Chapter 28 Harmony Cinema 1
Those eyes are deep.
It was like a switch was turned on, and the whole face came alive. The sharp lines and delicate facial features made up a face whose nobleness could not be concealed even with blood stains.
Xia Bai looked into the eyes for a second, and then the corpse slowly closed its eyes again.
Even if he only opened his eyes for one or two seconds, Xia Bai and several people around him saw it when he opened his eyes, which proved that he was still alive and not a dead body.
He would not belong to him.
Xia Bai resigned himself to this sad reality.
If he was really a dead body, even if someone from the Tourism Administration came to claim him, he could still struggle. If all else failed, he would bring up Hua Haoming, seeing that Hua Haoming dared to challenge even the vice president of the research institute, and seemed to have a lot of weight in the Tourism Administration.
But, he is alive.
"Um..." The man in the middle spoke again, "Classmate, we are going to take him away. What is your name? We will contact you later and thank you again."
Xia Bai lowered his head and reached out to push the corpse, but failed. However, his attitude was expressed.
The man in the middle immediately carried the body into the ward together with a healing player.
Xia Bai zipped up his protective suit and continued to clean up the bodies without saying a word.
The bodies had been almost cleared, and it was basically clear that there were no living players left, so everyone was not so nervous and working so hard, and they slowed down a bit. There were conversations in the lobby, and everyone was sighing and comforting each other.
Zhong Zicang saw that Xia Bai was busy cleaning. He never raised his head, let alone talking to anyone. He kept his head down.
This was the only freshman among the volunteers, who had just graduated from a high school where he only studied and had never dissected a corpse. Zhong Zicang was afraid that something might happen to him, so he walked over to him and was about to show some concern for him when he saw him pull the last intact corpse into the partition and sit down.
He touched the corpse's hand, and there seemed to be no psychological trauma left. Instead, a light rose in his usually lifeless eyes, which looked very strange, aggrieved, yet full of fighting spirit.
"One day, I will have my own corpse," he muttered with all his strength.
Zhong Zicang: “…”
He must have had some problems after all.
After thoroughly cleaning up the scene, it was already past four in the morning.
The wavy-haired sister they met in the restaurant personally brought someone to bring them clean clothes - orthopedic hospital gowns.
She was wearing a smart and sporty grey suit. She was not the traditional beauty with an oval face and big eyes. She had high cheekbones and single eyelids, and her unique aura was very eye-catching.
She briefly introduced herself, and they learned that this sister was the director of the logistics department of the Tourism Administration, and her name was Wei Zhengyu.
"Thank you for your hard work, kids. This time, the large-scale map was built thanks to your assistance. You don't have to worry about anything else. Now go find a ward to wash up and go to bed. You don't need to set an alarm tomorrow and get some sleep."
Zhong Zicang said: "Minister Wei..."
As soon as he opened his mouth, Wei Zhengyu interrupted him, "I know what you are thinking and what you want to do."
"There have only been three large-scale game maps so far, which is not enough for us to summarize accurate rules. However, after analyzing the previous large-scale game map, we found that after the large-scale game map was cleared, there were fewer other small-scale game maps around it."
Zhong Zicang opened his eyes wide in surprise, "Minister Wei is saying that the speed of the arrival of games in Quanguang City will slow down?"
"It is possible." Wei Zhengyu said, "Whether it is true or not still needs to be verified."
The volunteers breathed a sigh of relief. They had never actually entered the game. They only cleaned up the game site once, but they already felt how horrible the game was. It was undoubtedly a cancer of the world, and they wished it would disappear as soon as possible.
After reassuring the volunteers, Wei Zhengyu said, "The frequency of occurrence will decrease, but that doesn't mean it won't occur. Besides, there are still nearly a hundred games that have not been completed in Quanguang City. So, you should go get some sleep now and gather your energy. We still have to work hard next time."
The volunteers said nothing more. They took their hospital gowns and found a place to wash up and sleep.
