Chapter 34 Harmony Cinema 7
In the middle of the forest on the south side of the island, there are dozens of thatched huts, which are arranged in a crescent shape to surround a large open space.
This open space near the thatched house is where the islanders eat. In the middle of the lower part is a circular altar. At the highest point of the altar is a strange statue of an evil god. It can be roughly seen that it is a human body with a fish tail, blurred facial features, and hair like tentacles.
Circles spread outwards around the unknown evil god statue in the center, with each layer surrounding the bonfires.
The people on the island believe in evil gods, which they know from the movie they saw earlier. From the looks of it, they seem to be preparing for a sacrifice.
They placed several dead players on the third floor, forming a circle around the evil god.
The fourth layer is offerings of wild fruits and flowers.
The statue of the evil god is located in the circle in the center, so what is placed on the second layer?
Xia Bai's doubts were soon answered.
The islanders set out again. This time, there were more islanders than those who went to chase the expedition team just now. Xia Bai saw several female islanders coming out of the thatched hut.
Xia Bai guessed that, according to the routine of some horror movies, they should be performing human sacrifice and were now going to capture the members of the expedition team.
As soon as they left in a mighty procession, Xia Bai ran to a drying rack, grabbed two pieces of clothes, soaked them in a water tank, and while the two people sitting at the door guarding were not paying attention, he put out the two piles of fire near Ling Changye.
The light nearby dimmed a lot, and with the help of the evil god statue to block the view, Xia Bai began to paste the corpse-controlling talisman again.
All other players can stick to it, except Ling Changye.
He was not dead after all, and it was not even a corpse.
Xia Bai sat beside him, looking at him dimly.
He reached out his hand to feel Ling Changye's breathing, which was almost too weak to be felt. He then looked at the last pool of blood flowing out from under him and his pierced chest.
Based on Xia Bai's experience, he was about to die.
However, he was still alive with his body scattered in the orthopedic hospital, so maybe he can survive this time.
Xia Bai felt his pulse again. The other person's pulse was very weak, while his own pulse was beating more and more violently.
Although he was dismembered in the orthopedic hospital, his blood seemed to be sealed in various parts of his body, and his pulse was also strong. But now, his blood was almost gone, and his pulse was as weak as his breathing - he might really be dying soon.
Such a good corpse, no, it’s a pity that such a good body died in the game.
Waste natural resources.
Moreover, he had just readjusted his corpse signing strategy, planning to take the route of near-death + deterrence, and was ready to deter the gang, when he encountered the corpse he had missed.
Even God is helping him, and God will not forgive him if he misses it.
Xia Bai poked his head out to take a look at the two islanders who were guarding the place. Seeing that they were chatting while making a fire, he hurriedly dragged Ling Changye towards the bushes nearby.
He was afraid that if it was any later, he would die.
Afraid that the sound of mopping the floor would be too loud, he moved his head and then his feet, then moved his feet and then his head, half turning and half dragging him into the bushes, and then dragged him into the forest next to it.
He carefully looked around and immediately began to pinch his nose, "Wake up, wake up, or you'll die."
After a series of operations, Ling Changye finally opened his eyes.
It was past eight o'clock at night on the island, and the moon was already very round. It was not pure white, but wrapped in a layer of illusory orange-red, and the lush branches on the island were baring their teeth and claws.
A boy with an orange moon above his head and a ghost looking down at him, very close.
It was so close that Ling Changye could clearly see the excitement that suddenly burst out in his eyes, brighter than the moon and as crystal as amber.
His brown almond eyes became focused and sincere, but he couldn't help swallowing his saliva, his little Adam's apple rolled slightly, his voice was pleasant and a little hoarse with excitement, "Can you give me your body?"
Ling Changye: “?”
Xia Bai stared at him for a few seconds and tilted his head. This action seemed like an instruction. Then, corpses appeared one after another behind him. Some were covered in blood, some had their stomachs ripped open, some had only the right half, and some had only the upper body, with their heads still held up by their hands.
Xia Bai suppressed his excitement and anxiety, and asked again gently and politely: "Can you give me your body?"
Ling Changye was silent.
Xia Bai said: "After you give it to me, I will treat you well. I can take you out of the game and bring you into the game often. I will not use your body indiscriminately."
Seeing that he still didn't speak, Xia Bai said, "Don't think about it for too long. You're going to die soon."
Ling Changye: "I think I can hold on a little longer."
"Ten seconds." Xia Bai nodded in agreement. "I'll give you ten seconds. If you don't agree, I'll let them tear you apart and eat you. If you die, they won't let you go even if you're a corpse."
