Chapter 35 Harmony Cinema 8
Xia Bai looked down at the waiter blankly. In fact, he had never seen the waiter's face clearly.
A strand of sticky hair stained with blood curved and divided her wet face into two halves. She had dark eyebrows, a straight nose, and a neutral heroic air. Her eyes were not too big and you couldn't see to the bottom.
Xia Bai felt the phone in his pocket was a little hot, as if it had recorded the waiter's information, prompting him that his skills had finally been upgraded.
"Are you willing?" Xia Bai asked in a daze.
As if it was something insignificant, she didn't even ask Xia Bai what he was going to use it for. "When you want it, take it away."
Xia Bai asked: "What's your name?"
Waiter: "You Yue."
Gu Quankun was looking towards them. Xia Bai didn't say much to her. She just said "sorry for the offense" and carried her to a more secluded place in the woods near the lake, letting her rest there and leaving her a dagger for self-defense.
When he came back, he looked at Erwa differently. It was Erwa who signed a corpse contract for him. "Erwa is amazing."
The redness on Erwa’s ears spread to his neck. He lowered his little head helplessly, his fingers trembling with excitement.
Gu Quankun looked at Erwa who was blushing, and said with a half smile: "Xia Bai, I'll give you a piece of advice. You won't get far in the game by using tricks. This is not a prosperous age."
Xia Bai nodded dumbly, "Oh, you're right, I thought so too."
He tilted his head, and a group of dead bodies came out from the bushes, standing behind him and looking at him eagerly.
Gu Quankun: “…”
Xia Bai asked: "Can you give me your body?"
Gu Quankun didn't even think about it and said, "No!"
Xia Bai: "Oh. When you are about to die, I will ask you again."
Gu Quankun: “…”
Gu Quankun looked at the dead body behind Xia Bai and asked, "Is your skill corpse control?"
He looked at the talisman on the corpse's head again and said, "Item skill?"
Xia Bai's heart moved, and he said, "Yes, I can draw corpse-controlling talismans. I gave many corpse-controlling talismans to other players. Have you seen them?"
Gu Quankun stared at the corpse-controlling talisman for a few seconds and shook his head.
Xia Bai was not disappointed. Whether it was looking for the God of Happiness or understanding his grandfather's past, he had made long-term preparations.
The fire in the forest above grew brighter, and a cloud of smoke rose that the darkness could not stop.
Two more female ghosts appeared there. It was obvious that they could not deal with them, and they could not approach them rashly. They didn't know what the situation was now.
Xia Bai tore off the corpse-controlling talisman on the back of He Jiaxiu's head and said to Ma Tongfeng, "Old Ma, go and bury her."
Ma Tongfeng wanted to kowtow to Xia Bai. Kowtow was one of the things he was most familiar with in his life, and he didn't think it was a big deal. The only time he really wanted to kowtow, Xia Bai rejected him and he left with Erwa.
The two corpses were exploring the way ahead, Xia Bai was walking on the left, and Erwa was jogging closely on his right, looking up at him from time to time.
Gu Quankun naturally followed. He came to the movie because he knew he couldn't deal with the last wave of ghosts in the screening room, and he didn't see Xia Bai and the others in the movie, which meant they might not be dead, which meant the movie was safe. And since they came earlier, they must know more about the situation here.
Gu Quankun: "Exchange information?"
Just as Xia Bai was about to speak, a stone rolled to his feet.
Guo Yang was waving at them from the bushes in front.
The bodies of the two scouts were lying on the side of the road, and the three followed Guo Yang into the forest.
Before he even walked inside, Guo Yang couldn't help but ask Xia Bai: "What's going on with those dead bodies?"
Xia Bai said: "My skills allow me to draw corpse-controlling and corpse-suppressing talismans, to control and suppress corpses."
Xia Bai decided to use his grandfather's skills to play the game. His skills were indeed similar to his grandfather's, and he could hide himself well. If someone recognized that this was not his skill, it would be even better, because that person might know his grandfather, and he could wait for someone to come and tell him about his grandfather.
Guo Yang looked like he was thinking, "I see," and said, "No wonder you asked me for the body."
He took them to the middle of the mountain and told them, "The two female ghosts chased the islanders into the woods on the opposite side. The ghost school beauty also followed them in. The rest of the expedition team finally rose up to resist."
Guo Yang did not escape. He ran to a higher ground and secretly watched the scene.
The islanders have become the weaker party in the pursuit of the three evil spirits, but after all, they are numerous and familiar with the deserted island. There are still quite a few of them, so the situation is uncertain.
