B-level director

Chapter 25 Life is like a play

They both walked to the door and rang the bell.

Unexpectedly, Domi came to answer the door directly.He is a short middle-aged man in his 40s, with curly hair on his round face and thick eyebrows, giving him a somewhat childish appearance.

Tianlu saw that the place was very peaceful, not like being searched or monitored by the police, so he revealed his media identity to Domi and said that he would take the liberty of visiting and wanted to chat with him about his paintings.

This visit was indeed abrupt, but Domi was very kind and invited them into the living room and studio without further questioning.The ceiling of the studio is two stories high, and several paintings are placed or hung.The large white and bright space is connected to a room, which is a small bedroom when viewed from the open door.

Looking at those paintings all day, the scenery is delicate and realistic, but the faces of people are simple, dull and homogeneous.After the polite words, he cut straight to the point: "Mr. Duomi, I take the liberty to come to you because I want to ask you about something. I did an interview several years ago about a murder case in a coal mine in the Northeast. At that time, I went to the murderer's hometown. Honglong County in the southwest. The background of your painting is also in that area, right?"

Domi replied: "That's right, that's my hometown. What kind of murder case?" He was puzzled by the two uninvited guests, but he was familiar with Chengtianlu's publications and had a sense of trust in him.

"Seven years ago, a coal mine collapsed. After three days of excavation, only one person came out alive. He said he killed the other 17 people."

"Oh, big case!" He had lived abroad for a long time, so he had never heard of it.

Brother Qi suddenly said, "How old were you when you saw aliens?"

Domi was even more surprised, "What alien?"

Cheng Tianlu added to Qi Ge'er's brain hole, "In your painting "Tian Shui", there is a human face in the hole in the sky. That alien... Uh, does that image have any meaning?"

Duomi was stunned, but also confused: "The meaning... the things drawn always have meaning, but meaning is like building a frame with bricks in a puddle of water. It depends on what shape you want. I It is only responsible for spilling this puddle of water, and it is difficult to give you an answer for the rest."

Brother Qi asked: "Water must have a source, it falls from the sky, flows in the river, pissed by people..."

"You're right," Domi smiled, but the smile was bleak, "but it's not clear, the water flows out by itself, and I'm just its pipe. Where is its root, I don't know."

Cheng Tianlu and Brother Qi glanced at each other, these pretentious words were useless.

Cheng Tianlu: "The 'source of water' that you can't find, could it be your memory of your hometown. Do you remember what your home looked like when you were a child?"

Domi showed a puzzled expression, and then the expression gradually deepened, and in the end it was almost panic. "All I remember are bits and pieces, copper pots burning on pots, smoke from burning leaves, goose feathers stuffed into pillows, peacocks..."

"Peacock?" Geer Qi repeated his words.His mind is imagining the scene described by the painter, which is a common picture in daily life, small and dim, but suddenly a gorgeous peacock is inserted, and he feels very strange.

"That's right, the peacock. The peacock is our divine bird, and many of our legends are related to the peacock." He had no expression while speaking, but at this moment there was a look of nostalgia and nostalgia on his face.This expression slowly distorted and turned into pain.

He stood up, took two bottles of mineral water from the box, handed them to them, then opened the bottle in front of him, and gulped down half of it.It seemed that his mood was greatly fluctuated, and he had to drink water to slow down.

"I moved to the city when I was eight or nine years old. My memory is very poor, and I have forgotten many things. Speaking of that painting, I don't know whether it was a dream or I saw it, but I was very clear when I painted it. Everything Everything is 'right', that's how it should be. Can you understand this feeling?" The painter's expression is like sleepwalking, as if he was lost in the village many years ago and has not yet found his way out.

Brother Qi didn't even think about it, and replied, "I understand."

Domi smiled.He was really happy, with a smile fixed on his face, like a smiling stuffed brown bear.

In the next second, he fell down!

Brother Qi was shocked and wanted to go over to help him.Cheng Tianlu reacted quickly and quickly stopped: "Don't move! Don't move anything here!"

