register. I transferred 5,000 yuan to the account left on the website, and my registration application was quickly approved.

There are two large sections on the website, one is the beginner's introductory teaching, which is to teach some "practice" tricks, many of which are real shots. The other is to change partners, and when I clicked on it, I found that there were many nude photos with a large scale.

In addition, there are chat sections and forums, where people often save up games on their own, and there are many likes and replies. There is an official big party every month, and the ticket is 3,000 yuan each time, and couples use one ticket. At the top is the start time and address of the course. I took a look at it, and tomorrow I will have a class in the East Garden, north of the Vision Building, and if I want to have a class, I need to make an appointment in advance.

I picked up the phone and called Tian Jing: "Sister Jing, I want to ask you something." Tian Jing: "Is it a good thing?" ”

I said there was a party in Than's class, and I wanted to get in and investigate, but I needed a beautiful woman...... Tian Jing didn't listen to me, and hung up the phone directly.

I waited for a while, thinking that Tian Jing might be calmer, so I called her again, explained the whole thing in advance, and begged her to go undercover with me to investigate: "Sister Jing, I need a beautiful woman to be able to get an invitation to the party." If you don't come with me, I'll have to go to the stumbling woman!" ”

Tian Jing thought about it for a while, and agreed angrily.

The next day, Tian Jing and I came to the East Garden. The training class was in Building 3, Tian Jing and I knocked on the door, the other party asked for my mobile phone number, and after I said, a woman opened the door: "You don't need to take off your shoes, just go in." ”

The living room of this house is large, and although there are two dozen people sitting in it, it does not seem crowded. After Tian Jing and I entered, a person who looked like a mentor stood up in the middle: "Let's applaud and welcome the new classmates, and the new classmates can introduce themselves." ”

I said: "Hello everyone, my name is Xu Lang, this is my girlfriend Tian Jing, I have participated in several training courses run by Mr. Qin Mingyuan before, and I hope to continue to be in the forefront this time." ”

The "mentor" took one look at me, probably didn't expect me to be a familiar player, and asked me to sit down and join their class. Actually, the ones I'm talking about were checked the night before.

The whole course is actually preaching the benefits of sex, what kind of soul purification and so on. If you remove the religious element, you would think that this is an individuality liberation group. After the lecture, the ceremony began. All the people lie in a circle, the one in front lies on the lower abdomen of the one in the back, and the one in the back touches the face of the person in front with their hands. I saw Tian Jing's face pale, and I hurriedly dragged her to lie down in a woman's arms, and lay on her lower abdomen. When rubbing my face, Tian Jing even used her nails. After doing a series of "soul-purifying rituals", today's lesson is over.

When Tian Jing and I were leaving, the "mentor" came and stopped us, saying that there was a party the day after tomorrow, in the east of the city, and couples could go to it, and asked if we had time.

I said there should be. "Mentor" nodded and glanced at Tian Jing: "You must go with two people." ”

I said, can you ask what kind of party it is? The "mentor" explained a few words cryptically. I roughly understood, it was a party. It's also not quite accurate to say that it is a party, as it is actually a party of swingers.

Tian Jing was angry: "These people should be sentenced." ”

However, this matter is still blank in China's law, and it can only be held accountable for "gathering crowds". Some people with psychosexual problems will have such complexes, and this kind of gathering can bring them great satisfaction. Some unmarried people even pay to hire women who have lost their feet to bring them to parties and exchange them with others in order to experience this kind of fun.

Lao Jin once conducted research in some of the places where such training courses first emerged. Some people even look for partners through such training courses, including lawyers, businessmen, brokers, managers, etc., who are well-educated and have a moderate or higher income. Although a number of organizations were eliminated by the state in the previous two years, a small number of organizations survived.

On the evening of the third day, Tian Jing and I went to a three-story villa by the sea in the east of the city according to the address given on the website, and after confirming our identities at the door, we handed in our mobile phones and entered the house.

On the first floor, there is a dance floor in the middle, and a buffet on the periphery, where everyone is dressed up like an upper-level party. People look around downstairs for prey, then chat, and if they look at each other, they are taken to a single room on the second floor. There are only a dozen single rooms on the second floor, and there are no door locks, so there will be several pairs of people in some rooms. I observed for a while and found that as long as I didn't leave this villa, before the end of the show at 5 a.m., how could anyone who participated in it toss.

I put on the camera glasses that my brother had given me and started looking for someone who might know the inside story. Tian Jing and I each turned down a few people who were invited. At this time, I saw Brother Mi being with a young woman in the middle of the dance floor, and Brother Mi didn't say hello when he saw me, he pretended not to see it, and took the young woman upstairs.

