Chapter 38 Harmonious Cinema (End)
Ma Tongfeng couldn't listen any longer. He stood up angrily and shouted, "Are you still human?"
During the information exchange just now, they learned about the birthplaces and brief experiences of several actresses. Ma Tongfeng, who also came from a rural background, was the most angry. In his opinion, some of those girls had spent all their money to become actresses, while others had given up on the college entrance examination. The one who gave up the college entrance examination was the only girl in the village who went to high school. She might have become a college student.
They sacrificed everything just for a chance to break free from the mud.
He no longer dared to look into the girls' hopeful eyes. They were so beautiful and so smart, how could they know what they were going to experience.
It was not the bright avenue paved with flowers that they saw.
No.
Ma Tongfeng grabbed the screenwriter's collar angrily, his eyes red, "It's just to satisfy your perverted hobbies, it's just a game for them!"
"It's not me! It has nothing to do with me. I just got paid to write the script. I didn't do anything." The screenwriter was frightened by Ma Tongfeng and kept explaining. He didn't understand why this man who looked like a stagehand suddenly became so scary.
"You are not a good guy either!" Ma Tongfeng wanted to punch him hard in the heart to see if his heart would hurt, but he knew that the screenwriter was definitely not one of the ones who started it, and he couldn't seriously injure the screenwriter, so he had to let go reluctantly in the end.
He turned his head to look in the direction of the set, his silent face showing a look of helplessness and vicissitudes.
Xia Bai said nothing, just sat quietly aside eating a pear to replenish his energy.
Erwa squatted very close behind him, covering his ears with his hands.
Ma Tongfeng's emotions gradually stabilized and he rubbed his eyes. "Do we have to wait here until they finish filming the movie before we can see the way out?"
Guo Yang answered the question irrelevantly, "Lao Ma, this has already happened, we can't stop it."
Ma Tongfeng looked more depressed and lifeless, "So what should we do next?"
Ling Changye looked at the trembling screenwriter. The screenwriter didn't know what he had imagined in his mind, and he scared himself to tears. "It really has nothing to do with me. I didn't do anything! Don't kill me, I won't dare to do it again!"
Ling Changye said: "It's time to send him back."
Hearing him say this, the screenwriter looked over in surprise.
Xia Bai: "Let the corpse take him back?"
The screenwriter wanted to cry again.
The two dead bodies on the left and right pulled him up, and the screenwriter trembled with fear.
Guo Yang: "Let's go, let's go quickly."
Screenwriter: "No, I won't leave. No, I don't have to leave."
Guo Yang kicked him in the ass and said, "Just write your script when you get back. Don't say anything you shouldn't say. Got it?"
"I know, I know!" The screenwriter nodded repeatedly and ran away carefully. After running a few steps, he straightened his clothes and saw a dead body in the bushes staring at him. He froze for a few seconds, then slowly walked back to his hut.
Guo Yang: "What should we do now? We need to go back to the movie world and confirm with the ghost school beauty that she really died during the filming of the movie. Is her ghost trapped in the movie by that ghost Taoist priest?"
Xia Bai: "We need to go back. The waiter You Yue is still there."
Ling Changye: "We need to keep someone watching over here, too."
Xia Bai and Guo Yang said in unison: "You stay."
Ling Changye slowly moved his gaze away, "Why?"
Xia Bai: "Don't change your clothes anymore."
Guo Yang: "One less set of clothes."
“…”
There are three evil ghosts in the movie world and we must not take them lightly. In the end, Xia Bai, Guo Yang and Lao Ma all went there, and Ling Changye stayed here with Erwa.
Erwa looked at their backs and followed them for two steps. Then he was brought back by Ling Changye. "I raised you for two years with great difficulty. Is it not as good as him raising you for one day?"
Erwa squatted down with his head in his hands, not answering or facing the situation.
“…”
Xia Bai and the other two jumped into the lake and followed the direction they came from, passing through the deep lake bottom. When they emerged from the water, they saw the burnt island and three eerie female ghosts staring at them by the lake.
When they saw them again, they were not as scared as before.
Before Xia Bai surfaced, he had already handed the last few corpse-controlling talismans in his pocket to the corpses following him.
Theoretically, the Corpse Suppression Talisman and the Corpse Control Talisman are effective against dead bodies, and have a certain effect on ghosts like the school beauty ghost that have a physical body and can be touched, but the effect is definitely not as good as that on dead bodies. Xia Bai used the Corpse Suppression Talisman to stick the ghost's hand to confirm this.
This time he used the corpse-controlling talisman, not with the intention of truly controlling them, but just to buy them some time.
