Returnee
[When you reminded me, I realized that "Infinite Heartbeat" is almost finished. I have been following it for so long, I am so sad! ]
[I hope Director Shang can continue to serialize indefinitely 555. But I also hope that the protagonists can get what they want and quickly leave those horrible worlds...]
[Three of the first four copies have some Western elements, so I bet the last one will have an ancient Chinese background.]
[Do you remember the trailer? There was a scene in it where the blush paper figurines and embroidered shoes in the mansion have not appeared yet. ]
[Not necessarily! The trailer is just a concept display, it doesn’t mean the feature film will follow it completely. The church in “The Forest Singer” is different from the trailer. ]
[Moreover, the ancient Chinese stories in the mansion overlap with "Rouge Comb", "Come and Catch Me If You Can", and the ghost bride in "Shanhai Tuben". What new tricks can be brought out? ]
After several discussions, everyone generally believed that the final story would still be Chinese horror, but they didn't know how Director Shang would present it.
The fans' posts were posted on public platforms by some busybodies, and the haters noticed this and started to laugh at them.
[Even the fans themselves said that they "can't come up with anything new" and it's easy for them to overlap with the previous ones. Haha, Shang Jingyan is in a dilemma. ]
[The final instance has always been prone to failure. Your expectations are so high, I think Shang Jingyan is going to be in trouble! ]
[Although Shang Jingyan has four stars, this is her first full-length novel. The probability of it starting high and ending low is too high. Anyway, I am not optimistic about it. ]
[I am Jingmihua, I also think we should not brag in advance...]
"Infinite Heartbeat" attracted a lot of attention when it was serialized. Now that it is coming to an end, everyone wants to know what kind of ending this phenomenal series will come to.
During the holidays, people would quarrel over anything, big or small, and for a time, "Infinity" was pushed to the forefront.
The outside world's commotion did not affect Shang Jingyan. A few days later, she received news from Ferry Star:
[The patient has recovered and can be arranged to meet. ]
Ferris star.
Shang Jingyan traveled a long way across a galaxy to reach the star Ferry. Deboler encrypted her IP address for her, and now in the outside world she is still staying in the Dragon Sea.
She was picked up by a black car and brought to the sanatorium villa.
Debolle's subordinates disappeared, leaving the space for the conversation to the two of them.
Unlike the communication that Monk Jingyan had seen before, Debler was no longer lying in the nutrition cabin, but was rehabilitating in the exercise room. It seemed that he was taking a halftime break, and he was sitting cross-legged by the window reading some computer information.
The room was bright and clear. There was sweat on the tip of her nose after exercise. Her complexion was rosy and she looked much more energetic.
"Xiao Shang, you're here?"
When Deborah heard her movement, she raised her head and smiled, her charming steel-blue eyes slightly curved, rippling with tiny glimmers like lake water.
Shang Jingyan was still a little sad and nervous before coming here, but when he looked into those eyes, all of that suddenly disappeared.
"Mr. Leader," she also smiled, "congratulations on your recovery."
Although in her memory, the two were not familiar with each other, the conversation started naturally.
"Just call me Deboler, no need to call me you. I was able to wake up smoothly, thanks to your dream-building, Xiaoshang." Deboler shook his head, stood up and casually pulled out a virtual shooting gun from the exercise rack, and threw it to Shang Jingyan, "Do you want to play with us?"
Shang Jingyan took it, a little hesitant. She didn't know what her "original" skills were like, and any rash action would expose her.
Several moving virtual targets appeared on the wall. Shang Jingyan recognized that this was a game, the kind that teenagers loved to play. He thought to himself that Deboler actually had this kind of hobby.
"Your current state is indeed just as you predicted, and very different from before. But you are still you."
Deborah shot at a few targets and suddenly spoke, as if she knew what she was thinking.
Shang Jingyan: “…”
Well, it turns out that Deborah had already noticed that she was different.
However, hearing this, her “original self”... ?
"You said before that you might have a lot of questions for me when we meet again." Deborah laughed, "So?"
Shang Jingyan looked at her and was absent-minded for a second.
Sure enough, the "original body" predicted that she would lose her memory.
No, perhaps it should not be said "original body", but rather - the former her predicted that she would lose her memory.
So what is the so-called time travel? What was her previous life like?
Shang Jingyan thought for a moment and asked a key question: "Forgive me for forgetting...Ms. Deboler, I want to know what the specific content of my cooperation with you is?"
Debler answered simply: "I will contain the brain worms and focus on protecting the exiled galaxy. I will give you at least one year to prepare and develop. You will find a way to fight the brain worms and use fear to awaken the people."
"Have you noticed your debt list? That's the 'mortgage' for our contract."