When entangled by bad guys, girls can get away with trinkets on their bodies, which is not easy to notice, but is useful

I didn't care about my brother, I danced on the dance floor with Tian Jing, and took advantage of the time to turn around to observe it closely. I leaned into Tian Jing's ear and said, "There are more than a dozen security guards in this room, all wearing the same black suits, I want to know who the person in charge is, and you can make some movement to lure him out later." ”

I separated from Tian Jing, and she found a fat man with a big belly to dance. After a while, Tian Jing suddenly made a big noise that she had lost one of the earrings, and she was sure that the other party had taken it. People and security guards gathered around, and a man in the same black suit as the other security guards pushed through the crowd and asked what was going on.

This should be the supervisor. I threw Tian Jing's other earring to the ground, mixed in with the crowd and shouted that there were earrings on the ground, Tian Jing picked up the earrings and apologized to the fat man. The director saw that there was nothing wrong and left.

I followed him, acting like I was going upstairs to join a game, and as I passed a room that wasn't "occupied" yet, I pushed him inside and locked the door.

I used a knife I had just picked up in the buffet bar downstairs to push his waist and asked him about the background of this training institution. He said that they used to be a pyramid scheme, but because the state has cracked down on pyramid schemes very strictly in recent years, they changed careers and did their current training courses. Unexpectedly, MLM organizations also know how to play "transformation". Then I asked my brother about his dead colleagues and asked him if he knew anything.

He was very confused when he heard this, and said that he only knew that those people had always come to play before, and they had not come recently. According to him, he is already one of the partners of this institution, and if he doesn't know about it, then no one else knows either.

I asked about the "popular group" again, and the employees of the miser brother tracked them down and finally had an accident. He didn't want to say much, but my hand holding the knife added a little strength. He was scared: "They are VVIP, on the third floor, I have to take you to go up." ”

I "hugged" the supervisor up to the third floor, and the two people standing at the staircase were directly released. The director led me to a room near the inside. I pushed the door open, and there were two members of the "popular group" sitting on the couch smoking pipes, each with two scantily clad girls. I sniffed, and there was a ** smell.

**Volumes, prohibited items

Seeing the "director" come in, one of them smiled: "Roll, no?" This time the goods are okay, come two to two. ”

The director didn't say anything, so I pushed him to the window, tied his hands to the wrought iron with my tie, and turned around and locked the door. I took his phone out of the supervisor's pocket and took pictures and videos of the room, and the two members of the "popular group" were blindfolded and asked me what I was going to do.

I said, "You answer me a few questions, and I'll give you back my phone." ”

They thought about it and said okay. When I asked them if they knew any of the employees, one of them shook his head: "I don't know, I haven't heard of it." ”

Another person suddenly interrupted him: "Hey, are they the ones who always come with Zhao Tongjie?" I remember one of them is called Brother Jing, this surname is quite rare! ”

The first person also remembered: "Oh, yes, got it. What do you want to ask? None of us spoke. ”

I asked him if he knew Zhao Tongjie well? One of them laughed: "It's quite familiar." I asked him how to get acquainted, and he patted the girl next to him: "Same as her, I also invited her to come to the party today, didn't she come?" ”

Zhao Tongjie lied. She said she didn't get an invitation, but members of the "popular group" said they invited Zhao Tongjie.

I threw the phone back to them, opened the door and rushed downstairs, telling Tian Jing to go quickly, Tian Jing got rid of the entanglement of several men, we quickly took the phone at the door, went out and got in the car and left.

On the way back to Yan City, Tian Jing and I were discussing whether the training class and party could be sold at a good price when Zhou Yong called: "Brother Xu, Zhao Tongjie also had an accident." ”

I asked Zhou Yong if Zhao Tongjie was dead. Zhou Yong said: "No, but it's enough to choke, I heard that someone grabbed his hair and hit the corner of the table, his head was bleeding, and he is now hospitalized." The doctor said it was a concussion, and the level was not low. ”

I hung up the phone and called my brother and asked him if he knew about it. Brother Mi said: "I know, she called me more than an hour ago and said that she had something to tell me and asked me to come to the studio to find her." When I arrived at the studio, I pushed the door and went in, and I was shocked, and there was blood! Zhao Tongjie and a man fell to the ground, covered in blood. I just asked the policeman who made the transcript for me, Zhao Tongjie is not dead, and the buddy is hanging. Then I quickly called the police, and now I have just finished making a transcript. ”

The man who fell in a pool of blood with Zhao Tongjie was the agent of the "popular group".

When I met Zhao Tongjie in the hospital, she was already able to speak normally.

I said I went to the party at the training class, and I knew she was lying to me, that she had been invited, and that she had what had happened.

Zhao Tongjie smiled: "Do you have evidence?" I heard that you gave them your phone. "I said yes, and I took out my camera glasses and showed her what I was shooting. Zhao Tongjie's face was a little pale, and he clenched his fists and didn't speak.

