Chapter 36 Harmony Cinema 9
Guo Yang looked around the island in the chill.
The sun is blazing overhead, seagulls are chirping, half of the forest is scorched and the other half is thriving. The sun-soaked beach and the coconut-lined coast are bright and hot.
He felt a false sense of panic.
"What on earth is going on?"
Ma Tongfeng didn't understand either and couldn't answer him.
Xia Bai seemed to be lost in thought, no one knew what he was thinking about. His empty face seemed to say that his soul was not at home for the time being and that he had not heard his voice.
Ling Changye did not answer his question. He continued to push the plot of the movie, "After the islanders knew about the death of these two people, they went to seek revenge and killed two students from the expedition team. Let's go and dig and see."
Guo Yang's brain was no longer able to think, he only listened to Ling Changye's instructions, "Oh, okay, I'll take you there."
The students were buried on the other side of the island, in an area of forest that was not affected by the fire.
They walked over there carefully, and when they took a detour to pass by the place where the ghost school beauty was just now, they found that the ghost school beauty was no longer there, and Gu Quankun, who was hit on the ghost school beauty's hand, was also gone.
Guo Yang was surprised and asked, "Gu Quankun is not dead, right? Doesn't his earthworm arm have a certain regeneration ability?"
After all, he was on the list, and it is still surprising and sad that he died like this.
Hearing about the regeneration ability, Xia Bai subconsciously looked at Ling Changye.
He thought of Ling Changye's rebirth.
This time his eyes fell on the right side of Ling Changye's waist, which was also stained red with blood.
Earthworms have the ability to regenerate themselves. After Gu Quankun's arms evolved into earthworms, his arms and hands also had a certain degree of regenerative ability.
Xia Bai remembered that when he was in the cinema, his earthworm arm was broken by the ghost hand, and several of Gu Quankun's fingers were also broken, with blood dripping out. Later, when he watched it again in the movie world, the fingers had grown back.
The earthworm arm that Ling Changye grew separated him and the ghost school beauty. At such a close distance, he might have been torn apart by the ghost school beauty's ghost hand.
He was wearing a windbreaker with his arms not in the sleeves, so he didn't know what was going on inside, nor when the blood on his waist came from.
Ling Changye turned sideways and continued to walk forward, saying nonchalantly, "Don't worry about him."
Several people followed him forward. Erwa carried the hoe like a seesaw and walked a few steps. Suddenly, he turned his head to look at the grass over there, and a childish, almost inaudible "ah" sound came out of his mouth.
When he looked up and saw that Xia Bai and Ling Changye were several steps away from him, he hurriedly chased after them.
After they turned into the forest, a head popped out from the bushes. The waitress looked pale, staring at the back in the distance, until the green disappeared from her sight, and then she continued to drag the bloody thing away.
Gu Quankun is indeed not dead.
This experienced old hand left himself a life-saving item, which was a potion he got in a hospital copy. The function of this potion was to fake death, and there would be no vital signs during use. The effect lasted for 10 minutes. The ghost school beauty thought he was dead and ignored him.
In fact, he was not dead, but he was also fatally injured. If the ghost school beauty did not leave him, he would be in danger. Fortunately, the ghost school beauty chased the corpse into the islanders' residential area.
Ten minutes later, Gu Quankun opened his eyes. Before he could even rejoice, a thick, hard vine covered with sharp thorns tightly strangled his neck.
While suffocating, he subconsciously reached out to pull the thing on his neck. As soon as he raised his arm, it was chopped off by an axe. A scream just came out of his mouth but was covered by a hand.
Strangling, breaking arms, covering mouth.
The man behind him moved smoothly and fiercely, anticipating all his movements without a single sluggishness.
Gu Quankun was shaking with pain. He raised his head with great effort and saw the waiter's face. "Let go..."
When he was about to suffocate, the waiter really let go. Gu Quankun did not relax at all. He saw the waiter's eyes, which were so calm that there was no trace of emotion.
He suddenly remembered that in the No. 3 screening room, the waiter also pretended to be dead and escaped. But she was just an ordinary person who had never entered the game. She had no painkillers or fake death, so she just endured it by herself.
What kind of ordinary person could remain expressionless and make no sound under such fatal pain?
Sweat was oozing out of Gu Quankun's forehead.
In the screening room, Gu Quankun was just surprised when he noticed the waiter crawling away.