Xia Bai asked Gu Quankun: "What did you find?"
It was Gu Quankun who first suggested exchanging information, and he told them the situation on their side without hiding anything.
After Xia Bai and the others were pulled into the movie by the ghost hand, Gu Quankun and the others quickly changed to another screening room to watch the movie. During this time, they were actually watching a big plot. The islanders captured the exploration team, tied them to the altar, and selected two girls as sacrifices to be sacrificed alive to the evil god.
When the sacrifice began, the ghost hand appeared.
He said: "Based on the speculation I saw in Screening Room 3, I feel that the main plot of the movie in Screening Room 3 is the same as that in our screening room. The movie does not seem to be part of the life of the players in our screening room."
"The male player in the No. 7 screening room said that they also saw the school beauty being violated and the school beauty's revenge."
Guo Yang: "Maybe the desire for sex, sadism, and murder are very common desires in people's hearts? Under the influence of mental pollution, a few people can always be involved in the plot?"
Xia Bai: “…”
Then why are there still corpses targeting him? Is he overthinking it?
Guo Yang added: "It is also possible that the main storyline remains unchanged, but there are more details for players in different theaters. For example, in our theater, there are many close-up scenes of islanders eating meat for your companions?"
Gu Quankun: “Maybe.”
But there is still a foggy feeling.
It wasn't just him, Xia Bai and Guo Yang were the same. They always felt that there was something they hadn't seen through, and it shouldn't be like this.
"According to what the captain said at the beginning of the movie, the ship will come to pick them up tomorrow morning, and the movie will be over soon." Guo Yang said: "We see that they can complete the game by getting a result?"
Gu Quankun has always believed that he can complete the game after watching the movie. "Why not? We have overcome so many difficulties and so many people have died."
Guo Yang was still a little nervous. He asked, "How long had the movie been playing when you came in?"
As an experienced player, Gu Quankun couldn't have failed to time it. He gave an accurate time: "2 hours and 31 minutes."
"It's almost over." Guo Yang said nervously: "When you came, the sacrifice was not over yet. This must be a key plot that requires a lot of shots and time. There are also three female ghosts chasing the islanders for revenge, and the expedition team's rise. At the time point in the movie where we are now, there may be only a few minutes away from the ending."
"We are almost done with this? But the game still doesn't have any hints at all."
This is familiar.
Xia Bai also had this feeling that something was not right when he was at Heping Medical College.
Guo Yang: "How about we review the movie again and try to discuss all the possibilities?"
Xia Bai supported: "Okay."
It's because this is a clichéd movie that you can see the end of at a glance, and the story flows smoothly.
In the front, it should be said that more than 90% of the plot is fixed, and the story is already very clear.
The fixed point is that a group of college students' expedition team came to explore the deserted island. Unexpectedly, the deserted island was not a real deserted island, but a group of barbaric and brutal islanders lived here.
Two native islanders raped the most beautiful school girl in the expedition team that night. Two male students in the expedition team saw it and not only did not stop them, but joined them. The school girl died humiliatingly and tragically. She was filled with resentment and anger and turned into a ghost, killing the four men. This was the first conflict between the islanders and the expedition team.
The islanders killed two students from the expedition team in revenge, which intensified the conflict between the two sides.
The islanders tied up the expedition team again and used two women to sacrifice to the evil god, and the conflict reached a peak.
The two girls also turned into ghosts, stood together with the ghost school beauty and the remaining four members of the expedition team, and finally started the final battle with the islanders.
As for the ending.
Guo Yang: "The most likely possibility is that the expedition team won, and one or two students were left waiting for the ship to arrive and leave the deserted island, which fits the movie title of "Escape from the Desert Island" very well."
Xia Bai: "There were only one or two students left. They finally got on the ship, but they found out that the captain was born on a deserted island and was in league with the islanders."
Gu Quankun: "The expedition team lost, and all the students died, but the ghosts they turned into will remain on the island forever, tormenting the islanders."
Guo Yang: "The expedition team lost, the ship came, the captain and the crew went to the island to find them, and a new round of desert island escape began."
…
They spoke one sentence each, corresponding to different arrangements and combinations of each person or group of people, and mentioned hundreds of possibilities, but the game did not give any hints.
Slowly, the three of them fell silent.
They realized that the game was not that simple, and this simple and clichéd movie plot could not support the only main task given to them by the game.
The round orange moon hangs in the dark night sky, creating a strange contrast with the green of the island at midnight, and the fishy smell of the sea and blood becomes even more intense.
