Chapter 30 Harmony Cinema 3
The middle-aged man cried out in sorrow, "Jia Xiu! Jia Xiu!!!"
Guo Yang, who was sitting in the back row, held him down. "Calm down. Were you holding her hand the whole time? Did you just feel that she was gone?"
The middle-aged man didn't listen to him at all, "Let me go, I want to find Jiaxiu!"
"Calm down!" Guo Yang slapped him directly, "She's already dead. If you don't want to die, think about what's going on!"
The slap was so loud that the middle-aged man's face was shaken.
The intense pain calmed the middle-aged man down a little. He bent over crying, groped on the ground tremblingly, picked up the things he had just thrown away, pressed them to his face and started crying. His crying was not loud, but sobbing, and his voice was intermittent due to choking, sad and desperate.
Xia Bai was not mistaken, it was indeed a severed hand.
The body of the middle-aged woman in the movie was missing a hand, and blood was gushing out from the neatly cut surface. It was connected to the screen from somewhere and dripped down from the bottom of the screen, flowing towards the seat together with the blood of the sturdy man No. 5.
Guo Yang did not stop asking questions because of his grief. They all knew that only the middle-aged man could find clues.
The sturdy man No. 5 came to watch the movie alone. He sat alone at the side. At that time, they didn’t know that people could die in movies, and no one noticed how he disappeared.
The middle-aged man and the middle-aged woman were sitting next to each other. Judging from their hands, it was very likely that they had been holding hands since they saw the burly man die in the movie.
More importantly, they look like a couple and should be very familiar with each other and may be able to discover the hidden rules.
People died too quickly. Less than twenty minutes after Zhuangshuo died in the movie, another person died. They had to figure out the rules of death as soon as possible, otherwise they would probably be wiped out.
Guo Yang: "Uncle, listen to me, there must be triggering rules for death in the game, think carefully about what's going on."
"I don't know." The middle-aged man kept shaking his head. This negative gesture became his subconscious reaction to everything. "I didn't find out..."
Guo Yang continued to ask, "Please tell me in detail, all the details from the time No. 5 died to the time you discovered she was gone."
Seeing that he didn't respond, Guo Yang shook him vigorously, "Hurry up and tell me!"
"He died. I was holding her hand the whole time, watching the movie nervously. There was sweat, I don't know whose it was. Just now, I suddenly felt that Jiaxiu's hand was very cold. I turned around and saw only one hand..."
Guo Yang found it hard to accept and asked without giving up: "There was nothing unusual during the whole process? She didn't say anything, didn't do anything?"
The middle-aged man shook his head again, “You told us to watch the movie, so we just stared at the screen and watched the movie.”
Guo Yang sat back down, unable to accept it.
"Are there any plots and scenes in this movie that are closely related to her?" A slightly hoarse and low voice sounded from the right front of Xia Bai, coming from man No. 8.
Xia Bai's brain seemed to be hit, and it slowly started to work, analyzing the plot of the movie before and after their deaths.
The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, tears still flowing out, and shook his head and said: "No, no, nothing related to her, no."
Guo Yang seemed to react suddenly and asked sternly, "Really? This concerns the lives of all of us. Only if you tell us the truth can we find a way to get through."
"No! No, I said no!" The middle-aged man became extremely angry and slapped Guo Yang's hand away, "Do you want me to make it up?"
His movements were so violent that the popcorn on the armrest of the chair was spilled all over the floor.
Xia Bai had noticed their popcorn before.
In Theater No. 5, only the girl with a ponytail and the middle-aged couple brought popcorn, but their popcorn was different.
The girl with the ponytail bought her popcorn at the cinema, a typical combination of popcorn and Coke.
The middle-aged couple's drink was served in disposable paper cups.
The popcorn was put in a plastic bag in the woman's bag, and after they sat down, it was divided into two paper cups, one for each of them.
After noticing something was wrong, the ponytail girl's popcorn was gone, but their popcorn was still fine until it was swept away by the man's violent movement, and the burnt popcorn flew all over the ground.