"We agreed that if you can become a three-star or higher dream builder within 12 months, I will send someone to contact you to continue our cooperation; if not, the cooperation will be invalid, we will no longer communicate, and you will be in debt."
There is no beating around the bush or playing tricks on you. Just three sentences contain a huge amount of information, enough to shock anyone.
So that's how it is! It was as if scattered puzzle pieces finally fell into place, and many of Shang Jingyan's doubts were also explained.
No wonder the brain worms didn't react at first when she was so excited about the horror movie, because they were blocked by Deborah.
No wonder the brain worm didn't attack her, it was because Deble was secretly mediating for her!
"Ms. Deboler, is your mental power level also very high?" Shang Jingyan couldn't help but ask.
Deborah curled her eyes in a friendly manner: "Yes, maybe only slightly worse than you."
This is really shocking. According to external data, the spiritual power level of the leader of the alliance, Deboler, is A, with a value of 98.
Shang Jingyan thought about it carefully and was not surprised. Being able to fight against brain worms and protect an entire galaxy, it is impossible for Deboler to be only A-level.
"I have long been aware of their existence," Debler said. "I concealed my true level and came to this position just to prepare for today. My spirit body is special and can control the brain worms 'temporarily'. But this is not something I can do alone... You are my most successful partner."
Not only Deboler, Shang Jingyan also hid his spiritual level until he "traveled through time" and became a dream builder.
The existence of the IOU is reasonable. Now after listening to the content of the cooperation, Shang Jingyan feels that he is the one who has made a profit, because in fact the person who has to pay more is Deboler.
As the leader of the alliance, once she agrees, she will fall into a year-long sleep, which sounds like a move that only a crazy person would make to outsiders.
And what does the object of her hope look like to the outside world? --Underage, with a terrible resume, born in an exiled galaxy, and has never been a dream builder before. The only trump card she can show to Deborah is her innate spiritual power.
How crazy and desperate.
Now to be honest, this debt actually does not need to be repaid.
Deblène did not elaborate on the origin of their collaboration, but Shang Jingyan's thinking developed a little.
When she said “the most successful”, does it mean that there were other failed collaborations before this?
Among them, is there...Shang Song?
Shang Jingyan seemed to see herself at the other end of time and space. She gained a year to bring "terror" back to the interstellar space.
Pictures flashed through her mind, completing her memories. It was as if time and space overlapped, and she was once talking to Deborah.
"What if you can't do it?"
"Then there's no need to contact me anymore."
She saw herself sitting on the sofa with her hands spread out and said, "If I can't even do this, how can I talk about fighting against brain worms?"
"…I won't tell you where I'm going, but I'll come back with fear."
The young man smiled and raised his chin, "This is the 'Returning Goose Project'."
It turns out that this is the Returning Goose Plan.
Shang Jingyan was familiar with that kind of confidence and publicity. Countless times, she had used this tone when she told investors about her grand plans as a poor rookie director.
And she did bring back success time and time again.
One old and one young, two equally bold people, made this crazy collaboration possible.
The images floating in his memory disappeared. Shang Jingyan lowered his eyes, then raised his head, raised his hand and shot a ten-ring shot. Debler said "Beautiful".
"I don't have anything else for you to answer. The last question is, what should we do next?" Shang Jingyan asked.
"Things are different now. We have already completed the first step in the dark, which took a long time." Deboler followed her and shot a bullet into the bull's eye, then adjusted his helmet. "Then we can move on to the light..."
Shang Jingyan's eyebrows gradually raised as he listened to her next words.
Two weeks later, Gamma Galaxy.
The atmosphere of the Spring Festival is gradually fading from our sight, but the holiday is not over yet. During this period of time every year, StarNet netizens are the most idle.
When people have free time, they will want to fall in love more. As usual, in previous years, the hot searches at this time of year would be dominated by various romantic literary works. However, things are different now. Some curious people have calculated that 80% of the top ten box office works in various regions during this holiday season are horror works.
The terrifying wind brought about by Shang Jingyan has already swept across the entire galaxy.
"I don't know if it's my illusion, but when I went out during the holidays this year, I felt that there were fewer couples on the street."
In the live broadcast room, Lu Zibing was amazed and complained, "Recently, Director Shang's IP has been in the Dragon Sea in our galaxy, but I went there once a few days ago and couldn't encounter it at all, oh!"
【It’s a miracle that you encounter a planet this big. 】
[By the way, where is the host now? The last copy of "Infinite Heartbeat" is about to start, why are you still outside? 】
The comments on the forums could all see that Lu Zibing was sitting in a private hovercraft, and outside the window was not a city, but a relatively rare forest.
Judging from the IP, he is not on the capital planet, but on a small planet in Gamma.
"Oh, isn't this the New Year holiday? I'm going back to visit my hometown."