Xia Bai and his team found two adjacent wards with bathrooms. Wang Wei and Zhang Runyue stayed in the inner room, while Xia Bai and Zhang Zicang slept in the outer room.
Zhong Zicang asked Xia Bai to wash up first. Xia Bai took the longest bath in his life, which lasted nearly two hours.
Zhong Zicang understood very well, as he washed for nearly three hours.
When Xia Bai finished taking a shower, it was almost dawn.
There was the sound of water dripping in the bathroom. Xia Bai, wearing a clean hospital gown, turned over in bed and saw that Lin Xiang had sent him a message asking him to come to Quanguang with him.
Xia Bai did not mention the cleanup just now, but simply replied that he had arrived at Quan Guang.
After replying to Lin Xiang's message, Xia Bai noticed that the gap between the phone was a little dark. He thought he was too tired and dizzy, so he rubbed his eyes, but he still saw it.
Looking closely, it seems to be hair, Sister Xue Mu's hair.
Xia Bai clicked on the game app and saw that Xue Mu's eyes were indeed open with her hair loose.
He didn't know how to comfort her, and he knew she hated people's attention, so he just fed her some blood and closed the app.
Many people may not be able to sleep tonight, but Xia Bai turned off his cell phone and fell asleep quickly listening to the sound of water splashing in the bathroom.
After taking a shower, Zhong Zicang had a lot of emotions that needed to be released. He wanted to have a good chat with his junior about what happened tonight. When he came out, he saw his junior sleeping like an angel.
“…”
When he woke up the next day and wanted to continue chatting with his junior, his quilt had been folded into a tofu block and he was gone.
Xia Bai got up at nine o'clock.
The school bus was parked in front of the hospital. Xia Bai took his luggage to the ward and changed his clothes.
A few hours later, there were many more people in the hospital. Xia Bai couldn't tell their identities, but he felt that they were not all players and people from the Game Management Bureau.
There were many boxed lunches, drinks and fruits in the lobby, and many people in hospital gowns were getting their meals.
"Are you going to eat too?"
Someone appeared silently beside Xia Bai, with a soft yet slightly magnetic and hoarse voice that made people's ears move.
Xia Bai turned around and saw a person. His first impression was Bai.
Xia Bai doesn't like to go out for a walk during the day or bask in the sun. His skin is so white that all the girls in the class have praised it. Even though they are used to seeing their own skin, they still think this person is so white.
Then he thought he was very handsome, with long eyelashes covering his peach blossom eyes, like a half-closed, clean world that drew one deep into. His mouth was a light pink color that was rarely seen in reality. He was as pretty as a girl, but Xia Bai had never seen a girl prettier than him.
He was the boy named Yang Mei who was at the hospital entrance last night.
Xia Bai subconsciously lowered his voice, "I'm not eating here, I'm going to eat outside."
"Brother, you look so good." He said in surprise when he saw Xia Bai.
Xia Bai: "I'm 19."
Yang Mei paused, looking him up and down, "What 19?"
Xia Bai was stunned for a moment, then said blankly, "Age 19."
Yang Mei called him brother, and he said he was 19, which meant that he was not necessarily older than him. Is there something wrong with this idea? If not age 19, what else could be 19?
Yang Mei hugged his arm and rubbed it, "Brother, you are so cute!"
Xia Bai was stunned.
Yang Mei was shorter than him. She rested her head on his shoulder and looked at him. "Brother, my name is Yang Mei. What's your name?"
Xia Bai: "Xia Bai."
"Brother Xia Bai, I also want to go out to eat. I don't want to eat boxed lunches anymore."
Xia Bai: "Then let's go out to eat."
Yang Mei: "But I can't find a place to eat."
Xia Bai: "There is a map on the phone. I just learned how to use it not long ago."
"But every time I use a map, I always go the wrong way." Yang Mei frowned, "I got lost in Quan Guang last time and was brought back by the police uncle."
