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Allowing the mutant to change the script is one thing, but after all, we have to take it away from the film and television base intact, and we can't let it harm anyone at the film and television base. The best way is to follow its process.

But now the authorities have not officially announced the news of the revival of magic. As a person registered with the authorities, Su Mu still has to follow suit, at least on the surface.

Ding Bowen was startled by his "new era good young man who doesn't believe in monsters and demons" look. Perhaps infected by his emotions, the fear in Ding Bowen's heart also dissipated a lot. He quickly became energetic and took the initiative to say: "Then I will go with you to do the mission."

"...Are you sure?" Su Mu glanced at him dimly.

"Yes, I'm sure." Ding Bowen's confidence was mostly dissipated by Su Mu's look, and he felt a little weak for some reason: "It's just a mission, it shouldn't be too scary, right?"

"Probably." Su Mu moved his eyes away from Ding Bowen and said with a little guilt.

Outside, it was fine. With Lin Lang protecting him, nothing unexpected would happen. On the contrary, it was the "Zhu Family Old House" where the strongest resentment was found in the entire film and television base. Now the entire base had been enveloped in the mutant's barrier. If nothing unexpected happened, it should also be the place with the most anomalies.

Putting aside the danger, it is very suitable for filming variety shows.

"Lin Lang," Su Mu said, "Why don't you film a magic trick for everyone to make them firm up on materialism and the core socialist values, so that they don't get scared and become stupid later."

Lin Lang, who was having a blast playing the role of a possessed ghost, said: "That's a good idea. Wait for me."

...

As Su Mu lowered his voice again, the wedding procession, which had been interrupted twice, resumed its movement.

The sedan chair swayed slightly as the bearers carried it, and the falling pearls hit Lin Lang's face, making her tearful eyes look even more pitiful.

Lin Lang let out an inaudible sob, raised his right hand, and gently wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes with his sleeve.

The falling sleeves blocked Lin Lang's moving lips. In an instant, an invisible magic circle enveloped the entire film and television base. Whether it was the players, NPCs, even the floating clouds, the flowing wind... everything seemed to have been paused, falling into endless dead silence.

Only Lin Lang and Su Mu were out of control.

"There's no need to use time magic. It's too much trouble." Su Mu said.

"Put on a full show. This mutant is like a rabbit, hiding at the slightest sign of trouble. I don't want it to notice the accident and then spend a lot of effort to pull it out of the corner." Lin Lang said, and the magic circle appeared under him again. Then, all the living people in the film and television base who had not been occupied by the mutants were forcibly instilled and strengthened with faith by Lin Lang's magic, and became materialistic fighters.

Beliefs are linked to mental strength. The stronger the mental strength, the more difficult it is for mutants that mainly attack with mental power to cause harm to such resentments. Only when the means of attack are scarce will the "ghosts" use intimidation to "scare people out of their wits", that is, to break through the psychological defenses of the opponent and break through the mental barriers. The final result is like the NPC that Lin Lang encountered, who was confused and unconscious, and allowed to be controlled by the mutants.

The saying “Ghosts and gods cannot deceive a righteous person” is exactly based on this principle.

If the mutants have means of attack and are simply hunting or harming people, with their thinking ability, they would never go to great lengths to play with their victims and would only choose the simplest and most efficient way.

Since he had nothing to do anyway, Su Mu took advantage of the pause in time at the film and television base to cast some magic, covering every living person caught in the barrier with a layer of water element. The film was as light as air and imperceptible to them.

With the ability of the mutant, it is not easy to break through this layer of defense. At the same time, Su Mu can also use his own perception of water elements to capture the heartbeat and body temperature of the person covered by the water film, and use the two to judge the other party's current state and degree of danger, and provide timely rescue.

After finishing their respective tasks, the two tacitly rearranged their positions according to the ones before time was paused.

With a slight sound like bubbles bursting, the sharp sound of suona floated into my ears again, and the world suddenly became lively.

Whether it was the players on both sides of the street, the NPCs controlled by the mutants or the mutants sitting in the sedan chair, or the directors and other staff who were sitting behind the monitors and controlling the overall situation, no one noticed that time had been briefly paused. It was not until two days later that the editor noticed when editing the program that all the videos shot by the surveillance cameras had strangely disappeared for about a minute. Whenever the time point reached 12:34:22, the real-time time displayed on the top of the screen would suddenly jump to 12:35:47, without any signs or any traces of editing. What was even more strange was that if you didn't pay attention to the time jump, just looking at the shooting content, the camera was as smooth as a single shot, without any pause or editing, and it didn't look like it had disappeared for a minute. It was as if the sudden jump in time was just a problem with the machine, and everything was just their overthinking.

