Bai Yujing
Shang Jingyan raised his eyebrows and replied: [OK. ]
X71: [Wow! She chose the same one as me. I like this outline better too! ]
As a murderer, Scarlet is more about one-on-one tension and excitement, while Pink is about the excitement of a planet facing a disaster. As a non-human, X71 can better understand the latter.
The disaster theme that Shang Jingyan finally decided on was zombies, a fairly classic horror thriller genre.
There is currently no concept of "zombies" like those in zombie movies in the interstellar world, but people generally know about "living corpses" and "zombies".
In Shang Jingyan’s previous unit “Infinite Heartbeat·Oil Painting Woman”, there is an oil painting world on the sea, where NPC crew members and the captain are parasitized by sea monsters and turned into aggressive zombies, but that is closer to “parasitism” in nature, such as crab slaves parasitizing crabs and iron wire worms controlling mantises.
Afterwards, no dream builder has used this point to expand upon and create thematic works.
In her previous life, various zombie movies had been constantly updated since "Biochemical Zero", she wondered what would happen here?
The news of Shang Jingyan's awakening spread across the Star Network in the first time, and the fans who had been worried about him immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
After she woke up, she stayed in the ward for a day and then returned to the program crew to start working again.
[It’s good that nothing happened. @光年program crew, don’t let this kind of incident happen again! ]
[Director Shang did not accept the interview and did not say how he fell into the water. He only said that it was not the fault of the production team. This attitude makes me very curious...]
[I shed tears. Director Shang is indeed a hard worker. He only took one day off after falling into the water.]
[Not only that, she also replied to the fans who asked about her new work under the post, saying that the trailer for the next movie is being made. She is so hardworking! ]
The hot spots in the interstellar world change very quickly, especially those about the dream builder himself. The news of the drowning was gradually replaced by the tag #尚导新作是电影#. At the same time, the plot of "Light Years Love Song" was slowly coming to an end.
While Shang Jingyan was in a coma, the plot of "Light Years" continued, and after she took over the directing position again, it began to smoothly move towards its climax.
After the guests discovered that light could not contain the jellyfish, they thought in the opposite direction and used fire as bait to kill the jellyfish monster.
They followed the clues and returned to the villa, during which they experienced the misalignment of the villa's rooms, and Yun Yongxue was tragically locked up in the dance studio.
The remaining three people and the men in black opened the attic room and found name tags of every guest in it.
The plaques are arranged in the shape of tablets. The material is as white as bone carvings, and they are stacked layer by layer to form a tower. There is a white candle in front of each tablet, swaying and burning with a faint green light.
Above these tablets, there is a statue of an unknown deity, made of slightly transparent white plastic, with cheap colored lights flashing, but it does not look funny at all, just weird.
The statue is wearing a strange white robe that is neither Chinese nor Western. Its head is a translucent jellyfish, and a pink brain shape can be seen inside. Its hands are clasped together, and countless entangled tentacles extend from its sleeves, with the suction cups on them clearly visible.
This scene was broadcast at midnight and became a hot topic the next day.
[What kind of hellish scene is this! 】
[It’s hard to imagine the production crew’s mental state when they took this thing out of the 3D printer. If I touched it, I’d feel creepy too QAQ]
Based on the clues in the attic, everyone pieced together part of the truth.
After humans enter this room, they can repair and restore their bodies. The black-clad staff use this room to resurrect - each of them was a guest before becoming a "staff member", and their names were written on cards.
The strangest thing is that the people in black can’t actually see what the attic looks like. In their eyes, it’s just an ordinary white room where they can get a chance to breathe by resting for a night.
This is also the reason why they say in the rules that guests can enter the attic as a last resort.
But correspondingly, their restoration also utilizes the power of the villa. The more times it is restored, the more polluted and alienated it becomes, and finally it can't even maintain its human form, so there is the "Black Sheep".
At this point, the guests and most of the audience were quite optimistic and believed that a happy ending was not far away.