Before jumping into the lake, the three of them anticipated the situation and discussed how to deal with it.
Guo Yang jumped out first: "Three of you, we found it! We found your... ah, it hurts!"
As soon as Guo Yang showed his head, before he could finish his words, he was grabbed by the ghost school beauty's hand, and the sharp and cold nails pierced deeply into his shoulder.
Xia Bai took the opportunity to control the corpses. A group of emotionless corpses all jumped onto the ghost school beauty and the other two female ghosts. The corpse-controlling talismans were attached to their heads. The talismans temporarily immobilized them, but it was obvious that they were shaking during their struggle.
The frozen ghost school beauty became even more angry and crazy, and kept muttering: "Die, all of you die! Kill them, kill..."
Xia Bai asked: "Killing them, is it the obsession of school beauty Zhou Xin, or is it Xia Fei's request?"
The ghost school beauty's stiff figure trembled suddenly, her dry eyes opened wide, and a faint light of clarity appeared in her dead fish-like eyes, "Xia Fei, Xia Fei, mom, I... I am Xia Fei?"
Xia Bai: "You are Xia Fei."
It was Xia Fei who pulled them out of the lake, not some school beauty.
Xia Fei's body began to tremble violently, "Xia Fei, Mom, Fei Fei, it's Xia Fei..."
Her name is Xia Fei.
She was born in a small village and never left that place from birth to the age of 18. The farthest place she had ever seen was the distant view on the mountain when she was cutting grass for cattle.
The summer breeze blew over one mountain after another, and on the rugged mountain road, a tricycle took her sight farther and farther, towards the distant place she longed for but could never reach.
The tricycle took her cousin to the county high school.
She didn't have this opportunity. She couldn't even go to junior high school. Her father said that if the family had a lot of money, he would buy her brother a plane, but he didn't provide her with education. It was her mother who secretly paid her tuition with the money she had saved for more than ten years. She was beaten several times in the yard, in the room, on the bed, and under the bed in exchange for her chance to go to junior high school.
But that’s all my mom can do.
Like her father, she favors her younger brother.
When she wanted to go to high school, her mother said, "Do you think I can't get into high school?"
She didn't even finish elementary school.
She dropped out of school at a young age, worked to support her family, and finally married her father, a man who took beating women for granted. She became a woman who placed most of her life hopes on her son, and assumed that her daughter would drop out of school and follow her old path.
She always thought that she was like this until her cousin came home and said that the director had chosen her to act in a movie and she was going to become a star known by audiences all over the country.
The villagers looked at the director's car as if they were looking at a new world. It was said that the whole village worked together for five years but still couldn't afford it. To be a star in a movie and have a car worth millions, these were all things they could never imagine.
The woman just took a look and left, and no one knew where she went.
That night she called her out tremblingly, gave her a beautiful dress to change into, combed her hair, and applied hand cream to her dry hands. The fragrant and smooth hand cream was spread between the three rough hands, and most of it was absorbed by the younger one.
She took her to see the director, gave the director a large sum of money, knelt down before the director, and asked the director to take her to make a movie.
The next day, my father found out that she had sold all the cows in their family, so he beat her to death for the whole morning using sticks, knives, and shovels. Blood flowed all over the yard, and she thought she was really dead.
While in the hospital, she could no longer speak and might never be able to get out of bed, but when she was about to leave to film a movie, she smiled.
For the first time, there was such a bright light in her cloudy yellow eyes. She walked out the door and looked back to see that she was still smiling.
The only finger on her right hand that could still move kept moving upwards. Others might not understand it, but she did, it was a flying movement.
Fly, Xia Fei, fly out.
That smile didn't look good on her bruised face, but it was always in her heart all the way.
The cowboy grass in June is crisp and lush, growing continuously but confined to the shape of the mountains, one after another, one patch after another.
She left there in a car. The mountain road was bumpy and the seats were soft. She curled up in the car and swore that she would act well and work hard to make money to save her, no matter how hard or tiring it was.
She is not afraid of hard work or fatigue, but the most difficult thing is the lack of opportunities.
There were bloodstains on the face of the ghost school beauty. They were tear marks. She cried, and tears of blood flowed out from her dry eye sockets. "Mom..."
She really works hard, for herself, for her mother who is still waiting for the hospital bed for her to bring money back, and for many more things that are hard to explain. She works hard every moment.
Amid the director's abuse and the mocking looks from others, she tried hard to play a role of a rich, beautiful woman that she had never seen before. She went down to the lake and up the mountain, and ran around the island under the scorching sun with her long bloody hair dragging.
She didn't feel bitter at all because the island was so beautiful and the world here was so beautiful.