When he actually faced the ghost school beauty and had his shoulder pierced by her ghost hand, he realized how terrifying and painful the cold tearing was. The pain made his nerves jump violently, and they seemed to rush out of his body. The nerve pain alone was enough to cause facial expressions, just like he was doing now.
The sweat on his forehead flowed down his blue veins, and he said with a distorted face: "Save, save me, I will take care of you in the future, don't worry."
After experiencing the horror of the game, it was a huge temptation to have an experienced old player to lead him. Xu Yue was extremely happy at the time, let alone a woman without any special powers.
The waiter's eyes didn't change at all, and Gu Quankun felt like a clown.
He was not stupid. He realized that the waitress would never let him go. How could he die at the hands of a woman? He was immediately filled with resentment. He could not accept his own death, let alone such a death. "Bitch! You are just an ordinary person, a lowly waitress!"
There was a wave in the waiter's eyes, and before Gu Quankun could see clearly, he was tied up by her with rattan sticks.
When the waitress bent over, Gu Quankun saw the bandage on her waist that he had fought so hard to get, and he became even angrier. Since he had no way to survive, he used the last of his strength to vent his anger and curse, although it wasn't much, "Xia Bai, Xia is a bitch, and so are you, you all are, all of you!"
The waiter paused.
Before Gu Quankun could see the waiter's face clearly, a stone came towards him.
He was quiet.
The waiter held his broken arm with one hand and pulled the vine with the other, dragging him silently towards a higher place.
When Gu Quankun woke up, he was tied to a huge rock at the highest point of the island, numb from the pain.
Unlike other places on the island, there are no trees here, so it looks a bit bare, and the unobstructed sunlight makes people's skin peeling.
The stone thrown by the waiter hit him on the head and blood came out immediately. One of his eyes was covered with blood and his vision was blurred, so he did not see the waiter.
His head was dizzy and he licked his dry lips. Just as his nerves relaxed a little, he heard footsteps.
The work uniform at the Harmony Cinema is a white shirt, a black jacket, black pants or a knee-length skirt with a not-so-delicate jasmine flower on the skirt.
The jasmine flower has turned blood red.
She walked over slowly, and a green object swayed on the blood-red jasmine flowers.
One of his eyes was bloodshot and unclear, so Gu Quankun closed his eyes tightly and finally saw clearly that it was the snake's tail in the shaking vision.
The waiter held two or three colorful snakes that were twisting and struggling in each hand, and looked at him with emotionless eyes as if he were a dead object.
Several snakes were twisted and tangled, spitting out blood-red tongues with a hissing sound, and their cold vertical pupils were also staring at him.
Gu Quankun's pupils trembled and his whole body was covered with hair. He had never been so terrified before facing a school beauty. "You, you, please, please! Don't!"
The online course of the Game Management Bureau states that soul skills will affect the owner, and reminds players not to use them excessively as there may be side effects.
In fact, some physical skills will also affect the owner, just like Gu Quankun, his physical skill is earthworm arm. Snakes eat earthworms and are the natural enemies of earthworms. He is more afraid of snakes than before, especially these colorful snakes.
"Please, please..." His voice was so trembling and weak that it was almost inaudible. He no longer looked so high and mighty. "Xia Bai, Xia Bai, I am willing. I will give you my body. Take me away..."
You Yue calmly threw five snakes at him, two of which landed right on his broken arms.
She didn't watch the next scene. She found another stone to sit on, listened to Gu Quankun's screams, picked up Gu Quankun's broken arm and compared it with her own arm, and finally threw it aside.
After there was no sound behind her, she took out a pear from her pocket, wiped it casually, and started eating it bite by bite, looking down in silence.
The ghost school beauty and two other female ghosts were searching everywhere where the islanders lived, becoming more and more anxious. They pushed the thatched huts one after another and ran to the lake on the island, trying to grab something from the lake.
They are the scariest ghosts in the game. At this moment, their long hair is scattered and their bodies are covered in blood, but because of their hysteria, they look like countless girls struggling in misery.
Moving their eyes, on the other side of the lake, several people found two graves that were so simple that there was not even a mound of earth.
For fear of being discovered by the cannibalistic islanders, the expedition team simply dug a simple pit and buried their two companions who were killed by the islanders.
This time, Ling Changye didn't need to say anything, the three adults and one child started digging quickly.
When the islanders took revenge, they actually killed three people, a boy and a girl among the students and He Jiaxiu. He Jiaxiu's body had been buried by Ma Tongfeng, and they were very curious whether the bodies of these two people were still there.