“…”
Yang Mei scratched the back of Xia Bai's hand with her fingers and blinked, "Brother Xia Bai, can you take me out for dinner?"
Xia Bai carefully pulled Yang Mei, who was about to hit the wall, to the side and said, "Not good."
“…”
If it were in the past, Xia Bai might be willing to take him out, but that was not possible in Quanguang City these days.
Wei Zhengyu said that they were having a day off today and he wanted to take this opportunity to go outside and find some games.
Xia Bai pulled away the two milky white hands at the hospital gate and went out alone to find a place to eat.
After walking a few steps, he turned around and saw Yang Mei still standing there looking up at him. Xia Bai immediately turned around and turned into another road.
A minute later, he looked over and saw that Yang Mei had finally turned around to go back to the hospital. However, she bumped into someone when she turned around and fell down the stairs. She sat on the ground in a daze, with tears in her eyes about to fall.
Xia Bai: “…”
Shouldn't game copies on large maps be more difficult?
Is a player who completes a large-scale map game a fool?
Xia Bai was a little confused, so he found a restaurant that showed signs of age and looked like many stories had happened there. He ordered a bowl of rice and a plate of spicy and sour potato shreds, and while eating breakfast and waiting for the game, he went to the game app player exchange center to answer his questions.
Many people should be discussing this large map copy now. He might be able to find some information about Yang Mei. After all, only four players came out alive in the entire game, and Yang Mei seemed to be the one in the best condition.
As Xia Bai expected, the player communication center was very lively today. At a glance, the homepage was full of discussions about the Orthopedic Hospital game copy.
There are two marks on the far right of each post, one is the number of replies, and the other is the number of people currently discussing. Xia Bai clicked on the one with the most people.
1L: Did you know that the Orthopedic Hospital dungeon could be a large map? Look at this picture of a sea of blood and corpses [picture].
2L: Wow! Another large map?! Completed it in one go?
3L: It seems that the game has been cleared, and there are players who have made it out alive. In the photo, there are several people from the Game Management Bureau surrounding a person.
4L: I'm shocked, who is so awesome? I remember that it took six waves to clear one of the other two large maps, and the other one is still blocked and still not cleared.
The next few posts were all about who had completed the game. As the most popular post on the front page, of course there was a result.
268L: According to reliable sources, it was Yang Mei from the assault team.
269L: Really? He cleared a large map by himself? No other bosses?
270L: Why can't one person do that? You must have some misunderstanding about Yang Mei. It's obvious that he has never played with him.
271L: Hahahaha, it sounds incredibly scary that he cleared a large map by himself, but don't forget that he is a ghost fan. This must be a dungeon full of ghosts and monsters, his home ground.
272L: Awesome! You are worthy of being my master! A new record!
273L: Be bold and speak up, Yang Mei is the best player!
That silly but pretty boy turned out to be from the assault team, and was ranked first on the points list, [Wan Gui Mi].
Xia Bai was slightly stunned. He didn't expect to see such a person on his first day in Quanguang City, and he didn't expect that the player with the highest points would be such a person.
【Wan Gui Mi】What skills does this identity represent?
Xia Bai knew that a popular person meant that many people liked him. A popular person meant that many ghosts liked him? Was it a soul skill that increased the favorability of ghosts? Or was it a soul skill that enchanted ghosts?
After reading this post, I finished a bowl of rice and a plate of shredded potatoes, but the game hasn’t arrived yet.
Xia Bai had no choice but to leave the restaurant. He walked around a shopping mall, climbed over the wall to go into a school that was on vacation, and went to two parks, but he didn't come across any games.
Eighty a week, a dozen a day, distributed throughout the city, the probability of him running into one is really small, not to mention that Wei Zhengyu said the frequency of the game's arrival may decrease.
Xia Bai did not give up and has been trying to crack the game these days.
After experiencing the large-map game, other small-map games became much easier to clean up. They gradually became proficient in their busy schedule and had more and more time to rest, so Xia Bai also had more and more time to look for games.
