There were no extra twists and turns in the short film. After the beam of light appeared in the sky, the group quickly arrived near the ruins.
“This set must be expensive.”
Bai Qiquan sighed.
When the last rays of sunset fell on the silver sand dunes, a corner of the ruins was finally revealed.
There is a magnificent city in the desert.
Even though it has been destroyed and weathered, one can still glimpse its former luxury and grandeur.
Bai Qiquan had heard people talk about the ancient city of Loulan before, but had never paid much attention to it. Now that he saw the ruins in the desert, he truly felt what the tombstone of a civilization looked like.
He seemed to smell the dry hot wind mixed with sand. The magnificent ruins seemed to appear on the small screen of the mobile phone, making Bai Qiquan feel as if he was in it.
In the study room at the end of twelve o'clock, he actually felt a little hot.
After taking off his coat, Bai Qiquan saw that several people had entered the ruins to explore.
These buildings have collapsed and weathered, but there is no trace of any human beings.
"Moved away, or?"
Bai Qiquan muttered to himself as he thought.
Of course, he did not forget that this was Lu Ban's movie, and he moved the phone a little further away, fearing that some mummy would emerge from behind the walls of the ruins and scare people.
To his surprise, there were none of those things.
Nothing at all.
The city seemed to be completely dead, and there was a certain eerie feeling.
Bai Qiquan's heart was in suspense until Lu Ban in the movie discovered the fire.
It's other wilderness hunters.
"I know this, it's a classic routine. They will definitely fight each other later. They may even be captured and forced to explore."
Bai Qiquan thought silently in his heart.
After all, he graduated from a communication university and has watched a lot of movies.
Just as Lu Ban was standing on the second floor of the building observing the opposite side and preparing to go back to inform his teammates, the camera turned and a figure in white suddenly appeared in the center of the screen.
"grass!"
Bai Qiquan originally thought that Lu Ban would not do such a thing, so he had already relaxed his vigilance. However, he did not expect this to happen suddenly. He was caught off guard and his cell phone was subconsciously thrown away and fell on the table, making a loud noise.
For a moment, everyone else in the study room looked over.
"Sorry, I didn't hold it firmly..."
Bai Qiquan said this and looked at the mobile phone screen on the desk.
The figure was a guy of unknown gender, with black hair, pale skin, and dark eyes with no whites, looking very creepy.
Bai Qiquan knew that this might have triggered the uncanny valley effect. This kind of existence that looks like a human but is actually not human can easily cause panic and anxiety in humans.
He suppressed his thoughts and then saw that the guy in white was imitating Lu Ban's every move, which looked both weird and funny.
"Is it learning human behavior patterns, and will it replace humans once it has fully learned them?"
He guessed in his mind.
The figure in white disappeared from Lu Ban's sight. He returned to his companions and continued to explain. The camera turned to the girl named Xia.
Bai Qiquan saw the figure in white appear again behind her.
"!"
He almost dropped his phone again, but luckily this time the phone was mostly placed on the table, so Bai Qiquan only made a crisp clicking sound, which attracted the glance of the people at the next table.
"This thing can only be seen by the protagonist. Is there something strange about it?"
Bai Qiquan felt that the guy in white was not like a human, but more like some familiar, yet indescribable creature. He felt uncomfortable just by looking at it, and had an instinctive resistance.
He continued to look down. Lu Ban proposed a strategy and successfully fought with the group of wilderness hunters, thus entering the cave in the center of the ruins.
"It's become a stolen movie. Could there be a mummy underneath?"
Bai Qiquan thought of "The Mummy", which was one of his nightmares when he was a child. When he went home during the summer vacation, his cousin who was still in elementary school had never watched these movies from the last century. He couldn't help but feel very regretful.
A group of people were moving through the tunnel. Bai Qiquan watched them talking and suddenly felt something was wrong.
"Is there someone missing?"
He paused, stepped back and looked.
There really is one person missing.
But the people in the movie seemed not to notice and continued to have a normal conversation.
“There is a problem.”
Bai Qiquan saw that after every few sentences of conversation, one person disappeared, but they were completely unaware of it.
This weird atmosphere made his hair stand on end. Bai Qiquan kept rewinding the video to confirm that someone was indeed missing and it was not just his eyes playing tricks on him.
In the end, only Lu Ban and another person were left. After Lu Ban said a word, the whole movie fell into a deep darkness.
Then, in the darkness, the figure in white suddenly appeared.
"Fuck! I told you, there really are fewer people!"
Bai Qiquan couldn't help but whisper, then quickly closed his mouth and raised his head to make sure he didn't disturb anyone else.
But he found that there seemed to be fewer people in the study room.
"Um?"
He wasn't sure if it was his illusion or if there were really fewer people, but the study room looked much emptier and deserted.
Bai Qiquan looked next door and found that the people at the table next to him had disappeared at some point.
Or was there really someone here before?
Influenced by the plot of the movie, Bai Qiquan became a little uncertain.
"Do you want to go back to the dormitory..."
He glanced out the window at the dark campus and swallowed.
At this time, Bai Qiquan suddenly discovered that at the window of the classroom, there seemed to be a figure in white clothes looking at him behind the glass.
"!!!"
The hairs on his body stood up, an electric current ran up his spine, and Bai Qiquan stood up subconsciously, making a loud noise.
"Outside……"
He pointed out the window, causing several people to look over there.
"What's going on outside?"
Someone asked in front.
"Didn't you see it?"
Bai Qiquan asked back.
He looked at the place where the figure was, but there was nothing there. There was only the pitch-black campus, dull and bleak.
"There's nothing..."
A little frightened by Bai Qiquan's expression, the man looked in the direction he was looking, but saw nothing.
"Classmate, are you too tired? Why don't you go back to the dormitory and have a rest?"
Someone suggested.
"I'm fine."
Bai Qiquan sat back down.
He thought that the figure might just be the afterimage left on his retina because he had been looking at his phone for too long. After all, it was just a movie and it couldn't affect reality.
He continued to play the video and saw Lu Ban following the figure forward and seeing the mural gradually becoming clearer. At this time, the picture turned through the mural and ancient images emerged, grand sacrificial ceremonies, prosperous cities, brilliant civilizations, everything was breathtaking.
But no one knows why this place was destroyed.
The cause of this place's destruction is at the end of this road?
While thinking, Bai Qiquan looked up at the classroom again.
He then saw a man in white clothes and black hair standing in front of his desk, staring at him.