Those who watched the movie carefully know that the bodies of the two students were incomplete, especially the female student who died at that time. Most of her body had been taken back and eaten by the islanders. Her companions only snatched a hand and buried it as if it was her.
After digging for a while, they found the hand covered with wet mud.
Then, they dug up the boy's body parts.
"This..." Even Ma Tongfeng couldn't help but be curious, "What on earth is going on?"
Ling Changye: "They are really dead."
Ma Tongfeng: "If the bodies disappeared, they are not dead, and if the bodies are still there, they are really dead?"
Ling Changye hummed.
Ma Tongfeng: "What about those who didn't die?"
Ling Changye raised his eyes. His eyes were dark, but they seemed to be emitting a layer of barely detectable dark blue light. He looked into the abyss and said, "He is probably still alive and well."
Live well? Where?
Ma Tongfeng looked around. There were lush vegetation and swaying shadows of trees. It seemed as if there were pairs of eyes spying on them. In broad daylight, goose bumps appeared on his body.
Guo Yang asked: "The ones who actually died were students, and the islanders were all fine? Did the islanders' survival have anything to do with the evil gods they believed in? Then where are they now?"
Like Ma Tongfeng, he looked around like a frightened bird and asked questions one after another nervously.
Ling Changye glanced at Xia Bai, the only one who remained calm, and said, "Dig more."
Guo Yang: "Still digging? Where?"
Ling Changye: "There are two more students who were buried. They were the two who walked into the cave on the first night."
That night, the school beauty was dragged into the cave by two islanders. Two male classmates noticed it. Instead of saving the school beauty, they joined them. After the school beauty died and turned into a ghost, she naturally didn't let them go. In fact, they were the first to be buried, and at that time, the other classmates didn't know what they had done.
Guo Yang: "These two are buried nearby, they are easy to find."
Ma Tongfeng was in the woods and had a good sense of location. He pointed to a location and said, "It should be there."
The three men started digging the graves of the other two people. They spent the whole day digging graves. It was the first time that Guo Yang and Ma Tongfeng knew how tiring digging graves was. They were sweaty, tired and thirsty.
Erwa took out a pear from his pocket, wiped it with his sleeve, took a small step towards Xia Bai, and immediately turned around when he saw him raising the hoe.
Ling Changye happened to see him holding a pear in his little hand, ready to give someone something to eat. He had been in the movie world for so long, but he hadn't had a sip of water yet. He looked at Erwa, but before he could say anything, Erwa quickly put the pear in his pocket and squatted down to dig the soil.
Ling Changye: “…”
Guo Yang kicked the shovel into the soil and shoveled out a piece of soil. "How deep is it buried? Why hasn't it come out yet?"
Ling Changye: "Do you think there is a dead body inside?"
Guo Yang was stunned for a moment, "Isn't it?"
He did assume that there were bodies inside. The four graves they dug earlier all contained bodies of islanders, but the bodies of students were still there. According to his speculation, the islanders were still alive for some unknown reason, and the students who came to explore the island really died on the island.
The result was that there were no bodies in these two graves.
The two deep pits were empty, with nothing in them.
Guo Yang was completely confused. "What on earth is going on?"
Xia Bai stared blankly at the empty pit, "The person who hurt the ghost school beauty is not really dead. It's fake."
"What?" Guo Yang looked at him, "Xia Bai, did you find something?"
Ling Changye also looked at Xia Bai, waiting for him to speak about his discovery.
Xia Bai noticed his gaze and without hiding anything, expressed all his previous doubts and current thoughts.
"When I was looking for clues just now, I rubbed the faces of several dead islanders and found that they were really black."
"You told me that at the time." Guo Yang looked puzzled, "But it's normal to be dark. They live on the island all year round and are tanned."
Xia Bai pursed his lips, "Did you see the school beauty's hand?"
Guo Yang was honest. "The ghost hand was so scary that I didn't even have time to escape, so how could I have time to take a closer look?"
"Before the school beauty turned into a ghost, didn't you watch the movie carefully at the beginning?" Xia Bai glanced at Guo Yang. Although he was still dazed, Guo Yang could see the good student's condemnation of the poor student. Of course, it might be his poor student psychology that was at work.
"Isn't the game system meant for watching movies carefully?"
Guo Yang: “…”
Isn't it okay that he was wrong?
