Chapter 117: Investigation

Yuzuo Shigemori stood on the stage, watching the props swaying a set left and right, looking for the best lighting position. He turned around and glanced at Sadako Yamamura who was chatting with Su Jing below the stage, feeling a little annoyed.

Watching Su Jing make an appointment with Sadako Yamamura, and then the two of them took two days off at the same time... Yuki Shigemori's mood was very complicated. In the past two days, he wrote at his desk, and his inspiration was like a spring. He completed the outline of "The Girl in Black (tentative name)" and then wrote the lines of the five-act drama in one breath.

Now, he is urging the props group to complete the props, and what is dragging around on the stage is one of the most important stage sets - the "Castle".

But about the casting of the male and female protagonists... Yuzusa Shigemori has been having a headache about this problem. If he follows his idea, then the actors who are most suitable for this drama are Sadako Yamamura and Su Jing. But these two people, one is a temporary actor who has just joined the troupe, and the other has only been exposed to drama in an interest group in college, and their acting ability is really unreliable.

Feixiang Theater is now the leading troupe in the city. The actors in the troupe counted over fifty or sixty people on the roster. If you can join the Feixiang Theater, Sadako Yamamura naturally has the talent for drama performance, but in terms of qualifications and stage experience, she can only rank to the end among the actors...

Japan was deeply influenced by the habit of "sessing seniority". Perhaps it was influenced by Confucianism from the mainland in history. The Japanese thought of being restricted to minor details was transformed into a more strict social order than Chinese ethics. In Japanese society, the argument of seniority was simply clear rules, as harsh as an insurmountable shackle. Even after the Meiji Restoration, Japanese society was completely westernized, but the "ritual law" was still strictly rigid or extremely programmatic.

Oda Nobunaga, the most famous Warring States tyrant in Japanese history, is famous for his "crazy" who is not bound by etiquette and law. After he took the blame for the world, he slaughtered more than 5,000 monk soldiers and believers. In his later letter to Takeda Shingen, he called himself "The Sixth Heavenly Demon King", fully demonstrating his domineering style by any means.

The Japanese worship of the strong and the habit of "dominant" is also the rebellious mentality that arises from their overly ironclad "laws" in society. It is to worship those strong people who have the ability to break, ignore these rules, and trample on all rules with an iron horse.

At present, Yuzuki Shigemori is thinking about this issue. As an excellent drama director, he naturally knows the principle of using only talent. However, the existence of the idea of ​​seniority does have its own truth. Compared to the elderly with more experience, it is too dangerous to let the novice take on the protagonist of a drama like this... if this gap in ability is not mentioned, letting a newcomer like her play the protagonist of a drama may play some publicity role, but the pressure from the old actors within the troupe will naturally be applied to his head...

However, Su Jing and Sadako Yamamura did not need to worry about these issues. Sadako Yamamura now looks much cheerful. While having lunch, she ran to the recording studio to give Su Jing a bento in the surprise eyes of everyone.

Japanese residents have always had the habit of making lunch at home and putting it in lunch boxes until noon before taking it out to eat. In countless novels, TV series, movies, comics, and animations, there are scenes where the heroine makes love bento for the male protagonist (usually because she doesn’t have good living habits).

"Uh...I made two too."

Su Jing took out two lunch boxes from his bag, and the two looked at each other.

Su Jing has always believed that the root cause of those who cannot control their own abilities is that their willpower is too weak. Not only does they not have enough power to control their own mental power, but they will also be dragged down by overly powerful natural power. The body looks particularly weak due to the use of a large number of unnecessary abilities... Just like the current situation of Sadako Yamamura.

According to his estimate, the first thing to do in situations like her is to restore confidence.

For those who like to perform in the industry, Su Jing reverses his own situation. First of all, there is a strong desire to express himself, hoping to make the audience pay attention to him and let others affirm his talents and abilities. The second is that he has a strong desire to "want to be others". The causes of this desire are different for everyone. Some people want to escape from themselves, while others like to experience other people's lives...

Sadako Yamamura has a charming beauty that can impress any man, and has a strong mental talent that completely surpasses her mother. Such a person should have become the most famous idol in the world and the person recorded in history. However, because of her unfortunate family conditions, she had to be a young actor here to satisfy her humble psychological demands. And in the original plot of the movie, her father was chopped down by the well with a hatchet and pushed down...

In the dark and light-free well, she survived for more than twenty years before she died. Her resentment after her death was attached to the videotape in the resort and led to the origin of the story of "Midnight Bell".

This injustice of fate made Su Jing extremely unhappy. Perhaps it was because of some psychological sympathy that he could feel Sadako Yamamura's heart. He had strong empathy to sympathize with the unfortunate woman and decided to extend his hand to help her. And he was very sure that if Su Luo stood here, he would have made the same choice.

"Take this over and listen to it every day when you get home when you have time." Su Jing sat in the recording studio and handed a tape to Sadako Yamamura. The long-haired woman took the tape with some confusion. "This is the prescription I prescribed for your current psychological symptoms. Listen every day and then develop your confidence."

Sadako held the tape, closed her eyes to feel the recording content inside, and then her face turned red all of a sudden, and she threw the tape away like a soldering iron. She escaped from the recording studio in a panic and ran back to the women's lounge, and even forgot to bring her own bento.

"Uh... is there anything wrong with this?" Su Jing picked up the tape from the ground and scratched her hair in confusion. "Just just praise her beauty, and then list her strengths one by one - nothing wrong. The ideas I got from Li X's crazy words...Don't she like this way of enhancing self-confidence? I need to read it to her in person?"

