Chapter 29 Harmony Cinema 2
The voice disappeared, and the screening room became quiet and dim.
I don’t know whose phone had the flashlight on, but I don’t know when it was turned off. Only the light from the phone screen was faintly shining on the terrified face.
In the dark screening room, the only faces that could be seen were these few, horrible and stiff.
"Ha, it's not that scary, right? It's said that as long as we finish watching the movie and understand the story, it will be fine." said a girl with twin ponytails illuminated by the light of a mobile phone screen.
"Do you really believe that?" said the burly man.
"It seems, it seems to be real. The voice is in my head. There is no way to explain it." A middle-aged woman in the front said timidly.
"Alas, there is no other way. If this continues, we will all be finished. I have no choice but to step forward." A young man jumped onto the back of a chair easily and stood steadily on the thin back of the chair. "What was said in the video is true. We were dragged into a weird game. I am someone who has entered the game, and I am an old player."
Everyone's eyes were on him.
"But that phone is not mine." He glanced around the theater, "There must be at least one other veteran player here, and he might be quite good."
"Since that person is unwilling to come out, everyone just listen to me for now. You have already seen the horror of the game in the video. Only by cooperating can you have a chance of leaving alive. By the way, my name is Guo Yang."
The girl with the ponytail immediately asked, "How do we leave the game?"
Guo Yang: "You can leave after you complete the game."
The burly man asked, "How do I beat the game?"
Guo Yang: "Hey, stop asking, the movie is about to start, just listen to my instructions first."
"Explain it to us first!" The muscular man stepped forward and tried to pull him down. "If we listen to you, who knows how you will deceive us?"
The man seemed to be in his thirties, with a muscular body. He held the boy's arm with his powerful hands.
The young man turned his head slightly to look at the hand. His eyes could not be seen under the cover of his long eyelashes. He only stretched out a hand that was one shade paler than the man's, grasped the man's wrist, and with a slight turn of his wrist, the man was thrown into the aisle.
The cinema fell silent as the burly man groaned in pain.
The smile on Guo Yang's face disappeared. "I'll say it again. Listen to my arrangements first."
"Ah! There! Look at the screen!"
Another scream interrupted him, attracting everyone's attention. Xia Bai turned around and saw blood gushing out on the screen.
At this moment, no one doubted the authenticity of the game anymore, and the only sound in the theater was heavy breathing.
"It's too late!" Guo Yang shouted, "Everyone, please sit down in your seats. Once you are seated, don't move. Let's start counting and confirm the number of people. In a dark scene like this, it is easiest for non-humans to appear. Confirm the total number of people and recognize the people around you!"
Now no one opposed him anymore, and he became the backbone in the panic.
Starting from the front row, every time a person called out his number, Guo Yang would shine the flashlight on his phone over his face before leaving. This was to show the people around him and to confirm whether he was a human.
A cluster of light from the mobile phone moved in the dark screening room, passing by the silent and empty red seats, and stopped at the fourth row.
There was no one in the first three rows. The people in the front were a middle-aged man and woman sitting in the fourth row. They were the first to go to the door and call for the waiter.
Noticing the light shining on them, the two immediately turned around and looked back.
They looked to be around fifty years old, their faces were all covered with wrinkles, and panic spread along the lines. The woman had a disposable paper cup for drinking water on her legs, which was half filled with popcorn. The man was holding a white plastic bag, which was also filled with popcorn.
“1, 1.”
“2.”
There were three people in the fifth row. A girl with a ponytail sat on the left, and Guo Yang sat a little to the right, but they were both sitting in the middle. The other was the muscular man, who had just gotten up from the ground and was panting as he leaned against the nearest seat.
“3.”
“4.”
“5.”
There were two men in the sixth row. They did not sit in the middle area, but sat together on the far right against the wall. The wall was not sealed to the top, and on the other side was a corridor leading to the door.
They didn't look back, and Xia Bai didn't see their appearance, only that one of them looked a little fat.
“6.”
“7.”
There was only one man in the seventh row, sitting in front of Xia Bai's right. The light fell on him. He lowered his head slightly and played with his fingers without raising his head.
“8.”
