“…”
Comedy? Family? Patriotism? Anti-war?
What are these options?
Guo Guo's eyes were vacant: "If I am guilty, the law will punish me, not let me face this kind of problem."
Even the test in the previous film seems less outrageous by comparison.
Zhang You spoke directly: "I can't choose. What about you, Xin Jue?"
Her gaze focused on Tang Xinjue again. The girl stared at the question for two seconds, then turned her head. "Wanqing, what do you think?"
Zheng Wanqing: "Uh...wait, do you think it's appropriate to throw this kind of IQ-testing logic question at me?"
"No." Tang Xinjue shook his head without hesitation. "When it comes to multiple-choice questions at this level, it's no longer about logic, it's about luck."
In the entire dormitory 606, the person who is recognized as the luckiest and most European is Zheng Wanqing.
"God will give a great responsibility to Emperor Ou. Wanqing, this question belongs to you."
Zheng Wanqing: “…”
I believed your ghost!
With the countdown running out, she forced herself to think for a few seconds before making a bold choice: "A then!"
"From beginning to end, the headless ghost just kept laughing. What the hell, maybe it thought it was pretty funny."
I don’t know whether it found it funny or not, but Zheng Wanqing was almost annoyed to death.
She exhaled angrily, "Comedy! That's it."
[Ding! Correct answer!]
A cheerful music played from the prompt system, then paused after about ten seconds: [Next, we will begin writing our reflections on the live performance. Please prepare your paper, pen, and other tools and be ready—]
Everyone: “???!!!”
Is this correct?!
Several people looked at each other, with no time to discuss why the answer was correct - there was probably no chance anymore - and they could only hurriedly search for paper and pen at hand when the prompt sounded.
Tang Xin Jue quickly reminded: "Don't forget your phone and props."
As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding environment changed immediately.
The light became dim, and the reflection on the wall patterns was a bit dazzling. The desk and bed turned into a wine table and a sofa. Just as Tang Xinjue was concentrating his attention, a deafening scream came at him, shocking him.
Four well-dressed men and women huddled together, looking in horror at the position behind Tang Xinjue, screams erupting from their mouths continuously.
This was a private room, and judging by the decor, it was quite luxurious. The four men and women were huddled together directly across from the doorway. Dining chairs, a dining cart, handbags, and various belongings were scattered around, likely from someone who had just violently smashed the door open but failed.
"Don't come over here, don't come over here, help!!"
The screams grew louder and louder, and fear filled the room.
The next moment, Guo Guo's scream suddenly jumped up from the side, leading the others to rush forward: "Ghost! It's right behind us!"
Looking back suddenly, he saw a headless body crawling down the wall, only a few feet away from Tang Xinjue. Even the broken cut on the neck was clearly visible.
"Who cut off my head... Who sealed me in the earth... I can't escape..."
A low and hoarse voice sounded from the other side. Her eyes turned to the direction of the voice and saw a bloody head right beside Tang Xinjue's legs. Its huge white eyes rolled up and looked at her.
The headless figure lunged down, and she dodged sideways. However, the headless ghost did not continue to attack. Instead, it hugged the head on the ground and slowly walked towards the door of the box.
Looking at the scene before him, Tang Xinjue warned his roommate, "Calm down. Now's the time to write your review. Stay away from them. We shouldn't be in too much danger."
Sure enough, neither the four men and women at the door of the box nor the headless ghost with a clear goal seemed to see the four people in the dormitory, and they were only concerned with the horror plot at the end of the movie.
[Ding, candidates, please write your review of this movie within 60 minutes, with a minimum of 800 words. The countdown begins!]
“…”
After calming down, they opened paper and pen, dragged Guo Guo, whose legs were weak, to a corner far away from the haunted scene and sat down, and began to conceive amid the screams of the characters.
If the previous movie had a "replay" and a relatively complete understanding of the plot, then this movie can be said to be completely confusing. Even the theme of the movie was answered by Zheng Wanqing by luck.
Soon, Zheng Wanqing, who was thinking aimlessly, found that her roommates' eyes were on her.
She: “…I was completely confused!”