[The four signs at the bottom are blank, and when you think about the four guests, it’s terrifying.]
[Let me sort it out. The black-clad people discovered the attic by accident and found it useful so they used it. The pink-clad people had their own basement where they were brainwashed and had their health restored... Why do I feel like the villa isn't so kind? They]
Over the next two days, the guests broke through the defenses and entered the basement, where the layout was almost identical to that of the attic, with countless tablets and electronic candle statues above and below.
They smashed the statue, and all the pink-clad people and their "lovers" disappeared screaming in an instant.
The rest of the truth was revealed one by one. Just as the audience had guessed, the whole show was a huge nest of monsters. Those who were still conscious were dragged into it, using their lives to explore again and again, and summed up the rules to survive in the show.
The source of everything was originally that strange statue. When this love variety show was first held, the director prayed to the gods out of superstition for the show to be a big hit, but the statue he worshiped was invaded by something strange and gradually became alienated, but he was still unaware of the contamination and started the show like this.
Just like the beginning of all horror stories, it started with just a few small changes, such as the room key disappearing inexplicably, remembering to wait for the house number when going out but it changed when you came back, and the lights turning on for no reason in the middle of the night...
Later, all kinds of accidents began to occur. Stars died or disappeared on the show, and the entire "Light Years Love Song" program was polluted into a distorted space. It was "alive" and needed to eat, so it kept driving the puppets to devour new life.
Those "lovers" are the mouthparts it created to select and observe food.
These new lives also help it grow larger and larger, and its territory spreads outward, just like the scene outside the "Cupid Lake" villa.
If the guests fail in their struggle, Cupid Lake will also be included in its territory.
Some of the people "eaten" by it did not completely lose their self-will. They gathered together spontaneously and became black-clad staff, summarizing the rules of this place for themselves and those who came after them.
They kept fighting and trying to break free.
This time, the guests finally induced the jellyfish monster, causing the statues in the attic and basement to appear, and smashed the statues underground. In reality, this is just one episode, but in the world of "Light Years Love Song", the black-clad people have been waiting for many years.
"So have we passed the level?" Actor Rong Qing was a little excited. He didn't expect that he could survive to the end.
Qu Licong was also looking around: "We have dealt with all the villain NPCs, why hasn't it shown that we have succeeded yet?"
The comments had already started to spread, but Wu Rui was the only one with a frown on her face, not smiling much.
It took a few seconds for some comments to react to this seemingly peaceful scene.
[…It can’t be what I thought…]
[I think I've thought of it, help, I don't want to be stabbed, please don't! ]
Wu Rui whispered under the camera: "Not all of them have been solved. There are two statues in this villa."
Qu Li was stunned for a moment, incredulous: "But..."
But aren't the other statues controlling the people in black? Aren't they the awake, supportive NPCs?
Similar comments were also flashed on the barrage. Qu Li had a premonition and became anxious. She said to the black-clad staff, "Really? It can't be like this, don't be like this..."
At this moment, the three guests including Yun Yongxue who was rescued from the dance studio were standing outside the villa, while a group of people in black were standing inside the villa. The wide door cast a shadow, like the two ends of yin and yang.
The black-clad staff members are all played by real people. After so many days of immersive variety shows, the guests have already regarded them as their companions in their hearts and have immersed themselves in the story. They cannot detach themselves from it and regard this as just a segment of the variety show.
Qu Licong extended an invitation to the leading black-clad man, but the latter just smiled and shook his head, saying, "Your companion guessed correctly."
The last step was indeed to smash the statue in the attic.
——According to the timeline, it is actually the original statue, so it has such a strong repair power. The ghost in the villa set it there, and essentially had already designed everything, and no one except the four guests could escape.
Just think about it and you can guess that those people in black are no longer considered human. It is impossible for humans to switch between sheep and humans and be killed again and again but still survive.
Qu Li's eyes turned red, and the four of them finally decided to go to the fourth floor.
Before they set off, the leader in black suddenly stopped everyone and said:
"Watch a real basketball game for me, will you?"
