Chapter 32 Harmony Cinema 5
Xia Bai: "Don't you feel that your emotions fluctuate greatly after the movie started?"
Guo Yang and Gu Quankun were both stunned for a moment, it seemed to be true.
For some reason, the girl with the ponytail gave up asking for help. She leaned against the back of the corridor and gave him a positive answer while panting, "Yes, I seem to be a little bit explosive. I have seen a lot of horror movies, many of which are restricted, and I have also seen murder scenes. I shouldn't have collapsed like that just now."
Xia Bai: "The movie may have spiritual pollution."
Except for the middle-aged man No. 2 who was still lying on the ground, the three of them were stunned for a moment and then suddenly realized what was going on, and then broke out in a cold sweat.
From the very beginning, they felt that the film's images were realistic, the atmosphere was well-created, and it was very immersive.
Now it seems that either there is a sense of immersion, or the movie has a kind of spiritual pollution magic that makes people sink into it.
The sinister intentions of the game are simply terrifying. At the beginning, they are told that in order to pass the game, they must understand the logic of the movie story. This is almost like telling them to watch the movie attentively and not miss a second. However, this movie is mentally polluting. The more seriously and devotedly you watch it, the more likely you are to have problems.
It is really unavoidable.
What would happen if they continued to watch so intently?
But if they don't watch it, they won't be able to complete the task.
Guo Yang still didn't understand. "Even if there is mental pollution, we all have symptoms of being polluted, but why are they the only ones who died in the movie while we are still alive and well?"
Xia Bai: "The spiritual pollution of movies is related to the desires deep in people's hearts, or the starting point is the weakest point in people's hearts."
"It's just that the plot related to us hasn't appeared yet. This cheesy movie is actually made up of the life experiences of several of us. At least there are targeted plots."
If Xia Bai guessed correctly, the scene in the movie when Sister Xue Mu's hair covered his eyes and ears was directed at him. He still remembered the line in the movie, "You didn't even let their bodies go?"
Cursing people with the help of their hobbies is Sister Xue Mu's specialty. Hobbies sometimes come from desires, and she should be able to see a little bit of it. Perhaps she noticed the pollution of desires directed at him, so she came out to help him block it at that time.
The Peace Medical College relies on expanding and distorting people's habits and cursing people to commit suicide.
Harmonious Cinema relies on pollution to deepen desires, immerse people in the plot of the movie, and pull people into the movie to kill them.
Xia Bai thought that the games were far beyond human technological civilization, and might use showy techniques to kill humans. However, the two games he entered both focused on the subtle aspects of the human heart. They seemed to be very interested in these things of humans, or they liked them very much.
Likes to peel off the things that people wrap in privacy and use them as bait for death.
After Xia Bai finished speaking, everyone in the screening room fell into deep thought.
They began to recall the story before and after the deaths of the three people, and seemed to see into a person's heart in the cliché plot.
The girl with ponytail couldn't help but look at man No. 2 who was still lying on the ground. He must have heard Xia Bai's analysis as well. He was curled up and trembling at this moment, and it must not be entirely because of the pain, at least not all the pain in his body.
The sadness and despair of a lame middle-aged man are vividly displayed by his curled-up trembling and tears.
"It's really ironic." Guo Yang said, "The cheesy movies we look down on are actually our whole lives. And they're damn real."
"Is this the truth of the movie, the so-called logic of the movie story?" he asked.
Gu Quankun: "If that's the case, we have to finish watching the movie, that is, to finish watching the plot related to each person? But now, we can't finish watching it at all."
Several people looked up at the screen, which should be replaying the process of Ling Changye's death. In fact, they all wanted to see in which scene Ling Changye died and what was the desire that he could not let go of, but they could not see it now.
After he died, like the previous people, his blood flowed out and dyed the screen red. Now they couldn't see any pictures, and even the sound in the movie was not as loud and clear as at the beginning.
Guo Yang asked: "What should we do now?"
Perhaps because the movie screen was covered by blood and there was less pollution, the girl with the ponytail was much calmer. She walked over from the corridor and suggested, "Can you twist the curtain to get the blood out?"
She always has some interesting ideas.