Brother Qi immediately withdrew his hand.Cheng Tianlu walked over quickly, glanced at Domi's side face lying on the sofa, and then pressed his aorta.

After a few seconds, Cheng Tianlu said solemnly: "Brother Qi, have you never seen a dead person?"

Brother Qi couldn't believe it: "He died? How did he die!"

Cheng Tianlu was not a doctor, so naturally he couldn't give him an answer.It can only be said that he was not killed by Qi Ge'er's sharp mechanism, nor by any bloody and violent tool; the painter died silently, with a smile on his dead face.

Just as he was about to call the police, the doorbell rang outside the door.The two looked at each other.

"Answer the door?"

"You must answer, stay here without saying a word, that's what a murderer would do." Cheng Tianlu said in his mouth, but he was very worried in his heart.He knew they were in big trouble this time.

Brother Qi approached the door, and just took two steps when the noise outside became louder.The two looked through the gap in the curtains, and saw that two big men had already opened the iron gate, and walked into the yard with the beautiful translator.A look at this momentum, either the underworld or law enforcement officers.

Brother Qi asked: "Are they the famous FBI?"

Cheng Tianlu nodded: "I just saw them this morning, alas, I can't escape this time!"

"The FBI asked us what we are doing here, can we say Doudizhu?"

Cheng Tianlu sighed: "Impossible. Great director, when you encounter this kind of scene, how do you make up your story?"

Brother Qi looked at him very seriously: "Usually in this situation, someone wants to frame the protagonist. How could it be such a coincidence? The police came to the door as soon as the person died."

Footsteps approached outside, the yard was not very big, and they had already reached the door.

Cheng Tianlu smiled wryly: "Hey director, but we are not the male lead, we are playing tricks."

"Big villains usually look like they're playing tricks. Let's hide!"

hide?Cheng Tianlu hadn't come to his senses when he was dragged into the bedroom by Brother Qi.They originally wanted to look for a door or window in the bedroom to see if it was possible to climb out of the door, but when they entered the door, the FBI had already entered the living room.Brother Qi pulled Cheng Tianlu and hid in the closet nearby.

Listening to the commotion outside, Tianlu felt like he was crazy!He didn't understand, how could he be made into a big villain by Brother Qi when he was just playing tricks?It was bad enough that Domi died right in front of them, and in the inexplicable death scene, they also hid in the closet, which is really hard to wash!

He whispered in Qi Ge'er's ear, "Let's go out."

As soon as he finished speaking, someone pushed open the half-closed bedroom door.Cheng Tianlu froze all over, thinking, when the agent sees the two gentlemen coming out of the closet, will he yell first, or draw his gun first?

The two held their breath, only to hear broken and urgent footsteps, and they were called out as soon as they stepped into the door.The footsteps quickly left the room.

Cheng Tianlu breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Brother Qi in the dark.

Brother Qi's face was unclear, his breathing was steady, and he didn't feel nervous at all.The closet was very narrow, and the two of them were very close, and with a slight movement, the backs of their hands would touch each other.Uncomfortably, he pressed his hands to his legs.

Instead, Brother Qi stretched out his hand, held his palm, and asked softly, "Are you scared?"

Cheng Tianlu was not afraid, he was just scolding himself for being stupid.Thinking back, he would hide in the closet. On the one hand, he was indeed misled by Qi Geer's script, and on the other hand, he was lucky.This house is big, and there are only two or three people in the other party. It is not impossible to escape.

It was a risky move, but he appeared in the studios of Banwu and Domi one after another, and he was holding some kind of alien detector, and it would take a year and a half to be interrogated if he was caught.And how did he explain why he came to Domi?Because want to know where are the aliens?

If we want to tell the truth, it will inevitably involve the big case of the year, and the final trial of the butcher in the mine is coming soon. His incident has caused a lot of trouble, and I don't know how many people's fate will be affected.From a selfish point of view, the big manuscript back then was one of the cornerstones of his fame, and he didn't want this rigorous news report to become a ghost novel.

