"Director Lu, is this necessary?"

Ye Cheng looked at the "suicide note" that Lu Ban gave him and was a little confused.

If you say it's a show effect, Lu Ban doesn't look like he's joking. If you say it's serious, Lu Ban wouldn't put himself in danger, right?

That shouldn’t be the case, right?

Ye Cheng wrote a simple suicide note and handed it to Lu Ban.

"Don't be nervous. This is insurance. It won't be used under normal circumstances."

Lu Ban comforted.

"So what is considered an abnormal situation?"

Ye Cheng couldn't help but be curious.

“If something is not normal, it is not normal.”

Lu Ban answered seriously.

"I see...wait, didn't you say anything?"

Ye Cheng was confused.

"It's like this. I'm going to create some horror atmosphere for you, so that you can put yourself in the shoes of others and feel the fear, so as to achieve the effect of perfectly experiencing the role."

Lu Ban put away the suicide note and explained.

"How can you put yourself in their shoes?"

Ye Cheng was puzzled.

"Isn't it another horror movie? I feel like other than Director Lu's movies, other horror movies lack a bit of flavor and are not scary at all."

"So you are very brave?"

"Just kidding, I'm super brave!"

"That's great. You can come to my house. It's quite big."

Lu Ban gave kind and persuasive advice.

After dinner, Ye Cheng came to Lu Ban’s home.

Compared with his own big mansion, Lu Ban's house was obviously much narrower. The first thing Ye Cheng saw was the big mirror behind the sofa.

Ye Cheng in the mirror looked haggard and pale, not at all like he had eaten a full meal.

Ye Cheng looked at the mirror for a while, and the man in the mirror waved at Ye Cheng.

"!"

Ye Cheng rubbed his eyes, and the self in the mirror also rubbed his eyes.

There's nothing unusual.

"Am I dazzled?"

He saw Lu Ban leading him to the bedroom and pointing at the bed.

"Lie down."

"?"

A question mark popped up in Ye Cheng’s head.

"Director Lu, didn't we agree not to use any hidden rules?"

"Who wants to take advantage of you? This is training."

Lu Ban patted Ye Cheng on the shoulder.

"Lie down until midnight, close your eyes, and count your heartbeats five hundred times. Then open your eyes and look under the bed."

"What kind of courage game is this?"

Ye Cheng didn’t quite understand. He hadn’t watched Lu Ban’s early videos, so he naturally didn’t know the corresponding game.

"Just do as you are told."

The two watched some horror videos for entertainment. Lu Ban discovered that Ye Cheng was indeed very brave. He usually did not have any emotional fluctuations after watching short videos that would scare normal people. Perhaps this was precisely what prevented him from displaying his full acting skills and strength.

For the actor's future, Lu Ban decided to work harder.

At 11:50, Ye Cheng lay down on Lu Ban's bed. Lu Ban drew the curtains, turned off the lights, closed the door and went back to the living room.

Ye Cheng was completely surrounded by darkness.

He closed his eyes and could only hear some sounds of life from the neighbors around him.

At exactly twelve o'clock, the cell phone rang and Ye Cheng began to count his heartbeats.

"one two three……"

At first, he could still count his heartbeats accurately, but gradually, Ye Cheng felt that his heartbeat was getting slower and slower, and was already far below the normal rate.

At the same time, the sounds around became smaller and there was silence, as if Ye Cheng was thrown into a different space.

Crunch——

Suddenly, Ye Cheng seemed to hear the sound of a wardrobe opening, and something seemed to come out as the wardrobe door opened.

At first Ye Cheng thought that Lu Ban was coming to scare him, but then he thought, hadn’t Lu Ban already walked out of the room?

So now, who comes out of the closet?

Or rather, what is it?

Ye Cheng continued to count his heartbeats, but his thoughts kept wandering.

He thought of the horror videos he watched tonight. Although they seemed fake and just special effects at the time, now that he was in such an environment, he felt that those things seemed very real.

He felt an itchy sensation next to his ear, as if someone's hair was brushing against his ear. Ye Cheng wanted to raise his hand to scratch it, but suddenly found that he could not lift his arm.

Not only the arms, but other parts of the body were unable to move, as if they were being pressed down by something.

"Ghost, ghost paralysis?"

Such a thought could not help but pop up in Ye Cheng's mind.

He counted his own heartbeat and the rhythm was a little disordered. No, Ye Cheng found that his heartbeat had slowed to the point of only one beat every ten seconds. If it were normal, he would probably have been dead by now.

An unreasonable fear came over him, and Ye Cheng felt helpless and lonely. He couldn't even stop playing the game.

He struggled and tried again and again, but he could only feel his body gradually stiffening and was unable to resist.

During this long ordeal, Ye Cheng felt like he was about to collapse.

I don’t know how many hours or days had passed, but Ye Cheng finally counted to the 500th heartbeat.

I don’t know if it was for this reason, but the restraints on him were finally released.

"ah!"

Ye Cheng cried out, opened his eyes, and sat up from the bed.

Gasping for breath, he found himself covered in cold sweat and his limbs were weak, like a seriously ill patient.

Just as he was about to ask Lu Ban outside the door for help, Ye Cheng suddenly remembered that there was one last thing he had not done in his game.

"Look under the bed..."

What's under the bed?

Ye Cheng swallowed his saliva. The experience just now made him feel panicked. He didn't know what he would see if he looked down.

But he hesitated for a while and finally decided to look over.

Sitting here now is torture, I'd rather die sooner and be reborn sooner.

He held onto the edge of the bed and looked under it.

Under the dust-free bed, there was a clown doll with a funny smile staring at him. As the two looked at each other, the corners of the clown's mouth suddenly cracked, and the opening extended all the way to the ears.

Ye Cheng couldn't even utter a scream. His eyes went dark and he instantly fainted.

When he woke up again, Ye Cheng saw an unfamiliar ceiling.

"here it is……"

Ye Cheng sat up, a little confused.

"Are you awake? The training was successful. You should have mastered the skills of acting out fear."

Lu Ban said to Ye Cheng with a look of "Congratulations" on his face.

In an instant, all the memories came to his mind. Ye Cheng's expression changed, the corners of his mouth twitched, his pupils dilated, and an expression of extreme fear appeared on his face.

This kind of expression is one that you can tell at a glance is the expression of fear and anxiety, the expression of someone who has seen a terrifying situation beyond his comprehension.

This cannot be achieved without more than ten years of performance skills and natural understanding.

"No, don't come over here!"

Looking at his appearance, Lu Ban was very satisfied.

"Maybe in the future I can go to some film and television academy and teach a course called horror movie acting, specifically teaching people this, and maybe even create an academy award out of it."

He felt that Ye Cheng's future was bright.