——Among the guests, Rong Qing filled out the initial "lover intention form" and hoped that the matchmaker would love sports. When he first entered the flower forest, there was indeed a basketball T-shirt in women's sizes among the props he picked up.
These items actually come from past guests, and the pairs created by the show just use them to decorate themselves.
In the closed weird space of the villa, everything is fake, including the football games broadcast on TV.
As soon as this sentence came out, the barrage of comments couldn't hold back and collapsed.
[I was caught off guard by the sudden sword at the end. QAQ I came to watch a horror variety show, but why did I cry so hard that I dropped a pack of tissues?]
【Woo woo woo dog screenwriter, I’m going to kill you! 】
[Who is the screenwriter? It turns out to be Director Shang.jpg Damn it. Why did he have to write a horror movie after all?]
[So sad, she can never go out here to watch a real football game again 5555]
As the evil god statue in the attic was smashed, everything fell into silence. When the four guests went downstairs again, the first floor was empty.
The door was quietly open, and outside was the bright winter sunshine.
This episode of "Dream Builder" came to an end here. Once "Light Years Love Song" was completed, the already high popularity exploded again, and the audience who had previously stockpiled the series came back to watch it.
The tag #光年恋歌世界观# became the number one trending search and the discussion level remained high.
[Does anyone feel like I do, that Director Shang’s horror atmosphere this time is different from before? ]
[Yes, Director Shang’s story design is so desperate this time. Even at the end, the weirdness is not really resolved. How powerful is the so-called "evil god"? Just an invading statue has caused such horrific consequences...]
[What a scary world view QAQ However, the performances of the guests and NPCs can be called "Odes of Courage", I think this is what Director Shang wants to express. 】
[I feel like there are still many stories to tell in this background. Will Director Shang make a sequel? Movies, TV series or games are more suitable for presenting stories than variety shows. I really want to watch it! ]
To Shang Jingyan, she used the horror of the series to construct her worldview. This is also the horror form that she thinks best matches the rule-based horror stories - the rules are ultimately just describing and inferring the truth, not the real truth.
Cthulhu’s gods are “indescribable and invincible”. Humans are like ants in front of huge evils. The best they can do is avoid them, but they do not have the ability to confront the evil gods head-on.
They are higher beings that humans cannot even comprehend and can only guess at through their projections.
Just hearing and seeing the tip of the iceberg is enough to pollute the fragile human spirit.
Therefore, the terror of the K system always carries a sense of despair.
but……
Shang Jingyan sighed, looked at the discussion on the Star Network, and said to X71: [If I had known that brainworms would appear in jellyfish, I would not have designed it this way. ]
Describing them as "invincible" terrors feels like emboldening others.
[Just think of it as setting a reverse flag.] X71 is very proficient in using Internet jargon now, and comforts Shang Jingyan, [The more serious it is now, the more attention it will attract, and the easier it will be to win later!]
The "time" it mentioned refers to the time when it will confront the brain worms in the future.
Shang Jingyan thought that even X71 had sensed the tension currently hidden beneath the water and knew that there would inevitably be a final battle between humans and brain worms.
She pretended to be a doctor after she came out of the ward. In fact, she still has a little cough and her body has not fully recovered yet.
Zu Lingwei mediated for her, and now the senior executives have not come to disturb her, but Shang Jingyan estimates that after the show is over, she will have to deal with a lot of new matters.
Shang Song, brainworm, real group...
It gives me a headache just thinking about all of them.
"Director Shang, we must go out for a meal in a few days!"
"Director Shang has worked so hard, let's treat you."
"Great! Congratulations on the successful conclusion of Lightyears!"
The voices around her interrupted her thoughts. The camera had already been put away. The staff and guests came to congratulate her. Shang Jingyan smiled and nodded.
Now there are only some behind-the-scenes footage and interviews left to be done, but there is no rush for these. Shang Jingyan's editor Mu Xiu is full of fighting spirit. After the show ends, her work officially begins - she has to coordinate operations for Shang Jingyan and strive for the award of "Light Years Love Song".