She is a finance graduate and hasn't written a movie review since she finished two humanities elective courses in her freshman year. She is completely at a loss as to what to do about it.
"Oh right," she suddenly remembered, "Guo Guo, you switched to journalism as a sophomore. You should be able to write this kind of on-site summary, right?"
Guo Guo had just recovered from the shock of being smacked in the face by the headless ghost, his face livid. "The press release doesn't include the haunted murder scene, and I can't make it up!"
Zhang You rejected it in advance: "I switched to a foreign languages major, which has little applicability to this movie... But the review should mainly use our imagination. We can each write a paragraph, and then match it with the theme of the heart formula. We just need to finish it as soon as possible."
At this point, several people looked at the third-year Chinese major who had already started writing. Tang Xinjue had already written several lines, his slender fingers writing vigorously.
[On the universal applicability and satirical nature of headless ghosts in comedy films]
They were silent for a while.
Guo Guo was amazed: "Jue Shen, how did you come up with these arguments?"
Tang Xin Jue said without hesitation: "Give up the brain and logical thinking."
...That makes so much sense, I'm speechless.
At the door of the box, one of the four men and women had already collapsed due to excessive fear. Two of the remaining three chose to parkour inside the house to escape, while one of them picked up a chair and went up to fight the headless ghost. Then the headless ghost gave a light pinch and the chair shattered and exploded.
The fighter stumbled back two steps and hit the door, then collapsed to the ground and screamed: "It's been so many years, why are you still pestering us! We can fulfill any wishes you had in your life, and we can help you to be reborn! Don't kill us... Wuwu..."
Fear made the roaring man burst into tears.
The headless ghost actually stopped. The eyes of the human head in its arms stopped moving. It looked at the man and pursed its lips. "My wish is..."
A layer of white mist suddenly rose in the room, covering all the characters and sounds in the movie.
Several people in the dormitory who were watching: ...How can we stop them from watching the plot like this?
Tang Xin Jue analyzed as he wrote, "This paragraph may contain spoilers for the second part, so it's been blocked. We'll just try to observe the information we can find."
After a while, the white mist dissipated, and the headless ghost in the box disappeared. Only four men and women were left standing there in a daze.
They climbed up stiffly, slowly turned to the four people who were writing their reviews, and then tilted their heads, and four heads rolled down from their necks.
The head fell to the ground, and the corners of his mouth opened up, and he screamed in fear.
Guo Guo: "Ugh—"
She instinctively retched again, clutching the notebook tightly in her hand, and forced herself not to close her Yin-Yang eyes.
Zhang You, watching from the side, felt sorry for what was happening: "If you feel uncomfortable, just close your eyes and bear it. We shouldn't be attacked."
Guo Guo shook his head: "No, I saw something behind them, ugh——"
Fortunately, the new headless ghosts were only able to cause mental pollution, their legs spinning in place, and they didn't pounce. After a moment, Tang Xinjue put down his pen and said, "I've written five hundred."
Zhang You tore off his notebook paper: "I wrote exactly 300."
After giving up my brain, writing became much smoother.
[Ding Dong, review submitted, currently being reviewed...]
[Candidates’ impressions will be rated by the film’s protagonist!]
Four heads were screaming on the ground: "It hurts so much, I can't see anything..."
“Zero points, zero points!”
[The scoring is over. Your final score for this review is: zero!]
“…”
Zheng Wanqing clenched her fists: "If I hit them now, will the rules allow it?"
"Forget it, I just won't get any extra rewards." Zhang You stopped Zheng Wanqing, who was about to go berserk. "The ghosts' malice towards us is unreasonable."
In a completely unfamiliar area, the other party is the host and they are the guests, and if they are not careful, they can easily fall into a trap.
In fact, just because they successfully wrote their review, the four new headless ghosts who had been screaming for a long time were obviously very dissatisfied, and their pale eyes stared at them fiercely.
Tang Xin Jue didn't care about the scoring. She seemed to be attracted by the heads spinning around on the ground. She squatted down and asked them, "What did the headless ghost say to you just now?"
