From Director Ding's tone, it appears that this is also what Ms. Shengnan, the investor, had in mind, and after contacting Ms. Shengnan, he was notably more confident.
At that moment, nearly all of the film crew members were nearby, yet those two strange women did not show up until Director Ding mentioned taking a taxi to the school. Then, some crew members took the elevator upstairs, and not long after, two women wearing face masks and duckbill hats emerged discreetly from the elevator.
This felt odd, as if it wasn't so much about protecting these two women but rather preventing them from interacting with anyone outside the crew.
Why?
Yang Xiao suspected that there was something problematic about their identities. During the first trip to the school on the school bus, the two women never got off, and this time, they didn't show up in front of people like Principal Wu either, as if they were intentionally avoiding them.