A huge success
There will be a waiting time of about five minutes before each viewer's mental link is officially loaded.
[Yanyan! What happened to your memory card? ? ]
The mechanical sound of X71 carries a hint of panic; it cannot enter a person’s private spiritual landscape, but it can enter this spiritual space built on the basis of the star network.
[Maybe someone didn't like me and broke my disk.] Shang Jingyan casually proposed a possibility.
To be honest, this sudden incident did scare her for a moment, but her first reaction was that she thought the Real Object Group had finally come to trouble her, rather than being afraid of not being able to follow the process.
The performance of interstellar electronic equipment is so good that she has never encountered problems such as freezing, black screen, and crashes in such a long time that she often encountered in her previous life. She has never heard of people around her encountering such problems, so she had never considered this situation before coming here.
The possibility of a sudden failure of the storage disk can be ruled out directly, and it is most likely man-made.
Was it done by a student? This is too low quality. I must propose to Zu Lingwei to rectify the school spirit later.
X71 was still very anxious. If it could be materialized, it would be spinning in circles now: [Would you like Yanyan to plug in the disk and let me try to recover? It is written in my manual that if the host is willing to give me a certain amount of heartbeat value, I can get permission to access the star network in the real world. ]
[No need.] Shang Jingyan refused directly.
The storage disk contains fixed data such as scenes and characters. When the dream builder performs the task, he only needs to arrange them to move and follow the established story trajectory.
The original data could no longer be read, and leaving the garbage behind would only get in the way. Moreover, she felt that even if the data could be read, it would most likely have been tampered with.
But... can X71 actually intervene in reality?
This conversation and Shang Jingyan's thoughts took less than a minute in total. She quickly calmed down and focused on the challenges she was about to face.
Seeing this, X71 didn't dare to say anything, for fear of disturbing Shang Jingyan.
Shang Jingyan had never tried a roadshow without any basic framework, but she felt she could do it.
"...The horror techniques I used in my works have actually been analyzed by many people. I will not explain them one by one in detail in today's lecture, but I will give you a few common directions."
Ao Qingxue opened her eyes in her dream, and saw that all the audience had turned into translucent human silhouettes, standing in a room similar to a conference room. Everyone had a small electronic screen at hand for taking notes.
Director Shang's presentation will give everyone examples of specific horror techniques. Usually, in order to save time and effort, speakers will directly take them from their past works. She is a little looking forward to seeing "familiar faces" of characters.
"The first, and most common, is called a 'jump scare.' It's like this."
As Shang Jingyan finished speaking, the scene in the conference room turned into pure darkness. It was quiet for a few seconds, and then a clown face painted with oil and smiling suddenly appeared in front of them, accompanied by shrill laughter and loud BGM.
“Fuck!”
Ao Qingxue heard people all around screaming uncontrollably. Although her heart skipped a beat, she still managed to hold it back. After all, she had watched so many works and had a high tolerance.
However... Ao Qingxue discovered for the first time that the clown that represents joy can actually be so scary!
Moreover, Director Shang did not use materials from her original works. He recreated the scenes and characters. Ao Qingxue felt a sense of surprise that exceeded her expectations. To round it off, wasn't she seeing Director Shang's new work?
The clown jumped out of the darkness, dancing in funny steps, holding a blood-stained balloon in his hand. The audience who were nearby gasped and stepped back quickly.
"Jump scares are the most intuitive and effective type of scare. I believe everyone has been played this joke by their friends, right? They walk up to you from behind and suddenly tap you on the shoulder: Hey!"
Everyone laughed at this real-life example. Ao Qingxue thought of "Evil God", Shang Jingyan's first published work. It turned out that many of the scares in the work were jump scares.
"But," Shang Jingyan changed the subject, "it is also the lowest level of shock. If you use it too much, it will bore the audience. It's like if your friends play such jokes on you too often, they will be warned by you."
“But this doesn’t mean that jump scare can’t be used, it’s just that we need to package it, for example, add progression, and take advantage of the audience’s relaxed psychology.”
The surrounding scene changed, and the clown's figure shattered and disappeared.