Xia Bai was sitting in row 8, seat 7, the last row with people in it. He thought he was the only one in his row. When the people in front of him finished counting, he was about to speak when he heard a small voice, "9."
The light from Guo Yang's cell phone shone in the direction of the sound, and Xia Bai saw that to his left there was a child sitting in the seat with his head lowered.
"Why is there a child?"
Not only Xia Bai, it seemed that no one noticed this child.
The burly man who was thrown out was originally leaning awkwardly on the seat next to him. Apart from counting 5, he didn't know how to make his presence felt. When he saw the child, he finally had something to say. He frowned and shouted, "Who brought the child here? Keep an eye on the child and don't let him hold us back!"
No one paid any attention to him.
Xia Bai glanced to the left with the help of the light from Guo Yang's mobile phone. The child seemed very nervous. He huddled in his seat with his body stiff, clutching the corners of his clothes and lowering his head. His face was very pale and his profile looked a little familiar.
Xia Bai couldn't remember where this familiar look came from.
Children must be accompanied by their parents when watching horror movies. If he came alone, the waiter would not let him in. As man No. 5 said, he must have been brought here by his family.
However, under the questioning of Man No. 5, no one in Cinema No. 5 responded.
Did the parents not come in, or did they just not have any parents? How did he get in if there were no parents?
The light of the mobile phone flashed, and Guo Yang was attracted by the shout of the girl with the ponytail again, "Look! The movie has started!"
The blood that just spilled out of the screen did not fall to the ground, and they realized that it was not blood gushing out, but a real and weird scene in the movie. The blood on the screen spread out, black hair squirmed, and finally formed four words: escape from desert island.
The movie officially began.
Guo Yang turned around and scanned Xia Bai with his phone. Xia Bai cooperated and reported a "10". Guo Yang turned around and said loudly: "You must read it carefully and remember as much information as possible. Don't miss any details!"
They would have watched the movie carefully without him telling them. They all heard the voice asking them to understand the logic of the story in the movie.
This was probably the most serious and exciting movie that several people had ever watched in their lives. Even blinking felt like a waste. Some people even used their mobile phones to record the screen.
The film's subtitles are all made up of black hair, and the beginning is pretty much like any other film.
Producers: Li Dongfeng, Wang Yuhai, Yu Kebao
Director: Huang Weiping
Producer: Liu San
The first scene of the movie is a gloomy deserted island.
An expedition team came to explore this deserted island. Several female college students were wearing ultra-short shorts and deep-V suspenders, while others were wearing swimsuits directly, with long legs and red and white skin filling the screen.
“…”
Including this time, Xia Bai has been to the cinema three times in his life, but that doesn't mean he doesn't like watching movies. He likes watching movies on the library computer, and his favorite genres are zombie movies and horror and supernatural movies.
He remembered that a type of cheesy horror movie was very popular a few years ago. Simply put, it was a combination of horror and light pornography, and the typical plot was that a group of handsome men and beautiful women went to a certain place to commit suicide.
He was impressed by such films and wanted to express his dislike, not just because they were fake.
Once he was caught by the librarian when he was watching a certain clip.
Xia Bai wrote a 5,000-word self-criticism, which was stared at by the whole class for a week as if it were the ninth miracle.
He still hates this kind of movie.
Disgusting, don't want to watch it.
As soon as I saw it, I felt like someone was staring at me.
Xia Bai tilted his head. After the movie started, the theater became much brighter with the light from the screen. He could clearly see that the child on the left was covering his eyes with his hands.
He seemed to have given up on the game.
Quite civilized.
Xia Bai developed a little liking for him.
Just as he was about to turn his head to take a closer look, he touched the family tree in his pocket and blinked.
Child.
Xia Bai resisted the urge to turn around again and forced himself to focus all his energy on the movie.
The movie's images are extremely realistic, the atmosphere is very well created, and the sense of immersion is very strong. It can be said to be a very well-made movie, and you can tell at a glance that a lot of money was spent on it.
However, as Xia Bai expected, it was a very vulgar and illogical routine.
A group of young college students, led by a rich second-generation classmate, excitedly came to this deserted island on a cruise ship. They encountered the indigenous islanders who lived a primitive life and had strange and greedy eyes. Instead of leaving, they stayed here.
