Exploration Chapter 1

  "Sanqi, you just looked so cool!" Tongtong gazed at Sanqi with a look of admiration. But Sanqi's gaze seemed to be looking at an alien "Really? You're only realizing now? Haven't you heard that famous saying?"

  "What's the famous quote?" Tongtong blinked her big eyes.

  "The farthest distance in the world is not between life and death, but when you look at Tian Sanqi's photo and don't know where this handsome guy is."

  "Ugh!!" Tongtong really couldn't take this kind of stimulation.

  "Huh? Tongtong! Are you...? ...No way, I remember we took precautions last time..."

  "Slap!" "**! Who are you... Go die!" Tongtong slapped him back, then her face turned bright red, unsure if she was embarrassed or angry.

  "Ah~ You're obviously jealous of Ge's handsomeness. This is going to break your heart! Waaahhh... " Sanqi's crying face was quite sly.

  "You're handsome? Handsome my ass!" Tongtong ultimately couldn't maintain her elegant demeanor.

  "I'm not handsome? Let me tell you the truth. If being handsome could be eaten as food, I would have been handsome enough to feed 7 billion people for a year and a half." Sanqi's sentence completely defeated Tongtong.

  "The bus is coming, hurry up." Sanqi was already eager and rubbing his fists together.

  "This car is too crowded, let's wait for the next one. I haven't finished my yogurt yet." Tongtong complained. "Ah! Yuck! There's an ant!" This might be an ant that was attracted by the yogurt, but now that Tongtong has seen it, it basically has no chance of survival.

  "Why are you being so cruel? The little ant didn't provoke you, and yet you're going to crush it to dust?" Sanqi once again caught Tongtong's "unladylike behavior".

  "I hate ants the most!" Tongtong clapped her hands and blew a light breath. "It's not fair! These little things love to eat sweets, but their waists are still so thin. I'm on a diet now! Seeing ants makes me angry."

  "Now this car is just right for you, if there are fewer people, then there's no point in taking the bus. 'Squeeze bus' is a comprehensive exercise that incorporates various sports and fitness projects such as boxing, yoga, judo, balance wood, etc., especially good for weight loss." With that, she pushed Tongtong onto the car.

  As soon as the two got on the bus, they regretted it. The number of people on this bus was not ordinary. "Squeak!" "Is there something wrong?!" Tongtong's yogurt in her hand was squeezed by the crowd on the bus and sprayed onto Sanqi's face. "Everyone stop pushing! Stop pushing! You've squeezed out someone's yogurt!" At this time, everyone looked at Sanqi with strange eyes. With a bit of effort from Tongtong, all the remaining yogurt was shot onto Sanqi's face. 15 minutes later, the two finally got off the bus, and Sanqi took out a wet wipe from Tongtong's pocket to wipe his face.

  "What shall we do now, Sanqi?"

  "Hmm... does it need to be asked? Now that I know what happened, of course, I'll go ask others for their testimony."

  "Who should we go find first?"

  Sanqi thought carefully for a moment "to go find that director."

  "Why?" Tongtong looked at him in surprise. "Didn't you have a bad relationship with that director? Would he see you?"

  "It's still the same method." Sanqi smiled mysteriously.

  "You don't know anything inside at all, isn't it easy to be exposed like this?" Tongtong still had some worries.

  "Don't worry, someone as important as him must have some secrets that can't be revealed. As long as you grasp the measure, there won't be any problem. Besides..." Sanqi took out his paper "I still have this."

  "Director Mu, someone is looking for you." A crew member walked over.

  "Who?" Mu Yufeng asked.

  The drama official scratched his head and said: "It's a young man named Tian Sanqi and a girl named Luo Yutong."

  "Tian Sanqi?" Mu Dao seemed to have this name in his memory, but for a moment he couldn't place it. "Who is it? Let them come in."

  "Director Mu, hello!"

  "It's you! Hmph, this isn't your place!" Mu Dao Yi immediately remembered who "Tian San Qi" was when he saw the real person.

  "Hey, what's going on here?" Sanqi sighed and said to Tongtong: "Forget it, Tongtong. Since they've already made preparations to go to the execution ground, why bother? Let's go."

  "Wait a minute!" Mu Yufeng felt that there was more to his words and hastily stopped him. "What did you mean by that?"

  Sanqi looked around at the people coming and going and said to him: "If you are willing to let everyone know about this matter, I will say it here."

  "This..." Mu Yufeng hesitated for a moment "Come with me." After that, he led the two into a relatively quiet photography studio. "Now you can talk, right?"

  "Of course." Sanqi flashed his confident and slightly cunning smile again. "I came this time to verify the case of Miss Cheng Zhi Lin. First, I'd like to know where you were at 9:30 last night?"

  "Are you asking for my alibi?" Mu Yufeng sneered "Are you a police officer? What right do you have to interrogate me?"

  "No, no, no. I'm a detective." Sanqi shook his finger and explained very seriously to him.