God helps those who work hard. When Xia Bai was about to tour most of Quan Guang, he finally ran into the game.
On the fourth day in Quanguang City, after cleaning up two game sites, when their group of volunteers was on break, Xia Bai once again avoided Yang Mei and set off.
When he finished his meal, it was already dark. Xia Bai thought about it and decided to find a movie theater to watch a movie. In the past few days, he has been to several restaurants, supermarkets, schools, hospitals, etc., but has not been to a movie theater.
If there are people gathering somewhere in Quanguang City at night, it is possible that games will come, and the cinema is the first choice.
More than 90% of the cinemas in Quanguang City were closed. Xia Bai searched online and found that the nearest cinema that was still open was the Harmony Cinema, a small cinema nearly 20 kilometers away from him.
Transportation in Quanguang City is not as convenient as usual now. By the time he arrives, there is only one movie left, a horror movie, in Theater No. 5.
Xia Bai bought the ticket and entered the venue at the last minute.
Before going to Screening Room No. 5, Xia Bai consciously looked around the cinema.
The Harmony Cinema has seven screening rooms. The movie he wanted to watch started at 9:40, and not many people came to watch movies at this time. When he entered, the movie in Screening Room 4 had just ended and people there were leaving. In addition, there were two other screening rooms showing movies.
Judging from the posters and the time, one is showing an urban comedy movie, and the other is a campus romance.
Under the waiter's strange gaze, Xia Bai walked around the corridor of the screening room before entering Screening Room No. 5.
He was the last one to come in. When he came in, the lights in Cinema Room 5 had been turned off. He could not see the people inside clearly and could only smell the sweet smell of popcorn.
Xia Bai went to the cinema with Lin Xiang to watch a movie. He knew that turning off the lights meant the movie was about to start, but when he found a seat in the dark and sat down and drank several sips of red bean milk tea, the movie screen was still not lit.
"What's going on? It's already 9:43 and the movie hasn't started yet?" A rough male voice came from the front right.
"Is there a problem? Let's ask the waiter." A young female voice came from the front left.
"Waiter? Waiter!" that rough voice.
There was no response.
"I'll go out and call." A vague figure stood up in the front middle. Her voice was gentle and a little vicissitudes of life.
Seeing that someone had gone to call, the others said nothing and waited quietly.
A light appeared in front of her. The woman turned on the flashlight on her mobile phone and walked out with the help of the light.
The man beside him immediately caught up with her and limped along with her.
The door to Screening Room No. 5 is not next to the screen in the first row. One needs to walk around the long and narrow corridor next to the seats, which may take some time. But it took too long and no one came.
"Hey, what's going on?" The rough male voice sounded again, "Where's the person?"
"The door can't be opened." A gentle female voice came from the corridor behind.
Xia Bai's hand holding the milk tea cup moved suddenly. This scene was too familiar, and he did not close the door of the screening room when he came in.
He took another sip, put the milk tea into the cup holder on the armrest, took out the mobile phone from his pocket, but did not turn on the flashlight - the copy was broken at Heping Medical College, so he just turned on the phone.
In the dim light, he saw the backs of the people sitting in front of him. At a glance, there were about ten people.
"Haven't you eaten?" The rough voice sounded again. Xia Bai saw a strong man stand up and stride towards the door.
Then came the sounds of doors being opened and knocked on.
"Hey! Is anyone out there? You guys aren't playing the movie and you've locked us in. What kind of prank are you guys playing?"
"What's going on?"
"The door won't open? Go check it out?"
The noise was heard again in the screening room.
The familiar scene happened again. Some people tried to open the door, but couldn't open it. Some people wanted to make a phone call, but found that they couldn't make a call or send a message.
Xia Bai also went to open the door, learned how to make a phone call, went through the formalities, put on a serious and positive face, and sat back.
While looking for games these two days, he has been thinking about how to use his skills to pick up corpses, and he never wants to fail again.
