357 Clandestine Agreemen (1/2)

Luo Mingxin could not stay much longer with the director rushing him, so he hurried to leave after leaving behind a few quick words. The member of staff did not appear that willing, but to give their movie's main lead face, he had no choice but to take the girl who appeared to come from the recycle center to the storeroom.

”Most items that cannot be used anymore have already been tossed away. The things that got left behind are still useable but won't be needed for the rest of the shoot.”

The staff led Ye Shuang to a more deserted corner. After turning several corners and down a quiet corridor, it felt like they had removed themselves from the noisy set and entered a different world, one where the light was unable to hit. It felt like even the temperature there was several degrees lower than normal.

Taking out a key to unlock an inconspicuous door, the member of staff walked into the it first, switched on the light, and grumbled, ”I mean, there are certainly uses to these things like selling them as accessories to the movie or using them as giveaways to the fans… If that fails, at least the staff will be able to take them home as a memento, so normally, we don't allow outsiders to wander in here.”

It was relatively common for the actors to take home props or even set pieces after the shoot wrapped up. They could give them to their fans as presents, put them up for auction, or just collect the exquisitely-crafted props as hobby. For example, in a large fantasy-based movie that was shot several years ago overseas, quite a number of actors swiped the props as mementos, but the one who committed to the biggest action was the director. After the shot wrapped up, he directly hauled the house that was designed for the dwarfs in the movie home and placed it in his yard as a decoration. There were people in the industry still talking about that.

Therefore, the so-called trash actually had their uses, and there was a reason that the member of staff was unwilling to show an outsider like Ye Shuang here.

Ye Shuang strode into the room and looked around. Before doing anything, she sighed. ”There are so many of them here.”

”Of course, we are a big production after all!” the man said proudly. The point that Ye Shuang was trying to make flew over his head.

Ye Shuang ignored the thinly-veiled alertness in his eyes—he probably thought that she was there to steal—and continued to sigh to herself. ”In that case, what time am I supposed to stay here to search?”

How difficult it was to hide a piece of information in the information era?

Before this, people used to jot things down on paper or physical medium; therefore, there was a basis to finding them. No matter what, the searcher would know about its size and so on. But now? It could be a chip, a USB stick, or even a mobile hard disk… For those with better techniques like Anthony, they could upload the information online and encrypt them with password, they wouldn't even leave a trace, and there was nothing that other people could do if they were not as skilled as he was.

Facing the room filled with trash, considering the time that she would have to expend to find something that would not release a signal for her to trace, something that would not release a smell for her to trace, something that might be smaller than her fingernail… the urge to surrender appeared almost instantly.

As cautious as the member of staff was, when he saw Ye Shuang did not go forward to rummage through the items like he expected, he could not help but ask, ”What are you looking for, Miss Ye?”

”Hmm, looking for a blueprint and perhaps some accounts.” Ye Shuang sighed as she rolled up her sleeves, preparing to work.

The staff coughed but quickly recovered. ”There aren't any paper-based props here. After all, normally, such things are only a cover in the set.”

”I'm not looking for props, and I don't think it's going to be paper-based either.” Ye Shuang walked forward to introduce some distance between them. While she spoke, she suddenly bent over, turned, and whipped her leg around. It cut through air before landing abruptly next to the man's face. When the latter recovered from this sudden development, he just realized how close he had been to being taken down earlier.

Cold sweat poured down his face, and the man suddenly had the urge to use the bathroom. ”What… what… what are you doing?”