His first night in the Dark Shrine World was calmer than Gao Ming had expected. After the Night Watch left, he encountered nothing else strange.
At six thirty in the morning, Gao Ming was still sound asleep when a sudden clatter woke him. Wu Wei, the youngest and strongest member of the film crew, had fallen off her wire-frame bed. Without even putting on her coat, she grabbed her phone and scrambled toward him.
"Something happened! Something terrible!" Stumbling over her words, Wu Wei held up her phone. Forgetting all about keeping a proper distance between men and women, she shoved it right in front of Gao Ming's face. "B-Bu Ming's dead! He died in the Haojue owner's room! That, that woman..."
"Don't panic. Take your time." Gao Ming sat up groggily, looking as though he had only just heard the news.
"The Wansheng boss's daughter is dead too! She was shot!" Wu Wei showed Gao Ming the news report on her phone. "They haven't caught the killer, and all the surveillance footage was destroyed, but everyone's saying Black Mastiff from the Takekawa Society did it. That mad dog's in trouble!"
"No, no! Something's wrong!" Hearing the commotion, Jia Youzhi ran over in nothing but his boxer shorts. "Director Li, this doesn't add up! Things like this are usually settled privately, or only reported after both sides reach an agreement. That's when ordinary people like us get to hear about them. Unless a third party got involved and deliberately wanted to blow things up!"
"The Night Watch!" Ding Xiang had just woken up, but after hearing only Wu Wei's brief account, she spoke with absolute certainty. "The Takekawa Society and Wansheng were forced to join forces because of pressure from the Night Watch. If those two fall out, the Night