I Become The Richest Man With A monthly Salary of Twenty Thousand Yuan-Chapter 644 - 457: Even If I Search for Him a Thousand Times, Part 2

Chapter 644: Chapter 457: Even If I Search for Him a Thousand Times, Part 2

"I just don’t want to see this movie be poorly shot."

Xia Liang also smiled faintly. After saying goodbye to Director Wu and the others, he prepared to leave with the extras. All that remained for Director Wu’s team were a few minor scenes involving the male and female leads.

Originally, Director Wu planned to call dozens of cars to send the extras home. However, Xia Liang said he had his own arrangements and refused the director’s kind offer, so Director Wu didn’t insist.

Xia Liang led the corpses away from the film set and walked for several hundred more meters until he was certain they were out of sight. Only then did he approach the massive trucks that Xia Yusheng had prepared in advance.

Several large trucks would certainly not have been enough to transport that many living people. For a few corpses, however, there was more than enough room.

Xia Liang shook the Soul Spelling Bell, and the corpses crawled into the truck trailers one by one, stacking themselves layer upon layer without leaving any gaps.

Xia Liang then took the passenger seat in one of the trucks. He controlled the corpses in the driver’s seats, and the convoy headed toward the Mass Burial Mound. Simultaneously, at the far end of the road Xia Liang was on, nearly a hundred people were lying in ambush on a secluded street. They were the last remaining members of the Tufeng Group.

Although most of them didn’t believe the higher-ups’ story that the Tufeng Group’s chairman had died of a sudden heart attack just from insulting Xia Liang, the fact remained that the chairman’s "accident" occurred right after he looked at a photo of Xia Liang. Therefore, to preserve the last shred of the Tufeng Group’s dignity, they decided to eliminate Xia Liang before fleeing Xiangjiang.

On this very street, Liao Yijie was driving his car toward Director Wu’s film set. He even passed Xia Liang but failed to notice and thus didn’t stop.

「Half an hour later.」

Liao Yijie finally arrived at Director Wu’s filming location. As soon as he got out of his car, he felt something was off; there was no one around dressed as a zombie. Seeing Director Wu standing next to Wu Jiasheng, Liao Yijie walked straight over.

Director Wu recognized him and approached with a happy expression. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

"Director Liao, what brings you to my film set?"

"I’m not here for you. Where is Master Xia?"

"Master Xia? He just left. Director Liao, you know Master Xia as well?"

Although he said this, Director Wu’s eyes showed no hint of surprise. He wouldn’t have been surprised even if the highest official in Xiangjiang came here and claimed to know Xia Liang. After all, given Master Xia’s abilities and status, it would be strange if people of that caliber *didn’t* know him.

But hearing Director Wu’s words, Liao Yijie couldn’t relax. Instead, he grew more tense. "Did Master Xia bring a few extras to play zombies just now?"

"Yes, is there a problem?" Director Wu wondered why Liao Yijie was so interested in this.

After taking a deep breath, Liao Yijie looked Director Wu straight in the eye and said, word by word, "I suspect those people Master Xia brought... were real zombies."

Hearing this, Director Wu was momentarily stunned and instinctively retorted, "Director Liao, you can’t be serious. How is that possible?"

But as soon as he spoke, Director Wu noticed his son’s reaction was odd. He knew that Wu Jiasheng was fascinated by things like zombies. Hearing Liao Yijie suggest that the people Master Xia brought might be real zombies, there was no way his son’s reaction would be so calm.

Thinking of this, Director Wu also sensed something was wrong. Without waiting for Liao Yijie to respond, he turned to Wu Jiasheng, who was still diligently studying beside him. "The people Master Xia brought... they were really zombies? And you knew all along?"

Hearing his father’s question, Wu Jiasheng was about to lie but then remembered what Xia Liang had told him, so he could only nod.

Seeing his son’s gesture, Director Wu felt a surge of unease. Now that I think back to the shoot, those extras were indeed far too strange.

After speaking, Liao Yijie decided not to waste any more time and headed back to his car. He had just had a sudden realization. I probably just saw Xia Liang. Several corpses would be impossible to hide, but I didn’t see anything unusual on the way here. The only possibility is those large trucks that just passed me! They were the most likely place to hide the bodies!

When he saw Liao Yijie moving, Director Wu hurried to intercept him. "Director Liao, what are you doing? Are you planning to go after Master Xia?"

Xia Liang hadn’t been gone for long. Director Wu figured that so many people—no, so many zombies—definitely couldn’t have gotten far. They might still be able to catch up.

Liao Yijie nodded. "That’s right. I’ve been wanting to pay Master Xia a visit but never had the chance. This time, I’d also like to see for myself if he truly possesses the ability to control corpses."

Listening to Liao Yijie, Director Wu sensed something. It seemed Liao Yijie had long suspected Xia Liang possessed such an ability but was never certain.

After a few moments of thought, before Liao Yijie could get in his car, Director Wu bit his lip and said, "Could I come along? I also want to see... were all those extras from earlier really zombies?"

Though the thought of having just filmed with so many zombies filled him with a sudden fear, Director Wu also felt that if he missed this opportunity, he might never again get the chance to come face-to-face with real zombies. I had treated them like regular extras the whole time and barely interacted with them. Besides, what if Director Liao’s guess is wrong? In any case, Director Wu didn’t want to let this chance slip by.

"What about the set here?" Liao Yijie asked.

Director Wu waved his hand dismissively. "The last few minor scenes are all wrapped up; we were about to leave anyway. It’s fine if I go first—my assistant director can handle everything."

"Alright then. Let’s go."

With that, Liao Yijie got into the car, and Director Wu followed him. Just as Director Wu opened the passenger door, he paused and waved to Wu Jiasheng, who was standing a short distance away. "You come with us too."

Director Wu still wasn’t sure if his son’s repentant attitude was genuine, so he was still a bit worried. He could keep an eye on Wu Jiasheng, but the assistant director might not be able to.

"Me?"

Although a hint of confusion flickered in his eyes, Wu Jiasheng didn’t hesitate and quickly climbed into the car. He was also eager to see Xia Liang’s zombie army again.

Once they were both inside, Liao Yijie started the engine and sped away from the film set.

「...」

「A short time later.」

At one end of the highway, on a secluded street, a white-haired foreigner peeked his head out from the balcony of a low-rise residential building. He smacked his lips as he watched the clouds grow heavy and low, then slowly spoke to another foreigner inside the room.

"Luodan, we’ve roamed all over Xiangjiang these past two days, but we still haven’t found that person from Dragon Country you were talking about. Is it possible he’s no longer in Xiangjiang?" Rico asked, using Luodan’s pseudonym as they were abroad.

"Professor Rico, I’m very sorry," Luodan replied. "I should have gotten his phone number back then. Unfortunately, I only know his name."

The two speakers were Luodan, who had briefly interacted with Xia Liang before, and Professor Rico from Eagle Country, whom Luodan had summoned. Professor Rico had hoped to use this man from the Dragon Country that Luodan mentioned to thoroughly study the five thousand years of Dragon Country’s culture. At the same time, he also wanted to see for himself if there truly were things in this world that science couldn’t explain.