The audience came to an abandoned amusement park, shrouded in dusk, and crows were crowing on the Ferris wheel. As the saying goes, the details show the skill, the weeds on the ground, the rusty carousel, the unknown stains on the pirate ship... all made Ao Qingxue feel like he was there, and his heart was creepy.
She originally thought that only amusement parks like horror theme parks would be scary, but she never expected that ordinary amusement parks would become so weird after becoming old.
The character that appears this time is a student. She fastens the straps of her schoolbag and walks towards the carousel step by step with a surprised expression and cautious steps.
The carousel suddenly started moving without anyone touching it, emitting a song with an electric sound. Some of the shining colored lights broke and failed to light up completely. The background music became suspenseful and depressing, and Ao Qingxue's heart was hanging in the air.
The student looked around, but saw nothing unusual. Just as she breathed a sigh of relief, she turned around and saw the clown's big smiling face, and the background music exploded immediately!
This time even Ao Qingxue let out a cry of surprise, and someone nearby jumped up out of shock, hugged her in panic and cried, "My old swan is so scary!"
In addition to being frightened, Ao Qingxue immediately thought of several shots in Shang Jingyan's works. It was as if she had suddenly realized something. She thought to herself, "So that's how it is! A certain place used a distraction."
"Of course, you can also add a distraction..."
The scene changed again, and every time she gave an example, there would be a wave of screams from the audience, but the notes on the more than 2,000 electronic screens did not stop.
As Ao Qingxue listened, she felt her admiration grow deeper. Director Shang's lecture was not to say that he taught everyone everything he knew, but at least he taught them step by step.
She believed that at this moment, many people must have had similar thoughts in their minds: It was so thorough and tempting, so after listening to it, could I also try the horror style when I go back... ?
Conference hall.
Shang Jingyan acted so calmly that no one noticed her little action of pulling out the storage disk.
After entering the spiritual space, people will close their eyes as if they are asleep. Everyone from the stage to the audience is soundly asleep. The scene may seem a little creepy, but the guiding staff are already used to it.
She usually takes the opportunity to adjust her posture, rub her sore arms, and then organize the manuscript for the speaker.
The staff member stepped forward to straighten Shang Jingyan's documents, glanced at him unintentionally, and almost blurted out "Fuck!"
Director Shang, why is she only wearing the linker and not connected to the storage disk? ?
In the audience.
Zu Lingwei had already read Shang Jingyan's manuscript and made some revisions for her. She knew what the content would be next, so she did not put on the linker now, but sat in her chair and observed the reactions of the people in the meeting room.
Very good, very immersive, proving that Xiao Shang successfully controlled the situation...
She was nodding secretly when she saw the staff on the stage jogging down and whispering something in her ear.
"What?!" Zu Lingwei sat up straight and opened her eyes wide.
She took the memory card handed to her by the staff, inserted it into her own computer for debugging, and frowned for a while.
Not only could it not be read, but after a forced recovery, the data inside was blank, and there was only a cartoon black cat burning incense on the screen.
This is the storage disk being directly replaced!
Before the lecture begins, there is a debugging session backstage, and only then may the storage disk be replaced.
"Go check the surveillance." Zu Lingwei said in a low voice.
The surveillance video was quickly delivered to her. She adjusted the time to that time and saw the black-haired young man staggering towards the debugging table in the corner, pretending to accidentally drop the data, and then smiled and apologized and picked it up. The storage disk was mixed in with the pile of scattered documents.
Zu Lingwei's eyes were filled with anger. Lianmeng University had never seen anything this bad before. It was truly a disgrace!
Shang Jingyan's lecture lasted four hours, and the presentation session lasted one hour, which was the last session.
For the entire 60 minutes, her explanation was smooth and perfect, and Ao Qingxue could even see some obvious improvisations in it.
For example, in one scene, Director Shang extracted her interaction to explain the game. That entire segment was designed to fit Ao Qingxue and could not have been prepared in advance.
On-the-spot interaction like this is a real test of the dream builder's level, and it can also maximize the audience's sense of surprise. Generally, once it appears in a roadshow, it will be praised for a long time. Ao Qingxue counted and found that Director Shang used it at least three times.