After the editor reported the incident to the director, the director specially invited professionals to check the video content and try to restore the "deleted" video. But no matter how many times they checked, the final result was: there was no sign of editing, and there was no deleted video content.

Since the director called the police and contacted official personnel as soon as the filming was completed, even after discovering such a strange phenomenon, the director did not make it public. Instead, he quietly suppressed the news and did not allow anyone to spread it.

Gradually, this incident became one of the "Top Ten Weird Stories" of the film and television base.

...

The so-called "time magic", as the name suggests, is to make time temporarily stop.

But "time" is a parameter specified by humans to describe the process of material movement, an abstract concept. Time is eternally moving forward, just like the film and television base where Lin Lang had just stopped "time", the only two people who could move, Lin Lang and Su Mu, still had the flow of time.

Therefore, to be precise, "time magic" does not suspend time, just like space magic controls all matter within the range, not the concept of "space".

The so-called "pause time" actually makes the movement of all matter within a certain range tend to "zero", falling into a "pause" state. Time continues to flow inside and outside the magic range, and the speed is equal. But the person who is paused cannot be captured or perceived, so the camera cannot capture all the pictures when time is paused - because its own operation is also "paused".

To the people within the magic range, they are like walking along a straight line from point A at one end to point C at the end at a constant speed. Once you jump out of the magic and observe, these people are like starting from point A and about to reach point B halfway, but suddenly "teleport" to the back of point B and arrive at point C, as if they passed through a "wormhole" abruptly.

Depending on the amount of magic power output, the range of "time" that can be controlled will also be different. After all, Lin Lang does not have a true time attribute. Even in his heyday, he can only control a city. As long as the magic power is enough, he can put them into an endless "pause".

But how could Class 9, which is full of talented people, lack the rare magical attribute of "time"? The geography class representative Qiao Muyu is an expert in time magic.

He has the blood of tree demons and is also a druid (priest) in his tribe. Druids are not a profession that favors fighting, and tree demons are a peace-loving race that rarely attack others. Their inherited magic talents do not have much to do with attacking. Normally, Qiao Muyu's fighting ability is not very outstanding in front of these evildoers in his class.

But with the help of time magic, Qiao Muyu's actual combat ability can rank among the top ten in Class Nine.

In his heyday, Qiao Muyu could even make the entire Parnagi fall into a state of time suspension. If the magic power of all the students in Class 9 were gathered together, it would even be possible to make Parnagi fall into a state of time suspension for a year.

As for "traveling through time", something that transcends the concept of dimension, perhaps only true gods can do it.

...

With the blessing of the double magic, the players who were originally in panic due to the various changes on the shooting site have calmed down. Even if they are afraid, it is just pure cowardice, not really believing that what they see is ghosts.

In order to prevent the players from entering truly dangerous places, Lin Lang and Su Mu had to take care of them everywhere. When casting magic, Lin Lang also gave these players psychological hints, allowing them to voluntarily choose to give up the Zhu family's old house and go to another mission location.

But maybe it was because his desire to follow Su Mu and get on camera was too strong, Ding Bowen actually overcame Lin Lang's mental suggestion. Ding Bowen, who had become a determined materialist fighter, said heroically that he couldn't let Su Mu take the risk alone, and he would go with him.

"Actually, if you follow me, I'll have to take care of you." Su Mu complained silently in his heart, but unfortunately he didn't have a suitable reason to refuse, and there was a camera following him, so he could only nod and agree to Ding Bowen's kindness.

The two hid on the street for a while, waiting for the wedding procession to pass through the street and disappear from their sight. Then, despite the intentional or unintentional stares of the NPC residents watching on the roadside, they bypassed the main gate guarded by servants and sneaked in through the unattended back door.

At the same time, two text messages were sent to their mobile phones.

"In order to prevent Zhu Bieshu from leaving the house and ruining the important wedding, the owner of the house specially hired two hunters to guard the young master of the Zhu family. There are also four servants who are constantly wandering in the house. Once they find an intruder, they will immediately ring the gong to lure the hunters closer. The hunters and servants will not leave the Zhu family's old house, and will freeze the young master of the Zhu family after he is taken away. "

Under the spiritual guidance of Lin Lang, the mutant, who should have relied on the barrier and ability to kill everyone, honestly followed the rules of the game and assigned tasks and hunters to capture players in the game area, just like a mature variety show planner.

Like the actors who play NPCs, the hunters are now controlled by mutants, and their aggressiveness and danger levels are far above the standards set by the program team for hunters.

Once caught by hunters, what awaits players is not just a "pause period", but also an ending where they will be controlled just like the extras and hunters.