Xia Bai didn't waste time and said directly: "The school beauty's hands are a bit dark and rough. If it is true that the islanders have dark skin, why are the school beauty's hands rough?"
Guo Yang was stunned. According to the "reality" he set, the school beauty's hands really shouldn't be rough. The movie had more than one detail that these students who had nothing to do and came to explore all had good family conditions and were freshmen who had just finished high school. Their hands shouldn't be very rough.
Seeing that he hadn't reacted yet, Xia Bai added a few details, "The school beauty's hands were white at first, and then they seemed to slowly turn darker. The islanders' skin under their clothes is white, and I rubbed them on their dark faces, but nothing came off."
Guo Yang's slow brain began to work slowly, and he thought about the actor level.
The character of the school belle is a rich lady, so her fingers should be delicate and fair. However, the actress who plays the school belle has rough hands. At first, she can make them look whiter with makeup, but after a long time, the makeup will fall off and they will become dark and rough.
——If this setting is true.
Well, the islanders are people who are exposed to the sun every day on the island, so their skin color should be black. The actors who play them should wear makeup to look dark, so Xia Bai should have rubbed something on their faces.
We can't say that the actors are black and don't need makeup. They are white under their clothes, and the blackness of the exposed parts is very uniform. If all the actors are like this, without makeup, white inside and black outside, and the blackness is very uniform, it's too coincidental to explain.
Guo Yang got goose bumps on his arms and felt a strange fear of the world.
On the surface, these details seem to have no direct relationship with the movie story logic of the game mission, but they shake the foundation of the entire movie world.
Guo Yang: "Isn't this a movie world? Aren't all people fake?"
Xia Bai shook his head: "There is something relatively real in it."
The school belle appeared for a very short time when she was alive. Her fingers were white when she first appeared, and even if they were a little rough, it was not obvious in the movie filter. The first impression she gave was that of a normal, rich, and beautiful school belle, so it was normal that Guo Yang did not notice her.
Once the first impression is imprinted in your mind, it will be less likely for you to notice anything unusual afterwards.
After appearing in the daytime, when the school beauty was pulled into the cave at night, Xia Bai felt that the school beauty's hands were a little black. Looking more closely, he found that the back of her hands were rough, the palms were calloused, and the knuckles were swollen from frostbite in winter.
Even fair-skinned, wealthy women may have rough hands. The only noticeable problem of the change from white to black may be due to the lighting. It was night and too dark. Xia Bai also thought that it was the makeup that had fallen off, which seemed normal.
At that time, Xia Bai had only a small doubt in his mind. Even after he saw the skin color of the islander, his doubts only deepened. He could not be sure because there was no evidence to support it. It was not until he saw the bodies of the islander disappeared and the two students were still there that his speculation, which was both true and false, became certain.
Guo Yang: "How do we define what is true and what is false?"
The skin color of the islanders is true to the movie, but the school beauty's hands are just a detail loophole?
Or are the school beauty's hands real, and the islanders' skin color fake, and they are virtual filmmakers?
Xia Bai: "It depends on the perspective. From the actor's perspective, the changes in the school belle's hands are real, and the islander's skin color cannot be rubbed off, which is problematic. In the world of movies, the school belle's hands are loopholes, and the islander's skin color is the reality that conforms to the world of movies."
Guo Yang: "Two dimensions intertwined?"
Where they are now, there are two dimensions, which is the intersection of two dimensions, which means that they are only standing in the movie world and what they see is only partial, or even wrong.
Guo Yang grabbed his hair with both hands and squatted down as if giving up. "What? No, why is this happening?"
Ling Changye said: "Don't be so halfhearted. Have you forgotten the rules of corpses summarized by this person?"
"This person" obviously refers to Xia Bai.
He crossed his arms over his chest, his arms looked intact, even the cut on his chest seemed to have healed. Xia Bai saw a thin layer of muscle through the gap in his torn shirt, underneath the remaining blood.
"Ah? The person who hurt the ghost school beauty is not really dead?" Guo Yang reacted immediately, "The ghost school beauty is the key boss throughout the whole story. The truth of the movie we are looking for should also be related to her. We should use her as a benchmark, so she is real?"
A sea breeze blew by, bringing with it the fishy smell from the ocean, as well as faint cries and mournful shouts.
They were at the edge of a higher forest on the other side of the lake. Through the gaps between some trees, they could see three female ghosts struggling and screaming by the lake, and the water was hit by layer of waves.
