seek death
——This shot by Shang Jingyan pays tribute to a classic scene from a foreign horror film in the previous life. It became the childhood nightmare of countless people at that time, and it is equally invincible here.
A common horror plot in horror movies is "beyond normal cognition", such as the creatures that should be walking normally crawling on all fours, the children that should be ignorant and innocent showing adult-like expressions, the dolls that should be still have life... This distorted and absurd feeling will trigger the greatest discomfort in people's hearts.
The second young master's hair crown fell off due to gravity, and his hair hung down and dragged on the stairs. His joints were bleeding, and a bloody handprint was left when he pressed them.
With every step he took, there was a sound of bones breaking all over his body. His face was exposed, and he had a silly, terrifying smile on his face.
[Hair! I saw hair!]
[There are also strands of it in the Second Young Master’s joints and eyes, ahhh! ]
[It's his hair that controls his actions! ]
Ao Qingxue grimaced and blinked, feeling a phantom pain in her eye sockets: "...The most realistic 'empathy' I've ever experienced in my life was not in the empathy holographic game, but in Director Shang's short play!"
The crowd downstairs was frightened and fled in all directions, while the "Second Young Master" had already quickly climbed down the stairs.
The hair didn't know how to use the human body. When it went downstairs and stood up, it found that its line of sight was in the wrong direction, so it twisted the second young master's head 180 degrees, and the head hung on its neck like a soft ball.
However, it walked crookedly, and after a few steps it collapsed to the ground, its muscles trembling as it crawled restlessly.
When Mr. Gao saw this scene, his lips trembled, his eyes rolled up, and he fainted out of fright.
[Damn it, how come it's scary yet also weirdly funny? ]
[It’s over, it’s over. The Second Young Master is dead this time. His head is cut off.]
[My neck hurts so much after watching this! 】
Gao Xiaoyun was horrified and at a loss. Just by looking at her expression, one could guess what she was thinking at the moment: Could it be... this is the method that Gu Lang mentioned? !
Fortunately, the scene was chaotic and no one noticed her abnormality.
Unable to move, the hair seemed dissatisfied and decided to abandon the second young master's body and look for a new host.
There was a tiny hole on one side of the Second Young Master's temple, as if he had been shot, but what flowed out was not blood, but an endless stream of black hair.
——The reason why he always complained of "headache" during his lifetime has been found. His brain has been eaten away by this monster, so how could it not hurt?
"Ah! Don't come over here! Don't look for me!——"
At this moment, a maid seemed to be extremely frightened and pushed the lampstand down in panic.
The hair was about to spread to the hem of her skirt, but when it was burned by the fire, a small piece of it was burned off in an instant. It also shrank back as if it was afraid of pain.
"This thing is afraid of fire!" There was also a Taoist priest hired by the Gao family. Seeing this, he was overjoyed and shouted, "Everyone, don't be afraid, burn it with fire!"
This is destined to be a sleepless night.
Someone brought an oil bottle from the kitchen, and in an instant, the fire raged, engulfing the corners of the second young master's gorgeous robe.
"My sons—you, you executioners!"
In the middle of the process, Master Gao woke up once and saw his son's body being burned. He was immediately distraught and cried out, "Stop, all of you stop!"
But obviously, no one would risk their life for his orders.
Amid his crying and cursing, flames shot up into the sky.
The climax has come to an end, the camera gradually pulls away, the flames seem to have ignited the wooden structure of the house, and the atrium is also engulfed by fire.
The background sound was filled with shouts of "Water fire, water fire", "Come and put out the fire!", mixed with the sound of countless footsteps.
The screen gradually darkened. Ao Qingxue moved and found that she had been maintaining this posture for a long time and her fingers were cold.
In the silence and darkness, the sound of suona rang out.
The camera changes scenes, time jumps, yellow paper money flies all over the sky, and the mournful music gives people goose bumps.
It was early summer, but the sky was overcast. The whole Gao Mansion was a creepy white. This was the funeral in the trailer, and now the audience knew that the person who died was the second young master.
In the fire, a small part of the Gao family's century-old house was burned down. The mess had not yet been cleaned up, and the funeral made it look even more desolate.
The charred wood exposed to the air looked like a skeleton sticking out of a huge body.
Because of this strange incident, many maids and servants ran away secretly for the sake of their lives, and the master of the Gao family was unable to do anything about it.
Gao Xiaoyun, dressed in white, carefully pushed open the window of the embroidery building on the second floor, and looked at the coffin in the funeral procession. Her hands involuntarily clenched the comb, and her expression was very complicated.