The courage that Ding Bowen had finally mustered quickly disappeared as he read the task description.

"The old house is so big, and there are two hunters and four servants?" Ding Bowen had a depressed expression on his face, "Director, are you kidding me?" "How can we complete this mission? This is basically asking us to die!"

Just the few steps they took from the back door into the main building, there was a servant standing by like a piece of wood, motionless.

He held a gong in his left hand and a drumstick in his right hand. His expression was dull and his eyes were empty. He looked exactly like the team responsible for escorting the bride. Looking at him from afar made people feel terrified.

Ding Bowen swallowed quietly, paused his movement to enter the door, and silently took half a step back.

"It's not that there is no way to accomplish it." Su Mu did not focus on the distribution of people in the mansion. He stared at the screen for a while, and soon had an idea in his mind: "Doesn't it say that hunters and servants will not leave the old house? As long as you leave the old house in time, they will not catch you."

Ding Bowen nodded subconsciously, but he didn't quite understand what Su Mu meant: "But the old house has a complicated terrain, it's not easy to run, and there are so many people. How can we get out in time?"

"How about this?"

After Su Mu threw down a sentence, he ignored Ding Bowen's obstruction and walked directly into the old house and walked towards the nearest servant.

"Su Mu? You're taking a risk!" Ding Bowen tried to stop Su Mu from advancing, but when his hand was about to reach into the old house, he pulled it back as if he had been electrocuted - what if reaching into the courtyard would be considered an invasion, and what if he was caught by a hunter hiding in the dark?

Should I follow Su Mu and rush in, or try to survive first?

Dante Bowen soon had no time to think about this question - noticing Su Mu's approach, the originally stiff servant turned stiffly and ran towards Su Mu like a robot that had been started, while striking the gong in his hand hard: "Clang - clang -"

When Su Mu was less than half a meter away from him, the servant suddenly stopped running, stared in the direction of Su Mu, and continued to beat the gong.

Su Mu tried to take a step forward, and the servant quickly took half a step back, keeping a distance of half a meter from Su Mu.

"It seems that the servants will not take the initiative to catch people, but will only use the sound to attract the hunters to come closer?"

As for keeping a distance from him, it was certainly not for the purpose of filming or because of the fear of hurting the player by excessive movements - how could the mutant consider these things?

It was impossible to be afraid of the magical pressure from Su Mu. In order to make the show filming look more natural and more interesting, Su Mu would never use such cheating methods in the game.

"Maybe it noticed that when I ran away with Ding Bowen, the mutant became wary of me. Is it worried that I would snatch the bronze gong from the servants?" Su Mu chuckled in his heart: "This mutant agrees with me on this point."

Unfortunately, no matter how careful one is, it is too simplistic to think that one can defend against all his attacks by relying on the servants' rigid movements.

In a flash, Su Mu's fake move caused the servant's already stiff movements to pause for an extra second. Taking advantage of this brief gap, Su Mu stretched out his right hand like lightning, grabbed the servant's left wrist, and flipped it gently. The mutant didn't even have time to react, and the gong had already fallen into Su Mu's hand.

Su Mu threw the gong behind him without even looking at it, and it landed accurately into the hands of Ding Bowen who was already in a daze.

Seeing that his props were snatched away so easily, the servant did not choose to take the props back from Su Mu. Instead, he twisted his arms hard, preferring to dislocate his arms rather than be caught by Su Mu, and tried his best to escape from Su Mu.

But how could the prey targeted by Su Mu escape so easily? Moreover, he was responsible for protecting the personal safety of all players, including the controlled actors, so how could he allow the mutants to manipulate their bodies to self-harm?

Su Mu used a joint technique to lock the servant's movements, tripped him with his right foot to destroy his body balance, and pinned him to the ground before he tried to escape. He then pulled the drumstick out of the servant's right hand and swaggered back to Ding Bowen.

"Do you...does this count as attacking a staff member?" Ding Bowen hesitated, "Will he be given a yellow card warning?"

"It's okay, today's rules allow it." Su Mu comforted him.

Ding Bowen thought that the rules did not allow such a thing, but since the director team did not call them to tell them that they had violated the rules, Ding Bowen accepted the situation calmly and asked, holding up the gong: "What should we do next?"

Then Su Mu raised the drumstick in his hand and hit the gong hard.

“Bang—”

Su Mu struck the gong so hard that Ding Bowen felt his hand holding the gong go numb.

"What are you doing?" Ding Bowen asked anxiously, "Aren't you attracting everyone here now?"

Sure enough, the other three servants and two hunters who were patrolling in the house quickly ran out and rushed towards Ding Bowen and Su Mu with murderous eyes.

Ding Bowen was so frightened that he stepped back repeatedly and almost fell to the ground.