In the past, because of their terrifying power, I only thought they were bloody and terrifying, but now I could hear hopelessness and sadness in their cries.
If the ghost school beauty is real, then many of the islanders whose bodies disappeared may be fake.
She killed them, that was also false.
She takes revenge in a fake world.
She herself realized it, at some point, she realized that she did not kill those beasts. She had been searching frantically on the island, killing people, but they were not those beasts.
She will never be able to take revenge, she is trapped in this fake world.
I don’t know how many years I have gone through and how many times I have watched movies.
Ma Tongfeng struggled and said, "If the school beauty ghost is real, then the two female ghosts with her are also real, and they should be the same as her. But the bodies of the islanders who hurt them are still in the residential area, and they haven't disappeared."
Without Xia Bai saying anything more, Guo Yang answered his question, "Maybe it's not the refresh time yet. They all died last night. The ones who disappeared have been dead for two or three days."
He laughed at himself again, "And if they all disappeared, the clues would be too obvious."
For some reason, the color on Ma Tongfeng's face gradually disappeared, and he looked gloomy, as if the last bit of vitality was gone. He just stared at the three female ghosts who could never be truly avenged with tired and exhausted eyes.
"When we first entered the movie, I reminded you that this was a virtual movie world. I was wrong," said Xia Bai.
When they first came in, Xia Bai only thought of this as a movie world. They came here just to watch movies in another more realistic way, and they were also reminded not to do anything that would affect key plot points.
So when he saw the two girls being sacrificed alive on the altar, he didn't do anything. He knew Ma Tongfeng couldn't bear to watch it because it was too real.
It is so real, as if it really exists and happens somewhere in the world, especially the injuries, struggles, screams, resentment and unwillingness at the time of death, which are so real that they don't seem to be acted.
At that moment, Xia Bai wondered why this movie was so real, and to what extent, or in what dimension, it could be real.
After the movie ended, they were looking for clues in the islander area. When Xia Bai was rubbing the dark face of the corpse, he thought of this question again and had an uncertain guess.
Seeing the disappearing and existing corpses, he knew that he had been wrong. This was the movie world, and there were many "filmmakers" in it, but there were also real people.
"The task of the game is to [sort out the story logic in the movie], but the game is not about [sorting out the story logic in the movie]. I previously guessed that it was reminding us to read the story in the movie." Xia Bai said: "Now it seems that my understanding of this [theme] is still shallow."
Ling Changye tugged at his windbreaker and put both arms into the sleeves at the same time, "Let's put that on hold for now, the difficult problems we are going to face are coming soon."
When they looked forward, they saw three female ghosts coming towards them.
The islanders on the island were killed by them, and now it was their turn. They came to seek "revenge" on them.
Ling Changye: "I'm not sure I can handle them now, what about you?"
Guo Yang was as honest as ever in front of his idol, "Of course not!"
Ling Changye: "Then we can only think of another way."
Xia Bai: "Go to another higher dimensional world to find the truth."
Guo Yang: "Where is it? How do I get there?"
After saying this, he seemed to know the answer. If there was a place on the island that could connect to another dimension, it would most likely be the lake.
The four of them were pulled here from there by the ghost school beauty, and that was the place the ghost school beauty frequented most. She often wandered by the lake.
Xia Bai: "The ghost school beauty must have been trapped here for a long time. She has grown stronger here and should have slowly realized that the real enemy is in another dimension and is connected through the lake. The ghost hand that appeared in our screening room was her trying to catch the enemy in another dimension."
The first time he saw it between the seats, the ghost head with black hair like Heishui should be the face of one of them looking down in the lake. But at that time, the theater was too dark and there were too many hairs, so Xia Bai didn't see whose face it was. He only saw from the back that the ghost hand belonged to the school beauty.
The answer is very consistent, it is that lake.
The three female ghosts are just ahead.
Ling Changye's right hand became soft, and a huge brown-red earthworm grew out of it, which was getting longer and longer. It rolled up the four people around him and stretched forward rapidly, throwing the four people into the lake before the female ghost was about to jump up.
The twin female ghosts jumped onto the earthworm's arm, and the earthworm was immediately corroded and broken by their blood, and the corrosion quickly spread to Ling Changye's body.
The earthworm's arm changed direction and grew a little more with difficulty, wrapping around a thick tree trunk. Ling Changye took advantage of the momentum to jump up, swung the long knife in his hand, cut off the earthworm's arm, and jumped into the lake.
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