Seeing the popcorn rolling at his feet, he hurriedly reached out to pick it up. His legs were already inconvenient to begin with, and he fell on the seat in his haste. He reached out to pick up the popcorn that was scattered everywhere. The few popcorns he picked up were all stained with blood. He looked at them and broke down crying again.
The screen began to replay the woman's death process. Listening to her cries and requests for help, the middle-aged man limped towards the screen, holding on to the back of the chair, and kept muttering the woman's name.
"Jiaxiu, Jiaxiu..."
The area of the screen stained red by blood became larger and larger, blurring the viewers' vision, and the woman's blood flowed down through the screen.
There is a kind of torture that uses fear to destroy a person's inner defenses. It is to blindfold a person and make him listen to the sound of his own blood dripping. For a middle-aged man, the blood that keeps dripping is not his own blood, but it is also a torture that destroys him.
He was wearing a washed-out shirt, crying out the woman's name sadly, and staggering towards her.
Just as he was about to touch the screen, he suddenly groaned in pain and fell to the ground.
After seeing the flying knife on his back, Guo Yang immediately turned his head to look at the two men sitting on the edge of the sixth row behind him, "Who did it? What are you doing!"
Xia Bai noticed that one of the two men glanced in his direction and then said, "You won't get anything out of him if you talk to him so kindly."
"Don't worry, he won't die." His voice was hoarse with a malicious smile, "Aha, it's better to die. A fool like him will be dragged into the movie and killed. If he dies, his blood will stain the curtain red and affect our viewing of the movie. It's better for him to die outside the movie."
He slowly stood up and glanced at everyone present. His eyes were as cold as a snake, as if he wanted to get rid of them in advance to prevent them from dying in the movie and having their blood blur the screen, affecting his ability to watch the movie.
"In fact, the rules of this game are already very clear so far." He laughed and looked at Guo Yang, who had been busy organizing everyone. Even though he couldn't see his face, he could hear the sarcasm in his laughter, as if he was mocking him for standing up to take the lead but achieving nothing.
"The truth is not that complicated. Obviously, you just need to watch the movie and find out the truth. The difficulty of the game lies in the fact that it is difficult to finish watching the movie. On the one hand, people will die in the movie. On the other hand, the blood of the people who died in the movie will dye the screen red, making it difficult for others to see the movie clearly, and they will miss the truth in the movie."
He is also a veteran player.
Xia Bai turned to look at him. The game allowed them to sort out the logic of the story in the movie. Ordinary people would only follow the logic of the movie, but he directly said "the truth". Only old players knew that the essence of an ordinary map is to find the truth.
What's more, he didn't have any awe of Guo Yang as a newbie, and even looked down on him a little.
"You want to figure out why they died in the game and find out the rules of death, which is important, but you forgot that the most important thing is to watch the movie." He pointed at the screen, "Look, if you keep letting idiots die in the movie like this, can we still finish watching it?"
"Obviously, if we want to pass this game, we need to do an internal screening and cleanup first."
Guo Yang stood there in a daze, "Are you from the Shengyou Guild?"
Newbies may not know what the Shengyou Guild is, but Xia Bai has heard about it from Hua Haoming. The Shengyou Guild believes that games are helping humans evolve, and that games should be allowed to spread freely. They will even help games do "human screening" to eliminate inferior human genes.
Xia Bai turned his head and looked at the old player of the Holy Tour Guild. The red light on the screen fell on the corner of his eyes, revealing a hint of madness.
He looked at Guo Yang again, and suddenly felt that Guo Yang was not as calm as before the movie started.
Even I seem to be a little obsessed with it.
"Holy Travel Guild, Gu Quankun." Man No. 6 spread his hands and said without hiding anything.
Guo Yang looked at him motionlessly. His eyes were very beautiful, and his dark pupils trembled slightly, revealing a bit of panic in the darkness.
At first, Gu Quankun had a smile on his thin lips, thinking that Guo Yang was afraid of him and felt a little proud. Soon he realized that Guo Yang was not afraid of him, nor was he looking at him. His eyes were fixed on the side beside him.
His Adam's apple rolled and a drop of cold sweat oozed from his forehead.