[Gu Lang's prediction turned out to be correct. Now no one wants to care about her getting married.]
[In a sense, it’s a good thing… However, this way of helping is a bit too horrifying. Fortunately, Gao Xiaoyun and her brother don’t have much affection, otherwise she would be heartbroken.]
[I don’t dare to trust anyone now. I always feel that Gu Lang has some ulterior motives QAQ]
[Gu Lang gave her this comb. Did he have in mind long ago that he wanted to use it to help her deal with the Gao family? ]
[It is very likely. If Shu Zi could kill the second young master, he could definitely kill others. What on earth did he want to do? To kill everyone in the Gao family?]
[Speaking of which, where is the hair? The people present are fine, which means they are safe for the time being, but they will definitely cause trouble again later...]
The comments in the barrage were obviously what Gao Xiaoyun was thinking. She slowly sat down by the window and whispered, "Comb...only you can comfort me..."
Mr. Gao lost his beloved son and looked haggard, with his big belly becoming thinner.
After he came back from the funeral, he grabbed his second wife's wrist and said, "My family has been prosperous for a hundred years, and there has never been a strange thing. Why are there so many strange things happening recently, to the point that even my son's life was ruined?!... After thinking about it, the only variable is Sanniang. This change must have been brought back by Sanniang!"
Master Gao gnashed his teeth as he spoke these words, and it was obvious that he had been thinking about them for a long time. "I will ask a powerful and capable person to come and take a look and help me exorcise the evil spirits in the Gao Mansion!"
After he finished speaking, he burst into tears again, crying sincerely, "…My son's body is incomplete, and no one will take care of him in the afterlife. I'm afraid he will be lonely…My wife, can you find a companion for my son?"
[Although it was indeed brought back by the heroine, it is quite strange that the father would immediately identify it without asking any questions...]
[To be honest, your son's death is ultimately due to your desire to marry the heroine to a dead person.]
[Wait a minute, when he said "find a companion for my son", did he also mean to have a ghost marriage? ? ]
[Me? ? You? The point is that Master Gao still thinks there is nothing wrong with this. He is scarier than the hair ghost! ]
[I was stunned. I had already expected the lunch box, so I lit the candles in advance. ]
[Ahhh, they still want to find a "talented person". What are they planning to do to Gao Xiaoyun? I'm so scared!]
In the picture, the stepmother holds Master Gao's hand and says softly, "Master, why not?"
Ao Qingxue took a breath of cold air. Just after he finished saying this, the screen turned black and [Episode 2: End] appeared in the middle.
She suddenly felt very anxious: "It's gone again!"
I really want to travel straight to the end and watch it all at once!
Even from the perspective of the plot alone, "Rouge Comb" is suspenseful and attractive enough. Star people usually watch the show with anxiety about the changes in the love between the two protagonists, but this is the first time they are worried about the life of the heroine.
On the Changqingqing Forum, a post was topped: [If you were Gao Xiaoyun, how would you survive in a world that was both feudal and full of ghosts? ]
[It’s a hell-level survival! 】
[After watching the second episode, I feel that "Evil God" is not scary at all. The world of "Rouge Comb" really does eat people...]
[I really want to know what’s in Director Shang’s mind. Three works, three different ways of scaring people.]
Heart of roses.
Shang Jingyan was wearing sunglasses, lying on a beach chair, enjoying the sea breeze, with a glass of rose sparkling wine in his hand, looking very comfortable.
This planet not only has a castle and rose garden, but also a beach, which can perfectly reproduce the scene in "Evil God". Not far away is the coast, with seagulls flying.
She said, "You Yao, you are famous now."
On the computer screen, You Yao showed a painful expression: "Thank you, Director Shang, I don't want to know at all."
——The second young master of the Gao family, this male supporting role with a strange look of death, is played by You Yao.
When he got the script, he was silent for three minutes, and then asked Shang Jingyan: Is it necessary to have real people perform in this movie? !
There are three scenes in total. The first scene is him acting like a dandy and complaining about having a headache. The second scene is him being chased by his hair and looking very embarrassed. The third scene is him climbing down the stairs backwards.
The most difficult scene was the death scene, and Shang Jingyan really didn't lie to him.
Wouldn’t it be better to use AI?
But Shang Jingyan is a director who pursues perfection. When all other actors and extras are real people, using AI for a somewhat important supporting role will definitely look a bit awkward.
It was fine that we didn’t have money for the first “Evil God”, but now that we have money, of course we have to raise our goals.
So she used both soft and hard tactics to get You Yao to stay, which led to the most terrifying scene in the second episode.
