Zero o'clock.

Just as "The Wailing" was released nationwide and was about to trigger a horror craze at the end of the year, Lu Ban's arrangement was quietly launched.

Bai Qiquan from Yannan University of Communication was still staying up late in the all-night study room.

Ever since watching "The Wailing", he felt that his sleep quality had deteriorated a lot, and he didn't feel sleepy at all before midnight every night.

But today he was mainly here to review.

After all, it's the end of the year, and the final exams will be after New Year's Day. If you fail, you're doomed.

A dozen minutes after twelve o'clock, Bai Qiquan, who was preparing to stay up all night, yawned, stood up, poured a cup of hot coffee, and prepared to check his phone to wake up.

When you are tired of studying, you can play with your mobile phone for a while. It is good to combine work and rest, but you can't work too hard.

Bai Qiquan had just picked up his phone and replied to two messages to his girlfriend when he saw the push notification.

[Lu Ban’s new plan limit, horror movie universe is about to be established? 】

This was a browser push message, and he clicked on it directly.

"…Today, The Wailing was released, but Lu Ban announced at the premiere that he would build a connected movie universe and released a new short film, The Nameless City. According to our reporter, the project is called The Silence Project, which includes a website, an official social media account, and the latest film…"

The news briefly introduced the situation, and Bai Qiquan exited. He checked Lu Ban’s account on his phone and saw that a new Weibo post had indeed been posted with a new account @ed. He immediately clicked to follow it.

Browsing Weibo, Bai Qiquan found the official website page.

When he clicked on the page, a voice suddenly came from Bai Qiquan's headphones.

He couldn't describe the sound. When he closed his eyes, he felt as if he was surrounded by the silent night sky and the vast grassland. It was the sound of the twinkling stars.

At the same time, the phone screen was pitch black, with only a few stars shining on it, which seemed to form the shape of a constellation.

Bai Qiquan touched it with his fingers.

He discovered that the page actually changed with the touch of his fingers, just like thick dust being wiped away.

With a light swipe of the finger across the screen, the entire page suddenly lights up.

The two big words "Silence" appear in the center of the page, giving it a weird and mysterious feeling.

Bai Qiquan saw that this website had an encyclopedia introduction, project description, and video links, so he clicked on the project description first.

"The Silent Project is a worldview composed of a series of works with a unified setting, with exotic adventures, strange monsters, and indescribable evil gods. This is a cold and crazy universe. Humans are nothing more than tiny ants in this world. The more they want to touch the truth, the easier it is to fall into madness..."

The project description briefly introduced the background of this plan. After reading it, Bai Qiquan couldn't help but feel a little bit of anticipation.

Today's fantasy and science fiction movies usually focus on man conquering nature and superheroes defeating villains and monsters, which is a bit boring to watch.

This plan, like Lu Ban’s previous movie “The Wailing”, seems to focus on things that humans cannot fight against. Such a work has a considerable sense of horror, and Bai Qiquan still wants to watch it.

After all, after watching these movies, his girlfriend held his hand a little harder.

He turned to the encyclopedia page again.

Here are some monsters and keywords classified according to the foreign land.

Bai Qiquan clicked on the "Kingdom of Night" page. After watching "The Wailing", he looked for other works by Lu Ban. The interactive video left a deep impression on him. Although it was not as scary as his later works, the mode that even copying homework might not necessarily lead to a stable passing still made Bai Qiquan very interested.

By the way, he himself tried for several hours but failed to complete the game. In the end, he completed it by watching other people's recorded videos of completing the game. Although watching other people's videos was a bit like copying other people's videos, it was not a big problem.

"In the Kingdom of Night, the Gray Tower and the Black Tower echo each other from afar. Mages, assassins, mercenaries, and warriors walk in this dark land. Monsters in the Black Forest will surge like a tide when the red moon descends and attack humans. In those areas where the light of civilization has not yet radiated, evil gods and their followers grow..."

Looking at these encyclopedias, Bai Qiquan nodded slightly.

“It looks like a fantasy world, and there are wizards, but it doesn’t seem to be reflected in the video. I wonder when I can see the wizard’s magic.”

He looked at the other world settings again.

Bai Qiquan discovered that these world settings always had a sense of incompleteness.

This is not to say Lu Ban is the riddle man, but there is a sense of mystery in the explanatory text, which always makes Bai Qiquan feel that there is another truth behind these worlds.

For example, the Kazushima Taisha Shrine on Kazushima Island, although it was mentioned in the movie "Hyakunin Isshu", its real body did not actually appear in the film, which made Bai Qiquan guess that this shrine might also have some mysterious and strange places, and there might be a reversal later.

At the bottom of each settings page, there is a note saying "Information that can be disclosed now", which seems to be unlocked continuously as the project develops.

"These foreign lands seem very dangerous. Our current world is still safe."

Bai Qiquan looked through it and came to a conclusion.

Although stories like the Nan Hua Private Yan Chai Hospital are around him, he is very clear that these are movie stories. How can there be monsters and ghosts in the real world?

Checking the time, Bai Qiquan realized he had been slacking off for thirty minutes. Looking at the video link on the web page, he decided to slack off for a while longer.

If I put down my phone to study now, my mind will definitely be thinking about the new video all the time, which will make me distracted and my learning efficiency will decrease. Therefore, I should finish watching the video now before I can study well!

This makes sense!

Bai Qiquan clicked on the video.

The first thing he saw was a desert. It was a silver desert, completely different from the yellow sand he saw on TV.

Afterwards, the familiar Lu Ban appeared again, and Bai Qiquan also saw a girl.

With blonde hair and green eyes, she looks like a foreigner, yet has some oriental charm, and is quite good-looking.

Bai Qiquan couldn't help but look behind him, fearing that his girlfriend would suddenly pop up and catch him.

Seeing that everyone else was studying hard, he continued to look at the screen.

A huge bug crawled out from the gravel. The ugly bug made Bai Qiquan feel disgusted instinctively. He turned down the volume a little to avoid being scared.

But it seems he was wrong.

Bonfire, roasting bugs, treasure maps, it seems that this movie is not a horror thriller, but more like an adventure movie, such as Indiana Jones and The Mummy.

It's exciting to think about searching for ancient ruins and treasures in the desert with a group of friends who have extraordinary powers, and fighting with other hunters.

Bai Qiquan was somewhat fascinated and imagined himself to be one of the hunters in the wilderness.

He soon discovered that he was a little naive.