After the demonstration session ended, many people couldn't wait to post their work on StarNet.
[I have to sincerely call Director Shang, today's lecture is really full of practical information and very sincere. ]
[Shang Jingyan's stage presence is so charming... Oh my god, is she really only 18 years old? My legs are weak when I see her, and I just want to call her sister. ]
[The heartbeat value opening was so good, it shocked me intuitively, and I was convinced! ]
[Is she so awesome? ? Upstairs, I remember your ID. You were saying before that she was too inexperienced [horrified]. ]
[What happened in the past four hours? Not many people have reposted. I don’t want to tell you that I really immersed myself in it for four hours! ! ]
[I followed a live broadcast of an anchor, and I am going to defect too, sorry! Director Shang is amazing, I will only say this once. Please upload the video of the presentation session, I have been waiting so anxiously for an hour! ]
【Ahhh, I have become a fanboy, Shang Jingyan, I love you!!】
[Oh my god, I will go back and watch this lecture video ten times. It is so worth coming here today.]
[Wow, I feel like my average heart rate was 105 when I listened to this show today... Director Shang, my Director Shang! ]
The discussion of the lecture grew explosively, and when Shang Jingyan's five-minute closing speech ended and the lights in the conference hall came on, a sea of students rushed up and surrounded her.
"Director Shang, you spoke so well!" "I especially liked the part where you talked about 'terror is the instinctive pursuit of human beings'..." "Director Shang, can I ask a question? I didn't understand something just now..."
Seeing amazing works online and intuitively feeling the spiritual power and personal charm offline are completely different experiences. Shang Jingyan conquered the students of Lianmeng University with his strength. After a lecture, everyone's mood has completely changed, and even the address automatically becomes "you", which is the attitude towards admirers and seniors.
The conference hall was suddenly filled with noise. After a while of excitement, the students finally regained their composure as adults and consciously quieted down and lined up in two lines to wait to ask questions.
Ao Qingxue was of course also in the queue, and her heart beat faster and faster as she waited in line.
Just one more, so close!
At this distance, Ao Qingxue could clearly see the details of the black sheep tattoo on Shang Jingyan's arm, as well as the drooping eyelashes on her side face. Even her eyelashes were gray and white, as beautiful as if they were carved out of silver wire. When she raised her eyes, the green eyes below were like lake water, which could absorb people's souls.
The previous classmate left with starry eyes, and it was Ao Qingxue's turn. When she looked at Shang Jingyan's face, she forgot all the questions she had prepared and blurted out: "Director Shang, can you give me an autograph? I have liked you for a long time!"
Shang Jingyan was stunned.
Ao Qingxue: "..."
How embarrassing!!
Good-natured laughter rang out around them. Ao Qingxue's face flushed and she quickly handed over the electronic screen and paper notebook: "No, I was wrong, just pretend I didn't say that..."
Unexpectedly, Shang Jingyan's beautiful eyelashes curved slightly, revealing a smile: "Sure. I think I know you. You are the anchor named Qing Se Xue, right?"
She took the notebook and wrote on the title page:
To Cyan Snow:
Remember to hold on to your dreams^_^
By Shang Jingyan
Director Shang actually watched her live broadcast and knew that she had been struggling for a while whether to continue her dream of becoming a dream builder...
Ao Qingxue couldn't help but pat his face, and thought blankly amid the envious and jealous words of the students behind him: I must be dreaming.
There were so many people wanting to ask questions that Shang Jingyan had to pause and leave to get a glass of water.
When she was carrying the cup of water out of the tea room, she suddenly heard a voice coming from the side.
"Ms. Shang, is this the storage disk you lost?"
Shang Jingyan looked in the direction of the voice and saw a black-haired young man leaning against the door, shaking the storage disk in his hand.
Su Shudong had originally planned to wait until Shang Jingyan was in an awkward situation and unable to clean up the mess before standing up. At that time, everyone's attention would be on him, and then everyone would burst into laughter, and his prank would be a success.