"Don't be sad. Many viewers are using your emoticons now. The popularity of emoticons is also a kind of popularity." Shang Jingyan said seriously, "They all said that you... acted very well."
——Some viewer cut out the short scene where You Yao was struggling after coming down the stairs, removed the bloodstains to make it less scary, and then added the caption: "Crawling in the dark and crazily."
This expression unexpectedly became popular and made a large number of people on the Star Network laugh.
You Yao: “…”
You Yao was filled with sorrow: How could it be bad? In order to act well in this scene, he practiced how to crawl for a full half month!
Although he has blond hair and blue eyes, his facial features are still oriental. Changing his hair and eye color would not be out of place in "Rouge Comb".
But now no one paid any attention to his handsomeness or beauty. The only impression they had of him was his silly smile with bloodshot eyes.
You Yao sighed, changed the subject, and asked with a smile: "Director Shang, would you mind playing Building 18 with me later? I don't dare to play it alone, but I feel really itchy watching it."
If you can be accompanied by the dream builder himself, wouldn't it be a great way to get through the game? Just thinking about it makes me excited.
"I have to meet someone in the afternoon and I'm busy." Shang Jingyan refused without hesitation.
"Meeting someone? Who? Aren't you traveling? Why do you talk like you're still working overtime..."
Before You Yao could finish his words, the call was cut off by Shang Jingyan.
The optical computer just happened to announce: "Schedule reminder: You have an appointment with a 'potential cooperative client' at 2 pm. There is still an hour left. Please prepare in advance."
The person Shang Jingyan plans to meet tonight is the owner of the planet "Rose Heart".
She checked on Starnet and found out that the "Rose Heart" planet belonged to Xue's Culture and Tourism. To be more specific, the person in charge of the Rose Heart tourism industry was Xue Jiang, the eldest daughter of the Xue family.
Xue Jiang is 27 years old this year and is an only child. According to the average life expectancy of interstellar people of 160 years, she would have to gain experience under the protection of her parents for a long time before she could take over Xue’s Cultural Tourism.
But last year, her mother, who was in power, died in a plane crash, and she had to end her studies and take over the task.
Shang Jingyan realized from some news that X71 had investigated that the performance of Rose Heart was very important to her, and it was related to whether she could secure her position as the helmsman of the next generation.
Therefore, she made drastic reforms in the past few months and created an attraction similar to the Evil God's Castle.
So far, the effect is very good.
——But Shang Jingyan thinks it can be even better.
You Yao was right, she was indeed working overtime while traveling. Shang Jingyan felt that the label of workaholic had followed her all her life and she would never be able to get rid of it in this life.
Not only that, before the meeting, Shang Jingyan also had to act as the online GM.
Shang Jingyan discovered that mental power was a very useful thing that allowed people to "do two things at once". Just now, she was communicating with You Yao while devoting part of her mental power to be the online GM of "Building 18".
Compared with the "cloud audiences" in the live broadcast rooms of the two short dramas, "Building 18" has more cloud players.
Holographic games require personal immersion, and many players don’t have the courage to do so and only dare to watch the anchor play.
It is currently recognized that there are two most interesting anchors, one is Qing Sexue and the other is Lu Zibing.
Both of them explored Building 3 and obtained clue props, and they happened to choose different modes.
Ao Qingxue is in follower mode, focusing on clues and reasoning, analyzing problems logically, and being unusually calm when seeing the ghost student. Her progress is currently the fastest. The audience said: Seeing that she is not afraid, I don’t seem to be afraid either.
Lu Zibing is in experience mode, and the audience just wants to have fun watching him. Everyone is betting and expecting: where will Lu Zibing be scared to tears next time?
She took a sip of sparkling wine and sensed a light flashing - Lu Zibing was online.
Gamma galaxy.
After screaming and logging out of "Building 18" last time, Lu Zibing played dating games for two full days before he calmed down and chose a sunny afternoon to log in again.
[The anchor has retired. After watching "Rouge Comb" live in the early morning, I dare to play games now. 】
[We told you long ago that there would be no more scary parts after the introduction, but you didn’t believe it.]
[+1, not only is it not scary, I was confused by the game...]
Players found that the game progress had come to a strange standstill.
"Building 18" is too ordinary after school starts. It's just an ordinary principal managing the campus in an ordinary way.
The only thing that has something to do with horror is that at night in the game, the heroine Langzhu has a certain chance of having a nightmare.
In that dream, she was standing in darkness, and there was a door in the distance. The door was an old family security door, which was open, and a young girl was standing outside the door.