Xia Bai's hand pressed on his torn chest, his cold white fingers stained with his blood. Ling Changye seemed to hear the countdown to his death, "Ten, nine, eight..."
Ling Changye closed his eyes.
After a few seconds, he opened his eyes again, and there was an indigo light flashing in his dark eyes.
Xia Bai looked carefully and saw clearly that it was not light flashing, but indigo lines generated in his pupils. At such a close distance, he could see the lines beginning to spread and expand, forming a fan-shaped map.
A corpse appeared behind Ling Changye, and half of a purple corpse-controlling talisman flew away from behind the bloody head.
Another corpse appeared behind Ling Changye, with its stomach ripped open.
Then there was another one, with only the right half of his body, and he had to support his head with his hands.
…
After a group of dead bodies similar to the ones behind Xia Bai appeared, another Xia Bai appeared, and they all stared at Xia Bai with murderous eyes.
Xia Bai looked at the dead bodies and himself in shock.
Xia Bai staggered.
Xia Bai ran away quickly.
Xia Bai ran to the two water tanks again, and the shock in his eyes had not disappeared yet.
Ling Changye's skills were not physical skills. When Xia Bai saw him being torn into pieces and then being whole again and then waking up in the orthopedic hospital, he thought his skills were physical skills. To be more precise, they might be some kind of body assembly, dismemberment, or body regeneration skills.
In fact, he prefers regeneration skills.
At that time, he heard Hua Haoming mention it in the Heping Medical College copy. He knew about salamanders because he had heard about a copy game in which others mentioned the regeneration of salamanders when discussing the copy.
They were all members of the assault team, and they specifically mentioned the regeneration of Rongyuan in the dungeon. Xia Bai was inclined to believe that Ling Changye had acquired the regeneration skill in that dungeon, and as long as there was any part of his body left, he could regenerate to a certain extent.
Just now, seeing that Ling Changye was about to die, he thought that the source of regeneration was blood.
Turns out not.
He also has soul skills, and they are soul skills that are beyond Xia Bai's imagination.
Xia Bai thought back to the indigo map he had seen. Was it... a replica of the map? Could it replicate everything within a certain range for its own use?
Not all, no flowers, no trees, just him and the dead body.
What exactly are Ling Changye’s skills?
As Xia Bai was thinking, he saw Ling Changye coming back. He walked leisurely to the place where he had been lying on the altar and lay down again.
Xia Bai: “…”
Ling Changye came back too openly. An islander at the door saw a dark shadow and stood up quickly. He went forward to check, but found nothing unusual, so he went back.
Not long after he returned, the islanders who had been away came back. They tied up a pair of twin sisters and took them to the second level of the altar.
The rest of the expedition team followed, injured, and watched angrily as the islanders tied up the twin sisters, but they did not dare to approach.
The two girls were tied to the altar, their voices hoarse and cracked. An old man with hideous tattoos all over his face brought a basin of blood to the twin sisters, stripped them of their clothes, muttered something, and drew strange totems on their bodies with blood.
As Xia Bai was watching, he noticed that Lao Ma, who was following the expedition team, was also approaching here. He waved to Lao Ma, and the two of them hid behind the water tank and watched together.
Xia Bai pointed to the position of the middle-aged woman No. 1, held down Ma Tongfeng who might jump up in advance, and whispered to him: "I have a way, trust me."
Since Xia Bai saved him, Lao Ma has trusted him and is willing to listen to him. He nodded to Xia Bai and stared at the altar without blinking.
On the altar, the blood totems on the two girls were quickly painted.
The islanders below held torches and began cheering, becoming more and more excited, completely drowning out the two girls' frightened cries and the shouts of the other expedition teams below.
The evil god with blurred facial features showed no emotion or joy, and was silently "watching" everything.
The crucial moment of the sacrifice has arrived.
Xia Bai had seen human sacrifices in movies, but it was different from what he saw. They did not burn people to death, but bled them instead. Following the drawn totems, the totems were soon stained red with fresh blood, becoming thicker and spreading throughout the body.
Amid the excited cheers of the Savage Islanders, the two girls let out panicked screams, which was probably the loudest they could scream.
Their panic and pain are so real, glaring and contagious.
Ma Tongfeng looked at Xia Bai reluctantly. Xia Bai's eyes were clear in the moonlight, and they looked deep because of his thick and long eyelashes, which was a bit contradictory to his dull face. There was no fear or reluctance on his face, it was such a beautiful and fragile face.
As if sensing his gaze, Xia Bai looked at the altar and whispered to him, "Old Ma, don't forget what I said before, this is the world of movies."