Gu Quankun smiled and said, "Why don't you try it?"
The girl with ponytail shrank back and stopped talking.
"What should we do? If we can't finish watching the movie, we will definitely not be able to complete the mission. Is this a dead end?" Guo Yang felt sad and desperate when he thought about how one of his idols died in the game. Could they really be in a dead end?
Gu Quankun said: "Go to other screening rooms."
Several people immediately understood what he meant. When the game started, there were people in two screening rooms. If they were also drawn into the game, "Cast Away" should also be playing on the screen. There might be targeted differences in the plot details, but the overall story framework of the movie might remain unchanged, and they could see the later parts.
"Just in case, we have to leave someone here to record the video." The movie footage was blurry, but at least they could hear what was being said. If the other two screening rooms also failed, they still had this one to analyze.
"There may be ghost hands in this screening room, and there are also ghost hands outside. We have to balance our strength." Guo Yang said. At this point, he asked in confusion: "Why do ghost hands still exist? What is the meaning of their existence?"
Gu Quankun seemed a little impatient. "Of course it is to increase the difficulty of watching the movie. Haven't you figured it out yet? The first is to kill people in the movie, the second is to stain the screen with the blood of the people who died in the movie, and the third is the ghost hand that appears in the screening room. There are three ways to prevent us from finishing the movie, so it is very important to finish the movie."
"Sometimes you use your brain and think in reverse. The more the game prevents us from accomplishing something or getting closer to something, the more it shows what is the most critical thing, which may be the way for us to pass the game. Now everything has been proven that the most important thing is to finish watching the movie. As long as we finish watching the movie, we can pass the game."
"Alright, alright, you don't have to lecture me. You're not my father, nor the player I admire, nor my idol." Guo Yang was getting impatient with him, "Let's divide into groups."
“…”
The middle-aged man No. 2 can be ignored for the time being. In the end, Gu Quankun and the girl with ponytail stayed in Screening Room No. 5 to record the video, while Xia Bai and Guo Yang went to other screening rooms. When they left, a child followed them.
The door still won’t open, but it doesn’t matter, just kick it a few more times.
The cinema was filled with the aroma of buttered popcorn and the smell of blood. Generally, the popcorn aroma in the merchandise department of a cinema is very strong, and the sweet aroma of butter and caramel floats throughout the cinema, tempting people's appetite. But at this time, the smell of blood filled the cinema, overwhelming the hot sweetness.
The corridor was dark and they couldn't see clearly, but just by smelling the blood, they guessed that people from other screening rooms must have been drawn into the game.
The two of them couldn't help but move a little closer, and the child also timidly approached Xia Bai, trying to pull his pants, but then shivered and withdrew his hand.
Xia Bai looked at the two people approaching him, reached out to hold the stiff child, and then approached Guo Yang and whispered to him: "I think what he said is wrong. The appearance of the ghost hand should not only increase the difficulty of watching the movie."
Guo Yang felt very comfortable with these words. Gu Quankun was so superior that he kept mocking him, as if everything he said was the truth. Hearing someone deny him made Guo Yang feel much better. He finally understood why scolding someone together could bring people closer.
Guo Yang looked at Xia Bai, "Do you really think so? Then why do you think the ghost hand appeared?"
Xia Bai mentioned a possibility and Guo Yang nodded repeatedly. He believed Xia Bai but not Gu Quankun.
Seeing this, Xia Bai leaned over and asked, "Guo Yang, what do you think of me?"
"What?"
They were very close to each other, and the corridor was dim. He could also see Xia Bai's delicate white skin and eyes that were easily imprinted in his heart. He had a pair of almond-shaped eyes, which were a clear brown color and not very dark even in the dim light.
Brown eyes are not as bright as pitch-black eyes, and sometimes look like they are wandering in space, but they are really beautiful, and even have a sense of aesthetic and ethereal feeling, especially with his eye shape, which is pure and healing in this scary and dark game, like the safe haven that people are desperately looking for.
At this moment, these eyes were staring at him intently.
Guo Yang's heart suddenly skipped a beat. What did he mean by asking this?
It turns out that his coming out as a leader just now was not a joke, or did anyone see his glowing figure?