The girl has long black hair, with her back to Langzhu, wearing a blue and white school uniform and carrying a blue schoolbag. If the player makes a noise, the girl will turn around and reveal a bloody face.
[So frustrating, is this a math teacher, class teacher, or principal simulator? My daily routine is just managing students - getting pissed off by them - marking homework - inspecting other teachers and listening to their gossip.]
[I'm either having a nightmare or grading papers. The rest of the progress is 0. Ahhh! ]
[I feel like I can get my teacher's certificate in one more week. Thank you, you dog planner.]
"You guys are nothing more than that, huh." Lu Zibing's Ah Q-like spirit made him arrogant again, "I haven't played for two days, and my progress is about the same as yours."
He ran away at the school gate last time. Fortunately, Director Shang was not so crazy as to make every detail realistic. The way home and going to bed at night were fast-forwarded.
The timeline jumped directly to two days later.
【Act 2: School starts.】
Lu Zibing looked at "himself" in the mirror. The modeling of the heroine Langzhu was very beautiful, with a small red mole at the left corner of her eye.
He couldn't help but say, "I wonder if there's a love line in this game?"
Lu Zibing likes to play the heroine's game when he is live streaming. His interaction with the male characters with his dialect accent creates a particularly comedic effect.
Barrage: [Shang Dao’s style, you’d better not expect any love lines (light candles). ]
"I don't believe it. How can there be a game without any romance elements?" Lu Zibing said, "Even the heroine of Rouge Comb has a lover!"
He arrived at the school, and sure enough, the process was just as ordinary as the comments said. When he entered the office, Lu Zibing's eyes lit up: "This must be a target worth pursuing!"
Next to the heroine's workstation was a young, elegant-looking male teacher in a white shirt. When he saw Lu Zibing coming, he raised his head and said, "Hello, Principal Lang."
A slight smile is like melting ice and snow.
Lu Zibing saw his name written in Song font next to it: Lin Huailu.
[Give up, host. It's hopeless. Players have tried this character several times and found no difference.]
[But he seems to have a crush on the heroine. I dropped a document here, and when he helped me pick it up, he even deliberately made some hand contact. What a scheming man! ]
[The above is your illusion. Logically, he didn't know the heroine before. However, the modeling is so exquisite, she must be an important character. ]
Lu Zibing took note of this and decided to focus on Linhuai Road. He walked around his workstation and felt that his head hurt from reading all those words. He suddenly had an idea and said, "What do you think? Can I go directly to Building 18 to take a look?"
【? ? Host, calm down. What are you thinking about? Next, you should go to the class to introduce yourself and hold a class meeting. 】
[You can't get in there! It's still an unlocked area. 】
[Uh... not really. Actually, some people stepped over the railing, but after entering the area, they felt inexplicably cold and felt something was wrong, so they left.]
Lu Zibing had a strong rebellious mentality. He originally only had one thought in mind, but after being persuaded by the comments, he changed it to eight points: "I insist on going. Maybe I can find a bug."
He did what he said, and when he walked downstairs he walked so quickly that he almost bumped into a student.
"Ouch!... I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Lu Zibing apologized quickly and felt a little scared when he saw the students.
The reason was simple. This was a girl with long hair, and her hair was messy, as if she had cut it herself with scissors. There was also a tear in her school uniform, which was not sewn up and was left open, revealing the mesh material underneath.
She was tall, and her school uniform pants were a little too short, leaving her ankles exposed in the still cool early spring air.
"Are you... Lin Xiaomei?" Lu Zibing saw the student ID card on her chest. He remembered this name because it was the simplest and most perfunctory name on the entire roster.
Lin Xiaomei seemed very shy. She looked up at her, said hurriedly "I'm sorry, teacher", then lowered her head and walked away.
The control panel prompts: [You bumped into a student, remember you should go to organize morning reading. Wait until all the clues are complete before going to Building 18. ]
Lu Zibing didn't care, and walked quickly: "No, no, what's the point of organizing morning reading? I want to bravely break through!"
Console.
Shang Jingyan: “?”
Why are you so stubborn?
Director Shang has not yet fully realized how much players love to commit suicide.
Maps marked with forbidden areas are meant to be broken into, things that are not allowed to be done are meant to be broken, and cliffs that can cause death are meant to be jumped off... There is nothing that players cannot do, except what the planner cannot think of.
She specifically asked Xiaomei to come out and give a subtle reminder, but the Husky simply ignored her.
"That can't be helped..." Shang Jingyan sighed, then changed the subject, "The prank session I set up there can come in handy."
