Chapter 19: The Male Lead is an Addict!
That guy struggled to stick his messy head out of the car and yelled with a twisted face: "Hey, MAN, my name is Robert, I promised you I'd star in your movie! Get me bailed out of the police station quickly! I'm begging you, bro! Time is running out, bro!"
The policeman roughly stuffed the guy's head back into the car, and all he heard was the guy yelling: "Hey, buddy, don't touch my head! That's an Oscar-winning head! I'm warning you, if you're rude to me again, I'll get a lawyer!"
The last policeman, with a straight face, said to Zhou Shaoming: "If you want to bail him out, go to the Montreal Police Station. I never thought that someone would actually want to invite this hopeless drug addict as the main actor!"
He turned around, and the police still couldn't believe what had happened, muttering to himself: "This is crazy, too crazy! Why doesn't anyone rush out to ask me to star in a movie with my brilliant and mighty good looks?"
The police car sped away, leaving behind Zhou Shaoming with a belly full of grievances that no one could tell.
"The" director system prompts in the mind.
"The host successfully invited the designated lead actor to join, and got 100 points! Weekly reward points are 10 points, original points were 100 points, and the host currently has a total of 210 points!"
Zhou Shaoming hastily asked in his heart: "What can points be exchanged for? What can I exchange with 210 points now?"
This problem has been troubling him for a long time, but he has always been busy running around and hasn't had the time or opportunity to go into details.
Got it.
"Currently redeemable for a movie with a total box office of $10 million or a song with a popularity of 3% in North America, as well as other items."
Zhou Shaoming thought to himself, a $100 million movie doesn't seem that great either. What if its investment needs $200 million? Wouldn't that be a loss? Maybe it's because the points are too few! So he asked: "If we're going to do it, let's do it big! How many points would it take to exchange for a movie with a box office of 1 billion?"
"Need 2000 points!"
"Damn it! So many!" Zhou Shaoming cursed in his heart and didn't bother to ask again.
The top priority is to quickly film "Electric Saw Horror" and make money, there are many films like that, Zhou Shaoming is not in a hurry at all.
He is careless by nature.
Let's go! The top priority now is to rescue my leading actor from the imperialist police station, and we'll talk about the points later!
Zhou Shaoming took big strides forward.
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There are very few people in the police station, and it's not like in American movies where there are handcuffed blacks being pushed around by police officers everywhere. Maybe because it's late, there aren't many police officers on duty here either.
"Hey, officer, I'm here to bail out a guy named Robert, looks like an addict, just got picked up." Zhou Shaoming rubbed his head and gazed at the beautiful doll-like face of the female police officer sitting behind the counter, with a sly smile.
The doll-faced policewoman looked up and frowned, pointing at Robert who was hanging his head in shame and sleeping on a chair not far away: "Is it him? Are you here to bail him out?"
"Hey, it's that guy! Ah, in front of your Statue of Liberty-like sacred figure, with an Audrey Hepburn-like elegant and noble demeanor, I'm dazzled and infatuated. Where is that guy? How can I not see him!" Zhou Shaoming leaned against the counter, whistling loudly and speaking exaggeratedly.
When I see a beauty, I involuntarily want to tease her, maybe it's the welfare left by that second-generation ancestor Zhou Shaoming for the traverser.
The doll-faced policewoman smiled, her big eyes curving into two crescent moons. No woman doesn't like to be complimented on her beauty, especially American women who love to be praised in person, and female police officers are no exception.
"Is that so? I think you're a smooth-talking playboy, be careful or I'll get my colleagues to arrest you too, on charges of harassing a female police officer!" The doll-faced girl said with a smile.
"No, no, no, I'm not a playboy, I'm a director. Now I've come to bail out the male lead in my film, that poor kid who's been handcuffed." Zhou Shaoming hastily waved his hand, pretending to be very refined.
"Robert is your leading man? That's a joke of the century! Who would actually cast him in a movie? Your box office will definitely lose its pants!" The doll-faced girl laughed with her head thrown back, her eyes shining with curiosity: "You're really a director? You're so young!"
"Haha, I'm indeed a director!" Zhou Shaoming puffed out his chest and said: "And I guarantee it'll be a box office hit! It'll be released this year! How about it, are you interested in making a guest appearance in my movie? You can also play the role of a female cop, and you can just act naturally!"
"Come on! I don't believe you!" The doll-like face looked like she enjoyed chatting with people, smiling and seemingly forgetting her own identity.
Robert, shackled to the chair, was startled awake by the doll-faced man's laughter and said discontentedly: "Hey, buddy, I've been sitting here for a long time! How come you're just coming now? Don't get any ideas, the Oscar winner you're looking for is right here!"
Zhou Shaoming shrugged: "Alright, let's get down to business. I'm here to bail out this bad kid, how much does it cost?"
"He's got a record of heroin use, breaking and entering, speeding, and illegal possession of firearms! This guy's got quite a rap sheet!" The doll-faced woman flipped through the file quickly and professionally, then looked up and said: "His bail is set at $20,000. Go pay it over there!"
The doll-faced girl looked at another office and nodded her mouth, looking surprised at Robert who was lying on the chair in a decadent manner, eastward and westward without a proper shape. She said to Zhou Shaoming in a low voice: "I think you'd better find a leading actor, that guy is useless, he's finished!"
Zhou Shaoming's mouth was agape in terror, his mind filled with $20,000, $20,000, $20,000, oh heaven!!!
Bills of money are dancing in my mind!
"200,000!!!! Oh my god! This is daylight robbery! Where am I supposed to get so much money for bail?! Director system, you come out and face me! Look at the good thing you've gotten me into! I don't even have enough money to make a movie, now I'm being asked to throw away $20,000 on this junkie, this piece of trash who deserves to be swept into the garbage dump!" Zhou Shaoming was fuming in his heart, feeling anxious and uneasy, his face turning extremely ugly.
"Hey, buddy! Don't worry about it, just $20,000! Go pay up quickly! Good people will have good fortune!" Robert, who was sitting in a chair and showing some signs of withdrawal symptoms, with a runny nose and yawning loudly, shouted out when he saw Zhou Shaoming's face turn pale and become stunned.
Like a drowning person clutching at the last straw for survival.
"The system has determined that he is your lead actor, so just agree to his request. It's said to have deep meaning, after all. Otherwise, you will be permanently unable to raise it!" The director's electronic synthesized loli voice sounded, full of playful tone.
"Alright, alright! I'm fed up! Completely surrendered!!! Zhou Shaoming was getting more and more annoyed, his veins bulging out, this crappy system is really infuriating!"
"Alright, I'll go handle the formalities. Robert, is it? You just wait here quietly!" Zhou Shaoming shouted at Robert in a bad temper and turned to leave.
No way, who would rationally choose between $20,000 and a lifetime of celibacy, whether willingly or unwillingly.
Luckily, Christina wired $30,000 into her own account, or else she really didn't know what to do, just to take this drug addict back home and tell her that she spent $20,000 on bail, guessing that the furious Christina would fly over like a Tyrannosaurus Rex and rip off her own ears.
"Come on! Follow me!" Zhou Shaoming said with a bad tone, after finishing the procedures, looking at Robert who was yawning with his handcuffs removed.
"Hey, let's go! I can't wait to get out of this dump! Officer, goodbye!" Robert stood up unsteadily, gave a mocking salute to the doll-faced policewoman, and then turned around and walked out the door without looking back.
He heard Wa Wa's face called Zhou Shao Ming to change the lead actor, it seems that this is also a very careful guy.