Guo Yang looked at Xia Bai who was right in front of him again, feeling a little dizzy. He took a step back and said with a hot face: "You, you are very good, but I still don't know your name, right..."
Xia Bai hurriedly said: "My name is Xia Bai. Am I quite reliable?"
Guo Yang nodded. Why are you speaking so hastily?
Xia Bai: "Well... this is my first time, I'm not kidding, please consider it seriously."
Guo Yang's heart was pounding. Why was he saying all this? This was the first time he had experienced something like this.
Xia Bai asked very seriously: "Can you give me your body?"
Guo Yang: “……?”
"What?" Guo Yang was in a trance, thinking that the mental pollution was still there and he had heard it wrong, and heard very scary words.
He could still understand it if "corpse" was replaced with "body".
Xia Bai: "After you die, can you give me your body?"
Guo Yang: “???”
What kind of perversion is this?
Fuck the aesthetic haven!
Guo Yang remained silent for a long time with a distorted expression. Xia Bai tugged at Guo Yang's sleeve, and Guo Yang said coldly, "No!"
Xia Bai: "Oh."
The two walked forward silently.
The walls were covered in bloodstains, all in the shape of splatters. After a few steps, I saw a corpse, and the sound of my footsteps was absorbed by the blood-soaked red carpet. The sound of the movie "Cast Away" was very loud, and the screams could be heard in the corridor, but the long corridor seemed particularly silent, and no sound from the living could be heard.
They stopped in front of the door of Screening Room 3.
Anyone who has experienced a game will pay attention to the surrounding environment no matter where they go, because no one knows whether the game will suddenly appear in this place. They both know that in addition to the No. 5 screening room, there are also No. 3 and No. 7 screening rooms showing movies.
Guo Yang slammed the door so loudly that even people in Cinema Room 5 probably heard the sound.
Xia Bai was stunned.
If you can't, then you can't. Why are you so angry?
There was no response from inside for two minutes. Guo Yang held his black knife and kicked the door open. The sound was still very loud.
A strong smell of blood filled the air.
There was a corpse behind the door with one hand reaching out to the door. It could be seen that he was crawling towards the door. There was a bloody hole on his back, as if he had been pierced by something.
If nothing unexpected happens, it should be the same ghost hand as the one in their screening room.
Blood dripped out from the screen, much faster than in their projection room. The entire screen was soaked with blood, and even the sound of the movie seemed to be absorbed or blocked by the blood, becoming much smaller, with a buzzing noise and not very clear.
There was not a single living person in the entire screening room.
When the game arrived at the cinema, a campus romance movie was playing in Screening Room No. 3. There might not be as many people watching campus romance movies late at night as there were watching horror movies, but it was still a bit heavy that no one was left alive.
Guo Yang consoled himself, "There are very few veteran gamers who watch romance movies nowadays. It's hard for ordinary people to resist the ghost hand."
"Yeah." Xia Bai nodded. He pointed at the man who died at the door and said, "He died in the game. Does that mean he won't be able to go home even if we clear the game?"
Guo Yang calmed down a bit, "Yes, many people who died in the game stayed in the game, especially those who died in ordinary small maps. The vast majority of them will stay in the game and disappear with the disappearance of the game."
Xia Bai immediately said: "If you give me your body, even if you are dead, I can take you home. Maybe, have you heard of corpse chasers?"
Guo Yang: “…………”
Xia Bai did not give up and asked again: "I promise to take you out, can you give me your body?"
Guo Yang: “No!”
Xia Bai looked even more stunned.
This skill is too difficult to use.
He looked at the child he was holding by the hand and asked, "Can I have your body?"
The child looked up at him intently, and just as he opened his mouth to speak, Guo Yang covered his mouth, "Don't agree to him, Erwa!"
"Have you seen the King of Golden Horn and the King of Silver Horn? Don't forget the one who said, 'If I call you, will you dare to answer?' If you answer him, you might turn into a corpse. You are still young, and you don't understand. But there is such a sinister soul skill."
Xia Bai's eyes lost their luster.
This skill is too difficult to use.
Guo Yang guarded against Xia Bai like he was a thief, and carried Erwa to Cinema No. 7.