Just as the hunter was about to rush out of the house, he stopped abruptly, as if he was restrained by some special force and could not take a single step.

——The rules from the mutants are more favorable than the constraints of the director team, not to mention Lin Lang’s instigation behind the scenes.

It can be said that today's game rules are fairer than the rules carefully planned by the director team, which seem fair but are actually manipulated secretly. All hunters strictly follow the rules of the game, without any secret manipulation, and firmly follow the process of "finding prey - capturing prey". They will not suddenly go to another destination without any warning, or be captured by the hunter even though the player has obviously escaped from the hunter according to the rules.

The fear that originally appeared on Ding Bowen's face paused, and soon turned into ecstasy.

“Bang, bang, bang—”

He struck the gong a few more times, and seeing the hunters and servants staring at him with resentment but unable to get out of the house, he couldn't help but laugh, "Hahaha, little brat, you can't catch me now!"

At this time, Ding Bowen also understood what Su Mu meant: "Are you going to use the gong to get these hunters to gather at the door?"

The classic method of pulling monsters is particularly effective for hunters and servants whose way of thinking has become mechanized.

Ding Bowen was excited for a while, but soon realized the key problem: "But how are you going to get in now?"

Should we go back to the main entrance? But the protection of the main entrance of the old house is much stricter than the back door, and no one is allowed to approach.

But Lin Lang's tone was still relaxed and full of confidence: "I have another way. You just stay here and don't run around. If they show signs of leaving, ring the gong to attract them again. But remember to be careful that there may be hunters attracted nearby, so remember to observe your surroundings and avoid them in time."

Ding Bowen nodded.

After making arrangements with Ding Bowen, Su Mu took a few steps back under the other party's worried gaze, and rushed to the courtyard wall with a running start. He tapped the wall lightly with his toes twice, and jumped high as if he had escaped gravity, and easily climbed over the Zhu family's courtyard wall which was nearly three meters high.

Ding Bowen: “…”

Photographer: “…”

Wait, it’s easy for you to go up, but how do I go up?

The photographer was going crazy inside, but was worried that his words would ruin the shoot, so he could only look up at Su Mu anxiously.

"It's okay if you just come in, they won't stop you." Su Mu said to the cameraman.

The mutant had intended to let others know his story, and Lin Lang had reinforced his perception that "the cameraman is a tool to record the footage." Since it was a tool, it was a "dead object" like a surveillance camera, and there was no reason to pay attention to or harm it, so naturally, the servants and hunters would not attack the cameraman.

Therefore, the frightened director did not know that he, who was trapped in the barrier and responsible for coordinating the overall filming, was actually the safest person besides Lin Lang and Su Mu.

Although he didn't know why Su Mu said something that should have been announced by the director, the cameraman didn't need to worry about whether he would be eliminated. He was also marked as a materialistic warrior by Lin Lang. At this moment, the hunter and the servant were just equally miserable workers in his eyes. So he didn't doubt him and tried to enter the old house through the back door.

As expected, the servants and hunters dispersed to both sides, leaving a path for the cameraman. With this movement, Ding Bowen, who was standing outside the mansion, also disappeared from their sight.

Seeing that the six people were about to separate again, Ding Bowen did not dare to hesitate. He picked up the gongs and drums and started beating them.

The shrill sound of gongs and drums made the hunters and servants pause. They turned around again and rushed towards the door, but were stopped again by the invisible rules. They could only stare at the gongs and drums in Ding Bowen's hands and mark their steps.

Ding Bowen: “…”

It's quite fun!

...

On the other side, Su Mu walked half a circle along the top of the courtyard wall and soon found the courtyard where the eldest son of the Zhu family lived.

At this moment, the young master was sitting on a stone chair in the yard, flipping through the letter Mei Fang wrote to him, feeling very sad, until a sudden shout suddenly sounded in the yard, which scared him.

"Jubieshu!"

"Who is it!" Zhu Bieshu suddenly raised his head and looked around in panic.

Then a vigorous voice jumped down from the courtyard wall, and landed steadily in front of Zhu Bieshu in front of his shocked eyes. Without waiting for Zhu Bieshu to ask about his identity, he took out a thin rope from somewhere, tied him up tightly in front of Zhu Bieshu's blank eyes, and carried him on his shoulders.

"I don't have time to explain to you." Su Mu used this extremely difficult position to easily climb back onto the wall with Zhu Bieshu: "I'll take you to intercept the bride!"

Zhubieshu: “???”

The cameraman who had just run into Zhubieshu's courtyard and watched Su Mu and his men climb over the wall and leave: "......"

You should run slower!

The cameraman screamed in his heart in despair.