In the afternoon, during the actor's lunch break, he was called to the director's office. Yuzuki Shigemori gave him a script, asking him to read it, and then asked him to try to perform one of the characters called "Crow". Su Jing spent more than half an hour reading the script through it, and then tried it on the spot in the office. Yuzuki Shigemori nodded without comment, and then asked him to go back.

As a result, he left the sound room for 40 or 50 minutes. When he came back, he found that half of the lunch boxes had been taken away, and the tapes he placed on the workbench disappeared without a trace.

"...So it's shy." Su Jing tapped his head with his fingers, revealing a cramped smile.

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The Japanese public security and police are two institutions that belong to two departments respectively. The police are operated by each local government. The hub is the Police Department, which is a formal unit of the Japanese government and is also a cabinet office like the National Public Security Commission. Because the police systems in different places are different, the Police Department only plays a role of "supervision and guidance", and its direct department is only located in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, which is located in the capital.

The "public security" has a higher level and an independent command system. Its nature is equivalent to that of the national security department. Its predecessor was the Japanese Special High School Class established in 1911. It is a secret police officer responsible for national security and intelligence affairs. Its functions are very similar to the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty, with great power, and can even surpass the police officer class. Its head is the "National Public Security Commission" belonging to the Cabinet Office, and has the right to supervise and command the public security system and the police system. There is also the Public Security Investigation Department directly under the Ministry of Justice, but this Public Security Investigation Department does not have the right to arrest, only the right to investigate, and does not belong to the system of public security and police.

Gao Shanmuren returned to his office with a cup of coffee, and placed a stack of case files on his desk.

Originally, this file was just a very thin stack, but recently, investigators discovered new trends. One investigation after another added up, resulting in the current situation.

If it weren't for the witness' testimony and the on-site investigation was conducted, he wouldn't believe that someone could really stage an ancient mythical drama in Tokyo, a gradually modernized metropolis. Flying the eaves and walls, robbing the rich and helping the poor... Humph, Ishikawa Goemon? It would be better to say that it was Yamaaka Tengo who gave the martial arts of Genyosuke.

"Extremely powerful, strange props, a man with long black hair, about 1.8 meters tall... Such obvious characteristics should be very conspicuous." Gao Shanmuren lit a cigarette, without taking a sip, but just put it in front of him and watched the smoke rise. With his years of investigation experience, he listed a few doubts:

1. Why do prisoners write Chinese characters on the wall? (Chinese? Ancient culture lovers?)

2. What kind of job is he engaged in with his strange power and tall figure? (Physical laborer?)

3. A person with powerful power is usually accompanied by a huge blind self-confidence and a habit of bullying the weak. In this case, the prisoner's use of violence seems extremely restrained. Why? Moral cleanliness?

The Mitsui Consortium, whose reputation has been severely hit, not only puts great pressure on the public security department, but also contacts the black forces underground in Tokyo, offering rewards, trying to take two-pronged approaches to capture this arrogant madman. Sometimes, the work efficiency of those violent gangs is higher than that of the police. Only a week later, more than ten people were piled on the desks of Takayama Muren, and each of them was suspected of committing crimes.

Gaoshan Muren has ruled out most of them. Some either had evidence of absent on the same day or were somewhat inconsistent with the characteristics of the prisoner. His eyes gradually locked on the thinnest document.

According to the information, the long-haired man suddenly appeared on the streets of Tokyo a week ago, without detailed identity information. He looked very conspicuous, about 1.8 meters tall, or higher. Following the clues, he found that his whereabouts on that day basically met the time conditions of the suspect. It was not that there was precise evidence, but the keen sense of smell cultivated by his years of experience and instinctively believed that this person was a major suspect.

The photos in the archives are somewhat blurred and were taken from a street photographer. The man stood on the street with his hands in his trench coat pocket and was looking up at the sky, looking like a pretty fashionable artist or pop star.

"Secretary Director, we have investigated the suspect information of 'Tengou'." The young agent hurried in. He was glared by Gaoshan Muren before he remembered that he forgot to knock on the door first.

"Tell me, let's see." Gao Shan Muren took a sip of coffee, took the document from the agent's hand, and opened the content calmly.

"It has been found that the suspect bought the house from a person a week ago, and it uses cash. We have compared and encoded it. The money received by the person who sold the house was the stolen batch in the bank."

"This cannot be used as decisive evidence... You know, that day, this 'Tengou' once scattered more than three million in cash on the street..." Takayama Muren retorted slowly. In fact, he also agreed with the judgment of the young agent in his heart, but he believed that young people should polish it more, and they must not give these little boys a good look unless they had to.

"However, after comparison, the amount of this batch of banknotes is extremely huge, and it is definitely the 'Tengou' himself!" The young agent argued with reason. Gao Shan Muren waved his hand and asked him to calm down.

"So, what about this person's whereabouts now?"

"Yes, we are already monitoring his residence. According to the investigation, he is now serving as a sound effector in the city's "Flying Theatre Troupe" - during the investigation, we did not disturb the insiders of the troupe. Also, a temporary actor from the Flying Theatre Troupe spent the night with him at his home two days ago, and returned to the Flying Theatre Troupe on the third day later. Although we had not launched a reconnaissance strategy at that time, the convenience store near his residence and the homeless man had an impression of this woman."

"Extraordinary actor?" Takayama Muren laughed a little. Unexpectedly, this Tengou is quite good at picking up women, and he hooked up with someone so quickly. Of course, this little actor should be an insignificant role, but the most worrying thing is the incredible strange power of "Tengou"...

Gao Shan Mu Ren is still on the table with a photo of the footprints of that guy stepping out on the roof. If a guy with such inhuman power is forcibly arrested now, then he needs to plan carefully...

"Is it true of the Flying Theatre? We might need to see this guy..."
Chapter completed!