Chapter 95: Butterfly Falling

The blinding light hit Lan Die's exquisite features. Her eyes were slightly drooping, like a fairy flying from Dunhuang. The only thing that destroyed this mood was the bamboo pole that pierced her chest, making the whole person stuck on it. Blood flowed down the bamboo pole, turning the originally beautiful scene into a horror movie instantly.

If it weren't for the expressions of astonishment or crying of everyone in the crew, people who didn't know the truth would think this was just part of the play.

However, the one who died was not "Xian Yao" in the play, but the performer Lan Die.

Her light blue gauze dress was fluttering in the cold winter wind, looking like a fragile butterfly, dying before spring arrived.

"Brother Fei, the one just now was a fight scene. Lan Die's wire suddenly broke, and she fell directly onto the bamboo used as a set. Everything happened too fast, there were so many people on the scene, it was too late..." Wu Shanqiu changed her usual liveliness and blamed herself, "Sorry, I didn't follow the suspect well..."

Qi Fei patted Wu Shanqiu on the shoulder to comfort her: "In this situation, no one could have saved her."

Although he comforted Wu Shanqiu like this, Lan Die's death was too unexpected for him. He scanned everyone on the scene. Who was so bold as to kill this female actor in full view and under the eyes of the police?

However, what he saw were only the disillusioned expressions of the director and producer—their backup plan was also gone. This drama seemed to be cursed. Their female lead was destined to die.

The set became a crime scene, and the yellow cordon blocked the reporters who swarmed in.

Along with it, the news of Hong Mei's death was also leaked.

Liu Tong was calm. He held coffee and got off the police car late at night, climbed over the cordon, and met with Qi Fei and the others.

"Sigh, the bureau leadership said there will be a press conference tomorrow. I don't know if there's any place to get a haircut tonight," Liu Tong said, smoothing his hair.

"Captain Liu, the public opinion pressure is so great, do you still have the mood to care about your hairstyle?" Wu Shanqiu said from the side.

"What can we do? People are dead. All we can do is hurry up and find the murderer, right?" Saying this, he walked to Qi Fei. "How is it? Did you find the reason for Lan Die's accident?"

"Someone tampered with Lan Die's wire rope. When she flew up, the rope broke and she fell down." Qi Fei didn't have Liu Tong's relaxation. "We have already controlled the prop master, but he insisted that he operated strictly according to the procedure, saying there was no problem when Lan Die was sent up. And, you come and see."

Qi Fei took Liu Tong to the broken wire rope and picked it up to show him. The wire rope of this crew was not steel wire but nylon. Only half of the edge of the wire rope had a very neat cut, which looked like it had been deliberately destroyed by tools.

"This rope can't be broken by just any tool. We have preliminarily screened it. A wire cutter used for first aid in the crew is missing," Wu Shanqiu walked over from the other side.

Lan Die's body was finally moved down from the bamboo pole. The bright red blood had already turned black and solidified. This bloody scene easily reminded people of the scene where Hong Mei died.

Wu Shanqiu looked at this scene thoughtfully: "How come I remembered our last case, that Guiyue Apartment? At first, when Yue Fengsheng died, we all thought the murderer's target was Yue Fengsheng himself, focusing on screening his social relationships and contradictions. But later, we found that the murderer's target was the Guiyue Apartment building. I'm thinking, if Hong Mei and Lan Die were murdered one after another, could the murderer's target be this drama itself?"

Liu Tong immediately praised: "Xiao Qiu, very insightful, thinking more and more. How about this: the task of investigating the social relationships that have conflicts of interest with *Divine Strategy of the Tang Dynasty* is handed over to you."

It was Liu Tong who gave the emotional value, which made Wu Shanqiu, who was depressed by Lan Die's death, immediately regain her spirit and took the task without saying a word.

Qi Fei looked around and asked: "Where is Zhong Kui?"

"Eh, can't you be separated from Zhong Kui for a moment now?" Liu Tong teased Qi Fei.

"You are the leader, be serious. I just remembered that Lan Die said she encountered a female ghost before the accident. I think Zhong Kui should know something," Qi Fei gave Liu Tong a speechless expression.

Liu Tong immediately echoed: "Yes, yes, yes, professional people give professional opinions."

"I said Lan Die lied," suddenly, Zhong Kui's voice appeared behind them, scaring everyone.

Qi Fei looked at her high heels and patted his chest, asking: "How did you manage to have no sound wearing these shoes?!"

Zhong Kui raised an eyebrow: "You are a police officer, why are you so timid? Didn't I just say that the nightmare of the so-called female ghost was what she had many years ago, and it has nothing to do with Hong Mei being killed this time."

"Why did she lie about seeing a female ghost?" Qi Fei said, looking at Lan Die, who had become a corpse. She could no longer answer his questions.

Zhong Kui looked in the direction of Qi Fei's gaze and said: "Covered in blood, ancient clothes, don't you think that within this hour, she herself became the female ghost she described?"

Zhong Kui's gloomy tone made people feel creepy at the crime scene, especially Qi Fei, who was shocked to find that the appearance of Lan Die lying on the ground now was exactly the same as the female ghost she described herself.

"There is another interesting thing. At Yun Shen Secret Realm, the female ghost they told me they saw, although the details were different, there was one thing that didn't change, which is that no one ever told me the female ghost was covered in blood," Zhong Kui said. Qi Fei raised an objection.

"When we investigated that day, the cleaning lady who fainted in the backyard said she saw a female ghost covered in blood..."

Zhong Kui blinked at Qi Fei: "This version is similar to what Lan Die said?"

"That is to say, there are two versions of the female ghost?"

"Wanting to know this is not difficult. Find the people who saw the female ghost and compare them, see what kind of ghost they all saw, wouldn't that be it?" Wu Shanqiu said from the side. "No wonder when we went to Yun Shen Secret Realm to investigate that day, everyone looked weird. It turned out they were really hiding something from us."

"I, well, think Yun Shen Secret Realm is quite good. I like places with few people," Zhong Kui suddenly said without beginning or end, and walked to Liu Tong gracefully. ===== CHAPTER 96 =====

"As for me, I think that place, the Yun Shen Secret Realm, is quite nice; I like places with few people," Zhong Kui said suddenly, out of the blue, as she walked elegantly up to Liu Tong.