Chapter 152 Nice Disposition (1/2)
As this happened too abruptly, no one knew how to react.
Everyone: ”…”
Everyone looked at Bai Muchuan.
It was common knowledge that the filming set would only contain prop guns.
What is this detective trying to do?
In the silence, Xiang Wan suddenly felt numb as she looked at the stern expression on Bai Muchuan's face. She finally understood the reason he was sitting here to watch the filming…
He had already known the content that would be filmed beforehand.
According to the script, the male lead and the antagonist would fire at the same time--
Both male lead and the antagonist would fire at each other.
However, as the female lead was taken hostage and blocked in front of the antagonist, she was shot instead together with the male lead. Hence, the antagonist managed to escape…
As a matter of fact, Xiang Wan did not really like the plot here. She had read the book mainly due to the mystery murder cases and the twists in there. She felt that her idol had not managed the romance portion appropriately. She thought the romantic relationships of the characters were strange and uncomfortable. It was lucky that there were hardly such scenes. Otherwise, she might have dropped the book…
”Boss—” Tang Yuanchu seemed shocked. ”It's authentic!”
”Hm.” Bai Muchuan was as though prepared for such a result.
Tang Yuanchu did not seem to believe that the prop gun turned out to be real. So he sounded unsure about it. He paused for a moment and decided to unload the gun when he got another shock.
”Boss, the bullet is real. It has a projectile.”
The word ”real” stunned everyone.
”How can this be?”
”Where's the props master! Get him now!”
In order to achieve realistic effects, television dramas would try to make their shooting scene seem as real as possible. They would use highly-detailed replica guns made accordingly to mimic the real guns. There were even film crews that use modified real guns, also known as blank-fire guns, to achieve better results. However, the management of such guns were very strict. Every time it was used, it must be registered and later maintained by professionals.
The blank-fire guns could shoot like a real gun. During filming, it could fire and emit white smoke just like the real one.
By right, only blanks would be loaded onto such guns. Sometimes, the film crew would even block the barrel to prevent the blanks from going out of the gun when fired.
After Tang Yuanchu's inspection, Yu Ning's gun contained blanks, while Ye Lin's gun contained… a real bullet.
The Director paced around frantically that he broke out in cold sweat, clamoring why the props master was still not there. The Assistant Director hurriedly rushed over to him and told him something. But before he could finish his sentence, the Director gave him a kick.
”Where is he? Where is the props master that takes care of the guns?”
The Assistant Director couldn't stand straight for a moment due to the kick. He rubbed his leg and shook his head while panting.
”He's missing. Director Chen, I went to look for him but no one there saw him.”
There were quite a lot of people in the props team but only one person took care of guns.
His name was called Jia An, who had been taking care of firearms in the team. He was also a part-time martial arts master.
The film crew of ”The Grey List” put in a lot of effort in order to film the drama to the best of their ability. In order to achieve better and realistic results, the film crew had gone through a tedious process for the application of the license to use blank-fire guns for their shooting scenes. In the end, a real bullet actually appeared—what would happen to the rest of the filming?
The production team, the planning team, the Director and Assistant Director, the actors and actresses, and all of the crew… they were all agitated.
Everyone had put in a lot of effort for the drama. All these couldn't be ruined just because of a bullet, right?
”Captain Bai—” The Executive Producer's eyes were as though beseeching him. ”Is it possible to talk this over?… We'll cooperate with police investigation. You see, we have such a big filming set here, every minute costs money. We can't delay the filming any longer, please don't make this into a big issue…”
Bai Muchuan took a look at the flustered filming crew before he took the real gun and weighed it.
”We'll act according to rules.”
…
The Executive Producer and the Director looked at each other, looking all dejected.
Even Xiang Wan could not help but wonder if the film crew had forgotten to perform a prayer ceremony prior to the commencement of filming? Otherwise, why were they so unlucky?
Ever since they commenced the filming, how many incidents had involved the film crew of ”The Grey List”? It seemed that the film crew did not have it smooth from the start.
Most of the people present on the set looked gloomy and distressed.
Yet Ye Lun was sitting leisurely aside, raising his eyebrows with interest as though he was just a spectator.
Tang Yuanchu walked to him. ”Well, I need to trouble you to come with us to the police station again.” After that, he contemplated for a while and scoffed at him. ”I really wonder why you have to be involved in everything? Why is the other gun fine when yours is not?”
”I'm also very curious about that as well! Why is that so?” Ye Lun grinned, revealing a row of white teeth. ”Detective comrade, maybe you can tell me, which atrocious person wanted to frame me?”
Tang Yuanchu was so peeved that he laughed.
However, he had lost interest to engage in any petty bickering with Ye Lun.
”We'll get to the bottom of it. We'll never let a criminal slip away—”
He had said the later sentence very slowly while staring at Ye Lun's eyes.
Ye Lun looked back at him fearlessly with a smile.
”I'm looking forward to it!”
…
Within minutes, the atmosphere at set changed dramatically.
Xiang Wan noticed that besides Ye Lun, Xie Wanwan and Yu Ning were amongst those who were calmer.
Probably because they were the A-List celebrities, they had to maintain an image. These two were accompanied by their assistants and were waiting to see how things would turn out. Xie Wanwan tooks sips of water from time to time with an emotionless expression. Yu Ning, on the other hand, was talking to his assistant, frowning as he discussed the gun incident with his assistant…