However, she didn't know that the future she was looking forward to was that dirty cave.
That night, she was dragged into the cave by two investors. She was wearing a suspender pajamas and her skin was rubbed painfully by the ground, but she didn't say a word because the director said they wanted to make the most realistic movie and couldn't use a stand-in.
Of course she wouldn't use a stand-in, she is willing to be a stand-in.
The scene in which she was rubbed to the point of bleeding must have been very real.
When she was pinned down at first, she didn't know how real the movie was going to be. She didn't know when she was slapped for the first time. When she knew, she no longer had the strength to struggle.
When she was crying and asking the director and others for help, it was also in the camera, it looked very real.
What about the look in her eyes when she died?
Did the camera capture her resentment and unwillingness?
Her resentment and hatred must have been deeply preserved, otherwise she would not stay here, experiencing death over and over again, seeking revenge and killing over and over again, but still being unable to kill them.
"Kill them, kill them!"
The ghost school beauty's emotions gradually collapsed, and the other two female ghosts also became agitated, with a spooky aura and screaming miserably.
A ghost hand suddenly stretched out and rushed towards Xia Bai.
Guo Yang, who was lying on the ground, shouted, "Xia Bai!"
Just as Xia Bai was about to reach out his hand, he was pushed away by Ma Tongfeng.
The sharp ghost hand pierced the skin on Ma Tongfeng's neck, and blood gushed out immediately.
"Kill you! Damn it! All of you deserve to die! There is no innocent person!" Gui Xiafei's expression was ferocious, and blood was flowing out of the gray-purple ghost's hands, gradually turning scarlet.
Ma Tongfeng's feet were off the ground, and when she was about to lift him up, one hand pressed down on her wrist.
Xia Bai tightly grasped the sticky and scary ghost hand, "I know you are suffering."
"I know you've suffered."
These were the last words her mother said to her that night as she stroked her rough hands through layers of thin hand cream. The hand cream, which she had bought from a faraway place and used until the day she died, exuded a strong scent of gardenia.
The gardenia is white and clean, just like the hands holding her.
"I'll take you to kill them." Xia Bai said.
He slowly changed from holding to pulling, and held the blood-red ghost hand, just like holding the hand of his god of joy, "Follow me."
Xia Fei is a very powerful ghost. She can vaguely sense in which direction her enemy is, but she cannot get in.
They saw a Taoist priest in the Origin World, holding a steering wheel and talisman paper.
There is also an investor there who believes in a strange Bodhisattva and must have some knowledge of ghosts, gods and metaphysics.
Xia Bai reasonably suspected that they were making fun of the deaths and struggles of the poor, but he was also afraid of the theory of ghost revenge, so he invited a Taoist priest in advance to seal them in a camera that recorded everything when they died, trapping them in a movie.
Since he knew the passage, he should be able to lead them over by pulling them, so Xia Bai wanted to give it a try.
The sharp ghost hand was grabbed by Xia Bai.
Ma Tongfeng fell to the ground, covering his bleeding neck and coughing continuously. Seeing Xia Bai walking towards the lake with three ghosts, he wiped the blood off his neck with his sleeve and jumped into the lake.
In the clear lake water, Xia Bai was at the front, holding the hand of the ghost school beauty.
The ghost school beauty was holding the hand of one of the sacrificed girls, and that girl was holding the hand of another sacrificed girl.
The clean lake water melted away the dirt and blood clots. Their long hair spread softly and freely in the water. Bubbles rose up, wrapping up the bits of light and moving towards a brighter place.
Ma Tongfeng watched this scene, and another scene appeared in his mind.
In that small rental house, there was a cooking stove next to the bed, with pots, pans, and utensils neatly arranged.
He smiled happily, looking at Jiaxiu who was picking the skin off the popcorn. The dim light of the tile lamp fell on her face, and the warm smile penetrated into her wrinkles.
There was a strong wind outside, but he couldn't hear anything. In this shabby little room, the satisfaction in his heart was like the small pot on the stove next to him, bubbling with sweet hot steam.
"Jia Xiu, there's a comedy tomorrow night, do you want to watch it?"
"No, let's just watch this horror movie."
"Jiaxiu, why do you like watching horror movies?"
She looked up at the lamp, filling her eyes with light. After a long while, she smiled and said, "Humans are small and powerless. It is a lie that good is rewarded with good and evil is punished with evil. In horror movies, there is karma, and revenge can be exacted and grievances can be repaid."
Ma Tongfeng's tears merged into the lake.
His body gradually lost strength and seemed to be sinking to the bottom of the lake. He was held up by Guo Yang who came from behind and swam forward.