Lu Zibing's hometown is a third-tier residential planet, which is not very prosperous. He once said in the live broadcast room that he felt very involved when playing "Building 18" because he lived in a dormitory when he was a student.
As he was chatting, the official calendar on the screen showed midnight, and he was immediately cheered up.
[Shang Jingyan doesn't even dare to respond to the controversy, and the theme song was not released in advance. He must be feeling guilty (picking his nose).]
[The host is a fan of Shang, I want to see if you can give an objective evaluation of your host. ]
A large number of people who were eager to cause chaos suddenly flooded into the live broadcast room. Lu Zibing was quick to silence them all and complained, "Director Shang is really famous now. When I first pursued her, there were not so many people who hated her."
He was quite calm. Having seen so many horror films, his tolerance had increased. Even if he was not scared, he was willing to support Shang Jingyan.
The opening music this time had a strong ancient Chinese style, or folk style - the audience guessed it right, and the barrage of comments suddenly became heated.
The suona has a strong presence in the background sound but it is not abrupt, and it has a strong sense of weirdness. The opening song of the last copy does not reveal any plot information. The edited pictures contain a lot of content from the first four worlds. It was not until the end that the name of this world appeared.
A female slave from a mountain village.
Lu Zibing: “…”
Wait, why do I suddenly have such a bad feeling?
The settlement in his hometown is still using its old name, which is "village".
The screen lights up. At the end of the previous episode, Lan Qing was caught in the system storm and left World Four. Logically speaking, this episode should be about her daily life in her original world.
But the system's mechanical sound continued to sound intermittently -
[Group A...No. 18...put into use...]
[Trialist Lan Qing, the fifth trial officially begins. This trial is called "Mountain Village Female Ba".]
Lu Zibing had an even stronger ominous premonition. Why did he feel that this number sounded familiar? Where had he heard it before?
"What..." Lan Qing opened her eyes with great effort in the storm. The system's voice was too noisy and she couldn't hear it at all.
The camera was spinning, there was a whooshing sound of wind breaking through the air, and a car drove into the frame. Lan Qing felt a sharp pain in the head, and his whole body seemed to be pushed downwards, into this world, and fell straight into the car.
The noise faded away in an instant, and the music in the car switched to normal. Lan Qing was sweating profusely, and suddenly opened his eyes in the passenger seat!
"Qingqing, what's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?"
A soft female voice sounded beside him. Lan Qing suddenly froze in his movements. He turned his head inch by inch with an extremely horrified look in his eyes.
When the camera panned to the side and the audience saw the people in the driver's seat and the back seat, Lu Zibing blurted out: "Holy crap!!"
It turned out to be Lan Qing’s mother and her sister!
He remembered why the number sounded familiar. That was the number given to Lan Qingyuan's world by the system in the setting!
The reaction of the barrage was comparable to a tsunami:
[What do you mean? ? Can't Lan Qing's family see her? Is this her real self? Could it be that Lan's mother and sister were also pulled into the infinite world this time? ! ]
[Ahhh help, did you hear that number! We already knew that every so-called "trial field" is actually a real world, so it's not that they were also pulled into the trial field, but that Lan Qing's original world became the trial field? ]
Lu Zibing felt numb from reading the barrage of comments. The trial system was truly too malicious!
Lan's mother and sister were in a very normal state, but it was this normality that was abnormal. They seemed to have no memory of the arrival of the trial field, nor of Lan Qing being chosen as the trial-taker.
Lan's mother seemed to interpret her daughter's silence as unhappiness. She sighed and advised, "I know you are in your third year of high school and can't leave, but your grandma passed away, so we have to go back to our hometown to deal with her funeral."
Lan Qing's eyes widened even more. Everyone knew that she had obviously graduated from high school a long time ago, and she didn't even have a "grandmother".
In the live broadcast room, Lu Zibing: “…………”
Why is he going back to his hometown? Isn't this the same as his current situation?
[I am dying of laughter, host, you are the chosen one for horror movies!!]
[Host, don't speak too early, or you'll get slapped in the face. Look, isn't the immersive horror experience coming? ]
Lan Qing opened her mouth. Although she didn't know what was going on, she knew she absolutely couldn't go!
But she seemed to be strangled by an invisible force and could not utter a word.
The car was driving on the winding mountain road. The sky was dark and it seemed like it was going to rain. The mountains and forests appeared dark green.
Suddenly, Lan's mother cried out "Ouch!" and stepped on the brakes, startled.
The barrage was also shocked. They saw a woman in a bright red dress appear on the roadside not far ahead. Her long black hair covered part of her face and her skin was extremely pale.
She turned her head, knocked on the car window, and asked hoarsely, "Excuse me, can I take a ride?"
Who hasn't been scared by a mountain village corpse when they were little? (doge)
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