Ma Tongfeng nodded and continued looking forward.
The bright moonlight sprinkled on the lush woods. The shadows of the trees were like ghosts in the wind. The flames were dancing. The bloody smell gradually spread, carrying the hopelessness of its owner and infiltrating the carnival of another kind of people.
The twin sisters died.
They were far away and could only see the shape of their corpses. Their heads were twisted downward, and they didn't know whether their eyes were open. Just by looking at the blood-red corpses that were particularly conspicuous in the dark night, they could feel the eerie and terrifying unwillingness and hostility.
First it was the school beauty, then these two girls. Every time I see their appearance after death, I can feel the unwillingness that is more impactful than in other movies and TV dramas, it is strong and sharp.
The group of savage islanders cheered even louder, and the firelight gave their excitement a layer of bright yellow madness, with a twisted happiness in the madness.
They cheered and crowded towards the altar.
Ma Tongfeng could no longer stand.
He didn't understand many important things, but in his decades of living at the bottom of society, he had heard of many rural sacrifices and the horrific folk customs derived from them.
People will offer the best and freshest sacrifices to "God", and humans can only eat them after God has enjoyed them, or humans will eat the portion that has been prepared for them long ago, which is worse than God's.
Two living people were sacrificed to their gods, and they might have to eat something that is not so fresh.
"I'm sorry, I can't watch them eat the show."
*
After Xia Bai and Ma Tongfeng left, Guo Yang pulled up Erwa, who was looking at them eagerly, and turned in another direction.
Erwa struggled for a while, but Guo Yang didn't let go and forcibly pulled him up.
Guo Yang didn't know where the ghost school beauty was. When watching a movie in the cinema, he noticed that the ghost school beauty had places she often went to. One was the cave where she died, and the other was by the lake.
He first went to the cave and carefully checked around, not daring to get too close. He knew how powerful the school ghost was, and even earthworms couldn't handle one of her hands, so he would only die if he faced the school ghost.
Not noticing the ghost school beauty, he took Erwa back to the safety of the woods. Thinking that he hadn't heard any sound from Erwa along the way, nor had he seen him look up, he asked, "Erwa, are you angry?"
Erwa didn't say anything.
Guo Yang seemed to understand, but it was hard for him to accept it. "...You don't want to be in the same group with Xia Bai, but not with me? I am your loyal fan."
Erwa still only gave him a Nooxuaner.
Guo Yang: "It was Xia Bai who proposed the grouping. I tell you, you can't blame me."
Erwa didn't say anything, but put his hands on the two pockets of his overalls, each of which contained a pear. That was given to him by Xia Bai.
Guo Yang looked up higher and said, "Don't be angry, just follow me. You wouldn't dare to go find him even if I asked you to, right?"
As expected, there was no sound, and when I turned around, there was no one on the stone where Erwa was standing.
Looking down again, he was walking away with his two pears.
Guo Yang: “…”
No one knows where the ghost school beauty is. On the other side of the island, where the islanders live, I can faintly hear some shouting. The ghost school beauty may be there too.
Guo Yang thought about it and decided to follow Erwa to find Xia Bai.
However, he didn't let Erwa know and just followed him quietly to see how brave he could be.
It was unexpected that he dared to go to Xia Bai alone. You know, according to Guo Yang, leaving Erwa alone on the street outside the Tourism Management Bureau was a training for him.
Guo Yang thought Erwa would at least look back, but he didn't expect him to not even look back.
After walking for a while or getting scared, he would stand behind a tree, tiptoe and look out, wipe the sweat from his forehead, and continue holding the pear on his way to find Xia Bai.
After walking and stopping along the way with difficulty, Erwa finally saw Xia Bai from afar. The light in his eyes was obviously much brighter, like sparkling water.
Guo Yang was so moved by what he saw.
Fake. Very sour.
Just as Erwa was about to walk over, Xia Bai ran quickly in the opposite direction and disappeared into the jungle in the blink of an eye.
“…”
Then a string of corpses followed him and disappeared into the jungle.
“…”
At the very end was Old Ma, crying and chasing a dead body. Upon closer inspection, he saw that the dead body was woman No. 1.
“…”
Guo Yang looked forward and saw that the area in front of the altar was in chaos. The crowd was dispersing, and screams and cries were heard everywhere.
The head of an old man with tattoos all over his face rolled down from the stage.
A twisted, bloody figure, probably not a human, climbed up from the altar and jumped onto an islander in the blink of an eye. The islander was instantly submerged in blood.
The other dead girl slowly crawled down the altar and blended into the night like a bloody snake, wrapping herself around someone.