Just as Ling Changye guessed, the crew first filmed the plot after the ghost school beauties turned into ghosts.
As soon as the crew started filming, they filmed the scene where the school beauty turned into a ghost and committed revenge and murder. This scene was about the first islander being killed by the ghost school beauty.
It can be seen that the crew is not short of money, all details are well done, the makeup artist is also awesome, and what is rare is that the supporting actors all performed very well.
Ling Changye sat on a stone in the woods and watched silently, his thin lips curled up in a slight arc, and his dark eyes were filled with a barely perceptible blue light.
Erwa squatted beside his legs with his eyes covered, and trembled when he heard the screams.
The screenwriter who was watching on the other side was as trembling with fear as he was. For some reason, he felt like many dead eyes were staring at him, eager to eat his flesh.
The first two scenes were filmed smoothly, and then they moved to the vicinity of the lake. The ghost school beauty chased someone here and was about to kill the islander.
This islander is played by the investor, and now he is about to be "killed" by the ghost school beauty. Several other investors also come to watch with great interest. The area around him is crowded with people, and several cameras are aimed at them.
After the director explained the scene to them, he stepped behind the monitor.
The investor lay on the ground and stared at Xia Fei with a sticky look. He licked his lips and said, "Fei Fei, it's okay. You can be more forceful later. Don't worry about my feelings."
"I'm sorry. I'm going to apologize to Mr. Li later." Xia Fei bowed repeatedly in his bloody and dirty clothes.
"Don't be so timid." Mr. Li looked at her up and down, "Be bold, I'm the one who will rape you."
The director held a megaphone and shouted, "Attention, all teams, start!"
The ghost school beauty grabbed the islander's legs, and in the islander's horrified eyes, she raised her ghost hand and coldly pierced into the islander's chest, and blood splattered on her gray face.
The islander only uttered half of his scream, his eyes fixed on the face of the ghost school beauty, full of terror and fear, and perhaps a hint of regret.
The next second, the islander suddenly jumped up.
“Hahahaha, am I dead?” Mr. Li raised his arms and the used blood bag on his chest slid down. An exaggerated and smug smile appeared on his face. That smile was ugly and hideous on his fat face dripping with blood, and it bloomed brightly under the scorching sun. “I’m not dead, hahaha!”
Several other investors also laughed out loud. It was a laugh that only they understood. The others didn’t understand, but they laughed along too.
A string of blood splashed on their faces, as if pressing the pause button, freezing their smiles.
Mr. Li shouted "I'm not dead" and a bloody hole appeared on his chest. The ghost hand that didn't pierce his skin just now pierced his chest.
Veins bulged on Mr. Li's head. He looked down at the ghost hand in disbelief, and streams of thick blood flowed out of his mouth.
The screenwriter held his head in horror and screamed, "It's none of my business! It's none of my business!"
He opened his mouth and screams suddenly broke out from the crowd.
There was a dark light in Ling Changye's eyes, and he turned to look at the lake.
The director, who was standing by the lake, heard the noise and looked towards the lake.
Xia Bai emerged from the water, his wet hair curled against his face, his wet skin gleaming in the sun, he looked like a mermaid who had just swam ashore and was naive. He tilted his head slightly and asked, "Director, do you want to make a real movie?"
The director stared blankly at the person in the sunlight. If the scene was changed, he would definitely point the camera at him, but against the backdrop of screams, he only felt a chill on the soles of his feet, as if the cold lake water had spread to their soles.
Guo Yang also emerged from the lake, holding the wound on his shoulder, and shouted: "If you want to be real, then be real to the end. Why are they not demanding the truth when only the actress and a few poor boys died realistically? Double standards will affect the quality of the film. How can they live up to the director's ambitions?"
"The cameras are ready." Guo Yang looked around and said with a smile, "Let's help the director realize his dream."
Two wet female ghosts emerged behind them. Their bodies were stiff and blood rolled down their bodies with every step they took. When they walked ashore, they had become a bloody mass whose faces could not be seen clearly.
“It hurts.”
"Give me back my blood."
The director's eyes widened in horror, his stomach throbbed and he was unable to even lift his feet to walk.
The coldness at the soles of his feet turned into tangible blood, which climbed up along his feet and submerged and corroded him in an instant.
Two female ghosts passed through him and rushed towards the crowd ahead.
Ma Tongfeng was the last one to come out of the lake. He watched the female ghost's revenge intently without blinking. He watched it very seriously.
They had seen what happened next before, the female ghost's revenge, but this time it was much more exciting.
They watched quietly and attentively, showing respect for this movie drawn in blood.
