Chapter 119: The Crew Has a Ghost

Chapter 119: The Crew Has a Ghost

Pei Ye returned to Wudaokou Nursing College the next day, and the crew of “Our Little Sweetness” had run into trouble.

The atmosphere across the set was heavy and tense, the female lead sitting on a chair in a state of shock, with a pool of blood next to the camera equipment.

The drama “Our Little Sweetness” is divided into two timelines, the school years of the male and female leads, and their reunion many years later.

Although it is a modern romance drama, it still includes a few scenes involving wire rigging, mainly to portray the sweetness and bond of the leads during their youth.

For example exaggerated basketball scenes, climbing trees to rescue a cat, saving a classmate attempting to jump from the rooftop, using these small events to intensify the feeling of first love.

There were only a few wire rigging scenes, but no one expected problems to occur there as well.

The equipment had been tampered with, and the female lead nearly fell from the third floor position, and the machine also toppled at an inappropriate moment and hit someone.

The injured person was sent to the hospital, and the director angrily chose to call the police.

“Stop filming today.”

The director was holding back a surge of anger.

They had taken every precaution, yet the equipment was still tampered with, even after repeated inspections before shooting.

In the past few days, strange incidents kept happening on set, making everyone anxious and unsettled.

For example, yesterday morning a supporting actress said she felt someone strangling her neck in the middle of the night.

She originally thought it was a nightmare, but when she woke up in the morning, there really was a faint blue mark around her neck.

A rookie male supporting actor also said he had unexplained bruises on his limbs, as if he had been beaten in the middle of the night.

What frightened the director the most was that the biggest star of the crew, the traffic lead Yu Changxin, had also been affected.

He discovered bruises of varying severity on his chest, arms, and thighs, the marks looking, well, adults would understand.

Yu Changxin’s agent was also worried about the situation and planned to take him away and get some kind of protection talisman.

“This crew gives off a very strange feeling. The female lead almost fell to her death, and extras were injured by equipment. This news cannot be suppressed.”

If not for the contract and the high penalty for breach, the agent would have already taken the actor away.

Filming money was important, but his artist’s life was also important.

Without life, who would earn money for him?

Yu Changxin sat in the dressing room and calmed himself for a moment.

He secretly pulled down his collar, revealing strange and ambiguous bruises on his fair skin.

“It really is strange. Let’s wait and see what the police say.”

He was currently maintaining a hardworking and professional persona, and could not just run away over something like this.

In recent years, traffic stars had become increasingly difficult to maintain, and several first generation top idols had begun transitioning careers. He was no exception in trying to sustain his career.

The agent said angrily, “It must be those stalker fans.”

As someone in the entertainment industry, he had heard countless rumors about stalker fans.

But this was the first time he felt genuine dread.

Repeated incidents of sending extras dead snakes, dead mice, dead cats, dead dogs, and dead lizards to scare people, and recently even more extreme behavior, sneaking into actors’ rooms.

The crew’s security measures were also terrible, actually allowing stalker fans to infiltrate and harm actors.

Filming was suspended and the police arrived quickly.

“Hello, my surname is Tang.”

The director came forward to deal with the police, and coincidentally, the officer on duty today was an old acquaintance of Pei Ye, Officer Tang.

Officer Tang carefully questioned the situation on set, and the more he heard, the more tightly he frowned.

“Could it be stalker fans?”

Officer Tang sent people to check the surveillance, but there was nothing unusual in the hotel cameras where the actors stayed, and no one entered their rooms.

The director was stunned by the result.

“Then could it be,” he thought of an even more terrifying possibility, “could the stalker fans have climbed in through the window into the actors’ rooms?”

Officer Tang said, “The hotel windows only open one third. A living person cannot get in.”

The building exterior was smooth glass. Unless someone was Spider Man, it was impossible to climb in.

The director then guessed, “Then maybe they hid in the wardrobe first, and slipped out when housekeeping came in to clean?”

If that was the case, it would be even more terrifying.

Officer Tang said nothing, silently looking at the director.

He had a suspicion, one even more disturbing than those possibilities.

The director also noticed that Officer Tang was hiding something and pulled him aside to speak in a low voice.

“Officer, if you have any suspicions just say it. Our crew will fully cooperate with whatever is needed. We have planned filming schedules in advance, and every day of delay means huge financial loss. We cannot stop filming for too long, but we also cannot resume without giving an explanation to the actors.”

Officer Tang hesitated and did not speak.

As a people’s police officer, he could not openly promote superstition.

At this moment, a familiar voice rescued him.

“Officer Tang.”

Officer Tang was about to scold whoever was interrupting work hours, but when he looked up, he saw Pei Ye standing under a distant tree, and his eyes lit up.

“Ran into trouble?”

After receiving permission, Pei Ye walked closer to the filming area.

Officer Tang twitched his mouth and said helplessly, “Aren’t you supposed to be at the academy? How would you not know anything happening there?”

The school was Pei Ye’s territory, and yet even there something like a vengeful ghost had appeared. That was a bit of negligence on her part.

The director looked at the two of them in confusion.

Pei Ye introduced herself.

“Hello, Director. My name is Xiao Hong.”

The director looked at her, noticing her outstanding appearance that would stand out even in the entertainment industry, and his expression darkened slightly.

He assumed she was another young female student trying to leverage her looks to climb the ladder.

There had already been quite a few students with such intentions these days.

“Officer Tang, who is she?”

Pei Ye said casually while holding a cigarette, “I am a Celestial Master, I catch ghosts.”

The director: “???”

Officer Tang could not help but smile bitterly.

“The state is trying to eliminate superstition. If you are this straightforward, it will be difficult for me.”

If Pei Ye were a registered Celestial Master of the Celestial Masters Alliance, she could be considered half official personnel and could participate in the investigation with proper approval.

But she was an unregistered practitioner, and her sudden appearance here was not appropriate.

With how fast the internet spreads things, if someone filmed her and posted it online, it would cause problems.

People would definitely question the police and say they were letting unrelated individuals interfere with official work.

Pei Ye said, “It is a rather unfriendly vengeful ghost, quite cunning and vicious. Even the Celestial Masters Alliance would probably find it difficult to handle. They are already overwhelmed and their higher level practitioners are all out on cases. They are short staffed. Are you sure you do not need me to intervene?”

Officer Tang: “……”

Thinking of the fact that Pei Ye had helped him solve several major cases before, Officer Tang endured it.

Pei Ye added, “People in the entertainment industry are more like monsters than monsters themselves. The director’s acceptance level is probably higher than you think.”

Now it was the director’s turn to be speechless.

“Wait, what exactly are you two talking about?”

Pei Ye looked at the damaged equipment, her gaze cold.

“A vengeful ghost is at work. Its target is someone in the crew. If you ignore it, at best people get seriously injured, at worst someone dies. I do not really care if you people get into trouble. I have no good impression of the entertainment industry. Everyone is an adult and should take responsibility for their actions. But since you are filming on school grounds, the students at the school will also be affected. I cannot just stand by and do nothing.”

A new case had arrived.