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Thursday afternoon.

Lu Yuxing followed Bai Wan to finish the interview with the crew, and as soon as he returned to the agency, he was called by the editor of the economic section to the printing factory to hand over the affairs.The entertainment section was short of manpower, and was not taken seriously in the newspaper office.An intern like Lu Yuxing, who knows nothing, is naturally called around as a handyman.

The landline phone kept ringing.Glancing at the office area that was as chaotic as a vegetable market, Lu Yuxing reluctantly sat up from his desk.He pressed the center of his eyebrows wearily, poured half a cup of cold instant coffee on the table, walked around the manuscript paper all over the floor, and walked out.

"Little Lu, come back!"

As soon as they walked to the door, the editor just now held the receiver of the landline and shouted towards the door in the confusion: "Come here to answer the phone first! I'm looking for you!"

Lu Yuxing turned around, with dark circles under his eyes from insomnia for two days, and a stern expression on his face.The editor immediately swallowed his complaints, and took the receiver away from his hand.

"Who?" Lu Yuxing was a little edgy.

The other end of the phone was very quiet, and Tang Ruize's voice sounded slowly. "Come pick up Tang Tang at six o'clock in the afternoon for an audition. I gave him the car keys."

"Why don't you send him there?"

"The company has something to do." Tang Ruize paused, and added, "It's his first time to audition for a movie, so watch it, don't be fooled by the pheasant crew."

"Let him wait for me." Lu Yuxing raised his hand to rub the center of his brows, and hung up the phone.

It was already 04:30 when I came out of the printing factory, the sun was high in the sky, and the street was like a steamer, stuffy and hot.

Lu Yuxing stopped the car to go to Xiangtan Road, and fell asleep as soon as he got in the car.

The music from the car's radio station echoed in my ears, and the taxi finally stopped after bumping for an unknown amount of time.Lu Yuxing didn't open his eyes, but vaguely heard the sound of the taxi meter beating, and then the door on the left was gently opened.

"You don't need to look for it." Tang Tang's voice was soft, "The other one hundred is a tip."

Someone touched Lu Yuxing's arm.When he opened his eyes, he saw Tang Tang standing outside the car door, smiling at himself.

"Good afternoon." Tang Tang pulled him out of the car with a smile, "Have you eaten yet?"

The driver took 200 yuan and drove away happily.

"What time does the audition start?" Lu Yuxing took his arm, walked through the iron gate, and walked into the house.

The maid hired by the Tang family just left, and the house was cleaned very clean.Xiaoxing is not at home, and the living room is very quiet.Tang Tang closed the door behind his back, pushed Lu Yuxing against the door, and put his arms around his waist.

"It's still early." He raised his head and rubbed the tip of his nose against Lu Yuxing's chin.

Since they separated two days ago, Lu Yuxing was busy with his internship, and Tang Tang was asked by Tang Ruize to prepare for the audition at home, and the two have not met each other.Lu Yuxing was so busy during the day that he didn't touch the ground, but he couldn't sleep well after returning home at night. He only slept for five hours in two days.

In the dead of night, he missed Tang Tang terribly, and felt terrified of this dependence.

"How are you getting ready?" He patted Tang Tang's head, hugged his waist and led him to the sofa.Tang Tang looked thinner than two days ago, but also felt stronger.

Tang Tang hugged Lu Yuxing and nestled on the sofa, hugging his arm with attachment. "Director Chen only gave me the address and time, and the content of the audition should be randomly determined after arriving at the scene."

"Relax, you will not be worse than others."

"I know." Tang Tang turned his head and kissed him on the cheek, shrinking back contentedly, and lay down in Lu Yuxing's arms.

Lu Yuxing surrounded him from behind, closed his eyes slightly, and recalled a very long memory.

In the lobby on the first floor of the Carroll Hotel, the staff stood in a row at the entrance of the audition area, and a group of young actors waited in line outside the lobby, holding the improvised lines in their hands.

The door of the audition room was tightly closed, and there was no sound outside the door.Every time someone came out from inside, the people outside the door looked at his expression nervously.If that person looked embarrassed, the rest of the actors would breathe a sigh of relief and continue to look down at the lines.

On the carpet not far from the door sat a tall young man.

A book of fundamentals of acting was covered on his face, revealing a smooth jawline.The man's slender legs were slightly bent, his chest heaved, and he was sleeping with his head up against the wall, his Adam's apple showing an extremely masculine arc.

Just at this moment, a girl wearing a work ID rushed out of the audition room and shouted impatiently in a sharp voice:

"No. 2146! Is No. 2146 here?"

Lu Yuxing took off the acting foundation covering his face, his eyes were clear and dark, and he glanced at the door. "coming."

With one hand in his trouser pocket, he patted the dust off his hoodie, and took out a piece of paper with lines written on it from his pocket.

"Hurry up." The girl gave him a blank look, "There are still a lot of people waiting, don't think it's great that you were recommended by Professor Li."