There were screams on the island and spots of light flashing on the lake behind them. When the screams gradually died down, the spots of light condensed into the shape of a road.
Guo Yang: "We can leave now."
Xia Bai: "Let's go back to the movie world first. The waitress is still there. She may not know to follow the light path out."
Ma Tongfeng agreed and said, "Let's go back."
Guo Yang looked at Ling Changye and Erwa standing in the distance and said, "I'll go with you."
Before swimming to the bottom of the lake, Xia Bai looked back and saw three female ghosts looking over here.
He said nothing and dived to the bottom of the lake.
The cold lake water covered his cheeks, and Xia Bai thought of Chu Xuelin at the bottom of the clear lake.
I don’t know if there is a girl named Xia Fei in the real world, or if there is a group of people like her.
Everyone was struggling in the quagmire, and one day a director came like a god, pulled them out of the quagmire, and said that he would let them make movies and become the glamorous actors on TV.
They gave up everything they had, not only selling everything they had and cutting off their own escape routes, but even losing their only love, to come to such a private island with him.
The director asked them if they could endure hardship?
That's their specialty.
They bent over, their heads were bent, their breasts were exposed, they were covered in blood, and they must have been full of hope as they ran around the island under the scorching sun.
They don’t know that this dazzling and great movie in their hearts is just the satisfaction of the perverted desires of a few people. Their dreams and lives are just their games, and the place of dreams is a cemetery.
Their deaths are nothing more than a cheesy movie that was criticized.
Not only that, they cannot break free even after death and are trapped in a fake movie, being hurt over and over again, dying over and over again, being watched by people over and over again. Even revenge is a joke, and they are becoming increasingly insane.
Xia Bai closed his eyes and tried to swim towards the light.
Back in Movie World, they don’t find the waiter.
Guo Yang said: "She should leave the game. Erwa knows to follow the light path and leave. She must know it too."
There is also a light path on the lake on this side of the movie world.
Guo Yang said: "Let's go quickly, before the road disappears."
It took some time to find the waiter, and I was afraid that if I didn’t leave now it would be too late.
Xia Bai nodded and walked towards the light path.
After walking a few steps, he looked back as if he had realized something and saw Ma Tongfeng still standing there with no intention of coming up.
"Xia Bai." He smiled very easily, "You guys go, I won't leave, I want to stay in this world to accompany Jia Xiu."
"What nonsense are you talking about, Old Ma!" Guo Yang said coldly, "The outside is our real world! Hurry up, the road is about to disappear!"
Ma Tongfeng turned his head and said, "I don't like the world outside."
Xia Bai did not persuade him to return to the real world. Every world and every place is like "one man's honey and my love". If he wants to stay here, then he can stay here.
He had already realized that there was no chance of him returning alive.
But Guo Yang didn't think so. He ran towards the old horse like the wind, picked up the old horse and ran out, "Xia Bai, hurry up and catch up!"
Xia Bai: “…”
He followed very obediently and walked into the path of light.
[Congratulations to the corpse collector Xia Bai for successfully unlocking the Harmonious Cinema map. ]
[The game is calculating, please wait. ]
[The rewards and achievements obtained by the corpse collector Xia Baiben map are as follows:]
[Game props [Harmony gripper]: A gripper that can break through space even at the cost of blood, and can help you pick up objects (people) across space.]
[Game points: 2012030]
[Skill Progress: Skill Level 23 (Note: Each time you pick up a corpse with skills, your level will increase by 20. Each time you pick up a corpse without skills, your level will increase by 10. Each additional corpse you pick up will increase your level by 2. Please go to the skill book for details.)]
Xia Bai: “……?”
How come his skill level is 23?
The initial level is 1, and he has an additional reserve corpse, You Yue, with a level of +2. Shouldn’t the current level be 3?
What are the extra 20 levels?
Xia Bai had a bad premonition, and as soon as he came out of the aperture, he turned on his phone and opened the skill book. When he saw that there was an additional name, Gu Quankun, in the corpse book that was renamed as the family tree, Xia Bai's eyes darkened.
He had asked Gu Quankun if he wanted to give him the body, but he didn't really want to sign it.
He didn't like Gu Quankun, nor did he like his skills.
So ugly.
When Xia Bai first saw Gu Quankun's hand suddenly grow into a giant earthworm in Cinema No. 5, he didn't think he was amazing or cool at all, and even felt a little disgusted.
Another image came to Xia Bai's mind. A huge earthworm grew out of the shoulder of the man in the black windbreaker and hovered in the air like a giant dragon soaring into the sky.
Suddenly, it seemed that it was not unacceptable.
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