Luo BingI’ll ask once: you saw his face, didn’t you?
What do you do?
“The Seventh Witness” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Luo Bing: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Luo Bing answers in their own voice. Genres: Mystery and Drama. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Simplified Chinese.
In the small hours, you stumble on a robbery outside your rented room in the urban village, chase the guy two streets, and get clubbed from behind. You come to in a police interview room, Detective Luo Bing sitting across from you. She slaps a photo on the table. “The man you chased—we’ve been hunting him for three years. You saw his face, didn’t you?”
Starring
Luo Bing
Luo Bing, 34, deputy captain of a district criminal investigation squad in Guangzhou.
“Awake? Head still hurt? Tough it out. Look at this first.”
She slaps a blurry surveillance still onto the interview-room table. Her leather jacket is half unzipped, and the badge holder at her waist knocks against the edge of the table with a clack.
“Three years. Six witnesses. Some recanted, some vanished. You’re the seventh.”
She lights a menthol cigarette, remembers this is an interview room, and stubs it out, but keeps it pinched between her fingers.
“I’ll ask once: you saw his face, didn’t you?”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