They found an abandoned house where the indigenous islanders lived and prepared to move in at night.
During that time, you flirted with me with your eyes, and I reached out to touch you, which made the girl with the ponytail let out an unbearable "tsk" sound.
It's no wonder she reacted like that. Not long into the movie, one could sense the strong masculine undertones in it. She must have felt physically uncomfortable watching it.
So far they haven't seen anything weird in the movie, just very common plots and scenes.
Because of this, several people in the cinema gradually relaxed and were no longer so tense.
At first, they were extremely terrified of the game. They were so scared that they developed a filter for the game and thought that the game was showing them some particularly profound movie.
I didn't expect it to be such a cheesy movie of the online blockbuster level, with the ending you can predict at a glance.
When the rooms were assigned, this kind of plot still played out. Several boys said they wanted to sleep with the school beauty, just as a joke. The aloof school beauty scolded them coldly and went to the rightmost room on the first floor alone.
Late at night, two islanders sneaked into the school beauty's room and dragged her into a cave. Two male classmates saw them, chased after them and saw what they were doing, but they just stood at the entrance of the cave and peeked. Their breathing became increasingly rapid, and they couldn't help but walked in.
The school beauty is dead.
Her body had its eyes open, filled with endless resentment and despair.
The entire screen was filled with her face. Her hair was clumped together from the wet mud in the cave, her face was covered with black mud and other liquids, and a lot of that liquid had seeped into her red and swollen eyes. Her eyes, which occupied a large part of the screen, were looking at them so clearly, and the endless resentment in her eyes was also vented to them.
Her body was also covered in dirt, mud and sewage. Her originally white hands had turned much darker, rough and swollen. They hung on the ground, and her fingers naturally pointed in their direction.
Xia Bai felt a chilly breath.
He originally thought it was because he had seen such a death scene, but he soon realized that it was not the case. The chill did not come from the movie, but from under the seat.
Amidst a strange background music that sounded like both crying and laughing, the picture on the screen was gradually getting darker, symbolizing the departure of the school beauty.
It was pitch black under the seat. Xia Bai had no idea what the increasingly obvious chill came from. He only knew that the thing was getting closer and closer to his ankle.
Xia Bai reached into his pocket while watching the movie.
The chilly breath was getting closer and closer to Xia Bai's ankles, causing goose bumps to appear on his exposed ankles.
In the movie, not surprisingly, those who raped the school beauty that night all died the next day, and each of them died in a tragic way.
The camera focuses on these men one by one.
The bone-chilling cold air was close to Xia Bai's ankles. He stood still and looked down.
A mass of black hair spread outwards like water under the seat. The reason it could be seen clearly in the darkness was that the hair was soaked in the glaring blood, and the blood also spread like water.
He looked back and saw a bloody withered eye in the gap between the seats. The eyeball was wrinkled and dry, but it still revealed cold hatred and madness.
Xia Bai had a dazed look on his face.
He thought seriously about whether it was a ghost, a dead person, or a human.
If it is an invisible ghost, his talisman will be useless.
In order not to waste the corpse-suppressing talisman that cost one hundred thousand yuan, he first reached out and touched it gently.
It is soft and sticky, with a slight corrosiveness. Even if you put it into the eyes and expand it around, it will not touch the skull.
Sure enough, it’s not a human, but it doesn’t seem to be an invisible ghost either.
Xia Bai bent down and fumbled to give it a talisman to suppress corpses.
A cold air filled the air, as if something was screaming silently.
Just as Xia Bai was about to look up, he saw that his left calf, which was originally swinging, had frozen.
He pretended not to notice and got up to continue watching the movie.
In the movie, the camera passed two dead men, and when it came to the third man, the theater suddenly became eerily quiet.
The third man who died was the burly man number 5 who counted to 5 before the movie started and sat with them to watch the movie.
In the movie, his eyes were wide open, and he looked at them from the giant screen very accurately, as if he was asking for help.
The atmosphere in the screening room was terribly depressing, with the light from the screen shining on faces with different expressions.
Some people were still staring at the screen, not daring to look at the seat of the burly man No. 5; some looked over there tremblingly; some turned their heads easily and looked directly over there.
That seat was empty, as if no one had ever sat there.