Lu Yuxing ignored her, and read the lines twice while walking. When he reached the door, he gently kneaded into a ball and threw it into the trash can.

Pushing the door open, a U-shaped conference table appeared in front of him, and more than twenty pairs of eyes were looking at him.

A middle-aged man wearing a jacket sat directly opposite, looking a little tired.

"Let me introduce myself." The person who looked like an assistant beside him said.

Lu Yuxing finally pulled his hands out of his trouser pockets, and began to introduce himself with a serious expression.The hotel's lights fell from the ceiling, making his already deep facial features a little gloomy.

"My name is Lu Yuxing, and I am a senior student in the Journalism Department of Hong Kong City University."

The assistant was a little surprised, and asked back, "Journalism Department?"

Lu Yuxing frowned slightly, but did not answer his question.

"This is the first time I have participated in film casting. Before that, I only had drama performance experience."

The assistant had an ugly expression, but the middle-aged man beside him waved his hand.

"let's start."

As soon as the words fell, the staff at the side immediately stepped forward and moved a chair with armrests.

Chen Guzhou's casting requirements are very high. The audition actors cannot prepare in advance, cannot make up, and the content of the audition can only be disclosed an hour in advance.

The new film this time is a story of hunting down and arresting the murderer of a serial murder case.Liu Jie, a high school student in the play, is the survivor of the first case committed by the murderer and the only one among the five murders who saw the face of the murderer and survived.All his family members were killed, but he forced himself to remember the murderer's face over and over again, hoping to help the police catch the murderer one day.

The audition footage obtained by Lu Yuxing is the scene of Liu Jie identifying the murderer in the police station three years after the case happened.

The police detained the five suspects and asked him to identify them through the glass of the room.He looked at the five faces in front of him, but couldn't identify them in the painful memory.Only then did he suddenly realize that the face in his memory had long been subjectively distorted, and it was not the murderer's original appearance at all.

Fear, anger, and powerlessness all erupted in an instant.

It's a bit embarrassing for a newcomer to perform such a paragraph in front of the air.

Lu Yuxing took a breath, his eyes gradually darkened.There was still chatter in twos and threes on the set, the producer was lying on the back of the chair bored, the lighting engineer was fiddling with the equipment in his hand, and two staff members were chatting about what to have for dinner.

The one who was in charge of the interim confrontation was a martial arts director, and the stunned big man threw a club to the side, and said the 2146th line without emotion.

"Come and see, which one is the person you saw that day?"

Everyone who wanted to finish their work quickly looked up at the young man in the middle of the field of vision and was slightly stunned.

In the well-lit hotel conference room, he stood slightly bent in the center, everything around him seemed to disappear in his eyes.

Liu Jie was very tall, but he couldn't help bending his body and clutching his arms tightly.His eyes trembled from left to right, and from right to left.

His eyes changed from excitement to doubt, and then slowly changed to horror and horror.

Obviously there was nothing in front of him, but everyone saw the oppressive interrogation room through his eyes.

Separated by a layer of glass, five old men of the same stature stood on the other side of the room.The ten eyes were equally cloudy, staring straight at the young man in front of him.

They seemed to be smiling at Liu Jie, with yellow and black teeth showing from their split lips.Liu Jie watched them back and forth more than a dozen times. He clearly knew that the murderer was among them, but he couldn't be sure.

——You will never find me, but I am watching you.

Liu Jie felt dizzy and took a step back.His legs were trembling, and his eyes were bloodshot and red with excitement.He had repeated nightmares for three years just for this moment.

The five men just stood like this, as if they were provoking him, despising him, mocking his dead family members with faint smiles.

In the end, Liu Jie shook his head frantically and desperately. With red eyes, his finger pointing at the five people kept trembling, and he murmured "I can't recognize them" over and over again, gasping for breath as if choking, and finally sat down in pain on the chair.

thump.

The chair legs made a muffled sound on the carpet, and everyone recovered as if awakened from a nightmare.

The weird atmosphere that made the back sweat dissipated in an instant, and the producer seemed to be in a big dream, staring in surprise at the young man sitting slumped on the chair.

Lu Yuxing sat down for a while, and when he got up, the others dared to move.

He raised his head and looked at Chen Guzhou who was directly opposite him.

"It's time to call it a day." A smile appeared on Chen Guzhou's tense face, he waved to the assistant beside him and said, "Don't watch the rest, let them go to other crews to audition."

The author says:

In fact, neither Lu Yuxing's nor Tang Tang's initial personalities were what they see now.Xiao Lu used to be an arrogant man, and the society has polished his edges and corners...

As for Tangtang, you will know in the future.

The title of the chapter comes from JUDE's murder in the secret room, "This murder is very strange, and I can't help but suspect a certain character if I give someone a moment to kill it."

(I'm really sorry for being late, I may adjust the update time to night in the future)