He has the same thought as Brother Qi now, no matter what, he has to get out quickly.

Cheng Tianlu asked back: "Aren't you afraid?"

Brother Qi smiled: "I'm not afraid, I'm not alone."

This sentence is simple and easy to understand, with clear meaning, but each word collided with complex echoes in Cheng Tianlu's mind.

Bad, he thought, really bad.

He and Qi Geer squeezed into this dark and narrow space, still holding hands.What's bad is not the FBI and dead bodies, but even with the FBI and dead bodies, he doesn't feel that bad.Even if he was caught, he was also caught together with Brother Qi—then he and Brother Qi had reasons to meet each other for a year or so.

So he dismissed his concerns.He is innocent, and he will be tried as long as he likes.Brother Qi said, "I'm not afraid, I'm not alone."

Cheng Tianlu instantly felt relaxed.I also feel... a little happy.

That's too bad.

Just when he was distracted, Brother Qi said again: "We can definitely get out. I glanced and saw that the window of the room was not closed. Let's climb out of the window when we find a chance later."

It was a prophecy, they really had to climb the window.

"There are three people outside, can we avoid so many people's eyes and ears?"

Brother Qi paused, "The two of you can't go together, you go, I'll cover."

"Fuck you, how many stalks do you have to create! Don't be silly, this is not your set."

"There's such a big movement between the two of us, we can't run away together. Don't worry, I'm carrying a weapon."

arms? !

Brother Qi groped around and took out a dark mass.He turned on the screen of the phone, and in the dim light, he saw Qi Ge'er holding a small box in his big palm, which contained white crystals as small as sand.

The blue light of the phone shone faintly on Brother Qi's face, and he spit out a few words: "Mercuric acid."

Cheng Tianlu almost kicked Brother Qi out!

"What the hell are you doing with explosives?" He unconsciously lowered his voice so low that it was almost hoarse.At the scene of a suspicious death, hiding in a closet would be enough, but he's carrying a bomb!

A minute ago, Cheng Tianlu was still entangled with his feelings for Qi Ge'er, but now he began to worry about whether the two of them could get out alive.

He carefully snatched the erythromycin, and ordered: "Let's go out and surrender." Qi Ge'er said in his usual unhurried tone: "Surrender yourself, we haven't committed a crime."

"When you blow up the house, it's not a crime, it's a terrorist attack."

Brother Qi smiled: "This amount of explosives is not enough to set off a cannon, I just took it for fun."

After Cheng Tianlu calmed down, he also knew that the mercury fulminate was not a joke.He has seen detonators made of mercury fulminate explode rocks in private mines, and the scale is much larger than this. Mercury fulminate is used as a primer, because it is easy to burn and explode, so it must be handled with extreme care.It is estimated that these small fine sands can only be used as a few cannons.

Brother Qi said again: "Take your weapon and go, so that they don't search me for a while. I'll go outside to deal with the Americans first. There are so many traces outside. I can tell there are visitors at a glance. I'll see if I can fool them. In the past. You've already shown up and it's going to be a hassle for them to recognize you."

Cheng Tianlu disagreed, and before he could say anything, Brother Qi opened the cabinet door.

Cheng Tianlu: "Brother Qi..."

Brother Qi whispered in his ear: "The window is on the west wall, go, now!"

Perhaps because Qi Geer has exercised his authority as a director, his instructions have an irresistible firmness.Cheng Tianlu sighed secretly, and moved his steps obediently.

He approached the window nimbly and nimbly, only to see Qi Ge'er has quickly walked into the bathroom of the bedroom.

Footsteps were approaching the bedroom, movement was heard outside, and someone was coming in to check.Cheng Tianlu didn't have time to think about it, he pushed open the window with a slit, jumped out without hesitation, and closed the window sash without hesitation.At the same time, the sound of flushing came from the bathroom, covering the sound of jumping out of the window, and two agents walked into the room.

Cheng Tianlu was leaning against the outer wall by the window, his body was strong, and his heartbeat was as fast as if he had run 1000 meters.