There was no need to turn around to look, the movie on the screen had already told him what was going on.
After the savages on the island took their revenge, they dragged the dead back to their homes. They were cannibals, so it goes without saying what would happen to these people.
As if to prove this point, the camera pans back to where they are eating, and on the barbecue is a person with a burst stomach.
It was Gu Quankun’s companion, the slightly plump man number 7.
In Cinema Room No. 5, where three people had died inexplicably, everyone was speechless.
It was as if they could smell the horrible smell of burning meat in the movies, coming from the man tied to the grill like a pig.
In this small screening room with only ten rows of seats, the smell of blood was even stronger, so strong that it was suffocating.
Blood may have been shed at their feet.
“Ah! Ahhhh!” After seeing three people around her die tragically on the screen, the girl with the ponytail finally broke down when she stepped on blood. She ran to the door, slamming it hard, crying, “Let me out! Please, let me out!”
The people in the screening room had no reaction to this, they knew it was useless or they were used to this kind of situation.
They stared at the blood-red screen, which began to replay the death of Gu Quankun's companions.
Several islanders chased him, but he was very strong and drove all the barbarians away. Just when he was relieved, a female ghost emerged from the lake beside him.
It was the ghost school beauty, she reached out and grabbed his ankle.
Man No. 7, Xu Yue, stared at the hand with eyes wide open, not knowing what he was thinking about. He screamed in fear like crazy and kept kicking the ghost hand with his other foot, but it was of no use. He was still dragged to the bottom of the lake by the female ghost.
The ripples on the lake slowly dissipated, and the surface of the lake was covered with blood.
There was more and more blood on the curtain. I didn't know if water had merged into the blood, but the blood was spreading on the curtain much faster than when the first two people died. It seemed that more than 60% of the curtain would soon be invisible.
Most of the scenes in the movie were unclear. They speculated from the scene of man No. 7 on the grill and the sound in the movie that he was fished out of the lake by another wave of islanders who arrived behind and were prepared to be grilled as reserve food.
Guo Yang sat in his seat without looking back, "Look, it's not just the stupid people you said who will contaminate the screen, your companions will do the same. Do you feel the horror? You are totally unaware and defenseless. Do you still think it's unimportant to understand the rules of death?"
Gu Quankun didn't say anything. He just sat in his original position and no one knew what expression he had.
As if he was hurt, Guo Yang stopped organizing everyone and sat there with his arms folded across his chest, looking like he had given up on himself.
Xia Bai had some ideas, but he was not sure yet, so he had to press his solar plexus to make himself more awake, and continue to watch and speculate through the small screen more attentively.
The islanders ate not only Gu Quankun's companions, but also two other students who were killed by them in their revenge.
The picture is not complete. At this point, we should show how they deal with the "ingredients".
Xia Bai's fingers trembled, and he suddenly felt something wet and cool wrapped around his hand.
That thing again?
Xia Bai looked down and saw that it was indeed hair entangled around his fingers, but it was not that thing, but grew out of the cell phone. Is this, Sister Xue Mu?
The hair grew around his hands and arms, slowly climbing up his neck and face. The long black hair was like a piece of black silk, covering his eyes and then his ears.
Before his ears were completely covered, Xia Bai heard a voice from the movie: "How can you eat people! You won't even let their corpses go?"
Then Xia Bai fell into endless darkness and silence. He could see nothing and hear nothing.
In such an environment, he became calmer and more focused, his blood no longer boiled, and his brain became much clearer.
Since the game allows them to sort out the logic of the movie's story, it means that the movie is not completely illogical. At least the player's death is not a random death without logic.
The sturdy man No. 5 was killed by the ghost school beauty. When the ghost school beauty killed him, she was taking revenge on the men who violated her. All the men who violated her died.
——Did he also violate the school beauty?
The middle-aged woman No. 1 was killed by the islanders. They killed her when they were avenging their dead tribesmen.
——Did she also kill islanders?
Gu Quankun's companion, man No. 7, was dragged to the bottom of the lake by the ghost school beauty. To be precise, they only saw blood on the surface of the lake and were not sure whether he was dead or not. Then he was roasted and eaten by the islanders.
