In China, in the chat section of a well-known Chinese-speaking forum.

A new post suddenly appeared among a bunch of nutritious and useless posts.

[Supernatural event, female ghost in the ecological park! ]

If you click in, you can see that the poster has sent a long message.

[…I’m telling you, this is real. I saw a ghost on my way home! I saw a shop suddenly appeared on the street. I went to have a look out of curiosity and found that it was a botanical garden with all kinds of flowers and plants, small animals, and a woman. She also taught me some science about the ecological environment. But when I went to check it out the next day, I found that there was nothing there! ]

The responses below are also very real.

[No picture, no truth. If you don’t post pictures, it’s hard for us to believe you.]

[Did you meet an environmentalist princess who wants you to be a vegetarian from now on? ]

[Have you encountered a psychopath or something?]

[I have also encountered something similar. Later, the woman said that if I gave her 648, she could make my wish come true. Can you give me some money and try? ]

[The writing is not good, there is no horror atmosphere at all, I will send it back for rewriting. ]

Originally, this post should have been like thousands of other posts, with no one responding after a period of time and gradually disappearing from people's sight.

But with some replies, the post gradually became popular.

[Fuck, I thought I was drunk before. I saw the same thing, a house called Ecological Park, and there was a little girl in it. She was quite cute. Why did I forget to take a picture at that time?]

[Shocked, my cousin told me something similar yesterday, she said she also encountered an ecological park, and asked me to take her to the city's zoo and botanical gardens on the weekend to have a look, it interfered with my playing games! ]

[You guys sound like it's real. Are there multiple fake accounts boosting traffic? ]

[That’s right, let’s send out the group number, and let’s make money together! ]

[This morning when I was going to work, I saw an ecological park just after I got out of the subway station. It was in the food court opposite our company. I went in to take a look around, and the girls inside introduced it to me enthusiastically. When I wanted to take my colleagues to see it at noon, I found that it was gone. It was really weird.]

[Speaking of this, someone mentioned something similar on a foreign website I followed before. If you say that all the people in China are water armies, then you can't say that the people abroad are water armies as well, right? ]

[I know that this is a kind of collective unconscious delusion, which means that people will process some memories, and when others talk about it, they will subconsciously think that they have had similar experiences, such as failing a test, or being rejected after a failed confession. Maybe you don’t have it at all, but you will imagine it after listening to others talk about it.]

[The above poster, you really failed the exam, and you really failed in your confession. Promise me, don’t lie to yourself, okay?]

At first, some people agreed with the original poster's reply, and everyone thought that the poster was just a group of internet trolls who were trying to increase traffic in the forum. However, as more and more people had similar experiences, and similar remarks appeared on foreign social media, the content of this post seemed to become a little more credible.

[The little girl in the ecological park] has gradually become one of the urban legends in the forum circle.

At the same time, Lu Ban released the initial promotional video and posted a Weibo on the Silent Project.

【May 1st】

It is just such a simple sentence, coupled with a box of master tapes for copying, which is very inspiring.

Within a few minutes, there were hundreds of comments on Weibo.

[This is definitely a new work! ]

[Fuck, Director Lu, I've been waiting for your new movie for a long time! ]

[Come on, it’s another movie that tricks people into being tortured. I will never go to the cinema to watch his movies again in my life! ]

[Is it released on May 1st? Impossible, I think the news will be released on May 1st]

[I'm saying that Lu Ban's previous real-life games are meaningless, and he should return to his original intention and make movies! ]

[I watched the previous movie because I was spoiled, so I will definitely go to the premiere this time! ]

[Is Lu Ban going to break the record of the world's No. 1 box office this time to prove his strength? ]

The news of Lu Ban's new work quickly spread around the world. After all, one of his previous films ranked among the top five in the global box office, and another won awards at the three major art film festivals. If only one of these achievements was achieved, then it could be said that Lu Ban was an outstanding commercial or art director. But now, with the two combined, it is difficult to say what Lu Ban's historical status is.

After all, compared to those directors whose every movie has created a legend and reaped great rewards in terms of box office and word of mouth, Lu Ban is still too young, and no one knows whether he will fail in the future.

But even if Lu Ban fails in the future, based on his current achievements, he will occupy at least a special topic in the film history textbook and become a test point for students' final exams. This is very subtle.

Most serious media avoided mentioning other directors when evaluating Lu Ban because it was difficult to balance.

There are a small number of media outlets that like to stir up trouble and they love to criticize one and praise another.

[New director Lu Ban is about to become the first person in history]

[A director from the East is about to complete his film myth]

[How do other directors lag behind Lu Ban? ]

Titles and content like these compare Lu Ban with other successful directors, either praising Lu Ban to death or praising him to the sky, and they want to devalue other directors and their works to the point of being worthless, which has aroused opposition from many people.

This is the mentality of many people. If you say that so-and-so is the number one person in history, most people will object and want to discuss with you his fighting ability and historical status.

If you take a step back and say that someone is very great and ranks among the best in history, there will be fewer opponents.

Of course, more often than not, diodes are either the best in the world or the last in the world, and no other opinions are tolerated.

Lu Ban didn't care about these comments. He just felt that leaving his name in the textbooks of film-related majors seemed not enough for what he was doing now.

What he is doing now is something that will leave his name in history books, have a separate chapter to tell about it, and become a nightmare for students in exams.

Lu Ban respects all his predecessors.

But now is a new era.

In the face of foreign pollution, there is no point in arguing about these things. It would be better for everyone to come and watch his movies.

May 1st, midnight.

The Silent Project updated a Weibo post, and at the same time, all of its video site accounts simultaneously updated a new video, which was only a minute long and was a trailer.

Lu Ban’s new work, contrary to many people’s expectations, is a disaster film.