The four heads rolled their eyes and said, "Come closer, and we'll tell you."
Tang Xinjue pulled out the toilet plunger, "Really?"
Head: "..."
For some reason, this toilet plunger filled them with fear. The chilling feeling attached to the rubber tip made their scalps tingle, as if something unkind to ghosts had happened there.
The four heads shook in unison again: "Go away, go away!"
Tang Xin Jue didn't move, but emphasized and repeated, "Is it that headless ghost that made you like this? What did it say?"
"It said..." The head finally stopped screaming and spoke reluctantly and slowly:
"Only by fulfilling their demands can our curse end... Otherwise, we will be toiled endlessly..."
Who are “they” and what curse are they trying to end?
Tang Xinjue was about to ask again when the notification that the review assessment was over sounded, and the few of them were teleported back to the dormitory again.
As their spirits returned, an immense fatigue immediately overwhelmed them. After watching two movies, everyone felt as if they had run two marathons, so exhausted that they didn't even have the strength to lift a finger.
[Excessive fatigue: Your mental and physical strength have been greatly depleted. Continuing to overdraw will significantly reduce your health.]
"This game must be in youth mode. It seems to focus on healthy lifestyle." Zheng Wanqing complained casually, propped herself up and staggered to wash up.
"Ah, wait!" Guo Guo forced his eyelids open, and his first reaction was to muster up the strength to draw on the paper.
This is what she saw on the four "victims" with her Yin-Yang eyes at the "reflection scene".
Tang Xinjue looked over and saw that Guo Guo had drawn four headless stick figures. On each of the stick figures, there were steam-like lines rising.
"This is the black energy emanating from the red marks on their necks. The red marks are where the necks are broken. Later, the black energy rises from the necks."
Guo Guo was a little worried: "But there's still one thing I don't know how to draw..."
She simply threw away the pen and gestured to Tang Xin Jue with her hands: "Yes, there is a red pattern in the black air. It looks like a ghostly talisman, but I can't see it clearly..."
Following her description, Tang Xinjue personally drew a rune pattern: "Is that so?"
Guo Guo nodded wildly: "Yes, yes, it's almost the same. The headless ghost at the beginning also had this pattern on his neck, but it was deeper, and it was very uncomfortable to look at it."
After explaining everything, Guo Guo finally breathed a sigh of relief. He fell down exhausted and soon fell asleep on the table.
"Everyone is so tired."
Zhang You finished his daily inventory of supplies and sighed when he saw this scene. He called out to Tang Xinjue, "Actually, I have an idea."
"Ever since we entered the game, we've been so tense," Zhang You said seriously. "Every time we open our eyes, we worry about our lives. Apart from necessary physical recovery, we have almost no extra time to rest."
Especially Guo Guo, who has a low "immunity" to terrifying things, is in panic and stimulated almost most of the time. Even if he is physically fine, he will be mentally overwhelmed if he continues like this.
Zhang You discussed with her: "If possible, can we take a day off to review and rest?"
Tang Xin Jue was silent for a moment, then said, "You're right, I did overlook this."
…Years of nightmares had made her accustomed to this kind of mental pressure, but it was her roommate’s first time experiencing it.
A string that is always tense is more likely to break. Maybe after this exam, it's time to take a break.
Putting aside the discussion for the moment, after a quick wash, the dormitory quickly fell into sleep.
"Ding-ling-ling~"
At the sound of the alarm clock, Jin Wen rubbed her eyes and sat up.
But she froze immediately, and everything in her mind resurfaced:
Yellow paper and runes, my roommate's falling head, and screams of terror...
Is it a dream?
"Jin Wen, get up quickly. We're going to be late. Let's go first."
Several roommates shouted from downstairs, and then the dormitory door was opened and closed.
Jin Wen came to her senses and mumbled a response, quickly getting dressed while thinking. When her memory fully returned, she quickly realized: the yellow paper method had happened a week ago, and the paper package was still hanging on the dormitory door.
It seems that it was just a nightmare. Jin Wen felt relieved and smiled with relief.
Then she put on a turtleneck sweater to hide the red marks on her neck.
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