His skill is a contractual skill. It looks very powerful, but it is difficult to develop. It requires the person to agree to give him the corpse while he is alive, and the corpse will be his after death.
In this case, first of all, for safety reasons, he should at least not be a nasty person. If he is a nasty person, he might be beaten if he asks for the body.
If you can't do it, just ask when a person is on the verge of death. Many players will stay in the game after they die, and they can take their bodies home, much like the corpse drivers in our grandfather's era. The other party may agree.
After showing an enthusiastic and cooperative face, Xia Bai sat down with peace of mind, waiting for the people from the Tourism Administration to come out and give scientific explanations.
But, are there any people from the Tourism Bureau in this game? What if there are no people?
There should be. I heard from Zhong Zicang that currently half of the people from the Tourism Administration are gathered in Quanguang City. But, do they have the time and mood to watch a movie?
As Xia Bai was thinking, a mobile phone suddenly flew to the front row and got stuck in the gap between two seats. It was so fast that Xia Bai didn't even see which direction the phone flew from.
Just as he was about to look for it, he suddenly heard a familiar voice.
"The first abnormality appeared in Qili Village..."
Hua Haoming on the mobile phone screen said that he was standing in a dark earthen house.
From this angle, the person in front of him took this photo of him while he was playing the science game.
Xia Bai was stunned for a moment and looked around to find out who had thrown the phone, but to no avail.
Other people in the screening room were also very confused. They stared at the phone in confusion and talked about it until the scene of the Qili Village Primary School doing a group jumping exercise appeared. Several people were startled.
Next came the video that left a deep impression on Xia Bai. The faces of two elementary school students suddenly appeared, their frightened and stiff faces occupying the entire screen.
"Ah!" A scream was heard in the screening room.
They still didn't understand what this meant, but were gradually attracted by the video on the phone. They had come here to watch a horror movie, and this video was more exciting than any horror movies they had seen.
In this way, they finished watching the story of Qili Village, the story of the haunted house in the amusement park, and heard about Quan Guang City, which was closely related to them, amidst the questions of other viewers in the video and the explanation of this man.
Finally, the man said, "Don't try to open the door. We are in the game now, and we are now locked in the game."
"What the hell?"
"Is this some kind of prank?"
"Is this true? What he said makes sense."
"It must be a synthetic video. What kind of game is this? We are from Quan Guang and we don't know about it. The government said it was caused by pollutants!"
Xia Bai stood up actively and said, "I feel like what he said is true. We've really been drawn into a weird game."
"Bullshit! Was that you?" The sturdy man raised his eyebrows and glared at him.
Xia Bai: “…No.”
He sat down immediately.
When they were about to look at the phone again to find out who was behind it, the phone disappeared without anyone noticing.
"Who took it?"
"It seems, it seems that no one has gone there."
"How about crawling over and lying on the ground to get it?" The man who said this immediately lifted his feet up, as if he was afraid that someone would pull his feet under the dark seat.
Inevitably, panic began to spread in the dim screening room.
At this moment, the screen that had been silent all of a sudden flashed, and a soft but emotionless voice sounded in the cinema, [The game has been loaded, and the normal map Harmony Cinema is online. ]
The sudden sound startled many people and they looked around for the source of the sound.
[When the Harmony Cinema map was launched, you happened to come here to watch a movie. It must be a special fate. Welcome players to the Harmony Cinema. The movie that will be shown tonight is "Escape from the Desert Island". 】
"Cast Away" is certainly not the movie they bought tickets to see. The name sounds like a very old-fashioned internet movie, a crappy money-making movie.
But at this time no one complained or shouted, because they had found the source of the voice - in their minds.
This strange voice made them begin to realize that what the man on the phone said just now might be true, and they might have been involved in a strange game.
[The movie is 180 minutes long. Please understand the story logic in the movie. I wish you a happy viewing. ]
After this public voice ended, Xia Bai heard another voice.
【Welcome, corpse collector Xia Bai, I wish you a happy movie watching. 】
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