Everyone believed that Shang Jingyan could become the CEO of the Year of "The Executive" and it would be no problem for him to reach four stars.
Shang Jingyan couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth. Apart from the troubles, there were still many happy things.
That night.
Shang Jingyan made full use of her hardworking nature to complete the trailer for "Pink Advent". The leader of the alliance, Deborah, did not buy out the copyright of "Pink Advent" and allowed her to release it to the public at the same time.
So, when the last cut of editing was completed, Shang Jingyan opened the homepage and sent a status while taking advantage of the popularity of "Light Years".
Jingyan All v: [New trailer, please look forward to it^_^[link]]
Thirty seconds later, the number of comments in the comment section increased dramatically, with the most popular comment being: [Director Shang can scare people with just one sentence. I can testify that I cried when I saw this sentence! ]
Shang Jingyan is now much more famous than before. As soon as the trailer was released, many businesses put it on the big screens in commercial plazas.
Capital Star, Baiyujing Square.
Baiyujing Commercial Center is the largest commercial center in the main galaxy, or it can be said to be the best commercial plaza in the entire alliance.
Its main body is white, and the building is full of artistic beauty, combining modern and retro styles. It is staggered and surrounds the sky. Bridges and elevators are arranged in the air, and floating cars pass through the gaps, with colorful neon lights flashing.
Even in the night, it is brilliant and bright, just as described in the ancient poem, "White Jade Capital in the Sky, Twelve Towers and Five Cities".
This is the fashion center, and beautifully dressed people are taking street photos here every minute and every second. No matter where they are in the square, the flowing crowd can see the 360-degree stereoscopic light screen in the center.
It costs a fortune to play GG on Baiyujing's light screen, but there is one exception - when playing the works of Dream Builder, it is free of charge.
Baiyujing Group still has some pursuit of commercial art. They will use a set of comprehensive evaluation formulas and data to select the most talked-about dream-building works for editing and release, which can be regarded as a public welfare project.
No matter how much money is spent, it is impossible for the Dream Builder to gain Bai Yujing's favor if the data does not meet the requirements.
Therefore, climbing onto the White Jade Screen is more of a symbol of status.
Playing a trailer is an even rarer scene than editing, and it requires the dream builder to have strong popularity and ability.
At this moment, on the public screen, there was a lifelike pink petal gathering like a cloud, with different shades of color, and it seemed as if blood was seeping out from the deep. After the petals dispersed, four large characters were revealed -
Pink is coming.
Shang Jingyan’s previous clips of “Infinite Heartbeat” and “Clownland” have been shown on the Baiyujing screen, but this is the first time for a trailer.
The four words in the title looked like they were written with someone’s fingers dipped in blood. Combined with the pink cloud petals, they were beautiful and eerie.
"Wow, whose trailer is that? It's actually on the big screen at Baiyujing Square. It looks like a big movie."
"How come you haven't heard of him? He's the dream builder Shang Jingyan who's very popular recently!"
"Oh, I remember that he directed the variety show "Light Years Love Song", right?"
The first scene of the trailer is also a commercial plaza. People are smiling, as if they are celebrating some festival.
Judging from the roses and pink balloons, it must be some love festival.
Then, the big screen cut through several similar scenes, a busy street, a busy shopping mall in the morning, a noisy school during break, a hospital with many people rushing around...
A slightly older female voice came from the background: "At first, we all thought that the world would remain unchanged."
In different pictures, people's expressions may be happy, sad, calm, or anxious. But no matter what, the world is running normally.
However, the background music gradually becomes louder, and the style is obviously heavy and solemn, which makes people feel uneasy.
These daily scenes are so close to life that the audience feels involved. Many people in the square stopped to watch out of curiosity.
Suddenly, there was a sharp accent in the music, and the music took a sharp turn for the worse.
The future updates will be at night if nothing unexpected happens_(:з」∠)_
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