Just like he did in Theater 3, he knocked on the door. "Is anyone inside?"
This time they finally heard a response. When Guo Yang stopped knocking on the door and was about to kick it, they heard a faint response, "Yes, yes..."
When the door was kicked open, they saw a man squatting in the last row standing up. He almost cried with joy when he saw them, "That's great, there are still players outside."
Besides him, there was a waitress wearing the cinema's uniform black attire.
The condition of the screen in Theater No. 7 is not better than theirs, so it would be safer to go back to their theater in this case.
They returned to Cinema No. 5 while exchanging information about the situation in each other's screening rooms.
"Bad news, the screens in the other two theaters can't show the movies clearly, and in one of them, even the sound can't be heard clearly. Good news, there are still two people alive, and they have made new discoveries." Guo Yang said to the three people who remained in Screening Room No. 5.
"What did you find?" the girl with ponytail asked while recording the video.
The man who came back with them had been into the game once and, according to him, had some experience but not much.
The woman was a staff member of the cinema. When the game came, she was in the No. 7 screening room and was also drawn into the game. She must have experienced a thrilling 100 minutes. Her hair was coagulated with blood. She hung her head and didn't talk much.
The man said, "Not counting this staff member, there were seven people in our screening room. Two died at the hands of the ghosts, and four died in the movie. Now we can't see or hear the movie clearly."
To understand the story of the movie, the most basic thing is to watch the whole movie. How can you not see it clearly? The two of them anxiously surrounded the curtain and tested it cautiously.
The man said, "We found that if we shake the curtain, the blood inside will also shake."
The girl with the ponytail exclaimed in shock: "So if you twist it, can you really squeeze out the blood?!"
It is not certain whether it can be twisted out, but it should be possible to get the blood out. After all, when people die in the movie, blood can drip from the curtain. This should also be a hint given to them by the game.
At first, they didn't twist or squeeze. Guo Yang carefully placed his hands on the curtain and only applied slight force downwards, without any blood dripping out.
“I couldn’t feel the blood flowing,” he said.
Then he increased the force, pressing down evenly, but no blood dripped out.
This method doesn't work.
The man in the No. 7 screening room took out a cigarette from his pocket with trembling hands. He didn't smoke it, but kept rubbing it vigorously. "What should I do?"
They hadn't seen any movie footage for at least ten minutes, and he wasn't the only one getting anxious.
Guo Yang took out his black knife and said, "How about we just go for it and cut a hole in the curtain?"
The girl with the ponytail: "Isn't this too risky? What if we cut it and the movie won't be shown?"
Guo Yang: "There is also Screening Room No. 7."
Gu Quankun: "Cut it."
The main material of the curtain is polyethylene film, which can be easily cut. Easy in the physical sense. Not only Guo Yang was nervous, but the others who took two steps back were also staring at the curtain nervously.
A small cut slowly opened up under the tip of the knife. Before one could see clearly inside the cut, it was stained red with blood, as if a wound had been cut on a person's body and blood was gushing out of it.
"It's coming out!" the girl with the ponytail said excitedly, "The blood is starting to decrease!"
Seeing the blood begin to flow out smoothly and soon form a pool, Guo Yang breathed a sigh of relief.
He took back the knife and wiped the blood off it.
The sudden change happened at that second. The small crack on the curtain suddenly collapsed, and a hideous and terrifying ghost hand stretched out from the curtain towards Guo Yang.
When Guo Yang saw their horrified eyes, he felt a chill coming from behind that almost froze him to death.
When facing danger, people will subconsciously take a step back. Everyone else screamed or took a step back with a frown on their face, but Xia Bai did not give up and once again seized the opportunity to win favor and flew towards Guo Yang.
At that moment, time seemed to slow down a hundred times.
Guo Yang looked at Xia Bai who threw him to the ground without hesitation, and his pupils trembled slightly. After pushing him away, Xia Bai became the person closest to the ghost hand, but another person pushed Xia Bai away and hugged the ghost hand.
It’s middle-aged man No. 2, Ma Tongfeng.
He had been lying on the ground very close to the screen. No one noticed such a wounded person, and no one expected him to suddenly burst out and rush over at this moment.
