Tokyo: The evil god doesn't want to be the top star

Chapter 500 Prank Email

"That's right. As the investor, if J-Company doesn't explain the truth of the matter clearly, there's no way we can ask you to come and put out the fire."

After a second, Shirakawa Rika seemed to have figured something out and her expression relaxed a little.

"But knowing that something like this happened to the crew, he still dared to come as a 'substitute'. Xia Jun really has no taboos."

Horie Tsubasa added faintly.

Because there are too many uncertainties in the career development of the entertainment industry, most practitioners are rather superstitious. For a horror movie like "the male lead dies at the start of filming", I'm afraid only people with "mercury horoscope" would dare to take it over.

"J Agency promised that as long as I participated in this drama, they would agree to negotiate the 'early termination', so I signed the confidentiality agreement and joined the crew."

"But I want to get a better understanding from you about what happened that day to Chichu-kun, so I won't be so panicked."

Taking out the words he had prepared in advance, Xia Fan carefully observed the expressions of the two women.

"We were resting in a tent nearby when we saw what happened that day, so we didn't see it with our own eyes..."

Horie Tsubasa shook his head in confusion.

"…The photographer said that the blower was turned up too high, causing Chi Chujun to fall and break his hands and feet on the spot. Then he stopped breathing."

Recalling what happened on the day of the accident, Shirakawa Rika's face turned noticeably pale.

The "fragile" Chi Chu was ridiculed by herself half an hour before her "sudden death", which made her toss and turn and unable to sleep well last night.

"It's normal to break a bone after a fall, but it's too strange for someone so young to die suddenly..."

"Did Chichu-kun behave in any strange way beforehand?"

Xia Fan continued to ask.

He was in Section 9 and knew the crime process better than the two girls through the testimonies of the staff and the video.

The purpose of the inquiry at this time was actually to learn more details from the two "acquaintances" and to find out if there were any signs of "unnaturalness".

"Beforehand... Chi Chujun seemed to have some bruises on his arms, and he walked weakly, but there seemed to be nothing else..."

"The crew members are privately saying that Akatsuki had some hidden illness at the time, but it was triggered by the fall...right, Rika?"

Horie Tsubasa recalled and asked Shirakawa Rika for confirmation.

"That guy was late as usual before the shoot, and he was chatting me up in the waiting area. He was in a good mood to send me a prank email the night before. He looked very energetic, and I couldn't tell that he had any 'hidden illness' at all..."

“I always feel that this matter is not that simple.”

Rika Shirakawa obviously scoffed at this statement.

"Wait a minute... You said Chichu sent you a prank email the night before?"

Carefully savoring the conversation between the two girls, Xia Fan suddenly raised his head.

"What email? Can you show it to me?"

His expression became somewhat urgent.

"You, what are you thinking about..."

"It's just one of those 'send to XXX before XXX, otherwise XXX will happen', a scary email..."

Looking at Xia Fan's "nervous" look, Shirakawa Rika seemed to have misunderstood.

"I would like to state in advance that I have no private contact with that guy, and I am not showing it to you to prove anything."

She blushed, opened the email app, and handed the phone to him.

"Is this the one... Thank you for your purchase. Please check the voting link for your idol's birthday festival Xia Fan support ticket?"

Xia Fan read out the contents of the email in confusion.

"You clicked the wrong button. Don't read other people's emails!"

"I just got that cheering coupon when my family happened to be buying some electrical appliances. It just happened to be yours, so I just threw it away..." Shirakawa Rika immediately took back the phone, tremblingly opened an email in the recycle bin, and handed it to Xia Fan without even daring to look at it.

"If you don't forward this email, you will become a corpse within seven days."

"The sender is indeed Chi Chu..."

"Shirakawa, don't use this email and phone for now. Give them to the police for safekeeping."

Looking at the content of the email written in red number one, Xia Fan's face changed and he spoke to Shirakawa Rika in a serious tone.

"Police, why? There are many private messages and photos of people in it!"

"I will ask the police to help you back up your data to a new phone of the same model, so there will be no data loss or leakage. Believe me, there may be important clues about the Chichu case in it."

"Okay... well..."

Shirakawa Rika protested weakly a few words, and found that Xia Fan's attitude was unprecedentedly serious. Although she didn't quite understand the situation, she had no choice but to agree.

"I've never seen Xia Jun look so serious... Could it be that Chi Chu's matter is related to that email?"

Horie Tsubasa, who was drinking coffee on the side, fell into silent thought.

……

Three hours later, in an apartment building in Tokyo.

"Preliminary testing shows that Rika Shirakawa's old phone does not contain any supernatural elements, but it has been sealed for safety reasons. Photos and communication records and other content will be backed up to an identical new phone and returned to her."

"According to the inquiry of Akachu's email account, he not only sent an email to Shirakawa Rika the night before the incident, but also sent the same 'prank email' to the entire film crew."

In the ascending elevator, Yui Aiba stared at Xia Fan's handsome face closely and reported the case with a blush on her face.

The several agents who were traveling with her seemed like air in her eyes.

"Actually, the entire crew was sent an email with the same content?"

Unfortunately, Xia Fan was in a heavy mood at the moment and did not notice the burning gaze of the female agent at all.

"702...Yes, the IP address from which Akachu sent emails is this apartment."

The elevator door opened and she led the way to an apartment at the end of the corridor.

"I'll open the door."

After everyone put on shoe covers and gloves, one of the agents stepped forward and entered the password, and the security door, which looked quite heavy, opened.

"Investigation data shows that this is the apartment that Akachu Company rented for him in Tokyo for a long time. He usually lives here alone."

"After the incident, the police gained control of the room in the name of 'virus testing', and everything inside remained in its original state."

The stench of decay emanated from the open door, causing the people who entered to subconsciously cover their noses.

"It looks like the room of an ordinary single young man..."

Just as Xia Fan was looking around the relatively tidy one-bedroom apartment, Aiba Yui had already carefully picked up a laptop from the desk.

"Wait a moment. It will take some time to extract and detect the operation records and underlying data."

After connecting the computer for Lesson 9 and the laptop together, she quickly typed on the keyboard and began the cracking work.

"Strange... Judging from the IP and physical address, the email was sent from this device..."

"But during this period of time, there is no record of any operation in the underlying system data..."

"Impossible. No matter how skilled a hacker is, he can't completely erase the power consumption records..."

After a while, Aiba Yui's forehead was covered with sweat and she looked puzzled.

Because, according to data records, during the time period when the email was sent, Chi Chu did not turn on the computer to perform any operations, as if this computer sent the email without authorization.

(End of this chapter)