Chapter 115 Reversal and the Truth

"No!"

In the center of a modern urban street, Ma Chenggong was kneeling on the road, crying bitterly, holding Yu Yingying, who was covered in blood.

The camera was focused on him, and then spun rapidly around him, as if the world was spinning, taking in the three towering skyscrapers.

In this composition, the skyscraper seems like a giant standing tall, while the sad and painful Ma Chenggong seems like an insignificant ant.

Yes, in this modern metropolis, each of us is nothing but an ant in an ant nest, a worker bee in a beehive. No matter how unfortunate or sad you are, compared with this metropolis, what does it mean?

The audience was shocked by the cold composition, and suddenly they were not so sad anymore. In their hearts, there was only the desolation and confusion brought by the materialistic society.

Just when they were pulling themselves out of the sadness of Ma Chenggong, the tall buildings in the movie began to show tiny cracks like broken porcelain, and then they collapsed piece by piece, turning into countless tiny fragments that began to rise and float away from the top.

Not only the tall buildings, but also the street lights, trees, vehicles and pedestrians are experiencing the same fate.

It seemed that except for Ma Chenggong, who was at the center of the big screen, everything in this city was thrown into a crusher and shredded into pieces.

Even the white clouds in the sky and the azure blue behind them began to break and crack, revealing the shadowy green code behind them.

As the camera gradually zooms out, everything becomes blurry and distorted, as if the clarity of the entire world is also decreasing.

Finally, when the picture was pulled to a far enough distance and borders appeared around it, the audience realized belatedly that everything they saw was actually just a picture displayed on a computer screen.

Hiss! This transition is really amazing!
It instantly pulls people away from the originally sad story, while also continuing the film's usual suspenseful tone.

There were some knowledgeable people at the scene who took a deep breath and were amazed at the director Wang Hao's fantastic ideas.

And the story continues.

As the camera gradually zooms out, the first thing the audience sees is two instruments full of science fiction atmosphere.

The more than two-meter-long white plastic body, the silver-gray metal frame, and the indicator light flashing with a faint blue light make it look like a life-support capsule that only exists in science fiction novels.

The camera began to change angles and approached the two life-support capsules, and then the audience saw that lying in the two life-support capsules was the male protagonist of this movie, Ma Chenggong, and Shi Qiang, who only appeared in the movie posters and had not appeared most of the time before.

At this moment, both of them were lying on the white sheets in the cabin, wearing loose casual clothes, and wearing sci-fi metal helmets on their heads, which were the same as the "subconscious therapy devices" in "Buried" and "The Shallows". Their eyes were closed, and they seemed to be in a deep sleep.

As the camera got closer, the blue lights on the metal helmet and the life-support capsule instantly turned into flashing yellow lights, and a "beeping" sound was heard.

The next second, Shi Qiang's tightly closed eyelids suddenly began to tremble wildly, and his whole body began to shake, as if he was trapped in some nightmare.

When several young men in uniform who were sitting in front of the monitor and observing the situation saw the commotion, they immediately stood up in a hurry and ran to Shi Qiang.

Fortunately, at this moment he finally opened his eyes after shaking his body.

"Captain Shi!" Several young men gathered around him, helped him take off the instruments, and then helped him sit up.

After waking up, Shi Qiang's eyes rolled around, and his originally confused gaze began to shrink and focus on several young people, as if he had regained his sanity.

"Am I back?"

Shi Qiang asked in a hoarse voice, and soon became clear-headed. Through the conversations of those young people, the audience finally understood the plot of the movie they had just watched.

It turned out that all that was just a dream of Ma Chenggong.

A dream created by Shi Qiang using a subconscious therapy device, a medical device for treating mental illness, to bridge the subconscious minds of two people.

In that dream, Shi Qiang, through a series of operations, gave Ma Chenggong a sense of danger of being betrayed and hunted, forcing him to expose the suspects related to him, and at the same time obtained the criminal evidence that he had hidden.

The interrogation work was completed in the dream without leaving the house. For today's audiences, it is indeed a sci-fi and novel idea.

At this moment, on the movie screen, Shi Qiang, who had completely sobered up, ignored the compliments from his young subordinates.

While pulling off the sensor thread attached to his body, he instructed his colleague beside him:

"Hurry up and write down the information you got in the dream, and then enter it into the system, especially the so-called 'painter'. Find out where this person came from and why Ma Chenggong is most afraid of him.

In addition, notify local comrades to rush to Ma Chenggong's office and find the remaining USB drive based on the information revealed in his dream."

The young subordinate standing beside him nodded in response. At this time, Shi Qiang had also regained control of his body. He got out of bed and walked to Ma Chenggong on the other side. Looking at the other person who was still sleeping soundly, he finally sighed and said in a tone of regret:
"Alas, I didn't expect you were such a lovesick person. If I had known this would happen, why did I do it in the first place?
Isn't it good to earn money honestly? Why do you have to break the law?"

As Shi Qiang was sighing, a young policeman came over and reported to him the information he had just collected.

"Captain Shi, we've got news from the Intelligence Department that this so-called 'painter' is the leader of a very famous counterfeit money gang in the world.

No one knows his real name, but we know that he is not only cruel and ruthless, but also highly skilled.

It is said that the US dollars made by this gang look more like real money than real money and are hard currency in the international black market. Interpol has been looking for them but to no avail.

The last time we heard news about them was in June last year, when a warlord fight broke out in the Triangle area, which resulted in 82 deaths and 157 injuries. There has been no news about them since then.

In addition, local comrades are also rushing to Ma Chenggong's office. Do you think we should go there too?"

Shi Qiang nodded when he heard this, pointed at a young man, and the two of them walked out of the room together.

Inside the room, Ma Chenggong, who was lying on the bed, twitched one of his fingers slightly.

At this point the screen went black, accompanied by the sound of two people's footsteps walking away and the appearance of the end credits. The movie "Fatal Call" finally officially ended.

(End of this chapter)

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