I said, "The man who died was the agent of the 'popular group' you investigated, and you told the police that you didn't know him, and you don't know why he rushed in and grabbed your hair and hit the corner of the table. But this video can prove that you know his artist, if you really don't know him, then I will hand over this video to the police. ”

Zhao Tongjie: "I don't even know you, what do you want?" ”

I said, "I just want to ask a few questions." ”

Zhao Tong nodded: "Then you ask!" ”

"How did that agent die?"

"When he grabbed me by the hair and slammed it into the corner of the table, I grabbed the fruit knife on the table and gave him a few knives."

"Why did he do that?"

"I recorded a video of me with his artists, and I asked him for five million yuan. He had transferred me a deposit of 500,000 yuan before, and that day he had planned to pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other, but he suddenly wanted to kill me. After Zhao Tongjie finished speaking, she took out her mobile phone to show me, and ten days ago, a sum of 500,000 yuan did enter her card.

I said, "There are cameras at the entrances and exits and elevators of the Vision Building, and he is not afraid of being photographed if he blatantly kills people?" ”

"His agency is on the fifth floor of our building, and the other party came down by fire elevator, and the elevator video is not recorded at all."

I nodded: "Understood, he wants to pay the bills." So how did your three colleagues die? Zhao Tongjie glanced at me: "Cerebral hemorrhage caused by overwork." ”

I said, "I checked your university major, you studied veterinary medicine in college, why did you come to be a 'paparazzi'?" There are few women in this industry. ”

Zhao Tongjie: "Because I like it." ”

I said, "Because you like that popular group, right?" ”

Zhao Tongjie asked me not to talk nonsense.

I'm not talking nonsense. When Hetian Jing went to a party, I asked Zhou Yong to do a background check on Zhao Tongjie. But Zhao Tongjie avoided Zhou Yong, and Zhou Yong had to learn about this person from her circle of friends and Weibo. When I asked Zhou Yong if he had any gains, Zhou Yong sighed: "No, I have read all the content of her Weibo in the past two years, and the only thing I found is that she didn't post much on Weibo before, and this year she suddenly became a heavy user of Weibo." ”

I remembered that Brother Mi said that she has always been very fond of playing Weibo. "Is it possible that she was a heavy user of Weibo before, but she just posted some things before, and she didn't want to keep them?"

Zhou Yong: "If she deletes it, where will we look?" ”

I said that Xiao Z can recover, and I asked him to do this when I was investigating another case before. Zhou Yong and I rushed to the acacia market to find Xiao Z to recover the content that might have been deleted by Zhao Tongjie. Zhao Tongjie really deleted a lot of information, and every one of them was about that popular group. She's a fan of this group. After listening to me, Zhao Tongjie was silent: "So what?" ”

I said, "You adore the group, so you're upset when your colleagues might want to expose their attendance at the Tam Choi Ban party." So you pour water for them and add the right amount of sleeping pills to the water. While they were sleeping in the company, you secretly injected them with veterinary epinephrine hydrochloride injections, and as long as you were stuck in the leg or other inconspicuous place, it would be difficult for the forensic doctor to find the needle hole on the corpse. ”

Zhao Tongjie was blinded: "How do you know?" ”

I said, "I've been looking for ways to make people die of a cerebral hemorrhage, and then I searched the Internet and found a news article about a veterinarian who killed his wife, and he used the exact same method as yours." ”

When Zhao Tongjie was taken away by the police, Zhou Yong asked me: "She likes that combination, and she blackmails them with videos?" ”

I said not to blackmail them, but to blackmail their brokerage company. Zhao Tongjie is very smart and sells the video to their agency, the other party will not expose it, and he can still get money.

After the incident, Brother Mi kept looking for me. I know he's trying to get the video I took with the THANKO camera glasses.

Camera glasses look no different from ordinary sunglasses

But before that, I have to talk to Lao Jin first. I went to Lao Jin's house, sat in the yard, and Lao Jin washed a pot of grapes for me: "I planted it myself, why did you come to me today?" I told him the whole thing from beginning to end, and when I was done, Old Kim pondered for a while.

Lao Jin: "I didn't tell you, why isn't Brother Miser?" ”

I spit the grape seed in my hand: "I didn't say that. ”

Lao Jin nodded and lit a cigarette: "He can't get along anymore, his reputation in the industry is not very good, and his peers and informants don't like to cooperate with him." It is said that the whereabouts of his original apprentice are unknown, and he is inseparable. ”

I said, "I understand, then Zhao Tongjie's words are credible." Lao Jin asked Zhao Tongjie what he said. I said, Zhao Tongjie finally told me that she only killed two of the three people who died, and Brother Jing usually had a good relationship with her, and she didn't plan to do it. Also, before they went undercover in the training class, they signed a sharing agreement, and if this news was sold, the four of them would share the profits equally with Brother Miser.

Old Kim nodded, and neither of us spoke.

[1]

Osho is a cult organization founded by the Indian Osho (whose real name is Rajnesh), and its biggest feature is to advocate **. Osho has taken a hit in India, the United States, etc., and has been defined as a cult.