Under the orange moon, Ma Tongfeng sneaked into the islanders' residential area, found an axe and other simple tools, and made a simple coffin for He Jiaxiu in the forest.
"Jiaxiu, you see, I used to do all kinds of dirty and tiring work to make a living, but it still has its benefits. At least now I can make a coffin for you."
He carefully placed He Jiaxiu in the coffin. He did not dare to erect a tombstone for her for the time being, so he carved "My Wife He Jiaxiu" on the coffin. The handwriting was crooked, and except for the strength and emotion, it was not much better than what a primary school student wrote.
He sat against the coffin for half an hour, wiped his tears, buried He Jiaxiu, and went to find Xia Bai with an axe.
The waitress You Yue slowly woke up an hour later and covered her eyes with her hands. The moonlight was not strong, but she felt as if she was in another world.
She felt her abdomen was no longer cold, so she reached out and touched the dagger, gripped the dagger tightly and clenched her teeth. After a while, she trembled, cried and laughed.
Xia Bai and the others continued to [watch the movie]. It was possible that they could not predict in advance and still had to truly unlock the plot. It was possible, but they did not say how likely it was.
It was almost midnight, the island became much quieter, and they stopped fighting.
There were two people left alive in the expedition team, a man and a woman, and they were with the three ghosts.
At this time, they should go to their side and listen to what they are saying. After all, compared with the islanders, they are the protagonists and may have important information.
But there were three ghosts there.
They don’t know how powerful the other two ghosts are. Just take the ghost school beauty for example, you can’t even deal with Gu Quankun, and if they all come together, they might just be sending themselves to die.
It would be great if there were still people in the screening room at this time, so they could cooperate from inside and outside.
Even though it was dangerous, they hesitated for a moment and then approached carefully. They really wanted to know what they were doing. The movie was about to end, and the plot was just that.
From a hundred meters away from them, they saw the surviving boy standing up angrily and another girl crying towards the ghost school beauty.
From this perspective, it seems that the school beauty told them about her experiences, and these two surviving students are the rare good guys in this kind of movie.
The boy ran towards the islanders' residence angrily.
The end came quickly.
This ending was in their discussion just now.
Earlier in the movie, there were scenes of this group of students smoking and drinking. These boys all had lighters in their pockets. They had guessed that in the end, when they were forced into a desperate situation, they would use fire to die together with the islanders.
The enraged boy rushed to the islanders' residence. The roofs of the thatched huts where the islanders lived were made of some kind of hay, which was soon set on fire by the boy.
There was a forest behind the islanders' houses, and the fire spread quickly into the forest.
Guo Yang: "Hurry up and go to the woods on the other side of the lake!"
Before leaving, Xia Bai glanced at the altar. There were many corpses around the altar, and he couldn't see clearly whether Ling Changye was still there.
As soon as they saw the boy setting the house on fire, they ran out, but the islanders in the house and in the forest might not be so lucky.
The fire burned until the next morning, causing heavy casualties among the islanders, with almost everyone in the thatched huts being burned to death.
The three female ghosts and two students stood by the lake, watching the fire burn quietly.
Xia Bai and several other players hid in the woods on the other side of the lake and watched them secretly.
Shortly after dawn, the boat to pick them up arrived.
The film lived up to expectations, and in the end the remaining man and woman successfully boarded the boat, which was considered a successful escape. This was the most popular and most predictable ending.
But the three ghosts couldn’t leave, and they were trapped forever on the island where they died.
The two students stood on the boat and cried as they watched the three female ghosts getting farther and farther away. Then they hugged each other and kissed each other while crying.
“…”
"Is this the finale? The movie is over, can we leave now?" Ma Tongfeng asked.
Apparently, the movie is over.
Obviously, they didn't pass the customs and couldn't leave.
Several people were confused.
Guo Yang: "Did we miss some plot that contains key information or hints at another ending?"
This possibility is very high. After all, none of them has watched the entire movie. In the movie world, they don’t even have a “God’s perspective” and can only see part of it.
Several people carefully recalled the movie scenes and plots they had seen and summarized them together, but still found nothing.
It's a terrible feeling to have finished this kind of movie without having any clue about it.
Guo Yang couldn't help but think of his English listening test, which was only one time. After listening, he seemed to hear something, but also heard nothing.
At that time, it was just an ordinary exam, and the teacher didn’t dare to say anything to him even if he failed. But now, he is risking his life in the exam.
To make matters worse, after the two students left, three female ghosts began to search the island, and they killed another surviving islander.
If this trend continues, it will soon be their turn and they will all be finished.