  "Haha, you must have watched too much Detective Conan. You think you can just casually become a detective." Mu Yufeng's laughter was full of sarcasm.

  "It's not like that. Sanqi likes Kindaichi." Tongtong explained for Sanqi.

  "Tongtong, are you speaking for me?... Never mind, I won't say anything about you." Sanqi felt a lump in his throat. "At least, I'm better than some directors who just copy Conan's lines verbatim." Seeing Mu's face turn red, Sanqi seized the opportunity to counterattack. "As far as I know, your relationship with the deceased was 'not very good'. The deceased, Cheng Zhiling, often embarrassed you in public. So, did you two often quarrel?"

  "It's not like that! ... Right, recently Zhi Ling's temper has indeed been bad, and she often offends me, I'm really angry. And we also have frequent quarrels about the script. But I've always admired Zhi Ling, how could I kill someone because of such a trivial matter?" At this time, Mu Yu Feng's face was sweating, his expression seemed somewhat flustered and tense. The previous arrogant appearance couldn't be seen at all.

  "Ah, Director Mu! Although we haven't known each other for long, and I don't particularly like you as a person. But if someone said you'd kill someone, I still wouldn't believe it. It's true that I'm a private investigator. But you also know that our line of work isn't doing well these days, and I only came here to be an extra because I needed the money. To be honest with you..." Sanqi suddenly put on a mysterious air, leaned in close to Mu Yufeng's ear, and whispered: "I have someone on the inside at the Municipal Criminal Police Brigade. Do you know Ou Yangxuan? He's the Deputy Captain of the Municipal Criminal Police Brigade. We're buddies. I heard from him that they've already considered you a 'likely suspect'. That's why I came to help clear your name." As he spoke, Sanqi also raised his head and patted Mu Yufeng on the shoulder. At this moment, Mu Yufeng looked at Sanqi with eyes like those of a devout Christian seeing Jesus.

  "Brother, I really misunderstood you before." Mu Yufeng was so sad that he almost cried.

  Sanqi looked at Lao Mu's appearance and found it amusing, but he still forced himself to hold back. "Alright, same question again. Where were you at 9:30 last night?"

  Mu Yufeng thought for a moment and said: "I went to find Boren, that German devil, to discuss the script. After you visited the studio that day, we suspected that the script had been leaked. Zhirong said to gather everyone's wisdom to modify the script. You also know that I always have differences with Zhirong. So I decided to go talk to Boren. Who knew I waited from 8:30 and he never came back."

  "In other words, you're always proving something, aren't you?" Sanqi reminded him.

  "This... can also be said like this. But..." Mu Yu Feng still wanted to make excuses.

  "Alright, no need for explanations. Next question. Do you know what Miss Zhi Ling does every day from 8 to 9?" San Qi didn't want to delay any further.

  "It seems like she was doing yoga or something, she mentioned it before." Mu Yu Feng recalled carefully.

  "Have you been to Miss Zhi Ling's home?"

  "I had been to her home before, but she stopped going out after becoming famous. You know, that kind of scandal is very common in the entertainment industry." Sanqi nodded understandingly and also nodded his head.

  "What did you mean by 'her home before'?" Sanqi asked him seriously.

  "In fact, I and Chih-Ling, Wen-Hsi originally knew each other. It's just that at that time, Chih-Ling wasn't as famous yet. They used to live together, the two siblings relied on each other for survival. But the Cheng family is indeed a family of actors, and Chih-Ling's talent was eventually recognized by everyone." Mu Yu-Feng said with a hint of nostalgia.

  "What about their siblings' feelings?"

  "It's pretty good. Especially after going through that difficult period, their feelings have always been quite harmonious, this kind of feeling can't be faked. Even after Zhi Ling became famous, she once said that she would leave everything to Wen Hei. Who knew that Wen Hei was very angry when he heard it, he said that their sibling relationship absolutely cannot involve money. So they divided the family property and went their separate ways."

  "Is it during this time that Miss Chiling had rumors of a scandal?"

  "What? You've also heard about it? It's like that. But this is not the fact at all. Because Zhi Ling is working almost every day, there is no chance to contact outsiders, how can there be a 'mysterious boyfriend'? So this kind of gossip news will eventually come to nothing."

  "Alright, last question. Who do you think is the killer of Miss Zhi Ling?"

  "I'm thinking... Takeo Muka, he seems to have been pursuing Shirerin all along, but it doesn't seem like anything came of it, and instead often ends in tragedy. And then there's Miss Chigusa, I don't know if Shirerin is a radical nationalist or what, but she really dislikes Japanese people. Of course, Miss Chigusa isn't an exception either. Sometimes when no one is paying attention, Shirerin will call her 'qian cao zhen nai', because Miss Chigusa's Chinese isn't good and she can't understand it anyway. But if she could understand..."

  "This... Miss Zhi Ling, is really humorous ~ haha."