"Hmm..."
When Duanmu Huai opened his eyes again, he just felt...
So hot.
Turning his head, Banai was tightly clinging to him, sound asleep, while on the other side, Chitanda was curled up into a ball with eyes shut tight. Duanmu Huai managed to break free from Banai’s embrace and then took out his phone for a quick glance.
[September 7, Saturday, 6:31 AM]
At the sa ti, a piercing scream ca from outside.
"Ahhh—————!!!"
When the police arrived, an hour had already passed.
"The deceased is Professor Ueno; his two students, Sakura Kahi, Miyamoto Takashi, and his colleague Professor Sato Ryosuke are missing..."
The police were both investigating and pensively looking at the crowd.
"Were you invited by Professor Ueno to attend the banquet as guests?"
"That’s correct."
Duanmu Huai nodded his head.
"I wanted to discuss so folklore tales with Professor Ueno, so I inquired through Director Qing Shui, and it happened that Professor Ueno was hosting a banquet, so he invited to attend. I brought along two companions from the club to accompany ."
"Ah, I see... did you notice anything unusual?"
"Hmm... I’m not quite sure..."
Banai furrowed his brows and knocked on his head.
"I rember having a really terrifying dream but can’t recall the details."
" too..."
Chitanda shook her head.
"Perhaps it was due to Professor Ueno asking everyone to gather and tell a Hundred Tales last night; I had nightmares too..."
"Oh... so you all had the sa food, right?"
"Yes..."
"Hmm..."
Of course, Duanmu Huai understood why the police asked such questions. He had heard from Chief Da Shan that Professor Ueno’s corpse was distorted with a grimace, seemingly dying in extre agony. According to the preliminary examination by the coroner, the cause was a sudden illness. However, it’s quite coincidental that several people fell ill simultaneously, so the police suspected it to be a murder case. Currently, they are taking the body back for a further autopsy.
Duanmu Huai naturally understood why Professor Ueno had such a miserable death. After all, Duanmu Huai is the Judge, and as a Judge, he naturally knows so thods of interrogating heretics. Clearly, Professor Ueno was simply a naïve scholar, unable to endure torture such as the tiger bench and hot pepper water. So Duanmu Huai extracted all the information Professor Ueno knew by inflicting pain on his body, assisted by the Fearful Aura, and then let him die in endless agony.
Yes, Professor Ueno had a nice plan; no one would notice anything strange with occurrences happening in dreams. And people killed by ghost stories within dreams seem to completely vanish from the real world. Clearly, he intended to have the ghost story kill Duanmu Huai and the others, so even if the police ca to investigate, they would find no clues and would only discover they were missing.
Coincidentally, that was exactly what Duanmu Huai intended.
At least now, even if the police dissect Professor Ueno into mutton slices, they wouldn’t be able to discern that he had ever been tortured.
And indeed, that was the case.
After that, the police took everyone to the police station for statents, even though they didn’t explicitly say it, but their investigation direction was clearly suspecting that Professor Ueno’s students, together with Professor Sato, collaborated to murder Professor Ueno and fled out of guilt. However, Duanmu Huai knew these police would never be able to catch them.
Afterwards, Duanmu Huai sent Banai and Chitanda back ho. Regarding everything that had happened earlier, the two seed to regard it as a nightmare... although Banai suspiciously looked at the date on her phone, she ultimately determined—yes, she must have been dreaming.
As for the club’s research side, the two discussed and decided to continue with it, after all, they gained considerable insights and assistance yesterday; they might as well complete this research report as a tribute.
Duanmu Huai didn’t object and let them do as they wished.
But he himself wasn’t so idle.
Upon leaving the police station, Duanmu Huai imdiately made a phone call to his assistant.
"President, are you okay? I heard sothing seems to have gone wrong with Professor Ueno?"
"Just a minor incident, nothing serious."
Duanmu Huai was too lazy to bother with minor issues.
"The reason I called is that there’s sothing I need you to do."
"What is it?"
"Get the script, the movie scripts for review have been sent over, correct?"
"Ah, yes..."
"Send all of them... no, send all the action scripts here, I’ll screen them later."
"Huh? What’s this about, President?"
To be honest, hearing Duanmu Huai’s response, the assistant seed quite surprised, considering his understanding of Duanmu Huai, typically he only shoots one film per year, and this year’s filming was already completed. Normally, work matters wouldn’t be sought to discuss until next year.
But unexpectedly, this ti he was so active?
"Just to pass the ti."
"Alright, I’ll prepare them to be sent to your email, President."
A movie is divided into three parts: production, distribution, and showing. However, in reality, production is usually completed last; the first is to confirm distribution. The producer brings the proposal to distribution companies; after ensuring distribution, then the filming group is ford. If it cannot be distributed or shown, then making a film is purely losing money. But at least now with online platforms, distribution is relatively easier. In the past, distribution companies held the life of a movie in their hands.
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