"What should we do? Where is the solution to this game?" Gu Quankun said anxiously.
I didn't expect that he was the most anxious, but I could understand it after thinking about it. He had always been sure that he could complete the game as long as he watched the movie, and he was mentally prepared for this throughout the whole process. Suddenly, he found that his direction and method were wrong, so he couldn't help but feel anxious and panicked at the last moment.
Maybe there is also anger and shame.
No one could answer him.
Guo Yang didn't know whether he was comforting him or himself: "Three hours is for watching the movie, not for playing games. The system wants us to sort out the logic of the story in the movie, so it should give us more time. Don't worry, let's look for any clues now."
"That time won't be much. How much time will be given to answer a test?" Gu Quankun immediately retorted.
Guo Yang glanced at him, and was obviously in a bad mood. "Then you stay here and get anxious. I'll go find some clues."
Guo Yang walked a few steps and looked back at Xia Bai, who hurriedly followed him to show that he was in the same group as him. As soon as he caught up, Erwa and Lao Ma followed him.
Guo Yang felt relieved, but he was actually very anxious. They came to where the islanders lived and searched for clues in the burnt rooms. He looked here and there, and looked at Erwa from time to time.
Xia Bai felt that he was afraid that he would not be able to complete the game and die in the game, and he was also afraid that he would not be able to take the second child out.
Seeing Guo Yang walking quickly past him again, Xia Bai said, "Guo Yang, don't be impatient."
Guo Yang pressed his brows and said, "Xia Bai, if it were me..."
"I will definitely take Erwa out." Xia Bai directly said what he wanted to hear.
Erwa immediately raised his little head and looked at Xia Bai. Guo Yang also stared at him blankly.
Xia Bai's skin color is a cool white, different from Yang Mei's milky white. The orange-yellow sunlight in the morning fell on his face, but it did not affect the cool white texture at all. There was a cool tone that could not be changed by the scorching sun at noon.
His face looked dull, but if you looked closely at his eyes, there was no ripple in them. His anxious heart seemed to have touched a deep spring that blocked out all the troubles.
"Do you think the movie is over and we can't find any useful clues anymore?"
"No, it's just like the game that gives humans superpowers and weapons. The game doesn't just let us die. There must be a way to survive, and more than one. Even if we missed the movie, there must be a way to survive. Don't worry, look carefully."
Guo Yang's racing heart gradually calmed down. He looked at Ma Tongfeng next to Xia Bai. This man who had been struggling at the bottom of society and didn't understand games or even Internet strategies was, for some reason, just as calm.
Guo Yang looked at these two pairs of eyes and calmed down little by little. "You are right. There must be a way to survive."
He calmed down a lot and began to search seriously and methodically.
Seeing that he had calmed down, Xia Bai squatted back beside the body of an islander.
He reached out and touched the dead body's face. The islander had died not long ago, so he could feel a little bit of temperature. The body was not stiff yet, but very soft. He rubbed the dark face of the dead body hard, and there was only a layer of ash on his fingertips. After blowing away the ash, his fingertips were still clean and white.
Xia Bai lifted up his shirt again, revealing his fat belly, which was much whiter. He rubbed his belly hard as well, but only got a little oil.
This happened to several corpses in succession.
"Guo Yang, their skin color..."
Guo Yang calmed down a lot. He turned around to look at Xia Bai and the bodies beside him and said, "What's wrong with their skin color? They live on the island all year round and are exposed to the sun. They are different from the school beauties. It's normal for them to be a little darker. It's very real."
Seeing Xia Bai staring at his hands in thought, Guo Yang walked towards the altar, intending to check some key locations.
Xia Bai: "How real is it? Normal people wouldn't... um!"
Before he could finish his words, Xia Bai was rolled up by a reddish-brown earthworm around his waist and lifted high into the air.
The first one to notice it was Erwa who had been peeking at him. He stood up suddenly and ran towards Xia Bai with his two little arms stretched out, "Ah, ah!"
Next came Ma Tongfeng, "Xia Bai!"
Guo Yang was the third one to see it, and he immediately yelled, "Gu Quankun!"
Not far below them, Gu Quankun was being chased by the ghost school beauty, with a large pool of blood on his shoulder.
He obviously wanted to use Xia Bai to hold back the ghost school beauty. He recognized that the ghost school beauty's hand was the ghost hand that appeared in the screening room. He used this method in screening room No. 3 and exchanged his own safety for the other three people.
Guo Yang immediately threw the black dagger in his hand towards the ghost school beauty, but his dagger could not stop the ghost school beauty at all, and it was too late.