Guo Yang took a small step back, turned around and ran.
One school beauty is hard enough to deal with, how come there are two more!
Erwa looked around in confusion, and finally squatted down, covering his ears.
The dead body at the back suddenly stopped, went back, picked up the child who was squatting on the ground picking mushrooms, and ran down.
The dead body is He Jiaxiu, and following closely beside her is Ma Tongfeng.
At that time, Ma Tongfeng wanted to steal He Jiaxiu's body, but before he could start, the two girls who were sacrificed alive on the altar resurrected. The islanders didn't care about anything else and fled in all directions.
Xia Bai glanced at Ling Changye who was still lying dead, and controlled the corpses in his mind, taking the opportunity to make the five dead players who had been attached with corpse-controlling talismans to follow him.
When Ma Tongfeng saw He Jiaxiu climbing up from the altar, his eyes suddenly turned red. Without Xia Bai saying anything, he followed her and ran away.
Running to the lake, He Jiaxiu handed Erwa to Xia Bai, who took Erwa and asked, "Guo Yang actually abandoned you?"
Erwa nodded, carefully grasped his clothes, and tears were about to fall from his eyes.
Xia Bai didn't see him nod. His attention was drawn to the lake. He saw a hand on the lake, with five fingers just sticking out of the lake, like a drowning person struggling and calling for help.
The miraculous thing is that there was still blood on his hands and it wasn’t washed away by the lake water.
Xia Bai immediately put Erwa down, jumped into the lake, and grabbed the hand before it fell to the bottom of the lake. In that second of holding it, he felt the cold hand tremble violently twice like a spasm.
*
In the No. 5 screening room, the movie sound is in surround sound.
The heavy, weak breathing sounds became more and more rapid in my ears.
At the door of the screening room, a hand half stained with blood stretched in, veins bulging on the back of the hand, and it was exerting force and trembling.
A bloody head poked its head into Screening Room No. 5.
The fire in the movie was bright, making the screening room much brighter as well. One could clearly see that it was a woman's head. She was wearing the work clothes of the Harmony Cinema. She was the cinema attendant that Xia Bai and Guo Yang brought back from Screening Room No. 7.
She crawled weakly but desperately towards Screening Room No. 5, leaving a long, glaring trail of blood behind her.
After Xia Bai and his friends were pulled into the movie, the screen was already broken and could not be seen, so they moved to the nearest screening room No. 3. This time they had experience, so they cut a little bit of the screen from a distance to let the blood flow out of the screen, and this time there was no ghost hand suddenly stretched out from the screen.
The four of them breathed a sigh of relief. They had avoided the mental pollution of the movie, cleared the blood that covered the curtain, and avoided the ghost hands in the movie that caught people. They thought that the game was about to be completed.
But unexpectedly, the ghost hand appeared again, this time even more violent and fierce, and the walls of the entire screening room were covered with bloody handprints.
One thing she had expected was that she would be abandoned in times of danger, without a doubt.
really.
Even though she ran to the door as soon as possible, she was still grabbed by Gu Quankun's earthworm arm and thrown into the ghost hand.
She only screamed in pain when the ghost hand pierced her abdomen. After that, no matter whether she was thrown away by the ghost hand or thrown against the wall, she didn't make any sound, any unnecessary movements, and no expression of pain.
She is playing dead.
She lay on the seat near the door, bleeding as she heard the girl with the ponytail die. The man who came out of Hall 7 with her couldn't get up, and even Gu Quankun was injured.
She was silent, the sweat from the pain soaking her hair, and she felt the blood loss and the dizziness of death in the dark corner.
Finally, the only sound left was Gu Quankun's breathing from quite far behind.
She moved, crawled out of the door in the darkness, holding up a broken and twisted leg, and moved slowly towards Screening Room No. 5, leaving a trail of blood behind her.
Someone once told her that if she was forced into a dead end in one place, it was God and the god of death telling her that there was a way out in another place.
Her head was getting more and more dizzy. She didn't know if it was because she had lost too much blood, but her body was getting heavier and heavier. Every time she tried her best, she could only move a little bit, and after moving, she would feel even more dizzy and weak.
She is going to die.
She lifted her heavy eyelids and looked towards the door. A strand of black and red hair split the world in front of her eyes, and her vision became increasingly blurred.
Those lifeless eyes suddenly burst out with intense resentment and unwillingness.
She finally… finally… finally… escaped from that place…
How could she, how could she... die!
Can’t die, can’t die, can’t die…
Veins popped out on her hands as her heavy body moved forward. She gasped heavily and bit her lips to block out any weak sounds.
