The other side.

Zhou Changqing entered the game and looked around.

It was that patch of grass, but there was no sign of Old Eggplant.

"He didn't go? Or did something unexpected happen?"

Zhou Changqing saw passers-by around the grass staring at him and whispering, and he reacted like the old eggplant at the beginning.

But those passers-by left quickly without even looking at Zhou Changqing again.

He suddenly felt a little lost.

"There's only one car here. I should go over there and check the situation first."

Zhou Changqing walked towards the RV, and soon he saw several college students sitting there having a barbecue.

People in North America love barbecue very much. They usually have barbecues in their backyards for parties, barbecues for holidays, barbecues for birthdays, and whenever they are in doubt.

For an outing like this, it would make sense to set up a grill near the grass and do some barbecue.

Seeing that those people were all very young, Zhou Changqing quickly thought of the mission of this copy.

[Task requirements: Witness the ending of the movie]

According to the mission description, there should be a group of college students filming a movie in this city. So, what Zhou Changqing saw now was most likely the protagonist's team.

"It seems that perhaps those passers-by who took me away are the enemies who are preventing me from completing my mission."

Zhou Changqing touched the wound that had just been pierced through his body. The phantom pain seemed to still persist. When he thought of the twisted and ugly monster in the arms of the Virgin Mary, his scalp went numb and his eyes went dark.

Dispelling the memories, Zhou Changqing came to the side of these college students.

At first glance, he found Lu Ban sitting next to the grill, eating heartily.

Good job.

Zhou Changqing exclaimed, "What a great guy."

Since Lu Ban is here, it must be the main storyline!

"Hmm? Are you a tourist?"

A college student who was barbecuing noticed Zhou Changqing and asked.

"I guess so. I just arrived in this city."

Zhou Changqing answered immediately.

These people gave him a much more normal feeling, at least they felt like human beings, while those citizens looked like puppets and NPCs at a glance.

"I said there must be others, you see."

the university student called out to his companions, as if he were proud that his conjecture had been verified.

"Have you eaten yet? Would you like a piece of barbecue?"

He asked.

Zhou Changqing nodded quickly.

He took the barbecue on the paper plate and took a closer look to confirm that it was indeed meat before putting it into his mouth. The hot meat was roasted crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. It was only smeared with salt and tasted very good.

He swallowed it quickly and came back to Lu Ban's side.

"Is that Director Lu Ban?"

Zhou Changqing asked in a low voice.

“It’s me.”

Lu Ban replied.

He thought about it and estimated that Zhou Changqing must have died once before coming here, so he asked.

"Were you just captured? What did you see?"

Upon hearing Lu Ban's words, Zhou Changqing immediately became alert.

It seems that the mission this time is to make a movie with Lu Ban?

Why is he hanging out with these college kids?

Zhou Changqing had a lot of doubts in his mind, but he believed that Lu Ban must have his reasons for doing this.

He briefly described what he had just seen and heard.

"……Something is wrong here."

Zhou Changqing concluded.

"What are you talking about... that's the plot of the movie, right?"

On the side, Wes, who heard the conversation between the two, looked a little unhappy. He was almost captured by those citizens just now, but he didn't expect to be captured as a sacrifice.

But since this man said that he was being sacrificed, why is he sitting here?

He can't possibly come back to life, right?

In addition, this person was obviously an Oriental, and he started to talk to Lu Ban very skillfully as soon as he sat down, so Weiss judged that this person might be Lu Ban's friend or subordinate.

"Yes, this kind of plot is quite good, isn't it? A strange sacrificial ceremony is being held in a remote and backward town, and tourists from afar are being sacrificed and slaughtered wantonly."

Lu Ban described while eating grilled meat and vegetables.

"Scott, do you remember Miskatoc having such a religion?"

He looked at the only "local" again.

Although Scott said he had left the city for a long time, he still lived here.

"No……"

Scott shook his head. His camera was set up on the side to film their barbecue. According to James, this could also be used as material.

"There were some churches in Miskatoc, where I used to live, but they were not so densely packed, and certainly not filled with statues of the Virgin Mary. People only went there on Sundays, not in large numbers like they do now."

"So, it only started in recent years?"

The church is like Rome, it was certainly not built in a day. These churches with strange statues of the Virgin Mary should have been built after Scott left Miskatoke. And for a strange belief to reach the point where a church could be built, it must have spread for several years before that. So Lu Ban judged that this belief, which may have touched upon some indescribable existence, may have continued for a long time, but it was previously unknown.

Perhaps the Miskatoc Film Festival itself is a special sacrificial ceremony.

There are many horror and thriller movie premieres at this film festival, harvesting the fear of the audience, and fear happens to be the favorite food of many strange things. If this hypothesis is true, then this film festival may be the product of this belief.

With the development of the times, the fear that film festivals can absorb is getting less and less, and there are horror films released by directors like Lu Ban who have nothing to do with the film festival to raise everyone's threshold, so the religion in Miskatoke can only take more extreme ways to please their gods?

Lu Ban guessed.

Since Feng Yu was trapped here, there must be more than just strange things here. Lu Ban believed that there might be some beings close to or even at the level of the Old Ones who were making trouble behind Miskatoke.

"It's so weird, there are no tourists at the film festival, only these strange people. Should we leave?"

Blonde Valerie hugged her boyfriend James' hand.

"No, don't you think this is the best subject? The closed cities, the weird cultists, the unknown secrets. If we can film these and even find the answers, wouldn't it be the most perfect horror movie?"

James suddenly became enthusiastic. He danced and spoke excitedly.

"What are you talking about?"

Valerie frowned and looked at her boyfriend. In her memory, James was not such a reckless person.

"Where is that church? We'll go check it out later."

But James became more and more excited as he spoke. He looked at Zhou Changqing and asked, his eyes full of eagerness to try.