However, he never expected that Shang Jingyan could perform so brilliantly.
When he was pulled into the mental space, he almost thought that he had failed to replace the storage disk.
But when he saw the clown appear, he realized that he had succeeded, but Shang Jingyan actually recreated the dream-building scene on the spot!
No words can describe Su Shudong's mood at that moment. He trembled with excitement from his spine to his scalp as if an electric shock had occurred.
This is an unprecedented and powerful opponent.
Shang Jingyan glanced at the little silver thing and said, "Really? Maybe."
"..." Su Shudong was stuck for a moment, "It's yours. I accidentally took the wrong one and just found out."
Shang Jingyan's on-the-spot performance and his indifferent reaction at the moment made his prepared speech discounted and seemed very awkward.
He deliberately said "I accidentally took the wrong one" in the hope of angering Shang Jingyan, but the latter just folded his hands and said with a half-smile: "Is that so? But I don't need it anymore."
Su Shudong suddenly felt that he might be the one who was enraged, so he could only force himself to remain calm and shrugged his shoulders: "That's a pity, I can only hand it over to the place where the items are lost - and turn myself in at the same time."
He had no intention of hiding it when he did it, and at most he would be punished. Even if he was not punished, he would voluntarily ask to have all his credits deducted.
How worth it for a little punishment for such a prank?
It’s just a pity that his prank didn’t succeed.
Shang Jingyan looked him up and down, and suddenly smiled: "Since you took my storage disk, I believe you have already read my original content."
She also has fangs, but when she smiles like this, she looks more like a predatory cheetah than a mischievous cat.
"Do you know why I changed the original character to the Joker?"
"Why?" Su Shudong asked reflexively, and then he saw Shang Jingyan mouth four words:
Jump, beam, small, ugly.
——Because you are a clown.
"You...!" Su Shudong's expression changed slightly, but Shang Jingyan left straight away after he finished speaking and opened the door handle again.
He took a step forward to catch up, but before he could meet Shang Jingyan, he was separated by the crowd rushing out of the classroom.
"Hey... Hey! Shang Jingyan!"
Su Shudong struggled to move forward in frustration, but was still pushed to the outermost part of the crowd.
"Director Shang, I still have a question..."
"Don't cut in line, I'll queue here first!..."
"Why are you calling me by my name? How rude. Move aside, don't block me..."
Su Shudong's steps were unsteady, and he took several steps back before he could stand in a spacious space. Shang Jingyan, who was in the center of the crowd, didn't even look at him again.
It was as if he was just a tiny speck of dust that had stained the corner of her clothes and was lightly brushed away by her.
For a moment he didn't know whether he was more angry or at a loss. From childhood to adulthood, Su Shudong had been pointed at on the nose and scolded with even more unpleasant words countless times, but he could always smile and fight back and make the other party jump in anger. However, no one had ever embarrassed or angered him like the word "jumping clown" just now.
Su Shudong was stunned for a while, and suddenly a thought came to his mind:
Who are you? You regard her as your rival, but in her eyes, you are nothing at all.
Shang Jingyan's lecture was a great success. Many students at Capital Star University heard of this peer for the first time today. The audio clip of her four-hour lecture went viral on major campus forums.
But this time, few people said sour words. Everyone asked themselves, how many dream builders can share their experience so generously? Shang Jingyan did it, and her generosity was accompanied by natural pride: she believed that even if a terrorist trend emerged, she could stand out and not be lost in the crowd.
Faced with such magnanimity, everyone could only say that they were ashamed of themselves. Students from many schools also strongly requested that their alma mater also invite Director Shang to give lectures.
By the evening, a penalty notice issued by Lianmengda brought the situation to a climax.
The content was that Su Xdong, a third-year student of the Dream Building major, took the wrong storage disk, causing the storage disk for the lecture to be unusable and almost causing an emergency accident. Su Xdong was given a demerit and, at his own request, all his credits for the year were deducted.
It was like a spark, and the two explosive points inside it instantly ignited a raging fire.
What? Shang Jingyan actually completed the presentation without the aid of a storage disk! ?