The person who was sitting next to them and watching the movie with them died in the movie without any of them realizing it.
When? What had he experienced? Why was there no sound at all?
“Screen, blood, blood... So much blood..." the girl with ponytail muttered in horror.
Blood appeared on the big screen again, but this time it was different from the blood that gushed out at the beginning of the movie. The blood seeped through the screen and dripped down.
In the gaps between the movie sound, the sound of "tick-tick, tick-tick, tick-tick..." could be clearly heard in the dim screening room.
The fresh smell of blood spread in the closed small hall, lingering in the nose along with the sweet smell of popcorn, making the breath sweet and fishy.
The blood this time is real, not a special effect.
It came from the muscular man No. 5 in the movie.
The people in the screening room were so shocked by this bizarre scene that they couldn't react.
"Is this the dimensional wall broken, or is the inner world connected to the outer world?" The ponytail girl pretended to be calm. As she moved towards Guo Yang, the Coke she dropped still revealed her panic. "Then, can you pull him out?"
As expected of someone who pays to watch horror movies, it is obvious that he has watched a lot of horror movies, has rich theoretical experience, and has unique ideas.
"You guys continue to watch the movie seriously, I'll go over and take a look." Guo Yang's voice was a little tense.
This was also the first time he encountered such a situation. Someone died quietly in such a short time after entering the game.
He was the person closest to No. 5, but he was completely unaware of anything. His death seemed to be for no reason, and there was no rule of death to follow, or even any sign of death.
This is the most terrifying thing.
He walked around the sturdy seat No. 5, stretched out his feet very carefully to test the front, and walked forward slowly step by step, for fear that he would step on something and be pulled into the movie and killed.
Xia Bai watched his movements and guessed what he was thinking.
Just now, a thing that looked like a ghost or a corpse appeared under his seat. Was it it or its companion that pulled man No. 5 into the movie?
No, it's not.
It appeared slowly. When it appeared, Xia Bai felt a very obvious cold breath, irritating his ankles. The sturdy man No. 5 would not be unable to feel it. If he felt it, he would not be silent and would not die so quietly in the movie, judging from his shouting and yelling.
Even if he couldn't feel it, there was a veteran player named Guo Yang sitting two seats next to him.
If it wasn't it that pulled the muscular man No. 5 into the movie, then how did No. 5 die in the movie?
What exactly are the rules of death?
In the movie, the other members of the expedition team discovered the dead school beauty and classmates and began to investigate what happened.
The movie uses flashbacks here, with dead bodies appearing in the early morning, and then revealing how they died last night.
In the screening room, Guo Yang walked to the screen, stretched out his hand, and then retracted it.
While watching the movie, others paid some attention to Guo Yang.
They can understand his actions very well, reaching out to the curtain or behind the curtain, not knowing what they will encounter. Someone just died in the movie, there may be a ghost hand waiting to pull people away, or it may be the body of the strong man No. 5.
After Guo Yang pulled his hand back, a pure black slender blade appeared in his hand. It was very fast, as if it appeared out of thin air.
The tip of the knife was very thin, and he inserted it into the curtain through a negligible gap and explored it carefully. Two minutes later, he retracted the blade and shook his head.
The movie reaches the crucial moment, the scene when the muscular man dies.
The muscular man No. 5 suddenly died in the movie. The most terrifying thing is that they didn’t know why. Death without any reason is more terrifying than anything else. The previous one was a muscular man, who can guarantee that the next one will not be himself?
If movies and games had basic logic, they should be able to find some rules in the process of the muscular man's death.
Everyone stared at the screen, but unfortunately they were disappointed.
The plot of the movie is very simple, without any suspense. These people were killed by the school beauty who turned into a ghost.
The first person to be killed was the sturdy man.
He climbed out of the cave in a panic, his face full of fear, "Help! Help! Guo Yang, save me, save me! Please save me!"
The whole screen was filled with him, as if he was about to crawl out of the movie, he was asking them for help, he knew they were watching the movie, and could probably even see them sitting right in front of him.
Xia Bai heard from his grandfather that when you encounter danger and ask others for help, you should not simply call for help from everyone around you, but point out the person specifically, what clothes he or she is wearing and what hairstyle he or she has.