Xia Bai was about to be hit by the sharp ghost hand.
Guo Yang's eyes turned red, "Gu Quankun, you're done!"
Gu Quankun just grinned grimly, his whole body shaking. The shaking was not just from the laughter, but mainly from the pain.
It really hurts. The cold hand of the ghost school beauty really tore his shoulder. Even so, what can he do? He has no bandage to use.
Even though he was shaking with pain, he endured it and did not use any other life-saving props.
Did Xia Bai think that life-saving props were so easy to get? Every one of them was obtained in exchange for one's life in the game. He made him hand it over with just one word and even let Erwa threaten him with Wangchuan.
Xia Bai saw that it worked once, and he didn’t know how many times he would use Erwa to threaten him.
He needs someone to block the evil hands for him like the waiter and the girl with the ponytail. Xia Bai is the closest one, and even if he is not the one, he will definitely choose him.
Suddenly, the smile on his face froze and his eyes widened in horror.
At the critical moment, Xia Bai tilted his head and was about to control the corpse, when he saw a huge brown-red earthworm passing in front of his face, separating him and the ghost hand.
The earthworm continued to fly forward at a high speed, wrapped around Gu Quankun, and smashed straight onto the ghost school beauty.
Xia Bai turned his head and followed the earthworm, and saw Ling Changye standing in front of him.
The tear on his chest was still there, his white shirt was stained with blood, torn into a deep red rose, and he was wearing a black windbreaker that came from nowhere. The windbreaker hung down with his tall figure, and only the right sleeve was torn at the shoulder. A brown-red earthworm grew out of it, circling in the air like the pink dragon.
His face was still deathly pale, and his lips were bloodless. "Is this all you can do?"
He looked at Xia Bai and smiled.
Xia Bai was stunned.
"Ling, Ling Changye!" Guo Yang said in shock, looking as if he had seen a ghost.
"Why are you looking at me? Run." After saying that, Ling Changye's earthworm arm rolled up the resisting Erwa and ran away first.
After Gu Quankun's chest was pierced by the ghost hand, he spat out a large mouthful of blood, the earthworm arm disappeared, and Xia Bai fell to the ground.
Seeing this, Guo Yang and Ma Tongfeng immediately followed Ling Changye and ran forward.
Before Xia Bai ran away, he looked back at Gu Quankun and asked, "Can I have your body?"
“…”
Xia Bai was also desperate, so he ran after asking. At the same time, he controlled several dead bodies in his mind, passed by the ghost school beauty openly, and ran in the opposite direction from them.
After catching up with Ling Changye, Guo Yang propped himself up on his knees and panted, "What...what's going on? What...is going on?"
The earthworm arm on Ling Changye's arm also disappeared. He didn't explain, but asked directly: "Do you know where the two islanders who were killed at the beginning are buried?"
The first two islanders who died were killed by the ghost school beauty in revenge.
The island still practices traditional burial, and other islanders buried them after discovering them.
He didn't say anything, and Guo Yang didn't dare to ask any more. This might be related to his skills. As a fan, he knows how to protect the privacy of his idol and actively cooperates with his idol. "I know, I'll take you there."
Ling Changye said: "Okay, let's go dig the grave."
Xia Bai's eyes lit up and he readily agreed.
They went to where the islanders lived and found some tools. Guo Yang and Ma Tongfeng each brought a shovel, Xia Bai and Erwa each brought a hoe, and when the sun was at its highest, they came to dig the graves.
"Captain Ling, why did you ask us to dig graves? Did you discover something in the movie?" Guo Yang asked while shoveling the soil.
"Let's dig it out first." Ling Changye replied simply, but his eyes fell on Xia Bai next to Guo Yang.
Guo Yang turned his head following his gaze and saw Xia Bai digging with a hoe. His movements were very skillful, his eyes were bright, and he seemed a little excited.
Guo Yang: “…”
Ma Tongfeng kept following Xia Baigan, and the middle-aged man said nothing.
Even Erwa raised his hoe in an inspiring manner.
So Guo Yang also started digging hard. He also knew that the situation was urgent and the ghost school beauty might find them soon.
As they dug, they found that there was no body inside. They also found nothing when they dug up another grave.
Guo Yang was confused and said, "What's going on? I'm sure this is the right place, but where are their bodies?"
Ling Changye didn't look surprised. He looked at the empty grave with his dark eyes and said in a deep voice, "They are not dead."
Guo Yang's pupils trembled, and under the scorching sun, he felt a chill all over his body.
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