By the time she crawled to the curtain, her consciousness was already blurry.
Using what little strength she had left in her life, she reached her hand into the hole in the curtain.
Nothing happened.
All her hands felt was emptiness and coldness.
She looked at her blood-stained hands, her still bleeding abdomen, the long trail of blood behind her, and a desperate whimper finally escaped from her bitten lips.
The hand that curled up weakly stretched its fingers forward one last time and was about to fall.
A warm, strong hand held hers.
It was like the air of life suddenly being injected into the shriveled alveoli and touching the warmth of another living person. Under the stimulation of vitality, her whole body trembled violently.
She tried hard to open her eyes, trying to see her life clearly.
She was dragged into the movie little by little, and was about to be dragged out of this bloody and dark screening room.
This was the second time she had experienced this in her life that she was pulled out of hell and was about to see a new life.
Just as she was about to see it, she suddenly felt something pulling her ankle, and in the severe pain in her abdomen, there was a downward dragging sensation. A hand was constantly pulling her back, pulling her back to that place.
She no longer had the strength to look back, she knew it was that man, that man had come.
She bit her lip again, and something cold covered her whole body.
What made her heart sink even more was that the hand on her hand loosened.
Her body began to fall downwards, her eyes opened wide, and the next second she saw Xia Bai, and was hugged by Xia Bai and dragged upwards.
When Xia Baila couldn't pull the waitress up anymore, he let go and dived into the lake. He saw the work clothes on the woman and knew who she was. He hugged her and continued to pull her up. He saw that he couldn't pull her up because there was a hand on the waitress' ankle.
The blood from the waitress's abdomen had dyed a large area of the lake red. She was just an ordinary person, and she came here only because she was unwilling to die. If she had come a little later, she might not have survived.
Xia Bai kicked the hand.
He kicked at a very bad angle, hitting the wrist bone. The hand came from behind, bent to the right and grabbed the ankle, with a fragile arc. Xia Bai was very strong, and this kick with all his strength made a sound of bone cracking.
Xia Bai took the opportunity to kick the hand away, immediately emerged from the water holding the waitress and dragged her ashore.
She had lost too much blood and might have only one breath left. Erwa was so scared that he covered his eyes again.
The hand in the lake that was broken by Xia Bai's kick was still struggling. Xia Bai glanced at the waiter who was about to die, then jumped down again and fished him out.
As soon as they got ashore, before Gu Quankun could say anything, Xia Bai pointed at the person lying next to him and said, "Save her! Hurry up, she can't hold on any longer!"
Gu Quankun seems to be experienced in the game, and he must have something to save his life, not just weapons.
Gu Quankun rubbed his hands and sneered.
Xia Bai's eyes turned to Erwa. Erwa was very sensitive to people's gazes and immediately received it. He saw that Xia Bai's eyes were bright when he looked at him. "Erwa, help me, let him save people, okay?"
There was something like expectation and admiration in his bright eyes, "You are the ceiling of player combat power."
Erwa’s eyes opened wide and his ears slowly turned red.
He looked at Gu Quankun in a daze, straightened his chest like an adult, clenched his hands tremblingly, and whispered, "Save, save! Save her!"
Gu Quankun: “…”
Xia Bai noticed that Gu Quankun looked towards him in Screening Room No. 5. He didn't understand at that time, but he found out later. He might suspect that the child was Erwa and was afraid of the terrifying power in Erwa's body.
Xia Bai's dazed face showed a little anxiety: "Er Wa, this sister is about to die, you can definitely save her like a hero, right?"
“Ah!” Erwa made an incomprehensible sound and took a small step towards Gu Quankun stiffly. “Save her! If you don’t save her… I’ll beat you! Wangchuan… I’ll beat, beat you!”
I don’t know which word irritated Gu Quankun. He threw a roll of bandage to Xia Bai with an extremely ugly expression.
Xia Bai immediately wrapped the waiter up. The bandage looked like an ordinary medical bandage, but after he wrapped it around the waiter twice, he only saw a little blood oozing out, and no large amount of blood was flowing out. It seemed that the bleeding had stopped.
The waiter's eyes were no longer vague, and were fixed on his face.
Xia Bai glanced at Gu Quankun who was blocked by Erwa, and asked the waiter in a low voice: "If you die in the future, can you give me your body?"
He asked this, but in fact, after a series of setbacks, he had no hope. At this time, the waiter had been saved, and was neither on the verge of death nor threatened by the corpses.
"Can."
"My body is yours."
The author has something to say:
Erwa: I want to be his hero!
Waiter: Want to be his corpse.
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