The construction work is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Originally, Lu Ban was worried that the conditions in the mountains were poor, the construction environment was terrible, and the workers' progress would be slow.

But in fact, he found that as long as there was enough money, the speed would take off.

In just one month, the construction team demolished all the dilapidated buildings in the town, completed the foundation cleaning work, and prepared to start pouring new concrete to build brand new buildings.

As for the singing coming from the mountains and the children in the grass, neither of them appeared.

It might be because Lu Ban would broadcast the message in the whispers of that great being every night when the construction team stopped working to rest.

There is only the abandoned amusement park by the river. It is usually not visible when the weather is clear, but when it is windy from the south and fog rises by the river, it will appear and disappear on the bank of Lingjiang River, giving people a feeling of uneasiness and weirdness.

But that only exists here.

Since that surveying team member, no similar incident has occurred.

Lu Ban was not idle either.

This kind of large secret room requires more than just a building, it also requires scenery, interior decoration, and professional NPCs.

Things like scenery are simple and can be bought with money.

But NPCs are not that simple.

Students who have played this kind of escape room or script-killing game may know that the biggest requirement for these NPCs is only one, and that is professionalism.

There is a common saying among gamers: Please at least dress like a human being when you are going through the plot. When applied to the escape room field, it means: Please don't be too distracting when performing the plot.

Oftentimes, the harder the NPC performs, the funnier it will be for the players because of their own involvement in the performance. The players will not be able to react accordingly, and some may even be absent-minded and still be playing with their phones. At this time, the NPC needs strong control over the situation, as well as the perseverance to finish the performance seriously even if someone on the other side does not cooperate.

This may not be something that many actors can do.

The sense of immersion is the most important thing for NPCs.

If you play a ghost, you have to act like one.

Like the NPC that Lu Ban met in the secret room last time, in his opinion, he lacked the necessary skills.

A real escape room NPC, even if it really saw a ghost, would be more terrifying and frightening than those ghosts, and would scare those ghosts away.

For example, some NPCs, when looking in the mirror with makeup on, are almost scared to death by themselves in the mirror. This is very professional. If you can't even scare yourself, how can you scare others?

Lu Ban felt that his acting skills were excellent, but the script required a lot of passers-by NPCs, and players could only play a few of them, so he still had to recruit people.

As soon as the recruitment advertisement came out, the industry was in an uproar.

Countless comments poured in under this Weibo post.

[Fuck, Director Lu, what are you trying to do? Can’t making movies satisfy you anymore? Do you have to hurt the audience in real life? ? ? ]

Amber, my Amber

[Is this some kind of experimental film project? Could it be that the actors go over and think they are playing NPCs, but there are hidden cameras filming them playing NPCs? ]

[Although I want to say that Lu Ban must be inflated, but he has done it the last few times. This time I think I have to sit on the fence and wait for the finished product.]

[You are stupid, you see those actors in Lu Ban's movies are so professional, they must have been guided by Lu Ban. This is a good opportunity for newcomers to receive guidance from great directors and improve their acting skills! ]

[Is the stage this time the Wasted City? I wonder if I can see that stone. He is quite cute.]

[Lu Ban is finally not satisfied with hurting people through movies, he wants to break the audience's defenses on the spot! ]

[Don’t even think about whether you can afford the tickets for this game. You probably can’t even buy them. You can only ask scalpers to buy them at a high price. For ordinary people, forget it.]

If Lu Ban is going to make a new movie, most of the comments will be "good reviews", "excellent reviews" and "expectations", because he is a director who has proven himself. Unless he goes crazy and makes a movie that is politically correct or vilifies Chinese people, he generally won't fail.

But a large-scale immersive real-life game is, to put it bluntly, a secret room. This kind of performance-like project is similar to a drama performance and depends a lot on the actors' condition. If the NPC actors are not professional or make any mistakes, the player's experience will definitely be compromised. No matter how powerful Lu Ban is, he cannot guarantee that all NPCs will perform at their best level at all times.

When the recruitment advertisement came out, countless people signed up.

After a week of screening, Lu Ban kept roughly two hundred resumes.

Many of these resumes are from students who are about to graduate from film and television academies, as well as extras who make a living at film and television bases, 18th-tier actors, and many more amateurs with no acting experience.

Lu Ban doesn’t have high requirements for these people. The most important thing is that they are brave and can withstand it.

He felt that perhaps everyone had a hidden sanity value and a threshold for tolerating pollution.

A courageous person has a high threshold, and ordinary scary images are not enough to scare him, so his rationality will naturally not be reduced.

But for young people, even if their sanity is high enough at the beginning, they can be easily polluted because of their low threshold, and their sanity will be reduced.

For the sake of the health of his employees, Lu Ban must choose one that they can withstand.

Otherwise, after a few performances, their sanity will be gone and they will have to be replaced. They are not consumables, so how can they be replaced?

Lu Ban still hopes that these employees can live well, grow well, and live a happy and fulfilling life.

In addition, Lu Ban also recruited some not-so-ordinary employees.

For example, those patients in Jiangcheng Mental Hospital who suffer from serious mental illnesses.

After being influenced by "Haruhi no Shinobi", the conditions of these patients have improved a lot. Many of them have obtained licenses as psychological counselors with the help of doctors and nurses, and can even assist doctors in communicating with new patients.

For example, some people who watched "Spring Day Without a War" felt remorse for their past crimes and turned themselves in voluntarily, or re-reflected on themselves in prison and obtained sentence reductions and were released early.

Even after they are released from prison, these people find it difficult to adapt to modern social life, and they face severe discrimination when seeking employment and cannot find suitable jobs.

In the past, some people might have sunk into depravity and fallen back into the abyss of crime, or become depressed and eventually go astray.

Just like the old man who was released from prison in "The Shawshank Redemption".

Therefore, Lu Ban felt that since they already knew they were wrong, they could be given a chance to correct it. If they could make their own contribution to the cause of fighting foreign pollution for all mankind, it would not be in vain.

History and the people will remember them.

After receiving so many resumes, Lu Ban’s first priority was to interview these people.