The camera follows He Chong as he climbs the last staircase, where he sees several people already there.

Next it’s time for Lu Ban to treat everyone to dinner.

The interview in the narration sounded again, and combined with the scene of these people eating, it made people feel as if they were in another world.

In the picture, these people are talking and walking vividly.

In my memories, these people have grown old and are no longer alive.

The feeling of a hero's twilight years swept over the audience.

Lu Ban cleverly connects the past and the present through images and sounds.

In the movie, Lu Ban walked into the Taoist temple, and when the camera lifted up, he saw the strange statue.

When Stephen saw the statue, he instinctively felt a wave of disgust.

He has his own religious beliefs. Although he is not extremely fanatical, he still believes in God.

But as soon as the statue came out, Stephen felt it was blasphemy.

Yes, blasphemy.

He was a young man and had received a lot of education, which was fine. However, Stephen felt that if devout believers like his parents saw this scene, they would probably jump up and fly into a rage in a moment.

No wonder Lu Ban did not choose to release the film abroad.

Stephen looked around to see the reactions of his countrymen.

But to his surprise, although everyone felt a tingling sensation on their scalp at the sight of the statue, no one felt like Stephen did, that their faith was being blasphemed.

Stephen thought the reason might be that most people in this country are atheists.

The most common phrase his Chinese classmates used when talking about God was "You're crazy!" As for words like "God bless you", you never heard a single word of it.

Most people do not believe in the existence of God and are staunch materialists.

Stephen once asked a friend, "Where can you find spiritual support in this situation?" He said, "Even if religion is not materialistic, it can at least soothe your soul in times of trouble."

The friend did not answer directly, but opened a book in Stephen's hand that recorded the words and thoughts of ancient sages and showed him a page.

“So when Heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on a man, it must first make his mind suffer, his muscles and bones tired, his body hungry and empty, and his actions frustrated. This is to stir his heart and harden his nature, and increase his ability to do what he was not able to do before.”

Stephen could not quite understand this sentence at the time, but later, when his Chinese proficiency improved, he finally understood its meaning, but he also understood this nation even less.

The elephant-like statue covered with tentacles was full of anomalies. In the evening, the competition entered the second stage.

The camera follows Tang Que.

Stephen couldn't take his eyes off this mature woman in cheongsam.

The heroic spirit between his eyebrows is like that of a warrior, which is very inspiring.

Tang Que came to the Taoist temple and searched around, but found no trace of the jade pendant fragments.

At this moment, a sticky wriggling sound came from behind.

To Stephen, it sounded like some disgusting, twisted monster was licking the back of his neck.

Tang Que looked back.

Something seemed to be moving in the grass.

The night in the mountains was dark, illuminated only faintly by the moonlight.

But in the camera, the picture is not completely dark to cover up the flaws in special effects. Instead, people can see clearly the slightly swaying bushes in the night.

The entire screening room held its breath as Tang Que's first-person perspective gradually approached. In the background music, the melody of the cello was low, then built up and became higher and higher.

Little by little, Stephen tried to lean his neck back, sinking his whole body into the seat, trying to stay away from the screen. He didn't want Tang Que to go over there. There was definitely, surely, some danger lurking there.

However, the camera did not move according to his will and still moved helplessly towards the bushes.

Suddenly, a call came from behind Tang Que.

Tang Que turned around and saw that it was Qi Ye who was shouting.

She responded and looked back towards the bush.

It was very quiet, without any movement at all.

After hesitating for a moment, Tang Que did not move any closer. She glanced into the deep mountains. The deep and dense forest was like a ghost, swallowing up all the light and arousing humans' most instinctive fear of darkness.

Tang Que turned around and walked towards the house.

The camera moves down towards her back until she is hidden by some bushes.

Suddenly, the bush shook, and it seemed that something was crawling and quietly leaving the bush.

This sudden move made Stephen tremble.

This is a release of emotions, a sudden attack that comes when the previous oppressive atmosphere is relieved for a moment.

In Stephen's words, this is the lowest level of Jump Scare.

Low-level, but practical.

Especially in this kind of tense atmosphere that is constantly rising with background music, the audience thinks that everything is over, and then they breathe a sigh of relief and the sudden attack comes.

Lu Ban obtained the most fragments. He knocked Dai Yuanyang unconscious, took away all the jade pendant fragments and began to piece them together. It was a quiet night. Lu Ban carefully put the fragments together into the shape of an eyeball. The strange shape made people feel that something bad was going to happen.

It was not until this time that Stephen began to think about what Xuanjun was.

The statues in this Taoist temple are obviously not something that should exist in the human world, and the jade pendant left by Xuanjun is so strange. Is it true that by becoming Xuanjun, one can obtain the method of immortality and master extraordinary powers?

Stephen found it impossible.

It's not like he hasn't seen "Spring Day Without a War". To Stephen, the character in Lu Kan's movie knowing why he was burned to death was already a happy ending.

I’m afraid this Xuan Jun is also a piece of firewood?

The more he thought about it, the more possible it seemed.

Relying on things like the method of immortality to attract the successors of the nine classes, and finally deciding the most powerful one to use as firewood, it is obviously Lu Ban's style.

He is a victim of Luban.

However, looking at the results of this competition, Lu Ban seems to be in the lead, and for the position of Xuan Jun, it seems that other people are not very competitive except him.

Wait, among those descendants of Jiuliu, there are no descendants of the faction represented by Lu Ban, and even Lu Ban himself has not appeared in the trailer of "Jiuliu".

So, this time we are going to burn Lu Ban?

Good thing!

Stephen immediately looked forward to the subsequent plot.

He could even imagine what it would be like to burn Lu Ban.

Mr. Lu was a respectable man when he was alive. Let's add some firewood before we go.

He was in high spirits, watching the night fall and everyone go to sleep.

The camera came to Blind Zhang.

This elderly man, who was over 70 years old, was sitting in the hall, wearing sunglasses. He seemed to have fallen asleep while sitting, but also seemed not to have slept at all.

The camera looked at him from the ground, through the gaps between the tables and chairs, giving people a very insecure feeling.

It was like something was spying on him.

Then the camera moved.