She originally thought that no one would touch the "easter egg".
X71: [?]
I thought you were sighing because you had a headache, but it turns out you were lamenting for Lu Zibing.
Ignoring the blood-red warning windows along the way, Lu Zibing drove straight into Building 18.
He climbed over the railing and was hit by a chill that made him sneeze.
[Oh my god, anchor, I will never say you are a coward again. You are really brave! ]
[Don't tell me, I'm really curious, what would happen if I entered early? ]
[Go in quickly, go in quickly, I want to see a river of blood.jpg]
It only took a few minutes for the barrage to go from persuasion to instigation. Lu Zibing suppressed the urge to clench his teeth and looked around tremblingly. The door was locked, but there was no anti-theft fence on one of the windows.
So he just found a stone and smashed the window.
Entering through the window, there is a long corridor with dim light. It seems to be used as a storage room. There are many sundries piled up, and you have to twist your body to walk in it.
If you were a gamer in Shang Jingyan's previous life, you would know that a long road like this with narrow and limited vision has always been the map most vulnerable to sudden attacks from monsters.
However, Lu Zibing and everyone in the live broadcast room were caught off guard, and he walked in with swagger.
It wasn't until I was halfway down the corridor that something fell on my face and it felt itchy.
"Huh? What black line?" Lu Zibing looked up and saw a blood-red face!
He howled uncontrollably on the spot - it turned out that it was not a black line, but hair!
[Oh my god! Why is it hair again! ]
[The shadow of "Rouge Comb" is super doubled! ]
[What is this? There is a monster in Building 18! ]
The barrage of comments went crazy, the long-haired monster had a human-like body, but a long, hairless, thin tail. It stood on all fours, clinging to the ceiling like a spider.
The most terrifying thing was that its skin was pale, but its face looked like a skinned, bloody rat head, and it was looking down at Lu Zibing with its bare eyes.
“Ahhh!!——I can’t I just run?!”
Lu Zibing was scared and turned around and ran, screaming all the way, but he couldn't run faster than four legs and he died before he reached 20 meters.
He reopened the game and found himself back where he was. A pop-up window said ruthlessly: [You entered Building 18 and found yourself trapped. Kill the monsters and return to your daily life. Come on!]
Lu Zibing was killed again before he could even finish reading his words, without even seeing the monster.
He was so upset: "Is this a level that a human can pass?! It's too difficult!"
The barrage of comments gave a chilling reminder: [This is the hell mode you personally selected. ]
Lu Zibing: “…”
If he traveled back in time, he would definitely slap himself in the face!
The debris in the corridor particularly affected the movement. Lu Zibing accidentally fell and a bloody wind blew behind him, and he died again.
Lu Zibing: “…”
He is really about to collapse!
But this time, he finally calmed down a little from his panic and realized that he should use the mop and debris in the corridor to attack the rat man back.
Lu Zibing held up a mop, and shouted in anger, "Come and fight! Come and fight! I don't believe I can't pass this level!"
Heart of roses.
An hour passed quickly, Shang Jingyan smoothed his hair, stood up and returned to the castle.
The interior decoration of this castle is not like the real castle in "Evil God". All the facilities are very modern. There is a small cinema on the first floor. A movie is being shown. When Shang Jingyan passed by the door, he could hear the audience screaming loudly.
“Ahhhh!!”
Every time a wave of screams came, Shang Jingyan saw the [heartbeat value] on his system panel surge.
Shang Jingyan: “…”
Needless to say, the one I watched was definitely "Evil God".
She and Xue Jiang had an appointment in an office on the top floor of the castle.
When Shang Jingyan was guided by the robot to open the door for the first time, his eyes lit up: He is worthy of being the new BOSS of the group.
Xue Jiang has a pair of golden eyes, short black hair that reaches his ears, and a tall and slender figure. Under his white suit, one can see the outline of his fitness muscles. He looks graceful and reserved, like a jaguar, with a very strong aura.
"Ms. Shang, is that you?" She checked her watch and smiled warmly and business-like, her golden eyes sparkling. "You have 15 minutes to introduce me to the 'new project' you mentioned."
Xue Jiang was very busy, and if she hadn't known that the dream builder from "The Evil God" had come in person, she wouldn't have taken the time to come. Before being contacted by Shang Jingyan, she was even on another planet.
Shang Jingyan was not afraid of the stage and smiled: "Then I will get straight to the point. The new project I am talking about is called-"
"Haunted house."
Everyone should know the connection between Xiaomei and horror movies (dog head)
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