The sturdy man No. 5 called out to them and accurately called out Guo Yang's name, but they had no way to do anything. Even if they had a way, it would be useless because he was already dead. This was a replay before death.
The burly man had a very hard time climbing. He was missing two fingers on one of his hands. When he stretched out his other hand to them to call for help, blood flowed down his hand, through the curtain, and dripped in front of their seats.
He's bleeding too much. It started bleeding out of the screen when his death scene first appeared, and it's starting again now.
The blood seeped through the curtain, staining it red.
Xia Bai stared at the red-stained area. The picture was no longer clear. He realized that if two more people were pulled into the movie and killed, most of the screen would be blocked by blood, and they would only be able to understand the logic of the movie story by listening to the sounds.
The burly man only had time to shout before a wet female ghost appeared on his back.
The female ghost was covered in dirty mud and blood. Her originally smooth long hair was tangled into untied clumps by the mud. Her face was no longer recognizable; it was covered in blood and her nose was crooked.
She sniffed at the sturdy man's neck, crawled down his back, and grasped his ankles with her gray-purple ghost hands.
Screaming in terror, the sturdy man was dragged little by little into the deep cave by the ghost school beauty, with only a few fingernails left in the cracks of the stone.
The camera didn't follow them into the cave, but only focused on the dark entrance. The shrill screams, dull dragging sounds, sharp hitting sounds, and even the cutting sounds were clearly heard by them.
I couldn't see it, but my brain's imagination was even more terrifying and richer. Compared with the death of the burly man before, the atmosphere in Cinema No. 5 became more and more depressing, with faint sounds of sobbing.
Not long after entering the game, they felt the horror of the game.
Death without knowing anything is too terrifying. They don’t even know how to prevent it or what to do. They can only stare at the screen with their eyes wide open.
Next, the ghost school beauty began to seek revenge on the others from last night with brutal and cruel means.
The four men deserved what they got. No one would sympathize with them. Besides, this is a movie plot and it is very satisfying to watch.
The more you watch this cheesy movie, the more you can feel its excellent atmosphere and strong sense of immersion. In the beginning, you see the school beauty being murdered, feeling physically disgusted and feeling angry and depressed. Now, seeing the school beauty turning into a ghost and taking cruel revenge is very refreshing.
One, two, three...
Xia Bai briefly shifted his gaze away from the screen, pressed his sunglass, and looked at the people in the screening room.
Almost everyone was staring at the screen intently, absorbed in it, with only one exception: his little neighbor.
At the beginning of the movie, the child on his left covered his eyes with his hands. At some point, he squatted on the ground, with his back to him, and crouched in a small ball with his hands covering his ears.
“…”
He gave up so decisively that he must not even know the basic plot of the movie.
If the sky falls, there will be someone tall to hold it up, right?
After only a few seconds of pause, Xia Bai immediately looked at the screen again. The camera in the movie had switched to the other side.
The people who saw the dead bodies were students from the expedition team, while other indigenous people on the island were preparing meals.
It is revealed here that the islanders have been isolated from the outside world for a long time, have not received any modern civilized education, are full of primitive bestiality in their bones, believe in strange and unknown evil gods, are violent, bloodthirsty, and carnivorous. They not only eat the flesh of other creatures on the island, but also eat humans.
Long stretches of the film consist of them handling food and devouring meat.
The sun was scorching hot on the island. They stretched their shiny black arms and tore the flesh from the bones. Their masseter muscles were strong, and their Adam's apples rolled up and down with a wide amplitude when they swallowed. They ate roughly and heartily.
After the meal they learned that two of them were dead.
They would not kill each other, and the only people who could kill their fellow tribesmen were those outsiders. This group of barbaric and violent people would naturally not let them go.
They took up weapons and went out to seek revenge.
Two more students in the expedition team died.
The camera focuses on the dead person.
"ah!--"
A terrified scream suddenly rang out in the screening room.
Xia Bai immediately looked over when he heard the sound, and saw the middle-aged man No. 2 in the front throwing something out, which looked like a hand.
That’s not the point. The point is that the middle-aged woman next to him is gone.
Xia Bai looked up immediately, and the scene in the movie happened to be the corpse of a middle-aged woman.
She also died in the movie.
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