What? It turns out that a student “took” her storage disk by mistake?
Everyone was shocked.
[? ? What the hell! What the hell, am I seeing this right?! ]
[No save disk?? I thought the five or six improvisations I saw in the movie were already amazing, but you tell me that Director Shang improvised throughout the whole movie?]
[Is this something a human can do?! My jaw dropped!]
The school still gave Su Shudong some face and only wrote that he had "taken" the storage disk by mistake.
But it was just a fig leaf. Who could take the storage disk so wrongly? Anyone with a discerning eye could see that this was a deliberate prank.
[Help, Su Xdong, could it be the person I think of...]
[Dream Building Major, Junior, how many Su Moudongs can there be? ]
[He is such a despicable person! ]
[It's him, so I'm not surprised. He likes to play tricks on people, and everyone knows it. He asked to have his credits deducted, which shows that he has some backbone.]
[This is no longer just a prank, it's a sinister move.]
[Hahaha, I didn't expect to hit a wall this time! When he found out that he was defeated, his expression must be very interesting. ]
[If it were someone else, he would have fooled me. Our Director Shang is still awesome! ]
[Too exciting and dramatic! The invisible swordplay, isn't this more exciting than some of the hot-blooded masterpieces of dream builders?! ]
[Can I say it? I've been disliking Su Shudong for a long time. Does he think he's so great? ]
Su Shudong has a certain degree of fame, but now he has done such a low thing, which has caused a lot of ridicule.
When his fans saw the announcement, their eyes went dark. This is not the first time that Su Shudong has caused trouble. He has a bad reputation in the circle and likes to offend people. Once a senior mentioned him and his face turned black on the spot.
It was just that it was circulated secretly before, but this time it was directly exposed what he did, and even the most fanatical fans felt a little embarrassed. His comment area was a mess, with accusations, advice, insults, and backlash...
But Su Shudong himself just forwarded the notice without saying a word. This unrepentant attitude made people even more angry.
A residential area on the capital planet.
Zu Lingwei sighed and said to the screen: "This is what happened."
The friend's pupils shrank suddenly because of surprise. After being shocked, she said to herself: "If it were me, could I do it?"
Zu Lingwei's friend is a member of the Star Society and one of the top dream builders in the universe. She thought for a moment, nodded, then shook her head, and said with a sigh: "...I'm not as good as her."
The level of mental power is no longer the most critical factor. Both she and Zu Lingwei have a mental power of over 100.
If you know in advance that you need to perform without any assistance, then through repeated rehearsals and practice, you may be able to achieve perfection in the end.
But Shang Jingyan did it without any preparation. If it were someone else, their mentality would have collapsed the moment they found out that the storage disk was destroyed. How could they have performed well on the spot?
Zu Lingwei nodded in agreement: "I think so too."
Even when she found out about this in the audience, she broke out in a cold sweat, but just looking at Shang Jingyan, she couldn't even tell that Shang Jingyan was panicked.
She asked herself, but she could only feel that she couldn't do it.
My friend said, "The works you invited me to watch these days are also hers, right? They are horror-style and very interesting."
Zu Lingwei has been watching the first unit of "Infinite Heartbeat" with her online these days, and has just finished watching the first episode of the second unit.
"That's right." Zu Lingwei's usually serious face showed a softer smile, "Is the junior I'm looking at very good?"
"More than good! This child is destined to amaze the world."
The friend said something that even Zu Lingwei found unbelievable, "I'm waiting for the day when she joins the Star Club."
Every star-level dream builder is a national treasure-level dream builder of the alliance, and this prophecy, spoken by a star-level dream builder, seems even more convincing.
"...You can't let her hear this. I'm afraid that this promising young talent will be ruined by being too complacent." Zu Lingwei said, and her friends laughed - Professor Zu is such a strict and old-fashioned person.
The old-fashioned Professor Zu turned the screen to Shang Jingyan's homepage channel and said half-jokingly, "The second episode of "Princess's Tomb" will be broadcast tonight. There will be nothing else to watch after you finish watching it. Congratulations, join me in the army of chasing more episodes."
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