The ghost hand paused for a moment and was about to grab Ma Tongfeng into the movie.
Xia Bai turned over and grabbed Ma Tongfeng's legs. Guo Yang then hugged Xia Bai's legs tightly and shouted to the people behind him: "Help!"
The girl with the ponytail rushed over to him in panic and pressed his legs hard. Gu Quankun jumped onto the stairs and grabbed the girl's legs and pulled her back.
When the two people from Screening Room 7 were about to go over, half of Ma Tongfeng's body had been pulled into the screen, and the blood in the screen flowed down his body to the other people.
Gu Quankun shouted, "It's too strong! I can't hold it! Let go! Three! Two! One!"
At the critical moment, everyone else subconsciously followed Gu Quankun's countdown and let go.
Only Xia Bai did not let go and was still holding Ma Tongfeng's legs. As soon as the others let go, he was instantly pulled forward a big step, his head buried in the curtain, revealing his slender white ankles with bulging veins.
There was a child hugging tightly.
Xia Bai and the child were pulled into the curtain.
"Fuck! Fuck fuck fuck fuck!" A string of swear words came out of Guo Yang's mouth. He stomped his feet, and at the last second, he grabbed the child's feet and was pulled into the curtain.
The small crack on the curtain, which was originally less than half the length of a finger, has now been torn into a thick gap, not only blood is flowing out, but also some body fragments are found.
The number of people in the screening room was also reduced by half, and only the sound of breathing could be heard.
“What, what should I do?” The girl with the ponytail hadn’t reacted yet. She stared at the screen with wide eyes and said tremblingly.
"It doesn't matter. Anyway, we can't be dragged into the movie. Have you forgotten what happened to those people who were dragged into the movie?" Gu Quankun smiled coldly and mockingly, with a hint of excitement in his eyes.
They all died in the movie, and he was able to get some pretty nice game rewards again.
The girl with the ponytail shuddered and quickly looked towards the curtain which was half torn but most of the blood had receded, praying that she would not see their bodies inside.
The ghost school beauty stretched out her hand from the lake, grabbed a person and pulled him out.
She frowned, used a little more strength, and pulled out a group of people.
Guo Yang choked on a mouthful of water, "Xia Bai, what are you doing? Why don't you let go? If he wants to die, let him die!"
Xia Bai's face was also full of water, and he sneezed a little, "Have you forgotten what I said to you in the corridor?"
Guo Yang was stunned for a moment. Xia Bai told him in the corridor that the ghost hand that appeared in Screening Room No. 5 belonged to the ghost school beauty, and their screening room was connected to the movie world.
Did Xia Bai want to come in on purpose?
Xia Bai indeed is.
He didn't choose to risk his life just to save Man No. 2, he just guessed that in order to complete the game, they might have to go into the movie.
If you just need to watch the movie in the cinema and understand the plot, then the weird game will normally say "clarify the story logic of the movie" instead of "the story logic in the movie". This "in" is worth pondering.
Of course, he just thought about it at first, which was a bit pedantic, but after someone died in the movie and the girl with the ponytail talked about the dimensional wall and the inner and outer world, he started to think about this path. After seeing the ghost hand, he was more inclined to this guess.
Having come to this point, it seems that they can't find any other way to survive, so Xia Bai chooses to be dragged into the "dead end" of the movie.
Xia Bai didn't have time to explain to him in detail, the ghost school beauty's other broken hand had already slashed towards them. They had just experienced how terrible the power of this hand was, and the danger was imminent.
Xia Bai held the legs of middle-aged man No. 2 with both hands, and it was inconvenient for him to reach out for the corpse-suppressing talisman.
The nails of the ghost hand grew infinitely and were about to pierce towards them starting from Ma Tongfeng's head.
Seeing the nail pressing down on him, Guo Yang shouted, "Don't be afraid, Erwa! Hurry up and attack! You are the top player in terms of combat power, what are you afraid of?"
Xia Bai, who had just touched the corpse-suppressing talisman, said: "......?"
The author has something to say:
Xia Bai: This skill is too difficult to use o(╥﹏╥)o
Xia Bai: Don’t push me anymore. If you push me again I will use my ultimate move.
Ling Changye: Oh?
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