——He offended both the school beauty and the islanders at the same time?
How did he manage to offend both sides of the enemy at the same time?
Xia Bai carefully recalled the scenes before and after his death. When he died, he saw the ghost hand reaching out from the bottom of the lake to grab him. Instead of immediately running away in fear, he opened his eyes wide and then kicked the ghost hand frantically.
If he was scared, it would make sense that he wanted to kick the ghost hand away when he saw it.
Is there any other possibility for his shock and madness?
Besides being a ghost hand, what else could that hand be that shocked and frightened him?
Xia Bai called up the movie scene from his mind, and used his consciousness like a magnifying glass to search for details on it. He discovered one detail: the ghost hand was missing two fingers.
In fact, it has been less for a long time.
When the muscular man No. 5 crawled out of the cave, he was missing several fingers, probably broken by the ghost school beauty. The ghost school beauty was taking revenge, and no one knew who broke her fingers that night.
Why did man No. 7 go crazy when he saw her hand with two fingers missing?
The movie scene moves forward. Before his death, the islanders went to avenge their tribe. At that time, he did not die like Woman No. 1, so this incident may have nothing to do with him.
The film continues to move forward, showing the islanders eating. Here the film uses their hunting and cooking to reveal their brutality, violence, bloodthirstiness and carnivory.
The picture ends here.
Xia Bai seemed to have grasped some of the rules of death.
In fact, the rules are not difficult to discover. As long as they watch the movie carefully and make careful inferences, they can guess a little bit, and then confirm with each other to have a general idea.
But they had never thought of it before.
Why didn’t they realize the not-so-difficult rules of death before?
Guo Yang is more irritable than before the movie started.
Excited and crazy Gu Quankun.
The girl with ponytail broke down and screamed.
Man No. 2 was lying on the ground crying.
This movie seems to have something like mental pollution, because the visuals and atmosphere are very good, and the sense of immersion is very strong. The longer you watch it and the more focused you are, the mind will be polluted, becoming unstable, making it difficult to think calmly and grasp the rules.
Xia Bai suddenly remembered that there were two more people.
A man named No. 8 sitting in the row in front of him kept his head down and said nothing the whole time. He only asked the man named No. 2 a question. Even when asking the question, he seemed to be playing with his fingers with his head down.
One was his little neighbor, who covered his eyes at the beginning of the movie, and then squatted on the ground and covered his ears.
When he thought of this, his heart moved and he suddenly felt the familiar cold breath again.
Xia Bai reached out and patted the hair from his eyes, just like when he patted his sister's shoulder to comfort her in the cave. The black hair on his head retreated like water and all returned to the phone.
Xia Bai reached into his pocket again and touched his corpse-suppressing talisman. The cold breath seemed to suddenly stop moving forward, and the biting coldness did not get any worse.
Xia Bai looked down and saw a bony, gray hand slowly extending from under his seat and reaching towards the back of his little neighbor.
Even though the movie screen was obscured by blood, the light coming through the gaps made the screening room much brighter than before the movie started, and Xia Bai could see the hand more clearly.
The arm behind the hand was as slender as a snake, so long that Xia Bai couldn't find its source. A thin layer of wrinkled skin wrapped around the bony hand bones, which were dotted with spots and signs of decay had already appeared.
The most important thing is that this hand is missing two fingers.
Xia Bai knew where its source was.
When approaching the little neighbor, the skin on his hand began to bleed like a curtain, and the hand soon became bloody. At the same time, the nails grew longer and longer, gradually becoming bloody and sharp.
The little neighbor was still squatting on the ground, covering his ears, motionless, just like before.
Xia Bai stared at his little neighbor intently.
The scarlet ghost hand gradually left the ground and was about to approach the little neighbor who was covering his ears. The little neighbor seemed to be unaware of anything, but a slight tremor could be seen on his thin back.
The ghost hand might have pierced his back, but he still squatted into a small ball, covering his ears tightly and not moving.
The ghost hand paused for a second, then spread its fingers and rushed towards him quickly, bringing with it a cool breeze that bent the soft hair on the back of the child's neck, but stopped when it touched the child's neck.
A cold breath puffed on the child's neck. The child squatted stiffly for two seconds, turned his head blankly, and a talisman paper with yellow blood words slid across his eyes.
According to Xia Bai's normal understanding of corpse-suppressing talismans, they must be pasted on the head of a dead person to be effective. He had just pasted one on a person's head, but it failed to completely suppress the creature, allowing it to escape. This time it was a ghost hand, and Xia Bai knew that the effect would be even worse.
With one hand he put the talisman to suppress the corpse to hold back the ghost's hand, and with the other hand he quickly grabbed the back of the child's collar and pulled him over.
Lin Xiang said that Xia Bai was very strong, which was inconsistent with his body size. He could pull the child into his arms with one hand, but he was pulled forward by the ghost hand and staggered.
Wanting to behave well in front of the child, he held the child tightly with one hand and bumped into the back of the chair without hurting him at all.
The child in his arms looked up at him blankly, his face reflected in his clear eyes, he saw it clearly for the first time.
The child did not have a rich vocabulary and did not know how to describe him. He just thought he looked very much like the Seventh Ancestor Goddess.
The moment he turned sideways, Xia Bai also looked at the child, and when he saw him, he almost threw the child out of his arms.
When he first saw the child's profile, he felt that the child looked a little familiar. Now facing his full face, Xia Bai finally understood where this sense of familiarity came from.
He had seen the kid three times before.
The first time was in the video of Qili Village Primary School that Hua Haoming showed them at Heping Medical College.
Among the primary school students at Qili Village Primary School who were being pulled by their hair and made to do jumping exercises late at night by ghost hands, one was slightly more conspicuous because he was particularly small.
This is what he has in his arms.
Xia Bai was stunned.
He bumped into the chair and made a sound that instinctively attracted the attention of people in the screening room, but it seemed that no one was looking in his direction. They were all distracted by other things.
Xia Bai looked up and saw that another person had died in the movie. Judging from his clothes, it was the man number 8 in front of him.
Seeing his face with his eyes open, Xia Bai was stunned again.
Isn't this the guy who sewed up corpses and brought them back to life at the College of Osteopathic Medicine?
Gu Quankun was even more shocked than him. He stood up suddenly and shouted in disbelief: "Ling Changye? Ling Changye is dead?!"
Quanguang Orthopedic Hospital.
Hua Haoming got out of the car and saw Yang Mei sitting at the hospital entrance looking forward, as if she was waiting for someone, but Hua Haoming was very self-aware and knew that she was not waiting for him.
He asked, “Who are you waiting for?”
Yang Mei glanced at him and continued to stare at the road ahead, "Waiting for a classmate named Xia Bai."
Hua Haoming: “?”
How does he know Xia Bai?
And what did Xia Bai do to make him interested?
After Hua Haoming asked the question, Yang Mei said without hiding anything: "He is so cute. You will never guess how cute and unique he is."
Hua Haoming: “…”
Is it cute to hug a dead body and kiss it?
Yang Mei said: "That night, the captain and I came out of the orthopedic hospital. His other classmates were cleaning up the bodies. He was the only one who collected and hid the captain's broken arms and limbs like a little hamster. He took the needle and thread and sewed the captain up like a good wife and mother."
"Oh, he had just finished sewing when the captain was taken away."
Hua Haoming: “…”
I don’t know what to say, I just think it makes sense and is very sad.
Hua Haoming asked: "Where is the captain?"
Yang Mei: "The captain was a little interested in him but not much. When he woke up, he asked, where is that dirty bun? Unfortunately, we didn't know his name at that time."
“……”What the hell is a dirty bun?
Hua Haoming pressed his forehead and said, "I'm not asking if your captain is interested in him. I'm asking where the captain is."
Yang Mei: "This week it was the captain's turn to take the kids for a walk, but I don't know where he went."
The author has something to say:
Hua Haoming: Where is the captain?
Xia Bai: Well, he seemed to have died in the movie.
The entire assault team applauded enthusiastically.
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